Dr. Herbert Cockroach, Ph.D. is one of the deuteragonists in the DreamWorks' Monsters vs. Aliens franchise. He is a brilliant professor and a mad scientist with the head and abilities of a cockroach. He created a device that would give humans a cockroach's ability to survive forever. He tested it on himself and found that there was a side effect of giving him the head and abilities of a cockroach. He can climb high walls and objects and digest garbage. He was captured in 1962 and put into the recently set up monster prison in Area Fifty-Something. He was voiced by Hugh Laurie.