Mayor Humdinger is the mayor of Foggy Bottom and the main antagonist of the PAW Patrol franchise, serving as the overarching antagonist of the first season and the main antagonist of the second season onwards, and its 2021 film, PAW Patrol: The Movie, and the secondary antagonist of the 2023 sequel, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie. He is the arch-nemesis of the PAW Patrol, the leader and boss of the Kitten Catastrophe Crew, and the arch-rival of Mayor Goodway and Ryder.
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Biography
Mayor Humdinger can be grumpy at times, seen when he lost in "Pup Pup and Away" and Mayor Goodway or Adventure Bay won. He argues a lot with Adventure Bay's mayor and he will do anything to be "on top".
From "Pups Save a Soapbox Derby", we learned something about his personal hygiene. Humdinger only washes twice a month.
In "Pups Save a Clown", it's been revealed that Mayor Humdinger dreamed of becoming a clown ever since he was a little Humdinger. He later mention it again in "Pups Solve the Mystery of the Missing Art". As he was even dressed as a clown, to trick citizens for stealing their paintings.
In "Pups Save a Puffy Mayor", it is revealed he took up the occupation of a fashion model, and hand model, to pay for college. He made the cover of a magazine, which he keeps in a chest to this day. It is also revealed he knows how to sew at a surprisingly well level. He claims to have been the person to make puffy jackets cool.
Nick.com Description
Mayor Humdinger is a little bit full of himself – okay, he’s a lot full of himself. As the mayor of Foggy Bottom, Adventure Bay’s neighboring town, Mayor Humdinger is always trying to one-up Mayor Goodway, including starting the Kitty Catastrophe Crew! Mayor Humdinger is usually up to no good and is often the cause of whatever troubles the PAW Patrol needs to fix.
PAW Patrol LIVE! Description
Mayor Humdinger is the not-so-nice mayor of the neighboring town of Foggy Bottom. He’s highly competitive and usually pretty cranky. He has a group of six kittens, the Kit-tastrophe Crew, who help him in all his sneaky schemes, but their hijinks always end in a rescue from the PAW Patrol.
Personality
Mayor Humdinger is rather conceited, thinking his town is better than Adventure Bay in every way possible. In Season 1, while antagonistic towards Mayor Goodway, he mostly played fairly due in part to confidence in his record of winning and generally being undefeated in most of the competitions he participated in, only to end up losing to Mayor Goodway and the PAW Patrol.
As of Season 2, he usually cheats in order to win, showing a lack of morality and "win-at-all-costs" personality. He is also the assembler of the Kitten Catastrophe Crew, a group of mischievous cats who perform heinous deeds to support his efforts. He also became slightly more villainous in Season 2 (whereas in Season 1, he was simply antagonistic) to the point he and the Kitten Catastrophe Crew have their own secret lair and he behaves more like a stereotypical villain, such as laughing maniacally and even covertly observing the PAW Patrol through a video monitor ("Pup-Fu!"). He is also shown to be willing to resorting to stealing something he wants, such as Wild Wilbur's hidden treasure ("Pups Save an Outlaw's Loot") and Farmer Yumi's priceless Martial Arts scroll ("Pup-Fu!"). He is also shown to be quite greedy in "Pups Save an Outlaw's Loot". However, his plans can occasionally backfire due to his own overconfidence and lack of forethought, resulting in him needing to be rescued by the PAW Patrol.
Mayor Humdinger doesn’t like dogs, not even the Cat Pack. But he likes cats.
In "Pups Save a Snowboard Competition", he is shown to care about Cat Rubble and Cat Chase when they are in danger of falling off a cliff as he is shown nervously biting his fingernails, though he returns to his usual self once they are safe and reluctantly thanks Ryder and the PAW Patrol due to his pride, but ends up thanking them albeit begrudgingly.
In "Pups Save Friendship Day", his competitiveness is so great that he is willing to turn a holiday about friendship into a contest between Foggy Bottom and Adventure Bay. He is also shown to be slightly narcissistic as he called a Friendship Day cake that resembled him the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He was also touched by Mayor Goodway's attempt to help him when he was being carried away by his balloon bouquet and promised to try to be a little nicer. However, his later appearances show that this did not take since he continues to be villainous.
He is a rather poor judge of character. He trusts his nephew Harold, even though the latter often betrays him.
He is stubborn and often doesn't know when to quit. In "Dino Rescue: Pups and the Lost Dino Eggs", he refused to return a young T-Rex to its enraged mother, even when the latter was chasing him.
He is sometimes complicated a single problem such as taking all pies or stealing a PAW Patroller just to watch TV. Or take over the Lookout and claims it as his own.
He is also reckless when it comes to using other people's things that only leads to trouble. As well as not even a bit grateful when it comes to getting rewards that had little sense.
He is also a little bit airheaded when it comes to celebrations like Christmas, Friendship Day or Halloween. But his actions leads to disasters forcing the PAW Patrol to fix his mistakes.
Although Humdinger doesn’t like the PAW Patrol pups, he has shown a general dislike for dogs in general, because he's a cat person. This is particularly evident in PAW Patrol: The Movie, where as a plot point, after becoming Adventure City's mayor, Humdinger wastes no time in banning dogs from pretty much every location within the metropolis, having no regard for it's citizens. Despite being enemies, Ryder still takes pleasure in rescuing the mayor from disaster. The film also showcases Humdinger’s lack of moral or practical ethics, as he was willing to threaten a shutdown to a university for the cloud catcher and he was willing to abuse subordinates, citizens and technology for his own goals, refusing to take responsibility for his mishaps. Humdinger's ego also makes him less willing to abandon his ideals unless they horrendously backfire on him, and as seen in numerous episodes he often tries illicit methods to get what he wants, due to both his lack of patience and his inflated sense of self-importance.
A big difference between Ryder and Humdinger is that whenever Ryder makes an on-the-spot decision, he tends to take note of his surroundings and tries hard to account for surprise variables, whereas Humdinger is more rash and is short-sided to the point that he lets his own overconfidence blind him to obvious faults in his plans. Additionally, the vast majority of the PAW Patrol's contacts are generally willing to admit when they are wrong and will listen to them when they need their help, whereas Humdinger is too proud and stubborn to do much good until his life is at the most risk possible.
He is shown to be childish, this is shown when whatever he wines or throws a tantrum when things don't go his way.
Appearance
Mayor Humdinger has dark brown eyes, light peachy skin, and blonde hair that is bald on the top of his head with sideburns. He also has a big bushy blonde curled mustache. He wears a purple dress jacket with pockets on the waist over a white dress shirt, purple dress pants, pink socks, brown shoes with white laces, and a purple top hat. Also his light purple underwear with white cat pictures are time to time shown. His standard outfit resembles Rich Uncle Pennybags (the Monopoly man).
He also looks similar to the statue of Mayor Goodway's Grover Goodway.
In Season 1, he wore an aviator's cap, goggles and a light purple, gray, white striped scarf, and lacked the top hat and white dress shirt.
Starting in Season 6, the texture of his mustache and hair was improved, his suit became more detailed, he gains buttons, handkerchief and a pocket square on his suit jacket, and his lapel and pockets become light purple and his shoes are also changed to brown loafers.
In PAW Patrol: The Movie, Mayor Humdinger's appearance had changed. He still wears his purple top hat, but wears a purple tailcoat over a white dress shirt, a pink necktie, purple slacks, purple socks and black dress shoes. His mustache is also thick. He also wears light purple boxers with kitty faces on it.
His swimming attire is a one-piece bathing suit with purple and yellow stripes.
Attires
Equipment and Gadgets
Zapper
Mayor Humdinger also has a zapper that can be use to transform Meow-Meow into Hench Cat.
Remote control
Mayor Humdinger has a remote control that controls his carrier as well as kitten collars.
Vehicles
Kitty Carrier
Humdinger's Kitten Catastrophe Crew carrier is a usual vehicle where he, along with his kitties, go around town.
Mayor Mobile
Mayor Humdinger has a vehicle called the "Mayor Mobile", which is patterned after his top hat. It allows him to drive to certain destinations.
Skills and Abilities
Mayor Humdinger is a cunning strategist that able to sabotage his enemies at the cost of his comeuppance at the end of the episode. He was able to convince another people/creature that he is a different person but at the end when put on together he is exposed. He is also a skilled inventor that could rival the PAW Patrol such as remote controlled collars, kitty carrier, zapper, Mayor Mobile.
He also has a tendency to gloat over his victory but at the cost of exposing his misdeeds. Such as letting the City hall sink or taking the Lookout while the PAW Patrol are distracted.
His negative side when it comes to using gadgets comes to using other gadgets other than his own such as resorting to pressing random buttons that worsens the situation.
His other skill involves stealth movement that allows him to sabotage his enemies causing Mayor Goodway or the PAW Patrol to react in delay.
In PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, he is also a skilled negotiator. When offered a meteor piece, he gains the power to grow ginormous.
Catchphrases
- "You know what to do, Kit-tastrophe Crew!"
- "Drat it all!"
- "It's not fair!"
- "It's about time you showed up!"
- "Yeah, yeah, I will yelp for help."