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| “ | I didn't mean literally! | „ |
| ~ Zach Varmitech's catchphrase whenever his robots take his orders literally. |
| “ | I'll get you next time, Wild Ratts! | „ |
| ~ Zach Varmitech's infamous catchphrase whenever he gets defeated by the Wild Kratts. |
Zachary "Zach" Varmitech is the main antagonist of the animated PBS Kids series Wild Kratts. He is the CEO of Varmitech Industries, the Wild Kratts Crew's archenemy, and Aviva's archrival.
Along with Gourmand, he is voiced by Zachary Bennett, who impersonates Quinton Flynn, the actor of Sheldon Lee from My Life as a Teenage Robot.
Appearance[]
Zach has a very thin build and very pale skin; in which he is barely taller than Chris. He has black, shiny hair, green eyes, and a small goatee. His head is also a triangular shape. He wears a black sweater, lavender-colored pants, and black shoes.
Personality[]
Zach is extremely arrogant, egotistical, stubborn, and self-centered, often referring to himself of having the world's greatest mind, and programming his robots to call him as such. He is the archenemy of the Kratt brothers and often refers to them as "Wild Ratts". While he is extremely comical, he is also shown to be sadistic at times due to making numerous attempts of killing the Kratt Brothers, such as when he trapped them in an Arctic storm to drown them.
Zach has little care for the animals and the environment. He ordered his Zachbots to chop down every tree in Borneo to make a single table, and dumped black goo from his lab to an inhabited lake, which would've killed all the animals.
Zach is also shown to be extremely childish. He has girly-sounding screams and is often shown to trip and fall. He often gets annoyed whenever his robots follow his orders literally. He is also shown to like sweets, such as lollipops and cookies.
Villainous Roles[]
Season 1[]
- In "Aardvark Town", he mind controls the aardvark and chained up the other animals after overhearing the Kratt brothers trying to find the best digger in Africa.
- In "Polar Bears Don't Dance", he steals a cub and a walrus calf so they could dance for his audience, but instead decides to make their mothers fight after the Kratt brothers arrived.
- In "Bass Class", he tries to steal Gavin's trophy before challenging him to a bass fishing contest which he cheats at. Eventually, he is caught and forced to retreat.
- In "Mystery of the Weird Looking Walrus", he steals the Arctic Pearl from a museum to give it to Donita to no avail as it fell into the ocean. He then trapped the Kratt Brothers in ice which nearly killed them.
- In "Tazzy Chris", he steals numerous animals from the endangered Tasmanian devil species, planning to use them to power his Zach Bots.
- In "Let the Rhinos Roll!", he uses numerous black rhinos with body armor so he could destroy all the trees to build a parking lot before planning to destroy the Tortuga.
- In "Koala Balloon", he attempts to send a baby koala away on balloons after seeing it in his plant.
- In "Cheetah Racer", he cheats during a race using a Blur to power his all-terrain vehicle to no avail.
- In "Quillber's Birthday Present", he abducts several animals by tying balloons on them so they could float to his blimp before ramming it into Martin but is sent flying away.
Season 2[]
- In "Race for the Hippo Disc", he planned on using the Hippo Disc to unlock the secret of the Creature Power Suit technology.
- In "Creature Power Challenge", he attempted to ruin the Kratt Brothers' fun by scattering a mud wallow everywhere to tamper with their challenge by activating their past transformations and prevents the crew from communicating by hacking into their frequency.
- In "Shadow: The Black Jaguar", he planned on using a large black cat as the spokesmodel for his new line of Zachbots and ends up finding a black jaguar.
- In "Aquafrog", he dumps toxic sludge into the river which threatens all the animals downstream in Frogwater Pond.
- In "Rocket Jaw: Rescuer of the Reef", he roboticizes parrotfishes so they could munch all the coral in the Caribbean Sea so he could sell coral themed jewelry.
- In "Skunked!", he steals the Kratt Brother's vehicles using his new Bubble Bot invention before stealing the Tortuga and copying the secrets onto his flash drive and escapes.
- In "Gila Monster Under My House", he steals all of the Gila monsters in the desert to use them as living batteries for his Gila Monster Power Wrenches.
Season 3[]
- In "Mosquito Dragon", after failing to hack into the Wild Kratts database, he gets the idea to steal computer data from the Tortuga using mosquito robots after a mosquito bit him.
- In "Under Frozen Pond", he makes a villain meeting with Donita and Gourmand to defeat the Wild Kratts once and for all. They then compete against the Wild Kratts in a game of ice hockey. Zach tried cheating to no avail, resulting in the villains going their separate ways.
- In "Osprey", he attempts to steal the Kratt Brothers' technology once again after they lost the Tortuga keys in the water and prevents the crew from communicating with Chris and Martin using a blocking net.
- In "Bandito: The Black-Footed Ferret", he attempts to steal black-footed ferrets for robot parts to steal more stuff.
- In "The Amazing Creature Race", he steals the pronghorn antelope during a race that Chris and Martin were planning to see which animal is the best runner.
- In "Praying Mantis", he tries stealing the Miniaturizer before kidnapping Koki and Jimmy using his Zachbots. He then turns them big and sends them after Martin, but Zach got scared and was sent in his jet flying by Aviva who used colossal Mantis Powers on him.
- In "Back in Creature Time", he kidnaps Koki and Jimmy and travels back in time to trap Chris, Martin, and Aviva in the past. However they were able to defeat Zach as he was sent flying away on one of his Zachbots.
Season 4[]
- In the Christmas special, "A Creature Christmas", he alongside Donita and Gourmand decided to try to make as much money off Christmas as possible, he trying to make easily breakable toys to sell and kidnapped dozens of the Wild Kratts' animal friends to use as ornaments in his robot Christmas tree, even humiliating Aviva when she tried to rescue them the first time by tying her robot arms into a present bow. Later in the same special, he pretended along with Donita and Gourmand to have a change of heart and gave the Wild Kratts "Christmas presents" and trapped them before stealing all of their technology and stranding them on an iceberg, likely to die, even leaving them their creature power disks to remind them of their defeat. When they came back he later tried to stop them and tried to flatten Martin in a puffin power suit with his robot Christmas tree, when he was defeated along with the others after being trampled by a baby animal stampede, he and the others remarked on if there was anything to Christmas anyway.
- In "Panda Power Up!", he uses giant pandas to make robotic stuffed animals. He then tries to drain the power from the Tortuga and the rest of their technology and end up cutting off their communication. However they manage to defeat Zach and get the animals back as well as Aviva's stuffed toy.
- In "Golden Snub Nosed Monkey Man", he tried capturing a legendary yeti to use it for display and charge money as well as threatening to harm Blue Goggle, Martin's monkey friend, but he was defeated and Martin and Blue Goggle were saved by Aviva and Chris.
- In "Red Panda Rescue", he steals a red panda from Chris to use it for a weasel stroll he wanted to get for Donita's birthday, but Chris and Martin save the panda (which Martin named "Lost and Found"), resulting in Zach having no present for Donita.
- In "Musk Ox Mania", he steals the Creature Souvenir Collection from Chris after discovering it can activate Creature Powers, but he gets attacked by a pack of Arctic wolves and destroy his Zachbots.
- In the special, "Creatures of the Deep Sea", he gave Gourmand a submarine that could go down to to lower parts of the ocean with payment of an unlimited seafood coupon, leading to Gourmand stealing dozens of deep sea creatures for himself to cook.
Season 5[]
- In "City Hoppers", he enlists Paisley Paver as a new member of their organization to work with her along with Donita and Gourmand on their schemes.
- In "Choose Your Swordfish", he gets the idea to get all the fish in the ocean and sell them for his own benefit.
- In "Komodo Dragon", he was enlisted by Gourmand to use his Zach Bots to dig up all the Komodo dragon eggs for Gourmand to use, having no qualms about what he was doing.
- In the Halloween special, "Creepy Creatures!", he decides to make a haunted house filled with scary animals to scare children to make money, even stealing the Miniaturizer when he wanted to enlarge the animals to make them scarier, though it ultimately backfired in the end when the Wild Kratts and several Wild Kratts Kids came and visited the haunted house when they weren't scared by the animals, and defeated his robot while saving the animals, with him even having to pay Paisley's paving bill.
Season 6[]
- In "Wolf Hawks", he tried once again to steal the Miniaturizer after reprogramming his Zachbots to be more coordinated and able to work together.
- In "Hammerheads", he tries to create hammerhead Zach Bots in order to break down the Tortuga doors to get access to their technology and possibly to find the lost creature power disks for himself.
- In "The Real Ant Farm" he tries to use the leaf cutter ants to take food from farms and even ends up almost killing them not knowing they could only eat a special type of fungus.
- In "The Vanishing Stingray", he tries to fix his invisibility cloak with the Stingray Power disks after trying to steal them.
- In the special, "Amazin' Amazon Adventure", he comes up with the idea to use the Amazon Rainforest's biodiversity and tries to use it to his and the other villains' advantage, effectively trying to destroy it with he, Donita and Gourmand using the animals for their own purposes and Paisley turning the entire place into a mall to sell it all.
- In "Adapto the Coyote", he tries to exterminate some coyotes who were on his property he didn't like being there.
- In the special, "Cats and Dogs", he listens in on the Wild Kratts and learns they are learning about different wild versions of domesticated cats and dogs and decides to roboticize those different cats and dogs into products to sell. He later encounters Chris and tricks him into activating Cheetah Powers in front of a pack of wild dogs, which obviously backfires.
Season 7[]
- In "Clever the Raven", he is seen in the area and was annoyed at Clever for going around his area and tried to violently shoo him away.
- In the special, "Our Blue and Green World" he works with Paisley Paver to turn a tropical beach ecosystem in Madagascar into a beach resort where his Zach Bots would be attendants and he and Paisley would share a profit. Later in the episode, after he confronts and tells the Wild Kratts to move the Tortuga out of his and Paisley's way, he has 4 Zachbots pick up the Tortuga and throw it into the ocean. After Martin in a Blue Whale Power Suit rams into one of Paisley's pavers, he tries to have his Zachbots likely injure Martin, but was luckily pulled into the ocean by the Tortuga on time. He also uses his Disrupt-o-bots to go inside Chris' Indri-conda Power Suit. And then, they deactivate his suit, which forces him to dive into the ocean. Next, Zach sends his Zachbots after Chris in the water. He later hears of Paisley's redemption and is furious. Finally, he declares that he will never stop taking what he wants from nature before angrily walking away.
- In "Bumblezzzz", he is told by Donita to bring her copy of Villain of the Week back and decides to use a bumblebee drone to deliver it to her. He later is temporarily stopped by Koki, Aviva, and Jimmy, who tell him why he should stop. And then, he says that he doesn't care before blowing them away with his Zachbots' suction arm. Later, he attempts to stop the Kratt Brothers from stopping him by using his Zachbots and later his drone, only to fail and have a humiliating defeat by being scooped up in his drone and sent flying away after promising to leave bumblebees alone, but not any other animals.
- In "Chimpanzee and Me", he tries to use a chimpanzee mom that he kidnapped to use as his mind controlled assistant. He later tries to kidnap her baby and kidnaps Martin in the process when he came to stop him after telling his mind controlled assistant to deactivate Martin's Chimpanzee Power Suit. He then ties him up with his Zachbots' arm. After that, he has a humiliating defeat after having his own mind control helmet cause him to dance away.
Trivia[]
- Despite his schemes revolving around using animals for his own purposes, he is shown to be afraid of them as well.
- As seen in "Skunked!", his favorite food is tomato soup.
- In the episode, "Mystery of the Weird Looking Walrus", Aviva claims that he has six toes on his left foot, and that his favorite color is chartreuse.
- Shadow, the black jaguar seems to be the only baby animal who likes Zach, possibly because he (Zach) wears black.
- In the episode, "Puffin Rescue", his face was seen on a shark's dorsal fin for a very short time. However, it was only a hallucination that Aviva was having.
External Links[]
- Zach Varmitech on the Wild Kratts Wiki
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