Vervain is the secondary antagonist of Watership Down 1999. He is one of Woundworts servants who helps keep Efrafan prisoners as slaves.
What Makes Him Despicable?[]
- He is constantly tormenting, bullying and intimidating rabbits who are weaker than him (particularly Primrose) for no reason other than sadism and supremacism.
- While he is extremely afraid of Woundwort and it may seem like he does his actions out of fear of him, this is likely false as he is extremely cruel and sadistic and thinks very poorly of weaker rabbits, therefore he is not a villain by proxy.
- Even though he is very cruel to rabbits weaker than him, he is very cowardly when it comes to rabbits who are bigger than him or when it comes to predators. He was even shown to be very afraid when Bigwig started harassing him.
- Despite the fact that Campion has saved his life, Vervain still detests Campion and at one point began starving campion when Vervain suspected he was working with Watership Down, and he even showed satisfaction when he thought Campion was dead.
- He tried to blackmail Watership Down into surrendering to Efrafa by threatening to kill Pipkin.
- His behaviour can be so horrible that even Woundwort himself sometimes gets fed up with it.
Trivia[]
- It was confirmed that Vervain was intended to be hated character, however, his season 3 version does not qualify since he gained quite a few entertaining and sympathetic qualities. However he didn’t have any in season 1-2.
External Links[]
- Captain Vervain on the Villains Wiki