Background & Family
Name: Ivar Scherbatsky
Born: April 20th, 1984
Parents: Robin Scherbatsky Sr. and his wife
Siblings:
Robin Scherbatsky Jr. (older by 4 years)
Katie Scherbatsky (younger sister)
He's the middle child in a family where guns and grit are practically family heirlooms.
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Personality & Skills
Super intelligence: Graduated high school at 12, with a string of advanced degrees before most kids finished driver's ed.
Degrees earned by age 18:
Master's in Mechanical Engineering (14)
Master's in Psychology (15)
Master's in Law (16)
PhD in Psychology (18)
Survivalist: From ages 18–19, he tested himself in the Canadian wilderness—alone—proving he wasn't just a bookworm, but a wolf in his own right.
Martial Arts & Weapons Mastery: Like his father and sister, he has a passion for firearms, but he's equally deadly with blades.
Business Tycoon: Founded his own tech company in New York City, worth $785 billion USD by the start of HIMYM. His personal worth? $98.7 billion USD (or roughly 1,345,934 craploads).
For context:
1 crapload = $73,332
Scherbatsky family net worth without Ivar: about 5,000 craploads (~$366 million USD).
So yeah, he's basically the Bezos + Musk + Batman of the HIMYM timeline.
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Role in the Show
By the time Season 1, Episode 1 begins:
He's living in NYC, already one of the wealthiest and most dangerous men alive.
Unlike Robin's awkward juggling of career and relationships, Ivar's life is a mix of high-octane survivalist past and slick tech empire present.
He has the Scherbatsky family's love of weapons and wilderness but overlays it with brains, charm, and an almost Tony Stark–like dominance in the corporate world.
He'd be the kind of brother Robin is both embarrassed by (because he makes her news anchor career look small) and secretly proud of (because he's basically unstoppable).