In the series' first season, his inventions were more practical, anticipating the cathode-ray tube, the airplane, penicillin, automobile ('The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth') and a synthesized LSD-like hallucinogen. Loveless was known as a technological genius who produced gadgets far ahead of his time-which his archenemy James West acknowledges ('The Night Dr. In 'The Night of the Bogus Bandits', it is revealed that Loveless' greatest fear is not death, but the fact that once deceased, he cannot continue his plans of revenge against a society which he hates so much. West is able to defeat Loveless by using Loveless' own ego against him. As the series progressed, however, he became more and more megalomaniacal. His original goal was to recover his family's property and create a haven where the disadvantaged (presumably financially and, like himself, physically) could live without torment from society. Their land was taken back by the Spanish Crown and then irretrievably lost however, when California became part of the United States. Loveless' family had received a valuable land grant in California from the Spanish Viceroy of Mexico.
