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Villain Overview

Your worst nightmare. I'm ignorance. I'm fear. I'm hate.
~ Verminous Skumm

Verminous Skumm is one of the recurring antagonists of the Captain Planet and the Planeteers series.

He was voiced by Jeff Goldblum, who also portrayed Seth Brundle in The Fly, Grandmaster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Calvin "Slick" Stanhope in Silverado Long Eared Jack in Robbie the Reindeer, and Dr. Erwin Armstrong in The Boss Baby: Family Business - in season 1, and by Maurice LaMarche for the rest of the series.

Biography[]

He is a real dirty rat. Born and raised in a sewer, this towering "Ver-man" aims to mold the world in his image, and is determined to inherit the Earth. Unlike most other villains, Verminous focuses more on social villainy and 'pollution of the body'. He is quite likely the most evil Captain Planet villain, as he is responsible for killing Linka's cousin by selling him a designer drug which he fatally overdosed upon.

Skumm fancies himself an agent of entropy with a mission to instigate chaos and degeneration in the natural order. He exults in humanity's every ecological mistake and helps to accelerate the environment's decline. His weapons are a loathsome intelligence combined with the cunning of a trapped rat, in addition to apparently quite skilled knowledge of chemistry and pathology. His rat pack inhabits only the most vile, degenerate environments of sewage and toxic waste, which they often use to aid in Skumm's odious plots.

Though standing seven-and-a-half feet tall, Verminous Skumm truly resembles a disease-ridden rat in every way, including the tail and claws. He wears a tattered blue jumpsuit and a red scarf around his head and face. His clothes are always dirty, torn and disheveled, as he spends most of his time underground - in sewers or the like.

Like all the villains in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Skumm represents an ecological threat. In his unique case, he mainly represents not just one but two evils: poor sanitation (With a particular focus on the spread of disease that comes about as a result of it), and social/urban ills such as crime and bigotry. In the two-part Captain Planet episode, Mission to Save Earth, Verminous Skumm is among the five Eco Villains who create Captain Pollution. They did this by creating and using five Anti-Elemental Rings consisting of Deforestation, Toxins, Smog, Super Radiation, and Hate. Skumm's element was Toxins, perhaps used as an evil counterpart for Gi's Water ring. Unfortunately for the Eco Villains, Captain Pollution was destroyed and the Anti-Elemental rings along with him, leading Skumm and the other villains to flee.

One episode revealed that Skumm was (possibly) from an alternate/past civilization that he helped guide into destruction through massive overpopulation. Alternate future versions of him are shown to be even more mutated, sporting an extra smaller head on his shoulders.

Appearance[]

Skumm wears tattered and dirty clothing - a blue jumpsuit that is torn and disheveled, and a red scarf wound around his head and face. He often hides in shadows or covers his face. He favors the underground. 

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