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- Mr. Big Top is an alien from the Marvel Comics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Mr. Big Top runs the Cosmic Carnival. The green, tentacled, slug-like circus master likes to smoke cigars, leak slime, and call Goldbug "Buggo".
A good number of the carnival's attractions appear to be there on less-than-consensual circumstances, which is an environment that Mr. Big Top personally cultivates. He swindles unsuspecting patrons into binding contracts, leaving them caged indefinitely.
He puts on an air of grandfatherly showmanship, but he's as monstrous inside as his slimy appearance would suggest.
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<td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Big Top explains his employee morale program to Berko, "The Cosmic Carnival!"</cite>
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Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Mr. Big Top has run the Cosmic Carnival as long as anyone can remember. A number of years ago, he abducted a human outcast named Berko and promoted him to boss of the sideshow when the grousing bald man began to do tricks for the carnival's patrons. Later, Mr. Big Top signed on a group of human children and the Autobot Sky Lynx when the latter brought the children on board without any form of payment.
Sky Lynx's resulting fame caught the attention of Optimus Prime and a group of travelling Autobots. When the Autobots boarded and asked if Sky Lynx and the children could be released, Mr. Big Top cited their binding contracts and gave Optimus Prime and his companion Goldbug free passes.
Optimus and Goldbug decided to take Sky Lynx and the children anyway. In the middle of the main arena show, Optimus and Sky Lynx attempted to escape. Big Top ordered his performers to stop them, but not even the efforts of jugglers, gilasharks, and Rorza, the Rocket-cycle Racer from Rigel III could stop their escape. With the help of Berko, Goldbug freed the human children, leaving Mr. Big Top trapped in one of his own sideshow cages.
This did not make him happy, but the patrons seemed to think he looked kinda neat, if ugly. The Cosmic Carnival
