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|first= [[SUNSET PARADISE - EP 1: PILOT]] {{Note|Screen and Unnamed}}<br>[[SUNSET PARADISE - EP 6: Saturday Night Funkin']] {{Note|Physical and Name Revealed}}
|last = [[SUNSET PARADISE - EP 10: Rebirth]]{{Note|Death}}
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|enemies=[[Meggy Spletzer]]<br>[[Auri Bori]]<br>[[Aloysius Bori]]<br>Lighthouse Keeper
|voice=[[Edwyn Tiong]]
|occupation=Crime Boss<br>Sheriff (Ruse)
|goal=Kill [[Auri]] and [[Meggy Spletzer|Meggy]].<br>Obtain the [[The Phoenix Egg]] and use it to regain his true form.<br> Cause a crime wave across [[Port Aurora]].<br>
Gain Immortality. (All Ultimately Failed)|dislikes=Being called an egg.|minions=The [[Spud Buds]]<br>[[Whisk]]<br>The [[Funky Fource]]<br>[[Goonies]]|alignment=Evil|age=Over 100 (since he has tried to ruin the Phoenix Festival twice)|fate=Blew himself up in order to escape punishment.|death=July 30, 2021|birthday=Before July 20 1921|home=The In Between (currently)|victims=[[Aloysius Bori]]<br>[[Auri Bori]] (briefly)|likes=Being in power|powers=Leadership skills|status=Deceased|hobbies=Crime
|name=Benedict Cumbersnatch<br>[[File:Sunset Paradise Icon.png|link=Sunset Paradise|This character originates from the Sunset Paradise series, a spin-off of the SMG4 series|25px]]}}

'''Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch''', previously known as the '''Mysterious Voice''' in [[SUNSET PARADISE - EP 1: PILOT|Episodes 1]] and [[SUNSET PARADISE - EP 3: Reservoir Cats|3]] credits due to his identity not being revealed yet, is the main antagonist of ''[[Sunset Paradise]]''. 

He was a powerful monster trapped in the form of a living anthropomorphic egg who serves as a crime lord controlling the criminal underworld of Port Aurora. He was the boss of [[Whisk]], the [[Spud Buds]], and the [[Funky Fource]], and the archenemy of [[Auri Bori]], due to him murdering Auri's grandfather [[Aloysius Bori]], who transformed him into an egg in the first place.

==Appearance==
Benedict appears as a crudely drawn face projected through a monitor that swaps between predetermined expressions, giving him a similar appearance to [[Hal Monitor]] from the ''[[SMG4]]'' series. His real form is an egg-like creature from a curse from Aloysius Bori. He is also seen wearing a red fez.

He relies on his [[Goonies]] that he's tied to and seems to have the ability to influence their actions. [[SUNSET PARADISE - EP 6: Saturday Night Funkin'|Episode 6]] implies that it's because he rewards them with cookies whenever they please him.

His true form is that of a tall, dark humanoid with black eyeballs and red iris’, though still wearing his aforementioned fez. 

==Personality ==
While he may display a polite, reasonable and understanding side, Benedict is a malicious, vicious, cruel, rude, selfish, self-centered, and ruthless person. He's very ruthless to the point of not caring about who he or his subordinates hurts even children to further and/or accomplish his goals like his current objective to kill Auri, a kid who pretends to be a deputy sheriff and befriends [[Meggy Spletzer|Meggy]], to prevent him from interfering with sabotaging the [[Phoenix Festival]]. 

He abuses his underlings as seen in [[SUNSET PARADISE - EP 1: PILOT]] when he was scolding the Spud Buds for their failed attempt to kill Auri, he makes [[Duke]] punch [[Mash]] for exposing the secret of Auri getting away. He then chokes [[Yam]] telling him that if they don’t kill Auri, then he would kill them all. Benedict has a bit of a dark sense of humor, as when he congratulated Mash when he said they would kill Meggy along with Auri. He also hates people calling or assuming him an egg.

Despite seeming brave and intimidating, he is also incredibly cowardly, as when he mistakes Auri for Aloysius, he immediately panics and kills himself to escape arrest, and when he encounters Aloysius in the in between, he is once again horrified. While Benedict was a cunning and crafty individual, he also displayed a sense of ignorance and recklessness, which contributed to his demise after refusing to listen to Auri and Meggy when his hovercraft becomes unstable. 

While he is inherently malevolent, the same could not be said for the Goonie his screen is attached to. It seems he is a nice fellow who wishes to be polite, such as when he quietly closed the door when leaving the room and when he waved at Whisk on a rooftop, only for Benedict to always force him to change his approach, sometimes to the brute's sadness.

==Crime Record ==

*'''Conspiracy''': Benedict schemed to disrupt the Phoenix Festival for Aloysius’s ashes, steal the Phoenix egg for its power, and take over Port Aurora.
*'''Abetting''': He ordered several under him including the Spud Buds, Whisk, and the Funky Fource to perform various jobs and assignments, and aid him in his conspiracy against Port Aurora.
*'''Murder''': He killed Aloysius 100 years ago. He also briefly killed Aloysius' grandson, Auri Bori, but failed as the Phoenix egg hatched, reviving him.
*'''Breaking and entering''': Benedict breaks into Auri's home/sheriff's office and released both the Spud Buds and Whisk from the jail cell. Later, he and his gang managed to breakthrough the barrier by using children to reach the Borealis Light and get the Phoenix Egg.
*'''Breaking people out of prison:''' Benedict breaks into Auri's home/sheriff's office and released both the Spud Buds and Whisk from the jail cell.
*'''Usurpation:''' In order to bring chaos to Port Aurora, Benedict relies on Whisk to force Mayora Bora into giving him position as sheriff.
*'''Child Abuse'''/'''Abduction''': Used children to break through the barrier the lighthouse keeper puted up, to protect the Phoenix egg.
*'''Attempted murder''': After freeing the Spud Buds and Whisk from the jail cell Auri's sheriff's office, Benedict had both Meggy and Auri locked up in the same cell and left them a time bomb rigged to explode.

==History==
He didn't just have smarts, but strength. Gangs would fall before him with just a demonstration of his power.  

Benedict came to Port Aurora 100 years ago not only for the Phoenix egg, which was to bring immortality to any individual, so he could build a criminal empire. However, [[Aloysius Bori|Aloysius]] sealed him in an egg after that he killed him, but he knew that if he stole the ashes once and for all, he’ll have the power to undo Aloysius’s curse.  

At some point in life, he became a crime boss, and had Goonies and other criminals under him, to sabotage the festival to regain his true body. After successfully managing to trick the public into thinking he was a good guy and falsely making himself sheriff, he breached the lighthouse and claimed the Phoenix Egg and waited for it to hatch. 

Unfortunately for him, Meggy and Auri were able to return to stop him once and for all. While he did manage to kill Auri during the climax, Meggy was able to snatch the Pheonix Egg from him and use it to revive Auri. During the final battle, he accidentally breathed in the gas from Whisk's gas gun and mistook Auri for Aloysius, so he tried to escape using his throne, but accidentally blew himself up. He ended up waking up in [[The In-Between]]... where he reunited with the ''real'' Aloysius, much to his horror.

==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
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Sunset Paradise Profile–Mysterious Voice.png|Benedict in the opening
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Benedict's old "body".png|Benedict cursed by Aloysius.
Benedict's profile.png|Benedict after being cursed by Aloysius
Benedict's death.png|Benedict's death
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==Trivia==

* His name is based on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch], a famous, award winning actor known for being the voice of Sauron in the Hobbit saga and for being the voice of Dr. Stephen Strange in the MCU and the Grinch in Illumination Entertainment.
** His name could also be based on an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggs_Benedict Eggs Benedict] due to his current state.
*Benedict appears to be a TV monitor displaying a scribbled angry face, which is similar to [[Hal Monitor]]'s. Episode 6 reveals that he's shaped like an egg.
*Before his revelation in [[SUNSET PARADISE - EP 6: Saturday Night Funkin'|episode 6]], he was credited as the '''Mysterious Voice''' it was most likely to hide his true identity.
* It's heavily implied that he wants to disrupt the Phoenix Festival to get those ashes to return to his true self.
*Despite not being from the series itself, he is easily one of the darkest villains in the SMG4 series, especially in Episode 9.
*Every major antagonist show some form of regret working for Benedict at some point throughout Sunset Paradise. Duke would rather have been a musician, Whisk never wanted to be a criminal but relies heavily on Benedict to wipe her debts and the Funky Fource rely on Benedict to accommodate Joe Fresh’s family.
*He is the third major antagonist in the Glitch Productions brand to permanently die at the end of the story, being preceded by [[Francis]], [[Derek Lucks]], and succeeded by [[SMG0]].
*Benedict is the first Character introduced in Sunset Paradise to have a uniquely themed intro card.
**While the other characters have a more photo-like art style, Benedict's is classical and in black and white.
*Considering that his name is a pun on name of actor from England and that fact that his name has the formal English honorific address "sir", Benedict is possibly British.

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