Thoddeus Sureblade

Thoddeus "Todd" Sureblade is the secondary antagonist of Disney's 109th full-length animated feature film and DreamWorks' 44th full-length animated feature film and Blue Sky's 16th full-length animated feature film Nimona. He is a knight, who bullied Ballister for being of lower class. He also helps in trying to stop Nimona's rampage on the city, and grows to feel sympathy for Nimona after her seeming death, to the point he goes to honor her at her memorial.
He is voiced by Beck Bennett, who also voiced Launchpad McQuack in Ducktales Reboot and Hamster in Hamster and Gretel.
==Biography==
At some point in his life, Todd decided to train to become a knight, and would later start to bully Ballister Boldheart due to him being a commoner. He served as an icon for a poster for the knights. In the present day, he fakes apologizing for how he treated him and laughed at him.
He would later get made a knight, and would try to go after Ballister after he seemingly killed the queen. During Nimona's destruction of the Institute's castle, Todd would take a shower, and Nimona would mock Todd by telling him that it was "cold in there". After seeing the destruction of the castle, he would argue with Ambrosius by accusing him of getting Ballister out of jail before The Director ordered them to stop.
Todd then told The Director to allow him to lead the operation to arrest Ballister, saying that he would make him pay for killing the queen. However, The Director decided to choose Ambrosius to lead the search for Ballister and Nimona due to him being a descendant of Gloreth.
Later while looking at the cameras of the kingdom, they would see "Ballister" in a recording playing freestyle jazz, and while Todd tried to tell the troops to go capture Ballister, Ambrosius waited and searched further into the recording, as he knew Ballister hated freestyle jazz, and would then find the real Ballister who was hiding and was able to get on the subway, so they then go to the station at the market to arrest Ballister and Nimona.
When they got there, they try to capture them by throwing a smoke bomb into the subway before they entered it, only to be revealed that they escaped. They would then leave the subway to look after Nimona and Ballister, and when they found Ballister in a car flying way with Nimona, Todd and the rest of the knights (with the exception of Ambrosius) try to shoot down the car to no avail.
Later, Todd is seen at the Institute's castle, where he destroys the phone of the Institution's squire due the Director lying that it was a weapon that Ballister was using, as she didn't want others to see that she was responsible for the murder of the queen. During the fight between the knights and Nimona and Ballister, Todd would drag Ballister into a cereal stand, where he and the other guards start beating him up before he gets rescued by Nimona and Todd and the other knights are knocked unconsious by Nimona.
Nimona and Ballister then escape from the scene. Todd would later see Ballister and Ambrosius talking, and tracked Ballister to his lair, which made Nimona leave it after an argument between her and Ballister. Todd then beats up Ballister and demands to know where Nimona was, only to stop once he heard rumbling.
He then sees Nimona, who had now turned into a kaiju-like creature, heading towards the city, so he alerts the Institute about Nimona, and tells Ballister that if Nimona destroyed the kingdom, it would be Ballister's fault. He then tried to stop Nimona, but he became too scared and ran away, only to get hit by another' guards flying byke and falling into his own buildboard.
Four months after Nimona's seeming sacrifice to stop the Director from destroying half of the city, Todd is seen at her memorial, where he gives a nod and a smile to Ballister, who smiles back.
==Personality==
Todd is a bully towards Ballister, who he mocks for having a lower status, and admits that he was tough on him. He also tricks Ballister into thinking he was going to apologize to him for how he treated him, only to laugh at how he thought he was genuinely going to apologize.
He also is shown to be extremely prideful of himself, thinking he is more worthy to spend time with the Institution's squire than Ballister, and believes that he was born to protect the kingdom. After the destruction of the Institution's castle, Todd blamed Ambrosius for the destruction Nimona and Ballister did because he thought he allowed Ballister into the castle.
Todd also is shown to be quite dimwited, with him not knowing what a rhinoceros, and saying rhinoperos when Ambrosius tells him what it was. He is also childish, acting like an elementary school bully and showing excitement when he saw Nimona turned into a dragon because he thought she was Crispy, the mascot of a cereal. Todd also shows no reluctance to shoot at Ballister unlike Ambrosius, as he ordered the knights to do so when he saw him and Nimona escaping in a car.
Despite his large amount of pride, Todd is shown to be a coward, running away from kaiju Nimona when he saw her. For all of his flaws, however, Todd genuinely wants to protect his kingdom from threats, and wanted to avenge the queen's death after Ballister seemingly killed her.
Todd also shown to have gotten more kind in the four months after the destruction of the cannons, as he is seen honoring Nimona at her memorial, and gives a nod and a smile when he sees Ballister, which means that they are now in better terms then what they were in the past.
==Trivia==
* Todd's character is exclusive to the film adaptation and does not appear in the webcomic, although he possesses many of Ambrosius' negative traits from the graphic novel.
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