Herbert West is a mad scientist who created a strange serum that allowed the dead to be brought back to life, at the cost of their humanity - often becoming violent zombies intent on murder and mayhem. Despite this, Herbert continually shows an obsession with overcoming the limits of life and death, thus he continued to raise the dead despite the horrible consequences. Like many mad scientists, Herbert has also been tasked with defeating his own experiments on a few occasions, though his madness always seems to ensure he will make another batch of monsters in the future. Herbert could arguably be considered a villain but he is not necessarily an evil character. In fact, he seems to lack any sort of moral alignment, as to him, the important thing in life seems to be conquering death itself and he doesn't care what he has to do in order to achieve such goals. He is also arguably obsessed with the outerversal entities Zero, Oblivion, Crow Reaper, The Guy, etc., and their whole dead-resurrecting powerful auras as well.