Boris Norris

**Boris Norris** is the main antagonist of the 1997 film *The Dawson Duo Movie*, voiced by Clancy Brown. He is an infamous criminal from New York City who is mixed up with Gregory while the latter, his kids, Emma and Jacob are staying in said city for a while as part of summer vacation, setting the conflict of the movie in motion.

## Appearance

Boris Norris is an adult man who, in terms of physical appearance, bears an uncanny resemblance to Gregory (who in turn resembles his sons, Aaron and Everett), except he has an orange sweater with brown cuffs, collar and hem, dark gray jeans and brown shoes. The most obvious differences between him and Gregory are four crooked strands of hair on his head, a bruise on his right cheek and one tooth missing from his mouth.

## Background

Contained within a police station in New York City, where Aaron, Everett, Gregory, Emma and Jacob happened to travel to as part of summer vacation, Boris managed to break out and evade the guards and police officers so that he can continue carrying out his illegal actions. While running from the authorities, he, by pure coincidence, came upon a gas station that the group was at and hid himself before Gregory or the cops could notice him in sight. As he looked eerily similar to Gregory, the officers, Adams and Diana, assumed Gregory was Boris and arrested him on the spot, allowing the criminal to slip away unnoticed.

When Aaron, Everett, Emma and Jacob exited the convenience store at the gas station and found Gregory was missing, they then tried to find him all over New York, but to no avail. Eventually, Aaron and Everett saw a news broadcast on a television in an electronics shop, mistaking Gregory for Boris and detailing his apprehension a while ago, which shocked them to the core. Suddenly, Boris showed up and was chased down the street by the kids once they noticed him, but he was able to outrun them and escape when they got exhausted.

After an unsuccessful attempt to prove to Adams and Diana that Gregory is not Boris, the kids decided to take matters into their own hands and clear Gregory's name themselves, so they spied on Boris committing some crimes and took pictures of him with a camera that Gregory had packed for the trip. After going back to the gas station, the kids then got some pictures of Gregory from a suitcase in the car's trunk and examined the photos of the two doppelgangers closely. After concluding that Boris looks much more disheveled than Gregory, the kids then prepared to set off to show the evidence to the police, but unfortunately, Boris entered the scene in his car and disembarked to approach them. After noticing the pictures of him, Boris then decided to keep the kids from ratting him out to the police by kidnapping them, driving to his hideout and imprisoning them in the basement before sitting down to relax.

As Aaron angrily rants at the criminal for everything that he's put them and Gregory through, he then proceeded to lose hope and sobbed, so Everett, Emma and Jacob comforted him and assured him that they can still find a way and break the boys' father out of prison, slowly but surely rejuvenating Aaron's determination. Just then, Boris decided to go down to the basement to check on the kids, only to find the room empty. As he pondered where the kids were, Emma emerged from her hiding spot, snuck up behind him holding a cardboard box and knocked him out with it, then proceeded to escape the basement and the hideout with her friends. As Everett complemented Emma's smart move, Aaron then questioned what happened to the pictures of Boris, and Jacob revealed that he had hidden them underneath his baseball cap while Boris was escorting them to his hideout. However, Boris suddenly recovered and yelled at the kids from inside, prompting them to get out of here before he could pursue them.

After returning to New York, the kids, with the help of the pictures, finally managed to convince Officer Adams and Diana that they've arrested the wrong person and reunite with Gregory. But just as they are walking away from the police station, Boris suddenly arrived, enacting surprise from the group. After the kids explain to Gregory that Boris is a criminal who has accidentally been mixed up with him and locked them in his basement to prevent them from showing the evidence to the police, Gregory is less than happy with Boris, who tries to exit the scene by driving away in his car. Unfortunately, the car had just lost all of its fuel, so he instead ran away on foot, with Aaron, Everett, Gregory, Emma and Jacob giving chase.

After a long chase throughout the city, the group managed to corner Boris in the 21st floor of the Flatiron Building. In a desperate attempt to fight back, the criminal brandishes a gun and boasts that he isn't in the least bit afraid to use it. Unfortunately, before he could blast out a single bullet, he toppled backwards out of a window and ended up falling to the streets below. Just as it looks like he's going to be subjected to a Disney villain death, he suddenly lands on a trampoline carried by two men and is sprung onto the police car of Adams and Diana, who arrest him.

While the officers thank the Dawsons, Emma and Jacob for their efforts to stop Boris, he is seen handcuffed as he is escorted into the police car and driven back to prison, all while he states that he hates kids.