Mechanicles
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Mechanicles (pronounced "Meh-khan-ah-KLEEZ", sometimes misspelled "Mechanikles") is a fictional character in the Disney cartoon series Aladdin, voiced by Charlie Adler. A mad scientist who seems to be of an ancient Greek culture (always styling himself as "greatest of the great Greek geniuses"), he is known for being able to make complex technological robots resembling insects (particularly beetles), which he uses for his various plots. When he first appeared, he was attacking a distant village with large robotic beetles, even managing to capture Genie and Carpet- forcing Aladdin to face the fact that he had become too dependent on them and had begun to take them for granted- before the group found him and destroyed his largest, greatest robot.
Other than his large ego, Mechanicles seems to have an obsessive-compulsive need for cleanliness and order; Aladdin and the other heroes usually find themselves able to distract him by something simple, for example spilling oil on his tile floor. This obsessive-compulsive disorder seems to be the plot behind his schemes, for example; he tried to turn the entire desert into glass because glass is a smooth surface, while sand is shifty and "dirty", or when he stole cargo off a ship to boil the ocean because using steam is a better cleaning technique to clean clothes rather than normal scrubbing. On another occasion when he managed to assume control of Agrabah using a robot to hypnotise everyone, his primary focus after he had established himself as the new ruler was to begin ordering the city to be cleaned, but this plan was fortunately thwarted when Genie and Carpet- who were immune to the robot's hypnotic skills- managed to free Aladdin from its control and subsequently destroy the robot.
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