Dr. Zalost

Dr. Zalost is the main antagonist of the episode "The Tower of Dr. Zalost," the season two finale of the Cartoon Network show Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Description
Dr. Zalost is a depressed scientist whose goal in life was to make everyone as miserable as he was. In order for this to happen, he created bombs that, when a person is hit, they would instantly become unhappy. His proposal for his plan was laughed at, however. When he started firing his bombs at the citizens of No-Where, however, he was given money in order for his bombing to cease. Still not satisfied, he continued his attack on the citizens. This even effects Muriel Bagge. Zalost had an assistant an anthropomorphic rat named Rat. Their relationship is rather complicated, and its shown that Zalost was more abusive in their relationship. For example, he was angry with him for not giving him a proper hug. When Courage discovered that the antidote to the bombs was Muriel's Happy Plums, he snuck into Zalost's tower, with Eustace posing as a pizza deliverymen. Zalost then enters a hangman game with Courage, while he's tied up with one of the bombs facing him. Courage wins, and Zalost is enraged. He then sends his henchman Rat after him. Courage gives him some of Muriel's plums, and he is converted into a weeping infant. He then adds the Happy Plums into the bomb mix, and it creates new bombs that cure everyone, including Muriel. The result destroys Zalost's Tower, however. He then arrives at the Bagge house, and sees some of the Happy Plums on the table. He eats some, and that converts him into a more happier scientist, and he then reconciles with his henchman Rat. He only appeared in "The Tower of Dr. Zalost."

Trivia

 * Zalost is a Serabic word meaning "sorrow."