Dr. Kuseno

Age shows plainly in this slender old man. A bowl-shaped haircut juts outward from his scalp, and his face carries stretched ears alongside a prominent nose. Pale, narrow eyes with grayish centers complete the look.

Toward Genos, the doctor behaves like a devoted father, dispensing hard-won advice and worrying constantly over the cyborg's safety. He repeatedly urges the young hero to avoid rash choices and insists that the two of them fight side by side. His concern is sharpened by memory, since in his own youth he chased justice with the same dangerous abandon he now sees in Genos, and he pours himself selflessly into building better upgrades even as age wears on him.

The webcomic overturns all of this. There he stands exposed as the true architect behind The Organization, a ruthless figure who fabricated Genos' tragic backstory, staged his own murder to stoke the boy's rage, and ordered machines to level entire cities in pursuit of destroying the world. Every act of kindness is revealed as calculated manipulation, and he is later shown to have made himself into the very Rampaging Cyborg Genos hunted all along.

Four years before the main story, the scientist was tracking the cyborg that had razed a certain town when he discovered its lone survivor, a boy pleading to be remade as a machine. He honored the request, and the rebuilt youth adopted the name Genos, vowing to hunt down the killer. The two spent years laboring together, the doctor claiming that the same rampaging machine had also slaughtered his own household.

He continually forges new components for Genos, refining the hero's frame after brutal fights and even donning a rocket-armed combat suit to reach him during the Monster Association crisis. His intellect alone produced the entire cyborg body, and he tends to every repair and improvement it undergoes. The webcomic strips this account bare, revealing the tragedy as invention meant to bind Genos to his cause, with both Genos and Drive Knight serving as his pawns.