http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_Leader

Fearless Leader is a fictional character and the principal antagonist in the 1959–1964 animated television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, both shows often collectively referred to as Rocky and Bullwinkle. He is voiced by Bill Scott.

Character overview

Fearless Leader is the dictator of the fictional country Pottsylvania, and the employer of the inept government agents Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. He could always be found in his underground hideout, “Central Control.” However, it seems evident that he did answer to one man himself: the diminutive Mr. Big. Mr. Big appears in two storylines of the series, “Upsidaisium” and “Metal Munching Moon Mice.”

This is the Enemy (Koehler/Ancona, 1942): possible basis for character appearance.

As expected from his given position and name, Fearless Leader is a strict, ruthless character, and often harshly criticizes the incompetence of his main minion Boris. He is usually shown with a long scar on his cheek. He is distrustful of his own government employees, and is known to carry the Pottsylvania treasury with him wherever he goes. Although Pottsylvania’s chief spies are given ersatz Russian accents, Fearless Leader’s accent seems more in keeping with the German stereotype. In fact, his sharply-angled features closely resemble those from an anti-Nazi propaganda poster circulated during World War II. He uses some German such as “Achtung” and “Schweinhund.” Thus, it has also been conjectured[by whom?] that he was modeled after Nazi Major Strasser in the 1942 movie “Casablanca”.
[edit]In other media

Fearless Leader appears in two live-action films: he is portrayed by Christopher Neame in Boris and Natasha: The Movie (1992) and by Robert De Niro in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000).

Fearless Leader was also the background picture seen hanging on the wall in the old newspaper cartoon, “Grin and Bear It” by Lichty, whenever the Kremlin or politburo was being lampooned.

In Jamie Gilson’s book 4B Goes Wild, the strict, no-nonsense headmistress of the elementary school is called that behind her back. When the protagonist, Hobie Hanson, wins a lunch date with the headmistress in a raffle, his friends tease him as to “When are you going to eat with Fearless Leader?”

Mr. Earl Grey personally, perhaps?

Baxxter, don’t despair, it’s been so many years since this prosperous, now complacent rock has experienced prolonged, incompetent Labour rule.

A wake up call to the ungrateful unwashed is required. Sad, but inevitable.

Wilson, go easy on downplaying Swiss Francs, the best investment available. The gnomes of Zurich are all knowing, and all powerful.

The real value of the Swiss Franc is .90-1.00 CHF to 1,00 Euro. Trust me. The gnomes, themselves are shoring up the Euro, to keep an export advantage.

At least the national airline had the good sense to allow this jerk Piscopo to join the PL skip.

The airline would be better off paying him his salary whilst encouraging him to stick to mile-end forever.

When it is 3.6 million you wouldn’t worry that much, unless its Rupees or Swiss francs.

There will be a defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Two victories, to be precise: 1987 and 2003.

PN should have neutralised the Mintoffian rot after 1987, but it surrendered unilaterally in the name of some misguided principle of Christian forgiveness and reconciliation.

Again, it treated 2003 like just another election in a normal European country. It appointed some of the most rabid anti-EU Laburisti to the government’s most sensitive posts.

But Malta was never normal.

Ten years down the line, we have students tearing the EU flag, and Mintoffian, anti-European Labour on the brink of the biggest electoral victory since 1972. That’s where appeasement gets you.

[Daphne – 1971 (not 72) wasn’t a big electoral victory at all.]