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Mr. Big
Mr. Big
Mr. Big promo
Name Mr. Big
A/K/A Shelly Smalls (real name)
Gender Male
Age Adult
Occupation Chairman and CEO of Mr. Big Industries
Alignment Villain
Homeland Fair City
Race Human
Friends Leslie, Dr. Two Brains (occasionally)
Abilities Using mind control devices
Vast knowledge of Business
Immense Wealth
Influence
Manipulation
Leadership
Charisma
Voice Actor Jeffrey Tambor

Mr. Big (real name Shelly Smalls[1]) is a major antagonist of WordGirl.

He is a self-proclaimed rich and evil corporate businessman, and the CEO of the self-titled "Mr. Big Industries" (which has a golden corporate logo with Mr. Big's face on it). Mr. Big's specialty is mind-control, as evidenced in his company's mission statement: "We strive to constantly use mind-control".

History[]

Mr. Big invented The Thing and The Mega-Thing, white cubic objects that do absolutely nothing, yet they flew off the shelves. Other Mr. Big Industries' products include: Mr. Big's Big Book of Big Words (a dictionary), the Wordsucker (a microphone), the Hero Sucker (a giant vacuum) and a Walk and Talk WordGirl Doll that does the opposite of the real super-heroine, like using the word "strategery" instead of "strategy" and enables them (via mind control) to buy useless spin-off products such as the Official WordGirl Tree-Shaker.

Inventions[]

The Thing

Relationships[]

Leslie[]

His assistant, Leslie, carries out the majority of the details (including some heavy labor and sidekick-monkey-fighting) for Mr. Big's evil plans, and helps to make his attempts at money-making schemes and villainous bids for City Hall successful, even if they never fully succeed, thanks to WordGirl's efforts. Due to this, Leslie is the closest thing Mr. Big has to a friend, as the two are almost constantly together. The two have shown that they intrinsically need each other and at least subconsciously appreciate each other, and when he comes up with a plan Leslie is usually the first one he tells.

WordGirl[]

WordGirl is a worthy opponent for Mr. Big as she is able to stop his plans, however they have shown in many episodes that they are able to have a normal conversation. Mr. Big even once admitted that he has actually enjoyed his interactions with WordGirl, the two even shared a laugh in an episode. Mr. Big was also thrilled when WordGirl paid him a visit in jail. He has also interacted with WordGirl's civilian identity, Becky Botsford while she is polite to him, she is never afraid to show her suspicions of his plans. Despite interacting many times, he does not seem to recognize her all the time, despite recognizing WordGirl.

Personality[]

Other than his great love for his self, money, and power, he also loves very squishy things, and he is never without a squishy bunny toy. Some hobbies and interests of his have been golf and yoga. Loyalty is not his strong suit, as he willingly hypnotized fellow villains simply to build a miniature golf course for him. He is also very dishonest as he would claim to not to be up to anything but is often hiding a big secret or fact.

As stated by Leslie, Mr. Big has no sense of humor, though this is more out of not understanding the fundamentals of a setup and punch line rather than being an evil heartless villain. Though when given a chance he has shown he can be dastardly, as his only motivation for using mind control is to make himself richer than he already is. He is also petty to a degree, as he has gone to great lengths for the sake of petty revenge, such as mind controlling the whole world just to get his casserole dish he lent back from his neighbor. He later finds out he had the dish the whole time.

As a successful business man, Mr. Big is a person who can sell anything to anyone, this includes when he "helped" the City Scouts with their granola bar sales, got the city to be obsessed with a pop star to steal WordGirl's thunder and even got the city to purchase a vast amount of bunny buttons he had produced with Dr. Two-Brains.

Appearances[]

TV Show[]

Comics[]

Gallery[]

Comic[]

Other[]

Trivia[]

  • He is the only one of the six major villains to not appear in The Colossal Adventures of WordGirl, instead he was introduced in the series.
  • In the episode "Big's Big Bounce", it is revealed that he has a dislike of children, saying that he doesn't want to help the Fair City Scout Troop kids, but does anyway so he could win a trampoline - something he had wanted since he was a little boy.
  • Mr. Big is the only villain to know of WordGirl's weakness Lexonite and use it against her.
  • He is the only WordGirl villain to wear a tie.
  • He is very skilled in music as he can play the bongos and the guitar. In the episode "Tiny Big", he reveals he was once the lead singer in a band called "Rockaroni", where he sang songs like "I Wanna Date Your Money."
  • He states a few times in the episode "Big Business" that he loves frozen yogurt, describing it as "sweet and creamy".
  • He complains or states in a couple of episodes that he "didn't go to a fancy word college and only took business classes" as an excuse of not getting all the words right. Despite this in many episodes, he is familiar with the featured words, using them frequently.
  • One of his other childhood dreams is to become a stand-up comedian as stated in "Mr. Big's Dinner and a Scam" but the only way he can get people to laugh is, of course, through mind control.
  • Mr. Big also states that he did magic tricks as a child in the episode "WordGirl Makes a Mistake," which he preferred over comic books.
  • Even though Mr. Bigs products always fail in later episodes they are still seen and used these include: Tiny Big merchandise, the mind control yo-yos and The Walk and Talk WordGirl doll.
  • When he was a child, Mr. Big went to Woodview Elementary, where he tried to take over the Daily Rag. He temporarily succeeds later in life in the episode "Truth, Revision, and the Lexicon Way", but is shut down by WordGirl after he prints several misleading articles. The principal then intervenes and takes Mr. Big (Shelly Smalls) to her office.
  • Mr. Big has never heard of Mount Rushmore, which is very surprising considering it is one of the top attractions in the United States.[2]
  • He seems to be a reference to the character of the same name from the movie and television franchise Sex and the City; they look alike and are both businessmen.
  • His company has a rival company called Mondo-Megacorp.[citation needed]
  • Despite having a love for mind control, there have been occasions where Mr. Big wouldn't use it as part of his individual schemes. Instead, he would rely on deceit and manipulation in order to accomplish his goals, a notable instance of this being in "Bongo Rock", where he tricked Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy into taking down City Hall's defense systems in order to acquire a key to the city by pretending to be a disc jockey.
  • Mr. Big is shown to own a pet giraffe in the episode "Granny's Pet Plan". It wears a mask identical to his own.

References[]


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