Francis E. Francis is the main antagonist in The Boss Baby. He is portrayed by Steve Buscemi.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Francis was once a worker at Baby Corp known as the Super Colossal Big Fat Boss Baby eventually working himself up as its new CEO until he got kicked out for having lactose intolerance as he couldn't drink a secret formula that gave babies the verbal and mental capabilities of adults, which resulted at him getting older, much to his dismay.
After getting replaced and fired, Francis was sent to be adopted by the Francis family with an older brother named Eugene Francis. Ever since then, Francis angrily vowed revenge on Baby Corp for this. Growing up to become a middle-aged businessman, Francis founded Puppy Co. to act as a rival to Baby Corp, becoming more popular with the public. He even got Eugene to serve as his right-hand man in his plans.
The Boss Baby[]
Francis first appeared at the beginning of the movie where Tim Templeton explains about his parents' job as workers at Puppy Co. and Francis calls them off-screen to launch a new product as Tim thinks from his imaginative point of view that they actually launch rockets to sell products.
Francis is later shown briefly in a video clip shown by Boss Baby in which he tells his co-workers about his plan to shut down their rival, referring to BabyCorp, with a secret file containing notes about a "Forever Puppy".
Later, the workers take the children to Puppy Co. for the "take your child to work day". There, Tim and the Boss Baby sneak in through the offices to find the 'Forever Puppy' file, but they soon learn too late that it was a trap, as Eugene captures them before confining them in chairs in Francis' office. There, Francis meets the two in person and reveals that he was actually the Super Colossal Big Fat Boss from Baby Corp and Boss Baby's idol until he got kicked out for being lactose intolerant. He then steals the Boss Baby's secret formula, revealing that the 'Forever Puppy' file was nothing more than a ruse to lure the Boss Baby into bringing over the formula, as Francis plans to use it on newborn puppies to become the "Forever Puppies", and that he will distribute them throughout the world so that they will have more attention than babies and that Baby Corp will be out of commission as a result.
With Tim and the Boss Baby as his prisoners, Francis has Eugene to act as a babysitter to keep them hostage when he tells their parents of his plan to launch the Forever Puppies in Las Vegas. Before leaving, Francis threatens Boss Baby he will kill Tim's parents if they interfere with his work. However, Tim and Boss Baby escape from Eugene with the help of Jimbo, Staci, and The Triplets. But as the duo get to the airport, Francis quickly pushes Tim's parents in the plane and close their window so they could not see Boss Baby and Tim in the airport.
However, Boss Baby and Tim get to Las Vegas by sneaking on a plane full of Elvis and get to the convention centre (where Francis plans to unleash the Forever Puppies) with the help of pop stars who drop them to the centre out of kindness. Francis then unleashes the Forever Puppy to the crowd of people watching his speech, but notices Eugene (who had followed the duo on the plane) and notices Boss Baby and Tim, whose parents also notice them. Francis quickly traps Tim' parents in a heart box and takes them to the rocket he plans to shoot across the world to unleash the puppies and puts the parents under the rocket to get burned from the rocket's fire to cover his tracks. Tim and Boss Baby try to save their parents, but not before Francis confronts them and snaps at them for their interference. However, the Boss Baby and Tim manage to get pass him, but they tripped and almost fell into the vat of the formula milk. Tim and the Boss Baby was left clinging on the edge, and Francis motioned to step on Tim's clinging hand. Fortunately, Boss Baby, in a rare moment of imagination, was able to leap from the hanging and brings Tim with him and imagines being a pirate and uses his pointer as a sword and, on Tim's head, fights off Francis in a brief sword fight until he overpowers Francis and takes the opportunity to go under him. They push Francis into the formula milk pool and the duo saves their parents and takes the puppies out of the rocket before it flies off.
Having made contact with the formula, Francis transforms back into a baby again, much to his displeasure. Having lost his temper, Francis angrily swears to make both Tim and the Boss Baby pay and almost engage another fight with the Boss Baby but is stopped by Eugene, who redeems himself by putting a pacifier in Francis' mouth and puts him to sleep. Eugene then informs the duo that he will try to raise Francis properly as a baby without an evil heart and walks away with Francis in his hands.
Appearance[]
Francis has blonde hair curved at the edge, he wears wide box frame glasses, a dark gray suit, a red tie, a belt as well as cuff links shaped like dog bones.
Quotes[]
"You could have had your parents' love all to yourself again! But no, you blew it! You let that baby boss you around!" - Francis Francis refusing to give Tim and The Boss Baby's parents back.
"I'm taking them both with me to Las Vegas, so stay out of my way. I'd hate for them to get terminated." - Francis Francis giving a sign that if the Boss Baby and Tim don't stay out of his way, they'll kill his parents.
"Eugenia is perfect in every way." - Francis Francis trying to get Tim and Boss Baby to believe that Eugene disguised as a babysitter is great at caring for them when really he's not.
"And we are on schedule to release the most adorable puppy ever! We're gonna launch it at the pet convention in Las Vegas! Watch out, world, it's gonna crush the competition!" - Francis' introduction on a film.
"Thanks for dropping in, kids!" - Francis happy to meet Tim and Theodore Templeton for the first time.
"Now you see them (squishes cookie), and now you don't." Francis giving a sign that he'll kill Tim's parents.
"AAARRRGH! You ruined everything! Eh-eh-ah-eh, it's not fair! It's not fair! It's not fair! Now you're really going to pay!" - ~ Francis after being turned back into a baby, having lost his temper, and angrily swearing to make both Tim and the Boss Baby pay, almost engaging in another fight
"Eugene! You put me down! You hear me? I am the boss of you!" - Francis demanding Eugene to put him down, but then goes to sleep after he puts a pacifier in an infant Francis's mouth.