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I call him… Rudy!
~ Buck telling the Herd about his first experience with Rudy, when the latter swallowed his rival but Buck escaped.
Hello, Rudy!
~ Buck when Rudy makes his entrance.

Rudy is the main antagonist of Blue Sky's 5th feature film Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and a minor character in Ice Age 4: Continental Drift.

He is an albino Baryonyx and Buck's arch-nemesis who sought to kill him in revenge for knocking out one of his teeth.

His vocal effects were provided by Frank Welker, who also voiced Little Sergei in The Secret Life of Pets 2, Krang Three in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, Godzilla in the 1998 film of the same name, the Spiny Mandrilla in The Croods: A New Age, Mor'du in Disney and Pixar's Brave, the Turbo Toilet 2000 in DreamWorks' Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, the Indoraptor in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Constance in Monster House.

Personality[]

Rudy is an aggressive, devastating and bloodthirsty opponent in the eyes of Buck and the other dinosaurs. Vicious in nature (even more so than his rivals), Rudy was constantly on the hunt and quick to attack others. Few creatures were brave enough to attack Rudy, though some, such as Buck and Momma, would step up to face him if forced to.

Appearance[]

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Full appearance.

Rudy is a gigantic albino Baryonyx with red eyes and long jaws. He has sharp claws on his hands and feet as well as sharp teeth, missing one that Buck knocked out while escaping.

History[]

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs[]

Prior to the events of the film, Rudy attacks a weasel named Buck, scratching out his right eye. He then tries to eat Buck, but before he can swallow him, Buck manages to escape the dinosaur's throat, and rockets out of the dinosaur's mouth, knocking out one of his teeth, which he later makes into a dagger.

Throughout the movie until the climax, Rudy was only seen in the shadows to highlight his malevolence and massive appearance. Rudy follows the tracks of Buck and the herd, planning to ambush them at the right moment. Buck (as well as Momma) occasionally hear his loud roars coming from the forest. Rudy manages to catch up with Sid after he is accidentally left behind by Momma. The terrified sloth is able to make his escape from Rudy's wrath by running into an obsidian river. Before walking away, Rudy stomps on the ground, causing the lava underneath to reemerge and trap Sid, only for the sloth to be saved by Buck and the possum brothers just after falling down a lava waterfall.

Once Sid is saved, Rudy ambushes Buck and the herd inside the cave entrance they used to travel to the dinosaur world and attempts to kill them all. Buck distracts Rudy, while Manny, Diego, and Sid proceed to tie the dinosaur up with vines. However, Sid accidentally trips over a vine, allowing Rudy to recover and break free from the vines. Before Rudy is able to finish off Sid, Momma, in a timely arrival, charges into Rudy and pushes him against a rock structure and off a nearby cliff, sending him plummeting down to his apparent death. Buck is shown to feel sorrow for Rudy, because the only challenge in his life was gone. However, it is later shown that Rudy somehow survived the fall, and continues his feud with Buck, who starts to ride him (much to Rudy's chagrin and frustration).

Ice Age: Continental Drift[]

Rudy and Buck make a cameo appearance in Ice Age: Continental Drift and Scrat's Continental Crack-Up Part 1, where Scrat witnesses Buck riding Rudy as he descends to the Earth's core.

Legacy[]

After the previous sequel, Rudy does not appear and is not mentioned in the following films for no apparent reason, his current status being unknown. In Ice Age: Collision Course he is replaced by Gavin and the Dino Birds family as Buck's enemies, although his tooth is still used as a weapon for Buck, later in The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Rudy is not referenced again in any way (not even in the recap at the beginning), although Buck still has Rudy's tooth as a weapon, so Orson takes the role of Buck's dinosaur enemy.

Other Media[]

Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Videogame[]

Rudy in ice age adventures

Rudy acts as the main antagonist just like in the original movie. He appears as an enemy in a level where Sid must flee from him through lava falls and as a final boss in which Buck must weaken him for Momma Dino to defeat him.

Ice Age Adventures[]

Rudy appears as one of the bosses that must be defeated.

Rudy in ice age scrat nutty adventures

Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure[]

Rudy will only appear sleeping in the Dinosaur World, so Scrat will have to get into his nose and sneeze out towards the Scrattazons' base.

Trivia[]

  • Rudy is a parody of Moby Dick. Both are great white beasts who mutilated their respective enemies; Buck (who lost an eye) and Captain Ahab (who lost a leg). However, he is the rival of a hero, rather than the rival of another villain.
  • Rudy is the second main antagonist of a Blue Sky Studios movie who does not die in his respective movie, the first being Sour Kangaroo.
  • Rudy looks like a giant two-legged albino crocodile due to the fact that Baryonyx is a species of Spinosaurid dinosaur, which have heads like those of crocodiles.
  • He is sometimes thought to be a Suchomimus or even a Spinosaurus, due to being far larger than the Tyrannosaurus in the film and because of the fact that the Baryonyx was a smaller dinosaur itself, while the Spinosaurus was a much larger predator.
  • Despite being a predator, Rudy apparently had quick strategies and thoughts, as when he recognized Buck, he hesitated to attack the herd and preferred to attack Buck, and also hoped that the bonds would be loosened to attack.
  • Rudy tends not to go to Lava Falls, as the obsidian floor breaks easily with his step.
  • In a concept, Rudy would have a more lasting and fair battle against Momma Dino, but the scene was dropped for the sake of the film's runtime, although they did battle in the video game adaptation of the film.

External links[]

Navigation[]

           IceAgeTitle Villains

Soto's Pack
Soto | Zeke | Lenny | Oscar

Dinosaur World
Rudy | Guanlong | Gavin | Gertie | Roger | Orson

Gutt's Pirate Crew
Captain Gutt | Squint | Flynn | Gupta | Raz | Dobson | Silas

Others
Lone Gunslinger | Carl & Frank | Cretaceous & Maelstrom |

Scratte | Fast Tony | Rats | Sirens | Scratazons | Dab the Dodo

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