Dr Rat

The leader of BASE, and the least known about characters of the series. Despite being young himself, he is the adoptive father of Skidder and Agent 1. He is however the oldest character in the cast. Unlike Dr Dingo and Captain Coyote, his real name is not known.

Appearance
Shoulder length Brown hair and eyes. Often wears a shirt and tie, apart from at official meeetings and presentations where he wears a suit.

Family
He adopted both Skidder and Agent 1 who were found wondering the streets of London. He taught both of them English and privatly educated them himself. Both of them strongly look up to him and would never do anything to betray him.

The Running of BASE
Dr Rat was leader of BASE for some time before the start of the first series (In which he was 19). He is a calm and careful leader, a lot less rash than Dr Dingo and not as violent in his methods as Captain Coyote. He is privy to many secrets, prefering to keep most things out of the knowledge of most of his agents with a strictly need-to-know policy.

He is genrally hated by the governements of the world, protected only, because they know that they couldn't last without BASE. It is unknown who came before him, though it has been mentioned that BASE has been going for a number of years - before Dr Rat would have been alive.

He sees no problem in allocating team members to spy on one another (as shown in series 5). Some say he has a cold and unfeeling way of running BASE, but nobody can argue with the results.

There are hints that he is running a project under the knowledge of most members of BASE to annalyse phycological problems to create a cure for all mental problems. Thomas was one of the agents still alive that went through this experement, though it is obvious that it was not a 100% success. His reasons for carrying out this experement are not compleatly known, nor is it confirmed that he himself is actually involved.

Rocky
As the leader of Team 1, Dr Rat trusts Rocky beyond all the other agents. Rocky both respects and looks up to Dr Rat, and unquestionally carried out his orders in Series 5 to spy on the other agents.

Skidder
Skidder is Dr Rat's adopted son. The two get on well, and Skidder looks up to his adoptive father. Although as he got older Skidder looked up to Dr Rat less of as a father, there still remains a sort of brotherly attatchment between the two.

Floppy
Dr Rat also has trust in Floppy, granting him with the job of keeping an eye on Thomas after his 'rehabilitation', with orders given to Floppy to shoot him at any sign of trouble.

Thomas
Thomas hates Dr Rat, with no respect for him at all. During the first two series, Thomas had a sort of respect for him as leader of BASE. When he enters Team America, he snarls whenever Dr Rat's name is mentioned. He is one of the characters that has hinted at wanting to kill the leader of BASE.

Rik
Although Rik is leader of Team Downunder, the two don't seem to get on as well as the other leaders and head of BASE. Rik doesn't show him as much respect, and Dr Rat doesn't offer him as much.

Tabby
Tabby is another character that has sworn revenge on Dr Rat. She tries to kill him at the end of Series 5, after destroying the BASE security system. Though before this happens, she shows no signs of disrepect towards him, making the revelation at the end of the series a large shock.

Captain Coyote
Dr Rat stands by the Captain more than he does with Dr Dingo. Though all three seem to get on well. Dr Rat shows great trust towards both Captain Coyote and Dr Dingo, faster than he does with even his own agents.

Dr Dingo
The two don't get on quite as well as Dr Rat does with Captain Coyote, but he still trusts him, even if Dr Dingo gives him many reasons not to.

Heather
Heather shows Dr Rat absolute respect like the other leaders. Dr Rat is pleased with her work in Team Canada, even if he doesn't think it's perticularly important.