Douglas Davenport

**Douglas Davenport** is one of the supporting protagonists of Lab Rats and one of the protagonists of the series. He is Adam, Bree, Chase and Daniel's true creator, Leo's and Naomi Davenport's uncle and Donald Davenport's younger brother.

Halfway through Season 3, Douglas begins to reform when Krane makes it clear that he wants to destroy his children. First, he warns Leo of Krane's plans and later saves his children when Krane attacks him. Douglas finally reformed when he fixes Bree's bionic chip, leading him to be accepted by and joining the Davenport Family by moving into the Davenport Household). Douglas also gave Leo a bionic arm after his original was crushed by Taylor when she was under the Triton App's influence and trained him how to use it properly.

## Personality

At the beginning of the series, Douglas' evilness was built on the fact that he used to be bullied by his brother, Donald, and felt overshadowed by all of Donald's successes. Because of their poor relationship, Douglas became anti-social and distant, driven by his hatred and jealousy of his older brother. The poor treatment Douglas got is what led him to go behind Donald's back and create four bionic human children, Adam, Bree, Chase, and Daniel. Douglas came to hate his brother after Donald learned what his younger brother intended to do with the children and kicking his out of Davenport Industries and taking Adam, Bree, and Chase away from Douglas caused him to find ways to get revenge on Donald. Despite their differences, Donald and Douglas were more alike than they realized: intelligent, but proud, egotistical, and arrogant, making their arguing ironic. Despite this, the two brothers could never learn to get along, and Douglas would stop at nothing until he ruined his brother for taking his kids away from him. Douglas was once selfish and uncaring, such as using children as weapons, starting wars, and robbing old women and taking over a country no matter what the cost. Though he had a father/son relationship with Marcus, he didn't seem to care that Marcus would burn out before he was sixteen. He also had no qualms turning Adam, Bree, and Chase into bionic superhumans of mass destruction, selling them to the highest bidder, whether they be dictators or mad men. He had no qualms with harming Leo when they were enemies, despite him only being fifteen years old, considering him a "nosy kid" who constantly gets in his way. Douglas later left Marcus for dead so he could ensure his own survival. Despite his negative traits when he was evil, there was still a lighter side to him, as there were times when his sense of humor would overshadow the seriousness in a room. Apart from being evil, Douglas still cared for his bionic children. He did what was best for his youngest creation, Daniel, by giving him up for a chance at a normal life and he did take on a stray dog, Otis, giving him bionics to save his life and he saved Chase from an avalanche (in this case, however, Douglas was attempting to manipulate Chase) and later protected the Lab Rats from Victor Krane saving their lives once. He obsessively loved his children, up to the point where he tracked their GPS chips. When he did capture Aram, Bree, and Chase in "Sink or Swim," he wanted to use them for scams but also develop a family connection with them, like making Mondays family game nights.

In most of his earlier appearances when encountering Donald, Douglas could be quite childish and acts like an immature younger brother trying to get back at his older brother. When they were reunited after fifteen years, Douglas and Donald first insulted each other by calling themselves by their embarrassing nicknames, and they continued mocking each other.  He stole money from Donald and only blew up his brother's lab to get back at him for taking Adam, Bree, and Chase from him. Later, when Douglas was with both Leo and Chase, they called Douglas out on his rivalry with their father. In the latter's case, Douglas pointed out he just wanted to get back at Donald, Chase wondered when both were just going to grow up, Douglas shouted in anger that he would "grow up when [Donald] grows up."  Meanwhile in Leo's presence, after Douglas gloated Donald could not fix something he made (Bree's chip) and that [he won] again, Leo told him it was about Bree, and not about Douglas beating his brother. Apart from getting back at his brother through all these years, Douglas had to bury the hatchet for them to work together to fix Bree's chip. Eventually, the two moved past their petty grudge after Donald decided to give his brother a second chance.

During his one last attempt to control Adam, Bree, and Chase, Douglas enjoyed using the kids to torment his family, reacting mostly like a five-year-old tormenting his older brother. He was driven to do this, which stemmed out of his rivalry for his brother, and it comes from the fact that both Douglas and Donald were arrogant and childish. However, Leo spoke through to Chase, much to Douglas's frustration, and he later told Adam to attack Chase, but not enough to damage him. After Chase override the Triton App from Adam and Bree and Krane made it clear that he wanted them destroyed once Douglas fixed the App, it was made clear that Douglas didn't want to hurt them and allowed Douglas to reminiscent on his past actions. Between his appearances, Douglas tried reconciling with his brother, kids, and nephew, first by sending then friend requests, but they refused every time. Only Adam accepted it, as it appeared Douglas’s eldest son had begun to forgive him. When Douglas contacted them again, he was genuinely there to warn the family that Krane was a danger to them all. However, because Douglas tried killing Donald and his youngest son (Leo) and kidnapping Adam, Bree, and Chase constantly, the family refused to trust him and didn't heed Douglas' warning. By this point, Douglas was afraid of Krane and turned to Leo because he was the first to figure out what Douglas and Marcus were up to. Unlike their previous encounter, Douglas spoke to Leo in a friendly manner, convincing his step-nephew that Krane was a serious threat. Subsequently, he saved Adam, Bree, and Chase when Krane was about to kill them, and in return, Chase saved his biological father by throwing up his Force field to deflect Krane's attack on Douglas. The man would have succeeded in killing Krane had his brother returned shortly after rescuing his wife and son. Donald tossed Douglas out of the house and the younger Davenport left in defeat.

Afterward, Douglas went into hiding and kept his distance from the Davenports until Leo approached him for help to fix Bree's bionic chip after she destroyed it. He also came to Leo's defense when Donald yelled at his son for disobeying him, telling his brother to “lay off the kid” because Leo was just trying to help. The brothers began to argue pointlessly until they realized Bree's haywire abilities could potentially kill her, and the two brothers solved the problem together. Afterward, Donald chose to forgive Douglas from the past after Douglas apologizes for hurting the family, Douglas was invited to live with them for the time being. Since then, Douglas has been kinder and caring to his family, such as not bickering with his brother as much, giving the kids new bionic Abilities, such as Bree's invisibility, Chase's laser-Bo and giving Adam lung capacity and becoming close friends with Leo, such as enhancing his arm with bionics after it was crushed by a ceiling beam caused to land on him by Taylor, and finally had a chance at being a father towards his youngest son, Daniel. He no longer has his evil tendencies and helps anyone else, showing Douglas is a changed man.

Douglas no longer has his evil tendencies and helps anyone else, showing Douglas is a changed man. However, at times, he does have some of his destructive tendencies remaining on at least two occasions. In "You Posted What?!?" Douglas suggested to Leo that he could blow up the lab again so they could escape from government agents until Leo came up with a better solution. This is also notable in "Mission Mania", where Douglas made inventions that caused the students harm, such as a bazooka loaded with pencils that could potentially harm someone or a lie detector chair that would spin violently if the subject was lying. Despite this, Douglas remained an anti-hero the rest of the series. He was reluctant to connect with Daniel due to past incidents with his own kids, but the two formed a strong father & son relationship. He also cares about the well-being of the students who lived at the Bionic Academy as he demanded that Giselle reveal where she was holding the kids hostage and threatened to kill her. When he learned Marcus was alive again, Douglas begged him to stop torturing Daniel and tried offering them to be a family again. However, Marcus refused, and when he tried to kill Leo again, Douglas saw his android son was beyond reason and ended him by melting him.

## Relationships

### Donald Davenport (Older Brother)

*Main Article: Donglas*

Douglas and Donald grew up together, but the latter was often the one to overshadow Douglas and sometimes, used to bully him when he was younger, being not that different from their sons, Chase and Adam. He tries desperately to get back at his brother for taking his children and plotting to get them back. However, the brothers reconciled when they worked together to recreate Bree's chip.

Despite reconciling, Donald and Douglas continue to fight and have a relationship not so different from Adam and Chase's and were deeply concerned for his brother when he was sustained in critical condition. When it comes to the kids, Douglas claims they like him more than Donald because he gave them hidden abilities. Apart from this, Donald learned to trust his brother by letting him oversee the bionic academy in his absence. During a conversation on the phone, Douglas promised not to tweak Leo,Adam, Bree, and Chase's bionics like he normally did.

### Chase Davenport (Biological Son/Adoptive Nephew)

*Main article: Chouglas*
Out of all his children, he appeared to connect with Chase the most due to both feeling overshadowed by an older sibling and underappreciated, as he saved Chase from an avalanche. He offered to give his son Bree's speed and Adam's strength. However, he was manipulating his son the whole time. After Douglas escaped, Chase continued to hate his biological father but seemed to slowly forgive him, as he tried stopping Donald from throwing Douglas out of the house at least twice. Douglas later saved his children from Victor Krane when he tried to kill them. Since re-creating Bree's chip and Douglas reconciling with his brother, Douglas and Chase began growing close.

### Leo Dooley (Nephew)

*Main article: Dougleo*

Douglas was highly annoyed with Leo's constant interferences with his and Marcus' plans and ordered Marcus to kill Leo, despite him being a fifteen-year-old. Despite their status as enemies, Douglas came to Leo when Krane became unstable, and he came to him when Leo needed Douglas to help Bree get her bionics back by recreating her bionic chip after she destroyed it. They have learned to get along better and become close friends, especially since Donald let Douglas move into the Dooley-Davenport household. They bonded over the course of "You Posted What!?!"where Douglas gave him a bionic arm after learning Leo would never be able to use his normal arm again and he trained Leo how to use it properly until he didn't need to turn them off once Leo got in control of it.

Since then, the two have been more comfortable around each other, and now Leo tells Daniel that Douglas is not that bad of a guy and tells Daniel that his father is only trying to help. They also pick on each other once in a while, similar to Leo and Chase's dynamic.

### Daniel Davenport (Son)

*Main article: Danglas*

Daniel is Douglas' youngest son and child. He gave him up for adoption because he knew he could not raise a child while on the run. He reunited with his son when Daniel was thirteen and contacted Douglas, who was not ready to be a father. Despite this, experiences with Adam, Bree, and Chase taught Douglas to bed a better father for Daniel, such as be honest with him, help him get used to his bionic abilities and give him fatherly advice once in a while.

## References

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