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Villain Overview

Sloan: Eliza, you're a little troublemaker. First, you show up on my cheetah hunt, and then you jump from a train to save my rhino.
Eliza: He's not your rhino!
Sloan: Oh, really? And then, somehow, you knew the poachers had shot him at the river, yet you were on a train at the time.
Eliza: I guessed.
Sloan: Perhaps. And now you arrive in the jungle, knowing about a fence. A fence which no one witnessed being built, so, my little troublemaker, who told you?
Eliza: No one.
Sloan: Are your parents working with that Jomo person?
Eliza: They don't even know I'm here.
Sloan: Then, who is your source of information?
Eliza: There's no one!
Sloan: You know too much for a little girl. I have too much invested in this operation to let anything get in my way. If you don't tell me who they are, you'll never see that family of yours again!
~ Sloan interrogating Eliza.
Sloan: You will regret this.
Eliza: I don't care! What you're doing is awful!
Sloan: And what you're doing is stupid! Shame you won't be here to help me carry out the ivory!
~ Sloan to Eliza before tossing her into the river.
It's a mistake! I can explain!
~ Sloan's last words.

Sloan Blackburn is the main antagonist of Nickelodeon's 9th feature film The Wild Thornberrys Movie. He is the ruthless leader of the Poachers and the husband of Bree Blackburn. He is also Eliza Thornberry's archenemy.

He was voiced by Rupert Everett, who also played Lord Rutledge in Dunston Checks In, Dr. Claw in the 1999 live-action Inspector Gagdet film, Carnaby Fritton in St. Trinians, and Prince Charming in DreamWorks' Shrek franchise.

Personality[]

Initially, while posing as a naturalist, Sloan appeared as a sociable, civil, charming and big-hearted zoologist, who sought to preserve endangered species and helping those victimized by illegal hunting. But this was just a charade to disguise his true nature as a callous, violent, sinister, relentless and sadistic poacher, devoid of any moral standards and willing to go to nearly any lengths to ensure his plans succeed. He is highly intelligent and deceptive, having flawlessly fooled many, including the authorities of various African countries, into believing that he and his wife were committed conservationists, allowing them to continue their poaching operations undetected for years. In addition, he and Bree also formulated an elaborate plot to take advantage of the migration of over a thousand African Forest Elephants to Tembo Valley during a solar eclipse in order to massacre them by using explosives to frighten them into stampeding towards an electric fence, all so that they could acquire and profit off of their ivory.

Though both he and his wife are exceptionally ruthless and immoral sadistic, Sloan has proven himself to be the worst of the two. Though he has demonstrated considerable cunning and patience in achieving his goals, Sloan is very quick-tempered, becoming extremely furious when things don’t go his way and when his plans are thwarted. A textbook sociopath, he has utterly no empathy for his vile deeds, he often tries to kill people (including children) who should they meddle with his plans or present even the slightest threat to them, as was shown during the times he talks to Eliza.

Sloan is also a very conceited man, possessing an extremely condescending view of nature, particularly towards wildlife. He has no courtesy for animals, considering them to be nothing more than dumb creatures, whose only use is to make people, like him, rich. This conceitedness is what leads to his downfall as he underestimated the intelligence of the elephants who ended up bringing down his and Bree's helicopter. This negative philosophy of animals also causes him to hold real zoologists and naturalists in contempt, vehemently regarding them as "stupid" for trying to save wildlife instead of using them for profit, like he does.

An experienced poacher, Sloan isn’t afraid of getting his hands dirty when hunting animals. He is also a capable fighter, having successfully fought off both Akela, a full-grown cheetah, and Boko, a Mbuti warrior, respectively with little effort. Despite this, Sloan is indeed a coward at heart, who is only willing to fight when he feels he truly has the advantage. When it’s clear his life is truly in danger, however, his fury and confidence will instantly be replaced with craven terror and panic, as was demonstrated by his fearful scrambling when he fell from his and Bree’s helicopter and later being frozen in horror when at the mercy of the elephants. Making them the evilest villain in the whole Wild Thornberrys franchise.

Despite his nature, Sloan isn’t entirely devoid of such things as love and compassion. His only positive trait is his relationship with his wife and partner Bree, whom he genuinely loves and respects as an equal.

Biography[]

Sloan and Bree travel across the Savannah via a helicopter and come across a cheetah cub named Tally, prompting Sloan to capture him. Eliza manages to catch up to the poachers and tries to climb up the rope ladder. Sloan shines a searchlight in Eliza's face, rendering her unable to identify the man, though she does identify the hilt of his knife. Sloan then uses his knife to cut the rope and Eliza falls, but her family manages to catch her in time.

During Eliza's stay at a boarding school in London, she has a vision of Shaman Mnyambo informing her to rescue Tally, so she and her pet chimp, Darwin depart for their flight back to Kenya. While taking a train from Nairobi, Eliza encounters an injured rhinoceros, who informs her that he has been shot by poachers near a river. Sloan and Bree arrive at the scene posing as concerned zoologists and the rhino is taken away by conservationists, while Eliza notices his knife. Eliza, Darwin, and Donnie later run into Bree and Sloan yet again at their camp, and the two allow the group to stay with them for the night.

However, when Eliza discovers the Blackburns' equipment in their RV along with a captive Tally, Bree and Sloan's evil true colors are revealed, and they take Eliza and her friends captive. Sloan was fearful about Eliza's mysterious pre-knowledge of the poachers' "fence" in Tembo Valley and what else she could know that could threaten Sloan's poaching operation. Before Sloan could interrogate Eliza on what else she knew, Eliza's sister Debbie arrives looking for Eliza. While Bree takes Eliza hostage, Sloan threatens to kill Debbie if Eliza refuses to reveal her source of information. As such, Eliza is forced to admit that she has the power to talk to animals, and that the animals living in the valley gave her the information in the first place. A storm arises, taking away Eliza's powers, and forcing the horrified Blackburns to flee away by chopper.

Later that day, as the poachers prepare at Tembo Valley to use bombs to drive the arriving elephants to stampede into their electrified fence, Sloan oversees and the operation and gives the orders, while Bree pilots the helicopter. They almost succeeded in murdering all the elephants, but their plot was foiled when Eliza managed to stop the elephants and turn them around just before they reached the fence.

Enraged at Eliza's heroic interference, Sloan forcefully picked her up on the chopper's ladder, as he tells her she'll regret it, but an furious Eliza yells at Sloan, justifying that his actions are wrong, as he foolishly reagefully proclaims that her actions are stupid and hurled her into a waterfall to kill Eliza and have her out if the way. Bree and Sloan then tried to shoot the elephants down from in the air as a backup plan, but the elephants pulled their chopper down out of the air by its ladder and destroyed it. Once the eclipse ended, Bree and Sloan were defeated and cornered by the vengeful elephants and arrested by the Congolese rangers for their crimes.

Trivia[]

  • A minor instance of foreshadowing was shown during the movie, when Sloan and Bree insisted on Eliza, Darwin, and Donnie staying for the night, they were forbidden from going inside the camper, thus hiding evidence of their true occupation.
  • The three species Sloan and Bree are seen targeting are the southeast African cheetah, eastern black rhinoceros, and the African forest elephant.
  • Both Sloan and his wife Bree are meant to serve as villainous foils to Eliza’s parents, Nigel and Marianne Thornberry.
    • Like Nigel, Sloan is a British man married to an American woman whom he travels the world with in the search of wildlife. However, while Nigel is a passionate naturalist who observes and studies animals for conservation, Sloan is an immoral poacher who hunts and kills animals for profit.
    • In his youth, Nigel risked his life by fighting to rescue an elephant (named Rebecca) from a group of ivory poachers. Sloan, however, is himself a poacher who is implied to have killed many elephants before his attempts to massacre hundreds more during the eclipse.   
    • Both base their activities out of mobile trailers filled with advanced equipment to aid them in their expeditions. However, while Nigel considers and cares for the ComVee as his home, Sloan held no attachment to his and Bree’s RV, callously discarding it when it suited his means.
    • Both genuinely love their wives, who serve as their right-hands and confidants in their differing fields. However, while Nigel is a doting father, Sloan is ruthless man without children.
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