| “ | Moms and dads, I see the future. I see a future without rock 'n' roll music. As I speak to you now, young people all over this country are burning guitars and records, burn until we together have eradicated this vile plague that Elvis Presley brought down upon our nation. | „ |
| ~ Righteous' message to the USA. |
| “ | RIGHTEOUS! RIGHTEOUS! RIGHTEOUS! | „ |
| ~ A crowd cheers Righteous' names as they burn rock guitars and records. |
| “ | Our mission is to rid the world of all forms of cultural pollution, and the philosophy of shortlived pleasures of the flesh at the expense of our longterm national wellbeing will soon be as extinct as the Roman Empire! | „ |
| ~ A monitor recording of Dr. Righteous, appearing in every TV channel. |
Dr. Everett Righteous is the main antagonist of the 1983 short film Kilroy Was Here (also known as Caught in the Act), made to tie in with the Styx album of the same name.
He's the leader of the "MMM (the Majority for Musical Morality)". His influence leads to rock music being outlawed, as well as policing and other peacekeeping duties once held by humans being replaced with robots that serve as manual labor in jobs generally.
He's played by Styx guitarist James Young.
Appearance[]
Righteous appears to be a middle-aged man with a strange futuristic suit, well combed hair and a small stache.
Personality[]
| “ | Can we change these rebels, can we cure this illness? I believe we can. As I speak to you the rock 'n' roll transgressors of the old world are being retrained in our hospitals and prisons. | „ |
| ~ A monitor recording of Dr. Righteous, appearing in every TV channel. |
Various posters of Righteous in the streets.
During his influential rise of power, Dr. Righteous was charismatic, entertaining, and above all else, understood the media, using it to his advantage to gain influence over the populace, showing his manipulative side.
He has brainwashed a vast majority into destroying rock culture, imprisoning everyone who supports it and keeping them under cruel conditions (starting a riot during lunch break may earn a prisoner a punishment for 600 hours, or 25 days). Though it would seem he's doing this for something he believes to be righteous, he goes to ridiculous extremes to the point where his petty actions can't really be justified.
Biography[]
Background[]
At some point in the past Dr. Righteous founded and led the MMM (the Majority for Musical Morality), became influential in American politics through the use of his own cable T.V. network and spoke about the evils of rock 'n' roll music, and how through its permissive attitudes it was responsible for the USA's moral and economic decline, and Righteous quickly gained enough power to eventually have rock 'n' roll banned.
Kilroy Was Here[]
In a dystopian future, the caretakers of human society are robots manufactured in Japan and designed to work cheaply and endlessly, called "Mr. Roboto's". Meanwhile Dr. Righteous enforces his own morality by holding nightly rallies where crowds destroy rock 'n' roll records and electric guitars, throwing them into huge bonfires.
A rebel leader of an underground movement to bring back rock music, Jonathan Chance, makes Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, a former rock star imprisoned for many years, the symbol of his cause. With no hope of release, Kilroy is subjected to the humiliation of mind control via the MMM cable network, and in an attempt to contact Kilroy, Jonathan jams the airwaves of the MMM network, replacing a session of mind control with outlawed footage of a Kilroy concert.
This inspired Kilroy enough to escape, and he and Jonathan meet at the old Paradise Theatre, now the site of Dr. Righteous' Museum of Rock Pathology, a MMM museum against rock music, filled with animatronic replicas of "decadent" rock stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, and Kilroy. There, both see the last Kilroy concert mechanically depicted by Kilroy look-alike Robotos as the violent end of rock 'n' roll.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The album Kilroy Was Here partly to mockingly respond to Christian groups and other anti-rock-music activists who had previously influenced the Arkansas State Senate to pass a bill requiring that all records containing backmasking be labeled as such by the manufacturer. Dr. Righteous is somewhat based or is analogous to these activists.