| “ | Do you realize how much I do for this Creek? I provide free basketballs for any kid in need. I give out free candy to kids whose parents won't let them have sugar. I protect everyone from those monsters on the other side of the Creek. And still, kids like you want to take advantage of me! D-Did you just think because you give me a piece of paper that suddenly, we're gonna be best friends?! Because for your information, that is not how friends work! | „ |
| ~ King Xavier's most famous quote. |
| “ | No matter how much candy you have, deep down you know that these kids only want to be friends with the king. But nobody wants to be friends with Xavier. | „ |
| ~ Craig telling Xavier that nobody wants to be friends with him. |
King Xavier is the main antagonist of the Cartoon Network original series Craig of the Creek.
He was the king of The Other Side of The Creek, a society where people are treated unfairly and where better privileges are given to those who are closer friends with himself and fewer privileges are given to people he doesn't know or "randos". During that time, King Xavier was treated like the Holy Grail of the people, and he serves as the archenemy of Craig Williams.
He is voiced by Charles DeWayne.
Biography[]
Past[]
Before the events of Craig of the Creek, Xavier met Omar and Maya when he was stuck up in a tree as they became friends before leaving to see his sister Cheyenne (The former King of the Other Side),
However, when Omar and Maya were hanging out with him, Cheyenne comes to talk to Xavier alone explaining to him to due to her going to High School, she has to let him be responsible enough as a king and pick a trustable BFF like how she has a BFF named Randy. Afterwards, he has both of his friends Omar and Maya battle each other for the role of his BFF.
Craig of the Creek[]
In "The Other Side", the Honeysuckle Rangers stole Craig's map and took it to The Other Side of the Creek. Craig, JP, and Kelsey followed them to The Other Side of the Creek, where they were eventually caught and taken as prisoners to The King. Maya led them to The King's castle, where he was shown giving some basketballs to a kid who lost them. When The Honeysuckles came up and presented him with the stolen map of information, hoping that he would like it enough to become best friends with them. King Xavier was amazed by what he saw and quickly and bluntly thanked them for presenting him with the map and then told them to be on their way, without granting them a well-deserved friendship. One of the Honeysuckles, (Shawn) got mad and told King Xavier that he was being a selfish jerk for taking what he wanted and not giving him and the other Honeysuckle (Raj) anything in return.
Quietly angered, King Xavier told Shawn that he did lots of great things for his kingdom and that he should be thanking him. Shawn apoligized for disrespecting him and so did Raj. However, they were secretly letting Craig, JP, and Kelsey escape. King Xavier forgave Shawn and Raj but he warned them that if they ever disrespected him again, he'd drop them in the maze. Just then, Craig escaped and threw a protractor at the net full of balls above King Xavier, causing them all to rain down on him. Craig snatched the map and ran off with it but not without the cost of Maya destroying Kelsey's sword. After Craig, JP, and Kelsey escaped.
King Xavier told Maya that they weren't done with Craig of the Creek and they'd have to keep an eye out for him the next time they saw him. In another episode, Craig joins the King's birthday parade, and King Xavier catches him and throws Craig, Kelsey, JP, and Craig's Cousin in a maze. In the future, King Xavier could take over the creek.
Later, he returns to the creek in the 5-part "Capture The Flag" Special Event.
Part 1[]
He and his gang are finally managed to return to the creek, and almost surrounded by The Green Poncho/Omar, but later, he bought the special snacks including everything, but Craig and his friends disagree, he tells the creek if they want to vote over King Xavier's side or Craig's side, only Sewer Queen, Jason, and Cannonball are voting for Craig, but the others of the creek are voting for The King's, later they voted for Craig, but then the king's side has won by Bobby voted for him, because he doesn't have anything for Candy, even Kit is gone, since The Trading Tree is canceled, The King and his friends are moving to go to the Creek.
Part 2[]
As the kids of the creek are famished from the lack of candy, King Xavier and his champions float down the creek throwing out candy. Xavier arrives at Kit’s Trading Tree and is introduced by Maya. Xavier claims that he heard that kids on this side of the creek aren’t able to get candy and snacks and need to trade when they do want them, which he claims isn’t the case for his side. Xavier promises to give the kids all the candy they could eat.
While taking questions, Craig comes forward and asks why should the kids trust Xavier given that Xavier dumped him and his friends in his maze, stole his map, and started a deadly snowball fight. Xavier manages to deflect the allegations by pointing out that Craig came over to his side of the creek first to win presents in Xavier’s birthday tournament that he wasn’t invited to, points out that Craig still has his map, and asks Craig if he doesn’t think snowball fights are fun. Xavier gives the creek kids a bouncy castle to play in as a present in exchange for them writing down their emergency contact information.
Over the summer, Xavier starts exerting more control over the creek and its citizens. Craig finds out that Xavier bought the Waterfall from the Ninja kids in exchange for rare discontinued Squishers. Xavier then takes the Horse girls’ meadow for use as an archery range for any recruits for his army. When the Ice Pop Trio have a friendly competition over whether Craig can draw something faster than Sparkle Cadet can make a bubble of whatever thing Cannonball says aloud, a bubble gets into Xavier’s eye causing it to sting. Maya retaliates by grabbing Sparkle Cadet’s wand and spilling the bubble soap inside of it.
At the playground, Toman challenges King Xavier to a game of H-O-R-S-E and Xavier is genuinely happy by the offer. Toman effortlessly makes a behind-the-back shot which makes Xavier scared and he badly misses the shot. The other kids laugh at Xavier’s missed shot and Toman rubbing salt in the wound makes Xavier angry and he bans H-O-R-S-E from the Creek. Toman says he can’t do that and Xavier says he can do that if the other kids want to have candy since he’s now the only source of candy and snacks at the Creek with Kit gone.
Craig has enough and says candy isn’t worth Xavier bossing them around and throws his candy at Xavier’s feet. The Squashinator comes out and Kelsey defends Craig. But Maya takes over and easily defeats Kelsey. Xavier knew Craig would oppose him so he had a contingency plan, calling Craig’s mom. Craig is shocked and doesn’t understand how Xavier got her number? Xavier says he got it from Craig’s little friend and both Kelsey and J.P. deny it was them. Bobby comes forward while wearing a flower uniform and reveals he gave Xavier Nicole’s phone number thinking he was just keeping Craig safe by listing his emergency contact.
Xavier then calls Nicole while acting innocent falsely accused Craig for pushed him in order to get Craig into trouble. Craig can’t believe Xavier did that and Xavier warns him he could have done worse and reveals he was responsible for Kit getting a bad report card. Nicole then calls Craig and demands that he come home and Craig dejectedly complies. J.P. asks Craig where he’s going and Craig says he’s going home and thinks that he just got punished, and what was worst, Xavier banished him from the creek forever.
Part 3[]
After Craig was banished from the Creek, King Xavier tries out a bike on the 10 speeds ramps but he wipes out. Xavier gets embarrassed and angry and thinks the others are laughing at him. Cannonball disputes that and even offers to teach Xavier how to ride the ramp. But Xavier doesn’t want to hear it and he tells Aggie to destroy the ramps which leave the 10 speeders crying. Xavier tells Maya to stay behind and help destroy the remaining ramps.
While going to the sewers to get rid of the Sewer Queen, Kelsey appears in disguise and acts likes a beggar that needs candy. She along with Raj and Shawn of the honeysuckle rangers (calling themselves the Sugar Swipers) throw smoke bombs so J.P. can get the candy. As they're about to run off, Maya stops Kelsey, but the Honeysuckles throw smoke bombs and run off with Xavier’s candy and distribute it to the Creek Kids. Xavier admonishes Maya for not being by his side when he needed her despite the fact that he ordered her to help destroy the ramps.
Maya asks if Xavier has more Squishers and Xavier tells her that he doesn’t because she wasn’t by his side and didn’t stop the raid that happened since she was destroying the ramps. Maya points out that she was only destroying the ramps because Xavier told her to and tells him she can’t be everywhere at once.
Part 4[]
Xavier tells her that he doesn’t want her to be everywhere, just by his side, and warns her that her position as his BFF is on the line if she disappoints him again. Maya meekly apoligizes and Xavier takes over Jason’s controller when he was about to win his Power Punchers match to win in his place.
Part 5[]
Craig finally defeats Xavier after a long game of Capture the Flag. Instead of becoming the new king, he rips the flag in half and says that the creek doesn't need a king, and that kids are free to do whatever they want.
Xavier returns in the season 4 episode "In Search of Lore", now an indoor kid, he acts in denial of losing, claiming he realized he's "too old" to keep being in the Creek. He's now secretly spying on the Stump Kids in their quest for the Heart of the Forest with his drones.
Xavier again returns in the season 4 finale "Left in the Dark", as The Red Poncho, where he stole the 14th piece of the Puzzle Cube that leads to the Heart of the Forest from the Stump Kids.
Later, he returns to the creek again in the 8-part "Heart of the Forest" Special Event.
In "The Once and Future King", we hear Xavier's side of the story, as he tells us about leaving the Creek after losing the Capture the Flag war, and eventually training and becoming the Red Poncho.
In "Putting Together the Pieces", he was with stump kids along with Maya to assemble the cube. but the other kids don't trust him, even when he try to offer and help them, and in the end, he ended up betraying the stump kids and Maya because that's what they want him to do.
In "Heart of the Forest finale", after his betrayal, he was planning to go look for the Heart of the Forest by himself, until his machines malfunction and turn against him. Later on, when Omar and Maya try to escape from his malfunctioning toy car, Xavier sacrifices himself to fight his car to make up for all the bad things he did all those years ago. This change of heart began Xavier's redemption.
Personality[]
King Xavier can be seen as a happy-go-lucky person and kind when anyone obeys his commands. For example, to show his "kindness", he gives out free candy to all the kids in the creek. This can be seen as a facade to some people, as shown in Parts 3-5 of "Capture the Flag", he can be shown to be manipulative whenever anyone disobeys him.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Xavier serves as a dark foil to both Craig and Omar.
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 Villains
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| The Creek
Junior Forest Scouts (Jason | Boris | Tony) | Junk Lord | Toman Napitupulu | Big Red | Tea Timers (Eliza | Jane | George) | Paintball Benny | Jerry | ||
| The Other Side of The Creek
King Xavier | Maya | Champions of The Other Side (Keun Sup | Aggie | Jackie) | Cheyenne | Randy | Honeysuckle Rangers (Raj | Shawn) | Cherry Blossoms | Water Lily Brigade | Acorn Knights | | ||
| Outsiders
Nate Moger III | Carter Brown | Brigid | Turner | Roxie | Non-Tipper | Paloma | Gus | Rock King | Giggles | Toothy | ||
| Movie
Craig Before the Creek : Serena | Pirate Kids | ||