Ogel is the main antagonist in the animated films Alpha Team: Mission Deep Jungle and Alpha Team: Mission Deep City. He is a cruel and domineering megalomaniac that wishes to rule the world who also originated in the LEGO Alpha Team product line.
Physical Description[]
Ogel wears an all-black suit fitted with futuristic shoulder armor, life support controls (after the prologue for Alpha Team: Mission Deep Jungle), and a robotic arm replacing his left arm (also after the said prologue). During the prologue, his suit is all black and a light trans blue hook replaces his left hand. In either variation, he wears a black helmet with a shiny gold visor. His face is wrinkled, with an arching brow ridge, thick eyebrows, thin mouth, and dark eyes. His right eye is missing, instead being replaced by a red robotic eye.
Characteristics[]
William Ogel is a megalomaniac who wishes for nothing else than to take over the world. Originally, he was a scientist at New Silicon Systems research center, but was fired when his ideas and experiments were deemed too radical, and even his brother George and sister-in-law Talia changed their surname to avoid association with him. Now wishing to exact his revenge by making them his slaves, he uses his experiments to create giant animal-like vehicles and to mutate people into his workforce, known as drones (including Drone Commander 13666, his second-in-command). Only Dash Justice and the Alpha Team have dared to oppose him.
During his tenure as a college professor, William Ogel had a crush on Radia, which naturally bothered her due to their wide age gap.
Before Mustache Maniacs Film Co.[]
Just like some other canon immigrants, Ogel started out as a video game character, starring as the main villain in 2000's LEGO Alpha Team. There, he never fought any of the Alpha Team agents, but would rather stand high above, taunting them with his wit and wry sense of humor. A year later, he appeared in two sets: 6771 Ogel Command Striker and 6776 Ogel Control Center. He was also featured in a series of LEGO Magazine comics, including a starring role as the villain in that year's holiday cross-over comic. Between 2001 and 2004, he appeared in a total of six sets.
Beyond the sets, he appeared in the comic adventures Evil Music and Into the Deep, along with Alpha Team comics and LEGO Club articles. He was going to make a cameo in LEGO Universe, but was cut out when the game's servers were shut down.
According to LEGO Magazine, Ogel briefly had a pet cat named Mr. Whiskers, who is featured in Andrew Bermudez's early stories set in Dimension 201. In official LEGO canon, Ogel is a descendant of Vladek, the main villain from the 2004-2006 theme Knight's Kingdom. His crush on Radia is believed to have originated from a LEGO Club news article wherein he sent her love poems, although this article has never been archived.
His name is LEGO spelled backwards, because this character is supposed to represent the opposite of the LEGO Group's core values. According to an "interview" with Evil Ogel, he legally changed his named to Misunderstood Ogel; however, this is not regarded as canon, as it was just a joke at the time.
Outside of LEGO canon, Ogel appears as a supporting character in the fan-created role-playing game Dino Attack RPG. Although this game is set in Dimension 525, it introduces his brother George Ogel, who was inducted into Mustache Maniacs Film Co. canon; unlike Dino Attack RPG, Mustache Maniacs Film Co. considers William Ogel the younger brother and George Ogel the older brother in the Official Cinematic Universe.
Appearances[]
- Alpha Team: The Deep Freeze (2005)
- Alpha Team 2: The Dino Attack (2006)
- Alpha Team: The Movie (2009; Unreleased)
- Alpha Team Advent Calendar (2015)
- Alpha Team: Mission Deep Jungle (2015)
- The Third Mustache Maniacs Film Co. Fan Choice Awards (2017)
- Howling Hollow: The Forest of Fear (2023)
- Electric Head in the Digital Cloud (Not Yet Released)
- Alpha Team: Mission Deep Past (Not Yet Released)
- Alpha Team: Mission Deep City (Not Yet Released)
- Legends of the Universe (Not Yet Released)
Trivia[]
- The Mustache Maniacs Film Co. Ogel 2.0 design is designed so that it will read as Ogel following the end of the official Alpha Team story line.
- According to freewebs.com/mylego, Ogel lost his left hand in the rock slide that destroyed his base in Evil Music.
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