The Mad Doctor AKA Doctor XXX is an inhabitant of the alternate version of the Haunted Mansion, Lonesome Manor.
Description[]
Background[]
The Mad Doctor is a deranged and murderous mad-scientist and enemy of Mickey Mouse from Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Epic Mickey[]
The Mad Doctor would become a resident of The Wasteland, an alternate Disneyland realm made by the wizard Yen Sid to be a home for forgotten cartoons and unused alternate-versions of cartoon characters. Ever ambitious, the Mad Doctor teamed up with the Wasteland's ruler, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Oswald would have the Doctor create, "The Beetleworx", a series of animatronic-derived robots which served as Oswald's construction crew. These beetleworx were predominately created from the Mad Doctor's lair in Lonesome Manor, the Wasteland's Haunted Mansion.
When Mickey Mouse inadvertently created and released the villainous Shadow Blot on the Wasteland in Yen Sid's study, the Mad Doctor became secret allies with the monster. He went on the kidnap Mickey Mouse and drag him to the Wasteland in an effort to steal Mickey's heart for the Shadow Blot to escape the Wasteland realm. He also repurposed his beetleworx and lab in Lonesome Manor to work for the Blot while transforming many cartoon and animatronic residents of the wasteland into beetleworx slaves. This resulted in mass disarray within Lonesome Manor, driving the Pipe Organ insane, pushing the Lonesome Ghosts out, and causing chaos in Madame Leona's library.
When Mickey fought the Mad Doctor in the attic of Lonesome Manor, it would be revealed that the doctor willingly transformed himself into a sentient audio-animatronic. Mickey would however defeat him and send him off into the horizon in a malfunctioning rocket.
Origins[]
The Mad Doctor originates from the 1933 Mickey Mouse short, The Mad Doctor. In his original short, the Mad Doctor kidnapped Mickey's dog Pluto in-order to try and transplant his head to put on a chicken. The Doctor's intention being to figure out what sound the offspring hatched from the Pluto/Chicken hybrid would produce.
Mickey Mouse travelled to Dr. XXX's castle only to be met with a variety of skeletons terrorizing him. When he finally came close to saving Pluto, he himself would be locked up in one of the Mad Doctor's machines.
Other Notable Appearances[]
- A photo of the doctor appeared in the Roger Rabbit cartoon Tummy Trouble, identifying him as working at the Toon Town hospital.
- The Mad Doctor was a boss in the video-game Mickey Mania.
- The Mad Doctor was a minor mini-boss within a mini-game in Kingdom Hearts III.
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Development[]
Counterparts between the Mad Doctor's 1933 short can be drawn with the Haunted Mansion franchise and its development. The skeletons seen in his castle are reminiscent of those from Skeleton Dance and were likely used as reference for Phantom Manor's catacombs scene. The Coffin Clock made by Rolly Crump for the Museum of the Weird greatly resembles a clock which belonged to the Mad Doctor in his 1933 short.
Epic Mickey[]
The Mad Doctor is the secondary-antagonist of the video-game Epic Mickey (2010) and primary-antagonist of its sequel. He is present throughout the game but most notably encountered in the game's Haunted Mansion counterpart of Lonesome Manor in Bog Easy. He is revealed to have a connection with that manor's history, occupying the space once used by the mysteriously disappeared Constance Hatchaway. His lab in Lonesome Manor is one of the game's levels and much of the damage done to Lonesome Manor was the result of his malevolence.
Trivia[]
- The Mad Doctor is technically public-domain due to Disney having not filed a copyright on the original 1933 short due to how it was received as being too scary.