Elmo Sputterspark, better known as Megavolt, is a fictional character, a super-villain from the animated television series Darkwing Duck, produced by Disney. He appears to be an anthropomorphic "dog/rat/weasel thing". Megavolt is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Image File history File linksMetadata Megavolt. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to first comic book to feature a character. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an Emmy award winning American voice actor, actor and comedian best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the long-running FOX animated series The Simpsons. ... Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... The Green Goblin, a supervillain and enemy of Spider-Man. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ... Darkwing Duck is an Emmy-nominated American animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991-1995 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on ABC. It featured an eponymous superhero anthropomorphic duck with the alter ego of Drake Mallard (voiced... “Disney” redirects here. ... Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... Species 50 species; see text *Several subfamilies of Muroids include animals called rats. ... For other uses, see Weasel (disambiguation). ... Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an Emmy award winning American voice actor, actor and comedian best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the long-running FOX animated series The Simpsons. ...

Megavolt's Story

Darkwing claims to have "sent him to the electric chair — twice", and Megavolt shows signs of fear in his first appearance, but his psychotic hatred eventually wins out. From then on, he remains a constant and credible threat. The fact that he was twice sentenced to electrocution indicates that prior to his first appearance on the series Megavolt had committed at least two murders, but, of course, this was never elaborated on in a relatively family-friendly cartoon (though Darkwing himself had gone so far as to mention that he brought murderers to justice in his normal nightly patrols). This also suggests that Megavolt was apparently electrocuted and survived due to the nature of his powers. The electric chair is an execution method in which the person being put to death is strapped to a chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. ... Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a loss of contact with reality. Stedmans Medical Dictionary defines psychosis as a severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality and causing deterioration...

It is eventually revealed that Darkwing and Megavolt first met and fought (unsuccessfully) at the high school prom. When a bully sabotaged his science fair project on static electricity, young Elmo Sputterspark gained the ability to absorb and project electrical currents, and to grant nearby electrically powered objects a form of sentience. He wanted to call himself "Megawatt", but the band playing at the dance had already adopted that name. Years later, Gosalyn - looking at Elmo's picture in an old yearbook - realized that Sputterspark and Megavolt were the same person, and Darkwing realized that he would probably attempt revenge at their upcoming high school reunion against both the school bullies and Darkwing. For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... “Prom Queen” redirects here. ... Bullying is the tormenting of others through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. ... Static electricity is a class of phenomena involving the net charge present on an object; typically referring to charged object with voltages of sufficient magnitude to produce visible attraction, repulsion, and sparks. ... The article on electrical energy is located elsewhere. ... Not to be confused with sapience. ... For other uses, see Revenge (disambiguation). ...

Sputterspark's transformation gave him virtually unlimited power. Unfortunately, it also fried several portions of his brain, leaving Megavolt rather demented; he believes that lightbulbs, toasters and anything else powered by electricity have been "enslaved" by Mankind and need rescuing, which explains why we usually see him leaving the scenes of his crimes with bags full of flashlights and toaster ovens rather than cash. He is probably a parody of the Spider-Man villain Electro. He wears goggles that magnify his crazed-looking eyes, a yellow jumpsuit, and a hat that looks like a plug, a large battery strapped to his back to maintain his power supply and a large socket on his chest. He is going bald, presumably as a side effect of the procedure that gave him his power; as a youth, according to a flashback, he had an afro. For other uses, see Brain (disambiguation). ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ... Electro is the name of several fictional comic book characters in the Marvel Comics universe, including two from Marvels predecessors, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics. ... A plug is: a device which is designed to stop a fluid from flowing through a hole. ... Symbols representing a single Cell (top) and Battery (bottom), used in circuit diagrams. ... A socket generally designates a cavity or region used for fitting and connecting some specific device. ... Bald redirects here; for other uses see Bald (disambiguation). ... Woman with an afro at the Tribeca Film Festival For the Italian painter known as Afro, see Afro Basaldella. ...

Megavolt was a member of the Fearsome Five (along with Negaduck II, Bushroot, Liquidator, and Quackerjack; he occasionally teamed up with the latter as a duo-although he hates it when Quackerjack calls him "sparky"). He also took orders from Negaduck as a henchman. On the other hand, he was once forced to partner up with Darkwing Duck on a case, only because if the villain they were battling destroyed St. Canard, there would be nothing left for him to rob. In one episode Darkwing Duck defeats Megavolt by turning his own powers against him-he literally charges and changes Megavolt into a super magnet. Despite being rather dimwitted and absentminded at times, Megavolt is one of Darkwing Duck's more dangerous adversaries in terms of the sheer amount of power he possessed--Darkwing himself uses Megavolt as an example of what a supervillain is when taken to Mertz in Planet of the Capes. Darkwing also considered Megavolt to be his arch enemy for a large portion of the show's run. The show's creators even patterned him as such, but he later seemed to lose his stand as arch enemy to NegaDuck II. NegaDuck (sometimes spelled as Negaduck) is a fictional character created for the Disney animated series Darkwing Duck. ... Dr. Reginald Bushroot is a fictional character, a supervillain from the animated television series Darkwing Duck, produced by The Walt Disney Company. ... The Liquidator with fellow villain NegaDuck The Liquidator is a fictional character, a supervillain in the animated Disney television series Darkwing Duck, was a dog-like creature made entirely of water, who had the ability to control and alter liquids. ... {{DisneyChar | name =Quackerjack | image = Quackerjack. ... Drake Mallard, better known as Darkwing Duck is a fictional character created for the Disney animated series Darkwing Duck. ... For other uses, see Magnet (disambiguation). ...

Trivia

• Originally, Megavolt was going to be called "Dim Bulb".

• The MTV Spider-Man animated series used a new origin for its version of Electro that was rather similar to Megavolt's origin rather than Electro's classic comic book origin.

• Gosalyn discovers that Megavolt was once Sputterspark by drawing a pair of coke-bottle glasses on a picture of him in Drake Mallard's high-school yearbook. In Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Bruce Wayne discovers that he had once met the Joker in his youth by drawing the villain's trademark grin on a background figure in an old photograph.

• Megavolt is public enemy #3 in St. Canard. In an episode where Negaduck is complaining about being #2 behind Dr. Slug, Megavolt's picture can be seen below Negaduck's in the article he's reading.

• In one episode, Megavolt threatens to sign up for a TV show with the "You-Know-Who-Brothers" - a joking reference to Disney's rival Warner Brothers.

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