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Dastardly Whiplash

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Bah! Curses! But though I be foiled to-day, my proud beauty, a time will come! Ha-ha! (Boo! Hiss!)
An oddly specific kind of character, the Dastardly Whiplash is a cartoonish villain taken from the old stage melodrama tradition. Usually a Man of Wealth and Taste, in Great Britain (*cough Evil Brit cough*), he was generally a Bad Baronet; in the U.S., he (and it is in fact always a he, as the mustache is an important part of the aesthetic) was often an Evil Banker who held the mortgage on the heroine's farm. Physically, he's slightly hunched with an exaggerated nose and chin, a curling black moustache (all the better to twirl at you, my dear) and an elaborate costume, usually an old-fashioned black suit with a Black Cloak (maybe even an Ominous Opera Cape) and a hat, usually a top hat but occasionally a Dastardly Dapper Derby.
In personality, he is a one-dimensional, over-the-top, openly evil villain of limited intelligence who comes up with (sometimes absurdly) elaborate schemes for the hero to foil — kidnapping a helpless female and tying her up to either a railroad track or a Conveyor Belt o' Doom, in an attempt to coerce her into "marrying" him or relinquishing the deed to her property, is the old standard. He can usually be expected to go to great lengths to cheat at things he could easily win legitimately, purely For the Evulz. He also is prone to fits of nasal laughter ("Nyehehehehe!!").
He generally has two moods: when happy, he sneers, cackles, and rubs his hands in malevolent glee, and when unhappy, he glowers, sulks, makes a fist, bites his index finger and snaps at his sidekick or henchman, should he have any. He tends to speak largely in Antiquated Linguistics, preferring such expletives as "Curses! Foiled again!", "Blast!", and "Drrrat!" (or, for extreme cases, "Drat and double drat!"). Despite his menacing appearance and demeanor, he often turns out to be a Harmless Villain.
Expect his musical cue to be "Mysterioso Pizzicato", "The Maple Leaf Rag", or similar.
This trope is almost never played straight today. The Dastardly Whiplash is well on his way to being a Dead Horse Trope, having been largely replaced by the likes of the Villain with Good Publicity, although some modern works will still use him for sheer camp value, or for a one-off meta gag about stereotypical villains. Bonus points if one of his names is an adverb. Pantomime Villains often fit this trope, as they need to convey villainy without any dialogue or props.
The Repulsive Ringmaster often shares characteristics with this trope, such as the top hat and mustache. On the other hand, the Stage Magician wears a very similar outfit but isn't necessarily a villain.
Subtrope of Card-Carrying Villain and Obviously Evil; one of the more likely characters to play into Evil Is Hammy. (If the character doesn't have the specific appearance of a Dastardly Whiplash, it's probably one of those tropes instead.) If it's treated as a surprise twist that he's a villain, that's an overlap with Obvious Judas. Sister trope of Godwin's Law of Facial Hair, where the toothbrush mustache is associated with Hitler and evil authoritarians.
The Trope Namer is a combination of Snidely Whiplash (from Dudley Do-Right) and Dick Dastardly (of Wacky Races).
Real Life examples? No thank you. In Real Life, even the Card Carrying Villains are more complex than this.
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Yoshiaki Mogami of Sengoku Basara 3 is this, right down to having an incredibly pointy mustache. About the only major action he takes is kidnapping Matsu so that the Maeda clan join up with Ieyasu. It's even shown in his fighting style, which is a mix of Confusion Fu and Combat Pragmatism, meaning that he makes good use of tricks like point somewhere else to distract enemies, groveling on the ground to prep for Counter Attacks, and generally fighting in a tricky/deceptive fashion.
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Bergamot in Steambot Chronicles may not look the part, but once his Voice Actor starts talking, there won't be a doubt in your mind. Bonus points towards the end of the game's Hero path, where he almost seems a hair's breadth from a set of train tracks and an "I have you now, my pretty!"
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The Ice King from Adventure Time is a deconstruction. During the first few seasons, he was a stereotypical cartoon villain, kidnapping helpless women in order to force them to marry him, amongst other crazy schemes. However We soon learn that he used to be a normal man, and both is appearance and insane personality was due to being cursed by the crown.
His Distaff Counterpart, and Author Avatar the Ice Queen, is a rare female example, who kidnaps men.
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Mega Mind leans hard into this trope. He doesn't have a hat or mustache (he does have a Beard of Evil though), but he does wear black, and a cape. He has a humorously incompetent henchman (who becomes hypercompetent when required). He crosses over into Mad Scientist territory with the superweapons he constructs. He favors ridiculously overcomplicated schemes, that usually fail (in fact, they are intended to), and has a preference for kidnapping and tying up one particular Damsel in Distress (to the point where at one point, she quips, "Could someone just stamp my Frequent Kidnapping Card?"). And he always makes an impressive entrance... to say he is a scene-stealer is an understatement; he's all about the PRESENTATION! He does however have a "hero's (villain's?) journey" and ends up being an Anti-Hero at the end, when the hero won't step up.
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Bioshock Infinite has Jeremiah Fink, who not only looks like Snidely but is a monstrously racist Robber Baron who exploits his employees as much as humanly possible.
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Defacely Marmeister from Hammer Man, A campy supervillain with a high pitched raspy voice and a very cheesy outfit. He even says Curses! Drat! when he gets caught at the end.
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Zot!: The Harmless Villain Dr. Ignatius Rumbault Bellows was based on Professor Fate from The Great Race (see below) and is a pretty straight invocation of this trope. He's also a Steampunk Mad Scientist with No Indoor Voice.
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In the Batman (1966) episode, "The Riddler's False Notion", the Riddler has planned a series of crimes with a silent movie theme. During one caper, he is dressed as the titular villain, wearing a black top hat and cape over his green tights, and wearing a false mustache and carrying a whip.
The Penguin is a type of this throughout the series. Wearing a top hat and morning suit, smoking cigarettes from a long cigarette holder, walking with an odd waddling gait and having a maniacal quacking laugh.
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In Sheep in the Big City, there's "The Count D'Ten" (one, two, three-darn it!). A Speed Racer parody featured "Greedy McGreed-Greed", who resembled this character type.
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In Sluggy Freelance, the Canadian Mafia is run by Snideloni Whiplashi. He's eventually murdered and replaced by Dastard Dickly.
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Mayor Humdinger from PAW Patrol is a preschooler-friendly version of this. While he doesn't tie anyone to any railroad tracks, he has a grumpy demeanor, comes up with complicated, often bizarre plans for the PAW Patrol to foil, and twirls his mustache when he laughs.
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FreedomToons: The GOP is depicted as a mustache-twirling villain who wears a black suit, top hat, and eye mask.
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While you can't see what he looks like on the radio, Mr. Gently Benevolent of Bleak Expectations certainly fits the character.
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Angel: Becomes the subject of a pun by a secretary at supernatural law firm Wolfram & Hart.
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In Naruto: The Abridged Series, Kakashi has a (fake) flashback where Itachi and Kisame became this.
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Dan Backslide (coward-bully-cad-and-thief) of the short The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall:
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The Simpsons:
Sideshow Mel in '"The Lastest Gun in the West".
Moe appears this way on one side of his business cards, which state his "profession" as villain. When he becomes a volunteer firefighter, he modifies the back of his cards so they reflect the fact that he is now a hero.
Homer as the wicked landlord Mr. Stingly in Rent II: Condo Fever, bursting into the room in full Snidely Whiplash regalia.
Charles Montgomery Burns was born around the turn of the 20th century and still thinks and acts like an old-timey robber baron. This is best exemplified in Who Shot Mr. Burns?, part I, where he steals the oil well out from under the local elementary school. He's got no mustache or cape, but his Finger-Tenting and hiss of "Excellent!" are plenty theatrical enough make up for it. On the other hand, depending on the episode, he may be more Affably Evil or even Obliviously Evil than deliberately, dog-kickingly villainous.
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Major Bludd, Cobra's henchman with a sinister Australian accent.
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Buck Rogers' recurring nemesis Killer Kane was this sort of character in Space Clothes.
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Looney Tunes:
Dan Backslide (coward-bully-cad-and-thief) of the short The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall:
The 1933 Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid short Bosko's Picture Show has one "Dirty Dalton (The Cur!)".
In Honeymoon Hotel (1934), there is a mustached bug smoking a cigar who tries to look into guests' rooms. He bears a very stereotypical villain look.
The Vinegar Bottle, the villain of the 1935 short "Little Dutch Plate", mit addischonal German akzent. He even ties the little Dutch girl figurine to a log and is about to saw her in half — using the gears of a Dutch clock. But in a nicely contrived Twist Ending, he replaces his head with a more handsome one from a perfume bottle and goes off with the heroine!
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A (noncanon) fill-in strip for Templar Arizona introduced a Templar subculture called "scheme freaks" who dress and act like this.
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Bowler Hat Guy in Meet the Robinsons is an incompetent example. Turns out, the Bowler Hat itself is a better villain.
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Cactus Jack, Kirk Douglas' character in the 1979 Western spoof The Villain uses the personality characteristics of this trope, but the costume conventions of the bad-guy-in-a-black-hat from Westerns.
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In Imperium Nova, Fornuxian Count Giacomo di Scaliger and his family were all officially titled "the Dastardly" by an Imperial judge. He embraced the trappings of this trope very quickly.
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Minister Blizzard had a handlebar mustache, cliche villain outfit including a helmet with jagged edges and acts like the archetypal Evil Chancellor.
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The silent movie stereotype derives partly from seducer figures in Victorian melodrama; Alec, from Tess of the D'Urbervilles, with his curling black mustache which he constantly strokes in order to show off his diamond rings, is one of the most notorious. For some reason, the character is often given the name Jasper, as in the Bawdy Song Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me.
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Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020). He's got a prominent chin, curled mustache, black coat and flamboyantly villainous personality. His mustache grows even bigger when stranded on the Mushroom Planet. Ironically, Jeff Fowler stated that he wanted to defy certain aspects of this trope, calling the game version of Robotnik "moustache-twirly" and saying he wanted this interpretation to be more "grounded."
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C. Bagley Beetle from Mr. Bug Goes to Town may not have a mustache, but he's still a traditional upper-class, top-hat-wearing, Simon Legree—esque villain. He hatches all sorts of devious plots in an attempt to eliminate Hoppity and win his girlfriend, Honey.
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Discussed by aging supervillain Red Death from The Venture Bros. in his "Gentleman Villain" monologue, where he's opining about the Good Old Ways to fellow supervillain Blind Rage (who is at this point gagged and tied to a railway). The Red Death mentions that his favorite bit of villainy was the old Time Bomb, where the indeterminate ticking would give the victim some slim hope while also giving the anxiety of the constant reminder of imminent death.
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Sergeant Gross from Attack on Titan is dressed in a military uniform and has a curled mustache, he also has a penchant for feeding Eldians alive to his dogs and sending prisoners to "fight" against their recently Titanized comrades and family members, just because he needs "entertainment".
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Snidely Whiplash from Dudley Do-Right is among the most prominent examples, although the character type had already existed beforehand, and, like everything else about the show, Whiplash was more of a parody than a straight example.
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Kurayamiman from Anpanman. He's a giant darkness monster that wears a top hat (this is also how he travels, he can suck his whole body into his hat and let it float around) and black cloak. He was a former magician, and now only uses his magic for evil purposes. He's more of a gentleman compared to the other Anpanman villains, yet he's completely fine with attacking the other villains as well as the heroes. Oh, and he also has access to a wasteland dimension inside of him.
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In one series of Garfield strips, Jon buys a fake novelty mustache. Garfield wears it and pretends to be "Evil Roy Gato".
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Whateley Universe. In "Razzle Dazzle", Mephisto the Mentalist portrays one as part of the many criminal characters he adopts throughout history. According to him he's not being evil — the "taking over the ranch" plot was just him drawing attention to the shady tactics used by the banks who were the real villains.
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Discworld
Since Moving Pictures races through the entire history of cinema up to Gone with the Wind in a couple of weeks, a Dastardly Whiplash naturally appears early on. He's tying Ginger to a tree (in the absence of railroad tracks on the Discworld at this time) and a sign is held in front of the picture-box saying "Ahar! My proude beauty!"
Abrim in Sourcery is sort of this trope meets Evil Chancellor. When he first appears, it's said that "He twirled his mustache, probably foreclosing another dozen mortgages."
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Dr. Scrooge, from Spirit of the Century's supplement "Spirit of the Season", is essentially one of these. He's an evil banker (well, businessman of many stripes, really) who uses his wealth to greedily acquire more wealth to acquire more wealth, and so on, but will gladly go out of his way to steal cookies from orphans while he's at it. Somewhat more developed than most in that he's suffering from a delusion where he thinks he is actually Ebenezer Scrooge's heir, despite the character from A Christmas Carol being entirely fictitious. He's (somehow) calculated an exorbitant sum of money that he would have had if Scrooge hadn't squandered it on charity. His goal in life is to earn back that money. His hatred of orphans is tied to the fact that he is one. So...yeah...really messed up. Still comes across as almost a Care Bears villain, though.
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Two such characters appear in The Brave Engineer. The first is a more traditional looking Dastardly Whiplash character who ties a damsel to the train tracks and shouts "Curses! Foiled again!" when thwarted. The second is a more haggard looking one, who blows up the tracks.
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North and South (U.S.) has several spanning the course of three books, most of them Southerners: mega evil plantation owner/wifebeater/slave abuser David Carradine, cackling racist and adultery enthusiast Ashton, slimy slave overseer Salem Jones, bloodthirsty prison warden Wayne Newton, seemingly-immortal wannabe warlord Elkinah Bent, and Ku Klux Klan co-founder (and evil landlord, god help us) Robert Wagner, among others. Lest you think the Confederacy gets the short end of the stick, there are plenty of Yankee bigots: Jonathan Frakes and wife (hates the Irish), Kirstie Alley (hates southerners), and Forest Whitaker (hates white people). The latter forms an alliance with his old overseer and raids their plantation, all for the express purpose of raping one slave girl who turn him down years ago.
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Uncle Deadly filled this role in the Melodrama sketches of The Muppet Show, with Miss Piggy as the Damsel in Distress and Wayne (of Wayne and Wanda fame) as the hero.
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Guaranteed* Video: New Kids on the Rock's "Ryan's Christmas Wish" features the Misery Meister, who is just as moustache-twirlingly evil as the name would imply. Although, unusually, he's played by a female actor.
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In the Popeye short "Cartoons Ain't Human", Popeye makes one of these the villain of his home-made cartoon.
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Lord Licorice from Candy Land doesn't wear black, but does have a top hat, and mustache.
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Ben Buzzard from the Donald Duck short The Flying Jalopy.
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Miniature", the doll girl's suitor resembles this type of villain, complete with cartoonishly evil mannerisms and musical cues.
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Wednesday Comics has Grushenko, the villain of the Plastic Man comic. He's a little different visually — he's an overweight Evil Redhead Mad Scientist with a bushy beard in addition to the long mustache. But personality-wise, he's as cartoonishly villainous as they come. He says "Drat!" unironically, claims the devil is smiling on him, and really hams it up as he plots to start his own evil dynasty. This is fitting because the Plastic Man comic is more wacky and cartoonish than the others.
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Green Lantern:
Nemesis Sinestro certainly looks the part. In terms of personality, he's more complex. The added depth is relatively recent with his reinvention as an antihero/disgraced ruler in Emerald Dawn; before that, he was this, but less cartoonish about it (outside of the Super Friends anyway).
Hector Hammond would look like this if not for his superhumanly giant head.
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The Vaudevillains, a WWE tag team consisting of Simon Gotch and Aiden English, were thematically patterned after this archetype, complete with Gotch sporting a handlebar mustache and their entrance being filmed in black and white—though, despite the name, they largely didn't really act all that heel-ish.
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Speaking of racists, Roots (1977) rolled out a new arch-villain for each chapter. First there was the truly creepy first mate of Kunta's slaving ship, Mr. Slater; then the ghoulish, rape-happy plantation owner Tom Moore; and finally Lloyd Bridges as a particularly meddlesome racist. The latter even says "you haven't seen the last of me" during an encounter with Kunta's grandson.
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The Spy piece in Stratego looks like one of these as it is depicted with a tophat, and handlebar mustache.
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Freaky Flyers features Pilot X, a Humanoid Alien variant of the archetype. While he does dress in all-black clothing and sports the thin mustache, he doesn't directly engage in deceitful trickery himself, letting his collaborator Professor Gutentaag handle that, and only confronts the other flyers after they've won the racing competition (even Gutentaag). ALSO, HE CONSTANTLY YELLS HIS SENTENCES LIKE THIS!!
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Shapoklyak from Cheburashka is a rare female example. She obviously lacks the mustache, but has the long nose, pointy chin, black dress, top hat and the For the Evulz villainy.
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Captain Hook in Peter Pan is basically what would happen if Dick Dastardly swapped racing for piracy.
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The Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a sort of medieval example. He's one-dimensional, scene stealing, big mustache (and beard), wears black, comically dark, obsessed with marrying the girl and stealing her land (or killing her and stealing it, whichever works; he's nothing if not pragmatic).
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In the Toy Story 2 Licensed Game, the mini-boss of the eleventh level, "Al's Penthouse" is Gunslinger, a tall, thin desperado with a handlebar mustache. He re-appears in the fifteenth and final level, "Prospector Showdown", working alongside Stinky Pete and Blacksmith.
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The Powerpuff Girls has two of these:
One is a zombie called Abracadaver who wears this outfit because he was a Stage Magician.
The other, Max Von Nitrate appears when they watch a silent movie, and find out that Professor Utonium is the Damsel in Distress!
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Discussed in White Night:
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Sir Percy Ware-Armitage in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. With his clipped moustache, clipped English accent, and clipped morals, he was the epitome of the "disreputable cad". Incidentally, Sir Percy Ware-Armitage was another large influence on Dick Dastardly, as the latter's spin-off show took rather blatant inspiration from this movie.
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Rise of the Minisukas: The Minisuka named "Prankster" decides to start wearing stereotypical clothes of this character type (cloak, top hat, monocle), as well as an increase in theatrics - which occasionally backfire on her - as well as a lot of evil laughter.
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In a Pinky and the Brain episode set at the beginning of the silent film era, Brain decides to conquer the world by making himself a movie star. The movies that he and Pinky make together spoof various silent film tropes, including one with Pinky as a villain of this type — complete with cloak, top hat, and mustache — tying a Damsel in Distress to railroad tracks so that Brain, as the hero, can rescue her.
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As is Dick Dastardly of Wacky Races and Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, though he eschews the top-hat, morning-suit, and cape, and dresses in purple rather than black.
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Phineas and Ferb: While Dr. Doofenshmirtz is clearly a Mad Scientist, he still echoes quite a bit of this trope: exaggerated nose and chin, hunched posture, elaborate crazy schemes, and over-the-top mannerisms. No mustache or hat, though, and, in keeping with his Mad Scientist role, he wears a lab coat.
In the episode "Steampunx," his counterpart "Professor von Doofenshmirtz" fits the trope perfectly, mustache and hat included, and for bonus points he ties Perry to the train tracks.
Mitch, the mustachioed arch-nemesis of Meap.
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One Lucky Luke book contains an in-universe use of this trope as the villain in a melodramatic play produced by a travelling theatre company.
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Ford Sterling in the 1913 silent film Barney Oldfield's Race For A Life ties a woman to a railroad tracks for rejecting him. Aside from wearing a Bowler hat instead of a Top Hat, he fits all physical criteria.
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One of these is introduced in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage expansion, known only as "Unsavory Charlatan". He's a pickpocket who sneaks around in a top hat, stroking his handlebar mustache. There's one for each Hollywood Atlas settings, each otherwise dressed in locale-appropriate garb.
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A newspaper article in Victoria 2 reads:
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Waluigi from the Super Mario Bros. series is an interesting variation. Although he wears overalls, not only does he look almost identical to Dick Dastardly and Robbie Rotten, he has a lot of the characteristics of a dastardly whiplash.
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Chlorophylle: Anthracite is a bombastic conniving classic villain and wears an all-black suit with a top hat and cape. His whiskers could even qualify for a moustache.
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In The Cartoon Man, Simon becomes this type of character when in his cartoon form.
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Captain Brains from The Stretchers has this archetype down to a tee. Outrageously villainous? He spends the game hypnotizing people and turning them into "Dizzies". No depth to his personality? All we know about him is that he was a former medic who turned to evil, and nothing else. Handlebar mustache? One finely-styled hallmark of his treachery right beneath his schnoz!
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The Amazing Mumbo from Teen Titans definitely sports the look and one-dimensional villainy, although he's never seen engaging in mustache twirling or Antiquated Linguistics. Justified in that his whole theme is stage magic turned horribly real; top hats, black suits, and cloaks just happen to be the stereotypical garb of stage magicians.
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Dishonest John from Beany and Cecil. "Nya-ha-hah!"
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Soon I Will Be Invincible: Trophies from his past exploits indicate Baron Ether was one of these in his youth, before becoming an Evil Overlord.
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil has one-shot villain, the Pie King. He is thin, with a handlebar moustache, pointy nose and a very flamboyant personality. Also, unlike the shows more complex villain, such as Ludo and Toffee, this guy is extremely one-dimensional, with all his evil acts being motivated purely by greed.
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Panic Restaurant has Hors D'oeuvre (Ohdove), a Dastardly Whiplash in a chef’s outfit.
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Red Dead Redemption:
The achievement "Dastardly", which you get for hogtying a woman and placing her on the train tracks and afterwards watch the train running her over. The icon for the achievement is a depiction of a top hat and handlebar moustache. Leave it to Rockstar to give you gamerscore for being arbitrarily evil in such a cartoonish way.
The "strange man" plays with this trope a LOT. While his missions lend to moral ambiguity, the fact that he is implied to be Death or The Devil may make him the ultimate Dastardly Whiplash, but his character and motivations are deliberately vague enough that it's equally plausible he's an angel, or even God himself, which would make him a subversion.
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Phantom Phink in Yogi's Space Race is a Captain Ersatz of Dick Dastardly, who was also a Hanna-Barbera character.
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On the game show Whew!, a member of the Gauntlet of Villains is Mr. Van Louse the Landlord, brandishing a top hat, mustache and the deed to someone's house of which he plans to foreclose.
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Superman: In a Golden Age story where a supervillain called Funny Face was bringing to life various villains from comic strips, Superman fought an Expy of the Hairbreadth Harry villain Relentless Rudolph Ruddigore Rassendale in the form of the Viper from the fictional strip Happy Daze. This story was later retold in All-Star Squadron with members of the Squadron taking the place of Superman.
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Prof. Moriarty from Sherlock Hound is this to a T. From the outfit (Tophat, cane, monocle, pointy mustache and cape only in white), the personality (Larger-than-life, self-proclaimed Evil Genius) to the modus operandi (Concocting overly complex schemes doomed to fail due to a combination of both shortsightedness and the incompetence of Smiley and Todd). Most notably, Hound sees him as more of a nuisance than a real threat.
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 features Consul V, who has the voice, accent, and mannerisms of an old-timey villain, while his Consul helmet is shaped like a top hat, and has tubes on said helmet resembling a handlebar mustache. He may be one of the less competent Consuls, easily falling for Taion and Riku's trap, but was also responsible for brutally executing soldiers that completed their 10 terms to prevent their souls from being lost from the cycle of reincarnation, as well as Ashera's suicidal tendencies, the former of which resulted in the creation of the Homecoming Ceremony.
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Salem from Drawn to Life 2.
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Sir Percival Glyde, a "bad baronet" in The Woman in White, is this, involved in the standard financial scheming and wife imprisonment.
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"The Grandest Dream Thief Leon the Great" from episode 45 of Pokémon Black and White is this trope to a tee. He does not have a top hat or black clothes, but his mustache, attitude, and scheme has this trope written all over him.
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In Enoch Soames, the narrator is contemptuous of the Devil and notes that Satan's attempts to invoke Evil Is Stylish actually make him come across as a ridiculous example of this trope:
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Super Solvers' Big Bad Morty Maxwell comes across as one of these in the clothes of a Mad Scientist, due to his sinister mustache, cartoonishly villainous personality, and constant scheming.
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Mr. X in TigerMask is a thin blue skinned man with a thin mustache, Black Tophat, monocle, Black cape, and all Black outfit. Mr. X is a crooked wrestling manager, and is portrayed more seriously than most modern examples.
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Major Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He doesn't have the mustache, and his greed is only for Der Fuhrer, but he's got the big black hat and cape, he steals (and sucks the oxygen from) every scene he's in, he's bone-chillingly evil, has goofy equipment (that hanger!), and instead of a maniacal laugh he has more of a sinister wheezing cackle reminiscent of Peter Lorre.
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Captain Marvel's Mad Scientist nemesis Dr. Sivana doesn't have the wardrobe (or the mustache) but does invoke a few of these traits, including his catchphrase "Curses! Foiled Again!"
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Tom Strong's archnemesis Paul Saveen is one of these, except for the hat part. However, in an issue where he uses a time machine to call several versions of himself, one has a top hat. He's actually much more competent than usual examples of this trope, even though Failure Is the Only Option for him, like for most supervillains.
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In Earth and Sky, after being driven off the deep end by his brother selling out, Flam Flim-Flam turns into one of these, dying his mane and mustache black and calling himself "Professor Destiny".
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Toy Story and Toy Story 3: During Andy's playtime, Mr. Potato Head becomes one of these as the villain, "One-Eyed Bart".
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All the villains in the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind are rapists and pederasts. If they are hidden villains, the first thing they try to do once they reveal themselves as villains is try to rape someone. Also, the villain from the first book (and some others) is named Darken Rahl. Might as well have just called him "Snidely Whiplash." For that matter, the major villain for the rest of the series is "Jagang", which has the word "gang" in it. And he even does have a mustache to twirl.
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Dastardly & Muttley: The Unstabilium is making Richard Atcherly more like one of these. By Issue #3, he even gets the iconic mustache.
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In The Fairly OddParents! short that first aired on Oh Yeah! Cartoons which was the pilot to the series. When Vicky is trying to run away she ends up tied to a railroad track, with Timmy gloating over her with mustache and top hat.
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Boris Badenov from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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 Rocky and Bullwinkle
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In Honeymoon Hotel (1934), there is a mustached bug smoking a cigar who tries to look into guests' rooms. He bears a very stereotypical villain look.
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Pinocchio: The Musical turns the Coachman into a combination of this and a Repulsive Ringmaster, with the classic curly moustache.
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They really love this trope; they did a follow-up villainous cover of Bella Poarch's song "Villain", and a Disney Villain parody of The Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You".
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Dr. Eggman of the Sonic the Hedgehog series certainly has many characteristics of this archetype, namely his moustache and a never-ending supply of evil tricks and traps as well as a penchant for piloting large death machines to crush Sonic and his friends.
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Professor Hinkle, the self-styled Evil Magician of Frosty the Snowman has the antiquated costume (though he loses the top hat), the handlebar moustache, He has a green tuxedo with pink shirt on black tie, the exaggerated mannerisms, and the general incompetence associated with this trope. The fact that he is voiced by Billy DeWolfe (see Live-Action Film, above) demonstrates the provenance of the character.
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In Singin' in the Rain, Don Lockwood gets his first break as a stuntman at Monumental Pictures playing a mustache-wearing villain type who takes it on the jaw from the hero after being caught menacing the girl.
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Dr. Strangeglove from Moshi Monsters. His top hat is his face (the eyes pop out of the top of it, and the moustache right under it moving like a mouth). There's even a promotional poster of him tying Tyra Fangs to a railroad track (in sepia tone!)
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The Patrick Star Show: In "Dad's Stache Stash", Patrick wears an old-timey mustache that turns him into a classic villain. He promptly ties his family to railroad tracks, acting hammy and giving out evil cackles throughout. His family aren't even threatened; they just point out how trite it is.
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The iconic 'stache was sported by the villainous Herr Doktor Count Baron Napoleon von Strudel (a.k.a. Bert Maudsley) in one Wallace & Gromit comic, who also had an Eyepatch of Power concealing an experimental ping-pong ball that would explode on contact with the ground. And yes, he did twirl the moustache at least once.
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SpongeBob SquarePants: "The Blackened Sponge" features Jack M. Crazyfish, who in SpongeBob's dream, ties damsels in distress to railroad tracks and cheats at Rock–Paper–Scissors. SpongeBob initially makes up and brags about a story involving Crazyfish to explain his black eye, which actually occurred when SpongeBob tried to use a monkey wrench to remove a toothpaste cap.
Subverted when Crazyfish appears, only for Spongebob to confess that he made up the incident to avoid looking foolish. It turns out Crazyfish just wanted to see SpongeBob because SpongeBob makes really good Krabby Patties. When SpongeBob spills a deluxe Krabby Patty with extra cheese on Crazyfish's suit, they settle things with a quick game of Rock–Paper–Scissors.
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Professor Fate, Jack Lemmon's character in The Great Race. In fact, Dick Dastardly was clearly based on Professor Fate, so this is, in fact, the (half-)Trope Namer's origin.
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Waldo Trumbull in The Comedy of Terrors, meanwhile, is a particularly comedically incompetent and over the top version of the trope, played for laughs as an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist. He pairs the moustache with sideburns this time around and even dresses in the stereotypical outfit of black suit, top hat and cape-like coat (though it's justified as he's a 19th century undertaker), and tends to speak in Antiquated Linguistics and phrases like "Confound you!", though he mixes in some Sophisticated as Hell (unlike most versions of this trope, he is not rich or a Man of Wealth and Taste, but a crude drunk with pretensions). He's unrepentantly evil, having murdered several people before the events of the film even start to keep his undertaker's business going, and is petty, vicious and cruel to everyone except his Right-Hand Cat. And he certainly has the over the top mannerisms down: he sneers, rubs his hands, and laughs maniacally while attempting to strangle his wife. He even has a bullied sidekick played by Peter Lorre. Of course, his schemes end up failing in comedic ways, thanks in no small part to his own incompetence, and the film ends with him receiving Death by Irony while everyone he tries to kill over the course of the film, except the old man he kills early on, is doing just fine.
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Tom Smith's song "Sheep Marketing Ploy" pitches a series of horror movies about a sheep who usurps Satan's position as ruler of Hell; the sheep is described as having a classic villain mustache.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Spike the dragon dressed up like this in "Owl's Well That Ends Well", while plotting to get Owlowiscious the owl in trouble.
In "MMMMystery on the Friendship Express", one of Pinkie's imagine spots painted Gustav LeGrande in exactly this trope, down to the "tie a mare down on the tracks so the train can crush her" and the silent film dialogue screens.
In "Spike at Your Service", when Applejack explains that she plans on Spike saving her life, Pinkie Pie immediately suggests, in her typical way, a scheme involving her party cannon, a hornet's nest and a butterfly net and concludes with: "I'll wear this mustache!", complete with the appropriate grin and hoof rubbing.
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Doctor Who:
"The Daleks' Master Plan": The Doctor, Steven, and Sara Kingdom find themselves in the middle of a movie set, where a Whiplash-type is tying a screaming woman to a Conveyor Belt o' Doom. Not knowing it's a movie, they immediately intervene, to disastrous results.
The Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley incarnations of The Master, complete with Beard of Evil.
Lampshade Hanging in the spin-off novel Who Killed Kennedy: when Intrepid Reporter James Stevens sees a TV report on "Reverend Magister", his reaction is that nobody who looks that much like a Dennis Wheatley villain could possibly really be a terrorist and this is obviously part of the UNIT coverup.
Also lampshaded in "The Time Monster" when Jo Grant — finding the Master speechless with fury over how she and the Doctor escaped his latest Death Trap — suggests "Curses, foiled again!" as an appropriate remark.
The later incarnations of the Master largely avoid this, although all versions still have a tendency towards hammy theatricality and card carrying villainy.
Missy, however, leaned into this trope as another example of a female version. Her look was part Mary Poppins, part Old Lady Shapoklyak.
Taken Up to Eleven in the non-canon Affectionate Parody episode Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death, in which the Master's hamminess and incompetence is exaggerated to extremes, turning him into a Campy Butt-Monkey with a tendency towards falling into his own traps.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: In a black-and-white silent movie style flashback, Kaiba has the mustache. "My affluence makes a nonsense of the regulations!"
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Since Moving Pictures races through the entire history of cinema up to Gone with the Wind in a couple of weeks, a Dastardly Whiplash naturally appears early on. He's tying Ginger to a tree (in the absence of railroad tracks on the Discworld at this time) and a sign is held in front of the picture-box saying "Ahar! My proude beauty!"
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Rocky Rococo from The Further Adventures of Nick Danger is described as a "little man with an evil grin". He has some convoluted scheme involving blackmail, a contract, and using a pickle as a bludgeon.
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Several villains from Dick Tracy could count as such, such as the early 30's villain Benito Spaldoni or the new undead-magician-themed villain Abner Kadaver.
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The cowboy expansion deck of Grave Robbers from Outer Space had a "Dastardly Villain" enemy card who surely was meant to evoke this archetype. Complete with handlebar mustache to twirl.
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The Spoony Experiment: In Spoony's review of Avatar, he comments that the only way the villains could possibly have been more one-dimensional and Obviously Evil is if they had moustaches to twiddle.
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Abrim in Sourcery is sort of this trope meets Evil Chancellor. When he first appears, it's said that "He twirled his mustache, probably foreclosing another dozen mortgages."
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Inspector Monet from Le Havre is a contemporary example — he's tall, thin, mustached, and his only outfit is a flowing black coat, black pants, and a bowler hat. However, the end of the film proves his morality is slightly more ambiguous than the average Whiplash.
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Dampierre from Soul Calibur Broken Destiny is a variation on the trope: although he otherwise fits the trope perfectly, and commits petty crimes typical to the Dastardly Whiplash archetype, he's actually more of a good guy than a true villain and ultimately wishes to atone for the wrongs he's done. Quite justified when you've got villains such as an Omnicidal Maniac Eldritch Abomination resurrected from an evil sword, a sadistic, insane Psychopathic Womanchild, and similar nasties running around freely. However, according to the fifth game, he did sell Pyrrha into slavery.
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In Partially Kissed Hero, Dumbledore ends up looking and acting like this after being de-aged, and it's played completely straight.
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Albeit he lacks a mustache and dresses in purple, Leopold Charles Anthony Weasleby the Third from Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure is a perfect example of a Dastardly Whiplash with an obsession with clockwork Death Machines.
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The 1933 Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid short Bosko's Picture Show has one "Dirty Dalton (The Cur!)".
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The South Park episode "Safe Space" has "Reality", a being in this form trying to make people hiding from online criticism accept that the real world is cruel. He ends up being executed by said growing group of people.
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EVIL has a professor who is actually named Professor Dastard, who plays this trop pathetically straight.
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The Peculiar Purple Pie Man of Porcupine Peak,note A-ya-ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta ta! TAAAH! from the Strawberry Shortcake cartoons has the twirly mustache, nose, chin and mannerisms to qualify for this.
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"Sir Strong Bad", Strong Bad's Old-Timey counterpart in Homestar Runner, is mostly dead on, except that his face is still a luchador mask (which doesn't stop him from keeping the mustache.)
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Grandis' ex-fiancee in the infamous Africa arc from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. Or rather, his portrayal as one, which is enough to make one wonder why Grandis fell for him in the first place — or even falls for him again after the latter destroyed her life!
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DSBT InsaniT: Robber Eel is one in the form of an eel.
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Regis from Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness. He certainly has the look down, but he leans closer to Corrupt Corporate Executive.
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The Cog Is Dead did a cover of Billie Eilish's hit song, "Bad Guy". While there isn't a music video 'per se', the cover art of their YouTube track shows the lead singer, "Captain John Sprocket", dressed as the stereotypical black hat wearing, mustache-twirling bad guy. The song lyrics are full of this trope.
They really love this trope; they did a follow-up villainous cover of Bella Poarch's song "Villain", and a Disney Villain parody of The Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You".
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Firefly:
In the first episode, Simon is used as a Red Herring and looks a lot like this kind of character.
Referenced in "Ariel": after Simon has planned and executed his first heist, Shepherd Book asks if he's got his next scheme lined up, referring to him jokingly as a "criminal mastermind". Simon responds, "Not yet, but I was thinking of growing a big, black mustache. I'm a traditionalist."
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Oil Can Harry in the old Mighty Mouse cartoons.
Lampshaded by Scrappy in Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures in the episode "Scrappy's Playhouse" when he's watching a clip of an old cartoon that features a more traditional human version of the character:. "Hey, didn't he used to be a cat?"
Another episode featured a one time character named "The Glove" who also dressed like this.
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Grocky, member of Skull Gang, and all his expies from Time Bokan series. They are all extremely thin men with a hunched posture, love of evil, and long thin mustaches which they twirl. The only they're missing is the Black tophat, and cape. This is downplayed in Yattodetaman with Kokematsu who doesn't have the mustache or posture, but still exhibits some mannerisms of this trope.
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Thaddeus Griffin, Peter's evil twin from Family Guy.
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Manatee Girl: The Movie has the InHumanatee who has a comically large mustache despite being in live action. He dumps oil in manatee inhabited springs simply because he considers it a "sufficiently evil undertaking for a man of [his] talents".
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Robbie Rotten of LazyTown may not have the loftiest of goals (he just wants the kids to be lazy so they won't be running back and forth across the roof of his subterranean lair all day — one might suggest he move, but it's probably rent-controlled), and lacks the mustachenote ironically, his Arch-Nemesis, Sportacus, is the one with a mustache, but he more than makes up for it with his Lean and Mean physique, prominent chin, wicked grin, hammy mannerism, and the kind of elaborate costumes and schemes that define this trope.
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Twice Upon a Time: The Big Bad Synonamess Botch is a stout, hunchbacked, greasy-haired fellow who dresses in dark colors and has a long, thin mustache. He's even seen tugging on his mustache and giving an Evil Laugh during the opening Dramatis Personae sequence.
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Zero Punctuation often uses top-hatted mustached figures as stand-ins for the villains of the games under discussion, usually if the villains aren't interesting enough to warrant talking about in detail.
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George of the Jungle:
A Super Chicken episode features theater actor Briggs Badwolf, who, playing the melodrama villain once too often, believes he is the character — he makes off with the female lead of the play. Attempting to get her to go to the Villain's Annual Picnic with him, he takes her to the usual places — the sawmill, the railroad track, the old abandoned mine...
And Baron Otto Matic, in the Tom Slick segments.
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In the Sherlock Holmes canon, Colonel Sebastian Moran. Sidney Paget draws him◊ in white tie and a Badass Longcoat, with a prominent nose, eminently twirlable moustache and Bald of Evil. Personality-wise, he's pretty one-dimensional even for a Holmes villain — established as being Moriarty's number-one thug, a former Sociopathic Soldier and the disgraced son of a man who almost counts as an aristocrat (being a Knight of the British Empire, a Companion of the Order of Bath and an Ambassadorial Minister, all of which are high-ranking but technically non-noble titles), he seemingly has no interests outside of shooting things (either animals or people) and cheating at cards.
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In the Star Trek: Voyager Parody Fic Voyager Chicks Behind Forcefields, an evil Captain Janeway twirls her red hair as she doesn't have a moustache.
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Downplayed a bit, but General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith has the black cloak, hunched posture, and hand-rubbing gestures. A humorous gif◊ adds the hat and mustache...
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Frederick Loren in House on Haunted Hill (1959) appears like this trope at first, being a rich and powerful man, distrusted by most other characters, sinister in appearance (dressed in a suit like the Man of Wealth and Taste he is, and Vincent Price's moustache is at its most twirlable in this film), and with a sneeringly sarcastic and morbid sense of humour. It's obvious from the start that he's hiding some sinister plan. However, he turns out to be a more complex character than this trope. For a start, he's not the villain of the film, but rather the intended murder victim, though still a ruthless schemer who might well have murdered his previous three wives. He's also far more competent than the usual cartoonish, unintelligent and easily foiled version of this trope: his plan might be rather odd and overcomplicated if you think about it too hard, but it works, and ultimately he defeats his enemies and gets away with everything, making him quite the Karma Houdini if he really did commit the other murders he was suspected of.
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Dastardly Whiplash
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The Hooded Claw from The Perils of Penelope Pitstop has Dastardly Whiplash mannerisms, though his appearance — with color scheme on loan from The Joker — is more flamboyant than most (he also lacks the traditional mustache). No surprise, since he's voiced by Paul Lynde.
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 Dastardly Whiplash / int_f14deb8a
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Dastardly Whiplash / int_f14deb8a
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Krimson from Suske en Wiske (Spike & Suzy) is a classic example from Belgium.
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 Dastardly Whiplash / int_f1a38c03
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Dastardly Whiplash
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The trope is mocked by Artemis Fowl:
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 Dastardly Whiplash / int_f3ef0f86
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Dastardly Whiplash / int_f3ef0f86
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Don Paolo from the Professor Layton games definitely counts, with the mustache, the long coat, and the smug sneer. We don't find out what his beef with Layton is until the third game.
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Dastardly Whiplash / int_f6bb880b
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch: In "Silent Movie", a Magic Misfire makes everyone part of a Silent Movie with Mr. Kraft as a moustache-twirling villain tying damsels to railroad tracks.
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Dastardly Whiplash / int_f6fe1bfc
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dr. Fetus from Super Meat Boy. Although he lacks a mustache (being a fetus and all), he dons the wardrobe and his most infamous crime is kidnapping the titular hero's girlfriend.
 Dastardly Whiplash / int_f7e2be8e
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Dastardly Whiplash / int_f7e2be8e
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Dastardly Whiplash
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King Dice from Cuphead is a character with these features dressed in a suit and with a die for a head. His appearances on the show based on the game has a rigged game show Roll the Dice which is impossible to lose for contestants since their souls get snatched after they enter the Mystery Prize Room, and deliberately sabotages the Devil's 3rd Finest Demons to get the glory of kidnapping Cuphead. Plus, he believes he's the Devil's Number 1, though his boss doesn't acknowledge it.
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Dastardly Whiplash / int_f935118b
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Dastardly Whiplash
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The title character of The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom looks a bit like one of these. Given the mayhem he causes in his efforts to steal pies, he's certainly not a very nice guy.
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Dastardly Whiplash / int_fb98c15
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Picard references this archetype when he refers to "villains who twirl their moustaches" being easier to spot than "idealists" who "clothes themselves in good deeds" in "The Drumhead".
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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 North and South (U.S.) / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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 Henry's Cat / int_32e69b5f
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 Mickey's Mellerdrammer / int_32e69b5f
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 Mighty Mouse / int_32e69b5f
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 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
 Stunt Dawgs / int_32e69b5f
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 The Ruff & Reddy Show / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
 The Shooting of Dan McGoo / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
 The Wacky World of Tex Avery / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
 Wacky Races / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
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Dastardly Whiplash
 Widget the World Watcher / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
 Yogi's Space Race / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
 Singin' in the Rain / int_32e69b5f
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Dastardly Whiplash
 Onimusha (Video Game) / int_32e69b5f
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 Steambot Chronicles (Video Game) / int_32e69b5f
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