The Maniels Gang

The Maniels Gang was a criminal organisation in London which was led by Rabe Maniels. It served as Rabe's gang during his first attempt to take over the universe. After the gang was defeated by The Shadow Reader, Rabe went on to found the much more powerful Rabe Maniels Crime Syndicate.

## History

In 2008, newly hired police officer Rabe Maniels met Wilfred Mott and Johnny Cornwall. The pair introduced Rabe to the art of lost media, and the trio founded The Maniels Gang. Rabe learned from Mott a prophecy that a man named Rabe Maniels would bring about the end of the world by changing television. They spent the next several years creating lost episodes. Mott served as the lost episode creator while Cornwall served as a hacker who would help get the episodes onto television. Maniels meanwhile who rose to become Assistant Commissioner used his status as a senior police officer to keep the pair's activities from being looked into. Rabe had any noisy people dealt with by his personal hitman Alan Johnson. The gang was no way near as big as Rabe's second gang but was still well known among the creepypasta community.

## My Friends Tigger & Pooh

In 2008, Johnny Cornwall smuggled a lost episode of My Friends Tigger & Pooh into Playhouse Disney by posing as a script writer. The episode drew attention from Commissioner Richard Asquith who placed the entire building under lockdown. He assured the company that experts were being flown in who would help take care of everything. Asquith later dismissed it in a press conference as being no more than an elaborate hoax.

## SpongeBob Needs Help

Ten years later in August 2018, one of the gang's lost episodes was delivered to Matthew Williams. Williams called the police, and Rabe Maniels and a small group of officers were sent to interview Williams. During the interview, Rabe attempted to kill Williams but was prevented by the untimely intervention of his fellow officers. Rabe stole William's phone containing footage of the episode before making his leave. Rabe had the officers who witnessed the attack killed by Alan Johnson. Later in October, Rabe had Rodger Lampton a person who saw his Mickey Mouse Clubhouse lost episode kidnapped, and held captive in the ice caverns. Oliver Charles the transport liaison of Harold Saxon witnessed the kidnapping, and phoned the police for assistance. Johnson killed Oliver and Rabe began wearing his skin as a disguise in order to get close to Saxon.

## Homeless SpongeBob

In December, Rabe had Wilfred Mott deliver a lost episode to Lazarus Marmite and his wife Edith at their DVD rental store Marmite Media. Marmite phoned Saxon up for assistance after viewing the episode. Saxon arrived accompanied by Maniels still disguised as Charles along with Sam and Max. Rabe then revealed his true self to the group as his cohorts Mott, Cornwall, and Johnson entered the store. Marmite's group were able to escape thanks to Edith pouring boiling hot water onto Rabe and his associates. Marmite and the group ran all the way to Marmite's house while Edith was killed by an angry Maniels. Later, Rabe headed to Matthew Williams' house where he broke the door down with an axe. Williams and Marmite along with the others were able to escape Maniels who gave chase after them accompanied by Mott and Cornwall. Later, Commissioner Asquith attempted to remove Maniels from his senior status in the department after being tipped off about Rabe's criminal ways by Williams and his crew. Rabe had Asquith killed by Johnson, and then killed Saxon which caused Williams and his crew to leave the scene.

## Downfall

On Rabe's orders, Wilfred Mott and Johnny Cornwall headed to Television Centre with Mott killing Mel Brooks chairman of the Centre. With Brooks dead, Cornwall hacked into the Centre's database, and changed every single TV show and video on the internet into one of Rabe's shows. The Shadow Reader, Williams, and the others made their way to the Centre where they confronted Mott and Cornwall in Brooks' office. Shadow attempted to warn Mott that Rabe was only using him, and once he had taken over the world he would kill Mott. Rabe appeared on the scene with Alan Johnson, and congratulated the gang on their success, Cornwall was then killed by DaveTheUseless. Mott was unable to mourn his fallen friend as he was ordered by Rabe to follow him to the rooftops. Rabe left Johnson to kill the gang, but told Johnson to leave Williams and Marmite for him. Johnson's aides Maple and Margret the Aunt Bessy Duo. Maple was killed and Margret knitted a huge woollen robot. Sadly the controls were a bit off, and stomped on Johnson killing him and then Margret was killed too. Rabe meanwhile attempted to kill Mott but he was saved by Shadow and his cohorts who had taken control of the woollen robot. They then defeated Rabe by throwing him into the end of time itself.

## Aftermath

Unbeknownst to Shadow and his cohorts, Rabe survived and founded his second criminal organisation with help from Johnny Buggerton. The pair founded The Rabe Maniels Crime Syndicate, and it became far more powerful and dangerous than the previous gang.

## Members

Rabe Maniels (Boss/Founder) deceased

Wilfred Mott (Second In Command) formerly

Johnny Cornwall (Lieutenant) deceased

Alan Johnson (Hitman) deceased

Francis Bakewell (Enforcer)

Desmand Giles (Enforcer)

## Associates

Colonel Bolonel deceased

Officer Daniel

Luca Brasi formerly - deceased

## Trivia

* Colonel Bolonel's exact involvement with the gang is unknown, but he did hold discussions with Rabe Maniels regarding a lost episode he planned on using to impress his crush Emily Oswin. Maniels had little patience for Bolonel, and the two had a nasty falling out which was so bad that Bolonel almost got himself nearly got killed. Whether he knew about Maniels' plots or not is up to debate.
* While Wilfred Mott and Johnny Cornwall were both pretty infamous in the creepypasta community, Maniels had a much lower profile thanks to his facade as a senior police officer.
* Before joining The Lost Episode Resistance, Luca Brasi actually worked with Rabe Maniels and his crew on a couple occasions this was until Shadow helped steer him on the right path.