Lord Trevor of Wissex is a minor character in the Jem animated series. He is an aristocrat who is currently in a financial struggle and therefore agrees to lend his mansion to Jetta's parents, pretending to be their butler in order to trick Pizzazz into buying as many of his belongings as possible at an overprice. Apart from this scam, however, he has his own hidden and much more obscure agenda.
He was voiced by John Stephenson.
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Lord Trevor is an aristocrat of the English region of Wissex. He is in his late fifties, lives in a big mansion and owns a considerable extension of land. However, he has lost most of his money on gambling and now is in a financial predicament. He is first seen losing his money one more time at the racetracks, where Jetta's parents, Bertie and Flo Burns, are also placing bets. A bookie tells Bertie who Lord Trevor is and his current situation, which is exactly what the couple were looking for in order to pretend to be nobles by request of their daughter.
The couple convince Lord Trevor to let them use his mansion as if they were the owners, while he'll pretend to be their butler, with the intention of persuading Pizzazz –a friend of their daughter who is coming to visit– buy as many of the mansion's trinkets as possible, although at ten times their normal price. Due to his desperate situation, Lord Trevor agrees to this ploy, although under the condition that everything must be over the next night by eight o'clock.
There is another reason why Lord Trevor agreed to this plan, though, and that's because by that time, his nephew, Mason Hawthorne, will turn 21 and become Earl of Wissex, inheriting with this the mansion and all other possessions which, up until now, Lord Trevor had been withholding. He hires two thugs, called Stoke and Fenton, to assassinate Mason so he can't come back to claim his title. They plant a bomb on the drum set of the music band Mason plays with, but the murder attempt fails.
Back to his plans with the Burns family, everybody convene to sell the entire mansion to Pizzazz, trying to trick her into believing it comes with a nobility title. Pizzazz is in the middle of signing the property sales agreement, when Mason, his friends and The Holograms suddenly arrive to stop the completion of the transaction just as the clock strikes eight o'clock, which marks Mason's entitlement as Earl of Wissex. Lord Trevor and his minions attempt to escape, but thanks to Jem and her holograms, they are all subdued and subsequently arrested.
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Trivia[]
- Wissex is a fictional English region in the series probably inspired by the early medieval English kingdom of Wessex.
- It must be noted that there actually exists a real contemporary Earl of Wessex nobility title.