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See the stars, see the Moon, penned around by blackest night. See the diamonds, red and purple, silk and fire and blood and light. See them turning, ever turning, like great mandala wheel. Spinning as the fire is burning... What is false, and what is real?
~ Slagar's infamous, mystical, and mesmerising quote by which he puts all of Redwall's inhabitants under his spell for one night.
I'm Slagar the Cruel, and you are my slaves. Understand this: If I say walk, you walk. If I say run, you run. If I decide that you may live, then you may live. If I take it into my head that you may not live, then you will die. Now, move!
~ Slagar's threatening speech for his young slaves.

Chickenhound, better known as Slagar the Cruel, is the main antagonist of the fantasy novel series Redwall, serving as a minor character in Redwall, and the main antagonist of the third book Mattimeo, as well as the second season of the TV series.

In the Redwall TV series, 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, Drake in The Pebble and the Penguin, Dr. Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles, Long John Silver in Muppets Treasure Island, Simon Doonan in the Titanic TV movie, Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Dr. Slicer in Recess, Ben Ravencroft in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Big Brother in Johnny Bravo, the Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker, Professor Calamitous in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Scarlet Fever and Nick O' Teen in Ozzy & Drix, Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck in Monk, Belial in The Legend of Atlantis, El Maléfico in ¡Mucha Luca!: The Return of El Maléfico, Von Talon in Valiant, Anatoly Cherdenko in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Philippe in Barbie and The Three Musketeers, Billy Flynn in Criminal Minds and Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Biography[]

Childhood[]

Slagar originally began as a devious young fox cub named Chickenhound, and served his healer and spy mother Sela, learning the tools of her trade as well as how to deceive others through feigning innocence. Secretly Chickehound resented being known as his mother's son and wanted to be known as a force in his own right.

Sela and Chickenhound made a pact with Cluny the Scourge who was heavily wounded. Whilst Cluny was being healed, Sela and Chickenhound stole military plans and bargained with Redwall for money, planning to play both sides of the war for money, with Chickenhound acting as his mother's messenger.

However Cluny had secretly been keeping his one good eye on them from the start and eventually caught the two with their ears against the door, eavesdropping on his latest battle plans. Cluny gave Chickenhound and his mother to his minions, Darkclaw and Cheesethief who had the two foxes executed via being impaled by spears and thrown in a ditch.

Sela was slain, but the clever Chickenhound had barely survived by playing dead as the spears had missed his vital areas. After mocking his dead mom, Chickenhound crawled to Redwall Abbey. Feigning grief about his dead mother and claiming he only wanted to avenge her death, he appealed to the kindhearted Abbot Mortimer. Chickenhound told the Abbot about Cluny's attack plan and asked for help in exchange. The Abbot told him that he would take in any wounded creature and Chickenhound didn't need to give him this information, and the fox was taken him in and cared in the infirmary.

In return for the Abbey's kindness, Chickenhound stole a sack full of trinkets, artifacts, family keepsakes and any other valuables from the Abbey, whilst vandalizing anything else. but before he could escape he was confronted by Brother Methuselah. Chickenhound hit the old mouse with the heavy sack, killing him and fled into the woods.

Evading Constance the badger who chased after him in a fury, but Chickenhound hid under a large tree stump. Whilst plotting his future, he was ambushed and bitten in the face by the giant adder, Asmodeus Poisonteeth. Chickenhound miraculously survived the deadly bite with his knowledge of healing and medicine, but his face was forever deformed and twisted from the venom. His mind was also twisted by the venom and he blamed the Redwallers for his injuries, claiming it was their fault he was driven into hiding and attacked.

Adulthood[]

Renaming himself Slagar the Cruel and wearing a hooded harlequin cape to hide his face, the young fox grew up and became a slaver with his own gang of followers. Meeting Polecat Malkariss, the ruler of the underground kingdom named after the polecat Malkariss, Slagar found he could make a fortune by capturing animals, usually children, and selling them as slaves to Malakriss. Furthermore Slagar got to make rake more profit by killing the rest of his followers through murder and manipulation, thus allowing him to get 100% of the reward. Slagar repeated this con with many gangs for many seasons(equivalent to years in the setting of Redwall). He also carved plans to eventually usurp Malkariss himself.

However even with all this success, Slagar never forgot his humiliating escape from Redwall and was further enraged to find out that Asmodeus had been slain by Matthias, thus robbing the fox of his revenge.

Taking his current band of weasels, stoats, and ferrets and tricked his way into Redwall Abbey in order to exact his "revenge" upon the warrior mouse Matthias, whom he held responsible for his disfigurement and robbing him of his revenge against Asmodeus. Slagar captured Matthias's son as well as some other young creatures to be sold as slaves to Malakriss.

Matthias and his fellow animals followed Slagar, reached the underground kingdom, saved the children, defeated the rat army and killed Malkariss, but Slagar managed to get out alive. When the band of woodlanders were ready to go back to Redwall, a rat named Vitch, who had been a part of Slagar's gang started to run off. Slagar seized his chance and killed Vitch with his bolas. This alerted Matthias and Orlando the axe to his presence and they chased after him. Seeing them coming, Slagar ran, but while running away from his pursuers, the masked fox accidentally ran directly into an ancient Loamhedge well and fell to his death into it.

TV series[]

In the TV series, Slagar the Cruel's history is mostly the same with a small differences. Rather then being caught by Cluny, both foxes escape him and retreat to Redwall, playing on their sympathies. Sela joins her son in robbing the Abbey, but it is Chickenhound alone who beats Methuselah nearly to death to his mother's shock, unlike the book Methuselah lives for two days here before succumbing to the injuries inflicted on him by the fox cub. When his mother is thrown out of Redwall leading to her death to Cluny's troop, Chickenhound escapes and is attacked by Asmodeus.

In Season 2, Slagar is the one to kill the shrew hero, Log a Log, by throwing a javelin at him from behind. Slagar the cruel's death is altered as well, when he makes one last attempt to kill Orlando and Matthias by hurling a boulder at them; the two destroy the boulder, and the resulting spray causes Slagar to tumble into the well to his demise. 

Personality[]

As Chickenhound[]

Even as a child, Slagar or Chickenhound as he was known by then, showed himself as devoid of empathy, he showed a "total lack of sorrow" for his mother's death in the narrator's own words and was completely ungrateful to Abbot Mortimer for helping him. Chickenhound was capable of faking innocence and fooling others with crocodile tears, though his true evil nature could be seen by some such as Constance the Badger. He had a habit of sniggering, especially when tricking other animals.

Believing he was meant for better, Chickenhound thought his mother was an old fool without guile and dreamed of one day being a infamous crimelord with a whole gang of fox thieves, whose name alone brought terror and awe throughout the land, his humble origin long forgotten.

Chickenhound resented his name and its association with Sela. He thus came up with a wide variety of names to call himself including: FoxPrince of Thieves Overlord of all criminals, RedFlash, NightFang or MouseDeath, the last being his favorite. Despite it being so, he settled with his name change to Slagar, as revealed in Mattimeo.

As Slagar[]

Despite the effects caused by the adder venom, Slagar grew to be extremely intelligent and manipulative, even moreso then his young self, becoming the ruthless bandit his younger self had dreamed of being, though he would regularly recycle gang members so that he could continue to keep profits to himself. He constantly fooling his enemies, whilst betraying and killing his allies. He was pitiless and unspeakably cruel (as his name implies), taking pride in these qualities. Having no mercy for children, even if they were members of his gang.

His acting ability had improved as Slagar was able to perfectly pretend to be amiable ringmaster, fooling all of Redwall even his old enemy Constance. His trickery allowed him to continually get members of his gangs to kill each other, leaving him to reap all the profits and start the process over with a new gang.

However, despite being a heartless psychopath, he was still nothing more than a coward. Running away from fights, demanding his cohorts do his dirty work, and taking all the credit.

Powers and Abilities[]

Medical Expertise: From a young age, Slagar learned how to collect herbs and used them for healing recipes, with this he was able to stay healthy after near death experiences.

Bola Proficiency: Slagar was an expert with a pair of bolas and could throw them around someone's neck from a far distance.

Master Magician: Slagar was fine stage magician and was able to easily entertain the redwallers with a wide variety of magic tricks.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Slagar is the only Redwall villain to appear in more than one book.
  • Slagar's behavior even before he was poisoned by Asmodeus suggest he has antisocial personality disorder, which marks him as the only Redwall villain who was evil since his early childhood.

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