| “ | AHAHAHAH!! You see Santy? I got me the toys, I got me the sleigh, I got me the orb! Now NObody can stop me from taking over Christmas! (Evil laughter) | „ |
| ~ Dingle, now having the ball with the sleigh and gifts in the island. |
| “ | (Dingle): When you're evil (Mwahahahaha!) You have a certain, responsibility... to take great pleasure in doing things which are, very very wrong. Now gentlemen, our current situation, presents us with a certain, opportunity. Which I think I can best express... with a little song! 🎶 I love a mutiny, backstabbing betrayal yeah that's for me, There's nothing finer in the seven seas, than a good old-fashioned mutiny! 🎶 I pickpocket, loot and rob, done a thousand betting scams! But nothing will satisfy half as much, as screwing up Santa's nappy-pappy plan! 🎶 I'm telling you, nothing brings more glee, than a rootin' tootin' mutiny!!🎶 (Imbecile #1): Man this is something I gotta see! (Imbecile #2): Yeah, count me in on this evil spree! (All, in unison): 🎶 You and me love a mutiny, goes together like assault and battery, nothing's finer in the seven seas, than a good old-fashioned mu-tin-yyyyyyy! (Dingle): HahahaHAAAAH! Gotcha Santa!!~ |
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| ~ Dingle's villain song "I Love a Mutiny".
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Dingle Kringle is the main antagonist of the 2007 South Korean-American animated film Elf Bowling The Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike.
He was voiced by Tom Kenny, who also voiced Scaramouche the Merciless in Samurai Jack, Ice King in Adventure Time and SpongeBob SquarePants.
Biography[]
| “ | (Captain Santa): Dingle, tally the scores! (Dingle): Tallying, my brother. Lets see, tally the two divided by pie that adds up to... oh, carrion, the poor lads lose again, imagine that. |
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| ~ Dingle. |
Dingle is introduced as a treacherous pirate and con man who rigged the game of tallying, and Santa sweet-talked his pirate followers that Dingle was responsible for it, which led to Santa and Dingle arguing like children about it and begin sword fighting about it, which led to Santa and Dingle stupidly walking the plank as they sword fight, which the pirates poked their backsides to make them fall off the plank, thus beginning the plot of the story.
| “ | Huh, if I had me that mystic ball, I could steal every toy from here to Timbuktu! (Evil chuckling) | „ |
| ~ Dingle trying to convince Santa into getting the ball to steal toys. |
At first, he was always a bad influence on Santa, encouraging him to be evil, and it was also revealed that he and Santa Claus were pirates, who stole toys from children and sold them back to their parents. Later on, however, Santa felt bad for his pirating ways and returned the toys to an orphanage, and then Santa became the children's mascot he is now known for. The two end up in Elfville at the North Pole, which Dingle was dodging Santa's attacks, before looking at Santa getting caught in fire with amusement. Dingle was later angered by Lex calling him Santa's "pet rat", and was about to kill the three elves for it before Santa paused Dingle's act with a different idea in knowing where they are, Dingle plays along with Santa in fooling the elves into thinking they're not pirates but instead "shoe clogs salesmen" as DIngle improvised, which he leaves Santa into persuading the elves into introducing them to the factory the elves work at, which Dingle thought their slogan "only with fun will work be done" was ridiculous (which offended Bagger), and Santa wanted to downplay Dingle's "hotheaded" behavior while Santa asks Lex what are "duble bobbins"; where Lex introducing them to the toy factory impressed Santa and Dingle, which Dingle wanted to steal all the toys since he's a pirate (and even tried to remind Santa this and Santa desperately tries to keep up the facade, and Dingle seeing elves march made Dingle want to snatch the magic ball from Lex (which electrocuted Dingle and Santa since neither of them knew out to use it, but Santa throwing the magic bowling ball by accident knocked over the army of elves like they're bowling pins, making them happy (much to Santa and Dingle's confusion).
When Santa and Lex were building up their partnership (and Santa falls in love with Griesidela, to of which Dingle tried to remind Santa to continue pirating), Dingle then suddenly meets Sir. Penuckle, a hustling penguin (which Dingle wasn't buying it until Penuckle offered a card game of poker to earn money, which Dingle takes interest in), Dingle hoped Lex could make a ship for him and Santa to steal toys (which didn't work as Dingle hoped), and Dingle started his villainous career with the two penguins: The Mafioso Imbeciles.
| “ | (Dingle): Aheh, ahahaha!! Ohh that's IT! Imbeciles! Frrrront and center!! (Imbecile 1 & 2): Yes boss?? *slapped both penguins with fish* (Imbecile 1): What was THAT for!? (Dingle): All the stupid things I know you're going to do when I'm not around, "find yourself a bachelor" iglooey says. I'm sick of being second banana, I need you boys to do something to me. We got to split up Santa and Lex, so I can pull the 'ol switcheroo, and take over Christmas! It's TIME to bring the fat man down, because this time, Santa ain't coming to town! (Evil laughter) |
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| ~ Dingle scheming in his "Drink Imbeciles" cafe. |
However, 1400 years passing by, Dingle stuck to his evil ways and grew jealous of his brother once he's been known as a schemer, a scoundrel and a mooch who swindled money and valuables from seniors, was caught trying to make another scam of selling yellow snow as a scheme, and then became notorious for rigging a reindeer race as his scam to work one day a year as a deal with Santa despite being bailed out a billion times after trying to make another scam with indicting an internet "ponsi scheme" (and he avoided being sent to jail, somehow), and was eventually kicked out of Santa's house after Santa let Dingle live with him and his wife for a while once Mrs. Claus couldn't tolerate any more of Dingle's bossy and lazy nature.
| “ | ALL RRRRIGHT YA SWABS! LISTEN UP!!! I propose trimming some FAT in the company's infrastructure. That fat, Is my brother!! We ALL know I should be running this joint, so! I'm challenging my belly full of blubber brother, to bowl for Christmas. WINNER! TAKES ALL!!! | „ |
| ~ Dingle challenging his brother Santa in a game of bowling with a megaphone. |
Dingle eventually became a bartender who works at the bar saloon titled "Drink Imbeciles", which is where he had whipped up a duo of con-artistic penguin henchmen to help him create a revenge scheme with Santa, which he started a rivalry with Santa's bowling center he had opened up as a way to take over Christmas in a match against Santa, which almost worked when he cheated to nearly get the key from Santa, but it then fails due to the fact he was caught cheating and Santa won the match. Then Dingle made another scheme of sabotage Santa and Lex's partnership, which eventually destroyed the elves' workshop (as he ordered his henchmen) and him tricking Santa into thinking Lex had gone crazy in the middle of the north pole had deserted Santa, leaving him to nearly die on an ice flow of cold water.
He then took command and moved the elves to Fiji (where Veronica's Villa is located and Dingle's signature to his deal with Veronica being a big X). Ever since Veronic Kim (aka The Fijian Floozy) made a deal to work with Dingle to become the first lady of Christmas, Dingle carries out his plan to hypnotize the elves to be his zombie slaves and opened a sweatshop where he is hypnotizing people after he tricked the elves (besides Lex) into becoming brainwashed by Dingle. Santa survived, and along with Lex, an elf with a powerful orb, hunted down Dingle, but Dingle stole the orb and brought two moai to life to work as his and Veronica's henchmen bodyguards, and got them to bury Santa in the sand.
Dingle employed one moai to guard the sweatshop, while the other was to guard Santa. The one guarding Santa was moved by a speech Santa gave, and became good, and helped him. Later, Santa and Lex had to fight Dingle for the orb and bowled to win it since Dingle challenged Santa into the game. Dingle cheated, but before he could be ratted out, he attempted to escape with it. As he escaped, Lex learned to telepathically control the orb, and it electrocuted Dingle. During the bowling challenge, he has the penguins use a grease gun, and a bomb (which was supposed to blow Santa up) this causes him to use a fish to slap them. as the bomb blows the bowling elves, Dingle gloats that he won and is now the king of Christmas with Veronica Kim as his new queen as he tries to kiss her before she uses a coconut, however, Chief Manamana explains to everyone to Dingle was cheating as he exposes him cheating by showing everyone a replay of it.
This gets Dingle angry as he gets mad at the penguins for their stupidity, as a rocket flies Dingle tries to escape from it only for him to get on the rocket and blast into space. He was last seen during the moon saying to the audience "Goodnight for now!".
It is unknown if Dingle escaped from the rocket or not, but given the fact that he's immortal, it's likely that he got stranded on somewhere in the pole.
Personality[]
| “ | (Captain Santa): Attention Dingle Kringle!! Dringle, assemble the suckers- Dah I mean, crew on deck!! (Dingle): Anything you SAY, my dear sweet brother! *drops the sweet tone, mutters:* You fat mangy bearded blubber bucket! | „ |
| ~ Dingle's first lines once Santa ordered Dingle to assemble the crew on deck, and responded with feigned politeness before muttering to himself. |
Dingle is a shamelessly sneaky, sly, duplicitous, manipulative, immature, power-hungry, suave, underhanded and arrogant individual. He's the type of scheming scoundrel who'd con anyone for a coin, set up any scam for a quick buck, was once a mooching freeloader who was ungrateful of Santa's generosity Dingle took advantage of when Santa let Dingle live in his house for some time (Dingle's rude and commanding behavior being what pushed Griselda into putting her foot down and tell Santa to get Dingle out of the house), and he remains a lazy cheater who would proudly cheat in a game of bowling to come off as superior to Santa and being able to take control of Santa (as well as becoming a power-hungry grifter who seeks to take control of Christmas as well as seeking to steal tons of toys).
Even once he's kicked out and was unwisely given immortality to live as long as Santa does, he remains a sadistic trickster who tries to set up schemes to sabotage Santa, blames any failure onto others such as his own henchmen, and would resort to sabotaging Santa and Lex's friendship so they could turn against each other just so Dingle could trick Santa into thinking Lex went "mental" and walked out onto ice where a storm would happen, which allowed Dingle to falsely claim to take the role of Santa's substitute even before the workshop got destroyed by Dingle's henchmen, and Dingle got all the elves into thinking Santa thought the elves stink to end Santa and the elves' partnership and damaged trust. Dingle was deceitful and persuasive enough to persuade the elves to go to fuji while getting Santa stranded in the middle of the sea.
He is also proud to be evil in a rather campy and flamboyant fashion, and he feels like he has responsibility in taking pleasure in doing anything wrong with an anarchistic appreciation for causing a mutiny in his "I Love a Mutiny" song number (which he even had fits of evil laughter to show extravagantly evil he is). He even states out loud his plans of taking over Christmas in the airplane where all the elves on board (and only Veronica Kim was the only person who took interest), and later had an infamous song titled "Slavery Makes the World Go Round" that has Dingle explaining his love for having slaves doing his bidding and taking joy in whipping and ordering his brainwashed slaves to do as he pleases.
He also seems to be a bit of a flirtatious pervert towards Veronica Kim, repeatedly trying to kiss her even though she was a gold digger who didn't want him for love or lust but for money and fame as the queen of Christmas once Dingle claimed his net worth was planned to make him worth millions, and Dingle keeps thinking he kissed Kim even though his eyes were closed and Kim used objects to avoid the kiss (much to Dingle's unknowing glee).
However, he's known to be something of an idiot who couldn't do anything right (which got him humiliated by Griselda when Dingle tried taking Santa's role and his facial hair being ripped off made the elves mock and laugh at Dingle), and despite having some intelligence and strategic ability to concoct some useful plans to his advantage (as well as seeing the opportunity in playing tricks on others after Dingle cluelessly asks why Santa was playing along before realizing the trick was to get the toys initially), Dingle's arrogance is what causes his most of schemes to botch up oftentimes and is also what caused himself to be defeated at the end.
Quotes[]
| “ | (Captain Santa): Awww, sorry maties, now PAY up you swabs!!! Hah Har Har!! (Pirates grumble as they do so) (Dingle): Thank you thank you for your tax-deductible contribution. (Parrot): Ah! He cooked the box! Ah! Dingle cooked the box. (Pirate): "Cooked the box"!? (Santa): But I'm innocent I tell ya! It were Dingle would fudge the figures (Dingle): Why you scurvy dog! HE made me do it! (Santa): Did not! (Dingle): Did to!! |
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| ~ Dingle swordfighting his brother Santa once the parrot revealed Dingle "cooked the box" to rig the game for coins and Dingle claims that Santa told him to do it. |
| “ | "Only with fun, will work be done" Blah! What a bunch of baloney! | „ |
| ~ Dingle reading the elve's rule for fun being what makes them work. |
| “ | How I love to STEAL toys from the weep bratties. (Santa, guilty): Ahh he means giving them away to the kiddies eheheh that being what WE like to do! |
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| ~ Dingle. |
| “ | *snaps finger* Brother, you keep your hard strudel in your pants, we got to get to pirating you sappy swab! | „ |
| ~ Dingle's infamous adult joke to Santa falling in love with Mrs. Claus. |
| “ | I gots me a question Pinocchio, are you gonna whip us up a show or not? | „ |
| ~ Dingle to Lex. |
| “ | *Burps rudely* GRISELDA!!! Where are me TACOS? And don't be forgetting the extra jalapeños! | „ |
| ~ Dingle to Santa's wife while he's slouching on the couch and Santa sees Dingle on the naughty list. |
| “ | Oh now you want ME to leave, is that it? Why you lily liver rat, throwing your own brother out! | „ |
| ~ Dingle's immature response once Santa declares Dingle gets kicked out. |
| “ | Good work my tuxedo imbeciles, NOW is the time for me to take control. | „ |
| ~ Dingle witnessing his penguin henchmen managing to mess with the units of the toy counts being off by 6 billion in the inventory. |
| “ | Imbeciles! Get ready!! (Imbeciles 1 & 2): Ready boss!! |
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| ~ Dingle telling his penguins to prepare the rig. |
| “ | (Bagger): What do we do?! (Dingle): It looks to me like there's only one thing you CAN do, legally that is. (Bagger): Dingle's right! No bowling means no fun, and no fun means NO WORK! WE'RE ON STRIKE!! (Candle): But Bagger, Christmas is around the corner, what do we do!? (Dingle): Hmmm, what WILL you do? Well, since everything's in cinders and since Santa FLEW the coupe, how's about we use the little of the 'ol elf magic and built us a NEW joint, in the funnest place on Earth! |
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| ~ Dingle persuading the elves to go to Fiji after framing and sabotaging Santa into looking bad. |
| “ | Oh lassie, he petrifies me peg leg and makes me hot pound! Ba bom Ba bom Ba bom Ba bom! | „ |
| ~ Dingle to Kim. |
| “ | Yeah? Well Santy is in the frozen food aisle, and you're about to CHECK OUT! | „ |
| ~ Dingle once Lex figures out Dingle's brainwashing act to make the elves his slaves. |
| “ | YES YES! Ah uh! Ah huh! Wahahahaha! Woo hoo woo hoo woo hoohohoho ahahahahahaha!!! Beat that, Santy! | „ |
| ~ Dingle winning in a bowling match in an island by cheating, and then taunting. |
| “ | WAAAHAAAA!!! *frustrated:* Penguins the penguins Ohohoho always the penguins!!! | „ |
| ~ Dingle upon getting defeated. |
| “ | WAAAAAAAAAAA!!! | „ |
| ~ Dingle's last bit of dialogue upon being sent to the moon with a firework rocket. |
| “ | Goodnight, for noooowwww!!! | „ |
| ~ Dingle's last words. |
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Trivia[]
- In the games, Dingle is a failed ice salesman and Santa Claus's older brother where Dingle had a design that resembled a schlubby looking Homer Simpson. In the movie, he serves as a rival for Santa.
- Unlike his video game counterpart, Dingle is not an ice salesman, but in other respects, he is similar to his game counterpart.
- According to his conversation with Kim, he appears to have a long medical history of problems. On his medical records from the Cinepix Hospital, it shown that he's had issues with festering sores, blistering soils, oozing lesions, body odor, halitosis, athletes' foot and manic depression.
- For how he's portrayed in the movie, some could argue that coincidentally, Dingle may come across as a Waluigi or Robbie Rotten wannabe (his occasional Waluigi sounding mannerisms in his voice isn't helping, especially in his "I Love Mutiny" song).