Life imitating art? (In this case, a cartoon...)

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On the "Cartoon Network" is a show, the final season of "Samurai Jack."

The head "bad guy," a demonic character named "Aku" has a henchman, a total boot-licker named...Scaramouche.

Coincidence, after today?

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1. That guy's too tall.

He's also menacing, unlike New Spicey.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Scaramuccia (literally "little skirmisher") is a stock clown character

of the Italian commedia dell'arte. The role combined characteristics of the zanni (servant) and the Capitano (masked henchman). Usually attired in black Spanish dress and burlesquing a don, he was often beaten by Harlequin for his boasting and cowardice.
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Scaramouche entertains the audience by his "grimaces and affected language". Salvator Rosa says that Coviello (like Scaramouche) is "sly, adroit, supple, and conceited". In Molière's The Bourgeois Gentleman, Coviello disguises his master as a Turk and pretends to speak Turkish. Both Scaramouche and Coviello can be clever or stupid—as the actor sees fit to portray him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaramouche

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3. Interesting.

In this case, Scaramouche in "Samurai Jack" is an assassin robot, besides being totally a boot-licker to Aku, he talks like Sammy Davis Jr.