Betrayal
He briefly turned evil during The Beano Annual 2008 in the 3-part Billy the Cat story "The General". However, in part 2 it is revealed that he was under mind-control. His controller was Private Pike, one of Jumbo's soldiers who has turned against Jumbo and built an electronic mind-control device into his controller unit. Billy used the device against Pike who was seemingly killed when the device fed back on him. Jumbo made him safe by stamping on him, after which Billy suggested they could have just taken his batteries out. Pike survived however as his eyes are seen glowing red once more in the last panel.
In the 2009 Annual Private Pike returned in a General Jumbo story that was not a crossover. He was now housed in the body of a teddy bear and leading a revolution of broken and discarded toys, also equipped with copies of Pike's "learning chip". Jumbo was better prepared this time and successfully disabled his captors before they could carry out their plot to discredit him in the eyes of the public at a fete. He unmasked Pike by alertly spotting that every other toy in the creche was being played with, and put paid to the nuisance for what should prove to be the last time.
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