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| “ | I'm the Pusher! The Pusher! |
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| ~ The Pusher introducing himself at the start of his song. |
Larry Hardcore, also known by his Alter-Ego The Pusher is the main antagonist of the episode "Raisin The Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts" from the adult comedy animated series Clone High.
A seemingly Anti-Drug rockstar, Larry plans to boost raisin sales and be accepted into the California Raisins by manipulating the teenagers of Clone High into getting addicted to the fruit as if it were a drug.
He was voiced by legendary actor and musician Jack Black.
What Makes Him Magnificent?[]
- Thanks to an amazing performance from the legendary Jack Black, he is charismatic and entertaining in all three of his forms: the cool rockstar Larry Hardcore, the ominously inviting Hooded Figure and the hammy, extravagant Pusher.
- As Larry Hardcore, he puts on the image of a radical musician and goes around spreading "Anti-drug" messages that are intentionally counter-productive and will make kids enticed by drugs, as he tells a story on how smoking Marijuana helped him make a hit song and become incredibly wealthy and famous. In the end of his speech, he subtly puts the idea of smoking raisins into the students' heads. He is implied to have successfully done this in many high schools before Clone High.
- In the chance the story wasn't completely fabricated, he gave some of his money to help his mother and some other to charities.
- As a hooded figure, he smooth-talks and sells some raisins to JFK's clone, knowing that his great popularity as a jock would make all other students follow suit in smoking raisins.
- Though reverse-psychology, making use of peer pressure and placebo effect, he gets all the students barring Joan D'Arc addicted to raisins.
- Knowing that teenagers are rebellious by nature, he takes advantage of the clone's teachers and parents prohibiting raisins to make them even more appealing to the students.
- His powers seem to grow more and more the more raisins are sold (although this, alongside his seeming reality-warping skills may just be part of the clone's psychedelic trip).
- Tries to personally get Joan, the last teen who hasn't given in to raisins, to get addicted as well.
- He sings a very catchy and evil hammy villain song as he finally introduces himself as the sharp-dressed Pusher.
- Upon being outwitted and defeated by Joan, who gets the parents to like raisins, making them no longer rebelliously enticing to the teens, an unmasked Larry simply accepts defeat and comes clean about all of his intentions.
- He proves to be somewhat of a Necessary Evil, as, once they stop smoking raisins, which only worked via placebo effect, the students decide to switch to real hardcore drugs.
What Makes Him a Baddie?[]
- Sold raisins to the underage students of Clone High as if they were drugs. Although they had effect only through placebo, it still resulted in the kids acting irrationally as if they were on real drugs, with JFK and Abe Lincoln even getting injured because of it.
- As it made raisins more rebellious and enticing, he took advantage of the parents' ban on raisins, which almost resulted in the maniacal Principal Scudworth almost becoming as powerful as a dictator.
Trivia[]
- The Pusher is the only Magnificent Baddie in Clone High.
- The Pusher is also one of only two MBs to come from a Phil Lord & Chris Miller work, alongside Rex Dangervest and Spider-Verse's Prowler.