Heinz Doofenshmirtz

Vanquish Perry the Platypus (formerly, failed many times, succeeded a few times).
Discredit or humiliate his younger brother Roger (failed many times, succeeded a few times).

### What Makes Them Sympathetic

He was consistently mistreated by his parents in all of his childhood.
He had no true friends until Perry came along.
He was forced to wear dresses for an entire year.

### Type of Villain

Tragic Scientist

**Heinz Doofenshmirtz** is the main antagonist and one of the main characters of the Disney animated series, *Phineas and Ferb*. He's also Perry the Platypus/Agent P's arch-nemesis and occasional friend. After being abused, neglected, and mistreated ever since his childhood in Drusselstein, he sets out to take over the Tri-State Area by using his inators.

## What makes him sympathetic?

* Ever since his birth, his parents strangely failed to show up, thus starting most of his mistreatment and suffering that he had to go through.
* His parents forced him to be a literal lawn gnome that wasn't allowed to move, eat, or even sleep for hours, if not days, after their real lawn gnome was repossessed.
* Since he didn't have any friends, he had to spend his birthdays alone and his cake was often destroyed by Doonkelberry Bats.
* At one point, his parents disowned him and he was forced to be raised by ocelots.
* He lost his best and only childhood friend, Balloney, during the night where he was forced to be a lawn gnome after returning to his normal family.
* His father once replaced him with a dog named Only Son, who gave said father fame and fortune, but he was still forced to be the lawn gnome afterwards, further damaging his fragile self-esteem.
* After getting a new baby named Roger Doofenshmirtz, Heinz was forced to wear dresses for a whole year and be mocked by his classmates.
* His mother favored Roger over Heinz for his amazing kickball skills.
* He was tricked into leaving Drusselstein by his parents and was sent to America.
* Even after everything his parents did to him, he still longed for their love and approval.
* He was also frequently bullied, rejected, and humiliated for most of his entire life.
* Despite becoming an evil scientist, most of his schemes were more trivial and comedic than actually evil.
* He also deeply cares about his daughter, Vanessa, and wants to make her happy and safe.
* He also cares about his robot assistant, Norm, despite not always showing it.
* In spite of being nemesis with Perry/Agent P, he still cared about him and treated him more like a mutually friendly-enemy than an complete enemy.
* He was also genuinely kind and friendly towards Phineas and Ferb and their friends during the two movies, *Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension* and *Phineas and Ferb: Candace Against the Universe*.
* After his latest scheme to take over the Tri-State Area, he was redeemed into becoming a good guy, thanks to a talk from his daughter.
* After quitting evil, he became full-on friends with Perry, Carl, and Monogram, became a science teacher, and even led a double life as a secret agent with Perry and other agents.
* During the sequel series, *Milo Murphy's Law*, he discovered time travel and changed his name to Professor Time for branding purposes. He even saved Danville from the mutant Pistachios in the future before it happened.