Lord Victor Quartermaine is the main antagonist of DreamWorks Animation's 11th full-length animated feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

He is a cruel, aristocratic hunter and Philip's owner who is obsessed on killing the Were-Rabbit in order to marry Lady Tottington in exchange. He is Wallace's arch-nemesis and love rival.

He was voiced by Ralph Fiennes, who also played Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, Rameses in The Prince of Egypt, Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon, Dennis "Spider" Cleg in Spider, Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film franchise, Harry Waters in In Bruges, Hades in Clash of the Titans, Raiden the Moon King in Kubo and the Two Strings, Professor Moriarty in Holmes & Watson, Barry in Dolittle and Chef Julian Slowik in The Menu. In the video game adaptation, he was voiced by Kayvan Novak, who also played Jake Abbasi in Skins: Fire and Paul in Inside No. 9.

Appearance[]

Victor Quartermaine is a slender man with balding black hair and sideburns. He is always seen wearing a beige trench coat, beige pants, and black boots. He also wears a black toupee to cover up his baldness, which is often an occurring gag in the movie, although this only happened about four times.

Throughout the film, the color of Victor's cravat (British scarf) changes several times, but no other clothing item that he wears does this.

Personality[]

Victor Quartermaine is a sarcastic, argumentative, arrogant, aloof, greedy, and pompous hunter who does not care about hunting laws or animals. He loves hunting, guns, money, and shooting rabbits or mammals. Victor is also very provocative and orgiastic towards Lady Tottington (even when she resists his advancements), as he tries to marry her for her money.

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

Official Bio from the Wallace and Gromit Website[]

Biography[]

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit[]

Nothing is really known about Victor’s early life prior to the events of the film, he first appears at the doorstep, Victor Quartermaine presents himself to Lady Tottington by giving her flowers. Tottington accepts the flowers and shows him and his dog Philip to the rabbits roaming in her garden while Wallace and Gromit were capturing the rabbits using the Bun-Vac 6000 (a machine to suck them away). Victor offered to get rid of the rabbits by shooting; however, Lady Tottington reminded him to not kill them without thought. Although Victor seemingly took her words, he prepares to shoot a rabbit before Wallace's contraption sucked it away as the bullet hits the ground. Confused at this occurrence, Victor inspects the hole the rabbit went through before his toupee gets sucked in and later also himself. He then gets out and questions Wallace and Gromit's handling of the rabbits, before demanding Wallace to pay for his toupee. Victor takes a black rabbit, thinking that it was his wig prior to leaving Tottington Hall with Philip.

During a town meeting taking place after a night where a creature, called the Were-Rabbit, ate most of the town's vegetables, Victor later enters in the midst of it offering to shoot the animal. However, Lady Tottington persuades the townsfolk to let Anti-Pesto capture the Were-Rabbit humanely and also continue their services, much to his irritation.

He traveled with his dog Phillip to Tottington Hall with intentions to visit Totty, only to see her in the vegetable garden with Wallace. Enraged, Victor later corners Wallace during the night in the forest, where he threatens him due to the former being jealous of Lady Tottington's growing fondness for him. He then forces Wallace to fight him. However, Wallace was caught in the moonlight and started transforming unwillingly after he threw Victor onto the van with Gromit inside; both Gromit and Victor watched in fear, but the latter grinned afterwards. When Gromit eventually drives away to go after the now transformed Were-Rabbit, Victor makes another evil grin as he plots a plan.

Now knowing who the Were-Rabbit actually is and seeing the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, Victor goes to Reverend Clement Hedges to seek a way to shoot it down. He gains access to "24-carrot" gold bullets, said by the vicar to be the only thing to kill the creature.

Victor then comes to the hall when the people argue with Totty the Were-rabbit is still eating the vegetables. Then Victor told the town that he will kill him. This left Totty no choice but to allow him.

Victor comes to Wallace's house in West Wallaby Lane in the night where he tries to kill him. He managed to track down and shoot Wallace under the form of the Were-Rabbit, only to find out the "creature" Victor shot was actually Gromit in a rabbit decoy suit. He then locks him in an Anti-Pesto trap cage and leaves to exterminate the real Were-Rabbit.

Victor later comes to the contest and tells Officer Albert Mackintosh that the beast is not killed, and the Officer mistakenly repeats it over the bullhorn. Then he calms the folks down, assuring them that he will take down the Were-Rabbit while also mentioning that he has one bullet. When Victor runs out of bullets, he asks the vicar for more only to be told that there are no more and they aren't cheap. Setting his eyes on the golden carrot trophy, Victor argues with Totty as he attempts to use it as a makeshift bullet, which caught Wallace's attention (as he believes Victor is trying to hurt Tottington) and bringing him to kick the hunter. However, Victor managed to take the carrot, loading it up in a blunderbuss he found at an antiques table at the contest and climbs on a pipe which Wallace later smashed, sending Victor to land headfirst into a cotton candy machine.

Victor follows Wallace into Tottington Hall's greenhouse, right after Tottington discovers that Wallace is the Were-Rabbit. As she attempts to call off the hunt for the Were-Rabbit, Victor refuses to do so, declaring that he attends to rid Tottington of 'Pesto' as she commissioned him to, accidentally revealing that he knew the Were-Rabbit was Wallace all along. Regardless, Victor declares that the revelation means little, as no one will ever believe Tottington if she told them. He also confesses that he was only ever interested in her for her money, saying that if he can still kill Wallace if he cannot have it. However, before Victor can shoot Wallace, Tottington sprays Pansy Spray into his eyes, temporarily blinding him and giving Wallace the chance to flee. In order to stop Tottington from interfering with his hunt, Victor pins her against one of the vegetables with a pitchfork, declaring that he likes her hair pinned back before chasing after Wallace. During that time, Philip was chasing Gromit and Victor got bumped by Philip by accident. When he comes back on his feet, he saw Wallace on the flagpole and Victor shoots. Unfortunately, Gromit's plane intercepts the gold carrot-bullet meant for Wallace, shielding him in the process. Having lost his last chance, Victor begins to throw a tantrum. However, the bullet caused Gromit's plane and himself to plummet down into a cheese tent, whilst Wallace managed to catch it.

After believing that Wallace is officially dead, Victor started gloating about his triumphant victory that no one can beat him, although Tottington, who managed to be free, eventually smacked his head from behind with a giant carrot, causing Victor 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 divert the mob from entering the tent where the real Were-Rabbit is. Philip believes Victor to be the Wallace still in the form beast, so he bites his master's rear, and the angry mob chases Victor away.

At this point afterwards, his true fate with the mob on the chase remains a mystery; however, in a deleted scene, it is rumored that he was run out of town instead.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (videogame)[]

Victor Quartermaine and his dog Philip also appeared as villains in the videogame adaptation. It was their goal to steal the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic valves, which would prevent Hutch and the Were-Rabbit from returning to normal. Additionally, he plans to use the valves in order to transform ordinary creatures into were-creatures. It is possible he is also attempting to prevent Wallace and Gromit from gaining more clients.

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• 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. It’s unknown if he would still be a villain or not.
• Victor Quartermaine is the first Wallace & Gromit villain in the films to speak.
  • He is also the first Wallace & Gromit villain to be a human, as the others were either animals (Feathers McGraw for example) or, in Preston's case, robots, along with Cooker. He was followed by Piella Bakewell, the third was Monty Muzzle, and the fourth was Bernard Grubb.
  • Victor is also the second Wallace & Gromit villain who uses a firearm, next to Feathers McGraw.
• Victor Quartermaine is the second main Aardman antagonist who is portrayed by a Harry Potter cast member, since Mrs. Tweedy from Chicken Run, but before Alexandrina Victoria Hannover from The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists!. Victor Quartermaine is voiced by Ralph Fiennes, who portrayed Lord Voldemort; Mrs. Melisha Tweedy is voiced by Miranda Richardson, who portrayed Rita Skeeter; Queen Victoria and Bunty are voiced by Imelda Staunton, who portrayed Dolores Umbridge. Surprisingly, Helena Bonham Carter appears in "Curse of the Were-Rabbit", as she voices Lady Tottington, whereas she portrays Bellatrix Lestrange.
• Victor Quartermaine is the fourth male human Aardman antagonist, who came after Mr. Hugh from Stage Fright, Angry Kid from Angry Kid, and Mr. Tweedy from Chicken Run, but he came before Monty Muzzle From Wallace And Gromit's Grand Adventures, Anthony Trumper from Shaun the Sheep: The Movie, Lord Nooth from Early Man, And Bernard Grubb From The Big Fix Up.
• He is Ralph Fiennes' second animated villainous role after Rameses (another DreamWorks villain) and before the Moon King (another stop-motion villain).
• His surname could be derived from Allan Quatermain, the protagonist of the 1885 British novel King Solomon's Mines by the late H. Rider Haggard.
• Victor Quartermaine is the only and so far Wallace and Gromit villain to never become an ally of Wallace at first, redeemed in the end, or even died.
  • Feathers McGraw from The Wrong Trousers was mostly Wallace’s ally until the prior to the film when he got arrested for using him for the diamond. Plus, became enemies throughout the franchise.
  • Cooker and Preston redeemed.
  • Piella Bakewell and Bernard Grubb were very intelligent to Wallace until they planned to murder him for revenge, but the former gets killed off in the end of A Matter Of Loaf and Death.
  • Poochy-woo and Tinky-wee were liked by Wallace.
  • Monty Muzzle interacted with Wallace until the climax of the game, when he found out his plan.

• However. Queen Bee attended to kill Wallace. Yet, they just met at the climax.
• Funnily enough, his voice actor Ralph Fiennes has also played another Lord-titled villain in his career.

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