The Pusher

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## Magnificent Baddie

* Pusher
* Hooded
* Real Identity

### Full Name

Larry Hardcore (possibly a Nome de Plume)

### Alias

The Pusher
Scary-Lookin' Hooded Fella
Magic Man

### Allies

The Raisin Council
Clone High students (pawns)

### Powers/Skills

Musical skills
Cunning
Reverse psychology
Charisma
Disguise
Drug dealing
Placebo effect
Power enhancement with each sold raisin
Reality-warping (both ambiguous)

### Goals

Gets kids addicted to raisins so they sell better (temporarily suceeded)

### Crimes

Drug dealing
Conspiracy

### Type of MB

Manipulative Drug Dealer

I push raisins on kids and kids think it's cool,
'Cuz they're told not to do it by their parents and school.

**Larry Hardcore**, also known by his Alter-Ego **The Pusher** is the main antagonist of the episode "Raisin The Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts" from the adult comedy animated series *Clone High*.

A seemingly Anti-Drug rockstar, Larry plans to boost raisin sales and be accepted into the California Raisins by manipulating the teenagers of Clone High into getting addicted to the fruit as if it were a drug.

He was voiced by legendary actor and musician Jack Black.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* Thanks to an amazing performance from the legendary Jack Black, he is charismatic and entertaining in all three of his forms: the cool rockstar Larry Hardcore, th ominously inviting Hooded Figure and the hammy, extravagant Pusher.
* As Larry Hardcore, he puts on the image of a radical musician and goes around spreading "Anti-drug" messages that are intentionally counter-productive and will make kids enticed by drugs, as he tells a story on how smoking Marijuana helped him make a hit song and become incredibly wealthy and famous. In the end of his speech, he subtly puts the idea of smoking raisins into the students' heads. He is implied to have successfully done this in many high schools before Clone High.
* In the chance the story wasn't completely fabricated, he gave some of his money to help his mother and some other to charities.
* As a hooded figure, he smooth-talks and sells some raisins to JFK's clone, knowing that his great popularity as a jock would make all other students follow suit in smoking raisins.
* Though reverse-psychology, making use of peer pressure and placebo effect, he gets all the students barring Joan D'Arc addictd to raisins.
* Knowing that teenagers are rebellious by nature, he takes advantage of the clone's teachers and parents prohibiting raisins to make them even more appealing to the students.
* His powers seem to grow more and more the more raisins are sold (although this, alongside his seeming reality-warping skills may just be part of the clone's psychadelic trip).
* Tries to personally get Joan, the last teen who hasn't given in to raisins, to get addictd as well.
* He sings a very catchy and evily hammy villain song as he finally introduces himself as the sharp-dressed Pusher.
* Upon being outwitted and defeated by Joan, who gets the parents to like raisins, making them no longer rebelliously enticing to the teens, an unmasked Larry simply accepts defeat and comes clean about all of his intentions.
* He proves to be somewhat of a Necessary Evil, as, once they stop smoking raisins, which only worked via placebo effect, the students decide to switch to real hardcore drugs.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* Sold raisins to the underage students of Clone High as if they were drugs. Although they had effect only through placebo, it still resulted in the kids acting irrationally as if they were on real drugs, with JFK and Abe Lincoln even getting injured because of it.
* As it made raisins more rebellious and enticing, he took advantage of the parents' ban on raisins, which almost resulted in the maniacal Principal Scudworth almost becoming as powerful as a dictator.

## Trivia

* The Pusher is the only Magnificent Baddie in *Clone High*.
* The Pusher is also one of only two MBs to come from a Phil Lord & Chris Miller work, alongside Rex Dangervest and *Spider-Verse'*s Prowler.