Chef Skinner

### Goals

Prevent Linguini from discovering he is Gusteau's son in order to be still the head chef of Gusteau's
Exploit Auguste Gusteau's image to sell frozen food products
Shut down Gusteau's for rat infestation as revenge (succeeded)
Capture Remy in order to use him to create a new line of frozen foods and to make Linguini failed (failed)

### Crimes

Animal cruelty
Attempted murder
Kidnapping

### Type of Villain

Wrathful Businessmen

**Chef Skinner** (or simply known as Skinner) is the main antagonist of Pixar's 8th full-length animated film Ratatouille.

He is the (former) sous chef under the restaurant as well as the (former) head chef, Remy's arch-nemesis, and Linguini and Colette's former boss.

He was voiced by the late Ian Holm.

## Ratatouille

Skinner is first seen hiring Linguini as the plongeur (garbage boy) when he learns that Linguini's mother Renata wants Linguini to get a job. He is then seen again looking for the soup which during that, he believes that Linguini was cooking which later caused to have him and Linguini having an argument which is before a food critic tastes it. When that happened, Skinner briefly fires Linguini just before he could rehire him again just to prove that Linguini did not create the soup.

After Linguini and Remy team up, they successfully recreate the soup which impress Skinner. However, Skinner finds out that Linguini is Gusteau's son which cause him to call his lawyer and is determined to keep Linguini from discovering this fact in order to be still the head chef of the restaurant. He even becomes even more determined when he sees Linguini making contract with Remy on numerous occasions, suspecting that Linguini is scheming in the kitchen. During a special request from customers to have a new course off-menu, Skinner has Linguini make Gusteau's failed recipe "sweet bread a la gusteau" to bring him down but Remy succeeds in fixing the recipe and adjusting the sauce, causing the customers to love the dish and enhancing the restaurant's reputation. After that, Skinner tries to make Linguini to talk about Remy by having him drinking wine but however that didn't work.

The next day, When Skinner notices Remy in his office, he chases him by using his motorcycle just to get the documents. Then they went through the boats which is also when Skinner fails to get the documents. Skinner then loses the restaurant when Linguini realizes he is Gusteau's son.

After that, Skinner tries to close the restaurant by calling the health inspector, but the health inspector said that he will arrive to the restaurant three months. He then spies on Remy and Linguini as well as discovering that Remy is the real cook. In order to get revenge on both of them, he captures Remy and intends on forcing him to create a new line of frozen foods for him while planning to make Linguini failed. Fortunately, Remy escapes and had his family and friends to help Linguini.

When Linguini gave ratatouille to both Skinner and Ego, Skinner believes that Linguini is joking before being surprised that Ego likes the food. He then races to the kitchen trying to find out who cooked the ratatouille which is before realizes that Remy was the one who cooked it. The rats then throw Skinner in the pantry along with the health inspector. It's unknown what happened to Skinner but according to Remy, he and the others were forced to release Skinner and the Health Inspector.

## Personality

Skinner is shown to be very cunning, avaricious, deceitful, and wrathful. He also bent on claiming the restaurant as his own when Auguste Gusteau had no heir as well as shown to does not care about some of the food being bad which shows Skinner only cares about himself.

Skinner is also shown to be sadistic which is when he tries to kill Remy as well as when he believes Linguini cooked the soup, he tried to have him drawn and quartered.

## Trivia

* Skinner is often thought to be the secondary and major antagonist of the film, but this is not true since he is the one who drove the plot, trying to prevent Remy and Linguini from succeeding their goals which takes up the middle of the portion of the movie, getting in Linguini's way more than Ego, appearing way more than Ego, being more of a prominent character, serving as the archenemy of Remy, having bigger plans than anyone as well as Ian Holm's name coming before Peter O'Toole name in the voice cast list and not to mention, Skinner is also featured in the tribute of Pixar Villains which shows that Skinner is the main antagonist of Ratatouille.
* Skinner is the direct antithesis of Remy. Throughout the movie, humans are associated with creating, while rats throughout the entire movie are synonymous with stealing; Remy is a rat that wants to break the boundaries and create, whereas Skinner is a human that leeches off of others' talent and success. During their confrontation near the climax of the film by the car trunk, the contrast between the two characters are shown, and how Skinner is so much of a rat, by the movie's standard, that he was willing to go to extreme lengths to leech off the success of a literal rat to further progress his status and fortune.
* Despite being the head of Gusteau's, Skinner is never seen cooking in the movie, preferring to bark orders to his employees and stay in his office instead.
* Skinner's name is named after the late psychologist B. F. Skinner, who was famous for experimenting with rats.
* Skinner's behavior, diminutive size, and body language are based on the late Louis de Funes.
* Skinner is one of a few main Pixar villains to both win since he did have his goal which is closing down the restaurant succeeded despite his other goal which is getting revenge on Remy and Linguini failed.
* Skinner's line: "Welcome to Hell", could be a reference to Gordon Ramsay's Hell Kitchen, where Ramsey said "Welcome to Hell" a few times.
* Skinner using a footstool to get up to a stove and looking at the critic references to an old emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte who to this day is inaccurately mocked for his supposed short height for his age.
* According to a piece of concept art, Skinner is 3ft tall (although he is seen driving his car).
* Skinner's appearance almost looks similar to Jafar from Aladdin.
* His name is not to be confused or have nothing to do with the character from the Simpsons franchise.
	+ And speaking of that, Ratatouille was released the same year as The Simpsons Movie.

* The scene where Skinner reads the letter finding out that Linguini is Gusteau's son would later become an internet meme.