Lord Boxman, the cyborg scientist who builds robots for a living and has an obsession with destroying Lakewood Plaza Turbo may seem like a giant joke to you.

… And he kinda is. The other villains in OK KO has little to no respect for him. At all!

But he is also a great character that teaches us a very important lesson:

Be yourself and be happy. Even if you are an weird old man.

No, seriously, the episodes with Boxman as the main is all about that.

In “ We’re Captured!“ Boxy does his best to impress Professor Venomous so that he will keep buying his robots, but it is only after he shows his true colors as the maniac he is that he gains the professor’s respect for sharing his passion for fighting heroes.



In “Don’t Attack the Plaza” Boxy wonders whether or not he is obsessed and incapable of leaving the Lakewood Plaza alone. Most think that the moral of the episode is that sometimes we have obsessions, we know that it’s unhealthy, don’t we keep doing it, not trying to change because it is hard. But it could might as well be that Boxman finds peace, knowing he doesn’t HAVE to attack the plaza, he just WANTS to do it. It may be a wast of time and money, but it is HIS wast of time and money and he LOVES it. And shouldn’t we all be happy with what we do?

The recent episode “Villains’ Night Out” Boxman makes Venomous bring him to a party for villains where he is not invited… and he makes an ASS out of himself. If the villains had any respect for him at all, they lost it during that party. It ends with Boxman ruining the party for everyone and even is to blame for the destruction of the party boat, forcing everyone to flee into the ocean.

It’s an old trope that a socially awkward and/or weird guy attends a party and ruins it for everyone. But here is the twist:

Boxman made an ass of himself on PURPOSE!

He KNEW that none of the villains liked him or respected him. THAT’S why he wanted to attend that party: so that he could sabotage it, making sure that no one would enjoy it. In a way, you gotta respect that.

Boxman is not afraid of being himself. Does it mean that others think less of him because of that? Yes. But that doesn’t make him less of a villain.

That’s what Boxman teaches us: Be yourself and be happy. Most may not appreciate you for what you are, but those who understands you(like Venomous understands Boxman) will be worth more because of that.