The Botanist

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 * RealName               = Professor Phineas P. Pines
 * CurrentAlias           = The Botanist
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 * Aliases                = Floros, the Fungus Fiend, the Highest Prodigy of All Things Plant, the Plant Man, Plantman, the Plant Master, the Prince of the Plants, the Plant Prince, the Forest, the Jungle
 * Identity               = Known only to certain individuals, government officials, and federal officials
 * Alignment              = Evil
 * Affiliation            = The Anti-Animal Alliance, father of the "Seedlings" (partnership with Seed and Spore); Former partnership with offspring Pollen; former partnership with the Veterinarian; former member of the Minions of Malevolence


 * Relatives              = Seed ("offspring"), Pollen ("offspring"), Spore ("offspring"); unnamed father (presumed deceased); Floros (spiritual ancestor, deceased), Gaia (Mother Nature, "creator"); considers all plants, trees, flowers, fungi, algae, and vegetation to be his bretheren
 * Universe               = Earth-11190 (The Maximum Universe)
 * BaseOfOperations       = The Greenhouse

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 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = Variable
 * Weight                 = Variable
 * Eyes                   = Black w/ green pupils
 * Hair                   = Brown (wooden spiked mohawk)
 * UnusualFeatures        = The Botanist possesses a venus flytrap-esque "mustache" on his upper lip, seven wooden spiked mohawks adorning his head, vines composing his neck and limbs,
 * Citizenship            = Former citizen of the United States with a criminal record
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = God, ruler, creator, and protector of the plant, fungi, and algae kingdoms, would-be world conqueror, botanist, highest prodigy of all things plant, fungi, and algae; former horticulturist, floriculturist, gardener, professor at Yale University
 * Education              = Doctorates in all fields of botany, plant sciences, floriculture, horticulture, etc.


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 * PlaceOfBirth           = San Francisco, California
 * Creators               = Bradley A. Dotson
 * First                  = The Zoologist, King of the Animals #1 (First appearance of Prof. Phineas P. Pines); The Zoologist, King of the Animals #7 (First appearance of the Botanist)

The evil amalgamation of the jealous plant god Floros and the insane botanist Professor Phineas P. Pines, the Botanist is the Highest Prodigy on All Things Plant, master of all plants, fungi, and algae, and the Zoologist's greatest, baddest, and deadliest archnemesis. Possesses complete and total mastery over the entire plant, fungi, and algae kingdoms. Devoid of any morality towards humans or any animals, the Botanist stops at nothing in his attempts to destroy the Zoologist in any way, along with the entire animal kingdom. His ultimate goal is to destroy Mother Nature and take over all the natural world in order to make the universe a better place for all plants, fungi, and algae. He resides within the Greenhouse, an underground plant paradise with its own artificial sun and virtually every species of plant, fungi, and algae residing there. Leader and founder of the Anti-Animal Alliance, creator of the Animal Assassin, "father" of his "Seedlings", and member of the Dark Overlord's Minions of Malevolence.
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The Beginning of the Plant Kingdom
Exactly 3.7 billion years ago, when the Earth was still very young, its creator Gaia, also known as Mother Nature, gave birth to two sons, who became the first two actual living organisms. She named the two Floros and Faunos. They were granted incredible power and made gods, creators, and protectors of the universe’s life. While Floros would create, protect, and rule over the plants, fungi, and algae of the universe, Faunos created, protected, and ruled over the animals, bacteria, and protozoa of the universe. As millions of years passed, the two watched as their creations evolved from single-celled organisms to wondrous, incredible organisms of complexity and beauty.

However, the plant god, Floros, soon began to grow weary of constantly being forced to create what Mother Nature directed him to create and soon began plotting of rebellion. When he asked Faunos to join him in the rebellion, however, Faunos staunchly refused and subsequently told Mother Nature. Mother Nature, enraged, punished Floros by placing him on the moon. Floros then began plotting to take revenge on Faunos by commanding his “children” to attack any animal on sight. As they did as he commanded, many animals were killed, eventually causing the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Faunos, outraged in return by this affront, commanded all animals to attack the plants, even though Mother Nature ordered him to stand down. Eventually, a war began between the two kingdoms, ending only when Mother Nature quelled the fighting by destroying the two gods bodies and absorbing their life forces and encasing them in separated gems, green for Floros, red for Faunos. She then placed them into two separate caves, opposite to one another, in what would become South America, leaving them there for all of eternity while she continued to let the two kingdoms evolve in peace.

Professor Phineas P. Pines, the Highest Prodigy of All Things Plant
Many millions of years later, however, Professor Phineas P. Pines is born at the beginning of the 20th century. Born with a green thumb, Phineas developed a love for all plants, flowers, trees, vegetables, fungi, and algae and wished to learn everything he could about them. Reading everything about plants and the like, Phineas sometimes wished he was as handsome as a rose or as strong as a sequoia. However, his abusive father considered him a pathetic excuse for a son, and thought his love for flowers and nature was obscene. Shaking off his father’s words, as well as his beatings, he obtained doctorates in all fields of plant sciences and quickly became a respected member of the botanical community and a professor of botany, at Yale University. However, that was before being kicked out for his dangerous experiments in attempts to animate plants which damaged half the premises and killed over twenty students.

A wealthy individual but deep-rooted in an inferiority complex and a severe jealously streak, Phineas was constantly at odds with fellow scientist and renowned zoologist Dr. Alan Douglas, whom he had known since middle school. Completely jealous of Alan’s fame, wealth, and happiness, as well as completely consumed by hatred against animals, Phineas hated Alan with great intensity, which continued to grow for years. This reached a whole new level when he learned that his high school crush, Alexandria Dawson, was engaged to Alan. Pushed to the brink of insanity, Phineas was determined to make Alan suffer. Devising a plot to win Alexandria over and kill Alan in the process, Phineas offered Alan and Alexandria an all-expense paid study and vacation in the Amazon rainforest of South America. Thrilled by the offer, Alan and Alexandria accepted, much to Phineas’ pleasure. In the rainforest, Phineas began his tour of South America, determined to kill Alan in the process by losing him in the jungle.

A Weed is Planted
Later that day, a heavy storm began to batter the rainforest, and Phineas began to lead Alexandria away from Alan, who was busy observing birds. Alexandria wished to find Alan but Phineas assured her that Alan would be fine (while secretly hoping he wouldn’t be). Returning to camp, Alexandria and Phineas were unaware of where Alan was located, and after the storm was over, Alexandria was determined to find him. Phineas, however, led her astray by continuing his tour, assuring her they would probably run into Alan in the process. However, that changed when they stumbled upon a large temple. Asking Alexandria to wait outside, in case there was any danger, Phineas entered the temple. Inside, the room was vast, but empty, covered entirely in massive vines, all except for a lone podium that had a brilliant-looking green gem. Awed by its beauty and seemingly forced to touch it, a strange form of green radiation bombarded him, and he slowly began to transform. His body became green and plantlike and his body, mind, and spirit became one with the plant kingdom and he began to realize that he was to be king of the plants, and the king of the world. Insanity filled his every thought. Alexandria came to see what happened and was shocked to see Phineas transformed. He immediately realized what he could do, albeit insane, and transformed into a cactus humanoid to attack Alexandria, believing now that humans, being animals, were unfit to live in the new world he was going to create. Alan, meanwhile, having transformed before into an Animal Man in another temple nearby, heard Alexandria scream and saw the other temple. He found Alexandria being attacked by Phineas, and Alan slowly began to realize what has happened. Phineas, who was shocked and angry to see Alan alive, attacked him. Alan, however, had also found an artifact just like Phineas’ and was transformed into the king of the animal kingdom and Phineas fought a savage battle which ended when Alan transformed into an amoeba and entering Phineas's body, and then becoming a blue whale.

A Menace for All Animal-Kind
After the fight was over, Alan looked for Alexandria, who had seemingly disappeared. He found her, lying on the ground, dead. Alan was confused and tried to wake her up but no use. She was found to have a poisonous barb lodged in her throat. Phineas had killed her. Enraged, he left the temple and ran off into the wild, vowing never to return to humanity or civilization again. However, the tale of Professor Phineas P. Pines was far from over. In fact, it had just begun. Several decades passed as Pines’ body regenerated from the massive damage that had occurred, all the while Phineas’ consciousness plotting and planning, learning more about his powers and planning ways to destroy Alan once and for all. By the present day, his body was restored and the Professor was free.

Quickly seeking out Alan, he utilized his incredible powers to make mental contact with all the plants and vegetation on the entire planet to search for him. Eventually, he found Alan in Canada, and that he had a little lady friend, Ms. Chelsea Rose with him. Determined to make Alan lose everything, he commanded the vegetation surrounding their resting place to kidnap Chelsea and bring her to him. After succeeding in doing so, he telepathically contacted Alan and jeered him into returning to civilization for a final showdown. Alan, hesitant at first, realized he had no choice, with his loved one’s life in danger.

The Conquest of the Botanist
Phineas, meanwhile, met with Chelsea and his plant minions and ventured to Manhattan, where he began creating a true urban jungle. Deciding to call himself the Botanist in response to learning of Alan calling himself the Zoologist, he devastated the island, laying waste to its citizens and its architecture. He was close to completing his nightmarish forest when he was abruptly halted by the Zoologist, who surprised him in a devastating assault as he sought to free his girlfriend and stop him. The Botanist, however, after a lengthy battle, decided to use Chelsea as a literal human shield and outmaneuver him enough to escape into the sewer systems and travel towards Central Park. By the time the Zoologist could track him down, the Botanist had already done the unthinkable: he had transformed Chelsea into a plant-human hybrid. The transformation was killing her and the Zoologist could do nothing about it.

The Zoologist, outraged, attempted to kill the Botanist, but to no avail, as the Botanist had planned for the two to face off at high noon, when the sun was brightest and he was at his most powerful. Brutally and mercilessly beating the Zoologist, the Botanist gloated as he incapacitated the Zoologist in an onslaught of ensnaring vines. Preparing to impale the Zoologist’s entire body with razor-sharp thorns, he was halted when the Zoologist realized that the sun was making him so powerful. Summoning the entire Earth’s insect populations, he commanded the insects to cover the sky and block out the Sun. Now with astonishingly decreased power, the Botanist was easily defeated by the Zoologist. However, even in a moment of utmost ferocity, the Zoologist did not kill his archnemesis. Instead, he imprisoned him in a sewer pipe completely devoid of sunlight and left him to rot there.

His Royalty's Alliance
However, the Zoologist did not know of the Botanist’s own evolving capabilities, who turned into a fungus to slowly escape his imprisonment. Following the Zoologist for many months afterwards, making sure he was unaware of his presence by molding with the green Earth around the Zoologist, the Botanist was astonished to see him with Chelsea, who was alive and well and had been seemingly transformed into an animal woman, like Alan, and now calling herself Specia. After watching the Zoologist’s battle against the machinations of the Veterinarian and the Poacher, the Botanist offered his services to help the Veterinarian fulfill his life-long dreams of becoming an animal man while the Poacher was sent to capture the PsuedoZoologist, whom the Vet created. Succeeding in doing so, the three enemies decided to create an alliance to defeat the Zoologist in order to fulfill their goals, and became the Anti-Animal Alliance.

Realizing the power of the family, the Botanist knew he could never fight them alone. Therefore, he spawned two sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Seed, would have mastery over plants; Spore would have mastery over fungus; and Pollen would have mastery over algae. Now confident that he would succeed, he sent his children to distract the Zoologist and Specia while he set off to once again kidnap Chimera.

As the Highest Prodigy of All Things Plant, the Botanist possesses a physical, mental, biological, and spiritual connection to the every species of plant, tree, and/or flower in the entire plant kingdom, granting him complete and total mastery and control over all species and forms of plant and vegetation. However, his power also extends into the fungi and part of the protist kingdoms, allowing complete and total mastery and control over all forms of algae and fungi. He possesses all plant, vegetation, fungi, algae, and wood-based powers and abilities, making him one of the most powerful beings in existence.
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 * Superhuman, Plant-Like Physiology: The Botanist possesses an incredibly superhuman, plant-like physiology, thanks to his physical, mental, and spiritual connection to the entire plant kingdom. He can increase or decrease any or all physical characteristics and strengths of his physiology far beyond his normal limits by granting himself the combined, possibly even proportional power of any plant, flower, tree, algae, fungi, etc. that he chooses, as well as by absorbing sunlight/solar energy through photosynthesis (although he also needs sunlight to survive and grows weak in dark places) and water. He possesses no true internal organs, and no longer possesses a true human brain, instead having a mycelium that retains his original human intellect and personality (albeit greatly enhanced, as well as insane). He also breathes carbon-dioxide instead of oxygen.
 * Superhuman Strength: The Botanist possesses phenomenal superhuman strength rivaling the likes of the Zoologist, thanks to possessing the strength of the entire plant, algae, and fungi kingdoms, enabling him to lift (press) over 100 tons under standard conditions. During the daytime, especially at noon when the sun is brightest and giving off the most energy, the Botanist’s strength grows exponentially, lifting well over 200 tons easily, while at night or in dark or cloudy conditions, he is exponentially weaker, able to lift only up to 50 tons at peak conditions.


 * Superhuman Stamina: The Botanist no longer possesses the muscular, circulatory, or skeletal systems of animals, and no longer generates fatigue cells, enabling him to exert himself at his peak capacity for indefinite amounts of time without succumbing to the effects of fatigue whatsoever, especially after absorbing enough sunlight and water.


 * Superhuman Durability: Since his transformation, The Botanist appears to be completely devoid of circulatory systems, a nervous system, or internal organs, and as such is incredibly durable, able to withstand incredible amounts of pain, small firearms, severe lacerations, penetration wounds, exposure, drowning and suffocation, electrocution, and even minor explosions.


 * Superhuman Speed: The Botanist possesses incredibly enhanced speed, able to move at speeds up to 350 miles per hour under standard conditions.


 * Superhuman Reflexes: The Botanist also possesses incredible, lightning-fast reflexes.


 * Superhuman Agility: The Botanist possesses superhuman agility, enabling him to perform virtually any type of complicated gymnastic maneuvers.


 * Superhuman Equilibrium: The Botanist possesses a superhuman sense of balance, coordination, and equilibrium, enabling him to balance on virtually any surface anywhere in any position imaginable.


 * Accelerated Healing Factor: He is able to regenerate damaged or destroyed areas of his anatomy with far greater efficiency than an ordinary human. Originally, the speed of the Botanist's regeneration factor was in proportion to the wound's severity; for example, he could fully recover from an ordinary gunshot wound within minutes. However, the Botanist's regeneration ability has dramatically increased in recent years due to his evolutionary powers. The Botanist can fully heal from injuries that result in massive tissue damage or loss such as multiple gunshot wounds, slashes, puncture wounds, and blunt force trauma within a matter of moments. The Botanist's natural and accelerated regeneration affords him a virtual immunity to drugs and diseases. In addition, The Botanist's regeneration factor provides him with a greatly extended lifespan by virtually halting the effects of the aging process.


 * Botanomorph: The Botanist’s main power is the superhuman ability to alter his body's genetic code, DNA, and atomic structure at the subatomic, cellular, and molecular levels and reshape and reconfigure them in order to transform into any plant, fungi, algae, tree, flower, or form of vegetation imaginable. He appears able to transform into any plant, fungi, algae, tree, flower, or form of vegetation that he can imagine or visualize within his mind, including those that are living, extinct, real, imagined (by himself or otherwise), fictional, futuristic, extraterrestrial, extradimensional, magical, mystical, mythological, microscopic, supernatural, monstrous, demonic, and even humanoid species. He is so skilled, he is able to become any individual specimen of any plant, fungi, algae, tree, flower, or form of vegetation exactly, and he is even capable of transforming into an entire living forest or jungle.


 * There appears to be no limit to how long the Botanist can remain in any of his forms, as well as no strain on becoming the largest or smallest of forms or instantaneously changing between different forms. He possesses the superhuman ability to mentally alter his mass and weight to that of any form he transforms into, gaining or depleting it from an unknown source. When he is in any of these forms, he retains his full intelligence, mind, memories, personality, mobility, and his ability to speak. Also, while in any of these forms, he is fully capable of utilizing any of the form's powers, abilities, physiology, and defenses.


 * The Botanist is able to transform any part of his body into any part of any form of plant, fungi, algae, tree, flower, or form of vegetation, while keeping the rest of his body human. If he were to gain an appendage that has some sort of ability, like the arm of a saguaro cactus, he would gain all the parts necessary to utilize the ability, as well as the proper body structure and enhancements needed to utilize the ability in some way. He is also able to metamorphesize into transitional stages between any form of plant, fungi, algae, tree, flower, or vegetation and his human form. His strength and powers varies in his different forms, as he is able to control how much plant or human he becomes. He is so precise, that he is able to morph certain parts of any form of plant, fungi, algae, tree, flower, or vegetation with other parts to create an entirely new species. Thanks to his superhuman intellect on all things plant, the Botanist can transform into things that are beyond physical or mental description.


 * Transmutation - Wood: The Botanist possesses the superhuman ability to transform any part of his body into wood. Although this wood seems more durable and impervious than normal wood, he is also able to control it to give him shape-shifting abilities, such as elongating his limbs and forming weapons with his hands. He can project pieces of wood at high velocity at will. The Botanist can also cause a similar transformation in others-- transforming them into replicas of himself (without the shape-shifting abilities) under his direct control.


 * Elongation: The Botanist possesses the superhuman ability to stretch and elongate all or any parts of his body at will by constantly growing vines from his body at command. He can contort his body into various positions and sizes impossible for ordinary humans, such as being entirely flat so that he can slip under a door, or using his fingers to pick conventional locks. He can entangle opponents in his limbs and bodies at will and even create objects utilized for containment from his body, such as a cage or net. He can also use it for disguise by changing the shape of his face. As the Botanist can alter his bodily mass and physical constitution at will, there is virtually no limit to the sizes and shapes he can contort himself into. There is no known limit to how far he can stretch his body.

The Botanist also possesses the ability to transform another plant, fungi, algae, or form of vegetation into any other he wishes by telepathically altering their genetic code and atomic structure on the molecular scale, as well as transitional stages between different plants and even transform other objects and beings into wood. He is also able to utilize this power on humans (except extremely powerful shapeshifters), as he is part human. However, such drastic transformations often prove too much for the human body to handle, and are usually fatal to the victim.


 * Botanomimicry: The Zoologist possesses the ability to mimic the powers, abilities, adaptations, and defenses of any form of plant, fungi, algae, tree, flower, or vegetation imaginable, whilst in human form. He achieves this by simply focusing on any or all of a specific plant’s abilities. He can also mentally choose the powers, abilities, adaptations, and defenses of several different plants, fungi, or algae and combine them to make him incredibly powerful. He is so masterful that he is able to utilize any form of plant, fungi, tree, or algae’s power in the form of any form of plant, fungi, algae, tree, flower, or vegetation imaginable. He can also utilize this ability to grant himself any superhuman power imaginable by imagining a plant completely from his imagination and grant it the power he desires, and then mimic said plant’s power.


 * Botanopathy: The Botanist possesses an extraordinary variety of incredibly powerful mental abilities, all, of course, revolving around his mental and spiritual link to every species of plant, fungi, and algae in existence:
 * Omniscience - Plant: The Botanist's mind has been psychologically altered to become a virtual plant kingdom database, enabling him to gather full information about anything about any plant, fungi, and algae imaginable almost instantaneously. The Botanist possesses complete knowledge on everything there is to know about any and every species of plant, fungi, and algae, living, extinct, real, imagined (by himself or otherwise), fictional, extraterrestrial, extradimensional, futuristic, mystical, mythological, supernatural, cryptic, demonic, monstrous, humanoid, etc.


 * Botanopathy: The Botanist possesses the telepathic ability to communicate with any form, species, and/or speciman of plant, tree, flower, vegetation, algae, and/or fungi on a universal level.


 * Botanokinesis: The Botanist possesses the telepathic and telekinetic ability to control and command any form of plant, tree, flower, vegetation, algae, and/or fungi, from microscopic to vast in size, on the earth or beneath the waves, to do whatever he wishes. He is so masterful, he can manipulate the microscopic algae inside of a person's body and use it to attack them from the inside out.


 * Plant Growth Stimulation: Pines can stimulate the growth of any individual species of plant organism or entire forests/jungles. He possesses the power to create the seed of any form of plant, fungi, and/or algae, and stimulate the growth processes of the seed for a variety of purposes.


 * Plant Animation: The Botanist possesses the ability to animate virtually any form of plant, tree, flower, vegetation, algae, or fungi, granting them mobility, sentience, etc. He combines this ability with his stimulation ability to create vast armies of monstrous plant creatures, such as gigantic, superhumanly strong and durable tree men, cactus humanoids capable of projecting razor-sharp spikes, venus-fly trap monsters with razor-sharp teeth and toxic bites, snake-like vines capable of crushing steel, etc. He can convey these communications to others through external sources.


 * Plant Summon: Phineas can summon virtually any form of plant, tree, vegetation, flower, algae, or fungi anywhere he wishes. He can summon vines of any size to ensnare or entangle opponents, large sequoia trees for defense, produce poisonous thorn bushes or cactus for poisoning and cutting enemies, etc.


 * Mind Transferance - Plants: The Botanist can transfer and divide his consciousness among any and all forms of plants, vegetation, flora, algae, and/or fungi anywhere in the universe.


 * Solar Energy Manipulation: The Botanist possesses the superhuman ability to absorb and convert solar energy (sunlight) and convert it into superhuman strength, stamina, durability, endurance, resistance, faster rate of regeneration, speed, agility, etc. When the sun is at its highest peak during the day (at exactly 12:00 p.m.), the Botanist is at his most powerful.
 * Solar Energy Blasts: Similar to the Zoologist's energy blasts he can project when he taps into the animal kingdom's power, the Botanist possesses the ability to channel solar energy through his body and convert it into highly concussive beams of energy. These beams of energy are able to blind others, burn through metal and steel, knock out opponents, etc.


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