| “ | We've got to have… money! | „ |
| ~ Lickboot's most famous quote. |
Mr. Lickboot is the secondary antagonist of the 1992/1993 animated film Tom and Jerry: The Movie, which is also the first feature film in the Tom and Jerry franchise.
He is Aunt Pristine Figg's lawyer and accomplice, and they both want to capture Robyn Starling so they can have her father's inheritance money. A running gag is when he has a money fit, and his annoyed boss puts a stop to it.
He was voiced by the late Tony Jay, who also voiced Judge Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Shere Khan in The Jungle Book 2 and Talespin, Monsieur D'Arque in Beauty and the Beast, Megabyte in ReBoot, Lord Dregg in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Galactus in the 1994 Fantastic Four series, Baron Mordo in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Khartoum in Disney's Aladdin series, Lieutenant in Fallout, Toplofty in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, the Transcendent One in Planescape Torment and Peking Duck in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat.
Biography[]
Lickboot first appears when he drinks a cup of tea and Lickboot told Figg that she will be able to live without Robyn. Because of this, Figg told Lickboot to shut up and called him a hoodoo. But Lickboot replies that it is true and that her Starling trust fund money will go bye-bye, and she will be out in the cold, and Figg tells him to scheme and stop talking.
Lickboot and Figg then sing a song about money. Then they discuss about Robyn's father still alive, that he survived the avalanche.
When Figg discovers Robyn has escaped again (due to Tom and Jerry getting another confrontation during the escape and accidentally woke her up), she and Lickboot try to find Robyn under the bridge, but Tom, Jerry and Robyn escaped on a raft in the river. Lickboot and Figg create a million dollar reward for Robyn on every milk carton. They found out that Robyn is located at Captain Kiddie's carnival due to her separated from Tom and Jerry when their raft crashed into a ship, and immediately drive there to fetch her.
Lickboot and Figg arrived at the carnival to fetch Robyn, but she, Tom and Jerry escape yet again on a boat. They pursue the three heroes across the country.
Eventually, he and Figg corner her in the cottage with Figg lying to her that her father is dead not knowing he was already on his way to the cottage on his helicopter to rescue her and already informed of his daughter's whereabouts and Figg's intentions by the Starling Enterprise. Lickboot tries to sternly convince her to never run away again and grabs her wrist ready to take her back to their home before Mr. Starling arrives. But only Robyn attacks Lickboot by furiously kicking him on his leg in self-defense, causing him to release her and bounce in pain. Lickboot accidentally set the cottage ablaze in the process after bumping into Figg while she tried to catch Robyn. Lickboot tries to convince her to go for safety in vain, but Robyn refuses, and he and Figg are forced to escape. Lickboot got the keys, but Figg broke all the keys off the chain in their struggle. Eventually, Figg found the right key to escape, but unfortunately, she and Lickboot are tripped by Ferdinand, and they fall into the boat. The boat activates and goes haywire in the process and sails away towards an unknown fate.
It's unknown what happened with Lickboot along with Figg afterwards, as there was no one to captain the steamboat, though the novelizations for the film say they were eventually rescued from the boat and arrested for their crimes.
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Trivia[]
- Despite being a villain, Lickboot does not seem to be completely evil as he seemed genuinely concerned about Robyn's safety, telling her she needed to get out of the cabin before it burned down, and while Figg wanted to leave Robyn to die, Lickboot was more reluctant.
- In addition to being her lawyer and accomplice, it's hinted that Lickboot and Figg might be in a romantic relationship as their affectionate behavior in the duet song ("Money Is Such") would suggest, even though in the song Lickboot claims that money is the "only true love of his life".
