Willy DuWitt is the engineer of the Righteous Indignation raised in San Francisco on Earth by hippie parents, Willy was an incredibly intelligent and deeply misunderstood child. He entered the Aniverse via a portal that formed between the Righteous Indignation's malfunctioning photon accelerator and his own photon accelerator at home (which he had built as a science project). Bruce - the ship's engineer at the time - was killed when the accelerator malfunctioned, so Willy offered to replace him