Big Tex Arkana

Tex Arkana Sr (also known as Big Tex Arkana or simply Big Tex) is one of the antagonists in the Netflix stop-motion series. He is the father of Tex Jr and owner of the Gold Brick Pawn shop. His plan is to let Buddy lose a truck race and sell Thunderstruck Trucking by thinking up ways to make his son win, even if it means to cheat.

Why He Sucks

 * 1) To start off the list, He is often notable for being Buddy Thunderstruck's version of Mr. Krabs and Moneybags from the Spyro the Dragon series to the point where he could easily compared to these characters. The three treat the titular protagonists and their friends like crap because they get more attention than them, owns businesses for money, are cash cow lairs who often violate workers rights and do illegal stuff in media they appeared in, making him an huge Mr. Krabs and Moneybags wannabe, the differences is that Mr. Krabs and Big Tex are single fathers with one child while Moneybags is married and have four sons, and Big Tex and Moneybags both turned down their greediness in later media of their respective franchises unlike Mr. Krabs who possibly stayed the same as his flanderization.
 * 2) He's sometimes an Karma Houdini who got off Scott free despite his illegal actions as seen in earlier episodes, examples are hiring Jacko to make everybody hate Buddy (which he doesn't look anything like him) by being very mean to some townspeople and shifting the entire blame on the real Buddy even to the point where they actually got him and Darnell arrested (who are innocent and done nothing wrong by the way) in Buddy Double, teamed up with Robby Burgles, Jacko Valtrades and Artichoke (who is an temporary employee) to steal Buddy's driving secrets after he become a taxi driver in Thunderstruck Rab Cab, hiring Moneybags to take his son, Tex Jr to reveal Buddy's identity without any money to pay him in "Moneybags and his Monster" (which is infamous for its Modern-tard propaganda live-action ending and the whitewashing cast choice of Tex Jr's live action appearance) and thinks that the things that Robby stole were "his" in "Get the Hock Out", the former two of which just so that Tex Jr would become more popular than Buddy in truck racing and get his own trophy.
 * 3) * Speaking of, he's infamous for having two repo man methods that are literality illegal laws (threating and stealing) disguising as methods as well as being at his worst out of all the earlier segments where he's in his greedy mode to the point where it made Big Tex the least likable Greasepit citizen in the entire show where he illegality hired Buddy and Darnell (who are both already race sponsors for Thunderstruck Trucking) for free just to trick them into scamming and stealing other people's things so that they can get their stuff back from him which shows how he's a huge spoiled bully he is to the other people who got their stuff from his pawn shop, after Buddy realized that Muncie was right about stealing other people's things and made bad deals with him are against the law and told him to give everybody's stuff, what does Big Tex do? he refuses to take the Thunderstruck cousins' criticism over him and the stuff that the main duo have stole until Artichoke, the "Sheriff Cannonball" of this episode, arrived for his stolen bike. This was his most infamous moment with his employees in the series and it ruined the reputation of the episode's writer, Chris Pearson who is best known for.
 * 4) *Speaking of that moment, he never got arrested by Sheriff Cannonball or lose more money from his pawn shop dealing with lawsuits and fines from Thunderstruck Trucking and other people who either got their stuff broken or stolen by his two new repo men despite the three of them breaking illegal laws and that Buddy and Darnell, race sponsors for Thunderstruck Trucking were involved in.
 * 5) Much like Mr. Krabs, He has an huge unhealthy habit of treating his pawnshop like an bank and once hiring people like Artichoke, Buddy and Darnell (as mentioned above) to work for him despite them having no money to pay him and even criminals like Robby Burgles which means that he violates workers rights.
 * 6) * Because of this, he's shown to be running a pawnshop with criminals, thieves, overworked and under paid employees that hardly work for any wage unlike other business owners in Greasepit like Muncie and Leroy who at least gave a good amount of pay to their hardworking employees and don't hire criminals or thieves for their businesses unlike Big Tex.
 * 7) He's shown to be a huge hypocrite as seen in "Buddy Double", when Tex Jr lost the truck race, Big Tex took it too seriously by yelling "Fart Nugget! I hate me some Buddy Thunderstruck" yet he talks and made deals to the same guy who is his son's rival in later episodes of the show.
 * 8) *Also in Buddy Double, he realizes that Tex Jr is the "New Cat's Pajamas" only because of him taking the lead in a truck race before Buddy arrived late and just of him to win the cash money along with the trophy without even noticing that Tex Jr has the most unluckiest race number which cause his truck to fall apart and lose the race and being the most hated out of all the six racers which shows his hypocrisy side yet again.
 * 9) He's also known for using his son Tex Jr. to lie about his lucky number and making him his cash cow since he made terrible and even false advertisements of him with his "lucky" 13 number just so that he can overshadow Buddy Thunderstruck in which most Figure 8 fans were very interested to see the race just for him winning and not Tex Jr including the billboard in which Big Tex made to prove his son's "good luck" in the episode "Buddy Double".
 * 10) He was so stereotypically greedy and heartless that even Muncie (who brought the tables and chairs from the pawnshop for the Concho Bolo) pointed the repo men part out and even have good reasons to why she criticizes Big Tex for being a huge spoiled bully to other people who got their stuff from his pawn shop and made bad deals with his repo men.
 * 11) He only cares about wanting Tex Jr to win a truck race so that he can steal Thunderstruck Trucking rather than celebrating Buddy's endless winning streak.
 * 12) He treats Jacko Valtrades, Robby Burgles, Artichoke (in Thunderstruck Rab Cab), Buddy Thunderstruck and Darnell Fetzervalve (both in Get the Hock Out) and even his own son, Tex Jr (in Hit and Dumb) like slaves instead of employees. Even to the point where Robby teach Buddy and Darnell how to be repo-men instead of firing them after they spend the evening at the Weaselbrats' hot tub when they're supposed to steal it and told Jacko Valtrades to get in the weeknight race to defeat Buddy so that he can't win.
 * 13) While Harry Chaskin does a fine job voicing him, his lines and evil laugh in Get the Hock Out can be very laughable due to the terrible writing of the aforementioned episode, especially the "Ha! Over my dead... Body?" line when he's still alive and well in most of the series.
 * 14) In Babysitters Yo, he went on a trip (which was never seen) without noticing that Tex Jr is in charge of his house before he got locked out and sleep in the Arkanas' dumpster until Buddy and Darnell babysits him until Big Tex picks him up at Buddy's garage which shows how stupid he is despite turning down his greediest in "The Sneezing Fits of Death".
 * 15) He was heavily flanderized in Get the Hock Out (much like the other characters who appeared in Get the Hock Out and one of the worst flanderized characters in there besides Auntie Uncle and Artichoke) and Thunderstruck Rab Cab as he became even more greedier and villainous than he was in Buddy Double.
 * 16) * Not only he's mostly an stereotypical greedy money-obsessing business man, but he also became much of an Gary Stu than Auntie Uncle (who is a Mary Sue) in later episodes since nothing bad happens to him similar to Dean Cuizeen.
 * 17) He never even hired an better mechanic like Darnell to fix Tex Jr's truck in every race he's been in which resulted in his truck being destroyed in some races he's been in unlike Buddy who already has Darnell (who is an mechanic by the way) to fix his truck when part of the Rabble Rouser fall apart, also in "Thunderstruck Rab Cab", He lets Buddy teach Tex Jr fake driving lessons as revenge for stealing his driving secrets and wrecking part of his truck while Darnell possibly work for Big Tex into fixing the Rabble Rouser for him.
 * 18) Though he improved in later episodes, his redemption is clearly rushed since he never even learned from his crimes in earlier episodes.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) As mentioned above and despite being a Gary Stu, he gotten better in "The Sneezing Fits of Death" after Tex Jr. become friends with Buddy and Darnell and become less greedier and cruel to them than earlier episodes and mostly shows compassion for his son, Tex Jr.
 * 2) * Speaking of which, He's the only employee where he doesn't do illegal crimes unlike the others.
 * 3) * Apart from the Sneezing Fits of Death, he was much likable in "Mayor May Not", "Hit and Dumb" and Opposite of Awesome" as he's shown to be nicer to Buddy and Darnell.
 * 4) His boar design is decent.
 * 5) Harry Chaskin is still great voicing Big Tex.
 * 6) He is a decently funny character at times, especially in later episodes.
 * 7) The idea of a boar running a pawn shop is still interesting along with the show's idea of an anthropomorphic animal truck racing cartoon.
 * 8) He got some karma from Artichoke along with Buddy and Darnell for stealing his motorcycle mistaking it for a chopper in Get the Hock Out and Buddy Double where he realizes that 13 is not his son's lucky number which caused people to boo at the Arkanas, though this isn't enough to remove him from the Karma Houdini party.
 * 9) * Not only that, but some of his "employees" also got karma from other people like Jacko Valtrades in Buddy Double for insulting the town and blame the whole mess on Buddy so that he can get arrested for Jacko's crimes.
 * 10) YOU WERE SUPPOSSED TO BRING ME THAT HOT TUB (Get the Hock Out).