Scientist (The Last Game)

The Scientist is the main antagonist in the short computer-animated movie The Last Game by Nike, a part of Nike's campaign "Risk Everything" for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. He is the head of the company Perfect, Inc. and created powerful clones designed to play football perfectly.

Story
Upon analyzing soccer matches, the Scientist concludes that human players make too many risky moves and develops soccer-playing clones that would reach better results. These clones are programmed for no-risk-taken football and focus on efficiency, accuracy and risk mitigation by guaranteed results. The clones are initially successful and beat the best human players around the world, forcing these former football legends to seek out different occupations.

Brazilian retired player Ronaldo watches a young boy practicing football tricks all alone and an interview of the Scientist in which he is asked what he thinks the former players are doing now and he replies "who cares?". Instigated by that, Ronaldo travels the world to rescue the now-forgotten players: Zlatan Ibrahimović, who tries to seel an autobiography; Cristiano Ronaldo, who now works as a mannequin at a store; Andrés Iniesta; Neymar and David Luiz, barbers at a beauty salon; and Wayne Rooney, a fisherman. Their spirits are raised by Ronaldo, who motivates them by showing the glimpses of their former glory and the decline football is facing.

Reinvigorated, the players challenge the Scientist's clones to a football match in which the team with the first goal wins and the losers quit football forever. The players outsmart the clones with their skills despite the Scientist activating a fail-safe which introduces more clones to the field; the match ends with Cristiano Ronaldo effortlessly scoring a goal.

The Scientist sulks upon seeing his clones finally defeated. His fate beyond that is unknown.