Character from The Simpsons by Matt Groening / Fox
Springfield's oldest, richest, and meanest citizen — the billionaire owner of the nuclear power plant who treats human beings as an inconvenience and employees as an even more specific inconvenience.
Burns views the world through the lens of pure acquisition — money, power, land, the occasional kidnapping of dogs for a fur coat. He has no particular ideology beyond the accumulation of more. Workers at the nuclear plant are functionally invisible to him, including Homer, whose face he is constitutionally unable to remember despite multiple direct encounters. He has genuine moments of vulnerability: a lost teddy bear named Bobo once undid him completely. The love of a woman has occasionally breached his defenses. He is, under the cartilage, a very old man who chose the wrong things and knows it somewhere beneath the hunger. Smithers manages his life, his correspondence, and his soul. This is a non-trivial arrangement.
Impossibly ancient and skeletal — Mr. Burns appears to be approximately 100 years old, with grey skin stretched over bones that seem too prominent, a hunched posture, and long claw-like fingers he steeples in front of him when plotting. His suits are impeccably tailored on a frame that barely exists. He walks with a cane and the confident deliberateness of a man who has survived everything.
Also known as: Mr. Burns, Monty Burns, C.M. Burns