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— Dr. Colosso
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| “ | This is Dr. Colosso. He is as evil as they come. He boos at funerals. |
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— Max about Dr. Colosso
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Dr. Colosso is one of the main characters of the original series, The Thundermans, and its spin-off series, The Thundermans: Undercover.
He is a former supervillain who was turned into a pet bunny by his archenemy Hank. He lives with the Thundermans and is Max's sarcastic pet bunny.
Dr. Colosso is voiced and portrayed by Dana Snyder.
Biography
Dr. Colosso was born and raised in Metroburg. He became a powerful supervillain by creating dangerous gadgets but was eventually stopped by Thunder Man.
Despite being defeated and turned into a bunny, Dr. Colosso did not abandon his evil ways. He continues to consider himself a supervillain. During Max's evil phase, Dr. Colosso quickly became Max's friend and coached him to become a supervillain. He "hates" the rest of the Thundermans and looks for every chance he gets to mock them.
The Thundermans
In Adventures in Supersitting, Dr. Colosso met Nora and Billy for the first time when they went into Max's Lair. Dr. Colosso and Nora scream before he asks to close his cage.
In The Weekend Guest, Dr. Colosso was swallowed by Phoebe's Venus Fly Trap plant but the Thunder Twins saved him.
In Phoebe's a Clone Now, Dr. Colosso taught Max how to make clones of people. When Max figures out how to, he made one of Dr. Colosso and shows it to Phoebe. Max shows Phoebe her clone and claims he made it to work with her work load but actually wanted to use as a way to get into Villain University. When a book falls on Clone Phoebe, Dr. Colosso reminds Max the first role of cloning is not to hit the clones on their head or else they go dumb. He demonstrates by hitting Clone Colosso. This scares Max because the dumb clone Phoebe is more likely to screw things up at the library.
Later on, Barb and Hank send Clone Phoebe and Clone Colosso to Aunt Maggie's Farm but mistakenly sent the real Colosso instead of the clone.
In Pretty Little Choirs, Dr. Colosso got kidnapped by Darcy Wong after she discovered that he could talk. She tortured him to get him talking to prove that the Thundermans was weird but she wasn't successful. In the same episode, he told Nora and Billy that he hates it when they dress him up without letting him choose the costumes.
In Haunted Thundermans, he sneaked into Max's backpack so that he can go to New Orleans with the Thundermans. When the Green Ghoul possessed Phoebe and asked Max to join, Dr. Colosso persuaded Max to accept the offer but Max refused.
In Blue Detective, Dr. Colosso became so jealous of Max and Maddy that he stole one of Max's blue beans and turned Max blue. When they later figured out it was him, he admitted that his only crime was loving Max ... plus all his other actual crimes.
In One Hit Thunder, Hank and Barb asked Nora and Billy to be nice to Dr. Colosso instead of stooping to a supervillain's level. The whole family tried being nice to him but he made their lives miserable. He told them he hates it when they're nice to him. He likes them to mistreat him because he's a supervillain and has nothing else to live for.
Max and Colosso's selfie
In A Hero Is Born, Dr. Colosso was invited to the Villain League headquarters to give the Villain of the Decade speech. After helping deliver baby Chloe, Max agreed to turn Colosso into a human using the Animalizer so that they can go to the Villain League together.
Max and Colosso hanging
In Are You Afraid of the Park?, Dr. Colosso needed to make some money to repay Hank the money he charged to Hank's credit card while playing Candy Squash online. So, he started running an unauthorized cereal business, selling a cereal called "Colosso's." He made enough money to pay the debt and got a surplus. However, his website got shut down by the Federal Bureau of Cereal Investigation. They said the cereal business was illegal and the raisins weren't really raisins. The Thundermans had to pay the fine.
Colosso and Hank
In He Got Game Night, Dr. Colosso helped Max cheat the wheel of prizes so that it will land on a new car during the family game night. But Max turned on him so that he can partner with Allison. Dr. Colosso became jealous of Allison. Phoebe then turned him into a human to be her game night partner. He came in and introduced himself as "Uncle Colosso." Barb and Hank got furious at Phoebe for turning him human but allowed him to continue after realizing that Dr. Colosso and Max weren't going to let each other's team win. Unfortunately, Dr. Colosso quickly brought chaos into the family leading into an epic pillow fight. When Allison left, Barb quickly turned Colosso back into a bunny. Colosso then went outside and started eating away Allison's tires.
Colosso and Dark Mayhem on a video call
Colosso with Candi
In Thundermans: Banished!, Dr. Colosso is still upset that Max chose good over evil. When the Thundermans are sent to Antarctica, he stays behind but soon realizes his new roommate, Candi Falconman, wants to control people in Hiddenville. To stop her, he secretly calls Max and Phoebe for help while pretending to cooperate, and later aids the Thunder Twins by eating away the cotton candy that binds them.
Since Max stopped being evil, Dr. Colosso's life has been tough. In Smells Like Team Spirit, he complains about being fed gross succotash and manipulates gullible Billy into stealing fresh vegetables from others, claiming he planted them. Nora and Chloe help Billy realize he's being tricked, and they scare Colosso by pretending the cops are coming. When he tries to escape, Chloe, dressed as a police officer, catches him.
Without Max, Colosso now has time to speak to his mother. In Max to the Future, he spends most of his time on a call with his mother. He later helps Max to fake crimes to make Max's CrimeCaster look good. Unfortunately, he gets busted by Phoebe when he forgets and takes a call from his mother. In Parks & T-Rex, he even fakes being sick just to trick Max into hanging out with him. Max later finds out and promises to spend more time with him.
Following Allison's breakup with Max in 21 Dump Street, Dr. Colosso stays by Max's side, laying on the couch and eating pizza with him. However, when Molly sees him, she blames Max for mistreating a bunny by feeding him unhealthy food. So, she steals him for the Green Teens Pet Adoption Fair. Colosso is adopted by Principal Bradford, forcing Max and Phoebe to sneak into their school at night and steal him back.
Dr. Colosso, still mad at Max for turning good, seeks revenge on him and Phoebe whenever he can. In Z's All That, he withholds information about the Li'l Z Program, putting them last in rankings. He later helps Nora boost her powers to confront them for replacing her with Billy. In Nowhere to Slide, he sabotages their boys' and girls' nights after being ditched, and in Rhythm n' Shoes, he hacks Phoebe and Cherry's rhythm shoes to ruin Cheyanne's performance, retaliating against Max for taking credit as DJ Colosso.
Colosso's stay at the Thundermans' home is jeopardized in Make it Pop Pop when Pop-Pop Thunderman discovers Max is hiding the supervillain and throws him and Colosso into the Detention Zone. Phoebe attempts a rescue, but it’s Colosso who saves them by revealing the twins are Sergeant Thunder's grandkids. He escapes with Max and Phoebe, who convince their grandfather that Colosso is improving due to their influence, only for Colosso to insult Pop-Pop and get knocked out by him.
Colosso crashing the wedding
Dr. Colosso planned on using the Animalizer on Thunder Man and Electress because they had stopped his wedding at the Oval Office before. He crashed Hank and Barb's wedding and at first, Hank mocked the gadget, claiming that none of Dr. Colosso's inventions really work. Colosso then used the animalizer to turn Barb and Hank into goats and swore that he would never let Hank and Barb have a successful wedding. The Hero League later found a way to turn Hank and Barb back into humans.
After that, Hank went after Dr. Colosso and used the animalizer against him, turning him into a bunny that Max takes care of. Dr. Colosso has been reverted back to human with the Animalizer multiple times, but each time is transformed back to a bunny afterwards.
Max and Colosso hanging
In A Hero Is Born, Max uses the animalizer on Colosso and goes with him to the Villain League Headquarters in Metroburg where Dr. Colosso is to receive a villain award. When they arrive, however, King Crab kicks Dr. Colosso out of the Villain League because hasn't done anything evil in years. Colosso explains he has been busy capturing the son of Thunderman. King Crab thanks him and hangs Max above a vat filled with hungry hermit crabs, slowly lowering him. When Colosso takes out Max's phone for a selfie with King Crab he sees his selfie with Max and gets emotional. He apologizes to Max and tries to help him, but King Crab hangs him next to Max. Finally Phoebe arrives and saves them both. Colosso automatically turns back into a bunny, because Max had set a timer on the animalizer.
In He Got Game Night, Phoebe uses the animalizer and turns Colosso human. He presents himself as Uncle Colosso at the family's game night with the intention to take down Max who had ditched him to team up with Allison. The fight between Max and Uncle Colosso intensifies as they try to take each other out. When the fight gets out of control, Barb turns Uncle Colosso back into a rabbit.
Colosso getting revenge
In Better Off Wed, it is revealed that Dr. Colosso invented the animalizer back in Metroburg and used it to turn Hank and Barb into goats during their wedding. When the Thunder Kids learn the story, they plan to throw their parents a new wedding but Dr. Colosso swears to ruin it again. He jumps into the kitchen counter where the animalizer is kept and turns himself human. He then crashes the fake Phoebe wedding and turns the Thunder Kids into animals. When Barb and Hank arrive at the wedding renewal, he tries to turn them into goats again. They defeat him and turn him back into a bunny. He officiates the wedding.
Colosso with his son, Balfour
The Thundermans Return
Dr. Colosso stayed in the Thundermans' home by himself 3 years after the Thundermans moved out to Metroburg to fight crime as the T-Force.
Dr. Colosso has a party with other animals in the lair and gets startled when Max arrives back in his lair. Max told him that the T-Force got fired by President Kickbutt. When Dr. Colosso listens to the V-Team Theme Song, he notices that the V-Team look familiar and that he was their camp counsellor at Camp Evil Weevil 8 years ago. He tells Max that they are villain kids of Dark Mayhem, King Crab and Strongdor so that he can expose them.
Colosso alone
After the Thundermans stop the supervillains in Metroburg and return to their home in Hiddenville, the movie ends on a cliffhanger with Dr. Colosso talking with someone in Max's Lair on a laptop about a mysterious assignment.
The Thundermans: Undercover
In Thundercover, Dr. Colosso is contacted again by the evil transmission on the Thunder Monitor who told him to sneak with Phoebe, Max and Chloe to Secret Shores. In their Hi-Tech Beach Home, the evil transmission tells him to find the key card to the Hero League weapons fault located in the house and is promised he will be turned human again. Dr. Colosso finds it and the evil transmission lies to him and takes a screenshot of the key card to make a 3D replica. Phoebe and Max find out and Thunderford reveals that Malware was who was contacting Dr. Colosso. When Phoebe, Max and Chloe stop him, Dr. Colosso is put in house arrest for helping him.
Personality
Dr. Colosso, a former supervillain and current prisoner of the Thundermans, remains inherently villainous despite his current rabbit form. He is mischievous, harbors a deep-seated resentment towards the Thundermans, and frequently assists Max with his evil schemes. Due to his unpredictable nature, Dr. Colosso is notoriously untrustworthy, often betraying allies, including Max. His personality is marked by sarcasm and outspokenness, which he employs liberally in most situations.
Beneath the surface, Dr. Colosso exhibits unexpected vulnerability. He can be surprisingly soft and emotional, particularly when seeking Max's approval or attention. He also displays a strong desire to regain his human form and demonstrates a degree of clinginess towards Max in his pursuit of this goal.
Relationships
- Main article: Max and Colosso
- Max is Dr. Colosso's owner and best friend. Before Max turned good, Colosso helped Max embrace evilness. Even though Max chose good, they’re still best friends.
- Both Dr. Colosso and Phoebe thinks poorly of one another and don't like each other at all. Colosso thinks she's annoying and they've been bickering at times.
- Dr. Colosso's former arch-nemesis when they lived in Metroburg.
- Dr. Colosso ruined Hank and Barb's wedding as shown in Better Off Wed and ever since Colosso turned Barb and Hank into goats, the Hero League captured him and Hank decided that Colosso should be changed into a bunny as revenge on what he did to them.
- Colosso has a crush on Barb and wishes to take her away from Hank, even though Barb hates Dr. Colosso.
- Like in He Got Game Night, he was flirting with her when Phoebe turned him back into a human.
- Colosso thinks Billy is gullible as seen in Smells Like Team Spirit and often tricks him to do stuff for him while Colosso finds Nora scary at times.
- Colosso often played games with Chloe, Billy and Nora. and sometimes manipulate them like in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderhome. Nevertheless, Colosso plays dress-up with them as well as.
Abilities
- Genius-Keen Intellect: Dr. Colosso is very intelligent; he often assists Max with his various experiments, and, during his supervillain career, was able to build various advanced gadgets, including the Animalizer and the Dancing Shoes. Dr. Colosso is also a skilled manipulator to the Thundermans throughout the show and he is also an excellent DJ.
- Stealth: Dr. Colosso is incredibly stealthy; he often shows up unexpectedly in various places, with no one noticing until he reveals his presence.
Rabbit Form
Despite being confined to the body of a rabbit, Dr. Colosso retains his human intelligence and speech. While limited by his small stature and lack of thumbs, he strives to maintain a semblance of his former human life. This includes engaging in activities like "playing dress-up" with discarded human clothing and attempting to use computers, albeit with limited success. As a rabbit, he can communicate with other animals, particularly squirrels, and even assisted Barb with the birth of Chloe.
Trivia
- He was formerly one of the strongest supervillains until he was turned into a rabbit by Hank.
- Dr. Colosso was originally going to be all white but was changed to black and white.
- Dr. Colosso gets freaked out by alarms and self-destruct.
- Dr. Colosso loves carrots.
- He has a stuffed animal called Teddy and plays with him when he's alone.
- Dr. Colosso once got eaten by Trevor, a Venus Flytrap plant Max has inadvertently mutated, in The Weekend Guest.
- Dr. Colosso and Max have dance parties privately.
- He wears a lot of fun costumes.
- In the episode, Pretty Little Choirs, he was seen dressed as a princess and it was revealed that he hates playing dress up, except for dressing up as a lifeguard or a firefighter. However, he actually likes to wear costumes, as shown in many future episodes.
- In the episode, Crime After Crime, when Max was grounded after making everyone think he was the neighborhood vandal (as he didn't want anyone to know he couldn't ride a bike), Phoebe went to Max's lair to show him the consequences the Thundermans suffered. Dr. Colosso dressed up as s security guard and guarded the entrance to the lair with an airport x-ray machine.
- Billy and Nora like to dress him up.
- He gives fashion lectures, as mentioned in Come What Mayhem.
- He always had a black circle traced around-the-world style over his left eye.
- In the episode, Paging Dr. Thundermans, Dr. Colosso stated that he is a doctor and operated on a hundred people.
- In A Hero Is Born, Dr. Colosso delivered Chloe.
- He apparently doesn't seem to be good at naming devices, as he gave the Animalizer a long name until Barb suggested a shorter name and he decided to take her suggestion.
- In Blue Detective, it is revealed that Dr. Colosso is jealous of Max's girlfriend, Maddy.
- In A Hero Is Born, Max turns Colosso human and accompanies him to receive the Villain of the Decade award.
- Phoebe turns Dr. Colosso human again in He Got Game Night so that he can partner her during the family game show and takedown Max.
- Colosso sneaks into the cupboard, where the Animalizer is located, to turn himself back to a human to ruin the wedding vow renewal of Hank and Barb in Better Off Wed.
- He was only absent in two episodes: This Looks Like a Job For... and the hour-long special, Thunder in Paradise.
- This makes him the first main character on the show to be absent in an episode. Nora later joins him when she's absent in Can't Hardly Date.
- He and Nora are the only main characters who were absent in the series.
- Dr. Colosso appears in a Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn special, The Wonderful Wizard of Quads where he's being kept hostage by the evil witch as a punishment for using the slide without permission. He gets turned into soup. He was also mentioned (along with Max) in the episode Go Hollywood.
- It’s revealed in Nowhere to Slide that Dr. Colosso is 48 years old.
- Dr. Colosso is similar to Yamakoshi from Pair of Kings, as both villains were turned into an animal that is related to the protagonist and turned human in season 2 of their respective shows.
- In Four Supes and a Baby, Colosso said that he "didn't" have children, but later in The Thunder Games, it was revealed that he has a son named Balfour.
- He, Billy, Nora and Chloe are the only main characters who have not celebrate their birthday in an episode.
- Dr. Colosso is similar to Salem Saberhagen from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, as both were humans turned into animals that is related to the protagonist.
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