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| “ | Gentlemen. From this day forward, you will all refer to me by the name Betty! (Laughing) Ah ha, ha-ha-ha-haaaa! | „ |
| ~ Betty, introducing his new name. |
Master Pain, better known as Betty, was the main antagonist of Kung Pow! Enter the Fist. He was the Chosen One's arch-nemesis and the former leader and boss of his henchmen. He worshipped the Evil Council.
Biography[]
Beginnings[]
Young Betty
Master Pain was a Kung Fu master who dedicated himself to the Evil Council. One night, he and two of his minions came to a house whose family was part of a rival order. They slaughtered the whole family, and found that their baby was the Chosen One. In an attempt to kill him, the baby blocked Master Pain's hand. He attacked the assassins with his unnatural gifted powers of Kung Fu. The minions attempt to flee, but Master Pain killed them both for their cowardice. Seeing that the baby was too much for him, he decided to seal him inside the house and set it on fire. Master Pain walks away from the burning house, not knowing the baby got himself out.
In Kung Pow! Enter the Fist[]
Years later, Master Pain, hearing rumors that the Chosen One has taken up residence in town, arrives in search of him. Demonstrating his skills to a crowd by withstanding several strikes all over his body from his henchmen, then subduing them with one move, Master Pain is hired by the mayor, whereupon he randomly changes his name to Betty. Betty is insulted when the Chosen One refers to the name as a woman's name, nearly resulting in a physical confrontation that is broken up by his subordinate. Shortly afterwards, Master Tang challenges Betty to a duel to avenge the murder of the Chosen One's family, but is unable to defeat him due to his ill state.
The Chosen One, against the warning of Whoa, sets out to confront Betty. After neutralizing one of Betty's underlings, a karate cow named Moon Nieu, the Chosen One confronts Betty, who is swinging an iron claw over his head at a waterfall, and is joined by Ling's father, Master Doe. The two prove to be unable to defeat Betty, who mortally wounds Doe and sends them over the waterfall. Learning that the Chosen One has survived their battle, Betty goes on a killing spree, hunting down and murdering anyone suspected of aiding him. During his rampage, Betty maims Ling, Master Tang, the Chosen One's dog, and Wimp Lo, though with the exception of Wimp Lo, they all survive. The Chosen One, while attempting to save Ling, is lured into a trap and caught in a small net and left for dead, though he manages to escape.
Tipped off by the Evil Council of the Chosen One's survival, Betty confronts him at a temple. During their battle, the Evil Council emerges and endow Betty with supernatural powers, giving him the advantage. Betty paralyzes the Chosen One's arm and pummels him, leaving him near-unconscious. As Betty gloats, the Chosen One, receiving visions of Whoa and Mu-Shu Fasa instructing him to open his mouth, does so, and Tonguey flies out and destroys the Evil Council's mothership, causing them to retreat. With the Evil Council no longer aiding him, Betty is left vulnerable, and the Chosen One grabs the pyramind spikes on Betty's chest and tears them out, killing him.
Personality[]
Betty was very comical while at the same time ruthless. He didn't care whom he had to kill, as long as it meant coming a step closer to defeating the Chosen One, even killing his own henchmen at the beginning of the film. He would kill children as well, shown when he killed the Chosen One's siblings during his search for him and tries to kill the Chosen One as a baby. However, Betty also possessed a sensitive side and an unusual sense of humor, claiming that while people say that he does things that are not "correct-to-do," he views himself as a nice man with "happy feelings" and sharing a joke, and has been shown to be somewhat courteous to his enemies, offering Master Tang a glass of water after noting that Master Tang appeared to be coughing heavily.
Overall, Betty is hinted to be slightly insane, as he changes his name from "Master Pain" to "Betty" (and becomes enraged once the Chosen One points out that "Betty" is a woman's name) almost completely at random, randomly changes the mayor's clothes from black to red and back again, and makes random grunting moments and pauses in his speech.
Betty is loyal to the Evil Council, being impressed with their evil plan to "hurt many...people....that are good!" It is for this reason that he tries to kill the Chosen One, as the Chosen One and his tongue are supposedly the greatest threat to the Evil Council's plans.
It's vaguely implied that Betty may be a closet homosexual, given his choice of name as "Betty", unusually high-pitched voice, promising to "shake [Master Tang's] bouncy booty", and insistence that he does indeed like women. However, he also half-threateningly flirts with Ling and the aforementioned promise to shake Master Tang's booty was an affirmative answer to Master Tang's challenge to fight, so his sexual preferences are ultimately a mystery.
He loved to play songs when fighting enemies, such as "Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts)" by Sir Mix-A-Lot or "Can't Touch This" by M.C. Hammer.
Appearance[]
Betty is a muscular man wearing a sleeveless black shirt that bears the symbol of the Evil Council (a metal triangle) and black arm braces. He has a moustache and a receding hairline. Betty often carries his weapon of choice, a pair of iron claws tied together by rope, on his person, though he's also known to have an assistant carry them for him.
Abilities[]
Betty is an accomplished martial artist, having the skill to defeat and kill Master Tang in battle. He is shown to be very skilled in the use of his signature pair of claws tied together by a rope. Betty has two signature skills: First, he is extremely resistant to pain, being able to withstand multiple hits by a wooden staff, even to the crotch, and second, he can use a pressure-point strike technique that he calls the "Paralyzer."
Betty is also a "great magician," having the ability to change the Mayor's clothes from black to red.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He was originally from Tiger and Crane Fists, a Hong Kong film from the 1970s. In this film, his name was Lu Ting Chu, and he was an agent of the Japanese, mirroring Betty's own affiliation of the Evil Council, a group of French aliens.
- Interestingly, many of Lu Ting Chu's actions mirror those of Betty's in spite of Kung Pow! Enter the Fist not following the overall plot of Tiger and Crane Fists. For example, both villains' first actions are to murder several people close to the main protagonist (Betty murdered the Chosen One's family, and Lu Ting Chu murdered most of the members of the Tiger school of kung fu where Sing Chen, the Chosen One's counterpart, trained).
- The scene where Betty demonstrates his skill of being able to withstand multiple blows to the crotch is what convinced Steve Oedekirk to choose Tiger and Crane Fists to adapt into Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.
- Betty's magical ability to change the Mayor's clothes from black to red is a result of Steve Oedekirk editing two scenes from Tiger and Crane Fists, one with the Mayor wearing red clothes and another with the Mayor wearing black clothes, into one scene and introducing Betty's ability as an explanation to the Mayor's quick change in clothes.