Count of Champignac

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Basics
Name	Pacôme Hégésippe Adélard Ladislas Pancratius Edelhart Ladislas Philippus (Dutch) Pankratius Hieronymus Ladislaus Adalbert (German)
Other Names	Wizard
Hair Color	White Brown (young)
Character Voicing	Pierre Baton (French, 1993) Paul van Gorcum (Dutch, 1993)
Moe Points	scientist
From	Champignac-en-Cambrousse
Related Characters
Friends: Spirou, Fantasio, Seccotine, Itoh Kata, Schwartz, Nero, Nicolas Nicolaiëvitch Inovskiev, unnamed biologist Rival: Zorglub Grandnephew: Aurélien de Champignac

“

Timber sabre!

”

— The Count's catchphrase

The Count of Champignac is a character in the Belgian comic book series Spirou & Fantasio.

Introduction

The count of the fictional town of Champignac-en-Cambrousse. He is an eccentric scientist whose experiments mainly involve mushrooms but he is capable of building machines as well. He is friends with Spirou and Fantasio and aids them in most of his adventures, if not getting them involved in them. Some of his inventions include: the X1, an extract that can temporarily enhance physical prowess, the X2, an extract that can advance the age of someone by 70 years and another that can reverse those aging effects, a soporific gas; the Metomol, a gas that can melt metals ; the X4, an extract than can temporarily increase one’s mental capabilities and an extract that grants cold resistance ; he also created a portable Zorgwave based on Zorglub's, and devices that grant immunity to Zorglub's Zorgray and Zorgwave and one that can return those affected by the paralyzing Zorgray back to normal; portable one-man powered submarines and scuba suits that confers easy communication via radio. Most of the weird events at Champignac are usually caused by his inventions or those of his colleagues or rivals, much to the chagrin of the Champignacians, especially the Mayor.

History

He first appeared in Il y a un sorcier à Champignac, the second album in the series.

He initially appears entering the town of Champignac in an old car model, passing the red light. The Mayor unlike the others who passed by, did not rebute the Count’s actions, showing the Count as a highly respected figure . Spirou and Fantasio went to the town, where the people were terrified by the presence of a "wizard". This wizard created all sorts of anomalies, such as colored pigs and cows that produced undrinkable milk; there was also an instance of a cow that aged on a short span and even died of old age. Initially it was assumed the one responsible was a Romani who just came into the town with his carriage to temporarily stay in the city. The two decided to investigate who this "wizard" was. They thought the castle they were camping nearby was suspicious and decided to investigate it, and turns out their suspicions were true, as they found animals in abnormal sizes and giant mushrooms.

The count then kidnaps Fantasio and uses him as a guinea pig for his X1 formula, he explains Spirou about this to which he responds aggressively and asks what did he do to him. He continues to explain his experiments and accidentally breaks one of his vials containing his sleeping gas knocking out the two for some time. Once they regain consciousness, Spirou aggressively demands him to get to the point and tells him what happened to his friend. The count then finally concedes and takes him to Fantasio, who is still asleep after being injected one of his formulas and needs another to wake him up. The count tries to inject him the formula to wake him up but accidentally injects a couple that makes him change color. Finally with the help of Spirou he finally injects the correct formula and Fantasio wakes up. When he sees his formula worked through him, he is ecstatic and implores Fantasio to stay to show about his discovery but in vain. He then tries the formula on himself and enters on a series of sports competitions to prove his discovery, and he becomes famous due to this. After a thief saw him nearby and recognizes him on the papers where he learned about his miracle formula, he steals it from him to use it to his nefarious deeds. Luckily, the effects of the X1 are temporary, so Spirou and Fantasio were able to stop the thief before he applied another dose of it and was arrested. Some of the thief’s accomplices try to get a hold of the formula as well, only to mistakenly take the X2 and become old men. After this, the count decides to keep the formula to himself and reverses the effects of the X2 did to the thieves affected only to backfire and turning them into kids again, instead of their younger adult selves.