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| Hugh Bliss |
–Hugh Bliss
Hugh Bliss is the founder of the religion of Prismatology and the main antagonist of Sam & Max: Save the World. He first appeared in Situation: Comedy, and was a main character in Bright Side of The Moon. His last appearance was in What's New Beelzebub?
Description[]
Appearance[]
Hugh is overall a pretty weird guy. A slim, albino figure with an unnaturally high pitched voice, Hugh possesses inexplicable magical abilities and a disturbingly cheerful demeanor. Overall, Hugh Bliss has the looks of something struggling to appear human.
Biography[]
Although Prismatology, along with his book Emetics, was first mentioned in Culture Shock, Hugh Bliss did not appear in person until Situation: Comedy as a celebrity guest host for WARP's game show "Who's Never Going to be a Millionaire". There he showed off some of his tricks, such as his mind reading and ability to change colors, which Sam and Max exploited to meet one of the requirements needed to get into Myra Stump's show. While Sam was skeptical, Max presented himself as Hugh's greatest fan, a fact which, suspiciously, did not disturb Hugh in the slightest.
Hugh would pop up again in Abe Lincoln Must Die! where he reopened the otherwise perpetually closed Esperanto Bookstore, which he was using to sell copies of his book Emetics, as well as to spread the word about Prismatology. There he showed Sam and Max another of his tricks, disappearing, giving Sam the opportunity to steal his advertising sign (Free home delivery) which they later used to secure Max's election as President of the United States.
Hugh did not appear in Reality 2.0. However, once inside the titular virtual reality simulation, Sam and Max encountered a virtual representation of him in the form of the Internet Wizard, which went on to give them a rainbow kit for their virtual car as well as tell them their future. However, after defeating the Internet, Sam and Max had become aware of a menacing figure by the name of Roy G. Biv, who was behind the Reality 2.0 scheme and, by extension, the other cases involving hypnotism that had defined the season. As Sam and Max were left to ponder the true identity of the villain, the camera panned up, revealing The Moon with Hugh's face superimposed on it!
Finally, in Bright Side of the Moon, Sam managed to figure out the true identity of Roy G. Biv: Hugh Bliss himself; spurring the Freelance Police to infiltrate Hugh's Private Prismatology Retreat on The Moon. Once they confronted him, however, Hugh explained his master plan; to hypnotize every man, woman and child into a version of himself. Explaining that only Max's chaotic power could ruin his plan, Hugh proceeded to "Separate his bliss", which turned out to involve relieving Max of his right hand, stomach and tail thus depriving him of his anger, gluttony, and sloth, respectively.
A side effect of this procedure resulted in the creation of three additional Maxes, each possessing one of the originals body part and thus embodying the accompanying vice. By defeating each of these and reacquiring their body parts, Sam managed to bring Max back to himself in time for their final confrontation with Hugh Bliss. Returning to his inner sanctum, Max managed to remove Hugh from his mind control apparatus.
It was at this time that Hugh Bliss revealed his true nature, an extra-terrestrial colony of bacteria that fed off the endorphins generated when an organism experienced bliss. Essentially, his whole motive was to force the entire earth into a state of true bliss to ensure a limitless food source for himself. With Max trapped in the mind control machine, Hugh put Sam through a series of easily escapable death traps.
Fortunately, with the help of a few artifacts he had acquired along the way, Sam managed to outwit and eventually trap Hugh in a dunking booth which he then heated up with a lunar lander engine, effectively pasteurizing the villain to death and thus ending his threat to earth for good.
During Beyond Time and Space, Hugh Bliss's remains could be found in Sam and Max's trophy closet in their office. They would finally meet up with him again in What's new, Beelzebub?, where his immortal soul had been employed as a censor in Hell where he randomly "bleeps" words that sound dirty or cursing.
Personality[]
At first, Hugh Bliss came off as overly nice, to a creepy degree. Sam seemed to be the only one who was creeped out by him. He would always greet people with "Hi, I'm Hugh Bliss!", regardless if the person he was talking to has met him before or not. His voice was always high-pitched and cheery.
After Hugh Bliss was revealed to be the villain, his personality switched to being more sinister, and even morbid at times, his voice sometimes dropping to a low and threatening tone.
After getting employed in Hell as a censor, Hugh goes back to his cheerful demeanor, replying "It happens." when Sam apologizes for killing him.
Voiced By[]
Hugh Bliss is voiced by David Boyll.
Trivia[]
- His name is a pun on the word "Hubris".
- "Hugh" is also a homophone of the word "hue", which means "color or shade".
- It is unknown on why he is settled in Hell due to him being an alien bacteria, who rarely have souls.
- His alias Roy G. Biv is similar to the DC villain, Rainbow Raider.
- Hugh's fate of being drank by Max was foreshadowed indirectly in The Big Sleep.
- Despite being known to be the main villain of the first game, he is never acknowledged by any other characters besides Sam, Max, and The Director, although he is sometimes mentioned by other reoccurring characters, he is never directly talked about or acknowledged by the other villains before him. His presence is never addressed by other characters until "Bright Side of the Moon".
- Furthermore, he has little to no direct involvement regarding the previous hypnosis schemes until "Reality 2.0".
Names in Other Languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| German | Rainer Segen | Rainer is an actual German forename which sounds similar to the German word "Reiner".
"Reiner Segen" would mean "Pure Blessing" in English. |
| Polish | Mlecz Szczęściak | "Mlecz" means milkweed. "Szczęściak" is delievered from the word "szczęściarz", which means a lucky person. |