| “ | Get the gangplanks aboard. Move, you scum! We must be well on our way before sunrise. | „ |
| ~ Beauregarde |
The Sub-humans (also sometimes spelled Subhumans) are major antagonists from Ralph Bakshi's 8th animated feature film Fire and Ice. They are a primitive race of human-like barbarians. This army consists of about 459 barbarians and they are Nekron's army.
Portrayals[]
They were voiced by Ray Oliver, the late Vincent Price (who also portrayed Cardinal Richelieu in the 1948 film adaptation of The Three Musketeers, Ivan Igor in the 1953 remake of House of Wax, Mr. Scratch in The Story of Mankind, King Richard III in the 1962 remake of The Tower of London, Prince Prospero in the 1964 adaptation of The Masque of the Red Death, Dr. Goldfoot in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Egghead in the 1960s Batman TV series, Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General, Lord Edward Whitman in Cry of the Banshee, Anton Phibes in The Abominable Dr. Phibes, January Q. Irontail in Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Edward Lionheart in Theater of Blood, Sinister Man in Bloodbath at the House of Death, himself in Escapes, Professor Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective, Phantom in the Disneyland Paris attraction Phantom Manor and Zigzag in The Thief and the Cobbler), Nathan Purdee, the late James Almanzar (who also voiced one of the Horned King's Army in The Black Cauldron), the late Le Tari, the late Walker Edmiston (who also portrayed Enik in the Land of the Lost TV series, Zuni Fetish Doll in Trilogy of Terror, Willie the Giant in An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players, one of the Thugs in The Great Mouse Detective, Catso in Runaway Ralph and Fire Lord Azulon in Avatar: The Last Airbender), the late Wayne Allwine (who also voiced one of the Horned King's Army in The Black Cauldron, one of the Thugs in The Black Cauldron and one of the Hun Army in Mulan), the late Barry White, Jack Laing (who also voiced one of the Horned King's Army in The Black Cauldron), Peter Renaday (who also voiced Ezra in The Haunted Mansion, one of the Horned King's Army in The Black Cauldron, General Tragg, Don Turtelli and Leatherhead ("Night of the Rogues" only) in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Kingpin in Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin, Sean Keanan in Dead Rising, Al Mualim in Assassin's Creed, one of the Friends on the Other Side in The Princess and the Frog and Sir George in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien), the late Larry Storch (who also portrayed the Joker in The Adventures of Batman, Chuck White in The Brady Kids, Mister C, Werewolf and Big Al Caesar in The Ghost Busters), Steve Hale (who also voiced one of the Horned King's Army in The Black Cauldron), Tim Curry (who also portrayed Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Rooster in Annie, Lord of Darkness in Legend, Wadsworth in Clue, Thaddeus E. Klang in TaleSpin, James Hook in Peter Pan and the Pirates, Pennywise in the It television miniseries, Konk in The Pirates of Dark Water, Fox Jacket in Dinosaurs, Taurus Bulba in Darkwing Duck, Hexxus in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, the Evil Manta in The Little Mermaid television series, Skullmaster in Mighty Max, Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers, King Chicken in Duckman, Dr. Gunnar Maelstrom in Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, Farley Claymore in The Shadow, Amok Mon Ra and Caliph Kapok in the Aladdin franchise, Kilokahn in Super Human Samurai Syber-Squad, Dr. Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles, Zimbo in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, S.I.R. in the defunct Walt Disney World horror attraction, ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, Nero in The Story Keepers, Drake in The Pebble and the Penguin, Pretorius in the The Mask cartoon series, Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island, Lord Dragaunus in Mighty Ducks, Simon Doonan in the Titanic TV movie, Big Brother in Johnny Bravo, Dr. Slicer in Recess, Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Dr. Kao in Doom Runners, Slagar the Cruel in the Redwall TV series, Dr. Neugog in Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Ben Ravencroft in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Big Bayou in Courage the Cowardly Dog, Professor Oldman in Scary Movie 2, the Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker, Mastermind in Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights, Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck in Monk, The Cat King in The Cat Returns, Professor Calamitous in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Nick O' Teen and Scarlet Fever in Ozzy & Drix, Belial in The Legend of Atlantis, El Maléfico in ¡Mucha Luca!: The Return of El Maléfico, Von Talon in Valiant, Ringmaster in Loonatics Unleashed, Prince of Darkness in Criminal Minds, Lloyd Wexler and Worthington Dubois in Phineas and Ferb, Trymon in Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic, Philippe in Barbie and The Three Musketeers, Joseph Chadwick in Ben 10: Alien Force, Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Goblin King in Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King, Anatoly Cherdenko in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, the Hot Dog Leader and the Master Prank Caller in Regular Show, Doviculus in Brütal Legend, Glorious Godfrey in Young Justice, Doctor Thaddeus Morocco in Transformers: Rescue Bots, Blacktooth in The Outback, The Sorcerer in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and Nevil Baddington in Saving Santa), Frank Ashmore (who also portrayed Leo Galante in Mafia II), Phil Nibbelink (who also voiced one of the Horned King's Army in The Black Cauldron and the Prince in Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss'), the late George Lindsey (who also voiced Trigger in Disney's Robin Hood), the late Henry Gibson (who also portrayed the Illinois Nazi Leader in The Blues Brothers, Werner Klopek in The 'Burbs, Dr. Applecheek in Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Lord Pain in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy), the late Ken Curtis (who also voiced Nutsy in Disney's Robin Hood), Pat Fraley (who also voiced Blue Scarab in Scooby-Doo & Scrappy-Doo, the Gwythaints in The Black Cauldron, Dirtbag, Krang, Baxter Stockman, Barney Stockman, Slash and Antrax in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Thrakkorzog's talking tongue voice in The Tick media, one of Clayton's Pirates in Tarzan, Falcon in the Stuart Little animated TV series, Wiggy Jiggy Jed in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and one of the Wildebeests in The Wild), Anthony Daniels, the late Arnold Stang (who also voiced Mustafa al Bacterius in Courage the Cowardly), the late William Squire (who also portrayed Lee Thomas in Where Eagles Dare and Kommissar in Blake's 7), Bernard Cribbins, the late Brian Bedford, the late Mel Blanc (who also voiced Gideon in Pinocchio, Wile E. Coyote, Marvin the Martian, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Tasmanian Devil, Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr., Gossamer, George P. Dog, Henery Hawk, Beaky Buzzard, Papa Bear, Dan Backslide, Nasty Canasta, Adolf Hitler, Ralph Wolf, Cottontail Smith, Nick, Von Vultur, K-9 and Hugo the Abominable Snowman in Looney Tunes, the Rat in Lady and the Tramp, Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse in Tom and Jerry Cosmo Spacely in The Jetsons and Claude in Bunny & Claude: We Rob Carrott Patches), the late Joe Silver (who also portrayed Creepshow Creep in Creepshow and The Greedy in Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure), David McCharen (who also voiced Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)), the late Harry Morgan (who also portrayed Bartford Hamilton Steele III in M*A*S*H*), the late John Stephenson (who also voiced Mr. Slate in The Flintstones, X the Eliminator and Myron Reducto in Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, the Black Knight Ghost, Redbeard, Creeper, Headless Horseman, Elias Kingston, Ghost of Merlin, Ghost of Mr. Hyde, Mummy of Ankha, Big Bob Oakley and the Caveman in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse in Tom and Jerry, 10,000 Volt Ghost, the Technicolored Phantoms, the Demon and Mamba Wamba, in The Scooby-Doo Show, Dread Baron in Laff-a-Lympics, the Great Goblin in Rankin-Bass' The Hobbit, the Witch-king of Angmar in Rankin/Bass' Return of the King and Thundercracker in The Transformers), the late Don Messick (who also voiced Zorak in Space Ghost, Muttley in Wacky Races, Mentok the Mindtaker in Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, Scurve in Mouse on the Mayflower, the Witch, Roger Stevens, Space Kook, Indian Witch Doctor, one of the Scare Pair and the Beast of Bottomless Lake, in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, Sam Spangles in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, the Mouth of Sauron in Rankin/Bass' Return of the King, Azrael in The Smurfs, Muttley and Space Kook in Scoob!), the late Bob Holt (who also portrayed The Once-Ler in the 1972 animated special of The Lorax, The Grinch in The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat and Puppet Master in the 1982 animated series Incredible Hulk), the late Paul Frees (who also portrayed Jerry Mouse and Butch Dog in Tom and Jerry, Boris Badenov in the Rocky and Bullwinkle series, Meowrice in Gay Purr-ee, Buckshot Brown in Hoppity Hooper, Uriah Caw in Cricket on the Hearth, Matzoriley Brothers in The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation, Green Goose, Ali and Bobo in The Man Called Flintstone, Auctioneer in the Disney ride Pirates Of The Caribbean, Dr. Who in King Kong Escapes, Evil Star in Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, Quizzler in The Mouse on the Mayflower, Master Gracey in the popular Disney Parks ride The Haunted Mansion, Burgermeister Meisterburger and Grimsley in Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Jack Frost in Frosty's Winter Wonderland, Aeon the Terrible in Rudolph's Shiny New Year, Winterbolt in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, Kubla Kraus in Jack Frost, K.A.R.R. in Knight Rider), the late Mickey Rooney (who also portrayed Flip in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland and Gus in Night at the Museum), the late Leonard Stone, the late Michael Rye, the late Harvey Atkin (who also voiced King Koopa, Sergeant Kooperman and Tryclyde in Super Mario Brothers Super Show and Guala in Hello Kitty and Friends), the late Charles Nelson Reilly (who also portrayed Horatio J. HooDoo in Lidsville, Killer in All Dogs Go to Heaven, Hunch in Rock-a-Doodle, King Llort in A Troll in Central Park and the Dirty Bubble in the first season of SpongeBob SquarePants.), Michael Lee Gogin, the late Orson Welles (who also portrayed Dr. James Sheppard in the 1939 radio drama adaptation of the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Franz Kindler in The Stranger, the title character in the 1948 film adaptation of Macbeth, Harry Lime in The Third Man, Ahab in Moby Dick—Rehearsed, Hank Quinlan in Badge of Evil, Le Chiffre in the 1967 version of Casino Royale, Nag in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Unicron in Transformers: The Movie), the late Val Bettin (who also portrayed the Thugs in The Great Mouse Detective), Alan Koss, the late Hans Howes, Holly Frazetta, Jimmy Bridges, Shane Callan, Archie Hamilton, Michael Kelloff, Douglas Payton, the late Dale Park and the late Candy Candido (who also voiced one of Maleficent's Goons in Sleepy Beauty, Captain Crocodile in Disney's Robin Hood, Brutus & Nero in The Rescuers, one of the Horned King's Army in The Black Cauldron and Fidget in The Great Mouse Detective).
Biography[]
In the beginning of the film, Queen Juliana gives birth to the ice tyrant Nekron, an even more powerful being. Nekron is blessed with telekinesis and control over ice. He uses his vast powers and his destructive army of sub-humans to dominate the world, destroying all opposition until only one kingdom remains. Firekeep is ruled by King Jarol, along with his brother named Prince Taro, and his daughter named Teegra, the fifteen-year-old, beautiful, microkini-wearing, barefoot girl. Their kingdom is located within a volcano that has kept Nekron and his forces at bay.
Juliana sends a delegation to negotiate a truce between the kingdoms, but the secret goal is for the sub-humans to capture Teegra and bring her to Icepeak. King Jarol and Prince Taro reject the truce and foil an assassination plot, but are unable to stop the sub-humans from capturing Teegra and escaping with her. Nonetheless, Teegra is extremely resourceful and imaginative, so she manages to escape from Nekron and his sub-humans. In the swamps, she eventually meets Larn, the 17-year-old boy and the only surviving warrior from a village that was destroyed by Nekron and his band of sub-humans. Larn and Teegra fall in love and start the journey back to King Jarol's realm, but Teegra is recaptured by the sub-humans after Larn is almost eaten by a giant carnivorous squid (as Larn apparently stabs through its eye with a long spear-like bone).
Meanwhile, Larn is revived by Darkwolf. The two set off to rescue Teegra, not knowing she has already escaped again when the sub-humans were drunk. Teegra is then captured by Otwa and Roleil who decides to try and sell her back to the sub-humans. Instead, Roleil is killed by Sgt. Quartermaine (the sergeant of the sub-humans) and Teegra is recaptured by the sub-humans, this time for good. However, Roleil's ghost apparently tells Larn that Teegra has been taken to Nekron's ice kingdom, and he and Darkwolf split up, with Larn journeying to Akatar to find passage to Icepeak.
Once he arrives in the port, Larn overhears Taro stating that he is launching a rescue mission to Icepeak. Larn stows away on Taro's ship. Meanwhile, Teegra agrees to marry Nekron if it will bring peace to the kingdoms, but Nekron rejects her, saying that he loves war and finds Teegra disgusting. She is then thrown into an ice pit to die by the sub-humans. When Taro arrives, he and his delegation attempt to negotiate with Nekron, who rejects their pleas. Taro and his men occasionally attack Nekron, but Nekron uses his telekinetic powers to force Taro to kill his delegation and himself. Larn then launches a sneak attack and manages to wound Nekron before he is beaten by Nekron's telekinesis.
Ultimately, Larn is rescued by Darkwolf after he is hunted by Nekron and his sub-humans in Icepeak and the two return to Firekeep. Meanwhile, Nekron builds a giant ice fortress to launch a final attack on Firekeep.
Darkwolf and Larn lead an attack on the ice fortress while flying on the Dragonhawks. They are the only two who successfully penetrate the ice fortress' defenses. Larn runs off to rescue Teegra and Darkwolf takes on Nekron. Darkwolf is almost defeated but finally manages to overcome Nekron's telekinetic powers and kills him. Meanwhile, King Jarol releases a wave of lava from Firekeep that causes Icepeak to crumble, killing Juliana and the sub-humans in the process.
Larn and Teegra just escape in time and kiss. Larn sees Aggravator and goes to kill him, but Teegra stops him, saying they need to eliminate violence in the world, now that Firekeep reigns supreme. They find out that Darkwolf also survived, and Larn and Teegra return to Firekeep, ready to help build a peaceful and nonviolent future.
Personality[]
The Sub-humans are known to be cunning, sadistic and aggressive. They are portrayed as barbarous warriors who like to kill or kidnap people (such as Larn, Teegra, Darkwolf, and anybody else). They also have a fondness of using dangerous weapons (such as spears, blades, knives, clubs, axes, daggers, maces, bows or anything else) for killing. Sometimes, the Sub-humans can also be very loyal, ethical and trustworthy toward Captain Humanus and Sgt. Quartermaine. Despite their savage and destructive nature, they are also shown to be noticeably happy and enthusiastic when they cheer everywhere in Icepeak when Prince Taro arrives. Also, they can occasionally be terrified when King Jarol releases a wave of lava from Firekeep to causes Icepeak to crumble.
Appearance[]
The Sub-humans are a race of barefoot, dark brownish-tan humanoid apes with different black hair and they wear different colored loincloths (either black or light brown).
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Beauregarde is the only known sub-human to survive.
- Esperanza is the only known female sub-human.
- Beauregarde is the only known obese sub-human.
- Despite being Nekron's minions, they are not the secondary antagonists, Queen Juliana is.