Baron Von Rottweiler

"Nein, Leon! Bad doggy!"

- Baron von Rottweiler

Baron von Rottweiler is one of the main villains in Jim Henson's Dog City. He appears solely in the animated segments. He was voiced in all of his appearances by Dan Hennessey, who bizarrely went uncredited for the series' entire run. Despite his name, von Rottweiler is not in fact a rottweiler but rather a doberman. He is an enormous canine in a dark suit with black gloves which he never removes (not even to bathe) and a monocle. He speaks in a thick Germanic accent and, from his home, Castle Frankenfido in Transylvania, he constantly plots the destruction of Dog City and a variety of other increasingly outlandish plots.

In the first season, despite claiming to be heroic Ace Hart's archenemy, he was used as a joke villain; each episode would begin with Eliot Shag finishing a story wherein von Rottweiler was the villain and is defeated, usually thanks to his henchman Leon Berger's stupidity, only to have the story segue into the main plot where gangster Bugsy Vile and his gang are the main villains. As the show went on, however, von Rottweiler started asserting himself more and more (wanting an episode "all to mein self"), until by season two he often appeared more than Bugsy did.