


He is notable for seldom exhibiting a sense of humor or giving wicked laughs. He is also shown to have no reservations about his intentions, as he is very open, practicable and nondiscriminatory on his dream of becoming "a god among mortal men" and then wiping out all living things with an undead army. He is also quite mysterious and inscrutable, and it is implied that not even his minions appear to know what he is, and is one of the less active villains, his only motion in the film (that is not carried out by his lackeys) is his role in the birth of the Cauldron Born. While he exhibits the same outwardly arrogant and narcissistic qualities, desiring to become "a god among mortal men", he is very cold, brutal, composed, imperturbable and blasphemous, showing no outward anger until his plan fails at which point he lunges at Taran, believing it to be his doing (on Creeper's suggestion). The Horned King is in great contrast with his predecessors and successors. Go forth, my deathless warriors! Destroy all in your path! Mole in Thumbelina, Lord Cotys in Hercules, Claudandus in Felidae, Sailor John in Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure, Harry in Pride, Percival Graves in King Ralph, and Adam Sutler in V For Vendetta. He was voiced by the late John Hurt, who also played Caligula in I Claudius, General Woundwort in Watership Down, Mr. He is a treacherous, vindictive, wicked, and spiteful monarch who plans to find the Black Cauldron and use its power to unleash an army of deathless warriors called the Cauldron Born.
THE VILLAIN MALODY SERIES
The Horned King is the main antagonist of Disney's 25th full-length animated feature film The Black Cauldron, an adaptation of the Chronicles of Pydrain series overall with the name of the second novel. ~ The Horned King's infamous quote, as he begins to summon his undead army. Now I call on my army of the dead: the Cauldron Born! Arise, my messengers of death! Our time has arrived! ~ The Horned King explaining his goal to a bunch of skeletons which would later become his Cauldron Born army. oh, my soldiers, how long I have thirsted to be a god among mortal men. Its evil power will course through my veins.
