Dr. Erwin Armstrong (The Boss Baby: Family Business)

Dr. Armstrong is the main antagonist of The Boss Baby: Family Business. He is the founder of The Acorn Center (Tabitha's school) but in real he is a scheming and smart baby who plans to get rid of parents and rules.

Why He's The Generic Villain To End All Generic Villains

 * 1) Similar to Jimmy Crystal from Sing 2 (which came out 5 months prior), to get the baby out of the crib, he is a very boring and generic villain that only cares about his reputation, doesn't want anybody making him look like a fool, doesn't want parents to boss and telling babies what to do.
 * 2) His motivation to get rid of adults all around the world using their phone apps and making babies take over the world is completely nonsensical and more flawed than Francis E Franics' motivation to replace babies with puppies from the first movie and other Boss Baby villains with really stupid motivations, even by DreamWorks Animation villain standards for many reasons, even to the point where he makes other bad DreamWorks villains like Guy Gagne from Turbo, Ms. Grunion from Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Makunga from Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Prince Charming (Shrek the Third only) and especially Francis E. Francis look more threatening and well written by comparison.
 * 3) * First off, babies are known to be the weakest out of the human lifespan since there are hazards all over the world that babies could get injured or killed, as if that weren't enough, they could even die from neglect due to the lack of their parents' support and safety, possibly lead to the end of humanity if generations of humans died off, making him feel like he wants to end humanity just like most of the Boss Baby villains like Francis E Francis, especially considering the fact that he treats the babies like wild animals without any learning skills in a room with cameras all around so he could spy on them when he could've just simply build some robots or even hire some human adults to supervise the babies just in case anything happens to them and to teach the babies things like reading and writing.
 * 4) * Second, if babies take over the world, they will soon age up to adults in years (if they survived the hazards or neglect) with troublemaking skills and lack of intelligence due to the lack of safety knowledge and support from the adults as well as the fact that Armstrong doesn’t even care about babies getting injured or killed from many harmful hazards if he gets rid of the adults, this makes Dr. Armstrong's motivation dangerously sadist and could get in huge trouble by the authorities for large amounts of infant neglect.
 * 5) * Third, if he teaches children at his school, then why does he only want babies to turn bad by getting rid of their parents, when the children that are way older than the babies (mostly aged between 6 to 12) at his school also have parents to be supportive and yet he doesn’t do anything with them right after their parents were brainwashed by their phones through an app he created for the school play (aside from using them as targets to brainwash the adult audience and the Templeton children which he tried to kill them to prevent them from stopping adults getting brainwashed all over the world through a server), not to mention is that he also wants to get rid of rules from the babies’ parents so that they can be free to do whatever they want, even though he clearly has school rules for his students, which just goes to show not only his motivation is completely nonsensical, dangerous, and sadist (since he doesn’t care how much babies died from neglect), but also how hypocritical Dr. Armstrong really is when it comes to children. Sound familiar?
 * 6) * Forth, if he gets rid of the human adults, every job (including very important jobs like health and safety) would've entirely ended with nearly the production of life on Earth help by humans such as food, water and electricity dying off, which babies would've died from very little food supply and heath failure due to being in a world without any human adults. To make matters worse is that Armstrong also doesn't care about jobs and life on Earth dying off without help from all the adults, which means he acts more of a sadist moron who wanted to end humanity and life on Earth rather than a highly intelligent baby as the sequel supposedly depicts.
 * 7) * If anything, he feels more like a rejected Saturday morning TV cartoon villain as well as being more suited for bad cartoon shows like Mega Babies rather than an actual DreamWorks Animation movie villain.
 * 8) * Even Prince Charming from Shrek the Third, while being flanderized compared to the second Shrek film, has a justified motivation to take over Far Far Away with the fairy tale villains to avenge the death of Fairy Godmother, his mother, while being the new king of the kingdom when compared to this villain with a very nonsensical and hypocritical motivation.
 * 9) Aside from his motivation, he’s totally a huge hypocrite even without his villains plan, especially since he tends to say that he's smarter than everyone else, yet he can be a total moron at times like thinking that Precious is a dog or a cat when he’s clearly a pony in the climax and claims to be very good with kids, yet at his school, he treats babies like wild animals in a room with cameras spying on them, and his motivation being absolute child abuse since the babies could get injured or killed if they take over the world without adults, how hypocritical can this villain get.
 * 10) The climax between the Templeton children and him is just a lazy rehash of the climax from Penguins of Madagascar, only with humans, set in a school, and had more filler than that climax, the only reason why the climax was so dragged out is just serves as an attempt for writers Tom McGrath and Michael McCullers to make him a powerful villain that could surpass other way better and more powerful DreamWorks villains like Drago, Tai Lung, Lord Shen, Kai, most Shrek villains (except Prince Charming), and more recently, all of the Puss in Boots: The Last Wish villains (especially Big Jack Horner and Death, and that, along with the Bad Guys, came out a year after Boss Baby 2 and was a major improvement over this movie and Spirit Untamed a year prior) by constantly outsmarting the Templeton children into preventing them from turning off the server and it goes on for more than 6 minutes into the movie’s remanding runtime, making the climax nothing but a total waste of time for some people all because of Armstrong trying too hard to be a powerful villain, but fails at that due to the lazy writing.
 * 11) However, the climax would've been much shorter than 6 minutes if the Templeton daughters explained to the older children and the unaffected babies about his true colours and inspire them to help the Templetons defeat Dr. Armstrong and turn off the server since Armstrong betrayed his older students and the unaffected babies by getting their parents brainwashed at the school play, and that could’ve made the climax less filler, but instead the older students became completely useless and are never seen again until after the climax where they’re seen reuniting with their parents after the sever is destroyed, making it a huge, missed opportunity for the older students aside from the Templetons and the unaffected babies to be part of this dull and dragged-out climax.
 * 12) He’s basically a bootleg copy of Professor Poopypants from the Captain Underpants movie (which, ironically both movies are made by DreamWorks) since both characters are intelligent teachers who wants to get rid of something around the world (laughter and adults) by brainwashing people and have children as their sidekicks (Melvin Sneedly and the babies), expect without the charm that makes Poopypants a great villain with a justified backstory where he was made fun out of at an award show due to his name compared to Armstrong who has a very nonsensical backstory about why he doesn’t want parents to be in babies way.
 * 13) He’s also shown to be cringeworthy as well, such as the scene where he, in his baby form, dancing with the brainwashed adults at the play before attacking the Templeton children.
 * 14) His backstory on why he doesn’t want parents to be in his way is not just cliched, but also very stupid and pathetic, as he runs away from home to found a school just because he’s more smarter than his parents, even though he’s still a baby and his parents are just doing their jobs to protect him, if so, then he could've gotten himself in a dangerous situation since babies are known to be the weakest of the human lifespan, not to mention that if police could’ve found him running away without any adult supervision and take him back to his parents under maximum house arrest so that he can't escape from his house without any supervision in the future earlier, then none of the events of this sequel would've happened and the babies could’ve live healthy and went to a proper school with adult supervision, showing that he’s a very horribly written villain in any DreamWorks Animation movie.
 * 15) The plot-twist where he is actually a baby who doesn’t age the entire time is very poorly executed and weak, especially considering his backstory that could’ve been easily avoided and nonsensical motivation, in fact, the plot twist could’ve been better if it was more fleshed out if it weren’t for those two topics we're already mentioned.
 * 16) Overall, he’s considered a generic doomsday villain due to all these reasons above, even more than Francis E Francis from the first movie.
 * 17) He once committed animal abuse as he was throwing Precious, a pony out of his school calling him a dog and cat during the climax, despite being intelligent enough to know every animal.
 * 18) His baby form is a bit ugly and uncanny in comparison to his robot adult design and the other characters.
 * 19) Aside from getting punished by Tina, he most of the time never gets any comeuppance for his actions, as despite the ending scene involving him being reunited with his parents, he didn’t really deserve a redemption at the end of the film since his motivation could’ve potentially injured of killed babies while acting like a complete sadist who doesn’t care about how much babies died if they take over the world without adults, jobs and life on Earth dying off, thus making his fate very weakly rushed and undeserved.
 * 20) While Jeff Goldblum does a good job, his voice can be really annoying to listen to.
 * 21) He’s extremely lazy when it comes to days at his school since all he does is sitting in his office, eating candy and drinking soda all day instead of teaching or helping his students which is extremely unhealthy and could give him diabetes in real-life.
 * 22) Even though he’s the founder of the school, he’s very stupid when it comes to school restrictions which could've potentially got his students killed such as the water sprinklers being turned off to prevent water damage on school property (including the computer inside the tree), which is outright stupid, especially since people at his school would die from dealing directly with fires even without the water sprinkler system or emergency exits, or spying the babies in the activity room with cameras instead of adult supervision just in case anything bad happened to them like bullying or injuries, further making his motivation extremely child abuse.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) He does run a nice school called the Acorn Centre, despite being stupidly strict towards the school.
 * 2) Jeff Goldblum does a good job voicing him, even though very annoying to listen to.
 * 3) Despite getting off Scott free for his actions and his redemption being very weakly rushed, the scene where he reunites with his parents is heart-warming.
 * 4) The way he gets defeated by the Templeton children by exposing everyone that he’s a baby in the climax actually gives him comeuppance for his nonsensical and hypocritical actions.