In the film adaptation, he is voiced by Jason Lee and portrayed onscreen by a lemon beagle named Leo sporting a red sweater and a blue cape.
[2] Sweet Polly Purebred is a female anthropomorphic dog TV news reporter and Underdog's love interest; she serves as the damsel in distress of most episodes.
Polly's face is slightly similar to that of Underdog's, with a large muzzle and nose, she wears her platinum blonde hair styled in a pageboy, and her wardrobe consists of a black pencil skirt, white turtleneck top, red jacket, and black high-heeled shoes.
In the live-action film, Polly is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel owned by a girl named Molly, a classmate of Underdog/Shoeshine's owner, Jack.
In the 1976 Western Comics Underdog #7, it is revealed that Sweet Polly has a young nephew named Wilbur.
He was once a police officer, but quit the force after his wife died and worked as a security guard at the scientific institute where Simon Bar Sinister hid out after hours.
Appearances: Weathering the Storm General Brainley (voiced by Allen Swift) is in charge of the moon launch at Cape Canaveral.
They decide that for his superhero actions Shoeshine takes on the secret identity of "Underdog", using Dan's college sweater, which has a big U on it, as his hero attire.
Appearances: Fearo, From Hopeless to Helpless, The Gold Bricks, The Phoney Booths, RiffRaffville, The Vacuum Gun O.J.
A bend sinister—sometimes, inaccurately, called a bar sinister—is a diagonal line in heraldry that can indicate that the bearer is a bastard by birth.
Contrary to the mad scientist stereotype, Simon actually paid good attention to Cad's suggestions in these episodes.
When he meets Shoeshine, he and his dog henchmen chase him around an alley in an attempt to eat him until he is found by Dan Unger, when they run away.
Around the end of the film, Shoeshine barks at Riff Raff enough to remove some of his fur and he and his henchmen run away again for the last time.
Appearances: The Great Gold Robbery, Fearo, From Hopeless to Helpless, Pain Strikes Underdog, Whistler's Father, RiffRaffville, The Vacuum Gun Mooch is the top gunman in Riff Raff's gang and is Riff Raff's right-hand man.
Appearances: Whistler's Father, Riffraffville, The Vacuum Gun Spinny Wheels is the best getaway car driver in the crime business.
When asked by Nails, Needles, and Smitty why they should bring him along during the prison break and give him a share of the loot, Riff Raff kept telling them "Just In Case".
When Sweet Polly Purebred ends up captured during her infiltration, Riff Raff reveals the disguised prisoner to be a Witch Doctor.
He, along with Riff Raff and the Electric Eel, was enlisted to help Simon with his Vacuum Gun plan, which Underdog later stopped.
The Bubblehead scientists worked to destroy the land, using earthquakes and volcanoes, but those two evil plans were foiled by Underdog.
Sweet Polly Purebred, with the aid from one of the world's leading scientists Professor Moby Von Ahab (the name being a take-off on both Captain Ahab and Moby Dick), investigated what was happening under the sea, but were eventually captured and tossed into the giant clam.
Underdog got word that his friends were held captive, rescued Sweet Polly and the Professor and destroyed the tidal wave machine.
Upon their defeat, Underdog was allowed to return home to Earth, knowing that he had helped Glissando find her future husband: Zot's Prime Minister.
Underdog defeats the Magnet Men, destroys the Great Gravity Gun, and puts the Earth back in its correct position in space.
As Sweet Polly was investigating the thefts, she was captured by King Mange and Underdog was called to rescue her, but he succumbed to the Mole-Hole Gun, the Molemen's secret weapon.
After being banished from Felina, Overcat swore he would find another planet to conquer, train harder to become stronger and one day return to Earth to wipe out Underdog.
When Underdog refused to perform the final task, he eventually got into a fight with the Witch, causing her to vanish forever by destroying her broom.
The following villains gave up their evil plans after being thwarted by Underdog: Appearances: The Silver Thieves The Cloud Men are a race of ghost-like creatures.
When humans "interfere with them," the Cloud Men lightning jolt them by shooting out electric bolts from their fingers that turn them into living statues.
It's implied that King Cup released and returned the Magnet and Zot Men to their respective home planets afterwards.
Jack tried to fool her and his teachers into thinking he had monkey pox and tried to forge his father's signature, but she saw through the prank.