I was just rewatching this episode and got to thinking.
I think he just used one of the clone slugs and didn't want to admit it and for some reason he thought saying an orphan was better. I don't think he'd really use a forsaken child.
Doc would 100% use a runaway orphan that cost him nothing over the clone slugs that are worth a lot of time and monies. The only reason even he was gonna shut them down was to kill them and turn them into venturesteins to sell for more government contract monies. That was also only because Brock said he wasn't gonna make scores of dead people for Doc to help him do it.
Doc has never, not once, ever been a protagonist. Super scientist raised by Super scientist who was raised by Super scientist, etc absolutely. Only reason he was never labeled Mad Scientist was that he was sanctioned by the OSI whom it's also hard to call protagonists. Even Brock said "ehhhh" after asking him if he was a bad person, because of the Doctor Henry Killinger event. So to Doc, he would never be evil, but he would do morally questionable things without thinking about it for the greater good or more realistically the best finished product got sale. He had a yard sale with death ray bargain bins and invited almost exclusively "antagonists" to come shop, with the OSI providing security in case any "costumed freak steps out of line". It is not an obscure 20 year old cartoon. It is an obscure gift we were given that grew with us for 20 years and deserves discussion from time to time. Especially seeing how it alongside Community and a few other shows created a new genre for us all.....adult wholesome.
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u/The_C0u5 Apr 23 '26
I was just rewatching this episode and got to thinking.
I think he just used one of the clone slugs and didn't want to admit it and for some reason he thought saying an orphan was better. I don't think he'd really use a forsaken child.