Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Villain Spotlight: Mephisto.


What? Oh, you wanted the Mephisto that does the bidding of Quesada? Sorry, this is Mephisto from the AFI Award Winning Australian TV Series, Double the Fist.

While not actually portrayed as a Villain, Mephisto is a murder, a thief, a brief megalomaniac and helped his friend take over the world, so he qaulifies.

Mephisto, AKA James Wenham was originally a security guard, but got fired. Later, while Steve Foxx was setting up a TV show entitled Double the Fist, he recieved many audition tapes. All of them were weak. Except one. It was of Mr. Wenham eating a glass bottle. This was fistworthy enough to grant him a starring spot on his show.

Mephisto is paranoid, psychotic and almost one step ahead of everyone else...almost. His plan to survive a fall off a cliff? Build a pair of wings and propell yourself through the air with a grenade. Win a game of golf combined with being hunted? Putt the ball into a bush and go Rambo on his attacker. The fact of the matter is that Mephisto is not one to be trifled with. You may think you can take that skinny, balding middle aged fellow in the picture, but if you like your face arranged as is, keep away.

Season Two of the show saw him eventually command an army of Medieval Recreationists (and a few Stormtroopers), survive a battle with a Plesiosaur, and manipulate Vampires. Characters like Mephisto justify the ecistance of Double the Fist and prove that Series 3 should be put into production.

Mephisto was portrayed hilariously by Doug Bayne.

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