Professor Plump – Professor Plum from the board game “Clue”
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Professor Plump, a large Gobbler, appears to have wandered into the Lobby due to hunger. It seems he has eaten the historical First Factory. He asks if you know the way back to Gobblerton, but falls asleep before you can answer.
Cluedo, known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt. The game was first manufactured by Waddingtons in the United Kingdom in 1949. Since then, it has been relaunched and updated several times, and it is currently owned and published by the American game and toy company Hasbro.
The object of the game is to determine who murdered the game’s victim, where the crime took place, and which weapon was used. Each player assumes the role of one of the six suspects and attempts to deduce the correct answer by strategically moving around a game board representing the rooms of a mansion and collecting clues about the circumstances of the murder from the other players.
Numerous games, books, a film, television series, and theatre adaptations have been released as part of the Cluedo franchise. Several spinoffs have been released, featuring various extra characters, weapons, rooms, or a different gameplay. The original game is marketed as the “Classic Detective Game”, and the various spinoffs are all distinguished by different slogans.
The murder victim in the game was known as Dr. Black in the UK edition and Mr. Boddy in North American versions. Updated editions of the game, released by Hasbro in 2023, refer to him as Boden “Boddy” Black Jr.
Player tokens are typically plastic pawns or figurines; the standard edition of the game has six suspects:
Miss Scarlett, the stock femme fatale character; she is represented by a red token/figurine.
Colonel Mustard, a retired military officer with a distinguished career; he is represented by a yellow token/figurine.
Mrs. White, the chief domestic servant, typically the housekeeper or cook, updated as “Chef White” in the 2023 edition; she is represented by a white token/figurine.
Reverend Green, the local clergyman, Known as Mr. Green in North American editions, updated as Mayor Green in the 2023 edition; he is represented by a green token/figurine.
Mrs. Peacock, a stylish widowed socialite, updated as “Solicitor Peacock” in the 2023 edition; she is represented by a blue token/figurine.
Professor Plum, an intelligent yet absent-minded academic; he is represented by a purple token/figurine.
Professor Plum’s look and characterizations through the years:
1949 UK: Professor Plum was first depicted as an elderly pontificating scientist with the brains of Albert Einstein. Head mounted on a purple pawn.
1949 US: Identical to UK, but now given a body.
1963 US: Cartoon caricature of a rotund, snooty-looking professor sporting a purple tail coat.
1972 US: Portrayed in photograph as a young charming looking University professor, who gives off a sort of a leer. For the first time, he is wearing his classic bow tie and glasses. He also is smoking a pipe; a trait that would also be associated with Plum over time. With his good looks and charm he has found a dark side being sneaky.
1986 US: Professor Plum is still a young man, while still retaining the pipe and glasses, he’s gained a mustache. He is still seen with his pipe, but slightly less intellectual and more risk-taking as he is willing to venture into geographic areas beset by political unrest if it serves his academic career.
UK Super Challenge: Artistically updated version of the original Professor Plum; now given a body and glasses.
Master Detective: Professor Edgar Plum has taken the profession of a shady archeologist with a dubious past. He claims he is on the verge of an earth-shaking discovery that he can feel in his bones. His depiction is similar to the 1986 Plum though his facial expression appears influenced by the contents of his pipe.
1992 US: Almost identical to the 1986 Plum in almost every way though appears to have been given an alarmed expression. On the box, he stands clutching a book, while hovering over a table that has a Knife jabbed into it.
1996 US: Professor Plum has returned to a more youthful age that is more akin to the 1972 Plum. Gone is his smoking pipe, but he still keeps the bow-tie and glasses. He has an alarmed expression on his face.
1996 UK: Again Plum has become an archaeologist who is seeking the proper funding for his next expedition to Egypt. He is wearing a purple tuxedo.
2000 UK/Super Cluedo/Passport to Murder: Almost identical the 1996 US Plum, he appears to be a little more refined with his hair more neatly combed. However, he still keeps the sneaky expression.
2002 US: A more cubist rendition than before; Peter Plum was a curator at a reputed museum before having his position terminated on the grounds of plagiarism. His appearance now gives him red hair that is completely disheveled with a flyaway look.
Discover the Secrets: Professor Plum has been completely reinvented as Victor Plum, a successful video game designer.
The Classic Mystery Game: “Plum” is now an alias for the youthful Nikolas Maksimov, a bespectacled inventor and mathematical genius. A challenge to him could be perilous.
2016 UK/US: Professor Plum is an intrepid archeologist whose many exploits had been funded by Sir Hugh, until a disagreement. Plum has come to Boddy/Black, looking for more funding.
2023 UK/US: Professor Plum is now portrayed as a young light-skinned biracial university instructor. His fields are antiquities (identifying and making counterfeit artifacts) and cryptocurrency (hacking into investors’ accounts to steal their money). In the 2023 online round of Cluedo, Professor Plum is one of Boddy Black’s blackmail victims and one of the seven owners of his planned hotel. In this version, Professor Plum’s motive for killing Boddy Black is the victim’s threats to expose him as a black hat hacker. Boddy Black forced Professor Plum to transfer the stolen cryptocurrency funds into the former’s bank account. After the suspects have been cut off from the hotel deal and Boddy Black gets killed, Professor Plum hacked into the victim’s bank account to the drain it completely but in doing so, also uncovers the DNA test results identifying Boddy Black and Chef White as paternal half-siblings.
Clue is a 1985 American black comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name. Directed by Jonathan Lynn, who cowrote the script with John Landis, and produced by Debra Hill, it stars the ensemble cast of Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren, with Colleen Camp and Lee Ving in supporting roles.
Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum, a disgraced former professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur. He is now working for the World Health Organization.
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