Full Name: Dr. Reginald Bushroot
Age: Who can tell?
Occupation: he says he's a plant manager (corny, eh?), botanist, DW’s foe
Voice: Tino Insana
As opposed to other villains, Bushroot is not evil. In fact, he is almost benevolent.
Dr. Bushroot had a hard past. Even when he was a normal duck, he was a social outcast and was considered to be a lunatic. While trying to end world hunger (ooh, real cold-hearted), he discovered a way to combine certain traits of plants with ducks so that they may be able to use photosynthesis. No one would volunteer to try it, so he used himself as a guinea pig.
The operation got way out of control, and the poor guy was mutated into a half, duck half Lyceum Nycanthropus creature. Now, no one but his co-worker, Dr. Rhoda Dendron, would associate with him. He kidnapped her and tried to mutate her, as well. DW inevitably saved her. This is practically the only thing Bushy ever did that was against the law, outside of the Fearsome Five. Unless, of course, you count creating a vampire potato bride or any of his other attempts at making a friend (pun intended).
So, in other words, Bushy is just misunderstood. Relatively all of his crimes were side effects of his attempts to create a friend or mate. Granted, he did try to wreck Christmas once when one too many people screamed and ran upon seeing him. And he did grow counterfeit money once, however it was so he could buy food and necessities for his rather large plant family. Despite all of this, the police and other “good guys” consider him to be a dangerous criminal, largely by associating him with the Fearsome Five.
He really is a coward. Don’t believe me? You haven’t seen “Justice Ducks” enough. In the hotel scene where they're beating up on DW, who’s that over there yelling “Kill Negaduck, kill Negaduck!” off to the side as the others are heard struggling off screen? None other than Dr. Reginald Bushroot. Come to think of it, he came up with the idea in the first place. If you pay attention to other episodes, you’ll notice that he tries to avoid hand to hand combat at any cost. He always gets a tree or a vine to do the dirty work. And if he does get involved in a fight, poor Bushy. He has been "put out", trampled, run through a mulcher, and mowed down.
Bushy is a green, leafy looking duck with brown lower torso and legs (roots), orange beak, and a full head of magenta to purple leaves with three pollen things. His eyes are kind of turquoise in colour.
Trivia:
~His vampire potato was named Posie.
~He can regenerate body parts (or his whole body).
~He seemed to already know Morgana when they first met in “Justice Ducks”.
~Tried to get away from DW by hiding in the back of a police car.
Quotes:
~ “Not bad for a mutated research scientist, eh?”
~ “Oh, look. I’m shaking like a leaf.”
~ “I’m really not sinister, just misunderstood.”
~ "I found the way to obtain the perfect bride! I'm growing my own."
~"Hey! I may be a mutant plant duck, sure! But I'm an Earth mutant plant duck."
~"All I ever wanted to do was make the earth a better place to live, Now look at me! I'm a walking salad bar!"
This Graphical Gardener was created by John Renard.
