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This article is for a character that is approved as a Silly Near Pure Evil example, meaning they are a character that fits the criteria while being consistently played for laughs. |
| “ | Vincent: Alright, RJ. I'm going back to sleep. When that moon is full, I'm waking up. And all my stuff had better be right back where it was! RJ: But that's just one week! That's impossible for one guy... [Vincent squeezes RJ's skull] A week's perfect. I'll get some helpers. Vincent: Full moon, all my stuff. And don't even think about running away, 'cause if you do, I will hunt you down and kill you! |
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| ~ Vincent threatening RJ. |
| “ | So I was on my way down here to kill you, but I stopped to watch the show, and I gotta say... That, right there, is a thing of beauty. That is the most vicious, deceitful, self-serving thing I've ever seen! (chuckles) Classic RJ. You take the food, and they take the fall. You keep this up, you're gonna end up just like me, having everything you ever wanted. | „ |
| ~ Vincent expressing his pride at RJ's deception. |
| “ | You're DEAD, RJ! And your friends are next! | „ |
| ~ Vincent threatening to kill RJ and his friends. |
Vincent is the main antagonist of DreamWorks Animation's 12th full-length animated feature film Over the Hedge, which was based on the 1995 syndicated comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. He is a greedy, gluttonous American black bear and RJ's arch-nemesis.
He was voiced by Nick Nolte.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Prior to the events of the film, he was a greedy bear who stole food from campers, and is shown not to share food with others, hoarding it all for himself despite being way too much for him, implying that it is more out of greed than actual hunger.
- While he and RJ were good friends at some point before the events of the film, the extent of it is never explored, and he sheds any kind of friendship or care for RJ after he steals his food. In fact when he makes that decision he gleefully tells RJ what he's going to do with a smile on his face, as if it wasn't a hard decision to make, which makes his choice to kill a former friend of his even more vile.
- When RJ attempted to steal his food and accidentally caused it to be destroyed, he came very close to killing him and only stopped when RJ promised to deliver all the food within a week, with Vincent threatening to hunt him down and kill him if he didn't keep his end of the deal.
- Him threatening to eat RJ strikes fear into him and causes him to have 2 nightmares about Vincent eating him.
- When RJ finally handed him all the food, he congratulated him on betraying his friends and attempted to manipulate him into believing that friends don't matter, telling him that if he keeps this up he'll end up like him.
- This line also implies that he may have betrayed and killed his former friends just to get food.
- After RJ broke their deal and tried to save his friends, he tried to kill him and all his friends, including three baby porcupines, despite none of them being a threat to his plans.
- Although he witnessed his food being nearly stolen and destroyed by RJ, this is too petty to be a Freudian Excuse as Vincent already stole this food prior to RJ stealing it and hoarded it all for himself, and he targeted RJ's friends despite them having nothing to do with his and RJ's feud.
- He is easily the most heinous character in the film as well as the only villain to pass the in-story baseline, since Dwayne LaFontant and Gladys Sharp (the former of which does pass the general baseline) weren't aware the animals were sapient, while he clearly was due to being a sapient animal himself while also having lower resources.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He has a bit of honor, as he was willing to forgive RJ if he brought him all the food he had entrusted to him for the next week, despite being aware of the fact that he is a liar and a thief.
- While he did say that he was heading for RJ to devour him before seeing him betray his friends, he may have thought that RJ hadn’t kept his end of the bargain after he had woken up as he was willing to forgive him once he saw that he had betrayed his friends.
Trivia[]
- In the video game that is based on the movie, Vincent ends up changing himself, so in that version he does not count as Near Pure Evil. However, as said game is not canon, Vincent still counts as that in the movie.
- In the DVD commentary of the film, the crew state that they realized near the completion of the film that Vincent was largely justified in his actions toward RJ for losing his food, which is why they added the scene where Vincent congratulates RJ on betraying his friends and encourages him to continue acting that way in the future to make him seem more villainous. Had that scene not been added, Vincent might not have been NPE.
- He is a foil to RJ, who is Near Pure Good.
- He is the first Near Pure Evil in a DreamWorks film to be CGI animated and first not to be hand-drawn animated.
External Links[]
- Vincent on the Villains Wiki
- Vincent on the DreamWorks Wiki
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