Fearless Leader is a dictator from the fictional countryPottsylvania, and the employer of the inept mobstersBoris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. He could always be found in his underground hideout, "Central Control." However, it seems evident that he did answer to one man himself: the diminutive Mr. Big. Mr. Big appears in two storylines of the series, "Upsidaisium" and "Metal Munching Moon Mice."
Fearless Leader has a notable face scar (possibly a dueling scar), much like the Nazi Otto Skorzeny, who may have been the inspiration for the character.[citation needed] As expected from his given position and name, Fearless Leader is a strict, ruthless character, and often harshly criticizes the incompetence of his main minion Gerald. He is usually shown with a long scar on his cheek and a monocle, both associated with German military officers in the first half of the 20th century, and he is sometimes shown to possess sharp carnivorous teeth. He is distrustful of his own employees, and is known to carry the Pottsylvania treasury with him wherever he goes. Although Pottsylvania's chief spies are given ersatzRussian accents, Fearless Leader's accent seems more in keeping with the Prussian militarist Germanstereotype. His monocle and sharply-angled features closely resemble Erich von Stroheim and characters from a 1942 anti-Nazi propaganda poster circulated during World War II.[a] He uses some German such as "Achtung" and "schweinhund," typical of German stereotypes in film and TV.
Fearless Leader was also the background picture seen hanging on the wall in the old newspaper cartoon, "Grin and Bear It" by Lichty, whenever the Kremlin or politburo was being lampooned.
Fearless Leader appears in the short film Rocky & Bullwinkle, which was released with Mr. Peabody & Sherman on Blu-ray 3D on October 14, 2014, in which he was voiced by Thomas Lennon who also wrote the short along with Robert Ben Garant.[2]
In the Amazon Video series The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fearless Leader is voiced by Piotr Michael. In the series, he has more participation that in the original, as he usually decides to carry on his plans by himself after Boris and Natasha are outsmarted by Rocky and Bullwinkle. He is given a more comical and accident-prone personality.
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