History Monster / Redwall

* ''[[Characters/RedwallOutcastOfRedwall Outcast of Redwall]]'': Swartt Sixclaw, aka [[LackOfEmpathy The Pitiless One]], began his career in monsterdom as a particularly vicious [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. Capturing the young badger who would become [[TheHero Sunflash the Mace]], Swartt proceeded to beat and torment him for several seasons. When Sunflash broke free and maimed Swartt's trademark sixclawed paw, Swartt vowed to have his {{revenge}} upon him. Poisoning Bowfleg, Warlord of the Eastern Flats, Swartt assumed control of his horde, and went on a seasons long rampage across the countryside, searching for Sunflash; when he encountered a band of foxes led by a vixen named Shang Damsontongue, he poisoned her as well, and assimilated her band into his own. Those who defy him die horrible deaths--he forced one rat to forcefeed a crow to his captain, choking him to death, than had the rat executed for murdering an officer; the fox, Balefur, who challenged Swartt's authority was left to die in an adders' den alongside two of his closest friends. Even the death of the vixen, [[TheDragon Nightshade]], his closest advisor and long-time companion fails to get any reaction out of Swartt. And that's without getting into his treatment of his family. Swartt essentially ignores the death of his wife, Bluefen, and [[ParentalAbandonment abandons his son Veil]] by the side of the road when the going gets tough. During the finale he and Veil are reunited, and Swartt proceeds to belittle and mock his son, before [[OffingTheOffspring killing him]] while trying to murder one of his friends. Sadistic, treacherous, and driven solely by the need to assuage his wounded {{pride}}, Swartt is about as [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] as even a ferret can get.

** Overseer [[MeaningfulName Bullflay]] of the Goreleech is a [[WickedWeasel towering monster of a weasel]] and one of the worst minor vermin in all of the series. A {{sadist}} who loves the pain of the slaves, Bullflay regularly [[ATasteOfTheLash tortures them]] with his trademark {{whip|It Good}} for talking, not rowing fast enough, or simply because he can. Bullflay also conducts a test to lift a log past a certain height, with any oarslave who does not succeed being thrown to their deaths in the ocean. Only too happy to turn his whip on his own, Bullflay tortures other crew members at Vilu's behest, spraying their wounds with saltwater when he is through whipping them.

* Seasons [[Literature/Redwall1986 1]] & [[Literature/{{Mattimeo}} 2]]: [[FoulFox Slagar the Cruel]] was born Chickenhound -- the arrogant and greedy son of Sela, a fox soothsayer and con-artist recruited by Cluny the Scourge to heal his broken leg. Conspiring with Sela to steal Cluny's plans and sell them to Redwall, Chickenhound callously murders the elderly Methuselah when he and his mother are caught stealing from the abbey. Abandoning Sela to be thrown out of Redwall and killed by Cluny, Chickenhound escapes but is disfigured by the adder Asmodeus. Blaming Matthias and swearing revenge, Chickenhound renames himself and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil becomes a notorious slaver]] employed by the polecat god-king Malkariss. Abducting Redwall's children--including Matthias' son Mattimeo--to sell to Malkariss, [[BadBoss Slagar]] treats his crew of hordebeasts as disposable: throwing Fleaback off a cliff [[YouHaveFailedMe for failing him]]; tricking the rest into killing each other; and killing Vitch out of spite. With [[TheStarscream ambitions of usurping Malkariss]] and taking Matthias's legendary sword for himself, Slagar is a petty sadist who delights in cruelty, murder, and above all treachery.

** [[TheHeavy Slagar the Cruel]], [[FromNobodyToNightmare formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhound]], reinvented himself as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the [[BadBoss worst boss]] in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for [[YouHaveFailedMe letting some slaves escape]], wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying Malkariss as well]], Slagar is as underhanded and manipulative as Redwall's villains get.

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Redwall}} Animated series]]:
** [[Literature/Redwall1986 Season 1]]: [[YouDirtyRat Cluny the Scourge]] adapts all the nastiest parts of his book counterpart's villainy and goes beyond that. A searat [[TheWarlord warlord]] with a propensity for [[BadBoss abusing his own men]], Cluny is established to have massacred the hero Matthias's peasant village in the past, attempting to personally [[WouldHurtAChild slaughter the young mouse]]. In the present, Cluny tries every scheme he can to take over Redwall Abbey, from attempting to starve everybeast within to death and having an unfortunate mouse who tries to deliver food to the abbey executed, to taking various hostages and trying to see them all slaughtered to goad the heroes--even managing to capture Cornflower and torturing her for her impudence against him. Setting up his own traitorous minion to die in an assassination attempt against him and regularly imploring the rest of his band to slaughter innocents with aplomb, Cluny finally attempts to take over Redwall by ordering the massacre of everybeast within.
** [[Characters/RedwallMartinTheWarrior Season 3]]: [[AdaptationalVillainy Badrang the Tyrant]] was a murderous [[{{Pirate}} corsair]] so vicious that his actions ravaged the coasts until Luke the Warrior set out to eradicate the threat. Badrang later attacked the home of Luke's son Martin and enslaved the young mouse and his people. Years later, only Martin is left, with countless innocents left to toil and build Badrang's fortress Marshank. Upon being confronted by his old ally Clogg, Badrang outwits and enslaves Clogg, murdering a subordinate Clogg coerces into spying on Badrang and then initiates an attempt to wipe out all the slaves who rebel against Marshank. Upon being confronted by Martin and Rose, Badrang spitefully murders Rose in an attempt to hurt Martin before engaging the warrior himself.

** [[Literature/Redwall1986 Season 1]]: [[YouDirtyRat Cluny the Scourge]] adapts all the nastiest parts of his book counterpart's villainy and goes beyond that. A searat warlord with a propensity for [[BadBoss abusing his own men]] who vies to take over Redwall Abbey, Cluny is established to have massacred the hero Matthias's peasant village in the past, attempting personally to [[WouldHurtAChild slaughter the young mouse]]. In the present, Cluny tries every scheme he can to take over Redwall, from trying to starve everybeast within to death and having an unfortunate mouse who tries to deliver food to the abbey executed, to taking various hostages and trying to see them all slaughtered to goad out the heroes--even managing to capture Cornflower, torturing her for her impudence against him. Setting up his own traitorous minion to die in an assassination attempt against his life and regularly imploring the rest of his band to slaughter innocents with aplomb, Cluny finally attempts to take over Redwall by ordering the massacre of everybeast within.
** [[Characters/RedwallMartinTheWarrior Season 3]]: [[AdaptationalVillainy Badrang the Tyrant]] was a murderous corsair so vicious that his actions ravaged the coasts until Luke the Warrior set out to eradicate the threat. Badrang later attacked the home of Luke's son Martin and enslaved the young mouse and his people. Years later, only Martin is left, with countless innocents left to toil and build Badrang's fortress Marshank. Upon being confronted by his old ally Clogg, Badrang outwits and enslaves Clogg, murdering a subordinate Clogg coerces into spying on Badrang and then initiates an attempt to wipe out all the slaves who rebel against Marshank. Upon being confronted by Martin and Rose, Badrang spitefully murders Rose in an attempt to hurt Martin before engaging the warrior himself.

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* ''Literature/Redwall1986'': [[BigBad Cluny the Scourge]] is the series's original CM and the template for all that follow. A feared warlord, Cluny hopes to conquer all of Mossflower, and turn Redwall Abbey into his new base of operations. Ruthless and despicable, he treats his soldiers as the [[WeHaveReserves expendable vermin they are]], conscripting otherwise peaceful rats, ferrets, stoats, and weasels into his horde, and punishing dissent with death. He shows absolutely no remorse at the deaths of his lieutenants Skullface, Shadow, Redtooth, Cheesethief, and Darkclaw, promotes dissension within the ranks, and is happy to sacrifice all of them to his ego. He takes a doormouse family hostage in order to gain access to the Abbey, fatally wounds Abbot Mortimer after taking the residents captive, and then [[LeaveNoSurvivors orders the massacre of everyone living at Redwall]] before being stopped by Matthias. Regarded as a [[SatanicArchetype satanic figure]] by the superstitious, and a madbeast by everyone else, he set the standards for evil in the Redwall 'verse.

* AnimatedAdaptation: [[BigBad Cluny the Scourge]], from the first season, adapts all the nastiest parts of his book counterpart's villainy and goes beyond that. A searat warlord with a propensity for [[BadBoss abusing his own men]] who vies to take over Redwall Abbey, Cluny is established to have massacred the hero Matthias's peasant village in the past, attempting personally to [[WouldHurtAChild slaughter the young mouse]]. In the present, Cluny tries every scheme he can to take over Redwall, from trying to starve everybeast within to death and having an unfortunate mouse who tries to deliver food to the abbey executed, to taking various hostages and trying to see them all slaughtered to goad out the heroes--even managing to capture Cornflower, torturing her for her impudence against him. Setting up his own traitorous minion to die in an assassination attempt against his life and regularly imploring the rest of his band to slaughter innocents with aplomb, Cluny finally attempts to take over Redwall by ordering the massacre of everybeast within.

Over the course of its twenty-two books, ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' has had several of [[CompleteMonster these]].

* ''[[Characters/RedwallLegendOfLuke The Legend of Luke]]'': In the beginning of Luke's tale, [[WickedCultured Vilu Daskar]] and his crew slaughter Luke's tribe "for fun", Vilu [[ItsPersonal personally cutting down his wife, Sayna]]. When he spies Luke and his crew following him on a ship, rather than ram the Goreleech into his enemy's much smaller vessel like Akkla suggests, he says he'll wait until the mice work and sweat to fix the ship anew...[[KickTheDog then he'll swoop in and sink it]], taking the survivors as slaves. When he gets new slaves on his ship, Vilu finds the sickest and weakest by making them pull the log; those who can't are "given" their freedom and forced to walk the plank. His crew is treated little better: when some pirates are found guilty of theft, [[DisproportionateRetribution Vilu has them savagely beaten]] and hung from sunrise to sunset with sea water poured into their wounds. One of the pirates recalled a past incident when Vilu dealt with four hedgehogs who hid some sacks of grain. Vilu promised to set them free if they reveal where their harvest is hidden, and when they did so, he had the four creatures sewed up in those same sacks, along with heavy rocks, then tossed overboard, saying, [[ExactWords "You leave my ship alive, free to go where you will!"]]
* ''[[Characters/RedwallLordBrocktree Lord Brocktree]]'': [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Ungatt Trunn]], Tsarmina's truly vile uncle, believes the path of conquest is his destiny and wholeheartedly embraces it with no regard for friend, foe or family alike, abandoning his homeland because inheriting the throne from his ailing father would wound his considerable ego. Trunn is notable for his so far unique supremacist philosophy as well. His Blue Hordes are considered the "MasterRace" and members of the "[[FantasticRacism lesser orders]]" are to be enslaved or wiped out. He conquers Salamandastron, resulting in the deaths of many heroes, including its old badger lord, and brutally treats the survivors as slaves. His own men are [[BadBoss terrified of him]], and his personal seer only works for him because Trunn slaughtered his family long ago, something Trunn mocks him over again and again. One of the worst things Trunn does is his decision when supplies run low in the conquered mountain. He simply proposes eating the hostages they have. It's worth noting that despite his claims of superiority in everything, Trunn is wholly without honor. After being challenged to a one on one duel by Lord Brocktree, Trunn accepts, then instructs his men to murder the Badger Lord if Trunn loses the advantage.

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* ''Redwall'': [[BigBad Cluny the Scourge]] is the series's original CM and the template for all that follow. A feared warlord, Cluny hopes to conquer all of Mossflower, and turn Redwall Abbey into his new base of operations. Ruthless and despicable, he treats his soldiers as the [[WeHaveReserves expendable vermin they are]], conscripting otherwise peaceful rats, ferrets, stoats, and weasels into his horde, and punishing dissent with death. He shows absolutely no remorse at the deaths of his lieutenants Skullface, Shadow, Redtooth, Cheesethief, and Darkclaw, promotes dissension within the ranks, and is happy to sacrifice all of them to his ego. He takes a doormouse family hostage in order to gain access to the Abbey, fatally wounds Abbot Mortimer after taking the residents captive, and then [[LeaveNoSurvivors orders the massacre of everyone living at Redwall]] before being stopped by Matthias. Regarded as a [[SatanicArchetype satanic figure]] by the superstitious, and a madbeast by everyone else, he set the standards for evil in the Redwall 'verse.
* ''Mossflower'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[CatsAreMean Tsarmina Greeneyes]] begins by [[{{Patricide}} murdering her father]] and framing her [[CainAndAbel good-at-heart brother]] for it, sentencing him to life imprisonment in the dungeons of her Castle Kotir. Tsarmina then becomes a ruthless tyrant, exacting her power over her rebel "subjects", the woodlanders, by sending a giant, mindless, and bloodcrazed rat-monster-thing to attack the woodlanders and slaughter them. Like Cluny and many other villains after her, she treats her mooks horribly, forcing her lame advisor to hobble ahead of marching troops in the hot sun after one of his plans doesn't work out. She extracts so much taxation from her kingdom that she impoverishes it, doesn't give her starving soldiers a second thought, and when provided with a means for escape from an attack by the woodlanders by her one genuinely loyal general, [[UngratefulBastard she leaves him to die]] because it will make her own getaway easier.

** [[FromNobodyToNightmare Slagar the Cruel]], formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhound, reinvented himself as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the [[BadBoss worst boss]] in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for [[YouHaveFailedMe letting some slaves escape]], wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying Malkariss as well]], Slagar is as underhanded and manipulative as Redwall's villains get.
** [[InsaneAdmiral General Ironbeak]], the fiercest fighter of the north, is a thuggish bully of a [[FeatheredFiend raven]] who leads his followers to conquer Redwall Abbey. Arriving at the Sparra loft, Ironbeak massacres the [[WouldHarmASenior elderly]] and [[WouldHurtAChild baby]] sparrows who were left behind to take over and proceeds to launch attacks on the abbey. Upon taking Redwall over, Ironbeak reveals he intends to [[LeaveNoSurvivors massacre the population]], who are all innocent civilians and little children, including the innocent baby Rollo Bankvole. When he attempts to attack the abbot, the innocent Sister May attempts to protect him, prompting a furious Ironbeak to attempt to kill her on the spot.
* ''Outcast of Redwall'': Swartt Sixclaw, aka [[LackOfEmpathy The Pitiless One]], began his career in monsterdom as a particularly vicious [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. Capturing the young badger who would become [[TheHero Sunflash the Mace]], Swartt proceeded to beat and torment him for several seasons. When Sunflash broke free and maimed Swartt's trademark sixclawed paw, Swartt vowed to have his {{revenge}} upon him. Poisoning Bowfleg, Warlord of the Eastern Flats, Swartt assumed control of his horde, and went on a seasons long rampage across the countryside, searching for Sunflash; when he encountered a band of foxes led by a vixen named Shang Damsontongue, he poisoned her as well, and assimilated her band into his own. Those who defy him die horrible deaths--he forced one rat to forcefeed a crow to his captain, choking him to death, than had the rat executed for murdering an officer; the fox, Balefur, who challenged Swartt's authority was left to die in an adders' den alongside two of his closest friends. Even the death of the vixen, [[TheDragon Nightshade]], his closest advisor and long-time companion fails to get any reaction out of Swartt. And that's without getting into his treatment of his family. Swartt essentially ignores the death of his wife, Bluefen, and [[ParentalAbandonment abandons his son Veil]] by the side of the road when the going gets tough. During the finale he and Veil are reunited, and Swartt proceeds to belittle and mock his son, before [[OffingTheOffspring killing him]] while trying to murder one of his friends. Sadistic, treacherous, and driven solely by the need to assuage his wounded {{pride}}, Swartt is about as [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] as even a ferret can get.
* ''The Legend of Luke'': In the beginning of Luke's tale, [[WickedCultured Vilu Daskar]] and his crew slaughter Luke's tribe "for fun", Vilu [[ItsPersonal personally cutting down his wife, Sayna]]. When he spies Luke and his crew following him on a ship, rather than ram the Goreleech into his enemy's much smaller vessel like Akkla suggests, he says he'll wait until the mice work and sweat to fix the ship anew...[[KickTheDog then he'll swoop in and sink it]], taking the survivors as slaves. When he gets new slaves on his ship, Vilu finds the sickest and weakest by making them pull the log; those who can't are "given" their freedom and forced to walk the plank. His crew is treated little better: when some pirates are found guilty of theft, [[DisproportionateRetribution Vilu has them savagely beaten]] and hung from sunrise to sunset with sea water poured into their wounds. One of the pirates recalled a past incident when Vilu dealt with four hedgehogs who hid some sacks of grain. Vilu promised to set them free if they reveal where their harvest is hidden, and when they did so, he had the four creatures sewed up in those same sacks, along with heavy rocks, then tossed overboard, saying, [[ExactWords "You leave my ship alive, free to go where you will!"]]
* ''Lord Brocktree'': Tsarmina's uncle, the truly vile [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Ungatt Trunn]], believes the path of conquest is his destiny and wholeheartedly embraces it with no regard for friend, foe or family alike, abandoning his homeland because inheriting the throne from his ailing father would wound his considerable ego. Trunn is notable for his so far unique supremacist philosophy as well. His Blue Hordes are considered the [[FantasticRacism 'master race']] and members of the "lesser orders" are to be enslaved or wiped out. He conquers Salamandastron, resulting in the deaths of many heroes, including its old badger lord, and brutally treats the survivors as slaves. His own men are [[BadBoss terrified of him]], and his personal seer only works for him because Trunn slaughtered his family long ago, something Trunn mocks him over again and again. One of the worst things Trunn does is his decision when supplies run low in the conquered mountain. He simply proposes eating the hostages they have. It's worth noting that despite his claims of superiority in everything, Trunn is wholly without honor. After being challenged to a one on one duel by Lord Brocktree, Trunn accepts, then instructs his men to murder the Badger Lord if Trunn loses the advantage.
* ''Rakkety Tam'': [[BloodKnight Gulo the Savage]] is an AxCrazy, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] wolverine who seeks to dominate the lands of ice and snow. [[{{Patricide}} Murdering his own father]] to seize control, Gulo finds the symbol of his rule, the "Walking Stone", has been stolen by his brother and leads an army to murder his brother and recover the Walking Stone. Upon crossing the sea, Gulo goes on a killing spree, murdering and eating any luckless creatures who cross his path, including a group of squirrel performers whose [[DecapitationPresentation heads he leaves]] as a macabre warning. Interrogating a tribe of river rats about the Walking Stone, Gulo refuses to believe several victims have no answers and brutally kills them when they try to "lie" to him before killing and eating more, with even his own soldiers not safe from his insanity and fury. A sadistic brute, Gulo makes his entire existence revolve around killing, eating and dominating anything that comes within reach of his claw and remains one of the most terrifying creatures to ever strike at Redwall.

* ''Outcast of Redwall'': Swartt Sixclaw, aka [[LackOfEmpathy The Pitiless One]], began his career in monsterdom as a particularly vicious [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. Capturing the young badger who would become [[TheHero Sunflash the Mace]], Swartt proceeded to beat and torment him for several seasons. When Sunflash broke free and maimed Swartt's trademark sixclawed paw, Swartt vowed to have his {{revenge}} upon him. Poisoning Bowfleg, Warlord of the Eastern Flats, Swartt assumed control of his horde, and went on a seasons long rampage across the countryside, searching for Sunflash; when he encountered a band of foxes led by a vixen named Shang Damsontongue, he poisoned her as well, and assimilated her band into his own. Those who defy him die horrible deaths--he forced one rat to forcefeed a crow to his captain, choking him to death, than had the rat executed for murdering an officer; the fox, Balefur, who challenged Swartt's authority was left to die in an adders' den alongside two of his closest friends. Even the death of the vixen, [[TheDragon Nightshade]], his closest advisor and long-time companion fails to get any reaction out of Swartt. And that's without getting into his treatment of his family. Swartt essentially ignores the death of his wife, Bluefen, and [[ParentalAbandonment abandons his son Veil]] by the side of the road when the going gets tough. During the finale he and Veil are reunited, and Swartt proceeds to belittle and mock his son, before [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring killing him]] while trying to murder one of his friends]]. Sadistic, treacherous, and driven solely by the need to assuage his wounded {{pride}}, Swartt is about as [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] as even a ferret can get.

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->''"As the hordes of Cluny the Scourge have moved southwards over the past six years, I have gathered intelligence of other incidents: a farmhouse set alight, later that same year... piglets, an entire litter of them eaten alive by rats... sickness and disease spread through livestock herds by Cluny's army."''
-->--'''Brother Methuselah''' about '''Cluny the Scourge''', [[Literature/{{Redwall}} the first book]]

* ''{{Literature/Mattimeo}}'': [[WouldHurtAChild Slagar the Cruel]], formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhound, [[FromNobodyToNightmare reinvented himself]] as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the [[BadBoss worst boss]] in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for [[YouHaveFailedMe letting some slaves escape]], wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying Malkariss as well]], Slagar is as underhanded and manipulative as Redwall's villains get.

* ''[[Literature/RedwallMattimeo Mattimeo]]'': [[WouldHurtAChild Slagar the Cruel]], formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhound, [[FromNobodyToNightmare reinvented himself]] as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the [[BadBoss worst boss]] in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for [[YouHaveFailedMe letting some slaves escape]], wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying Malkariss as well]], Slagar is as underhanded and manipulative as Redwall's villains get.

* ''{{Literature/RedwallMattimeo}}'': [[WouldHurtAChild Slagar the Cruel]], formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhound, [[FromNobodyToNightmare reinvented himself]] as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the [[BadBoss worst boss]] in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for [[YouHaveFailedMe letting some slaves escape]], wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying Malkariss as well]], Slagar is as underhanded and manipulative as Redwall's villains get.

* ''{{Literature/Mattimeo}}'': [[WouldHurtAChild Slagar the Cruel]], formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhound, [[FromNobodyToNightmare reinvented himself]] as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the [[BadBoss worst boss]] in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for [[YouHaveFailedMe letting some slaves escape]], wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying Malkariss as well]], Slagar is as underhanded and manipulative as Redwall's villains get.

* ''Mattimeo'': [[WouldHurtAChild Slagar the Cruel]], formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhound, [[FromNobodyToNightmare reinvented himself]] as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the [[BadBoss worst boss]] in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for [[YouHaveFailedMe letting some slaves escape]], wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying Malkariss as well]], Slagar is as underhanded and manipulative as Redwall's villains get.

* ''Mattimeo'' gives us Slagar the Cruel, who most definitely WouldHurtAChild. Formerly a wannabe thief and accidental murderer named Chickenhoud, Slagar [[FromNobodyToNightmare reinvented himself]] as a kidnapper, slaver, and mass murderer. Capturing the children of the Abbeydwellers, and several others, Slagar plans to sell them into slavery in the nightmarish Kingdom of Malkariss, where they will be worked to death by a tyrant. Along the way, Slagar proves himself the [[BadBoss worst boss]] in the series when he runs Hairbelly through for complaining, hurls Wedgeback off a cliff for [[YouHaveFailedMe letting some slaves escape]], wrongly executes Vitch (who he had previously tried to sell into slavery) for talking to Matthias, and in his most impressive act of treachery, convinces his entire gang to slaughter one another, so that he can keep the profits for himself. Completely untrustworthy, and intent on one day [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying Malkariss as well]], Slagar is as underhanded and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] as Redwall's villains get.

* ''The Legend of Luke'': In the beginning of Luke's tale, [[WickedCultured Vilu Daskar]] and his crew slaughter Luke's tribe [[ForTheEvulz "for fun"]], Vilu [[ItsPersonal personally cutting down his wife, Sayna]]. When he spies Luke and his crew following him on a ship, [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim rather than ram the Goreleech into his enemy's much smaller vessel like Akkla suggests]], he says he'll wait until [[AllForNothing the mice work and sweat to fix the ship anew]]...[[KickTheDog then he'll swoop in and sink it]], taking the survivors as slaves. When he gets new slaves on his ship, Vilu finds the sickest and weakest by making them pull the log; those who can't are "given" their freedom and forced to {{walk the plank}}. (As one slave - whose father couldn't haul the log - says, ''"If'n the big fishes don't get 'em, the sea does."'') His crew is treated little better: when some pirates are found guilty of theft, [[DisproportionateRetribution Vilu has them savagely beaten and hung from sunrise to sunset with sea water poured into their wounds]]. And it turns out he had been even worse than we knew. One of the pirates recalled a past incident when Vilu dealt with four hedgehogs who hid some sacks of grain. Vilu promised to set them free if they reveal where their harvest is hidden, and when they did so, [[MoralEventHorizon he had the four creatures sewed up in those same sacks, along with heavy rocks, then tossed overboard]], saying, [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo "You leave my ship alive, free to go where you will!"]] The fact he does all of this with a general casualness and utter disregard for life, despite his [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Victorian manner and eloquence]], puts him at the top of the bottom. All you need to know about Vilu can be summed up in one line: "[[CardCarryingVillain I do my best to be the worst]]."

* ''Rakkety Tam'': [[AxCrazy Gulo the Savage ]] is a wolverine warlord who [[{{Patricide}} murders his father]] and then becomes obsessed with killing his brother so that he can get the MacGuffin. Following his brother across the sea to Mossflower, he wreaks havoc in the land, butchering anyone he comes across. [[IAmAHumanitarian And eating them, as both he and his entire horde are cannibals]]. His list of victims include several hares that were on their way to deliver a gift to Redwall Abbey, a tribe of river rats, and more than twenty squirrels who were doing a parade. And as a present for their friends and family, he leaves their mangled heads behind. Some of these victims were eaten alive, too. Gulo is a completely insane and sadistic brute who lives to kill and enjoys every bit of it.

* ''Outcast of Redwall'': Swartt Sixclaw, aka [[LackOfEmpathy The Pitiless One]], began his career in monsterdom as a particularly vicious [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. Capturing the young badger who would become [[{{Badass}} Sunflash the Mace]], Swartt proceeded to beat and torment him for several seasons. When Sunflash broke free and maimed Swartt's trademark sixclawed paw, Swartt vowed to have his {{revenge}} upon him. Poisoning Bowfleg, Warlord of the Eastern Flats, Swartt assumed control of his horde, and went on a seasons long rampage across the countryside, searching for Sunflash; when he encountered a band of foxes led by a vixen named Shang Damsontongue, he poisoned her as well, and assimilated her band into his own. Those who defy him die horrible deaths--he forced one rat to forcefeed a crow to his captain, choking him to death, than had the rat executed for murdering an officer; the fox, Balefur, who challenged Swartt's authority was left to die in an adders' den alongside two of his closest friends. Even the death of the vixen, [[TheDragon Nightshade]], his closest advisor and long-time companion fails to get any reaction out of Swartt. And that's without getting into his treatment of his family. Swartt essentially ignores the death of his wife, Bluefen, and [[ParentalAbandonment abandons his son Veil]] by the side of the road when the going gets tough. During the finale he and Veil are reunited, and Swartt proceeds to belittle and mock his son, before [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring killing him]] while trying to murder one of his friends]]. Sadistic, treacherous, and driven solely by the need to assuage his wounded {{pride}}, Swartt is about as [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] as even a ferret can get.

* ''Redwall'': [[BigBad Cluny the Scourge]] is the series's original CM and the template for all that follow. A feared warlord, Cluny hopes to conquer all of Mossflower, and turn Redwall Abbey into his new base of operations. Ruthless and despicable, he treats his soldiers as the [[WeHaveReserves expendable vermin they are]], conscripting otherwise peaceful rats, ferrets, stoats, and weasels into his horde, and rewarding failure with beatings, torture, or death. He shows absolutely no remorse at the deaths of his lieutenants Skullface, Shadow, Redtooth, Cheesethief, and Darkclaw, promotes dissension within the ranks, and from some of the comments he makes, is quite probably a cannibal. He takes a doormouse family hostage in order to gain access to the Abbey, fatally wounds Abbot Mortimer after taking the residents captive, and upon being outmatched by [[TheHero Matthias]] in single combat, takes the Abbey chef as a prisoner in an attempt at forcing his opponent's surrender. Regarded as a {{satan}}ic figure by the superstitious, and a madbeast by everyone else, he set the standards for evil in the Redwall 'verse.

* ''Mattimeo'': Chickenhound, better known as the masked fox Slagar the Cruel, is a true FromNobodyToNightmare psychopath, who most definitely WouldHurtAChild. And not just hurt, but brutally beat, psychologically torture, force-march for days, and sell into a nightmarish underground kingdom to be slaves for the rest of their lives. His fellow slavers don't fare much better. Slagar murders several of them himself, sells his youngest henchrat into slavery as a means of currying favor with his employer, and convinces the rest of his crew to murder one another so that he won't have to share the reward with them. Unlike most of the villains in the series he does have a FreudianExcuse, in the form of an adder bite that ruined his face and drove him around the bend, but it doesn't hold much water since even before that happened he was a thoroughly empathy-deficient teenager who did not mourn his mother's death, robbed the Abbeydwellers after they saved his life, and (admittedly accidentally) killed Brother Methuselah when the old mouse caught him in the act. All the snakebite really did was remove the last of his inhibitions and cause him to think a little bigger.

Over the course of its twenty-two books, ''Redwall'' has had a few of these.

* Cluny the Scourge, BigBad of the first novel, and the template for all that follow is the series' original CM. A feared warlord, Cluny hopes to conquer all of Mossflower, and turn Redwall Abbey into his new base of operations. Ruthless and despicable, he treats his soldiers as the [[WeHaveReserves expendable vermin they are]], conscripting otherwise peaceful rats, ferrets, stoats, and weasels into his horde, and rewarding failure with beatings, torture, or death. He shows absolutely no remorse at the deaths of his lieutenants Skullface, Shadow, Redtooth, Cheesethief, and Darkclaw, promotes dissension within the ranks, and from some of the comments he makes, is quite probably a cannibal. He takes a doormouse family hostage in order to gain access to the Abbey, fatally wounds Abbot Mortimer after taking the residents captive, and upon being outmatched by [[TheHero Matthias]] in single combat, takes the Abbey chef as a prisoner in an attempt at forcing his opponent's surrender. Regarded as a {{satan}}ic figure by the superstitious, and a madbeast by everyone else, he set the standards for evil in the Redwall 'verse.
* The second book, ''Mossflower'', features [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[CatsAreMean Tsarmina Greeneyes]], who begins by [[{{Patricide}} murdering her father]] and framing her [[CainAndAbel good-at-heart brother]] for it, sentencing him to life imprisonment in the dungeons of her Castle Kotir. Tsarmina then becomes a ruthless tyrant, exacting her power over her rebel "subjects", the woodlanders, by sending a giant, mindless, and bloodcrazed rat-monster-thing to attack the woodlanders and slaughter them. Like Cluny and many other villains after her, she treats her mooks horribly, forcing her lame advisor to hobble ahead of marching troops in the hot sun after one of his plans doesn't work out. She extracts so much taxation from her kingdom that she impoverishes it, doesn't give her starving soldiers a second thought, and when provided with a means for escape from an attack by the woodlanders by her one genuinely loyal general, [[UngratefulBastard she leaves him to die]] because it will make her own getaway easier.
* ''Mattimeo'' features Chickenhound, better known as the masked fox Slagar the Cruel, a true FromNobodyToNightmare psychopath, who most definitely WouldHurtAChild. And not just hurt, but brutally beat, psychologically torture, force-march for days, and sell into a nightmarish underground kingdom to be slaves for the rest of their lives. His fellow slavers don't fare much better. Slagar murders several of them himself, sells his youngest henchrat into slavery as a means of currying favour with his employer, and convinces the rest of his crew to murder one another so that he won't have to share the reward with them. Unlike most of the villains in the series he does have a FreudianExcuse, in the form of an adder bite that ruined his face and drove him around the bend, but it doesn't hold much water since even before that happened he was a thoroughly empathy-deficient teenager who did not mourn his mother's death, robbed the Abbeydwellers after they saved his life, and (admittedly accidentally) killed Brother Methuselah when the old mouse caught him in the act. All the snakebite really did was remove the last of his inhibitions and cause him to think a little bigger.
* ''Rakkety Tam'' gives us the very, very AxCrazy wolverine warlord, Gulo the Savage. He murders his father and then becomes obsessed with killing his brother so that he can get the MacGuffin. Following his brother across the sea to Mossflower, he wreaks havoc in the land, butchering anyone he comes across. [[IAmAHumanitarian And eating them, as both he and his entire horde are cannibals]]. His list of victims include several hares that were on their way to deliver a gift to Redwall Abbey, a tribe of river rats, and more than twenty squirrels who were doing a parade. And as a present for their friends and family, he leaves their mangled heads behind. Some of these victims were eaten alive, too. Gulo is a completely insane and sadistic brute who lives to kill and enjoys every bit of it.
* ''Outcast of Redwall'' has Swartt Sixclaw, aka [[LackOfEmpathy The Pitiless One]], who began his career in monsterdom as a particularly vicious [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. Capturing the young badger who would become [[{{Badass}} Sunflash the Mace]], Swartt proceeded to beat and torment him for several seasons. When Sunflash broke free and maimed Swartt's trademark sixclawed paw, Swartt vowed to have his {{revenge}} upon him. Poisoning Bowfleg, Warlord of the Eastern Flats, Swartt assumed control of his horde, and went on a seasons long rampage across the countryside, searching for Sunflash; when he encountered a band of foxes led by a vixen named Shang Damsontongue, he poisoned her as well, and assimilated her band into his own. Those who defy him die horrible deaths--he forced one rat to forcefeed a crow to his captain, choking him to death, than had the rat executed for murdering an officer; the fox, Balefur, who challenged Swartt's authority was left to die in an adders' den alongside two of his closest friends. Even the death of the vixen, [[TheDragon Nightshade]], his closest advisor and long-time companion fails to get any reaction out of Swartt. And that's without getting into his treatment of his family. Swartt essentially ignores the death of his wife, Bluefen, and [[ParentalAbandonment abandons his son Veil]] by the side of the road when the going gets tough. During the finale he and Veil are reunited, and Swartt proceeds to belittle and mock his son, before [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring killing him]] while trying to murder one of his friends]]. Sadistic, treacherous, and driven solely by the need to assuage his wounded {{pride}}, Swartt is about as [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] as even a ferret can get.
* Special mention has to go to [[WickedCultured Vilu Daskar]] from ''The Legend of Luke''. In the beginning of Luke's tale, he and his crew slaughter Luke's tribe [[ForTheEvulz "for fun"]], Vilu [[ItsPersonal personally cutting down his wife, Sayna]]. When he spies Luke and his crew following him on a ship, [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim rather than ram the Goreleech into his enemy's much smaller vessel like Akkla suggests]], he says he'll wait until [[AllForNothing the mice work and sweat to fix the ship anew]]...[[KickTheDog then he'll swoop in and sink it]], taking the survivors as slaves. When he gets new slaves on his ship, Vilu finds the sickest and weakest by making them pull the log; those who can't are "given" their freedom and forced to {{walk the plank}}. (As one slave - whose father couldn't haul the log - says, ''"If'n the big fishes don't get 'em, the sea does."'') His crew is treated little better: when some pirates are found guilty of theft, [[DisproportionateRetribution Vilu has them savagely beaten and hung from sunrise to sunset with sea water poured into their wounds]]. And it turns out he had been even worse than we knew. One of the pirates recalled a past incident when Vilu dealt with four hedgehogs who hid some sacks of grain. Vilu promised to set them free if they reveal where their harvest is hidden, and when they did so, [[MoralEventHorizon he had the four creatures sewed up in those same sacks, along with heavy rocks, then tossed overboard]], saying, [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo "You leave my ship alive, free to go where you will!"]] The fact he does all of this with a general casualness and utter disregard for life, despite his [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Victorian manner and eloquence]], puts him at the top of the bottom. All you need to know about Vilu can be summed up in one line: ''"[[CardCarryingVillain I do my best to be the worst]]."''
* ''Lord Brocktree'' gives us Tsarmina's uncle, the truly vile [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Ungatt Trunn]]. Trunn believes the path of conquest is his destiny and wholeheartedly embraces it with no regard for friend, foe or family alike, abandoning his homeland because inheriting the throne from his ailing father would wound his considerable ego. Trunn is notable for his so far unique supremacist philosophy as well. His Blue Hordes are considered the [[FantasticRacism 'master race']] and members of the "lesser orders" are to be enslaved or wiped out. He conquers Salamandastron, resulting in the deaths of many heroes, including its old badger lord, and brutally treats the survivors as slaves. His own men are [[BadBoss terrified of him]], and his personal seer only works for him because Trunn slaughtered his family long ago, something Trunn mocks him over again and again. One of the worst things Trunn does is his decision when supplies run low in the conquered mountain. He simply proposes eating the hostages they have. It's worth noting that despite his claims of superiority in everything, Trunn is wholly without honor. After being challenged to a one on one duel by Lord Brocktree, Trunn accepts, then instructs his men to murder the Badger Lord if Trunn loses the advantage.

* ''Mattimeo'' features Chickenhound, better known as the masked fox Slagar the Cruel, a true FromNobodyToNightmare psychopath, who most definitely WouldHurtAChild. And not just hurt, but brutally beat, psychologically torture, force-march for days, and sell into a nightmarish underground kingdom to be slaves for the rest of their lives. His fellow slavers don't fare much better. Slagar murders several of them himself, sells his youngest henchrat into slavery as a means of currying favour with his employer, and convinces the rest of his crew to murder one another so that he won't have to share the reward with them. Unlike most of the villains in the series he does have a FreudianExcuse, in the form of an adder bite that ruined his face and drove him around the bend, but it doesn't hold much water since even before that happened he was a thoroughly empathy-deficient teenager who did not mourn his mother's death, robbed the Abbeydwellers after they saved his life, and (admittely accidentally) killed Brother Methuselah when the old mouse caught him in the act. All the snakebite really did was remove the last of his inhibitions and cause him to think a little bigger.

* ''Outcast of Redwall'' has Swartt Sixclaw, aka [[LackOfEmpathy The Pitiless One]], who began his career in monsterdom as a particularly vicious [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. Capturing the young badger who would become [[{{Badass}} Sunflash the Mace]], Swartt proceeded to beat and torment him for several seasons. When Sunflash broke free and maimed Swartt's trademark sixclawed paw, Swartt vowed to have his {{revenge}} upon him. Poisoning Bowfleg, Warlord of the Eastern Flats, Swartt assumed control of his horde, and went on a seasons long rampage across the countryside, searching for Sunflash; when he encountered a band of foxes led by a vixen named Shang Damsontongue, he poisoned her as well, and assimilated her band into his own. Those who defy him die horrible deaths--he forced one rat to forcefeed a crow to his captain, choking him to death, than had the rat executed for murdering an officer; the fox, Balefur, who challenged Swartt's authority was left to die in an adders' den alongside two of his closest friends. Even the death of the vixen, [[TheDragon Nightshade]], his closest advisor and long-time companion fails to get any reaction out of Swartt. And that's without getting into his treatment of his family. Swartt essentially ignores the death of his wife, Bluefen, and [[ParentalAbandonment abandons his son Veil]] by the side of the road when the going gets tough. During the finale he and Veil are reunited, and Swartt proceeds to belittle and mock his son, before [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring killing him]] while trying to murder one of his friends]]. Sadistic, treacherous, and driven solely by the need to assauge his wounded {{pride}}, Swartt is about as [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] as even a ferret can get.

* Special mention has to go to [[WickedCultured Vilu Daskar]] from ''The Legend of Luke''. In the beginning of Luke's tale, he and his crew slaughter Luke's tribe [[ForTheEvulz "for fun"]], Vilu [[ItsPersonal personally cutting down his wife, Sayna]]. When he spies Luke and his crew following him on a ship, [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim rather than ram the Goreleech into his enemy's much smaller vessel like Akkla suggests]], he says he'll wait until the mice work and sweat to fix the ship anew...[[KickTheDog then he'll swoop in and sink it]], taking the survivors as slaves. When he gets new slaves on his ship, Vilu finds the sickest and weakest by making them pull the log; those who can't are "given" their freedom and forced to {{walk the plank}}. (As one slave - whose father couldn't haul the log - says, ''"If'n the big fishes don't get 'em, the sea does."'') His crew is treated little better: when some pirates are found guilty of theft, [[DisproportionateRetribution Vilu has them savagely beaten and hung from sunrise to sunset with sea water poured into their wounds]]. And it turns out he had been even worse than we knew. One of the pirates recalled a past incident when Vilu dealt with four hedgehogs who hid some sacks of grain. Vilu promised to set them free if they reveal where their harvest is hidden, and when they did so, [[MoralEventHorizon he had the four creatures sewed up in those same sacks, along with heavy rocks, then tossed overboard]], saying, [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo "You leave my ship alive, free to go where you will!"]] The fact he does all of this with a general casualness and utter disregard for life, despite his [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Victorian manner and eloquence]], puts him at the top of the bottom. All you need to know about Vilu can be summed up in one line: ''"[[CardCarryingVillain I do my best to be the worst]]."''