48 Fun Facts About The Bad Guys

Which painting did one of the Bad Guys once steal while disguised as the painting itself?

Mona Lisa. The gang's master of disguise made his name by walking out of the Louvre with it while dressed as Leonardo's sitter.

The Bad Guys is loosely based on a children's book series by which author?

Aaron Blabey. He was an award-winning TV actor in Australia before he gave it up to write and draw children's books, including Pig the Pug and Thelma the Unicorn.

Who directed The Bad Guys in his feature directorial debut?

Pierre Perifel. The French animator had earlier co-directed Bilby, a short salvaged from a cancelled feature on which he had been head of animation.

In The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf's charm offensive is nicknamed after which Hollywood star?

George Clooney. The gang calls Wolf's charm offensive 'the full Clooney', and the governor shuts it down with 'Do not Clooney me, Wolf.'

Who voices Mr. Wolf, the leader of the Bad Guys?

Sam Rockwell. His Wolf turns to the camera mid-chase to complain that wolves are the villain in every story, from Little Red Riding Hood to The Three Little Pigs.

Which comedian and podcaster voices the grouchy safecracker Mr. Snake?

Marc Maron. His co-star Awkwafina was a guest on one of the last episodes of his WTF podcast while the pair were promoting the sequel in 2025.

Ms. Tarantula, the gang's hacker voiced by Awkwafina, goes by what nickname?

Webs. In the original books the tarantula is a male hacker nicknamed Legs; the film made the character female and gave her a new name.

Which gang member, voiced by Craig Robinson, is the master of disguise?

Mr. Shark. The gang's sensitive great white relies on flimsy fake moustaches, yet guards and henchmen keep falling for them.

Anthony Ramos voices which short-fused 'muscle' in The Bad Guys?

Mr. Piranha. When the gala heist is about to be exposed, he bursts into song and gets the whole room dancing, a number performed by Hamilton's Ramos himself.

What kind of animal is Professor Rupert Marmalade IV?

Guinea pig. The adorable philanthropist volunteers to reform the gang, then turns out to be the real villain, framing them for a theft he staged himself.

Who voices Professor Marmalade in The Bad Guys?

Richard Ayoade. His professor is a do-gooder so smug that, told his goodness is second only to Mother Teresa's, he says it would really be more of a tie.

Governor Diane Foxington was secretly which former master thief?

The Crimson Paw. She was the one great thief who never got caught, and she puts the mask back on to break the gang out of prison.

Who voices Governor Diane Foxington in The Bad Guys?

Zazie Beetz. Her governor goes on TV to dismiss the gang as has-beens, the insult that goads them into their riskiest heist.

Alex Borstein voices which hot-tempered character in The Bad Guys?

Police chief Misty Luggins. She spends the first film hunting the gang, but by the sequel she is commissioner and helps them board a rocket mid-launch.

Lilly Singh voices Tiffany Fluffit, who has what job?

News reporter. In the original books Tiffany Fluffit is a cat; the film turned her into a human with a habit of exaggerating her stories.

What award do the Bad Guys set out to steal in the first film?

The Golden Dolphin. The good-citizen prize had beaten every thief who tried for it, and Wolf blows this attempt too after stopping to help an old lady.

In which city is The Bad Guys set?

Los Angeles. The setting was the director's choice: he has lived there since 2008 and wanted to salute the city's classic heist and crime films.

What does Professor Marmalade power with the stolen meteorite in The Bad Guys?

A mind-control helmet. He uses it to send a hypnotized swarm across the city to steal the money raised for his own charity.

In The Bad Guys, which treat does Snake give Shark, showing his hidden good side?

A Push Pop. Wolf later reveals he left that last one behind on purpose, to prove there was good in Snake.

Which animated film inspired The Bad Guys' illustrative animation style?

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Its comic-book look pushed the team away from polished CG realism, toward brushstroke textures, speed lines and effects drawn by hand.

The makers of The Bad Guys say its opening diner scene honours which Tarantino film?

Pulp Fiction. Wolf and Snake chat in a diner booth, in one unbroken shot of more than two minutes, before strolling out to a heist.

Which manga creator did The Bad Guys' director cite as an influence on its art style?

Akira Toriyama. The director named the Dragon Ball creator alongside Asterix artist Uderzo, wanting an illustrated look with no straight lines in it.

Which heist film series is repeatedly cited as an inspiration for The Bad Guys?

Ocean's trilogy. Like Danny Ocean's crew, each Bad Guy has a specialist job in the heist, and the film borrows the capers' montages and split screens.

Which good deed by Mr. Wolf goes viral in The Bad Guys?

Rescuing a cat from a tree. Marmalade films the rescue on his phone and posts it, and the clip turns the feared gang into overnight favourites.

Who composed the score for both Bad Guys films?

Daniel Pemberton. He scored the talking-animal comedy like a grown-up caper, with brassy, jazzy callbacks to 1970s heist-movie funk.

Which singer's 2019 hit backed the first trailer for The Bad Guys?

Billie Eilish. Her hit Bad Guy scored the trailer, and the studio built a TikTok challenge around the song to sell the film.

Elle King covered which Joe Cocker hit for The Bad Guys soundtrack?

Feelin' Alright. Traffic's 1968 original barely charted, and it took Joe Cocker's cover a year later to make the song famous.

Which Marvel hero's sequel ended The Bad Guys' two-week run at number one in US cinemas?

Doctor Strange. Multiverse of Madness took the top spot in May 2022, and The Bad Guys held second place behind it for two weekends running.

What came second to The Bad Guys on its US opening weekend?

Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The Bad Guys opened to about $24 million, well above forecasts, and beat the hedgehog sequel's third weekend to the top spot.

In The Bad Guys, what gives the gang's piranha away whenever he tells a lie?

He farts. The gang's hacker calls him out on it mid-getaway, he insists it is only nerves, and the cloud is thick enough to blind the police cars behind them.

On which streaming service did The Bad Guys first appear in July 2022?

Peacock. Universal's own service had the film for four months, handed it to a rival streamer for ten, then took it back.

The Bad Guys 2 opens with a heist and car chase through which city?

Cairo. The opening flashes back five years to the gang stealing their getaway car from an Egyptian billionaire.

Who voices Kitty Kat, the snow leopard who leads the Bad Girls in The Bad Guys 2?

Danielle Brooks. The Color Purple star's Kitty Kat is the sequel's Phantom Bandit, who frames the reformed gang for her thefts and then blackmails them into one more job.

In The Bad Guys 2, Natasha Lyonne's raven Doom dates which gang member?

Snake. His new girlfriend 'Susan' turns out to be Doom, a plant from a rival crew, who was using him to lure the gang into a kidnapping.

Maria Bakalova's Pigtail Petrova in The Bad Guys 2 is which animal?

Wild boar. The rival crew's engineer has a change of heart mid-heist, refusing to harm the Bad Guys, and ends up with community service instead of prison.

What is the name of the rocket Kitty Kat's crew hijacks in The Bad Guys 2?

MOON-X. It belongs to tech billionaire Jeremiah Moon, voiced by Colin Jost, and the crews start by lifting his smartwatch at his own wedding.

What is the rare metal that powers the villain's giant magnet in The Bad Guys 2 called?

MacGuffinite. The name winks at the MacGuffin, Alfred Hitchcock's word for the thing everyone in a story is chasing, whatever it happens to be.

Which outside studio animated part of The Bad Guys 2?

Sony Pictures Imageworks. Under a cost-cutting 'mixed production model', the rival-owned studio was to build half the assets and animate about 20 minutes of shots.

In The Bad Guys 2, Mr. Wolf applies for an honest job at what kind of business he once robbed?

A bank. He had robbed it several times, so the manager turns him down, one of many rejections the gang collects before a new heist pulls them back in.

What does Kitty Kat's crew plan to steal from orbit in The Bad Guys 2?

All the world's gold. She hijacks a tech billionaire's rocket to carry a giant magnet into orbit, a scheme reviewers likened to a James Bond villain's.

The Bad Guys short Little Lies and Alibis premiered before screenings of which 2025 film?

Dog Man. Both come from the same studio, so the short ran as a big-screen teaser six months before The Bad Guys 2 opened.

What do the Bad Guys wreck in A Very Bad Holiday?

Santa balloon. The accident gets Christmas cancelled, so the gang has to restore the city's festive spirit, purely so their planned holiday heist can go ahead.

On which streaming service did the Bad Guys prequel specials premiere, with an all-new voice cast?

Netflix. None of the film's stars came back for the specials; Michael Godere, who had bit parts in the 2022 film, took over as Mr. Wolf.

In the original Bad Guys books, what is the gang's great white shark afraid of?

Spiders. That gets awkward in the second book, when a tarantula joins the gang, though the shark slowly learns to live with his new teammate.

In the original Bad Guys books, Professor Marmalade is eventually revealed to be what?

An alien. The second film nods to the twist when Marmalade turns his limousine into a spaceship and flies off to his home planet.

Which publisher released the original Bad Guys books?

Scholastic. Its series had sold about 8 million copies before the 2022 film; by the time of the sequel, the studio put the total above 30 million.

In The Bad Guys 2, at what kind of event are the Bad Guys framed for the Phantom Bandit's thefts?

A lucha libre tournament. A masked newcomer steps into the ring and makes it look as if the gang is stealing the championship belt.

At the end of The Bad Guys 2, the gang's deaths are faked so they can work as what?

Secret agents. Commissioner Luggins stages their funeral, then signs them up for the International Super-Galactic League of Protectors, or ISGLOP.