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People, people, you worry too much! The body is in perfect shape!
~ Mayor Phlegmming dishonestly assuring the reporters that the body is in perfect shape.
Mayor Phlegmming: Son, do me a favor and read what it says on your arm.
Drix:
(reading the label on his right arm) For the temporary relief of symptoms associated with-
Mayor Phlegmming: Exactly! Temporary. You're nothing but a wannabe, a placebo, a generic brand, marked down, over-the-counter, useless Tic-Tac!
(Drix gasps in shock)
Mayor Phlegmming: NOW, GET OUT OF MY BODY!
~ Mayor Phlegmming telling Drix that he outlived his purpose and telling him to leave Frank's body.
The trip is off? Noooooooooo!
~ Mayor Phlegmming realizing that his plan to remain mayor has been ruined because of his own selfishness and Thrax.
I wonder what this does?
~ Mayor Phlegmming's last words before pressing the "Do not touch" button and getting ejected out of Frank's body via a fart.

Charles Phlegmming, better known as Mayor Phlegmming, is the secondary antagonist of the 2001 Warner Bros. hybrid film Osmosis Jones.

He is a micro-organism living inside Frank DeTorre, serving as the corrupt mayor of the City of Frank, causing Frank to lead an unhealthy lifestyle. While not directly villainous, his negligence eventually leads Frank to contract Thrax, setting into motion the film's plot.

He was voiced by William Shatner; who also played James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, Kazar in The Wild, General Shanker in Escape From Planet Earth and Two-Face in Batman vs. Two-Face.

Biography[]

Mayor Phlegmming is first shown in the film, as he is being followed through the cerebellum hall by news reporters repeatedly asking him questions on the various problems in Frank DeTorre's body. He brushes off their concerns and dishonestly assures them that the body is in perfect shape. When he reaches his office, his secretary, Leah Estrogen shows him his political opponent Tom Colonic's new campaign ad, which he views with extreme annoyance. This makes him decide to double down on Frank's consumption of junk food, despite Leah's concerns. He also illegally controls Frank's thoughts and has him decide to take a cold pill against Leah's wishes.

The next day, Phlegmming appears on TV and gives a speech about a vacation to the Annual Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York. A minute later, Osmosis Jones and Drixenol Koldreliff comes to Phlegmming's office after Jones and Drix narrowly stop a runny nose. Jones tells the mayor his suspicions that the malevolent virus called Thrax may be more than just a cold and Leah suggests that they put the city on high alert. Phlegmming, however, chooses to ignore Jones' warning, a decision that would haunt him later, though he does threaten to throw Jones out of the city and put him in Frank's next nosebleed if he speaks about a virus.

Later, after Jones and Drix destroy a nightclub inside a zit on Frank's forehead while uncovering Thrax's plan to kill Frank, Phlegmming is furious and decides to close down the investigation and fire Jones. He then orders Drix to leave Frank's body through the bladder. Fortunately, although Jones relapses for a while, he didn't truly give up and he, along with Drix disobeys Phlegmming's orders and tries to stop Thrax.

Thrax infiltrates the brain of Frank, and steals Frank's DNA chromosome. This causes Frank's temperature to rise to hazardous levels, which gives an intense fever to DeTorre, almost causing him to die. Meanwhile, after Leah tells Phlegmming off for not caring enough about Frank's body, he, Phlegmming could do nothing but watch as the City of Frank burned to the ground.

Jones chases Thrax onto Shane's false eyelash. There, the two have a confrontation, Jones winning in the end when Thrax falls off the eyelash into a bottle of rubbing alcohol, which dissolves him to death. Jones returns to Frank's brain and restores the City of Frank by putting the DNA chromosome back where it belongs. Thus, Jones is declared a hero for saving Frank with Jones getting his old job back and Drix being allowed to stay in Frank's body.

After the massive disaster, Phlegmming faces a massive scandal. In the mayor re-election, his rival wins in a landslide and Phlegmming is impeached, removed from office and demoted to an Intestinal Cleaner. While working at his new job, Phlegmming presses a button that was labeled with, "Do Not Touch". This causes him to be blown out of Frank's body via a fart as karma for his negligence while Frank said to Shane "Was that you? while Shane said "Dad", Frank replied "What the heck, Out with the Old, in with the New".

Personality[]

While not intentionally a villain, Phlegmming is an arrogant, careless and cruel control freak whose only concern is to stabilize his position as mayor. Though he claims he wants Frank to be healthy, Phlegmming does little to no effort to make changes to Frank's health and hygiene or see how his own actions were affecting Frank and his body. Everything else that he does is only for his selfish interests, not for Frank's or his citizens. The only time he is shown feeling regret and remorse for his actions was when his mayoralty was at stake as Frank's temperature neared a fatal 108 degrees.

Appearance[]

Phlegmming is extremely short and stubby in comparison to most of the other main cast, with a slightly faded bluish purple color. Phlegmming is constantly seen wearing a business suit and with his hair puffing forward, except in two appearances: at the very end of the movie, when he's wearing that janitorial suit, and in the partially lost point and click flash game Osmosis Jones Mystery of the Rash Outbreak when he can be seen wearing a yellowish gameshow host suit with red spots

Trivia[]

  • Some fans claim Mayor Phlegmming to be the true antagonist of the film, as it was his fault Frank contracted Thrax. However, Thrax is still easily the main villain, as he is more malevolent and had bigger plans.
  • Had Mayor Phlegmming stopped being the Mayor of Frank (or he had been a better mayor) by the beginning, Frank might have had less of a chance of contracting Thrax.
  • Despite his questionable way of keeping Frank "healthy", Mayor Phlegmming does seem to show concern for Frank getting ill, although this was likely due to the threat it posed to his position.
  • Symbolically, Mayor Phlegmming might represent Frank's depression, which led him to overeat and refuse to exercise for several years in an attempt to cope with the death of his wife. After surviving his near-death at the hands of Thrax, Phlegmming's impeachment and demotion could mirror Frank moving on from his wife's death and letting go of his depression, while Phlegmming's rival Tom Colonic's election could mirror Frank becoming grateful for the life he has and deciding to live it to its fullest, setting him on to a better life path. (Although this is questionable considering that during the events of Ozzy and Drix which takes place after the film in the timeline, Frank is still seen just as slobby or arguably more slobby, really meaning nothing changed.)
  • On the back of the novel adaptation of the movie, the cast page of the same book, and the front of the graphic novel, his image is his sprite from Mystery of the Rash Outbreak, while the other character's arts are all official promo art (despite him having an official render, being the one seen on his vote posters)
  • Mayor Phlegmming is the first animated character to be voiced by William Shatner.
  • In the partially lost flash game Osmosis Jones Mystery of the Rash Outbreak, the player must head to Phlegmming's office and play his gameshow So... you think you're smart? Where he asks the player questions about the human body and gives 20 seconds to answer. He also seems to be voiced by a different VA, since his voice sounds different than in the film (nobody knows for sure though)
  • There has been talk about a scene that was cut from the film where in between where Frank returns to normal, and when we see Phlegmming working in the bowels as an intestinal cleaner, he would have admit to his faults. There has been discussion about why it was cut, but nobody knows for sure.
  • In Mystery of the Rash Outbreak, the morph permit Phlegmming gives you has a bunch of nonsense on it, but the most notable part of it is how it says the r slur twice, which that may imply he probably has called someone that before (I'm not even making this up, you can see it on the only footage of the game's existence) Oddly enough, this seems to be very in character for him, considering he was seen kicking a kid in a wheelchair after a photo (he's still babygirl though).
  • Shatner based Phlegmming’s voice on the controversial U.S. president, Richard Nixon.

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