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| “ | Stan Beals is the name. Beals-A-Bug Pest Control. Exterminator, eradicator, solver of problems. | „ |
| ~ Stan to Lucas. |
| “ | Enjoy a world that's entirely bug free - just sign right here and leave the killing to me. | „ |
| ~ Stan's company slogan, and also his most famous quote. |
| “ | You can't exterminate me! Oh, yeah! I'm Stan Beals! | „ |
| ~ Stan's last words during his defeat getting chased by the swarm of wasps. |
Stanley "Stan" Beals is the main antagonist of the 2006 Warner Bros. computer-animated film The Ant Bully. He is a flagitious exterminator who takes great pleasure in wiping out insects. The ants call him "The Cloudbreather" and view him as a terrifying abomination that can kill anything.
He was voiced by Paul Giamatti, who also played Limbo in the 2001 Planet of the Apes remake, Marty Wolf in Big Fat Liar, Karl Hertz in Shoot 'Em Up, Dr. Satan in The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, Aleksei Sytsevich/Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Chairman Drek in Ratchet & Clank and Beauty Smith in the 2018 White Fang adaptation.
Personality[]
Stan is known for being arrogant, flagitious, and manipulative. He is a very wicked and traitorous exterminator. He loves doing his job, and he hates bugs as a result. He smokes heavily and is extremely rude, uncivil, and argumentative to others while smoking and talking to other people as well. He is also very murderous, destructive, and temperamental, so he tries to destroy the hive of ants that Lucas asked him to do, taking pleasure in playing around with his prey. Just like Lucas before, he did not know that bugs were intelligent and had feelings. He also acts very friendly with Lucas, taking a liking to him, reminding him of himself. However, he can quickly change personality, as he talked friendly with Lucas in one minute, started to tease him a little later, and again being nice to him after he signed the contract, and he can also be coward since he attempted to escape from the wasps instead of trying to fight them.
Biography[]
Stan is the local bug exterminator near the suburban area of Las Vegas. He first appeared when he arrived at the home of Lucas Nickle (the protagonist), convincing him to sign a contract of letting him exterminate all of the pests around the Nickle residence before leaving. Lucas agreed to it since he was accidentally stung by the ant hill while being tortured by an abusive bully.
However, Lucas is alone to deal with the ants after they use a potion to shrink him to their size, forcing him to learn about the ways of the ant. After going through so much training, he learns that the ants can't be as bad as he thought, and that the devil they fear is called the Cloudbreather, which happens to depict a nasty and dangerous bug exterminator. Realizing his mistake, Lucas sneaks back to his house to use the phone to cancel the contract with Stan, but accidentally calls a pizza restaurant instead.
The next day, Stan arrives in his van, filled with weapons of pesticide, ready to exterminate the bugs. Lucas apparently convinces several wasps to help the ants fight, but they prove to be no match against Stan's pesticide. However, a beetle and glowworm manage to go through Stan's pants and bite him in the crotch. This made a distraction by causing him to bend over and hold his crotch in pain. This allows Lucas, his ant friends, and a wasp to inject the shrinking potion into Stan's rear end, misshaping him. A large swarm of wasps comes by to attack, and being unable to get back into his van since he is too small to reach the door handles, he fearfully pedals away on a stolen tricycle, vowing revenge. As a reward for saving the bugs, Lucas is grown back to his normal size and resumes his life.
It is unknown what happened to Stan afterward and whether he survived or was killed. As in the morning when Lucas is regrown to normal size, Stan's harness and van are missing making his true fate remain unknown.
Trivia[]
- In a deleted scene, it is revealed that Stan wanted to exterminate the ants on the Nickles' yard because he held accounts for every house in the neighborhood except theirs. Mr. Nickle was not interested in his services, seemingly having turned down this offer many times before, so he went behind his back and tricked Lucas into signing the contract instead, allowing him to exterminate the yard.
- Another deleted scene showed Stan talking to his assistant whilst plucking the wings off a fly. He seems uncomfortable by the thought that, when together, insects pose a bigger threat to him than he does to them.
- Stan's appearance is modeled after his voice actor, Paul Giamatti.
- For his voice, Giamatti gave Stan a deep, low, thick voice.
- Stan Beals is a dark reflection to Lucas Nickle. Both are humans who were responsible for terrorizing the ant colony with their superiority. However, while Lucas was insecure on being a weak individual and learned how the ants were sapient to the point he was able to redeem himself of his crimes against the colony, while Stan Beals is so sadistic with his power that he has no qualms about wether or not the ant colony were similar to human reason and is only focused on his profit and pleasure in pain. Stan Beals is an example of what Lucas would have become if he didn’t acknowledge how his actions were affecting benevolent colonists rather than pests and continuing on his path of being a bully to those who are weaker than him.
External Links[]
- Stan Beals on the The Ant Bully Wiki