User blog comment:AustinDR/PE Proposal: Sir Miles Axlerod and Professor Zündapp/@comment-25075214-20190527000009/@comment-25075214-20190527001458

Well, that may be, but there's one thing: near the end, when Mater confronted Axlerod for his plot, Axlerod was quick to deny by calling Mater insane and demanding that he be saved. But as the timer starts to finish up and that Mater is already close to Axlerod, the latter realized that he would be killed in the imminent explosion alongside Mater and had to expose himself by diffusing the bomb. He would've been defiant to the end.

Not to mention, his character wasn't taken seriously as there was a scene of himself going on a rainforest safari in a more comedic fashion.