German scientist

"You don't know? You're not one of Frankie's guys?"

> «I thought my product was *fabulous*! The perpetrators were becoming **very** recognizable! But the government officials thought the effects were a bit... *extravagant*, so they shut my whole operation down, taking all my finances, *putting me out of business*... and I should destroy ***every drop*** ofmein poison? **I think not!**»
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The **German scientist** is the inventor of the Zombie poison, serving as a supporting character and antagonist. Due to his role in the creation of the game's zombies and for the Thugtown Incident and the following outbreaks, he would be the greater-scope villain of the entire *Guns, Gore & Cannoli* series.

A chemist of German origin, he was formerly employed by the U.S government for a project to counteract the bootlegging activities. After he was fired, he turned to desperate measures to find a use for his life work, partnering with Frankie the Fly, who would later betray him and leave him for dead in his own laboratory.

## Description

The German scientist is an older man with parted grey hair, large grey eyebrows and a grey chevron mustache. He wears a buttoned up yellowish white shirt, a black bowtie, belted brown pants and black shoes. He also dons a white lab coat and a pair of rimless round glasses. He has noticeably big eyes.

## Biography

Going by his physical appearance and his thick accent, it can be assumed that the German scientist was born in the German Empire or, if born earlier, in the German Confederation or a German kingdom, and later immigrated to the United States. It is likely that pursued a scholarly, medical or research profession prior to his employment by the Bureau of Prohibition.

Sometime before the events of *Guns, Gore & Cannoli*, this scientist was put in charge of a government funded project to create a toxin, that would then secretly be used to poison the substances used for illegal moonshine operations, so that anyone who drank liquor would die and thus help the government justify the prohibition among the populace, who in turn would stop taking the risk of procuring alcohol from organized crime families. He was provided with a laboratory underneath Thugtown, infamous for its criminal activity and bootlegging families. The poison turned out to be far more potent than the Bureau of Prohibition had intended, on account of the head scientist needlessly making the poison reanimate the then-deceased bootleggers and drinkers to make the "perpetrators very recognisable". In response, all funding was cut and the government abandoned the entire plant, along with the head scientist. Having put all his money into the project, he was left unemployed and in financial ruin, left with nothing but dozens of toxic barrels.

It was then when a local mobster came to him and offered the scientist a large sum of money, if he were to make more of the poison. He gladly accepted and produced the ordered amount, but was quickly faced with the reality, that the gangster, a man named Frankie, had never intended on compensating him and he was instead forced to use up all of his remaining resources to produce even more. When the production had finished, Frankie took all of the poison and locked the scientist in his lab. Frankie would go out and poison all local breweries with it, unbeknownst to the scientist, who was simply in it for a monetary reward.

## Guns, Gore & Cannoli

While Vinnie travels through the sewer tunnels beneath the city, he finds the large abandoned manufacture with multiple vats, distilleries and platforms, along with several containers full of green liquid. The scientist, thinking that Vinnie is one of Frankie's goons, flees in fear of being killed for no longer being of use and being a potential witness. He activates multiple machines while he flees to the back of the facility, to slow Vinnie down, but that fails to prevent him from getting him, when the platform comes to an end. Vinnie fires at the scientist to scare him and then interrogates him. The scientist spills everything he knows, about the government project, Frankie hiring him and his talk of a "perfect diversion" and his waiting until St. Patrick's Day. From the information gathered, Vinnie quickly puts the pieces together. The scientist insists he wasn't aware of Frankie's intentions and begs Vinnie to take him to the surface to fix the situation. Vinnie informs him that it would be of no use, as the military has already ordered the city to be gassed and bombed, but that he wouldn't live to see it, as he had other plans for him. Vinnie, disgusted by the man's actions, kills him by drowning him in one of the fluid containers and leaves his body inside, giving him "a taste of his own medicine".

"So long, ya quack!"
## Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2

A painting of the scientist appears in the nightclub.

The dead body of the scientist himself can be found in one of the tanks of the Zombie Poison, having decomposed down to his skeleton after 16 years.

The scientist's dead body