Mike Teavee

### Goals

Prove Willy Wonka that he's wrong over only caring about chocolate through his own twisted beliefs about television.(failed)

### Supposed MEHs or Worst Acts

Berating Willy Wonka for everything he does and continues to break his heart.

### Supposed Crimes

Cheating
Cracking
Fake threats
Assault

### Type of Conflicting Evil

Narcissistic Cheater

**Mike Teavee** is one of the four main antagonists (alongside Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde and Veruca Salt) the book *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* and its 1971 film adaptation.

He is the fourth Golden Ticket winner and the fourth and final child to be eliminated from the factory tour.

He is played by Paris Themmen in the 1971 film adaptation and Jordan Fry in the 2005 remake. Mike Teavee is very obsessed with television (video games in the 2005 film) and also dislikes chocolate.

## His "Villainous" Ranking

### Debated Validations

* He may have likely mellowed out from his addictiveness over TV after his appearance changed, however this is yet to be confirmed.

### His "Villainous" Deeds

* He cheated his way into getting a ticket to enter the Chocolate Factory by cracking the system.
	+ Not to mention, he literally admitted that he hated chocolate and refused to even try *one*, so it is very laughable and petty over why he would try to get into a Chocolate Factory when he hates it.
* In the 1971 film, he tries shooting everybody with his fake gun just to humiliate them.
* In the 1971 film, he was very rude to everybody, telling all of the interviweres to shut up because there's a TV show playing on his TV.
* His parents were very confused on what was going on in his brain due to his addictiveness to TV. The fact that they are among the people he constantly lashes out at shows his lack of regard for them.
* He was very rude to the Oompa Loompas even in the first act he saw them. Granted, Willy Wonka did mention that they were mischievous, but his reaction was too extreme.
* On the Candy Boat, he arrogantly thought Willy Wonka never had a childhood, and when the past came back to Wonka, it broke his heart really hard as a flashback of his father throwing away his candy was shown.
* He spent most of the 2005 film chastisising Wonka for what he does, from the candy that makes people grow into beards and the danger room for being a pointless room where Oompa Loompas only launch fireworks to outright hating him for supposedly only caring about chocolate in his life and telling him candy is a waste of time, which once again broke Wonka's heart as another flashback of his father abandoning him was shown.
* He refused to listen to Willy Wonka's warnings and pathetically shrunk himself.
* In the 2005 film, although the Oompa Loompas were pretty lethal to him during his song and his flattened state thanks to the Taffy Puller looked hilarious, it was 100% well-deserved for all of his bratty behavior and does not make him a scapegoat.
* Overall, he's just a whiny and immature boy (not to mention, a complete and utter sociopath in the 2005 film) who has no sympathy and represents the fact that people completely lose their minds over their television to the point where all of their facts get twisted by their own TV addictions, as pointed out by the Oompa Loompas.

### Why Isn't He Actually Villainous?

* To say he fails the in-story standard to Arthur Slugsworth is an understatement. The story portrays him as just a jerk and neutral character since he didn't do enough to qualify as a villain, with the closest act being traumatizing Willy Wonka.
* He is constantly played for laughs in all of his appearances. In fact, his ranting over the Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory is also not taken seriously at all.
* He was affable to Charlie.
* He seemed to show some concern over Veruca falling into the garbage chute.