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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:237:[[ObviouslyEvil Just throwing it out there, but this guy looks pretty evil.]]]] |
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| 8 | ->''"The vizier twirled his mustache, probably foreclosing another dozen mortgages."'' |
| 9 | -->-- ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' |
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| 13 | ''[[AntiquatedLinguistics Bah! Curses! But though I be foiled to-day, my proud beauty, a time will come!]] [[EvilLaugh Ha-ha!]] ([[{{Pantomime}} Boo! Hiss!]])'' |
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| 15 | An oddly specific kind of character, the Dastardly Whiplash is a cartoonish villain taken from the [[OlderThanRadio old stage]] [[MeloDrama melodrama tradition]]. Usually a ManOfWealthAndTaste, in Great Britain (*cough EvilBrit cough*), he was generally a [[AristocratsAreEvil Bad Baronet]]; in the U.S., he (and it is in fact always a he, as the mustache is an important part of the aesthetic) was often an [[MorallyBankruptBanker Evil Banker]] who held the mortgage on the heroine's farm. Physically, he's slightly hunched with an [[SinisterSchnoz exaggerated nose]] and [[ThinChinOfSin chin]], a [[GoodHairEvilHair curling black]] moustache (all the better to twirl at you, [[TermsOfEndangerment my dear]]) and an elaborate costume, usually an old-fashioned [[EvilWearsBlack black suit]] with a BlackCloak (maybe even an OminousOperaCape) and a hat, usually a top hat but occasionally a DastardlyDapperDerby. |
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| 17 | In personality, he is a [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]], [[CardCarryingVillain over-the-top, openly evil villain]] of limited intelligence who comes up with (sometimes [[ComplexityAddiction absurdly]]) [[ZanyScheme elaborate schemes]] for the hero to foil — kidnapping a [[DamselInDistress helpless female]] and tying her up to either a [[ChainedToARailway railroad track]] or a ConveyorBeltODoom, in an attempt to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty coerce her]] into [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe "marrying" him]] or relinquishing the deed to her property, is the old standard. He can usually be expected to [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat go to great lengths to cheat at things he could easily win legitimately]], purely ForTheEvulz. He also is prone to [[EvilLaugh fits of nasal laughter]] ("''Nyehehehehe!!''"). |
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| 19 | He generally has two moods: when happy, he [[EvilLaugh sneers, cackles]], and [[HandRubbing rubs his hands in malevolent glee]], and when unhappy, he glowers, sulks, [[GlovedFistOfDoom makes a fist]], bites his index finger and [[BadBoss snaps at his sidekick or henchman]], should he have any. He tends to speak largely in AntiquatedLinguistics, preferring such [[GoshDangItToHeck expletives]] as "[[CurseOfTheAncients Curses! Foiled again!]]", "Blast!", and "[[TrrrillingRrrs Drrrat!]]" (or, for extreme cases, "Drat and ''double'' drat!"). Despite his menacing appearance and demeanor, he often turns out to be a HarmlessVillain. |
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| 21 | Expect his [[{{Leitmotif}} musical cue]] to be [[https://youtu.be/K9lTA_LZN7g "Mysterioso Pizzicato"]], [[https://youtu.be/bCxLAr_bwpA "The Maple Leaf Rag"]], or similar. |
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| 23 | This trope is almost never played straight today. The Dastardly Whiplash is well on his way to being a DeadHorseTrope, having been largely replaced by the likes of the VillainWithGoodPublicity, although some modern works will still use him for sheer {{camp}} value, or for a one-off {{meta|fiction}} gag about stereotypical villains. Bonus points if one of his names is an adverb. Pantomime Villains often fit this trope, as they need to convey villainy without any dialogue or props. |
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| 25 | The RepulsiveRingmaster often shares characteristics with this trope, such as the top hat and mustache. On the other hand, the StageMagician wears a very similar outfit but isn't necessarily a villain. |
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| 27 | Subtrope of CardCarryingVillain and ObviouslyEvil; one of the more likely characters to play into EvilIsHammy. (If the character doesn't have the specific ''appearance'' of a Dastardly Whiplash, it's probably one of those tropes instead.) If it's treated as [[CaptainObviousReveal a surprise twist]] that he's a villain, that's an overlap with ObviousJudas. Sister trope of GodwinsLawOfFacialHair, where the toothbrush mustache is associated with Hitler and evil authoritarians. |
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| 29 | The Trope Namer is a combination of Snidely Whiplash (from ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'') and Dick Dastardly (of ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces''). |
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| 31 | RealLife examples? [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease No thank you.]] In RealLife, even the {{Card Carrying Villain}}s are more complex than this. |
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| 33 | [[noreallife]] |
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| 35 | !!Examples: |
| 36 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 39 | * A worker's compensation law office commercial airing in the United States casts the boss forcing his injured worker to continue working as a hilariously stereotypical example of this trope, complete with gigantic fake curled mustache, eye patch, and corny EvilLaugh. |
| 40 | * For a time, the advertising of the Mexican brand of tortillas and other bakery products, Tia Rosa, featured a baker with these features as an EvilCounterpart to the brand's [[SweetBaker main mascot]]. |
| 41 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8SwcNWQROg this commercial]] for Duracell batteries, a heroic cowboy powered by the then-new-and-improved Duracell battery faces off against an outlaw powered by the older Duracell battery, who wears a black suit and an eyepatch, and has a handlebar mustache. |
| 42 | * ''Advertising/SupermanVsNickOTeen'': Nick O'Teen is an ObviouslyEvil dude (with a mustache in the first commercial) with a cape and a top hat (the latter of which is colored like a cigarette) who offers cigarettes to children, only to be stopped by Superman for a DrugsAreBad message. |
| 43 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNTpXX43QxY This]] commercial for the home console ports of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong Jr.'' portrays [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], the BigBad of that game, as one of these, retaining his mustache and also giving him black pants, a vest, and a fedora to make him look even more evil. |
| 44 | -->'''Mario:''' I got Donkey Kong! And now I'll get you too, Junior!..."Save your papa," huh? Save yourself first! |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 48 | * Kurayamiman from ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}''. He's a giant darkness monster that wears a top hat (this is also how he travels, he can suck his whole body into his hat and let it float around) and black cloak. He was a former magician, and now only uses his magic for evil purposes. He's more of a gentleman compared to the other Anpanman villains, yet he's completely fine with attacking the other villains as well as the heroes. Oh, and he also has access to a wasteland dimension inside of him. |
| 49 | * Mr. X in ''Manga/{{TigerMask}}'' is a thin blue skinned man with a thin mustache, Black Tophat, [[HighClassGlass monocle]], Black cape, and all Black outfit. Mr. X is a crooked wrestling manager, and is portrayed more seriously than most modern examples. |
| 50 | * [[EvilPoacher Viper Snakely]] from ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' is one of these wearing safari hunter gear. |
| 51 | * Grandis' ex-fiancee in the infamous Africa arc from ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''. Or rather, his portrayal as one, which is enough to make one wonder why Grandis fell for him in the first place -- or even falls for him ''again'' after the latter destroyed her life! |
| 52 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} with [[MasterSwordsman Vista]] of the [[BadassCrew Whitebeard Pirates]] from ''Manga/OnePiece''. Despite the distinctly Snidely Whiplash-like mustache, he's an Officer under [[BigGood Whitebeard]] and certainly comes off as a heroic character. |
| 53 | * "The Grandest Dream Thief Leon the Great" from episode 45 of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' is this trope to a tee. He does not have a top hat or black clothes, but his mustache, attitude, and scheme has this trope written all over him. |
| 54 | * Grocky, member of Skull Gang, and all his expies from ''Anime/TimeBokan'' series. They are all extremely [[LeanAndMean thin]] men with a [[PrimalStance hunched posture]], love of [[CardCarryingVillain evil]], and long thin mustaches which they twirl. The only they're missing is the Black tophat, and cape. This is downplayed in ''Yattodetaman'' with Kokematsu who doesn't have the mustache or posture, but still exhibits some mannerisms of this trope. |
| 55 | * Given every single national team from ''{{Anime/Medabots}}'' was a [[ForeignWrestlingHeel ridiculous national stereotype]], it wasn't too surprising that all three members of Team France turned out to be this. |
| 56 | * Sergeant Gross from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is dressed in a military uniform and has a curled mustache, he also has a penchant for feeding Eldians alive to his dogs and sending prisoners to "fight" against their recently Titanized comrades and family members, [[ForTheEvulz just because he needs "entertainment"]]. |
| 57 | * Prof. Moriarty from ''Anime/SherlockHound'' is this to a T. From the outfit (Tophat, cane, monocle, pointy mustache and cape only in [[VillainInAWhiteSuit white]]), the personality ([[EvilIsHammy Larger-than-life]], self-proclaimed EvilGenius) to the modus operandi (Concocting overly complex schemes doomed to fail due to a combination of both shortsightedness and the incompetence of [[BumblingHenchmanDuo Smiley and Todd]]). Most notably, Hound sees him as more of a nuisance than a real threat. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Board Games]] |
| 61 | * The Spy piece in ''TabletopGame/{{Stratego}}'' looks like one of these as it is depicted with a tophat, and handlebar mustache. |
| 62 | * An MVP (named star player who can be hired in League Play) in {{Dreadball}} called Slippery Joe is a goblin who wears a false one of these. According to the [[http://www.dreadball.com/ReaderPoll.html fluff]] [[http://www.dreadball.com/slipperyjoe.html about him]] on the website, between games he often sports a top hat and plays the 'moustache-twirling' villain image to the hilt. His showmanship after throwing a strike often includes actually twirling his great black slug of a moustache to the cheering crowds. |
| 63 | * Lord Licorice from ''TabletopGame/CandyLand'' doesn't wear black, but does have a top hat, and mustache. |
| 64 | [[/folder]] |
| 65 | |
| 66 | [[folder:Card Games]] |
| 67 | * A Jewish-Yiddish version of Old Maid features a gender-inverted, sinister version of the Old Maid: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yetzer_hara Yetzer Hora]] (evil imagination): he smokes a smelly cigar, wears a top hat, sports a trademark villainous mustache, and has a Snidely Whiplash-like evil grin on his face. After the other pairs are matched up, the player stuck with the one Yetzer Hora card loses the game. |
| 68 | * ''TabletopGame/GraveRobbersFromOuterSpace'' parodies this archetype in its cowboy expansion with the "Dastardy Villain" card. |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 72 | * ComicBook/TomStrong's archnemesis Paul Saveen is one of these, except for the hat part. However, in an issue where he uses a time machine to call several versions of himself, one has a top hat. He's actually much more competent than usual examples of this trope, even though FailureIsTheOnlyOption for him, like for most supervillains. |
| 73 | * Krimson from ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'' (''Spike & Suzy'') is a classic example from Belgium. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': |
| 75 | ** Nemesis [[Characters/GreenLanternThaalSinestro Sinestro]] certainly looks the part. In terms of personality, he's more complex. The added depth is relatively recent with his reinvention as an antihero/disgraced ruler in ''Emerald Dawn''; before that, he was this, but less cartoonish about it (outside of the ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' anyway). |
| 76 | ** Hector Hammond would look like this if not for his superhumanly giant head. |
| 77 | * [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel's]] MadScientist nemesis Dr. Sivana doesn't have the wardrobe (or the mustache) but does invoke a few of these traits, including his catchphrase "Curses! Foiled Again!" |
| 78 | * ''ComicBook/{{Zot}}'': The HarmlessVillain Dr. Ignatius Rumbault Bellows was based on Professor Fate from ''Film/TheGreatRace'' (see below) and is a pretty straight invocation of this trope. He's also a SteamPunk MadScientist with NoIndoorVoice. |
| 79 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] story where a supervillain called Funny Face was bringing to life various villains from comic strips, Superman fought an {{Expy}} of the ''Hairbreadth Harry'' villain Relentless Rudolph Ruddigore Rassendale in the form of the Viper from the fictional strip ''Happy Daze''. This story was later retold in ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' with members of the Squadron taking the place of Superman. |
| 80 | * The iconic 'stache was sported by the villainous Herr Doktor Count Baron Napoleon von Strudel ([[spoiler:a.k.a. Bert Maudsley]]) in one ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' comic, who also had an EyepatchOfPower concealing an experimental ping-pong ball that would explode on contact with the ground. And yes, he did twirl the moustache at least once. |
| 81 | %%* [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/centuryturnerdsw.htm Turner D. Century]] |
| 82 | * One ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' book contains an in-universe use of this trope as the villain in a melodramatic play produced by a travelling theatre company. |
| 83 | * Adolf Hitler in one-shot Russian comic ''Stalin vs. Hitler'' acts like this trope. |
| 84 | * One of the very last known [[PlayedStraight completely serious, unlampshaded]] examples is the unnamed villain from a 1982 French Disney comic, ''[[https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=F+JM+82034 The Great Toy Robbery,]]'' who plots to steal all of Santa Claus's toys to become the Santa Claus himself — except he'll ''sell'' the toys instead of giving them. He is interestingly portrayed as a ''human'', just like Santa, even though all the other characters are FunnyAnimals. |
| 85 | * In Issue 34 of the vintage ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' comic book, Huey, Dewey and Louie have apparently been watching a movie whose main antagonist is a textbook example of the Dastardly Whiplash called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Cyrus Blackheart]]. |
| 86 | * ''ComicBook/DastardlyAndMuttley'': The Unstabilium is making Richard Atcherly more like one of these. By Issue #3, he even gets the iconic mustache. |
| 87 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Minister Blizzard had a handlebar mustache, cliche villain outfit including a helmet with jagged edges and acts like the archetypal EvilChancellor. |
| 88 | * ''ComicBook/{{Chlorophylle}}'': Anthracite is a bombastic conniving classic villain and wears an all-black suit with a top hat and cape. His whiskers could even qualify for a moustache. |
| 89 | * In the ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitanEleventhDoctor'' "Year One" series, the ArcVillain the Talent Scout dresses like a stereotypical Old West grifter and acts very much like this. |
| 90 | * ''ComicBook/WednesdayComics'' has Grushenko, the villain of the ''Plastic Man'' comic. He's a little different visually -- he's an [[FatBastard overweight]] EvilRedhead MadScientist with a [[BeardOfEvil bushy beard]] in addition to the long mustache. But personality-wise, he's as cartoonishly villainous as they come. He says "Drat!" unironically, [[CardCarryingVillain claims the devil is smiling on him]], and [[EvilIsHammy really hams it up]] as he plots to start his own evil dynasty. This is fitting because the ''Plastic Man'' comic is more wacky and cartoonish than the others. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 94 | * One of the earlier examples of this was [[AlliterativeName Relentless Rudolph]] Theatre/{{Ruddigore}} [[Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda Rassendale]], the villain of C.W. Kahles' 1906-1940 newspaper strip ''[[http://www.toonopedia.com/hairbr.htm Hairbreadth Harry.]]'' An almost direct rip-off of this character was the eponymous ''[[http://www.toonopedia.com/desmond.htm Desperate Desmond.]]'' |
| 95 | * ComicStrip/BuckRogers' recurring nemesis Killer Kane was this sort of character in SpaceClothes. |
| 96 | * Several villains from ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' could count as such, such as the early 30's villain Benito Spaldoni or the new undead-magician-themed villain Abner Kadaver. |
| 97 | * In one series of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strips, Jon buys a fake novelty mustache. Garfield wears it and pretends to be "Evil Roy Gato". |
| 98 | * A classic Creator/CharlesAddams cartoon depicts one of these headed down into a subway station with a damsel slung over his shoulder and toting a [[ChainedToARailway coil of rope]]. |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Eastern Animation]] |
| 102 | * Shapoklyak from ''Literature/{{Cheburashka}}'' is a rare ''female'' example. She obviously lacks the mustache, but has the long nose, pointy chin, black dress, top hat and the ForTheEvulz villainy. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 106 | * ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': In a black-and-white silent movie style flashback, Kaiba has the mustache. "[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney My affluence makes a nonsense of the regulations!]]" |
| 107 | * In ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'', Kakashi has a (fake) flashback where Itachi and Kisame became this. |
| 108 | * In ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'', after being driven off the deep end by his brother selling out, Flam Flim-Flam turns into one of these, dying his mane and mustache black and calling himself "Professor Destiny". |
| 109 | * In ''Fanfic/PartiallyKissedHero'', [[RonTheDeathEater Dumbledore]] ends up looking and acting like this after being de-aged, and it's played completely straight. |
| 110 | * ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': The Minisuka named "Prankster" decides to start wearing stereotypical clothes of this character type (cloak, top hat, monocle), as well as an increase in theatrics - which occasionally backfire on her - as well as a lot of evil laughter. |
| 111 | %%* Sima Yi in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' |
| 112 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' ParodyFic ''Voyager Chicks Behind Forcefields'', an evil Captain Janeway twirls her red hair as she doesn't have a moustache. |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 116 | * The Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon has a few examples, though most deviate from the template in one way or another: |
| 117 | ** Mr. Winkie the scheming bartender from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' was smug and untrustworthy, had a curly mustache on his face, and wore a purple tuxedo with necktie. |
| 118 | ** [[WilyWalrus The Walrus]] in ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' has many Dastardly Whiplash-esque traits: wearing a top hat and a shabby tuxedo, carrying a cane, twirling his mustache and smoking a cigar, and coming up with an elaborate plan to lure some oysters into becoming lunch for him and The Carpenter (and then eating all the oysters by himself while the Carpenter is preparing to cook them). |
| 119 | ** Captain Hook in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' is basically what would happen if [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]] swapped racing for piracy. |
| 120 | ** Ratigan from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' is a cackling criminal mastermind in a black suit and top-hat with a gold cane and black and red cape, similar to a vampire in some appearance. He is openly and enthusiastically evil, comes up with a convoluted plan to kill the hero, and he abuses and kills his henchmen at the slightest provocation. |
| 121 | ** Dr. Facilier in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', out of homage to [[BorrowinSamedi a certain voodoo god]], is a skinny guy in a dark purple tuxedo and top-hat, but his mustache is too short and thin to be twirled. |
| 122 | ** Bowler Hat Guy in ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' is an incompetent example. Turns out, the Bowler Hat itself is a better villain. |
| 123 | * ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': During Andy's playtime, Mr. Potato Head becomes one of these as the villain, "One-Eyed Bart". |
| 124 | * Honest John from ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', A hero, had Dastardly Whiplash-esque, with his gray top hat, and shabby blue tuxedo, with gray pants, and his orange mustache. |
| 125 | ** Cat R. Waul from ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'', had Dastardly Whiplash-esque, he had red top hat, with red cape, and light coral red tuxedo, with white shirt, and shoestring tie. |
| 126 | * ''WesternAnimation/TwiceUponATime'': The BigBad Synonamess Botch is a stout, hunchbacked, greasy-haired fellow who dresses in dark colors and has a long, thin mustache. He's even seen tugging on his mustache and giving an EvilLaugh during the opening DramatisPersonae sequence. |
| 127 | * C. Bagley Beetle from ''WesternAnimation/MrBugGoesToTown'' may not have a mustache, but he's still a traditional upper-class, top-hat-wearing, [[Literature/UncleTomsCabin Simon Legree]]--esque villain. He hatches all sorts of devious plots in an attempt to eliminate Hoppity and win his girlfriend, Honey. |
| 128 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegaMind'' leans hard into this trope. He doesn't have a hat or mustache (he does have a BeardOfEvil though), but he does wear black, and a cape. He has a humorously incompetent henchman (who becomes hypercompetent when required). He crosses over into MadScientist territory with the superweapons he constructs. He favors ridiculously overcomplicated schemes, that usually fail (in fact, they are intended to), and has a preference for kidnapping and tying up one particular DamselInDistress (to the point where at one point, she quips, "Could someone just stamp my Frequent Kidnapping Card?"). And he always makes an impressive entrance... to say he is a scene-stealer is an understatement; he's all about the PRESENTATION! He does however have a "hero's (villain's?) journey" and ends up being an AntiHero at the end, when the hero won't step up. |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 132 | * Hedley Lamarr, the BigBad of ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', who appoints a black sheriff, knowing that the townspeople won't like him. Meanwhile, a new railroad is to be routed through Rock Ridge, and Hedley wants to force the residents to abandon their town so he can get the right-of-way for the railroad. Later on, Hedley starts recruiting a horde of outlaws, Klansmen, Nazis, and Methodists. Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid manage to create a diversion by building a fake town to lure the outlaws away from the real Rock Ridge. |
| 133 | * Ford Sterling in the 1913 silent film ''Film/BarneyOldfieldsRaceForALife'' ties a woman to a railroad tracks for rejecting him. Aside from wearing a Bowler hat instead of a Top Hat, he fits all physical criteria. |
| 134 | * Professor Fate, Jack Lemmon's character in ''Film/TheGreatRace''. In fact, Dick Dastardly was clearly ''based on'' Professor Fate, so this is, in fact, the (half-){{Trope Namer|s}}'s origin. |
| 135 | %%* Gustav in the Czech film ''[[Creator/KarelZeman The Stolen Airship]]''. |
| 136 | * Creator/TerryThomas made his career out of playing these: |
| 137 | ** Sir Percy Ware-Armitage in ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines''. With his clipped moustache, clipped English accent, and clipped morals, he was the epitome of the "disreputable cad". Incidentally, Sir Percy Ware-Armitage was another large influence on Dick Dastardly, as the latter's [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines spin-off show]] took rather blatant inspiration from this movie. |
| 138 | ** In ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' (a.k.a. ''Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies''), he plays Sir Percy's equally devious son, Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage. |
| 139 | ** In Film/TomThumb, he plays the villainous Ivan complete with top hat, cape, and handlebar mustache twirling, also notable for featuring Creator/PeterSellers as his sidekick. |
| 140 | * Bill "TheButcher" Cutting in ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' could be seen as a reconstruction of this character, as he fits the description in dress and outward behavior, but betrays more depth as the movie progresses. While partially just a product of his time period, the visual references must be deliberate. |
| 141 | * Barnaby from Creator/LaurelAndHardy's ''Film/{{Babes in Toyland|1934}}'' replaces the mustache with sideburns, but fits every other aspect of the trope, including forcing the heroine to marry him in exchange for the mortgage. In the [[Film/BabesInToyland Disney re-make]], Barnaby (played by [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Ray Bolger]]) changes the side-whiskers for a small waxed moustache. |
| 142 | * Tod Slaughter, in nearly all his roles, played this character seriously -- or, at least, as seriously as one can. "So, you wanted to be a bride, my dear Jessica, did you? So ye shall be -- ''a bride of DEATH!'' Ehehehehehhehaaa!" |
| 143 | * In 1940, the silent movie villain was caricatured in ''The Villain Still Pursued Her'' in the person of Silas Cribbs (Alan Mowbray). |
| 144 | * In an UnbuiltTrope {{aver|tedTrope}}sion, Paul Panzer played the silent film epitome of this character, "Raymond Owen" (later renamed "Koerner" to take advantage of World War I-era anti-Teutonism) in ''Film/ThePerilsOfPauline'', as a fairly young man (the secretary of the eponymous Pauline (Pearl White)'s guardian, bent on gaining her fortune), clean-shaven, and not particularly antiquated or exaggerated in manner or appearance. (Incidentally, contrary to popular belief, few of the "Pauline" films were cliffhangers; most were self-contained episodes.) |
| 145 | ** In 1947, Pearl White's life was romanticized in the film, ''The Perils of Pauline''. In this musical film, actor Timmy Timmons (Billy [=DeWolfe=], plays the villainous character "Hugo Mortimer" in White's films as the full-blown Dastardly Whiplash character of the popular imagination, rather than strictly recreating the Raymond Owen of the original serial (who didn't really fit this trope). Interestingly, the original Owen, Paul Panzer, plays the bit part of a "Drawing Room Gent" in this film. |
| 146 | *** Billy [=DeWolfe=] would later voice the evil Prof. Hinkle as yet another Dastardly Whiplash in the ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'' Christmas special. |
| 147 | * Cactus Jack, Kirk Douglas' character in the 1979 Western spoof ''Film/TheVillain'' uses the personality characteristics of this trope, but the costume conventions of the bad-guy-in-a-black-hat from Westerns. |
| 148 | %%* Any given Creator/JeroenKrabbe; role. This includes ''Film/TheFugitive'', ''Film/AnIdealHusband'', ''Film/ThePrinceOfTides'', and ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''. |
| 149 | %%* In ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', Dmitri's moustache, dress-sense and personality all play into this. |
| 150 | %%* The Duke in ''Film/MoulinRouge''. |
| 151 | * Downplayed a bit, but General Grievous in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' has the black cloak, hunched posture, and hand-rubbing gestures. A [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/74df9b63fe45ce8cb3d4c68695553103/tumblr_n78ploaV9u1t53lono1_400.gif humorous gif]] adds the hat and mustache... |
| 152 | * In ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', Don Lockwood gets his first break as a stuntman at Monumental Pictures playing a mustache-wearing villain type who takes it on the jaw from the hero after being caught menacing the girl. |
| 153 | * Inspector Monet from ''Film/LeHavre'' is a contemporary example -- he's tall, thin, mustached, and his only outfit is a flowing black coat, black pants, and a bowler hat. [[spoiler:However, the end of the film proves his morality is slightly more ambiguous than the average Whiplash.]] |
| 154 | * Creator/LeeVanCleef portrayed examples that were [[NotSoHarmlessVillain genuinely imposing]]. The most famous of these is undoubtedly [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly Angel Eyes]]. |
| 155 | * Dr. Robotnik in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020''. He's got a prominent chin, curled mustache, black coat and flamboyantly villainous personality. [[spoiler:His mustache grows even bigger when stranded on the Mushroom Planet]]. Ironically, Jeff Fowler [[https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2489940/sonic-the-hedgehog-director-reveals-difficulty-with-jim-carreys-robotnik stated]] that he wanted to defy certain aspects of this trope, calling the game version of Robotnik "moustache-twirly" and saying he wanted this interpretation to be more "grounded." |
| 156 | * Played for laughs in the ''Film/DudleyDoright'' movie, where Creator/AlfredMolina is clearly having the time of his life as Snidely Whiplash. |
| 157 | * Creator/VincentPrice's onscreen persona evokes a little bit of this trope, with his imposing height, sinister voice, mid-Atlantic accent, and well-groomed mustache. |
| 158 | ** Frederick Loren in ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'' appears like this trope at first, being a rich and powerful man, distrusted by most other characters, sinister in appearance (dressed in a suit like the ManOfWealthAndTaste he is, and Vincent Price's moustache is at its most twirlable in this film), and with a sneeringly sarcastic and morbid sense of humour. It's obvious from the start that he's hiding some sinister plan. [[spoiler: However, he turns out to be a more complex character than this trope. For a start, he's ''not'' the villain of the film, but rather the intended murder victim, though still a ruthless schemer who [[VillainOfAnotherStory might well have murdered his previous three wives]]. He's also far more competent than the usual cartoonish, unintelligent and easily foiled version of this trope: his plan might be rather odd and overcomplicated if you think about it too hard, but it ''works'', and ultimately he defeats his enemies and gets away with everything, making him quite the KarmaHoudini if he really did commit the other murders he was suspected of.]] |
| 159 | ** Waldo Trumbull in ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'', meanwhile, is a particularly comedically incompetent and over the top version of the trope, played for laughs as an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist. He pairs the moustache with sideburns this time around and even dresses in the stereotypical outfit of black suit, top hat and cape-like coat (though it's justified as he's a 19th century undertaker), and tends to speak in AntiquatedLinguistics and phrases like "Confound you!", though he mixes in some SophisticatedAsHell (''unlike'' most versions of this trope, he is not rich or a ManOfWealthAndTaste, but a crude drunk with pretensions). He's unrepentantly evil, having murdered several people before the events of the film even start to keep his undertaker's business going, and is petty, vicious and cruel to everyone except his RightHandCat. And he certainly has the over the top mannerisms down: he sneers, rubs his hands, and laughs maniacally while [[spoiler: attempting to strangle his wife.]] He even has a bullied sidekick played by Creator/PeterLorre. Of course, his schemes end up failing in comedic ways, thanks in no small part to his own incompetence, [[spoiler: and the film ends with him receiving DeathByIrony while everyone he tries to kill over the course of the film, except the old man he kills early on, is doing just fine.]] |
| 160 | * The Sheriff of Nottingham in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' is a sort of medieval example. He's one-dimensional, [[LargeHam scene stealing]], big mustache (and beard), wears black, comically dark, obsessed with marrying the girl and stealing her land (or killing her and stealing it, whichever works; he's nothing if not pragmatic). |
| 161 | * Major Toht in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. He doesn't have the mustache, and his greed is only for Der Fuhrer, but he's got the big black hat and cape, he steals (and sucks the oxygen from) every scene he's in, he's bone-chillingly evil, has goofy equipment (that hanger!), and instead of a maniacal laugh he has more of a sinister wheezing cackle reminiscent of Creator/PeterLorre. |
| 162 | * Creator/RaulJulia's "M. Bison" from the ''Film/StreetFighter'' film belongs here, or at least deserves an honorable mention. He's not an ''exact'' match: he doesn't have a mustache and wears red instead of black, but he does have a black cape and a ridiculously large black hat, he's hilariously one-dimensional and ''utterly'' hammy ([[ChewingTheScenery the scenery quite literally gets pulled down around him]] at the end), has an evil laugh, has dimwitted henchmen, he menaces a girl, Chun-Li (for him, it was Tuesday) and has plans to kidnap the queen of England, has a scheme to take over the world and a ridiculous machine to do it with, and eventually falls to a meat-headed, equally one-dimensional "do good" hero. It was a horrible movie elevated to [[SoBadItsGood horribly glorious]] by his ''tour de force'' final performance. |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 166 | * OlderThanRadio: Simon Legree from ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' is a sort of proto-Whiplash combined with the message that SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil. No pretensions to refinement, but plenty of exultation-in-evil. This was codified mostly in the plays which tended to cast Legree in all black outfit. |
| 167 | * ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'': Trophies from his past exploits indicate Baron Ether was one of these in his youth, before becoming an EvilOverlord. |
| 168 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' |
| 169 | ** Since ''Literature/MovingPictures'' races through the entire history of cinema up to ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' in a couple of weeks, a Dastardly Whiplash naturally appears early on. He's tying Ginger to a tree (in the absence of railroad tracks on the Discworld at this time) and a sign is held in front of the picture-box saying "Ahar! My proude beauty!" |
| 170 | ** Abrim in ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' is sort of this trope [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] EvilChancellor. When he first appears, it's said that "He twirled his mustache, probably foreclosing another dozen mortgages." |
| 171 | * ''All'' the villains in the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' books by Creator/TerryGoodkind are rapists and pederasts. If they are hidden villains, the first thing they try to do once they reveal themselves as villains is try to rape someone. Also, the villain from the first book (and some others) is named ''Darken'' Rahl. Might as well have just called him "Snidely Whiplash." For that matter, the major villain for the rest of the series is "Jagang", which has the word "gang" in it. And he even ''does'' have a mustache to twirl. |
| 172 | * Alec D'Urberville, from ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'', is an early version of this trope played straight (it's Victorian melodrama with a Realist touch). Hardy starts to give him HiddenDepths when he attempts to become a religious man, but he soon drops it and goes back to his dastardly, womanizing ways. |
| 173 | * "Squire Hardman" from Creator/HPLovecraft's "Literature/SweetErmengarde" is an early (ca. 1920) parody: |
| 174 | -->''When the lovers had finally strolled away he leapt out into the lane, viciously twirling his moustache and riding-crop, and [[KickTheDog kicking an unquestionably innocent cat]] who was also out strolling.\ |
| 175 | "Curses!" he cried -- Hardman, [[PronounTrouble not the cat]] -- "I am foiled in my plot to get the farm and the girl!..."'' |
| 176 | * Sir Percival Glyde, a "bad baronet" in ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'', is this, involved in the standard financial scheming and wife imprisonment. |
| 177 | * The trope is mocked by Literature/ArtemisFowl: |
| 178 | -->'''Butler:''' Focus, Artemis, one dastardly crime at the time.\ |
| 179 | '''Artemis Fowl:''' Dastardly, Butler? Dastardly? Honestly, we are not cartoon characters. I do not have a villainous laugh or an eyepatch. |
| 180 | * Discussed in ''Literature/WhiteNight'': |
| 181 | -->'''Harry Dresden:''' The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny, like that. |
| 182 | * In ''Literature/EnochSoames'', the narrator is contemptuous of the Devil and notes that Satan's attempts to invoke Evil Is Stylish actually make him come across as a ridiculous example of this trope: |
| 183 | -->"Dread was indeed rather blunted in me by his looking so absurdly like a villain in a melodrama. The sheen of his tilted hat and of his shirt-front, the repeated twists he was giving to his mustache, and most of all the magnificence of his sneer, gave token that he was there only to be foiled." |
| 184 | * In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' canon, Colonel Sebastian Moran. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Moran#/media/File:Empt-06.jpg Sidney Paget draws him]] in [[ManOfWealthAndTaste white tie]] and a BadassLongcoat, with a prominent nose, eminently twirlable moustache and BaldOfEvil. Personality-wise, he's pretty one-dimensional even for a Holmes villain -- established as being [[BigBad Moriarty]]'s [[TheDragon number-one thug]], a former SociopathicSoldier and the disgraced son of a man who ''almost'' counts as an [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrat]] (being a Knight of the British Empire, a Companion of the Order of Bath and an Ambassadorial Minister, all of which are high-ranking but technically non-noble titles), he seemingly has no interests outside of shooting things (either animals or people) and cheating at cards. |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 188 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Becomes the subject of a pun by a secretary at supernatural law firm Wolfram & Hart. |
| 189 | -->'''Harmony:''' I'm sorry. Wrong extension. You need [[ForInconveniencePressOne "529" for Curses]]. Foiled again, huh? ''[chuckles]'' [[RudelyHangingUp Hello?]] |
| 190 | * In the ''Series/Batman1966'' episode, "The Riddler's False Notion", the Riddler has planned a series of crimes with a silent movie theme. During one caper, he is dressed as the titular villain, wearing a black top hat and cape over his green tights, and wearing a false mustache and carrying a whip. |
| 191 | ** The Penguin is a type of this throughout the series. Wearing a top hat and morning suit, smoking cigarettes from a long cigarette holder, walking with an odd waddling gait and having a maniacal quacking laugh. |
| 192 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 193 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Daleks' Master Plan"]]: The Doctor, Steven, and Sara Kingdom find themselves in the middle of a movie set, where a Whiplash-type is tying a screaming woman to a ConveyorBeltODoom. Not ''knowing'' it's a movie, they immediately intervene, to [[YouJustRuinedTheShot disastrous results]]. |
| 194 | ** The Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley incarnations of TheMaster, complete with BeardOfEvil. |
| 195 | *** LampshadeHanging in the spin-off novel ''Who Killed Kennedy'': when IntrepidReporter James Stevens sees a TV report on "Reverend Magister", his reaction is that nobody who looks that much like a Creator/DennisWheatley villain could possibly really be a terrorist and this is obviously part of the UNIT coverup. |
| 196 | *** Also lampshaded in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster "The Time Monster"]] when Jo Grant — finding the Master speechless with fury over how she and the Doctor escaped his latest DeathTrap — suggests "Curses, foiled again!" as an appropriate remark. |
| 197 | ** The later incarnations of the Master largely avoid this, although all versions still have a tendency towards [[LargeHam hammy theatricality]] and [[CardCarryingVillain card carrying villainy]]. |
| 198 | *** Missy, however, leaned into this trope as another example of a female version. Her look was part Mary Poppins, part Old Lady Shapoklyak. |
| 199 | ** Taken [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] in the non-canon AffectionateParody episode ''Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath'', in which the Master's [[{{Flanderization}} hamminess and incompetence is exaggerated to extremes]], turning him into a {{Camp}}y ButtMonkey with a tendency towards [[TrapDoorFail falling into his own traps]]. |
| 200 | * ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': |
| 201 | ** In [[Recap/FireflyE01Serenity the first episode]], Simon is used as a RedHerring and looks a lot like this kind of character. |
| 202 | ** Referenced in "[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel Ariel]]": after Simon has planned and executed his first heist, Shepherd Book asks if he's got his next scheme lined up, referring to him jokingly as a "criminal mastermind". Simon responds, "Not yet, but I was thinking of growing a big, black mustache. I'm a traditionalist." |
| 203 | * [[PunnyName M.T. Promises]] on ''Series/TheGreatSpaceCoaster'' is a villainous ringmaster who is always trying to force or trick the show's hero into returning to work in M.T.'s circus. At least his occupation justifies his wearing the standard Whiplash outfit. |
| 204 | * Robbie Rotten of ''Series/LazyTown'' may not have the loftiest of goals (he just wants the kids to be lazy so they won't be running back and forth across the roof of his subterranean lair all day -- one might suggest he move, but it's probably rent-controlled), and lacks the mustache[[note]]ironically, his ArchNemesis, Sportacus, is the one with a mustache[[/note]], but he more than makes up for it with his LeanAndMean physique, [[ThinChinOfSin prominent chin]], wicked grin, hammy mannerism, and the kind of elaborate costumes and schemes that define this trope. |
| 205 | * Uncle Deadly filled this role in the Melodrama sketches of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', with Miss Piggy as the DamselInDistress and Wayne (of Wayne and Wanda fame) as the hero. |
| 206 | * ''Series/NorthAndSouthUS'' has several spanning the course of three books, most of them Southerners: mega evil plantation owner/wifebeater/slave abuser David Carradine, cackling racist and adultery enthusiast Ashton, slimy slave overseer Salem Jones, bloodthirsty prison warden Wayne Newton, [[JokerImmunity seemingly-immortal]] wannabe warlord Elkinah Bent, and Ku Klux Klan co-founder (''and'' evil landlord, god help us) Robert Wagner, among others. Lest you think the Confederacy gets the short end of the stick, there are plenty of Yankee bigots: Jonathan Frakes and wife (hates the Irish), Kirstie Alley (hates southerners), and Forest Whitaker (hates white people). The latter forms an alliance with his old overseer and raids their plantation, all for the express purpose of raping ''one'' slave girl who turn him down years ago. |
| 207 | * Speaking of racists, ''Series/Roots1977'' rolled out a new arch-villain for each chapter. First there was the truly creepy first mate of Kunta's slaving ship, Mr. Slater; then the ghoulish, rape-happy plantation owner Tom Moore; and finally Lloyd Bridges as a particularly meddlesome racist. The latter even says "you haven't seen the last of me" during an encounter with Kunta's grandson. |
| 208 | * ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In "Silent Movie", a MagicMisfire makes everyone part of a SilentMovie with Mr. Kraft as a moustache-twirling villain tying damsels to railroad tracks. |
| 209 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Picard references this archetype when he refers to "villains who twirl their moustaches" being easier to spot than "[[KnightTemplar idealists]]" who [[VillainWithGoodPublicity "clothes themselves in good deeds"]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]". |
| 210 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E8Miniature Miniature]]", the doll girl's suitor resembles this type of villain, complete with cartoonishly evil mannerisms and musical cues. |
| 211 | * On the game show ''Series/{{Whew}}'', a member of the Gauntlet of Villains is Mr. Van Louse the Landlord, brandishing a top hat, mustache and the deed to someone's house of which he plans to foreclose. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 215 | * The original [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beach_Boys_-_Heroes_and_Villains.jpg picture sleeve]] for Music/TheBeachBoys' 1967 single "Heroes and Villains" had a cartoon illustration of one of these (getting bested by a WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight-esque hero). |
| 216 | * The [[https://i.discogs.com/kZ9ZWIHc6i1GwsjHJDIOA_Ykmyv-JjywMIpKMaN6lSQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYyNzU5/MzktMTQzNDgxMTQ3/NC05ODc2LmpwZWc.jpeg cover]] for the 1969 Ohio Express album ''Mercy'' features a villain with everything but the mustache in a match of fisticuffs with a lumberjack on a handcar, while the rope-bound DamselInDistress cries for help. |
| 217 | * The Coasters' song "Along Came Jones" (written by Music/LeiberAndStoller) has the exploits of the villain Salty Sam, Sweet Sue, and Jones running on the TV -- on every channel, apparently. |
| 218 | ** Music/RayStevens would later cover the song in 1969. |
| 219 | * One of Music/DoctorSteel's {{steampunk}} outfits includes a black stovepipe top hat and black PVC cape (along with his ubiquitous goggles), reminiscent of 19th century villains. |
| 220 | * Music/TaylorSwift's "Mean" has a picture in the liner notes of a stereotypical villain standing over Taylor, who is tied to a railroad track. He's also in the music video and [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16300000/Taylor-Swift-s-Mean-taylor-swift-16371135-600-600.jpg on the single cover, too.]] |
| 221 | * Music/TomSmith's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDY7tsu9fjQ "Sheep Marketing Ploy"]] pitches a series of horror movies about a sheep who usurps {{Satan}}'s position as ruler of Hell; the sheep is described as having a classic villain mustache. |
| 222 | * The villain in Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "Magic" is a hybrid of StageMagician and this. |
| 223 | * With his black zoot suit, Creator/JohnWaters-style mustache and comically sinister stage persona, "Goth Swing" bandleader Lee Presson of ''Lee Presson and the Nails'' could be considered another musical version of this trope. |
| 224 | * Music/TheCogIsDead did a cover of Music/BillieEilish's hit song, "Bad Guy". While there isn't a music video 'per se', the cover art of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvrUTtnmIM their YouTube track]] shows the lead singer, "Captain John Sprocket", dressed as the stereotypical black hat wearing, mustache-twirling bad guy. The song lyrics are full of this trope. |
| 225 | ** They really love this trope; they did a follow-up villainous cover of Bella Poarch's song "Villain", and a Disney Villain parody of Series/ThePartridgeFamily's "I Think I Love You". |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 229 | * Myth/NorseMythology: Through only two depictions are known that might represent Loki, both of them have him sporting a dastardly mustache. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 233 | * The Vaudevillains, a Wrestling/{{WWE}} tag team consisting of Simon Gotch and Aiden English, were thematically patterned after this archetype, complete with Gotch sporting a handlebar mustache and their entrance being filmed in black and white--though, despite the name, they largely didn't really act all that heel-ish. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 237 | * While you can't see what he looks like on the radio, Mr. Gently Benevolent of ''Radio/BleakExpectations'' certainly fits the character. |
| 238 | * Rocky Rococo from ''AudioPlay/TheFurtherAdventuresOfNickDanger'' is described as a "little man with an evil grin". He has some convoluted scheme involving blackmail, a contract, and using a pickle as a bludgeon. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]] |
| 242 | * Creator/BrianHoltzman has a mustache like this and a BrooklynRage type of personality. |
| 243 | [[/folder]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 246 | * Dr. Scrooge, from ''TabletopGame/SpiritOfTheCentury'''s supplement "Spirit of the Season", is essentially one of these. He's an evil banker (well, businessman of many stripes, really) who uses his wealth to greedily acquire more wealth to acquire more wealth, and so on, but will gladly go out of his way to steal cookies from orphans while he's at it. Somewhat more developed than most in that he's suffering from a delusion where he thinks he is actually Ebenezer Scrooge's heir, despite the character from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' being entirely fictitious. He's (somehow) calculated an exorbitant sum of money that he would have had if Scrooge hadn't squandered it on charity. His goal in life is to earn back that money. His hatred of orphans is tied to the fact that [[YouAreWhatYouHate he is one]]. So...yeah...really messed up. Still comes across as almost a ''Franchise/CareBears'' villain, though. |
| 247 | * The cowboy expansion deck of ''TabletopGame/GraveRobbersFromOuterSpace'' had a "Dastardly Villain" enemy card who surely was meant to evoke this archetype. Complete with handlebar mustache to twirl. |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 251 | * The villainous long-lost husband of "Miss Lucy," the heroine of the Victorian-era ShowWithinAShow in ''Theatre/ShowBoat'', "The Parson's Bride" is played by the show boat troupe's comedian, Frank Shultz, as one of these, uttering the iconic line, "I reckon you thought I was dead, gal! Well, I'm about the liveliest corpse ''you'' ever saw!" |
| 252 | * The silent movie stereotype derives partly from seducer figures in Victorian melodrama; Alec, from ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'', with his curling black mustache which he constantly strokes in order to show off his diamond rings, is one of the most notorious. For some reason, the character is often given the name Jasper, as in the BawdySong ''Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me''. |
| 253 | * Spoofed in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'' (1887). The baronet of Ruddigore is required, due to an ancestral curse, to commit a single evil deed daily. When the leading man, Robin Oakapple, is exposed to secretly be Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the true heir to the seat of Ruddigore, he exits and then returns, as traditionally portrayed with the mustache and top hat. Similarly, his servant Old Adam spontaneously acquires [[TheIgor a hump]] and changes his name to the more suitably-villainous Gideon Crawle. |
| 254 | ** One of the deceased "bad baronets" was actually named Sir Jasper. |
| 255 | * The ShowWithinAShow entrance of "King Simon of Legree" (see {{Literature}}, above) in ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'' is accompanied by blood-curdling screams. His cruelty toward the slaves is presented as a barely-veiled allegory for the King of Siam's persecution of Tuptim and her secret lover Lun Tha. |
| 256 | * The Creator/MarkTwain play ''Is He Dead?'' gives us the evil landlord Andre who stalks the stage and offers to forgive the StarvingArtist's debt if said artist's {{Love Interest|s}} marries him. Later, he makes the same deal, offering marriage in exchange for debt-forgiveness to [[spoiler:the StarvingArtist, now in drag, posing as his sister]]. |
| 257 | * Count von Cliché from ''Way, Way Off Broadway'' is a parody. He wants to steal the map of the railroad so he may buy the land before the railroad owners get a chance to and sell it to them at a very high price. To achieve this end he has to tie the heroine to the railroad tracks. Just...[[ForTheEvulz 'cause.]] |
| 258 | * ''Theatre/PinocchioTheMusical'' turns the Coachman into a combination of this and a RepulsiveRingmaster, with the classic curly moustache. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 262 | * Slyboots and Lord Sam Sinister from Toys/LEGOAdventurers are this type of villain. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 266 | * Waluigi from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series is an interesting variation. Although he wears overalls, not only does he look almost identical to Dick Dastardly and [[Series/LazyTown Robbie Rotten]], he has a lot of the characteristics of a dastardly whiplash. |
| 267 | * Dr. Eggman of the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series certainly has many characteristics of this archetype, namely his moustache and a never-ending supply of evil tricks and traps as well as a penchant for piloting large death machines to crush Sonic and his friends. |
| 268 | * One of these is introduced in ''VideoGame/TheSims2: Bon Voyage'' expansion, known only as "Unsavory Charlatan". He's a pickpocket who sneaks around in a top hat, stroking his handlebar mustache. There's one for each HollywoodAtlas settings, each otherwise dressed in locale-appropriate garb. |
| 269 | * Albeit he lacks a mustache and dresses in purple, Leopold Charles Anthony Weasleby the Third from ''VideoGame/HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure'' is a perfect example of a Dastardly Whiplash with an obsession with clockwork [[DeathTrap Death Machines]]. |
| 270 | * Dampierre from ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur Broken Destiny]]'' is a variation on the trope: although he otherwise fits the trope perfectly, and commits petty crimes typical to the Dastardly Whiplash archetype, he's actually more of a good guy than a true villain and ultimately wishes to atone for the wrongs he's done. Quite {{justified|Trope}} when you've got villains such as an OmnicidalManiac EldritchAbomination [[ArtifactOfDoom resurrected from an evil sword]], a sadistic, ''insane'' [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]], and similar nasties running around freely. However, according to the fifth game, [[spoiler:he did sell Pyrrha into slavery]]. |
| 271 | * Bergamot in ''VideoGame/SteambotChronicles'' [[UpperclassTwit may not look the part]], but once his {{Voice Actor|s}} starts [[LargeHam talking]], there won't be a doubt in your mind. Bonus points towards the end of the game's Hero path, where he almost seems a hair's breadth from a set of train tracks and an "I have you now, my pretty!" |
| 272 | -->'''Bergamot:''' You little strumpet! |
| 273 | * Regis from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon: Island of Happiness''. He certainly has the look down, but he leans closer to CorruptCorporateExecutive. |
| 274 | * Salem from ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife 2''. |
| 275 | * ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'': |
| 276 | ** The achievement "Dastardly", which you get for hogtying a woman and placing her on the train tracks and afterwards watch the train running her over. The icon for the achievement is a depiction of a top hat and handlebar moustache. Leave it to Rockstar to [[BraggingRightsReward give you gamerscore]] for [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential being arbitrarily evil]] in [[EvilIsPetty such a cartoonish way]]. |
| 277 | ** The "strange man" plays with this trope a LOT. While his missions lend to moral ambiguity, the fact that he is implied to be [[spoiler:Death or The Devil]] may make him the ultimate Dastardly Whiplash, but his character and motivations are deliberately vague enough that it's equally plausible he's [[spoiler:an angel, or even God himself]], which would make him a subversion. |
| 278 | * Don Paolo from the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' games definitely counts, with the mustache, the long coat, and the smug sneer. We don't find out what his beef with Layton is until the third game. |
| 279 | * Chancellor Cole, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'', definitely has the look, complete with top hat (or rather, two of them, to hide his horns; hatless, he looks like the original PointyHairedBoss). He's a lot more competent than most Dastardly Whiplash characters, though, and, early in the game, kills Zelda because he didn't actually need her ''alive'', since her body is necessary for reviving his boss, Demon King Malladus. (This backfires, funnily enough; Zelda is [[SpiritAdvisor surprisingly]] [[AnimatedArmor useful]] while dead.) |
| 280 | * The title character of ''VideoGame/TheMisadventuresOfPBWinterbottom'' looks a bit like one of these. Given the mayhem he causes in his efforts to steal pies, he's certainly [[VillainProtagonist not a very nice guy]]. |
| 281 | * Yoshiaki Mogami of ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 3'' is this, right down to having an incredibly pointy mustache. About the only major action he takes is kidnapping Matsu so that the Maeda clan join up with Ieyasu. It's even shown in his fighting style, which is a mix of ConfusionFu and {{Combat Pragmatis|t}}m, meaning that he makes good use of tricks like [[LookBehindYou point somewhere else to distract enemies]], groveling on the ground to prep for Counter Attacks, and generally fighting in a tricky/deceptive fashion. |
| 282 | * Yin-Yarn, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'', who, indeed, sports a mustache and an evil grin despite looking more like an evil wizard. However, he is a more competent example, given that he's managed to split Patch Land into pieces, [[spoiler:and subsequently took over Dreamland by seizing both Castle Dedede and the Halberd]]. He has [[AndThenWhat no idea what he'll do afterwards]]. |
| 283 | * ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' has Jeremiah Fink, who not only looks like Snidely but is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain monstrously racist]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Robber Baron]] who exploits his employees as much as humanly possible. |
| 284 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSolvers''' BigBad Morty Maxwell comes across as one of these in the clothes of a MadScientist, due to his sinister mustache, cartoonishly villainous personality, and constant scheming. |
| 285 | * In the ''VideoGame/ToyStory2'' LicensedGame, the mini-boss of the eleventh level, "Al's Penthouse" is Gunslinger, a tall, thin desperado with a handlebar mustache. He re-appears in the fifteenth and final level, "Prospector Showdown", working alongside Stinky Pete and Blacksmith. |
| 286 | * King Dice from ''Videogame/{{Cuphead}}'' is a character with these features dressed in a suit and with a die for a head. [[WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow His appearances on the show based on the game]] has a rigged game show Roll the Dice which is impossible to lose for contestants since their souls get snatched after they enter the Mystery Prize Room, and [[TeamKiller deliberately sabotages the Devil's 3rd Finest Demons]] to get the glory of kidnapping Cuphead. Plus, he believes he's the Devil's Number 1, though his boss doesn't acknowledge it. |
| 287 | * Dr. Fetus from ''Super VideoGame/MeatBoy''. Although he lacks a mustache (being a fetus and all), he dons the wardrobe and his most infamous crime is kidnapping the titular hero's girlfriend. |
| 288 | * In ''VideoGame/ImperiumNova'', Fornuxian [[MagnificentBastard Count Giacomo di Scaliger]] and his family were all officially titled "the Dastardly" by an Imperial judge. He embraced the trappings of this trope ''very'' quickly. |
| 289 | * Dr. Strangeglove from ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters''. His top hat is his face (the eyes pop out of the top of it, and the moustache right under it moving like a mouth). There's even a promotional poster of him tying Tyra Fangs to a railroad track (in sepia tone!) |
| 290 | * ''VideoGame/PanicRestaurant '' has Hors D'oeuvre (Ohdove), a Dastardly Whiplash in a chef’s outfit. |
| 291 | * Captain Brains from ''VideoGame/TheStretchers'' has this archetype down to a tee. Outrageously villainous? He spends the game hypnotizing people and turning them into "Dizzies". No depth to his personality? All we know about him is that he was a former medic who turned to evil, and nothing else. Handlebar mustache? One finely-styled hallmark of his treachery right beneath his schnoz! |
| 292 | * Fool, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'' more or less emobodies this trope. He's sharply dressed, superficially polite, [[CardCarryingVillain openly underhanded & deceitful]], entirely characterized around his [[EvilPlan big complicated scheme]], and is ''very'' ObviouslyEvil [[spoiler:not to mention he ultimately fails due to his own naivety and [[AesopAmnesia doesn't learn a darn thing from it]]]]. All he's missing is the mustache and he'd be perfect. |
| 293 | * ''VideoGame/FreakyFlyers'' features Pilot X, a HumanoidAlien variant of the archetype. While he does dress in all-black clothing and sports the thin mustache, he doesn't directly engage in deceitful trickery himself, letting his collaborator Professor Gutentaag handle that, and only confronts the other flyers after they've won the racing competition ([[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder even Gutentaag]]). [[NoIndoorVoice ALSO, HE CONSTANTLY YELLS HIS SENTENCES LIKE THIS!!]] |
| 294 | * A newspaper article in ''[[VideoGame/VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun Victoria 2]]'' reads: |
| 295 | --> The horrifically-mutilated corpse of a damsel was discovered yesterday [[ChainedToARailway tied to a train track]]. The public is advised to be on the lookout for a man with a large moustache, a top hat and a black opera cloak. |
| 296 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' features Consul V, who has the voice, accent, and mannerisms of an old-timey villain, while his Consul helmet is shaped like a top hat, and has tubes on said helmet resembling a handlebar mustache. He may be one of the less competent Consuls, easily falling for Taion and Riku's trap, but was also [[spoiler: responsible for brutally executing soldiers that completed their 10 terms to prevent their souls from being lost from the cycle of reincarnation, as well as Ashera's suicidal tendencies, the former of which [[SmallRoleBigImpact resulted in the creation of the Homecoming Ceremony]]]]. |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 300 | * "Sir Strong Bad", Strong Bad's Old-Timey counterpart in ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', is mostly dead on, except that his face is still a luchador mask (which doesn't stop him from keeping the mustache.) |
| 301 | * One of these appears on the "Good guys, bad guys, and explosions" part of the ''UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny'' Flash cartoon. |
| 302 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBeSi-ODfJk The singer]] of mrweebl's "Moustaches" has the appearance, but not really the behavior to go along with it. |
| 303 | * ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' often uses top-hatted mustached figures as stand-ins for the villains of the games under discussion, usually if the villains aren't interesting enough to warrant talking about in detail. |
| 304 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Robber Eel is one in the form of an eel. |
| 305 | * ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': The GOP is depicted as a mustache-twirling villain who wears a black suit, top hat, and eye mask. |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 309 | * [[http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20100113 According to]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Rayne Summers]] of ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'', racial profiling is justified when it comes to not sitting next to a Dastardly Whiplash on a plane. |
| 310 | %%* [[http://gunshowcomic.com/233 The Villain]] from ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}''. |
| 311 | %%* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' #215 -- [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/sickday/ "Classic Sonic."]] |
| 312 | * In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', the Canadian Mafia is run by [[CaptainErsatz Snideloni Whiplashi]]. He's eventually murdered and replaced by Dastard Dickly. |
| 313 | * ''Webcomic/{{EVIL|2016}}'' has a professor who is actually named [[http://www.evil.thecomicseries.com/comics/13/ Professor Dastard]], who plays this trop [[HarmlessVillain pathetically straight]]. |
| 314 | * [[http://chuckleaduck.com/comic/under-cover/ This]] ''Chuckle-A-Duck'' features [[ObviousJudas Judas]] [[Literature/TheBible Iscariot]] looking like this. |
| 315 | * A (noncanon) fill-in strip for ''Webcomic/TemplarArizona'' introduced a Templar subculture called "scheme freaks" who dress and act like this. |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 319 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. In "Razzle Dazzle", Mephisto the Mentalist portrays one as part of the many criminal characters he adopts throughout history. [[UnreliableNarrator According to him]] he's not being evil -- the "taking over the ranch" plot was just him drawing attention to the shady tactics used by the banks who were the real villains. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 323 | * ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': In Spoony's review of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', he comments that the only way the villains could possibly have been more one-dimensional and ObviouslyEvil is if they had moustaches to twiddle. |
| 324 | * In ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'', Simon becomes this type of character when in his cartoon form. |
| 325 | * ''WebVideo/ManateeGirlTheMovie'' has the [[PunnyName InHumanatee]] who has a comically large mustache despite being in live action. He dumps oil in manatee inhabited springs simply because he considers it a "sufficiently evil undertaking for a man of [his] talents". |
| 326 | * ''WebVideo/GuaranteedVideo'': New Kids on the Rock's "Ryan's Christmas Wish" features the Misery Meister, who is just as moustache-twirlingly evil as the name would imply. Although, unusually, he's played by a [[CrosscastRole female actor]]. |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 330 | * The co-TropeNamers: |
| 331 | ** Snidely Whiplash from ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' is among the most prominent examples, although the character type had already existed beforehand, and, like everything else about the show, Whiplash was more of a parody than a straight example. |
| 332 | ** As is Dick Dastardly of ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' and ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', though he eschews the top-hat, morning-suit, and cape, and dresses in [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple rather than black]]. |
| 333 | ** ''Dudley'' creator Creator/JayWard's ''Fractured Flickers'' show (which featured old silent films with newly-dubbed dialogue and music) had an animated opening sequence that included this type of character chasing a blonde damsel. |
| 334 | * Boris Badenov from ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''. |
| 335 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': "The Blackened Sponge" features Jack M. Crazyfish, who in [=SpongeBob=]'s dream, ties damsels in distress to railroad tracks and cheats at RockPaperScissors. [=SpongeBob=] initially makes up and brags about a story involving Crazyfish to explain his black eye, which actually occurred when [=SpongeBob=] tried to use a monkey wrench to remove a toothpaste cap. |
| 336 | ** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Crazyfish appears, only for Spongebob to confess that he made up the incident to avoid looking foolish. It turns out Crazyfish just wanted to see [=SpongeBob=] because [=SpongeBob=] makes really good Krabby Patties. When [=SpongeBob=] spills a deluxe Krabby Patty with extra cheese on Crazyfish's suit, they settle things with a quick game of RockPaperScissors. |
| 337 | * Thaddeus Griffin, Peter's evil twin from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. |
| 338 | -->'''Thaddeus:''' Nyah, this will surely affect my inheritance... nyah!\ |
| 339 | ''[escapes in hot air balloon]'' |
| 340 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'' has two of these: |
| 341 | ** One is a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]] called Abracadaver who wears this outfit because he was a StageMagician. |
| 342 | ** The other, Max Von Nitrate appears when they watch a silent movie, and find out that Professor Utonium is the DamselInDistress! |
| 343 | --->'''Buttercup:''' Whoa! Who's that?\ |
| 344 | '''Blossom:''' The bad guy.\ |
| 345 | '''Bubbles:''' How can you tell?\ |
| 346 | '''Blossom:''' He’s the one with the flycatcher for a mustache.\ |
| 347 | ''[he girls giggle]'' |
| 348 | * Oil Can Harry in the old ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' cartoons. |
| 349 | ** Lampshaded by Scrappy in ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' in the episode "Scrappy's Playhouse" when he's watching a clip of an old cartoon that features a more traditional human version of the character:. "Hey, didn't he used to be a cat?" |
| 350 | ** Another episode featured a one time character named "The Glove" who also dressed like this. |
| 351 | * Dishonest John from ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil''. "Nya-ha-hah!" |
| 352 | -->"DJ, you dirty guy!" |
| 353 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': |
| 354 | ** Dan Backslide (coward-bully-cad-and-thief) of the short ''[[WesternAnimation/TheDoverBoys The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall]]'': |
| 355 | -->"A runabout! I'll ''steal it! [[WithCatlikeTread NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!]]''" |
| 356 | ** The 1933 WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid short ''Bosko's Picture Show'' has one "Dirty Dalton (The Cur!)". |
| 357 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/HoneymoonHotel1934'', there is a mustached bug smoking a cigar who tries to look into guests' rooms. He bears a very stereotypical villain look. |
| 358 | ** The Vinegar Bottle, the villain of the 1935 short "Little Dutch Plate", [[PoirotSpeak mit addischonal German akzent]]. He [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty even ties the little Dutch girl figurine to a log]] and is about to saw her in half -- using the gears of a Dutch clock. [[spoiler:But in a nicely contrived TwistEnding, he replaces his head with a more handsome one from a perfume bottle and goes off with the heroine!]] |
| 359 | * The Hooded Claw from ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' has Dastardly Whiplash mannerisms, though his appearance -- with [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience color scheme]] on loan from [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] -- is more flamboyant than most (he also lacks the traditional mustache). No surprise, since he's voiced by Creator/PaulLynde. |
| 360 | * ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'': |
| 361 | ** A ''Super Chicken'' episode features theater actor Briggs Badwolf, who, playing the melodrama villain once too often, believes he is the character -- he makes off with the female lead of the play. Attempting to get her to go to the Villain's Annual Picnic with him, he takes her to the usual places -- the sawmill, the railroad track, the old abandoned mine... |
| 362 | ** And Baron Otto Matic, in the ''Tom Slick'' segments. |
| 363 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', there's "The Count D'Ten" (one, two, three-darn it!). A ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' parody featured "Greedy [=McGreed=]-Greed", who resembled this character type. |
| 364 | * In a ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode set at the beginning of the silent film era, Brain decides to conquer the world by making himself a movie star. The movies that he and Pinky make together spoof various silent film tropes, including one with Pinky as a villain of this type -- complete with cloak, top hat, and mustache -- tying a DamselInDistress to railroad tracks so that Brain, as the hero, can rescue her. |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': While Dr. Doofenshmirtz is clearly a MadScientist, he still echoes quite a bit of this trope: exaggerated nose and chin, hunched posture, elaborate crazy schemes, and over-the-top mannerisms. No mustache or hat, though, and, in keeping with his MadScientist role, he wears a lab coat. |
| 366 | ** In the episode "Steampunx," his counterpart "Professor von Doofenshmirtz" fits the trope perfectly, mustache and hat included, and for bonus points he ties Perry to the train tracks. |
| 367 | ** Mitch, the mustachioed arch-nemesis of Meap. |
| 368 | * Professor Hinkle, the self-styled Evil Magician of ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'' has the antiquated costume (though he loses the top hat), the handlebar moustache, He has a green tuxedo with pink shirt on black tie, the exaggerated mannerisms, and the general incompetence associated with this trope. The fact that he is voiced by Billy [=DeWolfe=] (see Live-Action Film, above) demonstrates the provenance of the character. |
| 369 | * As an {{Expy}} of {{Trope Namer|s}} Dastardly (for [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal reasons]]), the Dread Baron from ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' naturally falls into this category as well. Issue #13 of the Laff-a-Lympics comic book (Marvel, Feb. 1979) notes that Dick Dastardly and Dread Baron are brothers. |
| 370 | * Rum-Baa-Baa, the evil sheep from British toon ''Henry's Cat'', may not have the moustache, but has everything else. One variation of the show's end credits even show him doing the old train track routine. |
| 371 | * [[HarmlessVillain Awful B. Bad]] from ''WesternAnimation/LittleClownsOfHappytown'' has everything associated with this trope, right down to the mustache and badly planned acts of evil, and always sets out to ruin everyone's day but always ends up being effortlessly thwarted. |
| 372 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 373 | ** Sideshow Mel in '"The Lastest Gun in the West". |
| 374 | ** Moe appears this way on one side of his business cards, which state his "profession" as villain. When he becomes a volunteer firefighter, he modifies the back of his cards so they reflect the fact that he is now a hero. |
| 375 | ** Homer as the wicked landlord Mr. Stingly in ''[[ShowWithinAShow Rent II: Condo Fever]]'', bursting into the room in full Snidely Whiplash regalia. |
| 376 | --->'''Homer:''' Where is the rent? I must have the rent. Dollars, dimes, and nickels -- I need them all right now! |
| 377 | ** Charles Montgomery Burns was born around the turn of the 20th century and still thinks and acts like an old-timey robber baron. This is best exemplified in ''Who Shot Mr. Burns?'', part I, where he steals the oil well out from under the local elementary school. He's got no mustache or cape, but his FingerTenting and hiss of "''Excellent!''" are plenty theatrical enough make up for it. On the other hand, depending on the episode, he may be more AffablyEvil or even ObliviouslyEvil than deliberately, dog-kickingly villainous. |
| 378 | * [[PunnyName Heeza Ratt]], the villain from the 1934 WesternAnimation/BettyBoop short "She Wronged Him Right" who is actually an actor in a play Betty Boop is playing the heroine in. |
| 379 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' |
| 380 | ** Spike the dragon dressed up like this in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell "Owl's Well That Ends Well"]], while plotting to get Owlowiscious the owl in trouble. |
| 381 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress "MMMMystery on the Friendship Express"]], one of Pinkie's imagine spots painted Gustav [=LeGrande=] in ''exactly'' this trope, down to the "tie a mare down on the tracks so the train can crush her" and the silent film dialogue screens. |
| 382 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E10SpikeAtYourService "Spike at Your Service"]], when Applejack explains that she plans on Spike saving her life, Pinkie Pie immediately suggests, [[MotorMouth in her typical way]], a [[ZanyScheme scheme involving her party cannon, a hornet's nest and a butterfly net]] and concludes with: "I'll wear this mustache!", complete with the appropriate grin and [[HandRubbing hoof rubbing]]. |
| 383 | * ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'': Major Bludd, Cobra's henchman with a sinister Australian accent. |
| 384 | * Rattfink, from the ''Roland and Rattfink'' cartoons. |
| 385 | * Phantom Phink in ''WesternAnimation/YogisSpaceRace'' is a CaptainErsatz of Dick Dastardly, who was also a Creator/HannaBarbera character. |
| 386 | * The Amazing Mumbo from ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'' definitely sports the look and one-dimensional villainy, although he's never seen engaging in mustache twirling or AntiquatedLinguistics. Justified in that his whole theme is [[MagiciansAreWizards stage magic turned horribly real]]; top hats, black suits, and cloaks just happen to be the stereotypical garb of stage magicians. |
| 387 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' short that first aired on ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' which was the {{pilot}} to the series. When Vicky is trying to run away she ends up tied to a railroad track, with Timmy gloating over her with mustache and top hat. |
| 388 | * In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short "Cartoons Ain't Human", Popeye makes one of these the villain of [[ShowWithinAShow his home-made cartoon]]. |
| 389 | * The Peculiar Purple Pie Man of Porcupine Peak,[[note]]A-ya-ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta ta! TAAAH![[/note]] from the ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' cartoons has the twirly mustache, nose, chin and mannerisms to qualify for this. |
| 390 | * Long John Spoilsport (voiced by Creator/JamesEarlJones), from the 1970s PBS show ''Vegetable Soup''. |
| 391 | * Ben Buzzard from the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short ''The Flying Jalopy''. |
| 392 | * The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Safe Space" has "Reality", a being in this form trying to make people hiding from online criticism accept that the real world is cruel. He ends up being executed by said growing group of people. |
| 393 | * Two such characters appear in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveEngineer''. The first is a more traditional looking Dastardly Whiplash character who ties a damsel to the train tracks and shouts "Curses! Foiled again!" when thwarted. The second is a more haggard looking one, who blows up the tracks. |
| 394 | * Black Hat, the VillainProtagonist of ''[[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Villainous]]'', is an odd example of this trope. In terms of aesthetics, he wears all-black formal wear with [[HighClassGlass a monocle]] and top-hat (hence the name), and [[EvilBrit he speaks with a thick Cockney accent]] -- though he lacks the traditional hunched posture, exaggerated nose/chin, or curly mustache. His personality also fits the bill, as he's a CardCarryingVillain who [[BadBoss abuses his henchmen for fun]] and is prone to emotional outbursts. Unlike other examples of this trope, however, Black Hat is [[TheEvilGenius highly intelligent]], [[PragmaticVillainy practical-minded]], and [[InvincibleVillain scarily competent]], on top of being a HumanoidAbomination with an array of nasty powers at his disposal. |
| 395 | * Defacely Marmeister from ''WesternAnimation/HammerMan'', A campy supervillain with a high pitched raspy voice and a very cheesy outfit. He even says ''Curses! Drat!'' when he gets caught at the end. |
| 396 | * {{Enforced}} in-universe in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' by Scrooge [=McDuck=], who has not seen a film since the 1930s and insists that the villain of the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' remake should have a mustache to twirl so that the audience knows he's evil. |
| 397 | * ''Humpty Dumpty Jr.'' is an old animated short by Creator/UbIwerks, whose villain, simply referred to as "The Bad Egg", is a pretty straightforward instance of this trope, except that [[AnthropomorphicFood he's a talking egg]]. |
| 398 | * {{Discussed|Trope}} by [[OldSuperhero aging supervillain]] Red Death from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' in his "Gentleman Villain" monologue, where he's opining about the GoodOldWays to fellow supervillain Blind Rage (who is at this point [[BoundAndGagged gagged and tied]] [[ChainedToARailway to a railway]]). The Red Death mentions that his favorite bit of villainy was the old TimeBomb, where the indeterminate ticking would give the victim some slim hope while also giving the anxiety of the constant reminder of imminent death. |
| 399 | * Mayor Humdinger from ''WesternAnimation/{{PAW Patrol}}'' is a preschooler-friendly version of this. While he doesn't tie anyone to any railroad tracks, he has a grumpy demeanor, comes up with complicated, often bizarre plans for the PAW Patrol to foil, and twirls his mustache when he laughs. |
| 400 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' has one-shot villain, the Pie King. He is thin, with a handlebar moustache, pointy nose and a very flamboyant personality. Also, unlike the shows more complex villains, such as Ludo and Toffee, this guy is extremely one-dimensional, with all his evil acts being motivated purely by greed. |
| 401 | * The Ice King from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]]. Whilst he has a full beard rather then a simple moustache, he has other physical traits, such as a long nose, slightly hunched posture and (DependingOnTheArtist) is LeanAndMean. During the first few seasons, he was a stereotypical cartoon villain, [[DamselInDistress kidnapping helpless women]] [[AbductionIsLove in order to force them to marry him]], amongst other crazy schemes. [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat He even once cheated in a wizard battle, by useing weapons, despite the fact he can already make weapons out of ice]]. However [[spoiler: We soon learn that he used to be a normal man, and both is appearance and insane personality was due to being cursed by the crown]]. |
| 402 | ** His DistaffCounterpart, [[spoiler: and AuthorAvatar]] the Ice Queen, is a rare female example, [[DistressedDude who kidnaps men]]. She has a voice that sounds somewhat like a feminine version of Dick Dastardly, and her long eyebrows serve as a suitable substitute for the iconic moustache. |
| 403 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E22DadsStacheStashARootGaloot Dad's Stache Stash]]", Patrick wears an old-timey mustache that turns him into a classic villain. He promptly ties his family to railroad tracks, acting [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] and giving out [[EvilLaugh evil cackles]] throughout. His family aren't even threatened; [[LampshadeHanging they just point out how trite it is]]. |
| 404 | -->'''Squidina''': Really? Tying people to railroad tracks? Hasn't this been ''done'' before? |
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