Katz

Feed more unsuspecting humans to his vicious spider pets at his Katz Motel daily (almost succeeded).
Lure more unsuspecting victims to his Klub Katz island spa (failed).
Lure Muriel and Eustace and make them fight (unknowingly succeeded).
Win the first prize in the Nowhere Candy Contest (formerly, failed).
Revenge against Muriel for defeating him at said contest (failed).
Explode the submarine so that he can sell his own submarines (exploded, but failed to sell).
Kill the people in the submarine (failed).

### Moral Event Horizon

Luring people to his motel to be eaten by his giant pet spiders.
Transforming people into machines and then forcing them to fight in an arena for his amusement.
Attempting to bomb a rival submarine with the intent of killing everyone inside.

### Crimes

Serial murder
Torture
Kidnapping
Unlawful imprisonment
Mutilation
Terrorism
Stalking
Attempted embezzlement
Malefic
Impersonation
Theft
Attempted arson
Breaking and entering
Abuse
Corruption
Defamation
Vandalism
Sabotage
Animal cruelty
Abuse of power
Reckless endangerment
Hate crimes
Conspiracy
Voyeurism
Scamming
Brainwashing

### Type of Villain

Psychopathic Mastermind

**Katz** is the main antagonist of the Cartoon Network series *Courage the Cowardly Dog* and one of the two main antagonists of the 2021 crossover direct-to-video film *Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog* (alongside Le Quack).

He is a red anthropomorphic cat who is Courage's arch-nemesis. In most of his appearances, Katz always appears owning different kinds of businesses, but they are all intended to torture and kill people, targeting anyone he can deceive like the Bagges.

He was voiced by Paul Schoeffler.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* In "A Night At Katz Motel", he is shown running a motel where his guests enter but never exit as he has them fed to his giant, mutated spiders. He attempts to do the same to Muriel and Eustace once they check in to the motel.
* In "Klub Katz", he had people who joined his club turned into machines against their wills. He has them spar in an arena for his own amusement resulting in them killing each other and taking sadistic delight in doing so. It's even implied that he's forced family members to kill each other with his line "I love a good family brawl". He once again tries to do the same to Eustace and Muriel.
* In "Katz Kandy", he attempts to murder Muriel, because she refuses to give him the recipe for her biscuits, as he always loses to her at cooking competitions.
* In "Katz Under the Sea", he runs another business where his guests are on a submarine. However, Katz attempts to bomb the ship with everyone on board to hurt another business. While attempting to bomb the submarine, Katz tried to save himself and leave everyone else to their demise. Despite being eaten by a shark, he managed to bomb the ship.
* In "Ball of Revenge", he is one of Courage's past foes who joins Eustace to get rid of Courage once and for all. However, he only teamed up with him for pragmatic reasons.
* Unlike most villains in *Courage the Cowardly Dog*, Katz is not portrayed with any redeeming qualities, mitigating factors, or excuses for his actions. Most of the time, his actions are done solely for his own, sadistic and twisted entertainment, at the expense of the overall suffering of others, as seen in "Klub Katz". Other times, it is also based on egoism, as seen in "Katz Kandy".
* Katz expresses sadism while encountering Courage. He prefers to prolong the dog’s pain by setting up games knowing that Muriel and others are in danger. In "A Night At Katz Motel", Katz expressed intense glee as he was about to murder Courage with a giant spider.
* While he has some comedic moments, he is still taken seriously as a threat, and therefore these do not detract from his heinousness. In fact, in some cases, they just show how sadistic and vile he is, and his overall humor is incredibly dark and sinister.
* While he did refers to his spiders as his "loves", he didn't show any explicit care for them nor did he try to save them from danger. Instead he treats them as nothing more than mere tools for his goals.
* While one might say his "little sports" are him being "honorable" towards his victims (saying that if they win he'll let them live), this isn't the case as it's known that he knows he will always beat his victims and he only wants to play these types of games to torture his victims, making their fates all the more slow and painful.