Mortimer Handee

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> **I'm SICK of waiting all day for you to play. You don't know what it's like for a puppet without a hand. It's purgatory, it feels like it has no end. I can't go back. I won't go back.**
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> Mortimer to Owen, Hello Puppets: Midnight Show

## CHARACTER DETAILS

### Eye Color:

Green ( Officially )
Brown ( Occasionally )

## GAME DETAILS

### Appears In:

Hello Puppets!
Hello Puppets: Midnight Show

### Voice Actor:

Anthony Ingruber ( Hello Puppets! )D.C. Douglas ( Hello Puppets: Midnight Show )

**Mortimer Handee** was the protagonist character of the hit children's show Mortimer's Handeemen and is the main antagonist of Hello Puppets! and Hello Puppets: Midnight Show.

Mortimer was mentioned as being a kind, loving, father figure of the cast of puppets, by his creator Owen Gubberson, in Personal Log 8 - 10 - 81. This gives us insight on how exactly his character acted within his original boundaries of the show. This is a trait that hardly carried over when he was brought to life, as instead of being a father figure, he turned into a corrupted, power-hungry, puppetmaster over what was designed to be his family.

Out of show, Mortimer was described as being "life-like" and unlike any other puppet to exist. Owen held him in high praise, even baffling other puppet makers that was around at the time. This life-like movements is assumed to be shared with the other puppets, which might have added to why they are so dangerous upon being brought to life.

In Hello Puppets: Midnight Show he is shown to be way more playful at first before slowly devolving into the dark, spiteful, sadistic figure that appears in Hello Puppets! Even with this slow maddening of his personality, he still is shown to love playing games with those he sees as cattle, as long as he wins in the end.

## Appearance

Mortimer is a humanoid wooden ventriloquist dummy made to resemble an elderly gentleman, given his grey hair and mustache. He seems to be a stereotypical "high-class fellow" as he wears a black suit with a blue neckerchief, a black top hat with a red band, and a golden monocle. Given his proficiency in dark magic to give life to the other hand puppets, his clothes could be interpreted as a traditional magician’s.

His hosts seem to have a strict dress code as they always wear a dark blue suit with a black tie, though in Midnight Show he seems to not force the dress code onto the two host he uses throughout the game.

Upon coming to life and becoming corrupted by the spell over the years, Mortimer's appearance became devilish such as the end of his hair sticking up into pointed ends, his teeth being crooked and developed claws on his fingers. He would eventually wear a different outfit than he originally wore, switching from a purple to a red vest and wearing a much bigger top hat. Due to his appearance not being this way in Midnight Show, it's implied the spell corrupted his appearance over time.

## Personality

Mortimer is shown to have a manipulative and controlling personality, knowing how to easily trick others into doing what he wants. Even though he can appear as a proper gentlemen, he can turn instantly into a cruel hearted monster. His charm isn't the only thing that puts him into power, as his control stems into using fear tactics and straight up mental and physical abuse to get his way.

He is easily amused seeing others play his twisted games, as he drops hints to the host in Hello Puppets! on how to escape only to lead them into the area he and Riley were at. He does this as well to Owen Gubberson during Midnight Show, trapping him within what seems like a never ending game of hide and seek knowing Owen never is going to actually leave his limbo.

The two games show his charm as being over the top and fancy appearing with a easy to upset anger. His anger is brutal and extreme, as he will go so far to even give you death threats over something as simple as tea.

Similar to Owen, his ego is high. He always makes it clear he is in control no matter how much someone thinks they are above him. His plans are shown in Hello Puppets! to be to take over the world as well as reviving his show that was taken from him, meanwhile in Midnight Show he seemed more focused on bringing his show back and making Owen love and bow down to him.

## Relationships

#### Owen Gubberson

Mortimer looks up to Owen highly and see’s him as a father due to him being the inventor of the Handeemen. As Riley states within Security Log 12, he does all he can to try and make Owen love him instead of doing what would benefit the puppets the most. This goal doesn’t stop him from losing his temper with Owen sometimes, especially when he wishes to undo the spell.

#### Riley Ruckus

Riley is Mortimer’s golden child, frequently getting upgrades to her level that he would never offer to the others. Even though she is his favorite, he doesn’t mind shouting at and penalizing her for going against his wishes. In Security Log 11 and Security Log 15, he takes things to a new level and uses Rosco against Riley to force her to fear him and emotionally break her into submission. It’s unknown after Security Log 15 if he still views Riley as a golden child after she stands up to him, but in Hello Puppets! he is shown to still be able to control her easily with fear tactics into subordination.

#### Nick Nack

Mortimer shows a great distaste for Nick Nack. Any chance he gets he will torture and scream at Nick, at one pointeven going so far as to slap him and put him through Riley’s punishments as heard in Security Log 07. Even with this treatment, Nick will still rat any of his friends out to Mortimer. At one point, Nick plans on ratting out Daisy for going ‘Danger’, and Mortimer calls him a “belly-crawling inbred” and “Judas.” (Referencing Jesus Christ’s Betrayer in the Bible.) He does mention post-game in Midnight Show he was the second fiddle to Riley, so it’s unspecified if Mortimer views him higher than Daisy, or if Nick puts himself in a higher spot to inflate his ego.

#### Daisy Danger

Daisy is harder to pinpoint her place in the pecking order as we only get interactions between her and Mortimer in a few scenes, but he seems to be neutral toward her. He is shown to be easily annoyed by her in the finale, raising his voice and nearly sending her into danger mode. It’s implied he mistreats her just as much as he does the others, as she states she knows how evil Mortimer truly is post-game in Midnight Show.

#### Scout

Their connection is unknown but he treats her the same as the host in Hello Puppets!, though, Scout seems to dislike Mortimer for his plans and attitude.

## Trivia

* His voice actors are different between the 1st and 2nd game. In Hello Puppets! he is voiced by Anthony Ingruber meanwhile in Hello Puppets: Midnight show he is voiced by D.C. Douglas.

* He takes the most after Owen's inner personality traits. Both portray on the outside a friendly gentlemen persona, but inside they carry traits of being prideful, controlling, and having deteriorating mental health.

* Mortimer is seen in Midnight Show being brought to life by his creator Owen Gubberson. After he becomes knocked out by Mortimer, it is implied he used his unconscious body and brought to life the other puppets with the same black magic spell.

* His design has a drastic change between the first and second game. There is a chance that the spell caused this change, making his fingers transform into claws, or he carved them himself to look more menacing. Just like Riley, his outfit changed between games as well.

* In Hello Puppets! he seems to not have too much care about keeping the host contained within the studio, as he sets up little jack-in-the boxes to assist the main player. He even gives them a chance to escape while being hunted, showing he cares more about playing games than going forward with his plot for world control. Even though he loves playing games he does get rather upset when the host escapes from the void like limbo he had them trapped in. This behavior is shown in Midnight Show where even in postgame he enjoys playing a endless game with his creator Owen.

* He was originally made to be a father figure toward the other puppets, but the spell twisted that behavior into a vicious personality, reminiscent of Owen's own abusive father.