Doctor Mindbender
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Dr. Mindbender is a fictional character from the 1980s G.I. Joe toyline, comics, and animated series. He is a scientist who works for the fictional terrorist organization Cobra.
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[edit] General
Dr. Mindbender is a master of mind control and interrogation but his expertise does not stop there as he also has specialties in genetics, cloning and some cybernetics. The Dr. Mindbender toy was clothed in purple pants and leather metal-studded suspenders.
[edit] Comic Series
[edit] Marvel
Mindbender became Cobra's primary science officer after his predecessor, Dr. Venom, was killed in action. He created the Battle Android Troopers (BATs) and also made several modifications to Venom's prized creation, the Brainwave Scanner. He creates the composite-clone Serpentor in an attempt to engineer the ultimate soldier. Dr. Mindbender and other Cobra agents raid the tombs of noted military leaders, such as Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. Dr. Mindbender also takes the opportunity to add in the DNA of the ninja Storm Shadow. Mindbender loyally serves Serpentor until a Cobra Civil war between Serpentor and Fred VII, a Crimson Guardsman posing as Cobra Commander. This takes place on Cobra Island. When Serpentor is killed by Zartan, Mindbender switches sides, becoming an advisor to Fred VII. Even then he was not loyal, listening to a plan that would seemingly allow Cobra Commander to be cloned.
Eventually the original, non-clone Cobra Commander returns and threw all perceived traitors, including Mindbender, into a landlocked freighter on Cobra Island. Mindbender manages to preserve Serpentor's body, which was thought by many to be destroyed. The freighter itself is then buried inside mountain. Though an escape plan was devised, Mindbender, along with some of the other traitors, dies of botulism before it could be enacted. However, he himself was later cloned, and loyally serves Cobra Commander for a time.
[edit] Devil's Due
Mindbender plays a major role in the first story-arc of the series G.I.Joe Frontlines. This takes place in the last few weeks of the original incarnation of the G.I.Joe team. Cobra forces have consolidated at Destro's castle. Mindbender involves himself heavily in the trickery and deceit that results when Cobra forces battle G.I.Joe throughout the castle for control of a space-based weapon.
Several years after Frontlines, Cobra re-organizes. One of Mindbender's new projects is a new, more powerful Battle Android Trooper. This is stolen by the ninja-mercernary Firefly.
When Serpentor returns, leading a renegade faction called the Coil, Mindbender returns to the side of his creation. When Serpentor was defeated again, Mindbender is captured, but managed to convince Cobra Commander to spare his life by offering him control of his latest creation, a weapon of mass destruction called the Tempest. However, after Cobra Commander gained control of the Tempest, he shoots Mindbender in the back, killing him. This time, Mindbender's death appears to be permanent.
[edit] Novels
Dr. Mindbender is the main villain of the gamebook-style G.I.Joe novel Operation: Mindbender (ISBN 0-345-33786-7). In the story, Mindbender perfects a brainwashing process resulting in G.I.Joe members violently attacking their friends and allies.
[edit] Animated Series
[edit] Sunbow
Mindbender is Cobra's science officer. He hates Cobra Commander, and creates Serpentor because he feels Cobra needs a leader that can inspire courage in its cowardly troops. Mindbender is easily Serpentor's most loyal member of Cobra's high command (and as such Serpentor trusted Dr Mindbender the most out of the Cobra High Command, even being exceptionally lenient if a mission's failure is Mindbender's fault), but there are times when he considers the monarch to be a "spoiled brat".
He is voiced by Brian Cummings with an exaggerated German accent.
[edit] The Movie
It is revealed that the idea to create Serpentor was planted in Mindbender's brain by Golobulus, the leader of Cobra-La. Mindbender appears outraged by this, as he had thought of Serpentor as his own creation, but he quickly falls into line and begins serving Cobra-La. Mindbender is present in the final battle between Cobra, Cobra-La and the Joes, and after an explosion that destroys the kingdom of Cobra-La, he apparently perished.
[edit] 'Spy Troops' & 'Valor vs Venom'
In the new continuity set by the CGI animated movies, Dr. Mindbender once again serves as Cobra's chief scientist. In G.I. Joe: Spy Troops he creates a new and improved Battle Android Trooper, and uses stolen G.I Joe technology to create headsets which allow Destro and Storm Shadow to control the BATs in battle. Mindbender is also working on Venom Troopers, but ultimately loses all of his research when the Cobra base is destroyed. Cobra Commander flippantly tells him to start over, leaving Mindbender shocked and appalled at such a suggestion.
For G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom, Mindbender has rebuilt all of his research, and the Venom project is now fully up and running. Thanks to Mindbender's genius, Cobra begins kidnapping people from around the world and turning them into animal/human hybrids. Mindbender warns Cobra Commander about putting too much Venom into a single subject but the Commander ignores him. The captured General Hawk is transformed into Venomous Maximus, a being so powerful he quickly seizes power of Cobra with the help of Overkill. Cobra Commander and Dr. Mindbender are captured by Maximus and Overkill. As the Joes attack, after Maximus goes to launch his Venom missile, Mindbender is forced to join forces with his G.I. Joe rival, Hi-Tech, and work against Maximus. They reverse the polarity of the Venom missiles, which in turn destroy Cobra's base. In the confusion following the battle, Mindbender makes his escape.
[edit] Sigma 6
Dr. Mindbender has yet to appear in G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 and there is nary a mention of him at all. Instead, Overkill appears to have taken over his role as Cobra's chief scientist.
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