Minor Characters Contest
#21
Posted 19 March 2007 - 04:20 PM
Principle Willoughby,
Energetic and enthusiastic, most people would assume from Principle Willoughby’s general demeanor that he hasn’t come out of the closet just yet. That aside, he seems to be everything a good elementary school principle should be. He is approachable, kind, and has a gentle nature to him. Unlike some school principles, he seems to take time to know Lindbergh’s many students and is genuinely interested in their progress.
Most of what we know about Principle Willoughby is often revealed in the show’s dialogue, so we have to be paying attention or we miss out on some important tidbits about his past. In “Out Darn Spotlight” we learn that Mr. Willoughby and Corky Shumatzu were roommates at Vassar, which is a small private liberal arts college nestled in the Hudson valley about 75 miles north of New York City. Vassar was founded in 1861 as a Women’s only college up until 1969 when it went co-ed. No one knows what year Mr. Willoughby graduated, or weather or not he continued to get his Masters, but it would seem he majored in Education possibly with a minor in Performing Arts (both available at Vassar). This could be the vehicle that drives Principle Willoughby to encourage performing arts education at Lindbergh, and for good reason. It’s obvious that music and performing arts enriches the lives of the students and their parents.
Principle Willoughby is ever present at the school’s various extra-curricular events such as student elections and assemblies. In “Jimmy for President” one can’t help but laugh when Principle Willoughby mumbles, “Can we afford funk everyday?” to Miss Fowl after Libby’s speech. In all cases, he always seems to be encouraging the students or possibly saving them from themselves.
When we examine Principle Willoughby further, we can see an aspiring play-write and composer. Musical Theater appears to Mr. Willoughby’s first love and is eager to share this love of theater with his faculty, students, and the parents of Lindbergh Elementary. He is credited with writing the “Mc Beth in Space” play where Jimmy unwittingly ended up being Nick’s understudy after he broke his leg (literally). In “Attack of the Twonkies” he composed the new library dedication song, which sounded more like a Broadway show tune than anything else.
Possibly a bit too trusting and naive, Principle Willoughby is always open, fair and kind to the students of Lindbergh Elementary. His energy, subtle sarcasm, and charm give the show a welcome asset, and show a real human quality to the adult characters of the show. It’s obvious that all the students like and respect him, but are knowingly troubled with the ultimate question:
“Do you think he’s gay?”
DL...
#22
Posted 21 March 2007 - 08:32 PM
#23
Posted 21 March 2007 - 09:18 PM
And is he gay? Of course he is! Massively flamboyantly gay at that. Honestly, what other show could get away with taking advantage of so many stereotypes? JN rocks :rock:
~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =
#24
Posted 21 March 2007 - 11:47 PM
i knew it! :lol:And is he gay? Of course he is!
#25
Posted 22 March 2007 - 03:31 PM
I saw the Goddard update! Looks great! I see you've made some good additions and dumbed down some of my "geek speak" a bit.
Any particular character you want me to attempt next!
DL...
#26
Posted 23 March 2007 - 03:30 PM
Principle Willoughby loves Kittys, doesn't he? :lol:It’s obvious that all the students like and respect him, but are knowingly troubled with the ultimate question:
“Do you think he’s gay?”
DL...
#27
Posted 23 March 2007 - 03:51 PM
#28
Posted 24 March 2007 - 02:59 AM
Hmmm...I think you could write a VERY good bio for King Goobot. Would you be interested in doing a profile for him? If you could, that'd be beyond awesome. Again, thanks for all your help!
~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =
#29
Posted 24 March 2007 - 03:21 AM
DL...
#30
Posted 29 March 2007 - 07:58 PM
King Goobot.
King and undisputed leader of planet Yokus and the Yokians, King Goobot remains Jimmy’s most determined and dangerous nemesis, save for Meldar of course. As pointed out in the movie, the Yokians are an advanced alien species with vast technological resources at their disposal. Jimmy unwittingly makes contact with the Yokians via a homemade space probe fashioned from yet another toaster. We should mention now that Jimmy seems to be adept at converting toasters into various high tech gadgets. The space probe contained a brief video message from Jimmy providing an earthly greeting hoping to make contact with an alien intelligence. His efforts prove successful, however Jimmy’s hopes for a friendly exchange of knowledge and culture are dashed away as the Yokians show that they’re indeed hostile and kidnap all the kids’ parents for chicken feed (literally). The Yokians are able to bring their vast mechanized resources to bear on the hapless parents of Retroville, snatching them up and brainwashing them into mindless lemmings. Jimmy and the rest of the kids are forced into action to preserve their stabilizing parental influence, seeing that the lack of authority has reduced them to a pathetic whimpering mob with tummy aches.
The physical appearance of a Yokian is somewhat hard to describe. They are basically a glob of green jelly with eyestalks suspending two sinister pink eyes. They are encased in an egg shaped robotic vessel fill with a clear viscous goo i.e. the egg white perhaps. The robotic shell allows them to levitate for mobility and it’s also equipped with mechanical arms for basic tactile needs. King Goobot also has an ornamental crown distinguishing his rank as King among Yokians.
King Goobot is the leader and arbiter of all the ceremonial goings-on on planet Yokus. This includes the feeding ritual for their chicken God Poultra, a gigantic three-eyed carnivorous chicken that is worshiped and revered by all Yokians. King Goobot, and all the other Yokians, view humans more as food for Poultra rather than an intelligent species of their own. Ultimately Jimmy musters a small fleet of improvised spacecraft, which are modified amusement park rides, and the kids rescue their parents from King Goobot and Poultra.
In “The Eggpire Strikes Back” we see the return of King Goobot and his sidekick Ooblar. This time the Yokians appear to have nothing but friendly intentions and shower the people of Retroville with gifts. Jimmy however is not swayed by their generosity and remains suspicious. King Goobot eventually wins the towns trust allowing him to go forward with his plan to eliminate Jimmy and his friends as revenge for the last humiliating defeat on Yokus. With the help of Cindy, Goobot gets hold of Jimmy’s DNA regenerator and brings Poultra back to life. Then unleashes her on the unsuspecting crowd attending a carnival. Jimmy ends up defeating Poultra again, this time with a Flurp and sizzle rock cocktail causing that mighty chicken God to explode. Defeated and humiliated, King Goobot swears revenge on Jimmy Neutron.
King Goobot’s third appearance comes to us in the last of the Jimmy Neutron mini-movies “League of Villains.” Here Goobot has assembled nearly all of Jimmy’s former enemies in a last ditch effort to rid the Universe of Jimmy for good. The plan is to immobilize Jimmy’s friends, Goddard, and his lab making him easy to capture. The plan works and Jimmy is forced to endure a shame trial, which ultimately results in his guilt. However, Jimmy escapes with help from Sheen and now “Good Guy” Tee. They eventually rendezvous with Carl, Cindy, and Libby and defeat the League of Villains. We all know how the story goes.
As for now, King Goobot remains trapped in the Creatatious period with Baby Eddie, Grandma Taters, and Eustace. To our knowledge he has not escaped from this…..Yet!
Just for you Mara!! =)
#31
Posted 30 March 2007 - 02:39 PM
The Goobot bio is a first draft so there are a few typos in there. I hope you can use it...
DL..
#32
Posted 11 April 2007 - 04:03 PM
Meldar Prime is, without a doubt, Jimmy’s most maniacal and capable adversary. He appears in only one episode “Win, Lose and Kaboom,” which remains one of DNA’s finest hours (or hour and 12 minutes to be exact). Meldar is the host of “Intergalactic Showdown,” which is a survival game show where different races are pitted against one another to determine the fittest. The winners are allowed to survive and provided with an Astro Car with the show’s complements. The losers are restrained and forced to watch the destruction of their home planets. The whole spectacle is broadcast throughout the galaxy for all to enjoy. Meldar appears to be omnipotent, being virtually indestructible and able to manipulate time and matter at will. If the laws of physics interfere, Meldar can change said laws and alter known mathematical constants to his liking. He does this through a pair of powerful matrix generators, which double as cufflinks.
Jimmy unwittingly draws the whole gang into the game by solving the riddle provided by the mysterious space rock. Though Jimmy saves the rock from destruction by military forces, the rock is ultimately confiscated by the military and placed in a high security facility for safe keeping. Determined to study this rare artifact, Jimmy uses a series of photographs taken beforehand to translate the rock’s message. He sees it as an alien intelligence reaching out to communicate with other intelligent species. This realization, and the fact that the military may destroy the rock, force Jimmy to double his efforts for translation and, hopefully, achieve contact. The rock’s message turns out to be a riddle, which Jimmy’s solves almost instantly. The gang breaks into the facility housing the rock and Jimmy is able to etch the answer in the space provided with his handy laser. The resulting trans-dimensional gate swoops the gang into Meldar’s deranged game show.
In addition to being all-powerful, Meldar is quite arrogant and sarcastic towards his new human guest. He refers to them as tiny-brained hominids, nitrogen gulpers, and jelly bags often during the course of his show. Of course, how can we argue with his logic? Humans are simply a bag of viscous goo supported by a bizarre congress of sticks woven together with sinew. One can imagine Meldar’s amusement at seeing humans for the first time. Meldar is also equally cruel to the other races forced to compete with Jimmy and the gang. Through a series of competitions, he pits race against race and keeps score with the losers being blown out of the galaxy. At first the gang doesn’t fair so well in competition much to Meldar’s delight, but soon gets a valuable win and eventually takes charge of the contest. Earth is saved from a very unlikely source, Hugh Neutron. Hugh nails the Intergalactic Soap Opera trivia question and wins the final event.
Utterly astonished that team Jelly Bag (Earth) wins the competition, Meldar puts them on the floating victory couch and breaks into song. The gang receives their brand new Astro Car and is allowed to go back home, but Jimmy does not forget his pact with April the Gorlock. He returns just in time to free the other races and overthrow Meldar in a final cataclysmic battle.
Meldar appears to be almost human in appearance but later we realize that his floating legless body is simply an ancillary fixture, giving him the necessary mobility to wield his powerful matrix generators. Meldar can teleport not merely from place to place, but dimension to dimension as well. At his will he can summon an army of mechanized creatures to do his bidding, and can use his matrix generators to condense energy into plasma bolts, which look like large balls of swirling energy, and launch them at his enemies. Having the ability to freely manipulate matter, Meldar can create any environment or object he wants with just a snap of his fingers.
With the help of his friends and other alien races, Jimmy is able to defeat Meldar by confiscating his matrix generators. We last see that Meldar’s new TV role is test subject for various new exercise equipment that uses powerful electric shocks for “motivation.”
The character Meldar is brilliantly voiced by Tim Allen.
#33
Posted 11 April 2007 - 08:39 PM
Anyway! I hope you can use these bios Mara! Remember that they're first drafts and you're welcome to edit as you see fit.
Sooooooo! Which character should I do next?
Ack! Guitar is calling...must play.....for....High School show choir....ugg!
DL.
B)
#34
Posted 14 May 2007 - 08:50 PM
Anyway, here's Coach Gruber's bio:
Lindbergh Elementary apparently stresses intense physical education and Coach Gruber is the man that brings it. Lindbergh’s method for P.E. appears to be based on three principles: violence, exclusion, and degradation much like an all-encompassing game of Dodge ball. The saying goes, “You can’t show humility in victory until you’ve felt the sting of defeat!” Indeed Coach Gruber hands out some serious humble pie to Jimmy seeing the vast array of “Last Place” ribbons in his room. One could say that the last place “tramplings” firmly reinforce the degradation part of the lesson. Unfortunately for Jimmy, most of these defeats are at the hands of Cindy who finds incredible zeal at exploiting Jimmy’s athletic limitations.
Coach Gruber’s appearance is stereotypical of any school P.E. coach. Tight fitting gym shorts and red tee shirt that show off his Herculean physique, which is complete with monolithic biceps. His general manner is in line with that of a Marine Corps drill sergeant, and has all the compassion of a wolverine caught in a steel trap. Though he has unique methods, Coach Gruber stresses sportsmanship and fair play. He always makes sure that students, no matter how inept physically, will have an opportunity to receive a “Last Place” ribbon for their efforts.
Unfortunately there are only a handful of episodes where Coach Gruber interacts with the main characters. We see numerous cameos where he appears in the audience or general crowds, but very few lines of dialog. Little is known about Coach Gruber’s personal life, which is too bad since he is one of the show’s more hilarious characters. However, Coach Gruber remains a shinning beacon to inspire all underachieving, overzealous P.E. coaches everywhere.
Coach Gruber is voiced by Jim Belushi.
#35
Posted 27 July 2007 - 03:46 PM
April the Gorlock,
At first Jimmy’s nemesis, then later his new love interest, April hails from planet Gorlock and is also swept into Meldar’s sinister game show with her mother and father. The Gorlocks are introduced as a Warrior race and appear to live their lives by a strict military code. They live much like familiar warrior societies on earth such as the Spartans, Samurai, or even the Vikings. Their conduct is usually forceful and aggressive yet honorable and merciful. Obviously to the Gorlocks, showing mercy is a sign of strength and regard rather than weakness. As we saw in the “Florgus ball” contest, April appeals to Jimmy’s plight of being clearly outmatch by team Gorlock’s strength and experience. She offers a cessation of hostilities and mercy in return for Jimmy’s forfeit of the game. April adheres to military conduct recognizing that her scrappy opponent has done all that was necessary for the honor of his race, this of course is offered at the point of a Florgus lance. Jimmy naturally rebuts the offer and chooses to continue the contest to the end. Possibly impressed at Jimmy’s determination to fight despite incalculable odds, April sees a possible and worthy ally to combat Meldar.
April attempts to befriend Jimmy and form an alliance with her former earth opponents. At first Jimmy is reluctant pointing out that April tried to kill him in the game. April reminds him that she didn’t, even if it was within her power to do so, once again adhering to the warrior code communicating to Jimmy, “Your skills are useful, you have military value that will benefit both our races.” Jimmy elects to consider April’s offer even in the face of his team’s moral problems.
April returns after the gang gets a valuable win as a result of Carl’s non-discriminating palate, still seeking an alliance. Seeing what’s at stake, Jimmy agrees and is promptly greeted with an inspired kiss on the lips from April, the Gorlockian seal of trust. In the Gorlock warrior code, Jimmy and April are now bound as allies. The trust display is met with confusion on the part of Jimmy, and rancor from Cindy. April quickly realizes that her trust ritual is regarded as a form of courtship by the humans but doesn’t seem to mind that either. Seeing a challenge for Jimmy’s affection, April invites open conflict with Cindy but April’s father soon interrupts the fisticuffs. Again the Gorlock warrior code is applied: Don’t fraternize with the enemy and save energy for the battles that count is the message here.
April’s military training becomes useful in the final battle with Meldar. Seeing that Meldar’s mechanical army outnumbers them, she orders a retreat to a more defensible position buying Jimmy some valuable time. Meldar becomes distracted focusing primarily on the Jimmy controlled Vandanna robot. Seeing that Meldar’s forces are in disarray, April orders and all out attack. Meldar’s army is not in a particularly good position for a defense, and their center of command is now temporarily out of action. The improvised Gorlock/Earth/Brain/Needlehead army is able to dispatch just about all of their opponents and bring and end to Meldar’s TV show.
With Meldar’s matrix generators in hand, Jimmy also honors the Gorlock warrior code by giving them to his trusted ally, April. April responds with what appears to be yet another “Trust sealing” ritual. As it turns out she just wanted a little Jimmy action, which sets off Cindy once again.
Gorlocks are rather human in appearance, but the green skin, ram horns, and fangs deny any evidence that there is a common ancestor for the two races.
April appears in only one episode “Win, Lose, and Kaboom,” which still remains as one of Jimmy Neutron’s finest hours (hour and 12min actually) on TV. We last see April in her Warp Mail message to Jimmy. She shares the current goings-on with Gorlock life, and that they set the new fall TV line up. She ends the message by blowing Jimmy a kiss, which gets Cindy on the warpath yet again.
April is voiced by Alyssa Milano.
Come on Nekogirl! Let's bring on the Betty Bio!!! :D
DL....
#36
Posted 27 July 2007 - 06:50 PM
#37
Posted 27 July 2007 - 07:56 PM
Thanks! Maybe by Christmas I'll have them all done!!!Jeez, you're goosd at bios, DL! You have NO competition :P
DL...
#38
Posted 27 July 2007 - 09:36 PM
~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =
#39
Posted 28 July 2007 - 02:02 AM
-I'm reading these profiles Darklord. I love them!
-Here's another one in fact. I posted a couple over in Characters because I didn't think this topic was still up and running.
Nick Dean:
Nick Dean is the coolest kid at Lindbergh Elementary School, probably the coolest kid in all of Retroville. Almost all the girls in class swoon over him, including Cindy Vortex (until she fell for Jimmy) and quite possibly Betty Quinlan. Nick is so cool that he doesn't "do" show and tell. Nick is a good fighter, easily able to single handedly toss Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl into a dumpster, but he quailed at the sight of Poultra and screamed like a little girl. He also ran from the Phantom of Retroland, but so did everyone else, and I don't blame them. Nick is a good actor, winning the title roll in Macbeth in Space, until he broke his leg. He is also an excellent singer. As Funkmaster Nicky Nick on Zero Gravity Funky Jam Dance Party With Some Science (And No Puppets) Nick wowed the audience by styling his awesome hair without using his hands. Nick was sound in Quentin Smithee's production of Jimmy Neutron's film. He doesn't seem to know Sheen, calling him "Shine" or "That Weird Kid."
Nick Dean is voiced by Candi Milo. His excellent singing voice was by Jeff Gunn.
There it is.
Cya!
Snazzo
#40
Posted 28 July 2007 - 02:09 AM
-Darklord, I love your profiles. I hope they're incorporated into the site like your Goddard bio was.
If I may make so bold, I think you should add something to Principal Willoughby's profile.
-His sister Eunice!
-Why? Because I think she's one of the funniest things they have ever shown on Jimmy Neutron. I've never know a woman with such a prominent mustache.
There it is.
Snazzo
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