Dr. Crygor

"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!"

- Dr. Crygor

Dr. Crygor is a mad scientist featured in the WarioWare series who performs wacky and mostly harmless experiments on his private island laboratory in Diamond City. He is also a cyborg, whose robotic components include a visor with a glowing, red eye, metal hands, a metal plate on his head, and metal legs. As of yet, it is never explained why Crygor has these robotic replacements. His name comes from the term "cryogenics" and the name "Igor," likely in reference to.

In addition to being a scientist, Dr. Crygor is a WarioWare, Inc. employee. As such, he frequently appears as one of the stage or mode hosts in the WarioWare games.

Background
Dr. Crygor's diary at the Japanese website for WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! shares some of his research incidents. The diary reveals that, before the events of Mega Microgame$!, he 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 one day, the drink's effects wore off.

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!
Dr. Crygor can be seen in the intro of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, where he is called by Wario to join his company WarioWare, Inc. and to produce microgames for his upcoming game. Like Wario's other friends in Diamond City, Dr. Crygor agrees.

In his stage, Dr. Crygor is in his laboratory dancing. After finishing off his dance, the mad scientist reaches for something to drink and ends up grabbing a beaker filled with a blue liquid. He drinks it and suddenly comes down with food poisoning. He quickly runs for the restroom, shaking all the while. Once finished, the toilet explodes behind him, flooding his lab. Dr. Crygor attempts to swim away but is sent rocketing into the sky. He tries to activate his jetpack, but it doesn't work, and he begins falling to the ground. Luckily, Don the Sparrow catches Dr. Crygor and flies him to safety.

At the ending of the game, he accidentally hits Wario's rocket and makes it crash into the harbor. He and Wario paddle the rocket to safety.

In the unlockable dual-player mini-game "VS Hurdle", Dr. Crygor appears as the character of the player who has to use the button and has to reach the finish in a hurdle race before Orbulon, the other player's character.

In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Dr. Crygor has Reality microgames, which involve photorealistic graphics.

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.

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 color of the player, whether 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.

WarioWare: Twisted!
In the intro of WarioWare: Twisted!, Dr. Crygor is called upon by Wario to help fix his broken Game Boy Advance. Crygor throws the system into his latest invention, the Gravitator, which spews out hundreds of smaller systems. Wario grabs one of these, only to find that it lacks any buttons. Dr. Crygor instructs him to try tilting the system, and Wario does, allowing him to pass one of his games with ease. After showing it to Mona and 9-Volt, both of which enjoy the tilting controls, Wario gets the idea to sell the system to make a huge profit.

In his stage, Dr. Crygor excitedly dances around his lab to celebrate the completion of his newest invention, the Gravitator. Suddenly the machine spews out bubbles, which trap Crygor and many of his possessions. After escaping the bubble, the scientist claims to be a genius and immediately fires up the machine. Suddenly, the Gravitator bursts open, revealing a giant robot. Dr. Crygor jumps into the robot and flies off in it. However, while flying, Shuriken the Falcon rams into the robot, causing it to fall apart, to reveal him riding atop a mechanical duck. Dr. Crygor seems doomed until Shuriken returns to rescue him.

In Wario-Man's story, as Dr. Crygor continues to create more games with his Gravitator, Wario is on the conveyor belt and goes into the Gravitator, coming out 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 dangerous to risk it. Despite this, Wario-Man took 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.

In this game, Dr. Crygor's microgame set is named after his latest invention and involves rotating the system to alter the gravity of the microgames.

WarioWare: Touched!
Dr. Crygor appears once again in WarioWare: Touched!, this time showing off his Tri-phonic Undulating Nanobot Automaton, or TUNA, a machine capable of making objects younger. Crygor tests his invention on an apple core, which is transformed back into a full apple. The scientist jumps into the machine to see the apple, but the hatch closes trapping him inside. When he escapes he becomes younger and more fit. Using his jet-pack, he flies into space where he is then seen with a group of Alien Bunnies.

Later on, in the story segment of Mike, Dr. Crygor has just finished building a karaoke robot and naming him Mike. When this robot becomes operational, he announces that he is going out, and asks Mike to do some cleaning around the lab. While his master is gone, Mike's original karaoke programming is triggered by blowing a pile of dust off a windowsill, and overrides his cleaning software, making him blast out of the lab and into space to host a karaoke party on a faraway planet, and lands on the planet of the Alien Bunnies. Soon, Dr. Crygor, having realized that Mike had gone missing, hitches a taxi courtesy of Dribble & Spitz, and finds out where Mike had been. When they get home, Dr. Crygor suggests that they should sing a duet, but Mike isn't impressed with his singing and, following an argument, Mike leaves again for the Hawt House.

This is the first game where the left half of Crygor's head is also covered by a metal plate.

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

WarioWare: Smooth Moves
In WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Dr. Crygor is shown to have a granddaughter, a young inventor named Penny. In her stage, she attends a competition called the "Invent-Off" at Diamond Academy and is put against her grandfather to see who is the best inventor. After what appears to be a mental fight between the two, Penny pulls her winning invention (a motorcycle) out of thin air, surprising Dr. Crygor. After defeating her grandfather, Penny sings a song to the cheering crowd.

Later, Dr. Crygor stars in a stage. Here he reveals his latest invention, the large machine known as the Kelorometer, capable of slimming down anything put into it. After completing twenty microgames, the player's Mii is slimmed down and their performance is graded.

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

Deep in his laboratory, Dr. Crygor and his granddaughter, 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, asking what those are. Dr. Crygor explains to Wario about the machines' functions, giving Wario some ideas on making money with his new invention.

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

Game & Wario
Dr. Crygor also appears in Game & Wario, where he hosts the Design minigame. In the minigame's introduction, he is seen getting up from his bed in his laboratory, and going to his toilet (which has a shower installed on it). He has trouble getting off of the toilet and ends up inside it, moving through pipes until he reaches another room.

In the minigame, the player must draw lines and shapes of certain sizes to build a robot. Dr. Crygor gives the player instructions throughout the minigame.

He is also in the Bowling minigame, depicted on a pin like most other characters in the game.

WarioWare Gold
Dr. Crygor returns in WarioWare Gold, hosting the second set of the Twist League, which has a Sports theme. In his story, he and Mike are stuck in Agate Forest, a location filled with “paranormal frequencies” when they run into a robot named Doris 1. Doris 1 recognizes Dr. Crygor as her creator, who abandoned her for reasons undisclosed and proceeds to chase him. Later, after the confusion is cleared, Dr. Crygor takes in Doris 1 out of generosity, and Doris 1 contradicts Mike's claims that there is no paranormal activity, claiming that it walked right through her. Dr. Crygor then realizes that he dropped the fungi in the forest, and asks Mike to go back there, but he refuses.

Dr. Crygor also appears in Penny's stage. Penny tests the Tonally Transformative Elixir on Dr. Crygor, only for him to have extreme stomach pain. To cure this, Penny whips out her Super-Special Tummy Tonic to cure 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.

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.

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 Crygor to gain interest in the game bugs.

In his story, Dr. Crygor is testing a new invention in a 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 the gang, reassuring his status as a genius.

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 will bounce off Crygor's attacks, which also have little effect on moving the objects. 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).

Super Smash Bros. series
Dr. Crygor appears as a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and as a trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, depicting his WarioWare: Touched! and Game & Wario appearances respectively. 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. Dr. Crygor also appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a Spirit, which depicts his WarioWare Gold appearance.

Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Dr. Crygor makes several appearances in the Wario... Where? challenge set of Rhythm Heaven Megamix. He first appears in the background alongside Penny in the set's version of, which features Mike as one of the models of robots being filled with liquid. He later stars as the player character in the set's version of, which has him taking photos of racing Tiny Warios and Dribble & Spitz.

Inventions

 * 9-Volt's SK8: 9-Volt's flying skateboard.
 * Alarm Clocks resembling Game Boys.
 * Cryogenic Suit: A life-support suit that Dr. Crygor wears himself, keeping him from aging altogether
 * Doris 1: A female cleaner robot.
 * Dribble Taxi: The taxi driven by Dribble & Spitz.
 * Flatterbots: Robots that are programmed to praise and applaud a specific person's performance.
 * Gravitator: A device resembling a washing machine that can alter gravity by creating bubbles that trap and affect surrounding objects.
 * Jimmy's Cell: The cellphone used by Jimmy T.
 * Kat & Ana's swords
 * Kelorometer: A machine built to help lose kelories.
 * Mike: A karaoke robot.
 * Mona's scooter: Mona's main form of transportation.
 * Tri-phonic Undulating Nanobot Automaton: Also known as TUNA, it is a machine that can make objects younger than they are.
 * Super MakerMatic 21: A device that can create microgames.
 * Octoblazooka: A laser-shooting robotic octopus.
 * Orbulon Voice Changer: A device that resembles and sounds like Orbulon.
 * Wario Bike: Wario's motorcycle.
 * Wario Car: A purple car that Wario drives in the Wario Land and the WarioWare series.

Physical appearance
Dr. Crygor is a cyborg, with his parts being a metal head plate, gloves, and boots. He is a bald man who has a large, red and rounded nose, and a pointy and thin mustache. His outfit varies between the WarioWare games. In most of his appearances, he is shown to always wear a visor that obscures his normal eyes, which has one glowing red eye; and a full-body cryogenic jumpsuit. In most games prior to WarioWare Gold, his eye is situated on the right side of his visor; after those, his eye is shown always centered. His metal plate has one or two ear coverings which resemble headphones. His gloves have an orange sphere on the forearm area.

In the games before WarioWare: Touched! and in WarioWare: Get It Together!, he has a green visor, and his metal plate only covers half of his head, exposing his bald head. His jumpsuit is yellow, with a blue vertical line on it. Only one glove and boot cover his left arm and right leg, respectively. He also has a blue jetpack on his back.

After Dr. Crygor's upgrade in WarioWare: Touched!, his metal plate covers the entirety of his head, and he has his gloves and boots on both of his arms and legs. He also gains a red color scheme. This design is retained in WarioWare: Smooth Moves until the Kelorometer stage when he was upgraded further and becomes muscular. His Kelorometer suit is yellow with gray accents, and has a blue cape. In addition to having spiked ear coverings, he has his headgear cover everything of his head, except his nose and mouth.

WarioWare: D.I.Y. gives Dr. Crygor a unique design with gray accents on his head, hands, and feet. He also has a green accent marked in front of his metal plate, which has a rounded antenna on top.

In Game & Wario and Rhythm Heaven Megamix, Dr. Crygor wears a purely-black jumpsuit which is layered with a white labcoat. In addition to his black jumpsuit, he has a new, bigger arched visor. He has light-blue accents on his metal plate and gloves. In the latter game's, he does not wear his labcoat. WarioWare Gold keeps his metal plate and gloves from Game & Wario, and his outfit in that game is a white shorts jumpsuit marked with big gray stripe, and light-blue boots.

Personality
As a mad scientist working at his laboratory, Dr. Crygor has an outlandish and bizarre disposition who creates unique and unusual inventions. He often asks the player to join him as his assistant. He has a very flamboyant side; in his romantic moments, a rose is in his possession. He dances in simple, swaying poses that end up driving people away, as seen when he was dancing in Club Joe, and when he was testing his Flatterbots in his secret laboratory.

Dr. Crygor is also easily frightened. When Doris 1 lashes out at him for abandoning her in Agate Forest, he runs away from her in extreme fear. As pointed out by his robot Mike in WarioWare: Get It Together!, he has a phobia of the dark; Dr. Crygor initially denies this fear, but as soon as the lights go out in Jimmy T's microgame stage, he screams in horror.

He has a great affection for Penny, his granddaughter, and is often seen helping her test out her inventions. He even states that he always supports her, no matter how her experiments turn out. His WarioWare Gold character trailer implies that he and Penny share identical morning routines.

Dr. Crygor's interests mostly involve 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 his troubles. These stomach illnesses were 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$!.

Profile page from the WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! manual
"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 the WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! manual
"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. The person playing the microgame when the balloon explodes is a loser! If you follow my directions, you surely will be the victor!"

Profile information from WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!

 * 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 the WarioWare: Twisted! manual
"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? All you have to do is tilt the GBA to change the direction of gravity. This should not be a difficult concept to grasp."

Profile page from the WarioWare: Touched! manual
"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. 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!"

WarioWare: Touched! 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?"

Game & Wario character card

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

WarioWare Gold 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."

Trivia

 * The music in Dr. Crygor's epilogue in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! is the hurry up music from Wario Land 4.
 * The character trailer for Penny and Dr. Crygor for WarioWare Gold seems to indicate that Dr. Crygor's original lopsided metal plate still exists under his larger one and that the latter is removable, as it seems he sleeps without it on. Dr. Crygor also still wears his yellow outfit from the games prior to WarioWare: Smooth Moves when he goes to sleep.
 * 9-Volt and Dr. Crygor are the only microgame hosts in WarioWare Gold (aside from Wario himself) to have dialogue in more than one stage outside the Ultra League. In addition to his own stage, he speaks during Penny's stage.
 * From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Crygor was voiced by Tim O'Leary, an employee at Nintendo of America.