User blog comment:Alwaysmore2hear/Nominate Your Essential Villains for the 2018 FANDOM 100/@comment-2059440-20180911145454

well, maybe it's just the old fan-girl in me but I'd say Mister Chuckle Teeth deserves a spot, why? because while the X-Files has long passed as a cultural icon and to be honest the revival was a give or take Mister Chuckle Teeth did a great service in reviving some of the old-school horror elements while giving it a modern twist..

shows like Channel Zero and so on have also given the "creepypasta" genre a stab for mainstream audiences I believe that Mister Chuckle Teeth succeeded better - the whole "Salem witchcraft" cliches are not for everyone but its nods to other villains and horror definitely stand out.

Stephen King worked on the show in 90s and Chuckle Teeth is a homage to many of King's tropes, while mixing it with internet franchises.

a creature of nightmares for a new age of horror, when people are getting less and less attached to paranormal and secure in the knowledge that it's all "fake" there's few things creepier than a demon that can enter that modern world just as easily as it did in the ancient past.. plus you'll never want to go to the forest again after catching a glimpse of it.

there's also a LOT to be said about what Chuckle Teeth brings, in the modern age we like to think "witch hunts" etc are behind us and the stuff of small town mentality.. yet internet makes it easier than ever for us to spread lies and fear on one another, which this villain takes full advantage of as the towns-folk witch-hunt (both symbolically and literally) each other while it in turn hunts them down.

so in my view this is an iconic horror character, granted from a franchise that is no longer in cultural focus but for what it is worth it is definitely an episode anyone with a taste for horror should check out at least once (WARNING: not for the children, obviously).