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“ | I'm a gigantic brain! | „ |
~ The Big Brain's catchphrase. |
“ | The Big Brain am winning again! I am the greetest! Mwahahaha! Now I am leaving Earth for no raisin! | „ |
~ The Big Brain's last words. |
The Big Brain is the overarching antagonist of the sci-fi animated comedy series Futurama.
He serves as the main antagonist of the episodes "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", and "The Why of Fry".
He is, as his "name" implies, a massive brain who is the leader of the Brainspawn, an alien race of brains whose natural and inherent goal is to collect all the information in the universe. However, since new things are constantly happening throughout the universe and therefore creating new information, the brains want to destroy the universe so that their goal will be permanently complete.
He is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, who also voiced Walt, Leonardo da Vinci, Schlump and Fleb, Fishy Joe, the Donbot, Francis X. Clampazzo, and Lrrr in the same series, Alec Baldwin in Team America: World Police, Father in Codename: Kids Next Door, Big Bob Pataki in Hey Arnold!, Mr. Big in Zootopia, Mortimer Mouse in the Mickey Mouse franchise, Koto in All Hail King Julien, Mr. Freeze and Calendar Man in the Batman: Arkham video game series, Yosemite Sam in the Looney Tunes franchise, Joseph Stalin in Histeria!, Dr. Nitrus Brio in the Crash Bandicoot franchise, and the Brain in Animaniacs.
Biography[]
“ | Pathetic humans. Arranging your knowledge by category only made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands! | „ |
~ The Big Brain gloating over the success of his plan. |
According to the prophecy of the Nibblonians, the Brainspawn have supposedly existed since the very beginning of the universe, and have been fighting with the equally–ancient Nibblonians, who defend the universe from them. The Brainspawn invades and destroys planets by going there and using their powers to make everyone extremely stupid, allowing the brains to wipe them out easily.
The only one who can stop them is Philip J. Fry, who is the only being in the universe who, due to a strange anomaly in his system, lacks the "Delta Brainwave", which is what allows the brains to subvert people's minds. When Fry learns of this, he deduces that a being obsessed with knowledge would most likely be found at the library so he goes there and sure enough, finds the Big Brain reading from textbooks to absorb their information, remarking on how the fact that the books are organized by category makes it much easier for him to do so.
When Fry finds that there is nothing available in the library capable of physically harming the brain, he starts trying to think of a way to defeat it, and finds that his thinking causes pain to the Big Brain, as it hates independent thinking, and starts reading from a book to weaken it. The Big Brain reveals that he has the power to transport himself and others into the world of any book and uses it on Fry and Leela, who then pursue the brain through Moby Dick, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (where the Big Brain is surprisingly tricked by Tom into painting the fence for him), and Pride and Prejudice, where Fry throws Tom Sawyer's bucket of white paint over the brain, making the characters from Moby Dick attack it thinking it is a white whale (however the brain seems to be immune to harpoons).
Using this as a distraction, Fry escapes the book world and attempts to kill the Big Brain by riding an electrified chandelier into it, but this fails as he completely misses his target and crashes into a bookshelf which then falls over on him, seemingly killing him. Leela starts crying over him, but it is then revealed that this is only happening in a new book Fry is writing down on the spot called "Fry Tricks the Brain", thus creating a new pocket universe that the brain and Leela are inside of. Fry writes that after killing the Fry within the story, the Big Brain left Earth forever for no reason. This makes the real brain do just that, however he mispronounces "reason" as "raisin" because Fry misspelled it that way. After he leaves, the Nibblonians kill the other brains by eating them, removing their effects from the people of Earth.
Trivia[]
- Conicidentally, Marurice LaMarche has also voiced a character named Brain in the TV series Pinky and the Brain.
- Despite being an anthropomorphic brain, the Big Brain has a mouth, but it never opens it when it speaks.
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