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Dr. Mindbender was, at one time, an excellent orthodontist and a very kind and honest man. Tinkering with electric brainwave simulation as a means of relieving dental pain, the good doctor made the tragic mistake of experimenting on himself and his personality was drastically altered. He changed into an egotistical, malevolent maniac filled with hatred, deceit, and vanity, devoted to evil and the complete suppression of humanity by electronic mind-control. Dr. Mindbender abandoned his practice and devoted all his time to perfecting his digital brain-scrambling into a hand-portable weapon system capable of reducing the most strong-willed individual into a cowering wimp. In Cobra Commander, Dr. Mindbender found a perfect patron who shares his evil views and has unlimited funds to finance his wildest and most unnatural experiments.
In 1991, Dr. Mindbender
accepted an assignment in Brazil as an Iron Grenadier pilot for Destro's Dominator. Later that same year, there was a falling out between the members of Cobra's hierarchy and Cobra Commander had Dr. Mindbender buried in a tanker deep beneath a volcano on Cobra Island as a means of execution. After bionically enhancing his badly damaged body with various machine parts, Dr. Mindbender barely escaped with his life. He eventually again proved himself worthy of Cobra Commander and re-enlisted as a member of Cobra's hierarchy. Dr. Mindbender's bionic enhancements appear have been temporary or upgraded cosmetically as he has not been seen with them since 1993.
Meticulous and fussy, Dr. Mindbender is the type of person who eats pizza with a knife and fork. He has been known to participate in battles, but prefers to manipulate events from behind the scenes, preferably inside a bulletproof bunker.
From Dr. Mindbender's personal journal: "All these people running around willy-nilly, having their own opinions, and making up their own minds! It's hideously chaotic and totally unacceptable!"
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