| “ | I'm really not sinister, just misunderstood. | „ |
| ~ Bushroot |
| “ | I feel so...so normal. My experiment is a failure. No, I'm a failure. I'm scum. No, I'm less than scum. I'm a worthless fungal parasite. | „ |
| ~ Bushroot as a human |
| “ | A house plant | „ |
| ~ Gosalyn after seeing Bushroot |
Background
Dr. Reginald Bushroot is a botanist who became a half-plant/half-duck mutant through one of his failed experiments. He's one of the most recurring villains on the show Darkwing Duck. Fueled by loneliness, he will stop at nothing to find a companion for himself and is a member of the Fearsome Five.
He was voiced by Tino Insana.
| This dropdown contains the synopsis of Bushroot’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise! |
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Note: Credit to the Darkwing Duck wiki Before his mutation, Reginald Bushroot was a botanist employed at the St. Canard University, where he shared laboratory space with colleagues Rhoda Dendron, Larson, and Gary. Bushroot and Dendron were good company to each other, but Larson and Gary took great joy in bullying the physically weaker and psychologically delicate Bushroot. Bushroot was developing a method to make animals able to photosynthesize, which would solve world hunger, but the university Dean showed no interest because they couldn't profit from it. As his funding for his experiments was about to be cut, to prove his theories were correct, Bushroot performed an experiment on himself and was permanently transformed into a half-duck half-plant creature. He pursued revenge on rival scientists Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson who had nicknamed him "Reggie the Veggie." Bushroot seemingly kills Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson and attempted to woo the beautiful Dr. Rhoda Dendron, who had previously defended Bushroot from bullies. Rhoda was dismayed by Bushroot's lack of scientific ethics and shunned him when he appeared before her. Heartbroken and more than a little insane, Bushroot took her hostage, intending to perform the same experiment on her, but was stopped by Darkwing Duck. In later episodes Bushroot mainly commits crimes to fund his experiments, though sometimes he acts in a manner reminiscent of an environmentalist. Bushroot has the ability to control any and all forms of plant, though some seem to obey better than others. He sometimes has to use chemicals or fertilizers to make a plant useful in a fight. In one episode, he attempts to create a mate for himself, but mistakenly used the wrong seeds and creates a giant slobbering mutant potato named Posey. He also has a pet plant named Spike which resembles a Venus flytrap. Bushroot has dark green feathers, vines for arms, ivy leaves for hands, and shaggy lavender foliage for hair. He has the ability to regenerate himself when cut and is therefore virtually impossible to kill. He has also been known to fake his own death through leaving dried dummy husks behind and regenerating through various methods. Aside from his many plant cohorts, Bushroot was also allied as a member of the Fearsome Five, acting as one of Negaduck's henchmen. In the Life, the Negaverse and Everything, Bushroot's counterpart is a member of the Friendly Four, and he seems braver and more willing to act and speak up. In the episode "A Star Is Scorned" Bushroot is portrayed as a less than intelligent actor (along with the rest of the Darkwing Duck cast) for "Dizzy" (Disney) studios. After blooming into a plant-duck hybrid he gained a mental connection with and the loyalty of flora, putting him in charge of an immense potential army. With the power to make mighty trees and thorny vines strike at his enemies, this would make him one of the most dangerous beings in Saint Canard. However, his personality, largely being that of a pacifist, renders the potential violence of these powers near non-existent. Only once has he used them in a genuinely lethal way and aimed at long term tormentors of his. He is effectively indestructible, as he can abandon one husk and transfer his mind into a fresh one and simply regrow his body, allowing him to survive fatal accidents like being chopped to pieces, drying up, etc. |
Statistics
Tier: Varies from 9-A to Low 8-C, likely High 8-C, possibly 8-B at his peak, can reach 8-A via Cartoon Physics
Name:
Origin: Darkwing Duck
Sex: Male
Age: 20's - 30's
Classification: Anthropomorphic Duck, Plant-Duck Hybrid, "Supervillain", Anti-Hero
Status: Alive
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (As noted in the reboot, Bushroot technically isn't a villain. He normally just wants love but his scheme ends up hurting Darkwing[1]. He has also fought alongside Dakrwing[2] and even saved Gosalyn's life[3])
Dimensionality: 3-D
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Standard Tactics: Bushroot uses his plant powers to make trees attack his opponent while he also uses vines to his advantage
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Note: The reason why both the Darkwing Duck and DuckTales versions of the Fearsome Four have the same profile is because they are directly shown to be from the Darkwing Duck TV Show with even the mayor addressing this. Also, in DuckTales, every piece of fiction is an alternative universe so this wouldn't downgrade the original characters as well. This is further supported by when Darkwing Duck went into the real world in which his "life story" is a cartoon[4]. However, it exists as a cartoon because the creator had a helmet that allowed him to hear what was going on in different "worlds"[5]
Note 2: The Darkwing Duck comics are canon. The writers wrote the comic to feel like an official episode of Darkwing Duck with even Tad Stones helping with the comic. They even wrote reasonings for why Splatter Phoenix came back from the dead in ways that made sense with the show. It is mentioned here the comics extended Darkwing's canon. Finally, some comics even reference actual episodes
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