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==Gallery==
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==In popular culture==
* In the ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' skit "Laff-a-Munich" segment of the episode "Ban on the Fun", after getting tried of always losing<ref group="Note">Although this is an uncannon parody, the [[Really Rottens]] did mange to win in some episodes of the actual series.</ref>, the [[Really Rottens]] take hostage of the [[Yogi Yahooeys]] and murder them, however later, shortly after he and [[Mumbly]] get a call from [[Captain Caveman]], a bomb goes off killing both of them.


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Revision as of 21:50, 11 March 2021

Dread Baron
Dread Baron.png
Dread Baron in "Africa and San Francisco".
Species Human
Gender Male
Affiliation Mumbly
Really Rottens
Sibling(s) One brother, Dick Dastardly[1]
First appearance LaL: "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan"
Played by John Stephenson
Paul Winchell (1987)
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Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special

The Dread Baron is a member of the Really Rottens in the animated Laff-a-Lympics TV series. He was voiced by John Stephenson.

In Marvel Comics, he is revealed to be the twin brother of Dick Dastardly.

Character description

Biography

Laff-a-Lympics!

Marvel's Laff-a-Lympics

Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose

Development

Dick Dastardly and Muttley were intended to be in the Laff-a-Lympics program, but due to Hanna-Barbera's co-ownership with Heatter-Quigley when creating them for the previous cartoon, Wacky Races, they were forbidden, and were replaced with Dread Baron and Mumbly (who had previously been the lawful protagonist in The Mumbly Cartoon Show). Dread Baron is virtually the same character, aside from a few differences. The transparency is even clearer in the TV film Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose, where again Dick and Muttley have been substituted by the Dread Baron and Mumbly, with Dread Baron being voiced by Paul Winchell and drives a plane like Dick did in the Wacky Races spin-off Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.

When writing for Laff-a-Lympics #13, Mark Evanier retconned them to be brothers, although this has never been used outside of the comic.

Gallery

Main: Dread Baron/Gallery

In popular culture

References

  1. ^ Laff-a-Lympics #13, "No Laff-a-Lympics Game Today!" (1979).
  1. ^ Although this is an uncannon parody, the Really Rottens did mange to win in some episodes of the actual series.