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| “ | A second chance is what we all deserve... | ” |
–The Mad Doctor, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two | ||
The Mad Doctor (alias Dr. XXX) is the secondary antagonist in Epic Mickey and is the main antagonist in its sequel. The Mad Doctor is the animatronic mastermind responsible for the creation of the robotic Beetleworx that hinder Mickey's path in the Cartoon Wasteland. Before the Thinner Disaster, the Mad Doctor also created robotic versions of Mickey's friends to accompany Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
He is voiced by Jim Meskimen.
Physical appearance[]
The Mad Doctor is a tall but hunched man with an evil smile. He wears a dirty white lab coat with a pocket near the waist that contains a knife and scissors. He wears black gloves and shoes and his beard is overgrown with a mustache that twists up. He is bald and has big, black eyes under bushy eyebrows.
In Epic Mickey 2, when the Doctor became a Toon again thanks to the Tints, his lab coat changed to be cleaner and featured metal snaps on it. This however, was retconned in Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, as he now wears that coat in the remake.
History[]
The Mad Doctor originated from the 1933 short of the the same name. In the short, he kidnaps Pluto and tries to put his head on the body of a chicken to see if it the end result of a puppy hatching from an egg will bark, crow, or cackle. Mickey enters the Doctor's castle to find and save Pluto but is caught and nearly killed, only to realise he was dreaming.
Although the short has been largely scrubbed due to the scary tone, he would make some appearances afterwards, such as in the game Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse. He is also briefly seen in a picture in the Roger Rabbit short Tummy Trouble.
In Epic Mickey and Epic Mickey: Rebrushed[]
Years ago, when the Mad Doctor arrived in Wasteland, he became loyal to Oswald and the two began creating the Beetleworx, who were meant to help maintain the Cartoon Wasteland. He also built animatronic versions of Mickey’s friends for Oswald. However, when the Thinner Disaster struck and the Blot appeared, the Doctor went over to his side, seeing the Blot as the stronger force. At some point, the Mad Doctor turned himself into an animatronic so he could rule Wasteland as their mechanical king, knowing that only animatronics and Beetleworx would be able to survives once the Blot has drained all the paints from Wasteland.
After a certain period of time, following the Blot sealing by Oswald, the Mad Doctor teamed up with the Shadow Blot in order to kidnaps Mickey, he then attempts to steal Mickey's heart with the Mechanical Arm, in order to give it to the Shadow Blot so that he can leave Wasteland, leaving a power vacuum the Mad Doctor can fill.[1] His plan fails however and he escapes through an hatch after seeing the Shadow Blot fleeing at the sight of the Paintbrush.
Shortly after that, the Mad Doctor headed to Tomorrow City where he sabotaged the Moonliner Rocket in order to prevent Mickey from leaving Wasteland. Mickey faces the Mad Doctor once again in the Lonesome Manor, the Doctor warns Mickey that he has set up defences before retreating straight to the manor's attic, accidentally leaving behind a Treasure Chest containing an Anvil Sketch.
The Mad Doctor in his snowglobe
After Mickey has fought him in Lonesome Manor, he learns that the Mad Doctor transformed himself into an animatronic. However, as the Doctor explains his plan to Mickey, Gus took the last rocket part from his pod, causing it to malfunction and sending the Mad Doctor high into the sky.
Strategy[]
While not fought directly, the Mad Doctor is the fourth boss. To defeat the doctor, Mickey must either destroy the Beetleworx Replicators or reassemble the tracks in the attic.
The Thinner way to defeat the Mad Doctor, is to destroy all three Beetleworx Replicator. To do this, Mickey must shoot thinner at the red lights inside the generator. They are visible only when the doors of the generator open. The door of a generator opens only when a Beetleworx is destroyed and a new one is arriving. Destroying all three generators finishes the battle.
The Paint way to defeat the Mad Doctor is to rescue one gremlin in the Library and one in the Ballroom earlier in Lonesome Manor. During the final fight, Mickey must place a TV on the power trigger and anvils on buttons. This will lower the tracks, causing the cart on the track to crash into the machine behind the Mad Doctor. Either strategy will also earn Mickey the Mad Doctor Pin.
In Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two[]
The Mad Doctor in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.
| “ | MAD DOCTOR - The Mad Doctor is making his return from banishment in Disney Epic Mickey 2 as a reformed toon. Seeing the error of his ways he offers his help, but the question is, can Mickey, Oswald, and Gus trust their old nemesis? What do you think? | ” |
–Disney Epic Mickey Video Game Facebook page | ||
Following a devastating quake in Wasteland, the Mad Doctor suddenly reappears, this time claiming that he's reformed and wants to rejoin Oswald's forces. Oswald, overjoyed to see his friend turned good again, accepts him with open arms. However, Oswald's girlfriend, Ortensia, and Gremlin Gus feel reluctant about it and call on Mickey.
Throughout the game, the Mad Doctor often communicates with Mickey and Oswald over Oswald's remote. When Mickey first meets up with the Mad Doctor, he sings a song about how he has changed and goes off to other areas of Wasteland to assist in repairs. Mickey and Oswald then later find the doctor is later seen at the end of the Blotworx Dragon boss battle. The doctor then explains his regrets of turning himself into an animatronic, as he is now falling apart. He also expresses his desire to be a toon again.
The Mad Doctor fighting Mickey and Oswald on his own ride
After Mickey and Oswald managed to break in his attic, it turns out that he has not truly reformed, and plans to become famous again. After fooling Gremlin Prescott into turning against Mickey, Oswald and Gus, he plan to utilises a television transmitter similar to the one Gus constructed to call Mickey, and broadcasts his own television show to the Cartoon World, "The Wonderful World of Evil", hoping the ratings there will give him a heart again. To become a Toon once more, he started pumping Guardians from the ground beneath Wasteland in an effort to try and harness their power and get revenge on Wasteland by leaving it in an inert state. And with the Brush, he would move to the top of the villain hierarchy.
Confronting him on his own ride, Mickey and Oswald faces two of the Mad Doctor's creations, a giant mechanical claw and a mechanical spider-like robot before releasing all of the Guardians to save Wasteland.
Good/Paint Ending[]
The redeemed and fully-toon Mad Doctor.
In the Good Ending, Mickey and Oswald save the Mad Doctor from falling into a giant vat of Thinner, then he saves them by using jets in his feet flying out if the lower level of his attraction, and the Guardians turn him back into a toon, and is redeemed. The Doctor sings a additional song entitled, "That's What Heroes Do". He joins the Mean Street Parade, on the float with all the heroes.
Bad/Thinner Ending[]
In the Bad Ending, Mickey and Oswald try to save the Mad Doctor, but when he tries to take Oswald with him, Mickey uses Thinner on the Doc; but this time does not come to his senses and laughs evilly at them, and Oswald fires his remote at a nearby switch, which drops the Mad Doctor into the vat of Thinner as Turps cover him (preventing him from using his jet feet to carry himself to safety), while Mickey and Oswald are carried to safety by the Turps. Likely, he is drowned in all of the Thinner and is destroyed.
Strategy[]
- Main article: Mad Doctor's Ride
The Mad Doctor acts as the final boss. His fight takes place at his new ride, and using Paint or Thinner will directly affect both the fight and his ending. A good strategy for destroying or redeeming him in the second game is to use a watch sketch to slow the ride down and to slow the Mad Doctor himself down in the second stage of the fight, giving Mickey a chance to fire Paint or Thinner at the eye on the claw. During the second stage, a watch sketch will slow down the Mad Doctor's attack and his machine, giving Mickey a decent chance to thin or paint in the tiki masks.
In Epic Mickey: Tales of Wasteland[]
| “ | Talk about your one-hit wonders. The Mad Doctor made his single appearance as the titular villain in the 1933 Cartoon 'The Mad Doctor.' And even then, he was dismissed as being a simple nightmare conjured up by a sleeping Mickey Mouse.
Using his masterful skills in cartoon technical design, the Mad Doctor cooked up the Beetleworx, mechanical helpers who aided him in fixing and beautifying Wasteland. If he's got an evil side, he's sure doing a good job of hiding it. Maybe... too good... |
” |
–Disney Epic Mickey Digicomics | ||
The Mad Doctor appears in the prequel comics, Epic Mickey: Tales of Wasteland. He appears in all the comics except "One Scary Night".
As these comics are set before the Blot Wars, The Doctor is much more friendly, particularly with Oswald. In reality, the Doctor was manipulating Oswald as seen in some of the comics, such as in "The Rubbish Cup", where he organizes a contest in which each member must tell or demonstrate one true-to-life adventure, nearly breaking Oswald and Horace's friendship. Ortensia seems to be one of the few that doubt his "good" intentions.
Gallery[]
Mad Doctor Gallery
A collection of images relating to Mad Doctor
Trivia[]
Screenshot from an early cutscene, where the Mad Doctor wears a cloak
- Originally, when the Mad Doctor first showed up in the "Mickey arrives in Wasreland" cutscene, he was dressed in his black cloak from the Mad Doctor short. This idea was scrapped likely to avoid confusing people with the original Phantom Blot.
- It is assumed that the Mad Doctor converted himself into a Beetleworx/Animatronic with the Pirate Conversion Machine on Skull Island or at least a similar machine. It's possible destruction/dismantling could explain why he didn't/couldn't use said machine to reverse the process, as it was shown in a cutscene that the transformation was undoable.
- The Mad Doctor was one of the earliest residents to arrive in Wasteland along with Oswald and Ortensia.
- The cartoon he made his debut in is included in the game as an unlockable, it is also two of the 2D Projector Screen Levels in Lonesome Manor. (See The Mad Doctor).
- Only in the Thinner Ending, the Mad Doctor is one of the few (if only) main characters to survive the first game, but die in the sequel.
- The Mad Doctor is also the only boss in the first Epic Mickey to not have his own unique boss theme, instead reusing Lonesome Manor’s Exploration and Combat themes.
- He is also the only boss who rewards only one pin regardless of choices.
- When the Mad Doctor is defeated in the first game, it is unknown where he lands. But in the sequel, it is revealed in his song, "Wonderful World of Evil" that he fell somewhere in Disney Gulch.
- Later in the first game, Oswald asks Mickey if he created the Mad Doctor. Mickey replied, "No," but he technically did, due to the Doc making his first appearance in Mickey's dream. How the Mad Doctor exists even though he was originally a dream is unknown.
- There was some confusion on who voiced the Mad Doctor in the first Epic Mickey, as Dave Wittenberg claimed on his website that he voiced the character in the game. It was later clarified by Jim Meskimen that he voiced the Mad Doctor in both games in an 2024 interview by Snap - Chase the Chaos[2]
- In Epic Mickey 2, the majority of the Mad Doctor's dialogue is performed through singing. It is not until Mickey and Oswald discover his evil plan that he drops the singing and speaks normally. This is a nod to how he sung in his original cartoon.
- In the German version of Epic Mickey 2, he was given a Russian accent. His original English accent is hard to pin, being mostly a mix of German and Russian, and generally Eastern European.
External links[]
References[]
- ↑
The Mad Doctor doesn't want Mickey's heart for himself.
- ↑ https://youtu.be/-MHortlY-8E?si=t6ouTMrl_iUshtDe
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