Liquidator (Darkwing Duck)

Bud Flood, better known as The Liquidator, is a fictional character, a supervillain in the animated Disney television series Darkwing Duck. He was an anthropomorphic dog turned into a being made entirely of water, who had the ability to control and alter liquids. Liquidator was voiced by Jack Angel.

Bud Flood was a crooked businessman who owned the Sparkling Crystal Pure FloodWater, a bottled water company based in St. Canard. He acquired his powers trying to poison his competitors’ supply of water in an effort to monopolize the market during a heat wave. Accidentally falling into a vat of water he had himself poisoned, Flood became a mass of living water and applied his powers to extortion, as well as transforming most of Audubon Bay and St. Canard’s water supply into rubber cement. The Liquidator is possibly based on the Marvel Comics character Hydro-Man, and his accident is reminiscent of the Joker.

Because he was once a businessman, much of The Liquidator’s dialogue was based on advertising slogans. He formed part of The Fearsome Five as a henchman, which included the villains Megavolt, Bushroot, and Quackerjack, and whose leader was the evil incarnation of Darkwing Duck, NegaDuck. It is believed that the Liquidator does not have many 'episodes to himself' because the writers found his Catch-phrase centric dialogue too hard to write. He was also one of the difficult villains in the series to depict, as there were only a limited number of ways to defeat him (gelatin, quick-drying cement, evaporation), hence becoming repetitive. Pairing him with the other Fearsome Five made him both easier to write for and tended to make his defeat easier. Also, of all the Fearsome Five, he seems to be the most mentally stable member. However, considering the nature of his teammates( a sadistic egomaniac, a dangerously irreverent toymaker, a mutated botanist, and a man who believes light bulbs are alive), this isn't really saying much.

In Jailbird, when NegaDuck steals all of his powers, Liquidator has kept his altered appearance, similarly to Bushroot. It is unknown why he didn't revert back to his original form.