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Dr. Calico is a character in Disney's 2008 film Bolt. He is the main antagonist of the in-universe Bolt TV show and the film's video game tie-in.

Though he is not an actual villain, but merely an actor, Bolt thinks he is really a villain and promises to get him for real.

Background

Personality

Dr. Calico is among the most ruthless, cunning and merciless villains ever seen in the Disney universe. Always accompanied by one or more cats, he is a master of planning and a brilliant strategist. Ruthless, yet patient, he likes to torture his enemies in order to force them to do his bidding. Although he is seen always hiding behind his guards, he is not above killing his enemies with his bare hands; this is seen in the show when he tries to kill Penny after she had surgery by attempting to inject her with some sort of fatal drug. In the video game, his personality seems more evil and sinister than in the film.

Appearances

Bolt

Dr. Calico is first seen on video with Penny's father captive, 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.

Later, the cats portraying Calico's cats sneak into Bolt's trailer and mock him, mentioning that Calico has a plan and that he will execute that plan and then execute Penny.

Calico does not appear in person until the next day's shooting, where he appears with his cats and confronts Penny and Bolt (who have infiltrated his Bolivia base). He imprisons Penny in what appears to be a portable toilet and flies away, laughing maniacally.

Calico is mentioned several times throughout the film. When Bolt attempts to break free, he spots the prop of the toilet Calico used to abduct Penny and tries to smash his head through the window to access it, but fails. Also, when he arrives in New York by mistake, he notices a man who looks like Calico from the back. Bolt tries to knock the man unconscious, but all Bolt does is simply tap the man on the shoulder. Following this, Bolt notices a truck containing a portable toilet resembling Calico's, proceeding to intercept the truck.

After meeting up with some street pigeons, Bolt mentions that he is tracking down Calico. The pigeons lead him to Mittens, since Calico has a fondness for cats. Bolt then interrogates Mittens, demanding that she tell him where Calico and Penny are.

After Rhino and Bolt break free from the animal control truck, Rhino motivates Bolt using several of Calico's plots as an example.

When Bolt arrives in Hollywood, Calico is seen once more, showing a captive Penny to her father. She calls for Bolt, and his lookalike arrives, much to Calico's shock as he shrieks, "GET THAT DOG!!!" Unfortunately, Bolt's lookalike is spooked by Calico and his minions and flees the set, setting fire to the area and forcing Calico and the crew to leave.

Calico is revealed to have escaped the studio as he, while disguised as a medic at the hospital in the TV show, sneaks up on a new Penny with a possibly deadly drug. However, a new Bolt destroys the syringe and rescues Penny, but they are abducted by aliens as Calico looks up and clenches his fist at the aliens.

Super Rhino

Calico returns in the short, once again as the main antagonist. Here, he captures Bolt and Penny, preparing to dip the both of them in lava. Unknown to Calico, Penny's father overhears Calico gloating over his dome-shaped base and defenses through Bolt's collar, prompting the scientist to infuse Rhino with Bolt's powers and send him to rescue Bolt and Penny.

Rhino arrives at the base and proceeds to smash his way through Calico's defenses, eventually using his laser vision to break into the dome. After a brief conversation with the enhanced hamster, Calico unleashes a barrage of missiles and artillery, but Rhino hops on one of the missiles. As the missile trails onward, Rhino destroys the rest of the artillery and rescues Bolt and Penny, sending the missile towards Calico. He rises from the rubble and swears revenge, but Rhino promptly finishes Calico off with a super-squeak. A defeated, but burnt Calico tells himself he did not know Rhino could do that.

Bolt: The Video Game

Calico also appears as the main antagonist of the video game, which is inspired by the film's in-universe TV show. As a result, he is more fleshed out as a character.

After capturing Penny's father on the show, Calico then pursued the one thing that would get him to cooperate, Penny. Calico finally managed to capture Penny once she and Bolt found his temple base in the Yucatán jungle. To prove Penny was alive and in custody to her father, Calico gave Penny a cell phone with her father on the other line. Calico then tried 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 base in Northern Russia, containing a large rocket. But upon entering, Penny notices micro-focusing mirrors and realizes that it is her father's satellite instead of a warhead. All 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 China, where they discovered a ship full warheads. Just then, Calico arrived at the harbor, enraged and surprised 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. And 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, just as Bolt regains his powers and Penny sabotages the control panel, however, raising the bridge so Bolt could reach her. Once he did, Penny escaped from her guard captors yet again and launched a 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 or innocent people would die, 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.

Trivia

Dr. Calico is one of the few Disney Villains who is not evil due to fact that he is simply an actor playing a villain in the Bolt TV show. This also makes him the first Disney Villain to not have any genuine hatred towards or a vendetta against the film's heroes, with the second being the The Backson.
- Calico is also the first character to be simply an actor playing a villain but mistaken by at least one character to be an actual villain, with the second being Wreck-It Ralph.
Despite not being an actual villain, Dr. Calico still drives the plot of the film.
Although he is called Dr. Calico, it is never really explained what kind of doctor he may be. It is implied that aside from being the leader of a major terrorist organization, he could also be a medical doctor or a scientist of genetics and / or robotics.
According to Rhino, Calico once had a plan to infiltrate the Olympics with gymnastic cyborgs, which was foiled by Bolt.
Calico's appearance and personality are modeled after those of some of James Bond's most famous villains such as Dr. No, Auric Goldfinger, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Aristotle Kristatos, Hugo Drax, Brad Whitaker and Francisco Scaramanga.
Dr. Calico is one of the few villains to not have his own leitmotif or musical number, unlike such villains as Captain Hook, Jafar, Scar, Judge Claude Frollo, Oogie Boogie, Ursula, and Dr. Facilier. This could be possibly be attributed to the fact that he is not a true villain and that the above characters are all featured in musicals, whereas Bolt is not a musical.
Calico's in-universe actor's name is unknown.
Dr. Calico's plan to capture a scientist and then get him to work for him by threatening his daughter is also Professor Ratigan's plan in The Great Mouse Detective, where the inventor is Hiram Flaversham and the threatened daughter is Olivia Flaversham.

Gallery

v - e - d

Media
Bolt (soundtrack/video) • Super Rhino • Bolt: The Video Game • The Art of Bolt • American Dog

Disney Parks
Fireworks: The Magic of Disney Animation • Wondrous Journeys

Characters
Bolt • Mittens • Rhino • Penny • Penny's Mom • Dr. Calico • Mindy Parker • The Agent • The Director • Joey, Vinnie, and Bobby • Blake, Tom, and Billy • Officer Ester • Officer Lloyd • Officer Martin • Thug Actor

Songs
Barking at the Moon • I Thought I Lost You

Locations
New York City • California • Silver Lake Animal Rescue • Elmwood County Animal Shelter • Hollywood • Penny's House • Sovereign Entertainment

Objects
Mr. Carrot • Wheelbar

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+|films = ''[[Bolt (film)|Bolt]]''
-|undefined|undefined||games = ''[[Bolt: The Video Game]]''
+|games = ''[[Bolt: The Video Game]]''
 |voice = [[Malcolm McDowell]]
-|alias = The Green-Eyed Man, Calico
+|alias = Calico, the Green-Eyed Man
+|personality = Evil, mean, nasty, arrogant, greedy, selfish, sneaky, deceitful, tricky (on the TV show) <br> Kind, well-meaning, normal
-|birthday = May 6, 1940 (Age: 68)
-|personality = Evil, mean, nasty (on the TV show) <br> Kind, well-meaning, normal
 |occupation = TV show villain
 |goal = To discover the secret of Bolt's powers and use it to take over the world (on the TV show)
 |home = Hollywood, California, USA
-|minions = Guard
+|minions = Guards
 |enemies = [[Bolt (character)|Bolt]] (on the TV show), [[Mittens]] (on the video game), [[Rhino]] (on the video game), [[Penny (Bolt)|Penny]] (on the TV show), Penny's TV Dad (on the video game)
 |fate = Escapes the fire and continues working on the show
 |quote = "''Are you crying? Is it because I kidnapped your daddy? Or because I hurt your precious little dog?''"
 "''You are beginning to irk me, professor. I am irked, and that will not do.''"
+''GET THAT DOG!''
 |appearance = Tall, slender with pale skin, black short hair (though he has a few grey hairs on his temples), a black goatee, as well as a distinctive green eye shaped like the eye of a feline, ash-grey suit, white shirt, black tie and black shoes.
 |pets = Various cats (on the TV show)
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 |dislikes = Being humilliated, dogs (on the TV Show)
 |powers = Strategy, genius intelligence, disguising (on the TV Show)
-Lightning blasts, lightning barrier (video game, temporarily)|inspiration = [[Wikipedia:Ernst Stavro Blofeld|Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]|alignment = Bad (on the TV show)
+Lightning blasts, lightning barrier (video game, temporarily)
+|inspiration = [[Wikipedia:Ernst Stavro Blofeld|Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]
-Neutral (in real life)|friends = [[Agent]], [[The Director]]|shorts = ''[[Super Rhino]]''|fullname = Unknown}}'''Dr. Calico '''is''' '''a character in Disney's [[2008]] movie ''[[Bolt]]''. He is the main antagonist of the in-universe ''Bolt'' TV show, and by extension the film's video game tie-in. Though he isn't an actual villain, but merely an actor, [[Bolt (character)|Bolt]] thinks he's really a villain and promises to get him for real.
+|alignment = Bad (on the TV show)<br>Neutral (in real life)
+|shorts = ''[[Super Rhino]]''
+}}'''Dr. Calico''' is a character in [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]]'s [[2008]] film ''[[Bolt (film)|Bolt]]''. He is the main antagonist of the in-universe ''Bolt'' TV show and the film's video game tie-in.
+Though he is not an actual villain, but merely an actor, [[Bolt (character)|Bolt]] thinks he is really a villain and promises to get him for real.
-==Personality==
+==Background==
+===Personality===
 Dr. Calico is among the most ruthless, cunning and merciless villains ever seen in the Disney universe. Always accompanied by one or more cats, he is a master of planning and a brilliant strategist. Ruthless, yet patient, he likes to torture his enemies in order to force them to do his bidding. Although he is seen always hiding behind his guards, he is not above killing his enemies with his bare hands; this is seen in the show when he tries to kill Penny after she had surgery by attempting to inject her with some sort of fatal drug. In the video game, his personality seems more evil and sinister than in the film.
-==Role in the film==
+==Appearances==
+===''[[Bolt (film)|Bolt]]''===
 Dr. Calico is first seen on video with Penny's father captive, 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.
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 Calico is revealed to have escaped the studio as he, while disguised as a medic at the hospital in the TV show, sneaks up on a new Penny with a possibly deadly drug. However, a new Bolt destroys the syringe and rescues Penny, but they are abducted by aliens as Calico looks up and clenches his fist at the aliens.
-== [[Super Rhino]] ==
+===[[Super Rhino]]===
-Calico returns in the short, once again as the main antagonist. Here, he captures Penny and Bolt and prepares to dip the both of them in lava. Unknown to Calico, though, Penny's father overhears Calico gloating over his dome-shaped base and defenses via Bolt's collar, prompting the scientist to infuse Rhino with Bolt's powers and send him to rescue Penny and Bolt.
+Calico returns in the short, once again as the main antagonist. Here, he captures Bolt and Penny, preparing to dip the both of them in lava. Unknown to Calico, Penny's father overhears Calico gloating over his dome-shaped base and defenses through Bolt's collar, prompting the scientist to infuse Rhino with Bolt's powers and send him to rescue Bolt and Penny.
-Rhino arrives at the base and proceeds to smash his way through Calico's defenses, eventually using his laser vision to break into the dome. After a brief conversation with the enhanced hamster, Calico unleashes a barrage of missiles and artillery, but Rhino hops on one of the missiles. As the missile trails onward, Rhino destroys the rest of the artillery and rescues Penny and Bolt, sending the missile towards Calico. Calico rises from the rubble and swears revenge, but Rhino promptly finishes Calico off with a super-squeak.
+Rhino arrives at the base and proceeds to smash his way through Calico's defenses, eventually using his laser vision to break into the dome. After a brief conversation with the enhanced hamster, Calico unleashes a barrage of missiles and artillery, but Rhino hops on one of the missiles. As the missile trails onward, Rhino destroys the rest of the artillery and rescues Bolt and Penny, sending the missile towards Calico. He rises from the rubble and swears revenge, but Rhino promptly finishes Calico off with a super-squeak. A defeated, but burnt Calico tells himself he did not know Rhino could do that.
-==[[Bolt: The Video Game]]==
+===[[Bolt: The Video Game]]===
 Calico also appears as the main antagonist of the video game, which is inspired by the film's in-universe TV show. As a result, he is more fleshed out as a character.
-After capturing Penny's father on the show, Calico then pursued the one thing that would get him to cooperate, Penny. 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 custody to 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."
+After capturing Penny's father on the show, Calico then pursued the one thing that would get him to cooperate, Penny. Calico finally managed to capture Penny once she and Bolt found his temple base in the Yucatán jungle. To prove Penny was alive and in custody to her father, Calico gave Penny a cell phone with her father on the other line. Calico then tried 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 base in Northern Russia, containing a large rocket. But upon entering, Penny notices micro-focusing mirrors and realizes that it is her father's satellite instead of a warhead. All 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.
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 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. And 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, just as Bolt regains his powers and Penny sabotages the control panel, however, raising the bridge so Bolt could reach her. Once he did, Penny escaped from her guard captors yet again and launched a 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.
+Once free, she attempted to find her father to save Bolt. Unfortunately, she is only captured by the doctor once again, just as Bolt regains his powers and Penny sabotages the control panel, however, raising the bridge so Bolt could reach her. Once he did, Penny escaped from her guard captors yet again and launched a 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 or innocent people would die, 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.
 ==Trivia==
 *Dr. Calico is one of the few [[Disney Villains]] who is not evil due to fact that he is simply an actor playing a villain in the ''Bolt'' TV show. This also makes him the first Disney Villain to not have any genuine hatred towards or a vendetta against the film's heroes, with the second being the [[The Backson]].
 **Calico is also the first character to be simply an actor playing a villain but mistaken by at least one character to be an actual villain, with the second being [[Wreck-It Ralph]].
+*Despite not being an actual villain, Dr. Calico still drives the plot of the film.
-*Although he is called Dr. Calico, it is never really explained what kind of doctor he may be. It is implied that aside from being the leader of a major terrorist organization, he could also be a medical doctor, or a scientist of genetics and/or robotics.
+*Although he is called Dr. Calico, it is never really explained what kind of doctor he may be. It is implied that aside from being the leader of a major terrorist organization, he could also be a medical doctor or a scientist of genetics and / or robotics.
 *According to [[Rhino]], Calico once had a plan to infiltrate the Olympics with gymnastic cyborgs, which was foiled by Bolt.
 *Calico's appearance and personality are modeled after those of some of James Bond's most famous villains such as Dr. No, Auric Goldfinger, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Aristotle Kristatos, Hugo Drax, Brad Whitaker and Francisco Scaramanga.
-*Dr. Calico is one of the few villains to not have a musical theme or song of his own, unlike such villains as [[Captain Hook]], [[Jafar]], [[Scar]], [[Judge Claude Frollo]], [[Oogie Boogie]], [[Ursula]], and [[Dr. Facilier]]. This could be possibly be attributed to the fact that he is not a true villain and that the above characters are all featured in musicals, whereas ''Bolt'' is not a musical.
+*Dr. Calico is one of the few villains to not have his own leitmotif or musical number, unlike such villains as [[Captain Hook]], [[Jafar]], [[Scar]], [[Judge Claude Frollo]], [[Oogie Boogie]], [[Ursula]], and [[Dr. Facilier]]. This could be possibly be attributed to the fact that he is not a true villain and that the above characters are all featured in musicals, whereas ''Bolt'' is not a musical.
 *Calico's in-universe actor's name is unknown.
 *Dr. Calico's plan to capture a scientist and then get him to work for him by threatening his daughter is also [[Professor Ratigan]]'s plan in ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', where the inventor is [[Hiram Flaversham]] and the threatened daughter is [[Olivia Flaversham]].
-*His actor is never seen off-camera in the film but during the credits, Caico's actor can be seen wearing dark sunglasses, standing with the [[Agent]] and [[The Director]].
 ==Gallery==
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+Dr-calico-full.jpg|Dr. Calico's early concept
-Bolt_04.jpg|GET THAT DOG!!!
+Bolt 04.jpg|"GET THAT DOG!!!"
-un-wallpaper-di-dr-calico-per-pubblicizzare-l-uscita-in-dvd-e-blu-ray-del-film-bolt-118563.jpg|Dr. Calico and one of his feline minions
+Un-wallpaper-di-dr-calico-per-pubblicizzare-l-uscita-in-dvd-e-blu-ray-del-film-bolt-118563.jpg|Dr. Calico and one of his feline henchmen
-dr-calico-full.jpg|Dr. Calico's early concept
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-calico.png|Dr. Calico aka. The Green-Eyed Man
 Bolt-disneyscreencaps com-10302.jpg|Dr. Calico's "defeat"
 Bolt-1-large.jpg
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-rhinos-disneyscreencaps_com-15.jpg|Dr. Calico in ''Super Rhino''
+Rhinos-disneyscreencaps com-15.jpg|Dr. Calico in ''Super Rhino''
-rhinos-disneyscreencaps_com-326.jpg|Dr. Calico's defeat in ''Super Rhino''
+Rhinos-disneyscreencaps com-326.jpg|Dr. Calico's defeat in ''Super Rhino''
 Dr. Calico in the Bolt Video Game.jpg|Dr. Calico in the ''Bolt Video Game''
-Dr. Calico dragging Penny in the Bolt Video Game.jpg
+Dr. Calico dragging Penny in the Bolt Video Game.jpg|Calico trying to take Penny captive.
-bolt-disneyscreencaps_com-303.jpg
+Bolt-disneyscreencaps com-303.jpg
-bolt-disneyscreencaps_com-328.jpg
+Bolt-disneyscreencaps com-328.jpg
-bolt-disneyscreencaps_com-474.jpg|''"We only need the girl"''
+Bolt-disneyscreencaps com-474.jpg|''"We only need the girl"''
-bolt-disneyscreencaps_com-2400.jpg|Taking off with Penny
+Bolt-disneyscreencaps com-2400.jpg|Taking off with Penny
+Bolt-disneyscreencaps com-10330.jpg|Calico disguised as a doctor trying to kill Penny.
-bolt-disneyscreencaps_com-10330.jpg
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