Douglas Davenport

**Douglas Davenport** is the secondary tritagonist/anti-hero of Disney XD's *Lab Rats*. In the midseason 2 finale, Douglas is revealed as the original Lab Rats', Adam, Bree and Chase Davenport, biological father, Donald Davenport's younger brother and Leo's step-uncle and creator of his bionic arm, the brother-in-law of Tasha Davenport and the uncle of Naomi Davenport. Douglas ha had created another bionic child, Daniel, whom he gave up for adoption. He sends his android son, Marcus to spy on his family and capture Adam, Bree and Chase and tries everything to get Leo and Donald out of his way.

Halfway through Season 3, Douglas begins to reform when Krane makes it clear 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 being accepted by and joining the Davenport Family by moving into the Davenport Household).

## Background

Douglas was born in the year 1973 or 1974 and the younger brother of Donald Davenport, the father of Adam, Bree, Chase, and Daniel, and step-uncle of Leo Dooley. As children, Douglas was often bullied by his older brother and under appreciated (as revealed when he tried connecting with Chase in "Avalanche"). Because he was often mocked by his brother, it turned Douglas into a bitter, anti-social scheming genius. Their parents' names were never given in the series. According to Douglas, he does not want his mother to know he was alive because she never stops calling him.

He attended college, during this time, he was dating Giselle Vickers. However, she broke up with him, causing Douglas to be heartbroken and one of the most worst days of his life. He later went to study to be a doctor, but he immediately fainted due to his fear of needles.

In 1992, Donald and Douglas started Davenport Industries, creating technology and sent androids on missions that were meant to perform things impossible for humans to do. However, Douglas went behind his brother's back and engineered four humans and infused them with Bionics: Adam, Bree, Chase and Daniel and hoped to create a battalion of bionic soldiers and using them as weapons, or at least, sell them to terrorists and dictators.  Donald figured out what his brother was up to and promptly disowned him, taking Bree, Chase, and Adam away with hopes of raising them and use their powers for good.

Losing his three eldest children, Douglas gave up his youngest son up for adoption to ensure he had a normal life (And Then There Were Four). Faking his own death, he led his brother and parents to believe he had died and FBI began hunting them down. .

At some point, he found a stray dog, Otis, and put bionics in him to heal the dog. Krane later went behind Douglas' back and created at least one-hundred bionic shoulders. (which Douglas would later learn and realize why Krane had 100 baby pictures)

Douglas resurfaced in 2013, this time intending to taking Adam Davenport, Bree and Chase Davenport.

## 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. 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. He 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.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Much like Donald, Douglas is a genius of multiple fields; he is even smarter than Donald, creating technology such as short range teleportation, which Donald hadn't mastered yet. He also claimed and proved to be the better programmer. It was he who made Adam, Bree and Chase and gave them their bionics in the first place. He was also able to hack Eddy, Davenport Industries, and Donald's bank account all without being caught. Douglas has lots of intelligence on bionic abilities and he has shown capable of giving Chase his Laser Bo ability, Adam's Pressurized Lung Capacity, Bree ability to turn Invisible, and Leo's Energy Transference ability. Douglas even created a virus while thinking on his feet to fry all of Giselle's systems. However, he has trouble decrypting Victor Krane's software.
* **Martial Arts:** Just like Donald, Douglas is an accomplished fighter, able to take Donald on at an equal level. He claimed he was the better fighter of the two; however this was not proven, as their fight never reached a climax.
* **Medical Knowledge:**Douglas is savvy about medical treatments. For example is aware of common practices of how doctors deal with amnesic patients. However, the credibility of his knowledge is questionable as he never completed his doctorate, because he flunked out due to screaming at the sight of needles. He did show skill in repairing severely damaged limbs such as when he repaired Leo's arm after it was damaged.
* **Excellent Strategist:** Douglas is an accomplished strategist, able to come up with incredibly complex and brilliant plans quickly.
* **Triton App:** He can hack the bionic systems and takes control of the target, causes the victim's irises (colored part of the eye) to glow green. Can only affect the bionics circuits, not their human attributes, this weakness is exploited by Chase when breaking control of the Triton App, but faints almost immediately after.
* **Detective Skills: When he and Leo are investigating a mission in "**You Posted What?!?," it is shown Douglas does have detective skills, and made careful observations while trying to investigate the natural gas pipeline.
* **Cooking**: Douglas went to cooking school as a result he can cook very well. He can even cook street food, when he became a vendor while hiding from Krane.
* **Impressions:**Douglas reveals he does a killer Krane impression, but when he pretended to be Krane while trying to get Taylor to remember how to deactivate a doomsday app, she hoped that if she was going to explode, she would take out Chase and Douglas.

## Relationships

### Donald Davenport

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 plotted 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 was 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

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 sons and daugther 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, bonding in the Season 3 episode *Brother Battle*, where Douglas gave Chase his Laser Bo ability after feeling sorry for him when Adam continuously tried using him for his exercises and messing around with him.

### Leo Dooley

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, they began a friendship in Taken, when Douglas came to Leo when Krane became unstable and Leo came to him when they needed Douglas to help Bree get her bionics back by recreating her bionic chip after she destroyed it. Since then, they have learned to get along better and become close friends, especially since Donald let Douglas moved into the Dooley-Davenport household and bonding together in *You Posted What!?!*. Douglas gave him a bionic arm after learning he would never be able to use his normal arm again and he trained Leo how to use it properly.

Since their friendship evolved, the two are more comfortable around each other and now, Leo considers Douglas as a member of his family and thinks he is a good man when talking to Daniel Davenport in *And Then There Were Four.*

### Bree Davenport

Bree initially hated her biological father but learned to get used to him when they began living together after Donald let him move in. He helped fix Bree's chip and even gave her the new ability: invisibility. However, in And Then There Were Four, Bree does not trust Douglas, mostly because he steals Tasha's bracelets and wears them for himself

### Daniel Davenport

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 advice on family.

## Quotes

### Dialogue

**Douglas:** Go ahead, pretend like you're throwing a ball. **Leo:** Is this really the time to make fun of how uncoordinated I am?**Douglas:**Just do it. *(Leo throws a laser sphere)***Leo:** What did you do?**Douglas:** Congratulations, Leo. You're bionic.

**Marcus:** No! My only mission is to destroy every last member of your precious family. Starting with him.

Douglas: Wait! You're arresting the wrong people. This is the man you want, Victor Krane. He's a sociopath who's been implanting himself with bionics, and now, he's turned her into a bionic soldier. If you don't stop him now, he could create more and have an entire army. Graham: And you are?
Douglas: Douglas Davenport. There's no official record of me, because I faked my own death. But I'm very credible.

Graham: Why would you have these?

Douglas: (awkwardly) Uh... I help people, too.

## Trivia

* Douglas doesn't want his mother to know he is alive because according to him she never stops calling, something that even Donald agrees with him.
* Douglas was responsible for giving Victor Krane and Leo Dooley Bionics. With Krane, it led to the problems in subsequent episodes.
* Douglas once turned his brother's dead gerbil into a zombie. The fact that Douglas reanimated an extinct species of sea spider proves the former to be true.
* Apparently, he was aware that Donald kept killing all of Leo's pets (And Then There Were Four).
* Douglas has gotten in trouble with the law at least once, having been to prison four times.