Who was in the wrong?
Who was in the wrong?
Jason Russell
Angel Turner
to do to do
Gavin Cooper
Matthew Jenkins
Louis XVI
Carter White
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Zachary Powell
The Panther. He's the true big bad of the entire franchise.
He is canonically a chaos god that brings destruction to all who cross his/the diamond's path, as Princess Dala is told in the first movie. As we see in the sequels, heck, even the first movie, the country of Lugash underwent several coups in less than 10 years.
Big Nose just wanted to paint and conduct orchestra, but the Panther continually fucked him over.
Clouseau was an idiot, but his deductions were right if for the wrong reasons. When Lytton went after the diamond though, Clouseau married a woman who didn't love him and was actively ratting him out, was framed, garnered acclaim he didn't deserve just to later be humiliated over, his son was a failure until middle age, and then after Clouseau survived the plane crash in 'Trail', he became corrupt and spent the rest of his life as a henchman to Countess Chandra, who probably killed him after he outlived his usefulness.
Dreyfus was an amoral, angry man, but ultimately he was no different from you or me when dealing with an idiot, yet, he went from being a police commissioner with anger management issues to a mass murderer and full-fledged supervillain. Something supernatural had to have helped him do what he does in 'Strikes Again'.
The only person whose life wasn't ruined in the series was Lytton, possibly because The Panther likes him (the few times we hear The Panther talk pre-1993, he sounds like Lytton). He may even be Lytton's toon-verse counterpart.
Proof? We see the Panther emerge from the diamond both literally and figuratively in both the opening of the 1963 movie, and the theatrical cartoons. We also see him conducting traffic at the end of the first movie. He also is shown visiting Dreyfus in the asylum at the end of 'The Return of Pink Panther', and Dreyfus is fully aware of him (just like Cthulhu and Dracula, madmen can see him).
The Panther is real, and he is pure evil.
Justin Nguyen
You're beautiful
Jayden Phillips
Somebody fucking screencap this.
Justin Kelly
holy fucking shit
Logan Richardson
Painfully true
Caleb Jenkins
The only, and I mean only, problem I have with this is that we see Lytton's glove terrorizing the pink panther in that opening cartoon.
Jose Campbell
Jason Martinez
Shit. You're right. He probably WAS manipulating the whole series. Notice how everyone else acts like normal people but only Clouseau, Dreyfus, Cato and the replacement characters have the same cartoonish bad luck/good luck.
How do The Inspector cartoons fit in though?
Jordan Garcia
kek
Adam Kelly
For some reason my dad always vocalized it as, "dead ants, dead ants, dead ants dead ants dead ants..."
Wyatt Johnson
Ah, but "The Phantom" is a nebulous identity in the movies. Lytton uses it, Clouseau gets framed for it, both Lady Lyttons use it, Dreyfus becomes a "Phantom of the Opera"-type supervillain (Herbert Lom did play the Phantom of the Opera) and George Lytton was being mentored to become the next Phantom. Some fans even argue that the 'Sir Charles" played by Christopher Plummer in 'Return" is actually George.
I guess in the universe of the Pink Panther cartoons, The Phantom's glove exists as a separate entity, similar to Master Hand from Super Smash Bros. It may occasionally terrorize the panther, but the panther himself isn't above using the identity and protecting the Lyttons.
William Davis
Saved
Luis Peterson
Both are clearly nude in public. Only one is a bipedal cat that can paint.
Joshua Walker
>one is a bipedal cat that can paint
and then some. Pinky can pretty much do everything.
Jack Stewart
There are entirely too many children here on a school night.
Dominic Jenkins