The Lesser Wambini is a character in Inspector Gadget.
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The Lesser Wambini visited Gadget at home and got his long white scarf stuck between the door of his hearse. He then presented the Inspector with three complimentary tickets to see the Great Wambini's Magic Medley at the Metro City Auditorium that evening, adding that the Great Wambini wished the Inspector to be their guest. The Lesser Wambini then conjured up a large rose to wet the Inspector's appetite. But then the hearse in which he had arrived sped off, leading the Lesser to run along side it to jump back into the passenger seat.
While practicing various tricks, both of the Wambini's reported to Dr. Claw to tell him everything was according to plan. That night, at the Auditorium, their big performance involved making two bank vaults disappear. During the performance, The Great Wambini introduced himself and his assistant and explained that he was going to switch the contents of the two saves with each other. One vault held gold, the other held stacks of money. After the Great Wambini uttered some magic words, smoke filled the air, obscuring the fact that M.A.D. Agents Dick and Jarvis hoisted both saves up into the rafters. Up there, Dick cracked the safes, Jarvis emptied them and then they put fake backdrops into the empty safes before dropping them back onto the stage while Wambini produced more smoke. They attempted to drop the gold safe on Inspector Gadget, but he was pushed out of the way by Brain, who was hit by the safe himself. The Lesser Wambini lifted up one half of the safe to release the dog, who was momentaraly flat as a pancake, but soon recovered. Lesser Wambini was then knocked to the ground when the second safe was dropped behind him, and as he hit the ground, two doves escaped from under his top hat.
The Great Wambini then asked Inspector Gadget to entere a booth. Inside it, a turntable hid Gadget behind a false wall, while in the Lesser Wambini stepped out of another booth, making it seem like the Inspector had been teleported from one to the other by magic. The Great Wambini announced that this was the conclusion to his show, and the booth holding Gadget was loaded onto a truck by Dick and Jarvis and taken to Wambini's mansion.
The Great Wambini released Gadget out of the booth and promised to put on a private show for him. He told the Lesser Wambini to put Gadget in a basket, after which the Lesser presented the Greater with a series of swords with which to skewer the basket. None of the swords appeared to hurt Gadget, who, upon mistaking Brain for a M.A.D. agent, used various of his telescoping limbs to chase his suspect. Next they tied Gadget up with chains and lowered him headfirst into a large tank of water. While underwater, Gadget once again spotted Brain and inflated his Gadget Coat so he could get out of the tank and go after the suspect. The two Wambini's were caught in a tidal wave caused by the exploding tank.
Dripping wet, the Greater Wambini promised Dr. Claw that their next attempt would finish Gadget off. He put Gadget in a vertical box and sawed him in half, after which both Wambini's left the room. But soon, Gadget, despite being cut in two halves, began chasing Brain (now dressed as a bunny) through the mansion again. Brain bumped into the Wambini's, who fell to the ground. The Great Wambini ordered the Lesser Wambini to go after Brain and grab him. The Lesser Wambini managed to catch up and grab onto Brain, but was then thrown against a wall and momentarily knocked out when a painting fell on his head. The Great Wambini went to help his assistant back up, but when he heard police sirens approaching, took one look out the window to see several police cars arrive on his doorstep. He decided that they should flee through the secret passage way hidden behind another painting.[1]
The Wambini's next job for Claw had them kidnapping pets owned by Metro City's rich and famous. The Great Wambini then offered his services to find them on local television, saying he could contact the missing pets during his Monday night seance. When Dr. Claw informed the Wambini's that Inspector Gadget was on his way, the Great Wambini presented a deadly snake that would like to meet the Inspector. The Wambini's drove next to the Gadgetmobile in their hearse, and the Great One threw the snake into Gadget's vehicle. Gadget grabbed the reptile and offered it back to Wambini, who sped off.
Back at his mansion, a crowd of rich pet owners gathered to take part in the seance. Wambini was dismayed to notice that Gadget arrived as well. During the seance, the Lesser Wambini used special effects to make images of the missing pets appear in front of their owners. One rich lady offered a bag full of diamonds and the Lesser Wambini made her poodle Foofoo fall into her arms, by dropping the dog from a cage using a pully system.
Next, the Wambini's reunited a rich man with his pet parrot, Battlin' Bob, for a stack of dollar bills. The parrot repeated "Wambini did it", but his owner misunderstood and answered "Yes he did" and expressed his gratitude. Dr. Claw contacted Wambini again to urge him to get rid of Gadget. The Lesser Wambini tried to shoot Gadget with a laser ray, but missed thanks to Brain's intervention. He then activated a mechanical knight and fired flames from the head of a gargoyle on the wall, but each time Brain managed to get the Inspector out of trouble. Then Penny took control of the mechanics using her computer book and fired a laser from the gargyoyle's mouth at the the mechanical knight's armor. She then gave the Lesser a taste of his own medicine by scaring him with holographs that looked like ghosts.
Scared for his ilfe, the Lesser Wambini jumped through the one way window through which he had been observing the seance from above. Inspector Gadget thought he may be the owner of the snake he had found, and presented it to the Lesser. The Lesser jumped into the arms of his master, and told him he had seen a ghost. His master reminded him that the presense of ghosts was required during a seance and told him to perform some tricks to entertain the guests. The Lesser began to do some shadow animals on the wall, but when the Greater Wambini heard the sound of police sirens coming near, he grabbed his assistant, told the guests the seance was concluded, and the pair of them hurredly left the mansion in their hearse. When the police arrived, Penny had managed to free all the stolen pets, including a young rich lad's lost kitty. Inspector Gadget was still safekeeping Wambini's snake in his hat, however.[2]
Some time later, the Great Wambini travelled to Alpakistan to win the King's diamond-spitting llama for Dr. Claw by making three accurate predictions. The Lesser wambini disguised himself as a Alpakstaini peasant, in order to make sure the Greater Wambini's predictions came true. First, Wambini predicted that the king would be going on a long trip. The lesser ran into the throne room exclaiming that the King had won a trip to Hawaii in the Alpakistani sweepstakes. Next, Great Wambini predicted an accident unforseen except by himself. The Lesser set up a catapult outside and informed the Greater that all was set by walkie talkie. The Great Wambini urged the King to move to another position to avoid danger, and got hit with an anvil on his head himself.
After Dr. Claw instructed the Great Wambini to get rid of him. The Great one contacted his lesser assistant by walkie talkie with instructions to bring Gadget to him. When the Inspector arrived at the palace gates, the Lesser Wambini ran up to him, fell on his face, and then invited Gadget to be a guest of the Great Wambini.
The third prediction was for the Plaid team to win the Floobieball tournament. In order to rig the game, the Lesser made sure the real Plaid team's bus drove in the wrong direction and was replaced by a team of robots. He then noticed Penny snooping around, grabbed her and locked her up in a compartment inside the M.A.D. bus. She managed to escape with help from Brain. Lesser Wambini controlled the robots from a booth during the game. But Penny took over the controls using her computer book. When Inspector Gadget decided to help out the Plaid team, Penny had one of the robots trip him and Brain, playing for the Polka Dots, managed to score the winning point. The King was happy to be able to keep his llama while both Wambini's cursed their bad fortune.[3]
Personality[]
Appearances[]
Inspector Gadget (1983 TV Series)[]
Season 2[]
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Trivia[]
- His voice is based on the late actor Peter Lorre.
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