Beruga is a character and the secondary antagonist in Terranigma.
Plot[]
Beruga is a renowned scientist from Mosque, who won the Nobel Prize (World Peace Prize in Japanese) for his new theory of biotechnology (in Japanese: 新バイオ学説 new bio-theory) and DNA manipulation.
Knowing his story in Mosque from his white disciples and on his Lab computer, it seems that he has done a lot to help humanity, such as curing or delaying many diseases with his cryogenic machine, the vaccine against the Asmodeus virus. When the truth was not known, advances in artificial intelligence and the study of immortality was to try to eliminate the fear of death. When Ark woke him from his cold sleep, he began to reveal his true intentions: the day known as "Earth's last day." Beruga used the virus, that he created, to eliminate people deemed unnecessary and tried taking over the world, used as a puppet by his leader of the Underworld. As the war between Light Gaia against Dark Gaia unleashed, Beruga he went to deep sleep in an ultra cold machine until the resurrection of earth and humanity.
Profile[]
He is a cynical and cruel evil genius and doesn't shy away from destroying human life for his goals, except those that considered necessary: "The unnecessary shall die, and only the necessary lives", however in the Japanese version: "Kill unnecessary humans and keep only the humans that are necessary for the purpose ("不必要 な 人間 は 殺 し 本 当 に 必要 な 人間 だ け を 生 か せ ば い い")。This means that the necessary people will be manipulated at his will, under the command of his "liege", Dark Gaia.
Trivia[]
- In the central computer: "Dawn of humankind", "Cold sleep" and "Earth's last day" mentions him as Dr. Beruga (ベルーガ博士が)
- Beruga in the Japanese version: ベ ルーガ, means Beluga, from the Russian белу́га (belúga), from бе́лый (bélyj, "white").
- Due to its location, Beruga would have Russian nationality.
- Beruga's Lab, would be located in the Black Sea or Sea of Azov.
- After Ark is badly damaged by his robots, Beruga mentions the "Three Laws of Robotics" by Isaac Asimov.
- Asmodeus virus is a reference of an ActRaiser 2 boss, Deception (in Japanese version: 欲望|Lust). Deception, apart from his attacks, sludge spit, fireball and bomb; he teleports to escape and uses his "Teleportation orb" to take The Master to another site on the same battlefield. Unlike "Asmodeus", that demon teleports the combatant, but doesn't erase him forever.
- When Neotokio is attacked by "Asmodeus," could be a reference to The Tokyo subway sarin attack on 20 March 1995.