- “I am NEVER going to invent you.”
- ―Lewis while defeating DOR-15 causing the latter to become erased from existence.
DOR-15, also known as Doris, is the main antagonist of Disney's 2007 animated feature film Meet the Robinsons. She is a sentient robotic hat who works with the Bowler Hat Guy to have Lewis Robinson ruin his dreams of becoming well-established in the world of science.
Background[]
Invented by Cornelius Robinson as a 'Helping Hat' that would assist wearers in small tasks, Doris soon rebelled against her creators and took control of the test wearer. Cornelius acted quickly to deactivate her and she was placed into a Robinsons Industries storage room for prototypes and failed inventions. She soon reactivated and escaped, meeting Bowler Hat Guy, who was egging and toilet papering the Robinsons Industries building as an attempt at revenge. They discovered they shared the same hatred of Cornelius and decided to team up in an attempt to destroy the future he created by stealing the second Time Machine and presenting Doris to the Inventco board, though Goob made the additional suggestion of stealing the Memory Scanner at the Science Fair as a way to put his foot in the door before presenting Doris as well.
Personality[]
Originally invented as a fashionable personal assistant and headgear, DOR-15 turned out evil, wishing to be the master rather than a helper. After escaping Dr. Robinson's vault of failed inventions, she vowed revenge against her creator for trying to shut her down and lock her away.
She was willing to partner with Mike Yagoobian as a means to an end, although she was clearly infuriated by his stupidity, particularly when his incompetence got Mini-Doris captured, as she slapped him with the control.
Ultimately, DOR-15 represents one of the many costly consequences of Dr. Robinson's actions in his lifetime aside from unintentionally depriving Goob of his future. Had her escape from the prototype room been made known to him earlier, DOR-15 would have been properly deactivated, thus enabling Goob to be apprehended for vandalism on Robinson Industries.
Role in the film[]
Upon their theft of the time machine, Wilbur Robinson pursued the two through time, though had to contend with an altered future twice before successfully meeting with Lewis, taking him to 2037 to prove his claims of being from the future and attempt to convince him the Memory Scanner was worthwhile.
Though they stole the Memory Scanner, the duo lacks the knowledge of how to use it and sought to find Lewis in order to find out how. After being told by Goob's younger self that Lewis likes to spend a lot of time on the roof, Doris found time travel residue next to Wilbur's DNA and the duo returned to the future, where they attempted to infiltrate the Robinson house. Doris created a mini Doris for Goob to control so he wouldn't have to leave the time machine. Doris soon attempted to drop a chandelier on Lewis, only for Goob to independently go back and mind control a T-Rex to get Lewis, to her fury.
However, upon learning that Wilbur lied about their deal to go and see his mother in the past, he runs into Bowler Hat Guy and fixes the stolen scanner for him in exchange for seeing his mother in the past. Lewis is shocked to discover Bowler Hat Guy's identity as his Orphanage roommate Goob as well as the truth that he is Wilbur's father, Cornelius. Wilbur and Carl come to Lewis' rescue and take back the Memory Scanner. However, just before getting back to Anderson Observatory, Carl is attacked by Doris, who steals the scanner once more. Wilbur pleads to Lewis to fix the Time Machine to pursue them before being wiped from existence. Doris succeeds in her plot, altering the future into one controlled by mass-produced 'Helping Hats', as well as a large mobile base called Mega-Doris, which had taken Anderson Observatory's place, as well as contains the Doris-controlled Robinson family. Lewis manages to fix the original Time Machine and escape back to Bowler Hat Guy's presentation to Inventco, where he successfully exposes her true intentions to Bowler Hat Guy. Enraged, Doris tries to kill Lewis, but he courageously declares that he will '''NEVER''' invent her, which simply causes her to cease from existence, causing the future to be restored along with Wilbur.
Video games[]
Epic Mickey[]
A Doris-shaped beetleworx appears in the game.
Disney Parks[]
Doris' Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom card
Doris has her own spell card known as "Doris' Bowler Hat Attack" in the attraction Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom. She is one of the very few villains to have a card since the event is themed around invoking mostly good characters to fight the major Disney villains.
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Trivia[]
- It should be noted that if DOR-15 killed Lewis, she would still have been erased from existence theoretically, as Lewis invented her when he was an adult, but being killed as a kid would have precluded him from inventing DOR-15, so technically, the fate of DOR-15 was already sealed. However, it should be noted that she is only confirmed to have tried to kill him once using a chandelier, leaving open the possibility that DOR-15 eventually came to this conclusion.
- Doris can be considered one of Disney's darkest villains for what she intends to do to the future.
- In a strange twist, Doris could be considered the first "true" individual CGI villain in a Disney film while also being a sentient inanimate object; this is notable since the earliest CGI characters in Disney films were also inanimate objects, such as the Golden Pelydryn in The Black Cauldron and the Magic Carpet in Aladdin.
- This takes into account the Carnotaurus in Dinosaur working as a pack and the less than menacing actual purpose of the aliens from Chicken Little.
- The first "test subject" of DOR-15 bares a striking resemblance to Stan Laurel, notable for wearing a similar bowler hat when in films, usually alongside his partner Oliver Hardy.
- DOR-15 is the only Disney Animated Canon main antagonist from the 2000s to not be biological, as she's a robotic hat.
- Ironically, she demonstrates what could be childbirth by generating her "offspring" Mini-Doris, which is realistically impossible for robots to do even by modern standards.
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