The upstate high-schooler responsible for the laser cat Internet sensation committed suicide on Thursday, his parents said.

Draven Rodriguez — and his far-out cat Mr. Bigglesworth — became national news after he tried to include the plucky puss in his Schenectady High School yearbook photo.

The photo of Rodriguez, 17, and Bigglesworth with a criss-crossing laser-beam background went viral last fall, after he posted it on Facebook in what he called a “pre-emptive strike” against stodgy school officials.

“I don’t want to go in the yearbook with the generic ‘I-look-like-everyone-else’ photo,” Rodriguez said last year. “I wanted a ‘He looks great. Only he would try that’ photo,” he said. “When people look at it, they will know that was me.”

School principal Diane Wilkinson nixed the portrait, but eventually relented, joining him with her pet Chihuahua in a portrait that ran on the principal’s own page.