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So you want a story? I'll give you the greatest story of destruction the world has ever known.
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~ The Mad Scientist
The unnamed Mad Scientist is the titular main antagonist in the first segment of the 1941 Superman animated short film Superman (also known as The Mad Scientist). He is an envious, vengeful and jingoistic man who seeks to destroy anything in his path through his highly dangerous inventions of destruction, until he was confronted by the Man of steel despite his best efforts which led himself to be thrown in jail for his crimes.
He was voiced by the late Jack Mercer.
Biography[]
In the original film, he is shown to be a seclusive, malicious, envious and vengeful man who lives in a big observatory-like building on the outskirts of Metropolis with his only companion pet crow of whom he sits with on his shoulders. His only goal is to wreak havoc on all of Metropolis one building at a time using his Electrothanasia-Ray laser cannon he contructed, the scientist is also heeded to being noteworthy by sending a threatening letter to the daily planet upon using his upcoming device due to being insulted and ridiculed for his delusional beliefs prior to the events of the film. The Scientist is seen again sitting who would pace up towards an empty wall with only the perpetuating Grandfather's clock with his crow to await the fulfilled promise from the threatening letter which The Scientist soon gotten out of his chair to power up his machine, His loyal pet crow would notice Lois's plane about to land during the machine and quickly alerted his master frantically which would surprise the Scientist to also notice the direction of the arrival of the reporter, forcing himself to turn off the machine and go down the stairs until reacting the entrance of his observatory where he hid behind the door alongside his pet crow when the reporter got near the entrance at the right time as he slowly unlocks the metal locks from his door with the help of his pet and without hesitation would then grab Lois who shrieked in horror attempted to fight back from being grabbed before being gaged and bounded onto a chair by the scientist as the latter's pet crow would then close the bottom lock of the door and following his master. infront of The machine where The Scientist spoke to her by giving her "the greatest story of Destruction the world has ever known" with being delivered with a gleefully devious smile with a cackling voice, when he mocks metropolis's reporter by setting off his machine to start terrorising the entire town by starting off with successfully firing a powerful beam from his machine directly towards a tower bridge, sending dozens of cars and pedestrians into the river below before commenting on the horrendous act "How is that for a story Ms. Lane" before laughing while he continues on his machine, as told on the radio. The Mad Scientist then targets the entire Daily Planet building, however Clark Kent upon being alerted by the catastrophe then changed into Superman and quickly swooped in to saves the building from tilting during the laser chipping off the bottom of the entire building while employees are under threat of the collateral damage of the building's structure about to shake, The hero would keep the building at ground strength and noticing the laser had successfully destroyed the corner of the building, using the trail uses his strength to charge towards the laser, unbeknownst to the scientist who is nervous when witnessing the laser picked up on Superman from his device's camera and pulls another lever from on of the laser's machines to boost the strength of the laser which nearly humbled Superman from ever reaching him from the amount of cluttering machinery and energy is pouring onto the laser to hold back Superman at first the machine's power manages to humble the hero back to metropolis but the latter manages again punch back at the lasers while continuing onto the pursuit of the Scientist to which the latter calls out from the demonstration of the superhuman's commitment by saying "I don't believe it he's isn't human!" becoming increasingly afraid while attempted to pull other levers again to push him back. Superman would then arrive at the lair where he sees the machine's cannon, The Scientist's hair becomes shagged with a desperate final attempt at reaching the highest boiling point of energy from his laser but is soon blocked away by superman's palm who then manages to bend the beam and block it into a knot which sets off the delivered energy to backfire and transfigures the metal back into the machine's core that sets of an explosion, Superman peels back a sheet of metal and quickly rescued Lois Lane from the imminent build up of the explosion which was now surrounded by immense blade of flame when the Hero searches for The Reporter, The Scientist notices Superman then decides to run away from his observation tower with his pet bird following him during the destruction of his lair, The Scientist exists from his lair but was separated by his pet crow who runs away from fear while he attempts to flee from the debris outside from his lair but was quickly grabbed by Superman who made it out safely with Lois and send the two back to Metropolis after the final explosion coming from the entire complex. In the end of the short, Superman turns the Mad Scientist to the authorities where he personally hurls the latter into a jail cell, who then sentenced the Mad Scientist to lifetime in prison for his crimes, much to his anger.
The Mad Scientist is seen again in a Superman comic book, the very first 'imaginary story' DC ever published. In this instance, comic book Clark is taking comic book Lois to the theatre, only to realize that a Superman cartoon precedes the main feature, and that comic book Lois will see screen Superman changing to and from Clark Kent. Through tricks and the use of his powers, Clark manages to keep Lois from any scene that gives away the big secret (though only her, not the other members of the audience, for some reason). The story of the cartoon they are watching involves the Mad Scientist escaping from prison, once more threatening Metropolis and challenging Superman. By cartoon's end, screen Superman has once more bested his foe (the closest those cartoons got to villains like Ultra and Luthor) and comic book Clark has once more kept his secret from Lois, albeit at the cost of Clark's standing in her eyes eroding even further. Both Supermen wink at the audience as the story ends.
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