Seymour Cheese

Seymour Cheese (狐塚コーン守) who is often referred to as the Big Cheese, is the prime minister of Little Tokyo and the main antagonist of the Samurai Pizza Cats. In the Japanese version, he is a fox. But in the English version, he identifies himself as a rat.

Seymour is one of the members of the royal council in the public image but has big ambitions to overthrow the emperor and take over Little Tokyo. As the supreme commander of the Ninja Crows clan, he tries to seize control but is invariably thwarted by the heroes or his own incompetence.

He has the bad habit of literally exploding with anger every time he is disappointed at his failure, which usually happens near the end of every episode. This can also occasionally happens when Cheese is excited such as in Bad Bird Uncaged Part 1. Cheese always appears fine after the explosion outside of minor slapstick injuries and being covered in soot. The room he is in, usually gets wrecked by the explosion.

He has a large extended family of many nationalities all over the world, all who are involved in crime and mayhem, and the common quirk of exploding when angered. The Big Cheese is a flamboyant and openly gay showoff, prone to overacting, crossdressing, and flirting with male subordinates. In Son of Big Cheese, he surprisingly tells Princess Vi she is crazy in front of her and the council when he was ordered to take care of a baby (who thought Cheese was his father) and open a daycare center and diaper cleaning service.

Appearance
Big Cheese wears a purple outfit with a red-pink haori with detached sleeves. He is 145 cm (4.8") tall, weighs 40 kg (55.1 lbs.).

Relationships

 * Jerry Atric: He has a close relationship with him being the head of command of the Ninja Crows clan. Big Cheese and Jerry's relationship often has homoerotic overtones. In the Japanese version, his regular pet name for Gennarisai was "Gen-chan". In SPC, one pet name he used for Jerry was "Jere".
 * Bad Bird: He often interacts with him being the operation leader and views Bad Bird as his greatest ninja.
 * Big Al Dente: The two work together as fellow councilmen but not on the same terms, as well as Al Dente knowing the Big Cheese's true character and ambitions.
 * Princess Vi: He serves the princess, but he deeply wants to overthrow her and the emperor. Like Al Dente, he sometimes tells Princess Vi that she's crazy and he sometimes can't tolerate her behavior.
 * Ninja Crows: He views them with least respect as his minions.

Trivia

 * The Big Cheese was originally going to wear skull symbols but it was replaced by fox symbols in the final product. The skull symbols did made it to the Kyatto Ninden Teyandee Manga by Yoshimi Hamada and early promotional art for the series.
 * The SPC creators change his species to a rat, as a modification to reinforce his position as a cat's natural enemy, even though he maintains the bushy robotic foxtail.
 * Another reason was speculated however in real-life, there's an actual rat that has a bushy tail, nicknamed the "bush-tailed wood-rat".
 * The Big Cheese is refer to as a mouse in a press release for the series.
 * His name is a slang term given to those in a position of power.
 * He is the only character who crossdresses the most.
 * He and Speedy fear earthquakes.
 * Though the Big Cheese does not participate in any battle, he was trained in boxing but not on the same level as the Ninja Crows and Jerry Atric.
 * Big Cheese’s voice in Samurai Pizza Cats is an imitation of actor Paul Lynde.
 * In the original KNT version, the Big Cheese was more secretive about his villainy. This is why when he sometimes interacts with the Pizza Cats, he wears a mask and his symbols are covered.
 * Early on in the KNT version, Ko'on was more secretive about his habit of crossdressing and even has a nightmare in Kind of a Drag about being ostracized by society if the public finds out about his crossdressing. Later on, Ko'on is more open about wearing dresses and feminine clothing even around the council when not in disguise. He would start working as a part-time geisha under the stage name Ageyakko.
 * Some of the more problematic or harmful aspects of Big Cheese's character were tone down or removed in both Samurai Pizza Cats and the Discotek subtitles for Kyatto Ninden Teyandee. More explicit homophobic slurs thrown at the character such as the word Okama (which can be translated as "fag" or "queer") were removed as well
 * Whilst in both versions, Cheese/Ko'on has shown interest in males, he also shows some interest in females in several episodes such as Singing Samurai Sensai-tion, indicating he may be bisexual.
 * In the original English dub pitch pilot, The Big Cheese acted like a 1930s gangster. This was due to the translators only viewing the episodes out of order.