Mr. Landlord

Mr. Landlord is the main antagonist from the Smiling Friends episode titled "A Allan Adventure." He is a psychotic and obsessive landlord who tries to befriend Allan Red, one of the series' primary characters and also his favorite tenant. Mr. Landlord is fixated on hanging out with Allan to the extent that he sabotages Allan’s mission for paper clips by orchestrating an entire day full of conflict and nonsense for him to traverse. His ultimate goal is to, specifically hang out, smoke weed, drink diet soda, and play Burnout Revenge on the PlayStation 2 with Allan.
He is voiced by the series' co-creator, Zach Hadel.
== History ==
As Allan goes through his morning routine, Mr. Landlord approaches him at his door and invites him to hang out, suggesting they smoke weed, drink diet soda, and play Burnout: Revenge on the PS2. Allan politely declines, explaining that he has to go to work. Mr. Landlord tells Allan to suit himself before scurrying off.
At work, Allan is tasked with picking up a box of paperclips for the office. However, it turns out that every store in the city is sold out, except for one place that has a single box left. Throughout the day, the paperclips are stolen from Allan multiple times—first by DJ Spit, resulting in a mid-air chase involving the US military, which ends with a helicopter crashing in the forest, then by Bigfoot, and finally by a band of skeleton pirates who are ultimately swallowed by a leviathan. After finally reclaiming the box while washing up on a beach, Allan finds it empty, except for a note directing him back to his apartment complex. There, he confronts Mr. Landlord, who reveals that he orchestrated the entire ordeal, having spent $750,000, eight months of planning, and hired a team of actors and animatronics, all to get Allan to hang out with him.
When Allan threatens to knock Mr. Landlord out and take back the paperclips, Mr. Landlord reveals he's wearing a suicide vest, threatening to blow up the city unless Allan agrees to hang out. Reluctantly, they play Burnout: Revenge, with Mr. Landlord mocking Allan for being bad at the game. Allan discreetly uses one of the paperclips to disable the vest, but with his plan foiled, Mr. Landlord stabs himself with a katana from the wall, committing seppuku upon realizing that he has brought dishonor upon his ancestors.
In a post-credits scene, Mr. Landlord is shown coming back to life at the morgue, now with an even sicklier appearance, already making new plans to force Allan into hanging out again.
== Personality ==
Mr. Landlord is wildly eccentric and unhinged, even by Smiling Friends' standards. His interests are strangely specific—smoking weed, drinking diet soda, and playing Burnout: Revenge on the PS2 with Allan. His obsession with Allan escalates to an unhealthy level, leading him to spend $750,000 and over eight months devising a convoluted and reckless plan just to get Allan to hang out with him. This absurd scheme causes widespread destruction and numerous casualties, involving a helicopter battle, a Bigfoot sighting, and finally, a random fight with CGI skeleton pirates. This scheme shows Mr. Landlord's delusional obsession with Allan, weed, diet soda and Burnout: Revenge, but also his complete callousness towards other people and general insanity. Mr. Landlord is so fixated on his goal that he even threatens to blow up the entire apartment complex, including himself, if Allan refuses.
When Allan eventually agrees, their gaming session quickly sours, with Mr. Landlord acting obnoxious and immature. He constantly trash-talks and repeatedly crashes into Allan's car in-game, accusing him of not trying. However, he is still somewhat affable, as he genuinely seems to enjoy hanging out with Allan and tries to help him improve at the game. After Allan thwarts his plan, Mr. Landlord dramatically attempts seppuku, feeling he has dishonored his ancestors, highlighting that he has some sense of honor, shame, or allegiance to his family's legacy. Despite this, he miraculously survives, coming back to life at the morgue, still determined that Allan will hang out with him again, again showcasing his relentless obsession.
Ironically, Mr. Landlord overlooks the fact that he could have easily arranged to spend time with Allan through his job as a Smiling Friend, making his entire elaborate plot unnecessary. Allan would have visited him either on his own time or by finding the note he would have picked up regardless, not to mention the fact that his project was defeated by a mere paperclip disabling his bomb. Yet, despite his absurdity and the futility of his plan, Mr. Landlord still managed to create a functioning adventure for Allan, which shows that he is at least somewhat intelligent despite his moronic lunacy.
He also has an odd speech pattern, randomly shouting words, and displays bizarre behaviors, such as scurrying around the apartment complex and contorting his face and body in unsettling ways. He frequently talks in a somewhat theatrical way, presenting himself as an arrogant supervillain or mastermind of sorts in spite of his ridiculousness.
== Physical appearance ==
Mr. Landlord is a humanoid critter with pale blue skin, a lanky and emaciated physique, and two prominent eyes perched atop his head. His eyes are mismatched—one is green, and the other is pink—both with slightly reddened sclerae. He has three thin strands of hair sprouting from the back of his head, large gums, and yellow teeth, and he is drawn somewhat crudely.
Typically, he doesn't wear any clothing, but by the end of the episode, he sports a brown trench coat over a suicide bomber's vest.
When he is revived at the morgue, his skin becomes even paler, and small bumps, warts, and scratches appear across his body.
== Quotes ==
== Trivia ==
* Mr. Landlord was initially intended to be the landlord of Pim Pimling, one of the main protagonists of the series, and was meant to make a brief appearance in the Season 1 episode "Shrimp's Odyssey," but he was ultimately cut for time. The scene depicted him interrupting Pim while he was playing Shadow of the Colossus on the PS2, asking to be let inside for a cup of tea. He then revealed that he had the key to Pim's apartment, presumably to let himself in, and that he had a red "L" on his chest, which stood for "Landlord."
** The concept art also suggests that, in his initial characterization, he had been an NYC lawyer during the 1980s.
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