Dark Origins of Famous Characters

they may bring joy to millions but behind some of the colorful characters we know and love our backstories that'll haunt your dreams from The Simpsons best-kept secrets to the true villain hidden at the heart of Star Wars let's explore the dark origins of famous characters number 10 Pocahontas going by the 1995 Disney film you'd think the story of Pocahontas was one of history's greatest tales of romance in the face of adversity unfortunately historical accuracy isn't the movie strong point and the reality was much different for Pocahontas for starters Pocahontas was merely a nickname believed to mean playful one the legendary Native Americans real name was Madoka and she was actually around ten years old during her correspondence with the film's male lead John Smith who was 27 with that age gap in mind you'll be relieved to learn that the movies romantic elements were entirely fabricated and the pair were never romantically involved not that Pocahontas would want to be either even ignoring the age gap Smith's real-life counterpart was a far cry from the empathetic so Lee became in the film Smith like many colonists of his time was known to be a harsh sometimes cruel man with an authoritarian outlook on top of this the iconic scene where Pocahontas saved Smith's life was based on wildly exaggerated stories told by Smith himself while Pocahontas did work as a translator and ambassador for the Powhatan people her real life took a dark turn as she grew a little older the Native American man she married as a teenager mysteriously disappeared and she was captured and married off to a colonist named John Rolfe soon after she likely had little choice in the matter and she was carted off to Britain with Rolfe living life as an object of exotic curiosity for the English she died either of tuberculosis or pneumonia on her way back to America in 1617 and around 20 years old following her death the relationship between the settlers and the Paladins deteriorated and never recovered first of all there are no records of spontaneous singing in Pocahontas his life despite what the film will have you believe number nine Jar Jar Binks in 1999 Star Wars The Phantom Menace Jar Jar Binks his purpose was supposedly to bring laughter to the film but for many viewers he was just plain irritating for some he even signified the ruin of the series but Jar Jar may be much worse than simply annoying according to one fan theory he was originally planned to be a major villain waiting to pounce reddit user lamp owaru has theorized that Jar Jar was a secrets if Lord who would have been revealed as an ally of the sinister Palpatine and George Lucas not changed his mind it sounds crazy but lump owaru Zeva dense is surprisingly compelling one suggestion is that Jar Jar is a practitioner of the ancient martial art of drunken fist wushu the fighting style looks deceptively clumsy but is actually calculated and precise leading opponents to underestimate a fighter it wouldn't be the first time an initially goofy seeming character had been revealed to have great power just look at Yoda building on this lump owaru also suggests Jar Jar has control over the force using force mind control explains why two Jedi would willingly take such a liability with them on such an important mission he may have used this same influence to worm his way into the Senate bringing it down from the inside the theory continues that Jar Jar would have been revealed in all his glory but the jar-jar hate from audiences forced Lucas to change his mind introducing Count Dooku instead as a last-minute replacement hey if it makes the prequel seem better I'm all for this theory number eight grimace if you didn't already know this is grimace rotten McDonald's purple blob of a pal it's hard to imagine his jelly face stealing milkshakes and chasing traumatized children around a parentless house cape at least not these days when he started out however creme s was a very different sort of character who really lived up to his name his full name was originally the evil grimace and Ronald had his hands full stopping him from ruining everyone's fun by giving kids PTSD the former chief creative officer at Mickey D's Roy burr called described the first incarnation of grimaces scaly and mean-looking with multiple limbs and he wasn't wrong in fact his bulbous eyes combined with the creepy surreal backdrop of these bizarre 1970's and 80's commercials made evil grimace seem more like a shabby back-alley nightmare than a fun children's character grimace had to be redesigned as a good guy after parents complain to their kids being petrified every time the ads came on but some say evil grimace still haunts McDonald's milkshakes to this day number seven three blind mice the lyrics of three blind mice are nasty enough and short three disabled rodents are partially dismembered by a farmer's wife but the nursery rhyme gets much darker when you realize who it's actually about the farmer's wife has thought to have originally represented Henry the eighth's daughter Queen Mary first published in 1609 the rhyme is supposed to be an allegory for the deaths of three Protestants by Queen Mary's command in 1555 Mary was a strict Catholic and was notorious for her persecution of Protestants the Nursery Rhymes use of blind to describe the three mice reflects the popular Catholic condemnation of the Protestants supposedly incorrect views unfortunately for the Protestants unlike their rodent counterparts Mary used a lot more than a carving that to exact her revenge living up to her nickname of Bloody Mary she burnt them at the state for heresy number six Moe Szyslak fans of The Simpsons will know that the hilariously tragic cranky bartender Moe doesn't take lightly to Bart's regular prank cause but few people realize these prank calls actually have a basis in reality their origin lies in a real world jersey city dive bar in the 1970s the owner of the bar Louie red Deutsch was the inspiration for Bo but was towed down on-screen to a more TV appropriate level by voice actor Hank Azaria Jewish was the repeat victim of serial telephone pranksters Jim Davidson Jon Elmo the two recorded their cause to the easily infuriated hyper-aggressive bar owner and compiled them into a series of cassette tapes which became popular in the 80s cartoon counterpart seems veritably angelic compared to the real-life bar owner who has a vocabulary filthier than a Jersey City dive bar restroom like Moe red often threatened to break every bone in the pranksters bodies among other detail threats that YouTube would probably prefer I leave for you to find out I'd highly recommend checking them out though if you find the hilariously twisted tortured descent of one man into eternal fury entertaining like I do number 5 Shrek the protagonist of the 2001 classic Shrek spends his days finding the beauty in the uglier things in life but that becomes even more significant when you hear about who may have inspired him Maurice Tillet was a wrestler of Russian French origin who was afflicted with a medical disorder called acromegaly this condition caused the bones in his face hands and feet to grow far larger and thicker than normal when he became a professional wrestler in the 1930s and 40s his unusual features earned him the nickname the ogre of the ring comparing images of Maurice Tillet and Shrek there does seem to be a resemblance though the theory has never been officially confirmed Shrek himself has a wrestling scene in the film which seems to suitable not to being homage as for what the wrestler would make of it well I'm not sure but if it weren't for Shrek he probably wouldn't still be being talked about almost a century after his prime besides everyone knows Shrek is the pinnacle of handsome manhood so what's the big deal number four Dumbo's crows and Dumbo's recent remake one character who didn't return was Jim Crow leader of a group of crows who have become highly controversial this was for a couple of reasons firstly the birds are now seen as racist caricatures of African Americans and secondly the name Jim Crow refers to a set of laws in the 19th and 20th century that promoted racial segregation in the USA the Jim Crow laws only truly ended in 1965 so when Disney's animation hit the screen in 1941 it likely stunned for African American audiences hearing those words if you want to be even more depressed than how about the story behind Dumbo himself the character draws inspiration from an African elephant named jumbo who was extremely popular in Victorian London he had to endure terrible mistreatment and an age were animal rights were a pipe dream he spent his final years in a traveling circus and was tragically killed by a train while being led to his boxcar in 1885 is there way to unlearn facts oh I made myself sad number three dr. Nick Riviera another decidedly dodgy Simpsons character is dr. Nick whose shoddy medical practices inspired some of the show's funniest scenes Holly smokes you'll need the bows but the inspiration for Nick's malpractice was a real man dr. George Nicholas George known as dr. Nick to his clients was no ordinary doctor though he was responsible for the health care of the king of rock and roll himself Elvis Presley the real doctor Nick was Elvis's physician for the last decade of his life and became infamous for over prescribing doses of amphetamines tranquilizers and other drugs in 1980 he was indicted for his pill happy procedures with Elvis and his other famous clients while he was not charged with the responsibility for Elvis's death in 1977 and believe as medically responsibility was to blame for the musical legends demise seriously baby I can't prescribe anything I want bad doctor name bad number to the 10-man the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is full of heartwarming characters like the 10-man but going back to the source material reveals a brutal and shocking backstory to the charismatic bucket of bolts l frank Baum's original 1909 reveals the 10 man's origins as a lumberjack named Nick chopper Nick was deeply in love with a munchkin servant of the Wicked Witch and when old green face found out she saw an opportunity for some villainous mischief she placed a curse on Nick's axe which in turn cut off his limbs one by one but like a bionic woodland superhero Nick replaced the limbs with metal prosthetics eventually even his head was replaced and his soul was transferred into his new 10 body disturbingly the 10 man kept his own ill-tempered head hanging around and had conversations with it as for the Munchkin Mick once desired but it lost his love for due to his 10 body's lack of a heart she found happiness with a man made out of mixed his membered parts when others Frankenstein style or I'd want to go somewhere over the rainbow and keep going number 1 Marge Simpson if you've ever wondered why Marge Simpson has the ridiculous blue behave she does prepare to have your mind well and truly blonde being married to a man like Homer Simpson has certainly taken Marge's life down some strange paths but when you hear what show creator Matt Groening originally had planned for the Simpsons family matriarch painting the hideously shriveled naked body of mr. burns will seem almost normal groanings planned idea was to connect the Simpsons to one of his earlier creations a comic strip named life in hell that comic revolved around a surreal cast of Fez wearing twins and more relevantly humanoid rabbits after the popular comic which ran from 1977 until 2012 helped launch his TV career Groening decided to pay tribute the best way to do this groaning decided would be if the leading lady of his new pursuit was secretly a rabbit herself but how would that work when the new show was rude and then the relatability of its characters well it was simple they could give Marge a ridiculous hairstyle that would never be explained until the show's finale that is a hairstyle concealing her long bunny ears of course the finale never came the show ended up being the longest-running cartoon of all time continuing to this day so whether the finale idea has been dropped it's impossible to say there was a fun tribute to and however in the popular Simpsons arcade game of the 90s damage to march through electricity or otherwise revealed her true nature I've got to say I'm worried for Homer if word gets out that he's been snuggling with a rabbit for 30 years he's going away for a long time which of these weird and wacky character origins surprised you the most do you know of any other crazy origin stories for famous characters let me know in the comments section below thanks for watching [Music]

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Length: 14min 2sec (842 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 18 2020