General Mandible is the main antagonist of the movie Antz.
History[]
In his first action, Mandible sends the soldier ants most loyal to The Queen to fight a termite colony, knowing fully well that they wouldn't survive.
He intends to marry Princess Bala, making her his queen and the mother of thousands of larval children and make a strong colony with soldiers. After Bala is "kidnapped" by a worker ant named Z (who was the sole survivor of the termite battle), Mandible attempts to find their whereabouts. He has some of his soldiers beat up Z's soldier friend Weaver to get information out of him, but he refuses to talk. However, when Mandible has Z's other friend, Azteca (whom Weaver has romantic feelings for) tortured, Weaver says that Z went to Insectopia. Mandible sends Cutter to retrieve Bala and kill Z.
After Bala is brought back to the colony, she demands that Mandible tells her what is going on, to which Mandible replies that he will explain afterwards. Outraged, Bala calls off the wedding and rejects Mandible after she learns of his plans. Mandible nonetheless reveals to Bala his evil scheme to drown all the workers during the MegaTunnel ceremony along with her mother, while sparing the princess herself to make her his queen of his colony of soldiers. He then locks Bala in his office to stop her from interfering in his plan.
After successfully flooding the anthill, the would-be-dictator's scheme is foiled when Z, Bala, Weaver, Azteca, and the other ants form a ladder with their own bodies to escape from the rising waters. Mandible grabs a spear to kill Z, but Cutter, fed up with Mandible's evil ways, seeing that he’s a monster with foolish opinions and goals, he turns against him, and instead tries to help Z, stating that is what's truly "for the good of the colony". Enraged, Mandible snaps and yells, and yet again continues to foolishly proclaim himself "I AM THE COLONY!" Mandible charges at Cutter, but Z pushes Cutter out of the way, and he and Mandible fall into the flooded anthill. While Z lands in the water (where he is saved by Cutter a minute later), Mandible ends up smashing against an upturned root, killing him on impact. Finally putting an end to him, his false beliefs and actions.