List of villains in Totally Spies!
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In Totally Spies!, the villains featured in the series were generally one-shot characters used for a single episode. Most of them intend to oppose the world because they have suffered some major disappointment (such as being constantly rejected by men or women) or trauma. Only a few villains ever made a second appearance, which always focused around them attempting to get revenge on the girls for foiling their original scheme.
In the Season three finale, the show gave the spies an actual arch-nemesis in the form of Terry Lewis, Jerry's evil twin brother. Terence was supposed to be the show's final villain, being the main antagonist of the three-part episode "Evil Promotion Much?", originally intended as the series finale. When the show was renewed for a 4th season, Terence was brought back and given a major role as the main enemy of the girls. He forms a Legion of Doom-style organization called LAMOS, comprised of the show's recurring villains, in order to battle the spies.
Below is a list of the series' villains, the "major" ones most become LAMOS agents in Season 4, while the "minor" ones generally exist in no more than 2 or 3 episodes.
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[edit] LAMOS (League Aiming to Menace and Overthrow the Spies)
[edit] Terence Lewis
Terence Lewis (also known as "Terry") is Jerry's evil twin brother and the spies' main nemesis. He modified his face and voice through plastic surgery to differ from his twin. In the three-Part Season 3 finale "Evil Promotion Much?", the spies were selected for promotion to the next level due to their stunning success, and were sent to Terence for the training they would require to become Super Spies. At first, Terence appeared to be an easy-going, relaxed administrator.
However, the spies discovered that Terence was secretly Jerry's twin brother as well as the mastermind behind an elaborate plot. His goal was to eliminate Jerry so that he could seize control of WOOHP with a secret army of killer robots and take over the world. Terence's prime motive was an intense lifelong hatred of his twin brother stemming from an incident in fourth grade where he and Jerry were giving each other the answers until they were found out. Terence ultimately tried to murder his own brother Jerry in cold blood, but was defeated by the spies.
Terence returned in Season 4, where he became the girls' arch-nemesis and the main villain of the series. Terence formed the organization LAMOS, a collection of recurring villains from the show's previous seasons, in an attempt to defeat the girls, take control of WOOHP, and conquer the world. LAMOS started with Tim Scam, Helga Von Guggen, Myrna Beesbottom, and Boogie Gus. In the episode "Evil Jerry", Tim Scam, Helga Von Guggen, and Myrna Beesbottom were arrested again. At the end of the two-parter "Like So Totally Not Spies" Terence and the rest of the LAMOS were all arrested.
In Season 4 onwards Terence is much more maniacal than before, even replacing his original white business suit with an outlandish Napoleonic military uniform, complete with a monocle on the left eye (see his picture above).
Terence Lewis is voiced by Pete Capella.
[edit] Tim Scam
With the exception of Terence, Tim Scam is the show's most frequently recurring villain, having clocked up a total of six episodes. Scam is also the only villain to have appeared in every single season of the series. A former agent of WOOHP, Scam was fired due to illegal use of WOOHP technology, and he has since sought revenge against the organization.
He first appeared in the show's third episode "The New Jerry", in which he kidnapped Jerry and replaced him as director of WOOHP (masquerading as "Mac Smit", "Tim Scam" spelled backwards) in order to use WOOHP's resources for his own ambitions. However, the spies figured out his real intentions and put a stop to his plans and rescued Jerry. Since then, he has been a perpetual thorn in WOOHP's side, always coming back with some new plan to destroy WOOHP or the girls. In "Mommies Dearest", Scam attempted to get revenge on the spies by kidnapping their mothers and brainwashing them into lethal assassins bent on killing the girls. In "Morphing is Sooo 1987", Scam attempts to infiltrate and destroy WOOHP using "liquid-metal" robots capable of mimicking the appearance of others.
Tim Scam is highly intelligent. He originally developed a heat-ray capable of evaporating the Earth's oceans while working for WOOHP. He has most recently created a substance that can mimic other people's appearances called "Scamlar". He will likely remain a persistent nuisance to Jerry and the spies.
Unlike the show's other villains, who are usually "themed" bad guys whose personalities typically center around a single bizarre personality disorder or childhood trauma, Scam comes across as completely sane (albeit sociopathic). Also, unlike the other villains, whose plans generally involve indulging in their twisted obsessions (which often involves brainwashing people), Tim Scam has murderous tendencies and wants to kill for killing's sake.
Tim Scam is voiced by Michael Gough.
[edit] Helga Von Guggen
Helga Von Guggen is a rogue fashion designer and one of the show's more regular villains. She has a bodyguard, Trode, to do all the dirty work for her.
In "Wild Style", Trode met the spies while they were investigating the mass disappearances of cruise ships along with their crews and passengers. Unknown to them, Helga was the mastermind behind the abductions, and instructed Trode to infect one of the spies with her mutation serum through the use of a dart, resulting in Clover being mutated into a catgirl. At Helga's hideout, Helga revealed to the spies that she was using the serum to turn humans into animal-like creatures in order to produce instant-fitting pelt coats. Ultimately, Helga fell victim to her own mutation serum and transformed into a massive Chimaera-like mutant monster, but was defeated and captured by the girls.
In "Fashion Faux Pas", Helga returned with a scheme to use Mystique fashion clothes to strangle people to death. At her hideout, she told the spies her plan, and ordered Trode to keep an eye on them. In the end, she was turned in and captured again. It's discovered in "Like, So Totally Not Spies" that she is allergic to shellfish.
Helga Von Guggen later appears again in season 4 as a member of LAMOS. She and her henchman Trode are voiced by Adrienne Barbeau and Brian Cummings respectively.
[edit] Myrna Beesbottom
The girls' ex-nanny who tried to marry Jerry so that she could take over WOOHP. She is a former WOOHP agent and now a member of LAMOS. Her first appearance was when she was still good and became the girls' nanny in the season three episode "Space Much?". Her next appearance (her first appearance as a villain) was in "Evil Valentine Much?" where she tried to marry Jerry so that she could take over WOOHP. She has made several season 4 appearances and her lead role was in "Dream Teens", when she created plasma robots to become the spies' boyfriends and drain them of their energy. She has recently been captured and is temporarily apart from LAMOS. Despite her obese build Myrna is extremely agile, strong and durable, and it's also hinted she is specialised in ninja training.
[edit] Boogie Gus
An African-American '70s-loving villain and former WOOHP scientist who first appeared in season 3, "Forward To The Past'". He planned to go back in time and convince Jerry to create an evil WOOHP with him, which would stand for World Organization Of Harming People. In season 4, he joined the LAMOS gang and became an '80s lover even still sporting his '70s blackpower hairstyle. He planned to turn the world into his own '80s wonderland.
Boogie Gus is voiced by Joe Motiki.
[edit] Dr. Gelee
Gelee is a James Bond-styled scientific mastermind who decided that mankind was too evil and destructive to survive. He thus planned to eliminate humanity by freezing the planet while he and his henchmen remained safe in his remote mountain fortress. He was defeated by the girls in "The Iceman Cometh". He appears to have an interest in Clover (possibly romantic) as he chose her as his Queen.
In "Ski Trip", Gelee escaped from prison and began stalking the girls on their school skiing trip. Blaming Clover for his defeat, he concocted a diabolical plan to get revenge by kidnapping Clover and forcing her to play a game of chess against him. Unfortunately for him, Gelee mistook Mandy for Clover because of her red jacket. He (presumably) ends up dying in an avalanche.
Based on his appearance and motives, Gelee appears to be a parody of the Batman supervillain Ra's al Ghul.
Dr. Gelee is voiced by Simon Templeman.
[edit] Sebastian Saga
Sebastian Saga was the villain in "A Thing for Musicians", the very first episode of the show. He returns in "Stark Raving Mad". An elderly, musically-themed villain, Sebastian was once a famous guitar player, but a bizarre pyrotechnical accident severely injured the left side of his body and destroyed his left hand, leaving him bitter and unable to play the guitar. He has a metal prosthesis for a left hand, and a haircut that conceals the left side of his face.
In "A Thing for Musicians", Sebastian is introduced as the manager for fledgling rock star Ricky Mathis. Sebastian planned to play hypnotic music during Ricky's music concert in order to hypnotize the crowd into attacking the world's governments. However, the spies confronted Sebastian at the concert and foiled his plans, forcing him to attempt an escape in his personal helicopter. The spies turned Sebastian's own trick against him by targeting the helicopter with a wind tunnel hair dryer pushing the helicopter into the transmitter playing the hypnotic music, enabling the capture of Sebastian.
In "Stark Raving Mad", Sebastian returned intending to get revenge on the girls by sabotaging local raves with hypnotic music that made people go crazy and start riots. Sebastian used his raves to destroy the spies' places of interest such as the skating store, the museum, and the Beverly Hills mall. After telling the girls his plan he attempted to destroy Beverly High, he was foiled once again.
Sebastian Saga is voiced by Jim Ward.
[edit] Marco Lumière
The villain of the two-part Season 1 finale "A Spy is Born", Lumière is an eccentric Hollywood director outcast from the mainstream film community for his bizarre methods. In revenge, he concocted a scheme to kidnap the biggest Hollywood stars and take them to his private island, filled with various killer robots and deathtraps. There, the actors would star in Lumière's own personal action movie where all the dangers and deaths would be real.
Unfortunately for the spies, Lumière also ended up kidnapping Alex, who was impersonating one of the targeted Hollywood stars. The spies made their way to Lumière's private island, and together with Alex managed to rescue the stars, and defeat Lumière once and for all.
Lumière escapes from prison in "0067", where he, using the Ocram Ereimul pseudonym (actually Marco Lumière spelled backwards), manipulates Jerry into eliminating all of Hollywood's producers. His plan is thwarted by the spies and Jerry.
Marco Lumière is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
[edit] Geraldine Husk
Geraldine Husk is the founder and administrator of SPI (Super Protection International), a rival spy agency to WOOHP. In "SPI", SPI agents continually managed to capture various international criminals before the girls managed to, bringing positive publicity to SPI and making WOOHP appear ineffective. WOOHP was then disbanded and replaced with SPI. Investigating SPI further, Sam discovered that the "international criminals" SPI had been capturing were in fact employees of SPI, and that all the criminal incidents had been set up by Geraldine in order to build up SPI's "good" image and embarrass WOOHP. Geraldine started SPI to get revenge on WOOHP: when she was a teenager, she had applied to WOOHP for a position as a spy, but her application was rejected. The girls managed to defeat their SPI counterparts and expose Geraldine as a fraud.
After her initial defeat in "SPI", Geraldine developed a personal vendetta against Clover, which is seen through all her future appearances. She also sets up a base on a remote island which is used in later episodes as well.
In "Super Agent Much?", Geraldine returned with a scheme to secretly modify Clover into a super spy. As a result of Geraldine's secret modifications, Clover slowly became much more competent and demonstrated nearly superhuman abilities, but also became more aggressive and sociopathic. Geraldine ultimately recruited the modified Clover into SPI, and ordered her to kill her friends. However, Clover's modifications turned her into a bionic woman (complete with laser eyes) and she was defeated by being thrown into a lake via a magnetic gadget.[1] Geraldine was captured shortly after.
In "Arnold The Great", she initially tried to lure the girls in a trap, but later changed her plans and instead used their classmate Arnold, by promising to make him a part of her team. However later, Arnold was the one who ultimately stopped her, by clogging her vehicle's exhaust pipe with his Gummy-snare Blaster. She swore to take revenge on him.
In Blaine's story arc in season 5 ("Return Of Geraldine"), Geraldine is revealed to have hired Blaine to kill Clover. Upon Blaine's failure, Geraldine arranges a series of events in order to have Clover's entire life turned upside down, and everyone in it against her. With Clover left with nowhere to go, Geraldine uses Blaine as a decoy to capture her, and then attempts to kill them both. However, she is once again defeated and imprisoned.
Geraldine Husk is voiced by Kathleen Laskey.
[edit] Willard
Willard, a mad scientist, is an extremely slow man. He talks slowly, he moves slowly, he lives his entire life slowly. After deciding that the rest of the world was too fast for him, Willard invented a beam that slows down molecular movement, and in Season 2 Episode "Alex Quits" attempted to use the ray to slow the rest of the world down so that everyone else would be slow like him. He managed to capture the spies (including new recruit Britney) with his slow ray, but was ultimately defeated by Alex and Britney.
In Season 3 Episode "Escape from WOOHP Island", the spies discover that Willard is the mastermind behind an escape attempt from WOOHP's maximum security prison island. Leading a band of other global criminals, Willard shot down Britney's plane, forcing her to crash land on the island. He intended to use a duplicate of Britney to kill the spies when they arrived to rescue their colleague, then escape in the spies' plane. However, the spies accidentally unmasked the duplicate, forcing Willard to reveal himself and attack them directly. During the fight, he showed that, despite his slowness, he actually knows some very fast martial arts techniques. However, he was ultimately defeated by the real Britney.
Willard is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker in "Alex Quits" and Jamie Watson in "Escape from WOOHP Island".
[edit] Diminutive Smalls
Diminutive Smalls is the spies' smallest enemy, literally. He first appeared in the season 1 episode "Shrinking", where he and his siblings tried to shrink the world down to fit their size, after their experiment went wrong, shrinking them considerably, while giving them extraordinary strength. In his second (and final) appearance, in season 4 episode "Attack of the 50-Foot Mandy", he tries to make Clover increase in size, but instead makes Mandy grow. He currently is serving time at WOOHP Detention Facility.
Diminutive Smalls is voiced by Rob Paulsen in season 1.
[edit] Jazz Hands
A mime artist (wearing an old-fashioned black tuxedo, cape, wine-colored tightpants and top hat) who speaks. His schemes, obviously enough, involve all mime-esque themes and his shady goal is no other than turning the whole world into his particular mime world. Just like other villains, Jazz Hands became evil due to a particular reason: he hates every kind of vocal actors (i.e. singers, dubbers, comedians and the like) because due to them the "pure art of mimicry" has been washed up and thus forgotten, so "only muteness can restore the former glory of the mimicry", as Jazz Hands himself states. His weapon of choice is an accordion that contains a small cannon whose laser shot turns everybody caught on it into a voiceless mime (as he did with Sam and Alex in "Mime Your Own Business", his debut episode). In later Season 5 episodes "Evil Sushi Chef", "Miss Spirit Fingers" and "Mime World", Sam secretly discovers his newest plan: he is hidden in an isolated island building up a mime-based theme park which he will use to convert the whole mankind into mimes, so in a solo mission Sam adopts the alter ego of Miss Spirit Fingers in order to infiltrate Jazz Hands's domains and then internally disrupt his plan.
Jazz Hands is voiced by Ben Joseph.
[edit] Virtual Stranger Villains
Three villains that only appeared in the season 5 episode "Virtual Stranger". Though these particular villains were already secured in the WOOHP prison system long before the events of that episode took place, they were downloaded into Britney (thus she became possessed) as the result of an accident she had while she was doing her virtual training. Because the villains were downloaded through a holographic device, the villains appeared interchangeable, and, as such, were a three-in-one villain that could shift between three different forms. Nonetheless, all three personalities wanted revenge on the spies for foiling whatever original schemes the villains had.
[edit] Neat Freak
A villain weilding a combi-stick-like weapon with retractable brush heads at each end. The weapon can shoot green sludge, and can also be twirled in front of him to create a gust of wind.
[edit] The Walking Tornado
A wind-themed female villain with the namesake ability to turn into a tornado, either for moving around or for assault. She can also exhale extremely strong winds through her mouth.
[edit] Man-Hands
A female villain with large, super-strong hands. The hands are large enough for both to cover a head together. Her belt can prove to be her undoing if it gets removed.
