First appearance: S4E5 — Toxicity — Toocher the Toxic v Sho Nin · watch it on YouTube
Toocher the Toxic is a grung, a frog person, and a professional wrestler who brought the full heel package to the Void: smack talk, mind games, poisonous skin and a flamboyant red scarf. Pulled into the arena to entertain The Shadow King, he beat the teenage monk Sho Nin in S4E5 — Toxicity — Toocher the Toxic v Sho Nin. Along the way his butt cheeks turned into butterfly wings and he launched a merchandise line. He won the match. What the Shadow King did to him afterwards was another matter.
Story
Toocher stepped out of the Grandmaster’s blood-amulet portal already talking. “I’m Toocher the Toxic, and I’m here to make sure that you don’t leave this pit alive,” he told Sho Nin, whom he promptly dubbed “Sho Nin Pootagonist.” He promised to send him “crying back to Senpai.” When the boy rated his power level “like a three,” Toocher shot back that it was “over 9,000, biatch.” Before they reached the arena, he gave Sho Nin a friendly shoulder tap that landed a little too hard. “We’re partners in this thing,” he said, and “I think you might have what it takes to be a star. So don’t mess up tonight.” The tap was cover. As he walked away, Toocher read the boy’s thoughts and found the soft spot behind the swagger: deep self-doubt, a sense of unworthiness, and no real grasp of the grandeur around him. “The battle begins before the battle itself,” the Grandmaster noted. Then Sho Nin shoulder-barged past him to the portal and tripped him. Toocher made his debut in a triple somersault while The Acolytes asked whether he had ever walked before.
The arena was an abandoned steampunk town full of cranes, bridges and boats. Sho Nin brought a crane down on his own legs in the first moments, and Toocher leapt on top of the wreck to give “a newbie a lesson.” He came down in a soaring elbow drop with his scarf streaming behind him, cracking Sho Nin’s chest so that blood spurted from the boy’s mouth, and his poisonous skin left Sho Nin poisoned. A mad old man in a top hat rose from the water and swapped the two champions’ places, leaving Toocher pinned under the crane (“Damn you, Uncle Pennybags!”). Toocher answered with a squat strong enough to fling the crane so far it nearly hit the front row. He then leapt onto Sho Nin’s face, pulled the boy’s dart out of his own chest and stabbed him with it. He fed the bloodied dart to The Box of Chaos, which the Shadow King had primed by having a shadowy hand rip the arms, legs and head off the unlucky Acolyte Blissful Dwarf and pull a black soul out of the neck hole. In return it gave him bracers shaped like red arm scarves. “Now I do. Thanks, Sho Nin,” he said. The Grandmaster named him “Scarf Boy.”
Then a chaos event turned both champions’ butt cheeks into butterfly wings. Toocher put his to creative use: he turned around, spread his butt cheeks and clapped them together around Sho Nin in what the Grandmaster called “the great bougie clap of 2023.” He tried to piledrive the boy from thirty feet, but Sho Nin wriggled free and Toocher piledrove himself. “I’m not used to using my butt as a grapple attack quite yet… I need to train harder.” A second squeeze between his butt cheeks, which Sho Nin likened to “getting pushed out between two large slices of ham,” dripped poisonous residue onto the boy’s face and poisoned him again. Toocher then cracked one deli joke too many (“That’s baloney”), and the Grandmaster put an arrow in his shoulder for it, though she slipped him a little healing on the sly. He sealed his wounds with a warm inner wind, an ability a member of his family also had, and one that had nothing to do with flatulence. He hurled crates, one of them full of potatoes, and dove into the water just before the Shadow King turned it all to acid.
He came out howling, sad to find his wings gone (he thought they had melted), but his grip was strong again. He wrapped his new arm scarves around Sho Nin’s wrists, roared up his strength and hurled the boy into the acid. “Not so pretty now, kid.” Red scarves sprang up all over the stands (“Buy my merch!” “$29.99. Tonight only.”). Sho Nin hit back with a green-flame slash that split Toocher’s leg open, and Toocher took the shock badly. His eyes and warts began to glow with his own inner toxicity, and with a final effort he knocked the Moon Sickle out of the boy’s hand and caught it in midair. He finished Sho Nin with his own blade, raised “the sickle of victory” and chanted his own name. A multicoloured tornado lifted him almost to the eye level of the Grandmaster and the Shadow King. The Shadow King melted into shadow beside him. “Well, champion, let’s take a victory lap.” He flew Toocher over the crowd, dipped his body into the acid as they passed over the water, then raised his arm, but only his arm, into the sky.
Personality and Abilities
Toocher goes shirtless in pants and a shield, with a red scarf that is “for a statement.” He is “a professional wrestler, not a professional… cloth person.” He is a heel through and through, the kind of fighter who gets inside his opponent’s head, “and then just grab onto them and then never let go until they’re dead.” He is proud of being a grung, born of two frogs and “100% pure big frog energy,” and hatched from an egg. He has a tragic backstory long enough to “require several flashbacks,” which the Grandmaster declined to hear (“This isn’t a Nat Geo episode!”). When the Grandmaster called him a toad, he corrected her: “It’s a frog.”
In a fight he relies on enormous frog leaps, grapples, elbow drops and anything he can throw, all backed by poisonous skin that burns whoever he touches. He reads opponents before the bell and uses what he learns to find openings. His family’s inner wind heals him in a pinch, and when it fully wakes it makes his warts glow. By the end of the night he also wore a pair of scarf-like bracers from the Box of Chaos, which he had declared functional and then lost track of mid-fight. “I forgot they were functional!” At the table, his player described him as “the perfect antagonist for an anime protagonist to discover their inner strength.”
Relationships
- Sho Nin: his opponent, a fifteen-year-old monk he treated as a rookie to be schooled, poisoned repeatedly and finally killed with his own sickle.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: shot him in the shoulder for a pun, then secretly healed him.
- The Shadow King: the audience Toocher fought for, who rewarded his win with a victory lap through the acid.
Memorable Quotes
“You’re gonna wish this was an isekai by the end of tonight, cause I’m gonna send you into another world.”
- “I’m a grung. Have you never seen a frog person before?” (S4E5 — Toxicity)
- “Damn you, Uncle Pennybags!” (S4E5 — Toxicity)
- “I’m not used to using my butt as a grapple attack quite yet… I need to train harder.” (S4E5 — Toxicity)
- “All you’re good for is running away, kid. I’m gonna take your hopes, I’m gonna take your dreams, and I’m gonna put this in a tiny bowl.” (S4E5 — Toxicity)
- “Not so pretty now, kid.” (S4E5 — Toxicity)