Dr. Phillium Benedict is the main antagonist in the movie Recess: School's Out, voiced by James Woods who also voiced Hades in Hercules. Vowing to destroy Summer Vacation and create Permanent Winter in a lunar perigee in order to raise U.S. Test Scores, Phillium Benedict and his band of Anti-Recess Terrorists must first face T.J. Detweiler and his best friends. Benedict was once Principal of Third Street Elementary and Secretary of Education. When he tried to cancel recess, Principal Peter Prickly gained his position as Principal of 3rd Street Elementary School and Benedict was demoted to teacher, thanks to the superintendent. Since then, Benedict quit his teaching job and went into politics, and then became Secretary of Education in order to carry out his recess cancellation crusade natio