Preston (Wallace & Gromit)



Preston is the main antagonist of the 1995 Wallace and Gromit short film, A Close Shave. Preston was a robotic dog created by a scientist to help with his wool factory. After the scientist died, Preston took care of his daughter, Wendolyn, who now owns the wool factory and shop. Preston went rogue, however, and made a scheme to steal sheep and turn them into his own brand of dog food. He had a huge, diabolical machine that would grind the live sheep to meat and dispense them into cans. When Gromit tried to unveil his plot, Preston framed the other dog for his own thefts. With Gromit in jail, Preston had free range over the clueless Wallace and the nonthreatening Wendolyn. Preston's plan was eventually foiled by a little sheep, who broke Gromit out of jail. Preston was sucked into his own grinding machine while trying to use it on Wallace and Wendolyn, and was crushed into pieces. He was eventually reassembled into a mindless pet.

Trivia

 * He is a parody of The Terminator, Scar and Darth Vader.
 * His robotic form resembles Mechagodzilla. Like the original Mechagodzilla too, he also wore a fake skin disguise to conceal his true entity.