| “ | He was stronger than ten men—stitching them together didn’t change that math at all.
— Dave Jones in the narration (Chapter 8, Page 77
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Dr. Bruce Burger is a former scientist of the paranormal research division of the Paranatural Activity Consortium in Paranatural. After death, he has turned into an undead monster that shares a body with her wife, Dr Gwen Burger.
Appearance[]
Bruce has blond hair and thick glasses, just like his son Ed. He cuts an imposing figure, and he sports a mustache and a beard with sideburns. He's always seen wearing his Consortium research uniform, a white-and-pale-blue striped pajama worn with a dark green necktie underneath a lab coat.
After becoming an undead creature resulted from the fusion of two bodies, the doctors reach an hulking height, and all of their flesh looks like multicolored patchwork. The leftmost head looks like a decayed version of Bruce's, while the rightmost one is actually a tank of bright green ectoplasm where the spirit that was Gwen floats in. She has transformed into an egg-shaped, mouse-like spirit; her body is split vertically into a white side and a black side, with a pinkish area at the bottom where the belly should be; many of her anatomical features resemble mechanical components, like the round metallic plaque with a bolt on her belly, or the extendable junction topped with a tiny magnet in place of the left arm, a red needle point down to an upward section of a gauge serve as the nose and the mouth. Her right eye is a red warning light with a pupil and her left one is a screw, the right mouse ear is replaced by a magnet and left one with a lightbulb, her tail is cable of an electricity plug, plugged into the bottom of the tank; her exposed brain is rimmed with metal, and alight with electric sparks. Outside the tank, a few curved glass tubes carrying green goo rise from the right shoulder of the conjoined doctors' body. There's a massive screw driven through their neck, and there are buttons on their knuckles. They are wearing a tattered greyish labcoat with a hood that covers each of their heads: the portion wrapped around the tank bears a resemblance to a classical Frankstein monster haircut. Under the coat, the upper torso is dressed in the torn upper half of the Consortium pajama, and the bottom dons heart-printed pink boxers, tied at the waist with a belt of purple cloth holding a number of wooden stakes. There are other wooden stakes inside the breastpocket of the labcoat as well.
Background[]
Bruce, along with his wife, was a doctor of the Consortium involved in the research of wights.[2] The two had a child, Ed, shortly before disappearing in a mysterious accident involving the Great Unknown that sleeps in Mayview. Since then, they have been stuck inside some sort of separate dimension together with the wight, together, for a time, with Davy Jones.[3]
Paranatural[]
Paranatural: Chapter 5[]
The Doctors Burger are briefly alluded to in Chapter 5 by Agent Day during her conversation with Mina Zarei at the Mayview Mini Mall, where she mentions their disappearance as one of the mysteries she came to Mayview to investigate.
Paranatural: Chapter 7[]
Dr. Burger appears in the photographs pinned to the wall in Richard Spender's bedroom: in one of them he appears alongside his wife, his child and young Mina and Richard, together with a mysterious figure with black painted nails (presumably Agent Summers); in another he is pictured with a wrapped gift in hand, that he possibly appeared out of thin air with spectral powers, while his wife looks on enthusiastically.
Paranatural: Chapter 8[]
Burce Burger emerges from the portal that the PTA created to communicate with Peekaboo by exploiting the hopscotch setup that was discarded by the wight. He has become an undead creature thanks to his wife's efforts, with a body repaired from their own remains and reinforced with multicolored patches of eldritch matter, controlled both by his mind and by the spirit that once was Gwen. They begin throwing wooden stakes at Davy, intending to kill him. In the battle that ensues, they come close to planting a stake in his heart, but they stop as soon as they hear Cody cry out for his father; they end up losing the battle, with Davy throwing them back into the abyss beyond the gate, taking the key they've taken from the Witch's eyesocket down with them.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Gwen Burger - He and his wife appear to be very fond of each other, with Davy describing him as a "doting husband", and calling the couple "always attached at the hip".[4]
Abilities[]
General[]
Bruce could count on above average physical strength even when before he became an undead monstrosity. He was also a spectral.
Quotes[]
- Davy Jones: "Now you're ripping ME off! "
- Bruce Burger: "YES, "
- Bruce Burger: "FIRST. THIS. ARM. "
- Bruce Burger: "THEN. THE. NEXT. "
- Bruce Burger: "THEN. I. WILL. RIP. OFF. YOUR. SCHEMING. HEAD."
- — Dr. Bruce Burger to Dave Jones(Chapter 8, Page 77
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Trivia[]
- In Spender's recollection, altered by the town's reality shift to Mayview, the doctors lived in a houseboat on the lake. [5]
- The key that is used to open the gate to Peekaboo during the PTA's ritual is stated to be the "Burgers' house key"[6]; the key is also shaped like a stylized burger.
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