YMMV / Redwall (1986)

• Complete Monster: Cluny the Scourge, the first villain introduced in the series, is a borderline Satanic figure of legend. A pirate turned warlord with a legacy of blood and murder behind him, Cluny arrives at Redwall Abbey with the intent to conquer all of Mossflower. Press-ganging every nearby rat, ferret, stoat, and weasel, Cluny orders their deaths should they not join while happily sacrificing his troops when he deems it necessary or to make brutal examples to his own forces. Steadily losing his sanity as the siege drags on, Cluny becomes more brutal before taking a dormouse family hostage to force the father to open the gates to the Abbey. Upon his triumphant claiming of Redwall, Cluny declares that he will slaughter every citizen within for daring to defy him and fatally wounds the harmless old Abbot Mortimer for attempting to protect his people. When the young warrior Matthias arrives to face Cluny at last, the rat sacrifices one of his most trusted lieutenants and attempts to force Matthias to yield to a pointless death by holding an innocent mouse hostage with a spike to his throat.