Dewey Novak

Dewey Novak (デューイ・ノヴァク) is the main villain in Eureka Seven. He is also

the son of Azmodeus Novak and Cicily Kane, and the older brother of Holland Novak. In addition to being Azmodeus' and Cicily's son and Holland's older brother, he is also the brother-in-law of Talho Yūki, and the paternal uncle of an unnamed Novak child.

Background

Dewey is the eldest son of Azmodeus Novak and his wife, Cicily Kane.

According to Dewey, the Novak family existed to calm the planet. The ritual to do so involved an act of patricide, an act that Dewey assumed was reserved for him.

However, when he was only 7 years old, his mother died during his little brother's birth, Holland, and the title of "Sacrificial King" was automatically passed on to his newborn brother.

Despite resenting Holland, their father lavished him with attention and affection, by often ignoring Dewey, who was left with a deep hatred towards his brother. With his ambitions of becoming the Novak family's next patriarch ruined, Dewey murders his father in cold blood only to have the planet "reject" the ritual and his succession. With no legitimate heir, the other noble families seize the Novak family's assets leaving Dewey and Holland orphaned and homeless. As a result, Dewey bears a pathological hatred for his brother as well as the planet for denying him what he believed to be his birthright. However, since the only account of this event is given by Dewey to Anemone, parts of it might actually be a delusion he created. At the end of the series, Holland admits that he did not know how Dewey's madness came to be.

During their teenage and early adult years, Dewey and Holland were part of a ref board group and traveled around the world. However, Dewey joined the military and quickly rose to the title lieutenant-colonel, with Holland soon following in his brother's footsteps by becoming an ace unit soldier. About ten years prior to the series beginning, Dewey was present when Adroc Thurston and Eureka unleashed the Seven Swell Phenomenon. He then ordered that Eureka be put in Holland's care to be trained as a child soldier shortly after Adroc's "death" and assigned them to the SOF. He did this because he wanted to use Eureka and the Nirvash for his own benefit. Three years earlier, he ordered the SOF to invade Ciudades del Cielo and eliminate all the Vodarac residents by falsely claiming they were terrorists for protecting the Coralians. Once Holland learned the truth and fled the military, Dewey was blamed for his brother's defection by the Sage Council and sent to prison.

Personality

He is a manipulative sociopath, who commits several acts of mass murder in pursuit of his goals. Through his combined talents of charisma and intelligence, he seizes control of the United Federation and begins a murderous campaign to rid the world of the Scub Coral.

Knownable Relatives

• Azmodeus Novak (Father)
• Cicily Kane (Mother/dead)
• Holland Novak (Little Brother)

Trivia

• His name in Japanese means ???.
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• His star sign is a ???.
• Despite being the main antagonist, Dewey never had any direct confrontations with the main protagonists, Eureka and Renton, except for a brief meeting when they retrieved Norb.
• Dewey always believed that Eureka would never find her partner, and thus, was less concerned with his conflict with the Gekkostate. But after seeing her and Renton pilot Nirvash together in episode 35 and realizing he had been wrong, he set out to eliminate the couple from stopping his plot.
• In the manga, Dewey was so opposed to Adroc's theory of forming a co-existence with the Coralians that he murdered him and covered it up by blaming the Vodarac people, and fooled Holland into leading the SOF into the Ciudades del Cielo massacre.
• Also in the manga, he doesn't insert a Compac Drive into his chest because he knew the Coralians' intentions were to destroy the human race and he allowed this to occur in order to bring forth a "new world". Instead of committing suicide, Dewey was killed by Holland in a gun fight.
• It was Dewey's efforts to destroy the Scub Coral, and potentially the world, that caused Holland to personally set out to stop him by thinking he can partner with Eureka and unite the humans and Scub Coral to overthrow Dewey. Because of this, Dewey is indirectly responsible for Holland's initial indifference towards the crew, his obsession with Eureka, and grudge towards Renton in the beginning.

Voice Actors

• Japanese : the late Koji Tsujitani (up until Hi Evolution), the late Keiji Fujiwara (Hi Evolution part 2)
• English : Kim Strauss (adult), Dave Wittenberg (teenager)