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This article is for a character that is approved as a Silly Pure Evil example, meaning they are a character that fits the criteria for Pure Evil while being consistently played for laughs. |
| “ | Hämsterviel! It is Hämsterviel! | „ |
| ~ Hämsterviel's catchphrase every time someone mispronounces his last name. |
Dr. Rupert Jacques von Hämsterviel is the main antagonist of Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise.
He is the arch-nemesis of Stitch, the boss of Captain Gantu and Reuben, and the former partner and best friend of Dr. Jumba Jookiba.
He was voiced by Jeff Bennett, who also voiced Kundo in Omniverse, Mozenrath in Aladdin: The Series, The Brain-Eating Meteor in The Grimm Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Dick Hardly in The Powerpuff Girls, The Huntsman in American Dragon: Jake Long, and Zs'Skayr in Ben 10: Alien Force.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- In general, he has no actual care towards anyone he worked with, even made poor efforts to hide how much he saw them as expendable tools to carry out his will with.
- While he and Jumba Jookiba worked together to create many sentient experiments, Hämsterviel was never really friends with Jumba, who recollects all he ever did was con, humiliate, and steal from him before ratting on him to the Galactic Federation, implying that he intended on betraying Jumba and taking the experiments for himself in the long run. Jumba brings this up when Hamsterviel attempts to persuade him to work with him again, and his subsequent actions prove that he was trying to manipulate him and that Jumba was not exaggerating when he recollected the false friendship.
- This extends to how he viewed sentient experiments in question. While Jumba showed he cared for them as a parental figure, Hämsterviel only saw them as means to an end (while evil) or ultimately a liability (once reformed).
- While he was initially courteous and cordial with Gantu, being patient when the latter became defensive of him criticizing his failure to capture Stitch (Experiment 626), he mistreats and verbally abuses Gantu regularly for his failures, even when he makes at least some accomplishments; being nagging and impatient as Gantu sent him Amnesio (Experiment 303) and Hunkahunka (Experiment 323), threatening to fire him in the former instance, and his remarking of his capture of Angel (Experiment 624) as "miraculous" showing he had low faith in him. (Gantu and Reuben (Experiment 625) both enjoy coming up with names for him, but this is a byproduct of this abuse.) He has also fired him multiple times.
- While he and Jumba Jookiba worked together to create many sentient experiments, Hämsterviel was never really friends with Jumba, who recollects all he ever did was con, humiliate, and steal from him before ratting on him to the Galactic Federation, implying that he intended on betraying Jumba and taking the experiments for himself in the long run. Jumba brings this up when Hamsterviel attempts to persuade him to work with him again, and his subsequent actions prove that he was trying to manipulate him and that Jumba was not exaggerating when he recollected the false friendship.
- While he started off extremely comical, with his name constantly being mispronounced, being mistaken for a gerbil and his threats being more annoying than threatening, he loses much of his appeal comedy as the franchise continues. As such, he is taken seriously in the final movie, and his act of attempting to wipe out all the experiments is played dead seriously.
- While the Grand Councilwoman did consider doing worse than he did by gassing Earth on two occasions, it is left ambiguous as to whether Hamsterviel himself had the means to do the same, and he lacks the good intentions that she had. Furthermore, she stated on the second instance that she would ensure that innocent life forms were evacuated from Earth, while Hamsterviel shows no concern for earthlings at any point.
- Also, while some of the experiments like Holio and Richter had a higher attempted kill count, he stands out from them due to lacking any of their redeeming qualities and not seeking redemption, as well as potentially endangering the universe with his law.
Stitch! The Movie[]
- He has Gantu capture Jumba with the intent of interrogating him on the whereabouts of the experiments and when he refuses to answer his questions, he has Gantu unleash Experiment 625 hoping that it would torture Jumba to the point of where he'll talk only for it to be revealed that the experiment was harmless and lazy and only has interest in making sandwiches.
- He then decides to hold Jumba for ransom, telling Pleakley on a phone that if he wants to see him alive again, he should bring him all of the experiments in due time at the location he tells them to meet him at.
- Upon capturing Lilo and Stitch with Gantu's help, he takes Stitch with him so that he could cut him in half in order to clone him while leaving Lilo at Gantu’s mercy (Gantu decides not to kill her, but he plans to trap her in a zoo, and while she would most likely be treated humanely, this is still a violation of her human rights), only for Sparky (Experiment 221) to disable the machine and save Stitch and capture Hämsterviel allowing Stitch to save Lilo and the two of them to outsmart Gantu. And unlike Gantu, who was mad at Lilo for throwing away his boss's experiment pods, Hamsterviel didn't have an excuse for cutting Stitch in half.
Lilo & Stitch: The Series[]
- After the experiments end up escaping and spread across all over Earth, he has Gantu try to get them back only for him to constantly fail at doing so.
- In "Skip", it's revealed that in a possible future he has taken over the world and successfully captured all past experiments.
- In “Shush”, he plans a mind control headband on Mertle’s head, and uses her as a weapon against Lilo and Stitch. While he did enjoy being Myrtle’s pet, this invalidates this potential redeeming quality somewhat.
- In “Bad Stitch”, he turns Stitch from good back to evil.
Leroy & Stitch[]
- He breaks into Jumba’s lab and forces him to create another evil experiment, one like Stitch except evil this time and with a red color on his fur, Leroy, under the threat of having him be killed by having Gantu shoot him with his laser gun if he does not comply. To add insult to injury, he also forces Jumba to act like a jerk to Pleakley. Even Gantu is shown to be frightened by the resultant experiment.
- After Jumba has finished, when Stitch breaks into the lab, he has the experiment, whom he now named as Leroy, attack and capture him.
- Afterwards, he has Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley put into a small spaceship and sent it into a black hole with the presumed intent of getting them vaporized to death quickly but painfully. And he wouldn’t let Pleakley return his rented van to the college. While his reaction to Pleakley’s protest is darkly comical, it doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the scene.
- He then has Leroy disguise himself as Stitch to take over the ship Stitch was in charge of.
- He proceeds to make lots of clones of Leroy and uses them as an army to take over the galaxy as ruler.
- Meanwhile, he has Leroy capture all of the experiments and bring them to an arena on Earth.
- While he decided not to kill the Grand Councilwoman, he usurped her position and made her his servant.
- Upon capturing Lilo and Reuben, he tells the former that Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley had died (or so he thinks), before having Gantu imprison them in a cell before proceeding to fire him for failing to capture the experiments for 3 years while mocking him about it as well, even though Gantu had busted him out of prison and had helped him with the creation of Leroy to begin with. Incidentally, this plan would leave Reuben the last of his kind (aside from Leroy) as he planned to kill Jumba and Stitch as well.
- Upon arriving at the arena where the experiments are at with his spaceship, he tries to kill them all by trying to have his Leroy clones fire a giant laser cannon at them. Since the experiments are technically a species and a high number at that, by doing this, Hämsterviel is committing both attempted genocide and attempted mass murder at the same time. The experiments were technically a threat to his plans, but mass murder was not necessary.
- He almost killed Mertle who was kidnapped alongside one of the experiment, and while she was a jerk, she didn't really deserve to die (he may not have been aware that she was there, but it was possible).
- When the cannon gets destroyed by Stitch, Lilo, Jumba, Pleakley, and a reformed Gantu, Hämsterviel unleashes his army of Leroy clones to make one last attempt to kill all of them and the experiments. And while he does seem disheartened when Leroy falls, one can argue that isn’t necessarily because he cared for him, but because his plan has failed (while he refers to Leroy as his most loyal and most trusted servant, it is plausible he says this to spite Gantu). It is implied afterwards he is sent to prison for life.
Trivia[]
- He is the only Pure Evil (albeit as a Silly type) to come from a Disneytoon film, as Stitch! The Movie (his first appearance) is made by them.
- For a time, he was thought to be Inconsistently Heinous until his actions reviewed further and subsequently confirmed to be portrayed completely seriously and alter the tone of the story, even with his aforementioned comedic moments.
- His iteration from 2008 anime spin-off Stitch! (note that said spin-off was set in its own continuity as with Stitch & Ai) may very well Pure Evil as much as the mainstream one. In addition of committed the same crimes as his original counterpart, this version of Dr. Hämsterviel still tried his hardest to conquer entire galaxy as before, from seizing the power within the Spiritual Stone to conspire with Delia.
- To highlight his Pure Evil status, he infamously insisted to Jumba that his latest experiment, Leroy, should be irredeemable.
- Jacques is an exceptional case of a Pure Evil villain who, because of his act of attempting to send the main characters to die in a black hole, quite crosses the Moral Event Horizon.
External Links[]
- Jacques von Hämsterviel on the Villains Wiki
- Jacques von Hämsterviel on the Disney Wiki
- Jacques von Hämsterviel on the Lilo and Stitch Wiki
- Jacques von Hämsterviel on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Jacques von Hämsterviel on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
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