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Percival C. McLeach

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Percival C. McLeach

Percival C. McLeach is the main villain of Pooh's Adventures of The Rescuers Down Under.

History

His evil plan is to poach the animals of Australia for his fur pelts business, and he hired Cat R. Waul on orders from Bowser to make his plight.

He was motivated as much out of sadistic pleasure as he was by greed. McLeach sought to capture a rare eagle, and was ruthless enough to use a young boy named Cody as bait in order to get what he desired. Unlike the comical Madame Medusa of the first film, McLeach was shown as a serious villain with no redeeming qualities and was so utterly psychotic that he was willing to feed Cody to a swarm of crocodiles once the boy had outlived his usefulness.

McLeach was first introduced to Cody when the boy fell into a pit-trap after he befriended a rare and magnificent eagle known as Marahute beforehand. The boy still had one of her feathers as a parting gift - which would prove to be a mistake as McLeach noticed the feather and decided to kidnap the boy to help him track down the eagle (though McLeach was also intending on kidnapping the boy regardless, so as not to risk being found by the authorities).

McLeach proceeds to toss Cody's backpack to crocodiles to trick the rangers into believing that the boy had been eaten by the animals and thus covering his tracks - meanwhile Cody is driven to McLeach's lair where he is soon put in a cage alongside a collection of rare and protected Australian wildlife, many of which are living in terrible conditions.

However, Cody is in luck as two mice from the Rescue Aid Society are soon sent to aid him, being none other than Bernard and Bianca, the heroes of the first film - upon arriving in Australia the two mice become aware of McLeach's true plan once they track him down.

Knowing that Cody was emotionally attached to the eagle, McLeach cruelly lied to the boy, telling him that Marahute had been shot by another hunter and thus nobody was around to guard her eggs - however this was an act and when a worried Cody runs off to find the eggs, McLeach follows in a large truck, he also brings along his lizard sidekick Joanna so that she can eat the eggs and thus ensure McLeach gets even more wealth via making Marahute the last of her kind.

McLeach proceeds to capture Cody and Marahute, taking them to a cliff where he ties Cody up and decides to feed the boy to a swarm of crocodiles since he had outlived his usefulness - but Bernard manages to stop the machine McLeach was using to lower Cody into the river by stealing his keys from the truck with the help of a razorback boar.

McLeach responded by getting out of the vehicle and personally started firing at the rope holding Cody with a shotgun, but once again Bernard thinks fast and tricks Joanna into chasing him - causing her to knock both McLeach and herself into the river in the process.

While in the river McLeach is attacked by crocodiles, but he fends them off. After a while, the crocodiles departed and McLeach taunts them triumphantly. However, as McLeach turned around and notices Joanna waving good-bye, he realizes that the crocodiles were not actually afraid of him, but were swimming away from a huge waterfall. McLeach panics and tries to escape, but is swept over the falls and plunges into the river below.

Equipment & Abilities

As a skilled poacher and hunter, McLeach is armed with a number of weapons, including a deadly shotgun with a sniper scope as well as an assortment of knives.

His most famous piece of equipment, however, is his custom-built half-track bushwacker, a monstrous truck with both tank treads and wheels that comes with both a rocket launcher, a crane, and a cage that can hold even the largest animals.

Arguably, his greatest ability of all is his penchant for evil. Despite not having any superpowers or magic like many of the Hundred Acre Crew's other enemies, he's truly bad to the bone, and will stop at NOTHING to get what he wants.

Trivia

  • He was voiced by the late George C. Scott, who most famously played General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove. Much like McLeach himself, this character is also very hot-tempered and a bit of a ham.
  • When it comes to his clothes and weapons, he resembles the Sniper from Team Fortress 2.

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