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| - Gag Halfrunt is the overall main antagonist of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. He only appears in person in the first two novels, yet he is influential throughout, as the main villains in the series - the Vogons, the mice, the psychiatrists - all serve him and his ultimate goal to eradicate all Earths. He is the one who put the forms for the destruction of Earth (under the pretense of it being used for a hyperspace bypass) in the Alpha Centauri offices some 50 years ago. He orders the destruction of the Earth and employs Vogon Jeltz to do the job. This is successful.
- As a psychiatrist, Halfrunt realised that should the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything ever be found, the psychiatric profession would lose the business of its vast, bewildered and highly profitable clientele. Therefore, it was Halfrunt that ordered and paid the Vogons to demolish the Earth (under the premise of building a hyperspace bypass). Following that, he had Jeltz hunt down the Heart of Gold and attempt to destroy it. Believing that Arthur Dent and Trillian (the last two members of Earth's original programming) were killed, he returned to his profitable business.
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| - Gag Halfrunt is the overall main antagonist of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. He only appears in person in the first two novels, yet he is influential throughout, as the main villains in the series - the Vogons, the mice, the psychiatrists - all serve him and his ultimate goal to eradicate all Earths. He is the one who put the forms for the destruction of Earth (under the pretense of it being used for a hyperspace bypass) in the Alpha Centauri offices some 50 years ago. He orders the destruction of the Earth and employs Vogon Jeltz to do the job. This is successful. But two humans survive - Tricia McMillan and Arthur Dent. This annoys Halfrunt, because he believes Ford Prefect was an Earthman too. This means three people now have answers to the Ultimate Question in their brains. (Or so he believes; it is really only two people.) But he hunts them down nonetheless. Halfrunt contacts Jeltz on his ship to gun them down in orbit and kill them all, but this is unsuccessful due to Zaphod Beelbebrox having a seance and contacting his dead grandfather to save them. Then Halfrunt employs the Vogons to infiltrate the Hitchhiker's Guide offices and turn the book into an evil corporation to find all Earths in every universe. This is done, and the Guide is taken over. Halfrunt also uses a man named Zarniwoop to lead the Vogons, asking him to get Ford Prefect as their agent, but Ford flatly refuses. Then Halfrunt is ultimately successful when, despite Ford bankrupting his company, he finally tracks Arthur and Ford and Tricia down on another Earth, and destroys it, ending all hope of finding an answer to the Ultimate Question.
- As a psychiatrist, Halfrunt realised that should the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything ever be found, the psychiatric profession would lose the business of its vast, bewildered and highly profitable clientele. Therefore, it was Halfrunt that ordered and paid the Vogons to demolish the Earth (under the premise of building a hyperspace bypass). Following that, he had Jeltz hunt down the Heart of Gold and attempt to destroy it. Believing that Arthur Dent and Trillian (the last two members of Earth's original programming) were killed, he returned to his profitable business. While the crew of the Heart of Gold survived that attack, Halfrunt's order eventually led to the destruction of the replacement Earth that was brought in from a different part of the "Whole Sort of General Mish Mash", due to the Vogons' obsession with finishing the job; the Earth was finally laid waste, under the watchful eye of the Vogons, by the Grebulons.
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