Frugal Lucre

**Francis Lurman**, better known as the small-time villain **Frugal Lucre**, is an ex-Smarty Mart
 employee who relies chiefly on his expert computer skills to make
trouble. However, because he is both extremely budget conscious and
obviously ill-equipped for a career in evil, he tends to be more of a
small annoyance to Team Possible than anything else.

## Physicality

### Appearance

Frugal Lucre is a young brunet man. His exact age remains unknown.

## Personality

Of
 Team Possible's enemies, Frugal Lucre is an odd mix of excessive
megalomaniac and small scale, but he is still surprisingly competent.
Virtually everyone around him finds him extremely obnoxious with the
sole exception of his mother. This is especially true of any villain
that has been imprisoned alongside him. Frugal Lucre's main quirk lies
in his being patient enough to get more out of less, though this
backfires with regularity. He sees himself as a super-villain who does
the same with less, though he is often sneered at by villainous
colleagues and heroes alike, and almost no one takes him seriously.

## Abilities

Frugal
 Lucre's plots are typically centered around hacking or crashing
computer systems, his area of expertise. In that field alone, his
computer skills appeared to be the near-equal of Wade's,
 and their first encounter resulted in one of the few times anyone was
ever able to crash Wade's system. Frugal Lucre also took advantage of
his familiarity with Smarty Mart, his former job, and has twice tried to
 use their computer systems against them. He has no actual hand-to-hand
skills and tends to rely on taking advantage of his surroundings,
another reason he prefers to launch plots from Smarty Mart, where he has
 their vast stock selection at his disposal.

## Biography

**Francis Lurman** is a geeky Smarty Mart employee[1] who
 threatened to infect the Internet with a virus scanned via the barcode
of a can of expired Vienna sausages, unless everyone in the world agreed
 to pay him a dollar each, thus earning him over six billion dollars. He
 used a fake beard and a pseudo-European accent to disguise himself for
his worldwide broadcasts and kept a wading pool of snapping turtles in
lieu of a moat filled with piranha. Unlike other villains, Lucre had no
need for henchmen, or a lair other than his room in the basement of his
mother's house.

After his capture, Lucre spent time as Drakken's cellmate[2][3]. Once Drakken escaped[4] he then shared a cell with Motor Ed.
 He is incessantly chatty, which annoyed Drakken to no end. However,
ironically, he got a taste of his own medicine, as Ed was just as
annoying to him as he was to Drakken. He was eventually released[5], but was arrested once again for his part in helping create havoc at Smarty Mart.

## Relationships

### Kim Possible

Frugal Lucre's rivalry with Kim is hardly a blip on the radar in comparison to the rivalry of Shego or Bonnie.
 For her, initially Frugal Lucre was a nuisance of a villain and hardly
considered a proper threat. However her opinion of him changed while
putting an end to his plot. Although she maintained he was not a
supervillain but rather a "bargain bad guy", she had to admit he did
provide big-time villainy at bargain-prices. Still, Kim's main issue
with him was his schemes disrupted her usual activities by shutting down
 economic electronics such as cash registers at Club Banana.

### Family

Frugal
Lucre's only known family was his mother, Mrs. Lurman, with whom he
lived in his room in her basement. While she did seem to be a caring,
well-mannered woman, after his arrest she did not pay his bail so he
served the entirety of his prison sentence. Also of note: he made no
attempt to contact her once released.

### Allies

Frugal Lucre was not known to have any actual friends as he had people who had little choice but to put up with him for a time.

#### Dr. Drakken

As
 with nearly everyone else who had ever met Lucre, Dr. Drakken found him
 to be extremely annoying. More so than usual, in fact, as Drakken had
been Lucre's unwilling cellmate for much of his prison sentence during
Kim's Senior year. Ironically enough, Lucre viewed Drakken as a wildly
successful villain, something that Drakken had always desired from his
victims and peers. The moment Lucre was released from prison, he tracked
 down Drakken and asked to be his evil apprentice. Inspired by Lucre's
respectful awe of him, Drakken agreed. Though he remained regularly
annoyed by Lucre and tended to treat him largely like an unwanted
henchman, Drakken had brief moments where he was openly fond of Lucre.
Naturally, this ended the moment they were caught, and two returned to
bickering with each other. Despite this, Lucre appeared to remain a huge
 fan of Drakken's.

#### Shego

Shego was
completely unimpressed by Frugal Lucre's failed attempt to destroy the
internet. In fact, her only interest in him was that he was a major
headache to Drakken in particular. Upon learning that Lucre was at their
 doorstep, not only did Shego let Lucre in, she gave him tips on how
best to annoy Drakken, then sat back to watch and enjoy. Much to her
surprise, though, Drakken and Lucre bonded and managed a halfway
competent scheme that she got dragged along for.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* beef bouillon-loaded water gun
* snapping turtles
* expired can of Vienna sausages with computer virus trigger
* jetpack
* laser pin

## Quotes

### "Low Budget"

* **Kim**: Oh, please! Face it, Lucre. You're not a real villain. You're a... bargain bad guy.
* **Frugal**: Just 'cause I'm budget conscious, doesn't mean I'm

not as evil as the other villains. Sure! They have henchmen and their
fancy lairs, but I deliver the exact same evil at a fraction of the
cost.

## Trivia

* His criminal name can essentially be read as "Cheap Profit".
* In the same jail cell in season four, he was annoying to Drakken,

but was later annoyed in same exact way by Drakken's cousin, Motor Ed.

* As well as Motor Ed and Duff Killigan,

 Lucre has only ever had one episode to himself. The rest of his other
appearances were in episodes where he starred alongside other villains.

* He is also one of the few villains not to have henchmen.

## Behind the Scenes

### Voice Actor/Actress

He
 is voiced by Richard Kind who is famous for playing other animated
characters from other animated flims and TV shows, and best known for
playing Paul Lassiter in the TV sitcom *Spin City*.