Jeremiah Surd
Jeremiah Surd is a male animated character who features in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.
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Biography
Dr. Jeremiah Surd was a male human who came to be a brilliant scientist who went insane and threatened Washinton DC in 1978 with a deadly nerve gas. Based with his two loyal lieutenants Julia and Lorenzo at a ship parked at harbour, Surd's base of operations was infiltrated by Race Bannon who was charged with a team to stop Surd. The confrontation that erupted between the two resulted in a gun fight with Surd being shot as well as being presumed dead. However, Surd was alive but had been paralyzed in his encounter with Bannon and was confined in a wheelchair as he had become quadriplegic. He was moved to the Belle Isle Institute of the Insane for interment. In addition to this, due to his mental state, he was imprisoned in the mental asylum. Years would pass and Surd's original nerve gas attempt was uncovered in Chicago where it threatened to kill thousands along with Benton Quest and Race Bannon. In order to save them, Jonny Quest, Jessie Bannon and Hadji discovered that Surd was alive and offered him a chance to live through the virtual Questworld in exchange for his help in neutralizing the nerve gas threat.
Surd agreed but double crossed the children by hooking up with his former terrorist associates who stole a portable Questworld system which allowed Jeremiah to live through the virtual reality environment. He would plague the Quests and Bannon's on numerous occassions.
Due to his years of experience as a hacker and scientist, Surd began to show increasing control over Questworld and has turned the program against its creators. He has disrupted the Quest teams forays within the virtual environment and had attempted to twist the system to suit his own needs. This is the only means by which he serves as a threat as his disabled nature means that he cannot physically harmful to his enemies. To aid him are his terrorist associates who engage in numerous operations for him.
Dr. Surd quickly hatched several plans, each involving Questworld, to exact revenge upon Race Bannon and the Quest family by association. He first attacked Jonny and Jessie in Questworld while a strike team led by Julia and Lorenzo infiltrated the Quest Compound; Dr. Quest and Race were meanwhile away in Nepal. Hadji was able to save both, and the team then outwitted the strike team at night, repelling the attack. His next plan involved accosting the Quests and Alice Starseer on her visit near the Colorado River to bury her father. He took Dr. Quest, Race, and Alice captive, then used Questworld to establish a link with the alien home planet, which would grant him use of their technology. Jonny, Jessie, Hadji, and a pair of old Native Americans rescued their fathers, but Alice let Surd go as part of her burial ritual. He returned to his ship and plotted to tap into the cetacean Internet with sonic equipment and control the minds of whales for diabolical ends. He succeeded, and terrorized the Quest team off the coast of Hawaii. Race contacted Captain Havell, who torpedoed Surd's boat, forcing him and his team to escape in a helicopter.
At one point, Surd experimented with Questworld in order to transfer his mind into Race Bannon's body but he was discovered and the procedure was reversed.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Jeremiah Surd was an elderly Caucasian man with messy gray hair and a beard. Due to his near-fatal injuries from nearly twenty years earlier, Surd is quadriplegic, requiring an electric wheelchair to move around that he can control with the little motion he has in his fingers. The wheelchair includes a voice box to help him speak and a breathing apparatus.
Surd was ruthless, cruel and extremely dangerous with a burning hatred for the Quest team. Although paralyzed in the real world, he is a great danger in the virtual world of Questworld using it for his own evil purposes.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Jeremiah Surd was created Peter Lawrence and Takashi Masunaga with him being voiced by actor Frank Welker where he featured in the setting of the The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest universe.
Appearances
- The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest:
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