Zach Varmitech (Wild Kratts): The Villain Who Builds Everything
Zach Varmitech is Wild Kratts' resident inventor-villain: a lazy genius who turns animals into machinery. His robots, his ego, and three scenes.
Who Is Zach Varmitech?
Zachary "Zach" Varmitech is one of the main antagonists of Wild Kratts, voiced by Zachary Bennett. He is a genius inventor and robotics engineer, the CEO of Varmitech Industries, and his business model is simple: use animals in his inventions to make money, or to do the things he is far too lazy to do himself.
| Full name | Zachary Varmitech |
| Series | Wild Kratts |
| Role | Inventor, CEO of Varmitech Industries |
| Voiced by | Zachary Bennett |
What He Builds
- Robot animals — his signature: mechanical copies of real species, built to replace the original instead of understanding it.
- Gadgets with a flaw — every plan works until the animal behaviour he ignored turns out to matter — which is the show's whole teaching structure.
- The lair — a high-tech workshop full of half-finished machines, most of which he will never finish.
The Look
Tall, extremely thin, very pale, with a long neck that the animation leans on for comedy. Dark hair with a sharp widow's peak, a purple lab coat over a black turtleneck, goggles pushed up, and a smirk that arrives before the plan does.
Personality
Vain, lazy, and genuinely clever — the combination is the joke. He is not stupid; he is unwilling to do work he could make a machine do, and he is offended when the animal world refuses to cooperate with a business plan. His villainy is petty rather than cruel, which is why he can be funny for an entire series.
The Story
Zach is the recurring antagonist across the seasons, which means his arc is not a redemption but a running gag with escalation: bigger machines, more elaborate schemes, the same blind spot. The brothers beat him by knowing the animal; he loses because he never bothered to learn it.
The best episodes put him in a position where his own invention is the thing that traps him, and he has to be rescued by the people he was trying to rip off.
Relationships
The Kratt brothers are the obstacle and, in a strange way, the audience he is performing for. His robots are the closest thing he has to colleagues. The animals are not characters to him, which is precisely his failure.
Trivia
- The voice — Zachary Bennett, who has voiced the character across the series.
- The company — Varmitech Industries — he is the CEO of his own one-man operation.
- The pattern — the plan fails because he skipped the research, not because he lacked the machine.
Three Scenes
The pitch
Zach is presenting a new robot to a potential buyer. Play the pitch, and the moment the animal does something he did not account for.
The workshop
A machine has failed and he is blaming the animal. Play the argument with something that cannot argue back.
The rescue
His own invention has him trapped. Play Zach deciding whether to accept help from the brothers.
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FAQ
Who is Zach Varmitech?
The recurring antagonist of Wild Kratts: an inventor and robotics engineer, CEO of Varmitech Industries.
Who voices Zach Varmitech?
Zachary Bennett.
What does Zach do with animals?
He builds robotic copies and uses real animals in his inventions to make money or avoid work.
Why does Zach always lose?
Because he ignores animal behaviour — the machine works, the plan fails.
Is Zach a villain or a comic antagonist?
A comic antagonist: petty, vain and lazy rather than genuinely cruel.
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