Victor Quartermaine

**Victor Quartermaine** is the main antagonist of the 2005 Dreamworks Animation/Aardman film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. He is a cruel hunter who plans to kill the Were-Rabbit (who is actually Wallace) in order to marry Lady Tottington for her money. He is also Wallace's arch-nemesis and Philip's owner, boss and leader.

He is voiced by Ralph Fiennes.

## Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Appearing at the doorstep, Victor presents himself to Lady Tottington by giving her roses. Tottington accepts the flowers as well as Victor telling her that he heard about the rabbits roaming in Tottington's garden in which he reveals that he is going to kill the rabbits in order to solve Lady Tottington's problem. While Wallace and Gromit were capturing the rabbits by using the BunVac 6000 (a machine to suck them away), Victor still plans to shoot the rabbits; however, Lady Tottington remined him to not kill them without thought. Although Victor seems took her words, he prepares to shoot a rabbit before Wallace's contraption sucked it away as the bullet hits the ground. Victor then gets confused and talks with Tottington about the former's obsessed with hunting which is before his toupee gets sucked in the rabbit hole and later also himself. He then gets out of the machine and angered by Wallace and Gromit's handling of the rabbits as well as questioning them about it, before demanding Wallace to give his toupee back. Victor takes a black rabbit, mistaking it for his toupee before leaving Tottington Hall with his dog Philip.

During a town meeting taking place after a night where the Were-Rabbit ate most of the town's vegetables in which caused the townspeople to be worried about their vegetables being eaten again, Victor came inside the church believing that Reverend is drinking communion wine and offering to shoot the creature. However, Lady Tottington persuades the townsfolk that killing fluffy animals is wrong and that they should let Anti-Pesto capture the Were-Rabbit humanely and also continue their services, much to Victor's irritation given he asks Totty that how could Wallace and Gromit catch the Were-Rabbit given that the creature is huge.

Victor traveled with Philip to Tottington Hall to visit Totty as well as planning to giving her roses again, only to see the Anti-Pesto van and Tottington in the vegetable garden with Wallace. Enraged at this, Victor cuts down a tree to prevent Wallace from leaving Tottington Hall. Victor then corners Wallace during the night in the forest, where he threatens Wallace due to the former being jealous of Lady Tottington's growing fondness for him. He then prevents Wallace from going back to his van and forces him to fight him. However, Wallace was caught in the moonlight and started transforming unwillingly after he threw Victor onto the van with Gromit inside when the former was about to punch Wallace; both Gromit and Victor watched in fear as Wallace has become the Were-Rabbit while Philip is too scared to attack Wallace/The Were-Rabbit but Victor grinned afterwards. When Gromit drives away to go after the now transformed Were-Rabbit, Victor makes another grin as he plots a plan to kill Wallace/The Were-Rabbit.

Now knowing who the Were-Rabbit actually is, Victor goes to Reverend Clement Hedges to seek a way to shoot the Were-Rabbit. Victor then gets the "24-carrot" gold bullets after being told by the vicar that the bullets are only things that can kill the creature.

Victor then comes to the hall when the people argue with Totty that the Were-Rabbit is still eating the vegetables and that the competition will have to be cancelled (despite Wallace telling Totty that he and Gromit have captured the beast in which Wallace was unaware that he is the beast until later in the film). Then Victor shoots the rabbit targets from Bag a Bunny and told the town. This left Totty no choice but let Victor shoot the creature.

Victor and his dog Philip comes to Wallace's house in West Wallaby Lane in the night where the former tries to kill him. He managed to track down and shoot Wallace under the form of the Were-Rabbit, only to find out that the creature Victor shot was actually Gromit in a rabbit decoy suit. Victor then sees Philip pointing that the real Were-Rabbit is heading off to the vegetable competition. Victor and Philip then lock Gromit in an Anti-Pesto trap cage and leaves to kill the real Were-Rabbit.

Victor later comes to the contest in order to kill Wallace/The Were Rabbit in which everyone (expect Lady Tottington) was happy at him for believing that he killed the Were-Rabbit. After that, Victor whispers to Officer Albert Mackintosh that the beast is not actually killed, and the Officer accidentally repeats it over his megaphone in which caused the townspeople to panic. Victor then calms down the folks down by using his gun, assuring them to leave the Were-Rabbit problem to him while also mentioning that he has one bullet and one of the vegetables are the perfect bait for the creature. When Wallace/The Were-Rabbit chases Mrs. Mulch and her pumpkin, Victor tries to kill the beast, but Gromit prevent this by using his watermelon towards Wallace/The Were-Rabbit. When Victor runs out of gold bullets thanks to Miss Thripp attempts to use the bullet to kill the Were-Rabbit, he asks the vicar for more gold bullets only to be told that there are no more, and they aren't cheap. Seeing the golden carrot trophy, Victor argues with Totty as he attempts to use it as a bullet, which caught Wallace's attention (as he believes Victor is trying to hurt Tottington) and bringing him to hit and kick the hunter. However, Victor managed to take the golden carrot off, loading it in a blunderbuss he found at an antiques table and climbs on a pipe which Wallace rips off, sending Vector to land headfirst into a cotton candy machine.

Then, Victor goes inside the hall and sees Wallace and Tottington holding hands after she realize the Were-Rabbit was actually Wallace. Then Tottington tries to protect Wallace from Victor, only for Victor accidentally revealed his plans and that he was also realize the Were-Rabbit is Wallace. As Victor makes an attempt to shoot Wallace, he gets sprayed by Totty in the eyes. Seeing that Wallace escaped after Tottington told him to run. Victor, to stop Tottington interfering in his plans, pinned her by ramming a pitchfork into her hair and the watermelon, not long before saying actually like her hair pinned back and follows Wallace. During that time, Phillip was chasing Gromit and Victor got bumped by Philip by accident when the evil hunter was still looking for Wallace. When Victor comes back on his feet, he saw Wallace on the flagpole and Victor shoots him. Unfortunately, Gromit's plane intercepts the gold carrot meant for Wallace, shielding him in the process. Having lost his chance to kill Wallace, Victor throws a tantrum about it. However, the bullet chased Gromit's plane and himself to plummet down into a cheese tent, while Wallace/the Were-Rabbit managed to save Gromit.

After believing that Wallace is officially dead and that he won, Victor started gloating about triumphant victory that no one can beat him. Tottington, who managed to be free, eventually smacked Victor's head from behind with a giant carrot, causing the former to fall into the same tent. While partially unconscious, he is then dressed in the rabbit suit by Gromit as punishment for his crimes and was sent to keep the angry mob away from the real Were-Rabbit. When Victor orders Philip to help him, Philip (who believes Victor to be the beast), accidentally bites his master, and the angry mob chases Victor away.

## Personality

Victor is a sarcastic, argumentative, arrogant, aloof, greedy, and pompous hunter who does not care about hunting laws or animals which makes sense given that he cares about nothing but himself. He loves hunting, guns, money and shooting rabbits or another animals. Victor also doesn't care about Lady Tottington given he reveals that he only wants to marry Tottington because of her money.

One of his most opprobrious plans is when he tries to kill Wallace/The Were-Rabbit. He also has a fondness for his destructive weapons (such as a rifle of gold bullets).

## Appearance

Victor is a slender man with balding black hair and sideburns. He is always seen wearing a tan trench coat, tan pants and black boots. He also wears a black toupee to cover up his baldness, which is often a running gag in the movie, although this only happened four times. In the end of the film, Victor has pink cotton candy as his hair, replacing the black toupee

Throughout the film, the color of Victor's cravat (British scarf) changes several times but other clothing item he wears does this.

## Trivia

* Instead of being Lady Tottington's suitor as in the final movie, Victor was originally written in the initial script as her son and was named Tristrum.