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| “ | Your worst nightmare. I'm ignorance. I'm fear. I'm hate. | „ |
| ~ Verminous Skumm |
Verminous Skumm is one of the recurring villains of the Captain Planet and the Planeteers series. He is a large, humanoid, mutant rat who is determined to take over the Earth through urban blight, poor sanitation, drug abuse and disease.
In Season 1, he was voiced by Jeff Goldblum, who also played Calvin "Slick" Stanhope in Silverado, Brundlefly in The Fly, Long Eared Jack in Robbie the Red Nose Reindeer, Grandmaster in Thor: Ragnarok, Orian Franklin in Hotel Artemis, Zeus in KAOS and Dr. Erwin Armstrong in The Boss Baby: Family Business. From seasons 2 to 6, he was voiced by Maurice LaMarche - who also portrayed Duke Nukem in seasons 3 through 6 of Captain Planet, The Brain in Animaniacs, Father in Codename: Kids Next Door, Mr. Big in Zootopia, Mr. Freeze and Calendar Man in the Batman: Arkham video game series, Dr. Nitrus Brio in Crash Bandicoot, and the Donbot, Lrrr, Walt, Francis X. Clampazzo, Melllvar, Fishy Joe, Leonardo Da Vinci, Schlump and Fleb, and the Big Brain in Futurama; among other roles.
Biography[]
He is a real dirty rat. Born and raised in a sewer, this towering "Ver-man" aims to mold the world in his image, and is determined to inherit the Earth. Unlike most other villains, Verminous focuses more on social villainy and "pollution of the body". He is quite likely the most evil Captain Planet villain, as he is responsible for killing Linka's cousin by selling him a designer drug which he fatally overdosed upon.
Skumm fancies himself an agent of entropy with a mission to instigate chaos and degeneration in the natural order. He exults in humanity's every ecological mistake and helps to accelerate the environment's decline. His weapons are a loathsome intelligence combined with the cunning of a trapped rat, in addition to apparently quite skilled knowledge of chemistry and pathology. His rat pack inhabits only the most vile, degenerate environments of sewage and toxic waste, which they often use to aid in Skumm's odious plots.
Like all the villains in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Skumm represents an ecological threat. In his unique case, he mainly represents not just one evil, but two: poor sanitation (with a particular focus on the spread of disease that comes about as a result of it), and social/urban ills such as crime and bigotry. In the two-part Captain Planet episode, Mission to Save Earth, Verminous Skumm is among the five Eco Villains who create Captain Pollution. They did this by creating and using five Anti-Elemental Rings consisting of Deforestation, Toxins, Smog, Super Radiation, and Hate. Skumm's element was Toxins, perhaps used as an evil counterpart for Gi's Water ring. Unfortunately for the Eco Villains, Captain Pollution was destroyed and the Anti-Elemental rings along with him, leading Skumm and the other villains to flee.
One episode revealed that Skumm was (possibly) from an alternate/past civilization that he helped guide into destruction through massive overpopulation. Alternate future versions of him are shown to be even more mutated, sporting an extra smaller head on his shoulders.
In the episode "Mind Pollution", Skumm travels to Washington D.C. and peddles an addictive drug called "Bliss". One of the Planeteers, Linka, is visiting her cousin Boris and uncle Dimitri, who has been hired by the Russian Embassy. Later on, Linka and Boris get addicted to Bliss, with Boris later dying of an overdose.
In "A Formula for Hate", Skumm spreads malicious rumors about an HIV-positive high school basketball player named Todd Andrews. Later, the entire town turns against Todd except for his mother, younger brother Chip, girlfriend Lisa, and head coach. Feeling that his life is ruined, Todd runs away from home and finds a shack inside a fishing camp. While inside the shack, Todd is haunted by visions of Skumm, as well as his own loved ones turning against him. Captain Planet later rescues Todd and brings him back to the basketball championship game. When Captain Planet tells the spectators the truth about HIV/AIDS, everyone forgives Todd.
Appearance[]
Though standing seven-and-a-half feet tall, Verminous Skumm truly resembles a disease-ridden rat in every way, including the tail and claws. He wears a tattered blue jumpsuit and a red scarf around his head and face. His clothes are always dirty, torn and disheveled, as he spends most of his time underground, in sewers or the like.
External Links[]
- Verminous Skumm on the Pure Evil Wiki
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