Professor Kingsford

Professor Kingsford is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom television series. He is an anthropomorphic bulldog, and a well-respected, yet feared, Evil Science professor.

Appearance
Kingsford is an anthropomorphic bulldog about half as tall as Dr. Eggman. He has brown eyes with almost slit-like pupils, beige fur and a white muzzle. He also has small floppy ears, a very wrinkled face, a noticeable brow ridge, a black snout, skin folds down the sides of his mouth, an underbite with an upturned jaw, and sharp teeth. In terms of body proportions, he has no visible neck, a round torso, and medium-short legs. For attire, he wears a white shirt with a red bowtie and grey vest with black buttons over it, a black jacket, black shoes with white spats, and white gloves. He also usually wears flat pince-nez glasses.

Past
Back in his day, Kingsford was the most feared and respected professor of Evil Science on the campus Dr. Eggman attended. Part of why he was so feared was that he would always pick one sap among his students to be his goat and wail mercilessly on him for the entire semester; this earned him the nickname "the goat herder."

Season two
Kingsford was eventually given a class of villains to educate, each one seeking to earn a doctorate in Evil Science. Upon seeing how unprepared his student Dr. Eggman was, Kingsford made him his goat. Over the next weeks, Kingsford wailed on Eggman for his constant failures while educating his class. Eventually, he warned Eggman that his only way to pass was to ace the final exam. Unbeknownst to everyone though, Kingsford planned for the real exam to be to steal his (fake) answer sheet for the exam; only then could someone be deemed evil. After the exam, Kingsford noticed only Eggman had cheated, and so proudly gave him his diploma.

Personality
Although calm and collected, Kingsford is a very serious and quite intimidating figure whose ruthlessness as a teacher has earned him a fearsome reputation. He is very hard to please and difficult to impress; even the slightest display of undisciplined or tardy behavior from his students is enough to leave a long-lasting negative impression on him.

An exceptionally strict teacher, Kingsford is a perfectionist and is not one to go easy on his students. This includes expecting his students to get to work on the very first day of school and failing his entire class for a class project when only a single one of them falls short of his assignment. He also made it a habit of his to single out the class goat and wail mercilessly on this particular person over any error they make. However, his intentions with this behavior is not break such students down out of pure malice. He is also capable of showing acknowledgement to those who can prove themselves, including his class goat.

Powers and abilities
Being a professor in Evil Science, Kingsford is a highly intelligent individual in his particular field of science. Most noticeably, he has a full understanding of the functions of a rudimentary Doomsday Device.

Trivia

 * Kingsford's name may be derived from Kingston University, a famous university with professors in London.
 * The location of this university might also have attributed to Kingsford's species (a bulldog), which has a longstanding association with British culture.