The Boogieman is an evil entity who appears as the main antagonist in the third era of Gorillaz.
He appeared in three music videos. He is first seen as the secondary antagonist in Stylo, the main antagonist in On Melancholy Hill, and had a minor cameo in Do Ya Thing.
Roles[]
Stylo[]
He appears in Stylo as a minor and mysterious figure who appears towards an injured police officer who was taken down by Cyborg Noodle shortly prior to his arrival. He is seen taking the police officer away and vanishing into black fog.
On Melancholy Hill[]
He later appears as the main antagonist in this video when he is seen after kidnapping a crying manatee and placing it on top of Melancholy hill. He leads the band and several others towards the hill throughout the video. Cyborg Noodle fires two shots at him which causes him to flee, grabbing the manatee with him into the water below.
After his fog disappears everyone discovers the plastic beach.
Rhinestone Eyes[]
He later appears in the Rhinestone Eyes storyboard, leading the black fogs attack on plastic beach,and his backstory is explained: he was a rejected 5th horseman of the apocalypse ("flatulence") and helped murdoc with the band's sucess.he gives up trying to take murdoc's soul after the black fogs' defeat.
Do Ya Thing[]
In Do Ya Thing he is seen reading a newspaper and later glaring at 2D when he walks into the room.
Gallery[]
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Videos[]
Trivia[]
- He possibly hired Bruce Willis to kill Murdoc since his original plan was to steal Murdoc's soul.
- Murdoc describes him as the essence of everything bad in the world in one person.
- He is the most dangerous and evil out of all of the Gorillaz villains.
- His design heavily resembles a plague doctor.
- His name, "Sun Moon Stars", is referenced in the song Sweepstakes.
- The Boogieman is the first Gorillaz antagonist to ever appear in the band's music videos.
- Despite the fact the the Boogieman is treated as an enemy, in the On Melancholy Hill and Stylo music videos and the Rhinestone Eyes storyboard, he is seen in 2-D's Phase 3 ident gassing him. This could explain why 2-D says that Murdoc 'had' him gassed, but would imply that the Boogieman and Murdoc were working together; it may be possible that this was the case, but it wouldn't explain why he is seen as an antagonist. It could also be that Murdoc saved 2-D from the Boogieman after he was gassed and never told him.
- The fact that the Boogieman is actually a demon, explains how he could disappear with the Police Officer in the Stylo music video.
- According to Jamie Hewlett, The Boogieman is actually a rejected "5th Horsemen" of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and his real name is Flatulence, because of the foul smell he always brings with him. This explains why he appeared with The Horsemen in the storyboarded "Rhinestone Eyes" video.
- The character in the Sweepstakes Picture with the white mask is called Evangelist. It's a human or creature who is related to the Boogieman, however it is portrayed as good. Jamie Hewlett opened a contest on the Gorillaz website to see what the Evangelist looks like under its mask and robes.The winning entrant designed the Evangelist as a woman, soaking wet with a fish bowl upon her head, rain boots on her feet, and squids hanging off her arms.
- It has been rumored on different websites that Boogieman may be Hannibal Niccals, Murdoc's older half-brother. However, it is unknown and probably unlikely that this is true, as Hannibal was put into jail for "stealing hubcaps," according to Murdoc in Rise of the Ogre.
- In the "DoYaThing" video, the Boogieman appears at 2-D's house reading a newspaper. When 2-D arrives to the living room, the Boogieman turns his face to 2-D. It is not explained, as lots of other things about the video, why is the Boogieman at 2-D's house, and specially, why didn't he try to attack 2-D, Noodle, or even Murdoc (who also appears in the video), and why 2-D doesn't seem to be surprised when he sees Sun Moon Stars.
- Boogieman's appearance could be a reference to Dream's Helm, a character from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.
- Noodle (or even Cyborg Noodle) was going to shoot the Boogieman.
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 Villains
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| Protagonists
Murdoc Niccals | Ace D. Copular |
| Enemies
Boogieman · Bruce Willis |