He did rather rudely turn down a job prospect at one point. In general though Waylon Smithers is somewhat a recurring antagonist as well as a toadie rather than a fully-fledged evil-doer. He is shown to have a jealous streak and can be rude and even physically violent towards those he dislikes and can be sneaky, like when Homer once replaced him at the plant.

Burns (to the point it is heavily implied he is in love with him), although it is worth noting that Smithers is often the subject of abuse rather than malice on his own part. Burns took Waylon in as his own son, and raised him to be his assistant.Īlthough normally not that bad a person he is obscenely loyal to Mr. When Waylon was four months old, his father had sacrificed himself to save the power plant from destruction in a nuclear meltdown, and essentially saved his son's life. Montgomery Burns, he may have been formally introduced to Burns before his father's death. Due to his father's close friendship with his boss, plant manager C. often took his son to the nuclear power plant that he worked at. When he was a baby, his father, Waylon Smithers Sr.

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