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자포드 비블브록스(Zaphod Beeblebrox)는 더글러스 애덤스의 코믹 SF인 은하수를 여행하는 히치하이커를 위한 안내서에 나오는 가상의 등장인물이다.

자포드는 베텔게우스와 가까운 행성 출신이고, 그리고 "피임도구와 타임머신이 얽힌 사고"로 인해서 포드 프리펙트와 사촌관계이다. 그리고 그 사고로 인해서 그의 선조는 자포드 비블브록스 2세이고, 또한 그의 직계 자손의 이름은 자포드 비블브록스 4세이다.

[편집] 생김새

자포드는 모든 판을 통틀어서 두개의 머리와 3개의 팔을 가진 것으로 묘사되는데, though explanations of how he came to receive the extra appendages differed between versions. The original radio version never explained the second head, but did explain that Zaphod "grew" the third arm in the six months between meeting the character of Trillian on Earth, and the start of the series. The third radio series implies that he had a third arm whilst growing up - the fifth has him offer to Trillian that "I'd grow my third arm back for you, baby", when they first meet. In the novel, he said the third arm was "recently [...] fitted just beneath his right one to help improve his ski-boxing." According to the original Hitchhiker's radio series script book, an adlibbed comment by Mark Wing-Davey in the eighth radio episode, ("Put it there, and there, and there, and there! Whoa!"), would suggest that Zaphod had grown a fourth arm.

In the Infocom game version of the story, Zaphod blends in on Earth by hiding his second head in a covered bird cage (an alternate Trillian also refers to this in Mostly Harmless). In the television series, Ford Prefect simply remarks to Zaphod that "the extra arm suits you." For the 2005 movie, it's hinted that Zaphod "created" the second head himself when shunting off the parts of his mind that contain portions of his personality that "are not presidential." In this filmed version, the second head appears underneath the first, popping up when the first head is flipped backwards; the third arm is hidden underneath Zaphod's clothing, and only appears when necessary (such as for tormenting Arthur Dent).

[편집] Achievements

Zaphod invented the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, and is the only person able to drink more than three of them at one sitting. He was voted "Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Known Universe" for seven years in a row. He's been described as "the best Bang since the Big One" by Eccentrica Gallumbits, and as "one hoopy frood" by others. In the seventh episode of the original radio series, the narrator describes Beeblebrox as being the "owner of the hippest place in the universe" (his own left cranium), as voted on in a poll of the readers of the fictional magazine Playbeing.

He was briefly the President of the Galaxy (a role that involves no power whatsoever, and merely requires the incumbent to attract attention so no one wonders who's really in charge, which is a role Zaphod was perfectly suited for). He is the only man to have survived the Total Perspective Vortex. However, it was established (in the books and first two radio series) that he survived only because the Vortex he was subjected to existed in an Electronically Synthesized Universe which was created specially for him. This made Zaphod the most important being in it. His brain-care specialist, Gag Halfrunt, also said, "Vell, Zaphod's just this guy, you know?" He used his position as President of the Galaxy to steal the Heart of Gold, a spaceship taking advantage of Infinite Improbability Drive, at its unveiling.

[편집] As a character

As a character, Zaphod is hedonistic and irresponsible, self-centered almost to the point of solipsism, and often extremely insensitive to the feelings of those around him. In the books and radio series, he is nevertheless quite intelligent, though he sometimes prefers not to make this obvious, and can be briefly shamed into better behaviour. Douglas Adams has said that Zaphod is always desperately trying to appear relaxed, an aspect well-captured in Mark Wing-Davey's radio and TV portrayal. In the movie, however, he is not very bright (in fact, his opponent in the previous Presidential election had used the slogan "Don't vote for stupid") and perhaps even more boorish than his previous portrayals.

Throughout the book and radio versions of the story, Zaphod is busy carrying out some grand scheme, and has no clue as to what it is and is unable to do anything but follow the path that he laid out for himself. Zaphod's grand schemes have included, over time, a second hand ballpoint pen business (which may or may not have been established with the help of Veet Voojagig). He was forced to section off the part of his brain that stored the plan so that scans of his mind, which would be necessary for him to become president, wouldn't reveal his plan, which included his being President of the Galaxy. In the second radio series and the book version of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, we learn (and so does Zaphod) that he ordered the destruction of the Earth by the Vogons, apparently as part of a plot by the galaxy's psychiatrists, philosophers and other professional thinkers to prevent the "Ultimate Question" (to which the answer is 42) from becoming known.

According to screening tests that Zaphod ran on himself in the Heart of Gold's medical bay, he is "clever, imaginative, irresponsible, untrustworthy, extrovert, nothing you couldn't have guessed" (Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, page 98).