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Dr. James Robert Boycott is one of the three main antagonists (alongside Digby Driver and William Harbottle) of the 1977 Richard Adams novel The Plague Dogs as well as its 1982 animated film adaptation by Martin Rosen. He is the chief scientist of an animal testing facility known as A.R.S.E., where he tortures animals in the name of science, including two dogs named Rowf and Snitter.
He was voiced by the late Nigel Hawthorne.
What Makes Him A Hate Sink?[]
- He tortures animals just for pointless experiments. In particular, he repeatedly drowns Rowf just so he can measure his endurance throughout his entire life. Even worse, he experiments on animals solely to satisfy his scientific curiosity, rather than to solve or discover any useful information beneficial to society.
- He also had his assistants perform numerous surgical experiments on Snitter's brain by merging his conscious and subconscious mind to find out of the results would have similar effects to the titular character from Pincher Martin by William Golding, which leaves Snitter to have many hallucinations, often at the sight of his master, and occasionally have seizures.
- He treats his subordinate, Stephen Powell very poorly, such as occasionally mocking him for being an unprofessional scientist, due to being immature and "emotional", which he claims has no place in science.
- He used a baby monkey for a needlessly cruel experiment which involved the monkey being left in a metal cylinder as part of an isolation and deprivation experiment.
- When being asked by the locals in the Lake District on whether or not Rowf and Snitter were owned by the research station, he tried to shift the blame by denying any awareness of the dogs' escape, hoping the two dogs would eventually die and being completely indifferent to the destruction they are causing to the local farmers and shopkeepers.
- He hires a bounty hunter named Ackland to exterminate Rowf and Snitter in the film.
- In the book, he stated that he would have killed Snitter had the police captured him and brought him back to the research station.
Trivia[]
- Dr. Boycott's experiment of confining a monkey in an isolation chamber is inspired by Harry Harlow's Pit of Despair experiment.
External Links[]
- Dr. Boycott on the Villains Wiki.
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