| “ | They are not kid gloves, Mr. Valiant. This is how we handle things down in Toontown. I'd think you of all people would appreciate that. | „ |
| ~ Judge Doom to Eddie after demonstrating his Dip on a poor toon shoe. |
| “ | Remember me, Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked... JUST... LIKE... THIIIIIIS! | „ |
| ~ Doom terrifyingly revealing his true identity. |
Judge Doom is the main antagonist of the 1988 Disney/Warner Bros./Touchstone hybrid film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
He is the judge of Toontown, the arch-nemesis of Eddie Valiant, Roger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit , and the boss of the Toon Patrol. When Roger, a toon, is framed from having murdered Marvin Acme, Doom tries to track him down so he can execute him with the Dip. However, it later turns out that Doom has bigger plans for the Dip and that Roger isn't the only toon he is targeting.
He was portrayed by Christopher Lloyd, who also voiced Rasputin in Anastasia. His high-pitched voice was provided by Corey Burton, who also voiced Brainiac in the DC Animated Universe, Brainiac 1.0 in Legion of Super Heroes, Megatron in Transformers: Animated, V.V. Argost in The Secret Saturdays, Zeus in God of War, Silver Cyclone in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the Galalunan Commander in Sym-Bionic Titan and Hugo Strange in Batman: Arkham City.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Before the events of the film, while being chase by Eddie and Teddy Vaiant after robbing the First National Bank of Toontown, he dropped a piano on them, killing Teddy and breaking Eddie's arm in the process. This made Eddie hateful towards the toons minus Betty Boop (though he didn't hate Roger Rabbit).
- He murdered Marvin Acme by dropping a large safe on his head, framing Roger Rabbit for it and planning to execute him to cover his tracks.
- He created the deadly Dip, an invention of his capable of actually and permanently kill toons. He then demonstrated it by melting an innocent toon shoe to death in brutal and sadistic fashion.
- While he did allow Eddie to give Roger a drink, before his execution, unknowingly allowing him to get away, this was not out of sympathy. He outright said he was only prolonging the execution, and he got very impatient when Eddie repeatedly tried to pressure Roger into the drink.
- He shot R.K. Maroon to death when he tried to report him.
- He planned to wipe out all Toons by spraying Dip all over Toontown so he can build a freeway and own all the profits, which is even worse when considering Doom himself is a toon so he was killing his own species to profit from another species' greed.
- He harbors a irrational hatred of Toons even though he is a toon himself.
- He kicked a vat of Dip on the road, making Benny the Cab (a toon taxi), lose control from it and crash into a pole.
- He tried to have Roger and his wife Jessica Rabbit executed by tying them up, lifting them up with a crane and have his henchmen spray Dip on them before proceeding to kill all of Toontown.
- Following the demise of the Toon Patrol, he attempted to murder Eddie himself by means of direct brutal violence before revealing himself.
- After his true nature as a toon is revealed, he gleefully knocked Eddie away with a cartoon anvil arm and tried to kill Eddie with his cartoon buzzsaw arm.
- Although he found the Toon Patrol useful, he didn't care about them, as he was shown abusing them by throwing a music disc into one of their mouths and knocked Smart Ass into a table for laughing, even reciting his own threat back to them about them possibly “laughing themselves to death.”
- Despite the comedic nature of the film, his actions are taken very seriously in-universe and genuinely played for horror by the narrative.
Trivia[]
- The sequel graphic novel Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom reveals that Doom was a kindhearted actor named Baron von Rotten who portrayed villains until an injury to the head gave him brain-damage so that he thought he was a real villain. However, the graphic novel isn't considered canonical, and this event contradicts the film's plot point that Toons easily recover from all conventional damage, including brain injuries, and the Toon Patrol being alive in the graphic novel even though they were killed in the film. But if canonized, this might strip Doom of his Pure Evil status due to moral agency issues.
- Originally, Judge Doom had a pet vulture named Voltaire. Had Voltaire been in the film, his inclusion would have prevented Judge Doom from qualifying as Pure Evil and instead be Near Pure Evil, as the film's third draft states that Doom cares for Voltaire and becomes enraged towards Eddie Valiant after he kills Voltaire in the climax.
- In early drafts of the script Doom was revealed to be the hunter that shot Bambi's mother, Man, if this was in the final script it would have made Doom even worse.
External Links[]
- Judge Doom on the Villains Wiki
- Judge Doom on the Disney Wiki
- Judge Doom on the VS Battles Wiki
- Judge Doom on the Wikipedia
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