Verminous Skumm

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Eco-Villains

Captain Planet The Planeteers

Bliss is a mind-altering drug created by Skumm. If one were to take Bliss, they would go into a euphoric state and become very addicted to the drug that they would beg for more. Linka, one of the Planeteers, used to take Bliss, along with her cousin, Boris. Unfortunately enough, Boris's addiction on Bliss caused him his life, and died from an overdose

Though standing seven-and-a-half feet tall, Verminous Skumm truly resembles a disease-ridden humanoid rat in every way, including the tail and claws. He wears a tattered blue jumpsuit and a red scarf around his head and face. His clothes are always dirty, torn and disheveled, as he spends most of his time underground, in sewers or the like.

He is a real dirty rat. Born and raised in a sewer with toxic waste, one can assume that he was mutated and became sentient humanoid due to the toxic materials. This towering "Ver-man" aims to mold the world in his image, and is determined to inherit the Earth. Unlike most other villains, Verminous focuses more on social villainy and "pollution of the body". Skumm fancies himself an agent of entropy with a mission to instigate chaos and degeneration in the natural order. He exults in humanity's every ecological mistake and helps to accelerate the environment's decline. His weapons are a loathsome intelligence combined with the cunning of a trapped rat, in addition to apparently quite skilled knowledge of chemistry and pathology. His rat pack inhabits only the most vile, degenerate environments of sewage and toxic waste, which they often use to aid in Skumm's odious plots. Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Skumm represents an ecological threat. In his unique case, he mainly represents not just one evil, but two: poor sanitation (with a particular focus on the spread of disease that comes about as a result of it), and social/urban ills such as crime and bigotry. However, it is known that an entire race of these rat creatures exists, and Skumm is their unquestioned leader. His single most important long-term goal is actually to displace humans and have his own race dominate Earth with himself as a leader, and his methods revolve around targeting human health and safety. Despite this hostility toward humans, he is not above working with them for his own ends; he has teamed up with the other Eco-Villains many times in the past. Nevertheless, he is one of the most dangerous and vile Eco-Villains due to his tendency to directly target humans rather than ecology.