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That little wimp! I'll knock the s-s-stutter right out of him. Marina doesn't know it yet, but she's going to be my wife! Our children will be the strongest, the smartest, the bravest… not to mention the best looking. Why, they'll be just like ME! I'm telling you, boys, Marina is as good as MINE!
~ Drake telling his goons his plan to make Marina marry him.
Marina is mine.
~ Drake declaring that Marina belongs to him.
As I said, my pretty... I REFUSE TO LOSE!
~ Drake threatening Marina.

Drake is the main antagonist of Don Bluth's 8th animated feature film The Pebble and the Penguin. He is the arch-nemesis of Hubie.

He was voiced by Tim Curry, who also played Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Lord of Darkness in Legend, Wadsworth in Clue, Pennywise in the It television miniseries, Thaddeus E. Klang in TaleSpin, Taurus Bulba in Darkwing Duck, Hexxus in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, the Evil Manta in The Little Mermaid television series, Cardinal Richeliu in The Three Musketeers, Farley Claymore in The Shadow, Kilokahn in Super Human Samurai Syber-Squad, Ben Ravencroft in Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Amok Mon Ra in the Aladdin TV series, Billy Flynn in Criminal Minds, El Maléfico in ¡Mucha Lucha! The Return of El Maléfico, Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker, Rooster St. Regis in Annie, Anatoly Cherdenko in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Nick O'Teen and Scarlet Fever in Ozzy & Drix, Professor Calamitous in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Slagar the Cruel in Redwall, Big Brother in Johnny Bravo, Goblin King in Scooby Doo and the Goblin King, Philippe in Barbie in the Nutcracker, Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Von Talon in Valiant, Belial in The Legend of Atlantis, Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck in Monk, Simon Doonan in the 1996 TV movie Titanic, Skullmaster in Mighty Max, Dr. Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles, and Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Personality[]

Drake is the best-looking out of all penguins, which he is completely aware of and thinks this gives him an excuse to do whatever he wants. Drake was marginalized by extreme conceit, ambition, pomposity, violence and negativity. He is provocative and misogynistic, and was only concerned with marrying the most beautiful girl, so they could procreate his own line of children who he says will be "the strongest, the smartest, the bravest… not to mention the best looking" indicating that he was more concerned about starting an entire line of family, so he would literally live forever in a similar manner to Scar from Disney's 1994 animated film The Lion King.

At his fullest, Drake is known as a threatening bully. He is also an extremely pugnacious, manipulative, villainous, callous and prideful individual, which were all factors that made Marina disgusted by him, in another world had he been sweet and caring like Hubie, he could have won her heart. Drake is totally convinced in the belief of "might makes right" and used his tremendous physical strength to intimidate his rival, Hubie. In his quest to make Marina his wife, Drake reveals his cruelty and psychopathy when he threw Hubie off of a cliff, hoping to kill him. His determination to get what he wants is extreme, he is willing to browbeat, kidnap, or assassinate anyone who stands in his way, even threatening to turn Marina into "a shark's dinner" if she did not choose him over Hubie.

Throughout the movie, Drake appears to be extremely irritated whenever his goons (his penguin entourage and his skua pets) laugh, most likely showing a serious side to him. In fact, his whole villain song, "Don't Make Me Laugh" seems to revolve around this aversion.

Biography[]

Drake wants Marina to be his wife, but only because she is the most beautiful female penguin in the rookery, unlike Hubie who genuinely loves her. Knowing that Marina was already interested in Hubie, who was planning to present her with a courtship pebble, he decided to get rid of Hubie once and for all.

The morning after Hubie found the perfect pebble, he got tripped and cornered by Drake, who taunted him for his weakness and tried to steal the pebble from him. Hubie refused and Drake dropped him from an icy ledge into the water below. Hubie barely escaped from a leopard seal lurking in the dark waters and ended up stranded on an ice flow drifting out to sea.

Thinking that Hubie was dead, Drake began to hound Marina to forget about Hubie and accept his pebble, or she would be banished from the rookery for failing to take a mate. Marina, undaunted by his advances, refused him every time he asks, because she knew Hubie was still alive somewhere else. Drake then began to assume that she was simply joking, singing his villain song, "Don't Make Me Laugh," and even goes as far as to threaten her, saying that she will be a shark's dinner, and Hubie was just the appetizer.

On the day before the mating ritual, Drake finally lost his patience and kidnapped Marina, intending to force her to be his wife. Hubie arrived at the scene just in time after escaping from a pod of killer whales, where his friend Rocko apparently died. Drake initially gained the upper hand and knocked Hubie out. Thinking he won, Drake grabbed Marina and carried her off into the depths of his base. Hubie was revived by his friends and charged after Drake. The two engaged in a fight in which Hubie gained the upper hand by using the fighting techniques taught to him by Rocko and kicked Drake down the stair shaft to his apparent death.

Hubie became overjoyed when Marina accepted him as his mate, and more so when Rocko was revealed to be alive. However, Drake was still alive and lifted up a large stone chunk that Marina was standing on, launching it at Hubie with intent to crush him once and for all. However, not only did Hubie and Rocko both dodge the attack, but it also caused considerable damage to his base. Several stone slabs broke off from the overhang and one of them crushed Drake, ultimately killing him, while Hubie and Marina were saved by Rocko's new flying abilities.

Quotes[]

Wake up and smell the seaweed, you little fool! Nobody's gonna marry a loser like you. Now give me that stupid pebble!
~ Drake bullying Hubie.
Hope you can swim better than you can pluck. Bye, Hubie. Sleep with the fishes.
~ Drake pushes Hubie off a bridge.
But, precious! You'll only starve!
~ Drake to his "lover" Marina.
So, Marina. When shall I announce our engagement? Today? Tommorrow? Wednesday?
~ Drake proposing to Marina
Say your prayers, you fools!
~ Drake's last words as he tries to kill Hubie before being crushed to death.

Trivia[]

  • Possibly due to the film's high amount of anthropomorphism, Drake (along with the other penguins) has teeth and fingers. This is odd, because in real life, penguins do not have any of these.
  • It was never revealed what species of penguin to which Drake belongs, unlike Hubie and Rocko (an Adelie and Rockhopper, respectively). However, given his size and lure, as well as the fact that he appears to live in an almost palatial base, he may be an Emperor Penguin.
  • There are several moments in the film where Drake's pupils become so small that unless you look closely, it seems like he doesn't have any.
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