Boris Badenov

From left to right, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, and Fearless Leader.

Boris Badenov is the name of a villain on the 1960s animated cartoons Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, collectively referred to as Rocky and Bullwinkle for short.

Boris was a spy for the fictional nation of Pottsylvania, and would take orders from the nation's leader, Fearless Leader (and occasionally the rarely-seen Mr. Big). Boris' missions would range from trying to steal a secret rocket fuel formula to eliminating all television from the United States as part of Pottsylvania's various attempts to grab power. Boris, who was thoroughly dedicated to (and took delight in) all manners of nefarious deeds, would also sometimes engage in his own schemes, such as starting his own organized crime gang.

Boris is nearly always accompanied by his fellow spy, Natasha Fatale.

Usually, Boris' misdeeds were thwarted by the acts of Rocky the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle the moose. Boris' attempts at killing "moose and squirrel" (as he referred to them) also always ended in failure, usually by his own scheme backfiring on him. As Boris expressed his plight in one episode: "I put bomb in squirrel's briefcase and who gets blown up? Me!"

Boris' main catchphrase (spoken when frustrated) was "Raskolnikov!" (a reference to the novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky), spoken in his Pottsylvanian accent (a mock-Russian accent) as provided by versatile voice actor Paul Frees.

Boris' name is a play on the name of the opera Boris Godunov.

Boris Badenov's disguises

Swami Bin Boris (Jet Fuel Formula)
Sir Thomas Lippenboris (Jet Fuel Formula)
Sir Hilary Pushemoff (Jet Fuel Formula)
Hemlock Solmes (Box Top Robbery)
Mojave Max (Upsidasium)
Cerulean Bleu (Painting Theft)
Abou Ben Boris (Upsidasium)
Gunga Drain (Upsidasium and Bumbling Brothers Circus)
An "imposter" five-star general (Upsidasium)
"The Big Cheese" (Metal Munching Mice)
Madman Morris (The Treasure of Monte Zoom)
Colonial Tomsk Parkoff (Metal Munching Mice)
Alfred Hitchhike, the "famous movie director" (The Last Angry Moose)
D.W. Grifter, "World Famous Talent Scout" (The Last Angry Moose)
Horatio Hornswaggle (Wailing Whale)
Art gallery guard (Painting Theft)
"Devil Dan" Hatful (Missouri Mish Mash)
Egbert Kitchie Itchie (Banana Formula)
Felonious Floy (Missouri Mish Mash)
Ship's doctor (Missouri Mish Mash)
Track walker (Missouri Mish Mash)
A British policeman (Rue Brittania)
Big Chief Skunk-Who-Walks-Like-Man (Bumbling Brothers Circus)
Doctor/Surgeon (Rue Brittania)
A butler (Rue Britannia)
Spencer Traceback (The Treasure of Monte Zoom)
Pete McMoss (Pottsylvania Creeper)
Hushaboom inventor Bermuda Schwartz's mother (Banana Formula)
Honeychile Moosemoss (Buried Treasure)
Babyface Braunschweiger, the Minnesota Monster (Buried Treasure)
Sherlock Ohms (Missouri Mish Mash)
Hailfellow J. Backslap, Official Washington Greeter (Missouri Mish Mash)
Black Angus (Lazy J. Ranch)
Boris Claus (Topsy Turvy World)
Lion tamer (Bumbling Brothers Circus)