Professor Scarper
Professor Irving Scarper was an expert geneticist and mad scientist from the Prime Universe.
He was a member of the First Horde, a malevolent secret society which sought world domination via salvaged Atlantean technology. Scarper began researching mutagens capable of altering animals' biology to give them human intellects, as well as a variety of other qualities, hoping to give the Horde a cheap alternative to abducting and brainwashing people as a method to boost its numbers. Among his early successes were the intelligent dromedaries who would later make up the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries, whom the First Horde used to maintain its archives. However, the Horde's budget eventually fell to the degree that they had to let go of Scarper himself, as well as many other members.
After being fired, Scarper continued his experiments on his own, creating many more sets of sentient, strangely-colored animals. Because he was still using the mutagen he'd developed with the Horde, the experiments gained the same compulsion to mimic the First Horde's modus operandi that was typical of the people the Horde had let go and faultily un-brainwashed, leading to many of the mutants creating their own Strangely-Colored Secret Societies alongside the ones formed by human ex-members of the Horde. Among the products of Scarper's experiments were the Gang of the Green Gorilla, the Mob of the Maroon Magpie, the Horde of Mad Elephants, and the Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles. (PROSE: The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies)
