Leonardo Leonardo
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Leonardo Leonardo is a character from the short-lived animated television series Clerks created by Kevin Smith. Leonardo Leonardo is voiced by Alec Baldwin.
Leonardo Leonardo was specially created for the television show. He is a local millionare who frequently visits the Quick Stop, run by rival clerks Dante Hicks and Randal Graves, after his own creation, the Quicker Stop, failed after Jay and Silent Bob blew it up.
Besides previously owning the Quicker Stop, Leonardo is also the owner of the Leonardo Tower and has his own Little League baseball team who won the Little League World Series under coach Dante Hicks.
He often tries to flaunt his status as a man of importance due to his extreme wealth but is quickly and often pointed out as a loser, as far as millionaires go. Leonardo is not too bright as pointed out when he ate spoiled "Descrito Burritos" because he thought they were "the expensive kind". He poses for magazines such as Pet Store Weekly instead of acclaimed work such as Fortune or People.
There are also several references to Leonardo being gay, after a picture almost appeared in his obituary of him apparently sleeping with Dante. In fact, the pair had merely gotten wasted at their high school reunion and passed out next to each other.
He is upstaged by the Clerks in several episodes, always replying afterwards: "Well played, clerks."
Leonardo Leonardo is always accompanied by his bodyguard (and publicist) Plug, his right-hand man who talks like a robot (and was accused of being a robot, and is a robot). Plug is a parody of the recurring villain Oddjob from the James Bond film series.
The character originally was to be voiced by British actor Alan Rickman, who starred in Kevin Smith's fourth film Dogma. It was Smith's intention to base Leonardo Leonardo on the Die Hard villain Hans Gruber, who was also played by Rickman. Rickman was concerned that he forever would be typecast in that character and they started reanimating the character, and had already changed the character to look nothing like Gruber, when ABC send a memo that they wouldnt let Rickman voice the character, and Rickman was let go. They then hired Baldwin and returned the character to the original looks. Baldwin's voice is an imitation of Rickman's.