dr. doofenshmirtz likes to tell everyone his origin story to explain why he wants to try to be a supervillain. he says that neither of his parents showed up to the hospital the day he was born and that they never gave him a birthday party. he also says that his parents disowned him and he was raised by ocelots. doofenshmirtz also says that when he was a child his only friend was a balloon that he lost and that his father made him stand all day in the lawn dressed up as a gnome. doof also says his parents named their pet dog only son because doofenshmirtz was scared to dive into a swimming pool and that his mother didn’t let him go swimming in public pools and she liked his younger brother roger doofenshmirtz better than she liked him because roger was the only one of the two who was good at kickball. doof was also forced to wear dresses since his parents had thought roger would be a girl. dr. doofenshmirtz says he hates roger not only out of jealousy but also because roger accidentally destroyed a painting that doof made. since he was a child, heinz doofenshmirtz was in many science fairs but every time he lost to a baking soda volcano. and when he became a writer of poetry, he still lost to a baking soda volcano. he faced a lot of bullies over time. a woman he liked left him for someone with big hands. after moving to america and getting married and later getting a divorce he had a girlfriend who left him for a whale.