Ogthar is the main antagonist of the 2005 animated film Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone. In the beginning of the movie, he is unintentionally released from his stone prison by the two bumbling dinosaurs named Rhoga and Thudd whom at the same time, recovers the Dark Ruby Sunstone, which its dark powers can endanger all of Dinotopia. He enlists Rhoga and Thudd to help him steal dinosaur eggs needed to create a new invincible army to conquer Dinotopia.
He was voiced by Malcolm McDowell, who also played Mayor Scamboli in Pinocchio 3000, Alex in A Clockwork Orange, and Dr. Calico in Bolt, Caligula in Caligula, Colonel F. E. Cochrane in Blue Thunder, Lord Maliss in Happily Ever After, Tolian Soran in Star Trek: Generations, Andrej Evilenko in Evilenko, Kesslee in Tank Girl, Captain Von Berkow in The Passage, Gangster in Gangster No. 1, Marcus Kane in Doomsday, Metallo in Superman: The Animated Series, the Tower in Disney's Phineas and Ferb, the Shaman in the Aladdin TV series, John Rainbird in Firestarter 2: Rekindled, Jonas Slaughter in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Sinclair in Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, Arkady Duvall in Batman: The Animated Series, Mad Mod in Teen Titans and Daniel Linderman in Heroes.
Biography[]
Beginnings[]
Ogthar in his ship during the storm
In the past, Ogthar, who used to be a captain of a ship, was stranded on the island of Dinotopia due to a storm (similar to how the protagonists of the original Dinotopia book series arrived in Dinotopia). When he arrived there, he despised the island's civilization due to him being deemed primitive. He eventually decided to live within the World Beneath, a vast network of caverns beneath the Dinotopia where his would-be lair was located below a volcano.
That's until he uncovered the dark variant of the sunstone called the Ruby Sunstone. The Ruby bestowed him immortality and knowledge that enable him to reconstruct strutters. However, though he originally wanted to produce the machines thanks to his bestowed knowledge to revolutionize Dinotopia (which he also despised due to being primitive), his newfound power drove him insane and megalomaniacal, and ended up changing the machine into warfares. This droves his fellow followers to turn on him. He was later sealed inside a specialized sarcophagus for decades and the Ruby Sunstone was taken from him (the Ruby itself was the only thing that was able to release him).
It is unclear whether Ogthar died or not during his imprisonment. Had he died, the ruby sunstone's power would have revived him and restored his body upon resurrection.
Freedom[]
Unfortunately, by the events of the movie, Rhoga and Thudd, whom uncovered the ruby sunstone in the present, revealed that the sunstone itself was never buried far away from Ogthar's stone prison. They briefly fought over the ruby sunstone until it unintentionally hit the sarcophagus, freed him and eventually restored his body. Mistaking him to be a genie, Rhoga unintentionally insults him, and he grabs their tongues in retaliation. After revealing to him that they freed him albeit unintentionally, Ogthar revealed his backstory, with Thudd briefly insulting his abandoned palace.
He then recruits them for his cause and tempts them with treasures as a reward. To guarantee that they were willing to be his new followers, Ogthar revealed that they will be executed if they'd denied, prompting them to join him out of fear. Ogthar then asked them to steal the dinosaur eggs, while he himself destroyed the sarcophagus that was used to imprison him.
After they succeed in stealing the eggs, he revealed that he plans to have these eggs incubated with his incubator: When the eggs hatched, they would be born as mutated creatures that would serve him. These mutated dinosaurs would use his weaponized strutters and destroy Waterfall city. As he busily incubates the eggs for building his said army, Kex, Mara, 26, and Spazz had stolen two of his strutters and retook the eggs. The fight ensues, where a surprised Ogthar tries to blast Spazz, who was riding the T-Rex-like strutter. Spazz barely avoided the blast, but his strutter was destroyed in the process. Ogthar tries to blast Kex and Mara as they retrieve the stolen egg, but 26 sees this and interferes, causing him to blast the ceiling of his lair instead, causing the entire place to collapse and awaken the volcano above.
Demise[]
When Kex and his friends managed to escape, he catch them up with his scorpion-like strutter. He managed to damaged Kex's strutter, prompting them to run while 26 distracts him. Just then, the recovered Rhoga and Thudd appears, and Ogthar demands them to chase the rest of the protagonists, only for them to be defeated by Kex later whom incapacitated the crooks with quicksands. He then chases 26, and when he finally cornered him, his strutter was wrecked by Stinktooth, prompting him to escape but remain persistent to follow the young Chasmosaurus.
After he finally cornered 26, whom she planned to destroy the ruby sunstone below, he tempted her that he knew how to save the rest of the sunstones' powers (as the ruby sunstone's power started to nullify the regular sunstones on Dinotopia, threatening it to easily be discovered by the outside world). Though aware that this was a trick, 26 insisted that she would destroy it. But at the same time, he unintentionally lowered his guard, prompting Ogthar to retake the stone. 26 then fought him and this caused them to fall into the lava below. While 26 was saved by John in nick of time, Ogthar along with the ruby sunstone fell into the lava below, but not before covering himself with his armor, presumably melting him alongside the ruby sunstone once and for all.
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Trivia[]
- Ironically, he share his name with the legendary figure who is said to look like a cross between a human and a ceratopsian, who was king of the now-sunken island city of Poseidos.
- The possible explanation of this was due to him being created as a combination between Cyrus Crabb and the Oghtar from the book: Oghtar in this movie is portrayed as a human that despised Dinotopia as Cyrus did, and both Oghtars are legendary figure (messianic in books while the figure of nightmare in the movie).