#Zwilt

[incorrectredwallquotes]

Vilaya: There, was that so hard? Freaking drama queen. Zwilt: You poisoned me! I’d say that’s an adequate amount of drama!

[thesablequear]

I can be normal about Vilaya (lie)

Zwilt The Shade and Vilaya  from “The Sable Quean”.

[knightofthenewrepublic]

[captainmirefleck]

Vote for your favorite Redwall villain! Not who you think would win in a fight, but who you think is most effective as a villain or who you enjoy the most!

[reine-du-sourire]

Yet More Redwall Villains

Zwilt the Shade he’s so adorable as a sable, his fur looks so soft

Vilaya, Vilaya, Sable Quean, yarrrr.

Ferahgo and Klitch, Tsarmina, Farran, Ketral Vane

Made here.

[alexsrandomramblings]

I for one am entirely on board with these two plotting revenge against Zwilt, as much as I enjoy the fucker.

[subtleshenanigans]

I rank Redwall Villains’ Ends

Note: this is all my own opinion!! Totally cool if you don’t agree :3

Also, this isn’t criticism! Redwall is my favourite series and I love all the books.

((Some of these have secondary villains included as well))

(Spoilers below cut)

Redwall

Cluny The Scourge: 9/10 classic, terrifying. What killed him? Did the run of the bell hit his spine? The metal hanging bit hit his head? Plus this dude got tricked big time.

Asmodeous: 10/10 Matthias went feral on this dude and beheaded him. Case in point.

Mossflower

Tsarmina: 10/10 she’s so terrified she backs into a deep lake and drowns, just like her nightmares. And they did have a pretty cool fight first.

Mattimeo

Slagar the cruel: 5/10 we got robbed. Little funny he fell back into the hole he escaped from. Possible he was still alive, broken at the bottom, suffocating as they threw stones down. Just felt lackluster to me.

General Ironbeak: 3/10 points docked mostly because it was off screen. Would have loved more description of Stryk tearing him apart.

Mariel of Redwall

Gabool the Wild: 6/10 unlike Slagar, he didn’t fall into the hole, but his own trap killed him. Plus death by scorpion is kinda cool.

Graypatch: 7/10 he got what he deserved and the description of him floating downriver was cool.

Martin The Warrior

Badrang: 7/10 Martin killed him so fair.

Salamandastron

Ferahgo the Assassin: 8/10 pretty neat battle. He heckin’ dead.

Klitch: 6/10 this one solely gets points for the hilarity of his stupidity, and the terrifying description of him subcoming to poison.

Outcast of Redwall

Swartt Sixclaw: 4/10 I’m trying to remember if he was already dead once he got yeeted off the mountain.

The Bellmaker

Urgan Nagru: 7/10 killed by his aesthetic. Chump, but funny, and he took out Finbarr.

Silvamord: 3/10 lowkey barely memorial. Like, idiot, there’s otters. Swimming ain’t gonna save you.

Pearls of Lutra

Emperor Ublaz Madeyes: 8/10 idiot forgot his DEADLY PET SNAKE. But put up a good fight against Martin 2, so. Interesting death.

The Long Patrol

Damug Warfang: 5/10 for Cregga executing him, and he manages to blind her.

The Legend of Luke

Vilu Daskar: 10/10 one of my fav deaths. The terror. The horror. The inevitability as death looms closer, and Luke’s speech.

Martin’s trauma: 8/10 he gets some closure and can have a measure of peace, finally.

Lord Brocktree

Ungatt Trunn: 10/10 my fav death. He doesn’t even die on screen. Gets snapped like a twig, and he’s still alive, just paralyzed until Groddil finds him. And the Fox gets justice; the whole Ungatt drifting out to see while his prophecy is being chanted . . .just. Fantastic. Well done.

Marlfox

Mokkan: 8/10 good for her, throwing the chain and not only hittin her target, but making him relive his nightmare.

His siblings: 6/10 there’s some good ones and some sucky ones.

Taggerung

Sawney Rath: 3/10 CHUMP

Gruven Zann: 6/10 dude needed serious help and has no brain cells, but it was kinda funny how quick he got betrayed. Plus, bonus point for being beheaded.

Triss

Kurda: 6/10 on one hand, she’s a coward and it’s irony she fell on her own weapon. On the other, lackluster.

Plugg Firetail: 7/10 snack.

Loamhedge

Raga Bol: 6/10 *squeaky toy noise*

Karanjul: 6/10 into the abyss for you!

Rakkety Tam

Gulo the Savage: 8/10 beheadings get bonus points, plus Tam yeeted this dude while injured. This dude who’s like five times his weight.

High Rhulain

Riggu Felis: 9/10 repercussion bringing back to the beginning of the book, all in all well done.

Eulalia!

Vizka Longtooth: 2/10 lackluster, both his death and him in general.

Gruntan Kurdley: 8/10 funniest example of someone getting killed by greed. Swan freaking killed him. (Honestly the brown rats finding peace is what redeemed this for me.)

Doomwyte

Korvus Skurr: 7/10 Zaran got justice for her family, so points.

Trugga Buster: 8/10 got what he deserved.

The Sabe Quean

Zwilt the Shade: 10/10 the delicious twist of a grieving wife running him through.

Vilaya: 3/10 like. Idiot.

The Rogue Crew

Razzid Wearat: 8/10 good twist, he doesn’t die getting run through but by gramps cracking his skull. Was neat.

[rainbow-hammock]

Can we have some Zwilt and Vilaya art please?

Thanks for the prompt, anon!

[readwall-abbey]

What’s your current ranking of stupidest Redwall villains? I’m seeing a lot of references to a list

The list is not exactly a physical list, it’s more of a mental tally that I keep and the villains do move around quite a bit, depending mostly on what books I’m reading at any given moment. There are, however, certain constants:

Ublaz Mad Eyes is always first. Not only did he keep one of the most dangerous snakes in the world as a pet, he died because he stepped on it while showing off. That’s just. Very sad.

Vilu Daskar comes in second for choosing to tie someone who hated his mere existence with a blinding passion and had previously attempted to kill him with nothing but his bare teeth to the wheel of his ship, in a storm, heading into dangerous rocks. Didn’t just let him steer the ship, no, physically tied him to the wheel so no one else could steer the ship.

In third place, for similar reasons as our champion idiot, is Gabool the Wild. He also kept a dangerous exotic beast as a pet that turned out to be his downfall; however he took, like, the barest precautions to prevent that outcome, such as keeping it in a hole instead of just letting it chill in a room, and also he had no reason to assume Rawnblade would be able to throw it out of the hole and hit him directly. (It’s basically canon that if Martin hadn’t intervened Rawnblade would have died without throwing the scorpion, so.) He actually would have been much lower on the list, except he has sort of a hard time keeping track of who he has and has not killed, and that’s never a good quality in a warlord.

After this it gets a bit fuzzy. Badrang is in the top five or six, not because of any specific moment of monumental stupidity but more because he had probably more chances to avert his eventual fate than any other Redwall villain and he didn’t take any of them.

Gulo the Savage is in the top seven or eight. He’d be pretty high, except his particular approach to his work doesn’t really require much intelligence, so it’s not all that much of a weakness.

I’ve only read Taggerung once, but if memory serves one the the major villains in that had kind of a running gag revolving around his intelligence or lack thereof, so I tend to rank him pretty highly too.

The others bounce around a lot but Ferahgo the Assassin and Cluny the Scourge come in dead last. Slagar didn’t always make the wisest decisions but he was better prepared to attack Redwall than any other villain I think, so he’s pretty low on the list. It’s mostly a list of main villains but there’s a special place on it for General Ironbeak, who gets rated higher rather than lower because he hired a seer and then never listened to a word he said. Why on earth do you let him sit there and take up space and feed him if you’re not going to take his advice? If I had to put Asmodeus on the list he’d probably come in third from last because he was just minding his own business and had no reason to think anyone would come after the sword OR that Matthias would be able to break his hypnotic hold on him.

I remember almost no details from The Sable Quean, which I have also only read once, but I recall a name, Zwilt the Shade, and I feel very strongly that he should go higher on the list rather than lower. Something about being predictably stabbed in the back? Could be mistaken though. I literally don’t even remember this guy’s species. Also the main baddie from Doomwyte is in the top six for discussing his plans to turn on his ally within hearing of said ally. Again, could be mistaken, I’ve only read this book once and I remember very little.

The Marlfoxes are scattered across the list. You can’t really clump them together in terms of intelligence.

[mathmusicred]

Stupid Deaths (a study of Major Redwall Villains)

Granted, I haven’t read some of these books in a long time, so I used the Redwall wiki quite a bit. Some books were arbitrarily allowed more than one villain.

(Redwall) Cluny the Scourge—killed by a bell

(Mossflower)  Tsarmina Greeneyes—drowned herself running from a half dead mouse;   Ripfang—let a badger hug him

(Mattimeo) Slagar the Cruel—fell down a well

(Mariel of Redwall) Gabool the Wild—killed by pet scorpion

(Salamandasteon) Ferahgo the Assassin—let a badger hug him, thrown off a mountain

(Martin the Warrior) Badrang the Tyrant—killed by a slave (also, shout out to how he nearly died when his swordplay was outmatched by a squirrel with a stick)

(The Bellmaker) Urgan Nagru—killed by the teeth of a skull he wore as a helmet 

(Outcast of Redwall) Swartt Sixclaw—thrown off a mountain by a badger

(Pearls of Lutra) Ublaz Mad Eyes—killed by pet snake

(The Long Patrol) Damug Warfang—fell off a ridge while letting a badger hug him

(Marlfox) Silth—poisoned by own child while trying to poison said child;  Lantur—pushed off a cliff, eaten by a fish;  Mokkan—thrown off a boat, eaten by a fish;   Ziral—a squirrel stole her ax;   Gelltor—challenged a squirrel, but the squirrel had a rock;   Predak—accidentally jumped off a wall;   Vannan—an otter threw a pointy stick;  Ascrod—shot by a blind archer;

(The Legend of Luke) Vilu Daskar—literally tied his mortal enemy to the wheel of his ship. In a storm. By a bunch of big rocks.

(Lord Brocktree) Ungatt Trunn—let a badger hug him, pushed out to sea by an angry fox

(Taggerung) Sawney Rath—an angry lady had a rock

(Triss) King Agarnu—his slaves threw him in the ocean, throne and all;   Princess Kurda—fell on her favorite sword;   Prince Bladd—hit by a falling pot of oatmeal

(Loamhedge) Raga Bol—tried to fight an angry badger (got picked up by the badger, so maybe variation of letting a badger hug him)

(Rakkety Tam) Gulo the Savage—a squirrel had a sharp shield

(High Rhulain) Riggu Felis—he chucked a fancy rock at a bird, and an otter lass chucked it back

(Eulalia) Vizka Longtooth—let a badger hug him

(Doomwyte) Korvus Skurr (a bird)—flew straight into an angry lady who had a sharp pointy thing

(The Sable Quean) Zwilt the Shade—killed by a hostage;   Vilaya—fell on her own poisoned knife (also jumped on by an angry badger, so it may be a variation of letting a badger hug her)

(The Rogue Crew) Razzid Wearat—stabbed by a hedgehog and whacked with a stick

 Alternate titles:

Case Study shows that Angry Badgers Relieve Stress by Hugging Enemies

Three Reasons to Avoid Badgers on Mountains

[son-of-drogo]

Look at the little Zwilt

Not sure what this is but I love him

[incorrectredwallquotes]

Zwilt: Do you take constructive criticism? Vilaya: I only take jewels

[tinybookgirl]

I know it’s unrealistic to expect the show to last for 22 whole books but I want to see Zwilts death onscreen so bad it’s literally my favorite villain death ever

[reine-du-sourire]

Another Redwall Villain

Tsarmina, Queen of the Thousand Eyes, Daughter of Verdauga, Ruler of Kotir, etc. etc. etc.

Ferahgo and Klitch, Zwilt and Vilaya, Farran, Ketral Vane

Made here.

[tinybookgirl]

I’m tagged as incorrectredwall but I’m just gonna answer here on my main

1. I don’t want it to be unsettling? I think overrealistic 3D animation wouldn’t fit the vibe, but if it’s something with a nice style that could work. I just don’t want like, live action lion king.

2. I really want just all of Mossflower because we haven’t seen it before. I think any scene with Martin and Gonff would kill me inside. Especially the scene after the battle where they find Martin looking half dead and Gonff basically collapses sobbing next to him. They better do their connection justice.

3. Ideally all of them which is a bit unrealistic, but I really would love to see Zwilts death onscreen. I’d really like Mariel to get one, because I think the scene where Clary, Thyme, and Rosie are knowingly walking into their deaths would be just heartwrenching if done right. I’d like to see Triss as well just because Triss is one of my favorites.

Uh let’s see who should I tag who do I know likes Redwall and hasn’t already been tagged @javelin-woman @mossflowermouse @lostmousemaid

In light of the announcement of the new Netflix adaptation of Redwall...

● What's something that could make or break the adaptation for you?

● What's a scene you're looking forward to seeing animated?

● Which of the other Redwall books do you hope get animated?

Share your thoughts and tag 3 people to continue

I'll start

● the faithfulness to the original feel of Redwall will definitely make or break the series for me

● The fight scene in Mossflower between Skipper and the vermin captain on the banks of the river in the early morning mist

● Loamhedge

I'm tagging

@raphcrow @thegoldensoundtwice @theredwallrecorder

And anyone else who wants to

[alexsrandomramblings]

Well fuck, I think I ship these two toxic idiots. And I've pretty much never shipped anyone from this series, not even in my early teens. But these two deserve each other even though I already know what's gonna happen between them.