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We had such potential...such promise. But we squandered our gifts... And so, 9, I am creating you. Our world is ending. Life must go on.

The Scientist
The Scientist
Gender
Male
Height
Species
Human
Awakening
Status
Deceased
Appearance(s)

The Scientist is a pivotal character in 9 (2009 film). A former toymaker, he was the inventor of the B.R.A.I.N, the Talisman, and the Stitchpunks.

Personality

Hard-working, hopeful, and always enthused to document progress in his work and significant updates to his research and/or insight regarding the outside world.

Physical Appearance

The Scientist is a slim grown man with a long face, brown eyes, and thinning gray hair. His attire consists of a white scientist jacket over a gentleman suit. He also wears glasses, due to the myopia resulting from his old age.

Biography

9 (2009 Film)

In the introduction, the Scientist is seen making 9 and telling us how humanity, in its blind pursuit of science and technology, went to its doom. As soon as he finishes making 9, he then opens a holographic box and records a message for 9 to know, since the Scientist fears that he'll die once he gives life to 9. Upon finishing the message, he closes the holographic box and places the Talisman into a slot on the Transfer Device, 9 hanging behind the slot with wires attached to him from the slot. As the Talisman powers up to suck the Scientist's remaining life force, he leans forwards to a strange Transfer Stand and then the Talisman sucks the life out through his eyes and mouth. With no more life inside him, the Scientist collapses from his chair and hits the floor, still gripping onto the holographic box as the light of the candle fades out.

The Scientist created the 9 stitchpunks to act as guardians for the future. Upon the birth of 9, he gave them the mission to bring life back into the world, because it had been destroyed by humanity.

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The scientist‘s first moments with the B.R.A.I.N before being taken away

Later the Scientist's body was covered with papers and blueprints due to the wind outside, a few minutes before 9 woke up. 9 noticed him lying on the ground and shuddered but upon noticing 2 outside, 9 left the laboratory.

9 later returned to the laboratory upon heeding 6's last words. As he looked on the floor for whatever 6's words may have meant, he noticed the Scientist gripping something. After he drags the box from the Scientist's hands and opens it, the Scientist's message played. The Scientist's message revealed how dangerous his "invention" was because it lacked a human soul and had become corrupted due to the sinister Chancellor. The message also revealed that each of the stitchpunks have a part of the Scientist's soul and showed 9 how to use the Talisman. The message stopped there and 9 looked at the Scientist with sadness and pity.

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The scientist‘s last moments before inserting the last portion of his soul into 9, which lead to his death

Trivia

  • The Scientist bears a slight resemblance to Albert Einstein.
  • The Scientist never intended for the Fabrication Machine to reawaken. He only wanted 9 to see the message, and then use the talisman to bring life back into the world once more.
  • The Scientist devised the holographic message because he presumed that 9 would see it. He may have made it accordingly for 9, with the message projector box having the tied-on inclusion of a tag with a ‘9’ (or upside-down ‘6’), because 9 is his last and most whole creation regarding particular fragmentation of the scientist’s soul, the closest to a perfect human.
  • He put the last cognitive fragment of his soul into 9, resulting in the old man's death.
  • The name "Julius Bergeron" is supposedly to be the Scientist's real name upon seeing a name under-listed in one of the newspapers that 3 and 4 found and held up for 9, 5, and 7 at the library. However, there was no completely explicit evidence that any other human in the film besides the scientist or percase the photographer of the photo in the front article of that newspaper were named Julius Bergeron.
  • Originally particular concept art shows the scientist being decayed after giving 9 a life, but it also shows he had to fight the chancellor and killed him by either sticking a pen in his head of one of his eyes.
  • In early concepts, the Scientist had facial hair and had a German accent shown in a deleted scene.
  • According to his Facebook Page, the Scientist supposedly came back to life because the life ethos from the raindrops brought the majority of his soul back to his body, and now he's trying to find 9 and the other survivors. The possibility of this is incalculably unrealistic, but the particular post from his Facebook Page has hinted this phenomenon.
  • However, a sequel/prequel cannot be made as of yet, Sequel (What We Know).
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