
“ | I don't hate you guys. I just hate some of the things you do...okay, I really hate some of things you do. I know you don't mean them, but I'm your boss, and it's my job to push you to do better. | „ |
~ Benson to Mordecai and Rigby |
“ | No! Rigby, don't you see? If you don't study, you're gonna fail and you'll never turn into someone better. you're making the same mistakes as back home. Do you really want to have flown half way around the world only to find out you're always gonna be the same no matter where you go? | „ |
~ Benson to Rigby in "Hello China" |

“ | YOU LAZY NO-GOOD SLACKERS DRIVE ME NUTS! CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME ONCE IN YOUR WORTHLESS LIVES?! 'CAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU'D SEE I'M TRYING TO TEACH YOU SOME SIMPLE RESPONSIBILITY, SOME PRIDE IN DOING A JOB WELL DONE!! BUT YOU WOULDN'T KNOW A JOB WELL DONE IF YOU PAID SOMEONE TO DO IT FOR YOU, AND EVEN THEN YOU'D SCREW IT ALL UP ON THE ACCOUNT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN FOLLOW THE SIMPLEST OF THE INSTRUCTIONS, WORRYING MORE ABOUT LOOKING COOL THAN DOING YOUR JOB!!! | „ |
~ Benson unleashing his rage on Mordecai and Rigby |
Summary
Benson Dunwoody is the tritagonist of Cartoon Network's Regular Show. He is a gumball machine and The Park's manager. As manager, he is the boss of every park worker (with the exception of Pops). Benson is easily the most short-tempered character of all. Whenever he is greatly upset, Benson loses his temper, turning varying shades of red, and always threatening to fire Mordecai and Rigby, usually by yelling, although he can be sassy and sarcastic as well. Aside from this Benson is usually calm and, in fact, enjoys being social, even with his two most disliked people. Whenever Benson is in a good mood, he'll reward his employees with time off, usually in the form of nightly entertainment or dining out.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 8-C, possibly 8-A normally. 8-A at the peak of his anger. 7-C with Death Kwon Do
Name: Benson Dunwoody
Origin: Regular Show
Gender: Male
Age: 30 years old
Classification: Anthropomorphic Gumball Vending Machine
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Inorganic Physiology (Type 1; Is a living gumball machine)
- Space Survival (Could go to the moon and breathe in space[1])
- Multiple Selves (Type 3; Should have the same internal system as Rigby, who contains an "essence" that is his true self,[2] which is independent of his physical body and fuses in the same organism as the latter)
- Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant (Benson is a skilled brawler that already entered on several fights through the series, including fights with other workers of The Park such as Mordecai and Muscle Man)
- Supernatural Luck & Probability Manipulation (Benson, sometimes, has a "Good luck streak" that makes him have extremely good luck, at the point that even something impossible such as a diamond appearing on his food happens[3])
- Berserk Mode & Rage Power (Constantly showed to get stronger through his anger. He once became so angry that he started to completely disintegrate the whole park.[4])
- Fire Manipulation, Flight, Forcefield Creation, Gravity Manipulation, Deconstruction & Energy Projection (After reaching the peak of his anger and his gumballs starting to get on fire, Benson create a forcefield around himself that, like a black hole, started to deconstruct everything that came close to him. Finally he is able to shoot a large rage beam when Pops allowed him to yell at Mordecai and Rigby[4])
- Preparation (Already created and helped people create traps.[5])
- Pain Tolerance (Tolerated being thrown around like a volleyball for several minutes.[6] Didn't feel pain after having his head fastly spinning around[7])
- Vehicular Mastery (Helped other members of the park drive a spaceship.[6] Can pilot a good variety of vehicles, from a Bus[8] to a Motorcycle[9])
- Enhanced Senses & Non-Physical Interaction (Invisibility, Ghosts, Incorporeality, Intangibility [Immaterial] & Spirits; Can physically interact with Hi Five Ghost and has already seen and interacted with spirits[10])
- Immortality (Type 7; In Regular Show, if someone dies, they become spirits[11])
- Possession (As a spirit, Benson should be capable of possessing people in the same way he was possessed by the spirit of a breaking dancer[12])
Resistance to:
- Heat Manipulation (Withstood the heat of his building up anger state[4])
- Sound Manipulation (Already tanked giant sound waves,[14] even at point-blank range[15])
After becoming the main villain of a Videogame named "Please Benson" and going out of his fictional world, he gained access to the following:
- Reality Warping (He can warp reality and transform it in a videogame[16])
- Magma Manipulation (He can turn the whole world in red and lava-filled place[17])
- Body Puppetry (He can force people to do things they don't want to, such as when he forced Muscle Man and High Five Ghost to clean Pops' monument[16])
- Statistics Amplification & Enhanced Martial Arts (With Death Kwon-Do, a martial arts style that greatly increases it's user strength and physical skill.[18])
- Flight (With The Death Jump, A jump capable of making it's user start flying[18])
- Possibly Deconstruction (Death Kwon Do attacks are capable of physically obliterating enemies[19])
- Self-Biological Manipulation (With The Death Dump, which, while never showed on-screen, apparently involves making it's user fart and make them reach locations that wouldn't normally be accessible[18])
- Attack Negation & Deconstruction Negation (With The Death Block, which completely nulified the effect of Rigby's punches on Mordecai.[18] It also showed to nulify Deconstruction[19])
- Acrobatics (Hypermobility & Self-Momentum; Death Kwon Do allow it's user to perform the Bicycle Kick of Death[19])
- Passive Supernatural Luck (With Fortune Cookies, which determines if someone will passively have good or bad luck. It even worked on Benson himself, who was having a "good luck streak"[3])
- Time Travel (With his Thrust SSC, that by going beyond Infinite, can travel through time via sheer speed[20])
- Reality Warping & Fate Manipulation (With The Book of Park Records, which made all the events that were written in it happen in real life. The book was also used to kill a monster by making it "go away" and warp reality back to normal.[21])
- Law Manipulation & Explosion Manipulation (With the House Rule's, which, after applying themselves in the Land of No Rules, started to explode everything that didn't follow these rules, with, in the Land of No Rules, no difference being made between "normal" rules and the laws of physics[22])
- Social Influencing (Charisma), Instinctive Action & Acrobatics (Hypermobility; With his Suit, which makes people instantly starting to act nice with him and three vandals stoping what they were doing to greet him. The suit can also act by itself and help Benson in realizing acrobatics[23])
Attack Potency: Building level+,[Statistics Values 1] possibly Multi-City Block level (Can trade blows with Rigby and is overall stronger than him.[24] Comparable to Mordecai), Multi-City Block level at the peak of his anger (Created a giant crater by vaporizing a large part of the ground. Was threatening to disintegrate the whole park[4]), Town level with Death Kwon Do (Comparable to Rigby, who created a crater thousands of meters deep and destroyed several buildings with his punches.[18] Can fight with other Death Kwon Do Users[19][Statistics Values 2])
Speed: Massively Hypersonic+ with Massively FTL+ combat speed and reactions (Can keep up with Mordecai and Rigby). Immeasurable with his Thrust SSC (His Thrust SSC is capable of moving so fast that it can travel several months into the future or the past[20])
Lifting Strength: Class M (Should be as strong as Muscle Man)
Striking Strength: Building level+,[Statistics Values 1] possibly Multi-City Block level normally. Multi-City Block level at the peak of his anger. Town level with Death Kwon Do[Statistics Values 2]
Durability: Building level+ (Has taken punches from both Mordecai and Rigby.[25][24] No-sold an explosion that completely destroyed his car[26][Statistics Values 1]), possibly Multi-City Block level (Was fine after being at the epicenter of an attack that created a giant crater.[4] and should be comparable to Pops). Multi-City Block level at the peak of his anger. Town level with Death Kwon Do (Comparable to his Attack Potency[Statistics Values 2])
Stamina: Superhuman
Range: Standard Melee Range physically, Hundreds of Meters at the peak of his anger and with Death Kwon Do
Standard Equipment: Golf Cart, The Book of Park Records, House Rules, his car
Optional Equipment: Fortune Cookies, Thrust SSC, Suit, Archery
- Power-Ups: Death Kwon-Do
Intelligence: Gifted (Benson is a retired, world-renowned table field hockey master who was known under the nickname, "The Dragon", and was the best player after the death of one of his pupils, but returned a decade later to save Mordecai and Rigby.[27] He is also a talented drummer and the only one who can perform a 150-piece drum solo.[15] He is a multi-talented expert in hand-to-hand combat, archery, talking to animals,[28] and surviving in the wilderness,[29] even being able to escape from a forest while completely blind[30])
Weaknesses: Has an extremely short temper and great difficulty controlling his rage. Doesn't know about the Supernatural powers of The Book of Park Records and the House Rules booklet, as such, it is unlikely for him to use them in a fight.
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
References
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 1, Episode 1: The Power
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 1, Episode 11: Rigby's Body
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Regular Show - Season 3, Episode 13: Fortune Cookie
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Regular Show - Season 3, Episode 14: Think Positive
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 1, Episode 8: The Unicorns Have Got to Go
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 8, Episode 27: A Regular Epic Final Battle
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 1, Episode 2: Just Set Up the Chairs
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 3, Episode 26: Busted Cart
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 7, Episode 2: The Park Awards
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 3, Episode 30: Trucker Hall of Fame
- ↑ Break Time - Minisode
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 2, Episode 11: Benson Be Gone
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 3, Episode 35: Prankless
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Regular Show - Season 4, Episode 5: 150 Piece Kit
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Regular Show: 25 Years Later #005
- ↑ Regular Show: 25 Years Later #004
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 Regular Show - Season 1, Episode 4: Death Punchies
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Regular Show - Season 4, Episode 13: Sandwich of Death
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Regular Show - Season 5, Episode 30: Gold Watch
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 2, Episode 3: Appreciation Day
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 3, Episode 8: House Rules
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 6, Episode 18: Benson's Suit
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Regular Show - Season 8, Episode 1: One Space Day at a Time
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 3, Episode 17: Eggscellent
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 5, Episode 31: Paint Job
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 3, Episode 1: Stick Hockey
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 7, Episode 5: The Dome Experiment Special
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 5, Episode 7: Survival Skills
- ↑ Regular Show - Season 4, Episode 32: Blind Trust
Notes/Explanations
Discussions
Discussion threads involving Benson |