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My crew was as carefully chosen as the disciples of Christ, and I will not tolerate stowaways. You will be flogged. And when we port into Cuba to resupply, God willing, you will be flogged some more. And then enslaved on the sugar plantations for the rest of your miserable lives. To the brig.
~ Hernán Cortés after capturing Tulio and Miguel.

Hernán Cortés (full name and title Don Hernando "Hernán" Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca) is the overarching antagonist of DreamWorks' 3rd full-length animated feature film, The Road to El Dorado. He is based on the real-life Spanish conquistador of the same name.

He was voiced by Jim Cummings, who also played Steele in Balto, Fuzzy Lumpkins in The PowerPuff Girls, Long John Silver in The Pagemaster, Jacques in Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island, Ed in The Lion King, Nessus in Hercules, the singing voice of Rasputin in Anastasia, Dennis in Tarzan, the Medicine Man in Young Pocahontas, Razoul in Aladdin, Doctor Robotnik in Sonic SatAM, Lord Boxman in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, and Hadrian in Minecraft: Story Mode.

Personality[]

Hernán Cortés is a cruel, greedy mercenary, driven by his strong lust for gold and religious fanaticism to slaughter the natives and conquer their land in the name of the Spanish crown. He treats even his own men incredibly harshly, showing no tolerance for insubordination of any kind in his presence. This is exemplified when, after catching Miguel and Tulio stowing away on his ship, he plans to flog them and then sell them into slavery when they dock in Cuba, and further when he ties up his personal warhorse, Altivo, and denies him food as punishment for spooking during a musket salute.

Biography[]

In Spain in 1519, Cortés announces that he and his men will sail to the New World and conquer it for Spain, glory, and gold. When his fleet sets sail later that day, Tulio and Miguel are discovered aboard his flagship by the sailors and are considered stowaways, to which they are brought before Cortés. He then chides them for daring to impugn upon his plans and declares that Miguel and Tulio are to be taken to the brig, flogged, and made slaves once they port in Cuba. Not long after, the two manage to escape in a rowboat along with Cortes' mistreated horse, Altivo. A few days later, Cortés and his men arrive at the jungle where Miguel and Tulio escaped to, as they find the rowboat abandoned on shore and find Miguel and Tulio's footprints in the sand, which they then follow.

Later that night, Cortés finds Tzekel-Kan, a native of El Dorado and its former high priest, washed up in the waters near its entrance. Cortés points his musket at the gold earring on Tzekel-Kan's right ear and asks him where he got it from. Tzekel-Kan then informs Cortés that he got it from the legendary city of gold, and offers to lead him and his men there so they can finally conquer it. Unbeknownst to Cortés and Tzekel-Kan, Miguel and Tulio have spotted their distant trail of smoke from El Dorado and rammed their boat into the cavernous entrance of the city, causing a tumble of rocks to block it from the conquistadors. Before they reach the entrance, Cortés tells Tzekel-Kan that the legend had better be real for his sake, but when they arrive, they find nothing but the rocks, to which Cortés calls Tzekel-Kan a lying heathen. He kicks him into the water and orders his men to seize Tzekel-Kan, presumably for him to be made their slave. Cortés and his men then leave the area, unaware of what they have left behind.

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Trivia[]

  • In real life, Hernán Cortés was most notable as the leader of the Spanish conquistadors who brutally wiped out the Aztecs, slaughtering women, children, and entire families while enslaving what precious few they did not kill. As the film is set in 1519, the year of this famous Spanish-Aztec war, it can be assumed that it is the voyage the film depicts, and that this version of Cortés goes on to commit the same crimes following his failure to find El Dorado.
  • Jim Cummings was initially hired as a temp track but the filmmakers were impressed by his work that they left his voice work in the final film.
  • He appears as a boss battle in the GameBoy Color port of Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado.
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