Dr. Rindolph

Koji Kabuto

Sayaka Yumi

Dr. Rindolph is a character from Astro Boy (1980) and is a minor antagonist in Knights of the Multiverse Season 1. He's a mad scientist that acts as a member of the evil organization L.O.S.R., and is Nyoka's (or, Niki, as he originally called her) creator.

## Personality

Rindolph is one of *those* kinds of mad scientists, the kind that just thinks things should go his way. And as per tradition with these petty-types, he's willing to pull any dirty, underhanded tricks to do that, including stealing top-grade Renegade robots to aid in his plans or complete brainwashing-type overriding of a Droid's A.I.. He's also very controlling over the things he has made, as he was shown to be quite obsessive over getting "Niki" back, with no care for his creation's feelings on the matter.

## History

### Pre-Series

Rindolph had originally worked in the old Photon Laboratory and was one of the few that transferred to the New Photon/Saotome Labs when it was formed. However, he had much grander plans to make a name for himself. About two years ago, he created a Droid he called "Niki", copying the blueprints from Dr. Kabuto & Yumi's "most prized" Droid Lilulu as a way to show them up. In addition to that, he redesigned the robot slightly to incorporate several other sorts of powerful weapons and systems to truly show the rest of the world his superiority thanks to some under-the-table money from military groups. At the same time though, he had also longed to have a child of his own, so he also designed her to look like a nine-year-old girl. Unfortunately, he never got the chance to put his plans for his masterpiece into motion, as just before he could activate her, he was arrested by the EDC for his illegal purchasing of her components and allegations of terrorist-like activity.

### Season 1

Sometime before the first season, Rindolph fell in with the surviving members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. - no doubt thanks to their interest in showing the world their supposed superiority - and helped them in their efforts to rebuild their organization. He seemingly gained a great deal of trust during his short time with them, as when the group fully reestablished themselves as the League of Scientific Renegades, he was put in charge of overseeing the operations of the Grotta Base, and was eventually one of the many hands that oversaw the development of the organization's Lysithea and Adrastea battleships.

## Relationships

### Niki

Rindolph sees "Niki" only as a piece of property, made to simply follow his orders without question. As such, he was very adamant about making her his again.

### The Knights

Like the majority of his associates, Rindolph only sees the Knights as children and pests to do away with, with Niki being the only member he truly has his focus on.

#### Mohm

Rindolph sees Mohm as nothing but a shameful knockoff of his work that, out of all the Knights, should be destroyed posthaste for being such a "disgraceful mockery" of his creation.

## Notes

Rindolph is one of the few L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. scientists to come from a show other than Phineas and Ferb, mostly due to his connection to a character in the main cast.

Rindolph's inclusion is to sort of give a bit more reason/context to why he designed Nyoka like he did, since the original Astro Boy never really offered any explanation as to why he made her look as cutesy as he did. And keep in mind, that version of Nyoka had a bomb built into her, which Rindolph was more than willing to activate when she turned against him to help Astro, so that alone raises a lot of questions. Some of this is influenced by making him something of a mix between Dr. Tenma and the character of Count Walpur Guiss (a nod to the influence Nyoka takes from Atlas), where he wants his robot back for the sole purpose of making them do what he wants with them and showing the world his superior mind, which is mainly to give him a bit more of a personality than just "mad scientist out for power because evil".