(from Super Mario Wiki)


Professor Elvin Gadd, often shortened to Professor E. Gadd, is the scientist first appearing in Luigi's Mansion (which by the way, is my most hated Mario game ever, including the sequel. Even though I personally never played the game myself (you can guess why I haven't played it), I take no offense to people who like this game) and founder of Gadd Science, Incorporated.




He used to live on the foothills of the Thwomp Volcano, as depicted in the game Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.


The Mario Bros. go back in time and end up saving his lab from burning down when fire blocks erupted from the Thwomp Volcano. He then helps the Mario Bros. by inventing theHydrogush 4000. Although he doesn't directly invent the Hydrogush 4000, his older self does in a complex way: Young E. Gadd starts to get an idea after a totally unrelated event happened during the present time, which transfers to his future self, causing the present-day, elderly professor to send water from the Hydrogush 4000 via Time Hole and calm the erupting Thwomp Volcano. After all this excitement, the twenty-year-old E. Gadd moves to Boo Woods.

Many decades later, in Luigi's Mansion (did I mention I hate this game?), Luigi enters the mansion and is saved from ghosts by a strange old man wielding a vacuum cleaner. Professor E. Gadd reveals he lives in a house near the mansion, where he researches his favorite subject: ghosts. Luigi explains his brother Mario is missing within the house, and the professor decides to help Luigi by giving him two of his inventions, the Poltergust 3000 and the Game Boy Horror. The professor continues to help Luigi throughout the game, giving him help and tips.

But what about in its sequel: Dark Moon?




After a few years of absence, Professor E. Gadd appears in the game. In the game, E. Gadd takes up residence in Evershade Valley after learning that the ghosts there are friendly. Eager to examine ghosts without fear of being attacked by them, he sets up a laboratory in the Gloomy Manor and a Bunker close by the mansion. There, he begins researching the ghosts of the five mansions that populate the valley, and sends his five Toad assistants to the other four mansions in the valley to examine the ghosts there. At first, the resident ghosts welcome him and assist him in his lab, but when King Boo arrives and destroys the ghost-pacifying Dark Moon that hangs over Evershade Valley, the ghosts start running amok and destroy E. Gadd's equipment. He flees to his nearby Bunker and enlists the help of Luigi — who has now taken up residence in his new Grade D mansion from the previous game — to help rebuild the Dark Moon and calm the ghosts once more. E. Gadd was later revealed to have been unintentionally and indirectly responsible for King Boo's return, as he had sold his portrait in a garage sale, thus ensuring his escape.


In this game, E. Gadd has made an upgrade of his Poltergust 3000 from the last game: the Poltergust 5000. This new Poltergust uses a Strobulb to stun ghosts, rather than the flashlight used with the Poltergust 3000. Professor E. Gadd also introduces three new inventions: the Pixelator, a machine that turns Luigi into pixels and transports him to and from the different mansions, the Dual Scream, a device that resembles a Nintendo DS and is capable of communication, and the Dark-Light Device, which allows Luigi to see invisible objects.

Outside the games, he did make a few appearances and references, in the forms of Super Mario Sunshine, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, playing more of a prominent roll in the story and not just a simple character for the first games, being Mansion 1 and Dark Moon, Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Arcade GP 1 and 2, and Mario Party 4-7.

E. Gadd has so many inventions, spread across the games. The more recognizable inventions include the Poltergust line, FLUDD, the Magic Paintbrush, Robo Mario, Stuffwell, the Time Machine in Partners in Time, and the Nintendo handheld based Game Boy Horror including the Game Boy Horror SP, and the Dual Scream in Dark Moon.

So, what does all of this have to do with me making the skin? Well...

I made this skin due to the issue of hating the Mansion games from a past experience I had with it. And, surprisingly, is my 3rd, hidden favorite Mario character, with the number one slot going to Yoshi, and the number two slot going to Captain Toad (Yeah, yeah, I know he's just a Toad with the outfit) and of course, Professor E. Gadd.

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NOTE: The model I used normally has Poltergust straps, but I removed them as they didn't have a purpose.

One thing I see in some Professor E. Gadd skins is the absence of his eyes, as the glasses are in the way, natually. So, I made sure he had eyes. Another thing that I first wasn't aware was the glasses' frame color. The first version of this skin had a brown frame, as I was thinking that was the color of them. However, on further investigation, they have a green frame. So, I made that change to the skin.

This is my first skin I'm posting, and I'm starting with a bang. Enjoy!