User blog:Inferno Pendragon/PE Proposal: Joe (Help! I'm a Fish)

for my PE Proposal I am going to try the case of a villain from a rather underrated movie that I vaguely remembered from childhood, upon watching it again I feel he is dark, especially for a "kid's movie" antagonist -

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_(Help!_I%27m_a_Fish)

Who Is He?
Joe was originally a rather ordinary fish but upon being exposed to the mutagenic potion that accidentally transformed the main cast into fish, this causes him to grow in intelligence and he becomes a megalomaniac who wants to take over the world - using a crab and a shark henchman to try and achieve said goal: he is also extremely egotistical and wants to grow more powerful by taking more of the potion..

so far he sounds like an average villain, no? well the main cast are all young kids and he spends most of the movie either threatening them into helping his plans or trying to murder them in gruesome ways..

What Does He Do?
Joe does a lot of things, most of them you'd expect from a mob-boss but some of his acts go that extra mile - probably the most infamous is that he abandons the kids to be eaten alive by pirahnas near the end of the film, while stealing the potion, he even laughs at the prospect of them being killed.. his final battle with Fry is nightmareish despite having little violence as he comments on how he was intelligent enough to kill Fry if he "didn't stop bothering" him.. however Fry uses Joe's megalomania against him and starts calling him a "dumb fish" and asking him complicated questions.. Joe furiously takes more of the potion to prove his superiority and eventually mutates into a human-fish hybrid.. leading to a dark but deserved death:

"can a human breathe underwater?".

Reasons?
he has no reasons other than a deep narcissistic desire to be in charge, as well as a proven homicidal nature - he has no friendship with any of his henchmen (both of whom betray him, showing his organization is run purely on "strong get to rule" cut-throat tactics) : he is also completely at ease with killing children if they get in his way.

Setting
Help! I'm A Fish is an animated movie set in its own little universe and Joe is the heinous standards for the story - being by far the most evil and dangerous threat in the entire movie.

Verdict
I think he goes beyond the mark and is sufficiently nightmare-inducing / dark to be not only a memorable villain deserving of more attention than he has but also, for better or worse, is a PE.