Jimmy Neutron has certainly earned its status as a Nickelodeon classic. So it’s only fitting that we examine the city of Retroville to find out which characters are the most Good, which are the most Evil, and which are somewhere in between?
I’m Brad with WickedBinge, and this is The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Good to Evil.
Just for reference, we won’t be counting any characters from The Fairly OddParents or any new characters or events from the Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour crossover specials because those are considered non-canon.
As usual, we’ll be starting with the friendlier side of the cast and working our way down to the worst of the worst. These characters are the Good.
And the gold medal of good is going to Jimmy’s parents, Hugh and Judy Neutron. Yeah, we’re placing both of them together because it’s honestly too close to call which one is the better person. Judy is definitely more responsible and sensible between the two of them. She’s the embodiment of the typical 50’s housewife who’s always concerned with keeping the home clean and making sure Jimmy stays out of trouble, with mixed results on both. Judy is not afraid to discipline Jimmy when he puts himself or others in danger, but she’s also very supportive of her genius son and clearly loves him very much. Hugh, on the other hand, is the typical goofy, bumbling dad trope, but his quirkiness is very endearing and often hilarious. Hugh teaches his son important life lessons just as often as Judy does, such as that money isn’t everything in the episode “Time Is Money.” Obviously, the two of them are not without their faults; neither of them believes Jimmy when he says he didn’t sabotage his gifts to the family in the episode “Clash of the Cousins,” and they both punish him for the sake of maintaining their image around their very wealthy Aunt Amanda. But in the end, considering the difficulty of raising the smartest kid who’s ever lived, calling these two anything other than great parents would just be inaccurate.
The silver medal of good is going to Jimmy’s mechanical canine, Goddard. I know we generally tend to give the pets the top spot on our lists of good, but we wanted to give the spotlight to some of the human characters this time; still, Goddard is incredibly loyal to Jimmy and useful in almost every episode. While he may be a highly advanced robot, he also displays some pretty typical dog behavior, such as barking constantly, fighting with other dogs, and using the world as his bathroom. The complicated thing about robots is that all of their morality is down to some form of programming in the end, and since Goddard has been programmed to remain loyal to Jimmy, his morality is highly dependent on whatever Jimmy does. But if cartoons have taught us anything, it’s that all dogs are inherently good unless they’re literal demons or Brian Griffin. Goddard is a good boy who deserves second place.
And taking the bronze medal of good is Jimmy’s llama-loving best friend, Carl Wheezer. Carl is very passive and is often pressured into participating in Jimmy’s schemes, despite his safety concerns. He’s a fairly typical hefty, dorky, overly anxious kid with a ridiculous amount of allergies and bodily issues, but that doesn’t stop him from going on adventures, sometimes against his will. He hates to see his friends fighting and it’s often during these times when he decides to speak up and try to get them to stop. It’s shown in the episodes “I Dream of Jimmy” and “Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius” that Carl is deeply envious of everything Jimmy has, from his intelligence, to his personality, and even his parents. It’s kind of messed up to want to completely replace your best friend, but it’s not like he really acts on it; in fact, Carl is often the only one to stick by Jimmy’s side even when the whole class and/or town turns on him. I wouldn’t say that Carl is “too pure for this world,” but he is very loyal to his friends and he usually doesn’t cause trouble. Not intentionally, anyway.
Famed secret agent Jet Fusion is up next. Usually if you’re famous for being a secret agent, you’re probably doing it wrong, but most people only know Jet Fusion from his action movies. He’s not the most humble of spies, as we see in his first interaction with Jimmy, but honestly, most of us would have the same reaction if our only rescue team was an 11-year old kid. Jimmy earns Jet’s respect and the two of them go on to defeat Beautiful Gorgeous and Professor Calamitous and escape down the side of a collapsing Mt. Everest. In his next appearance, “My Big Fat Spy Wedding,” we see that Jet is a bit too lovestruck for his own good. After serving just two weeks in prison, Beautiful Gorgeous is released and finds Jet to supposedly confess her love for him. Jet, for some reason, is not skeptical of this in the slightest and proposes to her almost immediately, which allows Beautiful to hypnotize him as part of her scheme to eliminate both Jet and Jimmy. Fortunately, through the power of gospel music, the hypnosis is broken and the wedding is called off, but Jet can’t get over Gorgeous and promises to wait for her to get out of prison - again. Sure, he’s a bit too lovestruck for his own good, but he’s the world’s greatest super spy. I’m sure he’s put away more evil mistresses than he’s tried to marry.
Next up is one of Jimmy’s most annoying inventions, Brobot. In his debut episode, Jimmy decides he wants a little brother to play with, but since that’s not really an option for Hugh and Judy, Jimmy decides to build one in his lab. Jimmy apparently never programmed Brobot with a sleep function, as he never runs out of battery or has to recharge, which means he has all day and all night to play all sorts of games. In his first appearance, Jimmy becomes annoyed with Brobot after it turns out he’s more well-liked and better than Jimmy at pretty much everything, but rather than deactivating him, Jimmy decides to send him to the moon to live with his own parents, Mombot and Popbot. We don’t see Brobot again until Season 2 in “The Junkman Cometh,” when he sends out a fake distress call from the moon to get Jimmy to come visit him since Jimmy has basically ignored him for the entire time he’s been there. Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen dismiss Brobot after he tells them that he actually has an emergency, which is that his parents have been kidnapped by the Junkman, and the three of them leave to go back to Earth. But as it turns out, the Junkman is real and he pulls Jimmy’s rocket into his ship and captures the three boys. . They defeat the Junkman, but they’re unable to pilot his ship after he sends it crashing into the moon and leaves in the escape pod. All hope seems lost, but Brobot uses his own head as the steering wheel and saves the day for the three boys and his parents. Brobot really can’t help his annoying tendencies since he is just following his programming, as he reminds Jimmy, but even though he’s kind of a pain, what little brother isn’t? He’s a good kid who has actually saved lives, so we think he’s earned his spot this high up.
Moving on, we have Principal Willoughby (Willoby). It’s rare to have a cartoon principal who’s both good at his job and cares about the well-being of his students, but Willoughby definitely succeeds more at the latter than the former. Nine times out of ten, he’s incredibly positive and encouraging to all of the students at Lindbergh Elementary, and the other one time is usually him being passive-aggressive for the purpose of a joke. The principal is also about as naive and clueless as they come, as shown in the episode “Beach Party Mummy” when he believes Sheen when he says that the kids are going to the school’s tanning salon, when in reality they’re sneaking out of school to go to the beach. Willoughby never puts people in danger and is never malicious, with the notable exception of anything involving the school’s theatre productions, but again, that’s just an exception to his otherwise optimistic personality.
Yeah, we gotta give a quick mention to Bolbi Stroganovsky (said like stroganoff-ski). He’s a foreign exchange student from the country of Backhairistan and is considered one of the stranger kids at Lindbergh Elementary, which says a lot when he’s competing with kids like Carl and Sheen. Besides his weirdness, we don’t know a whole lot about Bolbi’s personality, but at least he has integrity; he’s the only candidate who doesn’t try to rig the school election in “Jimmy for President,” and so he wins by default. That’s enough to earn him a spot in the Good tier.
Next up is Cindy’s best friend, Libby Folfax. One might think that as the best friend to Jimmy’s biggest rival, Libby would be just as mean and spiteful as Cindy, but she seems more concerned with jamming out to her CDs than picking on Neutron. In fact, she’s generally pretty nice to Jimmy and his friends (at least in the later seasons), which makes sense as it’s later revealed that she’s in love with Sheen. She’s also incredibly honest and it’s normally out of character for her to lie about anything, such as when she lies to Cindy about where her gem stash is while the whole group is suffering from Ruby Madness in the episode “A Beautiful Mine.” There is that dark timeline where she becomes the evil dictator of Retroville in the episode “The Tomorrow Boys,” but that only happens because Carl exposes her to the Megalomanium at her birthday party. But still, it seems like most of the time, any bit of power she has almost immediately goes to her head, such as when she starts gossiping about everyone’s private lives when she’s given her own news segment in the episode “Lady Sings the News.” Overall, while she’s far from perfect, Libby is probably the closest thing the show has to a “normal” character, which is far from a bad thing as she makes for a good straightwoman to the others.
Now, it’s time to talk about our very own boy genius, Jimmy Neutron. Those two words are pretty good descriptors of his character - he’s a super genius with an IQ of 210, but he’s still just a kid who hasn’t yet learned that with great power comes great responsibility. Jimmy often gets in over his gigantic head when conducting experiments, such as time traveling or communicating with alien empires, which often causes trouble for the town of Retroville. He doesn’t put much forethought into his inventions and even tries to mess with things that really should be left alone, like people’s personalities or even the forces of life and death themselves. Most episodes where Jimmy “rescues” the city stem from problems that he creates and then subsequently fixes once he realizes the outcomes. These include plunging Retroville into an ice age in the episode “Jimmy on Ice,” turning Ms. Fowl into a giant plant monster in “Substitute Creature,” or unleashing an evil version of himself onto the world in “Send in the Clones.” All of these mistakes don’t really paint him in a heroic light, but what does earn him some points is his willingness to stand up to evildoers like Professor Calamitous, King Goobot the Fifth, and even his own baby cousin, Eddie. Jimmy is incredibly brave and never backs down from a fight, and I think saving the entire human race in specials like “Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion” or the two Yolkian movies makes up for his carelessness. Speaking of which, there are also episodes like “The Eggpire Strikes Back” when Jimmy is literally the only person in Retroville to realize that something is up, and it’s up to him to put a stop to it because everyone else is too oblivious to their very obvious impending doom. Overall, while Jimmy has a lot of the typical flaws of an 11-year old like laziness, vanity, and recklessness, he really is an extraordinary kid who not only wants to help people, but is willing to save the world in order to do it.
Up next we have the Ultra-Lord obsessed Sheen Estevez. No, we’re not counting his appearance in Planet Sheen (or any of the characters from that show for that matter) because Nickelodeon has done everything in their power to decanonize and bury that show as the mistake that it was. He has a very bombastic and hyperactive personality which probably stems from the amount of TV and sugar he consumes on a daily basis. Despite being shown to have a much larger brain than Carl, Sheen is easily the most dimwitted character in the show, which doesn’t necessarily connect to his morality, but it does mean that he gets himself into trouble. Most of his personality comes from his love for the superhero known as Ultra Lord, and if nothing else, he at least picked a good role model to emulate, even though he doesn't always stick to those principles of bravery and justice that the TV show espouses. Sheen also loves his dad and his girlfriend Libby even more than he loves Ultra Lord, so I’d say he’s far from being a bad kid.
And finishing off the Good characters is Betty Quinlan. She is considered one of the popular girls at school, and she’s the first girl Jimmy would actually admit that he has a crush on. As expected, the preteen kid goes a bit girl-crazy and starts doing everything he can to try and impress her, including throwing a party when his parents aren’t home, auditioning for the school play, and putting on a magic show. Cindy also gets incredibly jealous whenever she sees Jimmy and Betty flirting, and this tends to cause even more trouble. Generally, Betty acts very sweet and kind to Jimmy and everyone else, and it seems as though she likes him back given that she kisses him twice, but during the episode “Vanishing Act,” she pulls Cindy aside after a massive argument and tells her that Jimmy is all Cindy’s so long as she drops the attitude with Betty. I don’t want to say that she led Jimmy on because they are all just middle school kids, but if they were old enough to know better, her behavior in that regard might count against her a bit more. Still, she is a kind and caring person, but doesn’t get much spotlight other than when the show needs Jimmy to impress her and make a fool of himself while doing so.
With the Good characters out of the way, it’s time to venture down into the ethically questionable and morally neutral characters. This is the Gray Area.
Our first neutral character is the incredibly birdlike teacher, Ms. Fowl. In “Journey to the Center of Carl,” she states that teaching is the only thing keeping her alive, and that she misses all of her students (except Sheen) when they all spontaneously become sick, so at least she’s good in that regard. Other than that, she really doesn’t have any more of a personality. We don’t really get to see her doing anything good, and any time she does anything bad, it’s usually because of something Jimmy did earlier in the episode, like when she reverts to her primal instincts and lets the class sacrifice Jimmy in “Jimmy on Ice.” Ms. Fowl is far from bad, but we don’t see her doing a lot of good either, so she earns a spot in the higher tier Gray Area.
Next up is the show’s anti-hero, Cindy Vortex. Cindy has quite a bit of character flaws that, a lot of the time, mirror Jimmy’s faults. She’s very arrogant, vain, overly competitive, and quick-tempered in a majority of her scenes. Having a rivalry with Jimmy isn’t necessarily bad, but she is almost always the instigator in their fights, most of the time out of pride and jealousy of the fact that Jimmy is smarter than her. But, as will be obvious to most viewers, Cindy does have a huge crush on Jimmy despite both of them vowing to hate the opposite gender. We also know that Cindy is a supergenius as well, and during the show, she usually points out how dangerous and irresponsible that Jimmy’s inventions are, though she rarely tries to actually help him improve and would rather tease him about his failures. As previously mentioned, she gets very jealous of other girls talking to Jimmy, especially Betty Quinlan, culminating in the episode “Vanishing Act” where she tries to sabotage Jimmy’s magic act and gets the whole group stuck in a different dimension. We’ll admit that she definitely got better about her arrogance and cruelty towards Jimmy as the show went on, but the amount of trouble she’s caused due to arrogance, or the amount of times she’s just flat out tried to sabotage Jimmy in some way really drag her ranking down.
Nick Dean is up next. Nick is seen as the coolest kid in school, and of course, he thinks that gives him a license to do whatever he wants. Ms. Fowl doesn’t even make him do the homework because Nick is just too cool for school, though he has had to repeat the fourth grade multiple times because he is late to class literally every day. Nick’s the guy that every girl wants and every guy wants to be, but in terms of morality, you might want to steer clear. Normally, a character of this type wouldn’t want to even be seen talking to nerds like Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen, but he does actually offer some advice to them from time to time, like when he convinces them to sneak out and go to the opening night of Retroland. Unfortunately, this advice always ends up getting Jimmy and co. into trouble, making Nick a very bad influence on the other kids. His ego is one of the worst in the entire show, and even though most of the time things seem to work out for him, there are those odd moments where he shows his true colors, like when he runs away screaming from Poultra the giant chicken. We won’t fault Nick too much since he is just a kid, but he’s gonna have to shape up soon, or he’ll probably end up working at the Candy Bar for the rest of his life...or he’ll be a movie star, who knows?
We gotta quickly mention the school bully, Butch Pakovski. There isn’t a whole lot to say about this kid - he’s the standard dumb bully trope. He plays baseball, likes to deal out wedgies, and big words hurt his brain. However, even Butch fears the awesome power of the Hall Monitor.
Rounding out the Gray Area are three villains who ended up switching sides: The Space Bandits - Zix, Travoltron, and Tee. They first appear in “A Beautiful Mine” where they try to kill Jimmy and his friends and steal all of the Astro Rubies that they’ve mined. After an intense space chase, the bandits crash into each other leaving them stranded without any transportation; that is, until Jimmy sends the McSpanky’s restaurant flying towards the sun, basically handing them a brand new spaceship. They invade Earth in their next appearance while Jimmy has shrunk everyone in Retroville. This allows the bandits to easily capture everyone in town with plans to sell them to alien children as toys. Jimmy puts a stop to this plan, and we don’t see the bandits in a major appearance again until the series finale “The League of Villains.” They join the other villains in the plot to destroy Jimmy Neutron, but Tee isn’t exactly happy with his treatment from the other baddies. Sheen manages to befriend Tee while in the holding cell and convinces him to go along with their escape plan. Eventually, Tee confronts Travoltron and Zix and asks them why exactly they have to be villains. The two can’t come up with an answer, so that basically forces them to become good guys. The bandits save Jimmy and his friends from a T-Rex and decide that it feels good to be good; so all in all, while we haven’t exactly forgotten about all of the theft, kidnapping, assault, and attempted murder that these guys have previously committed, at least we know that they’re turning over a new leaf from now on. I think that’s enough to land them just out of the Bad territory.
That concludes our Gray Area, and now it’s time to descend into the hive of villainy with the Bad and the Evil characters. We’ll mostly be focusing on the main bad guys who appear in “The League of Villains,” but we do have a couple of notable lesser baddies on the list.
First up is Eustace Strych (sounds like Stritch). He’s the pretty standard mega-spoiled rich kid who thinks the world revolves around him because he has money. We’re considering him the least bad villain for a few reasons. Normally, we’d give him the excuse that he picked up the snobbish behavior from his parents, but even his own father realizes how horrible Eustance is and has to learn to discipline his son for acting up. He became Jimmy’s sworn enemy after trying to win Goddard in a wager and losing the robot battle. In his next appearance, he tries to beat Jimmy and friends to the unlimited energy source radiating from Mars so that he can become the ruler of the Red Planet. Unfortunately for him, Mars already has an established government and they aren’t too fond of humans. After briefly wooing Cindy over to his side - again - Eustace betrays her, steals Jimmy’s map, and makes his way to the power source with Jimmy hot on his tail. Both of them attempt to drain the power at the same time, which awakens the local Martians who don’t take too kindly to trespassers. The aliens prepare to fire a Death Star beam right into the Earth, forcing Jimmy and Eustace to team up to defeat them. Thankfully, they do, and the entire group returns to Earth together. Seems like Eustace may actually get some redemption, but nope, he’s right back to being a bad guy in the series finale. Aside from being an all-around irritating snob, he’s also physically abusive towards his butler, Blix, who must get paid well enough to deal with it. Still, saving the Earth from destruction counts for something, especially when a lot of his fellow villains have the exact opposite goal in mind.
Next up, we have the Nanobots - N1 and N2 respectively. Of all Jimmy’s most dangerous inventions, these two neurotic little bots are quite possibly the most destructive. Jimmy invents them to protect him from bullies at school, but the bots are unable to distinguish between bullying threats and just normal, everyday actions. The bots start attacking everyone in sight until Jimmy outsmarts them by attacking himself, overloading their programming and causing them to explode. He tries again with them in “Return of the Nanobots,” where instead of counteracting bullying, their task is to help him write better poetry. Specifically, they’re supposed to “correct for error,” and of course, they take this to the biggest extreme possible and begin correcting for every error in existence. Jimmy makes matters worse by telling them that flaws are a part of human nature, which the bots believe is an “extreme error” that needs to be deleted. They then move to delete everyone on Earth and save Jimmy for last so that they can “Please the Creator.” After the entire population except for Jimmy and his dad has been de-atomized, Jimmy manages to outsmart the nanobots by having them compute the infinite value of pi, which causes them to overload yet again. The Nanobots want to do everything in their power to please their Creator, Jimmy, even after they’ve been locked up like Hannibal Lector. They are somewhat freethinking, but like with all robots in the show, they are slaves to their programming at the end of the day. The Nanobots aren’t evil so much as they are misguided, so I think it’s fair to say that the danger comes from Jimmy’s lack of forethought and really from any sort of malice that the bots may have.
Moving on, we have Grandma Taters. She’s the main antagonist of the episode “One of Us,” where she appears as the host of “The Happy Show Show,” a seemingly inane and innocent TV show where she spends the whole time singing about being happy. However, once Jimmy starts noticing the people of Retroville acting very strange, only ever talking about the show and about how happy they would be if Jimmy watched it. After Betty Quinlan offers to have Jimmy come over to watch the show with her, he finally discovers what’s going on: Grandma Taters has been using her TV show to hypnotize people into mindless, ultra-happy zombies. What’s worse is that she’s put all of Retroville in a trance and will soon broadcast her show across the entire world if Jimmy can’t stop her. He enlists the help of Cindy, who was at a karate tournament and didn’t have a chance to be hypnotized, and the two of them have to locate the source of the broadcast while avoiding their brainwashed friends and family. The two of them discover Grandma Taters’s studio and eventually take her down before she can hypnotize anyone else, and Jimmy is also able to undo the brainwashing of Retroville. The strange thing about it, though, is that she actually might have had good intentions, possibly? Jimmy and Cindy set her free after breaking her spell and she leaves of her own volition, stating that she “just wanted everyone to be happy.” A flying saucer then appears with several Grandma Taters lookalikes inside and she reveals her true nature as an evil alien, vowing to return one day to presumably hypnotize the Earth. She also threatens to eat Baby Eddie in “The League of Villains,” which is her only other appearance. Because of the whole mind control thing, I would still err on the side of caution and say that this granny is undoubtedly evil.
Next on the list is the show’s greediest villain, the Junkman. He first appears in “The Junkman Cometh,” where he kidnaps Brobot’s parents from the Moon and tries to scrap them and sell them as alien frisbees. It’s also mentioned in this episode that he sold his own mother to the highest bidder, and he was also willing to sell his dog Roxy, but thought that the offer was too low. He lends his ship to the League of Villains and participates in the plot to destroy Jimmy, but he’s upset at having to work with Beautiful Gorgeous for the majority of the episode. No act is too cruel for the Junkman - theft, kidnapping, attempted murder - so long as there’s money involved, but thankfully, he’s defeated by the power of love; Love Potion 976/J, to be specific. Just before he’s about to crush Jimmy and his friends with a giant boulder, he and Gorgeous both inhale the potion and spontaneously fall in love, taking both of them out of the fight and leaving every villain stuck in Earth’s Cretaceous Period.
Jimmy’s dastardly clone, Evil Jimmy, is next. Evil Jimmy is exactly how he sounds - a malevolent version of our boy genius. He embodies Jimmy’s desire to make trouble and control other people, as shown when he pretends to be the real Jimmy and goes on a hypnotizing spree across Retroville. He eventually goes on to clone the entire Earth and everyone in it to create an entirely evil version of humanity. The worst part about this is that Evil Earth is feeding off of the matter of Good Earth and will eventually make the other planet fade into oblivion if Jimmy can’t stop him. Thankfully, Jimmy is able to infiltrate the Evil Earth and stop the cloning process before the real Earth dissolves, but Evil Jimmy has one last trick up his sleeve - he breaks the dark matter power chip which begins to suck the entire Evil planet into the dark matter dimension. Luckily, Jimmy escapes before he is trapped with all the evil clones and restores Earth to its full power, though the episode ends with a threat from Evil Jimmy that he will return. Unfortunately for him, the show was cancelled before his planned return, so that threat remains empty. Regardless, Evil Jimmy is still a troublemaker and a tyrant who planned to destroy Earth to replace it with another, so he’s earned his spot among the Evil characters.
Next up is the youngest Neutron, Baby Eddie. Okay, here’s where we gotta throw out the “he’s just a kid” argument. Like Jimmy, Eddie is a super genius with intellect far beyond his years...far beyond the years of most people, for that matter. Unlike Jimmy, however, Eddie is entirely malicious, sadistic, and heartless, as shown in his first appearance, “Clash of the Cousins.” He tries to frame Jimmy for attacking everyone at the Neutron family reunion, tries to suffocate Jimmy, Sheen, Carl, and Cousin Gomer to death, and attempts to murder his entire family by placing a bomb into the cake, all so that he can eliminate the competitors for Aunt Amanda’s inheritance. Sheesh, that’s actually pretty dark for a show like this. Anyway, Jimmy stops Eddie’s plan and exposes him as an evil genius to the whole family, and we’re left to assume that he’s going to be put in some kind of facility until he shapes up. But somehow, we see him out and about riding a damn motorcycle when he receives King Goobot’s invitation in “The League of Villains.” Eddie joins up with the other bad guys and works with Grandma Taters to incapacitate Goddard to prepare for the attack on Jimmy. We’ll give him one thing, though: Eddie is at least fearless enough to face down a T-Rex and chase it with a five-day-old dirty diaper. But he’s still evil to the core, and worthy of the fifth place spot on our list.
In fourth place is the femme fatale, Beautiful Gorgeous. She makes her debut in “Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion,” when she shoots Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl out of the sky over the Pacific Ocean. They don’t initially know that it was her who fired the missile, which gives her an advantage as she tries to gain some intelligence from them. They rather quickly admit to her that they’re on a secret mission to rescue a captive spy, and then having all she needs from them, she moves to execute these three elementary school children and dump their bodies into the sea. Jimmy manages to outsmart her and the three escape, but Gorgeous fires a torpedo from her boat at Jimmy’s hover car with the boys just narrowly avoiding being struck by it. She shows up again at Professor Calamitous’s secret mountain base after Jimmy has been discovered and captured while trying to rescue Jet. It’s here where she reveals that she never wanted to be evil, but she carries out her orders because Calamitous raised her that way. Aside from the whole “executing a bunch of kids” thing, this also counts against her in a serious way. She knows what she’s doing is wrong, and she doesn’t really like her father, and yet she still chooses to do evil even though she knows that there are other options. Although I will say, seeing them bicker while the mountain is about to be blown to pieces is pretty hilarious. Gorgeous, along with the rest of the villains, probably ended up perishing in the Cretaceous Period in the show’s timeline, but we’ll never know for sure since we never got that fourth season. At least she’s there with her one true love, the Junkman.
Taking the bronze medal of evil is the show’s main villain, Professor Finbarr Calamitous. He appears to be rather harmless (barring the giant robot suit) when we first meet him in his self-titled episode because it’s shown that he’s never been able to finish anything, even his own sentences. As such, his evil inventions have never been fully functional, so after coming out of hiding, he lures Jimmy Neutron to his lab to force him to finish every invention that the Professor has been unable to complete by himself. Jimmy escapes from captivity and tries to make a run for it, but he’s unable to shake Calamitous off his tail until the Professor lets it slip that he really has to use the bathroom. Jimmy is able to use the mad scientist's own bladder against him, causing the Professor to retreat for the time being. Wait a minute, if he’s a professor, how did he finish college? And what is he a professor of? Anyway, we don’t see him again until “Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion,” where he stars as the main villain alongside his daughter. It’s here where we see his most sinister plan of the whole show: he wants to melt all of the ice from Mount Everest to flood the entire world in order for all of humanity to notice his achievements, the only problem being that no one can notice him if everyone is freakin’ DEAD. To be fair, he does admit that he didn’t think the plan entirely through, another proof of him never being able to finish what he starts. Thanks to the combined efforts of Jimmy and Jet Fusion, he and his daughter are defeated and the world is saved. Speaking of which, he has also completely corrupted his daughter and turned her into his evil minion, even though both of them are about the same level of incompetent. Calamitous doesn’t do a whole lot in “The League of Villains,” but I think his plan to drown the entire Earth for the sake of recognition is evil enough. Add him to the list of villains with planet-destroying tendencies.
Speaking of which, the silver medal of evil goes to King Goobot V and the Yolkian Empire. The series’s first ever antagonists, Goobot, his brother Ooblar, and the rest of the Yolkians are egg-shaped, goopy aliens that worship the chicken goddess, Poultra. After receiving a deep-space transmission from Jimmy Neutron, Goobot orders his fleet to head for Earth and abduct all of the adults to be given as a sacrifice to Poultra. Realizing that their parents are gone, the children of Retroville take over and throw a massive city-wide party, but after a day, they realize that they miss their parents and have no idea how to actually take care of themselves. Luckily, Jimmy discovers that the Yolkians have abducted the adults and he along with Nick, Cindy, and the other kids devise a plan to get their parents back. When they arrive on Planet Yolkus, they are almost immediately captured by the local guards and brought before the King. Goobot explains that the adults will be fed to Poultra as part of their human sacrifice ritual (now featuring actual humans), all while humiliating Jimmy and turning all of the other kids against him. Jimmy and the other kids are able to rescue their parents and escape Poultra, but Goobot gives chase with the Yolkian Fleet at his side. The kids manage to destroy every ship except for Goobot’s flagship, but Jimmy’s able to blow that one away - literally. The Yolkians return in “The Eggpire Strikes Back,” and this time, they bring the fight to Earth. Except, there’s no fight at all, but a peace offering to all the humans. Goobot and Ooblar explain that they never wanted to be evil, but Poultra made them do everything from the previous movie. The whole town initially suspects that something’s up, but after Goobot bribes them all with gifts, they drop their suspicions pretty much instantly. They even start to turn on Jimmy who doesn’t believe their facade, which is bizarre since every single person in that town almost got eaten thanks to the Yolkians and Jimmy was the one who saved them. Everyone in Retroville is an idiot. Cindy is slightly suspicious of the Yolkians as well, but after Goobot manipulates her and plays on her jealousy of Jimmy, she helps them to access his lab so they can steal some of his DNA replicating technology. Unsurprisingly, the Yolkians have actually infiltrated the town and plan to clone Poultra to have another go at the human sacrifice ritual, since the real Poultra abandoned them after their failure in the first movie, all just to get back at Jimmy Neutron for defeating them. I’m willing to bet that if they’re willing to feed one town of humans to a giant chicken, that they won’t stop there. Goobot hates Jimmy so much that he tries to assemble a team of the galaxy’s most dastardly villains in order to take him out. I see no reason why the Yolkians wouldn’t try to wipe out the human race, but it’s like I always say: the only thing worse than destroying one planet is destroying several.
And so, we gotta give the gold medal of evil to the antagonist of “Win, Lose, And Kaboom!” Meldar Prime. There’s nothing more despicable than a sleazy game show host, especially one that likes to blow up the homeworlds of the people who participate and lose. His show, Intergalactic Showdown, has apparently been going on for centuries since Earth has been receiving his invitations since the dawn of civilization, but it’s not until the age of Jimmy Neutron that the humans are finally able to respond. The regular crew plus Bolbi are transported to the stage where Meldar explains that they either compete against three other alien races, or the Earth will be destroyed. All the while, he does everything he can to tear the human team apart, including allowing other races to cheat to try and sabotage Earth’s chances of winning. For whatever reason, it seems like Meldar really has it out for Earth. I suppose it wasn’t enough to just have the safety of the entire planet on the line, we gotta have a host with a vendetta too. Regardless, the humans end up making a terrific comeback and win the game, but Jimmy refuses to let the other planets be destroyed and decides to put an end to the show, once and for all. After an epic battle with Meldar and his team of robots, Jimmy takes control of his power source and threatens to blow up the entire quadrant if Meldar doesn’t step down and let someone else take control. Honestly, for someone who’s blown up hundreds, if not thousands of planets and exterminated entire populations of alien species, he gets off pretty easy, starring in infomercials for incredibly painful products. But to us, he’s the worst of the worst, and worthy of the title “Most Evil Scumbag in the Galaxy.”
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