Edgar Rider-Hopper

Edgar Rider-Hopper is a British MI6 agent returned to duty from retirement. Because his voice is quite similar to that of British broadcaster David Attenborough, Rider-Hopper is occasionally confused with his fellow countryman.

Rider-Hopper was called in by Mrs. Claus to assist Dick and Johnson during their operation to save Santa Claus, the North Pole, and Christmas. After parachuting in, he introduced himself to the two American heroes and aided them in infiltrating Santa's occupied workshop and freeing Saint Nick. Outside, he joined the allied forces of Dick and Johnson's best friends in their face off against Paul Lynde, Christofuhrer Walken and his Nazi dinosaurs, and Doctor Isis and his ninja nurses. In their final strike against the villains, Rider-Hopper performed a magic ritual that wiped out all remaining opponents save Doctor Isis. Leaving Dick and Johnson with one last bit of wisdom, he jet-packed out to his next mission.

Even though the mission was the first time Rider-Hopper met Dick and Johnson, they all felt a strong bond of familiarity with one another, as if having known each other for much longer, and Rider-Hopper sensed a need to protect and comfort his sons the two; they also found much common ground in their behavior, interests, and personalities. Johnson quoted a bible passage (about two she-bears mauling 42 men) which Rider-Hopper used to recite regularly.

As a veteran MI6 agent, Edgar Rider-Hopper is highly experienced in all forms of espionage and infiltration, as well as many forms of close quarters combat. He is one of the world's few masters of barf-titsu, a British martial arts style that pairs hand-to-hand combat with projectile vomiting, enabling him to spew liquids with adhesive, flammable, and other properties. The style also requires extensive knowledge of chemistry, biology, and human anatomy. Like any true martial arts master, he learned the technique after traveling to the top of a mountain, in his case, the Flatirons. At one point, Rider-Hopper also exhibited his skills in Tim McGraw, the same fighting style used by Dick and Johnson, though he was not aware of its name. His physical prowess is matched by equally high levels of willpower and charisma, even enabling him to intimidate a lightning bolt to miss him. Despite being such a formidable foe in battle, the elderly man is easily confused when having to handle modern, high tech equipment.