Stan Beals, better known as the Exterminator, is the main antagonist of this film. Lucas calls him to destroy the ant hive that is thriving on his property, but has second thoughts about it once he interacts with the Ant-People. Stan tried to destroy the hive with his equipment, but the ants and Lucas stopped him.
Personality
Stan has a conniving personality. He is greedy and a sadistic Exterminator. He smokes heavily and is rude to others while smoking and talking to other people as well. He also is very murderous being he tried to destroy the hive of ants Lucas had asked him to do. And he enjoys to play around with he’s preys.
However, despite being the main antagonist, Stan is not really evil, as he is an exterminator who hates bugs and wants to get rid of them, seeing them as pests and a major infestation. Just like Lucas before, he did not know that bugs were intelligent and had feelings. He also acts very friendly with Lucas, taking a liking to the boy, reminding him of himself. Stan can quickly change personality, as he talked friendly with Lucas in one minute, started to tease him a little later and again being nice to him after Lucas signed the contract.
Appearance
Stan is a slob with no regard for his personal hygiene and is very dirty. So dirty that flies fly around his stinky body and clothes. He also has a scruffy face, greasy-looking dark brown hair, a small beard, and brown eyes. He also dresses in a cruddy red Exterminator suit and wears a hat with his company logo. Underneath his suit, he also wears a dirty white shirt. Later he also wears orange goggles.
Biography
Stan Beals is the local bug exterminator near the suburban area of Las Vegas. He first appeared when he arrived at the house of Lucas Nickle (the protagonist of the film), convincing the little boy to sign a contract of letting him exterminate all of the pests around the Nickle residence before leaving, claiming that Lucas’ father had ordered his service. At first Lucas declined the offer, unsure if Stan was telling the truth. Stan displeased, then made fun of Lucas by calling him a baby who can’t think for himself. An angry Lucas then took the contract back and signed it, much to Stan’s satisfaction, who was singing his song, claiming that he wrote it. While clinging to Lucas, Stan happily blows smoke on the signed contract.
However, Lucas is alone to deal with the ants after they use a potion to shrink him to their size, forcing him to learn about the ways of the ant. After going through so much training, Lucas learns that the ants can't be as bad as he thought, and that the devil they fear is called the Cloudbreather, which happens to depict a nasty and dangerous bug exterminator. Realizing his mistake, Lucas sneaks back to his house to use the phone to cancel the contract with Stan, but accidentally dials a pizza delivery instead.
The next day, Stan arrives in his van, filled with weapons of pesticide, ready to exterminate the bugs. On his van, Stan prepares the his extermination weapons, and laughs hard while slamming the door. Lucas apparently convinces several wasps to help the ants fight, by getting them high enough to use Zoc’s shrinking potion on Stan, but unfortunately Stan was wearing headphones that prevented them from injecting the potion through his ear and they proved to be no match against Stan's pesticide, who while hearing music defeated all the wasps with ease. Their best chance was to land on him while reloading, but Stan was well prepared and countered the attack with the reserve, that briefly took out Zok, and his hat. Lucas accidentally fell in Stan’s hair which was inhabited by flees. Feeling something on his head, Stan scratched his head, while Lucas was running for his life and fell on his nose. Lucas, eye to eye with Stan, ordered him to leave his friends alone, but he couldn’t hear him. Stan began to shake his which caused Lucas to fall and hang by literally a nose hair, begging Stan not to pick up his nose. Feeling the itch, Stan blew his nose hard, sending Lucas flying, who was saved by Hova, who both were slapped by Stan. Stan was on the verge of destroying the entire ant colony. However, a beetle and a glowworm managed to go through Stan's pants and bite him in the crotch, which caused him great pain. This allowed Lucas, his ant friends, and a wasp to inject the shrinking potion onto Stan's bare butt, misshaping the exterminator. A large swarm of wasps come by to attack, and being unable to get back into his van since he is too small to reach the door handles, Stan fearfully pedals away on a stolen tricycle, vowing revenge. As a reward for saving the bugs, Lucas is grown back to his normal size and resume his life. It is unknown what happened to Stan afterwards.
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Trivia
- In a deleted scene, it is revealed that Stan wanted to exterminate the ants until Lucas' father refused, stating that he wasn't interested in Stan's services.
- Another deleted scene showed Stan talking to his assistant that when the ants come together as one, this would be a hard time to take out.
- Stan Beals was voiced by Paul Giamatti (who also played Marty Wolf in Big Fat Liar). He even looks like Paul Giamatti.
- Although he is the main antagonist of the film, his role is very small only appearing briefly in the film's beginning and later in the climax.
- Stan Beals in Ant Bully similar Hunter Shaw in Open Season, Lord Victor Quartermaine in Wallace and Gromit, Dwayne LaFontant in Over The Hedge Exterminator Animals and Insects, hunter.