Mr. Butter is the main protagonist of the YouTube channel Buttered Side Down. He tends to create lots of living objects and complex yet childish inventions. Even though he is really the "hero" of the show, the extreme lengths he takes to accomplish his goals and his awareness of them are ultimately why he is also an inconsistently heinous villain.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- Despite being dimwitted and psychotic, he has enough intelligence to pull off very diabolical and crimes with all his resources, and he is a supervillain.
- All his villainy is onscreen, occurs in most episodes, and is usually a moral event horizon.
- Even though many of his crimes are accidental, he is aware of how terrible they are, and usually has total apathy.
- He makes friends with many other characters, but has no problem with backstabbing them if they satisfy his goals and greed.
- His worst crime happened in "Carving a Pumpkin." He slaughtered several living pumpkins and mutilated them into jackolanterns, but had to keep doing it because he couldn't get it right. One of his victims was a mother pumpkin, he kicked her 4 babies away and they screamed. He gets his karma as some living pumpkins carve his own face into a pumpkin, and he is alive and suffering, suggesting his other victims are alive and suffering in a fate worse than death.
- He caused a deadly competition between lightbulbs in "Changing A Light Bulb" after he needed to find a replacement for his original lightbulb that exploded. Even though the competition between the 7 lightbulbs was consensual, it was very brutal for them, some fell and smashed, got stepped on, crushed by books, or otherwise just disowned, and they had sentience because the last two lightbulbs fought for the death to serve Mr. Butter.
- When he accidentally makes living ice cream with his own machine in "Making Ice Cream," he is forced to raise the Ice Cream as his own son, instead of eating it like he planned. He even tries to take a bite out of baby Ice Cream until he grows eyes. While Mr. Butter seems to love his new baby and raises him to college age, he subverts this love by hugging Ice Cream just to take a bite out of him, which is basically eating his own child alive. Maybe Ice Cream could've survived, but either way, Mr. Butter apathetically runs away from the cops with his ice cream covered spoon (assault weapon) in hand.
- He squishes a bunch of people into paper in "Learning to Draw," potentially leaving them in a fate worse than death, or at least death itself. He did this to two people on a bench, two birds on a branch, a hawk, and a cat. Later, in "Learning Advanced Math," he outright crushed an imaginary number into the paper leaving blood everywhere, simply to finish his math homework.
- He dissociated into two different players, O and X, to play tic tac toe with himself. After O cheated in the second game, X stabbed O in both hands with markers over a game, then a brutal fight follows, ending with O hammering X in the hands, giving him so much blood and dying, then dumping him in the trash. It was a strange battle, but counts.
- He nuked his computer using a program called NUKE.exe in "Fixing a Computer", killing several programs he put there himself in order to get them off his computer.
- He had no problem with letting Squirrel burn a homeless man alive with a flamethrower to finish his movie in "Making A Movie Speedrun" even after they generously gave him a job.
- He caused a huge plane crash in "Gaining Super Powers," he did save his house but had no concern for everyone he killed.
- He blew up a building and caused a massive bomb in the sky in "Making A Firework," it wasn't on purpose but he only cared about getting off free.
- He almost destroyed the world when he stole the sun in "Eating Something Spicy," and later, he burned down his entire city after eating the world's hottest pepper, and just had apathy.
- He mischievously shot water balloons at people in "Giant Water Balloon," one of them caused a big explosion. The other water balloon accidentally got massive, crushing and drowning most people in the whole city. Mr. Butter also pushed down a drowning man who needed his help when he could've saved him, showing he only cares about his own survival.
- He inadvertently caused massive damage to an entire imaginary city simply by vacuuming his rug with a city painted on it in "Giant Vacuum," forcing the other Mr. Butter in the city to cut open the wire with an axe and then split open the entire vacuum bag to save the city, leaving dust all over the poor real Mr. Butter's rug and floor. (Ironically, he was admirable and heinous at the very same time.)
- He is very disrespectful of the dead, disposing of their corpses in the trash no matter what the cause of death was, with the exception of Pet Rock. He also did a hit and run on a man in "Learning to Golf."
- He cannibalistically fed Pet Rock pebbles, and he himself ate a huge plate of meat (although this is ambiguously bad).
- He's been abusive to his vacuum cleaner in "Vacuuming A Mess," his teacher in "Learning The Violin," and the titular staff in "The Staff of Unspeakable Evil," treating all of them like slaves. He made the vacuum eat sharp objects, toxic chemicals, and large furniture before getting eaten himself. He smacked his teacher with a violin bow, smashed a violin on his back, tried to beat him in a violin bow sword fight, and beat him up against the wall (even though it was his robot arm doing the work, he still had no remorse for seeing his teacher be broken and miserable afterwards) He stuffed his staff in the cobwebs and the toilet.
- Sometimes he is a hypocrite (and definitely a coward), punishing others for doing the same things he does.
- Even though some other villains were also extremely heinous, such as the beard from "Shaving A Beard," the aliens from "FIDGET SPINNER ALIENS," and the thugs from "Spies and Bad Guys," they all lack characterization, unlike Mr. Butter.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- His character is presumably a family friendly parody of HowToBasic. Mr. Butter is over the top silly, childish, foolish, and memorable and his crimes are just black comedy for the audience.
- He's completely on and off. In some episodes, he never commits a crime at all, and he actually does super heroic things sometimes, like saving the world in "Saving The World" and saving Pet Rock in "Pet Rock 2". But in most episodes, his crimes are accidental due to extremely chaotic nature of the show, so he is a villain by proxy.
- He is definitely an anti-villain. Many of his crimes are an extremist way to do something good or neutral.
- There's so many moments where he's a scapegoat and suffers brutally, even if he does get away with his crimes.
- Sometimes he's too amoral (and mentally ill) to realize the consequences of his crimes, and despite his apathy, sometimes he feels remorse for what he did.
- He struggles to complete very basic tasks and is very incompetent, only winning out of dumb luck and ridiculously sophisticated inventions.
- He has extraordinarily honorable moments, like when he walked 1701 miles across land and swam 809 miles across the ocean simply to deliver a pie, even fighting off enemies along the way, although he did steal 1 million dollars from the customer and kill multiple humans, animals and a car.
- He is always very affable to people if he has no reason to kill them, and has made many friends.
Trivia[]
- He's one of the few characters to actually fight against himself due to the crazy paradoxes in his world, "Mr. Butter vs. Mr. Butter" battles have occurred numerous times that he's literally his own worst enemy.
External Links[]
- Mr. Butter on the Villains Fanon Wiki
- Mr. Butter on the Heroes Fanon Wiki
- Mr. Butter on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Mr. Butter on the Buttered Side Down Wiki