| “ | Wadsworth: I shot her. ALL (minus Mr. Green): YOU? Mr. Green: So it was you. I was going to expose you. Wadsworth: I know. So I choose to expose myself. Colonel Mustard: Please, there are ladies present! Wadsworth: You thought Mr. Boddy was dead. But why? None of you even met him until tonight. Mr. Green: You're Mr. Boddy! |
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| ~ Wadsworth revealing he is the real Mr. Boddy and his true nature to the guests. |
| “ | Good shot, Green. Very good. | „ |
| ~ Wadsworth's last words after being shot by Mr. Green, wounded with a bloody palm. |
| “ | In your hands you each have a lethal weapon. If you denounce me to the police, you will also be exposed and humiliated. I'll see to that in court. But, if one of you kills Wadsworth now, no one but the seven of us will ever know. He has the key to the front door. Which he said would only be opened over his dead body. I suggest we take him up on that offer. The only way to avoid finding yourself on the front pages is for one of you to kill Wadsworth, NOW | „ |
| ~ Mr. Boddy manipulating his guests to kill Wadsworth so that he isn't exposed for Blackmail - also his last words, minutes before his death (Ending A and B). |
Mr. Boddy is the main antagonist of the 1985 cult-classic film Clue. He serves as the overarching antagonist of Endings A and B, and the main antagonist of Ending C. In the later ending, Wadsworth is revealed to be Mr. Boddy himself, an expert extortionist who runs a network of spies and informants.
He was portrayed by Lee Ving, who also portrayed Varney in The Taking of Beverly Hills, in endings A & B. In ending C he was portrayed by Tim Curry, who also played Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Lord of Darkness in Legend, Pennywise in the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of It, Thaddeus E. Klang in TaleSpin, Taurus Bulba in Darkwing Duck, Hexxus in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Evil Manta in The Little Mermaid television series, Cardinal Richeliu in the 1993 film adaptation of The Three Musketeers, Farley Claymore in The Shadow, Kilokahn in Super Human Samurai Syber-Squad, Drake in The Pebble and the Penguin, Dr. Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles, Long John Silver in Muppets Treasure Island, Caliph Kapok, Kileem, and Amok Mon Ra in the animated series Aladdin, Simon Doonan in the 1996 TV movie Titanic, Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Slagar the Cruel in Redwall, Dr. Slicer in Recess, Ben Ravencroft in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Big Brother in Johnny Bravo, Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker, Kilokahn in Super Human Samurai Syber-Squad, Professor Calamitous in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Scarlet Fever and Nick O' Teen in Ozzy & Drix, Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck in Monk, Fox Jacket in Dinosaurs, King Chicken in Duckman, Belial in The Legend of Atlantis, El Maléfico in ¡Mucha Luca!: The Return of El Maléfico, Von Talon in Valiant, Anatoly Cherdenko in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Philippe in Barbie and The Three Musketeers, Billy Flynn in Criminal Minds, and Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Biography[]
At the beginning of the film, Wadsworth invites six people (Miss Scarlet, Col. Mustard, Mrs. White, Prof. Plum, Mrs. Peacock and Mr. Green) to his mansion for a dinner party. While there, he reveals that all of the guests are people who are being blackmailed by a seventh guest, Mr. Boddy, who has threatened to reveal confidential information about each: Ms. Scarlet runs an underground brothel, Col. Mustard is a war profiteer, Mrs. White killed her cheating husband, Prof. Plum was a psychiatrist who had an affair with his patients, Mrs. Peacock is the wife of a US senator who has been taking bribes, and Mr. Green is a closeted homosexual.
Mr. Boddy gives the guests weapons, telling them to instead kill Wadsworth, ensuring no one ever hears of their secrets. He turns the lights out, only for he himself to be killed. This leads to a night of murder, as the maid Yvette, the cook, a motorist who entered the mansion, and a police officer, are killed off one by one. The group works together to try and solve the mystery, with Wadsworth appointing himself as leader of the group. During the mystery, he reveals his motive: Wadsworth's wife was a socialist who was blackmailed by Boddy into revealing her friends. When she refused, he forced Wadsworth to become his servant, driving her to suicide. After six murders, Wadsworth claims he knows who the killer is, but first explains HOW it was done.
Ending C[]
All the murders were perpetrated by different members of the group. Plum attempted to shoot Boddy with the revolver, before bludgeoning him to death with a candlestick when he turned out to be alive. Mrs. Peacock then murdered the cook, who used to work for her, with the knife. Col. Mustard stole the keys to the cupboard with the weapons and killed the motorist, who was his driver during WWII. Yvette was then strangled by Mrs. White, as Yvette was a call girl who had an affair with Mrs. White's husband. While the lights were out, Miss Scarlet shot the cop, who was on her payroll. Wadsworth himself confesses to killing the singing telegram girl, who was Plum's patient he had an affair with.
He reveals himself as the real Mr. Boddy, and that the man Plum killed was merely his butler. He reveals that he brought the group together to dispose of his informants, and that he plans to continue blackmailing the group. However, Mr. Green, having secretly been an FBI agent, pulls out a hidden revolver and shoots Mr. Boddy. As he dies, Boddy congratulates Green, before passing away.
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Trivia[]
- A fourth ending was filmed but never used, in which Wadsworth killed all of the victims due to his obsession with perfection; having failed to be the perfect husband and the perfect butler, he decided to become the perfect murderer. Upon this revelation, he further reveals that he had the guests drink poisoned champagne to leave no witnesses, before the police break in and arrest him. However, he manages to break free and escape in a police car, only to be attacked by three police dogs in the back seat.
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