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Real Name: Unknown
Alias: The Animator
Occupation: Genetic Researcher
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Paradise, an island near Greenland
Past Group Affiliations: Creator of Ani-Mates, employee of the Right
Known Powers:
None
Talents:
Dr. Animus has Incredible Reason in Medicine, genetic research, and gene splicing.
Contacts:
Dr. Animus was employed by Cameron Hodge and the Right. He was creator and ruler of the Ani-Mates, his anthropomorphic creations.
Role-Playing Notes:
Dr. Animus was a certified lunatic. He was prone to paranoid ravings, erratic behavior, and sudden outbursts of violence. Any time he is contradicted, defied, or bothered, Dr. Animus must make a Psyche FEAT. Any White result means he flies into a rage. After the rage abates, he shifts his concentration to another, usually unrelated topic.
History:
Dr. Animus’s real name is lost. He was a medical researcher who was hired to research the effectiveness of certain pharmaceuticals. However, he used the facilities to pursue arcane research of his own. He forged results for the experiments he was supposed to be pursuing. He kept at this for some time but was exposed when his forged data resulted in the release of lethal drugs and the deaths of several people. He was stripped of his position and jailed. During his imprisonment, his sanity decayed.
Cameron Hodge and his “The Right” anti-mutant organization were seeking a means of ensuring human supremacy over mutants. They discovered Dr. Animus’s research and decided he was the man to find a way of preventing mutations and the powers that resulted. They arranged for his freedom and set him up with an isolated island laboratory.
His old behavior patterns returned. Rather than pursue the Right’s goals, he studied means for creating intelligent, anthropomorphic animals. He had decided that humanity needed a permanent slave species. With such patented creatures under his control, he would grow rich and famous. In the years that followed, he developed the means of producing a variety of such creatures. Then he began to develop and train his subjects, whom he named the Ani-Mates. His methods were vicious and cruel. Success meant food, failure meant starvation. Even if they succeeded, they risked death at his merest whim. Despite their creator, the new creatures survived.
One Ani-Mate, an intelligent avian named Bird-Boy, escaped the island and ended up in the care of the New Mutants. When the New Mutants and Bird-Boy returned to rescue the rest of the Ani-Mates, Magik fed Dr. Animus to her demons after he shot and killed Cypher.
It is unknown if Dr. Animus actually died in Limbo. The civil war in Limbo that erupted in Inferno on Earth destroyed Magik’s control over that realm. It is possible that, rather than eat Dr. Animus, S’ym and his horde transformed him into a demon like them.
As for the Ani-Mates, they are presumably still alive and well on Paradise. With the destruction of the Right, their island’s existence remains the secret of the New Mutants.