Doctor Lieter Greenbox
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| Image:Greenbox.jpg | |
| Dr. Lieter Greenbox | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Vehicle | Jeep |
| Color | Orange |
| Hair | Brown |
| Eyes | Brown |
| First appearance | Chaos in Crystal |
| Voice actor | Robert Patrick (in Chaos in Crystal) Nick Chinlund (in Unlikely Alloys) |
Dr. Lieter Greenbox is a fictional anthropomorphic cat created for the animated television series Swat Kats. He is a young and ultimately misguided inventor who becomes a villain his second appearance. He first appears in the episode Chaos in Crystal, where he is voiced by Robert Patrick, and then appears in the final episode of the series, Unlikely Alloys, now voiced by Nick Chinlund.
According to Mark Lungo's Animato! article on the series, Greenbox was originally conceived by writer Lance Falk as the main villain of the episode Destructive Nature. In Falk's original story, Greenbox is an insane half cat, half plant botanist who creates the Plantimals and used them to take over Megakat Tower. However, a Hanna-Barbera executive suggested they re-use Dr. Viper for the episode. Taking his advice, Falk rewrote Destructive Nature into its current form.
[edit] As Misguided Inventor
Dr. Greenbox is hired by Warden Cyrus Meece to invent the Gemkat 6000, as a way of speeding up the production of the gems that funded Megakat Maximum Security Prison. Because the device is flawed, it turns its operator Rex Shard into a crystalline cat with a deadly crystalizing touch.
After Warden Meece, Greenbox is Shard's next intended victim of revenge, but the Swat Kats keep Shard busy long enough for Greenbox to escape back to Gemkat Labs along with Callie Briggs after they'd retrieved the Gemkat 6000 from the mines. Greenbox attempted to rewire the device, but is interrupted before he could finish by Callie's news that Shard is coming right for them. They attempt to flee, but Greenbox is grabbed by Shard and turned into crystal.
This leaves the rewiring of the Gemkat 6000 up to Razor, and Greenbox is eventually turned back to normal along with everything else Shard had crystallized.
[edit] As Villain
Some time after the incident with Rex Shard, Greenbox has moved to a new laboratory within the limits of Megakat City. Here he has begun working on a new invention which he calls the Micro-Brain Repair Unit. He hopes it will become a revolution in home appliances. After finally completing the device, he appears on a special Spotlight on Science segment of Kat's Eye News with Tab Mouser, a segment that is caught by Mac Mange.
The Metallikats had recently come away from a botched attempt at robbing the Megakat City Mint, Mac with a lost hand and Molly in even worse shape, not even conscious. Realizing that the Micro-Brain Repair Unit is capable of fixing himself and his wife, Mac promptly breaks into Greenbox's lab and steals it.
In using the device, the Metallikats somehow contaminate its programming with their criminal personalities. Naming itself Zed, it begins to rampage through Megakat City, assimilating all it can onto itself (including Mac Mange!). Joining forces with the Swat Kats and Molly Mange to stop Zed, Greenbox hastily builds a special device capable of instantly changing Zed's programming.
Unfortunately, while touring the interior of Zed's massive body, the inventor becomes so amazed at what his genius has created that he goes insane, joining with his creation, and destroying the reprogramming device. Completely off his rocker, Greenbox orders Zed to steal the Mega-Beam from Puma-Dyne and use it to destroy Megakat City.
Zed does so, but before he can fire the laser into the city, T-Bone breaks the connection between Greenbox and his creation. The stress of the separation causes Greenbox to lose consciousness, and he is carried to safety by the Swat Kats as Zed's massive body collapses. Greenbox seems to be okay afterward, so it is unknown if the vigilantes turn him over to The Enforcers or merely decide to keep his brief psychotic episode secret between the three of them.
