| Anton Papierwaite |
–Papierwaite to General Skun-ka'pe.
Anton Papierwaite is a major character in Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. He is the main antagonist of The Tomb of Sammun-Mak, a major antagonist in They Stole Max's Brain!, and a major supporting character in Beyond the Alley of the Dolls and The City That Dares Not Sleep.
Description[]
Anton Papierwaite is a sorcerer and disciple of the Elder God Yog-Soggoth with dreams of summoning his master and taking over the world. To achieve this, he plans to obtain the Devil's Toybox and use its power to bring Yog-Soggoth from the Dark Dimension into the mortal plane. However, he lacked the means to retrieve the Toybox from its resting place in the Tomb of Sammun-Mak. As such, he set out to find someone who could.
In The Tomb of Sammun-Mak, Papierwaite hosts a contest in 1901 to find someone capable of entering the Tomb of Sammun-Mak and recovering Devil's Toybox. When Sameth and Maximus manage to complete his contest, he gives them tickets to Egypt and tasks them with bringing back the Toybox in exchange for a greater prize. When the two successfully return and give the details of their harrowing adventures to the audience, Papierwaite turns on them and conjures up a summoning circle, forcing Maximus to summon Yog-Soggoth and sacrifice himself or watch Sameth get dunked in a vat of flesh-eating ants. However, Maximus tricks Papierwaite into sacrificing himself instead, with the sorcerer seemingly vanishing in a flash of light.
Though Papierwaite's ritual failed to summon Yog-Soggoth as he intended, it wasn't a complete bust as the power of Maximus' psychic brain managed to draw out a tiny fraction of the Elder God's essence and fuse it to his torso. This gives him apparent immortality, allowing him to stay alive without aging for over a century. Following this, Papierwaite becomes a part of the archeological community, working hard to track down any Toys of Power he could find. He also became the curator of the Museum of Mostly Natural History.
In They Stole Max's Brain!, Papierwaite steals the Devil's Toybox while Max is busy watching the last reel of the movie. This results in General Skun-ka'pe being freed from the Penal Zone, who steals Max's brain and engages in combat with Papierwaite. The two battle throughout the streets before their duel brings them to the Museum of Mostly Natural History's planetarium. However, upon seeing Sam, the two realize they have a common enemy and form an alliance, using their combined arcane and technological prowess (and the power of Max's brain) to draw in the remaining Toys of Power. Their alliance is short-lived as Sam and a newly-revived Sammun-Mak manage to turn the two against each other again, but things go sideways when Sammun-Mak steals the Devil's Toybox and uses it to rewrite reality in his image, with Papierwaite becoming his grand vizier. After Sam tears out Sammun-Mak's brain, Papierwaite returns to his old self, though is forced to flee when an army of Sam clones come bursting into the planetarium.
In Beyond the Alley of the Dolls, Papierwaite and Yog-Soggoth task Sam and Max with retrieving the Cthonic Destroyer so that the Devil's Toybox and the Toys of Power can be destroyed. Unfortunately, things go south when Charlie Ho-Tep steals the Destroyer, knocks Sam and Max out, and traps Papierwaite and Yog-Soggoth in a cage. Papierwaite and Yog-Soggoth were seemingly killed when Charlie blasted them with the destroyer, but Yog-Soggoth survived and managed to awaken Max's true psychic potential, allowing him to face off against Charlie.
In The City That Dares Not Sleep, Papierwaite joins the rescue team alongside Yog-Soggoth, Sybil, and Sam to rescue the mutated Max. When Sam tries to access the medulla oblongata, he and Yog-Soggoth are transported into Max's arms. When Sam helps them try and take control, a Maimtron bursts in and irradiates the room, though the pair are miraculously unaffected. They manage to gain control with some help from Sal and zap Max with a massive surge of electricity. Later, when forced to flee the exploding Max, Papierwaite and Yog-Soggoth accompany Sybil to the hospital.
Trivia[]
- His name is a pun because it sounds like "A-ton of Paper-weight".
- Another character also has a paper pun name, Flint Paper.
- Papierwaite makes a cameo in the Sam and Max deck in Poker Night at the Inventory. He is portrayed as the "Queen" of the deck, raising certain questions about his character. However, General Skun-ka'pe is the king of the deck, meaning the two secondary antagonists of Season Three are the top players in the deck.
- Papierwaite and General Skun-ka'pe have both appeared in four of the five episodes, and both appear as a main antagonist in one of them.
- Papierwaite's appearance is based on Telltale marketing director Joel Dreskin.
- Out of all the individual episode/season villains, Papierwaite is the only one to aid Sam & Max.
- Papierwaite is shown to be a frequent user of dark magic and is said to be a necromancer. The source of his powers is unknown, but possibly related to Yog-Soggoth.
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| French | Monsieur Papyrus | From the parchment of the same name : Papyrus. |