| Salami Swami | |
| Name: | Salami Swami |
| Gender: | Male |
| First appearance: | Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins |
| Last appearance: | Slave the Day |
| Episode count: | 2 |
| Voice actor: | Tom Kenny |
The Salami Swami is a minor villain in The Powerpuff Girls. He was initially mentioned in the pilot short "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" and only shown in a still frame depicting his likeness, but was eventually seen in the series proper with a redesign in "Slave the Day".
Profile[]
Appearance[]
The Salami Swami appears to be a thin man wearing a large, bologna-shaped turban and a white undergarment. He has yellow eyes, triangular ears, a black unibrow, and a red spot on his forehead. He sits criss-crossed atop a floating azure carpet with red edges.
The Salami Swami is seen playing a thin white flute, which he uses to command several strings of sausages that sit in wicker baskets, which behave like charmed snakes.
Voice[]
It is unknown if the Salami Swami is capable of communicating through other means than with his flute, since he has not spoken once in his entire role.
History[]
In "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", the Powerpuff Girls observe that much of the city of Townsville has been transformed into meat. When considering possible suspects of the crime, they bring up the Salami Swami as a potential perpetrator (after previously considering "the Balogna Brothers" and "All-Beef Patty"). A static artpiece depicting the character is briefly shown.
In "Slave the Day", the Salami Swami attempts to steal many valuable pieces of art from Townville's Art Museum. When the Girls and Big Billy show up, the Salami Swami attacks them by commanding slithering salami links toward them. However, Big Billy easily chomps down all the salami. Big Billy takes several pieces of the art in the Salami Swami's possession, then slams them onto the thief to prevent him from escaping. This works, but destroys the irreplaceable art in the process, earning the Girls' disapproval.
The Salami Swami also appears in "Too Close for Comfort", a comic from Cartoon Network Block Party, Issue #48. In it, he has teamed up with Sedusa (1998 TV series) and Abracadaver to steal money, freezers, and sausages from across a few Townsville locations. The locations' security cameras fail to capture full images of the perpetrators, but the Girls compare the pictures to a set of drawn images they have of villains they know (one of which depicts the Salami Swami) to deduce who was behind the crimes.
Trivia[]
- A Swami is a type of ascetic (a person who lives a lifestyle of abstaining from material pleasures). A practitioner is typically expected not to be deeply attached to worldly goods, which is ironically very distant from the Salami Swami, who appears to be a greedy and opulent thief.