Edward "Eddie" Plant is a major character in the 2015 Sony comedy and action film Pixels.
He's video game championship participant, as well as an Arcader, who cheated in arcade games in his young age, as he cheated in The 1982 Arcade Champioship Competition and won the tournament against Sam Brenner in Donkey Kong. In present day, he was jailed for criminal charges before being recruited by Sam Brenner and his friends to fight aliens mimicking 80's arcade games.
He was portrayed by Peter Dinklage, who also played Simon Bar Sinister in the 2007 Underdog film adaptation, Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, Captain Gutt in Ice Age: Continental Drift, Bolivar Trask in X-Men: Days of Future Past, Roman Lunyov in I Care a Lot, Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Dean Highbottom in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Biography[]
Early life[]
As a kid, he beat Sam Brenner in a Donkey Kong tournament by cheating (he had cheat codes written on the inside of his glasses) and was wrongfully crowned Donkey Kong champion of the world due to him being a cheater.
Present Day[]
Years later, when Earth was under attack from aliens mimicking 80's arcade games, Eddie was recruited to help fight them. He was in jail for fraud and promised to help under the condition that he receive a private island, a threesome with Serena Williams and Martha Stewart, and never have to pay taxes again. When the team fought a giant Pac-Man rampaging through New York, Eddie used his cheat codes again, resulting in the aliens launching a full-scale invasion as retribution.
After the aliens were defeated, Eddie apologized to Sam for cheating and acknowledged him as the true Donkey Kong champion of the world.
Trivia[]
- Eddie Plant is based on the world renowned videogame high score champion, Billy Mitchell, who became known due his record for playing a perfect game of Pac-Man. Ironically, Eddie cheated to achieve his scores in Donkey Kong, and in 2018, three years after the release of Pixels, Mitchell had his records removed after it was discovered he cheated to achieve his Donkey Kong score.
