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== Left Brain == |
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| − | Zaphod has his second head (apparently the more intelligent one) detached and functioning as the ''[[Heart of Gold]]'' computer, replacing [[Eddie the Computer|Eddie]].<ref name = aat>In the semi-official [[Eoin Colfer]] novel [[And Another Thing...]]</ref> This leaves the still attached Zaphod a little slower witted but it is noted that Left Brain being in charge of the ship has decreased the amount of accidents that would have been caused by Eddie. Left Brain and Zaphod develop a semi-antagonistic relationship despite still working with each other. At the end of the novel they are both working on Zaphod's presidential re-election campaign. Ford was also able to freeze Left Brain in a logic debate over the improbability of the ''Heart of Gold'' saving him and Arthur from doom near Earth twice after the ship saves them from the [[Grebulon]]'s death beams. |
+ | Zaphod has his second head (apparently the more intelligent one) detached and functioning as the ''[[Heart of Gold]]'' computer, replacing [[Eddie the Computer|Eddie]].<ref name = aat>In the semi-official [[Eoin Colfer]] novel [[And Another Thing...]]</ref> This leaves the still attached Zaphod a little slower witted but it is noted that Left Brain being in charge of the ship has decreased the amount of accidents that would have been caused by Eddie. Left Brain and Zaphod develop a semi-antagonistic relationship despite still working with each other. At the end of the novel they are both working on Zaphod's presidential re-election campaign. Ford was also able to freeze Left Brain in a logic debate over the improbability of the ''Heart of Gold'' saving him and Arthur from doom near Earth twice after the ship saves them from the [[Grebulon]]'s death beams. |
==Notes and references== |
==Notes and references== |
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Revision as of 22:52, 24 September 2018
Zaphod in the BBC TV series (1981).
Zaphod as seen in the 2005 film.
- “The best bang since the Big One.”
- —Eccentrica Gallumbits in Street Walkie-Talkie Weekly[src]
Zaphod Beeblebrox, or the Big Z, was a former President of the Galaxy. He was born on the fifth planet of Betelgeuse and was a semi-cousin of Ford Prefect, with whom he shared three of the same mothers. Due to an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine, his direct ancestors from his father were also his direct descendants.
Zaphod has two heads, three arms and is "clever, imaginative, irresponsible, untrustworthy, extrovert, nothing you couldn't have guessed". As President of the Galaxy, his responsibility in that position was to draw attention away from the true rulers of the universe. To that end, Zaphod and his outrageous behavior were highly successful. And he is the only man to have survived the Total Perspective Vortex (albeit in an electronically synthesized universe which was created especially for him). He used his position as President of the Galaxy to steal the Heart of Gold, a spaceship taking advantage of the Infinite Improbability Drive, at its unveiling. He is also the inventor of the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, and is the only person alive who can drink more than three in a single sitting.
He mentions that his third arm was added on to help with his ski-boxing.[1] It seems that the third arm is part of his species that has an opt in policy, since he grows it back for Trillian.[2] Zaphod states that the second head is the result of carving in his brain.[3] Zaphod did this to conceal his true reason for running for President.[4][5]
Zaphod has a successful business in secondhand biros. This may be due to his discovery of a planet where biros escape to live a nice biroey life. If so, he employed a man to sit on this now empty planet denying the whole thing.
The character of Judiciary Pag - or Zipo Bibrok 5 × 108 as he is also known - appears to be related to Zaphod's family. They share the same carefree and charming attitude, and Pag's real name appears to be a mutation of Zaphod's name. Since the Beeblebrox family lives backwards in time, Pag is therefore one of Zaphod's descendants (despite living in the distant past).
Left Brain
Zaphod has his second head (apparently the more intelligent one) detached and functioning as the Heart of Gold computer, replacing Eddie.[6] This leaves the still attached Zaphod a little slower witted but it is noted that Left Brain being in charge of the ship has decreased the amount of accidents that would have been caused by Eddie. Left Brain and Zaphod develop a semi-antagonistic relationship despite still working with each other. At the end of the novel they are both working on Zaphod's presidential re-election campaign. Ford was also able to freeze Left Brain in a logic debate over the improbability of the Heart of Gold saving him and Arthur from doom near Earth twice after the ship saves them from the Grebulon's death beams.
Notes and references
- ↑ In the first book
- ↑ In the radio show
- ↑ In the movie
- ↑ In the Douglas Adams books. This is a major scheme which takes up the majority of the second book and follows into others
- ↑ While other media have claimed his head was always there (the Text Adventure Game, also written by Douglas Adams claimed that Arthur only did not see it at the party they met was that it was a fancy dress party and Zaphod had disguised his second head as a parrot so as to complete his pirate costume, the movie states it was the result of the carving, which had been done because Beeblebrox did not think "anyone can be President with a full brain."
- ↑ In the semi-official Eoin Colfer novel And Another Thing...