Drake Utonium

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

Uhgeum Dae-kyun (Birth Name)
Doctor, Professor, Mister (Titles)
PPP (Powerpuff Papa, Professor Powerpuff, etc.), Pookie Bear, Fuzzy Muffin, Cuddlefish, Love Bucket, Snootypoo, Sugar Cookie, Shlubbypuff, Physics Pants, Poogly Pie, Cutie Patootie (Nicknames)
ChemXDaddy (Network ID)

### Status

Australian Civilian with Expunged Criminal Record

### Relatives

Michael Utonium (born Uhgeum Mingyu) (Father)
Yurigama Hina (Mother)
Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup Utonium (Adopted Daughters, Augmented Clones)
Uhgeum Jae-kyun (Brother)
Eugene Utonium (Half-Brother)
Risa Yurigama (Half-Sister)
JR Terrier (Pet)

### Affiliation

Carnegie Mellon University (Former Employee)
Utonium Labs, Inc
The Network (Member)

## Biographical Information

### Education

Multiple Doctorates
(Multiple Institutions: Ivy University, Midwestern University, CMU)

### Marital Status

Married (Meg Keane-Utonium, Wife)
Exes (Sara Bellum, Ex-Girlfriend)

### Residence

Utonium Building
107 Pokey Oaks South
Townsville, Australia

## Physical Description

### Uhgeum Dae-kyun: 1977 - 1987

Dae-kyun is the second child of his parents, Korean engineer Uhgeum Mingyu and Japanese heiress Yurigama Hina. His parents chose to raise their family in South Korea where they had met while Hina was on a rebellious trip away from her strict parents. While growing up, Dae-kyun received notably less attention from his parents than his older brother Jae-kyun. As Jae-kyun was regarded as being the more handsome and physically impressive son, Dae-kyun's intelligence and humor were often overlooked. Feeling neglected, Dae-kyun began to act out regularly and was often disciplined by his parents for his misbehavior.

### Drake Utonium: 1987 - 1989

Following the events of the Manhattaning, Dae-kyun and his family had to be relocated. Though their house had not been destroyed in the intrinsic explosions, the resulting crime and geological instability of the region where they lived proved too dangerous.

The Manhattaning had a lingering effect on Dae-kyun. During the relocating, he reflected on the incredible power he had witnessed destroy Seoul from a distance. Under the impression such devastation was done by Jon Osterman, who had once been a meek and humble scientist, Dae-kyun began to realize he was capable of more than childish pranks and finding ways to humiliate his older brother.

After several moves, the family ended up in one of the global centers for the Great Exodus — Townsville, Australia. Wanting to avoid being immediately labeled as immigrants by the less tolerant locals, Mingyu changed the family's name to Utonium. Following suit, Dae-kyun was allowed to take a new name as well and became Drake Utonium.

Following the theme of taking on a new life, Drake embraced the people and culture of Townsville. He worked hard to set aside his childish antics and focus on school. He deliberately distanced himself from the sort of friends he used to make and befriended other kids who were intellectually or academically gifted, as well as taking on more traditionally nerdy pursuits as interests. He further lost himself in education and science when his parents' marriage began to fall apart resulting from various stresses and infidelities which were only further exacerbated by their exodus from South Korea to Australia.

### Drake Utonium: 1989 - 1994

Following his parents' divorce, his mother's departure for Japan to run her family's business, and his father's rapid second marriage to his girlfriend, Drake continued to excel in school. He quickly became recognized as a star pupil by his teachers. He finally had a chance to enjoy the attention of his father when he skipped several grades and ended up in his brother's class where he regularly scored better grades.

### Drake Utonium: 1994 - 2002

When the two brothers graduated, Drake went off to university in America on a scholarship while his older brother enjoyed a gap year before choosing to accept his mother's offer to work in her family's trade — an offer never extended to Drake. This hurt Drake more than he cared to admit. He abandoned his scholarship in favor of attending school closer to home, which allowed him to build a closer relationship with his father and younger half-brother (who Drake had previously despised due to being the product of the infidelity which had dissolved the marriage of Drake's parents).

Drake did well at CMU. He majored in multiple scientific studies, initially graduating with two doctorate degrees while beginning work on a third. His remarkable genius made him a valued asset to CMU while his unconventional methods made him one not easily poached by other universities or research firms. Recognizing this, Utonium was quickly offered a position with the CMU staff as a research professor and given a generous discretionary account to further his research into a number of eccentric fields — with CMU gambling on him producing something that would give them a windfall.

### Professor Utonium: 2002 - 2003

Though Utonium did have moderate success with some ideas he initially had as a student and was able to finalize them as a professor, his inventions were not as well-received as he or CMU's Board of Directors had hoped. Under considerable stress to produce something much more remarkable, Drake Utonium began to intently study the metahuman crisis brewing around the world, most notably in America.

Utonium, like many researchers at the time, began to draw parallels to the meteor rock showers of the late 1970s and early 1980s. His research into the meteor showers revealed that pockets of the Australian outback had also been hit by these showers, including one site not far from where he worked in Townsville.

Though the Australian government regulated control of the meteor samples and any samples found in the wild were deemed radioactive or dangerous and were meant to be reported to the government, Utonium began regular excursions to the outback to find and collect such samples to bring back to his lab for off-the-books research.

Out of fear of irradiating himself and possibly causing severe illness or cancer, Utonium locked his exoplanetary geological samples up in a small lead container in his lab and began to explore alternative ideas. However, Utonium did continue to pursue his outdoor excursions having found them a nice way to clear his head and decompress from the stress of academia.

### Professor Utonium: 2003 - 2004

During Brainiac's invasion, Drake Utonium was engaged in one such outback excursion. Blissfully unaware of the alien invasion in population centers, Utonium spent his day idly searching for more meteor to add to his collection. He managed to find several decent sized samples of meteor rock that would compliment his collection. Considering his search to be a success, Utonium retired for the night back in his camp.

When Brainiac's invasion fleet was thwarted by the efforts of the heroes that would become the JLA, one of the ships happened to land not far from where Utonium was camping. Utonium awoke to the thunderous sound and earth-trembling impact of the nearby crash. Curious, Utonium went to explore the debris.

Utonium managed to explore the wreckage considerably until military forces arrived to secure the area. Panicking upon the arrival of the soldiers, Utonium grabbed a small piece of alien hardware that did not resemble the technology found elsewhere on the ship and quickly fled the scene, barely managing to escape the notice of the arriving soldiers who were all transfixed by the alien spacecraft.

After managing to smuggle his meteor rock and unknown alien gizmo back to Townsville, Utonium took the finds to his lab at CMU. Inspection revealed the gadget appeared to be irreparably damaged, and also possibly altered from its original use. Undaunted, Utonium was interested in what could be learned from careful disassembly and examination, and so he began to do just that. However, when the internal workings only confused him, he turned his interest into its composition. Professor Utonium quickly learned that integral parts of the device were composed of a metallic substance not previously known to man.

### Professor Utonium: 2004

After discreetly confirming his discovery, Utonium labeled the unknown substance Element X and began to conduct various experiments on its application. Through unknown means, Utonium found a way to transform some of his Element X into a viscous black liquid he dubbed Chemical X. Utonium found this derivative to have a variety of immediate uses, including significantly amplifying the intelligence of Jojo, a chimpanzee his department had caged on site for use in cognitive and medical research purposes.

Months into his research with Element X and Chemical X, Utonium was in his office reviewing his findings (read: passed out from a heavy night of drinking to celebrate his birthday) when he heard a clatter come from his adjoining lab. Investigating the noise, Utonium found Jojo breaking into the storage locker where Chemical X, was stored — as well as the parts salvaged from the alien device, tissue samples, meteor rock, and all manner of chemical solvents — many of it previously exposed to Chemical X in experiments.

The drunk professor tried to stop the violent chimpanzee and a fierce battle took place. Jojo's exposure to Chemical X had made him not only increasingly intelligent but had also amplified his physiology. The enhanced chimpanzee was easily able to overpower the scientist, shoving him into the storage locker with such force to cause the glass of the contents inside to shatter.

Almost immediately after impact, the locker began to rattle as a strange odor filled the lab. Frightened, Jojo fled the scene, leaving Utonium alone to try and contain whatever was brewing inside the locker. With the lock broken, Utonium grabbed a fire extinguisher and pulled the door open to get a clear look at what was contained in the locker. Before he had time to react, an amorphous mass sprang from the locker and latched onto Utonium's hand, attempting to pull him into its enveloping mass.

As he struggled against it, Utonium's legs were caught by two additional tendrils which sprang from different parts of the mass. Tangled, the professor was tripped and fell to the floor. As the mass then crept up to consume him, Utonium threw the fire extinguisher into the center of the mass and let it be integrated into the mass. Moments later, as Utonium's strength was failing him, the fire extinguisher exploded from inside the middle of the mass. The resulting explosion knocked Utonium unconscious and made an absolute mess of his lab - but also tore the amorphous entity into three roughly equal parts.

While Utonium was out cold, the three parts of the blob underwent a rapid chemical change, reshaping their mass to emulate the lifeform which had caused its separation (possibly as a survival mechanism to make itself less likely to be exterminated by the victor). When Utonium came around, he was laying on the floor of his lab with what appeared to be three female children looking down at him with inquisitive gazes — their eyes the exact color of the meteor rock samples he had found in the outback months before. Utonium was surprised to discover that the three girls who had minutes ago been a singular shapeless being had the ability to speak his language.

Utonium took the girls home with him where he clothed them, fed them, and gave them each names — Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. Once they had settled in, Drake Utonium's inquisitive nature could no longer contain itself. He had a million questions. They only had a few answers. The three were aware that they used to be one. They had memories of being a device known as a Motherbox - a living computer. Though they understood that much, much of the specifics were lost to them. They were just as confused as Utonium as to how they came to be what they are now, but all three agreed that Utonium was their father (a later DNA test confirmed that the girls were closer to clones of Utonium).

Not certain he was prepared to be a father, Utonium was hesitant to call the girls his own, but he would be lying if he said he was not already fond of them. They spent a short weekend together until the disaster that was Utonium's office was discovered and authorities were sent to the Utonium residence. Believing a bomb of Utonium's making had gone off in the lab, the police arrested Professor Utonium but in so doing angered the three girls who reacted violently in a startling display of superhuman capabilities.

After the destruction of a police car, four injured police officers, and a substantial amount of property damage, Utonium was removed from police custody by the girls, only to be met with a stern reprimand from their "father". The rebuke prompted the girls to issue an apology to the armed reinforcements that were arriving with guns at the ready. After a brief standoff, the police took the surrendering professor and his three girls into custody.

Utonium and his "daughters" were interrogated for days by Special Agent Sara Bellum from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. Agent Bellum had been sent to determine if Utonium and his girls were alien infiltrators. As preposterous as her suspicions were, Utonium had to admit perception was not on his side. Eventually, Bellum revealed to the professor that his little lab accident had created more than the girls. Bellum had traced amorphous lifeforms which had been draining the life-force of Townsville citizens with having originated from the residual biological material spattered all over the school lab.

Furthermore, these blobs seemed to too well-organized and to Agent Bellum that suggested there was some mastermind controlling their actions in Townsville. Her only lead was a name heard uttered by one of the blobs - "Mojo Jojo". This menace had put thousands in peril using these blobs to create extreme diversions that allowed him to commit crimes across town with near-impunity. Bellum's theory was that Utonium and his girls were responsible, but Utonium knew who was behind this villainy. After he failed to convince Agent Bellum to release his daughters from custody to bring the criminal chimp to justice, Utonium simply told his girls to give it their best shot. And before Bellum could utter another word, the girls blasted through the ceiling and were gone.

The girls broke out of police custody without inconvenience and swept all over Townsville to find and confront the villain. With Blossom's intelligence, Buttercup's strength, and Bubbles' synergy, the girls apprehended the chimp and his "amoeba boys", putting an end to their brief reign of terror. Once the chimp was defeated, the girls returned to the detention facility where Utonium was being kept, smashing through the ceiling and landing in his secured cell.

After weeks spent resolving all manner of legal matters with Agent Bellum, a deal was reached between Utonium, the girls, and the City of Townsville.

## Personality

By his own admission Professor Utonium was a terrible "brat" as a child who had no interest in education, let alone science, despite his natural genius and propensity for such things. He does not like to admit it, as it sounds so crass, but the intrinsic destruction of the Manhattaning event made him open his eyes to the impressive power of science. As he grew older, his mischievous nature was tempered out, but it has never fully been eradicated.

As a father, Utonium is overprotective of the Girls. He is an affectionate and supportive father, whose pep talks were the largest influence on the girls' humanity and altruism. While his default dad-mode is often seen as timid or laid-back, he can be reasonably strict with his daughters when he needs to be, particularly when he sees them using their powers irresponsibly.

In his free time, Utonium enjoys golfing and inventing. The golfing was picked up as a way of coping with stress when he began to have a mental breakdown stemming from the extraordinary circumstances in his life and raising his daughters.

Having always been more comfortable in a lab, Professor Utonium always had difficulty finding love. He had a number of relationships with women. Notably, he was made the target by his daughters' enemy Sedusa, had an on-again, off-again relationship with the girls' nanny Ms. Keane, and also had several failed dates with Agent Sara Bellum. Ultimately, his rocky romances and experiences with his daughters helped him work through some of his issues and made him a better person. He eventually did find love with Miss Keane, resulting in the pair reinventing themselves as Mr. and Mrs. Utonium.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Genius Intellect:** Utonium is a highly educated and well-respected genius.
	+ ***Chemistry:*** Utonium is considered to be a world-class chemist. It is considered to be his primary area of expertise.
	+ ***Geology:*** Utonium is considered to be a master geologist, particularly in exoplanetary geology. He has written several papers on the geology of alien worlds, meteorite composition, and the unique properties of meteorological samples from Krypton. Furthermore, Professor Utonium is considered the world's foremost expert on Element X and may be the only person able to create its liquid derivative, Chemical X.
	+ ***Biology:*** Utonium has a degree in biology and is considered to be a master biologist, particularly with cellular biology. Though not a medical doctor, he is well-versed in medicinal treatments and surgical procedures. His research and experiments with his daughters has likely made him the world's foremost expert on the unique physiology of the Powerpuff Girls. Utonium is also one of two (the other being Mojo Jojo) known persons who could create stable "Powerpuffs".
	+ ***Physics:*** Utonium's fourth post-graduate degree is in physics. He is considered to be a master physicist and able to theorize on a number of strange phenomena he has personally experienced in his adventures with his daughters.
	+ ***Science:*** Utonium considers himself to be well-versed in most scientific fields. He regularly consults with experts and specialists in multiple fields.
	+ ***Eidetic Memory:*** Utonium is known to have an eidetic memory. He is easily able to recall passages read and connect events to specific dates with remarkable ease.
	+ ***Invention:*** Despite his qualifications, Utonium's greatest inventions are usually created by accident. Most inventions he creates on purpose usually don't work at all, are volatile or otherwise dangerous, or have some great flaw that makes them all but impractical to use.
* **Golfer:** Utonium does not particularly enjoy sports, but he has taken up golf as a way of managing his stress. He is by no means an excellent golfer, having never had a game with a score under par, but he has the fundamentals down and could teach the sport to amateurs and beginners.
* **Miniature Golfer:** As much as he loves golf but can never seem to break par, Utonium excels at miniature golf — likely due to how the game can easily be mastered with the application of advanced physics and mathematical solutions. Utonium played a lot of miniature golf with his daughters. When he is not holding back, he can easily best them — even if he's letting them use their powers.

### Weaknesses

* **Ailurophobia:** Professor Utonium remains gravely afraid of cats — stemming from a previous experience.
* **Allergy — Dogs:** Professor Utonium is allergic to dog dander, much to the annoyance of his daughters.
* **Inept — Cooking:** Buttercup thinks Professor Utonium's famous last words will one day be "Cooking is just a practical application of chemistry!" Though Utonium is a world-class chemist, his daughters are quick to remind him that the kitchen is not his lab. He seems unable to create anything edible except when he is following the most basic of recipes (and even then, most results are described as 'bland', 'lacking flavor', or 'unappealing'). He actually has more success in the kitchen when he ditches recipes and chooses to invent a new dish — but even then, his results vary with one attempt to create 'the best chili' requiring a hazmat team to respond and his attempt to make edible candy for his girls resulted in the creation of a material he was able to sell to Kord Omniversal for use in the latest line of Smartglass technology.
* **Inept — Lying:** Professor Utonium is a bad liar. Despite this, he does have a bad habit of lying — likely due to his residual mischievous impulses.
* **Stress:** Utonium is highly susceptible to stress. He can suffer from panic attacks, insomnia, migraines, stress-induced illnesses, or problem behavior as a means of coping with excessively built-up stress. His daughters are aware of this and do their best to not give their father any further undue stress, having nearly killed him in the past... on several occasions.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Weaponry:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Expertise:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Range:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 43
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* While with the girls on a world tour, Professor Utonium proposed to Meg while the two were imprisoned in a Vlatavan dungeon. Thinking they were about to die, Meg accepted; but after being rescued, she didn't rescind the acceptance even when the professor told her he would understand if she wanted to. The two got married at a later stop on the world tour, in Kuai Kuai Kuai.
* Dick Hardly was his roommate. They immediately hit it off and were close, but they had different priorities. Later he became the psychiatrist of the Powerpuff Girls and their associates.
* He met Emma Goode at the university while he was a professor's assistant. They dated for some time, but they were quite differen people and eventually she broke up with him. Drake decided to go into the Outback to get drunk and on that day he discovered the alien technology which created his girls.
* He is Robin Snyder's mentor.

#### Poweruff Girls

* Professor Utonium built JR Terrier as a training device to help test the girls' abilities and to help provide security for the PPG house when the girls are away. His design is a bit outdated now, but Utonium has kept him updated and retrofitted as the years go by and still lives as a member of the Utonium household.
* The girls are his clones and contain eighty-seven percent of his chromosomes. Another eight percent appear to be mutations of his own chromosomes. The last five are unknown. They contain something similar to a meta-gene, but 'puffier'.
* He gave Bubbles a stuffed octopus named Octi to keep her safe in the dark. Octi proved just the trick to help Bubbles get her rest.

#### Townsville Villains

* Jojo was a test subject in CMU and Drake started to take care of him when he was rotated out of active research. Utonium had student lab assistants handle most of the caretaking for Jojo, but he would often take his lunch breaks in Jojo's enclosure. The two would have engaging conversations. Though Jojo's sign language was limited, Utonium would often talk about all sorts of things. Utonium would often award Jojo by handing him his half-finished Soder Cola. This led to Jojo accidentally drinking Chemical X.
* Princess Morbucks asked him to give her powers. Drake did some limited trial experiments but was unable to replicate the results that created his daughters. When he shared this information with the Morbucks, Princess did not take it well at all. She had a tantrum in Utonium's lab, resulting in a small explosion. She fell into a coma for two weeks, after which she received powers from HIM.
* HIM has a strange interest in the Professor. HIM targets the Powerpuff Girls in his schemes as he derives a sick pleasure from making Utonium angry with him, becoming aroused when the professor threatens HIM for any pain or suffering he has brought to the Powerpuff Girls or the citizens of Townsville. It also stems from a wager he made with his sister Infernus, where they have to defeat the PPGs, seduse Drake, and take over Australia.
* He created his own version of Antidote X only targeting beings with the Y-chromosome to use against Rowdyruff Boys. He dubbed the substance "cooties". However, the components required to develop the singularly male-targeted Antidote X appear to be too prohibitive to reproduce after HIM stole the last batch (and used it to threaten the Rowdyruff Boys into working for him).

### Notes

* Professor Utonium is a character from the *Powerpuff Girls* animated series.
* His name being "Drake" Utonium is a nod from the *Powerpuff Girls Z* 2007 anime series.
* His appearance is based on Leonardo Nam, an Argentine-born Australian actor of Korean descent.
* His half-brother Eugene Utonium is a character from the episode "Say Uncle" and his half-sister Risa Yurigama is the second Rising Sun Archer in the comics.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Drake Utonium
* Network Files submitted by Drake Utonium

1. ↑ NFX: Professor Utonium
2. ↑ Network Files: Meg Keane
3. ↑ Network Files: Dick Hardly
4. ↑ Network Files: Emma Goode
5. ↑ Network Files: Robin Snyder
6. ↑ Roy Reimagines... P P G
7. ↑ VOX Box: Powerpuff 5
8. ↑ Network Files: Bubbles 1
9. ↑ Network Files: Jojo 1
10. ↑ Network Files: Princess Morbucks 1
11. ↑ Network Files: HIM 1
12. ↑ Network Files: Sedusa
13. ↑ NFX: Brick Mojo