Professor Poopypants, or simply Poopypants, is the main antagonist of the 2017 animation film made by DreamWorks animation, Captain Underpants, based on the very popular children's book series of the same name, in which he appears as the second most recurring antagonist, behind Melvin Sneedly.
In the film, he is voiced by Nick Kroll.
Role
Film
In the film, he first appears as George and Harold lead Captain Underpants away from a crime scene, telling him that there are no more evil villains around there. He is seen looking at the sign saying that there was a science teacher wanted, before displaying his evil laugh.
He then appears in Mr Krupp's office, applying for the science teacher job. He pull's thing such as poison and TNT out of his suit case while searching for his resume. While reading it, George and Harold discover more about him, but don't care to look at his name. Despite it being obvious that he is completely insane, Captain Underpants hires him, and Poopypants leaves the room.
He teaches George and Harold's class about the brain of zee (as he calls it) average child, going under the name of Professor P. He tells the children that he would want to get rid of laughter. Melvin Sneedly likes the idea, and Poopypants calls him a grade A suck up. He talks about the part of the brain that holds the capacity for laughter. When Harold asks him what the P in his name stands for. He tells them that it is private, and George says that that means that his name is Professor Privates, causing the class to laugh, so Poopypants sends them to the principles office.
There, George and Harold find out that his name is Poopypants, and since he hates laughter and his name would make everyone laugh, so they decide to make a comic about him, using his real name.
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Book
TBA
Trivia
- He is surely the most evil, and most smart antagonist in all of Captain Underpants, as well as being the first who had the motive to turn evil within the book, or have backstory about why they became evil.