Mayor Humdinger — antagonists

Villain Overview

Gallery

Evil-doer

TV Series (Season 11-Current)
TV Series (Seasons 8-10)
TV Series (Seasons 6-7)
TV Series (Seasons 2-6)
TV Series (Season 1)
Movie

Full Name

Humdinger (first name unknown)

Alias

Mayor Humdinger

Mayor Toe-dinger
Cheater
Uncle Humdinger
Uncle Mayor
Foggy Boy
Hummy Gummy (by his mother)

Origin

PAW Patrol

Occupation

Foggy Bottom's mayor

Mayor Goodway's rival
The Kitten Catastrophe Crew's creator
The Copycat's sidekick (formerly)
Supervillain (formerly)
Adventure City’s mayor (formerly)

Powers / Skills

Charisma

Cheating
Intelligence
Authority
Psychological manipulation
Super-strength (as Foggy Boy)

Hobby

Cheating.

Winning.
Making bets with Mayor Goodway, only to lose them later on.

Goals

Win against Mayor Goodway (usually fails).
Win against the PAW Patrol (usually fails).
Depends on episode.
Be the first mayor to the moon (Mighty Pups; failed).
Make everything go his way in Adventure City as the new mayor.
Kidnap all dogs in Adventure City and defeat the Paw Patrol team once and for all and have them out of the way for his future goals (all failed: Movie).

Crimes

Fraud
Vandalism
Abuse of power
Theft
Torture
Conspiracy
Kidnapping
Animal cruelty
Brainwashing
Terrorism
Forgery
Stalking
Aiding criminal activity
Usurpation
Gross negligence
Public endangerment (movie only)
Dognapping (movie only)
Attempted mass murder (albeit accidentally; movie only)

Type of Villain

Arrogant Cheater

“	Sorry Mayor Goodway, when I find Wild Wilbur's loot I'll put it on display at the Foggy Bottom Museum!	„
	~ Humdinger to Goodway.

Mayor Humdinger, better known simply as just Humdinger, is the main antagonist of the Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol franchise.

He is the devious and corrupt mayor of Foggy Bottom. He is also Mayor Goodway's rival, as well as the leader of the Kitten Catastrophe Crew and also the archenemy of the PAW Patrol team.

He is voiced by Ron Pardo.

Roles

He is the main antagonist of the children's TV show PAW Patrol and Nickelodeon's 34th feature film PAW Patrol: The Movie and the secondary antagonist of its 2023 sequel PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie.

In the specials, he is the secondary antagonist of Mighty Pups and Ready Race Rescue.

Personality

Humdinger is a highly competitive man who loves to cheat at virtually everything he sets to compete in. While being very antagonistic in the first season, mainly because he was confident he would win, he becomes extremely villainous in the second season. He is somewhat ego-maniacal, as well as megalomaniacal. He is also extremely charismatic, as he can manipulate Mayor Goodway and the PAW Patrol.

Physical appearance

Mayor Humdinger is a Caucasian man with light brown eyes, fair skin, blond hair (that bald on the top of his head with sideburns), eyebrows. He also has a big bushy blonde curled mustache. He always wears a purple suit jacket over a white dress shirt, top hat and wears purple dress pants. He also wears brown shoes with white laces. He also wears pink socks. His standard outfit resembles Rich Uncle Pennybags (the Monopoly man). He also looks similar to the statue of Mayor Goodway's Grover Goodway.

In Season 1, he wore an aviator's cap, goggles and a light purple, gray, white striped scarf, and lacked the top hat and he had a light purple shirt instead of a white dress shirt.

Starting in Season 6, the texture of his mustache and hair was improved, his suit became more detailed, he gains buttons, a handkerchief and a pocket square on his suit jacket, and his lapel became light purple and his pockets gain light purple edging and his shoes also changed to brown loafers.

In "Mighty Pups Charged Up: Pups vs. the Copycat", he gains a new outfit after becoming The Copycat's sidekick, "Foggy Boy". He now wears a purple and silver bodysuit decorated with a wavy pattern on the stomach area, silver boots, and a purple mask, and he no longer wears his top hat.

In PAW Patrol: The Movie, Mayor Humdinger's appearance had changed. He still wears his purple top hat, but wears a purple tailcoat over a white dress shirt, a pink necktie, purple slacks, purple socks and black dress shoes. His mustache is also thick. He also wears light purple boxers with kitty faces on it. In PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, while in prison, he wears an orange jumpsuit as part of his prison uniform. He retains his top hat, but is orange to match his prison outfit instead of purple.

Biography

Much of Mayor Humdinger's past is unknown or what made him into who he is. During the series, he is role is usually as a rival to Mayor Goodway or to sabotage something depending on the episode. Since then, he has become more villainous as each season progresses.

PAW Patrol: The Movie

In PAW Patrol: The Movie, Mayor Humdinger travels to Adventure City and runs for mayor because he wanted to make a name for himself. In the film, he hires two new henchmen named Ruben and Butch.

During his stay in Adventure City, Humdinger goes to a university to get the rain clouds removed from the sky so he can do his fireworks show tomorrow and with the help of Kendra Wilson, Humdinger uses a device known as the Cloud Catcher to suck all the clouds from the sky.

The next day, Humdinger prepares a fireworks show to get public approval, but it ends up going wrong when the controls go out of control and a fireworks display starts at the city hall.

After finding out that PAW Patrol is in Adventure City, Humdinger calls his henchmen and orders them to capture all of the PAW Patrol's pups and have them out of way by any means necessary. The next day, the mayor turns the subway tracks into a roller coaster, which ends up with the train hanging upside down. During the chaos, Humdinger and his henchmen flee.

In an off-screen moment, Humdinger alongside Ruben and Butch start kidnapping all the dogs in Adventure City, and his goons only managed to capture Chase after getting into an argument with Ryder, feeling betrayed by him when he tells him to take a break from missions after he convinced him to come back to the city when he didn't want to and runs away, which made it easier for Humdinger's goons to catch him on his own and they lock him and all dogs in a dog school which Humdinger turned into dog prison. Then Liberty later but she got herself caught on purpose by humiliating Humdinger on the news so she and the team can find Chase. The next day, Humdinger opens Humdinger Highs and destroys the control that controls the Cloud Catcher.

When the Cloud Catcher ends up getting out of control, a storm ends up hitting Adventure City and puts all citizens, including Humdinger in danger. He appears in his office hiding under his desk, trying to protect himself from the storm until Ryder shows up to rescue him, who initially refuses but he doesn't want to die in the storm, so he accepts Ryder's help. Soon Humdinger enters the elevator, which Ryder manually activates and makes Mayor Humdinger plummet down the elevator to the lobby of the building as it stops he still screams but then realizes he's okay but in awkward position in front of people.

After the Cloud Catcher is destroyed by Skye, Humdinger tries to escape, but he gets caught and confronted by Chase, as he places him under arrest for his reckless actions as mayor, putting everyone in danger and putting him and all innocent dogs unlawfully arrested, but he refuses to turn himself in because he foolishly thinks mayors can't get arrested, he runs but ends up being stopped by Skye who ends up holding him by his drone rope, but the rope can't support the man's weight and ends up tearing his pants and making him fall. When Humdinger gets up, he ends up being humiliated once again by the PAW Patrol.

In the credits, Mayor Humdinger and the Kitten Catastrophe Crew are shown to have been apprehended and detained for their crimes throughout the film.

Quotes

“	No kitties, not over here!	„
	~ Mayor Humdinger in "Rocky Saves Himself".

“	Wait, you kittens did WHAT?! Fine, I'll do it myself!	„
	~ Humdinger's villainous breakdown.

“	Hey, what's the big idea with putting me in a crib? cries* sucks thumb I want my mommy!*	„
	~ Humdinger after being transformed into a baby.

Trivia

The only person other than Mayor Goodway that Mayor Humdinger has been beaten by is Mr. Porter in a baking contest.
"Humdinger" is defined as a person or thing of remarkable or superior excellence. This is indicative of the Foggy Bottom mayor's haughty, egotistical attitude, and great desire to be the best in anything in which he participates.
Mayor Humdinger's manner of dress and behavior resembles the classic archetypical mustached villains (like Snidely Whiplash or Dick Dastardly) and even shares several classic mannerisms such as stroking his mustache, villainous laughter, and hand-rubbing. His habit of cheating in various competitions in Season 2 is similar to Dick Dastardly from Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races. In "Pup-Fu!", he's depicted even more like a typical villain to the point he has a secret lair for himself and the Kitten Catastrophe Crew, which has a monitor which he uses to spy on his enemies (a villainous trope).
In Season 1, while antagonistic towards Mayor Goodway, Mayor Humdinger for the most part played fairly in all the competitions he competed in. However, in Season 2, he began cheating and/or playing unfairly to win. The likely reason for this change is that in Season 1, he had generally been undefeated in the various competitions and was quite confident in his ability to defeat his competition and win. However, due to being defeated by Mayor Goodway and Mr. Porter in at least two different competitions due to help from the PAW Patrol, he likely lost his confidence that he could successfully win competitions fairly and began cheating and playing unfairly to ensure his (and/or his town's) victory. He even creates the Kitten Catastrophe Crew to assist him in cheating and to counter PAW Patrol.
In "Pups Save the PAW Patroller", it is revealed that his favorite show is Cassandra the Cruelest Kitten, a show about a kitten who does bad things, which may have been his inspiration for creating the Kitten Catastrophe Crew.
Mayor Humdinger is a genius inventor. He made the same outfits that the PAW Patrol pups have for his kittens, and he excellently understands mechanics, because based on his knowledge and skills, he invented a robo-cat and a robo-shark.
In "Sea Patrol: Pups Save a Baby Octopus", it is revealed that Humdinger is very fond of eating, and so he comes to parties just for the sake of it.
Mayor Humdinger promised he wouldn't be such a nuisance to Mayor Goodway in "Pups Save Friendship Day", but it is unknown as to why he continued being a mean person.
It is revealed in "Pups Save a Piñata" that his favorite color is purple. This is very fitting, considering that his suit is purple.
In "Pups Save the Kitty Rescue Crew", it is revealed that he is a master of disguise and no one recognized him when he was wearing an old lady and teen's outfit.
- The same scheme happened in "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save the Royal Kitties" where he disguised himself as a train conductor. This also proved successful in "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save the Movie Monster" when he disguised himself as a delivery man.
It appears that Mayor Humdinger may have gotten more villainous in Season 5, as he now tries his very best to make the PAW Patrol look useless, and does everything he can to stop the PAW Patrol from ruining his goals.
In Mighty Pups, he has a nephew named Harold Humdinger, who is also a villain.