| “ | Prepare to feel my wrath! | „ |
| ~ Hans Ubermann to Indiana Jones and Sophia Hapgood before being betrayed by Klaus Kerner. |
Professor Hans Ubermann is the main antagonist in the 1992 point-and-click adventure video game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, the first original Indiana Jones video game.
He is a Nazi scientist who hopes to discover Atlantis in order to use its ancient and powerful technology to conquer the world in behalf of the Third Reich, assisted by the Schutzstaffel (SS) colonel Klaus Kerner. By 1939, Ubermann comes up with seeking and finding the legendary city of Atlantis to use all of its power in place of uranium.
He was voiced by Nick Jameson, who also played Richard Fisk and Morbius in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, the Bando Gora Captain in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, Albrecht Von Beck in Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Mudslinger, Gigawatt and the Skyway Patrol Lieutenant in My Life as a Teenage Robot, the Head Techno Union Scientist in Star Wars: Clone Wars, Edward Hill in Criminal Minds, Darts D'nar in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Toxic Reapa in Hero Factory.
History[]
In 1939, Hans Ubermann hopes to use the Atlantean magical mineral "orichalcum" described in Plato's ancient writings to build weapons of mass destruction, announcing that Germany will win in the worldwide race to smash the uranium atom by harnessing new sources of energy for the Third Reich. In spite of his success at splitting the atom, due to the lack of available uranium, Ubermann resolves to look for the legendary city of Atlantis to use its mighty power instead. Thus, Hans hires the Nazi colonel Klaus Kerner to help him with his plans.
As Indiana Jones and Sophia Hapgood start looking for the Lost Dialogue of Plato, Ubberman reunites with Kerner, who shows him the Horned Statue and the bead he stole from Jones, allowing both Nazis to witness the capabilities of the artifact and the orichalcum, which supplies them to achieve the power of uranium without radioactivity. Convinced of the mineral's potential for Germany's warcraft, Ubberman is easily convinced by Kerner to search for Atlantis to get its power, even suggesting to make atomic bombs like Americans would think to do.
Ubberman is next seen aboard the Nazi U-boat employed for the expedition after Kerner retrieves the three Atlantean stone disks from Indy and taking Hapgood hostage before leaving him for dead sealed inside the Labyrinth of the Greek island of Crete, discussing with Kerner how they may use the orichalcum to make bombs among other things like X-ray goggles or flying cars.
Finally, the Americans and the Germans reach Atlantis, so Kerner and Ubermann go to explore the Lost City's sewers and canals to stockpile all the orichalcum they can while leaving Sophia guarded in one of the city's cells before she gets rescued by Indiana Jones, who had infiltrated the U-boat unknown to the Nazis. Accompanied by two of their guards, Ubermann and Kerner eventually come across the two American archaeologists once all six find the Colossus at the heart of the city, with Ubermann happy that tracking Jones down would be of some use. Jones warns Ubermann that it would take more than a few orichalcum bombs to conquer the world, but Ubermann and Kerner reveal that they are no longer interested in taking over the world with bombs: they actually plan to use the Colossus to achieve godhood.
Knowing how deformed the test subjects of the Colossus ended up being in their desire to become gods due to a lack of orichalcum, Jones warns Ubermann and Kerner about the fate that awaits them if they proceed with their plan, but Ubermann dismisses his concerns as experiments gone awry with unworthy slaves that had to be sacrificed in the name of knowledge while the Aryan race's superior qualities will make them immune to any defects, wishing to use the machine to become omnipotent and to not share his power with Kerner. However, Ubermann demands Jones to test the machine first, leading Kerner to intervene and use the machine on himself first. True to Indy's warning, Kerner is horribly mutated and commits suicide, so Ubermann demands Jones to be his guinea pig now to test how much orichalcum is needed to successfully power the machine. Indy manages to talk him into transforming himself instead, threatening Ubermann with eternal damnation should he become a god first. After being loaded with one hundred beads, the machine transforms Ubermann into a being of pure energy, but he soon becomes unstable, losing cohesion and ultimately destroys himself, which in the process kills his guards and triggers the final collapse of Atlantis.
In one bad ending, Ubermann forces Indy to be tested first and Indy becomes the being of pure energy, floating around the chamber and knocking Ubermann off to his death below in the lava pit before exploding, trigerring the final collapse of Atlantis and killing Sophia and all the Nazis there. In the other bad ending, in which everything of the good one happens only that Indy leaves Sophia behind in Nur-Ab-Sal's abode due to Nur-Ab-Sal not letting her go of his influence, a possessed Sophia arrives just as Ubermann plans to test the machine on himself and steps into the machine herself, killing Ubermann by knocking him off into the lava pit before blowing up herself in a similar manner to Jones in the other bad ending. Indy manages to escape the destruction of Atlantis in the U-boat, but sad due to both Atlantis sinking after temporarily resurfacing (which means he doesn't have any evidence to prove his findings as usual) and Sophia's death.
Regardless which ending is chosen, Ubermann dies in all three, though given how Sophia is alive eight years later in 1947 (the year in which Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine takes place), it can be easily concluded that the good ending is the canonical one, so both Indy and Sophia survive while Ubermann and his Nazis don't.
Trivia[]
- It's unknown how did Hans Ubermann know that sparing Indiana Jones to enable him to find Nur-Ab-Sal's Colossus would be useful for the Nazis if Klaus Kerner told him that he had left Indy for dead inside Crete's Labyrinth. Though Jones did escape, Ubermann couldn't have become aware of this due to not noticing Jones infiltrating the U-boat, unless one of the many guards Indy fought at Atlantis recovered consciousness and told Ubermann about Indy's survival.
- The only ending in which Ubermann dies by mutating himself into an unestable energy being is the canonical one. The non-canonical endings have either Indy or Sophia Hapgood/Nur-Ab-Sal knocking him off into the lava pit after mutating them.
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External Links[]
- Hans Ubermann on the Indiana Jones Wiki
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