Stewart Stardust (known as Uncle Stewart by his family), is the main Protagonist of the Danish Christmas TV series Christmas on Vesterbro, and a major character in the Danish animated movies Terkel in Trouble and Checkered Ninja, as well as the latter's sequel Checkered Ninja 2. He is the alcoholic uncle of Terkel and Alex.
He was voiced and portrayed Anders Matthesen in the Danish version of all the media Stewart is in. In the English versions of Terkel in Trouble, he was voiced by comedian Johnny Vegas in the UK dub and by Chad Ridgely in the US dub. In the English version of Checkered Ninja and its sequel, he was voiced by Michael Glenn Murphy.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Nothing is really known about his early life, other than he at some point had an affair, resulting in the birth of his son Danny.
Christmas on Vesterbro[]
When child services come to see if Stewart treats his teenage son Danny well, he tries to avoid him being taken away. He also hires an Arabian immigrant to repair his hotdog stand. However, when the immigrant turns out to be a terrorist, Stewart's house is exploded, and he moves away.
Terkel in Trouble[]
After Terkel is lured by two bullies to steal some beer from Stewart, the latter brutally beats them up. He also appears later on, as Terkel tries to get help from him, but fails. He is also revealed to be a member of a child support phone. He would also later appear when Justin was trying to kill Terkel, but he doesn't believe him and goes to buy beer.
Checkered Ninja[]
The checkered ninja plush, made by the Thai child Quang, who got murdered by the wealthy and unsympathetic Danish man Philip Eppermint, now haunted by the spirit of Taiko Nakamura ended on Stewart's cargo ship. Stewart gave it to Alex. Later after Alex and the checkered ninja failed to kill Philip Epperment, they went to Stewart's house and asked him questions about drugs, to get info for their mission to stop Mr. Eppermint, before he left Denmark.
Checkered Ninja 2[]
He appears when Alex was about to get interrogated by Philip Eppermint's henchman named Jimmy and saves him by beating up Jimmy and then meeting with his family. Alex's step-father John tried to leave to an island so they could get away from Stewart, but he finds out about this and buys tickets to the island for all of them. Stewart then spends a few days in the island with his family after this.
Trivia[]
- Stewart mentions that he bought drugs from Scooter Scotty multiple times in Checkered Ninja.