Dr Dementia

Dr Dementia (1850 - November 2019) (formerly known as Dr Pepper) was a red Lumbaegan Pepper who was a good friend of PinkDowlg, a member of PinkDowlg’s Inner Circle, a scientist and businessfruit.

Dr Dementia was the brother of Orange Pepper, Dr Alzheimer's & Dr Arthritis. In 1850, he grew from the Lumbaegan Fruit Tree in Lumbaego, alongside his brothers. The other Lumbaegan Fruit also grew from the Lumbaegan Fruit Tree, however they had done so decades earlier in the early 19th century or did so in the late 19th or early 20th century. In the late 1880s, Dr Dementia, alongside his brothers, established the Lumbaegan Science Centre where they performed experiments and invented their products. In 1888, Dr Dementia invented the soft drink Dr Pepper, which was named for him (he was known as Dr Pepper at the time) and remains popular over 130 years since its inception. Despite Dr Dementia inventing Dr Pepper on Lumbaego, the company he founded claimed the product had been invented in America as to not draw unwanted attention to Lumbaego.

When Dr Dementia was 70, the 1920 Exodus to Mexico occurred, an event which saw several residents of Lumbaego depart the island for the North American country of Mexico. The residents who departed Lumbaego were Avocado], [[Felipe, Juan, Red Chilli, Purple Chilli, Orange Chilli and Violet Chilli. Despite many residents departing Lumbaego in the 1920 Exodus to Mexico, Dr Dementia remained with the other remaining residents, who were: PinkDowlg, Dr Alzheimer's, Dr Arthritis, Orange Pepper, Green Banana, Pink Banana, Banana with sunglasses, Yellow Banana 1, Yellow Banana 2, Elvis Pig’s Banana, Pamala the Banana, Dr Young, Pineapple, Coconut, PinkFish, PinkDowlg Tree Squirrel and Flying Brick.

In 1945, Elvis Pig’s Banana, Green Banana and Pink Banana founded the Lumbaegan Annual Top Hat Exposition, an annual exposition held in the Lumbaegan Top Hat Conference Hall (originally known as the Lumbbaegan Conference Hall) where hundreds of different top hats would be displayed and given away. The inaugural Lumbaegan Annual Top Hat Exposition was the 1945 Annual Lumbaego Top Hat Exposition, which was very successful and had a 100% attendance rate due to there existing a limited number of activities available on Lumbaego. Despite three of his fellow Lumbaegan Fruit possessing a great interest in top hats, Dr Dementia never showed much enthusiasm about them due to his dedication to his research and inventing.

In 1951, Elvis Pig, an American musician, arrived on Lumbaego. He had been performing a concert on the nearby island of Tobago and had planned to fly home to the United States, however due to the 1951 Lesser Antilles Tropical Storm, his pilot and brother, Elvis Pig 2 had decided to abandon the planed route and return to Tobago until the storm had passed. Elvis Pig 2 attempted to do this, however he became disoriented and unknowingly landed on Lumbaego. Within a few seconds of their arrival, Elvis Pig and Elvis Pig 2 realised they were not on Tobago, as Lumbaego was home to no humans, very few buildings and a lush pink, white and blues jungle. Elvis Pig 2 became very confused when he could not identify which island he was on, as he believed himself to posses a complete knowledge of the Lessee Antilles. Whilst Elvis Pig 2 examined his plane for any damage, Elvis Pig sat on the beach and waited for the storm to pass. Whilst there, he was approached by PinkDowlg, who introduced himself and told Elvis Pig about Lumbaego. Elvis Pig found Lumbaego and its history very interesting and told PinkDowlg about his life and career. Within a few hours, they had already become good friends and Elvis Pig decided to stay on Lumbaego for a week, in which time he met and socialised with all Lumbaegan residents, including Dr Dementia. Following their first visit, Elvis Pig and Elvis Pig 2 regularly returned to Lumbaego to see PinkDowlg and the other Lumbaegan residents. Though Dr Dementia never became particularly close friends with Elvis Pig, they regularly interacted with one another due to the general sociability of the Lumbaegan residents. In 1953, Elvis Pig was visiting PinkDowlg and having spent a week on Lumbaego, was due to leave, but was unable to do so, due to the 1953 Lesser Antilles Tropical Storm, which was at that point very close to Lumbaego. As PinkDowlg was flying to Mexico to search for the Lumbaegan residents who had departed in the 1920 Exodus to Mexico, he was unable to spend time with Elvis Pig. As Elvis Pig had nothing else to do, he decided to attend the 1953 Annual Lumbaego Top Hat Exposition after he saw a poster advertising it. As he was not previously interested in top hats, he did not expect to enjoy it, however when he met Elvis Pig’s Banana and was introduced by him to the subject of top hats and showed different types of top hat, Elvis Pig became far more interested than he had expected to be. As Elvis Pig greatly enjoyed the 1953 Annual Lumbaego Top Hat Exposition he attended all subsequent Lumbaegan Annual Top Hat Expositions. In 1956, Elvis Pig moved to Lumbaego after a human, Elvis Presley, copied his songs, clothing, style and name. Elvis Pig had attempted to continue his career as a musician, but was unable to attain Elvis Presley’s fame and was thus often mistaken for an Elvis Impersonator. After Elvis Pig's relocation to Lumbaego, he spent almost all his time with the various Lumbaegan residnets and thus socialised with Dr Dementia on an almost daily basis.

In 1963, in the Lumbaegan Science Centre, Dr Dementia invented the product Dementia, named for the brain disease dementia. The product was originally designed to allow consumers to selectively forget certain experiences or information such as traumatic experiences or experiences they wished to live again for the first time. At first, Dementia was very popular and Dr Dementia made several million pounds from its sale, but in 1967 Jospeh Stalin ordered his scientists to covertly modify Dementia so it would become infectious and cause users to forget everything, including basic bodily functions as does the disease of the same name. Though Dementia did not become infectious, it did indeed cause users to forget everything and was almost immediately outlawed in almost every country in the world and Dr Dementia was blamed and vilified by the public. As Dr Dementia was believed to be responsible for the effects of Dementia, he was arrested in the United States and charged with multiple counts of murder, convicted and sentenced to life incarceration in 1970. Despite maintaining his innocence and protesting his incarceration for the next 25 years, Dr Dementia was never released from prison and would eventually die there in 1995, in part due to poor conditions in the prison. Dr Dementia's death caused the other Lumbaegan residents, especially his brothers and PinkDowlg, great distress and anger, especially since he was innocent of the charges brought against him. Despite the product Dementia and the disease dementia having identical names and both causing memory loss, they have no connection to each other in any other way. The name of the product has caused confusion from some individuals believing that Dr Dementia invented the disease dementia and believing that the disease did not exist before 1963, this is untrue as the disease has been recorded in history for many hundreds of years.

In May 2018, Dr Dementia's good friend, PinkDowlg, petitioned then world leader Karl Marx to resurrect Dr Dementia on the basis he was innocent, but this request was refused. This refusal caused PinkDowlg to publicly denounce Karl Marx and oppose his rule, which Karl Marx responded to by sending police officers to arrest PinkDowlg. PinkDowlg resisted arrest, so the officers attempted to kill him, but were unable to do so when PinkDowlg evaded their attempts and manipulated luck to cause their deaths via a falling beam crushing them. The deaths of his police officers angered Karl Marx who then declared war against PinkDowlg, beginning the the PinkDowlg - Karl Marx War. Karl Marx was sure of his victory as he observed that PinkDowlg’s Army consisted only of PinkDowlg, Elvis Pig, Elvis Pig’s Banana and Pamala the Banana, but he was not aware of PinkDowlg’s immense powers. PinkDowlg easily defeated Karl Marx’s Army and eventually forced Karl Marx to surrender. After Karl Marx’s Surrender, his deputy leader Ivan succeeded him and continued to fight against PinkDowlg until he was killed by PinkDowlg. Upon his ascension to the position of world leader, PinkDowlg’s first action was the resurrection of Dr Dementia. After his resurrection, Dr Dementia thanked PinkDowlg and offered to serve him as a scientist. PinkDowlg was pleased to see his friend and offered him a position in PinkDowlg’s Inner Circle, which Dr Dementia gladly accepted. Dr Dementia served as one of PinkDowlg’s most senior scientists and often worked with his brothers and Wellington, whilst Wellington was still loyal to PinkDowlg. Dr Dementia also assisted PinkDowlg in the First PinkDowlg Civil War, from February to March 2019 and the Second PinkDowlg Civil War, from 1st March to 23rd August 2019, both of which were fought against John C. Star and both of which PinkDowlg ultimately won. Dr Dementia's inventions were particularly useful to PinkDowlg for the purpose of countering Wellington, who had since betrayed his former leader and attempted to kill him. After his victory in the Second PinkDowlg Civil War, PinkDowlg celebrated by having all of his enemies tortured to death; this event occurred on the 23rd August 2019 and was known as the Torture of PinkDowlg’s Enemies and was attended by all members of PinkDowlg’s Inner Circle, including Dr Dementia. Due to his importance, Dr Dementia was seated at the front of PinkDowlg’s Torture Arena, which allowed him to view the torture without his vision being obscured by other observers. Following witnessing the Torture of PinkDowlg’s Enemies, Dr Dementia congratulated PinkDowlg on his victory and harsh punishments for those who fought against him.

After PinkDowlg was deposed and exiled on the 5th September 2019, by Matilda (Mrs Ineffable Magnificence), Dr Dementia, alongside the rest of PinkDowlg’s Inner Circle left England and returned to Lumbaego, where they avoided publicity. In October 2019, Dr Dementia joined the October 2019 Pro-PinkDowlg coup d'état which attempted to depose then world leader Adolf Hitler and reinstate PinkDowlg as world leader. The coup was unsuccessful, as it was foiled by the Geheime Staatspolizei and Adolf Hitler ordered the execution of all those responsible for the coup, including including Dr Dementia who was executed by gunshot.

Dr Dementia was resurrected in November 2019, after Adolf Hitler had been deposed, and was pleased to see his friend Dr Young had survived Hitler’s Second Reign (as he had not been involved in the coup d'état). He suggested that Dr Young join him in his laboratory and assist him with his discoveries and inventions, something which Dr Young accepted. Dr Dementia suggested to Dr Young that they work together to resurrect PinkDowlg and reinstate him as world leader. Dr Young refused this proposal, pledging his allegiance to then world leader Che Guevara over PinkDowlg and doubting PinkDowlg’s record as leader, saying he had become too autocratic and prone to torture citizens to death to be a good leader. Dr Dementia was offended by Dr Young’s comments and labelled him a traitor for what he saw as disloyalty to PinkDowlg. He insulted Dr Young in multiple ways, but eventually appeared to accept his beliefs and agreed to work with him again. Dr Dementia decided that if he were unable to convince Dr Young to help him, then he would have to resurrect PinkDowlg himself. When he was alone with Dr Young’s Resurrection Machine, he attempted to resurrect PinkDowlg. This attempt was unsuccessful and caused the machine to emit a red, flashing light and to sound an alarm which called Dr Young to investigate. Dr Young arrived to investigate the machine and found the failed attempt to resurrect PinkDowlg on its log. He interrogated Dr Dementia about the resurrection attempt, who claimed he had accidentally attempted to resurrect PinkDowlg. Dr Young did not believe Dr Dementia, but did not report him to Che Guevara as he did not want to see his friend punished. He did however warn him to not attempt the same action again, for fear of being reported to Che Guevara. Dr Dementia reluctantly accepted Dr Young’s orders and claimed he would no longer attempt to resurrect PinkDowlg. This was a lie which Dr Dementia said to be able to attempt PinkDowlg’s resurrection once again, which he did. His second attempt was also unsuccessful and after Dr Young found out, he reluctantly reported him to Che Guevara. Dr Dementia was enraged by Dr Young’s betrayal of PinkDowlg and derided Dr Young as a traitor as he was being arrested by members of the Swan Republican Army. Che Guevara believed Dr Dementia to be dangerous to his rule, so decided to have him executed. Through somewhat unhappy that his former friend was being executed, Dr Young did not intervene as he believed Dr Dementia would never accept Che Guevara as world leader, due to his unquestioning loyalty to PinkDowlg. Dr Dementia was executed in late November 2019 at the age of 169 and as of October 2021 has not been resurrected, despite multiple changes in government.