MOST HOSTILE CHARACTER

[martins#1fan]

Personally I think it's Vilu Daskar and Tsarmina Greeneyes, a tie because Tsarmina is ruthless and merciless.
Vilu because he's a MAD pirate who's also merciless, and laughs while killing people. 
( I hate Vilu )  . Those were the bad peeps.
Now the good ones......... In battle, Martin straightaway because he's just an AWWWSOME fighter.
And you can't leave out Rakkety Tam, simply because he gets Martin's sword, and he's also a pretty good fighter.

[Captain Tammo]

Tsarmina Was defiantly hostile. Then again, pretty much every redwall villain was hostile. But mainly Tsarmina in my opinion

[James Gryphon]

Ferahgo would notably brighten up when he was about to kill or torment someone. He also skinned his victims, which isn't really mentioned that much -- but puts him in a class of brutality up with Gulo.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

Dumble.


That mousbabe would've attacked a band of foxes, a great eagle and an army of crows for Redwall's sake.

[Tiria Wildlough]

Dumble.


That mousbabe would've attacked a band of foxes, a great eagle and an army of crows for Redwall's sake.

Where's he from?
I think Gulo the Savage is definitely hostile, but my favourite villain is Tsarmina.

[James Gryphon]

Where's he from?

Unless I'm dead wrong, Dumble is the dibbun that accompanied Thrugg the otter in Salamandastron, to acquire the Flowers of Icetor.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

No, you're correct. He travelled with Thrugg, best journeyers ever in Redwall

[Tiria]

Ragga Bol was also pretty hostile.  And they had the whole phsychic thing going on with him and the badger (who's name I can't remember right now).   Thrugg and Dumble are some of my favorite characters!  And Thrugganne is pretty cool, too.

[Tiria Wildlough]

Where's he from?

Unless I'm dead wrong, Dumble is the dibbun that accompanied Thrugg the otter in Salamandastron, to acquire the Flowers of Icetor.

I haven't read Salamandastron.
Thanks all the same!

[Luath]

Dumble.


That mousbabe would've attacked a band of foxes, a great eagle and an army of crows for Redwall's sake.

Forget Samkim and Urthstripe! That little mousebabe is the greatest warrior in "Salamandastron"!!
"Dumble The Undaunted" I Like It !!!!  

[Storm]

Sister May! The sweet, harmless sister who would do anything to protect redwall. This includes biting all the way through Ironbeak's leg and drugging strawberries.

[Lutra]

I always saw Tsarminia from Mossflower as ruthless.  No love for her father or brother.  Basically nobody.

[sabretache5611]

...Gulo....a cannibalistic wolverine that charges just about everything that he doestn' like or just literally will have u for dinner if he doesnt' like u, you  can't get any more hostile than that!

[Captain Tammo]

Yes gulo was hostile. But it was also one of the only two things about him, if you take away his size and cannibalism, you'd just have a stupid vermin with a bad temper.

[James Gryphon]

If you ask me, Gulo is overrated...

In all of the topics, it seems that Gulo comes up basically because he's a wolverine -- not for any other reason. It doesn't seem to stick that Ferahgo is torturing beasts with his knives (which would label him a perfect monster if he was a human), or that Cluny killed thousands of creatures over the years for really no good reason other than because he felt like doing it, or Tsarmina forcing Ashleg (who's crippled) to stay ahead of spear-wielding troops on parade, and talking about using children as hostages and putting everyone into slave labor... because Gulo happens to eat smaller creatures (which isn't technically unique; all the lizards in the series do the same thing) and happens to be a wolverine (which was new), he gets a lot of credit.

The fact is, though, that for me, he isn't the most interesting villain. The good guys run circles around him all story long, until he finally gets lucky and manages to capture Doogy Plumm. And the fact that he's so large, on the other hand, prevents him from showing any particular skill; it's solely his species that characterizes him.

It occurred to me reading Mariel of Redwall that every one of the villains were searats -- no stoats, weasels, or anything. And you know, I think I almost like it better that way, because it means the top villains, like Gabool, Graypatch, etc., got there by being the best at what they do. There wasn't any size factor that contributed to it; they just were the smartest and the most skilled. I think that book in particular does a great job of showing sea rat life, and how they have to fight and use what they have to stay in power... which I think is more interesting than a villain who rules solely because they're the biggest.

I still think Gulo's a memorable villain, don't get me wrong, but I don't think he's all that.