Dr. Acquati

Dr. Acquati is a marine biologist. As a graduate student he worked with a professor who was convinced that octopuses are an intelligent species comparable to humans and was trying to communicate with them. The project initially failed, but Acquati still believed in it and carried on the work in secret. Eventually he established communication, and discovered that the octopuses are intelligent. He identified with them: they were intelligent, antisocial, and miss understood, and so was he. They often told him that humans were a lesser species and were ruining the planet, and helped him cook up a plot to get rid of them; Dr. Acquati would take to the sea with his eight-legged friends and poison the earth’s atmosphere to kill everyone without gills.

He is now in the final stages of his plan. Using octopus DNA he has changed his own berating, and is barely able to survive on land with the help of the special tank, but he has surfaced one last time to gather anyone who may be willing to follow him into the deep.