| “ | Lasombra: May I have your attention? There's been a misunderstanding which I would like to correct. I am not Eduardo. I am Lasombra! And you are now my prisoners. Arnold: NO! Lasombra: And you will remain my prisoners until this football headed boy shows me where to find the Corazon! |
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| ~ Lasombra revealing his true identity. |
Lasombra is the overarching antagonist of the Hey Arnold! television series, serving as a flashback antagonist of the hour-long series finale episode "The Journal" and the main antagonist of the 2017 TV film Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie.
He is a ruthless and greedy river pirate who sought to steal the Corazon (a highly valuable ancient artifact) from the Green-Eyed People tribe and was successful until Miles and Stella Shortman stole it away from him. His ongoing quest to retrieve the stone came to fruition as he lures Miles and Stella's son Arnold there while posing as their friend Eduardo under the pretense of helping Arnold find Miles and Stella, only to take him and his class hostage and threaten them all. He is also Arnold's overall main arch-nemesis and his worst enemy.
In the series, he was voiced by Carlos Alazraqui. In the film, he was voiced by Alfred Molina, who also played Maxim Horvath in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Ke-Pa in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the On Her Majesty's Secret Service radio drama adaptation and Mictlan in Maya and The Three.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He stole the Corazon and treasure from the green-eyed-people.
- It is implied that he has been spying on Arnold during his life as a child since his parents left him.
- He kidnapped Eduardo and stole his identity in order to kidnap Arnold and his friends.
- After he lured Arnold, his friends Gerald, Helga, Phoebe, Harold, Stinky, Sid, Rhonda, Eugene, Curly, Nadine, Brainy and Olga and his teacher Mr. Simmons to his hideout, he revealed his true nature as he then tells them that they are his prisoners.
- After revealing his true nature to them, he locked the gates from the path of the camp to prevent anyone from escaping.
- He manipulated Arnold’s friends into believing that he is working for him, despite the latter also being lied by him and didn’t want them to be hurt. Though they did forgive Arnold in the end knowing he didn’t mean to.
- It is implied that he killed his men whenever they failed him as it’s shown when one of his guards begged him not to kill him after he let Arnold escape.
- He added a tracking device on Arnold, in order to have him take him to the green eyed people without his knowledge.
- He got his entire crew killed to avoid the booby traps and find Arnold for himself with no concern or sympathy for them.
- He used one of his men as a shield to prevent himself from being killed by the darts.
- He threatened one of his men to go in the trap by using his sword.
- When five of his men refuses to follow him for using two of them in the traps, he tricks them by having them follow inside the trap.
- When Arnold told him that the Corazon is the cure for sleeping sickness, he refuses and instead takes it, despite at least being aware that it would cure people, condemning the entire civilization to fates worse than death.
- When he noticed that the village is full of green-eyed children, he decided on using the treasure and bring people in the city to sell all of it to them.
- He attempted to kill the girl queen by using the same dagger just for throwing it at him in self-defense.
- When being beaten up by the children including Helga and Gerald, he knocked them out and threaten to kill them by using Arnold hostage.
- He took Arnold hostage and to kill him if he doesn’t open to Corazon.
- He attempted to kill Eduardo by using same the poison dart that poisoned him.
- He was willing to throw Arnold off a cliff to get the Corazon back, even if it means he might not come back out of spite and greed for ruining his plot. This shows how he was an outright monster with completely no remorse for his crimes and even his own river pirates that were injured or killed on process.
- Despite refusing to allow Curly to be a spy because he's "too loco" even for villains like he himself, this wasn't confirmed to be out of genuine standards. If anything, given how callous he was towards his men, he likely refused solely out of pragmatism due to how unstable and unpredictable Curly is.
- While he has some comedic moments where he is sometimes not taken seriously, such as not telling Rhonda the password for the Wi-Fi and telling his men to change it and not to forget to write it down after she figures it out, he is taken completely seriously by the narrative. Furthermore, these moments were all thrown out of the window after he was poisoned.
- In an otherwise optimistic and lighthearted series like Hey Arnold!, Lasombra nonetheless stands out as one of, if not the darkest and most vile antagonists of the show and movies. He beats even Scheck on this regard, as while Scheck was also a rather vile character, he was little more than a greedy businessman that tried to demolish the neighborhood in revenge for his ancestor's defeat, while Lasombra has done far worse with far less resources than Scheck, being the only character in the series to commit murder.
Trivia[]
- He is the only villain from Hey Arnold! to be Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Lasombra on the Villains Wiki
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