The League of Villains
The League of Villains is an hour-long Jimmy Neutron special. It focuses on Jimmy's adversaries banding together in a collective attempt to destroy him.
Plot
Template:Spoiler Jimmy's arch nemesis King Goobot sends invitations to a collection of Jimmy's previous adversaries so they can join together and defeat Jimmy Neutron. These villains include Professor Finbarr Calamitous, Beautiful Gorgeous, The Junkman, Baby Eddie, Eustace Strych, Grandma Taters and the Space Bandits: Zix, Travoltron, and Tee. The villains spend most of their time squabbling amongst each other; in particular, Tee is disrespected by everyone and Beautiful Gorgeous and the Junkman can't stand each other.
Meanwhile on Earth, Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, Libby, and Sheen are in the lab. Jimmy is showing off his wormhole generator (which was featured in Win, Lose and Kaboom). Cindy notices a containment chamber in which Jimmy keeps his dangerous experiments, the Love Potion (from "Love Potion #976/J") that makes people fall in love with the first person they see; and N-Men packets, which would temporarily restore their superpowers (from "The N Men".) Jimmy's friends show interest in regaining their superpowers, but Jimmy warns them that they are only supposed to be used in emergencies. Jimmy believes that people cannot change and that they would still use their powers with no control.
The League of Villains arrive, and, acting in teams, they disable Goddard, seal off Jimmy's lab, and incapacitate Jimmy's friends by playing music that is impossible to not dance to. Once this is done, they kidnap Jimmy with ease, because they have disabled his usual methods of defense. Unbeknownst to the villains and Jimmy, Sheen manages to sneak onto the ship before it exits Earth's orbit.
The villains hold a short (one minute or so) trial, without giving Jimmy a chance to defend himself, and declare him guilty. Sheen breaks in in a poorly thought-out plan to rescue Jimmy, which doesn't go much further than breaking into the room. Jimmy and Sheen get taken to a prison cell, where Tee guards them, while the villains argue about what the best way to kill Jimmy is. Sheen tries making friends with Tee, even though Jimmy tells him not to. Jimmy believes that Tee is evil and cannot change, as Jimmy said about the N-Men Packets.
Tee warms up to Sheen because the other villains have been disrespecting him, and the two become friends. Tee loans a PDA-like device to Sheen (Tee's diary), which Jimmy uses to contact Carl, informing Carl about the kidnapping and what to do. Carl, following the instructions, takes Cindy and Libby to the lab, grabs the N-men packets (unknowingly taking the Love Potion), and drops Jimmy's packet. Cindy sees Jimmy's pictures of Betty Quinlin, his crush, and grows jealous. The three shoot off in Jimmy's rocket to save Jimmy from the League of villains. Cindy, not caring for Jimmy's instructions (as usual), flies the rocket instead of leaving it auto-pilot like Jimmy asked. Cindy finds another picture of Betty Quinlan on Jimmy's rocket and grows angry.
Jimmy's parents see the kids take off, and try to see if there's anything they can do to help. Jimmy's dad plays around with Jimmy's wormhole generator, and accidentally sends the town back to the Cretaceous Era, (previously visited in "Sorry, Wrong Era").
Tee, wanting to help his new friends, helps Jimmy and Sheen escape. The three of them use a small escape pod to get off the ship. The villains discover this plot, but they are too late to do anything about it. Fortunately for the villains, Carl, Libby and Cindy arrive. The villains bomb them, and they crash on a nearby planet. The villains chase after Jimmy's friends, knowing that Jimmy will turn back to help them, which is exactly what Jimmy does.
As Jimmy shows up to help his friends, the villains show up. Jimmy and his friends take the N-men packets, all except for Jimmy, who realizes he got the Love Potion. They immediately realize that the packets were mixed up, as each of them has someone else's superpowers. Carl gets Libby's invisibility power, Libby gets Carl's belching power, Cindy gets Sheen's super speed power as well as poor bladder control, and Sheen gets Cindy's super strength and flying ability, Because they're not used to the superpowers, they mess up the attempt to defeat the villains. As the villains corner Jimmy, Cindy tries to confesses that she secretly l-(she isn't able to say anthing further than "l") Jimmy. Assuming she means "love" (which she immediately denies), Jimmy has a sudden inspiration and blows the Love Potion at the villains, causing Beautiful Gorgeous and the Junkman to fall in love with each other. He then takes advantage of the distraction and escapes. Somebody she actually loves (unlike her plot to marry Jet Fusion to destroy Jimmy in "My Big Fat Spy Wedding")
Jimmy and his friends and Tee ride back to Retroville, only to be sucked into the wormhole that Jimmy's dad created. The League of Villains, now even less orderly than before, follows them into the wormhole. Jimmy tries to figure out how to reverse the wormhole while his friends use their superpowers to try to protect the townspeople from the various dinosaurs. The villains show up to complicate matters. Fortunately, Jimmy finds a way to fix the forcefield, but does not want the villains to return. He gets a forcefield generator and traps the League of villains in the Cretacious Era, while Cindy disables the wormhole, doing so because Jimmy promised to throw out all of his pictures of Betty Quinlin, At the end, the Space Bandits treat everyone to ice cream.
Meanwhile in the Cretacious Era, the other villains are cornered by a T-Rex and Baby Eddie drives it away with a 5 day old dirty diaper which makes the other villains grossed out.
Members
- King Goobot (Runaway Rocketboy, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, The Egg-pire Strikes Back)
- Beautiful Gorgeous (Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion, My Big Fat Spy Wedding)
- Professor Finbarr Calamitous (Professor Calamitous, I Presume, Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion, The Great Egg Heist, Lights, Camera, Danger!, and My Big Fat Spy Wedding)
- Baby Eddie ( Clash of the Cousins)
- Junkman (The Junkman Cometh, Win, Lose and Kaboom (cameo), Best in the Show (cameo))
- Grandma Taters (One of Us, Best in the Show (cameo))
- The Space Bandits: Zix, Travoltron and Tee (A Beautiful Mine, Men At Work, Win, Lose and Kaboom (cameo), The Incredible Shrinking Town)
- Eustace Strytch (Billion-Dollar Boy, Attack of the Twonkies (cameo), King of Mars)
Forgotten Villains
- Jimmy said at one point that the League of Villains was made up of every villain he had ever defeated. This is not true, however. There are some villains that Jimmy has also fought who don't appear in the special:
- Meldar (Win, Lose and Kaboom)
- The Nanobots (Safety First, Return of the Nanobots, and Fundemonium)
- Evil Jimmy Clone (Send in the Clones and Trouble with Clones)
- Yoo Yee (appears in "Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen", however, this is more of a villain of Sheen's.)
- Dr. Sydney Orville Moist (The Evil Beneath)
- Warden Bueford Lee Stormshuckle (Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?)
This can all be countered by the Jimmy could be exaggerating, or he could mean every villain he defeated that wasn't trapped in something or that wasn't a villain at all.
- For the Nanobots, they aren't villains at all. They are just trying to please Jimmy, their creator. But, they misunderstood and did some drastic events without meaning to do anything but please Jimmy (Or Hugh, in Fundemonium's case)
- For Evil Jimmy Clone, Jimmy may have not counted him because he was trapped in the Dark Matter Dimension, however he said he'd be back but this could be a bluff.
- For Dr. Moist, it was unknown whether he was drowned or destroyed when his algae men is now destroyed in the end of the episode. .
- For Meldar, it may have been that he was still stuck on a machine that delivered a painful shock every few seconds that Jimmy put him on to make sure that no life form will never ever compete in "Intergalactic showdown". It could also be that he is without his Matrix Generators, as April now has them.
Trivia
- The title is very similar to the 2003 film release: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
- When we see King Goobot's ship, the background music is similar to Darth Vader's theme song from Star Wars.
- When Tee is begging Jimmy to save his bandit friends, he gets down on his knees and pleads into a microphone, "Please! Please!" Please!" Sheen walks over and lays a blanket on Tee's back as he leans forward in despair. This is a reference to James Brown.
- The alien creatures called "Twonkies" from the special "Attack of the Twonkies" can be seen throughout the episode, including at the beginning when Jimmy is showing the others the N-Men packets and the Love Potion #976/J.
- This is the first time we see Jimmy and Cindy kissing in any way, though Jimmy just kissed her on the cheek.
- Jimmy used the love potion to make Junkman and Beautiful fall in love. But in the Valentine's Day special, he said that the potion is what makes boys like girls so Beautiful should not have fallen in love.