Herr Lipp

Herr Lipp is a major antagonist in The League of Gentlemen and one of the main protagonists of the 2005 film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.
He is portrayed by Steve Pemberton, one of the four main writers of the series and also played an ensemble of other characters in the show and film.
==Biography==
===The League of Gentlemen===
Herr Lipp appears in the second series of the show, in which he appears as a major antagonist. He comes to Royston Vasey from Germany with a student travel group. He stays with a family in the town, and becomes attracted to the teenage son Justin. He makes subtle suggestive remarks to Justin, which goes unnoticed by the young man. When the end of the trip arrives Lipp plots to drug Justin. An uncomfortable Justin attempts to leave, and Lipp throws hot coffee in his face and knocks him out. Lipp later buries Justin in the garden with the aid of Lipp's wife Lottie, and informs Justin he will be back the following year.
Lipp appears in the Christmas Special as part of a flashback set in 1975. This special takes place in Germany, and depicts Lipp as the proud leader of a church choir. He takes an interest in an orphaned boy named Matthew, who comes into him and Lottie's care. Matthew becomes scared of Lipp and thinks he is a vampire due to Matthew waking up with bite marks and also suffering a nightmare of being attacked by a vampire Lipp. During a service Matthew attempts to expose Lipp as a vampire, only to find out he is incorrect and it is in fact the choir boys and Lottie. Lipp is shocked by the revelation. When the vampire choir boys attack, Lipp sacrifices himself to allow Matthew to escape, and Lipp ends up being devoured.
Despite his weird nature, the Christmas Special marks the first time Lipp is portrayed in a more heroic and noble light.
===The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse===
Lipp appears as one of the three main protagonists of the feature film, which is set in it's own continuity from the television series. He goes to the real world with Geoff Tipps and Hilary Briss as part of a mission to track down their creatures and avert the apocalypse tearing apart Royston Vasey. They end up kidnapping Steve Pemberton (who portrays Lipp in the series), forcing Lipp to pose as Pemberton whilst Geoff and Hilary try and get Steve to write a new Royston Vasey story. Lipp grows close to Pemberton's family, who Pemberton had neglected in the past and rarely spends much time with.
Lipp is captured by the other two writers Reece Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss, who take him to a chapel to confront Hilary and Geoff who have lured them there. They are all transported back to the fictional reality of Royston Vasey in order to show the three writers what their abandonment of the show has done to the town. When a new creation of theirs Dr Pea infiltrates Royston Vasey and begins to carry out trying to destroy the town for good, Briss tasks Lipp with guarding the gateway back to the real world.
Lipp comes to the conclusion him and the other fictional creations of the town will never find free will and be free. When Gatiss ends up being the last survivor out of the writers due to Pemberton and Shearsmith's deaths in the chaos, Lipp plots to kill him so it would end their reality for good. After Dr Pea is defeated and Briss is killed, Geoff talks Lipp out of killing Gatiss. Lipp has a change of heart and gives up his gun to Geoff, only for Geoff to recklessly fire the trigger and shoot Gatiss dead.
Despite the deaths of the writers, the apocalypse is averted and the characters are finally free from the constraints of the show and able to live their own lives. Lipp takes in two orphaned children who lost their parents to the apocalypse.
===The League of Gentlemen (2017 specials)===
Lipp makes a cameo in the revival special of The League of Gentlemen, which acts as a direct continuation to the main series but ignores the film. He is shown to have returned to Royston Vasey after an unspecified amount of time, and reveals he is back to "dig up some old friends", a callback to what he did to Justin back in the original show. During the specials a file of missing persons is seen which shows Justin has still not been found, leaving his fate unknown.
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