Father Bests

 is a secondary antagonist in the movie Wendell & Wild. He is voiced by James Hong.

Biography
Father Bests is the priest and crooked principal of the Rust Bank Catholic (RBC) School for Girls, a catholic school that Kat Elliot, Raúl Cocolotl, Siobhan Klaxon, Sweetie and Sloane attend.

Father Bests is a puppet for the evil tycoon Klaxon Corp, who is set on turning Rust Bank into a prison to profit off of mass incarceration. He is willing to do anything for his school, even if immoral.

Throughout Wendell & Wild
Kat Elliot, Ral Cocolotl, Siobhan Klaxon, Sweetie, and Sloane attend the Rust Bank Catholic School (RBC) for Girls, which is run by Father Bests as the corrupt headmaster. He is shown to be respected by both the nuns working at the school as well as the students themselves. He is introduced as a kind but eccentric individual who wants to grant Kat a new home and life at the school, however she quickly points out that his reasons for taking her in are likely more sinister and self-serving, indicating that he is only taking in troubled children for the money.

Bests is shown to have ties with the nefarious Klax Korp run by the Klaxons, which keep his school running by providing financial support if he in turn supports their immoral endeavours. Due to the fact that the Klaxons plan to convert Rust-Bank into a prison and make money from mass incarceration, his support of them reveals that the kind personality he shows to Kat is only a ruse. Bests is shown not only to be a supporter of the Klaxons, but a close acquaintance of theirs as well.

During a scene where the Klaxons play golf, Father Bests joins along, however the two business partners show contempt for him and confront him on how RBC is 'taking their prisoners'. While discussing the prison's eventual integration, Bests tells them that the old-guard members would vote for their prison, only to snarkily admit that they were dead. After this exchange, the Klaxons announce to him that they will no longer support him and RBC. While trying to win them back, Bests tells them that he vouched for them on the night of the brewery fire, causing them to realise that he knows too much. They kill him by hitting him with a golf club and throwing him into a pond, leaving him to drown. At his funeral, the students (minus Kat) mourn his death.

Bests is eventually revived by Wendell and Wild with magic hair cream, and after a moment of reluctance and fear, quickly accepts the two as allies to help him achieve his goal. He tells them that the Klaxons will provide money for their fair if they revive the Old Guard members so that they vote for the Klaxons' prison, in turn securing himself a payment in the deal. Bests continues to run RBC and makes cruel remarks to Kat when she becomes angered at his revival. He then punishes both Kat and Raul by lying and telling the nuns that they were holding him hostage. He joins Wendell and Wild throughout the night, continuously lying to keep up his part of the deal, and even kidnaps Kat's parents to help keep up the ruse. His unjust deeds are eventually undone as the Klaxons' 'payment' is revealed to be fake money, Kat's parents are saved and his immorality ultimately results in no rewards. As the magic hair cream dries out, Bests dies permanently and the school continues to function without him.

Personality
Father Bests is sweet and friendly on the surface, but a greedy, manipulative crook inside.

Although outwardly kind and light-hearted, Bests' humble personality is a façade to hide his true nature. Revealed through his relationship with the Klaxons, Bests is cunning, greedy and somewhat snarky. When people get in the way of his goals he becomes much more aggressive but always remains weaselly and unintimidating. He has no issues with betraying his own faith, as while he indulges in superficial things such as angel toppers for his golf clubs and portraying himself as a nice person, he is perfectly content with making deals with demons and betraying the people he claims he wants to help. While Bests is often mistreated and neglected by the other villains, has a somewhat noble goal and occasionally shows a hint of shame in his actions, he is generally not portrayed as a good person.

Physical appearance
When alive, Bests has short, neat black hair and olive skin. He wears a black cassock with a clerical collar.

After death, his skin tone is a fittingly corpse-like light blue and his nails are a light yellow tone. His head is dislocated and positioned in front of his lower torso. The sclera of his eyes are yellow and his eyes have a tendency to move around unnaturally in his skull. He wears bright scarlet makeup and lipstick along with dark grey eyeshadow, mascara (or eyelash extensions), a golden mitre with red detailing, a black cassock with golden piping and a scarlet fascia sash.

Appearances

 * Wendell & Wild

Trivia

 * Although he assumedly only ranks as a priest, Bests' post-death outfit is comprised of higher ranking vestments and choir dress. Scarlet fascia sashes are reserved for cardinals while mitres are primarily reserved for bishops. Cassocks with coloured piping (although gold is not commonly/officially used) are reserved for various clerical ranks higher than priest. Priests traditionally only wear cassocks with black piping.