Codename: Kids Next Door - Good to Evil
By Breck Tschosik Codename: Kids Next Door remains one of the
greatest shows to ever grace the Cartoon Network. It follows an organization of highly trained
kids working endlessly to combat the tyranny of evil teenagers and adults, all while indulging
in the pleasures of birthday cake, candy, and of course, Rainbow Monkeys. From candy pirates to evil business overlords,
we certainly have a large cast of villains; luckily, the heroic Kids Next Door are here
to put the grown-ups to bed. I’m Kyle with WickedBinge, and this is Codename:
Kids Next Door - Good to Evil. As usual, let’s start with the good characters
and work our way down the list. The gold medal of good is, shockingly, going
to an adult: Monty Uno, formerly known as Numbuh 0 (Number). Even though he’s an adult, Monty remains
a kind and caring father who wants the best for his son. He does get most of his parenting advice from
the newspaper, but he makes a genuine effort to connect with his son any moment that he
can. While being a good parent in this series is
a feat in itself, what really lands him this high up is the time he spent as the greatest
KND Operative in the world: Numbuh 0. After discovering the Book of KND, Numbuh
0 revives the Kids Next Door in order to defeat Grandfather, the greatest threat to kids that
the world has ever known, who also happens to be Monty’s father. In fact, he defeats Grandfather twice: Once
as a kid, and again as an adult alongside his son. Sector V and all the rest of the modern-day
KND have Numbuh 0 to thank for the strength of the organization and the freedom that they
continue to fight for on a daily basis. He is decommissioned again at the end of “Operation:
ZERO,” but the KND allows him and his wife to be recommissioned one last time to see
their son join the Galactic Kids Next Door. Monty Uno is the perfect balance of being
a good kid and a good adult, and for that, I think it’s only right to give him the
top spot. Coming in at second place, we have Hoagie
P. Gilligan, AKA Numbuh 2. The smartest member of Sector V, Numbuh 2
is possibly the most skilled inventor in the entire show. He’s created most of the team’s weapons
and vehicles, as well as their very sophisticated tree house. Though he’s not exactly a combat specialist,
he is an ace pilot capable of mastering any flying machine he comes across. He’s also a brilliant detective, as shown
in the Noir-style episodes, though we know he sometimes embellishes his stories to make
himself seem more heroic than he actually was. We know that Hoagie is a genuinely nice kid
based on his interactions with his team, other kids, and even adults. Numbuh 2 is also shown to be a caring “father”
to the lost baby skunk that he and Numbuh 3 find in the bushes during a mission in “Operation:
CAMP” and later adopt. He even saves Bradley’s life in “Operation:
HOSPITAL” after the doctors fail to save him. As far as his relationship with his little
brother Tommy, I’d say it’s actually pretty standard. Numbuh 2 isn’t overly mean to Tommy, but
his little brother ends up annoying him a lot of the time. Even though Tommy just wants to spend some
time with Hoagie, we can kind of see why he wouldn’t want the little stinker around,
especially on a mission. Still, Hoagie does end up saving his brother
from danger and vice versa, so their relationship as siblings is much better than some other
characters’. While not unique to him, Numbuh 2 can be a
bit cowardly in some situations - he very often tries to retreat from a fight when his
first plan of attack fails, but again, his skill lies more in his piloting than his combat
abilities. Like every member of Sector V, Numbuh 2 has
an obsession that is also his biggest character flaw, and for him, that obsession is with
technology. He values his inventions above all else and
considers himself useless without his gadgets. This is most shown in “Operation: AMISH,”
where Hoagie is sent to Sector A to hide him from the Splinter Cell and is not allowed
to use any machines for the duration of his stay. But realistically, being obsessed with inventing
new useful machines for his team and improving upon his creations is hardly the worst thing
in the world. In fact, it’s safe to say that his engineering
prowess is one of the biggest contributing factors to Sector V’s success in all areas. For that, he earns the silver medal of the
good characters. And in third place, we have Kuki Sanban, AKA
Numbuh 3. While normally she may be the happiest, kindest,
most adorable thing on the planet, she has been shown to have an angrier, almost demonic
side to her. It usually comes out whenever someone insults
or damages her stuffed animals, after which she will literally burn with rage, much like
a certain series main antagonist. There was also that time she turned her house
into an active volcano and became its fiery overlord after her father told her she couldn’t
touch the thermostat, which is a pretty extreme way of dealing with a cold house. Still, pretty much every other time she’s
on screen, Kuki is incredibly sweet to everyone around her, even to Numbuh 4 when he’s being
a huge jerk. She cares for her whole team and her family,
including her evil little sister, who we will address later. As Sector V’s medic, she takes care of anyone
who’s injured, whether it be a kid, a hamster, or a stuffed animal. Although she’s painfully oblivious to the
seriousness of the mission most of the time, she has proven to be very resourceful on her
own, such as when she saves the entire Rainbow Monkey species from the evil businessman who
wanted to exploit them, or when she puts an end to Chester’s restaurant that sells kid-burgers
to sharks. While she isn’t the most competent member
of the team, she’s just too cheerful and pure-hearted to rank any lower on the list. Up next is Sector V’s leader and arguably
the show’s main character, Nigel Uno, AKA Numbuh 1. His position as leader of Sector V is basically
his entire life. He rarely takes a day off, and would be out
on missions 24/7 if he could have his way, as demonstrated in “Operation: BEACH”
when he refuses to relax at the beach with his team even for one day. As a leader, he’s usually the most level-headed
of the bunch, often having a better grasp on the situation than the other team members,
and he’s normally the first one to come up with a solution if and when their missions
go awry. While Nigel is enthusiastic about his job,
he is shown to be pretty stubborn and reckless, preferring to act on his own if the situation
allows. Despite this, he cares more about his team
than he does anyone else, including himself. Numbuh 1 will always come around to save his
team or any other kids when they’re in danger, even after the Delightful Children temporarily
turn him into an adult in “Operation: GROW-UP.” Though he’s completely devoted to the Kids
Next Door, he has been known to bend the rules on occasion, particularly by disobeying orders
from his superiors; however, his rule-breaking is always in service of completing his mission
and is never meant to harm anyone on his team. As far as his relationship with his father,
Nigel doesn’t really appreciate Monty’s attempt to spend time with him in “Operation:
OOMPPAH,” but he feels bad about being dismissive towards his father and later saves Monty from
a kid who steals people’s dads. Their relationship drastically improves after
that episode, and we can see their loving father-son dynamic in Operations “END”
and “ZERO.” Nigel eventually surpasses even his own father
as the greatest KND Operative and is recruited to join the Galactic Kids Next Door, but we
unfortunately will probably never see anything from that time period. We do know from “Operation: INTERVIEWS”
that all members of Sector V were never decommissioned, and that Numbuh 1 eventually returns to earth
and reunites with his team. He may be flawed, but he’s definitely an
excellent leader, a loyal friend, and a great kid. Next, we have the youngest character in the
show and the little brother of Numbuh 4, Joey Beetles. His only significant appearance is in “Operation:
DODGEBALL,” where it’s revealed that he is the greatest dodgeball player in existence,
even though he’s just a baby. A villain called the Dodgeball Wizard kidnaps
Mr. & Mrs. Beetles in order to draw out their son to challenge him to a match. While Numbuh 4 believes that he is the prophesied
dodgeball champion, it really turns out to be his baby brother, who has to battle the
Dodgeball Wizard in a game that almost levels the city. Joey single handedly rescues his parents and
defeats the Wizard with a shot to his big fat nose. Because he’s just a baby and has already
saved a bunch of people and defeated an evil villain, we think it’s only right to rank
him this high. Up next is the chillest member of Sector V,
Abigail Lincoln, AKA Numbuh 5. Along with Numbuh 1, she tends to be the most
rational and level-headed member of the gang, using her common sense rather than jumping
to insane conclusions about a strange situation. Before Nigel came around, she was the leader
of Sector V, but possibly because something bad happened while she was in command, Abby
usually shies away when offered leadership positions; although, we do know that she eventually
becomes Supreme Leader of the Kids Next Door after Nigel leaves for space. Though she doesn’t share Numbuh 3’s general
positivity, she does have a very caring and motherly side like Kuki does, as shown in
“Operation: DIAPER.” Abby also has a personal connection to the
villains because her sister, Cree, is the leader of the Teen Ninjas who work for Father. We can see their sibling rivalry in episodes
like “Operation: SPACE,” where the two of them battle on a KND space ship while the
rest of Sector V is off running from what they think are aliens. During that episode, we see that Abby is not
above pulling some dirty tricks, as she fools Cree into thinking they’re about to have
a moment of sisterly love only to throw Cree into the trash chute, even though that apparently
turns out to be a part of Cree’s plan all along. Numbuh 5’s particular obsession is with
sweets like ice cream and candy. She knows much about the history of certain
sweets and goes on many Indiana Jones-style expeditions to retrieve rare dessert artifacts;
however, this indicates her as being a bit greedy or overly obsessed, as she’s willing
to risk her life just to get one taste of the mystical Fourth Ice Cream Flavor in “Operation:
FLAVOR.” Abby also has a somewhat complicated past
with her old partner, Henrietta von Marzipan, which we’ll get into more detail about later. She tries to bring Von Marzipan back to the
good side at several points, only succeeding in “Operation: CARAMEL” by finally teaching
Henrietta how to share her sweets; and yet, she can be almost as greedy as Stickybeard
when it comes to candy. Numbuh 5, you’re a great friend and a brilliant
operative, but sometimes, “you crazy.” The secret sixth member of Sector V, Bradley,
is next. Bradley is first introduced in “Operation:
CAMP.” Numbuhs 2 and 3 discover the baby skunk alone
in the bushes after he’s apparently displaced from his home thanks to their mission, and
the two of them adopt him as their own. While the other members of Sector V see the
skunk as a burden, his spray proves to be quite effective at reversing mind control,
which saves the camp full of kids by the end of the episode. In his next appearance, “Operation: HOSPITAL,”
Numbuhs 2 and 3 have to upgrade him with cybernetic parts to save his life after he’s hit by
a car, and he later defeats Cree in a one-on-one battle. As a skunk, he was a reliable spy, but as
a cyborg, he’s an unstoppable KND machine. And the final member of the core team, we
have Wally Beetles, AKA Numbuh 4. 4 is definitely the most hot-headed and reckless
operative in Sector V. Violence is usually his first idea in any given situation since
combat is one of his only strong suits. He has a strong distaste for anything “girly,”
especially Rainbow Monkey dolls, but it’s hard to blame him when you consider episodes
like “Operation: FUTURE” where girls took over the entire planet, and “Operation:
HUGS” where he’s kidnapped by Rainbow Monkey cultists. That said, Wally does have a soft side to
him deep down, especially when it comes to his crush, Numbuh 3. While he maintains his attitude around her,
he does try and comfort her when she’s sad, usually by his own doing. Despite being generally incompetent, he does
have a lot of drive and is usually the first to take initiative when Numbuh 1 isn’t around,
but it’s implied in “Operation: CANNON” that he’s a bit power hungry when he tries
to make himself the permanent leader of Sector V while Nigel is gone for the day. Because he thinks he thinks he’s much smarter
than he actually is, his attempts at leadership normally blow up in his face. While he may not be the brightest bulb of
the bunch, Numbuh 4 definitely has his moments of genius, like in “Operation: POOL” where
he defeats the entirety of Negative Sector V, and even outsmarts his evil mastermind
opposite self. Numbuh 4 is just as much of a hero as the
rest of his team, even with his brash and impulsive personality. Moving on, we have Hoagie’s little brother,
Tommy. Tommy is introduced in his self-titled episode,
in which he’s considered to be rather annoying by his brother and the rest of Sector V. Tommy
doesn’t seem to understand the seriousness of the Kids Next Door’s missions and views
them as just “playing.” He feels left out by the others, so he makes
friends with the villain of the episode, the Common Cold, to defeat Sector V and finally
get to spend some time with Hoagie; however, the Common Cold ends up betraying Tommy, leaving
Numbuh 2, or more accurately their mother, to save the day. While he didn’t have the best start, Tommy
has proven to be one of the most resourceful characters in the show. Besides his knowledge of 2x4 technology, he
is one of the few characters who has beaten Father almost single-handedly, twice. Granted, the second time ends up backfiring
in “Operation: IT,” but for the moment, Tommy has saved the entire Kids Next Door
all by himself, which we can’t say for most other people on the list. However, his plan of saving them requires
him to quit the KND, so he decides to adopt the new persona of “The Tommy.” From that point on, he isn’t really as useful
as before, but his mission is still the same - to protect the world from the tyranny of
adults, and for that, he earns his spot in the good tier. Next is the most recurring Supreme Leader
of the Kids Next Door, Rachel McKenzie, or Numbuh 362. After Numbuh 274 seemingly betrays the KND,
Rachel takes over the position of Supreme Leader. For a while, she seems to be doing the job
well enough; however, she decides that she’s unable to handle the pressure of her position
in “Operation: IT” and starts a global game of Tag to determine who the next Supreme
Leader will be. Nigel tries to convince her to reconsider,
stating that she’s been the best leader the KND has ever had, but she still refuses. She also makes the absolutely bizarre decision
to let Father take over as Supreme Leader without any resistance because it’s part
of their “rules.” Even when the Delightful Children trick Father
into tagging her, she freaks out and gets him immediately reinstated. Thankfully, Rachel realizes that she is the
only one capable of leading the KND and even eats a heap of broccoli to stop Father’s
evil plan. Afterwards, we usually only see her interacting
with Numbuh 1, often scolding him for his recklessness, but Nigel doesn’t plan on
slowing down anytime soon. While we can understand not being able to
handle the pressure of her job, she does lose a few points for letting Father almost destroy
the Kids Next Door, but she still earns a spot among the good characters thanks to her
self-sacrifice and dedication to the KND. Let’s quickly mention the teenage operative
Maurice, or Numbuh 9. Though he only has a couple of major appearances,
he is a noteworthy character because he’s the first we see of the secret Teens Next
Door - a sect of teenagers who are not decommissioned on their thirteenth birthday and continue
to work undercover for the Kids Next Door. We’re told that only the best and most loyal
operatives can make it into the TND, so Maurice certainly must have been one of the best during
his childhood. Now, let’s give the spotlight to a few parents,
starting with Betty Gilligan. She is the mother of Hoagie and Tommy who
first appears in “Operation: TOMMY.” In that episode, she saves the day from the
Common Cold and his giant robot. After her first appearance, however, her personality
changes into a much more of a nervous wreck than what we previously saw, only wanting
to impress her boss, Mrs. Sanban. She knows about her sons’ affinity for building
2x4 technology and she seems to be an adult ally of the Kids Next Door, so I think it’s
safe to assume she’s good. Next is Numbuh 5’s dad, Dr. Lincoln. Dr. Lincoln...is just Bill Cosby. Okay, not literally, but it’s a very clear
parody of the actor, thankfully before the controversy. He seems to be a pretty standard parent; his
worst crime is usually just embarrassing his daughters in front of other people, and it’s
never even intentional. Sure, one of his daughters is evil, but it
seems like that happens to pretty much every teen in the show eventually, and he does have
another daughter that isn’t evil, so Cree’s actions are probably not a result of his parenting. We know he used to be a party clown, but after
one too many jokes flopped, he decided to get a “real” job and become a doctor. Since he saves people’s lives in a more
conventional way, and he’s most likely a good dad, we’re gonna rank him with the
good characters. At the end of the good spectrum, we have Nigel’s
girlfriend for the majority of the show, Lizzie Devine. Lizzie definitely has a lot of faults - she’s
loud, obnoxious, narcissistic, selfish, and painfully unaware of the Kids Next Door’s
importance. In a majority of her appearances, she only
shows up to distract or drag Nigel away from an important mission. She even works for the Delightful Children
against her boyfriend in “Operation: CAKED-TWO,” although she does end up foiling their plans
by the end. She also goes behind Nigel’s back in “Operation:
LEADER” and tries to lead Sector V on a mission, which is really just going out for
ice cream and a makeover, only for the team to fail miserably without Numbuh 1. Lizzie really isn’t that great of a person,
but I’m willing to cut her a break because she actually does love Nigel up until she
realizes that his devotion to the Kids Next Door comes before his love for her, prompting
her to break up with him in “Operation: GIRLFRIEND.” Lizzie definitely has her moments of being
good, but that’s really all they are - moments. For that, she earns a spot in the lowest end
of the good tier. And yes, I’m aware that she would have been
revealed to be a Tentacruel-looking alien disguised as a human in “Galactic Kids Next
Door,” but that series was never made, so I’m not going to factor that into her ranking. That’s it for the Good characters. Now we move on down to the Gray Area. Kicking off the Gray Area is going to be Mr.
and Mrs. Beetles. Most of the parents in the show are either
evil or completely oblivious to their kids’ actions, and while these two certainly aren’t
evil, they take their obliviousness to the next level. They spectate their infant son’s battle
with the Dodgeball Wizard, which is actively destroying the city, and think that it’s
just a “magic show.” Sydney also works for Mr. Boss, but it’s
safe to say he has no idea of his boss’ actual intentions when it comes to kids. At least it seems like they love their kids,
even if they’re okay with their infant son being put in mortal danger. And seriously, who names their kid Wallabee? Next is the hotshot pilot who’s only officially
known as “The Kid.” He makes his first appearance in “Operation:
DOGFIGHT” where he shoots Numbuh 2 out of the sky at least a dozen times. It’s later revealed that The Kid and Hoagie
were pinned against each other by Mr. Washer so he could destroy every source of chili-dogs
in town without anyone to stop him. The two pilots then work together to save
the town’s chili-dogs, and afterwards Hoagie tries to offer The Kid a spot in the KND,
but he walks away and states that he works alone. After his first appearance, he shows up again
in a few other episodes, mostly just to put the moves on Kuki and make Numbuh 4 jealous. Since we know his only loyalty is to chili-dogs,
I think it’s probably best to put him here. Moving on, we have Chad Dickson, formerly
known as Numbuh 274. As Supreme Leader, Chad was looked up to by
all members of the KND, especially Numbuh 1. He saves every single KND operative in the
world from his own parents in his self-titled episode, proving his capabilities as an operative
and a leader. Unfortunately, no one stays a kid forever,
and Chad betrays the KND once he turns thirteen years old. He initially tries to change the computer
to hide his age, as well as to have Sector V and everyone else who received an invitation
to his birthday party decommissioned. When this plan is foiled thanks to Numbuh
1 and Tommy, Chad detaches the KND Moonbase and tries to hurl it into the sun, defecting
to the Teen Ninjas and almost killing many of his former comrades in the process. This would ordinarily land him a spot in the
Evil territory, but we find out in Operation: TREATY that Chad has actually been an undercover
Teens Next Door operative the whole time since his apparent betrayal. Apparently, every single evil plot that he
took part in was all a way of sabotaging the adults’ plans for world domination, but
I’m not willing to let Chad off the hook that easily. First of all, flinging the Moonbase into the
sun was just about the riskiest move anyone could have possibly pulled. What if Sector V had actually been decommissioned? Then there would be no one left to save the
base, and nearly every high-ranking KND officer would have been killed. Also, in “Operation: TREATY,” he admits
to having a grudge against Numbuh 1 because the GKND picked Nigel as their operative from
earth rather than Chad, who feels he deserves it more than Numbuh 1. Because he played the part of a bad guy just
a little bit too well, he gets placed down in the Gray Area. Back to the parents, we have Mr. and Mrs.
Sanban. The two of them have very differing personalities
- Kani is incredibly high-strung, irritable, and emotional, while Genki is mostly stone-faced
and cold to an intimidating degree. This can lead to some rather weird interactions,
such as Kani breaking down and crying when he fails to make the perfect sundaes for his
guests. When they aren’t having emotional breakdowns
or being accused of Rainbow Monkey murder, they do seem like somewhat nice people, although
Genki forcing people to call her “Head of Accounting Mrs. Sanban” while off the clock
is a bit strange. As far as their actual parenting goes...well,
one of their daughters is an arbiter of pure joy in the world, and the other one is a murderous
psychopath. 1 for 2 isn’t so bad, I suppose. Fanny Fulbright, also known as Numbuh 86 is
next. 86 is generally a character who we aren’t
supposed to like, and she definitely has the most negative qualities of any operative in
the show. She’s a notorious boy-hater, rude, obnoxious,
and an all around insufferable jerk. In her first appearance, “Operation: FUGITIVE,”
her sexism is put on full display as she’s only willing to work a mission with Numbuhs
3 and 5 and tries to leave the male operatives behind. Ironically, she ends up totally flubbing that
mission and taking all the credit for herself before realizing how badly she screwed up,
which was very satisfying to watch. Her next appearance paints her in an even
worse light, as in “Operation: END,” she’s quite eager to decommission all of Sector
V after the computer tells her that they have all turned thirteen, despite Nigel pointing
out that he and 86 went to Kindergarten together, so she should know that he isn’t thirteen
years old. Fanny doesn’t care in the slightest and
erases all the memories of Sector V except for Numbuh 1’s. I would definitely expect a high-ranking officer
to do her due diligence and realize that it’s highly unlikely all of Sector V have the same
birthday and all turned thirteen at the same time, but she doesn’t even try to confirm
this with anyone else. All of this makes it more believable when
she admits that she doesn’t have any friends in “Operation: SLUMBER,” and in that episode,
she lets the Code Module be taken by Cree and the Teen Ninjas. Really, the only thing that keeps her out
of the bad territory is her loyalty to the Kids Next Door despite being the daughter
of Mr. Boss and her willingness to go on field missions despite being an officer. The Gray Area was basically made for characters
like the Delightful Children From Down the Lane. We’ll start with the bad stuff first. These creeps are the most recurring villains
of the entire series. They almost always speak in perfect unison,
are completely loyal to the adults, and will do anything they can to destroy the Kids Next
Door. Despite still being children, they yearn desperately
to become adults as soon as possible so they can take part in the tyranny that Father has
planned. The entire “CAKED” saga of the show is
based around the Delightful Children refusing to share their birthday cake while also forcing
other children to watch them eat it, and it’s always satisfying to see their plans foiled
by the heroes of Sector V. However, they are shown to occasionally help the KND work against
Father after he betrays or mistreats them, such as in “Operation: IT”. Perhaps the main reason that they aren’t
in the bad territory is what we learn about their secret history in “Operation: ZERO.” The Delightful Children are actually the lost
members of the legendary Sector Z who have been delightfulized by Father and turned into
mindless adult-loving zombies. As such, it’s really difficult to hold them
accountable for their actions since they’re effectively brainwashed into doing everything
that they do; and yet, they’re still capable of disobeying orders from adults at times. In the end, because we can’t really tell
whether or not they realize what they’re doing is wrong, it wouldn’t be fair to declare
them evil, so they just barely escape the bad territory. Rounding off the Gray Area is Henrietta (or
Heinrich) Von Marzipan. This German explorer was once Numbuh 5’s
candy-hunting partner, but things turned sour between the two of them after an incident
in Guatemala involving some Sacred Caramels. In her greed and insatiable hunger for more
candy, Henrietta cursed herself by not sharing her candy with anyone else, transforming from
a beautiful girl into a rather unsightly boy. From that point on, the newly-created Heinrich
continued to traverse the world in search of rare candies, often at the expense of other
people. In “Operation: RABBIT,” he discovers a
chocolate volcano that’s capable of turning everything it touches into chocolate, and
he kidnaps the first grade class’ pet rabbit with plans to turn it into a real chocolate
rabbit. Thankfully, he’s stopped by Numbuhs 2 and
5 with the help of a first-grader, and Heinrich becomes the chocolate treat instead. It’s not until “Operation: CARAMEL”
that Numbuh 5 finally convinces Heinrich to willingly give up his candy, therefore breaking
the curse and turning Heinrich back to Henrietta. She then vows to travel the world and undo
the trouble she’s unleashed during her candy escapades. While we won’t forgive all of her past wrongdoings,
she at least is going to try and make up for them, so we won’t label her as a complete
villain. That concludes the Gray Area. Now we move on to the list of the Kids Next
Door’s greatest (and most mediocre) villains, and it’s definitely a long one. These characters are the Bad and the Evil. And the spot of the least evil bad guy goes
to the villain that technically started it all, Professor XXXL (Triple Extra Large). He was originally created for the precursor
series to Codename: Kids Next Door called Kenny and the Chimp and later appeared in
KND as one of the goofiest villains of all. His goal is just about the least evil thing
imaginable - he wants to use technology to create the perfect snow cone, but his means
of doing this are more what lands him in the bad territory. While he has no specific hatred for the Kids
Next Door, he is certainly willing to destroy them if they get in his way, and he’s willing
to kidnap people to taste test his experimental snow cones. Lou Pottingsworth III, AKA The Toiletnator,
is up next. [“Aw Geez, it’s the Toiletnator!”] The Toiletnator is considered the most pathetic
villain of the entire show and the laughing stock of the bad guys. He really just wants to be liked and included
in the rest of the villains’ evil schemes, but just because he’s laughably bad at being
a villain doesn’t mean his intentions are any less malicious. He hates the Kids Next Door almost as much
as Father for constantly making him look like a joke in front of the other bad guys, and
he has a personal rivalry with Numbuh 4, who we find out in a comic is actually the Toiletnator’s
nephew. His incompetence usually works out better
for the heroes, such as in “Operation: FLUSH” where the adults take over Sector V’s Treehouse
but are all dispatched by the Toiletnator because he believes that they are all just
Sector V in disguise. Besides that, he’s a crybaby who is known
to throw a fit every time he isn’t included in one of the adults’ evil plans and usually
screws up the entire thing by the end. He may not be a threat, but his goals are
just as evil as the other villains’. Next, we have the infamous candy pirate Stickybeard. For a villain that appears as often as he
does, it’s probably surprising to see him this far down the list. Stickybeard and his crew travel the world
to plunder candy from kids and adults alike, but he has no specific hatred for kids outside
of the Kids Next Door. In fact, he even tries to persuade Numbuh
5, a fellow candy-hunter, to abandon Sector V and join his crew, but she declines and
Stickybeard declares her his sworn enemy. From that point on, the two of them develop
a fierce candy rivalry and have multiple later interactions. What really scores Stickybeard a lot of points
is “Operation: AFLOAT,” where he saves Sector V from a Great White Asparagus because
his hate for vegetables is even greater than his hate for the Kids Next Door. After that episode, he goes back to his pirating
ways and continues to work for the evil adults, even doing things like amassing an entire
armada to attack the Kids Next Door Moonbase during “Operation: ZERO.” Moving on, we have the enamel-avenger, Knightbrace. Though he works for Mr. Boss, he doesn’t
actually hate kids like the other villains. Instead, his only goal is to eliminate poor
dental hygiene across the world. I suppose there are worse things he could
be advocating for, but kidnapping people and forcibly putting braces on their teeth is
not the way to encourage good brushing habits. Also, he says that he was kicked out of dental
school for trying to put braces on babies, and that’s really messed up. Next is the youngest villain of the show,
Mushi Sanban. Despite being the younger sister of the sweetest
character in the show, Mushi is much more sinister and underhanded than Kuki. From her very first appearance in “Operation:
SPACE,” we know that her little “sisterly bond” routine is just an act, and Mushi
is secretly very manipulative of everyone around her. This culminates in “Operation: CLUES,”
when she forks her sister’s Rainbow Monkey in the back while at a dinner party because
she couldn’t wait for her turn to play with it. It’s a much bigger deal in context, believe
me. After receiving a lifelong grounding sentence,
Mushi kidnaps Count Spankulot and fuses his powers with the dead Rainbow Monkey doll to
create Spankenstine and sends him to punish Hoagie for getting her grounded. Maybe a life-grounding without dessert was
a little harsh for a first offense, but if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. She may just be a kindergartener, but she’s
already got a long list of evil actions to her name at this point. Moving on, we have Gramma Stuffum. This German grandmother and her squad of Sentient
Slop patrol the neighborhood in search of children so that she can force-feed her grotesque
culinary creations to them. She wants to fatten up children to render
them helpless so they aren’t able to act out and get themselves in trouble, especially
those pesky Kids Next Door. Numbuh 2 proves to be very resilient to her
food attacks, but even he can’t stand it for very long. In “Operation: FOOD-FITE” with music by
the band Gwar, she spends the entire episode trying to defeat Sector V during school lunch,
leading up to a battle with Stuffum’s most powerful minion: The Slam-Witch. We can safely say that Gramma Stuffum is just
as rotten as the food she serves up. I can think of only one villain more disgusting
than Stuffum’s cooking, and that villain is The Common Cold. Common Cold is a villain cursed with unending
sickness who blames children for his illness, and he wants to make every kid in the world
sick as an act of vengeance. He does this by shooting his own snot at all
of his enemies, and he also tries to use sick kids as a power source for his giant machine,
the Flu Bug. While he can be easily defeated using things
like chicken soup or orange juice, he is definitely one of the grossest villains ever to grace
Codename: Kids Next Door. Next, we have the Senior Citizen Squad. The squad is made up of three geriatrics that
use anti-aging cream to temporarily turn themselves into teenagers and steal truckloads of tapioca
pudding and other things that old people enjoy. They wouldn’t normally be included on the
list, but what makes them noteworthy is the fact that their leader, Lydia, is Numbuh 2’s
grandmother. Lydia actually makes quite a few appearances
in which she’s shown to be verbally and physically abusive to most of the people around
her, including her own grandsons. If it was only stealing the pudding, maybe
she wouldn’t be considered that bad, but beating Hoagie with her cane in almost every
episode that she’s in definitely drags her down quite a bit. Next up is Count Spankulot. He initially wasn’t going to be ranked this
low since he doesn’t actually hate children and only uses his spanking powers on kids
who have broken rules, but after much consideration, I think he deserves to be in the top ten worst. Let’s just state that breaking into people’s
houses and spanking children that aren’t his own is just downright creepy and something
that he definitely deserves to be in jail for. At the end of the day, it really doesn’t
matter whether or not he thinks he’s doing good because it’s shown that he is a spank-happy
addict. Just like a real vampire needs to drink people’s
blood to survive, Spankulot needs to spank people to survive as shown when he resorts
to spanking stuffed animals once he vows to stop spanking bad children. Spankulot also has the ability to turn other
people into Spank-Happy Vampires as shown in “Operation: LOCKDOWN” when he transforms
all of Sector V. Overall, he’s got a misguided view of justice that leads to a lot of kids
getting hurt for very trivial reasons. Up next are the Ice Cream Men. They don’t really have goals of their own
besides keeping ice cream away from children, and they're usually just lackeys for whatever
Father or the Delightful Children need them for. While they are just henchmen, they can actually
be quite formidable in battle, such as in “Operation: PRESIDENT” where they take
out Numbuhs 2 through 5, though a large force of them are also beaten by just three cadets
in “Operation: TRAINING.” There isn’t much else to say about them,
but it wouldn’t be right to leave them off the list. We’re going to give a quick mention to Mega-Mom
and Destructo-Dad. They’re another pair of villains with only
one major appearance, but they are very noteworthy for defeating the entire Global Kids Next
Door organization using their stupefy technology, except for one operative: their son, Chad. After Sector V is defeated. the parents reveal to their son that they
incapacitated every single KND Operative in the world so that he could be the best, even
though Chad was already Supreme Leader at that point, how much better could he possibly
be? They only reverse their actions after Chad
rebels against them by quitting all of his extracurricular activities, joining a punk
band, and threatening to get a tattoo. They may have only wanted to help their son,
but their means of doing so would have effectively ended the Kids Next Door. Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb are next. This soft-spoken duo are the first villains
to star in an actual episode of Kids Next Door, appearing in the pilot episode “No
P in the OOL.” In nearly every one of their appearances,
the chairs that they’re sitting in turn into giant mechanical walkers which they use
to fight against the KND. They hate children and work very closely with
Mr. Boss to make their lives miserable whenever possible, but other than that, they don’t
do anything too terrible in any of their episodes. Moving on, we have Mr. Boss. He’s a fairly standard greedy businessman
who hates kids with a burning passion and wants to get rid of them so that their parents
can spend more time working for him rather than playing with their children. To do this, he tries to send all of his employees’
daughters to Pluto in “Operation: OFFICE” with plans to get rid of the sons next week,
but he’s thankfully stopped by Numbuhs 3 and 4. He also seems to have authority over most
of the villains in the show, being outranked only by Father, so it’s fair to say that
he’s involved in most of the plans to destroy the Kids Next Door. That being said, Mr. Boss does have some slightly
redeeming qualities when it comes to caring for his family. He hates children worldwide, except for his
own. It’s revealed in “Operation: DADDY”
that Mr. Boss is the father of Numbuh 86, as well as her two brothers. When his daughter admits that she is a high
ranking member of the Kids Next Door, he’s surprisingly okay with it and says that he
still loves her, although both of them agree to keep fighting for their respective causes. Mr. Boss would also rather completely destroy
his son’s hair by cutting it himself rather than pay four dollars at a barber shop, but
what else would you expect from a corrupt CEO stereotype? Starting the top five is the leader of the
Teen Ninjas and Abigail’s older sister, Cree Lincoln. Like Chad Dickson, she was one of the best
Kids Next Door operatives in the world during her childhood, but she avoided decommissioning
and defected to the adults once she turned thirteen years old. Unlike Chad, she is not actually an undercover
agent. Cree is a truly manipulative and conniving
evil mastermind who will do anything to please the adults. She managed to trick her way into the Moonbase
with intent to detach the base and launch it into the sun, wiping out thousands of operatives
including her own sister if they can’t figure out a way to stop it or evacuate in time,
but she gives up on this plan once 274 informs her that he already tried to do that. She’s also responsible for weaponizing Chickenpox
against the Kids Next Door, though that plan mostly backfires thanks to an undercover Numbuh
9. Although they have a few genuine sisterly
moments between them, Cree is more than willing to destroy Abby and everything she stands
for for the majority of the show. She is certainly the most evil teenager in
the entire series. An often forgotten villain, we have Chester. Chester doesn’t exactly hate kids, but he’s
willing to exploit them at any turn in order to make money, such as turning kids into his
mind-controlled slaves to use them for free labor. The most egregious example of this is in “Operation:
FAST-FOOD” where he opens a restaurant and tries to make burgers out of children and
sells these “Kids Meals” to families of sharks. Thankfully he’s stopped by Numbuh 3 before
any meals could be made. Of the adult characters driven solely by greed,
Chester is undoubtedly the worst. The bronze medal of evil goes to Madam Margaret,
or Margie. She is the main antagonist of the episode
“Operation: FUTURE,” and her plan is one of the most perverse in the entire show. She wants to coordinate with her future self
to use Girlifying technology to turn every boy in the world into a girl and live in a
boy-free world, all because she doesn’t like her older brothers. The worst part about this is that she actually
succeeds, and the world falls under her rule for seventy-five years. Numbuh 4 is the only member of Sector V, and
presumably the rest of the Kids Next Door, to escape girlification, and he sparks a resistance
movement called the Boys Next Door to fight against Margaret’s tyranny. With the help of Numbuh 3’s granddaughter,
Sally, Old Numbuh 4 leads one final assault on Margaret’s castle, during which almost
every boy is girlified. Old Numbuh 4 travels back in time to warn
Sector V about Margie’s plan, and the Kids Next Door put an end to her girly oppression
before it can start. This is a level of boy-hatred that would make
even Numbuh 86 blush. The second place trophy of evil goes to the
series’ main antagonist, Benedict Uno, better known as Father. His presence is revealed in the season one
finale “Operation: GROW-UP” when he scolds his children for failing to defeat Sector
V several times. While he appears to be calm and collected
most of the time, he is actually very quick-tempered and easily upset, erupting in a silhouette
of fire whenever someone sets him off, even his own children. And speaking of his “children,” they aren’t
actually his kids. As previously mentioned, the Delightful Children
are the lost members of Sector Z whom Father has made into his obedient slaves thanks to
a malfunction in the delightfulization technology that made the effects permanent. This means that he has effectively kidnapped
five children away from their friends and families, erased their memories, and placed
them under mind control for the rest of their lives. This is legitimately one of the most depraved
and evil actions committed by any villain in the entire show. I’d like to say that he at least “loves”
them as his own children, but he doesn’t even do that. Father is perfectly willing to let the Delightful
Children stay as sheep after he transforms every KND operative in the world into animals
and describes them as “really annoying.” Besides being an awful parent, he is also
the one who supplies the Delightful Children with all of their dangerous robots, and he’s
the owner of Evil Adult Industries Inc., meaning that most of the adult villains answer to
him. He has tried to destroy the Kids Next Door
more times than any other villain and has come very close several times, such as when
he turned every KND treehouse into a broccoli farm, or when he fakes a distress call from
the Moonbase and leads an attack on the KND Arctic Base when all of the operatives are
away. But without a doubt, his most sinister plan
comes in “Operation: CAKED-FOUR” when he alters the course of the annual Toob-a-thon
so that every kid who crosses the finish line will fall into a giant tin filled with cake
batter. Once the race is over, he plans on cooking
every kid into the giant cake and feed it to his children, resulting in both mass murder
and cannibalism. I think you all probably get the point by
now. Father is so evil that the only person who
could possibly be worse is the one who created him. And so, the gold medal of evil goes to Grandfather. Before the Seventh Age of the Kids Next Door,
Grandfather held dominion over the entire planet. His sons literally describe him as “The
Evil King of the World” if you need an indicator of his power. Every child in the world used to slave away
in his factories producing tapioca pudding for him day in and day out until Numbuh 0’s
rebellion. Even though Monty was the one to defeat him
and Ben was the one to reawaken him, Grandfather still favors his older son and tells Father
to get out of his sight immediately after his return to power. In his own words, Ben only chose to reawaken
him because he and everyone else had failed to defeat the Kids Next Door on their own. All of the villains in the show pledge their
allegiance to Grandfather, but the evil king does not share power and immediately turns
on them. His plan is to turn everyone in the world
into Senior Citi-Zombies who are completely obedient and under his control. Thanks to his immense power, he nearly succeeds,
with only Numbuh 0 and Sector V to stand against him by the end of “Operation: ZERO.” Monty tricks his father into being decommissioned,
and Grandfather returns to his original form - just a harmless, senile old man. Because he held the world under his tyranny
in the past and he nearly ended the world a second time in the future, Grandfather takes
the Delightful Children’s cake when it comes to his villainy. And with that, our list is concluded! Did we give someone too much credit, or did
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