Mr Puzzles

Personality:   ” —Mr.Puzzles' last words before being knocked away by SMG4 in SMG4 Movie: PUZZLEVISION Mr. Puzzles, also known as the Mysterious TV Guy, is a major antagonist of the SMG4 series and the main antagonist of the PUZZLEVISION story. He is a humanoid television cyborg who was originally a human, whose purpose is to entertain viewers with his own media company/streaming platform he created and owns, Puzzlevision. He's egocentric, as he frequently praises himself and produces his work without help from anyone else. When growing up, Puzzles gave up on personal connections, and instead, dedicated the rest of his life to watch television all day. He was obsessed with the goal of watching every single piece of media, to the point where he decided to become a television himself by beheading himself and replacing his head with an enhanced television set (and somehow surviving) to become the being seen today. He decided to try to broadcast his own shows from Puzzlevision, by finding the "stupidest show [he's] ever seen", SMG4. Before presenting himself to the SMG4 crew, he worked in secret, indirectly providing personalized yet questionable products and powers to both members and associates of the group. These individuals were often disadvantaged and desperate for success, and his actions set off a chain reaction of events that would eventually become one of his "shows". His notable impacts on the Glitchy Gang included giving a deranged SMG4 a suspicious keyboard to help him create the "Perfect Video," which unleashed a demonic force that consumed Peach's Castle to create a horror-themed program. Discreetly, he listed the Showgrounds as a new home and hangout for SMG4 and his crew, and helped Splatfest champion Oneshot Wren lure Meggy, Tari, and their friends to trap them in a Wild West-themed simulation, creating a Western thriller-themed program. Additionally, he gave Marty and Mario directions to steal SMG3's Sussy Notebook for SMG4 and SMG3 to attempt and later succeed on getting it back, creating a spy heist-themed program. Ultimately, he captured the Glitchy Gang, intending for them to be part of his shows for eons on end. He is known to be quite the perfectionist, wanting little interference from his performers, and wants everything to go as smoothly as possible. He does this because he wants viewers to rate his programs a perfect "5-star" review to gain full control of his performers (and the entire world). He is deeply obsessed with the reception of the shows and becomes very unhinged when not given or undermined (mainly by Mario). However, some of his performers may get the upper hand, as Tari and Mario both hacked under Mr. Puzzles' simulation code. Tari rescues Meggy and the rest of her friends from Wren's malicious control, and Mario accidentally gets the advantage of getting out from Mr. Puzzles's imprisonment and resuming his TV time. He serves as the main antagonist of Season 13 and 14, appearing as the overarching antagonist of IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT, WESTERN SPAGHETTI, War of The Fat Italians 2023, and the main antagonist of the PUZZLEVISION series of episodes. History He first made his debut in SMG4 Movie: IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT as a pop-up adware virus which may have come from SMG4 downloading stuff from "sus websites" according to SMG3 when lecturing him. He offered SMG4 the Mysterious Keyboard that'll make his "best video" "perfect". After seeing this, SMG4 immediately jumps at the chance to potentially make his work perfect and buys the keyboard as the adware seemingly vanishes ominously and the keyboard is thrown through the window into SMG4's room, the keyboard then makes SMG4 slowly lose his sanity until SMG3, Mario, and Meggy Spletzer saved him, the adware reappears after SMG3 helps SMG4 in finishing his "perfect video", congratulating SMG4 on his accomplishment before asking if he would like to rate his experience with the keyboard. SMG4 purchasing the keyboard thus also led to the destruction of Peach's Castle due to some Demonic Goop he had spawned, but also seemingly leading SMG4 to discover the Showgrounds where he swore to build a new castle, which may have been intentional for future events due to the Showgrounds page having the Puzzlevision logo next to it's title. Sometime before these events, he secretly offers former Splatfest champion, Oneshot Wren, who has fallen into disgrace, the chance to be the best again, by granting him control over a mysterious medical facility that houses a simulation known as Western Spaghetti, that allowed him to always be on top by playing the act of an infamous outlaw, corrupting Wren, leading to Meggy and her friends seeking out her idol after learning of how the Inkling society no longer views him as a legend. He had the group trapped inside the simulation for a month, specifically torturing Meggy, until her and Tari succeeding in overcoming Wren's torture and escaped just as he was buried alive by his collapsing machine. Following the demise of Oneshot Wren, he didn't make another appearance until he made his physical debut in War of Fat Italians 2023, when he tipped Marty off about SMG3's Sussy Notebook holding a pizza recipe inside that piqued the cardboard cutout's interest and even Mario's due to realizing he could log in and steal SMG3's Club Penguin skin, only for them to fail after SMG4 helped SMG3 recover his notebook, and ultimately lead Marty and Mario into prison. He is seen spying and observing the Showgrounds in the SMG4 Castle's basement as proven in the latter event in Season 14 as he made a brief appearance in the episode, "SMG4: No TV Make Mario No Okie Dokie" where his disembodied body was shown in the basement and the Puzzlevision TV set that the gang is watching on, was his own head. As of March 23, 2024, he has taken over the SMG4 channel (in-universe) to upload videos produced by his entertainment venue, Puzzlevision, featuring SMG4's Gang as his "performers" with the first video "Mario's Mysteries" being the first official show in the Puzzlevision series. In the fourth episode of the mini-series: Mr. Puzzles' Incredible Game Show Spectacular! and various community posts, Mr. Puzzles consistently implores the audience to leave "good" ratings, underscoring his dissatisfaction when ratings dip below 5 stars. The burden of upholding his reputation as the host of a premier show weighs heavily on him, driving his obsessive tendencies and erratic actions. As the episode reaches its climax, Mr. Puzzles descends into madness, resorting to extreme measures to maintain control over the show's rating. He imprisons Mario in the "No-No Zone" cage, blaming him for disrupting the show and lowering its star rating. In an act to inject more excitement to the game show and salvage the rating, he devises a final challenge where all the props in the game show set collapse, creating a perilous situation where only the survivor claims the prize. His insatiable hunger for entertainment drives him to push the boundaries further, all in a bid to boost the show's rating. However, Mario gets out from the cage, as the show glitches out from Puzzles' abuse of power from whatever he has the Glitchy Gang trapped in, leading to Mario escaping the digital world. In SMG4 Movie: PUZZLEVISION, his past was revealed through his song "Creative Control". As it turns out, young Mr. Puzzles beheaded himself after being addicted to TV and replaced his real head with a CRT television. It's also revealed in his song that he had no friends to begin with. Appearance In the Mysterious Keyboard advertisement, Puzzles takes the form of an adware, heavily inspired by BonziBuddy and other internet virtual assistants, for his debut, he was simply a dark gray analog television with googly eyes and a cartoon-ish grin on it. Physically, Mr. Puzzles is a tall and thin humanoid, with a gray 50s/60s television box head that is identical to his adware form, minus the face. His real face is a white static-like background with differently shaped eyes with one big and one small, along with a large grin taking up most of his lower face. His teeth's colors, which are yellow, cyan, lime green, pink, red, and blue, are intended to resemble a TV ‘s color bars. Although his face is depicted as a screen, it is implied that his face is actually behind it as it remains intact even after the screen is shattered by Mario. The bottom edge of his head has the word "Puzzlevision" printed on it, which is an entertainment streaming service platform that he owns. He wears a black bowler hat with a gray band on his head, with two TV antennas sticking out, though one is bent. He wears a grey vest with a white undershirt and a black bow tie, as well as white elongated four fingered rubber hose gloves and black and white dress sneakers. his pants are dark grey, with silver puzzle patterns, his pants also come with suspenders with grey puzzle pieces as buttons. His pants are also a tad bit short that black thin legs are visible if one looks closer. As a child his appearance was identical to Ness. His body was shown as a silhouette with white glowing eyes (like how humans are seen in Murder Drones) Personality Initially, Mr. Puzzles was once a normal and kind but insecure outcast who lacked any friends at school when he was younger. He was so lonely at that point, he watched TV all day for forget his troubles, and at that moment he became so obsessed with television that he made his own decision to cut off his head and replace it at his current body, which turned him from a compassionate but anxious and scared kid into a mentally unstable, callous, arrogant, cold-hearted, ruthless and downright sociopathic being who shows little to no regret in manipulating people and turning them to against SMG4 and his friends as he will make them to be his own performers/slaves. Despite his opportunistic and deranged personality, he is highly intelligent, cunning, and manipulative, as he easily tricked SMG4 into buying his demonic keyboard, One-Shot Wren into a sociopathic and sadistic outlaw who psychologically and emotionally tortured Meggy and Tari, and got Marty and Mario to steal SMG3’s notebook which leads them both to jail temporarily. He is also portrayed as highly irritable and obsessive about receiving 5-star ratings on his episodes. In one of the community posts for the PUZZLEVISION series, for instance, he reacted strongly when he noticed Scooby Mario, Where'd You Go! had received a 4-star rating on his monitor, which, by http://puzzlevision.tv standards, is considered quite good. His response? He promptly threw the monitor into the garbage and set it on fire. Moreover, in most of his community posts, he repeatedly urges the audience to leave "good" ratings, indicating his dissatisfaction whenever ratings fall below 5 stars. His lust for perfect ratings reaches its peak in Mr. Puzzles' Incredible Game Show Spectacular!, where he resorts imprisoning Mario for ruining his game show, and breaks down when he challenges the rest of the cast and his audience to endure his wrath of raining show props, in order for him to maintain and gain back his ratings. The true motive behind his actions, once Mr. Puzzles had finally reached five stars, was that he could turn the world into a TV show with him as the main character, fulfilling a twisted sense of finally being accepted and being blindly adored by others. As a result of isolation and escapism due to an extreme attachment to television, he was willing to even dismember a part of himself in order to carry out his goals. During his final moments before going offline, Mr. Puzzles is reduced to an emotional wreck; a man forever rejected by the world, but it doesn't excuse any of his actions since he planned to have full control over the globe once he gets his 5-star rating and tortured the crew for his own amusement. Mr. Puzzles is also shown to have quite an ego as well, since he congratulates himself for endangering the cast to entertain himself, and refers to himself as a "handsome devil.".

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