| “ | Ten thousand years ago, the peace of this planet was shattered by the Scub Corals. Individual bodies were lost, and human dignity was destroyed past the point of no return. What reason does this planet have to live on after receiving such treatment? | „ |
| ~ Dewey justifying his actions to Holland. |
Colonel Dewey Novak (alternatively named Dewey Sorenstam in the Pocketful of Rainbows film) is the main antagonist of the Eureka Seven franchise.
A disgraced military official-turned-colonel, Dewey seizes control of the United Federation to lead his crusade to eradicate the Scub Coral. Feeling entitled to better, Dewey began a crazed effort to shape an ideal world without care for how much worse he made it on the way there. He's the arch-nemesis of Gekkostate (particularly his younger brother Holland Novak, Renton Thurston and Eureka).
In Japanese, he was voiced by the late Kōji Tsujitani in the original series, the late Keiji Fujiwara in the Anemone Hi-Evolution film and Koichi Yamadera in the Eureka Hi-Evolution film. In English, he was voiced by Kim Strauss as an adult and Dave Wittenberg as a teenager.
Appearance[]
Dewey is a tall, handsome man with long white hair tied in a ponytail and blue eyes. He wears an all-white military uniform with a hat and a long flowing white cape that gives off a very regal appearance.
Personality[]
At first glance, Dewey Novak presents himself as a strict but fair and charismatic leader, claiming to have mankind's best interests at heart. Beneath this façade, however, Dewey is an extremely manipulative, ruthless, egotistical, cold-hearted, megalomaniacal and narcissistic sociopath driven solely by his ego and hatred for both the Scub Coral and his younger brother Holland. As the former commander of the SOF, Dewey became distinguished from his genocidal campaigns against the Vodarek people. He possesses a superficial charm and uses it to persuade others for his own ends. Through the combination of his charisma and intellect, he seizes control of the United Federation and begins a murderous campaign to rid the world of the Scub Coral.
Dewey is very intelligent and calculating, as shown when he usurped the Sage Council and took control over the UF by diminishing the public's faith in them. He is quite entitled due to his noble upbringing and is shown to do whatever it takes to satisfy his ego. Due to his self-obsessed nature, Dewey has no regard for the well-being of those around him and looks down on any display of compassion or empathy, as shown when he coldly dismisses Dominic after he objects to how Dewey refers to and treats Anemone as a tool. He has immense hatred for Holland due to him earning the title of "Sacrificial King" and will take any opportunity to insult him and his achievements. He also despises the Scub Corals and the Coralians and focus all his efforts on destroying them, which may stem from the planet rejecting him performing the ritual.
Moreover, Dewey is incredibly nihilistic and delusional, believing himself to the savior of humankind through destroying humanity and the Scub Coral in order to bring about the death and rebirth of the planet. Dewey views the world as beyond saving and is fully convinced that it's his duty to destroy the current world so he can create a new better one from the ashes.
Biography[]
Dewey was born to the Novak family, an aristocratic clan which are said to have the role of calming the planet. To do so, one must go through a ritual involving patricide and earn the title of "Sacrificial King", something which Dewey assumed was reserved for him. However, his mother died while giving birth to his brother Holland, transferring the title to Holland instead. Infuriated by the loss of what he felt was his birthright, Dewey murdered their father in attempt to reclaim it, only for the ritual and his desired succession to be rejected. This, in turn, led to the Novak family losing their prestige and property, leaving Dewey and Holland homeless. Dewey came to harbor an intense hatred of both his brother and the world at large for rejecting him, although the only source for these motives was Dewey himself, leaving them in doubt.
Dewey and Holland eventually joined the United Federation military, where they came into contact with the scientist Adrock Thurston. Over the course of his military career, Dewey distinguished himself by conducting a genocidal campaign against the Vodarac people. However, in the wake of the First Summer of Love - an apocalyptic event that nearly destroyed the world until Adrock Thurston sacrificed himself to stop it - Holland defected from the military, stole an airship that he dubbed the Gekko, and founded the rebel group Gekkostate. Dewey was framed for helping Holland defect and had his military career forcibly ended, then was imprisoned for a number of years. The Sage Council later reinstated him and promoted him to the rank of Colonel, tasking him with addressing the crisis involving the Scub Coral spread across the planet. The news of his release deeply distressed Holland, who feared what he was capable of.
With the aid of his subordinate Dominic Sorel, Dewey manipulated the artificial Humanoid Coralian Anemone into a number of battles against the Gekkostate, all while quietly furthering his own plans for the Scub Coral and the Earth itself. However, despite Anemone's fanatical dedication to him, her repeated failures left Dewey disappointed in her. He sought to replace her with another artificial Humanoid Coralian, but when he learned that all of the test subjects had died, he decided to make use of Anemone in one final mission that would see her perish while accomplishing his ultimate goals.
Dewey's ultimate aim was to carry out a complete purge of all life on Earth, as he viewed the planet as corrupted past the point of no return by the Scub Coral. He sent Anemone into the Scub Coral after learning the location of the Scub Command Cluster with the command to destroy it; however, after realizing her fear of Dewey and torn apart by her conflicting feelings for Dominic, who had defected to Gekkostate, Anemone had become suicidal and unwilling to fight at her full power. This made no difference to Dewey's plans, as he simply fired the Oratorio #8 satellite laser into the opening in the Scub Coral, destroying the Command Cluster. It was his intent that either Anemone or Eureka transform into a new Command Cluster and then transmit a kill signal to the rest of the Scub Coral, but Anemone managed to remove her collar before it could transform her and escape with Dominic.
During the chaos, the Gekko crashed into Dewey's ship, and Holland boarded in search of his brother. The siblings engaged in a vicious duel that ended with Dewey having Holland at his mercy, but instead of killing Holland, Dewey revealed the final stage of his scheme: by embedding a Compac Drive into his chest, he had created a dead man's switch that would activate Anemone and Eureka's collars upon his death, thus initiating the self-destruct sequence that would destroy the Scub Coral and the entire Earth along with it. In one last act of spite and hatred, Dewey shot himself in the head to set the final steps of his apocalypse into motion.
Following his death, Eureka and Renton were able to prevent the destruction of the Scub Coral, rendering his plan a failure.
Pocketful of Rainbows[]
Dewey is a posthumous character in the 2009 film Eureka Seven: Pocketful of Rainbows. In this version, he is named Dewey Sorenstam and was a scientist experimenting on child soldiers for the military. These children eventually killed him and assumed the identities of the movie's version of Gekkostate.
Hi-Evolution[]
Dewey returns as the main antagonist of the Hi-Evolution movie trilogy. In the first film, it is revealed that during the First Summer of Love, Dewey was tasked by Adrock with deploying a vital component of the anti-Scub weapon Silver Box. However, he was knocked off course, landing at ground zero near the Command Cluster right as Silver Box began to malfunction. As a result of close proximity to the malfunctioning weapon, both Dewey and Eureka were exposed to its incredible power.
This exposure caused them both to develop supernatural powers. While Eureka began rewinding time to create virtual worlds in desperation to find a happy ending after accidentally killing Renton, Dewey became aware of this reality and the countless alternate worlds he was made a part of. Eventually, Dewey was ejected from the "Eureka Seven" - a physical manifestation of Eureka's madness in the real world - and captured by the United Nations anti-Scub unit A.C.I.D., who took him prisoner. In this state, he appeared as a frail, elderly man with overgrown hair and a long beard, unable to walk due to his legs fading away into the virtual world.
During the events of the second film, Fuuka Ishii - the real-world version of Anemone - was brought by A.C.I.D. official Greg "Bear" Egan to see Dewey, under Dr. Bear's belief that Dewey could shed light on the things she had witnessed inside the virtual world. Dewey, however, offered little help, instead merely making cryptic comments about Renton, the nature of Eureka's powers, and what would soon take place. Later, while Anemone battled the manifestation of Silver Box, Dewey declared the beginning of the "Millennium Age" and removed his restraints, revealing that he possessed powers similar to Eureka's. After manifesting his legs fully, Dewey unleashed a telekinetic blast that wounded Dr. Bear and destroyed his prison.
Later, Dewey reached the surface in time to see a new Nirvash model falling to Earth in a giant egg. Musing on the nature of his power once more, Dewey welcomed it as the "holy guide to Nirvana."
In the third film, set ten years later, Dewey became the leader of the Imperial Guard Cavalry, a special unit in the military of Green Earth, the civilization brought into reality by Eureka at the end of the previous film. He sought to capture a new Humanoid Coralian, Iris McKenzie, who possessed powers similar to those the now-powerless Eureka had. His followers also carried out a bombing aboard the space station Kibisis, which had been launched into orbit as a containment unit for the Nirvash after it merged with Silver Box's manifestation. Dewey initially believed Eureka to be dead, but when she interfered in his operation to capture Iris and brought her into A.C.I.D.'s custody, he became determined to bring an end to their shared story once and for all.
Dewey sent an astral projection of himself to A.C.I.D.'s space station, where he went on a violent rampage in a bid to capture Iris. Eureka and Iris escaped with aid from Anemone, crash-landing in Europe after Dewey attacked their escape pod. With his first astral body destroyed, one of Dewey's earrings crumbled; his earrings served as a count of how many times he could use his powers before overextending them and dying. Disregarding this limit, Dewey pursued Eureka and Iris across the continent, losing more of his astral bodies in the process. Eventually, with not enough power left to personally attack them again, he sent his Imperial Guard Cavalry after them instead, resulting in the successful capture of Iris.
Dewey's next move was to capture the political leaders of both Green Earth and Blue Earth, the people of the real world. He brought them to a refugee ship that was intended to bring the people of Green Earth into space, where he revealed the truth about his agenda: having fallen into despair after realizing his nature as an artificial construct forged in Eureka's virtual world, he wished to give his life meaning by destroying Earth in a planet-sized Eureka event, which he would trigger by bringing Iris into contact with the Nirvash/Silver Box hybrid aboard Kibisis. An attack by A.C.I.D. interrupts this plan, causing Dewey to violently attack Eureka despite having hit the limit of his powers. During the battle, a piece of wreckage fell on Dewey, mortally wounding him. As he died, he explained to Eureka the fear he felt at the idea of falling asleep, terrified that as an artificial construct he might never wake up again. He asked Eureka to come with him, but she refused. Having expected this, Dewey tells her that the flower pin given to Iris is of a species from one of her dream worlds (specifically, the one depicted in Pocketful of Rainbows) and thus should not exist in the real world, but somehow does. He then contacts his followers, Ruri Flame and Endo, and orders them to carry out his backup plan - a suicide bombing of the space elevator connected to the refugee ship. The falling elevator kills millions of people in the cities below it, and Dewey's aim is to annihilate all of Green Earth with the refugee ship's decaying orbit before the impact ultimately kills millions of people more. With this final act, Dewey finally dies, believing he has accomplished his dream.
Following Dewey's death, Holland and many other pilots sacrifice themselves in a bid to push the ship away from the Earth, but are unable to do so. Eureka, desperate to not let anyone else die, enters Nirvash and calls out for Renton's help, bringing him back to life. Together, the power of their love overcomes Dewey's hatred and destroys the refugee ship, and their spirits disappear together, having defeated their nemesis at long last.