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| “ | Okay, listen up, maggots! You are here because your parents are worried about you. Now, the way I see it, the root of all children's problems is unacceptable levels of imagination, fun, creativity and unbridled enthusiasm! Don't you eyeball me! Our goal at this school is to crush the dangerous elements inside you and replace them with structure, order, discipline and conformity. | „ |
| ~ The Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant showing his true nature. |
| “ | Too late. They're mine! And so are you... | „ |
| ~ The Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant's last words. |
Marlin DePatie (also known as the Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant or the Drill Sergeant) is the main antagonist of the Phineas and Ferb episode "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted". He is the headmaster of the Smile Away Reformatory School bent on destroying children's imaginations for his own ambitions.
He is the abuser and archenemy of Phineas and Ferb.
He was voiced by Clancy Brown, who also voiced another Phineas and Ferb villain, The Regurgitator, and also portrayed Lex Luthor in Superman: The Animated Series, Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants, The Kurgan in Highlander, Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Mr. Freeze in the animated series The Batman, Dr. Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in the Crash Bandicoot franchise, Kurt Caldwell in Dexter: New Blood, Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok, Viking Lofgren in Bad Boys, Silas in Transformers Prime, Parallax in The Green Lantern, Gunmar in Tales of Arcadia, Rahzar in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, The Splotch in The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, the Evil Entity in the Scooby-Doo franchise, Salvatore Maroni in The Penguin, Grune in Thundercats, John Burkhart in Law & Order, Kojak in Recess: School's Out, Undertow in The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Mister Sinister in Wolverine and the X-Men, Edgar Volgud in Atlantis: Milo's Return, Trident in Teen Titans Go!, Kregg in Invincible, and Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption.
Biography[]
The Sergeant is known to loathe imagination and creativity, and through his reformatory school, he attempts to remove these things from the children that are sent to him. As such, he is a natural antagonist to the Flynn-Fletcher boys, who find themselves under his control when Candace Flynn finally succeeds in busting them to Linda, who sends them over to the school out of fear for their own safety and declaring it to be the final straw after she and Lawrence discover that Candace was right all along with Candace suggesting several different punishments to the boys and Lawrence reluctantly agrees.
The Sergeant does what he feels in his power to breaks the boys' will, and finally succeeds in doing so after subjecting them to punishments whenever they do something creative. When Candace feels sorry for her brothers, she decides to go and rescue them with Jeremy's help. They trick the Sergeant into believing it was another interview hosted by Morty Williams. When the Sergeant learned that the duo have escaped, he send over his men to go after them. He then tries to trap Candace and Jeremy and recover Phineas and Ferb; however, he was interrupted by a giant robot spider, piloted by Heinz Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus, much to everyone's shock (including the Sergeant's). Perry would later set the giant robot spider back into ground, taking himself and Doofenshmirtz along with it. One of the spider's legs then swaps the Sergeant away from the cliff, and he falls down screaming to his death. Then a variety of strange events occur, including a puppet-like Linda and Lawrence being controlled by Baljeet (who is controlled by a talking zebra) and Jeremy proposing to Candace and Candace discovers that everything is all a dream as Candace wakes up and discovers that successfully busting her brothers and trying to rescue them was all just a dream and she tells her family about her dream, including the part where Perry is a secret agent. However, the entire Flynn-Fletcher family are taken away by the O.W.C.A. agents and Major Monogram informs Perry that he must be relocated, due to his covering being blown (thanks to the dream), much to Perry's dismay.
It later turns out that the entire episode's events is just a nightmare that Perry has having due to his fear of blowing his cover to the Flynn-Fletchers.
Trivia[]
- The Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant is clearly based on Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket due to having a similar personality.
- Although the Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant was supposed to be part of Perry's dream, he later shows up during the ending musical number of "Rollercoaster: The Musical!" alongside the show's cast. This may mean that the sergeant is real and possibly Perry dreamed with him as a villain.
- The Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant uses Isabella Garcia-Shapiro's signature catchphrase, "Whatcha doin?" towards Phineas and Ferb while visiting their bunk.
- Coincidetally, his voice actor Clancy Brown also played Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemptions, another character associated with prison camp.
External Links[]
- Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant on the Disney Wiki
- Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant on the Phineas and Ferb Wiki
