Linnux

* Linnux
* Lang

**Linnux** (*林一色*) is the main antagonist of *Rock Dog* and its sequel and the looming danger to Snow Mountain. He and Khampa are mortal enemies and have already had a feud in the past. He plans to eat the sheep and get information about Khampa's army by kidnapping Bodi during his stay in The City.

## Background

### Official Biography

 *Linnux gives new meaning to the phrase "big, bad wolf." He is the CEO of Linnux Industries, alpha male of a sinister wolf gang and club owner of the Fight Palace. For those that stand in his way or get on his bad side, he'll make them go head-to-head with his prize fighter, The Grizz.*
### Personality

Linnux is short-tempered and demanding. He wants his orders to be executed with success and is quick to punish those who fail him. It is quite easy to set him off, as he gets mad only because the cord of his red phone was black, and didn't match the rest of the phone but seems to find glee in other people's suffering and pain, as he enjoys seeing Khampa and Fleetwood unable to escape, and sending the crocodile fighter to battle The Grizz, which is known to leave fighters on deplorable conditions and to "never be seen again".

Linnux is vengeful and spiteful, longing to hold a grudge, as he had Riff and Skozz wait outside Snow Mountain to spy on Khampa and his "army", waiting for the chance to strike and take revenge for his prior defeat. He verbally seethed that "[he hates] the big guy...", clearly referring to Khampa. He's also inconsiderate and uncaring of his minions, particularly Riff and Skozz for making them stay and spy on Snow Mountain for what can be assumed to be years, where they were cold and miserable, and he belittled one of his thugs for not getting "a red cord for the red phone", referring to how said the phone had a black cord that didn't match it. He only values his minions if they follow his orders and fulfill them to his satisfaction.

In the sequel, "Rock Dog 2", Linnux is revealed to be the true identity of Lang, and reveals that he enjoys music and once wanted to be a music star when he was younger, only to fail since he had no talent for music. Experiencing Bodi's music and energy reminded Linnux of that love he once had for music but as he still lacked talent, and remained a bitter and spiteful thug, he swore to own the industry as well as take Bodi's power for himself.

## Story

Not much is known about Linnux's origins, he has a mother which seems as violent as he is and have been leading the wolf party for years now.

### *Rock Dog*

He attacked Snow Mountain years ago and was quickly defeated by Khampa with the power of the Deadly Mastiff Paw, and this even fueled Khampa's need to protect the town, by making the sheep party and the fake army costumes which have proven to be working, as Linnux's and the rest of the wolf party think they are actual soldiers.

After Bodi leaves Snow Mountain, he quickly orders agents Riff and Skozz to trace him down and kidnap him, in order to get all the information they need to successfully raid Khampa's army and get the sheep.

Sadly, Riff and Skozz are not as sharp as he would want them to be, as they fail twice to capture Bodi, by getting hurt the first try and capturing Angus Scattergood the second time by mistake.

However, Riff proves to be sharp, as the whole wolf party fails to aim correctly at Bodi when confronting him at Rock 'n' Roll Park, but only his dart hitting him. However, Skozz quickly knocks him off.

After succeeding at kidnapping Bodi, he begin questioning him, and thanks to the sleeping serum, Bodi reveals that the army are actually sheep, and looking at the pictures that Linnux keeps on a wall on his office, he finds out that all the other soldiers, but Khampa, are sheep in costume.

Bodi in a desperate attempt to prevent them to get to Snow Mountain, tries to reason with Linnux, but failing. Instead, Linnux sends him to the Fight Palace to battle The Grizz, an enormous bear that works at the boxing stadium that Linnux owns, in order to get rid of Bodi.

At Snow Mountain, he quickly disarms Khampa by tying him up, he does not notice that Carl is running away to alert the village, but again, the sheep fail to find a good hiding spot and are found. Linnux ties both Khampa and Fleetwood Yak onto chairs, so they can watch the sheep being cooked. However, the barbecue is cut short, as Bodi interrupts and is chased by the other wolves.

Bodi's attack proves useful, as he quickly disarms the wolves and manage to put everyone into a soothing state, minus Linnux, who is last seen flying off yowling into the sky and over the mountains after being blasted by Khampa.

His whereabouts after Khampa's attack are unknown, but the rest of the wolves seem to have become good, leaving him without henchmen.

### *Rock Dog 2*

In Rock Dog 2, Linnux comes back as a music producer under the disguise of a hip sheep named Lang. After Bodi unleashed "Blue Energy" at the near end of the first movie, it awoke Linnux's love for music. It's then shown that in the past, he loved to sing but since his skills weren't very good at that time, the audience booed him, causing him to swear that he is going to show everyone by becoming the biggest baddest wolf the city has ever seen, he also plans to control the music industry so that he can own it since he thinks he can't make music.

He has also hired back Riff and Skozz as "undercover cops" whose job is to make the music performers in Rock N' Roll Park to believe that the park is being shut down. Trey has also been hired by Linnux to announce that the performers need to leave the area in order for the construction workers to destroy the park so that he can later come back out as Lang to "save" the park from being destroyed, making Lang a hero in others' eyes.

Linnux has also hired a wolf scientist to make a machine that can transfer ones power onto another which is the machine he will later use to trick Bodi into stepping into it. Linnux starts his plan by inviting Bodi to the city to join a famous pop star named Lil' Foxy to perform the opening of her shows as Lang, Bodi accepts the offer and was transported to the city by Lang's helicopter, afterwards Bodi starts to only chase fame and recognition, and starting to forget his friends and his passion for music. After Linnux has tricked Bodi and gotten his power, Linnux immediately throws Bodi out and cause him stray in the streets.

After getting Bodi's power, he heads over to the Rock N' Roll park to attend his beneficial concert, while he is attending the concert, he hypnotize everyone using his new-found power in the park including Bodi's bandmates, Darma and Germur. After Bodi has defeated Linnux using the power of his passion in music, and the care he has for his bandmates and friends, Linnux is blasted off the into the sky, like in the first movie, until he is not able to be seen anymore.

### *Rock Dog 3*

The events of Rock Dog 2 are mentioned, when Bodi says that "First it was wolf's (Linnux) pretending to be a sheep and now the sheep becoming wolves."

## Relations

### Riff & Skozz

Riff and Skozz are his henchmen, because of this, he does not treat them lightly nor give him extra benefits. Prior to being given the job to kidnap Bodi, they worked in a post, watching over Khampa's army, which means that the rest of the wolf party depends on their watch. However, there are several times in the movie that the sheep party is not guarding, nor Khampa is watching, which means they are not very good at it.

### His mother

His mother seems to be the only person he shows affection to. She's briefly mention when Linnux is introduced, but from the few words they exchanged, it's easy to infer that she's as violent as Linnux is, as she seems to be torturing or fighting someone as Linnux demands to break both of the person's legs.

### Khampa

Linnux and Khampa are nemesis. Khampa is the wall that prevents Linnux and his henchmen to devour the sheep at Snow Mountain and Linnux is the reason why Khampa can't stop protecting the village. They both seem to be on equal strength, minus Khampa being evil to use special abilities, as Linnux was able to quickly knock Khampa to the ground.

## Trivia

* His names might be derived from the OS, Linux. Due to the director's connection to Toy Story 2 whose movie was almost deleted due to the misuse of the operating system.
* Neither Linnux nor Khampa knows the other's name. In the second movie, Linnux knows Khampa's name but Khampa only know his fake name "Lang".
* Bodi's sound wave seems to have no effect on him. But it turns it has awaken something in him.
* Like all wolves, his sclerae is yellow.
* He seems to be wearing a black sweater, instead of the business suit he now uses, back at the first fight with Khampa.
* He has a recipe for lamb chops among the images at the wall.
	+ If sheep are sentient creatures in the lore of the movie, that means that such recipe existing is an act of murder, and per se, illegal.
* When Linnux arrives at Snow Mountain to invite Bodi to the city, he frequently uses perfumes to cover his scent so that Khampa couldn't identify him right away.
* The Lang costume that he uses is made out of wool, which has made him very itchy while he is wearing it.