| “ | He's good. Too good. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Prodnose recognizing the threat that Willy Wonka poses to his business. |
| “ | ...in which he dies. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Prodnose whenever someone is mentioned to be in an "accident". |
Gerald Prodnose is one of the three main antagonists (Alongside Arthur Slugworth and Felix Fickelgruber) in the 2023 musical fantasy film Wonka, which serves as a prequel to Roald Dahl's 1964 classic novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a "companion piece" to the 1971 musical fantasy film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
He is a renowned corrupt candymaker and one of the 3 commanders of The Chocolate Cartel, alongside his fellow rivals Arthur Slugworth and Felix Fickelgruber. However, Prodnose grows jealous at the successes of the younger Willy Wonka has with his culinary creativity, leading him to conspire alongside his fellow cartel leaders against Wonka to steal his recipes and drive him out of the chocolate making business.
He was portrayed by Matt Lucas, who also played Toby Weeks in Community, Otto Hill in The Harry Hill Movie, Mr. Blut in Polar, Charlie in the UK version of The Queen's Corgi, Mr. Collick in Missing Link Aleister Crowley in DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Chancellor Donold David Dongalor in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire.
Biography[]
Before the events of Wonka[]
Gerald Prodnose grew to become one of the most famous chocolatiers in the galleries gourmet and joined the Chocolate Cartel with his rivals Arthur Slugworth and Felix Fickelgruber where they blackmail anyone with chocolate to get out of trouble. Prodnose and the other cartel members store and captivate their chocolate in a large reserve under a cathedral run by the corrupt Father Julius and his "chocoholic" monks.
During the events of Wonka[]
Gerald Prodnose is first seen watching Willy Wonka demonstrate his "hoverchoc". Intrigued by the flying chocolate, Gerald Prodnose heads down outside with the other cartel members to test-taste the hoverchoc. Gerald Prodnose (along with Slugworth and Fickelgruber) mocks the chocolate, but regrets doing so when the hoverchoc takes effect and makes the cartel members fly uncontrollably and is embarrassed doing so as his toupee falls off. The Chocolate Cartel members vow to get revenge on Wonka.
The Chocolate Cartel is later seen in their cathedral based headquarters, where they blackmail the Chief-of-Police into doing anything he can into arresting Wonka by exploiting the chief's obsessive love of chocolate.
Prodnose and the other cartel members are later seen demanding the chief to get rid of Wonka, only for the chief to reveal that Wonka and his friends are living at Scrubbits' which infuriates Slugworth as Scrubbits is the same exact location where Arthur abandoned his niece Noodle and comes up with a plan to have Mrs. Scrubbit and Bleacher taint Wonka's candy and get him arrested.
After Wonka's store is burned down by angry customers as a result of the tainted chocolates, Prodnose and the Cartel approach Wonka with an offer to pay off everyone's debt to Scrubbit in return that he leaves town and stops making chocolate forever. After he accepts the deal they send Wonka on a boat which they loaded with dynamite, and exploded after leaving the docks, terrorizing the town with the explosion meanwhile.
Prodnose and the cartel head to the cathedral where they catch Wonka and Noddle in the act of taking the ledger as Slugworth holds the two of them at gunpoint.
Prodnose then kidnapps and false imprisons the two in chocolate reserve planning to drown them in chocolate before taking Wonka's jar of Hover-Chocs which were meant for the Oompa Loompa Lofty, and eats all the chocolate before leaving.
As Prodnose and the Cartel begin to leave the Cathedral, Wonka and Noddle having escaped turn in the ledger to Officer Affable as the Chief-of-Police tries to confiscate the ledger only for them to be exposed through the ledger which shows numerous payments the Cartel had made to him. With the Chief-of-Police arrested, Prodnose and the Cartel attempt to make a run for it only for the three of them to slowly hover up due to the effects of the Hover-Chocs. Holding onto the town fountain, Slugworth states that he will simply buy his way out of the justice system whether it be through lawyers or bribing the court officials as Noodle turns a valve causing the Cartel's entire chocolate reserve to flow through the fountain causing Prodnose to lose his grip as the Cartel is launched into the air.
When asked if they will ever float down, Wonka states that Hover-Chocs usually last a few minutes. However, due to the Cartel having eating the entire jar, he is unsure how long they will be hovering. It's unknown what happens to Prodnose and his associates afterwards, but they either floated down and got arrested once the effects of the Hover-Chocs passed or the effects wore off at a great height and they all fell to their deaths.
Appearance[]
Prodnose is a portly gentleman with light skin, round, dark brown-rimmed eyeglasses, a small beige mustache, a completely bald head covered with a beige toupée, and brown eyes. He wears a double-breasted, harvest gold and blue plaid business suit, white collared undershirt, a yellow bowtie with a cream-colored diamond pattern, a light gold satin handkerchief in his breast pocket, a golden Chocolate Cartel pin on the left collar of his blazer, and black flat-heeled shoes. When out and about, he wears a chocolate brown bowler hat with a lighter hatband, a beige overcoat, light brown leather gloves and carries an umbrella.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- The Chocolate Cartel
- Arthur Slugworth
- Felix Fickelgruber
- Miss Bon-Bon
- Chief-of-Police
- Father Julius
- Mrs. Scrubbitt
- Bleacher
Enemies[]
- Willy Wonka - Rival and Attempted Victim
- Noodle - Attempted Victim
- Abacus Crunch
- Piper Benz
- Larry Chucklesworth
- Lottie Bell
- Officer Affable
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Trivia[]
- While Wonka appears to be a prequel to the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory film adaptation, Mr. Prodnose is last seen floating up to his presumed death unless the effects of the chocolate passed and he was arrested, which means that either way, he couldn't have sent spies to steal Willy Wonka's secrets later on in his career.
- That said, there's a possibility that his company kept his name after his death/imprisonment and his successors were loyal to him to the point of sabotaging Wonka to avenge their predecessor.
- The text in Prodnose's shop says "Cioccolato di qualità", which is Italian for "Quality chocolate".
- If the four main members of the chocolate cartel serve as parallels to the four bratty kids , it’s possible that Mr. Prodnose serves as a parallel to Mike Teevee, one of the Four Bratty Kids of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: both are ultimately idiots despite their claims of grandeur.
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