“ | Who dares challenge Cluny the Scourge shall perish! | „ |
~ Cluny the Scourge |
Cluny the Scourge is the main antagonist in the book Redwall by Brian Jacques and the first season of the TV series Redwall. He is a vicious rat warlord who seeks to conquer Redwall Abbey, using ruthless and sadistic means to do so.
He was voiced in the TV series by Diego Matamoros, who also voiced Badrang the Tyrant in the third season.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
Novel series[]
- He's a notorious warlord with a long history of atrocities, at one point crippling the foundations of a mine so that it collapsed and killed the owners.
- Moving on with his horde, he would have them eat a whole litter of piglets alive, burned down a farmhouse, infected livestock with disease, and caused a whole village to be destroyed and massacred by causing a cow stampede.
- He has peaceable creatures conscripted into his horde with threats of death.
- He tells the creatures of Redwall to surrender and become his slaves, or he will kill them all, including their young.
- He launches multiple attacks on Redwall, using any tactic it takes to win.
- He treats his soldiers as disposable pawns, showing no remorse at the deaths of many of his captains.
- He steals the Redwall tapestry of Martin the Warrior to demoralize them.
- He executes a soldier for talking back.
- He takes a dormouse's family hostage to force him to open the Abbey door for him.
- He fatally wounds Abbot Mortimer and then orders a massacre of all living at Redwall, only being stopped by Matthias.
- He takes Friar Hugo hostage to try to force Matthias to surrender.
TV series Exclusive[]
- He massacred Matthias' village, killing Matthias' family while burning it, unintentionally leaving Matthias and his sister as the sole survivors.
- He has the mouse delivering food for Redwall Abbey executed and prevents any sources from being delivered to it with the intent of starving everyone within to death.
- Right after ordering two rats to carry out the order, he has to have others kill them simply for not being effective enough as troops.
External Links[]
- Cluny the Scourge on the Villains Wiki.
- Cluny the Scourge on the Redwall Wiki.
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