Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns, or better known as Mr. Burns, is the main antagonist of "Survival of the Fattest", the second segment of The Simpsons Halloween special "Treehouse of Horror XVI".
He is the richest man of Springfield and the owner of the city's Nuclear Power Plant. However, one night, Burns invites many of Springfield's citizens to a dinner at his manor with the promise of them participating on a hunting, but once his guests eat and meet up with him, Burns reveals that the prey of the hunting would be them, promising to spare the one who survives until the next morning.
Like his original version, he was voiced by Harry Shearer.
His Evil Ranking[]
Debated Validations[]
- Though he passes the General and In-Story Standards, it's ambiguous whether Burns passes the System ones, as the story seems to take place in a universe where killing people on live television is a legal sport, being broadcasted and hosted by Terry Bradshaw at The World Series of Manslaughter.
- However, as Burns asked his lawyer to provide him with a bulletproof legal defense after announcing his true intentions, it's likely that killing people on live television is illegal but Burns made it legal thanks to his lawyer's letter. Plus, with his wealth, it's possible he got the television network to broadcast his human hunting.
- Promises his "preys" that whoever makes it alive to 12 o'clock the next morning will earn his freedom, but it's unknown if he would have really allowed them to leave his premises alive or not. However, considering that he gave them a head start, it probably means that he really meant it.
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- Prior to the segment's events, he killed countless animals and displayed their heads in his dining room's head plates as his personal trophies.
- Invites Homer Simpson, his friends and many of Springfield's citizens to a dinner at his manor, only to reveal as they eat that he invited them to be the preys for him to hunt, having prepared their own head plates for their heads.
- Quickly shoots Comic Book Guy dead when he sarcastically request to be shot now due to not wanting to run after Burns gave them permission to do so.
- Shoots the Blue-Haired Lawyer, his own lawyer, dead just after he drafts a letter providing a bulletproof legal defense for him to avoid prison under the pretext that killing people is part of his religion (though it seems likely that this is a lie), showing how ungrateful he really is, as he could have spared his lawyer for loyally aiding him.
- Shoots Apu Nahasapeemapetilon dead as he was hiding on a bush.
- Somehow legalizes human hunting to the point it gets broadcasted on live television.
- Fatally shoots Krusty the Clown dead and then shoots him six times more to due to him wanting to make a joke in his last moments. When he runs out all of his rifle's ammo, he takes a handgun from Smithers and shoots Krusty's corpse twice more.
- When Homer Simpson reveals that Moe Szyslak, Doctor Hibbert, Dr. Nick Riviera, Officer Lou, Kirk Van Houten, the Yes Guy, Kent Brockman and Chief Wiggum were hiding on a tree by accidentally catapulting them off, he proceeds to shoot them all dead one by one, minus Moe and Wiggum, who fatally land on a weather vane.
- Shoots Groundskeeper Willie, Dewey Largo, Sideshow Mel, Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson dead with an attack plane as they tried to rest after running so much.
- Kills Otto Mann and Captain McCallister offscreen.
- Beheads the heads of all his victims offscreen to decorate his dining room later on.
- Shoots Barney Gumble's disguised corpse thinking it was Homer Simpson (who was actually pupating Barney's dead body as a decoy), but once Homer falls from the tree in which he was hiding, Burns tries to shoot him before Marge Simpsons comes to the rescue of her husband and knocks him and Smithers out.
- He likely faces no consequences for his actions, as Marge and Homer proceeds to make love after he is knocked out and the letter his lawyer drafted will likely protect him from any legal proceedings.
- By the end of the segment, he killed at least seventeen people, minus Homer Simpson, Professor Frink (whom Homer cannibalized to survive), Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum and Principal Skinner (who presumably survived as his head wasn't seen among the ones of Burns' other victims).
- Unlike the original Mr. Burns, who is an unscrupulous and greedy millionaire who enjoys getting power and profit yet occasionally has some Pet the Dog moments or redeeming qualities, this version of Burns is a sadistic murderer who finds it amusing to murder his own employees and acquaintances like if they were animals, relishing at smelling the fear of his preys.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is too comedic for NPE or PE because he isn't taken seriously enough, like how he wrote "Sinister Laughs" in his letter to Homer to hint what he was gonna do, and some of his kills are played for laughs, like Apu’s, Barney’s, or Comic Book Guy’s.
- He is somewhat honorable, as he allows his preys to have a five-minute head start instead of just shooting them then and there at his dining room, and he shot Comic Book Guy on the spot when the latter asked to be while not killing anyone else.
- Like his mainstream counterpart, he genuinely cares for his assistant Waylon Smithers, Jr., as he doesn't try to kill him and doesn't treat him with disrespect.
Trivia[]
- In typical "Treehouse of Horror" fashion of parodying pop culture, the "Survival of the Fattest" segment parodies Richard Connell's short story The Most Dangerous Game, with Mr. Burns filling a similar role to that of General Zaroff, who is Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Mr. Burns on the Villains Wiki
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