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| “ | Rex Banner: You're out there somewhere, Beer Baron. And I'll find you. Homer Simpson, from a distance: No, you won't! Rex Banner: Yes, I will. Homer Simpson: Won't! |
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| ~ Rex Banner vowing he'll find the Beer Baron aka Homer Simpson. |
Rex Banner is the main antagonist of the episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" of The Simpsons.
He was voiced by Dave Thomas.
Biography[]
He is a U.S. treasury officer in Washington, D.C. briefly sent to Springfield to uphold Prohibition, and to replace Chief Wiggum as Chief of Police. His main objective was capturing the "Beer Baron", a rum-runner who was actually Homer. When this was finally done by Wiggum, Rex was fired, both from his job as chief, and from the main mechanism of punishment for breaking the ancient prohibition law: catapult before finishing his rant where Springfield citizens don't get to choose which laws they follow and which they don't.
During Trappuccino in The Simpsons Movie released 10 years later, he was also seen as part of the angry mob that seeks to kill Homer, indicating that Rex has survived the catapult.
Personality[]
Though a very clean cut, non-nonsense officer, he is as effective as Wiggum as police chief beyond him being more ruthless in ensuring prohibition was enforced. Banner was never able to identify Homer as the "Beer Baron," even with overwhelming evidence and Homer's general sloppiness in covering his own tracks, arresting Ned Flanders for being drunk only based on the way he sounds without conducting sobriety tests, stopping the import of beer by building a wall on the road to Springfield, causing several car crashes, and believing the Beer Baron was an invention of the media only because he didn't catch him.
He apparently maintained contact with his mother via telegram, as a telegram sent to him from his mom, received just shortly after Quimby's telegram requesting his immediate assistance had her tell him that her dog Daisy had just given birth to a litter of puppies.
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Trivia[]
- Rex Banner was based on Eliot Ness, the Treasury agent who led the famous Prohibition-enforcement team "The Untouchables", with his voice is based on Robert Stack's portrayal of Ness from the TV series, and his appearance is based on Kevin Costner's portrayal of Ness in the film.
