Todd

Todd Ianuzzi^[2] is a major antagonist in Beavis and Butt-Head. He is a violent hoodlum whom the titular duo idolize. He is voiced by Toby Huss.

Beavis and Butt-Head look up to Todd and aspire to become part of his gang, which consists of himself, his friend Slade and various other local low-lives. Todd, however, expresses only contempt for the two, assaulting them with little to no provocation and often refers to them as "girls", "preschoolers" and "punks". A running gag is whenever Beavis and Butt-Head are interested in a woman, he shows up and she runs off with him—even sometimes having immediate sex with him. Todd is not above taking advantage of the duo when he needs money or a place to hide from the cops, frequently using their house as a safe house.

Todd drives a rather battered and well-worn, primer-patched green Plymouth Duster recklessly; often onto lawns, through garbage cans, and usually over Beavis and Butt-head's bikes.

He usually gets away with his crimes, including assaulting the duo. However, there have been a few exceptions, mainly in video games: in the Super Nintendo game, the duo win a game of chicken against Todd and Earl and manage to have sent him to the hospital. In the Virtual Stupidity video game, he is smacked around and crushed by a cow carcass during Butt-Head's attempt to "save him" via a slaughterhouse processing machine, and has to recover at their house. In the end, the duo manage to get him arrested, albeit unintentionally, after his enemy's body is discovered in said slaughterhouse.

Todd made his official return to the series in "Snitchers", with Toby Huss reprising his role for the first time under his real name.

Physical appearance[]

Todd usually wears a light blue work shirt with a name patch and the sleeves torn to show off his arms, with dark blue jeans and black boots. He has long, shoulder-length blond hair styled into a mullet and wears mirrored sunglasses. He also has a tattoo on his left (sometimes right) bicep of a flaming skull wearing an eye patch with a knife clutched between its teeth and script underneath reading 'Life Sucks'.

In "Snitchers", he sports a white collared shirt with short sleeves and a black tie to his court trial.

Personality[]

Todd is violent, cruel, aggressive and very petty, often bullying those around him who he considers weak, with the duo being his main targets. He has hardly any redeeming qualities whatsoever and is probably the most dangerous recurring antagonist for the duo, rivaling Coach Buzzcut (who has actually protected them on one occasion, while Todd never has).

In spite of his nature, Todd manages to come across as charming, as he has picked up a few girls throughout the series (mainly women that the duo have also tried to "score" with). He also has his rare moments of benevolence, like in "A Great Day", where he genuinely thanks the duo for giving him money and lets them go (though he does beat another man up after getting into a fender bender shortly afterwards), and in Virtual Stupidity, where he finally lets the duo into his gang under the condition that they don't screw anything up. This, of course, doesn't last very long. The only time he seems to genuinely relax and make friendly conversation with the boys is when he gets sloppy, blackout drunk, as seen in "Drinking Butt-ies". (Even then, he didn't remember what had happened, going right back to antagonizing them when sober.)

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Trivia[]

Even though Todd's last name was never mentioned in the series, it was revealed to be Ianuzzi in "This Book Sucks."
He was created after series writers Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil suggested the idea of a character that Beavis and Butt-head idolize, even though he beats them up and always rips them off in one way or another. Mike Judge revealed that he based Todd on a teenage bully that lived near him, whose family was somewhat troubled as well. The bully would ride his motorcycle on the Judge's front lawn and do burnouts, which terrified Mike as a kid.
In "Steamroller," he is said to have dropped out of Highland High School two years prior to the year the episode takes place (presumably 1995). This makes sense, given he makes brief appearances in Buzzcut's class in "Young, Gifted, & Crude," and "Let's Clean it Up" in '93 - early '94, respectively.
In issue 26 of the comics, it is heavily implied that Todd actually had sex with Butt-Head, while the latter was disguised as a school girl.
In Do the Universe, Beavis has a dream sequence where Todd is decapitated by Serena Ryan after he pushes him down and he even cheers her on as she kills the rest of Todd's gang, implying that Beavis may not have as much love for Todd as Butt-Head does after all, or he's finally fed up with all the abuse he gets from Todd and doesn't idolize him anymore.
At some point in Do the Universe's early production, an 'old, fat Todd' was going to be seen at some point in the film, but was later cut in favor of the dream sequence using his original design. ^[3]