The Toad

"I hate rats!"

- The Toad

"Prepare to meet your maker! Your ice maker! (Laughs evilly)"

- The Toad as he is about to ice Roddy and Rita

The Toad is the main antagonist of Flushed Away. He is the leader and boss of his henchrats (including Spike and Whitey) and Le Frog.

Prior to his hatred for rodents, the Toad had a fun life with his owner Prince Charles was flushed away down the sewers, like Roddy, by George Washington, a palace flunky.

Beginnings
Of all the pets in Buckingham Palace, Young Prince Charles fancied the Toad the best. They would frolic day-after-sunny-day, sharing the relationship between boy and toad. However, when Charles got a new pet rat, he and the Toad were separated.

One day, at a play, as Charles was playing with the rat, George Washington found the Toad backstage and flushed him down the toilet (which the Toad calls a "whirlpool of despair").

Since then, the Toad hates all rodents. The Toad's deep hatred for rats motivates his evil plan for the sewer: Wash away the rats in a Great Flood and repopulate the sewer with an army of his tadpole offspring.

In Flushed Away
The Toad serves as the boss of the following henchrats: Spike, Whitey, Thimblenose Ted, Fat Barry, and the Ladykiller. He is introduced to Roddy after Roddy explains that he needs to return to Kensington. The Toad called Roddy "A Man of Quality" then provides him his royal collection. Roddy found it to be "amusing", in which the Toad thought he would find it as "diverging, not amusing". Roddy then destroys his collection, which causes the Toad to blow a gasket asking Spike and Whitey to freeze him.

Personality
The Toad is a British, portly, evil, pompous, well-dressed, short-tempered, domineering, easily frustrated, selfish, and aristocratic amphibian.

Appearance
The Toad wears a business suit with a purple shirt and a yellow tie (sometimes with a big tan wool jacket over his suit), and brown old shoes. He usually wears a very chic robe with purple pants and red slippers (similar to his shoes).

Trivia

 * The Toad is voiced by Ian McKellen while Roddy was voiced by Hugh Jackman in the film, which is an allusion to the X-Men movies, implying that McKellen and Jackman played Magneto and Wolverine, and Wolverine's classic costume cameos in the film as one of the clothes in Roddy's wardrobe.