Lord Business

Lord Business, also known as President Business, is the main antagonist of The LEGO Movie. He is voiced by Will Ferrell (who also played "The Man Upstairs") in the film and by Keith Ferguson in the video game adaption.

Description
ord Business normally wears a gray business suit. He has a yellow head with a large brown unibrow and an evil smirk. One of his personas wears square brown hairpiece, and his other wears an elaborate headdress decorated with red coffee cups, a chest plate with a metal business tie as well as a long cape that also resembles a business tie and exaggeratedly large boots with sections that light up. The boots can also change their height to however Business wants.

His alternate face resembles his visor down.

Background
Lord Business is the alter ego of President Business, an uptight company president who wants to organize everything around him. As Lord Business, he commands a robot militia with plans to take over the world by gluing it together with a substance called Kragle which is actually a tube of Krazy Glue.[1]

Believing imagination to be weird and messy in a world of order, he considers anyone with creativity in mind to be a threat--including Emmet who, despite not having a creative bone in his body, possesses the "cap" to seal his defeat.

In order to capture every Master Builder, Lord Business hired Bad Cop/Good Cop to lead the Super Secret Police to hunt them down.

In the final battle, Emmet convinces Lord Business that creativity is not messy or weird, and that it is okay for the people to build brand-new ideas from all the things Business himself had made, which makes him special, too, just like everyone is special. Moved by Emmet's speech and touched by being considered special, Business applies the Piece of Resistance on the Kragle, which soon causes the Kragle to explode, deactivating all of his robot minions, and unfreezing his victims (though the real "victims" were saved when the Man Upstairs cleaned the glue off them). As a result, Lord Business got out of the exploded rooftops of his tower along with Emmet and came back using a watering can saying "Oops, I've got the antidote for the Kragle, how did that happen?".

The "Oops, I've got the antidote for the Kragle, how did that happen?" scene was cut from the video game.

In real life, Finn based Lord Business off his father (who was referred to as "The Man Upstairs").

LEGO.com Description
President Business, an uptight CEO who has a hard time balancing world domination with micro-managing his own life. He operates a successful business front that creates music, TV shows, surveillance systems, history books and voting machines, in addition to all dairy products and coffee. Secretly, he is Lord Business, the most evil of tyrants who oversees a robot militia and attempts to take over the LEGO universe.

Minifigures Description
“Let’s take extra care to follow the instructions, or you’ll be put to sleep.” President Business is the president of the massive Octan Corporation… and the entire world. All he wants is for everybody to follow his instructions for how to build and act all the time. After all, an orderly Bricksburg is a happy Bricksburg. But President Business is more than he appears. Although few suspect it, he is secretly Lord Business, an evil mastermind with a plan to glue the world together so it stays exactly the way he wants – forever! Can the prophesied Special stop his sinister scheme in time?

Quotes
“The Kragle, the most powerful super-weapon, is mine!”

―Lord Business

'''“Now my power will be unlimited! Can you feel me?!”'''

―Lord Business

“All I'm asking for is total perfection!”

―Lord Business

'''“Hi, I'm President Business, president of the Octan Corporation, and the world. Let's take extra care to follow the instructions (or you'll be put to sleep) and don't forget about Taco Tuesday coming next week! The day everyone gets a free taco and my love! Have a great day everybody!”'''

―President Business

'''“Don't be so serious! Where's that other guy?”'''

―Lord Business to Bad Cop

'''“Whoops, I have the antidote for the Kragle! How did that happen?”'''

―President Business

“People everywhere are always messing with my stuff!”

―Lord Business

“Give me the sword of EXACT-ZERO!”

―Lord Business to his robots

Set Appearances

 * 70809 Lord Business' Evil Lair (President/Lord Business)
 * 70818 Double-Decker Couch (President Business)
 * 71004 The LEGO Movie Series (President Business minifigures version)
 * The LEGO Movie Exclusive Set (President Business)
 * The LEGO Movie Exclusive Set (President Business)

Movie Appearances

 * The LEGO Movie

Video Game Appearances

 * The LEGO Movie Video Game