Professor Terrible

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Profile
Title	Professor Terrible
Gender	Male
Race	Adelie Penguin
Faction	Himself
Health	Well
Status	Doing some crime
Location	South Pole City
Occupation	Evil scientist
Friends	Wet, Ruby
Enemies	Captain Clamor
Archetype	Evil

Professor Terrible is an aspiring supervillain, and arch-nemesis of Captain Clamor. Professor Terrible, the name by which he is commonly known (especially by the public), is the alter-ego of Freddie (his everyday name).

Biography

Freddie is primarily motivated by a desire to make a drastic social change in the world by putting the power in his own hands. He often sits in front of a web-cam recording content for his blog, where he talks both of his villainous exploits and of his experiences with Ruby. Prof. Terrible has a friend and henchman, Wet, with whom he discusses his evil plans, and his crush on the girl from the laundromat, Ruby, to whom he has yet to even say hello. Terrible's nemesis is Captain Clamor, a vain, prideful superhero, described by the professor as a "corporate tool".

Unlike the other local villains, Professor Terrible is more or less an aspiring one at best. He always seems to feel particularly remorseful; when ordered by Darktan to murder, he shows hostility and uncertainty to actually killing; his style is no more than well-organized theft and building impressive technology. This merciful nature more or less adds to the tragedy of Prof. Terrible; at heart, Freddie has no true desire to go beyond small, secluded feats.

In real life, Freddie is very shy and cautious, an almost polar opposite of his internet villain alter ego. At the laundromat, he acts very respectfully and kindly to Ruby; buying her frozen yogurt, being gentle with her both physically and emotionally, and treats her like an actual penguin. As it is, Freddie is torn by a moral dilemma whether to take a stand against Captain Clamor or find a way to live life without him interfering.

Views and Beliefs

To his credit, Prof. Terrible seems to be one of the sole people in Antarctica who seems to realize the media's views on heroes is hopelessly inaccurate. Despite all the praise and love lauded for Captain Clamor, Prof. Terrible knows from personal experience that the very hero defending South Pole City is a callous, vain, selfish jerk who enjoys using reputation to gain free benefits and earn further praise.

Politically, Terrible's ideology is flawed to say the least. He believes (and is correct) that so-called superheroes are incapable of correctly controlling peace, and that the only way in order for the world to be controlled correctly is by the benign goals of "anarchy that he runs"; to remove forms of government and to put the power in his hands, but also allowing anarchy under his rule, seeing that the status quo of the normal world is "not... quo." and blatantly stating that "Antarctica is a mess and I need to rule it." This is an obvious oxymoron.

Strengths and Abilities

While physically unimposing, Professor Terrible possesses a genius-level intellect and an understanding of technology that far surpasses that of most of the world, enabling him to invent seemingly impossible items like a transmatter device, freeze ray, stun ray, death ray, and remote control device (which allows him to operate a vehicle from a handheld device). Many of his inventions have failed to work as planned.

He can also take a car to the face and walk away.

Trivia

• He is a parody of Doctor Horrible from Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog