Scarlemagne

Inconsistently Heinous
Full Name	Hugo Oak
Alias	Scarlemagne
Origin	Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
Allies	Scarlemagne's Nobles His army of mutes and brainwashed humans (all formerly). Oak Family: Kipo Oak Lio Oak Song Oak Wolf Benson Dave Jamack Troy Roberto
Powers / Skills	High intelligence Ruling skills Brainwashing Strength
Goals	Create a utopia known as Aurum where the mutes will rule. Get revenge on Lio for leaving him behind. Brainwash or exterminate all humans (all formerly). Help Kipo stop Dr. Emilia. Make amends with Kipo (both succeeded).
Worst Actions	Capturing many humans from the surface and the burrows to brainwash them into serving him. Gleefully destroying Ratland out of contempt over the co-existence between mutes and humans. Attempting to kill a huge crowd of mutes at his coronation by pouring molten gold on them.
Kill Count	3 Hundreds (attempted)
Crimes	Attempted mass murder Terrorism Abuse (of power, physical, and psychological) Brainwashing Slavery Torture (physical and psychological) Murder Conspiracy Kidnapping Mass destruction Animal cruelty Usurpation Attempted global hegemony Brainwashing Arson Vandalism Blackmail
Type of IH	Redeemed Tyrant

“	My Mute brothers and sisters! You all came, like I asked. That was smart of you. There’s a burrow girl on the loose! Pardon me, lost my composure there for a moment. It was only 200 years ago that humans, like that burrow girl… kept us locked up in prisons just like this one! Well, now the tables have turned. This is how all humans should be, obedient. I can make them into an army. An army I can use to build an empire! Mutes on top! Humans below! Back to that burrow girl. She can lead me to more humans. Enough to rule Las Vistas. Whoever brings her to me will be rewarded with a position of power and luxury, beyond your wildest dreams. So, I ask you, do you dream big? I can’t hear you! That’s better. Bring me the burrow girl!	„
	~ Scarlemagne addressing the various mute factions to capture Kipo.

“	What is power without someone to rule?	„
	~ Scarlemagne

“	Call me Hugo.	„
	~ Scarlemagne's last words before dying.

Scarlemagne is the secondary antagonist of the Netflix animated series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, serving as the main antagonist of the first two seasons and an anti-hero in the third season.

He is a Mute mandrill who wants to build a new empire with him at the top as a tyrant and humans at the bottom to be used as slaves. His unstable behaviour is caused by horrible experimentation at the hands of Dr. Emilia and feeling betrayed on a personal level by Lio Oak.

After his redemption in Season 3, he realizes the error of his ways and helps Kipo with her plans to forge an alliance between mutes and humans. He ultimately sacrifices himself to stop Emilia's plans and save Kipo's life.

His Evil Ranking

What Makes Him Heinous?

• He rules over the rest of the mutes of Las Vistas through fear, forcing all the mutes to bring any humans they capture so he can brainwash them with his pheromones and force them to serve him against their will.
  • This is presented as a horrible fate by the story because a lot of the humans that are victims of his brainwashing have pained expressions on their faces even if they are wearing creepy smiles which indicates that they are at least somewhat aware of what is happening and they are forced to fight for Scarlemagne or work for him and are forced to experience their bodies moving against their will to carry out Scarlemagne's commands.
    • The fact a lot of those people have been in this state for years makes it even worse and his ultimate plan is to do it to every single human and he is not above using his pheromones on other primates as well as shown when he brainwashes the leader of his original group to take his place.
• When he learns about the existence of Kipo, he does everything in his power to capture her and force her to lead him to her burrow, so he can capture and enslave her people under his brainwashing.
  • Eventually, he manages to capture Kipo's people and brainwashes every single one of them, including Lio Oak, who was his adoptive father while he was a child, whom he forces to produce more of his pheromones and taunts him about how he plans to turn his daughter, Kipo, to his side.
• He captures the Mega Monkey, who was actually Song Oak, his adoptive mother, ties her to a tree and brainwashes her with his pheromones when she refuses to join him, all to force her to help him make all humans suffer.
• He forces the humans to work under harsh conditions to build a new city from which he can rule. When one of them falls to the ground from exhaustion, Scarlemagne simply sprays him with his pheromones and tells him to get back to work which the slave does since he can't resist the brainwashing.
• He bombs Ratland, an amusement park operated by the two rat mutes, Brad and Amy, where humans and mutes could coexist.
  • The bombing nearly killed the two mutes and they end up being homeless after the destruction of Ratland. He also takes any humans he could capture in the park, brainwashes them and states that he is going to use them to build him the perfect city and that "humans will do the blood and tears" required for its construction.
• During his coronation, he reveals that he gilded the three mod frogs that had previously attacked Kipo into a golden statue and presents it as a gift to her.
• He tells Kipo that he would allow everyone to go only if she chooses to allow her father to be brainwashed forever, forcing Kipo to choose between her father and everyone else in the process.
• When his plans get ruined and he gets attacked, Scarlemagne decides to kill the hundreds of mutes that had been gathered at the colosseum. He unleashes molten gold in an attempt to fill the entire colosseum and boil to death everyone gathered there.
• Even during his imprisonment, he still gives an advice to Kipo to unite the humans and mutes not through kindness but through fear and become more like him.

What Makes Him Inconsistent?

• He has a genuinely tragic backstory where he was once a normal mandrill child called Hugo who was used for experimentation by Dr. Emilia to develop a cure to revert all the mutes to their original selves.
  • He developed a bond with Lio and Song Oak who were leading the experiments with him while treating him nicely and not subjecting him to any torture. For those reasons, he regarded them as his parents. When Dr. Emilia discovered that he had developed sentience and about his gift to use his pheromones to brainwash people, she took him away from Song and Lio and forcing him every day to run on a treadmill, so she could harvest his pheromones, and keeping him in a tiny glass container.
    • When the burrow was destroyed, Lio was forced to take his baby daughter Kipo without going back for Hugo as he had promised. Subsequently, Hugo was forced to survive on the harsh surface all on his own and was forced to become more ruthless and merciless to get accepted from a group of other mutes.
      • When Hugo finds Lio by chance and sees him holding baby Kipo, he decides that Lio has betrayed him and never cared about him in the first place which in turn caused him to snap and become the tyrant he turned into. When Kipo hears this backstory, she gives him a hug and says that he needs it.
• Despite hating them at the start of the series, Hugo eventually reconciles with his adoptive family.
  • He starts liking Kipo when she shows sympathy for him, starts feeling conflicted when he realizes that Lio really loves him and never meant to abandon him and in season 3 he goes even further by helping Song communicate with Kipo while she is in Mega Monkey form and starts having a better relationship with the Oak family. In the final episode he sacrifices himself to save Kipo, whom he now sees as his sister, and while he dies, he admits that he is glad he had a family.
• He ultimately redeems himself in season 3. He starts developing good relationships with everyone else, starts feeling bad about his previous actions and apologises to everyone he has hurt twice, helps the others battle against Dr. Emilia and in the final episode he crashes his flamingo car in Emilia while she is in Mega form to save Kipo and screams at Emilia to leave his sister alone.
  • A few years later, it is shown that he has a statue to honor his memory and Kipo goes to it and tells him how life has been going on since peace has been established in Las Vistas and states this wouldn't have been achieved without him.
• He has a sympathetic death. While he is dying from his injuries, he admits to Kipo, Song and Lio that he is glad he had a family before he dies while sad music plays in the background, and Kipo, Song and Lio look sad. When Kipo calls him "Scarlemagne", he corrects her with "Call me Hugo" before he dies, and everyone who is present at the scene cries at his death.

External Link

• Scarlemagne on the Villains Wiki
• Scarlemagne on the Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Wiki