Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet

"You are just like me, my friend. A Scrooge! Ebenezer Scrooge! North Pole, Santa Claus, this train, it's all a bunch of humbug! A bout of indigestion. Oh yeah, I know what you are. You're a doubter! A doubter! You don't believe! You're a doubter! You don't believe!"

- The Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet scaring the Hero Boy.

The Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet is an object in the 2004 film The Polar Express, and the main antagonist of the video game.

He was voiced by Tom Hanks in the film, and Jim Hanks in the videogame.

Film
While the Hero Boy was in the abandoned toy car, the Hobo, from the roof of the car, uses the Scrooge puppet to scare the Hero Boy by calling him a doubter. The Hero Boy, unaware that it was just a puppet, runs away, back to the main passenger car.

Video Game
The Scrooge puppet appears as a living character. His main goal is to prevent the children from believing in Santa Claus by stealing their tickets, which would get them thrown off the train by the Conductor and prevent them from reaching the North Pole.

Scrooge is first seen spying on the children while they look out the window at Herpolsheimer's, much to his disgust. Later, after stealing the tickets, he gets some Jack-in-the-Boxes to assist him in prevent the children from getting their tickets back. However, with the help of Hero Boy, the children were able to retrieve their tickets.

Hero Boy has a food fight with Scrooge and some of his friends in the dining car while trying to retrieve Know-It-All's ticket. Scrooge fights Hero Boy again while he was trying to apply the emergency brake for Billy.

After all the tickets were retrieved, Scrooge becomes angry and steals Hero Girl's ticket, which results in her being put in charge of driving the train. However, Hero Boy finds the ticket and, with the help of the Hobo, gets to the locomotive by skiing down the mountain.

Later, Hero Boy and Hero Girl encounter the Scrooge puppet one more time while trying to return to the passenger cars. He has become very large and gained an opening in his chest that shows his heart. Hero Boy tries telling him that Christmas is not about toys, but he does not listen, so Hero Boy, with encouragement from the other children, defeats him by throwing snowballs at his heart.

Trivia

 * The Scrooge puppet in the film served as the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in the 2009 film A Christmas Carol, which was also directed by Robert Zemeckis.