Big Tex Arkana

Big Tex Arkana is one of the antagonists in the Netflix stop-motion series Buddy Thunderstruck. 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 an stereotypical spoiled business ripoff of Mr. Krabs and Moneybags from the Spyro the Dragon series due to them all depicting as villainous greedy animals who treat the main protagonists like crap (SpongeBob, Spyro, Buddy Thunderstruck and Darnell Fetzervalve), is a single father with one or more children, owns a business for money and does illegal things in episodes he appeared in (though that turned down in the Sneezing Fits of Death onward) with "Buddy Double", "Get the Hock Out" and "Thunderstruck Rab Cab" all being the infamous offers of his greediness.
 * 2) The infamous scene where he laughs evilly while the screen turned to hellish red and stopped with creepy eyes like a hairy boar demon which shows how monstrous and greedy he is.
 * 3) He sometimes 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 insulting everyone in town and shifting the entire blame on the real Buddy (who is innocent by the way) in Buddy Double, teamed up with Jacko again along with Robby Burgles and Artichoke to steal Buddy's driving secrets in Thunderstruck Rab Cab, both of which just so that Tex Jr would become more popular than Buddy in truck racing and get his own trophy.
 * 4) * Speaking of which, the most infamous thing he did is that he illegality hired Buddy (who already has a job as a truck racer) and Darnell 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 heartless and cruel 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 so and become a spoiled bully over 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 in the series.
 * 5) *Speaking of that moment, he never got arrested by Sheriff Cannonball or lose more money from his pawn shop dealing with lawsuits from Thunderstruck Trucking and other people who got their stuff stolen despite him breaking a few illegal laws and that Buddy and Darnell, race sponsors for Thunderstruck Trucking were involved in.
 * 6) He's shown to be a hypocritic 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.
 * 7) *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.
 * 8) He's also known for being a cash cow towards his son Tex Jr. 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".
 * 9) 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 dislikes 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.
 * 10) 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.
 * 11) He treats Jacko Valtrades, Robby Burgles, Artichoke (in Thunderstruck Rab Cab), Buddy Thunderstruck and Darnell Fetzervalve (in Get the Hock Out) like slaves instead of employees. Even to the point of the former 3 being forced to steal Buddy's driving secrets when he become a taxi driver and he instead force Robby Burgles to teach both of them to be repo-men after Buddy and Darnell spend two days at the Weaselbrats' hot tub when they're supposed to steal it.
 * 12) 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 poor writing of the aforementioned episode, especially the "Ha! Over my dead... Mommy?" line when his mother haven't even mentioned in most of the series.
 * 13) Much like Mr. Krabs, He broke the law and violated workers rights countless times, like he once hired the main duo to work for him despite them having no money to pay him (as mentioned above).
 * 14) * Speaking of workers rights, He runs a pawnshop with thieves and under paid employees that hardly work for any wage unlike Muncie who at least gave equal pay to her employees correctly at the Concho Bolo unlike what Big Tex did.
 * 15) 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.
 * 16) His character became even more greedier in Get the Hock Out and Thunderstruck Rab Cab.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) At least he got better since "The Sneezing Fits of Death" after Tex Jr. become friends with Buddy and Darnell.
 * 2) He become less greedier and cruel to Buddy and Darnell than earlier episodes and mostly shows compassion for his son, Tex Jr.
 * 3) His boar design is decent.
 * 4) Harry Chaskin is still great voicing Big Tex.
 * 5) He is a decently funny character at times, especially in later episodes.
 * 6) The idea of a boar running a pawn shop is still interesting along with the show's idea.
 * 7) 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, though this isn't enough to remove him from the Karma Houdini party.