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| “ | You guys are so immature! | „ |
| ~ Melvin's catchphrase in the book series |
| “ | What's so funny? I don't---I don't get it. | „ |
| ~ Melvin's catchphrase in the film. |
| “ | That rashy goon Diaperado was right. A team is the key to defeating Captain Underpants and achieving Melvindication. | „ |
| ~ Melvin talking about his plans to take over the world. |
Melvin Richard Sneedly, also temporarily known as the Bionic Booger Boy, is the secondary antagonist in the Captain Underpants franchise.
He is the smartest student currently attending Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, but is also the school's biggest tattletale/sellout when he assists mean teachers for extra credits and is greatly disliked by lots of the students for this reason. He is also George and Harold's rival and "nerdy nemesis."
He was voiced by Jordan Peele in the 2017 film, who also voiced and portrayed Beta Wolf from Storks and Bunny in Toy Story 4.
In the Netflix series, he is voiced by Jorge Diaz.
In the scholastic audiobook series, he is voice by Len Forgione.
Appearance[]
Melvin has light skin, freckles, and slicked red-orange with some of it swept upward. Melvin wears glasses, a white collared shirt, a red bow tie, a yellow vest, shorts, and brown shoes. In the movie, the frame of Melvin's glasses are green, his bowtie is a golden yellow color, and he sports a watch.
As the Bionic Booger Boy, Melvin retains his spectacles, facial features, and bow tie. However, he is covered in mucus, sports robotic limbs, and is notably taller, a result of him being fused by his Combine-O-Tron 2000 with a robot and his own mucus.
Personality[]
Melvin is known to be a tattletale and he is arrogant. He is sometimes selfish such as when he refused to save people unless George and Harold changed their comic about him in book 7. However he was more than willing to save people for a full year as a superhero in book 11, being perfectly willing to help people even if the emergencies were minor and even cancelling an experiment (severely damaged his bedroom) because a lady needed help.
Unlike most students, Melvin does not have a sense of humor which is the reason why he is Professor Poopypants' henchman in the film.
Just like Mr. Krupp, Melvin hates George and Harold because they are mischievous. However he anger towards them is justified on a few occasions, like in book 2 where he understandably broke his promise and snitched on them for ruining the science fair for the second year in a row.
However he was more than willing to rescue George, Harold and Captain Underpants in book 10, though it was only so the latter one could deal with helping others. In the TV Series’s he frequently team shows up with the heroes and helps them against bigger threats, even if for usually self-serving reasons.
In the Hack-a-ween movie special Melvin briefly reforms and joins George and Harold. It's revealed he only hated Halloween due to being alone and is happy when George and Harold invite him to go with them on Hack-a-ween.
Despite his high intelligence, Melvin seems to lack common sense at times. He told George and Harold to "make up a story where I defeat Captain Underpants and become the world's greatest superhero," not realizing that such a scenario would only make him the world's greatest supervillain.
He is shown to have a tragic side as he is genuinely excited about doing the comic with George and is very disappointed when George and Harold reunite and start ignoring him. This shows that somewhere inside, Melvin is quite a lonely boy, and his tattletaling, along with trying to use Captain Underpants' superpowers for fame and power in the books, may be the result of his parents not paying him much attention at home.
History[]
In the books[]
Melvin debuts in the second book, Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets, as the local nerd and snitch, who created the PATSY 2000 (a device similar to a 3D printer) as part of a science convention. He tells George and Harold it can bring images to life. They aren't impressed, however. Melvin reluctantly agrees not to mention that he saw the two ruining the science fair in exchange for them not tampering with his PATSY 2000. However, he (rather understandably) changes his mind later when he decides to tattle on George and Harold after the science convention is cancelled because of George and Harold's pranks, which he got caught up in.
When George and Harold use the PATSY 2000 to create copies of their comic book, it spawns the Talking Toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000, who terrorize the school. Later, Melvin is placed in detention (since he tattled) along with the other teachers when George and Harold become Principals of the Day as they throw an all-day carnival for all of the other students and is forced to write "I will not be a tattletale" multiple times.
In the third, fourth and fifth books, he has relatively minor roles. In the third book, Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds), Melvin is one of the students who get turned into a zombie nerd by Zorx, Klax & Jennifer. They are then rescued by George, Harold and Captain Underpants.
He makes two brief appearances in the fourth book, Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, the first is waiting in line behind George and Harold for a school trip to Piqua Pizza Palace and the second one is was one of the kids who laughed at Professor Poopypants.
In the fifth book, Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, he bears witness to the attack of Wedgie Woman's robotic George and Harold, and has mistaken the robots for the real George and Harold, despite being the smartest kid in school.
Melvin’s next major role is in the sixth and seventh books, Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, serving as the main antagonist of Part 1, and the secondary antagonist of Part 2. In the first part, The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets, Melvin debuts his latest invention, the Combine-o-Tron 2000, and showcases it to his classmates by combining his pet hamster Sulu with a robotic hamster body. He tries to get the newly-transformed bionic hamster to showcase his powers, but when Sulu refuses, Melvin threatens Sulu with violence, resulting in Sulu beating up Melvin. Melvin leaves the school in humiliation, leaving George and Harold to adopt Sulu as their own while the other students go to try out a prank they made, the Squishy.
Soon after, Melvin falls victim to the Squishy and gets the boys into detention by tattling on them by telling Principal Krupp they told everyone, including Miss Ribble, to do it. To get back at him, the duo writes a slanderous Captain Underpants comic about Melvin, much to his anger. In it, Melvin becomes mayor by being a tattletale and makes lots of rules getting people arrested. When all the jails are full, Melvin builds the Tattle-Tron 2000, a jail with robot limbs, to catch the rule breakers himself. When it reaches the school, they call for Captain Underpants to help, but he couldn't fight the robot without hurting everyone inside. He decides to pour prune juice into it so the robot would "poop" everyone out, setting them free. Once only Melvin is left, Captain Underpants fights him, sends him to Jail for Dumb Kids, and sets everyone else free. Wishing to get revenge on George and Harold for this as he rise to villainy, Melvin creates a robotic human body with the intention of becoming a bionic boy and thus the most popular student at school. However, his cat allergies trigger due to being near the family cat, and he sneezes and covers himself in his own mucus during the transformation, turning him into the Bionic Booger Boy.
Melvin initially enjoys the benefits of his transformation, such as being the star football and volleyball player and having his personal water fountain. However, when flu season hits, Melvin begins to behave strangely. When the class visits a tissue factory, Melvin becomes a gigantic and evil monster as a reaction to the tissues, forcing George and Harold to turn Mr. Krupp into Captain Underpants to fight him. Though Captain Underpants manages to rescue Ms. Edith Anthrope during the attack, her sloppy, wet kisses revert him back to Mr. Krupp, and Melvin devours him. Melvin then goes for George and Harold, but Sulu arrives and battles Melvin. Melvin's parents soon arrive, and under George's suggestion, recalibrate the Combine-o-Tron and restore Melvin and Mr. Krupp to normal. However, Mr. Krupp and Melvin begin to act like each other, and the remnants of the Bionic Booger Boy become Carl, Trixie, and Frankenbooger, the Robo-Boogers, and give chase to the group, destroying the Combine-o-Tron in the process.
In the second part, The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers, after Sulu subdues the three Robo-Boogers, George and Harold realize that Mr. Krupp and Melvin have switched brains. Mr. Krupp (now Kruppy the Kid) orders Melvin (now Mr. Melvin) to rebuild the Combine-O-Tron, but when Mr. Melvin claims the process could take six months, George suggests that Mr. Melvin build a time machine and acquire the Combine-O-Tron. Mr. Melvin, stricken with the idea, inadvertently transforms Kruppy the Kid into Captain Underpants and decides to get his original body back and gain Captain Underpants' powers. He orders George and Harold to make a comic that depicts him as cool or he will have their teachers give them 12 hours of homework every night for the next eight years.
The next day, Mr. Melvin instead finds yet another slanderous comic, Captain Underpants and the War of the Wily Wonder Nerd. In it, a cotton field is soaked in waste from a power plant and the cotton is made into underwear. Mrs. Sneedly buys a pair for Melvin, but it turns him into a giant. As he walks to school the next morning, he causes lots of damage because of his height, the army is no match for him and a tank lands on the gym teacher, resulting in the school calling for Captain Underpants. The hero finds that the underwear may shrink when washed, so he begs the Wonder Nerd not to dump him into the lake. Feeling sadistic, the Wonder Nerd walks into the lake to dump Captain Underpants in, but the underwear shrinks causing him to blow up like a balloon. Captain Underpants then pops him with a bird and sends him Jail for Dumb Stupid Nerds.
Mr. Melvin begrudgingly reveals his time machine, warning George and Harold of its side effects, and equips them with a mind eraser and a fake Combine-o-Tron. After some mishaps involving the librarian, Miss Singerbrains, and a pterodactyl they named Crackers, the duo retrieves the original Combine-o-Tron. Mr. Melvin tracks down Captain Underpants and gets their brains back in their original bodies. Meanwhile, the Robo-Boogers arrive at Uranus, latch on to a spaceship that was examining Uranus, and return to Earth. Captain Underpants, back in his original body, attempts to help, but finds that Melvin now has his powers. Melvin refuses to help unless George and Harold change the comic they wrote about him.
The trio destroy the Robo-Boogers with healthy oranges filled with Vitamin C, with Captain Underpants using a Squishy to finish off Trixie and Frankenbooger. They are questioned by Eyewitness Crew, but Melvin dubs himself "Big Melvin" and begins to claim responsibility for subduing the Robo-Boogers. George and Harold reacquire the Combine-o-Tron and restore Captain Underpants's superpowers. A defeated Melvin is confronted and chased into the sunset by an angry mob of people that Captain Underpants had disrupted while in Melvin's body.
As revealed in the eleventh book, Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000, shortly after the events of the eighth book, the Turbo Toilet 2000 returns from Uranus and disturbs Melvin's experiments. Melvin insulted him for making all the noise, which anger The Turbo Toilet 2000 and goes after Melvin to kill him. Melvin finally needs Captain Underpants's help, but, he, George, Harold, Sulu the Bionic Hamster and Crackers where fighting the three Tippy Tinkletrousers in different timelines in the tenth book.
While hiding under Mr. Krupp’s desk, Melvin finds one of Mr. Krupp's toenails and tosses it away in disgust. Suddenly, he remembers that Mr. Krupp is Captain Underpants and he can use it to extract the super power DNA out of the the toenail. When the Turbo Toilet 2000 found him, Melvin found the toenail, extracts the super power DNA from it and giving Melvin his superpowers, and subdues the Turbo Toilet 2000. Once again known as Big Melvin, he basks in the fame of being a superhero, but he eventually becomes tired because citizens were calling him for minute problems, such as assisting a man for dropping his wallet in the toilet.
The final straw comes when Melvin is attempting to solve the mystery of the everything, but a woman calls upon him thinking if her pants make her look fat. After this, he decided to track down George, Harold and Captain Underpants by using a GPS in Sulu's robotic body, leading to him finding them in the tenth book and sending them back to the present in the eleventh book in order to erase his superhero future. He also deface their surveillance photos by hacking into the bank's computer so they won’t be arrested for the bank robbery their evil world counterparts commit. He then warns them of the Turbo Toilet 2000's return in two weeks before disappearing. As shown later in the book, Melvin can be seen watching the teachers go crazy when George and Harold persuaded them into thinking they are dreaming.
In the twelfth book, Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, Melvin was sitting next to Yesterday George and Harold who had been sprayed with Rid-O-Kid 2000 by Sir Stinks-A-Lot to turn them into obedient students. Melvin admitted he was starting to like them now. He is later brainwashed into an obedient servant by Sir Stinks-A-Lot when he was sprayed by him, but it's assumed after the story ended the effects wore off as they only lasted 24 hours. In a Dog-man book, Melvin and Mr. Krupp end up chasing George and Harold who win an award.
In the film[]
Melvin appears as the secondary antagonist and the sidekick of Professor Poopypants. He first appears in the class room where tells George and Harold he told on them since someone has to stand up for Mr. Krupp. During the Invention Convention, he debuts many inventions, concluding with the Turbo Toilet 2000. However, things go awry when George and Harold tamper with the Turbo Toilet 2000, reprogramming it to shoot out toilet papers. However, Melvin is able to catch them in the act thanks to another invention of his, the Tattle Turtle (a toy turtle with a nanny cam hidden inside). In order to get "extra credit" (and payback on George and Harold), Melvin turns over the Tattle Turtle's footage to Mr. Krupp, who then decides to put George and Harold in separate classes for the rest of the school year as punishment for their pranks and to annihilate their friendship. This led to the creation of the film's version of Captain Underpants.
Later, after Professor Poopypants is hired as the new science teacher, he notices that Melvin is the only student who never laughed at his silly name. After studying his brain, Poopypants discovers that Melvin's brain lacks a Haha-Guffaw-Chucklotamus, the gland that causes laughter, which is why he has no sense of humor. Upon making this discovery, Poopypants recruits Melvin to help rid the world of laughter, (it is not entirely known how Poopypants convinced him to or why Melvin agreed, but a deleted scene of the film indicates it may have been that Poopypants offered him more "extra credit"). To do this, they turn the Turbo Toilet 2000 into a giant mech, fueling it with rotten leftovers from the cafeteria and equipping it with a ray gun linked to Melvin's brain that erases humor.
Poopypants and Melvin attack the school and transform all the students (except George and Harold) into humorless zombies. Captain Underpants tries to stop them, but is quickly subdued due to not having any actual superpowers. While the Turbo Toilet 2000 is busy beating up Captain Underpants, George and Harold climb on top of the robot and try to reason with Melvin to get him to stop Poopypants. Melvin simply alerts Poopypants, who eventually manages to rob George and Harold of their humor. However, Poopypants accidentally restores their sarcastic sense of humor by saying "Uranus", which was the first thing that they had laughed at together.
Meanwhile, Captain Underpants, having been swallowed whole by the Turbo Toilet 2000, gains superpowers from the leftovers and defeats the Turbo Toilet 2000. Also, the ray gun explodes because Poopypants overloaded it with power, which restores everyone's sense of humor and sending Melvin falling to the ground. Though Melvin survives the fall, he is then flattened by toilet paper, which is then rolled across the school yard by a group of children.
It is unknown what happened to Melvin after the events of the film. It is possible he may have redeemed himself before the explosion and that the reverse-ray may have given him a sense of humor (as he smiles slightly before being hit by the toilet paper), but it is also possible that he was injured by the roll falling onto him and then irritated by the children, and therefore may still be evil and willing to return.
In the animated series[]
He serve as the main antagonist of the series, where he makes typical inventions that George and Harold frequently exploit to take the easy way out of their issues, despite the fact that it frequently generates the difficulty of the week. One of his most renowned creations is the Time Toad, which is employed multiple times during the series. He has a crush on Erica Wang since her intelligence is similar to his. A running gag is that he frequently comes up with insults that make no sense. He even often teams up with Mr. Krupp to either take revenge on George and Harold or to accomplish a sinister and evil plan. He is also willing to kill George, Harold and Captain Underpants several times throughout the show.
In Episode 13, Endenemys reveals that he is Melvin from the future. He fires Krupp, and expels George and Harold and, alongside his furute self, the two became principals of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School.
In the first episode of Season 2, Melvin and Endenemys (who has become Melvinborg) succeeded in taking over Jerome Horwitz Elementary School (which has been renamed Melvin Sneedly Elementary) and replaced all the teachers with robots. In Episode 3 of Season 2, Melvinborg uses bee DNA to turn the teachers into a hive-mind, but he injects too much into one teacher (Ms. Ribble), turning her into Queen Zombee. In Episode 6 of Season 2, he and Melvinborg got brainwashed by Splotch.
In the season two finale, when Melvinborg plans to kill Captain Underpants while the nanobots are inside his body, he realizes how genuinely evil he will become. He grows tired of his future self's lack of forethought and abandons the plan, causing his future self to vanish forever. The future Erica then states that this act of kindness could be the beginning of his transformation for the best.
However, despite vowing to became a better person, since he stretches that he still doesn't like George and Harold and his act of kindness was a one-time thing, he becomes evil again in season 3, showing he is still wants to do evil and do any evil plan he has against George and Harold.
In the third season, he accompanies the children to summer camp, but is the last to participate in the fun. During this season, he creates a comic book with George using a drawing technique heavily influenced by computers. When George convinces him to return to being closest friends with Harold, he becomes extremely upset. His intelligence is inadvertently reduced to that of a wild animal at one point. He regains his normalcy off-screen.
Throughout Season 3, he got more homicidal and violent, sometimes trying to kill George, Harold, Captain Underpants even worse than before and even is willing to do the same-thing to his follow classmates, such as in "The Ludicrous Lunacy of the Loopy Laserlightmare" as his laser prison has death traps and nearly got George, Harold, Erica, Gooch, Bo, Stanley, Jessica, Dressy and the Sophies killed and later trying to use the laser monster to kill George and Harold after discovering they had got out his laser dome, and in "The Shocking Showdown of the Staggering Sugamechanger", he creates a creature composed of one-third sugar, one-third trampoline, and one-third video game to destroyed the camp so that their parents won't sign them up for camp next summer and he can attend Outer Space Camp, which place them all in danger and nearly kill them all, but he still remains as an anti-hero.
In the season 3 finale, Melvin build a machine and used it on scripted play with George’s and Harold’s classmates in costumes that made the monsters real and going to defeat the boys and Erica, Mr. Ree, Sergent Boxers and Captain Underpants and achieved his plans of Melvindication, his plans for world domination. However his plans were foiled by George and Harold, who uses his ray-gun on him to turn him into Diaperado, though he was turned back to normal off-screen.
Melvin despises Halloween because he is lonely and allergic to candy, as shown in The Heartbreaking Havoc of the Haunting Hack-A-Ween. With Mr. Krupp, he plays a critical part in having Halloween banned. He is irritated when George and Harold make Hack-a-ween, and he is even more irritated when Gooch comes over (mostly because Gooch was paid to do so). When George and Harold urge him to go sneaking or nibbling with them, he appears eager to accept. He had, however, transformed the Halloween balloons and a home into monsters to attack 38 minutes earlier. He assists George and Harold in saving the day, but he is let down when Halloween is revived due to his sweets allergies.
In the mini seires, He wants to uncover something wonderful in space to become a "science god" on earth. He tries to steal the Litlite ship and return it to Earth, and he later makes the initial contact with the Biglyans. He eventually gets captured by the Biglyans, but he eventually convinces them to anoint him king. He is shoved aside by the Biglyans after attempting to lead the Biglyan armada to Earth to take over. After the final fight with the Biglyans, he fled to Earth to take it over and converted all organic things into Melvin-like beings. Only for George and Harold using the Time Toad to fix it.
Heroic Acts[]
- In book 10, he rescues George, Harold and Captain Underpants.
- In book 11, Melvin was a superhero who saved the day and helped people for a year.
- In episode 7 of the TV series, he helps George and Harold turn Claylossus back into Bo.
- In episode 13 of the tv series, he teams up with George and Harold to get Mr. Krupp’s rule book and even risked his life to go back and get it for them.
- In epsiode 7 of season 2 he helps George and Harold in return for them standing up for him to not to be thrown out to the Butt-erflies.
- In episode 10 of season 2 he teams up with George and Harold and helps the kids escape from acient Rome.
- In the final episode of season 2 he teams up with George and Harold and rescued them from Melvin-Borg erasing his evil future counterpart from exisctence.
- He helps the kids against Combapotato in season 3.
- In the Hack-a-ween special he briefly reforms at the end and joins George and Harold during Hack-a-ween.
Quotes[]
| “ | Well, well, well. I heard you both got into a bit of the old trouble today. (George: How'd you hear that, Melvin?) (Harold: Did you tattletale on us?) Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. I did. | „ |
| ~ Revealing that he tattled on George and Harold. |
| “ | Someone has to stand up for the man. | „ |
| ~ Justifying being a tattletale. |
| “ | Respectfully disagree. | „ |
| ~ Melvin to George and Harold that Mr. Krupp is self-serving. |
| “ | I call him the Tattle Turtle 2000. On the outside, it's a little turtle. But on the inside, ooh. Look at this. It's a nanny cam | „ |
| ~ Melvin presenting his Tattle Turtle 2000. |
| “ | Extra credit, it feels so good! I've got extra credit. | „ |
| ~ Melvin when gaining extra credits. |
| “ | I just wanna make sure you apply the extra credit to next semester. I won't be needing it this semester, of course. | „ |
| ~ Melvin to Poopypants. |
| “ | This thing is amazing, Professor P. You could probably solve world hunger with an invention like this. | „ |
| ~ Melvin suggesting Poopypants to use his invention to solve world hunger. |
| “ | Finally! You're speaking my language! | „ |
| ~ Ecstatic after Poopypants removes everyone's sense of humor. |
| “ | Yikes. Extra credit or survival. Extra credit or survival! I CHOOSE SURVIVAL!!!!! | „ |
| ~ Melvin's defeat in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie. |
Trivia[]
- Melvin is allergic to cats, as when his cat enters his room, he sneezes before he shoos it away.
- It is unknown why Melvin's parents keep the cat despite him being allergic to it.
- Melvin doesn't have a sense of humor in the movie, as he doesn't laugh at all. However in the series and books he does laugh, which is weird, albeit possible.
- He is mentioned in a newspaper that was about George, Harold, and Mr. Krupp's trial in book 9. It said that he laughed at them when the three are found guilty.
- Melvin is infatuated with hamnog, a fictitious drink inspired by eggnog, in The Xtreme Xploits of the Xplosive Xmas.
- It is demonstrated in "The Frenzied Farts of Flabby Flabulous" that Melvin was able to construct robots even as a young child.
- He is modeled after a tattletale child that Pilkey knew from school, who has been given the alias "Michael Sneedman" to conceal his identity.
External Links[]
- Melvin Sneedly on the Villains Wiki
- Melvin Sneedly on the DreamWorks Animation Wiki
- Melvin Sneedly on the Captain Underpants Wiki
- Melvin Sneedly on the Dog Man Wiki
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