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Dr. Cockroach
General information
Gender

Male

Species

Human (formerly)
1/2 Human, 1/2 cockroach (Unknown species of cockroach) (currently)

Home World

Earth

Age

46 (human)
92 (actually)

Powers

Intelligence
Wall Climbing
High Resistance to Physical Damage

Occupation

Mad Scientist, Area Fifty-Something Monster Agent

Captured

1962

Behind the scenes
Voiced by

Hugh Laurie (film/ Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space)
James Horan (game, Night of the Living Carrots)
Chris O'Dowd (TV series)
Robin Atkin Downes (The Two Faces of Dr. Cockroach)

Inspiration

Andre Delambre in

The Fly (1958 film)

Appearances
Television series

Monsters vs Aliens

Feature film

Monsters vs. Aliens

Short film

B.O.B.'s Big Break

Specials

Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
Night of the Living Carrots

Video game

Monsters vs. Aliens

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Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. is a brilliant professor and a mad scientist with the head and abilities of a cockroach. He created a device that would give humans a cockroach's ability to survive forever. He tested it on himself and found that there was a side effect of giving him the head and abilities of a cockroach. He can climb high walls and objects and digest garbage. He was captured in 1962 and put into the recently set up monster prison in Area Fifty-Something.

Dr. Cockroach is voiced by Hugh Laurie in the film and Chris O'Dowd in the TV series.

appearance

He is bald and has a slim physique, mustard yellow colored big eyes, which take up half his head on both sides, an orangey-red kind skin complexion around his face with some darker small speckles here and there, but around his mouth and hands it's a more pinkish-pale, fleshy tone. He also has a thin Parted pencil mustache, and sort of bushy dark brown eyebrows, his mustache being the same color. He wears a white knee-high lab coat with three buttons, a dark teal-ish black turtleneck underneath, yellowish brown, black plaid pants that are rolled up to his ankles, and thin, long footed shiny black dress shoes. He also has two long antennae on his head.


Powers/Abilities

He can turn a pile of garbage into a super computer as long as he doesn't eat it first, build a rocket car, and make missiles and explosives in his cell from nearly nothing. Also he was able to hack through the alien's core computer and set it to self destruct the ship.

Dr. Cockroach is an expert dancer (it happens to be his Ph.D) and a polite, charming and sophisticated man. He accepts his role as a mad scientist and is prone to burst into maniacal laughter in the middle of experiments and plans. He also helped Susan get used to the monster prison and to her new power and size as soon as she was captured and brought to Area Fifty-something.

Weaknesses

He can be trapped when a giant shoe is on him. When his vocabulary is lost, he speaks gibberish and goes haywire. He has extra sensitive insect eyes. He has a big sense of guilt when he makes a mess.

Behind the Scenes

Dr. Cockroach is a parody of Andre Delambre from the 1958 film The Fly. In that film, a scientist's attempt to create a teleporter mixes his atoms with a fly. His human appearance was based off actor Vincent Price, who also starred in The Fly as Francois Delambre, brother of the ill-fated protagonist and who was know for being cast in the role of a mad scientist.

Quotes

  • "They said I was crazy, but I'll show them, I'll show them all! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!"
  • "I'm not a quack! I'm a mad scientist. There's a difference."
  • "Forgive him , but as you can see, he has no brain."
  • "Gentlemen, I'm afraid we're not making a very good first impression."
  • "What my associate is trying to say, is that we all think the new Susan is the cat's me-WOW!" *chuckles* "I'm sorry."
  • "By Hawking's chair!"
  • "Poor Link. After all that though talk, you were outmonstered by a girl." No wonder you're depressed."
  • "You can't crush a cockroach! Mwahahaha!"
  • "No, B.O.B., that's not rude. It's a sign of respect."
  • "There's one thing you don't know about me, my dear. MY Ph.D is in... dance!"
  • "A swirly pop? For me? And this time, no pimply hooligans will deprive me of my lickable loot!"
  • "If I didn't have a cockroach head myself... heh... I'd be freaking out right now."
  • "Maybe so, my finny friend, but to some of us, All Hallow's Eve is more trick than treat. I was a young lad then, my head filled with thoughts of particles physics and candy. I was out on my first Halloween, when suddenly..."

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Trivia

  • In B.O.B.'s Big Break, it's mentioned he once had an interest in world conquest, though he appears to have lost this interest by the events of the movie.
  • Dr. Cockroach was the only monster other then Susan and the Invisible Man to have been once human.
  • In 98 Pound Cockroach, Link mentions that he was looking for a 98 pound cockroach, which might be Dr. Cockroach's body mass.
  • Prior to Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space, Dr. Cockroach had an aversion towards Halloween.
  • His favorite foods are Garbage and Swirlypop.
  • His first name, Herbert, was revealed in The Sound of Fear. But according to The Art of Monsters vs. Aliens, his first name was stated as Jaques-Yves.
  • As revealed in When Luck Runs Out, if things get out of hand, he imagines he's in Acapulco.
  • In "The Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space", when Herbert was a kid, he had blue eyes, but after the mutation, he got hazelnut eyes.
  • It was revealed in "The Two Faces of Dr. Cockroach" that he has a four digit IQ.
  • His rivals include Sqweep and Miss Klangpopper.
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