History Characters / RedwallMossflower

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%%* PikePeril

* PunchClockVillain: He never does anything overtly evil.

* HiredGuns

* HandicappedBadass: The book notes he's almost blind.

* LargeAndInCharge

* MasterSwordsman: Mentors Martin in swordplay.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: He bears none of her father or sister's evil. And as pissed as he was in learning that Tsarmina tricked him into killing their father, he could not bring himself to make her pay.

* BadassCape: It used to be Ashleg's. [[spoiler: This is what gets him killed.]]

* MutualKill: [[spoiler: With Bane.]]

* ThreateningShark: Or, as a pike, the local equivalent.

* RepetitiveName: Verdauga ALSO means "green eye." His name is Greeneye Greeneye.

* BadassCape: Shown in a purple cape in most official artwork.

* {{Natural Weapon}}: Unarmed and unarmoured when confronted by Martin, Tsarmina makes do with her claws and fangs, nearly killing him.

* ThatManIsDead: Tsarmina declared this to her soldiers after pinning him for their father's murder, and forbade anyone from uttering his name in her presence.

* {{Alas Poor Villain}}: It's rather sad to see his loyalty to Tsarmina, who really doesn't deserve it, amount to nothing as she leaves him to die so she can escape.

* SilentAntagonist

Son of Old Lord Brocktree and father of Bella of Brockhall, Boar the Fighter is an ancient silver badger, who rules from Salamandastron. Martin hopes to recruit him into the fight against Tsarmina, only to discover that Boar is on the verge of a final clash with his own archnemesis, Ripfang the searat.

* RedRightHand: A single long tooth that portrudes out of his mouth

* EvilCripple: Of the [[PunchClockVillain punch clock]] variety.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: One of only three pine martins seen across the series. It's a plot point too, since he's the one species around Argulor hasn't tasted before and is ever eager to catch.

* CatsAreMean: Word of God says her name is a play on Tsar (as in Russian monarchs) and mean.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: The only female villain Martian faces ...and the one that gives his the biggest fight of his life.

* PantheraAwesome: Out of all of ''Redwall''[='s=] villains, she puts up the best fight ''by far'' against the hero. It's largely because, as a European wildcat, she's many, many times Martin's size.

* TakeYouWithMe: Crushes Ripfang to death after dying himself.

* Heroic RRoD / VillainousRRoD: Argulor is really more of a neutral figure than a hero ''or'' a villain, but his end comes when [[spoiler:at the end of his battle with Bane, already badly wounded by Bane's scimitar, he realises that [[AllForNothing his prey wasn't even the pine marten he'd been craving but just a fox]], and his heart gives out, causing him to plummet from the sky]].

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sort of, as he hasn't had it yet: Pine marten. That's what Ashleg up there is. [[spoiler:Ashleg skipping town proves to be his undoing.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Purposely falls to his death after learning that the victim he killed was not a pine marten.

* LivingLegend: Unlike almost every other badger lord in the series, Boar is presented and spoken of as a monumentally powerful, mysterious and powerful entity, almost like a deity living up on Salamandastron; very little is revealed about her personality and history other than that he loves to fight and used to rule Mossflower. Even his father, Lord Brocktree, when presented his own book, was treated more as a character than the living legend status that Boar is treated with.

* PurpleIsPowerful: Favours a purple cape.
* SanitySlippage: She slowly goes mad through a mix of power, frustration, and the constant sound of dripping water.

* VillainHasAPoint: Tsarmina wants to execute Martin where he stood. Gingevere wants to simply exile him without further harm. Their father Verdauga leans to Gingevere and decides to exile the mouse after keeping him locked up. Martin outright admits that Tsarmina's choice was the better option because he promises to slay her.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of very, very few villains to actually succeed in this. However, he leaves his IconicOutfit behind, which Tsarmina exploits later.

* CainAndAbel: Is very much the Cain to her good-hearted brother's Abel.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: ''Everyone'' - even her own army - wishes that her brother was the successor. They even prefer her father, who was a fairly vicious tyrant himself.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Poisons her father. He even suspects that she'll do it, but he's too old and decrepit to do much about it.

* FamousAncestor: Of Squire Gingivere in the first book.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: What makes his sister his opposite.

* ThatManIsDead: Tsarmina declared this to her soldiers after pinning him for their father's murder, and forbade anyone saying his name in her presence.

* TheBerserker

* OfficialCouple: With Columbine.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Everyone - even her own army - wishes that her brother was the successor. They even prefer her father, who was a fairly vicious tyrant himself.

* {{Patricide}}: She murders her own father.

* TheMole: Tsarmina attempts to use her as such. However, the woodlanders were prepared for this with the Mask serving as a ReverseMole, and Fortunata ends up paying dearly for it.

* {{Alas Poor Villain}}: It's rather sad to see his loyalty to Tsarmina, who really doesn't deserve it, amount to nothing as she leaves him to dies so she can escape.

* CainAndAbel: Is very much the Cain to her good-hearted brother's Abel.

A badger. She opens her family home, Brockhall, to the woodlanders during Tsarmina's reign, and hopes that there is a way to bring her father, Boar the Fighter, home to Mossflower to lead the resistance against the wildcat.

* TeamMom: She offers her home to the woodland creatures and has a sort of motherly role among them.

One of Tsarmina's advisors, Ashleg is a pine marten, and the OnlySaneMan in Kotir's increasingly dysfunctional command structure.

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Even as Argulor drags him away, he doesn't stop ramming his scimitar into the eagle's body until he's dead, which allows him to get away with a MutualKill]].

* TheStarscream: To Tsarmina

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sort of, as he hasn't had it yet: Pine marten. That's what Ashleg up there is. [[spoiler:Ashleg skipping town proved to be his undoing.]]

%%* MasterSwordsman
%%* OldMaster

* UltimateBlacksmith: This is the one that forged the [[CoolSword Sword of Martin.]]

According to WordOfGod, this Ripfang is not the same Ripfang that appeared in ''Lord Brocktree'' - the similar names and matching backstories are "just a coincidence." However, the coincidence is so incredible that many fans assume Jacques was confused or forgetful and continue to consider the two Ripfangs the same character.

** To Badrang , who chronologically precedes her as Martin's worst enemy. Badrang's a jumped-up corsair who wants to be treated like an aristocrat, and whose fearsome reputation as a fighter is belied by his actual record in combat, while Tsarmina's a seemingly prissy princess who degenerates into a slavering berserker and gives Martin the fight of his life.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: The only female villain Martian faces...and the one that gives his the biggest fight of his life.

* SanitySlippage: She slowly goes mad through a mix of power and the constant sound of dripping water.

* CainAndAbel: Is very much the Cain to her good-hearted brother's brother.

* BadassGrandpa

* BadassGrandpa: His fur is going silver, but that doesn't stop him from fighting pirates.

* MasterSwordsman
* OldMaster

The king of the searats at the time of ''Mossflower'', Ripfang has sunk or enslaved all of his rivals, leaving him in command of the largest armada of searats ever assembled. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he does not fear Salamandastron, and has a long-running enmity with Boar the Fighter. See the folder for ''Lord Brocktree'' for the rat who may be his younger self.

* ShoutOut: His name and title are lifted directly from a poem from ''Literature/TheLordOftheRings'' (the scene from ''The Two Towers'' where Merry and Pippin first meet Treebeard). It's only one line, but it's sweet when you consider how many Tolkien influences seem to be in the books.

* ShoutOut: His name and title are lifted directly from a poem from [[TheLordoftheRings The Lord of the Rings]] (the scene from The Two Towers where Merry and Pippin first meet Treebeard). It's only one line, but it's sweet when you consider how many Tolkien influences seem to be in the books.