Professor Marmalade

**Professor Rupert Marmalade IV**, or simply **Professor Marmalade**, is the main antagonist of *The Bad Guys* film. Serving as a mentor to The Bad Guys, his charitable behavior was simply an act in order to harness the energy of the love crater meteorite for his own personal gains.

## Appearance

Professor Marmalade is an anthropomorphic guinea pig with orange fur and a neat hairstyle. He is always wearing a white suit with a green shirt and a bow tie. However, at the end of the movie when he reveals his psychopathic nature, he has unkempt hair and wears yellow clothes that resemble gold.

## Personality

Marmalade is introduced as a good man, a natural leader who always thinks of others before himself. Marmalade was also shown to be willing to give others a chance at redemption and will do anything to help them, even if it annoys him.

However, it turns out to be nothing more than a facade to hide his true nature: that of a selfish, greedy, lying and manipulative psychopath who only cares about himself and a liar full of bad intentions. He used the Bad Guys as his alibi for his getaway and came close to destroying Mr. Wolf's friendship with Mr. Snake and the rest of his friends after manipulating them into blaming Wolf for getting caught falling for his tricks and making them think he doesn’t want to be around them anymore when it’s not true. He also seems that he knew Diane's identity as the Crimson Paw, but likely found out when he captured her and Wolf, finding the diamond she stole during her criminal career. Marmalade is also shown to be traitorous as he is willing to leave Mr. Snake to fall to his death.

## Biography

Marmalade's story is very different in the movie. His early life is currently unknown and unexplained, but it is possible that he had three other siblings who were probably more favored over him. One day, when a meteor ended up falling in the city, Marmalade noticed that it emits an energy strong enough to control a lot of living beings. He came up with a plan to become the biggest bad guy ever, so he started doing a bunch of good deeds in an effort to cement himself as the greatest good guy in the city. After solidifying his image, Marmalade was invited to the Golden Dolphin awards. During the middle of the party, he disguises himself as an elderly woman and manages to trick Mr. Wolf by putting the idea of ​​becoming a nice guy in his head.

After The Bad Guys are unmasked and arrested, Wolf makes a deal with Governor Diane Foxington so they can have a chance to redeem themselves, so the Governor accepts Wolf's proposal and puts him and his friends under Marmalade's guard. After a few days of unsuccessful training, Marmalade finally managed to turn the image of The Bad Guys around by posting a video of Wolf rescuing a cat from a tree. Because of The Bad Guys' increase in popularity, Marmalade invites them to his charity party.

In an out-of-scene moment, Marmalade steals the meteorite on display, causing everyone to blame the Bad Guys for stealing it, resulting in them immediately losing their gained popularity. The Bad Guys are arrested again, and Marmalade reveals to them in the police van that he's the old lady Wolf saved from falling down the stairs earlier, and also reveals that the meteorite harnesses a special energy to pull off his crimes. After Marmalade says that he used The Bad Guys to take the fall for the meteorite's disappearance, thus making Wolf's friends turn against him, making them think he didn't want to be around him anymore and wanted them to get caught. Wolf attempts to attack Marmalade in a fit of rage for his lies, only for Marmalade to open the van doors in front of everyone, making himself look like he was attacked without provocation, tarnishing The Bad Guys' image even more. As The Bad Guys are taken away, Marmalade starts lying during an interview with Tiffany Fluffit, making Foxington suspect that Marmalade set up The Bad Guys, as he talks in a rather condescending tone so that he could get more sympathy points.

Later, after The Bad Guys are taken to prison, Wolf tells his friends that he doesn't want be bad anymore, and how they can all be better. But Snake angrily refuses and gets upset at Wolf, not just because he's going good, but foolishly accuses him of selling them out during both the heist and thinking he doesn't want to be around them (which he didn't). As Wolf angrily yells at Snake for his stubbornness, Snake becomes heartbroken and speechless, but also quickly gets angry and attacks Wolf, starting a fight. Suddenly, their fight is stopped after being rescued by Foxington, who happens to be the retired criminal “The Crimson Paw”. After Foxington brings The Bad Guys back to shore and tells them that she needs their help to stop Marmalade, Wolf was all in to help save the city, but Snake and the gang refuse and selfishly abandon Wolf, feeling betrayed by his redemption. Meanwhile, Marmalade, harnessing the power of the meteorite, hypnotizes all the guinea pigs in the city to make them steal the vans carrying the funds raised from his charities.

Wolf and Foxington sneak into Marmalade's mansion to steal the meteorite back, but Wolf brainlessly gets himself and Foxington caught in his trap. With them hung on the ceiling, Marmalade realizes that Diane is the Crimson Paw (having obtained a diamond she stole during her crime days) and also reveals that Snake (who is secretly redeemed) is now working with him. As the two leave, Marmalade tells his henchman Cuddles to kill them both. Luckily, the remaining Bad Guys save them, and after reconciling, they steal the meteorite, making Marmalade chase after them in a helicopter. Since the meteorite is still active, the gang hacks all the vans carrying the funds to go back to their initial destinations. Marmalade argues with Snake, blaming him for everything when Marmalade wasn't doing any better himself.

The gang attempts to drop the meteorite off at the police station to reveal Marmalade's true intentions and clear their names, but despite Snake's betrayal, the gang decide to go back for him and convince him to come back and be good. Marmalade betrays Snake by tossing him out of the helicopter as he grabs onto the handrail with his teeth, cowardly using him as an advantage to make Wolf give the meteorite back, but Wolf calls his bluff as he threatens to break the chain with the lipstick blowtorch if Snake doesn't get pulled up safely first.

Despite the no win situation and knowing Wolf will never give up, Marmalade does the opposite as he pulls the helicopter up and kicks Snake off to fall to his death to distract the Bad Guys so he can take back the meteorite. Luckily, The Bad Guys save Snake as Wolf pulls them all up to safety with a grappling hook. As the Bad Guys' car explodes in the meteorite's impact crater, the blast of the explosion pushes Marmalade's helmet off and up into the propeller, destroying the helmet and causing him to lose control over all the guinea pigs.

The Bad Guys are still seen as criminals, but they proudly turn themselves in to save Diane's reputation when she tries to tell everyone she's the Crimson Paw to save the Bad Guys. When Marmalade comes down from the helicopter, he feigns innocence by trying to claim that he retrieved the meteorite back from the Bad Guys and that he will bring the meteorite to his lair. As he claps, thinking he got away with his crimes, the meteorite suddenly flashes on and off, making Police Chief Misty Luggins realize it's a lamp, having been planted by a secretly redeemed Snake.

Snake reveals to everyone that when abandoning The Bad Guys after saying that they could never change, he really did go good and decided to help Wolf by going undercover in aiding Marmalade. When Marmalade allowed Snake to use the mind control helmet, Snake secretly switched the real meteorite with a lamp in Marmalade's mansion shaped like it, where, after painting it to look like the real deal, placed it on the device for The Bad Guys to steal. The moment the lamp is stolen, Snake secretly placed the real meteorite back onto the device and set the machine to overload, causing the meteorite to explode and destroy Marmalade's mansion, leaving Marmalade shocked, speechless and completely outsmarted as his crimes have been exposed. As Wolf tauntingly pats him on the head while he and his friends get into the police car giving Marmalade smug smiles, Marmalade gets crushed by the lamp when the Golden Dolphin landed on it, causing the diamond ring he took from Foxington to fall out of his pocket. As Luggins examines it, she realizes the diamond is the Zumpango Diamond that was stolen by the Crimson Paw. As a result, Marmalade is implicated as the Crimson Paw, and despite Marmalade's foolish and desperate efforts to tell everyone Foxington is the real Crimson Paw, his words fall on deaf ears now everyone knows he's a good for nothing liar as he is promptly arrested and placed inside a S.U.C.M. van by Luggins.