Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is a character from the Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb. He was created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, and is voiced by co-creator and writer Dan Povenmire.

Summary
Dr. Doofenshmirtz is a mad scientist and the head of his own corporation, Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated. In most episodes, he tries to enrich himself, remove things that annoy him, or take over the Tri-State Area, almost always by creating unusual contraptions. In every episode, his nemesis Perry the Platypus, stops him from doing so. He is also lactose-intolerant. It is unknown if Heinz knows the Flynn-Fletchers personally but his other family members have met them. His hero is Dr. Lloyd Wexler.

He is not really evil, but is rather over-dramatic and eccentric, and acts more like a normal guy (being mildly nice, especially to his daughter). His bitter attitude was the result of a very miserable childhood shown in several flashbacks. Although is it not explained why he does his misdeeds in Danville instead of his native country. It is also not explained how even he became a multibillionaire. He has a tendency to add the "-inator" suffix to all of his nefarious contraptions with the exception of the "Shrinkspheria" in Mom's Birthday.

He spent his childhood dressed as a lawn gnome while other children played thanks to his cruel father, and never had anyone attend his birthday parties (his own parents never even showed up on the day he was born), and his birthday cakes were always eaten by Doonkelberry Bats. He was unable to grow facial hair during his teenage days. He also, in is father's heart was replaced by a dog his father won in a contest.He was named Only Son because his father claimed that it was like his only son (unlike Doofenshmirtz) and was a spitzen hound, like the one shown in his flash back in the episode, "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror!".

Like many of his generation he is a fan of Love Händel.

Revealed in the episode, "Kermillian's Comet", he often uses strange passwords to unlock his machines such as "Doofilicious" as seen in that episode.

It is seen in one episode that his favorite food is Limburger cheese.

As proven in the episode "Toy to the World" Dr. Doofenshmirtz has a problem with seasickness.

As revealed in "Greece Lightning", he has a giant robot man named Norm who also appears in "Traffic Cam Caper".

It's revealed in "Unfair Science Fair" and in "Unfair Science Fair, the Return" (episodes only aired in Latin America), that he presented to Science Fairs during his childhood with his "Inator" (Also saying that he had unoriginal names), but he always lost against a bicarbonate volcano.

Commonalities with Other Disney Villains
Like most supervillains in the Disney Universe, such as Dr. Drakken in Kim Possible and Yzma in The Emperor's New School, his grandiose schemes overlook a seemingly insignificant detail which as much as anything ruins his plans:
 * In Rollercoaster his plan to reverse the Earth's rotation using tin foil and a giant magnet instead because a giant aluminum snowball coming straight at his building. (Compare that to Drakken's attempt in Kim Possible to bring the Earth's continents together in Fashion Victim when he fails to take the seismic activity into account)
 * In Candace Loses Her Head when he attempts to drill a road to China through the center of the Earth, "the molten lava at the Earth's core completely slipped" his "mind".
 * In Runaway Runway he accidentally deletes all his clones -- but creates a new fashion statement.
 * In almost every episode there is a self-destruct, on-off, or reverse switch which Perry finds (or Candace in a semi-delusional state in "The Ballad of Badbeard") and uses to destroy his lairs and hideouts.

Relationships

 * Perry the Platypus:

His nemesis who foils his schemes in every episode. They have a "relationship" in the sense that they love to hate each other. In "It's About Time!", Doofenshmirtz finds another nemesis, Peter the Panda, and tells Perry to "move on and begin fighting other people". They end up on a parody of Dr. Phil's show, Dr. Feelbetter, in order to get counseling because of this new-found nemesis. Apparently, Doofenshmirtz can't recognize Perry unless he's wearing his hat. Twice when Perry removed a disguise (Gnome Beach Party of Terror and A Hard Day's Knight), Doofenshmirtz only realized it was Perry after he put his hat on. The Perry-Doofenshmirtz relationship is described as a Batman-Joker relationship, as the two neglect each others abilities.


 * Vanessa Doofenshmirtz:

His sarcastic teenage daughter who spends every other weekend with him. They don't have the best of relationships. She doesn't seem to appreciate his antics, exhibited by her reluctance to help him with his schemes. In "I Scream, You Scream", she tries to convince her mother that he's really evil and that Perry the Platypus is his nemesis. Doofenshmirtz is convinced that she has "taken interest in the family business". Doofenshmirtz does seem to genuinely love her, but his tendency to assume she wants to be a villain like him, combined with his general cluelessness, causes problems. In "Dude, We're Gettin' the Band Back Together!", his mindset causes problems for him when he plans her surprise Sweet 16. He assumes that Perry is also her nemesis, and ties him to a giant firecracker as the "grand finale" of her party. He also decorates the location for the party with the sort of childish decorations she and her friends despise, and invites her friends without asking her, leading to potential embarrassment. (Vanessa is never too thrilled with his attempts to surprise her, as seen from the numerous baby and childhood photos of her in his wallet.) Fortunately, the ensuing battle with Perry trashed the room and the decorations, leaving the decor much more suited to Vanessa and her friends' liking.


 * Charlene Doofenshmirtz:

Ex-wife. Despite their being divorced, they seem to maintain a pretty decent relationship; according to her, they separated because they "wanted different things" (as she said in "I Scream, You Scream"). However, she's still not convinced that he's evil; she thinks that he's just a bit eccentric and has too much free time on his hands. She attends the same cooking class as Phineas Flynn's mother, Linda Flynn.


 * Roger Doofenshmirtz:

His brother, who he ultimately hates as seen in "Tree to Get Ready". Obviously the favorite of his parent. He was given the key to the city of Danville for his civic work. Heinz attempts to hypnotize pigeons with a "Poopinator" to do (guess) on him. Ultimately Perry turns the tables on Heinz


 * Others

Heinz has had a few relationships with girls. In one episode he met a girl online.

Schemes & Inventions (By Episode)
All of his inventions end in "-inator", with the exception of Shrinksphere-ia in the episode "Mom's Birthday", Termite Controlling Helmet in the episode "The Magnificent Few", and in the episode "A Hard Day's Knight", where he doesn't have an invention.


 * "Rollercoaster": Plans to throw the Earth off of its axis.
 * "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror": Steals all of the lawn gnomes in the Tri-State Area in order to destroy them all.
 * "Flop Starz": Builds a giant robot in attempt to take over the Tri-State Area.
 * "The Fast and the Phineas": Wants to deflate every inflatable in the world, except the machine is kept in his hot-air balloon.
 * "Lights, Candace, Action!": Builds the Age Accelerator-inator in order to age a piece of gourmet cheese. However, Perry eats it and Doofenshmirtz uses it to age Perry the Platypus instead.
 * "Raging Bully": Creates the Slave-inator, which hypnotizes everyone into doing whatever he tells them to do. There is also a "Clean Up Party Mess" button.
 * "Candace Loses Her Head": Plans to dig to China and build a toll road to be rich.
 * "I, Brobot": Tries to erase all of the messages on his girlfriend's answering machine.
 * "Run Away Runway": Creates copies of himself to do all the waiting for him.
 * "The Magnificent Few": Uses brain-controlled termites to destroy all the wood in the tri-state area so he can sell aluminum siding.
 * "S'Winter": Plans to melt all the chocolate in the tri-state area and put it all in his own candy factory.
 * "Jerk De Soleil": Creates a device that makes everybody's voice higher, making his seem lower by comparison.
 * "Are You My Mummy?": Creates "woodenator", which takes the wood away from a dam so he can have beach-front property.
 * "Ready for the Bettys": Creates a destructo-ray, but he doesn't do much with it though as Perry locks him in the closet since the Phineas and Ferb stumbled on the mission.
 * "I Scream, You Scream": Tries to create a space-laser-inator but ends up making a sundae machine instead. It turns out that Ferb took the laser plans by mistake because he was distracted by the lovely Vanessa.
 * "Toy to the World": Tries to build a Great Wall around the tri-state area and make people pay to get in or out.
 * "Get That Bigfoot Outa My Face": It's his week off. He goes on a date from a girl he met online.
 * "It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World": He plans to destroy all the monster trucks in the Tri-State Area so he can replace them with his own line of monster trucks. He also creates a machine to locate monster trucks.
 * "Mom's Birthday": Creates a machine that will make everything he hates shrink until it can't be seen.
 * "Journey to the Center of Candace": Builds the "Make-Up-Your-Mind-Inator" that destroys anybody that can't make up their mind. He also tries to "mix it up a little", telling Perry his plan before he captures him.
 * "It's About Time!": Makes Perry jealous by replacing him with Peter the Panda. Later they end up on "Dr. Feelbetter" and he reveals that it was a plan to get secret agents together and freeze them for his giant chess board.
 * "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together!": Plans a party for his daughter, Vanessa. He also ties Perry to a giant fire-cracker for the finale.
 * "Tree to Get Ready": Plans to ruin his brother's ceremony by covering him in pigeon doo-doo.
 * "The Ballad of Badbeard": Is moving into his new lair. However, he has two crocodiles and a trap ready for Perry.
 * "Greece Lightning": Creates a giant robot man, due to the fact that the platypus population is dropping because of humans.
 * "Leave the Busting to Us": Tries to control the weather with weather pellets and a machine, but ends up creating a tornado that destroys his lair and much of the Tri-state area. It is also revealed that Doofenshmirtz was interested in magic during his youth.
 * "Crack That Whip!": Plans to destroy the statue of Rutherford B. Hayes, because he is known for his long beard. The plan arose because Doofenshmirtz was jealous of people who could grow facial hair.
 * "The Best Lazy Day Ever": Plans to make everyone else ugly, because he is not handsome in his view. He also creates the Slow-Motioninator to slow down Perry, so he can't stop him.
 * "Boyfriend From 20,000 B.C.": Plans to destroy all Sandwich Suits in the Tri-State Area with his "Sandwich Suit Awayinator".
 * "Voyage to the Bottom of Buford": After accidentally catching a kitten, people think he is on the good side, so he uses his "Media Erasinator" to erase the image of him catching the cat.
 * "A Hard Day's Kinght": Goes to an Evil Convention in London, where Perry is in disguise as Dr. Loyd Wexler.
 * "Traffic Cam-Caper": Doesn't really have one, since this episode takes place during the middle of the night, but he lets Perry borrow his old robot, Norm.
 * "Bowl-R-Ama-Drama": Plans to freeze the Tri-State Area with his giant penguins, after which he will sell hot chocolate for a million dollars.
 * "The Flying Fishmonger": Plans to kick sand all over the house of his old bully.
 * "Got Game": invents the "Misbehave-inator" to wreck the competition at a Dog Show.
 * "Put That Putter Away": Uses a giant leaf blower to blow leaves on his neighbor's yard.
 * "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?": Steals all the Mr. Slushy Burger statues from the Tri-State-Area and tries to write a new jingle for them.
 * "Comet Kermilian": Steals all steaks in the Tri-State-Area and plans to turn them into glasses. He also builds a computer controlled heat ray.

Quotes

 * "Perry the Platypus, you're early! I haven't even started yet. Go sit there in the waiting area."


 * "Too bad, Perry the Platypus! TOO BAD YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE!!"


 * "As a lazy tailor would say, suit yourself!"


 * "Oh, that? That's just a magnet I'm going to wave over my girlfriend's house, to erase all those embarrassing messages... because some of them were really long, and rambly. Well, I know there's an ordinance against it... but..."


 * "No, no. I'm StrudelCutie4427, and this is my pet platypus - he was just going for a nightly walk."


 * "Well, it's not the worst date I've ever had. There was that one who kept stabbing me with a fork."


 * "CURSE YOU! PERRY THE PLATYPUS!"


 * "Ah, Perry the Platypus, what an unexpected surprise... and when I say 'unexpected', I mean ... unexpected. What are you doing here? It's my week off!"


 * "I love it when dreams fail!"


 * "Anyway, I realized that I should build things to make all of those awful things DISAPPEAR! Behold, Perry the Platypus - SHRINKSPHERIA! You like it? I was going to call it a Shrinkinator, but I've done that whole -inator thing before, it's been done to death."


 * "When it comes to havoc, nobody wreaks like me!"


 * "You see, Perry the Platypus, you are no match for my pigeons. I have conditioned their tiny little bird brains to do exactly what I say, by using my brand new, very EVIL invention called... the Poopinator! Vanessa, please. Thank you. Oh--you two have met, right? Vanessa, Perry the Platypus, Perry the Platypus, Vanessa."


 * "OBSERVE! With this, I can implant an image in their tiny little brains in a FLASH! It... it works better from a distance."


 * Doofenshmirtz: Anyway, today at Town Hall they will award the key to the city to my goody-two-shoes brother, Roger. Oh, how I LOATHE him! Vanessa: I like Uncle Roger. Doofenshmirtz: Thank you, Vanessa, but I don't believe I was talking to YOU. Is your name "Perry the Platypus"? No, I don't think so...Vanessa: *groans* I SO should have gone to summer school.


 * (preparing to melt a giant candy bar after covering Perry with chocolate that hardens into a cement-like covering) 5, 4, 3...2...2 and one-half...2 and a quarter...(to Perry) Seriously, you're not going to do anything? You're just going to sit there like a dead fish? I'm giving you a chance to do something here! (sighs) This used to be a lot more fun... *turns around* "You know, in some country's its considered rude not to..." *Perry kicks him* "Perry the platypus?! But how did you" *See's the chocolate covering with a hole in the butt* "You ate you own hiney?!"


 * "Perry the platypus, your shoe's untied." *Perry looks at his foot and is trapped in a box* Doofenschmirtz: PSYCH!


 * "Perry the Platypus, your timing in uncanny...and by "uncanny" I mean...COMPLETELY CANNY!"


 * "Perry the Platypus, your timing in impeccable...and by "impeccable" I mean...COMPLETELY PECCABLE!"

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