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== Academic Career ==

Before becoming a supervillain, Dr. Lorenz Van Snoot was already infamous within academic circles.

A wealthy, arrogant, and flamboyantly self-important professor at [[Crucible:Pinnacle University|Pinnacle University]], Van Snoot specialized in parapsychology, fringe neurology, hypnotic states, and theories concerning latent psychic potential within the human brain. Though many colleagues dismissed his work as eccentric pseudoscience, others quietly admitted that Van Snoot possessed genuine brilliance.

Unfortunately, he also possessed almost no ethical restraint whatsoever.

Van Snoot became increasingly convinced that the human brain contained dormant psychic capabilities suppressed by biological limitations. Rather than continue waiting for institutional approval, he eventually decided to bypass normal scientific caution entirely.

He would experiment on himself.