Black Hat

Black Hat is the overarching protagonist villain of the 2017 Cartoon Network Animated TV Series Villainous. He's also the main villain of the Cartoon Network franchise as a whole.
He is an immensely powerful supervillain who is seemingly the embodiment of evil in every fictional media, by selling the very same weapons, traps, and other devices to cartoon villains in their respective universes in hopes of them trying to accomplish with their schemes (although in reality, most of the cartoon villains have actually failed him). He is the Boss of Dr. Flug Slys, Demencia, and 5.0.5. whom he lives with and for the latter's to help along with his work. Black Hat is portrayed as a cruel, sadistic and narcissistic fiend who does his part to make the world a little viler and its heroes a little more dead.
== History ==
=== Villainous ===
Black Hat's past is fully unknown. Although not confirmed, it's implied that he's been evil his entire life.
He first appears in the 1-minute web videos where he would advertise his weapons for villains to buy.
Black Hat makes his first official appearance in the series in the pilot episode "The Dreadful Dawn". In the episode, he is contacted by a villainess named Penumbra to deal with a superhero named Sunblast from Atreno City, who has a long history of foiling her plans to obstruct the sun, due to her skin having a condition burning her every time she goes directly under the sun. After being contacted, Black Hat sends Flug, Demencia, and 5.0.5. to deal with Sunblast.
Later on, after the trio is defeated by Sunblast, they find out Sunblast is heading back to the manor to confront Penumbra. When they attempt to fly back, Black Hat contacts Flug and, noticing the trio heading back, asks if he had completed his task of defeating Sunblast. Flug, out of fear, lies by stating that they have defeated Sunblast and will even present him defeated at the manor, much to Black Hat and Penumbra's delight.
Later, after the trio shrinks Sunblast and defeats him, Black Hat then appears with Penumbra, having witnessed the event. Later in his office, Penumbra thanks him for his service and, as a way of payment, Black Hat has Penumbra sign a soul contract to him and then tells Penumbra to leave.
After doing so, he calls the trio's performance "mediocre", much to Flug's dissatisfaction, and proceeds to angrily berate the trio for bringing a hero to his manor, while at the same time turning into a giant monster.
== Personality, Powers ,Abilities & Appearance ==
Black Hat is known for being an extremely pompous and manipulative demon who takes pleasure in the misery of others (in fact, Any mortal who pronounces his real name will die immediately) as well as constantly abuses his minion Dr. Flug both physically and verbally.
Black Hat is also shown to be a a quite cruel, sadistic and narcissistic to the point that he only does his part to make the world a little viler and its heroes a little more dead. The reason why Black Hat is always mad is because Cartoon Network villains can't defeat Cartoon Network heroes and also because his minions are always incompetent. However, Black Hat never faced a hero, making him rather a hypocrite.
Speaking of pompous, if what he did to Vilgax (who was turned into a blobbish mutation of he and Black Hat, the latter of which immediately ate the Vilgax half from Dr. Flug's custom-made Omnitrix) and his scale of villainous chart labeling the high villain level as "Almost Black Hat" is any indication, then he is so self-important, as he refuses to believe in villains eviler than him, and will not allow anyone shapeshifting into him whatsoever.
== Powers and Abilities ==
From what has been seen of him, Black Hat has proven to be an immensely powerful villain with a myriad of dark powers at his disposal. He can be considered nigh-omnipotent as a result of his great power, although he isn't all-powerful because he can have a secret weakness, so far Black Hat has shown to be capable of the following:
* Shapeshifting: On various occasions, Black Hat changes his appearance in order to fool/torment others, the most notable example of this being when he changes himself into a perfect replica of 5.0.5 in order to trick and terrify Demencia.
* Size Manipulation: Likely as another form of his shapeshifting, Black Hat can change the size of his body to that of a giant, although he has only been shown using this ability once.
* Laser Vision: Black Hat once killed a blue jay by shooting deadly lasers out of his eyes.
* Dark Magic: Black Hat is shown to use dark magic, such as conjuring an ice cream, turning it into a monster, or restoring a broken precious egg.
* Charisma/Manipulation: Black Hat, as a salesman, uses various forms of charisma and manipulation to convince other villains to buy his inventions.
* Portal Creation: Black Hat seems to be able to open portals (possibly to the underworld, as shown by the ghosts coming out of the portal he opened), as shown in the fourth episode "Squeak" when he scratches 5.0.5.'s blackboard.
== Appearance ==
Black Hat appears to be a tall humanoid demon with dark gray skin, black sunken eyes, sharp pale green teeth and his left eye being covered by a monocle. Sometimes, when Black Hat is using one of his powers, said monocle will turn black and red, and start glowing. has been shown wearing only his formal attire, if the show progresses he might be shown wearing something else. He wears a black trench coat reaching down near the ankles, the collar of which is popped.
Under that, he wears a red and gray undershirt, along with long gray pants as well as black and white dress shoes. He wears his iconic black top hat with a red band going around the bottom, and dark gray gloves and a black tie.
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