| “ | Today, the UN Building. Tomorrow, who knows? I think by now the nations of the world are aware of the awesome power that I control. A power so great that if I choose, I could wipe out an entire city. After all, what is the life of a man compared to the destruction of a WHOLE city. I give you 7 days. SEVEN days. | „ |
| ~ Dreyfus threatening the world leaders to assassinate Clouseau |
Chief Inspector Charles LaRousse Dreyfus is a major antagonist of Blake Edwards' Pink Panther franchise, serving as a major antagonist in most of the films and the main antagonist of the 1976 film, The Pink Panther Strikes Again. He is the mentally unstable superior to Inspector Clouseau, the franchise's main protagonist, whose clumsiness and incompetence has slowly driven him to insanity.
He was played by the late Herbert Lom.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- In his attempts to kill Clouseau, he has killed 4 innocent people when he missed.
- He rigs an explosive on Clouseau's car, which leads to the death of the entire Ballon Estate, who used the car to escape when they were involved one way or another with the serial murder.
- He breaks out many of the world's most dangerous people to employ them to his scheme and have them kidnap Professor Hugo Fassbender, and his daughter, Margo.
- Has the Fassbender's butler, Jarvis, murdered due to him being a loose end.
- Tortures Margo and intends to do so till she is driven insane to force the Professor to do his bidding.
- He forces Professor Fassbender to build a Doomsday machine, intending to annihilate multiple countries, and vaporizes the entire UN building and everyone inside as a demonstration.
- Threatens the world leaders to assassinate Clouseau, otherwise, he would destroy an entire city using his machine.
- His final action was attempting to destroy England using his machine, planning to wipe out the millions of lives present.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Due to the comedic nature of the franchise, he is too comedic to ever be Near Pure Evil, as he is a scapegoat thanks to the brutal slapstick comedy and horrific amusing injuries he will receive as well as having been slowly driven to insanity by Clouseau's incompetence, making him rather pitiable.
- He ultimately redeems himself during the final sets of films in the franchise and even helped in the search of the Pink Panther.
Trivia[]
- He and Big Nose are only two villains from The Pink Panther franchise to be Inconsistently Heinous.
- He is the only character from The Pink Panther franchise that comes from a film.
- He is also the only The Pink Panther: A Shot in the Dark character to be Inconsistently Heinous.
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 Inconsistently Heinous
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