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This villain was proposed but was rejected by the community for not being heinous enough or lacks what is necessary to be a Pure Evil villain. Therefore, this villain shall be added to our "Never Again List", where proposed villains rejected by the community shall be placed to prevent future proposals of the same evil-doer. They can be proposed again (with the permission of an administrator) if new elements appear in their series that can change their status as non-PE villains.

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Villain Overview

NAAAAAH! You meddling do-gooder gringos! I'll get the Corazón back if it's the last thing I ever do!!
~ Lasombra.
You meddling— You don't understand capitalism!
~ Lasombra threatening the Green-Eyed Children, and his most famous quote.
Lasombra: May I have your attention? There's been a misunderstanding which I would like to correct. I am not Eduardo. I am Lasombra! And you are now my prisoners.
Arnold: NO!
Lasombra: And you will remain my prisoners until this football headed boy shows me where to find the Corazon!
~ Lasombra revealing his true identity.

Lasombra is the main antagonist of the Hey Arnold! cartoon franchise, serving as the overarching antagonist of the cartoon series Hey Arnold! and the main antagonist of the 2017 film Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie.

He is a ruthless and greedy river pirate who seeks to steal the Corazon, a highly valuable ancient artifact, from the Green-Eyed People tribe. His ongoing quest to retrieve the stone came to fruition as he lures Miles and Stella's son Arnold there while posing as their friend Eduardo under the pretense of helping Arnold find Miles and Stella, only to take him and his class hostage and threaten them all. He is Arnold's archenemy.

In the series, he was voiced by Carlos Alazraqui. In the film, he was voiced by Alfred Molina, who also played Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reverend Leland Drury in White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf, Snidely Whiplash in Dudley Do-Right, Johann Tetzel in Luther, Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home, Bishop Manuel Aringarosa in The Da Vinci Code, Professor Jeffries in Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!, Maxim Horvath in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Ke-Pa in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the On Her Majesty’s Secret Service radio drama adaptation, Rippen in Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Viggo Grimborn in Dragons: Race to the Edge, Destiny in Justice League Dark, Mr. Freeze in Harley Quinn, The Duke in Solar Opposites and Mictlan in Maya and the Three.

Personality

Laosmbra is a wrathful, egotistical pirate, motivated by greed. While most of his pirates were capable of harming Children without any remorse, Lasombra shows that he is a step above by showing that he is willing to harm even his minions, and sometimes showing that he is taking sadistic pleasure from attacking children and seeing them in a near death situation.

Lasombra is also an intelligent and manipulative person who quickly gained Arnold's trust by convincingly posing as Eduardo, played off the real Eduardo's attempt to rescue the class as an attack by river pirates, and made the rest of the class turn on Arnold as a traitor of the pack. He is also quite predictive as most of his acts in the movie were all planned, as Lasombra continued to threaten Arnold with his tracking device he already put on his amulet.

It is shown that Lasombra is also resilient, as when he was poisoned by the dart and was on the verge of death, he still attempted to kill the real Eduardo, attacks Arnold and tried to throw him off the cliff. But all of his wrathful personality leads to his demise as the poison finally got to him and plummeting to his death in the ravine.

History

The Journal

Lasombra briefly appears in the two part series finale. As stated in "The Journal", Lasombra was a greedy river pirate who stole the Corazon from the fabled Green-Eyed People for his own selfish purposes. What he did not count on were a pair of adventurers named Miles and Stella Shortman. They were both successful in saving the Corazon from Lasombra, who swore revenge.

Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie

Lasombra is first seen watching Arnold from his computer screen and recognizing Arnold by his football-shaped head, chuckling evilly to himself. At one point, he disguised himself as Miles and Stella’s close friend, Eduardo, so that he could trick Arnold into leading him to the Corazon.

He was next seen on his ferry boat on the docks of San Lorenzo, disguised as Eduardo and pretending to be him by quickly recognizing Arnold. He invited Arnold and company aboard his boat and introduced them to his crew, one of which Olga fell in love with, much to the irritation of Helga Pataki. Once they sailed down the river, Lasombra/Eduardo sees Arnold's necklace glow and confirmed him to be chosen by the green eyed people, according to the ancient prophecy. He proposed they find the green eyed people and find out the answer the disappearance of Miles and Stella.

He then talked with Arnold about the threat of Lasombra, and that he was not happy that Miles and Stella stole the Corazon from him. When Arnold said they are in danger, Lasombra/Eduardo said that while they could turn around and head back to safety, they could also continue ahead and maybe find out about his parents. He then told Arnold not to tell the others, under fear that they would get worried.

Later that night, while keeping a lookout, Lasombra/Eduardo was smelled by Abner, Arnold's pig. Abner didn't smell anything good and tried to warn Arnold, but to no avail, deciding to leave the ship so that he could warn Arnold's grandparents. Arnold then told Lasombra/Eduardo that a ship is following them, which turns out to be river pirates. He makes Arnold believe that Lasombra is attacking them, and orders Arnold to stay down while he fights the pirates off and tells him to forget about his friends. He then steers the ferryboat into dangerous rapids, confident that the pirates would not follow them through there. He succeeded in outrunning the pirates, at the cost of wrecking the ferryboat on some rocks.

The next morning, the wrecked ferryboat explodes from impact, leaving Arnold, Lasombra/Eduardo and the entire class "literally up the creek without a stinkin' paddle", according to Helga. He assured them that he will lead them through the jungle to his hideout. When Helga asks about who attacks them, Lasombra/Eduardo explains to the group of the river pirates threat with their and Lasombra's vendetta against Arnold. Sid then asks about Lasombra hunting after Arnold, to which Lasombra/Eduardo said it is only Arnold's business and continues to lead the group into the jungle.

After Lasombra/Eduardo comes to his hideout, He then reveals to them, via taking off his fake mustache, that he wasn't Eduardo, but actually Lasombra. Lasombra then proceeds to take everyone prisoner and reveals that he was the one who arranges the class trip to San Lorenzo to lure Arnold there and as he and Arnold had a deal that they would go look for the green eyed people, much to everyone's shock and anger as they selfishly shuns Arnold despite that the latter was lied by him too and didn't want any of them to get hurt. Lasombra then orders his men to lock both the group and Arnold away in their separate cells.

Later that night, Arnold, with the help of Gerald and Helga who wrote about being wrong and too selfish to Arnold, they broke him out and work together to sneak past a guards and escape, including with the help of Phoebe and the rest of Arnold's friends. However, Lasombra wasn't angered as he put a tracking device on Arnold so he could lead him to the green eyed people, knowing they would show themselves in his presence. Lasombra gathers some of his men to go after Arnold, Gerald and Helga while some of his men remains to keep an eye on Phoebe, Harold, Stinky, Sid, Rhonda, Eugene, Curly, Nadine, Brainy, Mr. Simmons and Olga at the hideout.

As Lasombra and some of his men pursue the trio, he orders his men to go through the booby traps, even his one as a shield and forces another to test the trap floor that plummets to his death. After coming to the last trap, Lasombra orders them to go through it, but they refuses to do so he lures and let them die from the collapse as a result, revealing that Lasombra doesn't care about his own men and intents on catching Arnold with the Corazon by himself.

A short while later, Lasombra arrives at the village of the green eyed people and spots the Corazon with his greedy eyes. Lasombra reveals to everyone about placing the tracking device on Arnold's necklace when he uses the green eyed people's treasure against them in the process. He was then surprised that the only green eyed people awakened are the children, and decided to take the treasures in the kingdom and bring people there to sell it to them. The Green-Eyed children, Gerald, Helga and Arnold attacks Lasombra in retaliation. Naturally, Lasombra broke out for the fight, grabbed Arnold and fled the scene.

Lasombra then left Helga and Gerald hanging from a broken bridge and forces Arnold to open the Corazon's box by threatening to kill both of them if he doesn't, to which Arnold complies. Once the Corazon opened, Lasombra greedily pushed Arnold aside and tried to take it for himself.

But before Lasombra could even touch the Corazon, the box shot Lasombra in the forehead with a poisonous dart, which caused him to fall off the cliff and into the canyon. Later after Eduardo rescues the trio, Lasombra climbs back up with his skin turns green from the poison and confronts the real Eduardo as he proceeds mocks about his mustache. Nonetheless, Lasombra then finally lost his temper that he had just had enough of everyone getting in his way as he began to attack Eduardo by trying to stab him with the poison dart from his head. When Arnold and his friends intervenes and assets Eduardo as they violently fought Lasombra right back in the struggle, he manages to knock them off, but also accidentally knocks down the Corazon on process. While Arnold tried to catch the Corazon, Lasombra pins him down and also tried to catch it, only for the Corazon to end up rolling off the cliff and plummeting down into the ravine, much to his horror and Arnold's distress.

Furious at losing the Corazon again, Lasombra grabs Arnold by the shirt and lashes out to him about how he's just like his parents and orders him to go and get it back from the ravine. Just as Lasombra could attempt to kill Arnold by throwing off the cliff, the poison of the dart finally succumbs to him, resulting in him staggering backward. However, before falling back, Lasombra grabs Arnold's amulet off as he falls into the canyon and plummets to his death into the ravine, ending his evil reign in San Lorenzo once and for all. Afterwards, Eduardo notes that Lasombra had died the way he lived, full of poison.

After Lasombra's death, it is implied that few of his river pirates are disbanded and arrested by the authorities for their crimes. Although the Corazon was thrown off the ravine, Helga's locket was used as a replacement, curing all of the green-eyed adults including Miles and Stella.

Quotes

So, you've heard about the infamous Lasombra? He was not happy that your parents stole back a precious treasure from him, the Corazon. We could turn around and head back to safety or we could continue ahead, and maybe find out about your parents.
~ A hint to fake Eduardo's true nature.
Now, friends, let me explain what just happened back there. Eh, true, we have escaped an unexpected attack, and yes our boat is unfortunately wrecked, but there is good news; We are not lost. We can hike from here to our jungle habitat, a safe place.
~ Lasombra leading Arnold and co. into his trap.
As you can see I've made a living stealing and selling all that is precious in central America, but one treasure still eludes me, the Corazon.
~ Lasombra explaining his plan to steal the Corazon.
Oh, Arnold didn't tell you? We planned to go look for his precious green eyed people.
~ Lasombra revealed the deal he had with Arnold to Helga, Gerald, and the rest of the P-S-1-1-8 crew.
What's going on? So, did a small child knock you out? Or did you just, fall asleep? (laughs) Well done. You did exactly as I wanted. See? I intended for him to escape. The Green Eyes would not have shown themselves if I was with him, so I put a tracking device on him, now he will lead me straight to them. Gather the group, we're going hunting for green eyes! And their precious Corazon…
~ Lasombra plotting to go after Arnold after putting a tracking device on him.
Eyes on the prize…
~ Lasombra after leaving some of his men to die going after Arnold.
I know what to do. Buenos días, partner!
~ Lasombra after arriving at the Green-Eyed people's palace.
I can see we're not wanted here, Arnold. ¡Vamonos! No? I need you, partner!
~ Lasombra fleeing with Arnold and the Corazon.
Out of my way! So beautiful, and it's all mine.
~ Lasombra before being shot by a poison dart.
Lasombra: So, you finally caught up to us, Eduardo. You call that a mustache?!
Eduardo: Do you really think you could get away with this, Lasombra? Miles and Stella protected the Green-Eyed People from you, and now, their son will, too!
Lasombra: Always so presumptuous. They're not safe yet!
~ Lasombra coming back up for his final attempt to take the Corazon, and prepares to fight the real Eduardo
You pest, just like your parents! I'm going to throw you off the cliff! GO GET IT!
~ Lasombra's last words before succumbing to the poison and falling off the cliff to his death.

Allies

Enemies

  • Miles and Stella Shortman
  • Eduardo
  • The Green-Eyed People
  • Arnold Shortman
  • Gerald Johanssen
  • Helga Pataki
  • Phoebe Heyerdahl
  • Harold Berman
  • Stinky Peterson
  • Sid
  • Rhonda Lloyd
  • Eugene Horowitz
  • Thaddeus "Curly" Gammelthorpe
  • Nadine
  • Brainy
  • Mr. Simmons
  • Olga Pataki
  • Abner

Trivia

  • Lasombra's name is Spanish for "The Shadow".
    • His name was originally spelled as "La Sombra" during the film's production.
  • Lasombra is one of the few villains on Hey Arnold! to die in the series.
  • In a promotional image, Lasombra had gray hair.
  • In one of the flashbacks in "The Journal" episode and in a voice test in 2014, Lasombra is seen wearing a red Aztec mask. In The Jungle Movie, the same mask can be seen on Lasombra's wall.

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