Dr. Crygor

"You see! I AM a genius!"

- Dr. Crygor

Dr. Crygor is a major human character in the WarioWare series. He is an elderly mad scientist and cyborg who performs quirky, yet harmless experiments at his private island laboratory in Diamond City. In his appearances in the WarioWare games, Dr. Crygor always reveals a new, one-of-a-kind invention or machine. He is also shown accompanied by his young granddaughter, Penny, and his two robots, Mike and Doris 1.

As with the other WarioWare series characters, Dr. Crygor was designed by Ko Takeuchi. His distinguishing attributes and traits include his red nose and angular V-shaped mustache; his cybernetic equipment and cryogenic suit; a rather stocky build; a frequent need to go to the bathroom; and high intelligence. Dr. Crygor's equipment consists of a metal plate on his head, a visor with a glowing red eye, metal gloves, and metal boots. His name comes from the term "" and the name "Igor", likely in reference to.

In addition to being a scientist, Dr. Crygor is one of WarioWare, Inc.'s original employees. As such, he appears in all of the WarioWare installments, with the exceptions of WarioWare: Snapped! and WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase.

Background
The diary of Dr. Crygor at the Japanese website for WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! shares some details of his life. The diary revealed the events when he discovered 9-Volt's Fronk, and researched Orbulon's Oinker. When Dr. Crygor went to purchase materials for his research, his jetpack ran out of fuel. He had to pick up a taxi to take him to the port. From the port, he had to swim to the island where his laboratory is located, almost drowning on the way. When he tried to dance flamenco, his leg cramped due to lack of exercise.

Dr. Crygor has done numerous researches, including the heating and cooling of gummies, the results of eating chewing gum and chocolate together, and the growth of hair. He also concocted a drink that makes Wario extremely intelligent; however, after Wario defecated, the drink's effects wore off. When Wario came to his laboratory, demanding for a spaceship, Dr. Crygor agreed and built one all night. However, when he tested the spaceship, the time had warped. From his discovery, Dr. Crygor deemed his spaceship a time machine.

Dr. Crygor reluctantly attended Wario's round-table discussion, after the latter threatened to destroy his laboratory. In the discussion, Dr. Crygor revealed that his microgames were inspired by his everyday life:
 * While developing Berry Berry Good, he had difficulties recreating how the cake's surface crumbles if a strawberry lands on its edge.
 * When he desired to go to a beer garden, he came up with Pod Pinch.
 * After he saw a monkey eating a banana, Banana Munch was created.
 * Rough Puff was created when he wanted to eat a blowfish.
 * When he ran out of vegetables, he developed Veg Out. However, he ate too much vegetables when making the microgame, so he had to frequently relieve himself in the bathroom.

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!
Dr. Crygor is first seen in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!. In the prologue, he is shown as one of the friends that Wario enlists by phone to his company, WarioWare, Inc., in order to create microgames. Dr. Crygor, like Wario's other friends, agrees to the latter's company invitation.

In the opening cutscene for his stage, Dr. Crygor is in his laboratory, dancing. After finishing off his dance, he begins to sweat and reaches for a drink. He ends up grabbing a beaker filled with blue liquid. Upon drinking it, he suddenly comes down with food poisoning, then quickly runs for the restroom while shaking. Once finished, the toilet explodes behind him, flooding his lab. Dr. Crygor attempts to swim away, but he is then sent rocketing into the sky. He tries to activate his jetpack, which fails, and he begins falling to the ground. Just as he is about to plummet, Don the Sparrow catches Dr. Crygor and flies him to safety. The music during this cutscene is the hurry up music from Wario Land 4.

At the ending of the game, Dr. Crygor is swimming in the sky. When he unexpectedly approaches Wario's rocket, he hits it and makes the rocket crash near the harbor. Dr. Crygor and Wario paddle the rocket to safety.

Dr. Crygor's microgames are themed after Reality, and thus they feature photorealistic graphics. The instrumental that plays throughout his stage is his theme, Dr. Crygor's Bathroom Jam.

In the unlockable two-player minigame VS Hurdle, Dr. Crygor appears as the character of the second player. The player has to press the button to make him jump over the hurdles. Dr. Crygor has to compete with Orbulon in a hurdle race, and has to earn three cups to win the minigame.

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!
In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!, Dr. Crygor is sleeping on his toilet in his laboratory, when a UFO suddenly crashes right in front of him, causing him to launch out of his toilet. When Dr. Crygor falls back into his lab, Orbulon, Dribble & Spitz greet him. Later, the three and Dr. Crygor travel in Dribble & Spitz's taxi.

He can also be seen along with the other WarioWare employees at Restaurant Sora Sora during the cast roll.

Dr. Crygor appears as one of the ten playable characters in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!. As a playable character, his jumpsuit can be tinted in the player's color: red, yellow, green or blue. He hosts the multiplayer mode Balloon Bang. In this mode, one player plays a microgame while the other players inflate a balloon by pressing repeatedly until it pops, ending the game.

As with the previous game, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! features Dr. Crygor's Reality microgames. The game also has an arrangement of Dr. Crygor's Bathroom Jam, which plays when the player accesses his Character Intro or the menu for Balloon Bang.

WarioWare: Twisted!
Dr. Crygor is next seen in WarioWare: Twisted!. In the game's opening sequence, Dr. Crygor is called upon by Wario to help repair his broken Game Boy Advance. Dr. Crygor throws the system into his invention, the Gravitator, which spews out a bevy of smaller systems. Wario grabs one of the systems, only to discover that it lacks buttons. Dr. Crygor instructs him to try tilting the system, allowing Wario to pass one of his games easily. Mona and 9-Volt arrive at the lab, discovering the miniature systems. They both enjoy the tilt controls, inspiring Wario to sell the systems for a huge profit.

In his stage's story, Dr. Crygor excitedly dances inside his lab to celebrate the completion of his Gravitator. Suddenly the machine spews out bubbles, which envelop Dr. Crygor and many of his possessions. After escaping the bubble, he claims to be a genius and immediately powers up the Gravitator. Suddenly, the Gravitator dispenses a giant robot, which he rides in. While flying, Shuriken the Falcon rams into the robot and causes it to fall apart, revealing Dr. Crygor riding on a four-wheeled duck. Dr. Crygor seems doomed to fall until Shuriken returns to rescue and fly him to Club Sugar.

In Wario-Man's story, Dr. Crygor continues to create more systems with his Gravitator. Unbeknownst to him, Wario is on the conveyor belt leading to the machine. He goes inside the machine, then emerges as Wario-Man. Wario-Man then goes back into the Gravitator to power up, but Dr. Crygor tries to warn him that it is "too powerful to be toyed with". Despite his warning, Wario-Man takes no notice and flies up into space. Dr. Crygor is last seen fishing as Wario-Man (now Wario) lands in the sea next to his lab.

Dr. Crygor's microgame set is named after his latest invention and involves rotating the Game Boy Advance to alter the gravity of the microgames.

WarioWare: Touched!
"The galaxy is my giant oyster!"

- Dr. Crygor

Dr. Crygor appears again in WarioWare: Touched!. In his lab, he shows off his Tri-phonic Undulating Nanobot Automaton, or TUNA, a machine capable of making objects younger than they are. Dr. Crygor tests his invention on an apple core, which is restored into an entire apple. He jumps into the compartment to see the apple, but it closes and traps him inside. The player has to spin the wheel of the TUNA to power it. When the TUNA's compartment opens, he emerges, younger and fitter. Using his jetpack, he flies into outer space and approaches a group of Alien Bunnies.

In Mike's story segment, Dr. Crygor has finished building a karaoke robot named Mike. When Mike becomes operational, Dr. Crygor announces that he is going out, and asks him to do some cleaning around the lab. While his master is gone, Mike's original karaoke programming is triggered by blowing the dust off a windowsill, overriding his cleaning software. He blasts out of the lab and into space to host a karaoke party on a distant planet inhabited by Alien Bunnies. After Dr. Crygor realizes that Mike has disappeared, he rides a taxi courtesy of Dribble & Spitz to find him. When Dr. Crygor and Mike return to the lab, the former suggests that they should sing a duet. However, Mike is not impressed with Dr. Crygor's singing. After an argument, Mike departs for the Hawt House.

In WarioWare: Touched!, Dr. Crygor's microgame set is called Slightly Unscrewed and involves spinning the in circles.

WarioWare: Smooth Moves
In WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Dr. Crygor is shown to have a young granddaughter named Penny. In Penny’s stage, she and Dr. Crygor attend the Invent-Off competition at the Diamond Academy. They are put against each other to see who is the best inventor. Eventually, Penny produces her finished "masterpiece" (a tiny, Wario-themed motorbike), surprising and defeating Dr. Crygor. After defeating her grandfather, Penny sings to the cheering crowd. Dr. Crygor and Mike, dancing, accompany her while her motorbike rides around the wrestling ring.

After the player finishes the game's story mode, Dr. Crygor appears in his own stage. He emerges muscular and brawny from his new invention, the Kelorometer. It is capable of slimming down anything put into it. Dr. Crygor and Mike call the player, who is represented by a Mii wearing a red full-body suit. The Mii is then put inside the Kelorometer, starting the session. Dr. Crygor and Mike use stationary bicycles placed on top of conveyor belts to power the machine. After completing twenty microgames, the player's Mii is slimmed down based on their effort. The microgames featured in Dr. Crygor's stage are not his own but are from the prior stages.

WarioWare: D.I.Y.
In WarioWare: D.I.Y., Dr. Crygor appears in the introduction scene, where he plays video games on his Wii in his laboratory. Suddenly, the game's characters start swarming out of the TV screen to attack him until it turns out that he had a bad dream. This weird dream gives him an idea for a new invention, and eventually, he builds the Super MakerMatic 21, a machine that can instantly create microgames, records, and four-page black-and-white comics.

Deep in his laboratory, Dr. Crygor and Penny are busy building more Super MakerMatic 21 machines when Wario comes in with a broken television, asking him if he could fix it. Wario sees the new machines on the conveyor belt and asks what they are. Dr. Crygor explains the machines' functions to Wario, giving Wario some ideas on making money with his new invention.

Although Dr. Crygor does not have a microgame stage in this game, the player can enter his laboratory after it has been unlocked and create microgames, music records, and comics using his invention.

Aside from his appearance in the introduction sequence, Dr. Crygor also appears as a black-and-white stamp in the Comic MakerMatic.

Game & Wario
Dr. Crygor appears in Game & Wario. In the game's opening cutscene, he, Penny, and Mike notice a new game console resembling the Wii U GamePad on the television. In the game, he hosts the minigame Design. In the minigame's introductory sequence, Dr. Crygor arises from his bed in his lab, only to suffer from a stomachache. He then goes to his bathroom and plops himself down on the toilet, only to find his bottom stuck inside it. To escape, he turns on a shower head fixed to the toilet's tank, which sends him through the drainpipe to an underground room. Dr. Crygor enters the room wearing a lab coat, with a rose between his teeth.

In Design, the player must draw accurate lines and shapes on the to build a robot. Dr. Crygor instructs the player throughout the minigame and reviews the quality of the lines that they made. After the player has drawn the lines and built their robot, Dr. Crygor makes a verdict on their efforts.

Like most of the WarioWare, Inc. staff, he is also in the Bowling minigame as an animated picture on a bowling pin, moving his eye sideways when idle. If the ball knocks him down, he makes a disoriented expression.

One of Mona's Superscoops features an anecdote about Dr. Crygor. Dr. Crygor hires Mona as his assistant robot designer. However, after her first day of work, he said that her attempt was "complete garbage". In the end, Mona remarks that Dr. Crygor is "really difficult to please". As with the other WarioWare employees, Dr. Crygor appears in Miiverse Sketch Masterpiece Collection, a video series analyzing questionable drawings made in Miiverse Sketch. Dr. Crygor is the host of the eleventh video, themed after drawings of frogs.

WarioWare Gold
Dr. Crygor returns in WarioWare Gold alongside the rest of the series cast. In the game's prologue, he is shown as one of the employees that Wario calls to explain his newest profit scheme.

He hosts the second set of the Twist League, which has Sports-themed microgames that use gyro input similarly to WarioWare: Twisted!. In his story, Dr. Crygor and Mike are gathering mushrooms in Agate Forest, a location that the former considers spooky. Mike approaches Dr. Crygor from behind and scares him. After Mike tells him there may a ghost in the forest, Dr. Crygor criticizes Mike for trying to prank him. Another robot named Doris 1 then approaches from behind and scares the two. Doris 1 recognizes Dr. Crygor as her creator who abandoned her and proceeds to chase him. Later, Dr. Crygor takes in Doris 1 to his lab, out of generosity. Dr. Crygor then realizes that he dropped his fungi in the forest and asks Mike to return to retrieve them, but he refuses.

Dr. Crygor also appears in Penny's stage. In her lab, Penny tests the Tonally Transformative Elixir on Dr. Crygor. Despite its horrible taste, the elixir succeeds in pitching up his voice, but gives him extreme stomach pain. To cure this, Penny takes out her Super-Special Tummy Tonic to heal the pain in his stomach. Eventually, the pain is counteracted, and Dr. Crygor then asks when the elixir's effects will wear off, as Penny giggles nervously. His appearance in this stage makes him and 9-Volt the only microgame hosts (aside from Wario himself) to have dialogue in more than one stage outside the Ultra League.

During the Dancing Team set of the Ultra League, Dr. Crygor arrives with Mona, Jimmy T, Mike, Fronk, Young Cricket & Master Mantis, Kat & Ana, and Penny to assist Joe in filling up his new nightclub, Club Joe. He unintentionally drives off almost everyone in the club with his dance moves. He is then seen dancing with the rest of the group after everyone comes back. In the epilogue of the game, Dr. Crygor and the rest of the WarioWare employees confront Wario, in order to persuade him to share his profits from the Wario Bowl. Wario tries to escape, only to be stopped by his employees. Dr. Crygor and Jimmy T agree to split the pay evenly, much to Wario's dismay.

Dr. Crygor appears in the secret minigame Memory Match as a portrait on a pair of square character cards. In the top screen, he, with Wario, Jimmy T, Mona, and 9-Volt, are on a beach, wearing grass skirts layered over their outfits.

In his character trailer, Dr. Crygor and Penny, in their respective labs, both wake up via each other's alarm clocks and do their morning routines. Dr. Crygor transitions from his original outfit to his current appearance through his invention (with it putting two rose blooms on top of his head). At the end of his routine, Dr. Crygor wears Penny's jacket and flaunts it, much to the chagrin of Penny, Mike, and Doris 1.

WarioWare: Get It Together!
Dr. Crygor appears in WarioWare: Get It Together!. Notably, Dr. Crygor's design, excluding his swimwear, closely resembles his appearance from WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! to WarioWare: Touched!. In the game's story mode, he appears in the opening cutscene, welding an object. He, along with the rest of the WarioWare, Inc. employees, gets sucked in the game world due to Wario's actions.

His stage is the High Tech stage, which is available after Mona's That's Life stage is completed. In the pre-stage cutscene, Wario, Young Cricket, 18-Volt, and Mona notice Dr. Crygor in front of his stage entrance, who is distracted with his newfound ability, along with the corruption of his stage. After Wario gets Crygor's attention, Cricket explains the situation, causing Dr. Crygor to gain interest in the game bugs.

In his story, Dr. Crygor is testing a new invention in his top secret factory: Flatterbots. The robots successfully applaud Doris 1's cleaning and Mike's singing, but do not react to Dr. Crygor's dancing. Deeming the test a failure, Dr. Crygor recalls the Flatterbots. After his stage is cleared, Dr. Crygor joins Wario's crew and reassures his status as a genius.

When Dr. Crygor and the rest of the crew encounter Mike at the mine cart for the Remix stage, Dr. Crygor states he will not let Mike out of his sight again and commands him to stay with the crew. In the pre-stage cutscene for Jimmy T's stage, Dr. Crygor finds the darkness of the area to be spooky. When Mike mocks him for being afraid, he reasons his intellect makes him immune to such fear. Once the area gets even darker, he shrieks. In the pre-stage cutscene for Ashley's stages, he comments on the quantity of the corruption in the area.

After beating Anything Goes, Dr. Crygor goes back to the real world alongside most of the other WarioWare, Inc. employees and chases after Wario after it is revealed their predicament was caused by his poor programming. However, they soon remember other people were left behind in the game world, and they immediately return to rescue them. After completing the three towers and collecting the Golden Cracked Mug, Golden Beehive, and Golden Toilet Paper Roll, he calls his granddaughter Penny to assist Wario and co. in combining the objects.

As a playable character, Dr. Crygor is able to fly, but his form of control is different from other flying characters. Pressing and holding makes him swim in the air and charge forward, and tilting  changes his direction. With his ability to ram into objects and free control over direction, Crygor excels in microgames where constant pressure is required (e.g. Don't Waste the Paste) and can easily use his ability to spin objects (e.g. Sanitation Station, Wind-Up Pup). However, his ability is weak in moving objects with precision as solid objects bounce off and are barely affected by Crygor's attacks. A major example of this disadvantage is Basically Water Polo, the only microgame considered a bad fit. Overall, Dr. Crygor has a fairly balanced amount of microgames that deem him an above-average or average fit (87 and 95 respectively).

Made in Wario manga
Dr. Crygor appears in the Dr. Mario-kun special manga Made in Wario, published in Comic BonBon magazine. In the manga, Dr. Crygor first appears with Mona, both holding Nintendo DS systems as they rush to see Wario, accompanied by Luigi and Yoshi. While Mona shows Luigi a game that makes snarky comments at the player, Dr. Crygor shows Yoshi a WarioWare game (Niō Made in Wario) with chips inside it, that dispense scents when the player wins a microgame. If the player loses the microgame, the game stinks of feces instead; Yoshi encounters a microgame loss and is knocked unconscious by the weird smell emanating from the system.

Later, at Sakebu Made in Wario, a game in the form of a rollercoaster, Dr. Crygor, Mona, Dribble, and Spitz, see Wario, Luigi, and Yoshi boarding a capsule-shaped ride. When Wario turns off the ride's power to escape the mucus ball rolling towards them, the three both eject and fly into the goal sign. Dr. Crygor, Mona, and Wario celebrate the success of the rollercoaster, with Dr. Crygor suggesting new ideas that Wario could acknowledge.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Dr. Crygor appears as a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, depicted in his artwork from WarioWare: Touched!. When used in The Subspace Emissary, it increases the fighter's arm- and leg-based attacks by two increments.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Dr. Crygor appears as a trophy that uses his artwork from Game & Wario. It can be obtained through purchasing in the Trophy Shop. When rotating the trophy to its backside, it depicts an artwork of him with a rose between his teeth. The trophy's description states "Rumor has it he's even working on a time machine."; this is a reference to the "diary" section of the Japanese WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! official site, which has a page where Dr. Crygor writes down his progress on building a time machine.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Dr. Crygor appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an Advanced-class Spirit which depicts his WarioWare Gold appearance. When equipped on a fighter, it increases the strength of electric attacks. In World of Light, it is located on the Light Realm; outside, it can also be obtained from the Spirit Board. The spirit's corresponding battle sees the player facing against Dr. Mario, Wario, and R.O.B. in WarioWare, Inc., with Mike's Song playing in the background.

Nintendo Badge Arcade
Dr. Crygor appears as a badge in Nintendo Badge Arcade in the WarioWare set, which features the series' characters. The badge uses his Game & Wario artwork from the opening cutscene of Design when he is stuck in his toilet, though the toilet itself is not depicted in the badge.

Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Dr. Crygor is featured in the Wario... Where? of Rhythm Heaven Megamix, keeping his appearance from Game & Wario. He appears in the background alongside Penny in the version of found in "Wario... Where?", which has Mike having the role of the ROBO M model  being filled with liquid.

Dr. Crygor also appears in the version of found in "Wario... Where? 2: The Sequel". He takes on the role of as the playable character. At Rhythm Kart, he has to take photos of Tiny Warios in cars and Dribble & Spitz in their taxi, as they pass by him. The player is given only two lives, so they cannot miss more than once. If the player gets a shot of a vehicle at the exact moment it passes by, Dr. Crygor smiles, with his eye dilating. If the player times their tap earlier or later, Dr. Crygor tilts his head to one side. If the player misses any of the moving vehicles, Dr. Crygor bursts into tears.

Tetris 99
On September 17-21, 2021,  ran the 24th Maximus Cup which featured a WarioWare: Get It Together! theme, where Dr. Crygor appears in the background.

Physical description
Dr. Crygor is a cyborg, with his parts being a metal plate fixed on his head, a visor, and metal gloves and boots. He is an elderly man, though appearing middle-aged until the later games. He is bald, and has an elongated, fair-skinned face with a flat chin, a large and round red nose, a pointy and thin brown mustache of a similar style to Waluigi's, and defined lips. His body is hunchbacked, and has a protruding stomach and a large contoured rear end. In WarioWare Gold, he was redesigned to look more elderly (e.g. adding wrinkles around his mouth, and defining his jaw); his character card states his age as being "over 100 years old".

His outfit varies throughout the WarioWare series. In most of his appearances, he wears an oval-shaped visor (usually colored green) with a black screen that has one glowing red dot for an eye, obscuring his normal eyes; and a full-body cryogenic jumpsuit. In most games prior to WarioWare Gold, his eye is normally situated on the right side of his visor; after, his eye is shown usually centered. His metal plate is studded and has ear coverings which resemble headphones. Each of his gloves have an orange hemisphere on the front. In the games before WarioWare: Touched!, and in WarioWare: Get It Together!, he has a visor, and his blue metal plate only covers the right side of his head, exposing his scalp. His jumpsuit is yellow, with a blue narrow stripe. Only his left arm and right leg are covered by metal implements. He also wears this outfit when retiring into bed, as shown in his and Penny's character trailer in WarioWare Gold. In WarioWare: Get It Together!, his visor is bigger, and the previously-exposed opposite limbs are covered with a yellow rubber glove and a yellow boot.

After Dr. Crygor's TUNA upgrade in WarioWare: Touched!, the left side of his head is also covered with a metal plate. He has his gloves and boots on both of his arms and legs. He also gains a red, if not pink, color scheme. This design is kept in WarioWare: Smooth Moves, mostly in Penny's stage, until the Kelorometer stage, when he is upgraded further, becoming muscular. His Kelorometer suit is yellow with gray accents, and has a blue cape. In addition to having spiked ear coverings, he has his mask cover the majority of his head, except his nose and mouth. WarioWare: D.I.Y. gives Dr. Crygor a unique design with gray accents on his head, rubber gloves, and boots. He also has a green accent marked in between his visor and metal plate, which has a yellow round antenna on top.

In Game & Wario and Rhythm Heaven Megamix, Dr. Crygor wears a black jumpsuit which is layered with a white lab coat. In addition to his black jumpsuit, he has a bigger and arched visor. He has grayish-blue accents on his metal plate (yet having his ear coverings smaller and simplified) and gloves. In the latter game's, he does not wear his lab coat. WarioWare Gold keeps his metal plate, visor, and gloves from Game & Wario. In that game, he wears a white shorts jumpsuit with a wide gray stripe, and grayish-blue boots. WarioWare: Get It Together! adds a green polka-dot inner tube, and green flippers, to his original outfit as his swimwear.

Personality
As a mad scientist, Dr. Crygor has an eccentric disposition, as evidenced by his unique and unusual inventions, and is able to come up with an idea very quickly. He is also convinced about his skills and has a large ego; after he builds and finishes one of his inventions, he presents it boastfully. Adding to his pride, he tries to offer the player an apprenticeship, as shown in his profile page in the Japanese website for WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, and in the completion screen for his Design minigame in Game & Wario. He frequently uses complex and science-related words in the descriptions for his microgames, especially in WarioWare Gold and in WarioWare: Get It Together!. He has a romantic side; when shown dancing or celebrating, a rose is in his hand or in between his teeth. Dr. Crygor is also terrible in singing; when challenging Mike to a duet in WarioWare: Touched!, the latter comments on the former's singing as "99.78% awful". He also dances in simple and swaying moves that are seen as repulsive, as shown when he dances in Club Joe, and when his Flatterbots in his secret factory fail to laud his dance moves.

Dr. Crygor is also easily frightened. The opening sequence for WarioWare: D.I.Y. begins with him having a nightmare wherein video game characters close in on him from his TV, much to his surprise. In WarioWare Gold, he screams whenever something approaches him from behind. When Doris 1 lashes out at him for abandoning her in Agate Forest, he runs away from her in extreme fear as she chases him. As pointed out by his robot Mike in WarioWare: Get It Together!, he is scared of the dark. Dr. Crygor initially denies the fear, but as soon as the lights go out in Jimmy T's microgame stage, he screams in horror. Mike calls Dr. Crygor a "scaredy-cat".

Penny's own blog from the Japanese website for WarioWare: Smooth Moves reveals that Dr. Crygor has a bad reputation, being called names such as "abnormal" and "weirdo". Despite being a target of ridicule, he is still loved dearly by Penny for his intelligence and ingenuity. In turn, Dr. Crygor has great affection for his granddaughter, and is often seen helping Penny test out her inventions. In WarioWare Gold, he reluctantly states that he supports her ambition of being a famous singer, regardless of how her experiments turn out. His character trailer from the same game reveals that he and Penny share identical morning routines.

Dr. Crygor is mostly associated with toilets, as evidenced by the toilet paper motifs seen in some WarioWare games and a toilet being used as an entrance to his lab in Game & Wario. His unexpected stomach pains cause Dr. Crygor to go to the bathroom to alleviate them. These stomach illnesses are the result of chemicals from fluids that he ends up drinking, such as the Tonally Transformative Elixir, or the blue liquid he drinks in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!.

Powers and abilities
Dr. Crygor has the ability to swim in mid-air as demonstrated in the ending cutscene of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! when he swims in the sky and inadvertently hits Wario's rocket. In WarioWare: Get It Together!, air-swimming is shown as his main ability. Despite having a jetpack, it sometimes fails on him. The epilogue for his story in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! shows his jetpack failing to work, making him fall down. However, in WarioWare: Touched! after Dr. Crygor has been upgraded, he can use his improved jetpack to soar into outer space.

WarioWare series


Japanese website bio

 * Age: You look younger, don't you? Really... hahaha...
 * Profession: People call me a genius scientist... A genius, indeed!
 * Equipment: This is a life-prolonging suit I invented. Thanks to it, I can stay young forever! But, I forgot to cover my head in this suit, so I'm bald...
 * Research Subject: Real. Everything must be real, so are the games!
 * Recent Research: Hair, love. It's very difficult.
 * About Wario: He is an interesting research subject. By the way, I designed the Wario Car! Oops!
 * One Word: Will you be my assistant? The salary is booming! It can be a little dangerous...

Profile page from instruction booklet
"I am Dr. Crygor, the genius scholar. Others have said a 'dangerous' scholar, but I pay no mind to their opinions. My laboratory is set up to further my experiments in reality games. Feel free to stop by and contribute to my research. It is quite fun. Did you know that I was the one who created Wario's car? What? You do not know? Do your research!"

Profile page from Japanese website
"I am Dr. Crygor. The game I invented is all-new, using balloons. There is a balloon atop the television, and it is designed to inflate on its own. Players take turns playing microgames. If you succeed, you will be replaced by the next player, but if you fail, you have to play again! Players who have not played the microgame can quickly inflate the balloon with the A button. The player who was playing the microgame when the balloon bursts loses! Good luck to all of you."

Profile page from instruction booklet
''I've no interest in this diary nonsense. I've got SCIENCE stuff to do! But...Wario said he'd help with my rent if I wrote this for him. Science doesn't pay the bills, I'm afraid. Do you recall the storm clouds that were hanging around last night? I made them rain... I did it with a little invention I created using the theory of balloonic entropy. I've discovered the equation of success! The person playing the microgame when the balloon explodes is a loser! If you follow my directions, you surely will be the victor!
 * While carefully timing the incremental increases in balloon size, scream BLAMMO at the top of your lungs to scare other players–this approach has proven successful in lab experiments.
 * Watch the speed at which the balloon grows. It might benefit you to lose a microgame or two in order to time it so that you aren’t playing when it blows!

In-game profile information

 * Age: Unknown
 * Occupation: Genius Scientist
 * Equipment: Cryogenic Suit
 * Bio: This odd genius lives in seclusion. He built Wario's bike, Mona's moped, Kat's sword, and Jimmy's cell phone. He wears a cryogenic suit that doesn't protect his head.

Profile page from Japanese website
Hi, it's me, Dr. Crygor. ''The stage I made is called "Gravitator". As the name suggests, it's a game that controls gravity, but don't think too hard about it. Play it and you should know. Huff-huff-huff''

Profile page from instruction booklet
"Muahahaha! With my new invention, I can defy the very law of gravity itself! I call it...THE GRAVITATOR! With my command over the force of gravity, nothing can stop me! Why, I can even walk on the ceiling! In fact, I'll test my hypothesis with a little jig right now! What's that, you say? If I alter gravity's pull, then we will all be (ahem) dancing on the ceiling? Good point. Would you like to become my assistant? GRAVITATOR All you have to do is tilt the GBA to change the direction of gravity. This should not be a difficult concept to grasp."

Japanese website bio
''Mwahahahaha! It's finally finished! It's called the "Tri-phonic Undulating Nanobot Automaton"! With it, you can always restore the remains of an apple that you have finished eating! Delicious apple at the ready! It's the moment when my genius bears fruit!! Besides, you do not have to bother cleaning up anymore! Dr. Crygor Insatiable research, limitless curiosity! And with this "TUNA", I think I can easily live another 200 years...'' ''Slightly Unscrewed Use the stylus to turn it quickly, or match its timing. The device I developed is very precise, be sure not to handle it roughly.''

American website bio

 * Diamond City's resident mad scientist is on permanent spin cycle. You can even whirl a planet into a black hole. Won't that look cool on your resume?

Profile page from instruction booklet
"My labor of mechanical love is finally complete! I call it the 'Tri-phonic Undulating Nanobot Automaton', or TUNA! With my brilliant TUNA, I can transform an apple core back to its original deliciousness! I have hypothesized that TUNA will allow me to live for at least another 437 years, during which time I can experiment continuously...while traveling in my flying car...in space. Slightly Unscrewed Use the wonders of centrifugal force to triumph over my scientifically challenging microgames! Simply plant your stylus firmly on the Touch Screen and spin and rotate it with vigor!"

Japanese website bio

 * Occupation: I'm the world's number one genius scientist. Only my granddaughter Penny can surpass me.
 * Hobbies: Recently, I have become aware of using the Form Baton to train my body. Using this mechanism I have completed a new diet machine.
 * Special Talent: Using my soft body, I can take on strange postures. If you ask me, "decisive posture" is foolish.
 * One Word: Look at my handsome body! This is the effect of the diet machine I invented!

Character card

 * Genius scientist
 * Loves celebrity gossip
 * Taking flamenco lessons
 * Prefers two-ply toilet paper

Japanese website bio

 * A scientist who remodeled himself. In fact, he has been alive for over 100 years.

Character card

 * Rank C – Dr. Crygor has reengineered many things—including himself! He might not look it, but he's over 100 years old.
 * Rank B – Dr. Crygor might be a bit eccentric, but he's very smart. He's built tools and robots for his friends.
 * Rank A – Dr. Crygor was said to be quite the dashing romantic when he was a young man. Or so he keeps saying...

European website bio

 * Part robot, part mad scientist, Dr. Crygor can swim in any direction to nail those microgames.

Character description

 * Intro description: This genius scientist is so good at making mechanical marvels, he made a cyborg out of himself!
 * Break Room description: This genius scientist is so good at making mechanical marvels, he made a cyborg out of himself. These self-improvements have not solved his terrible tummy troubles.

Portrayals
During the history of the WarioWare game series' installments overall, Dr. Crygor has been portrayed by the following voice actors:
 * Tim O'Leary (2003 - 2013, starting with WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!)
 * Kyle Hebert (2018 - present, starting with WarioWare Gold)
 * Kensuke Matsui (2018 - present, starting with WarioWare Gold; Japanese version)
 * Alberto Castillo (2018 - present, starting with WarioWare Gold; NOE Spanish version)
 * David Jener (2018 - present, starting with WarioWare Gold; NOE Spanish version)
 * Martial Le Minoux (2018 - present, starting with WarioWare Gold; French version)


 * Giorgio Bonino (2018 - present, starting with WarioWare Gold; Italian version)

Quotes

 * "Very good, indeed. My (player's name) Theory was valid. Yes."
 * "I am Crygor. Yes, Doctor Crygor, genius without parallel."
 * "Impressive! You cleared my stage! Did you enjoy my new invention?"
 * "Insert the remains of an apple... Turn... Recycled! Ha! It works! And... Wha?!"
 * "Be my robot-building assistant."
 * "Game bugs? Glitches? Wonderful! I shall be sure to study them in my laboratory!"
 * "What? A pop star?! Of course I support you no matter what, but..."