Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory)

Dexter is the main character and protagonist of Dexter's Laboratory series.

Dexter is a boy genius who has a secret laboratory. His intelligence makes him the brains of the family and he is one of the world's greatest inventors, having created countless weird and amazing machines and experiments. He is always working on new inventions and creations every day, but his sister Dee Dee is always breaking into his lab and destroying his work. The daily events surrounding Dexter's life mainly revolve around his relationship with his sister and everything that happens between the two.

Appearance
Dexter is a very short young boy who has curly red hair that was passed down to him from his mother He wears a pair of glasses that appear semi-circular at normal times, but when he widens his eyes, the tops of them round out. He wears a little white lab coat with black buttons on it. He also wears purple gloves, and a pair of black rubber zipper boots. Occasionally he may or may not wear a pair of black pants that match his boots. He speaks with a Russian accent despite the rest of his family not having any accents.

Personality
Dexter is an extremely intelligent boy (a self described "Boy Genius") who has been creating fantastic inventions since he was a baby. He considers Albert Einstein to be his greatest influence. He is normally in conflict with his sweet sister Dee Dee. Dexter, though highly intelligent, often fails at what he has set out to do when he becomes overexcited and makes careless choices. He manages to keep the lab a secret from his clueless, cheerful parents, who amusingly never notice any evidence of the laboratory, even when it was right before their eyes. Despite coming from a typical all-American family, Dexter speaks with a Russian accent (a reference to Genndy Tartakovsky's own accent that he spoke with during childhood and prank calls Rob Renzetti sent to Tartakovski while the two were at CalArts). Dexter's favorite superheros are Major Glory, Action Hank and Monkey (not realizing that Monkey is in fact his own lab monkey). Despite his great genius, Dexter is in fact very naive and occasionally very ignorant about certain subjects to the point where it seems like he lacks common sense; such examples of are his ignorance to the nature of girls, classic arcade machines and matters relating to nature, having not even known about famed biologist and friar Gregor Mendel the discoverer of DNA until Dee Dee told him, which clearly shows that despite his vast capabilities, Dexter is still a young and inexperienced child who lacks wisdom and experience. Dexter also has a huge ego which often clouds his judgement and has caused him to make rash and often morally questionable decisions, such as attacking Santa Claus due to his refusal to accept that he was real until the end, letting the Earth be destroyed do his inability to compromise with Mandark and even attempting to destroy Dee Dee for taking away his dream of saving the future, despite her having no malicious intent. As shown in Ego Trip, as Dexter grew older his personality went through numerous dramatic changes, such as the cowardly Number 12, the courageous Action Dexter and the wise but incredibly senile Old Man Dexter.

Abilities
Powers and Abilitie: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts (He is proficient in karate), Genius Intelligence, Preparation, Toon Force, Vehicular Mastery, Weapon Mastery | All previous, plus Transmutation (With Animal Atomizer), Matter Manipulation (With Atomizer and Molecular Makeover Machine), Mind/Memory Manipulation (Can switch minds with his Brain Transfer Machine. Can accesses even the deepest and most forgotten of his memories with Memory Viewer. By shining a light into the eyes of his targets, he can erase any desired memories from their minds with Memory Eraser. Can hypnotize the person whose name he writes with Hypnosis Pen.), Electricity Manipulation, Energy Projection, Explosion Manipulation, Time Travel (With Time Machine), Flight, Dream Manipulation (Can dispel and/or prevent nightmares with Dream Machine), Reality Warping (With Dreamwish-O-Tron 5000 which allowing him to make his wildest dream a reality), Ice Manipulation (With DX-28 which shoots freezing blasts), Age Manipulation (With Hydro-Cosmetic Age Machine which can change his age to any desired point), Enhanced Senses (With Hyper Rectangulam Periscope, an omnidirectional and extendable periscope Dexter can use to spy on others), Dimensional Travel(With Inter-Dimensional Doorway), Forcefield Creation (With Invisible Force Field Helmet), Time Manipulation(Can slow down the target's motion to a crawl with Mechanical Time Decelerator. Can slow down time only for himself, making it appear as though he is doing everything at super speed with Time Expansion Helmet.), Gravity Manipulation (With Gravity Gauntlet which can control the gravity of a target person or item), Teleportation, Size Manipulation (With Shrink Ray which fires a ray that can shrink the target to microscopic sizes)

Attack Potency: Small Building level (Took down a squad of US Navy soldiers single-handedly, took explosion and missiles that destroyed his lab and house. Able to harm those that can damage him, such as Mandark and Dee Dee) | Dwarf Star level (Destroyed meteors and other threats which were going to destroy Earth. Caused the Earth to explode when fighting Mandark. In general, he should not be weaker than Monkey)

Speed: Superhuman with Subsonic reactions (Mostly reacts to beams at this speed) | Relativistic (Should not be slower than Monkey)

Lifting Strength: Superhuman | At least Class M

Striking Strength: Small Building Class | Dwarf Star Class

Durability: Small Building level (Regularly survives explosions that are capable of obliterating his house) | Dwarf Star level

Stamina: Very high

Range: Standard melee range by himself, higher with weaponry. Planetary with Robo-Dexo & best inventions.

Standard Equipment: His inventions (Invisible Force Field Helmet, Quadraplex T-3000 Computer/Computer/Computress, Time Machine, Time Expansion Helmet, Mechanical Time Decelerator, Bird Ship, Bird Suit, Backwards Belt, Laser Guns, Protective Exo-Suit, T-090, Super Robot, Transference Receptors, Tripolar Frankensteinian Electrodes, Dexo-Transformer, Multi-Formic Megabot, Robo-Dexo 2000, Robo-Dexo 3000, Neurotomic Protocore, etc.)

Intelligence: Supergenius in most fields, and built many extremely advanced or even reality warping inventions. He was stated by an alien in Go Dexter Family Go to have the most intelligent mind in the universe. Also incredibly skilled in various forms of unarmed combat. However, he is somewhat naïve and lacks common sense. He did not know what clowns, chickenpox, or whack-a-moles were.

Weaknesses: Dexter has a short temperament, is a bit arrogant and is sometimes clumsy. Some of his inventions can't normally leave his laboratory.

Trivia

 * Dexter's voice actor is Christine Cavanaugh and Candi Milo in the series, but in Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion, it is Tara Strong, who is the voice of Bubbles from Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls.
 * Dexter's last name has never been revealed throughout the entire series.
 * In the episode Go Dexter Family Go!, Dexter says his favorite color is orange, but in a previous episode he stated his favorite color was blue.
 * Dexter speaks with a Russian accent, although the rest of his family doesn't.
 * In "Ego Trip", his young adult self and his old man self didn't have Russian accents like he did, however his adult self did.
 * Dexter's Russian accent is a reference to the accent Genndy Tartakovsky used to speak with when he was a little kid.
 * Dexter's age is never mentioned in the series, but according to the song "Love According to Dexter", Dexter is said to be 8 years old.
 * Dexter's astrological sign was first shown to be Capricorn in the episode "A Hard Day's Day," but the season 3 episode "Mind Over Chatter" lists his birthday as March 24, which would actually make him an Aries.
 * However as seasons 3 and 4 were not overseen by series creator Genndy Tartakovsky, the validity of his birth date in said episode is questionable and was likely just an oversight by the staff in season 3.
 * In seasons 1 and 2, Dexter had a longer head and a double chin and there were two visible buttons on his lab coat, but in seasons 3 and 4, he had a shorter head, no double chin, and had only one visible button.
 * Although Dexter is the main character, there have been many episodes where he has not appeared.
 * Dexter has made many cameos in episodes of The Powerpuff Girls. The reason for this is possibly because the creator of The Powerpuff Girls, Craig McCracken helped with making Dexter's Laboratory before he created The Powerpuff Girls.
 * In the episode "Powerpuff Bluff" Dexter was seen sleeping with the other kids at Poakey Oaks Kindergarten.
 * In the episode "Criss Cross Crises" when Professor Utonium was switching peoples bodies trying to turn them back, one of the people Mrs. Bellum switched bodies with was Dexter.
 * In the episode "Forced Kin" when it showed the people that were looking up at Mojo Jojo's giant robot, one of them was Dexter.
 * In the episode "Ploys R Us", Professor Untonium was seen getting a stuffed toy of Dexter as well as stuffed toys of Dee Dee and Monkey.
 * In the episode "Dexter's Wacky Races" Dexter had a car that he invented in his laboratory that he was using in a race that has his parents in it. This means that he was exposing something from his lab to his mom and dad, although he and his parents were never directly in front of each other nor did they make any interaction with each other in the episode.
 * In the episode "Tribe Called Girl", Dee Dee said that Dexter had special needs, however whether she said this mockingly or if Dexter has an actual disorder remains uncertain.
 * Dexter's glasses are flat on top when he is feeling content or angry, but when he is shocked or scared, his glasses become rounded at the top.
 * He has appeared in a variety of Dial M for Monkey episodes such as, Magmanamus, Peltra, Simion, Quackor and Last But Not Beast.