Mortimer Handee

"''I am Mortimer Handee, the star of Mortimer's Handeemen!" ''

- Mortimer

Bio
Mortimer Handee was the titular character of the hit children's show "Mortimer's Handeemen" and is the main antagonist of Hello, Puppets!.

Not much is known about how Moritmer acted in the show, though his poster reveals that his design and "life-like" movements baffled other puppet maker's at the time. It can be assumed that he was a polite-speaking, kind old man in the show.

In the game, he is supposed to be the, for lack of a better term, Puppetmaster of the Handeemen studio.

Appearance
Mortimer is a wooden ventriloquist dummy made to resemble an elderly gentleman, given his grey hair and mustache. He seems to be a stereotypical "high-class fellow" as he wears a black suit with a blue neckerchief, black top hat with a red band, and golden monocle. Given his proficiency in dark magic to give life to the other hand puppets, his clothes could be interpreted as a traditional magician’s.

His hosts seem to have a strict dress code as they always wear a dark blue suit with black tie.

His current in-game appearance closely resembles what he used to look like, only with sharp fingers instead.

Personality
"Mortimer... he doesn't seem to think the human race as anything but... cattle!"

- Owen Gubberson, puppeteer. Mortimer is shown to be manipulative, as his first appearance is tricking the player into putting on a Scout puppet. Later he dropped subtle hints for the player and Scout to progress, not out of empathy, but for his own amusement.

Throughout everything, Mortimer seems to be a hammy showman; everything he does and says he does in the most over-the-top and fanciest way possible. He speaks in rhyme, like all the other puppets, and sends you graphic death threats over tea.

We know from Scout that Mortimer's goal is to revive his show and take over the world. This tells us two things: One, he is egotistical. The show was a ploy to his ego, and now that it's gone, he wants it back. Two: he is a megalomaniac. World domination is a standard goal for antagonists and, given his knowledge of voodoo and army of soul-stealing hand puppets, while absurd, not outside the realm of possibility.

Relationships
Mortimer seems to care somewhat about the other puppets. However he is not only respected but feared. Seeing as he is the most powerful of all the puppets, all the other puppets fear and obey him. This is evident when Riley is forced to apologize to Scout and her host at the tea party.

Trivia

 * Mortimer Handee was voiced by Anthony Ingruber.
 * It's possible he was loosely based on P.T. Barnum, based on his design and personality. Barnum's circus was promoted as a freakshow, with his "actors" being cruelly mistreated and berated for their looks.
 * Mortimer was the first of the puppets to be brought to life by creator Owen Gubberson himself. It was revealed by the Otherworld crew, that Mortimer then brought his fellow puppets to life via the same voodoo magic used by his puppeteer.