Spoilt Bastard

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Spoilt Bastard is a comic character from the magazine Viz, focusing on a young vain child and his self-sacrificing and long-suffering mother. The boy is called Timmy Timpson, wears a sailor suit and lives with his doting, docile mother (named Cissy appropriately enough) after his father walked out immediately following his son's earliest outrageous demand.

Timmy spends each story bullying, cajoling and blackmailing his mother into buying him outrageous gifts and trinkets which she cannot afford. Often the stories parody a topical event or phenomenon (e.g., Timmy demanding all the merchandise and backstage access at some popular band's concert). At school he is a loudmouthed, cowardly, prejudiced bully though he rarely gets his comeuppance either at home or school. Timmy shows absolutely nothing but contempt for his mother, and is usually only nice to her whenever there's something in it for him. At the end of one strip, when Timmy was told that his behaviour would lead his mother to an early death, Timmy displayed an openly enthusiastic reaction.

Timmy's mother tries to give a good upbringing for her son and encourages him to take up hobbies. She once suggested Timmy try painting. Timmy painted a picture of an elephant and immediately put it up on eBay for £2000. His own mother posted the winning bid, suggesting to pay the price gradually, one week at a time. However, Timmy demanded all the money instantly, and as his mother didn't have enough money, Timmy made her work as a phone sex operator to earn enough money to pay him.

Although the majority of the comic strips feature simply Timmy and his mother, other characters are introduced in order to emphasise Timmy's abnormality, such as one comic in which he stays with his aunt and uncle, a normal family, but who end up being chastised by Timmy's mother after he tells her that he has been severely maltreated by way of 'getting them back' for not giving him what he wanted. In a recent strip, Timmy's mother had found a partner ("Uncle William") and had planned to get married to him, which Timmy obviously objected to. As it turns out, William had a daughter who was just a female duplicate of Timmy, and the two of them (despite clearly hating each other) soon take advantage of the fact that there are now two adults to do their bidding. It is unknown as of yet if William and his daughter will appear in future strips.