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Character from the Yard.I. Joe franchise

Doctor Mindbender
Thou.I. Joe graphic symbol
Art by Mike Zeck
First advent	G.I. Joe issue #44 (February 1986)
Voiced by	Brian Cummings (Sunbow/Marvel) Jim Foronda (Spy Troops and Valor vs. Venom) Charlie Schlatter (Renegades) Lucas Schuneman (K.I. Joe: Operation Blackout)
In-universe information
Affiliation	Cobra
Specialty	Scientist Master of Mind Control
File proper name	Brian Folder[1]
SN	4712–MB[two]
Principal MOS	Mind Control
Secondary MOS	Orthodontics; Experimental Systems

Dr. Mindbender is a fictional graphic symbol from the K.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and animated series. He is a scientist who works for the terrorist organization Cobra; similar other characters in the fictional universe, his characterization has fluctuated from that of comical villain to dangerous fascist depending on the release. He is often allied with Cobra Commander and Destro. In his commencement live-action film appearance in 2009, he was played past American thespian Kevin J. O'Connor.

Profile [edit]

Dr. Bough was at 1 fourth dimension a peace-loving orthodontist. He built a machine to relieve dental hurting, using electrical brainwave stimulation. Unfortunately he tested information technology on himself, and it went haywire, causing him to get hateful, deceitful, and vain. Though experiencing encephalon impairment, he retained his sense of scientific skill and intellect, unfortunately choosing to use it for the purposes of evil. Dr. Mindbender abandoned his practice and joined forces with Cobra, devoting all his time to perfecting his digital encephalon-scrambling. He is a master of mind command and interrogation, simply his expertise likewise includes genetics, cloning, orthodontistry, and some cybernetics.^[iii]

Toys [edit]

Doctor Mindbender was first released as an action figure in 1986.^[four] The Dr. Mindbender toy was blank chested with purple pants and leather metallic-studded suspenders.

A new version of Dr. Mindbender (actualization more cybernetically enhanced, in yellow and purple attire) was released in 1993 equally part of the Battle Corps line.

In November 2014, information technology was announced past the K.I. Joe Collector's Club that their 2015 exclusive 3.75" membership figure would be an Arctic Dr. Mindbender figure, based directly on his advent in Thousand.I. Joe: The Movie.^[v]

Comic series [edit]

Marvel Comics [edit]

In the Marvel Comics G.I. Joe series, he first appears in issue #44, every bit "Dr. Brain-Wave".^[6] Mindbender became Cobra'due south main science officer, after his predecessor Doctor Venom was killed in action. He creates the Battle Android Troopers (B.A.T.south), and likewise makes several modifications to Venom's prized cosmos, the Brainwave Scanner.

Dr. Mindbender also creates the composite-clone Serpentor in an attempt to engineer the ultimate soldier. He and other Cobra agents raid the tombs of noted military leaders, such every bit Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great for DNA. Dr. Mindbender also takes the opportunity to add together in the DNA of the ninja Storm Shadow.^[7] Mindbender loyally serves Serpentor. Mindbender analyzes Cobra satellite photos and pieces together the location of the Joe'due south new Utah base.^[8] A civil state of war, between Serpentor and Fred 7, a Ruby Guardsman posing every bit Cobra Commander, breaks out on Cobra Isle.^[9] When Serpentor is killed by Zartan, Mindbender switches sides, becoming an counselor to Fred VII.^[9] Fifty-fifty then he was not loyal, listening to a program 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.^[10] Mindbender manages to preserve Serpentor'southward torso, which was idea by many to exist destroyed. The freighter itself is then cached inside a mountain. Though an escape programme was devised, Mindbender, along with some of the other traitors, dies of botulism before it could be enacted.^[11]

However, he was afterwards cloned, and returns to loyally serve Cobra Commander for a time. The clone recognizes Megatron as a Decepticon (though not necessarily every bit Megatron himself) when he is first reanimated, in a reference to the Yard.I. Joe and the Transformers comic series past Marvel in the 1980s.^[12] Mindbender's clone was created by Cobra Commander at around the aforementioned time as the launch of the Transformers: Generation ii comic series, and Megatron and a number of Autobots announced in a few issues of G.I. Joe at that same time.

Devil'south Due [edit]

Mindbender plays a major role in the first story-arc of the series G.I. Joe: Frontline. This takes place in the terminal few weeks of the original incarnation of the Thou.I. Joe Team. Cobra forces take consolidated at Destro's castle. Mindbender involves himself heavily in the trickery and deceit that results, when Cobra forces boxing G.I. Joe throughout the castle for control of a infinite-based weapon.^[13]

Several years later on, Cobra re-organizes. One of Mindbender's new projects is a new, more than powerful Battle Android Trooper. This is stolen by the ninja-mercenary Firefly.

When Serpentor returns, leading a renegade faction chosen The Coil, Mindbender returns to the side of his creation. When Serpentor is defeated again,^[14] Mindbender is captured, only manages to convince Cobra Commander to spare his life, by offering him control of his latest creation, a weapon of mass destruction called the Tempest.

Mindbender ends up on the run over Cobra Island, trying and declining to escape with the Joe agent Barrel Whorl. Mindbender is seen running into the forest, pursued by Cobra Vipers.^[xv]

Commander gains command of the Tempest. He besides shoots Mindbender in the back, killing him.^[xvi] According to the Data Desk-bound, Mindbender is buried an unmarked grave in Potter'southward Field, sharing the same fate as Dr. Venom, the mad scientist that he replaced.^[17]

IDW Comics [edit]

It is shown that Dr. Mindbender has played a function in many of the major scientific discoveries throughout the 20th century (including the development of the Atom Bomb, and something that is highly suggested to be the implementation of the polio vaccine). His primary motivation is to fully exploit human intellectual capabilities so that humanity can replace God.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}

G.I. Joe 2019 [edit]

In this alternate universe, Doctor Mindbender is scientific enforcer for Cobra, which has conquered most of the gratis world. Major Bludd discovers that Mindbender and many other Cobra forces are working with the weapons supplier Destro, which is considered traitorous. Bludd forms an uneasy friendship with Mindbender. They both fearfulness that Cobra Commander's idealism threatens his otherwise shaky hold on what he does control. ^[18]

Novels [edit]

Dr. Mindbender is the main villain of the gamebook-manner G.I. Joe novel Functioning: Mindbender (ISBN 0-345-33786-7). In the story, Mindbender perfects a brainwashing procedure resulting in G.I. Joe members violently attacking their friends and allies.

Blithe series [edit]

Sunbow [edit]

Mindbender is Cobra's main interrogator and science officer. He hates Cobra Commander, who calls him "Fender-Bender". In his first appearance, the 2nd-season miniseries "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!", he is shown to be the inventor of B.A.T.south, telling Cobra Commander that they would have been useful against Thou.I. Joe had they been deployed correctly. Inspired past a strange, recurring dream, Mindbender decides to create a new leader for Cobra. He collaborates with Destro and Tomax and Xamot in a plot to obtain Dna samples of the best militaristic minds in history, because he feels Cobra needs a leader that can inspire courage in its cowardly troops. Mindbender attempts to steal the DNA of Chinese general Sunday Tzu, but the theft is foiled by Sgt. Slaughter, whose DNA Mindbender then intends to use as a substitute. While the tomb of Genghis Khan is stolen, Mindbender has Sgt. Slaughter lured into being captured. Despite Cobra Commander and Sgt. Slaughter'southward attempts to sabotage his experiment, Mindbender succeeds, resulting in the cosmos of Serpentor.^[19]

Md Mindbender is easily Serpentor'southward most loyal member of Cobra'due south High command (and as such Serpentor trusted Doctor Mindbender the well-nigh out of the Cobra High Control, even beingness exceptionally lenient if a mission's failure is Mindbender'south mistake), but there are times when he considers the monarch to exist a "spoiled brat".

He becomes a recurring character in season 2. In his appearances, Mindbender is often in charge of Cobra science projects and working with Serpentor or the Dreadnoks. He invents machines or weapons to employ against the Joes, such as the nightmare-causing Sombulator^[20] and an organ that controls emotions with its music.^[21] Dr. Mindbender had a major role in "My Brother'south Keeper", in which he recruits scientist Jeremy Penser to help fix a device called the Voltronic Galaxitor.^[22]

G.I. Joe: The Movie [edit]

In the 1987 blithe film One thousand.I. Joe: The Movie, it is revealed that the idea to create Serpentor was planted in Mindbender'southward brain past Golobulus (the leader of Cobra-La) using a "Psychic Motivator". Dr. Mindbender appears outraged by this, every bit he had thought of Serpentor as his own creation, merely he apace falls into line and begins serving Cobra-La. Dr. Mindbender is present in the final boxing with Cobra and Cobra-La against the Joes.^[23]

Spy Troops and Valor vs. Venom [edit]

In the new continuity set by the CGI animated movies, Doctor Mindbender again serves as Cobra's main scientist. In G.I. Joe: Spy Troops, he creates a new and improved Boxing Android Trooper, and uses stolen Yard.I. Joe technology to create headsets which allow Destro and Storm Shadow to control the B.A.T.s in boxing. Physician Mindbender is also working on Venom Troopers, but ultimately loses all of his research when the Cobra base of operations is destroyed. Cobra Commander flippantly tells him to starting time over, leaving Md Mindbender shocked and appalled at such a suggestion.

For G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom, Doctor Mindbender has rebuilt all of his research, and the Venom project is at present fully up and running. Thanks to Doctor Mindbender'southward genius, Cobra begins kidnapping people from effectually the world and turning them into animal/human being hybrids. Medico Mindbender warns Cobra Commander almost putting as well much Venom into a unmarried field of study but the Commander ignores him. The captured General Hawk is transformed into Venomous Maximus, a being so powerful he rapidly seizes power of Cobra with the help of Overkill. Cobra Commander and Doctor Mindbender are captured by Maximus and Overkill. As the Joes assail while Maximus goes to launch his Venom missile, Doctor Mindbender is forced to bring together forces with his Chiliad.I. Joe rival, Howdy-Tech, and work against Maximus. They contrary the polarity of the Venom missiles, which in turn destroy Cobra'south base. In the confusion following the battle, Doctor Mindbender makes his escape.

Sigma half dozen [edit]

Doctor Mindbender did non appear in G.I. Joe: Sigma 6. Instead, Overkill has taken over his function as Cobra's chief scientist.

Renegades [edit]

In Yard.I. Joe: Renegades, Doctor Mindbender appears as a young bio-scientist named Dr. Brian Bender who is wanted for his illegal experimentations. Hired past Cobra Commander, Mindbender uses Cobra Industries' connections to enable its leader to become immortal to cheat expiry. In the process, Mindbender developed the Bio Vipers which would serve as Cobra's militant ability. Withal, the Joes infiltrated the lab where Mindbender created the first generation of Bio-Vipers and Ripcord sacrificed himself to destroy it. Though idea to be dead, Mindbender establish Ripcord's asleep body and learned that the young human absorbed Bio-Viper matter and turned into a human/Bio-Viper hybrid to assist in his research. Through the first season, being pursued past the Joes, Mindbender sought to improve on his Bio-Vipers by exploring a multifariousness of means, including holding Tomax and Xamot captive to use their psychic ability to alter the Bio Vipers.

In "Prodigal" when the Joes notice an amnesiac Ripcord and pause him out of the hospital, Mindbender assured Cobra Commander that this would exist a good chance to examination Ripcord's Bio-Viper form on the Joes by using the Cobra Drones to take control through the control chip in Ripcord. But when Ripcord breaks himself free from his control, Cobra Commander decides to have Serpentor devour Mindbender for failing him. Notwithstanding, Mindbender is quick to remind Cobra Commander that he still needs him to cheat death when threatening to expose his status to the other subordinates. Though Cobra Commander allows Mindbender to live for at present while punishing him with an electrical blast from his cane, promising the md that Ripcord's retrieval is vital for both of them to live.

In "The Anomaly", Physician Mindbender tries to create his human/Bio-Viper hybrid. The first i seems to fall apart only really comes together in the sewers. When the Sewer Viper is mistaken as a Sewer Monster in New York, Cobra Commander sends Physician Mindbender to reclaim information technology for sending some of Cobra's elite soldiers would end up having the Sewer Viper traced back to Cobra Industries. Dr. Mindbender manages to bring some Bio-Vipers along and have a fail-prophylactic installed in the Bio-Vipers that would crusade them to explode enough to level a section of the urban center in the result that Doctor Mindbender's neuro-link helmet is separated from him. When his Bio-Vipers managed to trap the Joes and Tunnel Rat's blood brother Teddy in the subway, Dr. Mindbender uses his neuro-link helmet to take control of Ripcord. When the Sewer Viper attacks, Medico Mindbender tries to take control of information technology only for it to not take a command chip in it. The Sewer Viper manages to remove the control chip from Ripcord'south caput freeing him from Medico Mindbender'south command. Ripcord manages to destroy the neuro-link helmet and was near to have revenge on Doctor Mindbender for what he did for him only for Duke to intervene. When the Bio-Vipers start to explode, the Sewer Viper ends upwards sacrificing itself to absorb the boom while Physician Mindbender escapes.

In the "Revelations" two-parter, Dr. Mindbender and Destro terminate up working on rebuilding the M.A.Southward.Southward. Device that Scarlett'due south begetter Professor Patrick O'Hara worked on while attempting to replicate the crystal needed to ability it. Scarlett and Snake Eyes fight Baroness and Physician Mindbender in the room where the M.A.S.Southward. device is before the Bio-Vipers restraint them and so Scarlett tin be forced into entering the code to the M.A.S.S. Device using Snake Eyes as bait. The 1000.A.S.S. Device is a success every bit Professor Patrick O'Hara emerges from the M.A.S.Due south. device. Afterwards Snake Optics ends up destroying the M.A.Due south.S. Device, its destruction causes a wormhole that sucks Baroness and Doctor Mindbender in. Information technology is unknown what happened to them.

Alive activity moving-picture show [edit]

Doctor Mindbender
Grand.I. Joe grapheme
First appearance	2009
Portrayed by	Kevin J. O'Connor
In-universe information
Affiliation	Cobra
Specialty	Primary of Mind Command
File name	CLASSIFIED
Nascency place	CLASSIFIED
SN	Classified
Rank	Classified
Primary MOS	Mind Control
Secondary MOS	Unknown
Series	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Doctor Mindbender also appears in a flashback in the 2009 film K.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra played by Kevin J. O'Connor. In the rest of the film the character known as 'The Doctor' is implied to be Medico Mindbender past his characteristic monocle. It is revealed that he passed the secrets of nano-technology on to Rex Lewis (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who was 'The Doc' before bold his Cobra Commander persona. His fate in the flick is unclear; their laboratory is destroyed (leading to the Commander's severe scarring) only Rex tells Duke that Md Mindbender trained him in nanotechnology afterward the set on. In the DVD release, additional dialogue indicates that Doctor Mindbender survived, and director Stephen Sommers notes in the commentary that there is a good take chances Doctor Mindbender would return in a sequel. All the same, he does non appear in Yard.I. Joe: Retaliation.

Popular culture [edit]

• Doctor Mindbender appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Joint Indicate", voiced by Seth Green. In a documentary segment that parodies the Terror Airdrome in the style of The Office, Physician Mindbender explains how he runs a class to railroad train the Cobra Organization's new recruits.
• The figure receives a brief mention in the Stephen King Companion non-fiction essay collection.^[24]
• The graphic symbol is described on page 128 of the magazine The New Yorker. Volume 62, 1986.
• Another mention is made in the volume Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of Television receiver Marketing.^[25]

References [edit]

1. ^ Hidalgo, Pablo (2009). G.I. Joe vs. Cobra: The Essential Guide 1982‒2008. Del Rey Books. ISBN978-0-345-51642-viii.
2. ^ Jim Sorenson & Beak Forster, The One thousand.I. Joe Field Transmission, vol. ii (San Diego: IDW, 2012), 42.
3. ^ Hama, Larry (1987). Howard Mackie (ed.). G.I. Joe: Order of Boxing. Marvel Amusement Group. p. 43. ISBN0-87135-288-v.
4. ^ Santelmo, Vincent (1994). The Official 30th Anniversary Salute To G.I. Joe 1964-1994. Krause Publications. p. 108. ISBN0-87341-301-6.
5. ^ "1000.I.Joe Collectors Club 2015 Gratuitous 3 3/4 Membership Figure Arctic DR. Mindbender - HissTank.com". hisstank.com. seven November 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
6. ^ G.I. Joe: A Existent American Hero #44 (February 1986)
7. ^ Thousand.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #47-fifty
8. ^ G.I. Joe: A Existent American Hero #64 (Oct 1987)
9. ^ ^{a b} Thousand.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #73-75
10. ^ G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #98
11. ^ K.I. Joe: A Existent American Hero #114
12. ^ G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #140
13. ^ G.I. Joe: Frontline #1-iv
14. ^ G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero vol. 2 #25 (2003)
15. ^ K.I. Joe: A Real American Hero vol. 2 #30 (2004)
16. ^ One thousand.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Vol.2 #41
17. ^ G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #22
18. ^ G.I.Joe #five (2019)
19. ^ "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!". Chiliad.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Season 2. Episode 1–five.
20. ^ "Nightmare Assault". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
21. ^ "Second Paw Emotions". Yard.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
22. ^ "My Brother's Keeper". Yard.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
23. ^ Thou.I. Joe: The Movie (Motion picture). De Laurentiis Amusement Group. April 20, 1987.
24. ^ King, Stephen (1989). Stephen King Companion . Andrews and McMeel. p. 58. ISBN978-0-8362-7978-8.
25. ^ Kline, Stephen (1995). Out of the garden: toys, TV, and children's culture in the age of marketing. Verso. p. 300. ISBN978-1-85984-059-vii.

External links [edit]

• Dr. Mindbender at JMM'due south One thousand.I. Joe Comics Dwelling Page
• Dr. Mindbender at YOJOE.com

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