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The Toad

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The Toad is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 13th full-length animated feature film Flushed Away, which is also Aardman's 3rd animated feature film.

He is the boss and leader of henchmen, Thimblenose Ted, Ladykiller, Fat Barry, Spike, and Whitey, and his younger French cousin Le Frog, and Roddy and Rita's arch-nemesis. Prior to his hatred for rodents, the Toad had a fun life with his owner Prince Charles, until he was flushed away down the sewers, like Roddy, by a palace servant after Charles got a pet rat.

He was voiced by Ian McKellen, who also played Magneto in the X-Men movie series, Horatio P. Huntington in Animal Crackers, Kurt Dussander in Apt Pupil, Roy Courtnay in The Good Liar, Sir Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code, Zebedee in The Magic Roundabout, and the title character in the 1995 film adaptation of Richard III.

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The Toad's general attitude and personality are rather changeable and temperamental. At times, he is extremely obsequious, sophisticated, thoughtful and charismatic, responding to negative situations with affability and decorum but he shows a willingness to switch to cruelty and violence without hesitation towards his enemies, or just general "do-gooders". The Toad reserves his cruelty to his subordinates alone and is softer with his own family but shows to treat Le Frog harshly at times.

With his children, the Toad reveals a more two-sided aspect of his personality, one that is an affectionate and sympathetic father rather than just a raving and obstreperous madman but can't be able to get them ponies until his plans are complete. However, the divide between the Toad's personas was once again evident when speaking to his children in a loving and babied voice, but also revealing his plans for total rat genocide in the same voice, claiming that they would all be "deady-weddy" to his tadpoles.

The one thing that can be said about the Toad that is genuine is that he utterly hates rats. Since he was replaced by a rodent as his former owner's pet (who was an aristocrat), he developed a grudge and sought to eradicate them from the face of the Earth, intending to replace them with a far more superior species of his frog tadpoles. Although he surrounds his entourage of rats, even then the Toad holds with disdain and occasionally violence. Nevertheless, he continued to trust Spike and Whitey to carry out his demands to retrieve the ruby from Rita and later the master cable. Enough incompetence, however, and the Toad prefers a frog's touch to get the job done.

The Toad also carries his collection with a high level of esteem, both of his frozen enemies and memorabilia of Queen Victoria. His prized collectible being a bust of Victoria's head and the ruby he stole from Rita before it was destroyed. His love was such that he could bond with anybody, rat or otherwise if they share his passion for Britain as he was uncharacteristically friendly and demonstrative with Roddy when he discovered that the two shared cultured roots but proceeded to ice him when he accidentally destroyed his collection.

When angered or greatly stressed, the Toad's throat would bulge hugely which appeared to be an involuntary tick.

The Toad is an anthropomorphic cane toad with green skin and green eyes. He wears a dark purple business suit over a purple dress shirt and a yellow tie (sometimes with a big tan wool jacket over his suit), and old brown shoes. He usually wears a very chic robe with purple pants and red slippers (similar to his shoes). The Toad also wears three gold rings with on his fingers (a blue jeweled ring on his right hand, a red jeweled ring and a gold ring on his left hand).

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