Laughing Stalk

Laughing Stalk is the Simplicitrix/Stabilized Simplicitrix's DNA sample of a Zeamaystophanes from the planet Delmontatum Ciriculuseges, popularized through 'Mazing Mays And His Maize Maze, one of the attractions offered to tourists of the The Interstellar State Fair.
== Appearance==
Laughing Stalk is a humanoid alien resembling an anthropomorphic corn cob, complete with eyes made from red corn kernels with darker "pupils," a smiling mouth made from popcorn, and three fingers on each hand made from smaller corn cobs. He wears an outfit made from corn husk with the topmost layer peeling open down the middle of his chest, reminsicent of an open overcoat with smaller leaves protruding from the sides of his elbowless arms, the secondmost layer then peeling open around his neck and wrists like a collared vest with a grassy green bowtie, and the bottommost layer covering his stemmed legs like a pair of pants.
Laughing Stalk wears the Simplicitrix symbol on his chest.
==Powers==
*Laughing Stalk has laughter embodiment, inducing and manipulating it through his mere appearance alone so much so that those who even look within his direction will cause them to break out into intense hysterics and spasms that will leave them suspectible towards further incapacitation.
*Laughing Stalk can convert heat into enormous popcorn projectiles through conducting them throughout his flesh until the internal pressure causes each kernel to heat up and expand before popping off.
*Laughing Stalk can fire off his corn cobs like heat-seeking missiles that explode into bubbling hot butter puddles, with his head having the largest explosion radius that can cover half a city block in molten fat.
*Laughing Stalk can regenerate lost cobs faster than the rest of his body.
*Laughing Stalk has enhanced hearing, since he's all ears, after all.
==Weaknesses==
* Laughing Stalk's extremely juvenile sense of humor and emotional insensitivity makes it impossible for him to act his age and behave in serious situations, requiring him to instead hold it in as much as it leaves him on the verge of bursting out into laughter at the smallest sound.
*Laughing Stalk's popcorn projectiles are rather fragile, shattering with sufficient force dealt to them, and flammable, burning and becoming even more brittle if he conducts too much heat into them.
*Laughing Stalk's regeneration takes three times as much as time as usual should he fire off his head like a missile, until then leaving his body stumbling around from the loss of spatial awareness.
==Etymology==
*Laughing Stalk's name is a play on "laughing stock," as in someone subjected to mockery or ridicule, referring to his laughter-based abilities triggered through his appearance, and "stalk," as in the stalk of a corn plant.
*Laughing Stalk's species name is a play on "Zea mays," the scientific name of name, and "Aristophanes," the ancient Greek comic author.
*Laughing Stalk's planet name is a play on "Del Monte," as in Del Monte Foods, the American food production and distribution company, "natum," the Latin word for newborn, referring to this Slimecicle video, and "seges ciriulus," the Latin words for crop circle.
==Trivia == 
*Laughing Stalk's design and its rubberhose aesthetic was inspired by Cagney Carnation from Cuphead.
*Laughing Stalk's corn cob missiles and butter explosions were inspired by Kernel-Pult, and his upgraded variant Cob Cannon from Plants vs. Zombies.