Soto's Pack are the main antagonists of Blue Sky's 1st animated feature film Ice Age. The pack originally consisted of 10 sabers who lived together; but because of an attack by a human tribe, half of the pack was hunted down and killed sometime before the migration shown at the beginning of the film. Afterwards, the only five known members were Soto, Diego, Zeke, Oscar and Lenny.
Soto was voiced by Goran Višnjić, Diego was voiced by Denis Leary, Zeke was voiced by Jack Black, Oscar was voiced by Diedrich Bader, and Lenny was voiced by Alan Tudyk.
Biography[]
As the movie continues, Soto sends Diego to bring him the son of the leader of the tribe so that he can have his revenge on the humans. The next morning, the sabers attack the human camp and Diego eventually finds the baby, but he is stopped by the baby's mother who grabs her son and runs away with him.
Diego traps her in the edge of a waterfall, so she is forced to jump into the water while holding tightly onto her baby. After meeting again with the sabers, Diego is being told by Soto to get the baby and take him to Half Peak.
However, other two mammals named Manny, a mammoth and Sid, a ground sloth had already found the baby and they were planning to deliver him back to the humans. Diego joins them as it's the only way to be able to stay close to the baby and track him down as Half Peak was very close to Glacier Pass.
As they journey through, in the night of the first day of traveling, Zeke and Oscar visit Diego to tell him how impatient Soto is getting, so Diego tells them to go and tell Soto that he will take the baby, and a mammoth (referring to Manny).
At the end of the film, The pack try to take out Manny and the baby, Zeke attempts to catch the baby but ends up trapped in a very small cave. The others try to corner Manny but Diego has a change of heart and helps him. After a brief fight, Soto almost kills Diego and tries to get the baby. Upon seeing this, Manny charges at Soto and throws him into a wall, causing icicles from above to drop onto Soto, thus killing him. The remaining members of the pack run away upon witnessing Soto's demise, never to be seen again.
Trivia[]
- Diego is the only member of Soto's pack who changes to hero himself.
- In Ace Age: A Mammoth Christmas, Diego mentions that he has a father and that it was actually common for Soto's pack to celebrate Christmas with their own traditions. It is unknown what became of Diego's father, but it is quite likely that he was one of the sabers hunted by the humans, as mentioned by Soto. That would explain why Diego was initially so supportive of Soto's plan to kill Roshan in retaliation because in that case he had a personal reason to hate humans. In this case, the fact that Manfred lost his family to human hunters but still decided to let go of his hatred of humans could actually have been the main trigger for Diego to give up her own vendetta, as it allowed him to symphatize with Manfred more personally.
- Delected footage from Ice Age shows that there was originally a sixth Smilodon named Niki, but he was eventually cut from the movie.
- Due to their different appearance, it seems that the members of Soto's pack belonged to different Smilodon subspecies. Oscar and Diego are probably Smilodon fatalis, judging by their size, while Zeke is believed to be a Smilodon gracilis due to his smaller structure. Soto, on the other hand, may have been a Smilodon populator as he was larger and bulkier that Diego and Oscar. However, Lenny particularly stands out in this regard, as the essential guide book of the first two movies states that he is actually not even a saber-toothed cat but rather a rare scimitar-toothed cat.
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