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| “ | I am the Hourglass. And your time is up. | „ |
| ~ Hourglass. |
Dr. Louis "Lou" Landers, also known as the Hourglass, the main antagonist in the 2008 superhero spoof film Superhero Movie.
He is a life-draining supervillain who, after a body-enhancing experiment that was meant to treat his terminal illness, seeks to gain immortality by extracting as much lives as he can.
He was portrayed by Christopher McDonald, who also played Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore, Kent Mansley in The Iron Giant, Carl Nesmith in the Ben 10 franchise, Wilson Croft in Flubber, Travis Cole in Dirty Work, Kerr in Terminal Velocity, and Harold Coyle in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Biography[]
Lou Landers was a brilliant scientist and a wealthy businessman who is the head of his company Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals and uncle of the arrogant teenager Lance Landers at Empire City High School. But, he suffers from a terminal illness. He later gained superhuman strength and the ability to drain the life energy from others and restore his own, killing them in the process. And it all started in a lab accident the night at the Amalgamated corporate headquarters in Empire City when his newly developed rejuvenation machine that was designed to the total cure to sickness, exploded but somehow succeeded, and Landers ended up draining the life energy of others, starting with Mr. Carlson and his former board of directors (who despised him and wanted him out of the way), declaring their deaths a "personnel change" for his corporation.
Landers and Lance have dinner with Rick's family and Jill, but Landers secretly learns of Rick's true identity when he notices the same injuries on Rick as on The Dragonfly. Making up an awkward excuse, he and Lance leave. Landers returns minutes later as Hourglass and kills Aunt Lucille.
He plans to drain the life force of about 47,272 people in his city in order to become fully revived to perfect health permanently, becoming immortal.
His plan to do that at both the World Humanity Awards and Herocon within the Empire City Convention Center with nearly 48, 000 people in one place was foiled by his nemesis, the Dragonfly. Hourglass threw a timed-bomb at the Dragonfly. Unable to remove the bomb, The Dragonfly approached the Hourglass and Hourglass was killed by the explosion. The Dragonfly remained safe because of his armoured skin ability which gives him great invulnerability.
Quotes[]
| “ | Titanium blades. They cut through diamonds. | „ |
| ~ The Hourglass about his Titanium blades. |
| “ | I wish I could stay longer, Dragonfly, but I just don't have the time. | „ |
| ~ The Hourglass making his escape. |
| “ | So this is the lair of the Dragonfly. | „ |
| ~ The Hourglass attacking Rick's house. |
| “ | No, no, no, I'm not here to fight you. I've got thousands of other people I plan to kill. This little visit is just to show you who'll get hurt if you get in my way. | „ |
| ~ The Hourglass telling Rick about his plans and warning him to stay out of his way. |
| “ | Time to go. | „ |
| ~ The Hourglass as he is about to kill Aunt Lucille. |
| “ | Forget it, Dragonfly. You're too late. | „ |
| ~ The Hourglass telling Dragonfly he is too late to stop him. |
| “ | Oh f**k. | „ |
| ~ The Hourglass' last words before his explosive death. |
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Trivia[]
- The Hourglass helmet and armor of Dr. Lou Landers humorously resembles that of the DC Universe crime fighter Dr. John Henry Irons II aka Steel, from one of the worst live-action superhero movies of all time starring Shaquille O'Neal (the crimson cape was taken from the Steel comics).
- The Hourglass is a spoof of scientific businessesmen-turned-megalomaniacal supervillains.
- Primarily, Dr. Norman Osborn/Green Goblin from the Spider-Man trilogy (played by Willem Dafoe), because of his son, his weapons, his insanity and his overall backstory.
- Dr. Victor Von Doom from the Fantastic 4 duology (played by Julian McMahon), because both wear silver helmets/armor and turned genetically parasitic towards innocent lives to avoid his own dying cause.
- Dr. Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze from Batman & Robin (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger), both also wear silver helmets & armor, make puns about their own alter-ego themes, builds giant machines to attack a city population and has arch-nemesis superheroes who's parents were shot and killed in a dark alley.