"I. Didn't. LOSE. The crown..."
"It was STOLEN from me!"

Ze Professor aka The Weasel King aka Von Kripplespac from Conker's Bad Fur Day/Conker: Live and Reloaded for the #RareReplayArtJam on Twitter and Tumblr.

Ze Professor aka The Weasel King aka Von Kripplespac from Conker's Bad Fur Day/Conker: Live and Reloaded for the #RareReplayArtJam.

I'm really sad Conker's Bad Fur Day never got a sequel or anything, because this guy would've been a great returning antagonist. Weasels do prey on squirrels...

Being a major fan of this character is kind of frustrating because the X-Box remake really hits him with so many retcons that it completely befuddles everything, from his motivations to his backstory. And also gives him a last name with the word "cripple" in it. (After years without a name, I was hoping he'd get something more...clever) And also, despite being on superior hardware, makes him less emotive and with less body language and with a more rigid facial structure.

In the first game, while they don't state outright what Ze Professor's deal is, they leave enough breadcrumbs that sync up with the manual. The Fairy Panther King won a war against The Weasel King and, as punishment, chopped his legs off. Now, they didn't say he removed anything else, so it's reasonable to assume that years of working with The Panther King took a heavy toll on his body.
The remake...then decides it's way more dramatic to have some random squirrel soldier blow up the building he was in in a past war, and lol there went his legs and everything else! The Panther King backstory is completely removed so in Live and Reloaded, nothing makes sense. Ze Professor just randomly decided to murder him for fun. Weasels are bastards.

And yeah, I realize I look dumb complaining about the story of a video game that has a talking pile of feces.

The way I see it, Ze Professor lost his other limbs gradually. After chopping off his legs, The Panther King thought he could break him through servitude. The Weasel King's real punishment, instead of dying, would be to live and watch his kingdom fall. But living didn't mean being intact. The first offense, just speaking out of turn, cost him a finger. Dropping a glass of milk, that was his ear. An assassination attempt foiled by a squeaky wheel in his wheelchair (thus causing him to go with the levitating chair idea) cost him the entire left half of his face. A failed rebellion with the other weasel guards cost him the rest of his left arm (and most of the weasel staff, but Panther King probably goes through like 80 weasel guards a year).
But, after the loss of his left arm, suddenly Ze Professor changed. Suddenly he was a chipper, subservient bootlicker, the very picture of simpering lackey. He was all about fixing tables and fetching him milk. And the Panther King was pleased because he finally squashed his spirit, finally got rid of that spark of life that kept the weasel alive for so long.

What The Fairy Panther King failed to realize was that he did not break The Weasel King.
The Weasel King was going to break him.