The Doctor (Cave Story)

Background

Fuyuhiko Date, better known as the Doctor, is the primary antagonist of Cave Story. His main plans are to attack the surface from the island using rabid Mimigas.

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Before the events of Cave Story, Fuyuhiko Date served as a medical doctor, accompanying Professor Booster, Itoh, and the Sakamotos on their research expedition to the island. His true intention, however, was to find the Demon Crown and ultimately gain its powers. He eventually succeeded and proceeded to carry out his plan to attack the surface by kidnapping Mimigas to cultivate red flowers and use them as weapons. Momorin Sakamoto tried to stop him, but he tossed her off the island with little effort; how she survived was left unstated. The remaining researchers fled and were scattered about the island. Despite the efforts of Quote and Curly Brace, The Doctor succeeded in finding red flowers and enslaving nearly all of the Mimigas. In addition, he also found a way to concentrate the power of the Red Flowers into a floating Red Crystal, which affects humans too. The Doctor is confronted by Quote within a tower on the Balcony, where he uses himself as a test subject for his new crystal to increase his power. Partway through the battle, The Doctor is unable to control the crystal's power, resulting in the mutation of his body into a hulking, ogreish monster - the Muscle Doctor. Ultimately, the Doctor is defeated, and his body dissolves into a misty cloud of blood. However, the crystal's power allowed him to survive after the destruction of his body. In the top chamber of the tower where Misery has taken Sue, hostage, the Doctor reveals himself to be very much alive, despite the destruction of his human form, and floats into the room as a sentient cloud of blood mist. Misery, wishing to be free of the Doctor's plans, attempts to destroy him, but her magic attacks do not affect the Doctor's gaseous avatar. He decides to punish Misery for dissent, enveloping her in his cloud and causing her to mutate, before possessing the Core. Sue attempts to flee but is caught by the Doctor's crystal and mutated. Ultimately, Quote destroys the Undead Core, freeing Sue and Misery and destroying the Doctor for good.

General Information

Name: Date Fuyuhiko

Other Names: Doctor

Origin: Cave Story

First Appearance: Cave Story

Company: Studio Pixel, Nicalis (Publishers for the Wii, DSI, and Cave Story+ versions), NIS America (Publishers for Cave Story 3D)

Creator: Daisuke Amaya (The initial creator)

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Unknown

Homeworld: The Surface

Residence: The Throne Room

Story Role: Main Villain, Mad Scientist

Classification: Doctor

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: Leader of Crown Bearers

Affiliations: Misery (Formerly. He has control over her due to her curse), Balrog (Formerly. He has control over him due to his curse)

Enemies: Misery (Misery attempts to attack him when he comes back after she believes he's dead), Balrog, Quote, Curly Brace, King, Sue, Mimigas

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Deceased in the best and normal ending (Ultimately killed by Quote or Curly Brace depending on the mode), Alive in the bad ending (In the bad ending the Doctor is not stopped and he proceeds to take over the surface with his island fortress in the sky)

Date of Death: Throne Room, one of the last bosses

Alignment: Neutral Evil (Purposefully forced himself onto the exepedition in order to get his hands on the demon crown. Beatdown Misery, one of his subordinates, just for getting him the wrong Mimiga. The Doctor plans to use the red flower to have all Mimiga attack the humans. Sue likens him to a devil)

Threat Level: Global Threat (The Doctor seeks to rule the surface using the island as a flying fortress, along with the enraged Mimiga army to attack the surface)

Codex Statistics

Key: The Doctor | Undead Core

Key Information

• The Doctor: This key covers The Doctor in his regular state, where he possesses both the Demon Crown and Red Crystal.
• Undead Core: This key covers the Doctor when he possesses the Core itself.

Grade: S

Tier: 9-A, Higher as Muscle Doctor | At least 9-A. 6-C upon death

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Room level (Potency) (Easily defeated King, who defeated Balrog in one blow. Can fight and harm Quote who can take an explosion that covered an entire room), Higher as Muscle Doctor (In this state, the power has gone out of control) | At least Room level (Potency) (Far stronger than before). Island level (Potency) upon death (Possesses the core, where its death causes the collapse of the floating island)

Durability: Room level (Potency) (Can take hits from Quote's weapons), Higher as Muscle Doctor

Striking Strength: Unknown: True Class, Room Class (Potency) as Muscle Doctor (Able to physically strike and harm Quote)

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class. At least Superhuman as Muscle Doctor (Physically stronger than Quote, who can lift Curly Brace on his back while traveling through the Labyrinth, with it not hampering his movement at all)

Travel Speed: Unknown: True level | Unknown: True level

Attack Speed: Transonic (Can tag Quote, who can hit missiles/rockets before they can tag him, which move around 300 m/s) | Transonic

Reaction Speed: Transonic | Transonic

Stamina: Superhuman (Gave Quote a long fight utilizing various attacks, and even after losing the first time, through losing his control of power, he was rampaging with various physical attacks without tiring), Limitless as consciousness

Range: Standard Melee, Tens of Meters with Energy Projection (His energy projectiles can reach out this far). At least Kilometers with Teleportation (Teleported into the Labyrinth from a different area)

Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (Created a red crystal that intensifies the red flowers ability to bring out the Mimiga's latent abilities and destroys one's reasoning)

Knowledge: Master level

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magic (Wields the demon crown, which allows him to have immense magical powers), Flight (Levitated in the air while preparing his escape), Electricity Manipulation (Summoned a lightning bolt that killed King in one blow), Teleportation (Teleported away after sending Rabid Toroko to fight Quote), Mind Manipulation (With The Doctor's powers with his crown, he is able to control enraged Mimiga), Statistics Reduction (The Doctor's area has black winds that drop all weapon levels down to one)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Immortality (Immortal Metaphysical Aspect; Upon having his body being reduced to blood he was able to control his essence and keep his consciousness clear due to the power of the Red Crystal), Energy Projection (Can shoot out wavy red energy projectiles), Curtain Fire (Multi-Directional; Can shoot out energy projectiles in multiple directions, covering a good portion of the screen and all of them bouncing off of walls), Madness Manipulation (The Red Crystals are able to work on humans to give the same effect as the Mimiga's eating red flowers where they become enraged when they eat the red flower due to the red flower bringing out latent abilities and contaning a compound that destroys one's reasoning. The Red Crystal just floating around Sue corrupted her)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, though due to losing his reasoning he only does physical strikes and creating bats to attack, Curtain Fire (Directional; Created a multitude of bats that attack from multiple angles in a single direction)

Incorporeality (In his state of pure consciousness, Misery could not attack him), Possession (Can possess Misery's body, possessed the core)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Fire Manipulation (Shoots out fire attacks from the ground and ceiling), Smoke Manipulation (Shoots large clouds of smoke out)

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Equipment

• Demon Crown: Came across the Demon Crown while on a research expedition with Sue, Sue's mom, Kazuma, and Professor Booster.

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Other

Standard Tactics

• Regular: The Doctor uses Misery and Balrog to do his orders, when he needs to directly interfere, he has shown to summon a lightning bolt against King when fighting against Quote/Curly Brace he has used various energy projectile attacks.
• Muscle Doctor: As Muscle Doctor he has lost his reasoning and uses physical attacks along with creating a multitude of bats to attack the opponent.
• Consciousness: He will possess everyone near him and corrupt them.
• Undead Core: Utilizes fire attacks and his floating proxies to attack.

Weaknesses: If The Doctor sustains too much damage, he will lose control and become the muscle Doctor.

Trivia

• The Doctor's Halloween costume is a reference to Count Dracula.

Battle Records

1-1-0

• King - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Sand Zone

• Quote or Curly Brace (Depending on the mode) - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Throne Room

• Quote or Curly Brace (Depending on the mode) - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch. The Undead Core had Misery Transformed and Sue Transformed helped him.
  • Location: Black Space

None.