| “ | I am YOUR worst nightmare! | „ |
| ~ Lucius to Daniel. |
Lucius is the main antagonist of the 2009 Peruvian computer-animated film The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer. He is a giant barracuda who wants to take all of the dreams, he is also the leader of the barracudas.
He was voiced by José Sarmiento in Spanish and Michael Ferreri in English.
Biography[]
Lucius is first seen sleeping in his lair when a small barracuda approaches him. As soon as he wakes up, Lucius feels feverish of his excitement that someone has been arrived. He sends a school of barracudas to attract young bottlenose dolphin Daniel in order to take his dreams away. After Daniel and his friend Carl the cuttlefish became sidekicks, he and his minions meet the protagonists for the first time. Daniel asks the barracudas what they want from him, but Lucius is eventually unveiled. He asks Daniel that Lucius is his most feared enemy and tries to eat him. As soon as Daniel escapes, Lucius summons his henchmen to capture him, but failed to after Daniel and Carl hid beneath a stone.
After Carl and Daniel reach the top of the surface, Lucius does a surprise attack next to him. Lucius decides to eat him while chasing him down to the deep, hit the bottom for a short while. Lucius continued to chase after Daniel and Carl and eat them, but escaped and did a surprise attack once again in a cave. After discovering that Carl and Daniel cannot find another exit, Lucius says to Daniel that he will be defeated forever. He then orders the barracuda school to lock the entrance; as soon as he hit the wall and continued attempting to eat Daniel, stones from the upper surface began to fall down. As one of them fell into his mouth, foiling him.
After surviving the falling debris, Lucius managed to wake up after realizing the mistake. Lucius invades the lagoon, confronting Carl and Daniel to take their dreams. Daniel begins to confront him for attacking his friend Carl and trying to steal his dreams. After knocking him into a pillar, Lucius fight Daniel again, only to knock out Daniel unconscious.
He then attempted to eat Daniel, but the other sea creatures confronted him. The Voice of the Sea tells Lucius to stop taking dreams from other creatures and to reject his suspicious behavior for causing too much rampage across the sea. Lucius later reveals that he is actually a dolphin near the end of the film. He later explains to him that he has been behaving badly like Daniel did before forgiving him, as he leaves away.
Appearance[]
Lucius appears to be an black and white barracuda with a monstrous appearance. He has a long crocodile-like snout accompanied by veining skin, dark brown eyes, a pair of sharp teeth and torn fins.
On his normal form. He is a grayish-blue bottlenose dolphin with navy blue eyes.
Personality[]
Lucius is a very greedy, notorious, and manipulative barracuda who always seek plans to take all of the dreams from the sea creatures. One of his most despicable and abhorrent plans is when he sends his minions to attack the heroes. He is also shown to be confrontational towards Daniel and Carl in the lagoon, saying that this dream is his. Despite his villainy, he turned out to remember his sad past.
Quotes[]
| “ | That dream is mine! | „ |
| ~ Lucius confronting Daniel and Carl in the lagoon. |
| “ | Ugh! That's impossible! | „ |
| ~ Lucius's villainous breakdown when he discovers that Daniel's dream cannot be stolen. |
| “ | Maybe I won't be able to steal your dream, but I will kill you. | „ |
| ~ Lucius when he is about to kill Daniel. |
| “ | You're right. I don't deserve to live.... | „ |
| ~ Lucius reformed after remembering his dreams. |
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