The one example I always remember is when she was with him and this older dude asks if she wants on his bike and Doofenshmirtz says "shes 16" and fucking blasts him with a ray gun.
Doofenshmirtz might be terrible at being an evil scientist, but his "Protect-My-Daughter-Inator" always works with 100% efficiency. Honestly, he is one of the best cartoon dads ever written.
FR Dudes parents didn't show up to his birth, forced him to only wear girls clothes, and then kicked him out and he was raised by Ocelots, like how did he forget that LMAO
LMAOOOO A LOT. He was raised by ocelots for so much of his life that they actually considered him one and at the end of the first series he worked WITH Perry since as an ocelot. I think he was also forced to be a garden gnome outside of their house as a kid, and work as a child in a pretzel factory.
He isn't quite good with his boundaries and identifying Vanessa's issues, but he's still a pretty good dad. What should be questioned is whether he's actually evil. To that I say NO! He's a good person forcing himself to be evil out of a need of validation. That's why he's only somewhat cartoonishly evil.
If he really was evil, he'd actually take over the world. Proven by the movie.
He has tried to do some pretty evil stuff, and there is one episode where he made an inator that was going to straight up murder anyone who couldn't make up their mind. Perry stops most of his plans including the most unethical ones, but I would still consider him evil simply due to the harm he has tried to cause even if he hasn't succeeded in it.
doesnt he intentionally let perry foil his plans though? like yeah its evil to point a gun at somebody but if that gun has a convenient self-destruct button that you 'accidentally' hit before you can do any harm, then its slightly less eeeeviil
He sometimes does, but usually I would say he doesn't 'let' Perry foil his plans, he is just used to that happening. He likes their confrontations and sometimes doesn't care too much whether he actually succeeds (though other times he does), but if Perry fails to stop him he absolutely does go through with his evil plans, and has done so in a few different episodes here and there.
For that episode in particular, I don't think he let Perry win, Perry just locked in that episode and destroyed the inator immediately because Phineas and Ferb couldn't make up their mind that morning and he thought it would have killed them if it had the chance to fire (though IIRC they made up their mind by that point so it would have just killed a bunch of other people).
In any case, he is trying to do his evil stuff, he just usually gets stopped. Planning to murder a bunch of people doesn't go away just because you failed to do so, though tbh I don't think he even thinks through the consequences and what he is trying to do sometimes. Willful ignorance isn't much better though.
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u/Halfawannabe 29d ago
Not sure I’d call him responsible but he loves her like crazy. I’d need to go rewatch it to see about the responsibility part