Calabar

"Banished, outcast, all these years. For what? Vengeance is mine!"

- Calabar swearing vengeance against his father.

Calabar is the main antagonist of the 2010 animated fantasy film The Legend of Secret Pass. He is Manu’s wicked uncle who seeks to take over the utopia Natocchue and use it for his own devious schemes.

He was voiced by Michael Chiklis.

History
In the mountain regions of the South West, there is a family of Native American relatives who hold the key to a legendary paradise called Natocchue, a spiritual location that is home to benevolent spirits, who protect animals that have lost their way of life. Every generation, the spirits choose a new guardian to lead the animals to Natocchue through a secret pass located at Spirit Mountain.

One guardian chose his eldest son over his two other children, one of whom was Calibar. He envied his brother’s succession over his, and attempted to raid the utopia to gain its power for himself. His father managed to defeat him, banishing him to the outskirts of the plain, although Calabar declared that he would return for vengeance and destroy them all once the valley opened again for its next guardian.

Calabar makes his return years later, spying on Manu driving his cousin Nica and several animals in his truck Windflier towards his Grandpa's house. Knowing that Manu is his brother's son and the next possible guardian, Calabar decides to "gain the old man's attention" and creates a dust devil to chase after them. Manu manages to outrun the dust devil and tricks it into dispersing when it smashes into a slope of Devil's Canyon. In rage, Calabar morphs into a bird and flies off.

The next day, Calabar uses a tornado to summon his hog minions Loo and Parker to his lair, angered that the duo attempted to kill Manu by pushing him off a cliff rather than figuring out what Grandpa was up to. He uses his wind powers to lift and toss the two across the room, threatening to drop them in the lava pit for their failure. They tell Calabar about the wind spirit that was with Manu, making him realize that Manu was chosen as the next guardian for the secret pass. He tells them to snoop out more information, or else he will make quick pork out of them.

That night, after Manu is once again visited by the wind spirit, Calabar and his hogs show up. After introducing himself, he asks Manu about the song that the wind spirit sang. When Manu refuses to sing, Calabar transforms into his bird form and chases after him, determined to obtain the song from Manu. As Chuck the lizard distracts the hogs, Calabar corners Manu on the edge of a cliff, only to be halted by Grandpa, who is also in his bird form. The two clash at each other until Grandpa kicks Calabar out of his bird form, and orders him to leave. But Calabar declares he will never leave until the power of Natocchue was his, and transforms into a tornado to smash Grandpa into the side of the ravine before retreating into the sky.

When the family continue their drive towards Spirit Mountain, Calabar conquers up a storm to rain down a flash flood. Though Grandpa is able to use the last of his magic to hold back the tide, the group is forced to abandon Windflier to Manu’s disappointment. When they make it to the secret pass, Calabar shows up before Manu can sing the wind song and attacks them. Manu and Nica, in their bird forms, distract Calabar and seem to succeed in defeating him when they cause him to crash into a rock, sending a part of the cliff down into the foggy abyss with Loo (who was betrayed by Parker for having enough of his brother's abuse). However, Calabar simply transforms back into a bird and flies back up to continue his pursuit.

Calabar grabs Grandpa with his talons and flies him above the abyss, demanding Manu to teach him the wind song or he will drop Grandpa to his death. Reluctantly, Manu accepts and sings. Satisfied, Calabar drops Grandpa anyways while he snatches the key from Manu and flies over to the altar, where he sings the song to open the gateway of Natocchue. However, the song that Manu taught Calabar had an off-pitch last note, causing the spirits to go berserk. As the legend said, singing the song just a tad off costs the guardian his life, as such a portal to the underworld appears and drags Calabar into it.

Trivia

 * While his family can transform into blue eagles, Calabar transforms into a dark vulture.