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Are you crying? Is it because I kidnapped your daddy? Or because I hurt your little dog?
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~ Dr. Calico to Penny.
Dr. Calico is the main antagonist of the in-universe TV show Bolt in Disney's 48th full-length animated feature film of the same name, its video game adaptation, and its Super Rhino short. Although he is portrayed by an actor in real-life, Bolt thinks he is an actual villain and believes Calico must pay for his actions.
Dr. Calico is a charismatic evil genius with a mutated green cat-like right eye. No explanation is given about his eye, although it implies his affinity for owning cats.
Calico is the head of an unnamed high-tech crime syndicate whose goal is to achieve world domination. Its primary minions are armed with electric gloves, laser guns, and protective motorcycle helmets. Elite henchmen are known as agents, who are armed with concealable high-tech weapons, and considerably more training than standard henchmen. Aside from them, Calico also has associates and thugs who assist him in his plans with world domination.
Despite his resources, Calico requires the help of greater intelligence to achieve his goals. He kidnapped Penny's father, although he could not defeat the will of the doctor, who seemed impervious to his means of persuasion. It is implied from their interactions that they may have once been partners.
In order to gain the cooperation of the scientist, Calico tried to capture Penny. But his every attempt to do so was thwarted by Bolt, whom Penny's father had given superpowers to protect her. The scientist's amazing knack for genetic mutation might have had something to do with Calico's plans for world domination, which might have been why he was interested in him.
Calico never seems to be intimidated by Bolt's powers, nor do his henchmen. Judging by the countless pawns he hurls at Bolt, Calico might have armies to spare. His organization might not be just a syndicate, but an entire revolutionary community.
Bolt: The Video Game[]
After capturing Penny's father, Calico then pursued Penny, the one thing that would get him to cooperate. Calico finally managed to capture Penny once she and Bolt found his temple base in the Ukatan jungle. To prove Penny was alive and in the custody of her father, Calico gave Penny a cell phone with her father on the other line. Calico then attempted to flee the crumbling temple with his new captive, but decided to leave her there with Bolt to die, saying, "As long as the professor believes she's alive, he will do what is asked and finish the weapon. Too bad we can't all have nine lives."
However, Penny and Bolt survived and discovered Calico's new arctic base with a large rocket in the center. But upon entering, Penny notices micro-focusing mirrors and realizes that it is her father's satellite instead of a warhead. However, she notices this too late, as Calico seals the entrance and, to Bolt's horror, launches it with Penny inside. Bolt then jumped onto the rocket and dismantled it in mid-flight, crashing it into the snow.
The two then ventured to Calico's harbor in Japan, where they discovered a ship full warheads. Just then, Calico arrived at the harbor, enraged to find Penny still alive, and even more so as he watched his prized freight ship sink into the water, thanks to Bolt, who then pursues Calico, escaping in his car to a nearby train station. He arrives at the station and boards his train, closely followed by Penny and her dog. Just as the duo finally corners the doctor, he slips into a hidden room and escaped on his private jet, but not before Penny secures a homing beacon onto the hull, leading them right back to Calico's base.
Penny and Bolt traced his jet back to his main base, where Penny's father was being held. However, upon arriving, Calico used his new weapon on Bolt, draining him of his powers and strength and capturing Penny. Once Penny is inside, he explains his plan to use Penny's father's micro-focusing mirror-equipped satellites to bounce a beam around the Earth and neutralize and destroy all atomic weaponry except for his own. As he leaves, he violently kicks Bolt's cage, proving Penny of her limited knowledge. However, during this, Penny maneuvered her way out of her hand bindings.
Once free, she attempted to find her father to save Bolt. Unfortunately, she is only captured by the doctor once again, but just as this happens, Bolt regains his powers and Penny sabotages the control panel, raising the bridge so Bolt could reach her. Once he did, Penny escaped from her guard captors yet again and launched a pre-prepared, rocket-powered cart at the main power generator (which Bolt exposed). Calico then infused himself with the remaining power and dueled with Bolt, but was ultimately defeated. Beaten and weakened, he attempted to escape on his private helicopter, launching numerous missiles as a decoy, just as Penny finally finds her father aboard the helicopter.
But, while Bolt tried to apprehend Calico by grabbing his foot, Penny's father pleads to her and Bolt to allow Calico to escape with himself to stop the missiles, reminding her that she had the power to find him again. Regretfully, Penny ordered Bolt to stop the missiles as Calico escaped with her father.
Bolt[]
Dr. Calico is first seen on video with Penny's captive father, talking to one of his associates as Penny and Bolt spy on him. As the associate tries to leave, Penny and Bolt capture and interrogate him, learning of Calico's base in Bolivia. Though Penny and Bolt infiltrate the base and attempt to figure out Calico's goals, Calico himself appears with his cats, revealing it to be a bait for Penny. He imprisons her in what appears to be a portable toilet and flies away, laughing maniacally as he claims that world domination is within his grasp. As Bolt tries to rescue her, believing she is in real danger, one of the filming crew retrieves him and brings him back to his trailer, as it was revealed to be a cliffhanger episode created by the Director to boost ratings.
Calico returns to Penny's father and soon reveals a captive Penny, threatening to dip her in lava. She calls for Bolt, much to Calico's shock as he orders his minions to attack Bolt. Not much is known about what happened afterward, as the shooting for the episode was interrupted.
Later, Penny undergoes facial reconstructive surgery, and upon seeing her new face, believes that Calico will be unable to recognize her. A disguised Calico then sneaks up on Penny and attempts to kill her with a possibly fatal drug, only for Bolt to destroy the syringe and rescue her. However, aliens soon arrive and abduct Penny and Bolt, much to Calico's frustration.
Calico's Actor[]
In real life, Calico is played by an unnamed actor, who presumably began playing the character sometime before the events of the film. He spends most of the film's screentime in-character, and his acting mostly goes smoothly given that the Director has never complained about his performance. It is unknown if he is aware that Bolt genuinely hates him and sees him as an actual villain because of the director's actions.
The only time he is seen out-of-character is during the studio fire at the film's climax. His interim fate is unclear other than he returned at least for the alien abduction scene.
Super Rhino[]
In the short, Dr. Calico successfully manages to kidnap both Bolt and Penny, imprisoning his captives in a heavily fortified base that (as he claims) neither man nor dog can even penetrate. Unknown to Calico, Penny's father learns about the abduction through a special device implanted in Bolt's collar, causing Penny's father to empower Rhino in the same way he did Bolt.
Rhino blasts into Calico's fortress with his super-speed and uses his powers to battle Calico's henchmen. After breaking into the base itself and briefly talking with Calico, Rhino proceeds to rescue Bolt and Penny in a showdown. Calico rises from the ruins and swears revenge, only to be taken down by Rhino's super-squeak, leaving him confused.
At the end of the short, it is revealed to have all been a dream Rhino was having before he is woken up by Mittens. Another dream sequence has Calico mentioned by Rhino, having been recruited by the U.S. President to stop his new evil plan to blow up the moon.
Quotes[]
Bolt[]
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Associate: Any luck getting our guest to spill his guts? Dr. Calico: Oh, his guts will spill one way or another. Penny's father: Never! I'll never talk! Penny: Daddy! Dr. Calico: You are beginning to irk me professor. I am irked and that will not do. Has the package arrived? I've made my dear friend a little communicative. Associate: I'm sending an agent to pick it up. Dr. Calico: Gorgeous! Have him bring it to me on the first flight.
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~ Calico speaking with his associates on his plans.
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We only need the girl!
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~ Calico telling one of his thugs that Penny must be captured.
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Dr. Calico: Such devotion. It brings tears to my eyes! Penny: Calico! Dr. Calico: Your father's discoveries could be of great use to our organization. I'm sure that it will be accommodating now that I've got his lucky Penny! Penny: Bolt! Dr. Calico: World domination is within my grasp! Ha ha ha ha ha!!
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~ Dr. Calico explaining his evil plans of world domination to Penny and Bolt before "capturing" Penny during a cliffhanger episode.
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Dr. Calico: Ah, professor. I'd like to thank you for granting us access to that labyrinthian mind of yours. Penny's father: You know I'd never do such a thing Dr. Calico: Unless it was the only way to save your little girl's life! Penny's father: Penny! Penny: Daddy! Bolt! Here Bolt! Dr. Calico: Your dog is nowhere near. GET THAT DOG!!!
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~ Calico holding Penny and her father "captive" during a shooting of an episode that was later incompleted due to the fake Bolt causing a fire.
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Aliens!
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~ Dr. Calico in anger when he sees Penny and Bolt get captured by aliens.
Super Rhino[]
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Dr. Calico: Every dog has its day. But this time belongs to Dr. Calico! Ha-ha-ha-ha!! Penny: (muffled) Ugh! Help! Dr. Calico: Oh no. There will be no help. No man, nor dog, can ever penetrate my defenses! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! Penny's TV Dad: Calico you monster! I can't save you Penny. But I know who can!
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~ Calico telling a captive Penny and Bolt that his base is defensive and no one can take over, not knowing that Bolt's collar has a secret camera that's being watched over by Penny's father, who decides to send in Rhino to rescue them.
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Dr. Calico: Who are you?! Rhino: The name is Rhino! Dr. Calico: Rhino? The hamster.
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~ Calico meeting Rhino for the first time.
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We're done here!
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~ Calico ending his brief conversation with Rhino before ordering his soldiers to kill him.
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Dr. Calico: This isn't over. I will amasser a larger, more deadly, unbeatable army of indestructible! Rhino: We're done here!
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~ Calico swearing revenge before being defeated by Rhino's super squeak
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I didn't know he could do that.
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~ Calico confused on Rhino's super squeak
Gallery[]
Films[]
Sending minions.
Calico during the stage fire.
Seeing Aliens.
Evil laugh.
Staring down form a railing.
Calico and his cat after being caught on fire.
Talking to his minions.
Video Game[]
Taunting Penny
Commanding his men to fire the missiles.
Being pulled by the shoe.
Trivia[]
Like many other monarchs of evil, Dr. Calico has a love for cats.
No explanation is given for Dr. Calico's abnormal right eye, although a couple of possible explanations for it are that it could be a fictionalized version of a rare natural genetic malformation condition known as "unilateral cat eye syndrome" with a fictionalized appearance for a "television romantically pleasing effect", or he was victimized by some kind of failed scientific experiment.
Dr. Calico is the perfect example of Fictional Fictional Villains, given that he is initially presented as the film's main antagonist, only to be later revealed to be merely an actor playing the antagonist of the TV show.
He is somewhat influenced by other mad scientists such as Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the James Bond franchise.
According to Rhino, one of Calico's foiled plots involved infiltrating the Olympics with gymnastic cyborgs.
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