Benton Tarantella

Benton Tarantella was an antagonist featured in The Heart Commandos' Ebenezer De Rosa Arc. He is a serial killer posing as an amateur film director alongside his partner Errol van Volkheim in order to murder his victims. As a zombie, he instead wants to devour their brains after he completed shooting his stunt scenes. He originates from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
==Story==
Born in 1936 in Lower Manhattan, New York City from parents and grandparents migrated from Benevento, Italy, Benjamin "Benton" Tarantella started his career as a cameraman for film director Nolan Chakowski in Hollywood, then promoted as a film producer. He was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and confined to a mental hospital for recover. He later met fellow producer Errol van Volkheim and spent their formative years murdering 12 people in cold blood while posing themselves as film directors in major states, culminating in Benton's biggest plan yet, which according to him "will be a masterpiec of Cinema art".
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Middle of Nowhere's founding in 1970, he secretly planted 180 super powerful mines hidden under the chairs before the celebration truly began, and while Kelly Norville finished delivering her speech, Benton activated all mines and killed 612 innocent victims in the process while filming. After this, he and Errol tried to escape in their van, only to get surrounded by the police force and arrested. They were both charged for 12th degree murder and sentenced to life in prison at the Texas Federal State Department. Athough Errol was eventually released due to good behaviour, Benton did not, and on May 17th, 1972, he commited scuicide by hanging himself on his cell after years of delusional episodes. He was 37 years old and buried. Errol on the other hand died of pneumonia 4 years later and was buried to a former graveyard, which later became the Bagge Farmhouse.
39 years later in 2008, due to the remaining effects of the dark matter meteor still lingering, Benton was unknowingly ressurected from the grave as a living zombie. In order to ressurect his partner Errol and continue his murdering spree, he must wait for the planets to align after 1000 years, which was also Hades' plan to free the Titans from their prison. He found about this through research, and managed to discover where Errol's grave is currently. After reaching the location, he introduces himself to the Bagge family and makes them starring in his new film he plans to shoot called The Return of the Zombies from Beneath the Farm. Thanks to the alignment, Errol van Volkeheim was ressurected as a zombie and allowed them to consume Muriel and finish their shooting, that is until they look at the script (unknowingly changed by Courage) and have to follow on what was written, so they returned to the grave and Muriel was saved from being unknowingly eaten alive.
One month later, Benton somehow returned and escaped, now proposing a TV show to the Bagge family once again called Angry Nasty People, much to Courage's fear of this repitition. After a successful first airing, the character of Mr. Nasty was conceived based on Eustace's nature. This does not last long as Benton promoted Courage as the new star, giving the dog the oppoturnity to defeat the zombie once again by knocking him into the sandpit while Benton was filmed sinking into the bottom of the ground. Mr. Nasty went on to become a successful talk show host later on.
He makes his Heart Commandos debut in Episode 85, where he was once again ressurected from the grave, this time as a mindless minion for one of Ebenezer De Rosa's agents, Billy Bob. He returned underground after the agent's death.
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