#captianunderpants

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George Beard attacks Donald Trump, 2026, Colorized

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Captian Glitter Underpants

More commission work painting for a little girl who loves herself some Captain Underpants painted with Galaxy glitter paint.

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Textbook tsundere

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So far, in my quest to solve all of the tiniest mysteries spread through the Captian Underpants cartoon, I have thouroughly dissected the characters of Mr Krupp and Melvin, my two favorite characters. But this character is my best boy, for a reason, a reason I must not overthink. I'm getting sweaty, let's cut to the chase, shall we? Melvin-borg.  His debut in the next to last episode of the first season was a twist that even I did not see coming, and is a huge part of why I adore the writing of this show so much. It should've seen it coming, all the clues where dangling in front of me, and yet it went just over my smol brain. Speaking of brains, Melvin-borg's brain is much different than Melvin's, so much I canonically consider him a separate character of his own. An alternate universe version of Melvin if you will, since Melvin consciously decided not to become him. His brain is also, a bit different in other ways. Idid diagnos Melvin with Asperger's Syndrome (ASD1?) and I most definitely believe Melvin-borg shares the diagnosis nonetheless, but there's so many small differences between him and Melvin. Most notably, he is much more compulsive and driven by emotions than Melvin. Multiple times he and Melvin had to suffer the consequences of his half-baked ideas, including the invention of the bees which later caused him to wreck, and require his robotic side to be formed. We can assume the wreck completely disabled the right side of his body, as well as the right side of his brain. Similar to Inspector Gadget or Gizmo Duck, his brain is basically a motherboard for the computer of his robot body, an organic battery for his inorganic functions. If the writers are keeping in mind that the right brain, stereotypically, controls logic and reason more strongly, meaning that his robotic side is now controlling their functions. This singlehandedly explains the more compulsive nature of Melvin-borg, but it takes a bit of explaining. Anyone familiar with robotics or technology in general has heard of algorithms. Now I can take this chance to complain about some certain online algorithms especially on this website, but I don't really feel like it, why don't you ask me later? Anyway, there are different types of algorithms, and you can watch Techocracy from Mr Enter to learn more, but for now I want to focus on learning algorithms.   Learning algorithms are exactly what they sound like they are: They are a type of algorithm that is always learning new information. In light of this, it seems that Melvin Borg functions exactly like a learning algorithm, throwing ideas out at the wall and seeing if they stick. This is the opposite than Melvin’s technique, of intensely examining a situation before jumping into things. (basically Melvin is an INTJ while Borg is an ENTP, according to the Myers Briggs personality test.):

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Another example of his half-brained antics is his lack of humanity. This was the biggest thing that made him and Melvin fundamentally different. Melvin borg was willing to betray George and Harold while Melvin was not quoting “I am not a monster” (In the final episode of season three he also states, clearly, that he is only human, to George’s surprise further proving my point here.)

Melvin may be selfish, easily triggered, and hyperfocused on his own goals, but deep down he adores George and Harold (esp George 😏) and would never betray them so coldly as Melvin borg did.

Now for some diagnosis!

Let’s see, definitely psycopathic, without a doubt. Possible PTSD from the car crash and killing George and Harold when he was 9 (courtesy of Blast-Processing on Amino). Narcissistic personality, check.

Just to analyze the character, we know he’s bitter over not making it into Elitenati Academy, secretly enjoys country music, and appearance still wears the same outfit as his younger self.

In conclusion Melvinborg shares a diagnosis with Melvin with the huge exception that he is an alternative timeline version of him and uses a learning algorithm to make up for his disabled right side as well as dealing with multiple traumas.

Also he’s bloody hot imo.

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Thoughts on the Choice-o-Rama

As hyped as I am for some choice-or-rama, I really don't like what role it seems Melvin's character is going to play.  It's possible it's Gelvin? from that Big Brain gym teacher episode (refer to the last 5 minutes?) but if it is canon Melvin I am extremely annoyed that he has to go through this villanous story arc for the 45th time already!  Krupp I can understand, despite the ending of season 3, where he and the boys are on good terms, but Melvin, I just don't know. The Halloween Special, despite me, loving it so much it actually pulled me into the cartoon, it puts any hope of forming a cohesive timeline into a high powered blender. Don't get me wrong, Choice-O-Rama looks FUN, and I and hyped for it even more than my 9 year old sister (maybe, lol). And considering the sneak peeks it does seem the school board will be involved (as someone who went to school under an arguably shitty school board, this will be interesting to me personally).  I am willing give them a chance to let them blow me away, just like the Halloween Special did (with Melvin's character), but it is going to take good writing unlike anything I've seen in a very long time. Rant over. 

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CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS AND THE SOUL-KILLING CRIMINAL INSANITY OF MR.KRUPP PART 2

More moments in which he wants to befriend George and Harold, giving them a Fresh Start TM is in the alternate dimension episode. He more or less admits he enjoys their antics when he states that he thought the school was boring, but switches and goes back to wanting to yell at children.  Again, he can switch personalities on a dime.  

In the episode where George and Harold ask to get suspended (the first episode where we see his inner personalities) we get to see that his paranoid personality and cranky personality are the most at conflict, and that the cranky krupp usually get the final decision. It does stand out to me that Smiley Krupp is one of the main personalities at the round table, and keep it noted that Smiley Krupp is always being insulted and suppressed by his other personalities. 

He comes to them first when he needs advice on what to add to the camp, and knows exactly what will convince them to stay with him, designing tree houses.  When they agree to stay, he forces his head underwater (oddly enough) to muffle his excited screams. One could say he was happy to serve his own self-interest, but if that was the case they could have just wrote an evil laugh. No, he was thrilled to the point of screaming because George and Harold specifically decided to stay. I'm shocked I left these moments out of the first part considering that the first moment atleast was a huge factor into what lead me to write this theory. I will also point out that each iteration of Mr. Krupp is supirisingly kind and lenient compared to the other teachers and even teacher's that I've had.  He gives them multiple warnings, and is always willing to talk to them about what they did.  He is never shown doing that to every other kid, whom he hands detention slips out to for looking at him funny.  Actually, looking back at the books, the worse thing he did in the name of discipline was having George and Harold trim to his every whim. Sure, George and Harold may be the "problem students" but the difference in how he treats George and Harold compared to even Melvin (when Melvin makes him mad) almost seems preferencial, even if it is a preference born of hatred. Speaking of lenience, I've seen children suspended or even expelled for greatly smaller infractions than George and Harold.  Don't get me wrong, my teachers and principals were all good people, but they didn't allow students to run over him they way the children in Jerome Hortwitz does. I'd even go so far as to say that if Mr. Krupp wasn't so cruel in his forms of punishment, that he'd actually be a fair principal. George and Harold have behavioral problems partly due to having a Pre-school teacher that let them do anything short of pissing their pants, and when they met Mr. Krupp, they tried to treat him as a pushover, and, as a result, pushing him over the edge. All this ties into my own theory that the "Captian Underpants" personality is his intitial personality, and that his abusive personality is a front his childlike self-hides under for his own emotional protection due to the abuse he suffered when he is was their age.  To make this clear as I am confusing myself, I believe most aspects of his CU personality is his true personality, maybe a tad less stupid. Just before the special and season 4 drops, I'm also going to make some predictions: We will get more of Krupp's backstory, as well as see his future self in the special.  Perhaps the reason he wants to destroy their treehouse is connected to an event in his childhood. Or maybe he was just born mean. He is either going to find out he is Captian Underpants, or the Captian Underpants personality will take over. Additonally, it is possible that we may get an episode where Cap and Krupp become "unfused" and interact with each other (which makes my favorite fan-fictions tbh) by the end of season 4. I do think he'll have a better relationship with his students by the end of the series. He'll always be their principal, and sometimes principals have to do "mean" things, but I think once he works things out with his Mom, he'll finally try to be a good person. It would actually be interesting to get a sort of story arc where he tries to be nice but ends up snapping due to stress, and George and Harold decide to help him somehow. Maybe they'll end up being better students. This is a rough draft so I'm open for anything you want to throw at it.   Next theory will be on none other than Melvin Sneedly (my fave character don't @ me) and I do want to expand on this Krupp theory some more, I just need to find more evidence and clues in the special and season 4.

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CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS AND THE SOUL-KILLING CRIMINAL INSANITY OF MR.KRUPP

Dav Pilky he might hide under the guise of being a children’s writer, but don’t let him fool you. He is a creative genius, and he the universe he set up in his Captian Underpants books, movie, and show (where he made sure he was part of the writing) is one of the most intriguing my INTP Brain has ever come across. I know that I shouldn’t overthink these things, but my Asperger's wont let me, so over this next however how long, I will be putting out theories on each of the main characters of this silly, potty-humor riddled franchises in order to expose ALL the dark implications Dav Pilky left in his strokes of imaginative brilliance.

Mr Benjamin “Benny” Krupp, the main antagonist.  The cruel, cold-hearted principal deadset on expelling the thorns in his side, George and Harold. However, at least in the Netflix show, he is one of the most complex yet unhinged characters I’ve ever seen in children’s animation. Having had his creativity and childlike purity sucked out of him as a child by his emotionally (and possibly physically abusive) mother, who willing brought produce to throw at him.  This fiasco at the 4th grade talent show broke him, and made him the cruel principal we all know and loathe. 

However, since he still turned mean, it is entirely possible he was just born mean. 

Just like inside out he has multiple Krupp's in his head, and while George and Harold ( I will get to this!) also do this, Krupp seems to have even more splits, again, on top of being split between cu and krupp. While I don't want to copy and paste the theorizer's partrick theory (watching his video will probably help you understand what I'm saying better), there's no telling how many personalities are inside of him. Each of his personalities seem to be paired with one of his obsessions.  What I’m most interested in is his underlying psychology and the constant switching between the personalities.

(while I’m editing this, I was re-watching episode 11, and realized he references beatniks, which could help when establishing the time periods he or his mother lived in)

Gluttony- guacamole (and other various high-calorie food)  George and Harold being expelled- Cranky Krupp Etc. But one thing is VERY clear, Mr Krupp in the books is an absolute SOCIOPATH, even doing or allowing things to inadvertantly get George and Harold KILLED.  As a matter the fact, I speculate that the only reason he didn't directly kill them himself was because it would expel him from his position as principal and get him in prison- and prison is the one thing he hates more than George and Harold. 

In some instances, he can come up with master plans to expel George and Harold and other times he's too dumb to know where his keys are even when they are in his hands. However, I don't think this version of Krupp is a sociopath, simply a hurt and deeply lonely person who, still inexcusably, wants to hurt others, in an attempt to understand his own traumas and gain a sense of control that was stripped away from him. However, there are multiple moments where it almost, ALMOST seems like he wants to be friends with George and Harold. (Beause seriously, who wouldn't want to be friends with them, their tree house has grape soda dispensers and CABLE.)  Let's face it, he not only reads but STANS their comics and their pranks. He obsesses over them nearly nonstop, whether out of intense hatred or fufilling his role as a principal. Speaking of which, I thoroughly believe that him being the principal, for better or for worse, is, inevitably the one roll he will always come crawling back to. If he's ever done something truly intellegent, it's when he basically said, that the is the hot hair for their water ballon.  It gets to a point to when Future Melvin and Melvin fire him, he completely loses it and ends up in the middle of the woods screaming at two gerbils, absolutely believing they are George and Harold.  His sanity hinges on George and Harold's presence, without them he has no one.  He absolutely adores their freedom, individuality, and creativity, How a neglectful and phycologically abusive man like him is able to continually gain George and Harold's sympathy is, quite frankly, disgusting and a textbook example of manipulation, but since season 3 ends with them on okay terms. Based on his past behavior and trailers for the Choice-o-rama, I doubt that will last for long, and I am forced to believe his maniac behavior in the choice-o-rama trailers was due to a personality switches. In the episode where he traveled off to find the fountain of hair, he recognizes only George and Harold by name, strange.  He takes the entire group with him and doesn't show a hint of his usual cranky self.  Afterall, he was no longer in a position of power anymore and- that's it. Power is the key here. Whenever he's not in a position of power, he becomes unhinged and even more compulsive, spending his entire life savings just to get his hair back.  Speaking of his hairloss it's obviously due to stress but it is just another example of his obsessive personality. In season 3, there is a moment where he is taking to a toilet plunger with his toupee on it like it's his therapist. While this served both as a joke and an attempt to keep his backstory relevant, it is yet another moment of a schitzophrenic breakdown on the his part. ALso don't forget, the moment when he snapped his own fingers and didn't transform. This could be one of three things: a mistake, proof that he can't turn him self-into CU unlike his other iterations, or that he does, indeed, have some sort of subconscious free will of when he turns into CU. This all feeds into the theory that Krupp not only reads but enjoys the CU comics, so much so that he wanted to be Captain Underpants, thus allowing himself to fall prey to George and Harold's hypnotism.  How else would he be able to mimic him so perfectly, his catch phrases, his behavior, his inflections, all nailed to a tee.  One rule of hypnotism is that you can't hypnotize someone who is not willing to be hypnotized, and you can't hypnotize someone to mimic something they are unfamiliar with. There are reasons to believe their personalities are merging, that there is a possibility that one of the personalities inside of his head, who is, indeed the personality of CU, is trying to break free and take control.  However, that should be a separate theory on his own. Summary: His crimes (throughout all three franchises) Child abuse, child neglect Harassment Blackmailing Unlawful discipline Stalking Purposeful Endangerment of children Animal cruelty (implied) Arson (implied; all as Mr. Krupp) Indirect assault (as Captain Underpants)

What's my diagnosis? Disassociative Multiple Personality disorder spawned by abuse, suplemented with multiple obsessive compusions and moments of PTSD induced schitzophrenia.   Since this is a rough draft, I am open to suggestions, edits, and examples.