Stuart Pot was born on 23 May 1978 to David and Rachel Pot. The original surname of Stuart's father was "Tusspot", but he legally changed it to "Pot", shortly before Stuart was born. His father, David, works as a mechanic and as a fairgrounds worker, while his mother, Rachel, works as a nurse. He was born in Crawley, England and attended St Wilfrid's Catholic School. When he was 11 years old, Stuart was involved in an accident where he fell from a tree and hit his head. This caused all his natural brown hair to shed, until it eventually grew back in a deep azure blue color. The accident also caused him to experience frequent migraines, for which his mother supplied him with painkillers. At age 19, Stuart was hit in the face by Murdoc Niccals when he crashed his Vauxhall Astra into Uncle Norm's Organ Emporium in an attempt to raid the store of its musical equipment. This caused Stuart to receive hyphema in his left eye and put him into a coma. Murdoc was then arrested and sentenced to 3 years of community service, as well as to care for the vegetabilized Stuart for 10 hours a week. Not long after, Murdoc injured Stuart again while pulling off 360 donuts to impress a small crowd of women. Stuart came crashing through the windshield of the car and fractured his other eye. After the incident, he woke up from his vegetative state and was given the nickname "2-D", which refers to the two dents in his head. He was then recruited by Murdoc and chosen to be the lead vocalist of a new band he was forming after his last band had broken up. Gorillaz call the day 2-D and Murdoc first crossed paths D-Day. In 1998, 2-D began dating a woman named Paula Cracker, who would eventually also join 2-D as a member of Gorillaz and begin to take on the role of the lead guitarist after he and Murdoc moved into Kong Studios. Paula would quickly be removed from the band’s lineup after being caught having a sexual affair with Murdoc in the Kong Studios bathroom and she would then eventually be replaced on guitar by a child prodigy named Noodle, with the band ready to launch and playing their very first gig in 1998 soon after. Following the release and worldwide success of Gorillaz, 2-D and his bandmates would soon move to Los Angeles, California after being approached by a famous Hollywood director who was interested in making a Gorillaz movie. In a meeting between the band members regarding potential concepts for a Gorillaz film, 2-D was choked out by Murdoc, who would then be punched in the face by Russel in his defense. Gorillaz split up immediately after this event. After 2-D relocated back to England, he worked at his father’s amusement park in Eastbourne and made friends with former Boyzone member Shane Lynch and Brian Setzer of Stray Cats. After Gorillaz had been off 2-D’s mind for quite some time, he returned to Kong Studios after receiving a text from Noodle that informed him that she had started work on demos for a new Gorillaz album and needed him on vocals. After Demon Days’ release proved to be a worldwide success and further catapulted Gorillaz’ popularity, Noodle would be presumed dead in the aftermath of the music video for El Mañana, which would cause 2-D and Russel to spiral into a panic and depart from the band yet again. He would eventually move on from Gorillaz and relocate to an apartment in Beirut, where Murdoc would later track him down and kidnap him against his will to bring to a bunker in his newly built island to rejoin Gorillaz for the band’s third album, Plastic Beach. During Gorillaz’ 2010 Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour, 2-D made a Gorillaz album himself called The Fall. After the tour, Plastic Beach was shot down by pirates and the band would again part ways. In Gorillaz’ 2016 interactive short story The Book of 2-D, it was revealed that 2-D hid underwater following the pirate attack on Plastic Beach and was eventually swallowed alive by a whale who would later die and be washed ashore, freeing 2-D soon afterwards in an island with no food except for the whale’s blubber and the island’s sand. After months, he found out he was in Guadalupe, then flying back to the UK and being offered a ride to West London, where he’d soon reunite with Murdoc at Studio 13 to record Humanz, Gorillaz’ first studio album since 2010. After Humanz’ success, Murdoc was revealed to be incarcerated at Wormwood Scrubs prison in an acceptance speech from the band during the 2018 Brit Awards. It would also be revealed soon afterwards that Gorillaz had made an album called The Now Now without contributions from Murdoc, who was replaced by Ace from Cartoon Network's animated series The Powerpuff Girls while he was in prison. 2-D became the temporary leader of Gorillaz during the making of "The Now Now" and was in charge of the musical direction of the band for the album. Murdoc's incarceration led 2-D to gain a significant boost in self esteem, to the point of appearing to be rude and developing an increasing overinflated ego. Immediately after Murdoc's return, 2-D's personality appeared to have returned to his usual self. On 24 September 2019, Gorillaz revealed through social media that 2-D had again been on vacation in Beirut and sent a postcard to his bandmates in which he makes a reference to parts he gathered for a machine that would later be revealed to be the Song Machine, the latest audiovisual project from Gorillaz. In season one of Song Machine, 2-D is oblivious to the various attempts made by Murdoc to distract him as he tries to gain access to portals in the newly relocated Kong Studios after he and the rest of the band leave him behind as they use it for a trip. 2-D is the host of all of the interviews in Song Machine’s accompanying Machine Bitez.
