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Post by The Raven on Jun 14, 2009 10:43:49 GMT -5
Dammit, are you serious?
My number one was number 50. (I'm talking about the Riddler, although I did have Starscream on my list too. I can see I was the only one)
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 10:54:06 GMT -5
Dammit, are you serious? My number one was number 50. (I'm talking about the Riddler, although I did have Starscream on my list too. I can see I was the only one) that was my Ridder....yours was a for a different show
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 11:28:29 GMT -5
Time to resume the countdown. We have a tie, again. This time at the 42nd spot. MC Pee Pants from Aqua Teen hunger Force. no picture available MC Pee Pants is a mentally insane, giant spider who wears a shower cap and a diaper. His convoluted schemes use rap as a cover for his criminal tendencies, and always get killed after his plans fail. He is later reincarnated as Sir Loin (a cow), a worm, Little Brittle (an old man trying to become a vampire. Next from Beast Wars Transformers is Waspinator. No pictures available. Waspinator is an evil transformer. The actor who played him was Kenso Kato. And that's all I got. Apparently wikipedia doesn't have too much on Japanese cartoons. Leonardo Leonardo from Clerks the Animated Series also is tied at 42nd. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/ClerksEp3.jpg) Leonardo Leonardo is a fictional character from the short-lived animated television series Clerks: The Animated Series created by Kevin Smith. Leonardo Leonardo is voiced by Alec Baldwin. Leonardo Leonardo was specially created for the television show. He is a local millionaire who frequently visits the Quick Stop, run by rival clerks Dante Hicks and Randal Graves, after his own creation, the Quicker Stop, failed when Jay and Silent Bob blew it up. Leonardo Leonardo is the great-grandson of Bernardo Leonardo who bought the City of Leonardo from Indians for $14,800,000. Leonardo himself later led an expedition into Canada where he accumulated a vast fortune in exchange for the polio virus. The beginning of the Clerks television series coincides with Leonardo's homecoming. Besides previously owning the Quicker Stop, Leonardo is also the owner of his own office building, the Leonardo Tower, and has his own Little League baseball team who won the Little League World Series under coach Dante Hicks. He often tries to flaunt his status as a man of importance due to his extreme wealth but is quickly and often pointed out as a loser, as far as millionaires go. Leonardo is not too bright as pointed out when he ate spoiled "Descreeto Burritos" because he thought they were "the expensive kind". He poses for magazines such as Pet Store Weekly instead of acclaimed work such as Fortune or People. There are several references to Leonardo being gay, after a picture almost appeared in his obituary of him, Elton John and Andy Warhol partying at the infamous Studio 54. There was also a reference to Leonardo sleeping with Dante after their high school reunion. Also, when asked if hiring the clerks was some sort of "Gay Thing," he immediately replied no. When asked if he was certain, he very hesitantly said yes. He is upstaged by Randal and Dante in several episodes, always replying afterwards: "Well played, clerks." Leonardo Leonardo is always accompanied by his bodyguard (and publicist) Plug, his right-hand man who talks like a robot (and, in fact, is one). Plug is a parody of the villain Oddjob from the James Bond movie Goldfinger, and his name is taken from one of Antonio Fargas' bodyguards in Cleopatra Jones. Leonardo originally was to be voiced by British actor Alan Rickman, who starred in Smith's film Dogma. It was Smith's intention to base Leonardo Leonardo on the Die Hard villain Hans Gruber, who was also played by Rickman. Rickman, however, was concerned that he forever would be typecast as Gruber, so the ABC animators started reanimating the character. Eventually, the character was changed to look nothing like Gruber, and ABC sent a memo informing that they would no longer let Rickman voice the character. Baldwin was then hired and the character's design was returned to its original state. Leonardo is killed in the season finale "The Last Episode Ever" when he goes completely drunk with power and attempts to take over the world which results in the U.S. military invading Leonardo (the town). As a bit of humor despite the large amount of explosions, multiple deaths and rapid machine gun fire Dante and Randal never notice what's actually going on. He is apparently killed when Dante eats a banana and tosses its peel outside causing Leonardo, who's holding a fragmentation grenade at the time to slip and kill both him and Plug since he doesn't throw the grenade away in time In other words he's a rip of an villain who will appear in the count down a little later. Another villain tied at 42nd is Stewie Griffin from Family Guy. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Stewie_Griffin.png) Stewart Gilligan "Stewie" Griffin is a fictional character in the animated series Family Guy. Stewie is obsessed with world domination and matricide, and has an ambiguous sexual orientation. He is the youngest child of Peter and Lois Griffin. In addition to siblings Chris and Meg, Stewie has a half-brother Bertram who is unknown to the other Griffins. Stewie is voiced by Seth MacFarlane. Though he was originally a child evil genius bent on world domination, the writers in more recent episodes usually ignore that aspect of his personality, instead focusing on a more flamboyant character, though he retained an antagonistic role in the show, especially toward Brian in episodes like Three Kings and Lois Kills Stewie. Stewie is considered to be the show's breakout character. Wizard magazine rated him the 95th greatest villain of all time. Stewie is a one-year-old with a very sophisticated attitude. He reached his first birthday in the season 1 episode "Chitty Chitty Death Bang", and has remained the same age ever since. His nature and mannerisms are juxtaposed with typical childlike interests and actions. While highly literate and able to cite pop culture references that date much further back than his age would let on, he is also entranced by Raffi and the Teletubbies. Stewie succumbs to other weaknesses of children his age – he believes Peter has truly disappeared in a game of Peek-a-Boo, talks to his teddy bear (Rupert) as if he were alive, is overcome with laughter when Lois blows on his stomach,[6] and has no idea how to use the toilet. MacFarlane has stated that Stewie is meant to represent the general helplessness of an infant through the eyes of an adult. Per cartoon physics, his ability to move objects of greater weight than himself is not surprising to other characters, nor is his ability to retrieve firearms from hammerspace. Stewie's mastery of physics and mechanical engineering are at a level of science fiction. He has constructed advanced fighter-jets, a mind control device, a weather control device, robots, a time machine, a shrinking pod, a teleportation device, Stewie employs these to cope with the stresses of infant life (such as teething pain, and eating hated broccoli) and to murder his mother Lois, with mixed success at best depending on the objective. In other episodes, Stewie engages in other violent or criminal acts, including robbery, carjacking, loan sharking, forgery, and killing off many minor characters. Stewie eventually realizes his dreams of matricide and world domination in the sixth season two-part episode "Stewie Kills Lois" and "Lois Kills Stewie". The events, however, are reverted in a deus ex machina ending, where most of the story turns out to be a computer simulation. Because of the rather disastrous ending for himself in the simulation, he decides to put aside his plans of matricide and world domination for the time being. Last but most certainly not least is Richard Nixon's head from Futurama. No image available. Richard Nixon, voiced by Billy West, is kept alive as a head in a jar like many other celebrities. He originally resides in the Hall of Presidents in the head museum, but he eventually leaves and becomes the President of Earth, winning by a single vote. Nixon's administration is marked by a violent and aggressive foreign policy, frequently entering into wars which have little or no purpose. Nixon's head is sometimes accompanied by the headless body of Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon's first historical Vice President.
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Post by The Raven on Jun 14, 2009 12:31:59 GMT -5
Wonder if Chilly had anything to do with MC Pee Pants.
It's got him written all over it.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 12:37:19 GMT -5
Another 3-way tie, this time at the 39th position. From Rug Rats Angelica Pickles. Talk about nostalgia, I used to watch this as a kid. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Rugrats.JPG) The show originally revolved around a group of toddlers, Thomas "Tommy" Pickles, Charles "Chuckie" Finster, and the twins Phillip "Phil" and Lillian "Lil" DeVille. The toddlers are able to communicate with each other through baby speak, although viewers can understand them, because it is 'translated'. Often, they mispronounce words or use poor grammar and their speaking is full of malapropisms. An example of this is using the word "poopetrator" instead of "perpetrator." The group is often reluctantly joined by Tommy's cousin, Angelica Pickles. At age three years old, Angelica is able to communicate and understand language from both the toddlers and the adults, which she often uses as an advantage when she wants to manipulate either party. She is usually very mean to the babies. Holy crap! A human being also tied here: Syler from Heroes. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Heroes_Sylar2.jpg) Sylar was originally created as a cannibal who ate his victims' brains and "digested their power"; however, in order to avoid the potential silliness and zombie associations, the producers deliberately made this fact vague in the series, In an interview with series creator Tim Kring, it is asked if Sylar eats brains, and he merely states, "That's the popular speculation. There's a connection between the powers and the brain, and Sylar has found it." The question is addressed in the season three premiere, when he is depicted in the act of acquiring Claire Bennet's regenerative powers through examination of her brain with his hands. When Claire asks him the same question, he sounds surprised and replies, "Eat your brain? Claire, that's disgusting." The writers have never bridged the gap between the early insinuations regarding what Sylar does with the brains and the final incarnation they reveal in his encounter with Claire. Sylar was raised as the son of a watchmaker, but always felt that he was special and deserved more in life. This and the "evolutionary imperative" to acquire new abilities are what drive him to kill the victims with powers. Taking the name "Sylar" from a watch brand, he has shed all connections to his former life as Gabriel Gray to the point where he angrily lashes out at anyone who calls him Gabriel The episode "Six Months Ago" reveals that Sylar's real name is Gabriel Gray, a highly talented watch repairman. He encounters Chandra Suresh, who tells Gabriel that he may be an evolved human with superhuman powers. Gabriel eagerly submits to testing. After being rejected by Suresh because the test results are indeterminate, Gray contacts another person on Suresh's list, Davis. Gray discovers that he himself has the power of intuitive aptitude, and murders Davis for his telekinetic powers. After returning to Suresh, he becomes "Patient Zero", and continues to work with Suresh until Suresh realizes that Sylar is murdering the people that they meet. In "Villains", Hiro sees Sylar's life shortly after the murder of Brian Davis. Intensely remorseful over the act, Gabriel attempts to hang himself. Elle Bishop walks in and saves him by using her electric abilities to cut the rope, convincing him that he's a good person. However, she is actually working with Noah Bennet to get Sylar to reveal the method behind transferring powers from one person to another. Elle befriends Gabriel and the two begin to share feelings for each other. Against her wishes, Elle helps Noah manipulate him to kill again by introducing Gabriel to Trevor Zeitlan, a young man who can kinetically shatter objects by "shooting" at them with his thumb and forefinger. She purposefully enrages Gabriel by having Trevor repeatedly demonstrate his ability by shattering glasses while calling him "special." Gabriel turns on Elle, who tries to stop him from killing Trevor. When Gabriel realizes Elle also has an ability he is furious and pushes her against the wall with his mind commanding her to leave before turning on Trevor and taking his power. Bennet and Elle watch from the car as Gabriel attacks Trevor. There is a lot of info about him and I feel it would take up WAY too much space here so here's the url en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SylarAnother cartoon villain shows up: Juggernaut from X-Men: The Animated Series. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/XMEN161.jpg) Juggernaut/Cain Marko (voiced by Rick Bennett) - The character fully appeared in three episodes "The Unstoppable Juggernaut," "Phoenix Saga" Pt. 3, and "Juggernaut Returns." He attempted to get revenge on Xavier in all three episodes.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 13:31:45 GMT -5
Continuing with the countdown we have yet another tie for 33rdplace. 6 are tied in this position. We'll start this off with Roger Klotz from the cartoon Doug. Couldn't find a picture of this green skiinned fellow. Roger Klotz: Doug's green-skinned antagonist. He once lived in a trailer park with his divorced mother but Disney had Roger's family become suddenly wealthy, and living in a mansion. Doug uses Roger as a villain in most of his fantasies, including "Klotzilla" and "Dr. Klotzenstien". Roger has a crush on Doug's sister Judy, and owns a cat named Stinky that rivals Porkchop. Roger plays lead electric guitar for his band. In the Disney episodes, while still technically a bully, he is also portrayed as being closer to Doug than the Nickelodeon episodes, sometimes acting more as a friend. It is also showed that while Doug is a fairly creative artist, his drawing skill and painting ability pales in comparison to Roger's who was able to draw a highly detailed picture of a sunset, without looking at the paper and using only blue paint. Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Krang.JPG) He somehow took command of an army of Rock Soldiers under the leadership of General Traag, and stole the Technodrome, a powerful battle fortress, from its creator Drakus. One day, an unexplained, bizarre incident occurred that caused Krang to be stripped of his body and reduced to a brain-like form, also resulting in his exile from Dimension X to Earth, along with his army and the Technodrome. While on Earth, Krang allied himself with the Shredder, who, along with his robotic Foot Soldier army, moved into the Technodrome. In exchange, the Shredder had to design and build a new body for Krang, a human-shaped exo-suit. Shredder lived up to his part of the bargain in the season 1 episode The Shredder is Splintered, in no small part because he was unable to deal with the Turtles and needed Krang's help. Indeed, in the season 3 episode Shredderville, the Turtles have a dream of a parallel world in which they never lived, and Shredder had no problem taking over the world and April and Irma are his friends instead of the Turtles'. In this world, Shredder abandoned Krang after his conquest was complete, leaving him with no body and a heavily-damaged Technodrome. Krang's ultimate goal is to take over the Earth; it probably only became his objective after he was exiled on the Earth, but this point is never made clear. Every plan Krang conceives is either aimed at that goal, or towards the short-term objective of powering-up the Technodrome. He does not share Shredder's obsession with the Turtles and Splinter; while Shredder sees them as mortal enemies, Krang seems to regard them more like annoyances to be destroyed when they interfere in his plans. Counting from the first meeting between the Turtles and Shredder and Krang, Krang spent eight seasons in the Technodrome, either somewhere on Earth or in Dimension X, scheming to power up his battle fortress and take over the Earth. In the season 8 episode Turtle Trek, the Turtles destroy the engines of the Technodrome, trapping it and its inhabitants in Dimension X for good and putting an end to Krang's plans. Krang spent the next two years in Dimension X, until he was contacted by Dregg (The Power of Three). Dregg arranged for him and Shredder to come back to Earth, to help him fight the Turtles. However, Dregg betrays them, and drains Krang's intelligence. Shredder escapes and restores Krang (A Turtle in Time), but Dregg captures them again. Finally, the Turtles spoil his plan and transport Shredder and Krang back to Dimension X (Turtles to the Second Power). In the series finale, Divide and Conquer, the Turtles return to the Technodrome to take Krang's android body, which they need to fight Dregg. Krang is nowhere to be seen, but it is assumed that he is still somewhere in Dimension X. In the Archie Comics series, Krang was depicted as far more evil and wicked than in the cartoon. He was said to have the blood of whole races on his hands, like Wingnut and Screwloose's home planet Huanu Krang used a large, bulky, powerful mechanical body. Krang rested inside a cockpit within the stomach. Originally, the suit had a microchip installed that allowed both Krang and the robot to change his size to near Godzilla proportions. This chip was subsequently destroyed in the first episode the suit debuted. Even without the microchip, the exosuit was quite powerful. The hands could shapeshift into various weapons (axes, maces, pinchers) and even a communication device. In later episodes, however, Krang could be seen changing his arms from a collection of different types he had in his personal quarters aboard the Technodrome. Krang's suit also could "grow" jet wings in place of his arms, which he used to manage a quick escape with Shredder in its first appearance. Mrs. Pearl Forrester from Mystery Science Theater 3000 is also tied for 33rd. Couldn't find a pictures of her, and even if I did I wouldn't know if it was her or not because I never watched Mystery Science Theater 3000 is . Pearl Forrester is a character on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series, played by Mary Jo Pehl. Forrester was introduced during season six, and became a regular on the show from the seventh through the tenth season. Forrester was the mother of Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu). At the end of the sixth season, TV's Frank, who had a strong friendship with Pearl and was the assistant to her son, died (and was guided to 'Second Banana Heaven' by 'Torgo The White', a reference to the reborn Gandalf the White from Lord of the Rings). Forrester moved in to help her son during the seventh season. When Trace Beaulieu left at the end of the season, Pearl took over as the head Mad at the beginning of the eighth season; according to the backstory presented at that time, Pearl killed Dr. Forrester (after he had re-attained adulthood following his transformation into a 2001-esque Space Baby), then vowed to "avenge his death" by continuing his experiments on Mike and the Bots; she had herself cryogenically frozen until the year 2525 (probably a reference to the 1960s song "In the Year 2525") and became the leader of the Planet of the Apes-like apes who now dominated Earth, at which point she (apparently) somehow drew the Satellite of Love's crew back to the ship so that she could send them bad movies. In the episode "The Deadly Mantis," the Earth was destroyed, when Professor Bobo and Dr. Peanut helped their mutant neighbors fix their thermonuclear device. From then until the end of the series, she was assisted by Professor Bobo, who often addressed her as "Lawgiver" (another Planet of the Apes reference), and Observer (aka Brain Guy). During the episode "Quest of the Delta Knights" she becomes frustrated with a significant lack of progress in the experiment and decides to do some role-reversal to see firsthand what is wrong with the experiment, switching places with Mike in the Satellite of Love while Mike takes her place in Castle Forrester. During the movie, in lieu of a smoke, she decides to suck on a mint and shares with the bots. She is later referred to as "Mintgiver" by the bots. When the Satellite of Love returned to the present, Pearl and her lackeys followed and took up residence at Castle Forrester, ancestral home of the Forrester family, where she found records of a long line of Forresters who had performed experiments similar to those she and Dr. Forrester conducted on Mike and the Bots. Oddly, Pearl claims to be descended from these Forresters, indicating that Dr. Forrester used his mother's original surname, rather than that of his father (whoever that might be), which might suggest that he was born out of wedlock, or possibly that his father died before he was born. Indeed, Pearl has been married several times, with all of her husbands meeting gruesome fates on their honeymoons (it is implied that she was responsible for all their deaths): Chuck — became a prairie dog when he and Pearl visited a prairie dog colony in South Dakota; cause of death unrevealed Felipe — shot Maury — had hatpins shoved through his eyes right before the ceremony, presumably lingered long enough to in fact marry Pearl, then die on the honeymoon Wendell — shot Jerome — cause of death unrevealed (by her sinister tone of voice when she alludes to his death, it is implied he died in a particularly gruesome manner) Which, if any, of these men was Dr. Forrester's father is unrevealed. At the end of the series, Pearl accidentally used a new controller to send the Satellite of Love crashing back to Earth. She supposedly became the ruler of Qatar, where she vowed that her first item of business would be to insert a "U" in the nation's name. She is last seen with her lair devoid of furnishings (it is evident that they are nearly moved out), attempting to dance and sing "It's a Long Way to Tiperere" with her cronies by the light of a lone light bulb in a parody of the final episode of "the Mary Tyler Moore Show." Her last words to Mike and the Bots before pulling the plug on Castle Forrester's observation equipment were, "Look, Nelson. Move on. I am." Killface from Frisky Dingo makes an apperence here. I couldn't find a picture of him. Killface (real name Evilyn) is a main character of Frisky Dingo. A muscular, maniacal super-villain, Killface is an alien with pale white skin, red eyes, a skull-like face, and feet resembling huge clawed talons. Killface does not appear to be clothed, nor does he appear to possess genitalia, in spite of having a son by the name of Simon. Killface has a posh English accent and frequently uses English terminology. Killface has little regard for mankind, particularly Americans. Killface has constructed the Annihilatrix, a device designed to propel the Earth directly into the sun. However, having spent twenty billion dollars developing the Annihilatrix, Killface has insufficient funds for a media buy with which to market his global takeover. Killface is superhuman, claiming to bench press close to 900 kilograms (on the Mitzi and Verl Show), and is apparently very skilled at martial arts. Killface has also survived numerous wounds, most of which would incapacitate or kill a regular person. He attributes his survival to his 'superhuman healing abilities,' which allowed him to survive having a massive hole blown clean through his chest. Killface is a parody of the supervillain character archetype frequently found within superhero comic books and action cartoons—as such, for all his grandiose schemes and cultural pretensions, Killface is essentially incompetent, petulant and clueless. Killface's plans for world destruction are frequently thwarted by his cohorts and relatively trivial, insignificant concerns. He frequently segues into random (and often unnecessary) non sequiturs in attempts to relate to people or to fill an awkward pause, and often states that he is open to ideas and asks for people's candid opinions, only to immediately become petulant or violently angry if they are not the opinions he was hoping for. Despite maligning Xander Crews for his stupidity, Killface is also frequently unaware of very common pieces of knowledge: for example, he has an epiphany of sorts during the premiere episode when it dawns on him that the term "PC" stands for "personal computer." Furthermore, he has never heard of the Taliban, Steven Seagal, rental cars, Article Two of the United States Constitution and, until he read the Bible in a fit of religious fervor, apparently knew nothing of Noah's Ark (even after he "skimmed" the Bible, Killface remained ill-informed on Judeo-Christian topics, such as believing Leviticus was some sort of demigod). For all his many flaws, Killface possesses several redeeming characteristics and is frequently shown in a very human light on the show. He demonstrates a genuine interest in the lives of his underlings (such as his employee Phil's marital problems) so long as he is not angered, and is shown to be vulnerable and genuinely hurt when he is (by his perspective) betrayed. Killface also has a son, Simon; the two have a complicated and difficult relationship, but it is frequently shown that Killface genuinely loves his son and desires to be a positive and nurturing father towards him. Killface also nurses a rather shy crush on Grace Ryan, immediately becoming flustered upon meeting with her. In a common play on the relationship between superheroes and villains, Killface has, over the 2 seasons, built more of an uneasy friendship with Xander. More than being his nemesis, the two will often talk for extended periods, an example being in The Image Problem when they re-connect after getting lost on separate duck hunts. When the Annihilatrix moved Earth three feet from the sun, subsequently curing global warming, Killface took credit for the deed. This launched him into a full blown United States presidential campaign on the Democratic Party ticket. Because Killface was foreign born, he was later found ineligible for the presidency. As such, Killface struck his also ineligible opponent Xander Crews with Baby Lamont, killing the bird. These two events prompted Killface to return to his plot to destroy Earth, but he was thwarted when he discovered Wendell had obtained the key and spare coupling. He then united with Xander Crews to find Wendell. In the season 2 finale, it was revealed that Killface is actually an alien sent to destroy Earth. It also revealed that his real name is Evilyn and he is supposed to wear clothes. His alien origins may also explain why he's ignorant to even the most basic human/Earth related topics. I present to you The Clock King from Batman the TAS. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/ClockKing2.jpg) In Batman: The Animated Series the Clock King is recreated as Temple Fugate, the name being a play on the Latin phrase 'tempus fugit,' meaning 'time flies.' The character first appears in the episode "The Clock King" and later returns in the episode "Time Out of Joint". He was played by voice actor Alan Rachins. In The Clock King, Temple Fugate is a head of a time and motion study consulting company who is being sued for all its funds. Fugate is an odd, lonely man obsessed with time and punctuality; His every waking moment is pre-planned, on a "to do" list broken down into precise blocks. When urged by a pre-mayor Hamilton Hill to take a coffee break later than usual, Fugate initially refuses, as he does not want to ruin his schedule. After insistence by Hill, Fugate takes the coffee break. During the break, just when Fugate starts to relax, everything that could go wrong does, as Fugate loses documents and is late for his court appointment. As punishment for being late, the judge throws the case out, Fugate unjustly loses the case with no trial, and goes bankrupt. Fugate swears revenge on Hamilton Hill and later finds out that Hill's firm was the plaintiff for the court date Fugate was late for (though Hill apparently had nothing to do with that case). However, Fugate later claims that Hill's actual crime was making him late. Seven years later, Fugate becomes the Clock King, using his keen knowledge of the element of time, he turns to a life of crime and revenge. He now wears eye-glasses with the hands pointed at exactly 3 o'clock: perhaps a permanent reminder of that coffee break that ruined his career. His first attempt to kill Mayor Hill ends in a climatic battle with Batman inside the wheels of a clock tower, which Batman tricks Fugate into jamming with his clock-hand-like sword. The machinery collapses, and Fugate disappears in the fray while laughing maniacally. He is presumed dead, but Batman has his doubts, convinced that Fugate is still alive. In "Time Out of Joint", Batman's doubt is proven true, and Fugate indeed does return unharmed, but the manner of his escape from the clock tower is left unexplained. He is now armed with a device he uses to travel at near-light speed (stolen from a scientist named Dr. Wakati, for whom he works as a butler by the name "Harold"). This time, Fugate plants a bomb at Mayor Hill's dedication to the new court house, planning to blow it up and kill dozens of people. Batman and Robin, having learned Fugate's secret from Dr. Wakati, use a similar device to slow down the bomb's explosion while throwing it into the river. Fugate, his plans foiled, tries to escape, but Robin catches him and destroys the device, rendering him unable to flee. He is then arrested and imprisoned in Stonegate Penitentiary. This Clock King commonly dresses in a three-piece suit and bowler hat, with a pocket watch and glasses resembling clock faces. Though lacking superpowers of his own, he proved to be a formidable opponent for Batman after having studied and learned his every move from news footage. The Clock King also makes an appearance in a 2004 Batman Adventures comic. In this issue, he finally gets his revenge on Hill by rigging the mayoral election so that it seems that Oswald C. Cobblepot (The Penguin) has won. It is reasonable to imply from Fugate's behavior and erratic mannerisms towards his unbreakable schedule, and his obsession with the progression of time in general, he may suffer from an untreated form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (O.C.D.). Due to his mysterious nature, as well as the very few details that are revealed about Temple Fugate in the episode, it remains a mystery as to exactly how long he has been obsessed with time and schedules, and for what reason. Scorpion from Spiderman: The Animated Series rounds out the villains tied at 33rd. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Scorpy.gif) Mac Gargan was a private investigator initially hired by J. Jonah Jameson to find out how Peter Parker is able to obtain incredible pictures of Spider-Man. Gargan's efforts set off Peter's spider-sense and the teen was able to easily evade the detective. Jameson then decided to hire Gargan as the subject of a barely tested process that would endow him with the useful characteristics of a particular animal with the help of Dr. Farley Stillwell. In this case, a scorpion was the base for the purposes of creating a powerful agent capable of defeating Spider-Man. However, Spider-Man was still able to defeat the Scorpion in their first battle. This mutagenic treatment seriously affected Gargan's mind, driving him insane; although criminally insane, the Scorpion retains his deductive reasoning from his career as a private investigator. He promptly turned on his benefactor and when Spider-Man intervened, Jameson found himself in the strange position of praying that his investment was insufficient in defeating the superhero he hated.Since then, the Scorpion became a professional criminal and has repeatedly attempted to indulge in his deadly vendetta against Spider-Man and Jameson, only to be defeated each time. He was later hired by a spy ring to follow S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter, but was defeated by Captain America. Scorpion was acquired by Mr. Kline, who created android duplicates of the Scorpion and Mr. Hyde to dispatch against Daredevil.The real Scorpion and Mr. Hyde then launched a campaign of terror against SHIELD agents, but were defeated by Captain America and the Falcon. The Scorpion, through the course of his career, acquired a few items: a new costume, and several new tails: one that spurted acid, another that spurted tear gas, and one that can deliver electric blasts from the stinger. He also fought Ms. Marvel after a botched revenge attempt against Jameson; the Scorpion became more psychotic than usual after his battle with Ms. Marvel, resulting in his being dumped in acid. In the sewers, his sanity deteriorating, Scorpion came to believe that his costume couldn't come off. However, after a quick encounter, Spider-Man proved to him that his belief of being a monster was in his mind He formed an extortion racket to sabotage the Daily Bugle, but was thwarted by Spider-Man and Captain America. He was freed from prison by agents of Egghead, who wanted him as a member of the third Masters of Evil alongside Whirlwind and Moonstone. The team fought the Avengers but were defeated. Jonah does appreciate the irony from his relationship with the Scorpion and eventually decided to publicly confess to his role in creating the supervillain when the original Hobgoblin tried to use that secret to blackmail him.[12] Despite his encounters with other foes, Scorpion has always had a special hatred for Spider-Man and Jameson, which extended when he attempted becoming a mercenary for Justin Hammer, who had the Scorpion's battlesuit modified. Namely, he ruined his prospects on his first mission, to capture a war hero, when he could not resist creating a hostage situation simply to bring Jameson to him for revenge. In reaction, Hammer sent Blacklash and Rhino to subdue Gargan and confiscate the tail enhancement equipment for abrogating his contract. During the Acts of Vengeance, he attempted to enter Canada to avoid the Super Power Registration Act. The Tinkerer met him at the airport and provided him with a modified scorpion tail for his costume. He, Asp, Nekra, and Owl (whom were under the control of Llan the Sorcerer) were repelled by Alpha Flight and Gamma Flight. He was then hired by the Chameleon to kill a de-powered Spider-Man. He was defeated by the Black Cat. At one point, the Scorpion's constant defeats at the hands of Spider-Man drove him to depression. He wandered the sewers, his mind becoming clearer than it had been since his transformation. Gargan's returning sanity was cut short when he encountered a depressed and crisis-ridden Spider-Man. Ignoring Gargan's plea that he had changed, the wall-crawler beat him to a pulp. As a result, Gargan's insanity flooded back and he reverted back into his psychotic state; his chance at redemption was destroyed by his hated enemy. Scorpion temporarily worked for Roxxon and helped them in their phony "Rehabilitation Therapy". Roxxon updated the Scorpion's powers and costume and promised he would get back at his enemies. Spider-Man managed to convince Scorpion that he was only being used as Jameson had once before. Scorpion then turned on Roxxon and was then defeated by the webslinger. Gargan reappeared during the aftermath of the Secret War that had been organized by Nick Fury against Latveria. He was among the supervillains who had been supplied with enhanced technology by Latverian dictator Lucia von Bardos and sent to attack the heroes who had been involved in Fury's Secret War. The villains' technologies were then hijacked by von Bardos, supplying her with power, potentially at the cost of the villains' lives, but the assembled heroes defeated von Bardos and apprehended Scorpion and the others.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 13:43:10 GMT -5
Here's what my top 10 list looks like currently
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Stewie Griffin – Family Guy (42) 9 Louie De Palma - Taxi (46) 10 The Riddler - Batman (50)
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 15:25:26 GMT -5
The 28th place on this epic top 50 TV villains countdown is shared by 4 people. Let's meet them! Dr. Clayton Forrester from MST3K ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Laserblastdrforrester.jpg) Forrester originally worked with fellow "mad" Dr. Laurence Erhardt at the Gizmonic Institute, until they moved their operations to the bowels of Deep 13. He engineered the kidnapping of janitor Joel Robinson, shooting him into space onboard the Satellite of Love. According to the show's mythos, Dr. Forrester (full name: Clayton Deborah Susan Forrester, perhaps because his mother wanted a daughter, or in two instances, Clayton Stonewall Forrester, and Clayton Firebrand Forrester) had been a mad scientist ever since his youth, when he was a member of Evilos (a mad scientist version of Webelos), where he grafted the rear end of a dog onto the rear end of a cat; he has traced his scientific ambitions back to "Oslo...I was found drunk and woozy...scratching the name "Paula Cranston" into my thigh with a nail". Other pivotal moments in his early life include a 1956 visit to "Sun Valley...[where] I was found behind the soft-serve machine, drooling over a picture of Dick Button" (Since Trace Beaulieu was born in 1958, Forrester must thus be at least a decade or so older than the actor who portrayed him.) and a visit to "the Ice Capades, [where] I was hot-riveting my kneecaps to Peggy Fleming's zamboni." Forrester's high school career was typified by a series of humiliations, presumably contributing to his rather deranged personality. Frequently teased by classmates, he received a "shameful expulsion" from the Chess Club, suffered a "shameful shower incident" during his sophomore year, got rejected by the Swing Choir, was frequently victimized by book-dumpings after typing class, was forced to do power sit-ups in gym, and received "the revulsion, scorn, and rejection of all the pretty girls." At some point, he was struck by lightning, resulting in the white streak in his hair and mustache. While earning his doctorate, Forrester took some undergraduate courses in Super-Villainry, and at some point he joined the Fraternal Order of Mad Science. He was a frequent attendee of the Mad Scientist Convention, although he lost the convention's invention contest each year (on one occasion his entry, "the More Painful Mouse Trap," was met only with laughter). In response to his rejections, he has blown up the convention center twice and once used incendiaries to not "actually make the building blow up, it just made it burn...really quickly." While working at Gizmonic Institute, Forrester and his assistant sent Joel cheesy movies which he was forced to watch, in order to find a movie that would drive people mad and allow him to take over the world. In response, Joel built several robot friends to keep him company, and keep himself from being driven mad. Joel, Crow T. Robot, and Tom Servo mocked each of the movies they were forced to watch. During Joel's time on MST3K, Forrester participated in Invention Exchanges with Joel and the 'bots. He would show his invention, then Joel would show his invention. At the end of the sixth season, Frank was assumed into Second Banana Heaven by the angel Torgo, an event that, surprisingly, deeply saddened Forrester, reacting as though he had lost his best friend, even lamenting Frank's loss with the song "Who Will I Kill?". In the seventh season, Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl) joined her son Clayton to help him out. When Trace Beaulieu left the series, she took over as the head mad, and continued sending bad movies to hapless temp Mike Nelson (played by Michael J. Nelson, who had replaced Joel halfway through the 5th season) and the 'bots. Clayton's last appearance was Laserblast (Episode #706), where he announces that his funding has been cut, causing him to pack up Deep 13 and cut loose the Satellite of Love. The end of the episode is a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which an old Clayton tries to reach a Monolith-like giant videocassette labeled "The Worst Film Ever Made". In the final scene, he is reborn as a star child. When Pearl muses about another chance to raise her son, he utters his final words of the Comedy Central series: "Oh, poopie." Mon*Star from Silverhawks is also tied in this position. Sorry, couldn't find picture. The quintillionaire alien mob boss who escaped from his cell, located on Penal Planet 10. He uses the power of Limbo's Moonstar to transform into an armor-plated, spiked creature with rocket boosters in his elbows. Mon*Star rides a giant "space-squid" called Sky-Runner, and has a weapon-bird (more like a vampire-bat) named Sky Shadow. He has some bad blood with Stargazer due to their past conflicts, and extends that animosity to the Silverhawks. Like Thundercats's Mumm-Ra who transforms by saying “Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!” Mon*Star transforms into his alternate form by calling on the Moonstar to "Give me the might, the muscle, the menace, of MON*STAR!". Plankston from Spongebob Squarepants is also tied here. I couldn't find a picture of him. Sheldon J. Plankton is a small green copepod who is Mr. Krabs's nemesis and the main antagonist of the series. He runs an unsuccessful restaurant called the Chum Bucket, located directly across the street from the Krusty Krab. He is married to a computer named Karen, and nearly became Mr. Krabs' stepfather in the episode "Enemy-In-Law." Also, his main goal in life is to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and put Mr. Krabs out of business. Plankton succeeds at stealing the formula in the movie, but his goal of world domination is thwarted by SpongeBob. He only had one customer at his restaurant in "Plankton's Regular" , but it turned out that Karen was paying the man to pretend to like Plankton's chum Our final villain at this spot is Eric Cartman from Southpark. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3e/EricCartman1.svg/652px-EricCartman1.svg.png) Eric Theodore Cartman is a fictional character on the American animated television series South Park. One of the four main characters along with fellow protagonists Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick, Cartman is often portrayed as the series' main antagonist in opposition of his friends. He debuted on television when South Park first aired on August 13, 1997; he had earlier appeared in "The Spirit of Christmas" shorts created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone in 1992 ("Jesus vs. Frosty") and 1995 ("Jesus vs. Santa"). Voiced by Trey Parker, Cartman is an overweight, spoiled, foul-mouthed, mean-spirited, selfish, and ill-tempered fourth-grader living with his hermaphroditic de facto mother in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado, where he commonly has extraordinary experiences not typical of conventional small-town life. Cartman is one of the most popular characters on the show, and has remained one of the most recognizable television characters ever since South Park became a hit during its first season. Parker and Stone describe the character as "a little Archie Bunker", and state that he is their favorite character, and the one with whom they most identify. During its thirteen seasons, South Park has received both praise and criticism for Cartman's tendency to be politically incorrect and shockingly profane. Prominent publications and television channels have included Cartman on their lists of the most iconic television and cartoon characters of all-time. Cartman attends South Park Elementary as part of Mr. Garrison's fourth grade class. During the show's first 58 episodes (1997 until the season four episode "4th Grade" in 2000), Cartman and the other main child characters were in the third grade. He is an only child being raised by Liane Cartman, a promiscuous single parent who, despite exhibiting female characteristics and commonly being referred to as "Cartman's mom", is actually an intersexual who fathered Cartman, and the identity of his true birth mother has never been revealed. Amongst the show's main child characters, Cartman is distinguished as "the fat one", and his obesity has been a continuing source of insults from other characters throughout the show's run. Cartman is frequently portrayed as an antagonist or villain whose actions set in motion the events serving as the main plot of an episode. Other children and classmates are alienated by Cartman's insensitive, racist, lazy, misogynistic, wildly insecure, and bigoted behavior,but are occasionally influenced by his obtrusive, manipulative, and propagandist antics. Fearing for his reputation after losing a fight to Wendy Testaburger in the season 12 (2008) episode "Breast Cancer Show Ever", Cartman received several assurances from numerous classmates that their opinion of him was already at the point where it could not have gotten any lower. Kyle, who is Jewish, is often the recipient of the slander and anti-Semitic insults expressed by Cartman. The two have shared an enmity since the show's beginnings, and their rivalry has become significantly more pronounced as the series has progressed. Parker and Stone have compared the relationship to the one shared by Archie Bunker and Michael Stivic on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family. Kyle has a tendency to make what he thinks are safe bets with Cartman, and often loses these bets when the improbable actions promised by Cartman are accomplished. Cartman's motivation in this regard is not merely monetary gain, but an obsession with scoring a victory over Kyle, a fixation that ultimately played a major part in a subplot to the three-part episode "Imaginationland" (season 11, 2007). Cartman's resentment of Stan is usually reserved for when Cartman proudly exclaims his hatred for both Stan and Kyle as a duo, and his contempt for Stan as an individual is usually limited to his annoyance with Stan's sensitivity, affection for animals, and the relationship Stan shares with Wendy. Cartman constantly teases Kenny for being poor, and derides Kenny's family for being on welfare. He will also use an awkward pause during a conversation as an opportunity to casually remind Kenny that he hates him. Kenny has indicated that he maintains a friendship with Cartman solely out of pity. Cartman's mischievous treatment of Butters Stotch, and the relationship the duo shares has received significant focus in the more recent seasons of the series.This is due in large part to Parker favoring the screen time they share together, claiming the scenes are the ones he most enjoys writing.[ Several episodes center around Cartman's greed and his get-rich-quick schemes, although his numerous attempts to obtain wealth generally fail.[ His extreme disdain for hippies serves to satirize the counterculture of the 1960s and its influence in contemporary society, while also mirroring Parker's real-life hatred of hippies. Though the act is customarily performed by Stan or Kyle, Cartman will occasionally reflect on the lessons he has attained during the course of an episode with a speech that often begins with "You know, I learned something today...". Cartman's anti-Semitism, while largely limited to mocking Kyle, culminated in the season eight (2004) episode "The Passion of the Jew". In the episode, Cartman, after watching The Passion of the Christ numerous times, deifies the film's director, Mel Gibson, and starts an official Gibson fan club, praising Gibson for "trying to express — through cinema — the horror and filthiness of the common Jew."] Cartman's interpretation of the film influences him to dress up as Adolf Hitler and lead other fan club members (who are clueless as to Cartman's actual intentions) in a failed effort to engage in a systematic genocide of the Jews similar to that of the Final Solution. In the season 10 (2006) episode "Smug Alert!", Cartman anonymously saved Kyle's life in an effort to get him and his family to return to South Park from San Francisco, revealing that he craves the animosity shared between the two Upon hearing his classmates tell him that they hold him in the lowest regard possible, a stubborn Cartman misinterpreted this act as their attempt to make him feel better, and obstinately convinced himself that everyone thought he was the "coolest kid in school". In the season 13 (2009) episode "Fishsticks", Cartman subconsciously believes that he solely created a joke that quickly becomes a nationwide sensation, despite the fact that the character Jimmy Vulmer wrote the joke without any assistance. Carlos Delgado of If Magazine noted this as "Cartman being so egotistical that he manipulates the past to serve his own purposes".
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 16:02:53 GMT -5
There is a 5-way tie at slot number 23. Hades from Hercules: The Animated Series was voted into this position. I couldn't find a picutre for him. Hades (James Woods) - the smooth-talking lord of the underworld, who constantly makes plans to overthrow and rule Olympus, bring more dead into the underworld or rewrite universal order. His crazy shapeshifting imp assistants, Pain (Bob Goldthwait) and Panic (Matt Frewer), have also returned from the movie. He is disappointed about being named Pluto in the episode "Hercules and the Romans", saying he wouldn't even name his dog Cerberus "Pluto" (a pun that Pluto is Mickey Mouse's dog and also the other name for Hades in Roman mythology). Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget also placed here. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Dr_claw.jpg) Dr. Claw, voiced by Frank Welker (and in a few episodes in the first season, Greg Duffell), is the main villain in the series and leader of the evil organization known as M.A.D. He speaks in a deep, menacing, ominous-sounding voice and his face and the majority of his body are never shown throughout the series; only his arms and gloved hands are visible. He is usually at a computer terminal where he monitors his various schemes, often in a creepy old castle. Even though he's aware of Gadget's stupidity, he believes the Inspector to be his greatest nemesis, never fully realizing that it is actually Penny and Brain who foil his plots in each episode (although he or his M.A.D. agents have captured Penny and sometimes Brain a number of times). His name is Dr. Gang in the French version and the Spanish version in Spain, and in a few episodes of the second season in the Polish version. From Avengers: United They Stand Ultron made the countdown. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Avengersultronunleashed1.jpg) The series featured a team broadly based on the roster for the 1984 Avengers spin-off series The West Coast Avengers, comprised of the Wasp, Wonder Man, Tigra, Hawkeye, and Scarlet Witch (Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch were also both in the Iron Man animated series as members of Force Works), led by Ant-Man (aka Giant-Man), with the Wonderman and the Vision joining in the opening two-parter. For undetermined reasons (perhaps due to their rights being tied up in planned movie projects), the Avengers' "Big Three" were not regular fixtures in the series - Captain America and Iron Man made only guest appearances in one episode each, while Thor did not appear outside of the opening titles. The series featured many of the Avengers' major comic book foes, including Ultron, Kang the Conqueror, Egghead, the Masters of Evil, the Grim Reaper and the Zodiac, as well as associated characters such as the Swordsman, the Circus of Crime, Namor, Attuma, Agatha Harkness and the Salem's Seven. The show made several fan-friendly references to aspects of the characters' comic book history that were otherwise not expanded upon for the uninitiated, such as the Falcon and Captain America's partnership, Hawkeye's partial deafness or Namor's half-breed nature. Mimi Bobeck from The Drew Carey Show is the first female to appear on this countdown. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/DrewCareyTVFaves.jpg) Mimi Bobeck (Kathy Kinney) - Mr. Bell's, and then later Mr. Wick's, assistant/secretary. She is an overweight woman who wears a lot of make-up, yet has a very high but unstable self-esteem. (As an in-joke, Mimi's mother was played by Tammy Faye Bakker.) Mimi is Drew's arch-nemesis; she vowed to make Drew's life a living hell after Drew denied her a job based on her makeup. Mimi's pranks have included gluing Drew's hand to a pornographic magazine, covering Drew's desk with garbage, and eventually sending Drew to China while he is unconscious. She is also known for calling him "Pig" and "Doughboy." Her character can be seen as an attack on societal norms of beauty, much as the main character of Rosalie Goes Shopping. Mimi's past has a lot of connections to the world of music; she often talks about being a roadie for Foghat and was married to Eddie Money for two weeks after appearing at his first concert. Additionally, she admits to sleeping with both Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton. Frampton still carries a torch for Mimi; he has a tattoo of her likeness on his chest. Later on, Mimi becomes more of a friend to Drew (they agree to put their feud on hold while Mimi dates/marries Steve) and a good, if unconventional, mother to Gus. Early in the series, it was revealed that Mimi was of Polish ancestry, and inherited the title of Duchess of Kraków after her aunt died. However, the episode with this content received a great deal of complaint from the Polish community, and all mention of Mimi's heritage has been removed from the show (with alternative footage placed over these bits in syndication). In 2009, Mimi resurfaced as a guest model on Drew's game show The Price is Right during the show's April Fool's episode. Venom from Spider-Man TAS rounds out all the evil people tied at this position. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/EddieBrock.jpg) Eddie Brock appears in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, played by Hank Azaria, who blames Spider-Man for getting him fired, joins with the Venom symbiote and attempts to torment Spider-Man's personal life. He eventually helps Spider-Man and Iron Man defeat Dormammu(an out-of-character action for Venom), but ends up being sucked into a portal, while saving Ashley Kafka from Carnage.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 17:06:27 GMT -5
The 17th spot in the countdown is shared by 4 people. The man who one day wants to dine on turtle soup Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles appears here. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/TMNT1987_Shredder.png) In 2009, Shredder was ranked as IGN's 39th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. Shredder (Oroku Saki) is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. At one point or another in every incarnation of the TMNT stories, he has been the archenemy of Splinter and the Turtles. He is also known as the leader of the Foot Clan. Shredder's physical appearance remains fairly consistent in all incarnations of the character. Saki is a muscular Japanese man, most frequently seen in the Shredder persona, wearing a suit of armor vaguely based on that of a samurai, with a cape. The armor consists of blade-covered metal plaques on his shoulders, forearms, hands (sometimes just his left hand, as he is left-handed), and shins; he wears a purple, gray, blue, or red robe that variously appears to be simple fabric or a form of chain mail. Sometimes he wears a metal silver, black, or blue suit of armor. He also wears a metal helmet with a trident-shaped ornament on top, and a metal mask that covers his face, leaving only his eyes visible. He sometimes wears a purple cape The origin story in the 1987 TV series differs greatly from that of the original Mirage Studios comics, presumably to make it more appropriate for a family audience. In this version, Splinter was formerly a human being, an honorable ninja master named Hamato Yoshi. Yoshi was banished from the Foot Clan in Japan after being deceived by the seditious Oroku Saki, who pinned Hamato Yoshi's dogi to the wall with a knife, preventing him from kneeling before their sensei, which was seen as an insult. When Yoshi removed the knife, the sensei was again insulted, believing Yoshi was drawing the blade in opposition to him. Exiled from the ninja clan, Hamato Yoshi moved to New York City, where he was forced to live in the sewers. While living in the sewers with the rats as his friends, Yoshi one day found four turtles, recently bought from a pet store by an unnamed boy who accidentally dropped them in the sewer. Yoshi returned one day from his explorations around New York to find the turtles covered with a strange glowing ooze. The substance caused the turtles, most recently exposed to Yoshi, to become humanoid, while Yoshi, most recently exposed to sewer rats, became a humanoid rat, and started going by the pseudonym "Splinter". This, and the following Archie TMNT Adventures Comics, is the only origin story in the TMNT franchise where the Turtles come to Yoshi before being exposed to mutagen. Also, Yoshi and becomes a rat, whereas in most other versions, he is Yoshi's pet rat that becomes humanoid. This is also the only version in which the Turtles become fully grown immediately after exposure to the mutagen, where Splinter raises them from infancy in other versions. Yoshi adopts the four turtles as his sons and trains them in the art of ninjitsu. He names them after his favorite Italian renaissance artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (Donatello), Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael), and Michelangelo Buonarroti. In most versions, the Turtles tend to go by nicknames Leo, Donny, Raph and Mikey, but in this version they are always addressed by their full name: Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo. Each Ninja Turtle wears a mask over his eyes with a distinctive color, and is trained in the art of a distinct weapon. Meanwhile, Oroku Saki has left Japan and tracked Yoshi to New York City, where he intends to destroy him once and for all. He has become associated with Krang, a disembodied alien brain who has been banished from his home, Dimension X, where he was a great warlord. Saki has taken on a new persona, donning a suit covered with razor spikes, complimented by a long cape, and a metal mask over his mouth. He has also taken on the pseudonym "The Shredder". It becomes clear in the first season that the mutagen that transformed the Turtles and Splinter into their new forms was dumped into the sewer by Shredder in an effort to destroy Yoshi. Shredder thought it was a deadly poison. The Turtles vow to take revenge on the Shredder for dishonoring their master, as well as turning him into a rat. The Turtles want to force him to turn Splinter back into a human again, though this quickly evolves into stopping Shredder's ongoing criminal career. The Turtles begin to take on the role of vigilante crime-fighters operating outside of the jurisdiction of law enforcement against any criminals, much like Casey Jones in the third season. For the first couple of seasons, it seems as if the Turtles are constantly preoccupied with hiding their existence. This seems to be slowly relaxed and, by the last few seasons, most citizens seem to be well aware of them. Shredder, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady (two street thugs morphed into animal form by exposure to the Shredder's mutagen) and a small army of robotic Foot Soldiers try to destroy the Turtles and take over the World. Much of their quest for world domination hinges on bringing the Technodrome (Krang's mobile fortress, and his and The Shredder's base of operation) to the surface as it was either stuck in the earth's core, Dimension X, the arctic or Arctic Ocean. In the last two seasons of the show, the Turtles finally banish The Shredder and Krang to Dimension X. They destroy the engines and the "trans-dimensional portal" of the Technodrome preventing them from ever returning to Earth. The show, which had already lasted well past the average lifespan of most Saturday morning cartoon series, then went through dramatic changes. The animation became darker and closer to the original comic book style, the color of the sky in each episode changed from the traditional blue to a continuous and ominous dark-red sky (which was commonplace with newer action-oriented children's programming at that time), and the theme song was changed. A new villain, Lord Dregg, an evil alien warlord, also appears as their new chief nemesis. Lord Dregg begins a propaganda campaign against the Turtles, turning the general population against them and in favor of him and his forces. In the last episode of the series, the Turtles trap Dregg in Dimension X. Detective Vic Mackey from The Shield makes the list. Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) is a corrupt police officer and former leader of the Strike Team; he steals from drug dealers, beats and tortures suspects, and has committed murder more than once, including a fellow police officer. A quintessential Machiavellian, Mackey sees his tactics as a means to an end. Vic perceives himself as a loyal father and partner, and does, indeed, seem to intend to fulfill those roles, but his pathological desire to control everyone and everything around him results in hurting those closest to him, primarily his ex-wife and daughter, but also Lemansky. Mackey's family life is followed throughout the series. His marriage to his wife, a nurse, failed after numerous instances of infidelity on Mackey's part (including with Officer Sofer, which resulted in a child). Mackey and his wife have three children, two with autism. The special education needs of Mackey's children are one of many sources of stress (monetary and emotional) for Mackey. After Corrine leaves him, he is granted immunity by ICE and then confesses to the Crowley murder. He finishes the series working behind a desk. He appears in all seasons of The Shield.On Bravo TV's countdown of the 100 Greatest Television Characters, Michael Chiklis described Mackey as "a cross between Hannibal Lecter and Dirty Harry." Cobra Commander from GI Joe places here in the countdown. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Cobra_commander.jpg) In the first season of the original 1980s animated series, Cobra Commander is the leader of Cobra, described in the show's opening theme as "A ruthless, terrorist organization determined to rule the world". His face is always covered, either by a featureless chrome mask concealing his entire face or by a hood with eyehole cutouts. He wears a blue military uniform, occasionally sporting a cape and carrying a scepter, depending on the occasion. His distinctively raspy voice was provided by Chris Latta, who also provided the voice of Starscream in Transformers. The voices of Starscream and Cobra Commander were virtually identical, with the difference being that for the former, Latta's voice was run through a vocoder to produce the characteristic digital echo effect of the Transformers. Although only Cobra Commander's eyes are openly exposed, it is clear from this partial view that he is a brown-eyed Caucasian. His reason for wearing the mask was not expressly divulged, but in one episode, Lights! Camera! Cobra!, Destro interrupts his unmasked privacy during a meal and is repulsed at what he saw (which is not shown on-screen), prompting the Commander to wryly muse "It takes a strong stomach to watch me eat, eh, Destro?", implying that he may have some unsightly deformity. This is later confirmed in G.I. Joe: The Movie, where his face is shown to have been horribly disfigured as the result of a laboratory mishap involving "genetic altering spores". It is not the original origin the writers of the cartoon series had in mind, however. This is further evidenced by Cobra Commander's blue skinned appearance during that particular scene. Cobra Commander frequently led assaults himself, but often vacillated between being a coward at heart, usually the first to turn tail in retreat whenever the tide of battle shifted unfavorably, or pushing his troops to seize victory at all costs, berating them when they turned to retreat. Impatient and frequently hysterical, he was prone to fits of rage when things went badly, often launching into extended rants. He was also greedy and egotistical, often mistreating his own troops to the point of mutiny, and on multiple occasions saw his plans foiled by his own arrogance. He had a knack for concocting creative schemes for world domination - including cloned dinosaurs, giant amoebas, miniaturized troops stowed away inside Christmas presents, and using a superlaser to gleefully carve a picture of his face on the moon à la Chairface Chippendale - plans which his immediate subordinates, particularly Destro, often blasted as ridiculous. (In fact, when Destro found out about the moon carving, he shouted why were millions of dollars wasted on "this... cosmic graffiti!?") As such, he was less of an evil genius and more of a psychotic egomaniac. The writers later commented that they only found Cobra Commander's personality when they stopped writing him as an Adolf Hitler-type and started writing him more in the vein of Yosemite Sam. Season 2 opened with the 5-episode mini-series Arise, Serpentor, Arise! in which the Cobra organization decides that, after Cobra Commander had repeatedly failed to bring them victory, they should literally create a new leader. Under the guidance of Dr. Mindbender, Cobra's scientists combine DNA samples retrieved from the tombs of history's most notorious despots (along with DNA from current G.I. Joe member Sgt. Slaughter) to genetically craft Cobra Commander's successor, Serpentor, who immediately assumes charge of Cobra and deposes the erstwhile Commander to the status of "lackey." Fortunately for the Commander, G.I. Joe managed to interfere with the gene collection to deny Serpentor the critical inclusion of Sun Tzu's essence and with only a little of Sgt. Slaughter's. The absence of that ancient military strategist's influence evidently makes Serpentor prone to impulsive foolhardiness that shows when he immediately orders a full-scale attack on Washington, D.C.. While the operation is initially successful, it soon turns into a complete fiasco at the hands of G.I. Joe's reprisals. Cobra Commander is able to convince Dr. Mindbender to free him from his handcuffs because he knows how to use a weapon and Cobra needs all the help it can get. During the battle, Cobra's vehicles began to run out of fuel, except for one Night Raven, which would take the high command back to Cobra Island. A sudden burst of fire cuts the Joes off from Serpentor. The high command is shocked to learn Cobra Commander saved them. Serpentor orders the high command to the Night Raven while he deals with the Commander. In a rare moment of brilliance, Cobra Commander is able to convince Serpentor that he needs him for a scapegoat. Thereafter, Cobra Commander seems to be employed as the organizations primary field commander, while Serpentor leads mostly from the Terrordrome. Serpentor even allowed Cobra Commander to be the organization's second-in-command, a decision tolerated by the rest of the Cobra High Command. Cobra Commander spent most of Season 2 trying to reclaim his former glory from under Serpentor's domineering shadow, assembling his own secret society called The Coil to that end. Mr. Sinister from X-Men TAS rounds out this position. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Ultimate-sinister.jpg) Mister Sinister possesses a vaguely defined set of powers due to experimentation by Apocalypse and having copied mutant genes into his own body, including enhanced strength, speed, durability and longevity, energy blasts and teleportation. Sinister has formidable mental powers; Exodus once referred to him as one of the five most skilled telepaths he knew of. He also seems to be in possession of some telekinetic abilities he utilizes for levitation. His malleable form grants him almost complete immunity to pain including a pseudo-healing factor and the ability to change his appearance and shape. Mister Sinister/Nathaniel Essex has allegiances to Nasty Boys and Savage Land Mutates (Leader)/Apocalypse
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 17:40:09 GMT -5
The 11th spot on the countdown is shared by 5 people. From Beast Wars: Transformers Megatron. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Megatron-beastwars.jpg) The charismatic mastermind commander of the Predacons. Megatron stole the Golden Disk from Cybertron and headed off into space, pursued by the Maximals. The two teams crashed on prehistoric Earth where they battled for Energon. Megatron is a rather sociable person, but dislikes failure. He gained a Transmetal form, and later a Transmetal II form after being tossed into a pit of lava. He attempted several times to alter Cybertron's history throughout the past. His beast modes are a Tyrannosaurus rex and later a dragon. Dick Dastardly from Dudley DoRight shows up as well. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/DoRightCast.JPG[.img]Dick Dastardly is a fictional character and antagonist who appeared in various animated series by Hanna-Barbera Productions, includling Dudley Do Right. Spike from Buffy, the Vampire Slayer shows up here. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/S618_Spike.png) Spike is a vampire character whose role varies dramatically through the course of the series, ranging from a major villain to "love's bitch", to the sarcastic comic relief, to Buffy's romantic interest in a relationship that grows from miserable lust to a friendship, and eventually to a self-sacrificing hero, dying as a Champion at the Hellmouth. His path to redemption subsequently resumes in L.A. (in season five of Angel), where his resurrected character continues to develop into a selfless hero. Spike is known for his Billy Idol platinum hair, his catch-phrase "bloody hell", and his black leather duster, which he acquired after killing a slayer for the second time. Nikki Woods was a vampire slayer in the 1970s who Spike killed and began wearing her jacket. Spike is also known for killing two different slayers. Wow......two actors back to back for the first time during this countdown with J.R. Ewing from Dallas rounding out the evil doers tied at the 11th spot. couldn't find a pciture of him J. R. Ewing is the eldest son of Jock Ewing and Miss Ellie Ewing. He was born in 1938 on Southfork. J.R. has two younger brothers Gary and Bobby and a half brother Ray Krebbs from Jock's affair during World War II. An alcoholic, Gary and his wife Val were spun-off into the prime time soap Knots Landing. Gary's daughter Lucy was whisked away to the ranch by J.R. Knots Landing was created before Dallas, but it was not bought by CBS until 1979. J.R.'s extramarital flings and an obsessive drive to maximize profits left no time for the Southfork Ranch and animal husbandry, which were mostly the domain of his half-brother Ray Krebbs and mother Miss Ellie. J.R. was keen on women and mean on his arch nemesis Cliff Barnes. The two characters were the only ones who remained with the series throughout all 14 seasons. Though ever the womanizer, J.R. had two wives during the show's run: Sue-Ellen (played by Linda Gray) and Cally (played by Cathy Podewell), and three sons: John Ross III, James Richard Beaumont, and Terrance Harper (one each to his wives and one from an earlier, off-screen affair). Bobby had two wives in Pamela Barnes and his cousin Jack's ex-wife April Stephens Ewing. While Bobby dated his college sweetheart (and mother of his biological daughter) Jenna Wade off and on, she eventually connected with his half-brother Ray. The series capitalized on ending each season with ratings-grabbing cliffhangers. Some notable cliffhangers included the "Who shot J.R.?" dynamo, a floating female corpse in the pool, a blazing mansion fire, Bobby mistakenly being shot while sitting in J.R.'s office, and the murder of Bobby by Pam's crazed half-sister. Usually, no longlasting damage was done to any essential cast member — unless they wanted to leave the series. Bobby, seemingly killed at the close of the 1986 season, returned a year later via a nightmare sequence. Two years later, Pamela was seemingly killed in a fiery explosion (later returning in her final episode). As Dallas drew to its 1991 finale, "Conundrum", J.R. was undone by a combination of his enemies and booze. Abandoned by most family members (Sue Ellen, John Ross, Miss Ellie, Lucy, Ray ...), J.R. was set up by West Star Oil owner Carter McKay. Believing that West Star was available, J.R. sold his half of Ewing Oil to Cliff Barnes, only to discover a retaliatory plot con was orchestrated by Mackay (whom J.R. previously framed for murder). J.R., having bought worthless West Star voting rights, soon lost both companies. Contemplating suicide, the character roamed the lonely Southfork with a bottle of bourbon and a loaded revolver. After an It's a Wonderful Life-like fantasy, J.R. is shown what life would have been like had he never been born. The series ended with a single gunshot, and Bobby dashing into the room shouting "oh my God!". J.R.'s fate was not revealed. J.R. drove a pale green Mercedes-Benz with the license plate "EWING 3" (patriarch Jock was #1). J.R. drove a Cadillac Allanté convertible from 1987-1991 J.R. Ewing is the only character to appear in all 357 episodes of Dallas. After being shot by his sister-in-law Kristin, the character's face was hidden for two episodes, while Hagman sought contract negotiations.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 18:59:47 GMT -5
Spot number 10 has the last tie in the countdown and has the strange distinction of having 3 characters from the same TV show on this spot. Lord Zed from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Zedd2.jpg) Lord Zedd is a villain from the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The character was the first American-made villain for the Power Rangers series that had no origins in the Japanese Super Sentai. He was such a frightening character when first introduced that in several episodes after his introduction, parents actually complained that he was "too evil" for the show; this resulted in Zedd being toned down immensely (an action that has been heavily criticized by fans), such as his marriage to Rita Repulsa, the series' first villain,1 and soon after making the character (and his plans and monsters) more comedic. Through unknown means, both Lord Zedd and Rita have a son, Senior Lord Zedd Jr. III , who appears in Operation Overdrive. LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT ORIGNAL SUPER EVIL LORD ZED KICKED SERIOUS ASS!!!!... even though he tried to kill the hot chick in my sig Rita Repulsa also from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Like Lord Zed she tried to kill the hot chick in my sig. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Rita4-14a.jpg) In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Rita Repulsa, the so called "Empress of Evil", was released from the space dumpster in which Zordon had imprisoned her over 10,000 years ago by a pair of clueless Earth astronauts. After the astronauts accidentally unleashed Rita, she exited the dumpster along with her minions Goldar, Squatt, Baboo and Finster. Rita claimed she would conquer the first planet she saw after being freed, and it happened to be Earth. Over the course of the show, Rita Repulsa battled the Power Rangers using everything from phobia spells, super Putty patrollers, binding magic spells, and on occasions, she would even allow the likes of Goldar and Squatt and Baboo to be "in charge" of destroying the Power Rangers. Obviously, nothing worked, and Rita would normally take her frustrations out on her henchmen by bashing them on the head with he sceptre. One of Rita's most memorable traits was that follwing each loss, she would either swear vengeance, or complain that she had a headache (the latter becoming one of her trademarks). Eventually Rita's reign of terror came to an end when Lord Zedd - the "True Emperor of Evil" as Goldar put it - returned from conquering galaxies to assume control. Zedd was furious that Rita failed to defeat "children" and conquer the Earth. Despite Rita's begging and pleading, Lord Zedd vaporized Rita's magic wand and shrank her down to the size of a toy before again exiling her into space in the same dumpster that Zordon had locked her in. Locked within a space dumpster, Rita came within inches of freedom when her dumpster came to Earth, and Bulk and Skull succeeded in opening the dumpster. But the Power Rangers were successful in sending Rita back into space. Eventually her dumpster crashed into the moon, and she escaped. Down but not out, after regaining her freedom, Rita sought assistance from Finster, her still loyal henchmonster, to concoct a potion that would generate libidic feelings for use on Lord Zedd. The potion worked and the two were then married in The Wedding episode. Once married to Lord Zedd, Rita abandoned her magic practices (crystal ball, spell books, etc.) and worked alongside Lord Zedd as a partner in crime. While Zedd and Rita became far less serious after their marriage, they were still formidable opponents and the Rangers struggled to defeat both of their foes. Zedd and Rita attempted to defeat the Rangers, using clones of the Rangers and time-travel, and though they each failed, the Rangers did not claim victory so easily. Also, following this, monsters were now made to grow by Rita and Zedd crossing their staves and combining energies Shortly after the wedding, Rita's brother, Rito Revolto, arrived to join his sister and brother-in-law on their quest to destroy the Power Rangers. Later still, her father, Master Vile made his entrance, aiding the villains greatly by leaving the Rangers as children. Nevertheless, they continued to fail, even with help from Rita's spy, Katherine Hillard, who, after breaking free from Rita's control, joined the forces of the Power Rangers as the second Pink Ranger when Kimberly Hart departed for Florida. Later Goldar found out about the potion Rita used on Lord Zedd and had a concoction created to reverse the effects. The concoction had no effect, however; Zedd had apparently developed a real attachment for Rita of his own accord, possibly as a result of believing himself to be hers. Snidley Whiplash from Wacky Races is also tied for 10th. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/DoRightCast.JPG) Wacky Races was an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies, with each driver hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer." Wacky Races ran on CBS from September 14, 1968 to January 4, 1969. Seventeen episodes were produced, with each episode featuring two different races, for a total of 34 races in all. The Riddler from Batman TAS ended up here. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Animated_Riddler.jpg) In Batman: The Animated Series, John Glover voiced the Riddler. He made his debut in "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?", and has also appeared in "What Is Reality?", and "Riddler's Reform". The series' creators admit they didn't use him very much because his character often made story plots too long, too complex, or too bizarre. The third character from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to appear in this slot is the evil Green Ranger, who reeked of awesomeness, despite trying to kill the hot chick in my sig. The series begins with five teenagers combating Rita Repulsa and her seemingly endless array of monsters, however, consecutive failures lead Rita to adopt a new method for conquering Earth and destroying the Power Rangers: by attacking them with one of their own. In possession of a special Green Ranger power, Rita kidnaps and brainwashes a local teen whose fighting skills prove to equal that of Jason's in a martial arts contest held in Angel Grove. The new teen, Tommy Oliver, passes Rita's tests, becoming the Green Ranger during the five-part story arc "Green with Evil." Eventually, the Green Ranger is overcome, and the Sword of Darkness, the new source for the continuance of the evil spell he has fallen victim to, is destroyed by Jason. As a result, Tommy will use the Powers he's left with to defeat the evil that gave them to him in the first place. His Zord, the Dragonzord, retains the power to join with the other Ranger's Dinozords to form more powerful Zord combinations, including the Mega Dragonzord. The final person in this spot truely is evil. Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell from Prison Break. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Pb_bagwell.png) Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell, played by Robert Knepper, is a fictional character from the American television series, Prison Break. He is part of the main group of characters in the series. After guest-starring in the series' second episode, "Allen", the actor became one of the regular cast members. The character was introduced into the series as a fellow prisoner of the protagonist, Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller), at Fox River State Penitentiary. As the leader of a white supremacist group, T-Bag is one of the most villainous members of the Fox River Eight. In the second season, the character's storyline veers from the main plot as a separate subplot. As the series progresses, more of the background story of the character is revealed. T-Bag is described by TV Guide's Maya Schechter as "one of the creepiest characters on television" and is mentioned by Entertainment Weekly as one of "TV's best villains During the first season, T Bag was seen on screen to have several relationships around the prison cell, this included Jack "Chink" Penny, and Matthew "Stuart Little" Donald. Bagwell is introduced to the series as the leader of the Aryan gang inside Fox River. As a racist and a pedophile, he is detested by most other inmates, such as John Abruzzi (Peter Stormare), or Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin (Rockmond Dunbar), but his status within the Alliance for Purity protects him from attacks. Upon the arrival of Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) at Fox River, Bagwell wants to ensnare him as his personal plaything, but is unsuccessful. During a race riot in episode "Allen", his cellmate and lover is fatally wounded. Believing Scofield had done it, Bagwell seeks revenge but is stopped by Abruzzi, who has his goons assault him, sending him to the infirmary after which the character is absent for two episodes. Returning in the episode “Riots, Drills and the Devil”, Bagwell instigates a full-scale riot, during which he accidentally learns of the escape attempt and threatens to tell the other inmates if Michael and the others do not include him; the others have no choice but to agree. At the end of the riot, Bagwell defies the orders of Michael and Abruzzi and murders a guard that could expose the escape. He later frames his friend and fellow Aryan gang member Trokey for the murder. Bagwell then becomes a fully fledged member of the escape team, blackmailing them to include him. Bagwell is initially an endless source of friction on the escape team, testing the others patience with racist taunts, and is a constant strain on Michael’s conscience. Throughout the season, T-Bag is shown as having a sexual interest in other inmates, and coerces his new cellmate Seth into a sexual relationship. After Seth hangs himself, Bagwell moves on to harass newly arrived inmate Tweener, who had alienated himself among Fox River’s prison population. However, Michael, who was feeling guilty about Seth’s death, finally confronted Bagwell with a crowbar to the knee and told him to leave Tweener alone. When the group discovers that they have one too many for a successful escape, Abruzzi gives Bagwell an ultimatum in the episode “Odd Man Out”: back out of the escape or die. Bagwell also learns that his cousin James Bagwell and his son had been killed and is deeply upset. Knowing that Abruzzi was behind it, Bagwell seeks revenge, and later slashes Abruzzi's throat with a razor blade, but failed to kill him. Bagwell is among one of six inmates included in the first unsuccessful escape attempt in the episode “End of the Tunnel”. Bagwell is more loyal to the team in the season’s later episodes, contributing to keep the escape tunnel hidden and engaging in reluctant relations with a transsexual inmate to further the escape plan. In the episode "Bluff" his skills at rigging a deck of cards also help the team. Upon learning that Abruzzi has returned to the prison, Bagwell is frightened and makes a second attempt on Abruzzi’s life but is stopped by C-Note, who reminds him that Abruzzi is providing their transportation. Abruzzi claims to have forgiven Bagwell, but the two characters keep a wary eye on each other for the rest of the season. In the penultimate episode of the season, Bagwell escapes from Fox River along with Michael, Abruzzi and five other inmates. In order to ensure his safety, he handcuffs himself to Michael, knowing that it will keep Abruzzi from killing him. However, Abruzzi finally manages to get his revenge when he later cuts off Bagwell's cuffed hand with an axe, seriously wounding him and leaving him for dead. Despite this, Bagwell survives and eludes capture. There is much, much, much more about this freak. Here's the link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Bagwell
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 19:28:40 GMT -5
Here we are...the final 5. Let's keep it going in. At number 5 with a grand total of 11 votes...... Newman from Seinfeld. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Seinfeld_s7e21.jpg) In the show, Newman is a mail carrier who lives at 129 West 81st Street, New York City, the same apartment building as Jerry Seinfeld and Cosmo Kramer. Newman lives in Apartment 5E. Originally conceived to be "the son of the landlord [who] 'tells' on everyone", Newman evolved as the series progressed into a scheming mailman who related with Kramer, but nursed a grudge against Jerry. He is first mentioned (but does not appear on camera) during the original version of the episode "The Revenge". Newman was here voiced by the show's co-creator Larry David (although Knight later dubbed a new version for syndication with his own voice). In the episode, Newman is characterized by Kramer as being depressed and is constantly threatening to kill himself because he has no job and no future. It is unclear if Newman is his first or last name, but it's generally believed it is his last name, as he is referred to as 'Mr. Newman' by the Judge in The Ticket. Aside from this, only the name Newman is ever used in reference to him. In the episode "The Bottle Deposit" a character (the farmer's daughter) shouts "Goodbye, Norman," but this was a mistake on the part of the actress (Karen Lynn Scott). It was left in because it was considered funny. The first appearance of Wayne Knight as Newman occurred in the episode "The Suicide" in Season 3. Newman's role is primarily as a villain/enemy to Jerry and a collaborator in the elaborate and bizarre schemes of Kramer. He is also the closest thing the show has to a main antagonist. Often described as Jerry's "sworn enemy" ("The Andrea Doria"), his character is cunning and occasionally acts like a weasel. He speaks often in a humorously sinister tone (mainly to Jerry). Jerry refers to Newman as "pure evil" on more than one occasion. The two generally greet each other this way, Jerry in a distrustful, baleful voice, Newman in a falsely jovial one: Newman: "Hello, Jerry." Jerry: "Hello, Newman." Jerry's mother also greets Newman in the same way. The origin of the Seinfeld/Newman feud is never revealed. Newman's dislike of Jerry appears to stem from anger at Jerry's status as a relatively famous comedian. Newman considers Jerry to be undeserving of his fame, referring to Jerry's audience as a "half soused nightclub rabble." Newman's own talents as a poet and wordsmith are not inconsiderable, yet similar recognition to Jerry has so far eluded Newman. When asked about why the character Jerry hates Newman, Jerry Seinfeld explained it in the Season 3 DVD inside look of the show: He was the first person on the show, my own show, who was coming on to sabotage me in some way. And so why would I not hate him forever for that? Newman's character is a frequent source of annoyance to Jerry, such as in attracting fleas to the apartment ("The Doodle"), and generally making Jerry's life more difficult. However, the depth of their enmity seems to vary between episodes—or even within the same episode ("The Soul Mate")—and Jerry sometimes seems to consider him merely an annoying neighbor, much like Kramer, rather than an outright enemy. At times they even work together on some scheme, though with some reluctance on Jerry's part (and usually with mutual friend Kramer as a buffer). In the final scene of "The Soup Nazi" their interaction is such that they could be taken for friends (although this is clearly based more on their shared love of the Soup Nazi's soup than on anything else). In "The Old Man" Jerry casually mentions "a couple of friends," meaning Kramer and Newman—thus calling Newman a "friend." In "The Blood" Newman even does a considerable favor for Jerry, seemingly without ulterior motive (though the nature of the favor actually makes it quite distressing to Jerry). In any event, Newman often seems quite amused at how effectively he irritates Jerry (which of course only irritates Jerry all the more), although any battle of wits between them rarely leaves Newman the victor. Newman is a good friend of Kramer's, and the pair are forever participating in various get-rich-quick schemes. In "The Bookstore," Newman and Kramer decide to use a rickshaw to transport people from place to place. In "The Old Man", Newman and Kramer try to find good records to sell for cash. "The Bottle Deposit" has the best use between Kramer and Newman scheming to bring bottles in a mail truck all the way to Michigan. Even Newman's friendship with Kramer, however, can be overcome by Newman's obsession to win in any situation; in "The Label Maker", he and Kramer play a game of Risk, and when Kramer leaves the gameboard in Jerry's apartment for safekeeping, Newman goes so far as to sneak into Jerry's apartment via the fire escape with intent to rearrange the pieces' layout in his favor, although he is detected and flees before he actually changes anything. As Kramer puts it in the episode "The Reverse Peephole," Newman can climb trees "like a ring-tailed lemur," a skill he claims to have learned in the Pacific Northwest. Despite his girth, Newman is a "fantastic" tennis player and a nimble runner. He is seen running athletically in several episodes. Newman takes his job as a mailman very seriously (as long as it is not raining, a violation of the postal worker's creed); he ends up impulsively protesting the idea of any mail being considered "junk." However, he is known to use his job for corrupt purposes, such as purposely withholding mail for blackmail revenge, or using the Union to get himself out of jail. In "The Label Maker", Jerry also agreed with George that Newman is "merry," which appeared to be a compliment of sorts. Newman's angry rants directed against Jerry and, at times, the United States Postal Service in various episodes tend to be bombastic and verbose, displaying an impressive command of language. One of his most well known speeches takes place in "The Finale", after Jerry refuses to take him to Paris: "All right! But hear me and hear me well! The day will come, oh yes, mark my words, Seinfeld! Your day of reckoning is coming, when an evil wind will blow through your little playworld and wipe that smug smile off your face! And I'll be there in all my glory, watching, watching as it all comes crumbling down!" Newman is an employee of the United States Postal Service, which is portrayed in the series as a powerful, nefarious organization. Upon being arrested in "The Engagement," Newman assures Kramer and Elaine that they will not be prosecuted: "Don't worry about a thing. In twenty minutes, that place'll be swarming with mailmen. We'll be back on the street by lunch." In "The Junk Mail," Kramer realizes the Postal Service has become obsolete and starts an anti-mail campaign. He is abducted by Post Office security men. Newman attempted earlier to dissaude Kramer by pleading, "You don't know the half of what goes on here!" At the end of the episode, for his efforts to save Kramer, Newman is seen escorted by Postal Service employees with a bucket on his head, pleading for Kramer to "tell the world my story." In "The Package," Newman's business card is shown. It says only "NEWMAN". In "The Junk Mail", he is referred to only as "Postal Employee Newman". Newman claimed that he once worked the same postal route as murderer David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"). When asked what it was like, Newman commented the route had "a lot of dogs" but joked that they only told him "to lay off the snacks." Newman retains Berkowitz's mailbag as a valuable collector's item. When the police come to arrest him in "The Engagement," his first words to them are "What took you so long?", the same words Berkowitz used upon being arrested. Newman makes several outlandish claims about the U.S. Postal Service including: ZIP codes are meaningless No mail carrier has successfully delivered more than 50% of their mail (comparing such a feat to a three-minute mile) ("The Andrea Doria"). Photos in the mail with a "Do Not Bend" stamp can be creased, crumpled, and crammed. ("The Andrea Doria"). "When you control the mail, you control information." ("The Lip Reader"). Post office workers go on killing sprees because the mail never stops ("The more you get out the more you get in"). Some may infer that he is referencing David Berkowitz although his name is not mentioned in this scene. But honestly.....that information doesn't give him his due. So here's Newman in all his glory via YouTube. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zG_PN31YJU[/iyoutube] I cuoldn't find this but my favorite Newman moment came when he spotted Jerry making out with a girl duriing Schinders List and told Jerry's parents.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 19:42:40 GMT -5
Coming in at number 4 is Megatron from Genreation 1 Transformers. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Megatron.jpg) The setup for Transformers is that there are clearly two distinct factions: the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Both sides are from a race called Transformers - robots that can change into vehicles, mechanical devices and even animal forms. The two factions waged war for eons on their home planet of Cybertron. Then, 4 million years ago, a group from each side crash-landed on prehistoric Earth, reawakening in the present day to do battle once more. This initial premise, in all three media (toys, TV series and comics), became more cosmic in scale as time passed. More stories began to be set in outer space and on alien worlds, especially after The Transformers: The Movie. Two characters - each the greatest leader of his side, became the most iconic representatives of the series: Optimus Prime of the Autobots and Megatron of the Decepticons. However, they are not constant, as new lead characters would replace them in their roles after the feature film. though Optimus Prime would return later in the original series. Still, these two continued to appear in one form or another in subsequent Transformers series, where they maintained their leadership roles.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 19:47:11 GMT -5
Coming in at number 3 is yet another cartoon character: Lrrr from Futurama.
Couldn't find a picture of Lrrr.
Lrrr (pronounced Lur), voiced by Maurice LaMarche, is ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8. He has an extreme hatred for other beings, often threatening to destroy Earth and its inhabitants. He and his wife, Ndnd (pronounced NnDnda), voiced by Tress MacNeille, go through periodic love-hate cycles. Lrrr and his inner circle are devout fans of 20th and 21st century Earth television which, due to the distance of their planet from Earth, they can watch "live", though Lrrr has a violent hatred of animated shows. Lrrr also has a soft spot for animals, which he tries to hide with his threatening persona. However, Ndnd states that the reason she fell in love with him was because of his sensitive, poetic side.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 20:03:58 GMT -5
Well, here we are the final 2 in the countdown. I think it's fitting that one is a cartoon character and one is an actor playing a role. Honestly, I'm quite familar with one of them and not a bit with the other. One of the final two was referenced earlier when Leonardo Leonardo had his number called in this countdown. Either way, these two vying for the number spot truely are evil villains and are worthy of having the final two spots. So here we go the number 2 villain in the long and storied history of television as decided by you, those who voted in the countdown is.............. (DRUM ROLL) Cigarette Smoking Man from X-Files. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Csm1.jpg) The Cigarette Smoking Man (also known as Cancer Man or C.G.B. Spender) is a fictional character on the 1993-2002 television series The X-Files, played by William B. Davis. He served as the arch-nemesis of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder. Although uttering only four audible words in the entire 1st season of the show, CSM eventually developed into the series' primary antagonist. CSM's silent presence in Skinner's office early on was always a warning that the shadowy government attempting to discredit Mulder is again keeping an eye on the nonconformist agent. The Smoking Man oversaw Scully's initial briefing on her assignment to the X-Files to debunk the work of Mulder, as well as her debriefing. The Smoking Man also stole the evidence obtained by Mulder and Scully during the show's pilot episode, and moved it to a secret, underground storage room at the Pentagon. The character is most commonly referred to by this description because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes, and also because like other villains on the show, he has no definite real name On the surface, it may seem that CSM merely tries to hide information from Mulder and Scully, but there is much more to him. He is involved in the Syndicate, a shadow organization which includes members of the United States government that exists to hide from the public the fact that aliens are planning to colonize Earth. CSM often ruthlessly protects the secrets of the conspiracy, and served as the main antagonist to Mulder, who had an equally consuming devotion to reveal the truth. Although his actions can be described as monstrous for the most part, his stated justification is a desire to prevent the alien colonization for as long as possible, and he is at times shown working towards that goal, particularly in connection with developing a vaccine to protect people from the "black oil", a parasitic agent which the alien Colonists use to propagate themselves. CSM had a strained relationship with the rest of the Syndicate throughout the show, and there is evidence to suggest that he was never actually a full member of the Group. It is likely that he was employed by the Syndicate to act as both a liaison to the American government in such instances as were necessary, and as leader of the Men in Black, due to his formidable expertise as an assassin. If he was a full member, he was their most visible one, since the other members only rarely appeared in public. Most of the other members, excepting perhaps Conrad Strughold, didn't seem predisposed to trust CSM, especially the Well-Manicured Man, who more than once expressed contempt for what he perceived as the CSM's degree of barbarity and incompetence. He was able to last both inside the Syndicate and outside it for as long as he did primarily due to: a) the fact that he always ensured that he had too much valuable information to be expendable, b) his experience as an assassin, and c) his connections with elements of the extraterrestrial presence and others. Eventually, however, this internal struggle comes to a head later on in the show, when power struggles and what were perceived as frequent failures resulted in the Elder ordering the assassination of the CSM, an attempt which failed. CSM is also different from the other members in that most of the other members seemed to have some sort of functioning family relationships, whereas CSM usually did not. Other Elders were also often shown living on large estates and enjoying high class entertainment, whereas CSM was often shown living in a sparsely furnished, dimly-lit, small apartment, and drinking beer while watching old black and white war movies. During the first season, CSM was mostly seen in the offices of FBI Section Chief Blevins or Assistant Director Skinner; if not there, he was shown in an underground vault in the Pentagon, secreting evidence in a vast storehouse of classified materials. He had few lines during the season. Coupled with his tendency to lurk in the shadows, he was seen as embodying the "dark hand" of the conspiracy. In season two, he has his Man in Black underling, Alex Krycek, spy on Mulder, and authorizes Scully's abduction. With help from Skinner, who had recently stood up to CSM for the first time, Mulder tracks him down to his apartment (presumably in the DC area). There, Mulder confronts CSM, whose first real dialogue has become one of the most famous moments in X-Files history. This scene does much to establish the nature of their relationship. In the Season Two finale "Anasazi", CSM pays his old colleague William Mulder a visit, revealing their relationship for the first time. Not long after, CSM orders Krycek to execute William, presumably because he felt the disillusioned William had grown to be too great a liability to the security of "The Project." Season Three put the Syndicate onscreen for the first time. Almost immediately, it becomes apparent that the individual members do not exactly trust one another. It is shown that CSM is not the all-powerful leader of the Syndicate; in fact, many other members look down on him. In the finale, "Talitha Cumi", a rebel alien named Jeremiah Smith, is taken prisoner by CSM. Pending execution, the two have a dialogue that echoes The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor. During their conversations, Smith repeatedly unnerves CSM by morphing into people whose deaths CSM had ordered in the past. CSM learns that he is dying of lung cancer and quickly gives Smith his freedom in exchange for a cure (some aliens have remarkable healing abilities). Also during this episode, the question of whether CSM is actually Fox's and/or Samantha's biological father is first presented when he is shown to have had a past relationship with Mulder's mother. In Season Four, the episode, "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", presents a possible history to CSM. The Lone Gunmen, during some of their own investigations, discover some information concerning CSM, which they recount to Mulder and Scully. According to the episode, CSM was born on or around August 20, 1940, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up an orphan (his father, a Soviet spy, was executed for treason in Louisiana electric chair when he was a boy). In 1962 he was stationed, along with Bill Mulder, at the US Army Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In the episode, he is portrayed as a deadly assassin with a long history in black operations and American intelligence. He was involved in training Cuban nationals in the Bay of Pigs, was involved in the death of Patrice Lumumba, and aided Dominican locals in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo. The young Special Forces officer is called into a room and older men in suits ask him about these accomplishments. He calmly denies everything. He is offered a further role in black ops, one that will involve his leaving the Army and every formal written record of his life being destroyed. He is soon involved in the plot that assassinated both John F. Kennedy (firing 2 shots from a Dallas storm drain) and Martin Luther King, whom he, as said at meeting with J. Edgar Hoover, greatly respected; fixed the Super Bowl to ensure that the Buffalo Bills would never win a championship (in what the production staff admitted was a joke); drugged the Soviet Union's goalie in the Miracle on Ice; and thinks nothing of insulting J. Edgar Hoover to his face or putting Saddam Hussein on hold. He is also shown as a failed writer whose sci-fi stories based on the Syndicate's truth are rejected for being too unrealistic. After making a sale, he plans to retire from the conspiracy, but discovered that his work has been published as text filler (presumably a reference to Breakfast of Champions) magazine named Roman A Clef, and the ending has been altered. In a scene parodying that year's Oscar winner Forrest Gump, after a hobo sits down next to him eating a box of chocolates from out of a bin CSM says "Life is like a box of chocolates. It's a cheap thoughtless perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for." He then forestalls his retirement leaving the magazine at the bus stop, which the hobo then picks up and begins to read. During this episode, the Smoking Man meets with Lee Harvey Oswald to discuss his part in the assassination of JFK. During this conversation, Lee refers to the Smoking Man as Mr. Hunt. This may be linking the character of Smoking Man to a real life Smoking Man, E. Howard Hunt, who was heavily involved in the Watergate scandal among other operations. During the first mytharc fifth season episodes, the Elder has decided that CSM is no longer useful, and orders MIB operative Quiet Willy to eliminate him. While in his apartment, CSM was ruminating over a photograph of Mulder and Samantha when an assassin firing through the window shot him in the chest. During this episode he also helps Mulder find a cure for Scully's cancer (which she learned about in season 4), and presents him with a Samantha clone, whom he purports is Mulder's sister. Despite this, Mulder refuses to work for him. CSM later appears hiding in a remote area of Quebec. Missing his talents, the Syndicate welcomes him back at the end of the season. In the sixth season's full disclosure two-parter ("Two Fathers"/"One Son"), it is learned he once answered to the name C. G. B. Spender though it is never disclosed whether this was his actual birth name or a former alias. It is revealed that he was formerly married to Cassandra Spender, with whom he had a son, Jeffrey. Diana Fowley is revealed to be a subordinate of his; together, they escape the annihilation of the Syndicate. In the episode, his confidence in Jeffrey, whom CSM hoped would become greater than Mulder, wanes, and he confronts his son and apparently kills him. The episodes also presented further evidence suggesting CSM is Mulder's father. Eventually, Fowley also splits from CSM, siding with Mulder and Scully. With the Syndicate dismantled, CSM still managed to keep the conspiracy going, and was presumably now free to operate as he wished. His cancer resurfaced about a year later and he became wheelchair-bound. He also acquired a trachea hole, though this in no way lessened his chain-smoking. At the end of the 7th season, after carrying out an operation at the behest of CSM, Krycek turns on him and throws him down a flight of stairs. For about two years, CSM was presumed dead. During this time, Mulder was abducted, found and then disappeared on his own, Scully eventually left the X-Files division and had a child, William, and a new conspiracy, the New Syndicate, surfaced. In the episode "William", it is learned that CSM's attempted murder of Jeffrey Spender failed. Jeffrey was then subjected to experiments at the orders of CSM, which left Jeffrey horribly scarred. Also, it is conclusively revealed in this episode that he is Fox's biological father. In the two part Series Finale, Mulder and Scully travel through remote New Mexico, and reach a pueblo where a "wise man" reputedly lives. It is in fact CSM. He is shown to be in the same condition as when he disappeared, but has degenerated further and is now quite unkempt. He has a shock of long white hair, and is living a primitive life in hiding from the New Syndicate. He reveals to Mulder and Scully all he has left to tell (including the fact that the aliens are scheduled to invade in 2012) and shortly after is finally killed by a missile shot from a helicopter. His known subordinates have included Marita Covarrubias, Scott Blevins, Alex Krycek, X, Crew Cut Man, The Gray Haired Man, Luis Cardinal, and Black Haired Man. CSM has a lighter with the inscription, "TRUST NO ONE". CSM is the only character in the series, in addition to Mulder and Scully, to appear in both the first ("Pilot") and last ("The Truth") episodes of the series. Bill Davis appeared in the 1st season episode, "Young at Heart". In the credits the character is listed as "CIA Agent", not as Smoking Man, his usual character.
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Post by emo on Jun 14, 2009 20:12:53 GMT -5
The thread only one person cares about.
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Post by The Raven on Jun 14, 2009 20:13:45 GMT -5
Hey, I care. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) Unless you were talking about me anyways.
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Post by bob on Jun 14, 2009 20:13:57 GMT -5
YOUR NUMBER 1 TV VILLAIN OF ALL TIME IS ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Mr_Burns.png) Charles Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons Mr. Burns is the often antagonistic owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and Homer Simpson's boss. He is attended to at almost all times by Waylon Smithers, his loyal and sycophantic aide, advisor, confidant and secret admirer. Although he was originally designed as a one-dimensional, recurring villain who might occasionally enter the Simpsons' lives and wreak some sort of havoc, Burns' popularity has led to his repeated inclusion on the show. He embodies a number of characteristics about Corporate America, as he has an unquenchable desire to increase his own wealth and power. Mr. Burns also embodies the stereotype of a manager: he forgets his employees' names (especially Homer, despite the fact that they seem to interact on a daily basis) and is unconcerned for their safety and well-being. His age provides the writers a character with which to express dated humor and references to popular culture before the 1950s. His aspirations to apply obsolete technology to everyday life or references to Victorian era people or places provide a common source of humor on the show. His trademark expression is the word "Excellent", muttered slowly in a low, sinister voice while tenting his fingertips. He also frequently orders Smithers to "release the hounds", resulting in his vicious guard dogs attacking any intruders or enemies. Mr. Burns is Springfield's richest and most powerful citizen; within the show his current net worth is $996 million. He uses his power and wealth to do whatever he wants, usually without regard for consequences and without interference from the authorities. These qualities led Wizard Magazine to rate him the 45th greatest villain of all time. He uses his power and wealth to do whatever he wants, usually without regard for consequences and without interference from the authorities. At the nuclear plant, Burns spends most of time in his office, monitoring his workers via closed circuit cameras. In his office he keeps a team of ten high-priced lawyers, a scale model of Springfield, a special microbe-resistant chamber, a two-seat escape pod (He likes to put his feet up), and the "League of Evil" - a sinister cabal whose members are long deceased but whose skeletons remain. Burns has also owned or co-owned a number of business ventures in Springfield, including the Monty Burns Casino, "Li'l Lisa" recycling, an ocean slurry manufacturing plant, Burns Slant Drilling Co., Burns Media, and a basketball team. At a young age Mr. Burns left his family to live with his grandfather, a twisted and heartless billionaire who owned an atom mill in Springfield He lived a life of privilege and would amuse himself by injuring immigrant laborers. Mr. Burns later attended Yale University where he studied both science and business, and graduated in 1914. In 1939, at his 25-year college reunion, he became romantically involved with the daughter of an old flame. She would later bear his child, Larry Burns, who was given up for adoption and would later enter Mr. Burns' life briefly. Burns has been engaged at least three times: a woman named Gertrude who died of loneliness and rabies, to Marge Simpson's mother Jacqueline Bouvier and to a policewoman named Gloria. During World War II, Burns served in the United States Army as a member of Springfield's Flying Hellfish squad under Sergeant Abraham Simpson and saw action in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge. At the end of World War II he was personally hired by President Harry S. Truman to transport a specially-printed trillion-dollar bill to Europe as the United States' contribution to the reconstruction of Europe. As the United States' richest citizen, Burns was thought to be the most trustworthy. Burns absconded with the bill and kept it in his possession for many years until it was lost to Fidel Castro in "The Trouble with Trillions". Mr. Burns' extreme old age is a frequent source of humor on the show, he is occasionally referred to as "Springfield's oldest resident" but his exact age is uncertain In "Simpson and Delilah" he said he was 81 years of age, while in "The Mansion Family", he said he was over 100 years old. In several episodes, including "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)", "Homer the Smithers", and "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" his age is specifically stated to be 104. Burns resides in a vast, ornate mansion on an immense estate called Burns Manor, located at 1000 Mammon Street, on the corner of Croesus and Mammon streets in the 'Springfield Heights' district. It is protected by a high wall, an electrified fence, and a pack of vicious attack dogs known as "The Hounds". At times he has employed for protection a force of Wizard of Oz-style guards, a personal paramilitary force, a riot police squad, and a robotic Richard Simmons. The inside of the mansion includes a room containing a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, a bottomless pit, a human chess board, the largest television in the free world, a 'Hall of Patriots' commemorating his ancestors, a laboratory, a botanical garden of vultures bearing his likeness, a safe containing a Beefeater guard, a model train that takes 3 hours and 47 minutes to complete its circuit and comes back with snow on it, and a theater showing round-the-clock plays regardless of whether there is an audience. Mr. Burns routinely subjects Springfield and its residents to his abuse and, as a result, there is a general dislike of him throughout the town. Burns has blackmailed and bribed various officials in Springfield, including Mayor Quimby and its nuclear safety inspectors. He employed his wealth to make an ultimately unsuccessful run for state governor. He once blocked out the sun to force Springfield residents to increase their use of electricity produced by his Nuclear Plant and was subsequently shot by Maggie. Burns' state of mind is the subject of frequent jokes on the show. At times, he appears to be completely removed from reality and modern conventions. He continually fails to recognize Homer Simpson or remember his name, despite many of the recent major events in Burns' life having involved Homer in some way. Burns is also for the most part unaware of the townspeople's general dislike of him. He also displays mannerisms which are considered outdated, such as practicing phrenology, writing with a quill pen, driving a Stutz Bearcat while wearing an Edwardian motorist's outfit which includes hat, driving gloves, and goggles; and using terms such as 'deceleratrix' (brake) and 'petroleum distillate', carrying a mace for self defense (though the weapon actually shown was a flail), driving without regard to traffic laws in the manner of early 20th century motorists, and using an antique view camera to take photographs. Burns' also refers to many celebrities of the early 20th century in present tense assuming they are still alive including Louise Brooks and Rudolph Valentino, although he does seem to remember that Al Jolson is dead, and is also unaware of several major historical events, including the extinction of the Dodo and the Wall Street Crash. Burns' state of mind is so out of touch with the current time that he once lost all of his money by investing in such companies as "Trans-Atlantic Zeppelin" and "Amalgamated Spats". Burns has numerous physical ailments and health problems, often to the point where he seems to straddle the line between life and death. On prior occasions, Burns may have died. Presently, Burns has a condition known as "Three Stooges Syndrome" where a delicate state of homeostasis is created by the presence in his body of every known disease and other newly-discovered diseases unique to him, which, when all trying to invade his body simultaneously, cancel each other out. Mr. Burns took this as being indestructible, although the doctor who told him this suggested that the slightest breeze could kill him. Physically weak, he often has great difficulty performing the most basic physical tasks, such as giving a thumbs-up, receiving a hug, crushing a paper cup, or stepping on an insect. He is weak enough to be pushed over by an ant or a high-five, carried away by a single bee, or pushed down by a sponge resting on his head. In 2006, Wizard magazine rated Burns the 45th greatest villain of all time. In a 2007 article, Entertainment Weekly named Smithers the 16th greatest sidekick of all time. They also described Smithers and Burns as being "TV's most functional dysfunctional couple".In a 2003 article, EW also named "Last Exit to Springfield" the greatest episode of The Simpsons. Other episodes which feature Burns placed on the list, including "Rosebud", at number two, and the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" two-part episode, at number 25.[Vanity Fair placed "Rosebud" first on their list of the top 25 The Simpsons episodes. Forbes estimates Burns's net worth at $996 million, placing 13th on the 2008 Forbes Fictional 15 list. Burns has been on the list since 1989 and has previously placed fifth in 2005,[30] second in 2006 and sixth in 2007 when he was estimated to be worth $16.8 billion.[32] Burns's evil has made him a popular example of terrible television bosses. In 2006, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released a report saying that Burns was one of the eight worst bosses on television. The News & Observer named Burns the third worst boss, calling him "heartless, greedy and exceptionally ugly, Mr. Burns makes Ebenezer Scrooge seem downright lovely."
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Post by The Raven on Jun 14, 2009 20:14:52 GMT -5
Oh crap, my CSM came in second!
That means way more than just me voted for him.
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