Doctor Morocco
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- Doctor Morocco is a human from the Rescue Bots portion of 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. He is sometimes known as the Duchess of Kent.
| “ | Clever man, that Doctor Morocco! | ” |
| —Doctor Morocco, "The Reign of Morocco" | ||
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Fiction
Rescue Bots cartoon
- Voice actor: Tim Curry (season 1), Jonny Rees (season 2 onward) (English), Gábor Maday (Hungarian), Janusz Wituch (Polish), Gerardo Reyero (Latin American-Spanish), Andreas Müller (German, season 2), Giovanni Battezzato (Italian), Jean-Marc Delhausse (French), Fábio Moura (season 1), César Marchetti (season 2 onward) (Brazilian Portuguese)
Born some time in the early 19th century, Morocco made a career in science. In 1862 he met Jules Verne at the London Exposition and the pair became friends and shared scientific knowledge. Verne gave him a prototype "Verne device", which Morocco used to construct a cellular regeneration chamber The Last of Morocco that he used to artificially extend his life by rejuvenating his body periodically. It's a Bot Time Verne did not share the secret of the power source that made the device able to facilitate time travel, however. The Last of Morocco By 1915, he had developed a time machine, though he had not succeeded in getting it working. He was transporting it to the island of Griffin Rock on the S.S. Phantom Voyager but was forced to evacuate the ship after it was struck by lightning. Phantom of the Sea
By 1939, he had become part of the scientific community on Griffin Rock. Bot to the Future Elma Hendrickson placed a large quantum crystal in a time capsule to keep it out of Morocco's hands. Now and Then
Morocco later joined in the effort to create another time machine, this time for the Griffin Rock Technology Expo. But, lacking a power source great enough to activate the machine—thanks to the limitations of the science of their time—the scientists mothballed the project. On the day after it was closed down, however, Morocco snuck back into the facility and witnessed the arrival of the four Rescue Bots, Cody Burns and Frankie Greene, who had traveled back in time after activating the machine in the 21st century. 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 Before he could examine it, however, the Rescue Bots returned to 1939, retrieving Dither. Bot to the Future
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
After returning the schooner much later, the charges against Morocco were dropped. He set his eye on salvaging the lost tech from the S.S. Isolde, though his work was temporarily interrupted by the meddlesome Burns family. He began loading crates into his shark sub, but had inadvertently triggered the Sub-Zero Expander. The Burns family returned and evicted him into his sub, though when their own boat was damaged following the flash-freeze caused by the Expander's destruction, he used his own submarine to carry them safely back to land, and later had a portrait of Zachary Burns from the Isolde sent to Chief Burns. As he opened the crates he'd recovered, Morocco seemed very interested in the contents of one of them. Tip of the Iceberg
Eavesdropping on the Burnses via a bug in the portrait, Morocco learned that the Rescue Bots had a more advanced AI than he thought. Using a weather machine he had recovered from the Isolde, Morocco managed to get the townsfolk to evacuate, and simply strolled into the unattended fire house, where he discovered the Rescue Bots' alien origins. He managed to pilfer some of their technology, which he later offered for sale to Madeline Pynch. Changes He also created a virtual copy of himself and left it hidden within an update for Griffin Rock Element Quest. Back to Virtual Reality
Striking up a partnership with Madeline Pynch, Morocco used technology he'd pilfered to capture the Rescue Bots, replacing them with duplicates he'd built. He used a piece of his rejuvenation chamber to erase the Bots' memories and convinced them that he had been appointed their liaison on Earth by Optimus Prime. He sent the four Bots to mine the gold under Griffin Rock, however they accidentally triggered a methane explosion, and Morocco's shark sub was rocked by the blast. Double Villainy
Unable to contact the Rescue Bots, Morocco discovered that Pynch had stolen the Nemo. With the shark sub dead in the water and his age rapidly catching up with him, Morocco eventually drifted to the fire house, where he discovered the Rescue Bots had learned the truth about his deception, and refused to help him regain the Nemo. After the island was saved from sinking, Morocco found the Nemo watched up on shore, and was able to use the Chamber of Youth again. Promptly captured, he was forced to try and reverse the erasure of the Bots' memories and then slapped in jail. Rise of the Heroes
Morocco was eventually able to procure the items he needed to escape — building a device from a radio and fan, he successfully commanded a nest of mutant metal-eating army ants he had purchased, sending them to the laboratory where they reactivated the MorBot there. The MorBot broke Morocco out of the jail, and he ordered the ants to eat anything metal as a diversion before fleeing the island. Unfortunately some of the ants had stowed away, and Morocco soon found himself floating on a rapidly-dwindling MorBot. Bugs in the System
A pocket watch Morocco left in the jail's lost and found was given to Cody, resulting in the boy repeating an hour of time thanks to a surge of energy from Griffin Rock's new clock tower. Time After Time
Morocco was forced to trade the Verne Device to Pynch in exchange for the return of the Nemo. Steadily growing older without the use of his Chamber of Youth, Morocco was able to send a note back in time, summoning Jules Verne. He attempted to force Verne to hand over the other Verne Device, by commanding whales and giant squid to attack the rescue team's ship, but was thwarted when it turned out that the ship was actually the giant Autobot High Tide. Morocco surrendered and returned to Griffin Rock, where he was rejuvenated and imprisoned. He promptly attempted to escape in Verne's balloon, but was taken into the future by Verne, who apparently wiped his memory with the Verne Device before showing him around Paris. The Last of Morocco
Alternate timeline
Using technology from the robot, Dither, which had been left behind in 1939 by the time-traveling Rescue Bots, Morocco eventually created an army of "MorBot" automatons and took over Griffin Rock, redubbing it "Moropolis". Continuing to use his Chamber of Youth to extend his life, Morocco's reign continued for nearly a century, until the Rescue Bots returned to their home time 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 dark timeline they had briefly visited. Bot to the Future
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
- Blades the Copter-Bot & Dr. Morocco (2013)
- A non-articulated toy for Doctor Morocco packaged with Blades 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.
- Shark Sub Capture (2015)
- The playset repackages the PVC Blades and Dr. Morocco two-pack alongside a Shark Sub with chomping action for Morocco to ride in. Blades lacks some paint operations from the previous release, but Morocco is unchanged. The stock photography on the back of this set's box shows an articulated Dr. Morocco figure much like the original Rescue Bots humans. This added articulation would have allowed Morocco to better sit in the submarine as the actual figure can't really be placed in the Shark Sub in a secure way.
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.
- Considering the level of threat he brings against the heroes and his central role in three out of four of the show's season finales, Morocco could pretty much be deemed the de facto main antagonist of Rescue Bots.
- Morocco's original voice actor, Tim Curry had a minor stroke in July 2012, and has been unable to act at his previous ability since then due to his ongoing physical recovery process. Thus, Morocco needed to be re-cast in season 2 onward.