Dr. Drakken/Relationships

The relationships of Dr. Drakken

Family

Mrs. Lipsky

Drakken and his mother.

Drakken's mother, Mrs. Lipsky, has no idea about her son being an international supervillain; rather, she thinks he is a radio talk show doctor. This shows that Drakken actually has a deep love for his mother, as he doesn't want her to see him as evil and wants her to be proud of him.

Although he genuinely seemed to adore her, he was an inattentive son at best, generally forgetting about her entirely until she barged her way back into his life and demanded his attention. If nothing else, Drakken cared enough about his mother enough that he did not want her to be disappointed in him and went to great lengths to keep her happy while she was in his presence.

Motor Ed

Drakken and Motor Ed bickering

Eddie Lipsky, a.k.a. Motor Ed is Drakken's cousin and his only other confirmed relative, which he considers as the family black sheep; this is a strange and ironic concept considering he was evil himself. The two are polar opposites in many ways, except that both are evil. Whereas Drakken is a scientific genius, Ed is a mechanical genius.

The two generally treated each other as siblings, and while they did get along fairly well, they also bickered over petty things and generally need a third party person (like Shego) to interrupt them at such times.

Friends and allies

Shego

Dr. Drakken with Shego.

Drakken is the usual employer to Shego, and he treats her as his sidekick; however, their working relationship is rather bizarre. Because of Drakken's antics, Shego most often annoys him or mocks him and his schemes, usually for her own fun, while she often tends to take a leading role in Drakken's schemes, due to his own bumbling. Despite this, Shego nonetheless shows a degree of loyalty to Drakken in his schemes, even if she thinks it will eventually fail, although this may be that even if the scheme fails. Drakken pays her nonetheless, and despite their rocky partnership, Drakken and Shego have occasionally shown a deranged fondness and care for each other.

Drakken depends heavily on Shego, as she was one of the few people that could consistently either stall or outright defeat Kim Possible with little or no help. As a result, whenever Shego was not available, Drakken rarely puts his plans into motion, because they were usually doomed without her contributions, and she was extremely difficult to replace. Furthermore, Shego's contract with Drakken included a "no cloning" clause, so he was not allowed to clone her no matter how much he clearly wanted to. It's most apparent when Drakken practically begs Shego to do what he asks. Shego showed her fondness for Drakken and expressed her gratitude to him when she found out he had paid her vacation as his way of saying "Thanks for super year" and "Merry Christmas" to her when she read his letter, she loved the gesture and later went to the North Pole to look for him after checking her voicemail. In the series finale "Graduation", they finally seem to acknowledge that they have deeper feelings to one another.

In the end, Drakken and Shego's relationship is somewhat similar to that of the relationship of the show's protagonists, Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable: At the end of the day, they need each other and work better together.

Commodore Puddles

Drakken and his pet poodle.

He has a pet poodle named Commodore Puddles, a bad-tempered creature described as "so little… and yet so evil" by one of the henchmen.

His first appearance in "Kimitation Nation" is brief, as Drakken used a part of Commodore Puddles' DNA as part of a plot to create clones that could match Kim Possible's strength. He has more of an important role in "Rufus vs. Commodore Puddles"; while plotting his evil scheme to infiltrate Area 51, Shego reminded Drakken that Commodore Puddles needed to use the bathroom and that if he wanted a pet; he has to be responsible enough to take care of him.

When Drakken's shrink ray malfunctioned, thanks to Commodore Puddles, Drakken used the enlarged poodle to infiltrate Area 51 anyway, implying how Drakken could use his pet to further his evil plots, until his plot was foiled by an enlarged Rufus.

He has not appeared in any other episode, nor has been mentioned after the events of "Rufus vs. Commodore Puddles".

Enemies and Rivals

Kim Possible

Drakken's arch-enemy is none other than Kim Possible herself. Although Drakken thinks he is a superior scientific genius, he's always stopped by the teen hero. He has a hard time understanding how Kim always defeats him. Kim often taunts Drakken about how his current scheme will end any differently than the last one.

Despite the fact that Drakken and Kim are arch-enemies, Kim never really fights him directly as Shego is the one who does all the fighting, as Drakken is a mad scientist not a combat fighter.

A running gag between the two is, that when Kim wrecks his plan, Drakken always rants to her "You think you're all that, but you're not!," whether with this particular wording or with some sort of variation, such as "You think your Nana's lemon squares are all that, but they're not!," for example. In the movie "So the Drama" (which was planned as the series finale), he finally admitted that "Maybe she is all that."

In the series final "Graduation", when Drakken and Kim both got abducted by Warmonga and Warhok's spaceship, they worked together, alongside Ron and Shego, to get themselves back home to earth and stop the alien warriors from conquering it.

Ron Stoppable

Kim's sidekick Ron is the one who clashes more directly with Drakken rather than Kim. Drakken considers Ron a buffoon, but it is because of this oversight that has caused many of his schemes to fail because he is too focused on Kim, which has allowed Ron to sneak in and ruin Drakken's plan.

A running gag between Drakken and Ron is that Drakken never seems to remember his name, which annoys Ron. In the Season 3 finale "So the Drama", Ron stopped Drakken personally, when he tried to escape and forced him to finally say his name. After some difficulty, he said his last name "Stoppable," pleasing Ron.

Much like Kim and Shego, Drakken and Ron actually have a lot in common, as they are both rather childish and like a lot of the same things, such as being fans of Snowman Hank in the "A Very Possible Christmas" episode.

Professor Dementor

Professor Dementor is Drakken's rival as an evil scientist, as he is the more successful one and more infamous, inducing great envy and hatred in Drakken. This causes the two to feud openly.

Drakken and Dementor only appear together few times in the series. Their relationship is mostly described through dialogues between characters.

From these dialogues it can be determined that they have a certain rivalry between them, as Drakken aims to be better than Dementor in every way, and vice versa. Drakken appeared to be visibly annoyed by Dementor's name being a pseudonym (of his base "Demens"), to which Shego immediately called out HIS hypocrisy by referring to Drakken by his actual/real name "Drew Lipsky."

The only real moment the two villains appeared together throughout the show was in the episode "Ron the Man". Drakken wanted to steal what Dementor stole first in order to make his henchmen more powerful. The two villains personally battled against each other for it, enforcing their rivalry, never allowing for a second of thought that they should probably work together since Kim Possible was on them.

Dr. James Possible

Once an old college friend of Drakken, Dr. James Possible and his friends caused the beginning of Drakken's fall to darkness, when they laughed at him and his Bebe project long and loudly back in college, eventually causing him to drop out. Drakken's loathing of the man only increased when he discovered that James was the father of his teenage nemesis Kim Possible.

Frugal Lucre

He was on bad terms with Frugal Lucre for some months. While the two of them were in prison together between the events of "So the Drama" and "Mad Dogs and Aliens", Lucre's incessant yammering got on Drakken's nerves; if anything, Lucre's hero-worship of Drakken made him even more irritating.