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Tweeg and L.B.

In General

The original main villains of the series. Tweeg is a half-Grunge, half-Troll who dreams of being the greatest villain in Grundo, while L.B. is his begrudging Bounder henchman. They appear in more episodes than any other characters except the Trio.

Actually, That's My Assistant: While disguised as painters in the castle, Queen Lillibet calls Tweeg L.B.'s assistant instead of the other way around because she thinks L.B. is doing a better job.
Adaptational Early Appearance: They are introduced in the fourth book and tape Tweeg and the Bounders. In the animated series, they are there from the start.
Adults Dressed as Children: In "The Lemonade Stand", they disguise themselves as two little boys selling lemonade, dressing in old-fashioned sailor boy outfits. Tweeg is way taller than the Trio, but everyone is fooled anyway.
All Take and No Give: Tweeg takes and L.B. gives. Tweeg makes L.B. do all the hard work and heavy lifting around the tower and puts off paying him as much as possible, yet L.B. never resigns.
Ambiguous Syntax: When Tweeg thinks he's sick he says to L.B., "Call me a doctor!" "Okay, Twip. You're a doctor."
Artsy Beret: They wear berets as part of their disguise as painters to sneak into King Nogburt's castle.
Ascended Extra: They only appear in a few of the books, but they appear in all but a few episodes of the series. Tweeg's desire to join M.A.V.O. is just mentioned in the books to give him a motive, but in this series, it's an ongoing story arc. L.B. also has character development, and his relationship Buffy is a subplot.
Ash Face: This tends to happen to them, but mostly to Tweeg, when the cannon doesn't fire properly.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: They don't often show it, but L.B. goes for help when Tweeg gets the Tweezles, goes to Ying to find him and bring him home, and later saves him from Quellor's henchmen when they tie him up. They also give each other holiday gifts, and Tweeg also gives L.B. a wedding present when L.B. marries Buffy.
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: This is how they see things. It's why Tweeg dreams of being a great villain and why L.B. sweet-talks his girlfriend with disgusting metaphors.
Big Guy, Little Guy: Tweeg, a Troll/Grunge hybrid, is a few times taller than L.B., a Bounder.
Blown Across the Room: When Tweeg's cannon fails to fire a cannonball, they (but mostly Tweeg) are prone to getting blasted backwards
Boxed Crook: After Tweeg and L.B. fail Quellor, they're made prisoners, but they're the only ones at M.A.V.O. who have dealt with Teddy, so when Quellor gives them a chance to make up for their mistakes, they jump at the chance. Unfortunately, they Teddy and don't recover the Crystals, so it's back to scrubbing floors for them.
Brains and Brawn: Tweeg describes their relationship this way in "Teddy and the Mudblups". Tweeg does the planning (badly), L.B. does the pulling (begrudgingly).
Bumbling Henchmen Duo: Once they begin working for Quellor, they become this. They were always a bumbling duo, but before, one was the other's henchman.
Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: They constantly argue and annoy each other, but both have admitted that it's not the same when the other is not around.
Chariot Pulled by Cats: L.B., a bounder, usually pulls Tweeg in his wagon.
Cheaters Never Prosper: No matter how many times they lie and cheat, they never seem to come out on top. It's occasionally subverted. In "Air and Water Races", Tweeg comes up with an idea to sabotage the competition by sewing them into their sleeping bags, allowing his team to get first, second, and third place in the synchronized swimming contest.
Circling Birdies: The "seeing stars" variant tends to happen to Tweeg when he gets knocked on the head. L.B. gets it too on occasion.
A Day in the Limelight: "Tweeg's Mom" mostly focuses on them, while the Trio appear very little in the episode.
Dressed to Plunder: In "Captured", they briefly get to join the M.A.V.O. pirates dressed in pirate clothes.
Expy: Tweeg and L.B. are expies of Dick Dastardly and Muttley. L.B. occasionally laughs like Muttley, and Tweeg not only has his Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat moments but he once said "Drat, drat, and double drat".
Go-Karting with Bowser: In "Win One for the Twipper" and the Wizardweek arc, they compete against the Trio in sporting events.
Human Snowball: In "Wooly and the Giant Snowzos", L.B. rolls down a hill in a big snowball, picking up Tweeg along the way.
I Can't Hear You: Near the end of "Double Grubby", the blast from Tweeg's cannon is so loud that it leaves them both saying, "Speak up! I can't hear you!" to each other at the same time.
Institutional Apparel: While they're prisoners of M.A.V.O. during the Anythings arc, they wear black-and-white striped outfits.
Leitmotif: A sinister tune will often play when the camera points to or pulls into their tower.
Karma Houdini: In many episodes, they spend their time causing trouble and chaos without getting punished. Subverted mid-series when they disappoint Quellor one time too many and get clapped in irons.
Literal Ass-Kicking: Tweeg kicks L.B. away in the rear end in "Musical Oppressors" when he wants him to go find the Black Box.
MacGuffin Blindness: In "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains"¸ they dismiss the Crystals that the Trio found as worthless pieces of glass, thinking that the real treasure is the room full of gold that they left behind. Double-subverted in "Grubby's Romance". Once they take a closer look at the Crystals, they think that they might be valuable...because they look like diamonds.
Master of Disguise: Disguises seem to be the one thing they're always good at. From old ladies to little boys to smooth-talking businessmen, their ability to fool people knows no bounds.
Oh, Crap!: They get this reaction when something goes wrong. For example, when they follow the Trio into a cave in the Great Desert, they realize they're in trouble when they see Mudblups coming.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Tweeg, being a unique hybrid, has a very distinct appearance, but people hardly ever see through his disguises unless he takes them off. But L.B. takes the cake. All he has to do is put on a hat and people are fooled.
Pet the Dog: Both are known to do acts that imply that they don't really hate each other. At the winter holiday season, for example, they give each other presents, although they agree to go back to being bad guys the next day.
Plucky Comic Relief: Tweeg's failed schemes and L.B.'s snark provide a lot of humor in the show. Both serve as each other's Butt-Monkey, and they're the focus of comedic subplots of several episodes.
Punishment Detail: When Tweeg and L.B. are made prisoners of M.A.V.O., they're forced to spend their time washing floors and doing laundry.
Regular Character: In the animated series, they are only absent from a handful of the sixty-five episodes.
Snark-to-Snark Combat: They are both each other's favorite target for derogatory remarks.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: They constantly insult and annoy each other, making you wonder why they put up with the situation for so long.
Unexpected Successor: Both briefly serve as the Supreme Oppressor of M.A.V.O., but neither of them sees it coming. The rules say that the Supreme Oppressor must always possess the Black Box, so just getting a hold of it puts them into the position.
Villain Decay: While they were never that threatening to begin with, their failed attempts at evil deeds began to wear thin by the middle of the series. Around this time, the writers put more focus on Quellor and the rest of M.A.V.O., who were genuinely dangerous villains.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Emphasis on the vitriolic part. Despite their bickering, they stick together.
Working on the Chain Gang: During their time as M.A.V.O. prisoners, they get chained together at the ankles and are forced to clean M.A.V.O. Headquarters.
You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Any time L.B. gets Tweeg's name right, it means something. He says it to Tweeg's face twice in the series: once when Tweeg thinks he's seriously sick, and once with the rest of the Bounders as holiday gift. Tweeg is very touched by the latter.

Jack W. Tweeg

Voiced by: Will Ryan (books and special), John Koensgen (series)

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo"

Tweeg was the Trio's first antagonist. He wants more than anything to be accepted into the Monsters and Villains Organization, but he's just not evil enough. He lives in a tall tower in Gimmick's valley and is constantly trying to run Gimmick out of the valley, so he can claim it all for himself. He is constantly trying to perfect a formula for turning buttermilk into gold.

Accidental Aiming Skills: The first time his cannon hits something, he was aiming for Gimmick's house as usual, but instead he hits Mrs. Maggotheart's collection wagon. The other time, he's trying to take the Airship out of the final Wizardweek race, but he ends up hitting his mother's vehicle.
Adaptational Backstory Change: In the books, Tweeg was kicked out of the evil land of Ying for not being evil enough. The cartoon establishes him as the Grundo-born son of a Grunge and a Troll and makes no reference to him ever being in Ying before the series.
Agony of the Feet: It's a Running Gag. He's had boxes, cannonballs, and other things land on his foot in "The Faded Fobs", "Sign of a Friend", "The Crystal Book," "The Black Box", and "A Race to the Finish".
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: On several occasions, he's willing to get down on the floor and beg Quellor or his mother to have mercy.
Amnesiacs are Innocent: When Tweeg zaps himself by the Black Box, he doesn't act villainous anymore.
Amusing Injuries: Tweeg falls victim to a lot of these. Sometimes he's Hoist by His Own Petard, sometimes L.B. puts it on him, and sometimes things just happen.
Amusingly Awful Aim: Tweeg regularly bombards Newton Gimmick's house with a cannon from his tower. However, Tweeg's aim is so bad that there is a neat, clean ring of cannonballs all around Newton's house.
Anything but That!: The worst possible fate imaginable to him is being locked in a room with the M.A.V.O. dues collector.
Bait-and-Switch Comment: He does this twice in "The Great Grundo Ground Race". Before the race starts, he says, "I've never challenged Mummy before. I'm afraid it might upset her." [...] "Upset her when I leave her sucking dust at the finish line!" Later, when L.B. helps him escape the capture of Quellor's henchmen, he says, "I never thought I'd thank you for anything, L.B." [...] "So I won't."
Balcony Escape: He climbs out his window down his balcony at one point, so he won't have to face Mrs. Maggotheart when she comes over. The rope breaks.
Bald of Evil: He's a villain who's bald. It's not clear why. Both his parents have a head full of hair, yet a cross between their races doesn't.
Bare-Handed Puppetry: In "Elves and Woodsprites", he dresses his hand as an Elf named Tweegle and draws on a face so he can cause trouble in the Elf and Woodsprite Village.
Because I Said So: His usual response when L.B. asks why he has to do a certain task.
Berserk Button: Cannot stand it when people mess up his name. Of course, L.B. loves to deliberately do this just for kicks.
Betrayal by Offspring: He sells his own mother out to the Mudblup King so he and L.B. can escape from prison.
Beware the Silly Ones: Despite his status as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, Tweeg has twice nearly managed to start a war; once between the formerly friendly Elves and Woodsprites, and again between M.A.V.O. and the Gutangs. His actions were only stopped at the last minute both times.
Big Bad Ensemble: Part of one along with Quellor, the Mudblup King, the Sorcerer, and the Gutangs. All are independent villains of each other.
Big Bad Wannabe: He dreams of being the greatest villain in Grundo, even becoming Supreme Oppressor of M.A.V.O., but his schemes usually blow up in his face.
Big Damn Reunion: In "Father's Day", he reunites with his father when his father comes to meet him.
Blank Slate: After he's had his memory erased by the Black Box, he is left with no thoughts and no personality. When Gimmick tries to use the Crystal Stethoscope on him, it doesn't register any personality traits at all.
Blessed with Suck: Being a cross between a Troll and a Grunge has its problems. He has his mother's evil morals but his father's skills, so he can't be both happy and successful.
Blowing a Raspberry: In the Wizardweek ground race, after the Elves and Woodsprites fix his sabotage, he blows them one in frustration.
Bouncer: During L.B.'s reign as Supreme Oppressor, he becomes the new gatekeeper and is forced to deal with the riffraff of monsters that try to come in.
Bound and Gagged:
- In "Uncle Grubby", when he's put on trial at M.A.V.O., he's chained up in court. He's then gagged so he can't defend himself because no M.A.V.O. trial is a fair one.
- In "Winter Adventure", Quellor's henchmen come to his tower and tie him up so they can get his gold formula. They skip the gag, though, because then he can't tell them what they want him to know.
Brought to You by the Letter "S": He often monograms his things with a big T for Tweeg.
Buffy Speak: When he has some catapults built for war with the Gutangs, he calls them "springy things". When L.B. clarifies that they're called catapults, Tweeg thinks he's thinking of caterpillars.
Captivity Harmonica: Plays one after being thrown in the M.A.V.O. dungeon. After being fed up with being locked up, he throws it in frustration.
Card-Carrying Villain: Or card-carrying villain wannabe. In Grundo, villains usually refer to themselves as villains, including Tweeg.
Catch Your Death of Cold: After being caught in a sudden downpour in his burned-down house, his next scene has him sneezing under a blanket with his feet in hot water.
The Chew Toy: He never seems to stop being a source of comedic pain.
The Chosen Wannabe: Played with. In "The Faded Fobs", he thinks he's the Chosen One when tells L.B. that his destiny is to rule Grundo, but in-universe, there is no Chosen One, and the only prophecy is the ancient M.A.V.O. lore about spreading darkness across Grundo with the Crystals.
Chronic Villainy: In the last few episodes, he seems like he's leaving villainy to follow in his father's footsteps, but the sight of Elroy's surfing winnings reminds him: once an evil genius, always an evil genius.
Classy Cane: In some of his disguises, he dresses as a gentleman holding an old-fashioned cane.
Clothing Damage: Notable for how it's accomplished. After accidentally blasting himself with the black box, the now mindless Tweeg wanders off from the Hard to Find City in a ditzy daze. Next time we see him, the collar of his robe is missing, the sleeves are in tatters, and his ankles are exposed due to the damage being out in the wild has done.
Compliment Backfire: Eleanor sets him up to fall for this. When she accuses him of calling her a liar, he denies that, but then, she gets offended by the notion that she's not a liar.
Con Man: Swindling and cheating are explicitly in the M.A.V.O. list of required bad deeds. He does manage to do this in a couple of episodes, although he gets his comeuppance.
Conspiracy Theorist: He frequently suspects that the good guys are conspiring against him, usually to steal his recipe for making gold out of buttermilk.
Cool Crown: In a couple of Imagine Spots, he fantasizes about wearing a royal crown. He actually gets one when he becomes the Supreme Oppressor of M.A.V.O. for a while.
Cranial Eruption: In "Thin Ice", when he opens the door while Mrs. Maggotheart is hammering a poster to it, she accidentally bops him on the head and gives him one.
Creepy Crossdresser: He's a Master of Disguise, and a few of his disguises involve him dressing as a woman.
Crippling the Competition: During a Grungeball game, when his team is losing bigtime, he tricks the Grunges into eating plants that give them awful stomachaches, and in Wizardweek, the only reason his team wins one event is he makes sure the other players can't get out of bed.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: His alleged gold recipe only ever comes out with buttermilk donuts. L.B. eventually figures out that he and the Bounders could make money if they started selling the donuts and only abandon the idea when L.B. thinks that the formula has worked. But even if selling donuts occurred to Tweeg, he probably wouldn't do it. Running an honest business wouldn't score any points with M.A.V.O.
Dastardly Whiplash: Tweeg is known to wear a black outfit and moustache in his schemes, and is an Expy of Dick Dastardly.
Determinator: You've got to give him credit. He sure doesn't give up his dream.
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: After crossing a bridge during a race, Tweeg stopped to destroy it and even waited to see how the Wooly What's-It would cross it. And he wasn't even on the lead.
Didn't Think This Through: He does this all the time.
Disappeared Dad: Well, sort of; Tweeg's father Elroy didn't so much "disappear" as he got divorced from (kicked out by) Tweeg's mother, Eleanor, who retained custody of their son. Tweeg knew he was still alive, but never met up with him until episode 61, "Father's Day"; they do get on very well, but, ultimately, Tweeg has too much of his mother in him and he ultimately leaves his dad in shame.
Disguised in Drag: Sometimes he disguises himself as a woman, including his first disguise ever in "In the Fortress of the Wizard".
Disproportionate Retribution: He decides to go to war against the Gutangs when their ambassador says that they can't afford the new subscription rate of True Villainy.
The Door Slams You: Another Running Gag. Eleanor did it in "Tweeg's Mom" and "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball", and Grubby in "Teddy and the Mudblups",
Do Wrong, Right: He pulls this on himself, knowing getting into M.A.V.O. means successfully filling a list of bad deeds. L.B. says that since he always fails at that, maybe he could try doing right wrong!
Dramatic Drop: In Wizardweek, while trying to make a magic potion, L.B. catches him by surprise and makes him drop and break the beaker.
Drunk with Power: After he becomes the Supreme Oppressor, he goes so mad with power that he actually declares war on the Gutangs. This time, he goes so far that L.B. betrays him and helps Quellor get back into power.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Tweeg desperately wants to be taken seriously as a villain, but nobody gives him even the slightest credit. Even his own minions mock him. To his face.
Embarrassing First Name: To Tweeg, anyway; his full name is actually Jack W. Tweeg. We never do find out what the "W" stands for, so it is possible he also has an Embarrassing Middle Name.
Embarrassingly Painful Sunburn: While lying on the beach in one episode, he ignores his father's advice to put on some lotion and gets a terrible sunburn on his nose.
Embodiment of Vice: When Gimmick uses the Crystal Stethoscope on him in disguise, the Crystal says the trait he embodies is greed.
Entertainingly Wrong: When he spies on the Trio, sees that they're cooking something with buttermilk and flour, and remembers how L.B., who is a jerk and a troublemaker to him, hasn't gotten any money from him in ages, he concludes that L.B. must have sold his gold recipe to Gimmick. The Trio are just baking cookies.
Epic Flail: He tries to use a flail in "The Crystal Book", but he accidentally breaks his mother's mirror with it and drops it on his foot. So, Epic Fail of Epic Flail.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Zig-zagged. He outright says that he loves her in "Tweeg's Mom". For the rest of the series, it's questionable whether what he feels for her is genuine love, although he still wants to make her proud.
Evil Genius: He calls himself all the time, although the genius part is questionable at best.
Evil Is Hammy: Tweeg loves bragging, Chewing the Scenery, and being the center of attention.
Evil Is Petty: He does all kinds of petty things, such as belittling his employees, refusing to thank people who help him, and not brushing his teeth. It's established in-universe that to be a proper villain, you have to do both major and minor bad deeds.
Evil Knockoff: In "Win One for the Twipper", he becomes one for Newton Gimmick called Winston Tweeter, wearing the exact same outfit and even having the same stutter.
Evil Laugh: He often does this when he's happy or thinks he's being clever.
Faint in Shock: At the end of his trial in "Uncle Grubby", M.A.V.O. gives him a second chance to complete his checklist, but to make sure he does it right, they assign L.B. as his supervisor, which makes him faint.
Faking Amnesia: After getting his memory restored by the Black Box in "The Big Escape", he pretends to still have amnesia for a little while to take advantage of Eleanor and L.B.
A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: He actually manages to cheat Grundo's people out of a lot of money with his Rainbow Falls water scheme, but the Trio trick him into giving the money back by making thinking he'll be even richer.
Forgot to Mind Their Head: While working his Wizardweek chariot, L.B. calls out to him, causing him to bump his head under the chariot.
Freudian Excuse: Tweeg sings a song about how his mother always abused him as a child and made him into the rotten guy he is today.
Get Out!: Tells this to the Bounders when he thinks that L.B. leaked out his gold formula to the Trio.
Glad I Thought of It: Sometimes, L.B. will make a suggestion and Tweeg will pretend he thought of it himself, such as giving everyone the Tweezles and selling a fake cure in "The Lemonade Stand".
Gold Fever: If there's gold to be had, he's got to have it. He blows a lot of his money on buying buttermilk and flour because he thinks he has a recipe for turning it into gold.
Goofy Print Underwear: Once, he lifts his robe to reveal orange boxers with white spots.
Got Me Doing It: In "In the Fortress of the Wizard" and "The Medicine Wagon", after hearing L.B. call him "Tweek" or "Tweeze" too many times, he accidentally calls himself that.
Grapes of Luxury: After he is declared the new Supreme Oppressor, the first thing he orders after having Quellor locked up is for Mrs. Maggotheart to peel grapes for him to eat.
Greed: He'll do anything if it means getting rich. In "The Crystal Book", Gimmick's new invention the Crystal Stethoscope reveals that greed is a key trait of his.
Greed Makes You Dumb: He'll commit any act of villainy to make a quick bit of gold, but sometimes, his greed is undoing. In "The Rainbow Mine", the Trio use this against him to get back everyone's money by making him think it'll make him richer. Then, when he briefly becomes Supreme Oppressor, he commits war against the Gutangs when they refuse to pay the new subscription rate for a magazine.
Green and Mean: He's bright green and a villain. He gets it from his Troll mother.
Green-Eyed Monster: Tweeg's vendetta against Gimmick is solely due to the fact that Gimmick is a brilliant inventor and creates many marvelous inventions, whilst Tweeg's perpetual quest to create a formula that will turn buttermilk into gold has never succeeded.
Hair-Trigger Avalanche: When he fires his cannon in the winter, the noise causes an avalanche that buries him and his tower.
Harmless Lady Disguise: For his first disguise in the show, he dresses as a little old lady and asks for their help. The Trio don't suspect the disguised Tweeg, though they admit that "she" is a little strange.
Hates Their Parent: While he wants to make her proud, you can't call it affection. When he realizes his mother was in a dream he had, he calls it a nightmare.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: In "Father's Day", Tweeg actually considers giving up on villainy and committing to the Surf Grunge lifestyle he actively enjoys... but, upon seeing his father's championship winnings, he can't resist his mother's training and steals them. When his dad catches him out with them, Tweeg gives them back in shame at hurting his dad and then returns to his tower, resigning himself to villainy.
Hidden Depths: When reunited with his father, after being given an opportunity to practice, Tweeg turns out to be a natural surfer.
High Hopes, Zero Talent: All he really wants to be is a great villain like his mother, but since his talents come from his father's side, he's not very good at villainy.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Often, it's his own fault that his schemes fail because he doesn't think things through. Once he tries to use the Black Box against Quellor, only to erase his own memories because he doesn't know how to aim it.
Hypochondria: During the Tweezle episode, he turns red with blue spots. Okay, viable reason to think you're sick. But then he starts to think he's getting other symptoms that he never had like a fever. At the end of the episode, he and the Trio sing a song about how your attitude can affect how healthy you feel.
"I Am" Song: "The Black Box", he sings "I'm Tweeg" which is basically him singing about what his name is and the proper way to say it. The next episode, he gets another called "I'm the Supreme Oppressor".
"I Can't Look!" Gesture: When Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge ransack his tower looking for the gold formula, he scrunches his eyes and tries to look away.
I Have Your Wife: He kidnaps Fuzz, Gimmick's pet Fob, and leaves a threatening note saying that if the Trio don't leave the valley by sundown, they'll never see him again.
I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: When he sees the result of Gimmick Palate Propping L.B., he complains, "Why am I always pulling things out of your mouth? I'm a villain, not a dentist."
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: He's not called the world's worst shot for nothing. He's so terrible at aiming his cannon that Gimmick outright states the safest place to be when Tweeg starts shooting is right where he's aiming for. He's even taken to writing "return to Tweeg" on all his cannonballs because he loses that many of them.
Inane Blabbering: After he has his memories erased, he can only babble at first. He's gradually able to speak coherently, but he still knows nothing until his memories are returned.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: For all his antagonistic role, Tweeg just... isn't a very good villain. Even In-Universe, his "enemies" see him as more of a nuisance than an actual threat. Episode 61 actually implies Tweeg would really be happier if he gave villainy up, but he can't think of anything else to do with himself.
Insane Troll Logic: In "Wooly and the Giant Snowzos", Tweeg comes to the conclusion that since snowballs are sparkly, and so are the Crystals, this means the Crystals are made of snow.
Insistent Terminology: In "The Crystal Book", he tells his mother he's not whining. He's whimpering.
Insult Backfire: When Bognostroclum pulls a Bait-and-Switch Comment that ends with insulting him, Tweeg responds that he has no time for flattery. And during the Wizardweek parade, when the crowd boos Tweeg, he takes it to mean they love him.
I Take Offense to That Last One: Tweeg hates the fact that M.A.V.O. has been hunting him like a common villain. Because he's not common, he's a master villain!
The Klutz: He's a real bungler in what he does and tends to be a victim of amusing injuries.
Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Tweeg thinks he's a genius and brags about it, but he's not nearly as clever as he thinks. Apparently, he thinks the larvae of butterflies are called catapults.
Ladies and Germs: He introduces his phony rainmaking machine by saying "Illipers and Perloons, Grundonians and Nogburtniks".
Lampshade Wearing: In "Teddy and the Mudblups", after he sneaks into Gimmick's house, he puts on a lampshade and pretends to be a lamp so he won't be noticed.
Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls him Tweeg. In fact, even his own parents don't call him Jack, though they often affectionately call him Tweegie.
Late to the Realization: Sometimes he takes a minute to realize something. For example, in the live-action special, L.B. has to tell him multiple times while he's busy feeling sorry for himself that the Airship is landing.
Lean and Mean: He's tall, thin, and villainous.
Let's You and Him Fight: In "Elves and Woodsprites", he tricks the Elves and the Woodsprites into fighting, since the M.A.V.O. list of bad deeds includes starting a fight between perfectly good friends. He tries it again between Gimmick and Grubby in "Teddy and the Mudblups", but Teddy solves the disagreement quickly.
Lineage Comes from the Father: Inverted. Not only does he prefer to take after his mother, but he also goes by her last name. Grunges don't have last names, though, so Elroy took Eleanor's when they married.
Literal-Minded: When Louie visits Tweeg's lemonade stand, he orders a lemonade "on the rocks". Tweeg shrugs and dumps some lemonade on the ground.
Living Museum Exhibit: The Sorcerer's minions find him without his memory and deliver him to their boss, who presents him as "The Troll-Grunge with No Brain."
Lying Finger Cross: In "Wizardweek", when Teddy wishes him good luck, he crosses his fingers behind his back while he wishes him the same.
Malicious Misnaming: Not only does L.B. do it to Tweeg, Tweeg also does it to Teddy, calling him such names as "Teddy Dustbin" or "Teddy Rucksack".
Manipulative Bastard: He can be this when he wants to be. He manages to manipulate the Mudblup King into letting him go by making the king think Eleanor will marry the king, and later manipulates Quellor into letting him keep his memory in exchange for the (fake) gold formula.
Mathematician's Answer: When Quellor asks if he acquired the Crystals by stealing or treachery, Tweeg just gives a nervous "Yes." Quellor is pleased with this answer.
Medicine Show: In "The Medicine Wagon", he opens one to sell his phony Tweezle remedy, even getting the Bounders to do a song and dance number like a commercial.
Mysterious Middle Initial: It's never revealed what the W stands for.
Never My Fault: Whenever one of his plans doesn't work, he insists that it must be L.B.'s fault.
No Listening Skills: He never listens to L.B. has a helpful suggestion and just brushes off L.B.'s warning that things will go wrong.
Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Tweeg's mother, Eleanor, is a Troll, whilst his father, Elroy, is a Surf Grunge.
Non-Promotion: Eleanor, in a rare moment of kindness, recommends Tweeg for the new keeper of the gate. Tweeg is thrilled at first because it means he's an important member of M.A.V.O. but comes to hate it when he realizes how much work it involves.
No Sense of Direction: When he and L.B. fall from the Eclipse and land in the water, he insists that they're swimming in the right direction to land. The shore is right behind them without them even knowing it.
Nosy Neighbor: He's always using his telescope to spy on Gimmick's house from up in his tower, thinking that Gimmick is up to something.
Not Quite Dead: After the Eclipse sinks into the water, Quellor wonders if Tweeg went down with it. The next scene is a shot of him and L.B. swimming away.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Although he never succeeds at doing anything too villainous, Tweeg also has a fairly ruthless streak. He actually sold his own mother to the Mudblup King as a bride in return for a trunk full of gems^note, and once abducted Gimmick's pet Fob, Fuzz, in order to blackmail Gimmick into leaving the valley.
Old-Timey Bathing Suit: He wears a blue-and-yellow-striped one in "Air and Water Races".
Opportunistic Bastard: He loves to seize any opportunity that pops up to get rich or commit an evil deed. Unfortunately, he doesn't think long-term, just focusing on the opportunity itself, so it rarely goes well.
The Paranoiac: He's got more than enough criteria to count:
- Never My Fault: He blame others, mostly L.B., when one of his plans goes wrong while taking credit for L.B.'s good ideas.
- Suspiciousness / Cynicism: He's very suspicious of the Trio, assumes that they're out to get him, and believes that he has to lie and cheat to get what he wants.
- Jerkass: He rarely cares about anyone but himself.
- Self-Importance: He thinks he's a genius and that it's his destiny to be the richest and greatest villain in Grundo.
- Conspiracy Theorist: He frequently suspects that the good guys are conspiring against him, usually to steal his gold formula.
Patchwork Kids: He's half-Troll, half-Grunge and looks it. He has the tall, humanoid build of a Grunge but has his mother's green Troll skin. And while he follows his mother's morality, he gets his father's talents.
Pie in the Face: When M.A.V.O. finally gets the Crystals, the monsters are so happy that they have fun throwing pies around the meeting room. One hits Tweeg.
Plot Allergy: Complains when he gets covered in strawberry juice that strawberries give him a rash.
Polka-Dot Disease: Subverted. He wakes up one morning having turned red with blue dots all over and thinks he has this. L.B. calls the condition the Tweezles. After the Trio try to help him, they figure it out that skin only changed because he drank Rainbow Falls water.
Powder Gag: In "Double Grubby", when his cannon misfires, the ball lands on the flour bag L.B. stole and leaves him covered with flour. It makes him look like an Illiop.
The Prankster: He turns into one in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball". When forced to greet party guests at the door, he does so with practical jokes. Apparently, M.A.V.O.'s spell of evil even made him be a better bad guy.
Purple Is the New Black: He wears a dark purple robe. The ambiguity of purple is fitting for a guy who wants to be a villain but never quite makes it.
Recoiled Across the Room: This sometimes happens him when he fires his cannon. Since he lives at the top of a tower, he's prone to riding his cannon backwards down his long spiral staircase.
Removing the Rival: One of his favorite tactics in a competition is this. During a Grungeball game, he gives some of the other team a stomachache, allowing his own team to catch up, and in Wizardweek, the only event his team won was the synchronized swimming because he sabotaged all the other teams.
Replaced with Replica: In "Winter Adventure", the Bounders help him escape Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge by replacing him with a dummy.
The Rival: He sees his relationship with Gimmick as this, though they play it straighter during sporting events when they compete against each other.
Secondary Color Nemesis: He's green and wears purple. At one point, it's revealed that he wears orange underwear, completing the set.
Shamed by a Mob: After L.B. gives his wedding vows to Buffy, Tweeg says, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." The guests glare at him angrily.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Some of his disguises have him dressed in a suit and tie to look like a respectable businessman.
Sissy Villain: He's really skinny, crossdresses multiple times in the series, and has a voice that sounds like it never aged properly.
Slippery Skid: In "King Nogburt's Castle", he runs onto his balcony, steps on one of his cannonballs, and rolls and crashes right through his railing.
Small Name, Big Ego: He calls himself an Evil Genius, but he's not nearly as smart (or for that matter as evil) as he thinks he is. The times when he actually knows what he's doing in his schemes are few and far between.
Smart Ball: Tweeg manages to catch the smart ball several times in the series by coming up with legitimately good ideas. These include tricking the Trio into letting him ride up to the Hard to Find City in disguise, swindling them into buying phony medicine from him, manipulating Quellor into letting him keep his restored memory, and engineering his own escape from jail by selling out his own mother!
Smug Snake: A villain who thinks he's way better than he really is. He often looks smug until his plans turn sideways.
Snake Oil Salesman: One of his favorite ways to get quick cash, either by selling dubious knickknacks imagined problems or a largely harmless "cure-all" potion that gives its drinkers spots.
Soda Can Shakeup: After stealing Grubby's root beer recipe and selling it as "Villain Up", the customers want a little more fizz. So shakes a whole barrel of it as much as he can, and it explodes, splashing everyone.
Speech Impediment: When dressed as a little boy selling lemonade, he uses a fake impediment to make him sound more childish, somewhere between a mild lisp and mild Elmuh Fudd Syndwome.
Staircase Tumble: He's prone to falling down his staircase. And since he lives at the top of the tower with a long, spiraling stone staircase, it's a long and painful fall.
Status Quo Is God: Any time he looks like he's going to succeed doesn't last long. At one point, he becomes Supreme Oppressor, only to lose the spot by the end of the next episode.
Sticky Fingers: Stealing is one of the things he has to do to join M.A.V.O. When he visits his mother and she opens her safe, he snatches a ruby. She catches him in the act but comments that he's got the right idea.
Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: He says just this about L.B.'s wedding vows to Buffy, which are really just a piece of bad poetry. The other guests give Tweeg a Death Glare.
Surfer Dude: He tries to adopt this lifestyle to bond with his father and picks up the slang quickly, although he eventually goes back to being a villain.
Taking Candy From A Baby: This is on the checklist of bad deeds for someone who wants to join M.A.V.O. He even forces L.B. to stand in for a baby for practice. At one point, he does steal candy from baby Fobs, but Wooly was there at the time and angrily forces him to give it back.
Tally Marks on the Prison Wall: While locked up in "Autumn Adventure". It's parodied because he's actually marking off the minutes.
Tampering with Food and Drink: Apart from the Rainbow Falls lemonade fiasco, he hides a special plant that causes a belly ache in some hot dogs and tricks the Grunges into eating them.
Tempting Fate: In "Beware of the Mudblups", he swears he'll get the best of Gimmick one day. "May I be struck from above if I don't." He immediately gets struck by some root stew that was dumped overboard the Airship.
That Reminds Me of a Song: In some episodes, he announces it, such as in "Tweeg Gets the Tweezles" when he says he feels a song coming on.
That's an Order!: When he forces L.B. to scrape the slime off the bottom of the Eclipse, he says that he's ordering and not asking him to do it.
This Means War!: During his brief reign as the Supreme Oppressor, he says this to the Gutang Ambassador.
Throw the Dog a Bone: Despite his many failures, occasionally, he manages to actually do something nasty that works. In "Teddy and the Mudblups", he sells out his own mother to the Mudblup King, which is a triple whammy for his checklist of bad deeds.
Trapped the Wrong Target: When he finds out that there's a reward for capturing Teddy, he tries to find him with a net. He hears someone coming and catches L.B. by mistake.
The Un Favourite: He's actually an only child, and he still manages to be this in his mother's eyes.
Ungrateful Bastard: One episode had Tweeg believing he had some horrible disease. The Trio, at L.B.'s request, came to the tower to help and offered folk remedies. Finally, Gimmick figured out that Tweeg had been drinking water from Rainbow Falls. Rather than be thankful his "disease" is just a temporary discoloration, Tweeg throws a fit, demanding Gimmick and company leave his tower and accusing them of using this as an opportunity to torture him and learn his secrets.
Villainous Mother-Son Duo: With his mother Eleanor, whenever they manage to get on the same page. She will not miss a chance to berate and belittle him, but Eleanor is quite supportive of her son's villainous career and will express pride when he manages to pull off a dastardly plan (one example being when he sold her to the Mudblup King for his own freedom and a truck of jewels).
Walking Disaster Area: He's such a bungler that you can count episodes where he doesn't cause disaster on one hand.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Part of the reason Tweeg is driven to become a great villain is to make his mother proud. Even little things like hearing her call him "son" fill him with joy.
Who's Laughing Now?: When he briefly becomes the new Supreme Oppressor, he basks in it by getting back at others, throwing Quellor in the dungeon and forcing Mrs. Maggotheart to feed him Grapes of Luxury.
Wingding Eyes: After he has his memory erased, he has spirals or circles around his pupils.
Word, Schmord!: In "The Black Box", Tweeg says "Screwdriver Schmewdriver" because what L.B. stole is more important than the tool he needed before.
Xanatos Speed Chess: When he quickly changes their cover from portrait painters to housepainters to infiltrate the castle, he explains to L.B. that part of being a good villain is adjusting your plans.
You're Insane!: When M.A.V.O. is short on funds and Mrs. Maggotheart suggests selling M.A.V.O.'s gold and jewels, then-Supreme Oppressor Tweeg calls her a nut.

L.B.

Voiced by: Tony Pope (books and special), Robert Bockstael (series)

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo"

The long-suffering minion to Tweeg, L.B. (Lead Bounder) is a sarcastic little creature who loves nothing more than to snipe at Tweeg every chance he gets.

Actually Pretty Funny: When Fuzz acts like a Defiant Captive by trolling Tweeg, L.B. finds it hilarious.
Adaptation Dye-Job: The tuft of hair around his horn is yellow in the books, brown in the live-action special, and pink in the cartoon.
Affably Evil: L.B.'s a villain but not really a bad guy. Ironically, the only one he's really mean to is his boss. At least he and Teddy manage to get along late in the series.
Agony of the Feet: In "The Hard to Find City", Tweeg responds to L.B.'s smart remark by stepping on his foot.
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: L.B. ransacks Gimmick's house so he can steal the Crystals for Tweeg.
And Then I Said: In "The Crystal Book", after a cut to a scene of them on route, he tells Eleanor, "And that was when all my problems in nursery school first started."
Armless Biped: All Bounders have no arms.
Aside Glance: He occasionally looks or speaks in the direction of the viewer, making him the only character to break the fourth wall.
Beach Kiss: In "On the Beaches", after L.B. proposes to Buffy, they kiss and are struck by a wave, which makes their kiss seem more powerful.
Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason why he manages to become a Friendly Enemy to Teddy is because Teddy treated him a lot nicer than any villain ever did. Teddy even saved his life.
Beleaguered Assistant: L.B. is constantly put upon, cleaning house, pulling the wagon, and basically doing whatever his boss tells him to. Rarely does Tweeg show any appreciation for what he does, let alone even pay him. L.B. grumbles but never seems to quit.
Benevolent Boss: L.B. during his brief run as the head of M.A.V.O., his first (and only) major order is to hold a massive party and invite all members across Grundo to attend. He is also this to the gang of Bounders, even going using his wedding present to give them the backpay they're owed from Tweeg when he could have easily kept it.
Berserk Button: L.B. constantly puts up with getting insulted and abused by Tweeg, but in "Anything in the Soup", when Tweeg insult L.B.'s girlfriend, that is going too far.
Bizarre Alien Limbs: Since Bounders have no hands, they often use their horns as hooks to carry things.
Blowing a Raspberry: Does this to Eleanor in "Tweeg's Mom" after she calls him an overgrown tomato.
Bouncing Battler: Being a Bounder, he's known to attack this way. In the first episode, he has his team attack Teddy and Grubby this way.
Callousness Towards Emergency: In "The Great Grundo Ground Race", when he sees Tweeg stuck in a quicksand pit, instead of trying to help, he and his gang decide to stand, watch, and sing a barbershop song about how he's sinking.
Character Development: One of the few villains who receive it. At the start, he shows no love for the good guys, but by the end of the series, he has become a bit of a Friendly Enemy to Teddy.
Comedic Sociopathy: Whenever Tweeg falls, gets hit by something, or any other funny injury, L.B. can only stand there and laugh madly.
Comically Missing the Point: Even though L.B.'s funny remarks are usually just him being a smartass to his boss, there are times when he misses the point of what Tweeg says. Sometimes, he misses the point because he's being a smartass:
Tweeg: There must be something I can do wrong! What am I doing right?
L.B.: You ain't doing nothing right.
Tweeg: No, no, L.B.! I want to do something wrong right!
L.B.: How about if you did something right wrong?
Compliment Backfire: In "The Faded Fobs", when Tweeg calls him a good Bounder for obeying his orders, L.B. claims there's no such thing as a good Bounder.
Danger — Thin Ice: In "Teddy's Quest", while trying to make his way through the snow, he has to cross a frozen, and the ice breaks. He would have died if Teddy wasn't around to save him.
Deadpan Snarker: Especially when dealing with Tweeg.
Destination Defenestration: After Quellor returns, Black Box in hand, to reclaim his position of power, he kicks L.B. out the window.
The Door Slams You: In "Wizardland", Eleanor answers her door and slams it into him.
Dragon Ascendant: Accidentally managed to become the Supreme Oppressor of M.A.V.O., making him (temporarily) Tweeg's boss. Tweeg handled it with about as much grace as you'd expect from him.
Dream Walker: In "King Nogburt's Castle", L.B. appears to physically jump into Tweeg's dream (presented as a thought bubble) to wake him up.
Dude, Where's My Reward?: L.B. often complains about how Tweeg doesn't pay him for months at a time. Then, after he goes to work for Quellor, he complains that he hasn't received a reward for helping Quellor get his power back. Quellor says the reward is the privilege of working for him.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: For all the work he does for Tweeg, the latter rarely shows any appreciation for it, just treating him like a servant whose purpose is for him to kick around.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Unlike his boss, he seems to genuinely love his mother when she shows up.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The focus of a song as L.B. could not for the life of him figure out why the Trio were willing to take care of a sick Tweeg. He also didn't understand why Teddy saved him from drowning in a frozen pond either. Subverted near the end after L.B. pays Teddy back, L.B. comments to himself that it felt nice doing a good deed.
Evil Cannot Stand Cuteness: L.B. hates Fobs because they're so nice, cute, and helpful.
Eyepatch of Power: When they join the M.A.V.O. pirates on the Eclipse, L.B. wears one to look Dressed to Plunder.
Face Death with Dignity: When he breaks through the river ice in the middle of winter and finds himself unable to escape, he prepares to accept his fate in the most dignified way he can.
First-Name Basis: By the last major story arc, he's started calling Teddy by his first name, cementing their Friendly Enemy relationship.
Friendly Enemy: He works for Tweeg, but he doesn't really consider Gimmick or the others to be his actual enemies; he's simply doing his job. Late in the series, it's implied that he and Teddy could actually be friends if L.B. wasn't working for a villain.
The Gadfly: Mostly towards Tweeg. He makes wisecracks at his expense because he loves to get a rise out of him.
Getting the Boot: After he gets caught trying to steal the Black Box in "Octopede Sailors", he's thrown out the M.A.V.O. Headquarters door and lands in the mud.
Goo Goo Getup: In "Sign of a Friend", when Tweeg needs to practice taking candy from a baby, he forces L.B. to put on a bonnet and sit in a pram.
Handy Feet: Bounders can do this, but they rarely do because it's hard for them to stand on one foot. Mostly, they use their mouths or horns to hold things.
Harmless Freezing: After falling in frozen water and sitting in there for a few minutes waiting to drown, Teddy rescues him and he's fine after sitting by a fire for a while.
Human Doorstop: Forced to be a stepping stool in "Tweeg's Mom" when Eleanor gets off the wagon.
Human Snowman: After the snow falls from a tree on top of him, the other Bounders call him the Abominable Snowbounder.
The Imp: Subverted. Bounders are small, troublesome villains and are generally seen as a nuisance by both the heroes and their superiors. But L.B. is a lot more competent than his boss and even manages to become Supreme Oppressor for a time.
Insult Backfire: After Quellor makes him Tweeg's supervisor, Tweeg says, "You couldn't supervise slime!" L.B. turns it around by saying, "That's what I keep telling them, but they gave me the job anyway."
I Warned You: Tweeg never seems to listen to L.B.'s warnings that something is going to go wrong.
Jerkass Has a Point: Occasionally, when Tweeg is actually listening to L.B. for a change, he'll admit that L.B., for all of his insults and complaints, has a point. For example, when Tweeg gets a load of gold in "Through Tweeg's Fingers", L.B. points out he may not get a chance to show it to Quellor once Eleanor sees the gold. Tweeg agrees and decides to skip his mother's house and go straight to Quellor.
Ladies and Germs: He says "Ladies and gentlemonsters" in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball".
The Leader: Of the Bounders. His initials stand for "Lead Bounder".
Lima Syndrome: After Tweeg kidnaps Fuzz and locks him in a cage, he comes to like the little guy. This is mainly because Fuzz enjoys trolling Tweeg as much as L.B., but considering L.B.'s general opinion of Fobs, it says a lot.
Literal-Minded: In "Double Grubby", L.B. thinks a cat burglar means someone who steals cats.
Love at First Sight: He once claimed that he fell for Buffy from the moment he laid eyes on her.
Makes Us Even: During his brief reign as Supreme Oppressor, M.A.V.O. captures him. He orders them to let him go to pay him back for saving his life, making them even.
Malicious Misnaming: Frequently gets Tweeg's name wrong on purpose, calling him things like Twizzle or Twink, to annoy and irritate him. This often prompts Tweeg to angrily spell his name out loud. It occasionally extends to other characters too. He once called Teddy Ruxpin "Teddy Fishfin", Gimmick "Limerick", and Quellor "Queelor". Even King Nogburt himself is not immune, as he's called him "King Nogburl/Nogburn/Nosebleed".
Misspelling Out Loud: In "The Third Crystal", when Tweeg once again clarifies that his name is spelled T-W-E-E-G, L.B. retorts that "It'll be M-U-D-D mud."
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In "The Hard to Find City", after getting sick of Tweeg going mad with power, he makes a deal with Quellor: he'll help him get back into power if he can become his "right-hand Bounder". Quellor agrees. But to Quellor, that job amounts to being a maid for all of M.A.V.O. Headquarters. L.B. decides that Quellor treats him worse than Tweeg ever did, so he decides to get his own boss and his old job back.
Musical Number Annoyance: He sometimes gets annoyed when Tweeg bursts into song. In "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains", when Tweeg feels a song coming on, L.B. wishes he had hands so he could cover his ears.
My Beloved Smother: His mother means well but is way too controlling when it comes to planning his wedding to Buffy.
My New Gift Is Lame: Just about everyone brings a gift to his and Buffy's wedding, but a lot of it looks like unwanted junk to him.
Noble Demon: He may be on the villains' side, but he's got a sense of honor. During his M.A.V.O. reign, after he remembers how Teddy saved him from drowning, he declares that he owes him, so he orders the monsters to let him go.
Not in My Contract: In "Sign of a Friend", when forced to help Tweeg practice taking candy from a baby, L.B. complains that playing babies isn't in his contract.
Not-So-Final Confession: When he thinks he's going to down in icy water, he declares "Buffy, I...I love you! I never told you, and I'm sorry!" She's not actually there to hear it, but the sentiment is there. He's just trying to get his regrets off his chest while he's still alive.
Number Two: Among the Bounders, he's Tweeg's second in command.
Official Couple: Buffy is his girlfriend and eventual wife.
Only Sane Man: To Tweeg's crew. Tweeg is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and the other Bounders are not very bright.
Personal Mook: To Tweeg. The Bounders work for him, but L.B.'s his right-hand Bounder.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's tiny compared to Tweeg, but he can pull Tweeg's wagon with Tweeg in it.
Prehensile Tail: Because L.B. doesn't have hands, he sometimes uses his stubby tail as a hand, although he prefers to use his mouth.
Punch-Clock Villain: L.B. isn't really evil. For the most part he just wants to be entertained and have fun, he just has a moral bar that's lower than most people.
Pungeon Master: He loves making puns, usually to mock Tweeg.
Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: Downplayed. He doesn't exactly refuse, but he's reluctant to rescue Tweeg when he falls into a pit of quicksand. He comes around when Tweeg even offers to finally pay him, but it's all for nothing when Quellor's thugs come along and pull him out.
Remembered Too Late: In "Wizardweek", when Tweeg tries to launch himself from a catapult, he says that this time, he's accounted for both height and wind direction. "What else is there?" L.B. thinks he forgot a factor and only remembers what it is after Tweeg is launched: distance!
Rousing Speech: Double-subverted. When he acts as a coach to the Mudblup Mashers Grungeball team, the "pep talk" he gives is anything but encouraging. But for some reason, it does give them the confidence to go out and win. As L.B. says, Mudblups are really stupid.
Running on the Spot: Near the end of "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball", when Quellor threatens to throw him in the dungeon for usurping his position, he does this while trying to run away, giving Quellor enough time to kick him out the window.
Self-Deprecation: He admits to himself that he can't be all that smart if he willingly works for someone like Tweeg.
Shout-Out: He makes several of them.
- When a cannon misfire causes Tweeg to get splattered with flour, L.B. says, "Now, that's entertainment."
- While he and Tweeg are M.A.V.O. prisoners and Tweeg is forced to load the Eclipse with cargo, L.B. says to "tote these bales onto that barge."
- When he decides to Face Death with Dignity while sinking into a frozen lake, he looks back on his life and says "I did it my way".
Signature Laugh: A wheezing laugh, often heard when Tweeg suffers from amusing misfortune.
Silly Love Songs: At the M.A.V.O. costume ball, he sings one for his girlfriend called "Your Rotten Heart, Your Ugly Face". To a villain, it's flattery, but to everyone else, the things he compares her to in the song make it seem like a silly way to be romantic.
Slave to PR: After he lets Teddy go from M.A.V.O., he makes it clear that he means "Don't mention it" literally because he has a reputation to uphold.
Status Quo Is God: No matter what happens in the series, even if they're separated for a few episodes, he always manages to go back to working for Tweeg.
Tuft of Head Fur: Some Bounders have a head full of hair, but L.B. just has a tuft of pink hair around the base of his horn.
Use Your Head: Tweeg tells him to do this to help him move a treasure chest in "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains". Just before L.B. makes contact, the treasure disappears, and he sends Tweeg flying backwards instead.
Villainous Valor: Although L.B's status as "evil" is arguable, he does have a fairly strong code of honor. He made sure to repay Teddy for saving his life when he got the chance, even if the decision was an unpopular one.
Waddling Head: Well, hopping head, but same thing. A Bounder is just a large head with a pair of legs and a tail sticking out the back.
Waving Signs Around: In "Teddy's Quest", he and the Bounders are so fed up with Tweeg putting off their paychecks for so long that they start a protest at the tower, waving signs, demanding that he finally pay them.
Who's Laughing Now?: After being put upon and abused for so long, he pulls this on Tweeg twice in the series. When Quellor demands that Tweeg complete the M.A.V.O. checklist of bad deeds by the next initiation day, L.B. is made his supervisor to make sure he does it. Now Tweeg has to do what he says, and L.B. takes full advantage of it. Then when L.B. becomes Supreme Oppressor, he makes Tweeg do humiliating tasks like delivering party invitations.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: L.B. is terrified of ''Fobs'. You know, those cute little rainbow-hued fluffy guys? That's like being afraid of a declawed kitten.
Win One for the Gipper: In the episode appropriately titled "Win One for the Twipper", he gives a villainous version to the Mudblup Mashers. It gives them confidence, but it doesn't work because the other team is just too good for them. The Mashers only catch up when Tweeg sabotages the competition.
You Don't Want to Catch This: When Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge grab Tweeg and try to take him back to Quellor, L.B. saves him by telling them that Tweeg has a fatal, contagious disease called Woofinpoof disease. This scares them away.

M.A.V.O.

In General

The Monsters and Villains Organization. Made up of the most ruthless and evil villains in Grundo, M.A.V.O.'s goal is to gather the Crystals and use their power to spread evil and darkness across Grundo. Tweeg's lifelong dream is to join M.A.V.O., but to do that, he must do a truly nasty deed.

Adaptation Expansion: M.A.V.O. is mentioned in the books and is on the map of Grundo, but it only exists to give Tweeg a motive for wanting to be a villain. Here, it not only appears, but gets a whole cast of characters.
All Trolls Are Different: Many members are trolls, but they don't seem to follow any pattern other than being ugly and vaguely humanoid. They come in all different shapes, colors, and sizes.
Animal Motifs: The bull is prominently featured in their architecture. Bulls are known for being strong and fierce.
Ascended Extra: From a mere mention in the books to being a full-blown cast of characters in the TV series.
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Their goal is to spread darkness and evil across the land, and they worry about being free from "the threat of goodness".
Canon Foreigner: All members of M.A.V.O. were invented for the cartoon except Tweeg's mother, who is mentioned in passing in the books.
Card-Carrying Villain: Literally. M.A.V.O. membership comes with a card, though only Ms. Maggotheart presents hers (usually when shaking down another member for their late dues).
Cast of Snowflakes: The nameless background M.A.V.O. members all have unique designs that get used over and over to fill a crowd, so almost every member is at least a Recurring Extra.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Tweeg is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who wants to be rich and powerful. M.A.V.O. is introduced in the second arc as a legitimately dangerous evil organization whose goal is to spread a Hate Plague across Grundo.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: They have all kinds of punishments for people who disappoint or anger the Supreme Oppressor, but one of the worst is being forced to spend a day locked in a room with the M.A.V.O. dues collector!
Evil Minions: Generally, any member who doesn't normally fight, such as Bognostroclum, Mrs. Maggotheart, or the Understander of Legends.
For the Evulz: They do things just because it's evil. However, it gets a bit more development than in most series. In the world of this show, being evil is treated as a lifestyle and a culture, and it's a case of Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad.
Fun with Acronyms: M.A.V.O. stands for the Monsters and Villains Organization.
Gotta Catch Them All: M.A.V.O. must gather all the Crystals to spread their spell of darkness. Over the course of a couple of episodes, they get scattered as they're stolen and passed between villains who each decide to hoard one for themselves, forcing Tweeg to gather them again.
Hate Plague: The primary goal of M.A.V.O. is to spread a stormy darkness over Grundo that causes plants to start withering and bring out the worst in the population of the land. They succeed, at least for a while.
It Must Be Mine!: They must have the Crystals to spread their spell of darkness across Grundo and make them all-powerful.
Leitmotif: A shot of the Headquarters is often accompanied by a distinctive dark and unsettling piece.
Kangaroo Court: One of the plots of "Uncle Grubby" was Tweeg being taken to M.A.V.O. court to answer for his failures. A rule prohibited the defendant (Tweeg) from speaking.
Loyal to the Position: They are compelled to obey whoever happens to be the Supreme Oppressor because the Supreme Oppressor has the memory-erasing Black Box.
Mooks: Any member of M.A.V.O. who's not named is treated as one, although none of them are killed. If you pay attention, there are several recurring individual mooks.
Mordor: The patch of mountains where M.A.V.O. HQ is situated is usually dark and cloudy, surrounded by desolate-looking crags and bluffs.
Mysterious Past: Where M.A.V.O. came from and how they were established is never revealed, and the only members whose backstories are revealed are Eleanor and Drudge.
Nebulous Evil Organization: Their agenda is to spread evil and darkness across Grundo. It's called the Monsters and Villains Organization for a reason.
Recurring Extra: Several nameless members of M.A.V.O. have very distinct designs and are reused whenever random monsters are needed to do something or a crowd needs to be filled.
Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy: The main members of M.A.V.O. fill several of the standard roles.
- The Emperor: Quellor, the Supreme Oppressor.
- The Right Hand: The Understander of Legends, Quellor's librarian and bookkeeper.
- The Guard: Ickly Bognostroclum, the M.A.V.O. gatekeeper.
- The Security Officer: Mrs. Maggotheart, the M.A.V.O. "collector of dues" who makes sure the other members complete their list of bad deeds.
- The Oddball: Sludge, Drudge and Trudge, as well as Tweeg whenever he manages to become a member.
Viler New Villain: Throughout the first arc, Tweeg and L.B. establish themselves as an evil comic duo. M.A.V.O. is then introduced as a truly serious threat where even the idiots are something to fear, and they want to spread a Hate Plague across Grundo.
Villain Song: M.A.V.O. has its own in-universe official anthem about how they're villains, which they often sing at meetings.
Villains Out Shopping: Like most people, they like to take a break from their usual activities and have fun. In one episode, they have a costume party with music and dancing.

Quellor

Voiced by: Les Lye

First appearance: "Tweeg's Mom"

The feared overlord of M.A.V.O., Quellor is the closest thing the series has to an overarching bad guy. He has a nasty habit of erasing the memory of those who displease him and selling them off to the Ying Zoo.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: His sword can slice right through solid wood.
Angry Collar Grab: He picks up Tweeg by the collar and throws him across the room to convince him to hand over his gold formula.
Bad Boss: An interesting example. While he has all the earmarks of this, he IS the leader of an Obviously Evil Nebulous Evil Organisation, and this is actually expected of him in the group's bylaws.
Big Bad: He's the real antagonist behind the entire course of the show. His ambition to collect all of the crystals and generally cause mayhem is what drives most of the show's conflict.
Big Bad Ensemble: There are several independent factions of villains in the series, so he's part of one, along with Tweeg, the Sorcerer, the Mudblup King, and the Gutangs.
Big "SHUT UP!": He prefers the word "Silence!", which he'll yell to shut up those beneath him.
Big "WHAT?!": He tends to yell "What?!" when he hears something shocking, such as after he learns that a Crystal was stolen from an Illiop in "Tweeg's Mom".
Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: In "The Ying Zoo", he sorts through his mail, saying "Death threats, eviction notices, catastrophe predictions...how come I never get anything interesting?"
Breakout Villain: Around mid-series, he replaces Tweeg as the main villain. Most fans agree that he makes a better Big Bad than the latter.
Bright Is Not Good: His outfit is partly bright gold, but he's a villain.
Buried Alive: In "Musical Oppressors", when he corners Teddy in a cave, he accidentally causes a rockslide that briefly buries him, though he's fine when he climbs out of it.
Canon Foreigner: Along with the other members of M.A.V.O., Quellor was created just for the animated series.
Circling Birdies: In "Teddy's Quest", after getting knocked out by Trudge's club, he lays on the ground unconscious, stars swirling over his head.
Cool Chair: As the Supreme Oppressor, he gets an ornate stone throne at the top of a flight of stairs where he can look down on everyone.
Conveniently Cellmates: Following a coup at M.A.V.O., the deposed Quellor soon finds himself in one of his own prison cells. An episode later finds him joined by Teddy of all people, and the two even get to sing a duet about how little either of them likes being jailed (this does not lead to bonding between the two).
Deadpan Snarker: Sometimes. When Tweeg promises Quellor that he won't fail him, right before klutzing out, Quellor says, "That would be a nice change."
Didn't Think This Through: Surprisingly, when he threatens to erase Tweeg's memory, if Tweeg did not reveal him the secret gold-making formula. Tweeg rather logically pointed out, that if Quellor erased his memory, he would erase the formula, too.
Dismissing a Compliment: In one episode, after getting tired of Bognostroclum's many creative honorifics titles for him, he tells him to knock off the cheap flattery.
Duet of Differences: When he and Teddy are in the same boat, they sing the duet "All Locked Up" about how they want to get out of jail, but for opposite reasons: Teddy has a desire to do good for everyone, while Quellor wants out so he can bring evil.
Enraged by Idiocy: He gets furious with Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge whenever they say or do anything stupid.
Even Evil Has Standards: He's the most treacherous and feared villain in Grundo, and it's his goal to spread evil throughout the land, but he's also proud of the business relationship that M.A.V.O. has with the Gutangs, and when Tweeg declares war against the Gutangs for petty reasons, he's disgusted. Quellor may be the Supreme Oppressor, but he earned it by doing wrong right.
Evil Is Hammy: Quellor talks as big as he looks.
Evil Laugh: Unlike Tweeg, who's just a wannabe, his deep evil laugh sounds really frightening.
Evil Overlord: As the Supreme Oppressor of the Monsters and Villains Organization of Grundo, you know he's got this going on.
Evil Sounds Deep: He has by far one of the deepest voices of any character in the series.
Evil Sounds Raspy: Not only is his voice deep, it's raspy too, and he's the Big Bad.
Fantastic Honorifics: Bognostroclum loves coming up with creative evil honorifics for him like "Your Gruesomeness", "Your Vileness", "Your Wickedness", "Your Nastiness", etc.
Flat "Yes": Delivers one to the Sorcerer in "The Big Escape" when the Sorcerer asks if Quellor expects him to hand over his star attraction Tweeg.
Genius Bruiser: He's large, strong, and physically intimidating but also a very competent leader.
Get Out!: Twice in the series—once where he discovers his henchmen lied to him about killing Tweeg, and once after hearing them ask stupid questions that have nothing to do with his orders—he gives them a furious "Out! Out! OUT!"
A Glass in the Hand: In "The Big Escape", he crushes a goblet in his fingers.
Glowing Eyes of Doom: Near the end of "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball" when he approaches L.B. to reclaim his title of Supreme Oppressor, his eyes turn a glowing yellow to show L.B. how screwed he is.
Go-Karting with Bowser: Believe it or not, Teddy and Quellor sing a duet together when they're both trapped in M.A.V.O.'s prison. They manage not to be overtly antagonistic towards each other, though Quellor's lines lamenting not having the freedom to be an Evil Overlord do creep Teddy out.
Gold-Colored Superiority: Wears a gold hood, cape, and belt to symbolize he's the leader of M.A.V.O.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Do the slightest thing to annoy him and he'll go into a rage.
Happiness Is Mandatory: According to Bognostroclum, there's actually a rule in the M.A.V.O. handbook that the Supreme Oppressor must have at least fifteen minutes of fun per day.
Harmless Electrocution: In "The Big Escape", he gets so overloaded with electricity that you can see his skeleton. He's fine afterwards.
Hero vs. Villain Duet: Teddy and Quellor sing a duet called "All Locked Up" while they're both imprisoned in M.A.V.O.'s Dungeon, with Teddy lamenting that while locked up, he's unable to help his friends, cheer people up, or explore, whereas Quellor is angry he can't spread darkness, kick a Fob and make it yelp, or be cruel to his grandmother. Funnily enough, while they do react to each other's verses, they manage to keep the harmony through the whole song and don't break down into any sort of insults.
Hidden Depths: "The Hard to Find City" reveals that he can fly a plane.
Hoist by His Own Petard: After he briefly gives himself Psycho Electro powers, he thinks it's the perfect weapon. He never realized until it was too late that once the generator shorts out, the only one who'll get electrocuted is him.
Horned Humanoid: He has two horns and looks like a tall humanoid.
I Control My Minions Through...: He's an example of both Fear and Power. As the Supreme Oppressor, he is the leader of M.A.V.O. and holds the Black Box, a magical device that can erase your memory.
I Don't Pay You to Think: In "Teddy Ruxpin's Birthday", when they're trying to replicate Tweeg's gold formula, and Sludge has his doubts about the recipe, Quellor says, "I do not require you to think."
Improvised Weapon: When he follows Teddy into a cave in "Musical Oppressors", he rips a stalactite out of the ceiling and uses it as a club.
In the Hood: He always wears his hood and mask, so all we see of his face are his white eyes.
"I Want" Song: "All Locked Up", a duet he shares with Teddy of all characters, is about how they both want to get out of prison, though for different reasons.
Knight of Cerebus: Decidedly more competent than many of the other villains, things tended to get fairly serious when Quellor took part in the plot.
Large and in Charge: Is easily the biggest member of M.A.V.O., though this is not the only reason he's in charge.
Laser-Guided Karma: On his way to attack a supposedly captive and helpless Teddy, Quellor gets to be on the receiving end of his own newly acquired Shock and Awe powers when Teddy's cage barely misses him but does nail Trudge, who is carrying Quellor's power source, severely damaging it. The resulting X-Ray Sparks experience is poetic justice given he was probably planning to zap Teddy if he'd gotten to him.
Let's See YOU Do Better!: In "Leekee Lake", when an underling says he's hardly the Supreme Oppressor after he loses the Black Box, Quellor threateningly asks if he thinks he could do a better job.
Literal Ass-Kicking: Kicks Drudge down a hill in frustration in "Up for Air". He also kicks L.B. out a window when he reclaims his power in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball".
Look Behind You: He tries to pull this on Trudge when his henchmen betray him. He didn't count on it causing a Plank Gag.
Lost My Appetite: In "The Great Grundo Ground Race", after he complains that his breakfast is moving and Trudge deals with it by smashing it with his club to, Quellor says this.
Magic Enhancement: After all the Crystals are in the great ring and M.A.V.O.'s Hate Plague spreads across Grundo, Quellor is even stronger than usual.
Master Swordsman: He handles his sword with great expertise, although we only see it used on non-living objects.
Mistaken for an Imposter: In "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball", when he returns to the meeting hall after Teddy's escape, L.B. thinks he's someone in a Quellor costume for a party and even awards him first place for the funniest costume.
Oh, Crap!: When he sees the power pack for his Psycho Electro abilities begin to short out, Quellor immediately tries to escape his harness, but has no luck. The last instant before the power surge hits is a closeup of Quellor's horrified face as he realizes what's about to happen, enhanced by the fact that his normally featureless eyes have been given small pupils to emphasize his feelings. You almost feel sorry for him.
Orcus on His Throne: Zig-zagged. Before he meets Teddy, he's never seen outside of M.A.V.O. Headquarters. He'd prefer to send his henchmen to do things for himself while he stays at the Headquarters, but he's not afraid to lead the charge himself. He personally oversees the maiden voyage of the Eclipse, the search for the Black Box, and the expedition to Ying.
Ordered Apology: After Sludge calls Trudge fat, Quellor orders him to say he's sorry.
Pet the Dog: He shows a surprising amount of affection toward his "pets", especially a unique gray one named Dweezil. He also sometimes thanks his underlings when they actually do something useful.
Psycho Electro: Quellor attempts to gain this for an episode or two via a convoluted set of wires and a portable electricity generator. It doesn't end well.
Purple Is Powerful: His robe is dark purple, and he's the most powerful villain in Grundo.
Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: The champagne bottle variant. When the M.A.V.O. airship is ready to launch, he smashes a bottle on it and christens it the Eclipse.
Speaks Fluent Animal: He can communicate with his pets.
Spit Take: In "Teddy Ruxpin's Birthday", when he sees that Tweeg is still alive, he spits out his drink. It hits the Understander.
Super-Strength: He's always been strong enough to lift and toss his underlings around, but when M.A.V.O.'s evil spell spreads through Grundo, he becomes so strong that he can rip a large stalactite out of a cave ceiling.
Surrounded by Idiots: Most of his minions are either just plain stupid or annoying. He feels frustrated. He wonders what he did to deserve them.
Tap on the Head: In "Teddy's Quest", when he takes on all three of his henchmen, he gets knocked on the head by Trudge's club, making him pass out and wake up in a cell unharmed.
Too Desperate to Be Picky: While Tweeg and L.B. are M.A.V.O. prisoners, he's forced to give them another chance in "Anything in the Soup" because they're the only ones who are familiar with Teddy.
[Verb] This!: When he catches L.B. trying to make off with the Black Box, L.B. feebly says he was taking out to be dry-cleaned. "I'll dry-clean you!"
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: For a basically charming series (for the most part), Quellor does give an ominous vibe.
Villain No Longer Idle: After he encounters Teddy face to face for the first time, he becomes a lot more proactive in M.A.V.O.'s activity. This is a turning point in the series when things start to get darker and more dangerous.
Villain Respect: He praises Gimmick's inventiveness when his stolen plans allow M.A.V.O. to build their own airship.
Villain Song: In his part of "All Locked Up", he sings about how he'd love to do evil as much as Teddy would do good.
Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: When L.B. finds himself stuck working as his maid, Quellor says that L.B. should consider the privilege of working for him to be reward enough.
Wolverine Claws: He dons some fake long claws when he attempts to go Psycho Electro, with shocks generated from their tips.
X-Ray Sparks: His when his electrical power system shorts out and he gets electrocuted, he looks like a skeleton in a silhouette. This is actually the closest thing we get to seeing what he looks like under his clothes.
Yellow/Purple Contrast: He wears a yellow hood, cape, and belt over a purple cloak.

Eleanor Tweeg

Voiced by: Abby Hagyard

First appearance: "Grubby's Romance"

Tweeg's overbearing mother, a troll who sees him as a disappointment. Tweeg is always trying to make her proud by becoming a member of M.A.V.O.

Abhorrent Admirer: She has one in the form of the Mudblup King. He's in love with her but she can't stand being close to a walking, talking pile of mud.
Abusive Parents: Of the emotional variety to both her son and her ex-husband. Apparently, the first time she laid eyes on him was two or three weeks after he was born, and since then, all she's done for him is berate him.
Alto Villainess: She has a deep, rough voice for a female character, though she rarely sings.
Arranged Marriage: On the receiving end, courtesy of her son selling her to the Mudblup King.
Awful Wedded Life: There was no love between her and Elroy. Their relationship consisted of her always putting him down and hating him for being such a Nice Guy. They only got married because she was a Gold Digger and he was a Horrible Judge of Character.
Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: In "The Ying Zoo", she sorts through her mail, saying "Blackmail demands, extortion notices, death threats...always the same junk mail!"
Blatant Lies: When she produces the Crystal that she kept for herself, she tells Tweeg, "It must have got jammed behind the cheap upholstery in that wagon of yours."
Cane Fu: She walks with a wooden cane that she sometimes uses as a weapon.
Compliment Backfire: After Mrs. Maggotheart calls her "too kind" after she congratulates her on becoming the new Eclipse commander, Eleanor says she'll have to watch that.
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: During Wizardweek, when it's her turn in the relay obstacle course, she tries to cheat by running on the ground instead of using the ropes. It doesn't work because you need the ropes to get over the water.
Disappointed in You: She sends a letter expressing her disappointment in him.
Domestic Abuse: She verbally abused both her husband and her son all the time.
Evil Old Folks: She looks like an old, gray woman and is evil through and through.
Evil Smells Bad: Her perfume of choice is "Essence of Garlic".
Fate Worse than Death: When the Mudblup King wants to make her his queen, she says she'd rather rot than be married to him.
The Ghost: In the original book and tape series, she's mentioned but never appears. She becomes a full-blown character in the animated series.
Gold Digger: When she hears that Tweeg can make gold, she suddenly shows uncharacteristic concern for his well-being, and it's implied that she only married Elroy for his surfing winnings.
Greed: She's both tight with money and willing to steal what she thinks are valuable crystals from her son.
Green and Mean: She's a mean, green troll. Trolls in the Teddy Ruxpin universe come in many colors, but she's an especially mean one.
Hair-Trigger Temper: She goes into a rage over all kinds of things, but especially anything to do with Tweeg or the Mudblup king.
Harmless Electrocution: In "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball", Tweeg's joy buzzer is so powerful that it overloads her with electricity and leaves her hair standing on end, but she's okay afterwards.
Hate Sink: Eleanor is notably both the only Abusive Parent and domestic abuser in the series, despite every bit of it being played for laughs. It's downright cathartic when Tweeg turns the tables on her for his own profit.
Interspecies Romance: Well, interspecies marriage, at least. It wasn't romantic. Eleanor's a troll and Elroy's a Grunge.
Jerkass: She hates almost anyone apart from Ickly, Sparky, and Quellor. She never feels a hint of remorse for being an abusive mother to Tweeg.
Kick the Dog: She's proud of how much she mistreats her son and takes any chance to do it.
Lethal Chef: Her goulash is so terrible that the Hermit of Leekee Lake manages to use it as acid to eat through his chains.
Malicious Misnaming: Once refers to Wizardweek as Lizardweek.
Monster Fan Girl / All Girls Want Bad Boys: Is romantically attached to Quellor. The latter trope is why her marriage to Tweeg's father, a Nice Guy, didn't work out.
My Beloved Smother: Most of the time she is emotionally distant and detached from her son, but that doesn't stop her from swinging into this trope full tilt in his presence.
Not a Mask: When the Trio meet her for the first time, they're convinced that she's really Tweeg using one of his disguises and think that it's just on very tightly when they try to pull it off. She's offended that they think she is her son.
Pet the Dog: On the rare occasions when she's seen Tweeg do something right for a change, she'll willingly acknowledge it and even call him "son". When the Understander takes over and fires Bognostroclum, Eleanor personally nominates Tweeg for his job.
Prim and Proper Bun: In her younger days, her hairstyle was a ponytail, but after she got old and her hair turned gray, she started wearing an old lady's bun.
Rank Up: For most of the series, she's a regular member of M.A.V.O. She briefly becomes the new Understander of Legends when the Understander becomes the new Supreme Oppressor, although when the latter goes back to her old position, Eleanor goes back to being a regular member.
Secondary Color Nemesis: Like her son, she is green and wears purple.
Sinister Schnoz: Her long, pointed, warty nose looks like a stereotypical wicked witch's nose.
Sleep Mask: Wears one in bed as seen in "Octopede Sailors".
Solitary Sorceress: She lives in an old house, with only her pet for company, way out in the middle of nowhere near the Wall of Ying.
So Proud of You: Occasionally, she shows genuine approval when he accomplishes something for a change. She says this word for word in "The Crystal Book" when he manages something on his checklist of bad deeds and in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball" when he pulls a malicious prank on her.
Start My Own: Halfway through Wizardweek, she gets fed up with Tweeg's team losing, so she and Sparky form their own team.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Any time she and Tweeg work together.
That Reminds Me of a Song: Seeing Tweeg stuck in a quicksand pit during the race, she says it makes her feel like singing. Yes, that's how much she hates her son.
Villainous Friendship: She and Bognostroclum are old friends. He's one of the only people that she's genuinely nice to, and she's able to talk him into bending the rules just this once when she has the Crystals for Quellor.
Villainous Mother-Son Duo: With her son Tweeg, whenever they manage to get on the same page. She will not miss a chance to berate and belittle him, but Eleanor is quite supportive of her son's villainous career and will express pride when he manages to pull off a dastardly plan (one example being when he sold her to the Mudblup King for his own freedom and a truck of jewels).
Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: She's bitter over the fact that her son doesn't show his appreciation for her just acknowledging him and feeding him maybe once or twice when he was young.
Why Couldn't You Be Different?: She's always reminding her son how she hates the way he's no good as a villain.
Wicked Witch: Lives in a spooky house with a bat-like pet, and looks like an ugly, green hag with warts and a long nose. Though she doesn't know a lick of real magic, she fulfills every other part of the trope.

Ickly Bognostroclum

Voiced by: Pier Paquette

First appearance: "Tweeg's Mom"

The gatekeeper of M.A.V.O. and Quellor's right-hand monster. He's obsessed with rules and regulations and won't do anything if the paperwork isn't filled out. He has a habit of quoting the M.A.V.O. handbook and citing exactly where in the book a rule is printed.

Accidental Misnaming: Briefly calls Teddy a "lollipop" instead of an Illiop in his first appearance. He was trying to repeat what Eleanor whispered to him, so maybe she was being too quiet for him to hear properly.
Bait-and-Switch Comment: In "The Black Box", he says, "Ah, Tweeg. How wonderful to see your face again. Reminds of the last time I was sick!"
Blatant Lies: Like L.B. and the Tweegs, he decides to hold onto one of the Crystals, leaving just one to present to Quellor. When Tweeg is sent to gather the rest, he nervously tells him he "misplaced it earlier".
Bothering by the Book: He knows all the M.A.V.O. rules by heart, and he does his best to enforce them on everybody. Quellor has come close to throttling him twice for such actions.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His rule-blabbering may get on people's nerves, but it's also what makes him one of the few M.A.V.O. members who is actually good at his job.
The Dragon: To Quellor. He's his right-hand monster and often the only one he can count on to do his job right.
Gate Guardian: His job is the keeper of the gate at M.A.V.O. Headquarters.
Horned Humanoid: Has a pair of horns.
Inane Blabbering: Twice in the series, he falls into this state thanks to Tweeg: once when Tweeg showed up with the Black Box, and once where he proved Not Quite Dead.
Last-Name Basis: Most people call him Bognostroclum. Eleanor calls him Ickly because they're old friends. Eventually, so does Tweeg because he can't pronounce "Bognostroclum".
Obsessively Organized: He's obsessed with doing everything exactly the way the rule book says.
Obstructive Bureaucrat: He insists that everything be done by the book and by filling out any attached paperwork. He always seems to have the right forms on hand for anyone to do anything at M.A.V.O.
Photographic Memory: He's memorized the M.A.V.O. handbook so well that he can recite the exact section, page, paragraph, or line of each rule.
Punch-Clock Villain: Subverted. He seems like he's being evil because it's literally his job, but he once stole one of the Crystals for himself because a real villain never passes a chance to steal.
The Reliable One: Because he sticks to the rules but will bend them when his boss orders him to, he's Quellor's most dependable minion.
Rules Lawyer: He's got every single M.A.V.O. rule memorized and uses them like weapons. As keeper of the gate, he's got a rule for every occasion when it comes to keeping out the riffraff.
Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: As obsessed as he is with the rulebook, he'll cast it aside when his life is in danger. When he refuses to allow a disguised Wooly to join in M.A.V.O. in "Escape from M.A.V.O." because it's not the time and place for recruiting new members, Wooly's threats are enough to make him forget the rules and give Wooly application forms.
Staff of Authority: He always carries a long ornate staff, but it's more of a symbolic item than a weapon.
The Unpronounceable: But only to Tweeg, who struggles to say "Bognostroclum".
Villainous Friendship: He and Eleanor are old friends. He's one of the only people that she's genuinely nice to, and she's able to talk him into bending the rules just this once when she has the Crystals for Quellor.

The Understander of Legends

Voiced by: John Stocker

First appearance: "Tweeg's Mom"

An old, vaguely trollish woman and the wisest member of M.A.V.O. Her job is being the keeper of M.A.V.O.'s ancient knowledge. She's a cautious, pragmatic villain who has a secret dream of becoming the Supreme Oppressor herself.

Affably Evil: She's usually very soft-spoken for a M.A.V.O. member, although she has her limits.
Bastard Understudy: She acts devoted to her superiors and the cause for a long time. She really wants to be the Supreme Oppressor, but she's willing to take her time and work behind the scenes. Late in the series, she gets tired of M.A.V.O. failing to find Teddy Ruxpin, so when everything is in place, the gloves come off and she takes over.
Big "SHUT UP!": Delivers one of these in "Fugitives" when she gets fed up with listening her fellow M.A.V.O. women, yelling "SILENCE!"
Cunning Linguist: The legends of M.A.V.O. are carved in the stone walls of the meeting hall. Most people can't read them, so the Understander's job is to understand them.
Determinator: After she takes over M.A.V.O., she devotes all resources toward finding Teddy and refuses to give up.
Dragon Ascendant: Briefly declares herself the new Supreme Oppressor, even though she doesn't have the Black Box. Ironically, she loses her position to another Dragon Ascendant, L.B., when he does have the Black Box.
Dragon with an Agenda: She's one of Quellor's most high-ranking servants, but she has her own motivations beyond her job. She wants Quellor's position, but we don't learn this until late in the series.
Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": She's only ever called by her title. This confuses Tweeg a bit in "Thin Ice" when the M.A.V.O. positions get reshuffled and she's no longer the Understander.
Evil Cripple: She's got a hunched back and can't walk very well. Still plenty evil.
Evil Genius: Her job is knowing the legends and secrets of the Monsters and Villains Organization.
Evil Old Folks: She might be the oldest member of M.A.V.O.
Evil Sounds Deep: For a woman, she has a low, almost masculine-sounding voice, due to her voice actor being male.
Finger Extinguisher: She blows out a candle in "Teddy's Quest" by pinching the flame in her fingers.
Gracefully Demoted: When L.B. gets ahold of the Black Box and is declared the new Supreme Oppressor, she doesn't argue, since she's afraid of the Black Box just like everyone else. She goes back to being the Understander.
I Want Them Alive!: After Quellor dispatches his minions get Teddy dead or alive, she argues that they need him alive to get the Crystals. Quellor doesn't listen, so she conspires behind his back. After she takes over and puts out a wanted poster for Teddy, it says, "Wanted Alive".
I Warned You: She suggested to Quellor that the Crystals that Tweeg brought them might be fake and is happy to remind him that they turned out to be just salt.
Manipulative Bastard: She pulls the strings on Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge to manipulate them into helping her usurp Quellor's spot.
Ms. Exposition: This is literally part of her job: to explain M.A.V.O.'s goals and legends and what's so important about them.
No Name Given: She's only called the Understander. When she moves up and Eleanor takes her spot, Tweeg finds it a bit confusing in "Thin Ice" when Mrs. Maggotheart tells him what's what.
Only Sane Woman: Surrounded by idiots, jerkasses, and power-mad tyrants, she's easily the most stable and sensible person at M.A.V.O.
Pragmatic Villainy: She wants to spread evil across Grundo as much as anyone, but she is patient, cautious, and calculating. While Quellor wants Teddy out of the way one way or another, the Understander wants to keep him alive because he can lead them to the Crystals.
Reasonable Authority Figure: The Understander is fairer to those beneath her than Quellor. She gives Tweeg a chance when he claims he can lead her to Teddy, promises to let Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge off punishment for helping her, and even accepts Eleanor's nomination of Tweeg as the new gatekeeper.
Staff of Authority: Always carries a staff with an orb on top to show her authority.
Tranquil Fury: At first. When she discovers the fake Crystals are pieces of salt, she tells Quellor coldly as she crushes one in her hand. Later, when she betrays Quellor and takes over M.A.V.O., her temper shows more.
Women Are Wiser: Easily the wisest member of Quellor's underlings, while the male henchmen are usually more incompetent.

Mrs. Maggotheart

Voiced by: Rick Jones

First appearance: "Tweeg Gets the Tweezles"

The M.A.V.O. dues collector who makes sure members are completing their lists of bad deeds. Most members of M.A.V.O. fear her because of all the bills she forces them to pay.

Accidental Kidnapping: In "Fugitives", she's sent to kidnap Teddy and accidentally brings back the Hermit instead, not knowing there was more than one Illiop in Grundo.
Accidental Misnaming: When she first appears, she accidentally calls Tweeg "Tweek". Unlike the Bounders, she just misread his name on a paper.
Ash Face: She ends up covered in char marks after Tweeg's cannon hits her wagon.
The Captain: After the Understander becomes the new Supreme Oppressor, she is appointed the new commander of the M.A.V.O. pirates.
Cool Sword: When she becomes commander of the M.A.V.O. pirates, she gets a sword.
Creepy High-Pitched Voice: The highest-pitched M.A.V.O. member. You can tell she's a villain trying to hide her nastiness when she talks pleasantly.
Delayed Reaction: In "Escape from M.A.V.O.", when she discovers the Airship parked at M.A.V.O., she's distracted by the parking violation committed, so it takes her a minute to realize what she's looking at.
The Dreaded: She is this to most of M.A.V.O. because of all the bills she gives them. In fact, being locked in a room with her is a punishment reserved for the biggest rule breakers.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She has a husband named Spittle.
Evil Debt Collector: Mrs. Maggotheart combines this with Intimidating Revenue Service in her role as M.A.V.O.'s dues collector. Once Tweeg becomes an apprentice member, she dogs him every day demanding he pay the rather sizable debt he's accrued.
Evil Is Petty: She throws out bills for whatever minor excuse she can think of. Let her hang a wanted poster on your front door? You pay to rent it. Don't know where the person in the poster is? You're fined for not knowing.
Faux Affably Evil: She often speaks very pleasantly and politely but goes into an absolute fury when she's upset.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Being a debt collector, no one in M.A.V.O. likes to deal with her. They put up with her because they need her to do her job.
Green and Mean: She's got sickly green skin and is particularly nasty.
Hate Sink: Is probably the most despicable character in the series. She makes Tweeg looks like a boy scout.
Hold Your Hippogriffs: In one episode, she says "Thank badness" because to M.A.V.O., Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad.
Intimidating Revenue Service: She furiously hounds Tweeg until he pays. If he doesn't, M.A.V.O. will come for him. Given she also has Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge assisting her, the intimidating part comes with the territory.
Kick the Dog: She'll happily bully a sick person to give herself more points as a M.A.V.O. member.
Middle-Management Mook: Not quite one of the top dogs at M.A.V.O., not very action-oriented, but has an important job. She manages day-to-day affairs like finances and liaison that keep M.A.V.O. running. Ironically, people hate dealing with her even more than Quellor.
Mood-Swinger: She tends to flip between a sickeningly sweet voice and a shrieking temper multiple times in the same conversation.
No Full Name Given: Her first name is unknown.
Psycho Pink: Wears a pink cloak to contrast against her froggy green skin.
Rank Up: Promoted to commander of the M.A.V.O pirates in "Thin Ice".
Stepford Smiler: Wavers between this and Suddenly Shouting. Gimmick only witnesses the former and mistakenly believes she is a pleasant person.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Not even Quellor or the Gutangs are ruthless capitalists collecting debt For the Evulz.

Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge

Voiced by: Pier Paquette (Sludge), Les Lye (Drudge), Rick Jones (Trudge)

First appearance: "The Mushroom Forest"

A trio of M.A.V.O. enforcers Quellor tasks first with finding Teddy Ruxpin, then with capturing Tweeg. They're actually formidable in a fight, but their tracking skills leave much to be desired.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Quellor finds out that they lied to him about killing Tweeg, they're all willing to beg for him to spare their lives.
Alphabetical Theme Naming: Their names rhyme: Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge. It extends to Drudge's family (see below).
Backhanded Apology: After Quellor orders Sludge to apologize for calling Trudge fat, Sludge just says, "I'm sorry you're so fat". Trudge is dumb enough to accept this.
Blame Game: In "Autumn Adventure", when Quellor learns that they lied about killing Tweeg, they try to blame each other for coming up with the idea.
The Brute: They're all super-strong villains but not too bright.
Carry a Big Stick: Trudge is usually seen carrying around a huge club as his weapon.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Sludge is blue, Drudge is green, and Trudge is tan.
Comically Missing the Point: They do this a lot. When Quellor gives them orders and asks them if they have any questions, they ask stupid questions that have nothing to do with the topic.
Cranial Eruption: In "Thin Ice", when Sludge insults Eleanor, she angrily throws her hairbrush at him and gives him a bump on the head.
Deadpan Snarker: Drudge. He gets some of the wittiest lines of any M.A.V.O. member. When visiting Tweeg's house, he says, "For a guy who knows how to make gold, he sure lives cheap."
Death Faked for You: When they fail to capture Tweeg in "A Race to the Finish", they stick some slime mold in a bottle and present it to Quellor, claiming that it's a pulverized Tweeg.
Decoy Damsel: When M.A.V.O. accidentally kidnaps the Hermit of Leekee Lake instead of Teddy, they have Sludge dress up as the Hermit in a dungeon cell and grab Teddy when he tries to rescue the Hermit.
The Ditz: Trudge. The other two are dumb but not quite as clueless as him.
Divergent Character Evolution: Though they appear as early as "The Mushroom Forest", they started as generic henchmen and didn't even have names for a few episodes. As they started to appear more, they gained distinct personalities: Sludge the fiercest and the leader, Drudge the slightly more sensible Deadpan Snarker, and Trudge the strongest and dumbest.
The Dog Bites Back: How the Understander gets them to go along with her coup, she points out Quellor's Bad Boss tendencies and offers them better positions under her rule.
Dumbass Has a Point: Sometimes, they make good points. In "Leekee Lake", Sludge suggests recruiting Drudge's cousin for deep water salvage. Quellor likes the idea. In "Winter Adventure", when Tweeg is caught and tied up, Trudge points out that they'll never get any answers from Tweeg if they gag him. In "Teddy's Quest", Drudge sees a flaw in the Understander's scheme: they can't take over if Quellor has the Black Box.
Dumb Muscle: All three qualify as far as M.A.V.O. is concerned, but Trudge serves as this for the group itself, being both the strongest and the dumbest of the trio. He's actually powerful enough that he accidentally knocks out Quellor himself when he turns around.
Elite Mooks: As Quellor's personal henchmen, they rank a cut above most mooks in M.A.V.O.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Drudge has a family in Ying that he seems to be fond of.
Extreme Omnivore: When Drudge was a kid, he ate his cousin's coloring book.
Family Theme Naming: Drudge has a cousin named Dredge, the son of his Auntie Smudge and Uncle Grudge.
Fiery Redhead: Sludge has deep, crimson hair and the worst temper of the three.
Forgot to Mind Their Head: It happens to Sludge while they're tearing apart Tweeg's tower for the gold formula and his head is in a cupboard.
Genius Ditz: Drudge knows how to manipulate a reluctant relative into helping him, has been to school (someplace called Troll Tech), and is one of the only characters in the whole series to see through a Paper-Thin Disguise when he recognizes Teddy in his Mudblup costume.
Goldfish Poop Gang: Not really quirky enough for the other trope, but they tend to show up a lot to cause trouble for the good guys.
Good Old Fisticuffs: Sludge and Drudge usually fight barehanded, although they did once briefly grab a sword and a mace respectively to use.
Green and Mean: Drudge is a dull shade of green.
I Am Big Boned: When Sludge complains about Trudge being fat, Trudge insists that he is "husky".
Insufferable Imbecile: Sludge. All three are Dumb Muscle Evil Minions who love causing pain and destruction, but Sludge is the nastiest, even being a jerk to Trudge.
Interrogation by Vandalism: In "Winter Adventure", the three of them come to Tweeg's tower demanding his formula for turning buttermilk into gold. When he doesn't hand it over, they tie him up and throw everything around the room. Tweeg can hardly stand to watch.
Malicious Misnaming: Drudge once calls Teddy "Teddy Dustbin", a name Tweeg once used.
Manipulative Bastard: Believe it or not, Drudge. He gets his cousin Dredge to go along with M.A.V.O.'s plan by threatening him, first by bringing up Dredge's mom and then the Supreme Oppressor's Black Box.
Minion with an F in Evil: Less due to any lack of desire to be evil and more down to their sheer stupidity.
The Napoleon: Sludge is the smallest but also the bossiest and most short-tempered of the three.
Noodle Incident: Drudge once mentioned in passing that he was kicked out of Troll Tech.
Oh, Crap!: In "Autumn Adventure", they realize they're in big trouble when Quellor sees Tweeg still alive. Later in the same episode, they think they've caught the Trio in their Mudblup costumes, only to realize too late that they're real Mudblups.
Only Sane by Comparison: Drudge is by a small margin the smartest and most sensible of the three, but compared to the rest of M.A.V.O., he's still an idiot.
Ordered Apology: Quellor orders Sludge to apologize for calling Trudge fat.
Outfit Decoy: When Teddy goes to rescue the Hermit from the M.A.V.O. dungeon, he sees someone in a cell in the Hermit's rope, hood up, facing the back of the cell. It turns out to be Sludge in disguise.
Plank Gag: In one episode, while trying to make Tweeg's gold recipe, Quellor tells them to stand aside. Trudge turns around and knocks Quellor into the mixture with his club.
Psychopathic Manchild: All three are dangerous brutes and will pummel their enemies mad, but they have the mentality of children. When Quellor announces that they're going to the Ying Zoo, Drudge responds like an eager child.
Real Men Wear Pink: Sludge wears pink armor.
Remember the New Guy?: They're not really introduced. They appear suddenly in "The Mushroom Forest" without even explaining who they are.
Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: In "Winter Adventure", when the alarm clock in Tweeg's tower wakes them up, Sludge smashes it with his fist.
Savage Spiked Weapons: In "Teddy's Quest", Drudge snatches a mace off a suit of armor to fight Quellor. It fit him being one of The Brutes.
Self-Deprecation: When Drudge calls his cousin too stupid to be dishonest, he says it's a family trait.
Simpleton Voice: They all sound this way at times, but mostly Trudge.
Sinister Schnoz: Trudge has about the hugest nose in the show.
Terrible Trio: They're three nasty but ineffective villains who are hardly ever seen one without the others. Sludge is the aggressive leader, Drudge is Only Sane by Comparison, and Trudge is the Dumb Muscle of the three.
Villains Out Shopping: When Quellor announces that they're going to the Ying Zoo to get Tweeg, Drudge is excited about going to the zoo. They also briefly join the good guys in a costume parade.
Vitriolic Best Buds: They don't always get along, but they stick together anyway.
Your Costume Needs Work: In "Autumn Adventure", when they join Teddy and the Grunges at a costume party, Teddy mistakes them for Grunges in costumes.
Your Favorite: Drudge brings Dredge some candy ("Slime treats! Your favorite!") to get on his good side before asking for a favor. Drudge enjoys the candy but still refuses to help until Drudge blackmails him.

Blatsmear Rogle

Voiced by: Robert Bockstael

First appearance: "The New M.A.V.O. Member"

A member of the M.A.V.O. Board of Directors. Usually a background character, though he has a notable role in a few episodes.

Ascended Extra: When he first appears, he's treated as just one of the background monsters to the point where you can mistake which one is him if you're not paying attention. Later, he gets a supporting role in a few episodes.
Brutal Honesty: He's the one who tells Quellor that he's hardly the Supreme Oppressor anymore without the Black Box, the source of his power. "More of a Lessor Oppressor."
Cranial Eruption: In "Leekee Lake", after a Grunge bops him on the head, he's left with a bump.
Even Evil Has Standards: When Sludge suggests that they recruit Drudge's cousin Dredge, Rogle is nervous about it.
Got Volunteered: When Quellor leads an expedition to recover the Black Box, he forces Rogle to be the one to dive for the wreck of the Eclipse. It's all for nothing because it's too deep to swim to it.
Horned Humanoid: He's got two horns and a vaguely humanoid shape.
Jack of All Trades: Being often a background character, he tends to fill whatever role the show requires for him at the time.
Last-Name Basis: We only know his first name because Bognostroclum called him that in his first appearance.
Mook Lieutenant: During the hunt for Teddy Ruxpin in the winter, he leads the monsters.
New Job as the Plot Demands: His introduction episode says he's the originator of the slime pie, but when he gets his first significant role in an episode, he is officially identified as a Board of Directors member. Still later, he is shown leading a party tracking Teddy.
The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: He's a member of the M.A.V.O. Board of Directors, but it's never revealed what they actually do, and since the rest of the board members aren't identified, the board remains a mystery.
Recurring Extra: One of several monsters who usually appears a lot to make M.A.V.O. seem larger than the major members.
Suddenly Voiced: He speaks for the first time in "Leekee Lake", twenty-six episodes after his debut.

Quellor's pets

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "The New M.A.V.O. Member"

A collection of flying rat/lizard/bat hybrids. They serve as Quellor's spies and message carriers.

Animal Espionage: In "The Hard to Find City", one of them feeds information on Tweeg's actions to Quellor.
Bat Out of Hell: They have bat wings, and some have other chiropteran features.
Ear Wings: Some have wings sticking out of the side of their heads.
Flight: They come in so many different designs, so not all of them have the same kinds of wings, but all of them can fly.
Instant Messenger Pigeon: A whole swarm of them. Their job is to fly invitations to M.A.V.O. meetings all over Grundo.
Mix-and-Match Critters: They're like rats, lizards, or mixes of the two, and they all have bat wings.
Morality Pet: To Quellor. He seems to genuinely love his pets.
No Name Given: Their species is never named. Quellor calls one of them a "stoolpigeon", but that could just be its job rather than its species.
Non-Standard Character Design: Although they vary in appearance, they're all brown except for Quellor's favorite named Dweezil, who is light gray.
Parrot Pet Position: Dweezil the gray one is known to perch on Quellor's shoulder.
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: They serve a villain, and many of them look like lizards.
Sapient Pet: From the way Quellor can understand and communicate with them, they are implied to be sapient.
The Unintelligible: They just make squeaks and squawks.
You Dirty Rat!: They serve a villain, and many of them look like rats.

M.A.V.O. Pirates

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "Captured"

A group of monsters who dress and act like pirates and serve as the crew of M.A.V.O.'s own airship the Eclipse.

Boarding Party: The M.A.V.O. pirates once used the Eclipse to board the Airship and kidnap the Trio.
Bowled Over: Gimmick uses a barrel to knock down the M.A.V.O. monsters in "Captured", accompanied by a bowling strike sound effect.
Dressed to Plunder: The M.A.V.O. pirates dress in stereotypical pirate outfits.
Pirate Song: They sing a song about how they're pirates in "Fugitives" while preparing for a voyage.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: They dress and talk like pirates and have their own ship, but they never do any plundering or pillaging.
Sky Pirate: The M.A.V.O. pirates are the crew of their own airship, the Eclipse.
Talk Like a Pirate: The M.A.V.O. members don't usually talk this way, but they adopt pirate talk as the crew of the Eclipse.

The Land of Ying

In General

The country directly north of Grundo. A creepy land land of sharp rocks, swamps, and strange plants, the inhabitants are mostly vicious monsters and criminals. It's best known for the Ying Zoo, a tourist attraction in the capital city of Quagmire.

Canon Foreigner: The characters never visited Ying in the books, so all characters from Ying were created for the cartoon.
Eldritch Location: The dirt sprays you or yells at you if you dig in the wrong place, the thorny trees can regenerate themselves immediately, the monsters don't adhere to basic biology, people apparently own scum farms, and all in all, it's a very unpleasant place to be.
The Great Wall: The Great Wall of Ying is a high stone wall running the length of the border that separates Ying from Grundo. Once you cross it, it seems like you've entered another world.
Grim Up North: It's north of Grundo and the most wretched place in the series. It's not a frozen wasteland, but the land north of Ying certainly is.
Menagerie of Misery: The Ying Zoo keeps its exhibits (many of whom are actually sapient) in positively tiny cages more akin to prison cells than anything else. At least one animal is kept in a perpetual state of hunger so it can continually eat itself for the guests' amusement, while a nocturnal bat-like creature finds itself constantly illuminated. The Sorcerer boasts to have "captured one of everything from Grundo and the Land of Ying" as he extols patrons to come. And he's not above turning his more exotic guests into new exhibits if he can, even charging them room and board, as Teddy and Grubby found out when they attempted to infiltrate the place.
Mordor: Ying is mostly covered in filthy swamps and ominous-looking rock formations, and the people there are some of the nastiest folks you could meet.
Our Monsters Are Different: Even compared to the regular monsters of the show, some of the native creatures are weird (such as the zoo's Gorge Monster, which eats itself every few minutes).
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The locals feel right at home in a Wretched Hive in the middle of an Eldritch Location, but they're absolutely terrified of Illiops.
Wretched Hive: The capital city of Quagmire is well-named. Gangs of punks run the streets, and a Corrupt Corporate Executive can get away with whatever he pleases.

The Sorcerer

Voiced by: Robert Bockstael

First appearance: "Tweeg the Vegetable"

The Wizard of Grundo's younger brother and the proprietor of the Ying Zoo, a tourist attraction that displays monsters and exotic creatures. Both are driven by greed, but the Sorcerer is more ruthless and villainous.

The Announcer: He announces the attractions at the Ying Zoo with a loudspeaker.
Annoying Younger Sibling: He's younger than the Wizard, and the two hate each other and call each other insulting nicknames.
Arc Villain: The main antagonist for the Ying Zoo five-episode arc who never appears again.
Bad Boss: He's not very nice to anyone, not even his employees. At one point, he tells his lackey Spango, "Remind me to have something horrible done to you later."
The Barnum: Like the Wizard, he's a showman who runs a tourist attraction and only cares about milking people of as much dough as he can get from them.
Big Bad Ensemble: He leads his own group of villains separate from Tweeg, Quellor, the Mudblup King, and the Gutangs.
Collector of the Strange: He captures and collects exotic creatures to fill his zoo, and the rarer and odder his attractions, the more money he makes.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: M.A.V.O. is an organization of Card Carrying Villains who want to spread evil and darkness across Grundo. The Sorcerer is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who only cares about profit, never calls himself a villain, and has no concerns beyond his corner of Ying.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Like his brother, he'll lie and deceive to con people out of their money, but he does it by running the Zoo as a major business, whereas the Wizard just sells honest information.
Embarrassing Nickname: He hates when his brother calls him "Bucky". He responds by calling his brother "Stinky".
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's only ever called the Sorcerer.
Evil Counterpart: To the Wizard. While both are greedy con men, the Wizard is a fair man who tries to please people and is willing to help them if he gets paid. The Sorcerer, on the other hand, locks people in cages and exploits them for money.
Evil Sorcerer: He's a fake sorcerer, but he's definitely a villain. There's probably a reason why he's called the Sorcerer and his good brother is called the Wizard.
Fake Wizardry: In a world where few people understand advanced technology, he passes the off zoo's electric lighting system as magic.
The Jailer: He may see himself as a zookeeper, but he treats the beings who inhabit it like prisoners. And they didn't even do anything wrong. They're just a good way to bring in cash.
Mr. Exposition: He tells Teddy and Grubby the story about an Illiop who used to live in the zoo but escaped years ago. This turns out to be more important than it seems when you learn who that Illiop is.
An Offer You Can't Refuse: Quellor gives him one when he refuses to hand over Tweeg: if he doesn't, he'll become an attraction in his own zoo via the Black Box.
Only in It for the Money: The well-being of his exhibits doesn't matter to him. The only thing he cares about is how much money they make him.
Pointy Ears: Like his brother, his ears are pointy.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He's called the Sorcerer, but he's never seen doing any sorcery. Granted, he and his brother can't do real magic, but the Wizard at least tries to pass himself off as a wizard. Apart from the faux-magical lighting system mentioned above, the Sorcerer doesn't do anything even resembling magic. He's just a businessman who happens to dress like a sorcerer.
Quarreling Song: In "Wizardland", he and his brother sing a song that is basically a debate about who's got the better tourist attraction.
Reverse Psychology: He pulls this on Gimmick. When Wizardland steals his customers, he tries to get Gimmick to build a theme park ride in the zoo. Gimmick initially refuses because it does him no good if he's still a prisoner, but the Sorcerer plays on Gimmick's pride and pretends to doubt whether he can do it. Gimmick, being an Insufferable Genius, decides to prove he can.
Sibling Rivalry: He and the Wizard take this to the next level. The Wizard opens a theme park called Wizardland across the way from the Ying Zoo, and the two constantly compete for customers.
Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy: He uses a megaphone to announce how great his zoo is and bring back the customers that his big brother is stealing at his new theme park.
Surrounded by Idiots: He feels this way about his employees.
Trash Talk: He and the Wizard enjoy doing this to each other. And they use megaphones to do it.

The crow

Voiced by: Pier Paquette

First appearance: "Octopede Sailors"

The Sorcerer's sneaky pet. His job is to fly around Ying looking for new specimens for the zoo and lead the Henchmonsters to capture them.

Action Pet: He takes charge of the Henchmonsters when they capture Gimmick and the Octopedes and drives their Awesome Personnel Carrier.
Animal Espionage: He flies around Ying looking for new specimens for the zoo and reports back to the Sorcerer.
Civilized Animal: He talks, wears clothes, and can operate machinery, but he is still technically a pet who flies and perches on branches.
Creepy Crows: The Sorcerer has a talking pet crow who flies around Ying to spy on people and search for creatures who could be the next specimens for the Ying Zoo.
Feather Fingers: He uses his wing feathers as fingers well enough to drive the Moormobile, the Sorcerer's armored transport.
Flight: Being a crow, he can fly.
No Name Given: His name is not mentioned.
Non-Human Sidekick: A non-Perloon lackey to the Perloon Sorcerer.
Sapient Pet: The Sorcerer calls him his pet, but he can think and talk.
Toothy Bird: Sometimes, his teeth are visible in his beak when he talks.
Verbal Tic: Sometimes he turns a word into a breathy screech or squawk when he talks.
Your Size May Vary: Sometimes, he looks only a couple of feet high, sometimes, he's as big as Gimmick.

The Henchmonsters

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "Tweeg the Vegetable"

A group of monsters who dress like soldiers and serve the Sorcerer.

Bird People: One of the Henchmonsters is a female anthropomorphized blue bird. On one version of the map of Grundo, the western part of Ying is even labeled "Bird People".
Dumb Muscle: The large, yellow, pig-nosed Henchmonsters serve as the muscle to carry out the Sorcerer's bidding but don't seem very bright.
Identically Named Group: Three large, yellow monsters are all named Fred.
Knows the Ropes: They used lassos in "The Ying Zoo" to capture Teddy and Grubby and drag them to their cells.
Mooks: They're mostly nameless creatures who give the heroes a threat to deal with.
Non-Mammal Mammaries: One of the Henchmonsters is a female blue birdlike creature who has a pair of breasts.
Pig Man: The Freds have pig-like snouts and occasionally make snorting noises.
The Smurfette Principle: The blue birdlike creature is the only known female Henchmonster.
Undying Loyalty: The Sorcerer puts up with them because they are, according to him, "extremely loyal".

Dredge

Voiced by: Les Lye

First appearance: "The Third Crystal"

Drudge's tentacled cousin from a swamp in Ying. M.A.V.O. recruited him to retrieve the Black Box from Leekee Lake.

Alphabetical Theme Naming: Drudge and Dredge's names are almost identical.
Combat Tentacles: In "Up for Air", he attacks Teddy in Leekee Lake with his tentacles. He rips Teddy's diving helmet off and might have made Teddy drown if Teddy hadn’t discovered the Fourth Crystal's power.
Did Not See That Coming: As he tries to chase and eat Teddy in his diving suit, he did not expect a second Illiop to show up and give him an electric shock. "Drudge didn't say nothing about any underwater hazards."
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He loves his mother, Drudge's Auntie Smudge. When he initially refuses to do his cousin a favor, Drudge convinces him by threatening to tell her.
Family Theme Naming: Drudge and Dredge are cousins.
Harmless Electrocution: Three times in "Up for Air". When he tries to eat Teddy in Leekee Lake, the Hermit saves Teddy with his Static Stun Gun. When Dredge grabs the stun gun and goes after them, he accidentally hits the metal surface of the Sub-Water Boat with it, which shocks his whole body. Then, when he tries to stop the Sub-Water Boat, Teddy presses a button that releases an even bigger shock.
Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: He is Drudge's cousin and has a similar face to him, so one of his parents must be a Troll, but from his lower half, his other parent must be some aquatic cephalopod-like creature. How they managed to conceive Dredge is a mystery.
Hybrid Monster: Based on his appearance and relationship to Drudge, he must be the offspring of a Troll and some kind of cephalopod-like monster.
Knotty Tentacles: While he's chasing Teddy around the wreck of the Eclipse, he sticks two of his tentacles through the portholes, causing Teddy to tie them in a knot.
Nerves of Steel: Subverted. While M.A.V.O. is waiting for Dredge to come back up, Quellor suggests that he might have met his match down there. Drudge denies this and states the trope name exactly. Just then, Dredge leaps out of the water in terror.
Quellor: Nerves of steel, eh?
Drudge: Okay then. How about aluminum foil?
Odd Name Out: He's the only known member of his family whose name doesn't rhyme. His parents are Smudge and Grudge, and his cousin is Drudge.
Once Done, Never Forgotten: The reason Dredge is reluctant to help his cousin? When they were kids, Drudge ate his coloring book! Even after all these years, Dredge hasn't forgiven him.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After getting shocked one time too many, he swims away as fast as he can, jumps out of the lake, and resigns.
Super-Persistent Predator: When he spots Teddy in his diving suit, he decides to stop searching and have lunch.
Swamp Monster: He's a tentacled Hybrid Monster who lives in a swamp in Ying.
Tentacled Terror: Dredge is a monster who's basically a half-Troll, half freshwater octopus-thing, and he proves a major threat to Teddy.
Tentacle Rope: He uses his tentacles to restrain Teddy by the legs.

Other Villains

Bounders

Voiced by: Les Lye (Harry), Pier Paquette (Hugo), Rick Jones (Spike), John Stocker (Biff)

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo"

A group of red armless bipeds. They're sarcastic and mischievous creatures who work for Tweeg. L.B. is their leader. Recurring Bounders include Harry, Hugo, Spike, and Biff.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Some appear in the books with different hair colors. Harry's hair is a much darker shade of purple in the cartoon than in the books, while Hugo's hair is light brown in the books but dark red in the cartoon.
Armless Biped: Bounders have two legs but no arms.
Callousness Towards Emergency: In "Grundo Graduation", Tweeg's tower catches fire, and the Bounders just stand there watching it. In "The Great Grundo Ground Race", they're callous towards Tweeg being stuck in quicksand, claiming that they're too busy singing.
Comedic Sociopathy: Whenever Tweeg becomes a victim of slapstick or his schemes backfire, the Bounders tend to just stand by laughing.
Dumb Muscle: A Bounder is much stronger than he looks, and some of them aren't very bright.
Early-Installment Weirdness: When they first appear,
The Gadfly: Like L.B., they love seeing Tweeg's reaction when they make a rude remark.
Handy Feet: Though most Bounders use their mouths as hands, they can use their feet.
Human Ladder: L.B. treats Biff as one in "King Nogburt's Castle" because he's too short to reach Tweeg's telescope.
Insufferable Imbecile: Some of them are not very bright, but all of them are rude and sarcastic to Tweeg.
Malicious Misnaming: Like L.B., they refuse to correctly pronounce Tweeg's name.
Meaningful Name: Spike has a spike on his head. Harry is the hairiest Bounder.
Named by the Adaptation: Some Bounders, such as Harry and Hugo, were in the books but unnamed.
Pet the Dog: Though they annoy Tweeg and complain about working conditions, they do willingly go to rescue him from Quellor's henchmen in "Winter Adventure", and when everyone in Grundo is giving out holiday gifts, they give Tweeg the best gift he could ask of them: they get his name right.
Punch-Clock Villain: Just like L.B., they help Tweeg commit crimes because it's their job.
Simpleton Voice: Spike and Biff have voices that make them sound unintelligent.
Three Stooges Shout-Out: Biff has Moe's bowl cut, Hugo has red hair around a bald spot like Larry, and Spike is sometimes bald like Curly (he's also been drawn with L.B.'s hair). Harry's thick, parted hair may be based on Shemp.
Waddling Head: Well, hopping head, but same thing. A Bounder is just a large head with a pair of legs and a tail sticking out the back.
Waving Signs Around: In the strike in "Teddy's Quest" mentioned above, the Bounders go on strike at the tower, waving signs and demanding their pay.

Buffy

Voiced by: Abby Hagyard

First appearance: "Grundo Graduation"

A female Bounder who becomes L.B.'s love interest later in the series. By the end of the series, they are married.

Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: She only wears a blue bow around her horn.
Adaptation Dye-Job: She appears in an illustration in one of the books where her hair is longer and blonde. In the cartoon, she has the same tuft of pink hair as L.B.
Armless Biped: Being a Bounder, she has two legs and no arms.
Ascended Extra: She only has a minor appearance in a single book. In the cartoon, she's a recurring character. Also, when she first appears in the cartoon she starts out as just a regular member of L.B.'s gang, but her role gets bigger as the series goes on and she's cemented as L.B.'s love interest.
Beach Kiss: In "On the Beaches", as she and L.B. stroll along the beach, L.B. proposes to her and she says yes, followed by a kiss between them.
Big Damn Kiss: After L.B. proposes on the beach, they share a kiss on the lips. The instant their lips touch, they are struck by a wave from the ocean, which makes the kiss feel even more intense.
Bouncing Battler: She doesn't usually take part in attacks but is still capable of this when she wants to.
Malicious Misnaming: Just like the rest of the Bounders, she'll call Tweeg any old thing that starts with "T-W".
My Beloved Smother: Her mother means well but is way too controlling when it comes to planning her wedding to L.B.
My New Gift Is Lame: Just about everyone brings a gift to her and L.B.'s wedding, but a lot of it looks like unwanted junk to her.
Named by the Adaptation: She appears in one of the books but isn't described or named. She was named Buffy for the animated series.
One of the Boys: She spends all her time hanging around male Bounders, isn't shown having any female friends, and takes part in the sporting events of Wizardweek.
Remember the New Guy?: Most of the Bounders were with the group since the beginning. Buffy, however, suddenly appears with the group near the end of "Grundo Graduation" without an introduction.
Satellite Love Interest: She doesn't have much of a personality other than "L.B.'s girlfriend".
The Smurfette Principle: She is the only female Bounder in the group. In fact, she's the only known female Bounder at all until her and L.B.'s mothers appear in the second-to-last episodes.
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: You can tell she's a girl because of her long eyelashes and the bow around her horn.
Tuft of Head Fur: She has the same tuft of pink hair around the base of her horn as L.B.
Waddling Head: Well, hopping head, but same thing. A Bounder is just a large head with a pair of legs and a tail sticking out the back.
Waving Signs Around: In the strike in "Teddy's Quest" mentioned above, the Bounders start a protest at the tower, waving signs, demanding that Tweeg finally pay them.

Mudblups

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "Beware of the Mudblups"

A group of strange creatures made of mud. They live in a cave in the Great Desert and rarely venture out because they can't stand bright light.

Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: In "Win One for the Twipper", they wear sunglasses and Grungeball caps.
Achilles' Heel: When the bright light from Louie's camera blinds a Mudblup, Arin tells Teddy and Gimmick that the Mudblups detest bright lights.
Adaptation Expansion: In the books, they're not developed much more than being a nasty group of creatures who capture anyone who comes along. In the adaptations, they mine diamonds and have a king.
Always Chaotic Evil: Mudblups are repulsive monsters who live underground (as they are Weakened by the Light) and enslave anyone who dares wander into their caves.
Berserk Button: Do not enter their cave uninvited or steal their coal, or they will throw you in the dungeon.
Blinded by the Light: Mudblups live underground, so they can't stand bright lights. Louie's camera's light blinds the prison warden so Teddy, Gimmick, and Arin can escape, and when they come back to rescue Grubby, they carry candles.
The Brute: They're all strong but not too smart.
Carry a Big Stick: Large clubs are their weapon of choice.
Chekhov's Skill: In "Teddy and the Mudblups", a Mudblup clubs a rock that ricochets around the cave. Tweeg remembers this and comes up with a plan to use the Mudblups as a Grungeball team.
Cool Shades: There is one way that Mudblups can venture out in sunlight: by wearing sunglasses. The King wears a 1980s visor-style pair.
Didn't Think This Through: When they catch Leota and Seymour, they lock them in a cell, not realizing that the bars are too widely spaced to hold them.
Hidden Depths: In "Win One for the Twipper", the Mudblups turn out to be pretty good Grungeball players.
Hidden Elf Village: They live in a cave in the Great Desert where no one else lives, have no mercy for thieves and intruders, and don't interact much with the outside world.
Innate Night Vision: Because they spend all their lives in caves, they can see in the dark.
Kryptonite-Proof Suit: Bright sunlight hurts their eyes, but they can be outside on a sunny day if they wear sunglasses.
Lethal Chef: Prince Arin says that their food is terrible, although he thinks Grubby's root stew is worse.
Muck Monster: They are made of mud, hence their name. How these creatures evolved in a dry desert environment is anyone's guess.
Oh, Crap!: This is their reaction anytime a bright light hits their eyes.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: They have red eyes to make them look even more menacing.
Rock Monster: In some ways, they behave more like this than a Muck Monster. While they're made of mud, they don't leave puddles or splatters of mud on whatever they touch. Mud is technically made of rock, so it counts.
Super-Strength: They're able to break right through solid rock despite being merely made of mud.
Verbal Tic Name: They often make "blup-blup" sounds, hence their name.
Voice of the Legion: In the animated series, a Mudblup often sounds like a few people speaking at the same time.
Weakened by the Light: Prince Arin explains that because the Mudblups spend all their time in darkness, they can't stand bright lights. The heroes use this to their advantage multiple times in the series.
Worthless Yellow Rocks: They mine both coal and diamonds and think that the former is much more valuable and attractive than the latter.
Your Costume Needs Work: Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge briefly mistake them for the Trio, who were dressed in Mudblup costumes earlier.

The Mudblup King

Voiced by: Tony Pope (special), John Koensgen (cartoon)

First appearance: "Beware of the Mudblups"

The ruler of the Mudblups.

Abhorrent Admirer: The Mudblup King falls in love with Tweeg's mother Eleanor when they get captured by the Mudblups. He would happily make her his queen if she didn't find him repulsive.
Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: The Mudblup King usually only wears a roughly made crown with a yellow gem.
Berserk Button: Do not call him insulting titles like "Your Griminess" or "Your Sliminess".
Big Bad Ensemble: The Mudblup King leads his own people independently of other villains like Tweeg, Quellor, the Sorcerer, and the Gutangs.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Mudblup King falls in love with Eleanor, though it's one-way.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Mudblup King is just called that.
Uniformity Exception: The Mudblups all look identical. The only reason you can tell the king apart is that he always wears his crown.

Gutangs

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "In the Fortress of the Wizard"

A tribe of evil, militaristic beings with powerful weapons and fighter planes to fight off any invasion. They live in the Hard to Find City high in the Treacherous Mountains.

Always Chaotic Evil: Gutangs are introduced singing a song about how mean and evil they are. Throughout the show, they use their flying machines to cause trouble for the heroes.
Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: They always wear one-piece full-body armor that makes them look like a brown owl. Apart from Prince Arin, none of the heroes wear armor.
Armor Is Useless: Even though they're always wearing armor, it's easy enough to beat them up or knock them out cold if you can catch them off-guard.
Big Bad Ensemble: The Gutangs are a faction of villains who work independently from other Big Bads including Quellor, Tweeg, the Sorcerer, and the Mudblup King.
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Gutangs appear to be monkey-like creatures, but they are not called monkeys.
Cool Helmet: Their helmet is so large that it covers their head and entire body and is specially designed to look like an owl.
Expressive Mask: Sometimes, their helmets show expression, like an Eye Pop that says Oh, Crap!.
Eye Pop: As said above, one of them does this when he realizes he's in trouble while flying his plane in "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains".
The Faceless: The Gutangs' armor always hides their faces, although the Court Jester's eyes are visible through his mask.
Flower-Pot Drop: Teddy and Gimmick push a large planter on top of some Gutangs so they can knock them out and steal their armor.
Green and Mean: If their arms, legs, and tails say anything, Gutangs are green villains under their armor.
Harpoon Gun: Their planes have mounted rotating spear guns. Luckily, they're not very good shots.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Their weapons usually either miss or hit the hull of the Airship, never stopping the heroes. The closest they get to a good hit is when one of their arrows hits the airbag, but Teddy plugs the leak.
Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy: The Gutangs' spears and arrows might hit the Airship or damage something, but they'll never actually hit or injure a person.
Leitmotif: Often, during Gutang raids or battles, a sped-up rearrangement of the Gutang song will play in the background.
Maniac Monkeys: Gutangs are monkey-like creatures and hostile to pretty much everyone that they can't do a business deal with.
Mooks: They all look alike and most of them exist to give the heroes someone to fight or shoot down.
Oh, Crap!: Even though you can't see their faces, you can still tell when they realize they're screwed when their planes have been jammed by Grubby's root stew.
Ominous Owl: They're not actually owls, but their armor is designed to make them look like giant owls. They look sinister in it, and they're invariably evil.
Precursor Killers: In the finale, the truth behind them is finally revealed: For a long time, the Illiops thrived in the Hard to Find City and had a prosperous relationship with the Illipers. But then the Gutangs attacked both of their peoples. The surviving Illiops were driven out and forced to flee Grundo as the Gutangs took it over their city.
The Runt at the End: During their Villain Song, when a troop of Gutangs are marching on patrol, there's one running after them to catch up who ends up tripping and falling down the steps.
Tap on the Head: The heroes sometimes knock them out but never kill them.
Villain Song: They have a song that they sing while marching about how terrible they are:
We're cruel, we're nasty, we're ugly, and we're mean.
We're as bad a gang of evil Gutangs as you have ever seen.
So don't come near our fortress, or you will have to pay
A terrible price. It won't be nice. It could ruin your whole day.
Villains Out Shopping: They love to play card games in their spare time.
Water Source Tampering: King Nogburt's castle gets its water from a series of secret underground aqueducts built long ago, but the Gutangs have been secretly stealing the water, causing the kingdom's drought.

The Court Jester

Voiced by: Pier Paquette

First appearance: "King Nogburt's Castle"

A Gutang who goes undercover at King Nogburt's castle as a court jester to be their spy and saboteur.

Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Court Jester: He goes undercover as the jester of King Nogburt's court so he can poison the king's drink and feed information to Gutang invaders.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Court Jester is just called that, and it's only his cover anyway.
The Mole: While undercover, the Court Jester feeds information to his people and sends lantern signals so they know when to attack.
Tampering with Food and Drink: The Court Jester sneaks poison into King Nogburt's grundleberry juice.

The Gutang Ambassador

Voiced by: John Koensgen

First appearance: "The Mushroom Forest"

The Gutangs' official liaison to M.A.V.O.

Ambadassador: All Gutangs are trained in warfare. Presumably, this includes the Ambassador who acts as their liaison to M.A.V.O.
"Ass" in Ambassador: The Gutang Ambassador may be good at his job, but he's a jerk and a villain who seizes the opportunity to milk M.A.V.O. of all the money he can.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is only ever referred to as "Ambassador".
Only in It for the Money: The Ambassador is willing to do business with M.A.V.O. and provide his people's services, but only if they get paid. When Quellor asks whether they're ever evil just for the fun of it, the Ambassador says, "Yes, but that costs extra."
Uniformity Exception: The Gutang Ambassador's helmet has a bright red crest like an ancient Roman helmet, and he wears a blue sash fastened with a gold badge.

Sparky

Voiced by: Pier Paquette

First appearance: "Tweeg's Mom"

Eleanor Tweeg's pet. He is treated as a sort of "watchdog" but isn't too good at his job.

All Animals Are Dogs: Sparky acts like a dog and is treated like one, but he looks reptilian. Whatever he is, he sure isn't a dog.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Cartoon Creature: It's not clear what he's supposed to be. He's short, fat, quadrupedal, vaguely reptilian, and has one eye and Ear Wings. He looks a bit like the offspring of a Bounder and one of Quellor's pets.
Circling Birdies: While warming up for the last Wizardweek race, he gets so dizzy that he sees circling stars.
Cyclops: He has one eye.
Ear Wings: He has batlike wings to fly with, and they stick out of the side of his head.
Flight: His Ear Wings allow him to fly.
Incompetent Guard Animal: He's not necessarily stupid, but he's bad at his job because he doesn't care about it.
Mix-and-Match Critters: He seems to borrow features from dogs, bats, lizards, and the mythical Cyclops.
Non-Human Sidekick: He usually stays at Eleanor's house, but he serves as her non-troll sidekick when they enter as a team in the Great Grundo Ground Race.
The Quiet One: He sometimes goes whole episodes without speaking.
Right-Hand Cat: Eleanor keeps him as a pet, and he's got an unpleasant personality, but he's not shown doing any fighting.
Sapient Pet: He's Eleanor's pet, but he can speak and acts like his own person.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He becomes so frustrated with being stuck on guard duty when his mistress goes to enjoy the M.A.V.O. costume ball that he decides to go to the party himself, expecting the Hermit to just stay put.
Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: He he's a snarky non-troll sidekick to Eleanor.
Suddenly Voiced: It isn't until many episodes after his debut that he speaks for the first time.

Characters / The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin Villains

Tweeg and L.B.

In General

Jack W. Tweeg

L.B.

M.A.V.O.

In General

Ickly Bognostroclum

The Understander of Legends

Mrs. Maggotheart

Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge

Blatsmear Rogle

Quellor's pets

M.A.V.O. Pirates

The Land of Ying

The Sorcerer

The crow

The Henchmonsters

Dredge

Other Villains

Bounders

Buffy

Mudblups

The Mudblup King

Gutangs

The Court Jester

The Gutang Ambassador

Sparky

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Tweeg and L.B.

In General

Jack W. Tweeg

L.B.

M.A.V.O.

In General

Ickly Bognostroclum

The Understander of Legends

Mrs. Maggotheart

Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge

Blatsmear Rogle

Quellor's pets

M.A.V.O. Pirates

The Land of Ying

The Sorcerer

The crow

The Henchmonsters

Dredge

Other Villains

Bounders

Buffy

Mudblups

The Mudblup King

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