Scar Snout

**Scar Snout** is the main antagonist of the 1998 Nickelodeon's 3rd animated feature film *The Rugrats Movie*.

He is a huge ferocious wolf who lives in the forest located somewhere near the Pickles' residence and enjoys hunting his prey for sport. He is the archenemy of Spike while he is also feared by a gang of circus monkeys and the Rugrats who attempts to eat them alive.

His vocal sound effects were provided by Frank Welker, whom also did the sound effects of Max 3000 in *Man's Best Friend*, Sharptooth in *The Land Before Time*, Barn Owl in *Once Upon a Forest*, Sabor in *Tarzan*, Carnotaurus in *Dinosaur*, Barracuda in *Finding Nemo*, Red Death in *How to Train Your Dragon*, Rudy in *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs*, the Harvesters in *Independence Day*, Ludmilla in *Bartok the Magnificent,* Rhino in *James and the Giant Peach* and Mor'du in *Brave*.

## In the film

Scar Snout first appears eyeing the Rugrats in the distance after they first crash in the forest when they failed to return Tommy Pickles' baby brother Dil to the hospital in the Reptar Wagon. When Tommy trips over a large footprint, Phil notices that it is from a wolf which was possibly a wolf, to which Tommy disagrees, saying that they would hear a howl. As Tommy mimics one, a real howl is heard supposedly from this wolf, causing the babies to panic, jump into the Reptar Wagon and ride off.

Later, Scar Snout approaches Angelica and the family dog Spike trespassing his territory after Angelica breaks one of her roller skates. Angelica, not noticing the wolf sneaking up behind her, unknowingly takes off and throws her broken roller skate which hits his head, enraging Scar Snout. However, Spike discovers Scar Snout behind Angelica as he is about to eat her alive and promptly drags her out of the way just as the wolf bites down, narrowly avoiding Angelica. Scar Snout then growls in fury as he watches the two escape.

In the movie's climax, he later appears and drinks water to be ready for his revenge. Tommy and his friends are cornered by a group of circus monkeys on a bridge until Scar Snout appears and scares the monkeys off before confronting the Rugrats as he attempts to kill and eat the babies. However, Spike intervenes and saves the babies by pinning Scar Snout to the ground. The two of them viciously fight each other, whereupon Scar Snout rips off Spike's collar and hits him off the edge of the bridge before moving in for the kill, attempting to finish Spike off. However, Angelica distracts the wolf by blowing a raspberry, allowing him to turn his attention on her. Before Scar Snout can eat Angelica, Spike recovers and bites his tail before dragging the wolf towards a small hole in the bridge. Scar Snout eventually loses his grip, causing both him and Spike to plummet off the bridge and over a waterfall. Although Spike manages to survive the fall by landing at the bottom of the bridge, Scar Snout's fate is left unknown, assuming he had also survived or was carried away by rapids to his watery grave.

## Personality

Scar Snout is a dangerous, scary, ferocious, destructive, powerful and terrifying huge wolf who feared throughout the forest and enjoys hunting the preys he finds. Unlike many wolves, he is a sentient predator because he's simply huge with a long V-shaped snout full of teeth and fiery red eyes. Notably, he is the only sapient animal in the first film who never speaks and communicates with snarls, roars, growls and howls. In addition to being a stealthy predator, he was also extremely defiant and never backed down from a fight.

## Appearance

He is a huge wolf with greyish-black fur, fiery red eyes, long V-shaped snout full of teeth, and sharp claws.

## Trivia

* Presumably, Scar Snout is the only character in a Rugrats film to die.
* Scar Snout is similar to Sharptooth from the 1988 Don Bluth animated film *The Land Before Time* in which he committed child abuse and both want to hunt and kill the preys he finds.
* Some people have believed that Scar Snout isn't a villain, although he is a villain because he's a sentient predator and stalks the Rugrats intent on eating them alive.
	+ Some people also have believed that Scar Snout is a normal animal, although he isn't because he's actually a sapient animal and simply huge with a long V-shaped snout full of teeth and fiery red eyes.
* Since *Rugrats Go Wild* reveals *Rugrats* and *The Wild Thornberrys* are the same universe and thus, all animals in the Rugrats universe are sentient, the wolf due to his hostile and predatory portrayal could be likely viewed as a sadistic serial killer as he's then fully aware he's targeting human children and is taking glee in it.