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Japanese Name: Karamaru
Animal: Crow
Group: Ninja Crows
Position: Field Leader
English Voice: Michael O'reilly
Japanese
Voice: Koichi Yamadera
Among the ninja
crows, Bad Bird is one of the greatest fighters. If not THE greatest. A very competent villain, almost a polar opposite to
his arch rival Speedy.
I am going
to beat you now! Trust me, if you played the Bully video game, you'd find that hilarious.
Typical of
'Rival to the main character' type villains, Bad Bird takes a degree of pride in his strength and skill. To which the Big
Cheese once said 'You're as arrogant as a cartoon producer!' However, in BB's defence he does have the brain and brawn to
back up this confidence. He seems quite sociable towards his underling ninja crows, rewarding them for their successes. 'Get
this right, and I buy the burgers!’
Fearless leader of the vulture squadron.
He also comes
across as somewhat sadistic, finding great fun in 'throwing water bombs at a drowning man!'
Quite the master
of disguise, Bad Bird is often seen in costume, on some of his missions for the Big Cheese.
Of the three
main bad guys, Bad Bird does have a bit of good in him. When he needed extra money he took at job at the Pizza Cats parlour,
and was very friendly towards the customers, and even carried people out of a burning building, making him popular among the
customers (Much to the disgust of Speedy and Guido!)
Oh no. Not another girl with a crush!
Bad Bird is
one of the very few characters whose life before the events in the show is actually looked into. As a fledgling he spent many
happy days with his childhood friend Carla, whom he promised to marry once they grew up. However he later moved away from
the village where they lived to become a ninja, and became involved with the Big Cheese.
Before they were famous.
Upon meeting with an adult Carla, while running away from Princess Vi (who has a crush on him ala Amy Rose) Bad
Bird tells Carla that he never stopped loving her, and asked the Pizza Cats to help him save the Princess from the Big Cheese's
plan to get her to marry him (Cheesy). Of course, Bad Bird couldn't settle down with Carla, since as a ninja, all he had to
offer her was a life of violence. He left saying that she deserved better.
Bad Bird and Carla
One of Bad
Bird's greatest accomplishments was gaining the awesome power of the Armour of Worc, the first ninja crow. With it, he was
able to easily defeat the Pizza Cats. However, when he thought that Speedy was dead, he admitted that villainy wouldn't be
the same without him. He seems to have a deal of respect for the Pizza Cat leader, and has on occasion teamed up with
him, to accomplish a mutual goal.
The armour of Worc-Which is Crow spelled backwards! Ho-ho!
An amusing little fact is that in the Japanese version he was voiced by the same seiyu who voiced Rival character Ryoga
in Ranma 1/2. Ironically, Speedy was voiced by the seiyu for male type Ranma.
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