Hans Reinhardt

### **Appearance**

Slender, both black hair and beard with a white streak, blue eyes, red space uniform

### **Enemies**

V.I.N.CENT, B.O.B., Dan Holland, Alex Durant, Kate McCrae, Charlie Pizer, Harry Booth

### **Likes**

Freshly-made Mushroom soup, extreme control, physics - particularly black holes

### **Powers and abilities**

Building robots, lobotomizing the Cygnus crew, turning them into Humanoids and enhancing the USS Cygnus so that is can travel through the Black Hole

### **Fate**

Trapped inside Maximilian's body in Hell

“*It is about time that people learn about their failures, and my successes.*”
―Hans Reinhardt
**Dr. Hans Reinhardt** is a mad scientist and captain of the USS Cygnus.

## Background

Reinhardt's background was given by the Palomino crew once they detected the USS Cygnus near the the giant black hole. Harry Booth said he literally bumped into the man himself and called him a legend. Booth remarked Reinhardt was "passing his own ambition for a national point of honor", convinced the Space appropriations committee into a 'fiasco' and ignored the reminder to return to Earth.

## In the movie

Reinhardt physically appeared only when the Palomino crew minus Pfizer encountered Maximilian and the scientist appeared from the dark shadow. Captain Dan Holland questioned why he did not reply to their radio signals but is arrogantly answered why he should. Reinhardardt is shown to have an extreme care for his ship's safety by getting his Sentry Robots to disarm Charlie Pizer and escorting him to the bridge. As Maximillian blocked V.I.N.CENT's path, Maximilian exerted his authoritarian rule by making Holland say please before calling off his chief robot.

Reinhardt informed the crew that the Cygnus was damaged in a meteorite field which Booth questioned but he simply said the ship was repaired. He explained that he ignored the order to return as there was more to explore in space. He used the analogy that if Columbus was ordered to return when the man spotted America. Dr Durrant however, was amazed by what Reinhardt achieved alone and the arrogant scientist accepted the compliments. He continued showing arrogance stating, "It's time for people to learn that I succeeded where they failed" and "I do not want to go home and I do not care about glory." He showed Dan and Kate his power source which he called Cygnium. With a view of the black hole, Reinhardt told the two Palomino scientists that he planned to study the questions of the black hole. Dr. Durrant was amazed again over the mad scientist's anti-gravity creation and Reinhardt influenced the senior scientist, convincing Durrant to stay with him.

At dinner with the Cygnus minus V.I.N.CENT, he again tried to hide the truth, telling the Palomino crew not to explore his ship without his authorization. Holland learnt that Reinhardt wished for the Palomino to monitor the Cygnus' travel into the black hole. He again stated there was no reason for him to return to Earth as nothing there is new. Reinhardt was informed his Cygnus Probe ship was returning and when meeting the silver-dressed humanoid, he ordered that humanoid to follow Maximilian and wanted to check out the Probe ship himself. Returning, he found only Durrant and McCrae, the summarized the latter had ESP ability. It is shown that while being alone Reinhardt knows the Bible, quoting Genesis. With the two professors, he continued to trap Durrant under his spell.

It was only through B.O.B. that the whole Palomino crew learnt the truth about Reinhardt. The madman disagreed with the order to return to Earth and his crew including Kate's father rebelled. Reinhardt called it a mutiny and murdered McCrae senior while the remaining crew were lobotomized and turned into the Humanoids the Palomino crew encountered. This explained the funeral Holland saw and the limping 'robot' Booth encountered. Reinhardt spotted Holland unmasking one humanoid and again in his madness, just said, the creation of the humanoids were one of his greatest achievements. Maximilian killed Durrant and Reinhardt asked McCrae to help protect him from his own robot, yet, ordered his Sentries to take her to be lobotomized. He radioed Holland, lying that the two scientists wished to stay on the Cygnus. With Kate rescued and the destroyed sentries found, Reinhardt finally ordered Palomino crew to be eliminated. However, with the help from B.O.B., Holland, McCrae and V.I.N.CENT managed to defeat many Sentry Robots.

Reinhardt in his madness, advanced the Cygnus towards the black hole and when Booth tried to fly the Palomino alone, he ordered that ship to be destroyed. That hindered the escape of the Palomino crew who then raced towards the Probe ship. Sometime later, the bridge of the Cygnus was heavily damaged from a meteor storm near the black hole. Reinhardt called his chief robot to prepare the Probe ship but Maximilian complied. One platform crashed down, trapping Reinhardt. He called Maximilian for help but that robot moved away, aiming to reach the probe ship to destroy the Palomino crew, especially V.I.N.CENT. Reinhardt called for his humanoid's help, but as they were not made to speak, he again received no help. It was implied he was killed as the bridge was further destroyed by more meteors and the surrounding force of the black hole.

In the epilogue, Reinhardt is trapped within the body of his main creation, Maximilian. The surrounding landscape is depicted as Hell and a large number of humanoids walk in a procession. Kate countered that, "if there's any justice at all, the black hole will be your grave." Reinhardt was indeed condemned to Hell for his character and actions.