Platypus is a MkI Reploid who once operated within the bounds of nature preservation. His original purpose was to follow rivers and other bodies of water to forests, where he would then use his built-in flamethrower for controlled burns, for the betterment of the forests in question by stimulating growth and germination in certain species of trees. Zero saw the devastating potential in this, and went to him in an attempt to convert him for his growing Zero Hour Army. In the heat of battle, Platypus seemed to have the upper hand, but due to some underhanded moves Zero finally claimed Platypus as his new Maverick general. Now he destroys forests without prejudice, setting the forests back hundreds if not thousands of years and depleting the world's overall oxygen content, bringing Humanity t