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| “ | Welcome... to CARNEVIL! | „ |
| ~ Ludwig von Tökkentäkker in the intro for CarnEvil. |
| “ | Welcome aboard. From zis study I have observed your every move. But you do not obey! Prepare to die! | „ |
| ~ Ludwig von Tökkentäkker before the final fight. |
Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker is the main villain and final boss of the 1998 arcade rail shooter game CarnEvil. He is the ringleader of the dreaded carnival. In the game's "attract mode", in a graveyard in Iowa, his tombstone holds a token. The token can bring CarnEvil out of the underworld.
He was voiced by Jack E. Haeger, who also voices Umlaut in the same game.
Biography[]
After the player (or players, depending on whether one or two people play) manage to get through the first three areas (Haunted House, Rickety Town and Freak Show), they will gain access to the main area, the Big Top.
After surviving his onslaught of killer clowns, mimes, poodles and clown doctors (where it's revealed that he has planned to put the protagonist's brain into a gorilla), he reveals himself and sends his flunky Umlaut to take care of him.
When Umlaut dies, the player chases Ludwig around his airship, miles above the carnival, while avoiding his gunshots and skeleton soldiers. Eventually the player corners him at the end of the airship, where he resorts to tossing bombs and shooting fireworks. After enough damage has been dealt, Ludwig falls into the blades of the ship, chopping him to bits and causing the airship to explode.
Though presumed dead at first, the game's protagonist reinserts the token to challenge Tökkentäkker for another round.
Personality[]
Diabolical, exceptionally intelligent, a severely twisted sense of humor and more than likely insane, Tökkentäkker is a shining example of two horror villain tropes merged into one; a mad scientist, and a diabolical circus ringmaster. He cares not how many innocents can perish by both the hordes of monsters under his command nor the nightmarish contraptions he creates and uses to deadly effect. Completely without morals, he brutally tortures, mutilates and experiments on his own minions, creating horrible monstrosities in the process with the most extreme of this being Junior, a gigantic frankenstein'd mutant baby. The only thing Tökkentäkker cares about is turning the world into a horror show, and there is no line he is unwilling to cross to get there.
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External links[]
- Ludwig von Tökkentäkker on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Ludwig von Tökkentäkker on the Video Game Bosses Wiki