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Benson Dunwoody is the anti-heroic deuteragonist of the 2010-2017 Cartoon Network series, Regular Show. He is an anthropomorphic gumball machine and the assistant manager of the park, the main setting of the series.
He is voiced by Sam Marin, who also voiced Pops Maellard and Muscle Man.
What Makes Him a Base Breaking Character?[]
What Do People Like About Him?[]
- He has a few sympathetic qualities which fans are quick to bring to attention:
- He has trouble controlling his temper because he had a dysfunctional family who taught him that he will not get what he wants in life unless he yells for it.
- He is only the assistant park manager and struggles to gain the approval of Mr. Maellard, the real park manager who is even more unfair than Benson and treats every employee who isn't his son like a worthless nobody. Maellard holds Benson accountable for everything that goes wrong in the park, even mistakes that only Mordecai and Rigby would make.
- He actually hates his job at the park, and only ended up working there because he wasted his life playing stick hockey, which later explains why he was so adamant on convincing Mordecai and Rigby that the game was a waste of time.
- He has his moments where he warms up to his employees, including Mordecai and Rigby, and shows that he can be friendly when in the right mood. Deep down, he really cares for the well-being of his employees and even sympathized with Rigby for being humiliated on public television as he himself suffered a similar experience.
- He sympathized with Rigby for being made fun of on a show for getting an answer wrong and humiliated constantly by everyone around him, much like how he was made fun of for misspelling bandana as banana and being humiliated as well for that.
- He helped out Mordecai win the eggscelent challenge in order to win a hat for Rigby, who failed it and got sick, despite initially being skeptical of it.
What Do People Hate About Him?[]
- He is a pretty grating portrayal of authority, in that he is often at times shown screaming bloody murder at Mordecai and Rigby while turning red in the face, though to be fair, the two are not all that responsible to begin with. He usually threatens them with his catchphrase, "You're fired!," even making the phrase itself seem like a joke.
- There are moments when he goes too far in punishing his employees. In "The Best Burger in the World", he forbids Mordecai and Rigby from going near a food truck to buy an Ulti-meatum and forces them to go back and do their jobs from last week, in which he should've been keeping track of their progress. When the two sneak off and succeed in buying their burgers, Benson grabs the burgers away and eats both of them, all the while gloating and taunting the two that the burgers won't come around again for another 100 years. There was also the episode "Lunch Break" where he made Mordecai and Rigby eat an entire ten-foot sub just because it cost him 85 dollars, despite the fact that he insisted on buying sandwiches for everyone and told them they could order whatever they wanted. Not only did he keep mocking them while they were eating it, but once they managed to finish it, he ordered them to run 50 laps around a newly finished basketball court the others were building while once again threatening to fire them.
- Aside from anger issues, he also has severe OCD problems. In "Return of Mordecai and Rigbys", he frustrated the living daylights out of everyone whilst he was in charge of rehearsals for the Battle of the Bands contest, nitpicking at minor imperfections that no one cared about, even making them all start over again when they were only one note into their song. When he found out that they were holding a meeting in the bathroom with his back turned and voted for Mordecai and Rigby to run rehearsals, he completely flipped his lid before quitting the band, believing himself to be the only one taking the gig seriously.
- His outbursts can also often come across as childish temper tantrums as he will lose it over anything that bothers him even if it is too minor which will often make him too much of a manchild to be taken seriously.
- He is sometimes ungrateful and berates Mordecai and Rigby even when they do the right thing, such as properly judging pies, thus declaring Pops the winner in "Pie Contest", or defeating a flock of vicious geese that had been terrorizing people in "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese". He even tells the ducklings off until their mother arrives and admonishes him for his lack of gratitude that they saved the park, as well as scolding her children.
- He sometimes doesn't take responsibility for his own actions which can make him come across as a hypocrite considering the fact that he's supposed to be the responsible one, as he sometimes blames Mordecai and Rigby for things he also did, such as getting everyone in the park into space by accident, when in reality everyone was actually at fault for this, or how he was the reason why Mordecai and Rigby were considered too cool to the point of being put under arrest and during a trial when he was chosen as a witness he blamed them for getting into a trial instead of acknowledging what he did and doesn't really show remorse for this at first.
External Links[]
- Benson Dunwoody on the Villains Wiki
- Benson Dunwoody on the Heroes Wiki
- Benson Dunwoody on the Guile Heroes Wiki
- Benson Dunwoody on the Antagonists Wiki
- Benson Dunwoody on the Regular Show Wiki
- Benson Dunwoody on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
- Benson Dunwoody on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
- Benson Dunwoody on the Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki
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