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| “ | NYYYEEEEESSSS! | „ |
| ~ Francis' catchphrase. |
| “ | That's what happens to anyone that opposes the great Francis!! | „ |
| ~ Francis gloating after murdering Desti. |
| “ | I didn't mean no harm! | „ |
| ~ Francis's last words while Saiko leaves him to be tortured to death in a Zucc machine. |
Francis is the secondary antagonist of the Modern Era of the Australian adult-animated comedy web series SMG4 and the posthumous overarching antagonist of its spin-off, Sunset Paradise.
He serves as the main antagonist of Season 9 and The Anime Arc, the posthumous overarching antagonist of Seasons 10 and 11, the 2020 film Meggy's Destiny: An SMG4 Movie and the Sunset Paradise Prelude, and a posthumous antagonist for the rest of the series.
While the same in appearance, this version of Francis is completely different than his original counterpart. He originally started out as the leader of the Anime Cartel after anime was banned by Princess Peach, but later on, he turns into an ruthless, heartless and psychopathic madman, kidnapping countless inklings to power Inkweaver to 100% power, so he could fill Anime Island with waifus. He is Meggy Spletzer and Axol’s arch-nemesis.
Though he has many voice clips from various sources, his voice is primarily provided by Filthy Frank.
History[]
His first appearance was a brief cameo in "SMG4: AREA 64" at Bowser's birthday party.
In SMG4: Doki Doki Mario Club, he, along with Fishy Boopkins and Lemmy, protested that his waifu be made real. However, he and Lemmy were both shot by a giant minigun, while Fishy Boopkins escaped.
His first major appearance was in SMG4: Mario's Illegal Operation where he formed the anime cartel to smuggle and sells now illegal anime and after Mario loses a big supply of anime, he gets SMG4, Fishy Boopkins and Bob to take Saiko to Japan since she is no longer allowed to be in the Mushroom Kingdom, but he makes Mario stay to recover the lost profits.
In "SMG4: Mario's Lemonade Stand", he and the rest of the Anime Cartel arrived at the street where Mario sells lemonade across the Moo Milk Factory and the two get into a gunfight. After Meggy arrives to harshly lecture them for their behavior, he and Jeeves eventually reconcile.
In "SMG4: Mario and the Experiment", it is revealed that Francis is the kidnapper of the Inklings, which was originally assumed to be Axol, and is using the Ink Weaver for his own purposes. He plans to use the Inklings ink to power up the Ink Weaver to 100% so he can create his own waifu island.
In SMG4: World War Mario, where he is seen sadistically torturing Meggy to power the ink weaver, even more, but then when Mario and his friends arrive, he draws up False Sephiroth and reveals to Mario and his friends (who didn't know at this point) that he is the real mastermind, after a battle, he is "defeated" by Mario and SMG4's teamwork, and the Ink Zuccer 2000 stops draining Meggy's ink. However, he uses his creations to kill Desti via Sephiroth impaling her on his katana, much to everyone's horror of what he just committed while laughing about it.
In SMG4: Final Hours, after he had just killed Desti, he shows absolutely no remorse for it and then he summons 100 more Sephiroth's, and Mario and Co have their final battle against Francis and his Sephiroth's wanting revenge for Desti's death. He had almost won the battle when Chris Gordman, Swagmaster69696969696 and Bob break in with a tank and destroy all of his clones. He then gets beaten brutally after Axol's Ink Weaver ran out of ink after he tries to run away, as he crashes into a container full of ink, powering Axol's Ink Weaver up to 100%, causing him to create the "Most Powerful Character In Anime", Super Sayin God Super Sayin Goku. Super Sayin' God Super Sayin' Goku is easily able to defeat everyone else, but he misses Axol, so he is able to regain his Ink Weaver and powers it up with the rest of the ink to create Shaggy Rogers, to take care of the battle. After a long battle, Shaggy claimed victory over Goku while Saiko grabs Francis by the throat. Francis begs Saiko to not kill him, but she doesn't want to give him mercy for killing Desti, so she shoves him in a container causing him to suffer in his final hours. As Goku begins to self-destruct, Shaggy saves Mario & Co. Along with the Inklings that's been captured. Just about when Shaggy was gonna save Meggy, Anime Island then explodes, everyone thought he and Meggy never made it until a shadow appears, which then revealed Meggy's major transformation into a human. Then a memorial was held for Desti (who was stabbed to death). A mourning Meggy vows to win Splatfest for Desti and herself as well. Anime Island was no more and with Francis destroyed, peace has been restored and the mad greedy nerdy chameleon has been defeated once and for all.
Personality[]
Francis is shown to be very egotistical and obsessive with two things, anime, and waifus. He is also shown to not tolerate failure when he makes Mario set up a lemonade stand and when he loses a bunch of anime.
Later on, he is revealed as a manipulative, cruel and psychopathic sadist who will not hesitate to do anything to complete his plans to create an island of waifus, even if it means kidnapping and torturing hundreds of inklings.
He is also shown to lack any empathy at all when he did not hesitate to kidnap hundreds of inklings to drain all of their ink and possibly kill them, just to power up the ink weaver. He also didn't care if Meggy died from The Ink Zuccer 2000 just brushing it off, and when he later killed Desti without hesitation or remorse, he was laughing about it and asking if anyone really cared about her.
Francis is also shown to be an extreme coward when left defenseless because he solely relied on his cartel goons and later his anime creations to do all the fighting for him. In the end, once he is defeated, he immediately tries to run away, but when Saiko catches up to him, he pathetically begs Saiko to not kill him, saying that it was just one octoling which once again shows his lack of empathy, but it does not work.
Appearances[]
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Trivia[]
- Francis being the antagonist was foreshadowed. Tari warned Mario that the Anime Cartel was bad news, as she mentioned in SMG4: Mario's Lemonade Stand. Furthermore, Bob asked if someone who liked waifus would ever resort to kidnapping, though it was also a joke. He also knew of the Ink Weaver. His base of operations is known as Anime Island.
- Among the arc villains, he is the first arc villain not to get redeemed at any point and killed in the end.
- He is also one the two arc villains to die so far, alongside Niles.
- Francis is the second recurring character to get killed off in the SMG4 series. The first being Desti, his victim.
- Unlike the previous major story arc antagonists, Francis is the first main villain who died at the end of an SMG4 arc.
- Francis shares his characteristics with Lotso from Toy Story 3.
- Both of them started off as being nice and friendly towards protagonists.
- Both are considered hate sinks.
- Both are the arch-nemesis of a major character. Meggy Spletzer for Francis, Woody for Lotso.
- Both of them are known as dangerous and tyrannical for their mass kidnapping. Francis kidnapped all of the Inklings and bring them to Anime Island while Lotso imprisoned numerous toys and in the Sunnyside Daycare Center.
- Both of them imprisoned their victims. Francis imprisons the Inklings in tubes, Meggy and Axol in their cells, while Lotso imprisoned the toys in the Caterpillar Room.
- Both of them use their abusive methods towards their victims. Francis uses The Ink Zuccer 2000 to absorb all of the ink from the Inklings while Lotso had toys tortured in the Caterpillar Room.
- However, unlike Lotso, who was tied up on the truck's front grill with a few other toys that the same garbage man has collected earlier, Francis was trapped inside a zuccer by Saiko, and then dies when Anime Island exploded.
- Francis also shares some similarities with Valentino from Hazbin Hotel.
- Both are the arch-nemesis of a major character (Meggy Spletzer for Francis, Angel Dust for Valentino).
- Both are in some way a faux affably evil villain.
- Both are some of, if not the most hated characters in their respective fandoms.
- Both are the main antagonists of a lot of their respective shows (the entirety of Season 9 and the Anime Arc for Francis, presumably the whole series for Valentino).
- Both are anthropomorphic characters.
- Both have or possibly were going to commit sexual crimes (possible attempted sex slavery for Francis, rape for Valentino).
- Francis is one of the few villains in the SMG4 series to not be evil at first, alongside Grand Dad and the Luigi Dolls.
- Francis is the first major antagonist in the Glitch Productions brand to die at the end of the story, being followed by Derek Lucks and Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch.
- Coincidentally, both Francis and Benedict die in explosions.
- Francis’ death is arguably one of the more gruesome in the series, due to having his bodily fluids slowly sucked out of his body by his own machine.
- According to Luke and Kevin, their reason for making Francis the villain of the Anime Arc was because they found him unlikable and found his face to be very punchable.
- This also explains his adaptational villainy since his character in Super Paper Mario in personality are nothing alike except their love for anime.
External Link[]
- Francis on the SMG4 Wiki
- Francis on the Near Pure Evil Wiki
- Francis on the Hate Sink Wiki
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