Thrakkorzog

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Thrakkorzog

Publisher	New England Comics Press
First appearance	The Tick #11, August 1992
Created by	Ben Edlund

Characteristics
Species	Alien, from Dimension 14B
Affiliations	Phalanx of Doom
Abilities	strength cloning knowledge

Thrakkorzog is a fictional villain in The Tick Comics, created by Ben Edlund and published by New England Comics Press. Thrakkorzog is a massive gelatinous being from another dimension who hopes to create an army of gelatinous clones to take over the world.

He first appeared in The Tick #11 as the Tick and Arthur arrive in New York City, where he is battling his archenemy Mighty Agrippa, Roman God of the Aqueduct. Thrakkorzog is a very well-organized villain and schedules all of his fights in advance.

In The Tick Massive Summer Double Spectacle #1 and 2, 2000, Thrakkorzog joins a supervillain team called the Phalanx of Doom, which includes the Roach, Fuzzy Person, the Red Scare, Toy de Force, Praying Mantis, The Underwaterer and Lumber Jane. Their goal is to band together to defeat The City’s superheroes. He is later expelled from the team for devouring Toy de Force.

In The Tick Color #1, January 2001, the Tick and his superhero team travel to Thrakkorzog’s dimension through an invisible hyperspace rift located directly above The Altitudinous Tower in downtown The City. There, they find that, in his own dimension, Thrakkorzog is actually very tiny. Thrakkorzog actually manages to create an army of gelatinous Tick’s, but most of them are destroyed by the superheroes stepping on them.

In The Tick Big Xmas Trilogy, December 2002, Thrakkorzog appears as Ebeneezer Scrooge in the Tick’s Christmas pageant.

[edit] Appearances in other media

Thrakkorzog appears in the The Tick animated television series in the episode, "The Tick vs. The Uncommon Cold" (Episode Eight, Season One - Original air date: 10/29/1994). In the episode he is referred to as the Evil Ruler of dimension 14B (his dimension is not named in the comic book). Throughout the episode he is consistently well-mannered and polite. He also has a sentient tongue which can speak and is obsessed with eating brains.

Thrakkorzog moves into Apartment 14B, next door to the Tick and Arthur. He also has a roommate who often aggravates Thrakkorzog, but least is a responsible about the rent.

Thrakkorzog plots to take over Earth with an army of Tick clones, as The Tick would make a perfect clone army due to his strength, nigh invulnerability, and lack of common sense.

To this end, Thrakkorzog kidnaps Arthur, clones him with his Clonerizer, and sends the Arthur clone to collect a tissue sample from the Tick. The Tick suffering from a severe cold, fails to notice that Arthur has been replaced by a none-too-convincing green-skinned clone, who is only able to utter the phrase, "I Arthur."

The evil clone is unsuccessful in his efforts to collect a sample of the Tick's DNA, due to the Tick's aforementioned nigh-invulnerability. However, the Arthur clone does retrieve one of the Tick's used Kleenex, which Thrakkorzog uses to create a greenish, evil Tick composed of mucus. During the climactic rooftop battle, the Tick engages in a bit of villain-riling, referring to Thrakkorzog as Thorasmog, Whatchamazog, Thoraxandabog, ThreeYaksAndADog and other mutilations of his name, culminating in "Susan", at which point, Thrakkorzog declares that the Tick is being “juvenile.”

Arthur deploys the Interplanar Portal Pal (Thrakkorzog’s device for traveling between dimensions) and the Tick manages to inhale the evil clone and sneeze him out onto Thrakkorzog, knocking villain and evil clone back into Dimension 14B.

Jim Cummings provided the voice of Thrakkorzog.

Whether it was intentional, Thrakkorzog bears some uncanny resemblance and in voice similar to actor Tim Curry. Disney animated studios have illustrated most of their characters resembling the actors themselves who provide the voice of the characters whom they portray.