Hans Klamp

"Ha Ha...You two have absolutely NO idea what the true mitochondria is like... DO YOU?!"

- Hans Klamp, to Aya and Daniel

Doctor Hans Klamp is a character in the videogame Parasite Eve. He intentionally assisted the circumstances that lead to the rise of the videogame's main antagonist Eve.

Doctor Hans Klamp is a biological researcher living in New York City who focused mainly on mitochondrial study, so when Eve cut a blood path of destruction through New York while spouting lines about the superiority of Mitochondria, Aya and her partner Daniel made time to interview him as a local leading expert on how the creature called Eve might function. Klamps appeared completely obsessed with the subject of his research explaining some of the wondrous things mitochondria could achieve if some force could actually unite the cells to all function one way at the same time. Though highly suspicious Klamp answered only a few basic questions about mitochondria and submitted his theories about what such a supposed mitochondrial life-form could do if it obtained sentience.

Over the course of the game though more and more clues lead Aya and Daniel back to Klamp, like uncovering Klamp was the one who arranged the Kidney transplant from the mystery donor to Melissa Pearce before she was consumed by the mitochondric strain that trasformed Melissa into it's avatar as Eve. Klamp was also keeping track of various humans with certain genetic codes, Daniel's son Ben, being one and last but not least Klamp had overseen the surgery of Aya's sister Maya who had died years before hand. Even Aya's own bizarrely increased genetic traits that not only protected her from Eve's direct control but also allowed her steadily superhuman feats were tied to Klamp, who had arranged for Aya to received an organ transplant from the same host Melissa got her kidney from.

Aya, Daniel and Maeda, a Japanses researcher, track down Klamp to try to get answers out of him and when confronted with no place to go Klamp lays his part in the scheme out for the both of them. Klamp confesses that he intentionally was helping the Mitochondria Eve evolve faster, because she represented a new stage in evolution and he believed that humans were outdated simplistic genetic mongrels. When Aya tried to arrest him Klamp opts to dies rather than be arrested by the likes of her and Daniel instead preferring to go out in what he saw as a blaze of glory and called out to Eve to use him as a bomb to take them all out. Klamp spontaneously combusted but Daniel and Maeda leapt out the window to escape the blast, but Aya stayed to try to save Klamp, but since Aya's genetic code was unaffected by Eve she neutralized the chain reaction Klamp's combustion was meant to set off. With his last breath Klamp asks why Aya had bothered to stayed to try to save him? Aya simply said because she was a cop and it was her job, to which Klamp simply stated that she was a shining example of humanity...and why it was so pathetic, after which he died.