Archibald Snatcher

**Archibald Peneople Snatcher** (also known by her **Madame Frou Frou**, Mr. Snatcher or just Snatcher) is the main antagonist of the 2014 Lakia stop-motion film, The Boxtrolls (which is based off the 2005 book Here Be Monsters!). He is an exterminator and the leader of the Red Hats, secretly planning to become one of the White Hats and the king/mayor of Cheesebridge by killing the Boxtrolls and also Egg's archenemy.

He is voiced by Sir Ben Kingsley.

## The Boxtrolls

Snatcher is first seen telling Lord Portely-Rind that the Boxtrolls has taken a human baby (which is Eggs) and also lies to him saying that he will protect Cheesebridge from the Boxtrolls and they will steal the cheeses (despite in reality, Snatcher is only doing it in order to be one of the White Hats and become the new mayor/king of Cheesebridge).

Because of his plans, Archibald is still planning to kill Boxtrolls in order to succeeded his plans and also seen lieing to the villagers about the dangers of the Boxtrolls and also tries to kidnap Fish and the other Boxtrolls by having his henchman kidnap them for him. Ten years later, Portley-Rind's precocious daughter named Winnie noticed the boxtrolls and sneaks out of her home since he throws his father's hat outside. That is when she comes across the film's protagonist Eggs. Unfortunately, Eggs and the boxtrolls run off and Snatcher discovers Winnie and takes her to her home. Afterwards his henchman capture the Boxtrolls including Eggs's adoptive father, Fish.

In order to save Fish, Eggs diguised himself as a man/human (despite he is a man/human) and sneaks into the village, where comes across a fairground where Snatcher disguises himself as a woman named Madame Frou Frou and lies/sings about the story of Trubshaw baby's kidnapping and muder by the Boxtrolls. After another meeting with Winnie, Eggs slips into Snatcher's hideout/factory.

At the factory, Snatcher wants to test a picece of cheese (despite cheese being allergy to him) during that, he tells his henchman to wear the white hats and cut the cheese into piceces but however Snatcher was impatienet and also tells his henchman enough which scares them and give them the cheese and Snatcher finally ate it but that causes his face and hand to swell and begins to hallucinate as well him being crazy since he hit Mr. Trout as well as thought that Mr. Pickles was Lord-Portley Rind but however, Mr. Gristle tosses a bucket of leeches boss, curing him. As Snatcher's henchman tend him down, Eggs manages to free Fish. The Red Hats discover Eggs and tries to capture the both but Winnie interferes and Snatcher takes her captive. Eggs swings down on a rope and saves the girl. Both of them run out of the factory and out of reach of Mr. Gristle because of this, Snatcher was worried that Lord-Portley Rind finds out that he lie to everyone in Cheesebridge and the Trubshaw baby is still alive, it would ruin his plans.

After the escape, Fish reveals to Eggs and Winnie that Egg's father, Hebert Trushaw, was once famous inventor who cared for the Boxtrolls and don't see them as monsters. When Eggs was a baby, Snatcher wanted to bulid something and ordered the boy's father to bulid it for him but he refused and because of that, he tries to take Eggs away from him but however the inventor gave the baby to the Boxtrolls in order to keep safe and Snatcher hit him with a wrench.

Eggs and Winnie go to a ball hosted by Portley-Rind. In his Madame Frou Frou costume, Snatcher nabs him and tries to kill and strangle him to death with a scarf until Frou Frou is called to the dance floor, giving Eggs time to escape and tell Portley-Rind that Snatcher lied. As Winnie teaches Eggs to dance, Snatcher tries to grab him, with little luck. Portley- Rind reveals a giant cheese wheel known as the "Briehemouth" and when Eggs tries to convince him that Snatcher lied to all of the people in the village, he accidentally knocks the giant cheese into the river which causes Portley-Rind to be angry at him. Portley-Rind tells Eggs to get out of his house and he does not want to see him again after our hero tries to expose the villain as a fake.

Later, as Eggs (out of humilliation) tells the Boxtrolls that he is not a boxtroll. Suddenly, Snatcher and his henchman breaks into their home with a giant machine, Eggs and the trolls tries to escape but Snatcher and his henchman kidnapped them. Inside the factory, Eggs is locked in a cage and noticed a crazy man hanging from chains. However, when Snatcher came into the room, Eggs realize that the crazy man is his long-lost father and Eggs tries to make the Boxtrolls escape but Snatcher crushed them in a giant machine.

The next day, Snatcher seizes power over Cheesebridge and tells Lord Portley-Rind that he exterminated the Boxtrolls and is ready to kill the last one. Eggs is dressed as a Boxtroll while the Red Hats tried to kill him Snatcher is about to have the white hat and become the king/mayor of Cheesebridge when Winnie stands up for him and convinces Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles to redeem themselfs, which they do but unforunately, Mr. Gristle grabs the controls and prepares to kill Eggs when Trubshaw and the Boxtrolls (who secretly slipped out of their boxes before being crushed) came and attack Mr. Gristle as well as saving Eggs causing everyone in the village (including Lord Portley-Rind realizing that Eggs and Winnie were telling the truth and Snatcher lied to them and it also cause Portley-Rind realize that Madame Frou Frou and Snatcher are the same person. Despite his plot being exposed, Snatcher continued his plans and have his machine in an attempt to get the White Hat to himself, causing havoc around the city.

Eggs, Winnie and the Boxtrolls make an attempt to bring down the machine while Winnie and some of the trolls distract Snatcher with the White Hat. In a fit of rage, Sntacher tries to finish off Eggs by striking him with his wrench (similar to how he did to Egg's father) but Winnie, Trubshaw and the Boxtrolls (aided by Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles) sabotage the robot by using water which cause the robot fall into Mr. Gristle crushing him to death as well as Eggs and Sntacher falling into the Briehemoth, which went into the water and it also triggers Snatcher's cheese allergy and he grows into a monstrous and amorphorus blob. He takes Winnie hostage and forces Portley-Rind to give him the White Hat as well as ordering Eggs, Portley-Rind and Eggs to go to the Tasting Room.

After that, Snatcher tells the three to wear the white hats (despite Portley-Rind wearing a red hat) and also force to give them the cheese. Winnie manages to escape from him by biting his hand. Just as Snatcher is about to eat the cheese, Eggs tries to convince him he doesn't have do it, telling that everyone he wants won't change and those things don't make him and he make himself but Snatcher refused to redeemed by saying he have made himself and ate the cheese but before he can say anything, he explodes to death.