Wayne Szalinski

Wayne Szalinski is the main protagonist from Disney's 1989 live-action film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and its 1992-97 sequels and television series in the saga. He was portrayed by Rick Moranis in the films and by Peter Scolari in the series.

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
Wayne is an inventor who is struggling to get his shrinking machine to work. He tests the machine out on an apple, but the rather than shrinking it, the machine blows it up. While it's an interesting way of making applesauce, it causes Wayne great frustration, as he has a conference later that afternoon at the lab, and must be able to demonstrate that the machine actually works.

At the conference, Wayne is laughed at by the audience when he can't prove that the machine works. When he gets home, he finds his two children, Amy and Nick, missing. When he goes up into the attic, he finds some of the furniture (including his beloved "thinking couch") missing as well. He also notices that the window is broken. He takes his frustration out on the machine, destroying it and sweeping up the debris into the trash.

Unbeknownst to Wayne, however, the machine actually works. It had shrunk Amy and Nick, as well as Russ and Ron Thompson, the two boys next door, and Wayne had accidentally swept them up and thrown them out with the trash. He spends the rest of the day desperately looking for them.

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Wayne and his family after the incident involving his kids, move to Nevada. Amy heads off to college and Wayne is raising his third child named Adam. Being the only one to constantly improve his son's play pen so he doesn't get out, Wayne is also responsible for a project to duplicate his shrinking machine and enlarging matter. After constant failure, Wayne continues working on the project alongside Charles Hendrickson. Afterwards, Wayne, Nick and Adam go to the lab to run some tests and Wayne decides to use Adam's plush bunny as a test subject.

During testing, Adam ends up in the line of fire and like the bunny, Adam is hit with the same electrical energy. Upon returning home, Wayne decides to fix his son some lunch and while he leaves to talk with Nick, Adam is exposed to microwave energy and grows. When shocked to see his boy's unnatural size, Wayne decides to return to the lab and reverse the process. Before returning to the lab, they discover Hendrickson is in the lab and he relieves Wayne off the project. Eventually returning home, Wayne finds that his wife is home and discovers Adam's plush bunny overgrown and so Wayne decides to tell Diane the truth.

When confronting Diane, Adam comes into the house and causes Diane to faint at the sight of her baby's unnatural size. Diane almost kills Wayne because of what happened and after trying to get Adam to stop his playful rampage around the house, manages to fix a huge play pen for Adam. Wayne continues to seek a solution for his son's condition and realizes the only solution is his prototype shrinking machine. Leaving Nick to watch over Adam, Wayne and Diane head to the Sterling Labs Warehouse to find his machine. Succeeding in finding his machine, he assembles the machine while on the way and successfully tests it on a couple of patrol officers.

Upon confronting Hendrickson and CEO of Sterling Labs Clifford Sterling, Sterling fires Hendrickson and assists Wayne in helping to getting his son back to normal size. While going after Adam, Wayne, Diane, Sterling and Marshall Brooks all get ahead of Adam before he heads to Las Vegas. Wayne's first plan consists of Adam's favorite plush toy which ends in failure after he says the word "nap", which is a word Adam hates the most. Adam then heads for the city with Nick and Mandy in the pocket of his overalls and grows at an alarming rate. After crossing an ice cream truck, Wayne realizes that Adam loves ice cream and so Marshall Brooks drives the truck in order to get Adam away from the city.

Wayne's plan seemed to have worked, however Adam grabs the ice cream shaped piece right off the truck and took a chunk right out off it. Diane then brings up an idea that she should make herself larger and despite his protest, Diane insists on it. Reluctantly Wayne makes Diane big in order for her to get Adam to stay still and succeeds in returning his son and wife back to normal size. The next problem is to find where Nick and Mandy are due to the fact that when Adam was returned to normal size, the teenagers were shrunk. After finding them, Wayne decides to leave them alone for a bit while consulting Diane about Adam's really big bunny.

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
Wayne and his brother Gordon are working on a science fair and as they come home, they use the shrinking machine to shrink a Tiki man, but as it recharges, it accidentally forces a red pool ball to press the button and shrink the brothers.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The Series
It is set between the 1989 film and its 1992 sequel.

Physical Appearance
Wayne is around a 5ft tall man with short brown hair and big glasses. He is usually always dressed either formally or semi-formally. He is somewhat shorter than his wife and many others that he's encountered over the years. Although not very strong physically, Wayne compensates physical strength with mental strength.

Abilities
Wayne is known to possess several abilities he's shown throughout his life.
 *  Intelligence  One of his greatest abilities is his intelligence. As a scientist, Wayne has been shown to solve one problem after another, even when he's responsible for said problems.