The Beast is the main antagonist of Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild. She is a sadistic and cold-hearted cougar who rules the forest of Lake Garland and often uses all the other animals as her slaves to bring her food every night while threatening to kill them if they oppose her. Ultimately, the Beast's reign of terror entirely ended when Stuart Little and his family arrived at Lake Garland. She is the third archenemy of Stuart and the former master and slave-driver of Reeko.
She was voiced by Virginia Madsen.
Personality
Although she is a wild animal who hunts for food and survival, the Beast is shown to be a black-hearted, savage, aggressive, egotistical, cunning, sadistic, cruel, cold-hearted, ruthless and sociopathic cougar who enjoys terrorizing her victims and believes she is superior to the other forest animals, reacting hostilely towards anything that she encounters in the forest of Lake Garland and attacking her prey unprovoked. Due to her vicious and bloodthirsty nature, she is feared by all the other forest animals, whom she had enslaved to the point she forced them to bring her food every night. However, if the forest animals oppose her or haven't got enough food, the Beast will likely kill them as punishment. Even Snowbell is shown to be terrified of her given how ferocious and intimidating she really is.
She is also shown to be intelligent, which is demonstrated when she noticed and evaded Stuart and Snowbell's trap after Snowbell accidentally exposed it. When she kidnapped Snowbell, the Beast became obsessed with his fur and forced Snowbell to gain weight by eating disgusting grubs so that she intends to skin him and make a rug out of the latter for the winter, even threatening to kill him if Snowbell doesn't eat the revolting things that she gave to him. She is shown to have a savage temper, which is demonstrated when she became annoyed by Snowbell's pleas, was enraged after Stuart blew salt and pepper in her face which resulted in her sneezing and falling off a cliff into a river below, roared in anger when she sees Stuart and Snowbell escape and was infuriated when the forest animals started taunting her after she was sprayed by Reeko. She even took sadistic pleasure in killing Stuart as she attempted to eat him which would've succeeded if Reeko hadn't arrived and intervened.
Despite serving as Reeko's master, it's revealed that the Beast was using him as a pawn to do the dirty work of bringing her food since she never cared about him. Overall, she has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, being nothing more than a psychopathic predator who only cares about ruling the woods of Lake Garland while never caring for anyone other than herself.
Biography
Early life
Not much is known about the Beast beyond the fact that she was a ferocious, sadistic, and ruthless cougar who lives in a cave on the other side of the forest of Lake Garland and enslaved the forest's local fauna before forcing them to bring her food every night. She also intends to kill all of the animals if they do not bring her enough food, eventually becoming feared by all of Lake Garland. It is also implied that prior to the events of the film, she has spitefully killed other forest animals as punishment if they had opposed her or haven't got enough food for her. At some point, she also enslaved a skunk named Reeko, forcing him to work as her pawn to find and bring food to her, even though Reeko is most likely late in doing so.
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
The Beast was first seen when Reeko showed up one night without any tribute and bribed his way out with a promise of bringing double his quota next time. The Beast was next seen when Stuart, who was hiking with the Lake Scouts, Bickle, Frederick Little and George Little, ended up getting lost and accidentally stepped on a stick while trying to find his way back, attracting the Beast's attention. When Stuart ended up meeting Reeko after the skunk tried to steal his chocolate and mistook him for the Beast, they are suddenly ambushed by the real Beast. However, they barely managed to escape.
Later, after soon befriending Stuart and being invited to dinner with his family, Reeko, deciding that the food given to the Beast isn't enough, finds Snowbell and tries to persuade him to come into the forest at night for a supposed party. Snowbell refuses to go at first because of the Beast, but Reeko fools him by saying that all of those stories about the Beast are false, and that he is more hip than Stuart. That night, Snowbell arrives at the Beast's location, believing it to be a party. However, it was revealed that Reeko had lied to him as he had actually lured Snowbell into the Beast's trap. He then encounters the Beast herself, and passes out after she roars in his face. Soon after capturing Snowbell and taking him to her cave, the Beast noticed his thick fur and plotted to make a rug out it before attempting to eat Snowbell. Instead, Snowbell suggests that she fatten him up first. That way, she can have a bigger rug. The Beast then imprisons Snowbell in a deep pit so that he won't be able to get out and starts to fatten him up by feeding him a revolting variety of sticks, mud, leaves, and worms while threatening to kill him if he doesn't eat them.
Upon having observed Snowbell getting kidnapped, Stuart attempts to convince his family and the Scouts the next morning of the truth about his friend getting taken. Unfortunately for Stuart, they don't believe him as they think that Stuart's stories are false and saying to him that the Beast isn't real. With no choice and with nobody else to help him, Stuart sets out to rescue Snowbell alone. He also learns along the way that Reeko was responsible for his friend's disappearance, knowing that he had been secretly working for the Beast the entire time. Because of this, he ends his friendship with him. After approaching the Beast's cave and being able to sneak past the Beast without her noticing while she is sleeping, Stuart rescues Snowbell from the pit. On their way out, the two are cornered by the Beast, but Stuart uses salt and pepper to overwhelm her which causes the Beast to sneeze and fall off a cliff into a river below before he and Snowbell quickly make their escape. After Stuart and Snowbell set up a trap for the Beast as they hope she will fall into it just as she eventually catches up to them, the plan fails when the Beast sees through the trap after Snowbell accidentally exposes it before lunging at Stuart. After kicking Snowbell out of the way when he tried to intervene, the Beast attempts to devour Stuart for food.
However, she is suddenly confronted by Reeko since he had realized what he'd done while the forest animals, who originally disliked Reeko, also show up upon having a change of heart that they should decide to help Reeko. Reeko incapacitates the Beast by spraying on her, allowing the animals to taunt her and for Stuart to lure her into the trap, whereupon she is finally captured by falling into it. That night, Stuart and Snowbell are reunited with Stuart's family and the Scouts, who had been searching for Stuart upon having found out that he was missing (since Eleanor Little had found a note left by Stuart, saying that he had gone off to rescue Snowbell), whereupon Stuart shows them the captured Beast, much to their surprise and amazement upon realizing that Stuart had proved to them that the Beast is actually real the whole time. The next day, Stuart earns a gold kerchief from Troopmaster Bickle and reconciles with Reeko while the Beast is captured by humans and sent away to a zoo in a helicopter.
Appearance
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Trivia
- The Beast has a lot of similarities with Zira from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.
- Unlike the first two Stuart Little villains Smokey and Falcon as they are male, the Beast is the first (and so far only) female villain in the franchise and with no minion of her own.
Gallery
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References
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