Dr. Funkenstein (Parliament)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Dr. Funkenstein
Song/Album	"Dr. Funkenstein"/ The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
Act	Parliament
Writer	George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell
Release Date	1976
ABILITIES
Powers	-Able to make others' brains explode (process explained below) "I'll blow your mind" -Accelerate organic molecules to the point of explosion (very painfully) by accelerating his own "Microbiologically speaking, when I start churning, burning and turning, I'll make your atoms move so fast, expanding your molecules, causing a friction fire, burning you on your neutron, causing you to scream" -His own acceleration creates a bright light, as well "Hope you got your sunglasses on"
Skills	-Make sounds that make victims think they are about to be attacked by a monster "with a monster sound" -Deals blackjack "Hit me with the one... hit me again." -Can speak rapidly yet remain intelligible "swift-lipping" -Grave-robbing "body-snatching"
Attributes	-Obsessed with anatomy  "I get so hung up on bones"
Vulnerabilities	Very relaxed people (speculative)
Formidability	High. Can kill remotely, possibly multiple victims at once
Attractiveness	High. Others say: "Take my body... to funk with the rest." Skilled in "ego-tripping" others
Source	Maybe an alien, or lives with aliens "Coming to you directly from the Mothership"
Goals	To find (or make) others like himself
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A
Objects	N/A
Clothing	N/A
Vehicles	A "mothership"
Dwelling	Likely lives on the mothership
Milieu	N/A
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	N/A, but likely male
Age
Physique	Hunchbacked, but it's someone else's hunch "with a bump transplant"
Ethnicity	"Disco fiend"/ "ghoul"
Origin
Ancestry	Royal. Is "King of the Funk," presumably a dynastic title
Profession	-Doctor, possibly an osteopath or with physical-therapy training, specializing in hips: "dedicated to the preservation of motion in hips." -King ("of the Funk")
Education	Very high. Medical training, royal-budget education, alien knowledge
SES	Very high. Is royalty
Relationships	Other aliens, his clones (see title of album), royal family/subjects
Pets	N/A
PERSONALITY
Morality	Amoral
Intro/extrovert	Extrovery
Intelligence	Very high
Emotions	Excitable
Sanity	Sane, but barely
Enemies	N/A
Narrative Function	Antagonist
Other Notes	Dr. Funkenstein is too much of a good thing. Maybe you think you would like to party with him, but more than likely this will leave you quite funked up. It is possible that he, despite his powers, is lonely. After all, he is a hunchbacked, fiendish ghoul who hangs out on a UFO. Even beyond that, he can accelerate his molecules to a incredible speed, but if he tries to let anyone join him in this, his favorite pastime, they will end up a skin sack full of boiling liquid.  So he wanders from party to party-- rapping, dealing cards, trying to impress people with his knowledge, wealth, and skill-- anything to make a friend. But as soon as he does, he finds they just don't have the stuff to handle his speed-freak hobby. Perhaps that is why he threw in with aliens; maybe they can. Still, in a desperate bid for human contact, he has begun "body snatching." Perhaps by starting with a corpse (instead of ending up with one), he can infuse it with his own DNA and turn it into a clone (see the album title)... and finally make some friends, since us poor limited homo sapiens just can't handle his funk.