Talk:Count Jim Moriarty

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Count Jim Moriarty, impecunious French idiot and Grytpype-Thynne's sidekick. He utters meaningless foreign-sounding expletives like "Sapristi yakabakaka!" and "Sapristi Nyuckoes!" Over the course of the series Moriarty changes from being a competent international criminal to a cringing whelp forever being picked on by Grytpype-Thynne; this deterioration is reflected in his voice, which over the course of five years goes from a deep, sinister purr to a high-pitched croak. Surprisingly, this character arc seems to have been completely unplanned but developed naturally from the characters' increasingly impoverished status.