C. Denzel Quincy [Citation needed] Crocker (known to most people as Mr. Crocker) is the mentally unstable school teacher of Timmy and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Vicky) of the Nickelodeon cartoon series The Fairly OddParents! and it's own franchise of the same name. Originally, he was just a back-up villain in the first two seasons. Since Season 3, he became one of the main antagonists of the series and officially the main antagonist by Season 7, replacing Vicky from this role. He was also the main antagonist of Abra-Catastrophe and the first Jimmy Timmy Power Hour movie The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour. He’s also one of the two main antagonists in the Bunsen is a Beast crossover episode Beast of Friends. He was voiced by Carlos Alazraqui, and played by David Lewis in the Live-Action Movies.
Biography[]
Mr. Denzel Quincy Crocker, usually called Mr. Crocker, is a grayish-skinned, hunchbacked man and Timmy's fairy-obsessed teacher. He correctly suspects that Timmy has fairy godparents of his own, and he is often able to tell what Timmy has wished for by the smallest, most irrelevant clues. His unshakable belief in fairy godparents leads to other adults perceiving him as mentally ill. A running gag has him spasm uncontrollably whenever he shouts, "Fairy godparents!".
Crocker has been shown to go to great extents to prove his theory that Timmy has fairy godparents, sinking vast quantities of money into expensive equipment and conducting elaborate experiments. He is also willing to do highly dangerous and immoral things to confirm the belief. For example, in his debut episode, "Transparents!", he attempts to test whether Cosmo and Wanda are fairies by trying to get them to sit in an electric chair. He states that, "If they survive, they're fairies!" but "If they don't, I have tenure!"
Surprisingly, Crocker is the previous godchild of Cosmo and Wanda. Though he lost them and the memories of their time with him, his belief in fairies remains. Timmy tries to alter this event via time travel in "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!", but he paradoxically fails and becomes the reason Crocker lost Cosmo and Wanda and made him remember his belief in fairies.
Although being a middle-aged man, he still lives with his mother, Dolores Crocker. His father has never been seen or mentioned in the series.
In an ironic twist, Crocker served for many decades as the main power source for fairy magic; his belief is so strong that it was used to power the Big Wand, the source of all the magic in Fairy World. In the episode, "Crocker Shocker", this leads to the Big Wand losing all its power after he is hypnotized into believing fairies do not exist. To remedy this, Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda, Poof, and Jorgen make it so that everyone as equally crazy about fairies as Crocker is used as a source of power for the Big Wand.
Crocker is based on Eugene Levy's character in the 1984 film Splash. He was also designed to be in another cartoon that Hartman was pitching, but was placed in the show as the latter needed more villains.[1]
Crocker is voiced by Carlos Alazraqui in the main television series[2] and related media. In the live-action films, he is portrayed by David Lewis; he does not have an animated version of himself. Crocker returns in The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, reprised by Alazraqui in both animation and live-action.
Appearances & Personality[]
Appearances[]
With a hunch-back, ears on his neck, horrible teeth and a generally nerdy appearance, Denzel Crocker is described as quite hideous by normal standards, although on occasion some other characters (such as Mr. Turner) find him "gorgeous." Most characters regard him as completely nuts, even his own co-workers. Crocker has been known to join forces with other villains such as Vicky and Dark Laser, although it is almost always because he’s looking for Timmy's fairies, and he usually just gets in their way. It should be noted that his teeth were once normal, but when there were attempts to wipe his memory, the device was used so many times it caused Crocker's teeth to become horribly crooked. It has also been shown that successfully curing Crocker of his belief in Fairies removes most of his physical flaws while restoring it restores them as well.
Personality[]
When Crocker has anything involved with Fairy Godparents or suspects there's one around him, or even says the word, Crocker spasms three times (each spasm spoken with "Fairy," "God," "Parents") while saying "Fairy godparents!"
Crocker is often considered as "crazy" due to his constant obsession with fairies.
In his early childhood, Crocker was kind, brave and handsome. Due to losing his fairies, he has crooked teeth, a hunched back and his ears on his neck. If Timmy hadn't affected the timeline, Crocker would have been a handsome college professor. As in the case with Francis, A.J. and Chester in the episode "It's A Wishful Life," this assertion is, at best, questionable as the alternate timeline presented was part of a test given to Timmy by Jorgen Von Strangle. In fact, it’s implied The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!, if Timmy hadn't revealed Crocker's fairies, Cosmo would have. He's mostly bitter about himself, and the world that mocks him. One of his goals is to achieve a New World Order, which he did for a short while anyway. Another goal of his is getting back on everyone who mocked him and said: "fairies aren't real." His obsession for fairies is so intense that it is used to power up the entire Fairy World, as seen in "Crocker Shocker." Although originally shown as a cruel, borderline insane megalomaniac, his personality has become more lonely and bitter rather than maniacal and is shown to wants to capture a fairy to prove he isn't a nut-job. In "Cheese and Crockers," when he captured Timmy's fairies, he used the magic to first get great hair, then win the heart of his high school crush (immediately followed by breaking her heart with the same words she broke his with), and then try and destroy Timmy. As such, he is more out to prove himself right, and fix his shattered life, than take over the universe, becoming a slightly more sympathetic character, although still the main antagonist. If Crocker hadn't stopped giving up fairies he would have lived in luxury with his crush Idaho (but even now he still turned her down). Although Crocker is mean and cold-hearted, he doesn't want to put a baby fairy's life at risk when he had actually captured a fairy. His obsession with fairies even has some ebbs to it, given that he occasionally overlooks Timmy talking to his fairies as pens (though he often confronts Turner in these instances and either go into spasms or brushes off the idea as something other than fairy godparents). Crocker has also overlooked Cosmo and Wanda's fairy nature when encountering them outside of school in episodes like "Desperate without Housewives," and has voluntarily or forcibly commanded to divert from his fairy obsession to other penchants like leprechauns, trolls and tropical fowl. Crocker can also be considered a sympathetic anti-hero at times.
References[]
- ↑ Grant, Stacey. "17 Fairly OddParents Facts So Shocking, Dinkleberg's Probably Responsible". MTV News.
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External Links[]
- Nickipedia
- The Fairly Oddparents wiki
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Fairly_OddParents_characters#Mr._Crocker
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