Doctor Morocco
- Doctor Morocco is a human from the Aligned continuity family.
Doctor Thaddeus Morocco is the slimiest of evil geniuses. More interested in wealth than in helping others, he manipulates events from behind the scenes to make sure he comes out on top.
| “ | Clever man, that Doctor Morocco! | ” |
—Doctor Morocco, "The Reign of Morocco" | ||
Fiction
Rescue Bots cartoon
- Voice actor: Tim Curry (English), Janusz Wituch (Polish), Gerardo Reyero (Latin American-Spanish)
Born some time in the 19th century, Morocco made his career in science by stealing the work of others, including an incredible cellular regeneration chamber that he used to artificially extend his life by rejuvenating his body periodically. He had been doing this for fifty years by 1939, by which stage he had joined the scientific community on the island of Griffin Rock and joined in the effort to create a time machine for the Griffin Rock Technology Expo. Lacking the nuclear material needed to activate the machine thanks to the limitations of the science of their time, the scientists mothballed the project, but the day after it was closed down, Morocco snuck back into the facility and wound up witnessing the arrival of the four Rescue Bots, Cody Burns and Frankie Greene, who had travelled back in time after activating the machine in their future of 2012. After arranging for the children to be taken away, Morocco had the robots' abilities studied, but when the tests yielded little information, he strung the robots up with electromagnets and prepared to vivisect them. The arrival of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee from the future stymied his plans, but even as the robots and children escaped back to their future, Morocco discovered that they had accidentally left a small robot behind. It's a Bot Time
Using technology from the robot, Morocco eventually created an army of "MorBot" automatons and took over Griffin Rock, redubbing it "Moropolis". Continuing to use his regeneration chamber to extend his life, Morocco's reign continued for nearly a century, until the Rescue Bots returned to 2012 to discover what their trip through time had wrought. Seeing the opportunity to use them to reactivate the time machine and expand his dominion across all of time itself, Morocco ordered his MorBots to hunt the group down. They managed to elude him, and as they used the time machine once again, Morocco crashed the MorBot he was driving. The group of Rescue Bots returned to 1939, retrieving Dither and negating the timeline. Bot to the Future
In the revised timeline, Morocco eventually attained the position of lead scientist of Griffin Rock, but was kicked out by Mayor Luskey, Chief Burns and Doc Greene after his inventions proved dangerous and inferior. The Reign of Morocco Seeking revenge, Morocco secretly returned to the island after an undisclosed period of time, and began breaking into the laboratory, first planting a container of nanites that caused chaos. Cody on Patrol After creating a shark submarine that attacked Doc Greene's underwater sensors, Deep Trouble Morocco then reprogrammed the dino-bot Trex to infect the town's mainframe with a virus. His actions resulted in the firing of Doc Greene from his old post as lead scientist. Return of the Dino Bot
Once the time was right, Morocco engineered a runaway road roller which he deployed his MorBot to stop, before putting in a personal appearance. He was able to persuade the city council to let his MorBot prove itself in a rescue contest against Chief Burns and his team. By surreptitiously creating a series of disasters, he was able to discredit the Rescue Bots and eventually be reinstated by the mayor back into his old post. The Other Doctor He immediately began selling Greene's inventions to his customer base, and going on pleasure jaunts with the mayor. It wasn't until Cody and Frankie broke into the lab that Morocco's plan unraveled. Following the destruction of the MorBot and the discovery of information about his activities, he fled the island on Mayor Luskey's schooner. The Reign of Morocco
Games
Race to the Rescue
Doctor Morocco created a number of Disaster Bots, which he unleashed on Griffin Rock. Race to the Rescue
Toys
Rescue Bots: Energize
A non-articulated toy for Doctor Morocco was revealed at Toy Fair 2013. It trickled into stores late in the year. Clearly, the evil Doctor Morocco kidnapped Dani Burns and is forcing Blades to work with him by threatening her well-being.
Notes
- At BotCon 2013, it was revealed that Morocco was based on classic film actor Basil Rathbone.
- It was also revealed that Morocco did remember Cody, Frankie, and the Bots from their 1939 encounter when he appeared in the present day during episodes 12 and 13 of the cartoon, choosing to withhold that information at the time.
