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| “ | 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! |
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| ~ Sloan interrogating and threatening Eliza. |
Sloan Blackburn is one of the two main antagonists of Nickelodeon's 9th feature film The Wild Thornberrys Movie. He is the husband of Bree.
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.
Biography
Sloan and his wife Bree are the unseen poachers who flew in a helicopter and kidnapped the young cheetah cub Tally on the Savannah, indirectly sparking Eliza's search for Tally and the poachers.
After returning to Africa from England, Eliza unknowingly encountered the poachers that had Tally, when she came to the aid of a rhinoceros whom Bree and Sloan had shot for his horn and the two arrived posing as concerned zoologists. Eliza, Darwin and Donnie later ran into Bree and Sloan yet again at their camp, and the two allowed the group to stay with them for the night.
However, when Eliza discovered Bree and Sloan's poacher equipment in their RV along with a captive Tally, Bree and Sloan's evil true colors were revealed, and they took Eliza and her friends captive. Sloan was fearful about Eliza's mysterious pre-knowledge of the poachers' "fence" in Timbo Valley (actually obtained via Eliza's power to talk to animals) and what else she could know that could threaten Sloan's poaching operation. Before Sloan could interrogate Eliza on what else she knew, Debbie arrived looking for Eliza. Sloan threatened to kill Debbie if Eliza did not reveal how she knew this, forcing Eliza to reveal the truth about her power and lose it as a consequence. The resulting supernatural storm that started up as Eliza's power was taken back prompted Sloan and Bree to leave the Thornberrys behind and flee by chopper.
Later that day, as the poachers prepared at Timbo Valley to use bombs to drive the arriving forest elephants to stampede into their electrified fence, Sloan oversaw and the operation and gave the orders from his and Bree's 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 and hurled her into a waterfall. 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, a defeated Bree and Sloan were cornered by the vengeful elephants and arrested by the rangers for their illegal actions.
Personality
out of all the poachers and bad humans Eliza faced on her journeys, Sloan Blackburn was by far the most evil, dangerous, hated enemy she had ever faced. Sloan initially appeared as a friendly, polite, charming, kindhearted and animal-loving man, but this was just to disguise his true nature, in reality, like his wife, he is a cruel, greedy, murderous, evil, ruthless and sadistic man and one who is responsible for kidnapping Tally. Sloan and Bree were also prominently behind a poacher plot to take advantage of the migration of a thousand elephants to Timbo Valley during a solar eclipse to massacre the elephants by driving them into an electric fence for their ivory. Sloan shows all the the traits of a sociopath, having absolutely no empathy for the animals and people he hurts, nor any remorse for his vile deeds. He is even perfectly willing to kill children should they interfere with his and his wife's plans. He is also very short-tempered, becoming extremely angry when things do not go his way and his plans are thwarted. Sloan is also a very arrogant man. Contrary to the charade he presented, he, in truth, has no respect for animals, considering them to be nothing more than stupid creatures, whose only use is to make people, like him, rich. This arrogance is what lead to his (literal) downfall as he underestimated the intelligence of the elephants who ended up bringing down his and Bree's helicopter. Sloan is also a coward as well, as he was seen in a state of utter panic and terror when his helicopter was brought down and again when the elephants cornered him. Sloan's only positive trait is his relationship with his wife Bree, whom he genially seems to love and respect. Despite this Sloan Blackburn has shown himself to have an irredeemable nature, making him Pure Evil .
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- Although his true colors are not revealed until near the climax, he is one of the main antagonists, because he and Bree had bigger plans than anyone else and they were more dangerous than others. Plus, he and Bree were thought to be friends to Eliza, but are actually against her.
- 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.
- Sloan and Bree are arguably two of the most evil villains to appear on any Nickelodeon show and by far the most evil in the Wild Thornberrys franchise.
- Sloan is rumored by fans to be the hunter who shot Bambi's mother.
- Despite being a highly sophisticated poacher, it is implied that Sloan's skills with firearms are rather lackluster.
This is shown in the beginning of the movie when gunshots from his and Bree's helicopter are heard but no animals are seen hurt or killed implying that he missed his targets. Also while he did hit the rhino he and Bree attacked, he did not shoot him in a fatal area, which caused the rhino to escape from them. Finally, despite being already low enough to hit the elephants, he still could not get a shot from the current altitude of his helicopter causing him to order his wife to go lower, which is what caused his downfall.
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