Victor Quartermaine

"I've spent a long time reeling in that fluffy-headed bunny lover, and I'm not about to let some puddle-headed peasant poach her from me!"

- Lord Victor Quartermaine confronting Wallace. "HA! You can hop, but you can't hide, Pesto!"

- Lord Victor Quartermaine threatening the Were-Rabbit. "If I can't have your money, I can still bag your bunny!"

- Quartermaine to Lady Tottington.

Lord Victor Quartermaine (simply known as Victor Quartermaine) is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 11th full-length animated feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. He is Wallace's arch-nemesis and Philip's owner.

He was voiced by the Academy Award nominated actor Ralph Fiennes, who also played Amon Goeth, Rameses in DreamWorks' The Prince of Egypt, Raiden the Moon King in Kubo and the Two Strings, Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon, Hades in Clash of the Titans, and Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter franchise. In the film's video game adaptation, he was voiced by Kayvan Novak.

Appearance
Victor Quartermaine is a slender man who is always seen wearing a tan trench coat and black boots. He also wears a black toupee to cover up his baldness, which is often an occurring gag in the movie, although this only happened about four times.

Throughout the film, Victor's cravat (British scarf) changes serveral times, but no other clothing item he wears does this.

Personality
Victor Quartermaine is a sarcastic, argumentative, arrogant, greedy and pompous hunter who does not care about hunting laws or animals. He loves hunting, guns, money, and shooting rabbits or mammals. Victor is also very provocative and orgiastic towards Lady Tottington, as he tries to marry her for her money.

One of his most opprobrious plans is when he theoretically tries to kill the Were-Rabbit/Wallace. He also has a fondness for his destructive weapons (such as a rifle or gold bullets).

At Tottington Hall
First Victor rings the bell and gives shows her flowers. Then Totty tries to convince Victor not to shoot them but Victor tells that he wants to. As he tries to shoot a rabbit, Wallace's machine sucks it up. Then Victor then wonders how the rabbit disappeared. Then his toupee gets sucked up and later he gets sucked. Then he gets out and asks him what he does with them and then skeptically says humane when Totty says that then he asks Wallace to pay for his toupee. Then he takes a black rabbit, thinking that it was his wig.

In the Church
During a town meeting taking place after a night where a creature, the Were-Rabbit, ate most of the town's vegetables, Victor later enters in the midst of it offering to shoot the animal. However, Lady Tottington persuades the townsfolk to let Anti-Pesto capture the Were-Rabbit humanely and also continue their services, much to his slight irritation.

Witnessing Wallace's transformation
Then he comes to Totty's house and sees Totty with Wallace together. Then he makes Wallace and Gromit go to their trap. Then he threatens him and forces him to fight. Since Wallace was transforming, Victor gets punched by him and the he and Gromit watch the transformation in horror. Then he grins evily knowing Wallace was the were-rabbit. When Gromit drives away, he makes another evil grin as he plots a plan.

Acquiring the Bullets
Now knowing who the Were-Rabbit actually is, Victor goes to Reverend Clement Hedges to seek a way to shoot it down. He gains access to "24-carrot" gold bullets, said by the vicar to be the only thing to kill the creature.

Convincing the town
Then Victor comes to the church when the people argue with Totty that the were-rabbit is still eating the vegetables.Then Victor told the town that he will kill him. This left Totty no choice but to allow him.

Attempting to Take Down the Were-Rabbit
Victor comes to Wallace's house in West Wallaby Lane in the night where he tries to kill him. Then he realized it was Gromit in disguise. Then he locks him and leaves to exterminate the real Were-Rabbit.

Vegetable Contest
Victor later comes to the contest and tells Officer Albert Mackintosh that the beast is not killed who mistakenly said it. Then he calms the folks down and says that he has one bullet. When Victor runs out of bullets, he asks the vicar who doesn't have one. Then he sees the golden carrot and argues with Totty. Wallce then thumps him. Then he takes the carrot and loads up and he climbs a pipe which Wallace later smashes and Victor lands in a cotton candy machine.

Final Confrontation
Then Victor sees Totty and Wallace holding hands right after she knew the were-rabbit was Wallace. Then Victor accidently revealed his plans. Then as he makes an attempt to shoot him, he gets sprayed by Totty in the eyes. Then when Wallace hops off, he pins Totty and also comedicaly said that he actually like her hair piunned back. Then he follows Wallace. During that time, Philip was chasing Gromit and Victor got bumped by Philip by accident. When he comes back on his feet, he saw Wallace on the flag pole and Victor shoots. Unfortunately, Gromit's plane shields Wallace. By losing his last chance, Victor smashes his gun by jumping on it. Then he sees Wallace and Gromit falling to the cheese tent.

Defeat
Then he says no one can beat him and then Totty, who managed to be free, whacks him with a giant carrot and falls and the tent. While partially unconscious, he is then dressed in the rabbit suit by Gromit and was sent to divert the mob from entering the tent where the real Were-Rabbit is. Philip, believing Victor to be the beast, bites his master, and the angry mob chases Victor away.

At this point afterwards, his true fate with the mob on the chase remains a mystery; however, in a deleted scene, it is rumored that he was run out of town instead.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (videogame)
Victor Quartemaine and his dog Philip, also appeared as villains. In the game, they stole the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic valves, so that Hutch and the Were-Rabbit cannot return to normal. Also, Victor plans to use the valves, so that normal creatures will transform into were-creatures.

Quotes
"I'm sorry, Campanula, but I am what I am. There's no nonsense with Victor Quartermaine. What you see is what you get."

- Victor Quartermaine

"Marvelous? MARVELOUS? This confounded contraption virtually suffocated me! Besides, the job's only half done. How do you intend to finish these vermin off? Crush them? Liquidize them?"

- Victor Quartermaine

"How on earth would those tiny minded buffoons ever catch such a big rabbit?"

- Victor Quartermaine

"I know your little secret Pesto. I know exactly what's going on. (Wallace: Your Lordship!) Oh yes. You think you can pilfer my filly don't you? You think you can con an innocent woman out of her fortune? (Wallace: Who, me?) Well, I got here first! I've spent a long time reeling in that fluffy-headed bunny-lover! And I'm not about to let some puddle-headed peasant poach her from me! Comprenez?!"

- Victor Quartermaine

"You're not going anywhere, Pesto."

- Victor Quartermaine

"Come on! Queensberry rules! Put them up, you little pipsqueak!"

- Victor attempting to fight Wallace.

"Ha, ha, ha, you're shaking! Don't tell me you're a scaredy cat as well as a scoundrel. And don't think acting like a big girl's blouse will get you out of it. There's no mercy with Victor Quartermaine!"

- Victor to Wallace

"What the...dickens?!"

- Victor when he witnessed Wallace first transforming into the Were-Rabbit.

"Oh no, you commissioned me to rid you of Pesto and that's just what I intended to do!"

- Victor Quartermaine revealing his true plan (by accident) to Lady Tottington.

"NO ONE BEATS VICTOR QUARTERMAINE!"

- Victor's last words before he is knocked unconscious.

"Philip, do something!"

- Victor's last and final words before being chased away by a mob led by Reverend Clement Hedges.

Trivia

 * Instead of being Lady Tottington's suitor as in the final movie, Victor was originally written in the initial script as her son and was named Tristrum.
 * Victor is the first Wallace & Gromit villain in the films to speak.
 * He is also the first Wallace & Gromit villain to be human, as the others were either animals (Feathers McGraw for example) or, in Preston's case, robots. He will be followed by Piella Bakewell.
 * Victor is also the second Wallace & Gromit villain who uses a firearm, next to Feathers McGraw.
 * It is unknown how Victor Quartermaine acquired a rifle in the first place, since England has many gun control laws and even though being a hunter is considered as a profession.
 * He is his voice actor's, Ralph Fiennes, second animated villainous role after Rameses (another Dreamworks villain) and before the Moon King (another stop motion villain).
 * The only Wallace & Gromit villains to be human are him, Piella Bakewell, and Monty Muzzle.
 * His surname could be derived from Allan Quatermain, the protagonist of the 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines by the late H. Rider Haggard.