Scar Snout

Villain Overview

“	Chuckie: Gosh, it looks kinda like Spike's feet; only if he was a giant. Phil: I saw feetprints like that in our storybook. A wolf made them, and then he ate that Little Red Riding girl. Chuckie: The wolf ate a girl? Phil: They got her out.	„
	~ Chuckie and Phil talking about Scar Snout upon finding one of his tracks.

Scar Snout is the main antagonist of Nickelodeon's 3rd feature film The Rugrats Movie.

He is a lone, vicious, black wolf who inhabits the forest located somewhat near the Pickles' residence and enjoys hunting whatever he finds. He is feared by the Rugrats, whom he attempts to eat alive, as well as the archenemy of Spike.

His vocal sound effects were provided by Frank Welker who is not credited, whom also did the sound effects of Max 3000 in Man's Best Friend, Sharptooth in The Land Before Time, Barn Owl in Once Upon a Forest, Sabor in Tarzan, Carnotaurus in Dinosaur, Barracuda in Finding Nemo, Red Death in How to Train Your Dragon, Rudy in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the Harvesters in Independence Day, Ludmilla in Bartok the Magnificent, Rhino in James and the Giant Peach and Mor'du in Brave.

Biography[]

Not much is known about Scar Snout beyond the fact that he was a vicious wolf living in a forest and is implied to be feared by all the other forest animals due to his bloodthirsty nature. He first appears eyeing the Rugrats in the distance after they crash in the forest when they failed to return Tommy Pickles' baby brother Dil to the hospital in the Reptar Wagon. When Tommy trips over a large footprint, Phil notices that it is from a wolf, to which Tommy disagrees, saying that they would hear a howl. As Tommy mimics one, a real howl is heard (supposedly from this wolf), causing the babies to panic, jump into the Reptar Wagon and ride off.

Later, Scar Snout approaches Angelica and the family dog Spike trespassing his territory after Angelica breaks one of her roller skates. Angelica, not noticing the wolf sneaking up behind her, unknowingly takes off and throws her broken roller skate which hits his head, enraging Scar Snout. However, Spike discovers Scar Snout behind Angelica as he is about to eat her alive and promptly drags her out of the way just as the wolf bites down, narrowly avoiding Angelica. Scar Snout then growls in fury as he watches the two escape.

In the movie's climax, he later appears drinking water at the river to be ready for his revenge. When Tommy and his friends are cornered by a group of circus monkeys on a bridge, Scar Snout's presence scares the monkeys off before he reveals himself to the Rugrats and attempts to kill them. However, Spike intervenes and saves the babies by pinning Scar Snout to the ground, leading to a brutal fight between the two dogs. However, despite putting up a good fight, Spike is no match for Scar Snout since he is much stronger and more violent than him before he eventually defeats Spike by knocking him off the edge of the bridge with a swipe of his paw before moving in for the kill. Just as Scar Snout had Spike at his mercy and prepares to kill him, Angelica distracts the wolf by blowing a raspberry, allowing him to turn his attention on her. However, this only lets Scar Snout's guard down long enough for Spike to recover and bite his tail before dragging the wolf towards a small hole in the bridge. Scar Snout eventually loses his grip, causing both him and Spike to plummet off the bridge and over a waterfall as the Rugrats watch helplessly, believing Spike to be dead.

Unbeknownst to the Rugrats, it was revealed that Spike managed to survive by landing at the bottom of the bridge. However, Scar Snout's fate is left unknown, assuming he had also survived or was carried away by the rapids to his watery grave.

Personality[]

Despite being a wolf, Scar Snout, unlike regular wolves, is shown to be a ferocious, cruel, brutal, bloodthirsty, aggressive, violent, ruthless, black-hearted, sadistic and intimidating predator. Due to his vicious nature, it is implied that he is feared by all the other animals in the forest. However, it's shown that, despite being a wild animal who hunts for food and survival, he is also revealed to be sentient, intelligent and cunning since he is fully aware that he is targeting humans, particularly children such as the Rugrats, whom he stalks throughout the film with the intention of eating them while taking glee in it. The fact that he relentlessly hunted the Rugrats reveals that he is not simply a normal predator trying to survive.

He also has a savage temper as he became enraged after Angelica (who didn't notice Scar Snout was behind her) threw one of her roller skates which hit him on the head and was angered when she and Spike escaped from him before he could kill them. He will even react hostilely towards anything that he finds in the forest and attacking his prey unprovoked as he attempted to attack Angelica and Spike for trespassing his territory, although Spike drags Angelica away before Scar Snout could kill her. Even a group of circus monkeys are terrified of him, which is shown when they panicked and fled in terror upon hearing Scar Snout howling when they tried to take Dil away from Tommy during a thunderstorm and they later retreated when they saw Scar Snout behind the Rugrats while cornering them on a bridge near the Rangers' cabin.

He also took sadistic pleasure in killing Spike during his fight with him and would've succeeded if Angelica hadn't intervened. Despite his cruel and violent nature, Scar Snout is shown to be a coward as he became scared when he is dragged away by Spike towards a hole in the bridge in an attempt to save the Rugrats from Scar Snout, eventually leading to him and Spike falling off the bridge (although Spike managed to survive while Scar Snout was likely killed).

Appearance[]

Scar Snout is a large, slender, muscular, fierce-looking melanistic grey wolf. he has yellow eyes, as well as a long snout full of razor-sharp teeth and sharp claws.

Trivia[]

Despite being the main antagonist, Scar Snout only has four scenes, can be heard howling twice, and has a total of one minute of screen time. Plus, one of his pawprints is shown during one scene.
Presumably, Scar Snout marks the second character in Rugrats to be killed off, after Melinda Finster, the biological mother of Chuckie.
Scar Snout is regarded as the most scariest and darkest villain in the Rugrats franchise due to his vicious and brutal nature.
Scar Snout is similar to Sharptooth from the 1988 Don Bluth animated film The Land Before Time considering that he also committed child abuse and wants to kill whatever he finds.
Some people have believed that Scar Snout isn't a villain, although he is a villain because he's a sentient hungry predator and stalks the Rugrats intent on eating them alive.
- Some people also have believed that Scar Snout is a normal animal, although he isn't because he's actually a sapient animal and simply huge with a long snout full of teeth and fiery red eyes.
Since Rugrats Go Wild reveals Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys are in the same universe and thus, all the animals in the Rugrats universe are sentient, Scar Snout, due to his hostile and predatory portrayal, could be likely viewed as a sadistic killer as he's fully aware that he's targeting children and is taking glee in it.
In spite of how kid-friendly and lighthearted the Rugrats franchise is, Scar Snout darkens the mood of it whenever he appears onscreen and is taken very seriously, especially when he hunts and attempts to kill the Rugrats.
- It also shows that both Scar Snout and the fight scene with Spike in the film has been considered to be scary and violent by some people, stating it as a sudden dark moment in a lighthearted movie.

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