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Mumbo Jumbo! Abracadabra! Alakazam! Hocus pocus!

―Mumbo's standard spell incantations^[src]

Mumbo is a villain and an enemy of the Teen Titans.

Character history

Mumbo is a small, underprivileged sleight-of-hand magician who happened to find a conjurer's hat and wand which were actually magical. The magic, however, drove him mad, and he subsequently made his living as a master thief, coming into frequent conflict with the Teen Titans.

Mumbo clashed with the Titans after he had robbed a jewelry store and fled to a junkyard. During the fight, Cyborg, whose power cell was nearly drained at that time, was lost, and the other Titans presumed that Mumbo had taken him hostage (actually, Cyborg had been found by the cybernetic hermit Fixit and brought into his underground lair for repairs). After the Titans having chased Mumbo all over the city, Robin finally managed to get hold of Mumbo's magic wand and broke it, nullifying Mumbo's enchantments. When Cyborg failed to show up, the Titans returned to the junkyard - after they had delivered Mumbo to the authorities, despite the latter's high hopes.

At some unspecified point, Terra, who was a member of the Teen Titans at that time, captured Mumbo right after he attempted to run out of a bank he had just robbed by sky-slamming him into the air with a rock.

Later, Mumbo was caught by the Teen Titans robbing the city's central bank. When Raven displayed a lack of appreciation for his magic tricks, Mumbo decided to outdo her. He drew Raven and the remaining Titans into a pocket dimension in his hat, which was populated by Mumbo look-alikes, turned them into animals and limited Beast Boy's shape-changing ability to objects only, and prepared to eliminate them in the grand finale of his own theater show. With their powers gone, the Titans were rendered helpless - until Raven managed to outsmart him by painting herself and the others that they optically blended in with the stage and fooling him into opening her cage. This action released the Titans and Mumbo's loot from the hat, and Mumbo was apprehended and taken to jail.

Later, Mumbo was recruited into the Brotherhood of Evil. He participated in Ding Dong Daddy's race for Robin's most secret possession, but was taken out in a mass crash triggered by Red X. When the Titans attacked the Brotherhood's base, Mumbo was defeated and joined his allies in flash-freeze treatment.

Powers and Abilities

Mumbo is a powerful magician, but the magic he can produce - mainly due to the nature of his paraphernalia and his state of mind - is limited to stage magic, conjuring, and comedic effects. These include (but are not limited to) conjuring masses of flowers and cards to distract opponents, polymorphing people and objects at will, animating lifeless objects, and making objects disappear into his hat.

Notes/Trivia

Mumbo - in his human form - makes a brief cameo in The Lost Episode as a conductor, until Punk Rocket arrives and crashes the concert.
Mumbo looks similar to the SpongeBob Squarepants character Squidward Tentacles, the My Gym Partner's a Monkey character Bull Sharkowski, the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy character Boogey Man, and Lidsvillle character Horatio J. HooDoo. All of these characters can be considered villains as well.
He is one of the bosses in the videogame of Teen Titans made for Playstation2, XBox, and GameCube. He is also a playable unlocked character.
The only season Mumbo doesn't make a physical appearance in is Season 4, but there is a Mumbo Alarm Clock in Season 4 in Titans' Tower.
Tom Kenny, who plays Mumbo, also plays Starscream from Transformers Animated. Both shows were produced by the same company in similar animation.

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 '''Mumbo''' is a villain and an enemy of the [[Teen Titans]].
 ==Character history==
 Mumbo is a small, underprivileged sleight-of-hand magician who happened to find a conjurer's hat and wand&nbsp;which were actually magical. The magic, however, drove him mad, and he subsequently made his living as a master thief, coming into frequent conflict with the [[Teen Titans]].
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 ==Powers and Abilities==
-Mumbo is a powerful magician, but the&nbsp;magic he can produce - mainly due to the nature of his paraphernalia and his state of mind - is limited to stage magic, conjuring, and comedic effects. These include (but are not limited to)&nbsp;conjuring masses of flowers and cards to distract opponents, polymorphing people and objects at will, animating lifeless objects, and making objects disappear into his hat.
+[[File:05.jpg|thumb|right|Mumbo up to his tricks]]Mumbo is a powerful magician, but the&nbsp;magic he can produce - mainly due to the nature of his paraphernalia and his state of mind - is limited to stage magic, conjuring, and comedic effects. These include (but are not limited to)&nbsp;conjuring masses of flowers and cards to distract opponents, polymorphing people and objects at will, animating lifeless objects, and making objects disappear into his hat.
 ==Notes/Trivia==
 * Mumbo - in his human form -&nbsp;makes a brief cameo in [[The Lost Episode|''The Lost Episode'']] as a conductor, until [[Punk Rocket]]&nbsp;arrives and&nbsp;crashes the concert.
 * Mumbo looks similar to the ''[http://spongebob.wikia.com/ SpongeBob Squarepants]'' character Squidward Tentacles, the ''[http://gympartner.wikia.com/ My Gym Partner's a Monkey]'' character Bull Sharkowski, the ''[http://grimadventures.wikia.com/ Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]'' character Boogey Man, and [http://krofft.wikia.com/wiki/Lidsville Lidsvillle] character Horatio J. HooDoo. All of these characters can be considered villains as well.