The Sorcerer (Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja)

"In ancient times, a poor and wretched peddler stumbled upon a great evil. Weak of will and tempted by the awesome power, he gave himself to the darkness, and the Sorcerer came to be."

- Excerpt from the NinjaNomicon

The Sorcerer is the main antagonist of the Disney XD animated series Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. The Sorcerer is the evil one that wants to destroy the Ninja. He was voiced by Tim Curry during season one of the series and later by Ben Cross in season two.

Personality
The Sorcerer is a dangerous opponent, ruthless, greedy and power hungry. He will also stop at nothing to achieve his goals. He feeds off negative emotions, such as despair, fear, hate, humiliation and anger, and uses them both to manipulate others into becoming his pawns and fuel his powers thanks to his Chaos Pearls. He is highly sadistic, longing for suffering and terror to occur. However he mostly appears sophisticated and somewhat polite, this facade is not strong however, and he is also quick to anger, and will punish any who fail him. It also appears that in the 800 years he's been imprisoned he has seemingly gone insane, as he spends much of his time talking to a Rat, though it could just be he's so lonely.

In the episode "Sorcerer in Love",revealed the Sorcerer love interest the Sorceress. Since both share many similarities soon fall for one another spreading chaos together. Unfortunately love his cut short when they were separated when the Sorceress is banished to the Land of Shadows during the battle against the First Ninja. The Sorcerer was saddened by the loss of his beloved.

Much of the Sorcerer's past hadn't been revealed until season two episode "Julian's Birthday Surprise", where it is revealed that he used to be human before he found a chaos pearl and gave into the forces of darkness, which turned him into the Sorcerer.

Role in the series
This one-time master of the dark arts was sealed beneath the Earth 800 years ago by the last survivor of Norisu Nine (a family of ninjas that fought the Sorcerer). But in the present-day, Norrisvile High School was built over his burial ground and he has reawakened. In order to escape, the Sorcerer needs to create chaos to build his power. He does this by turning the most vulnerable people in school into rampaging monsters. If he creates enough chaos, he could break free from his prison and rip the world to shreds. Hannibal McFist has allied with the Sorcerer to cause chaos in exchange that the Sorcerer gives Hannibal McFist the ability of his choosing. During his time in his prison, the Sorcerer started socializing with a rat.

In season one finale,The Sorcerer grow weary of MC Fist constant failures at freeing him form his prison and threaten to offer his reward to another. MC Fist insist he'll free the Sorcerer today shocking both Viceroy and The Sorcerer who inform him this is his last chance.Meanwhile Randy and Howard unintentionally go back in time using Viceroy's time machine.While in the past the boys interfere the First Ninja's attempt to seal the Sorcerer. Unknown to Randy his action in the past cause The Sorcerer in the present day to be free to cause havoc and chaos through Norrisvile. Back in the past the Sorcerer gain the opportunity to steal the First Ninja's Eye of Eternity. The First Ninja become depressed over his failure, forcing Randy and Howard to stop the Sorcerer by themselves. However, during the battle,the Tengu that sealed within the Eye is released by accident and possessed Howard, giving the Sorcerer advantage. Before the final blow was sent however, the First Ninja interferes and the three worked together to seal the Sorcerer once more, fixing Norrisville history and the future once more. Afterwards, when both Randy and Howard returned to the present.

Despite their effort to fix the present successful, Randy and Howard also causes four of the Sorcerer's Chaos Pearls to scatter. Catfish Booray discovers one of the Chaos Pearls and is Stanked in process.

Stank
The Sorcerer has the magical ability to a turn human victim into a monsters referred as being Stank (Randy). Those who have been stanked our highly aggressive and vengeful, thus spreading chaos and destruction, this helps power The Sorcerer so he can get break free of his prison, generally either by trying to destroy the Ninja or spreading general chaos. The only way to "de-stank" a human is to destroy their most prized possession, which the stank possess. People who get Stanked are either weak-willed, have a broken heart, or is going through a moment of great emotional trauma.The stank is able to look for its target itself. A few stanked students is enough chaos for sorcerer to escape. Stanking also normally gives the victims ironic powers, such as making Buttermaker amphibious or Brent able to breath fire. Upon being de-stanked the victim normally forgets all that happened while they were a monster, and even somethings that happened before then, as well as being dazed and confused for a short while.

In "Raiders of the Lost Nomicon", the Sorcerer demonstrate a much more devastating incarnation of stank. He has red stank, which, unlike the green version, doesn't change people into monsters. Instead, it physically affects and manipulates objects. He uses it to almost squeeze the life out of Randy and to create a giant monstrous version of his head that chases Randy, but it is destroyed when Randy gets too far out of reach. The red stank seems to take more energy and focus for the Sorcerer to create and manipulate outside of his prison.

In the episode "Randy Cunningham and the Sorcerer's Key,the Sorcerer demonstrate another incarnation of stank. He use yellow stank, It allows the Sorcerer to directly control whomever he stanks. It takes 100 years to brew. This form of stank also has the power to combine two victims into one powerful creature under the Sorcerer control. In "Randy Cunningham: 13th Century Ninja" the Sorcerer has the power to create a giant astral projection of himself that shadows his every moves.

Chaos Pearls
The Sorcerer wears them like a belt on his waist. When his chaos pearls reach full power, he can escape his prison and begin consuming the world in chaos. The pearls allow the Sorcerer to view events remotely with the pearls, and uses this ability to contact Hannibal McFist.In "Randy Cunningham: 13th Century Ninja", because of Randy's meddling in the past, the Sorcerer lost four of them before he was trapped. One has been found by Catfish Booray.

When someone makes contact with a Chaos Pearl, the Sorcerer can control the person as long as the orb is close enough to him. He uses this to control Catfish Booray in the episode "Welcome Back Catfish" and turn him into a monster by having him swallow the pearl. However, once Catfish is too far out of reach, the Sorcerer loses control of him,Catfish is later return to normal once Randy causes him to spit up the pearl.

The Sorcerer's Rat
The Sorcerer's only close friend is a rat he met in "Got Stank". The rat is the one thing that the he has a conversation with since he introduced himself to it and also revealed his evil plan of escaping to it. After the Sorcerer's chaos failed to give him power in "So you Think you can Stank" and he was clearly downcast, the rat tried to cheer him up by patting his back.

Hannibal McFist
McFist agreed to help the Sorcerer escape by destroying the Norrisville Ninja in exchange for a superpower of his choice. The Sorcerer often gets angry at him whenever his schemes fail and McFist is shown to fear the wizard, since he gets stressed and was even once shown to be hiding from him along with Viceroy.

Willem Viceroy
Viceroy helps McFist in his plots to destroy the ninja so that the Sorcerer could escape with ease and grant McFist his wish of having a superhuman ability. He wants the Sorcerer to notice his carefully though out plans and got annoyed when McFist kept interrupting him in "McFists of Fury". He was shown to be afraid of the Sorcerer in McFists of Fury since he was hiding from him along with McFist behind a table.

The Sorceress
While causing chaos in a Japanese village in 1209, the Sorcerer met the Sorceress, it was love at first fight. They teamed up to stank the town, and became nearly invincible. However, the First Ninja destroyed their twisted romance when he banished the Sorceress to the Land of Shadows. The Sorcerer was sad by this, but she would later returned to set him free in the episode "Sorcerer in Love".

First Ninja
The last survivor of the Norisu Nine back in 1209, the Sorcerer and the Sorceress teamed up to cause chaos, when the First Ninja fought them. He manage to defeat the Sorceress knocking her into the portal that the two sorcerers had created while trying to hit him. This banished her to the Land of Shadows.

In the episode "Randy Cunningham: 13th Century Ninja". With the help of the future ninja Randy, Howard, and his squire Plop Plop, seal the Sorcerer underground once more with the Eye of Eternity.

Randy Cunningham
Randy first found out that the Sorcerer is his arch-enemy in "So U Think U can Stank" from the NinjaNomicon. Although the Sorcerer knows about the Norrisville Ninja's existence they have not yet met each other, but the first ninja was the one who imprisoned him underground.The Sorcerer claims that once he escapes, that he will destroy the Ninja. Randy does know that his escape could cause destruction of world. They finally meet face-to-face in "Raiders of the Lost Nomicon". Using his powers the Sorcerer tries to crush Randy to death, but Randy manages to knock him down with an Ninja Air Fist. The two hate each other.