General Mandible

"YOU USELESS UNGRATEFUL MAGGOT! I AM THE COLONY!!""

- General Mandible's (very hypocritical) final words

General Mandible is the main antagonist of Antz.

He is voiced by Gene Hackman.

Film
General Mandible is an ant who serves as the leader of the Queen's army. He is a war-hungry insect with little regard for the colony as a whole, which becomes evident when he ultimately betrays every ant, including the Queen but excluding his own army, by flooding the anthill in an attempt to "wash away the past".

He intends to marry Princess Bala, making her his queen and the mother of thousands of larval children, but she calls off the wedding and rejects him after becoming suspicious of his plans.

After successfully flooding the anthill, the would-be-dictator's scheme is foiled when Z, Princess Bala and the other ants form a ladder with their own bodies to escape from the rising waters. Mandible attempts to kill Z but ends up falling into the anthill before smashing into an upturned root, killing him on impact.

Trivia

 * General Mandible is somewhat similar to Hopper from A Bug's Life, another computer-animated film about ants that came out the same year.  Both are brutal insect leaders who take advantage of other insects.
 * General Mandible has many similarities to Judge Claude Frollo from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
 * Both have genocidal hatred for a group that they deem vermin--Frollo against the Gypsies and Mandible against worker ants.
 * Both face off against the main protagonist who is from the group they marginalized: Quasimodo, who had Gypsy heritage and Z, who was born a worker ant
 * Both lust over the female lead--Mandible towards Princess Bala and Frollo towards Esmerelda.
 * Both had a second in command who served them until questioning their immoral orders before turning against them.
 * They both fell to their deaths, and the manner in which they perished is similar in that they make an ironic statement that leads to their deaths.
 * General Mandible is also similar to Adolf Hitler due to a desire to commit genocide in the name of a "perfect" society run by a superior kind of individual (for Hitler the Ubermensch, for Mandible the Soldier Ant).
 * General Mandible is regarded (along with Lord Shen, Pitch, Gallaxhar, Tighten, and Mrs. Tweedy) as one of the most evil DreamWorks villains