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You guys are SO immature!
~ Melvin's catchphrase in the book series.
I don't get it. What's so funny?
~ Melvin's catchphrase in the film.

Melvin Sneedly is the secondary antagonist of the Captain Underpants franchise. He is perhaps the smartest student currently attending Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, but is also the school's biggest tattletale/sellout and is greatly disliked by lots of the students for this reason. He is also George and Harold's arch-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 light brown hair 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 not even caring when he room was severely damaged 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. 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 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.

History[]

In the books[]

Melvin debuts in the second book 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 agrees not to mention that he saw the two ruining the science fair but later he changes his mind when he decides to tattle on George and Harold after the science convention is cancelled because of George and Harold's pranks.

When George and Harold tamper with the PATSY 2000, it spawns the Talking Toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000, who ruin 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.

Melvin is one of the students who get turned into a zombie nerd by Zorx, Klax & Jennifer in the third book. In the fifth book, he bears witness to the attack of Wedgie Woman's robotic George and Harold.

Melvin serves as the main antagonist of the sixth and seventh books. In the sixth book, 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.

Soon after, Melvin falls victim to George and Harold's prank, the Squishy, and gets them into detention by tattling on them. The duo write a slanderous Captain Underpants comic about Melvin, much to Melvin's anger. It told of how he became mayor by being a tattletale a made lots of rules getting people arrested. When the jails were full, Melvin built the Tattle-Tron 2000, a jail with robot limbs. The school called for Captain Underpants to help, but he couldn't fight the robot without hurting everyone inside. He decided to pour prune juice into it, that way the robot would poop everyone out, setting them free. Once only Melvin is left, Captain Underpants fights him, send him to Jail for Dumb Kids, and sets everyone else free. Wishing to get revenge on George and Harold for this, Melvin creates a robotic human body with the intention of becoming a bionic boy and thus the most popular student at school. Due to his cat allergies, he sneezes and covers himself in his own mucus during the transformation, causing him to become 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 seventh book, 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's powers. He orders George and Harold to make a comic that depicts him as cool.

However, the comic that was made was called Captain Underpants and the War of the Willy Wonder Nerd. It told of how a cotton field got soaked in waste from a power plant and the cotton was made into underwear. Mrs. Sneedly bought one pair for Melvin, it made him grow into a giant. As he walked to school the next morning, he caused lots of damage because of his height, the army was no made for him and a tank landed on the gym teacher, resulting in the school calling for Captain Underpants. The hero found 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 (once again) sends him Jail for Dumb Kids.

The next day, after finding out that the comic George and Harold wrote about him does not fit his expectations, Mr. Melvin reveals his time machine, warning them 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 vanquish the Robo-Boogers with Vitamin C, with Captain Underpants using a Squishy to finish the Robo-Boogers off. 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, shortly after the events of the eighth book, the Turbo Toilet 2000 returns from Uranus and disturbs Melvin's experiments. Melvin finds one of Mr. Krupp's toenails, uses it to acquire Captain Underpants's abilities (since the toenail has Mr. Krupp's DNA), 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. He tracks down George and Harold 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. He then warns them of the Toilet's return before disappearing. Melvin can be seen watching the teachers go crazy.

In book 12, Melvin was sitting next to Yesterday George and Harold who had been sprayed to behave Melvin admitted he was starting to like them now. It's unknown if Melvin was sprayed but if he was 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, 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.

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. 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 crushed by toilet paper.

In the animated series[]

He serve as the secondary antagonist (and occasional a anti-hero) 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.

In Episode 13, Endenemys reveals that he is Melvin from the future. He fires Krupp, and expels George and Harold.

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.

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 and 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 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 so that their parents won't sign them up for camp next summer and he can attend Outer Space Camp, which will place them all in danger and kill them all, but 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.

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. After the final fight with the Bigylans, he fled to Earth 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 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.

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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.

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