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Brad is a merman who first appears in Season 2, Episode 3 "Mermaid". He is the boyfriend and later spouse of Feejee.
In the episode, he arrives just before Puss proclaims his wedding vow to Feejee, and demands that the wedding be stopped. He crawls toward Feejee and the two embrace, and he tells everyone that he never thought Feejee would ever find another man to make him jealous, swatting away Puss with his tail when he protests about her forcing him to marry her is all a ruse.
He proposes to Feejee and she accepts, and the two kiss (much to the townspeople's disgust). They then slither and flop away together, as Puss looks on and tells them he may visit sometime.
Brad later gives birth to a merbaby.
Appearance[]
Brad is merman with scaly grey skin. He has the face of a hairless Monkey with finned ears, red eyes andthe lower body of a fish with spiky-edged, dull green fins. He is also bald.
Personality[]
Contrasting his wife, he is a patient and kind merman. He demonstrates this with his friendly and affectionate attitude towards others in general. He has his limits with how much flak he can take, but still loves his family regardless.
Plot[]
After the pirate friends pushed him into the water Puss meets Feejee who feeds Puss some magic seaweed to save him from drowning. She brings him to meet Brad and finds out that Brad is pregnant. Brad's father, Keith arrives and gives Puss a choice; die or fight the Blarg, he chooses the latter. Puss convinces Feejee and Brad to help him swim but their different approaches make the lesson difficult. Puss helps them resolve their differences and focus on working together before he is sent to fight the Blarg. He passed safely as the Bloarg had turned out to be a tiny fish. And none knew as everyone who has trespassed has chosen the ultimate punishment, disappointing everyone involved. The king attempts to kill Puss anyway but Brad's goes into labour. Brad asks Puss to help deliver the child. After a lot of screaming, Brad gives birth to a merbaby. The king thanks Puss, and he returns to the ship before falling back again.
Abilities[]
- Dual environment compatibility - Brad can breathe both on land and underwater.
- Super Sonic Scream - As shown in the episode Mermaid, Brad has the ability to give off a deafening scream when angered. Feejee says that her scream is powerful enough to make people's heads explode, therefore prolonged exposure to her scream is fatal. She, however, is immune to the power of her own scream as well as the shrieks of other merpeople. This is likely to reflect the strength of Brad's screams too.
Trivia[]
- His voice actor: Eric Bauza, also voices the titular character: Puss in Boots in the Netflix series and The Trident (short film), among a few others.
- Brad's appearance is based on the Fiji Mermaid, a mermaid hoax. It was really a dead monkey torso stitched to the tail of a fish.
- He bears some resemblance to Gollum, a deformed, shriveled, hobbit-creature from the books and movies The Lord of the Rings.
- On land he either moves by slithering upright on his tail, using hhisr arms to drag himself across the floor, or bounding on his hands and tail similar to 'the worm'.
- He fell for Feejee's scheme to win him back by pretending to be in love with Puss.
- It appears that the male mer-people (mermen) get pregnant and not the women (as seen with Brad bearing her child). This may be a reference to seahorses.
- This trope is known as: Mister Seahorse.