Ruber (Quest for Camelot)

"The ogre's butt!"

- Ruber

Ruber is the main antagonist of the 1998 Warner Bros. animated film Quest for Camelot. He is a former knight of the round table at Camelot and plans his revenge on Arthur by sending a griffin to steal Excalibur and transform his barbarian henchmen into his steel army. He is not only King Arthur's sworn enemy, but he is Kayley's arch-enemy. He was voiced by Gary Oldman.

Why He Deserves To Be Smashed In The Butt By The Ogre

 * 1) Ruber is easily deemed as one of the bland and worst animated villains of all-time where he is supposed to be written as an insane villain, but his personality and characterization is extremely inconsistent. He sometimes snaps at those around him, particularly the Griffin for his stupidity, while other moments have him acting calm and collected.
 * 2) Similar in vein to the 2019 live-action Scar's villain song "Be Prepared" from The Lion King (2019), his self-titled villain song is incredibly dreadful and poorly written, where he abruptly yells parts of his verses and even seems to be making up the song as he goes along.
 * 3) When Ruber claims in his song that he bought a magic potion from some witches, he never explained what type of witches that he bought his potion from.
 * 4) He was at his worst at the beginning of the film where he murdered Sir Lionel, Kayley's father, by striking him in the head with a mace during his attempted assassination of King Arthur, and even gloated of his death at one point in the climax while trying to kill an injured Arthur.
 * 5) Despite having the Griffin as his loyal pet, he is shown to be very abusive with the creature such as when he hears that the Griffin has lost Excalibur in the Forbidden Forest. He even rips a feather out of his eyebrow at one point during that moment.
 * 6) He blackmails and forces Lady Juliana into helping him with his plan by threatening to kill her daughter.
 * 7) His infamous quote "The ogre's butt!".
 * 8) His design is pretty ugly looking, particularly his face, as his teeth look somewhat jagged.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Gary Oldman did a good job voicing him and even claimed that he had a fun experience voicing the villain.
 * 2) He is exceptionally strong and very fearless that he anticipates upcoming attacks or takes out enemies with his supreme strength.
 * 3) * When Kayley tried to whack Ruber with a mace while his back was turned, he suddenly whips around and grabs the head of the mace.
 * 4) * After dropping his sword and calmly backing up against a wall when one of the dragons corners him in Dragon Country, Ruber kills it with his bare hands by doing a swift punch.
 * 5) His lead animator, Alexander Williams, did a great job animating Ruber.
 * 6) He received his comeuppance in the end of the film. When he is tricked by Kayley and Garrett into returning Excalibur, that was bonded to his hand earlier with his magic potion, back into the stone for where it came from, he tried to pull the sword free to obviously no avail as he is not the rightful king before the magic from Excalibur and the stone suddenly unleashes and brutally disintegrate Ruber into nothingness, leaving only the purified sword in the stone and one of his pauldrons from his armor, which is what's left of Ruber.