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'''Cartoon:''' As in the game, Jim was created when Psycrow lost the Super Suit and it landed on a Texan earthworm. Unlike the game, Jim instead set out to become a superhero, for reasons unknown. Flamboyant, naive, simple-minded and at least a little crazy, Jim is nevertheless one of the best heroes in the known universe.
* [[American Accents]]: In the game, Jim has a slight but undeniable Texan Drawl accent. The cartoon drops this in favor of a hammy superhero-esque dialect.
* [[BFG]]: Subverted. Jim's primary gun is a small handheld ray-gun. It still packs a massive amount of firepower, and it's a rapid-fire weapon.
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'''Cartoon:''' A nefarious space villain, Psycrow roams the galaxy in search of plunder and excitement. Conquest, destruction, thievery, these are all part of a day's work for a Scourge of the Spaceways. He's not above hiring himself out as a mercenary or assassin, but he's quite comfortable working for himself.
* [[American Accents]]: The cartoon gives Psycrow a "[[Joisey]]" accent.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: In the games.
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'''Cartoon:''' Depraved ruler of Planet Heck, the source of all true evil, this mad feline yearns to destroy the universe.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: The core precept behind Evil the Cat.
* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: In the cartoon, when questioned on what he plans to do in the aftermath of succeeding in destroying the entire universe, he admits he had never really thought about it. Doesn't stop him, though.
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== Bob the Killer Goldfish (and #4) ==
'''Game:''' Upon a world that is almost entirely water and subaquatic mountains, Jim encounters Bob, a small fish with incredibly high intelligence. Always more intelligent then the other fish surrounding him, Bob finally dared to approach the surface, where he found the limited landmasses housed dimwitted but incredibly powerful humanoid felines. Awestruck by Bob's cowardly screams, they took him in as their god, giving him a fishbowl so that he could be carried around and guide them. Enslaving the stupid brutes, Bob used his intellect to help them construct a labyrinthine underwater city. Ambition flooding him, Bob desires to conquer the
'''Cartoon:''' Fundamentally identical to the games, Bob in the cartoon series is depicted with a bombastic, evangelical personality. The planet is also renamed La Planeta de Agua (''[[Running Gag|arriba!]]'').
* [[American Accents]]: The cartoon gives Bob the particular take on the Dixie accent associated with fire-and-brimstone televangelist preachers, complete with mannerisms and method of speech.
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Because Bob is just a little fish in a bowl, he can beaten effortlessly... if only you can get him away from his lackey, #4.
* [[The Brute]]: #4. In the games, he can't be fought, only
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: #4 is so dimwitted he can be tricked to chasing a clockwork mouse that's been tied to his tail... but is strong enough that even Jim fears getting into melee with him.
* [[Genius Cripple]]: Bob is a scientific and architectural genius, handicapped by the fact that... well, he's a tiny little fish with no limbs. He's dependent entirely on the hands of his dimwitted feline minions.
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== Professor Monkey-For-A-Head ==
'''Game:''' A mad genius on retention to Queen Slug-for-a-Butt, the Professor works in a nightmarish laboratory space station, creating all manner of nightmarish creations. Working without restrictions, he indulges in all manner of insane experiments, most notably an effort to improve his intelligence by grafting a monkey to his head. This backfired terribly; he now has double the headaches, the monkey continually messes up his experiments, and he can't get the shape of bananas out of his head. At the Queen's bidding for an ultra-powerful weapon to conquer the galaxy, he created the Super
'''Cartoon:''' A freelanced evil scientist, the Professor claims he was once a simple dairy farmer before he grafted a monkey to his head and became the most notorious of evil geniuses in the galaxy. Creator of the Super Suit, he can build another one whenever he wants with no
* [[Berserk Button]]: In the cartoon, the Professor hates fruit carts because one killed his father.
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: In the cartoon, the relationship between the professor and the monkey isn't exactly wine and roses. The monkey has accused the professor of "making eyes at a gorilla" (to which the professor angrily retorted he's a happily grafted man), viciously beaten him with a steel rod during a psycho-therapy session, and deliberately put shrinking cream in the professor's coffee so it can watch shows the professor hates.
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'''Game:''' After escaping from yet another ambush by Psycrow, Jim accidentally stumbles across a wormhole and is pulled through it, crashlanding on a strange and dangerous alien world. There, he comes across an innocuous yet friendly individual, who identifies himself as Peter Puppy and explains he has the parts Jim needs to repair his Pocket Rocket and escape this hellish place; if Jim will just escort him back home... But this is easier said then done, for Peter revealed he would transform when endangered into a mindless monster that would attack Jim. Finally reaching Peter's house, Peter was good as his word, but asked to be taken away from his nightmarish homeworld as a favor, which Jim agreed to.
'''Cartoon:''' Once an ordinary dog mocked by his fellow canines for being small and cowardly, Peter dared to break the Great Taboo of the
* [[Ascended Extra]]: From the subject of an [[Escort Mission]] in the first game to Jim's primary sidekick and righthand man.
* [[Barefoot Cartoon Animal]]: In the cartoon, at least, where he sports a shirt and shorts, but no shoes. In the games, he's completely naked.
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== Queen Pulsating Bloated Festering Sweaty Pus-Filled Malformed Slug-for-a-Butt ==
Horrific ruler of the planet Insectica, the Queen reigns over all with a set of iron fists and she yearns to expand her dominion to the entire universe. Commissioning the creation of an ultra-powerful doomsday weapon from Professor Monkey-for-a-Head, the Queen was infuriated to learn the weapon had been lost. She seeks to destroy Earthworm Jim whenever possible as she hopes to reclaim the Super Suit, but she does not focus maniacally on that goal and will try to rule the universe in other ways.
* [[Big Bad]]: Final boss of the game, and typically portrayed as the most important of Jim's [[Rogues Gallery]] in the cartoons.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Somewhat subverted in the cartoons, where the Princess explains they need to reinstate Queen Slug-for-a-Butt after Psycrow and the Professor depose her because she's such a lousy evil queen that she never actually manages to conquer anything.
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'''Cartoon:''' Born hideously deformed by the standards of Insecticans, the Princess suffered countless humiliation at the hand of her malevolent sister, who refused to even allow her to have a name and banished her to the dungeons. Vowing to defeat and overthrow her sibling, the Princess trained throughout her childhood, growing up into a mighty warrior. While Earthworm Jim's insistence that they are a couple irritates her, she does consider him a good friend and appreciates his help in her efforts to try and defeat the Queen.
* [[Action Girl]]: In the cartoon, she's the leader of a ragtag band of rebels and has basically been trying to overthrow her sister since she was a little girl.
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: In the games, according to her character profile in the manual.
* [[
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: While an Insectican like Queen Slug-for-a-Butt, she's basically a beautiful woman with long red hair, cute little wings, and a pair of antennae. In a subversion, her own species considers her hideously malformed.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: In the cartoon.
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== Snott ==
A strange creature that resembles a large blob of green goo with eyes, Snott is stated in the games to be a refugee from the Mucus Planet, having snuck into Jim's backpack in search of a sandwhich while Jim was recovering after defeating Major Mucus. In the cartoon, his origins are never revealed.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Though [[Word of God]] is that he was the slimy platforms that Jim battled the Queen on in the final level, for most people he only appeared in the cartoons and was then brought to the games in ''Earthworm Jim 2''.
* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]]: To Jim and Peter, who can understand him, Snott can say a lot of things with only a few gibbers.
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== Henchrat ==
Evil the Cat's #1 lackey, the masochistic Henchrat lives to obey Evil's every command, thanking him with genuine delight for his abuse. When not on the clock, Henchrat enjoys jumping up and down on hats... while people are still wearing them.
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: The Henchrat's choice of weapons consist of exploding mushy cheese grenades and a gun that fires quick-setting melted cheese.
* [[The Brute]]: Henchrat serves as the muscle to Evil's brain, and is quite happy with this state of affairs.
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== Evil Jim ==
A twisted opposite of Jim spawned when a distorted photo-copied image of Jim was exposed to toxic waste, Evil Jim yearns to destroy his heroic counterpart.
* [[Evil Twin]]
* [[Exact Opposite]]
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Evil Jim can be very eloquent and mature, when he's not focused on mayhem and destruction.
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