Lord Betrayus

Lord Betrayus "Sneakerous" Spheros (also simply known as Betrayus), or better known as Lord Betrayus, is the main antagonist of the video game Pac Man and the Ghostly Adventures and its sequel, as well as the main antagonist of the animated TV series, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. He is the arch-nemesis of Pac-Man.

Why He Sucks

 * 1) Even though he is cocky, cunning, deceptive, and villainous, he can be quite empty-headed at times and he is way too goofy to be a serious threat, in a rather annoying way. His failures typically have him look pathetic in a predictably embarrassing way.
 * 2) Not only is he a generic and incredibly lame villain that rips off Mezmeron from Pac-Man TV series, but he is also a complete manchild and a total crybaby as well.
 * 3) * An example of his moments with whining was how he never got over losing to Spheria at a pac-pong tournament years ago as shown in the episode "Pac-Pong Fever" and was constantly saying how she cheated, which was something he held a grudge on for years.
 * 4) He is also very cowardly, despicable, and pusillanimous, letting others do the dirty work on his behalf, as well as very childish, irresponsible, and aggravated, he tends to throw tantrums whenever things do not go his way and the fact that he cannot sleep without his stuffed toy makes him pretty cringe-worthy for an ineffectual villain.
 * 5) He suffers from Flanderization, where he went from being a decent antagonist with his moments of comic relief in the very first episode, and later has slowly become more of an extremely childish, bossy, idiotic, and whiny screw-up who never succeeds at anything.
 * 6) The worst part about his flanderization is that he feels more or less like a very mediocre version of Dr. Ivo Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, King K. Rool from the Donkey Kong Country TV series, and King Koopa from both The Super Mario Bros Super Show & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3; three examples of villains that are genuinely funny with their cartoonishly evil personas 20 to 24 years prior to Betrayus. While he can be amusing sometimes, Betrayus is like taking that ideal of comedic villains to a pitifully bad degree that is rather irritating than funny.
 * 7) His voice is mediocre at best and insanely grating at worst. The biggest offenders are his whiny tone of voice, his yelling, and his crying/wailing.
 * 8) Despite his very name being Lord Betrayus, he barely betrays anybody that trusts him. Sure he is a self-centered, manipulative, and egotistical sociopath who wants nothing but to rule Pac-World and is often mean to characters that are loyal to him such as Butt-ler. Yet he often doesn't help his enemies, he keeps secrets about his feelings to himself plus his henchmen and relies on his generally inept minions to do the dirty work of defeating Pac-Man for him since Betrayus is way too incompetent to do anything right, as a matter of fact, he's been betrayed by other pac-people in his past like his mother (who gave him the name Betrayus). So his name is rather contradictory than anything.
 * 9) Aside from being a childish and insecure coward of a villain, he often belittles ghosts that continue to serve him and make them do whatever he wants.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) He does have his moments here and there with being funny or entertaining. Mainly because of how over-the-top he is.
 * 2) * He was a decent comic-relief antagonist in the very first episode, he was sadly flanderized as the series progresses on.
 * 3) I AM THE BEST! ME! ME! IS THAT CLEAR? MMEE!!!
 * 4) *  Oh I see! My dear sweet mother is visiting her favorite son Stratos and not ME! How can people be so cruel? 
 * 5) At least his voice actor Samuel Vincent did a decent job at voicing him and tried his best to have fun with voicing Betrayus with his Peter Zimmerman impression.
 * 6) His ghost design and his Pac-Worlder design are both; appealing and cool-looking.
 * 7) * His theme songs are catchy.
 * 8) There are fans who support this character, much to the point that fans of the show consider him the best part of the show.

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Trivia

 * His name is a play on the two words "betray us".
 * His name is also a pun on that of former CIA Director David_Petraeus|David Petraeus.

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