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| “ | We had to leave our place because the world was dyin' And everyone that wasn't dead spent all of their time cryin' Our ways had failed, nature had failed We made a lot of errors The Founders had some new ideas that made everything better Our Founders dreamt of this island Our ships landed on its shore They built our wonderful Guardian to keep destruction from our door The Hiders fear these new ideas But do your best to help them 'Cause just outside is darkness and death Disease, monsters, and problems So come out of your hiding place, come out of the darkness And we'll find a new way to live by the light of the Founders. |
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| ~ Dr. Gross' "Founders" song to manipulate her young students into becoming seekers. |
| “ | Kara! Thanks for the tip my loyal faithful seeker. Go fetch! | „ |
| ~ Dr. Gross before she brainwashes Kara into destroying Frieda's boat to prevent her escape from the island. |
Dr. Gross is a supporting antagonist in the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time, serving as the main antagonist of the Season 8 "Preboot/Reboot" arc and the overarching antagonist of the "Islands" miniseries.
She is a seemingly helpful yet incredibly twisted doctor whom once taught the remaining humans on the island, before becoming obsessed with cybernetic enhancement. Gross now wishes to bring humanity into a golden age through robotic modification with her hybrid army. She herself is a cyborg.
She was voiced by Lennon Parham.
Biography[]
Dr. Gross returns in the "Islands" miniseries in Season 8 as the secondary antagonist, although only appearing in flashbacks. It is revealed that years before Finn's birth, the doctor lived on an island far off the coast of Ooo with many other surviving humans. In this post Mushroom War society, Dr Gross taught students known as "seekers" to prevent "hiders" from leaving the island. She uses a song detailing the history of the humans, the islands founders, and the dangers of leaving to brainwash the students into thinking that the outside world is too dangerous to survive.
One of her students is Kara (Susan Strong) or X-J-7-7. At one point Kara asks Dr. Gross for advice concerning her friend Frieda who wants to leave the island. The doctor reinforces the need to prevent those like Frieda from wanting to leave the island and eventually tracks the two down to the islands shores, where Susan is attempting to help Frieda to flee. She activates an electric signal which overrides Kara's free will and cause she to be under the doctors complete control. Dr. Gross orders Kara to destroy Frieda's boat preventing her from leaving, and the two leave with Frieda (who is presumably send to reeducation on the island).
Later in the miniseries, it is revealed by Minerva, Finn's mother, that after Finn and Martin Mertens' disappearance, Dr. Gross sent Kara out to retrieve them, but she never returned. As Minerva became more depressed and reserved, Dr. Gross' experiments become stranger and dangerous, eventually leading to the accidental release of a deadly virus which killed 62% of the islands population. Some time between this and the events of "Preboot" the doctor fled the island and arrived in Ooo to continue her villainous experiments.
In the Season 8 episode "Preboot" Finn, Jake and Susan Strong first encounter Dr. Gross after her ship digs through the ground and into Beautopia, where the protagonists have been investigating early human relics. Finn, Jake and Susan board the ship and soon reunite with Tiffany Oiler, who had been presumed dead from a previous episode.
Tiffany explains that Dr. Gross saved his life and even replaced his arm with a robotic one. Susan then becomes focused on finding the doctor and is able to open up a door revealing her, yet she fails to understand how she does so. Dr. Gross, clad in a faceless green suit, is seen spying on the trio with surveillance footage on holographic screens and quickly hides this before introducing herself to the three. She at first appears kind and sings a song about evolution, taking the heroes into her menagerie and showcasing all the different animals of which she has created cybernetic hybrids. Later, she takes the heroes to her "examination room" and gives them each a lollipop.
The doctor then takes off her "stem suit" revealing herself as a human much to Finn's excitement. She begins to tell the three about her "incentive" programme in which they can earn more mods the longer they work for her. She herself reveals her robotic modifications such as scissor hands and telescopic spider legs. Jake tries to show off his stretchy powers, but is unable to move. The heroes soon realise that Dr. Gross has laced the candy with a freezing formula and are all now petrified. She, accompanied by Tiffany and a hybrid of "wolf lards" places the heroes on operating tables and begins to cut into their hair to perform enhancements. Finn exclaims what she is doing and she responds that she used to be asked that"all the time back at the island" before revealing that humans don't know what they want and that it is up to her to "drag them into a golden age". Finn is shocked to hear that there are more humans alive and as Dr. Gross removes Susan's hat to perform on her she notices an already installed chip on the side of her head. As she reads it aloud she recognises the number "X-J-77" and begins to exclaim "Wait, you're one off." before being punched by Susan, who did not end up eating the candy. Susan rescues Finn and Jake and begins to flee the ship, having known the layout somehow.
Dr. Gross uses a signal to activate her robot army and they begin pursuing the trio, but are fended off by Susan. Tiffany then traps the heroes with a net shot from a gun and Dr. Gross attempts to use saw blades from her hands to turn them into "spare parts". However, at the last minute Tiffany revolts and shoots her arm enhancement into Dr. Gross' blades, launching them into the ceiling and causing a malfunction in the ship. Dr. Gross and Tiffany struggle before Susan sets herself free and shoots the two with the net gun, trapping them both. Susan runs from the ship as the defeated doctor questions whether Susan wants to know how she "knows her" but Susan refuses and jumps to safety from the ship before it dives back into the ground and explodes.
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Trivia[]
- Dr. Gross can be considered the Bigger Bad of the entire Islands miniseries, as she was responsible for many of the problems facing the humans currently and prevented others from leaving with her control.
- Dr. Gross' song in "Hide and Seek" can be seen as a brainwashing mechanism to stop others from leaving the island, despite its positive and upbeat performance.
- Dr. Gross' name and title may be a reference to Heinrich Gross, an Austrian psychiatrist and Nazi war criminal who used the same methods as her.
- First she was the main antagonist in the finale of the seventh season, but due to the decision of "Cartoon Network" about the numbering, those episodes are in the eighth season.
External Links[]
- Dr. Gross on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Dr. Gross on the Adventure Time Wiki
