| “ | Stop now? Preposterous. We're about to create something above the gods...! | „ |
| ~ The Roach Scientists' notes, rebuking their colleagues' pleas to stop. |
| “ | Orange roach: It's a failure. Yet another one... Yellow roach: Disgusting. If it keeps up like this, our research... Orange roach: Sigh. Throw it out with the others. We should call it a day. |
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| ~ The Roach Scientists' video recording, where they dispose the cordyceps that would become Leif. |
The nameless Roach Scientists are the overaching antagonists of Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling, serving as the posthumous main antagonists of the sidequest "Leif's Request". Despite being long dead before the game's events, they were behind the horrible experiments in Upper Snakemouth and Leif's troubled backstory.
What Made Them Pure Evil?[]
- They kidnapped numerous bugs in Bugaria and tortured them by exposing them to cordyceps, an extremely dangerous fungus species to bugs that is known to kill and zombify them as part of its life cycle.
- When a bundle of cordyceps (which would later become Leif) obtained sapience and the capacity of free will, they coldly deemed it a failure and tossed it in the garbage.
- When one of their colleagues (whether or not said colleague is the third scientist is not made explicitly clear) suggested, or possibly even begged, that they should stop the experiment, they shrugged off their concerns as preposterous, arrogantly claiming that they are about to create something above the gods.
- Turned a moth into a mutated monster.
- Although they were killed off by one of their creations, Zommoth, they completely deserved it as they tortured and experimented on many innocent bugs they kidnapped.
- Even if they get along, both scientists barely seem to care about each other's wellbeing.
- While the Wasp King has a tragic past (although it doesn't justify his actions) and has an "evil is cool" vibe, the Roach Scientists have no excuse for anything they did and were even reviled for their actions by other roaches, including the unseen third member.
- While most of the things they did were off-screen, they still count as Pure Evil as their actions have a story impact as the experiments they made where shown in the game.
Trivia[]
- The Roach Scientists and the Wasp King are the only villains in Bug Fables to be Pure Evil.
- While the two head scientists are Pure Evil, there is a third scientist; a roach with brown skin, a black carapace, and glasses, who does not appear in the last video recording. In the recording where he appears, the third scientist seemingly implies that he genuinely felt guilty and remorseful for the actions he and his coworkers caused, and therefore is not Pure Evil, unlike the other two.
External Links[]
- The Roach Scientists on the Villains Wiki
- The Roach Scientists on the Bug Fables Wiki