Mr. Black (Shorts)

Mr. Carbon Black is the president of Black Box Inc. and is the main antagonist of the 2009 comedy/fantasy film Shorts.

He is portrayed by James Spader who also played Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

History
Mr. Black is a corrupt business man who invented the Black Box, a device that transforms into any household object. He is also the father of Cole and Helvetica Black, who bully Toe Thompson. Mr. Black doesn't approve of their bullying and encourages them to behave. In one scene, during a party at his mansion, he is disappointed that none of his workers have that "go for the throat" spirit. He takes the wishing rock and accidently wishes that each and everyone of his workers had that same "go for the throat" spirit and everyone starts attacking each other. During and argument with Helvetica, she wishes that he would listen to her for a change and he grows large ears. His ears reverted back to normal size after wished for everything to go back to normal.

Later he takes the wishing rock, fires all of his staff and wishes for a giant pile of money, until Helvetica makes him wish he was kidding. Completely corrupted by the wishing rocks power, he wish that he was the most powerful thing in the entire world and turns into a giant Black Box robot. He terrorizes the town until the kids use the wishing rock against him. The infant (who was given telepathic powers from the wishing rock) tells everyone that the rock is starting to feel misused and that it used destroy the Earth because of all the petty wishes they made. Together they rid of the rock all its effects are undone. The now reformed Mr. Black has made plenty of changes: He agrees to have Toe's parents work on the marketing plan together and he changes the Black Box to a more envirmentally friendly product called the Green Box.