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| “ | Behold! My true beautiful self. You see, I am a rare species of mushroom able to control the mind of its host. And soon all of Amphibia will be under my command! | „ |
| ~ Apothecary Gary. |
Apothecary Gary is the main antagonist of the Amphibia episodes "Children of the Spore" and "The Root of Evil". He is a sentient, talking mushroom able to produce spores that control the minds of his victims.
He was voiced by Tony Hale, who also played Doctor Undergear in Jake and the Never Land Pirates, James Suggs in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, Ross in The Angry Birds Movie, the Joker in Batman Ninja, Phillip Shoemaker in Law & Order, Doctor Psycho in Harley Quinn, Vaneé in LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales and Reverend Traske in Hocus Pocus 2.
Appearance[]
Apothecary Gary largely resembles a traditional mushroom. He has a long stem with strong white roots and looks a lot like a button mushroom, the only major change being that the spots look more like drops of water or bubbles. He sits above his host, Lloyd, and controls him. He glows when he speaks and he also has some small, root-like buds growing from Lloyd's neck.
Personality[]
Apothecary Gary was originally revealed to be an evil, somewhat mysterious mind control mushroom. Despite his gruesome ways, he desperately wants to survive, begging Hop Pop not to let Bessie eat him. In "The Root of Evil", aside from Jeremy, he no longer accepts involuntary bodies, signifying the new compassion he has for his host.
Biography[]
He first appeared as a hooded frog when Hop Pop was shopping for glue to fix his model ship after it got broken by Anne, Sprig and Polly. Gary offers Hop Pop a potion that will make the kids behave. Hop Pop is skeptical about the potion, but before he can say anymore, Gary mysteriously disappears. After putting the potion on the kids, they start to behave better, giving Hop Pop time to work on his model ship, but the effects of the potion soon wear off and they start to misbehave again.
Hop Pop then decides to use the potion on them again, but it turns them into zombies with mushrooms on their heads. They capture Hop Pop and take him to Gary, who reveals himself to be a sentient talking mushroom controlling the body of a frog. He explains that the potion has his spores in it, and with that, he has turned all of Wartwood into his army of zombies, which Gary will use to conquer Amphibia. Hop Pop runs to the barn and throws his model ship at Bessie's stable, which lets her out and eats Gary. This turns everyone back to normal, including Gary's host Lloyd. However, after Hop Pop and the kids leave, some of Gary's potion falls on Jeremey the beetle, which grows a new mushroom that puts Jeremey under its control.
His debut episode was mentioned in "Shut In!" as one of the three scary stories Polly wanted to tell.
Afterwards, in "The Root of Evil", Gary makes his return and is revealed to have survived his unfortunate fate and reveals that since he possessed Jeremy, he needed to regrow his power, and was thus taken care of by a bunch of frogs and managed to make them his minions since his spores made them better gardeners, and later managed to create the secret paradise of Gardentopia, and commands his army to kill Anne and the Plantars, but afterwards, makes amends with Hop Pop to join the Resistance.
Trivia[]
- The ending of "Children of the Spore" hinted Gary might come back, which was eventually confirmed in "The Root of Evil".
- His debut episode's title is a reference to the horror movies Children of the Corn from 1984 and Children of the Damned from 1964, a sequel to Village of the Damned. Both films center around hive-mind possessed children terrorizing a rural setting.
External Links[]
- Apothecary Gary on the Disney Wiki
- Apothecary Gary on the Amphibia Wiki
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