| NOTE: This article is only on account of the TV show version of Malkariss as the book version was voted Pure Evil. |
Malkariss is the overarching antagonist of the second season of the animated Redwall TV series adaptation of the book saga with the same name.
He is a power hungry polecat in charge of a large horde of rats at his will to serve him who seeks to create a kingdom in his name to fuel his ego, having done this by using tons of children who would be kidnapped across the lands to backbreaking slavery in the underground.
He was voiced by Andrew Gillies.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He has subjected at least hundreds of children to harsh slavery in the underground that involves overworking them to drag heavy rocks and boulders in carts, carrying heavy stones, cutting and dressing stones using pickaxes, etc. while being starved and whipped by the rats supervising them, a lot of whom would be brought by one of his employees Slagar to be enslaved, with them being sentenced to spend the rest of their lives there.
- When Vitch, the young rat with Slagar, is introduced to him as a gift to him to serve in the ranks of the host, deeming him not worthy due to not being borne to the host and his ways not known to him, Malkariss orders Vitch to be chained to the slaves to be subjected to their labor.
- He prepares to have the recent multiple children Slagar kidnapped from Redwall Abbey and brought to him to join the other slaves in building his kingdom.
- When Tess defies him, Malkariss orders all of them to be taken back to be locked away in a room without light, food, or water, until they are ready to serve him.
- After Slagar is brought to him upon being summoned by Malkariss, he has Nadaz tell him that he is to be given four score rats to carry out his commands in the territory above his kingdom and that if he remains loyal until the snow flies, he will increase his commands and set his slaves to build him a stone fortress above ground and that if he proves false, he will be slain along with his guards.
- Upon being alerted of Matthias, his friends, and the army of Guosim shrews have arrived and intruded his kingdom, he blames Slagar for being followed by them and orders Nadaz to throw all his host against them to kill them and have the fighters surround and protect his statue.
- When Matthias, who had been thrown down from the edge of a fight between him and the wearat, jumps on his basket and sees Malkariss come out of it in his old frail form, Malkariss tries to kill him by means of stabbing him with his own sword only for the children to rise up and kill him by throwing enough stones at him to bury him in them, saving Matthias who would free them from their chains and rally them to fight off the rest of the horderats.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Due to the series excising any mention of death caused by the slavery from the books, he fails the Heinous Standards to his own employee Slagar the Cruel who not only contributed to the slavery himself by capturing and bringing most of the children to be subjected to the labor while also occasionally either burning their homes or slaying whoever tries to save them, but also plotted to betray and overthrow Malkariss and rule both above and below ground using the slaves on top of other heinous acts like trying to trick his men into killing each other to savor the rewards and slaying Vitch, a child, out of spite and Badrang the Tyrant who subjects hundreds of creatures to worse slavery with them toiling away in the sun while carrying out all sorts of hard labor and being whipped and starved with some even occasionally being repeatedly starved even more in a cell, on top of having ravaged the coasts with his deeds of mass murder and slavery and trying to kill all the slaves when they rebelled along with some big personal villainy by enslaving Martin and his tribe and slaying his lover Rose.
Trivia[]
- He and General Ironbeak are the only villains from the Redwall TV series to qualify as Near Pure Evil.
- Only the TV show version of Malkariss counts as Near Pure Evil as his book version is conveyed to have caused tons of children to die from the slavery he subjected to and as such passes the heinous standard and counts as Pure Evil over there.
External Links[]
- Malkariss on the Redwall Wiki
- Malkariss on the Villains Wiki
- His book counterpart on the Pure Evil Wiki
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