General Scales
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"De edo sud tovouk GENERAL SCALES!"
- --General Scales
General Scales is a SharpClaw and a tyrannical despot appearing in the game Star Fox Adventures for the Nintendo GameCube.
General Scales (スケール将軍 Sukēru Shougun) made his appearance in Star Fox Adventures as a villain of the game.
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[edit] History
Warning: Plot and/or spoilers are written below.
He led the SharpClaw army to war against the CloudRunner tribe on the planet Sauria and was the one responsible for the break up of the planet by removing the Spellstones that stabilized the planet and thus conquering each floating land mass one after another while using CloudRunner Fortress as his base of operations.
Later revealed to be the holder of the last of the Krazoa Spirits, General Scales prepared himself to fight Fox McCloud in the Krazoa Palace, using some kind of sword. However, this was not to be, as Andross interrupted their fight and forced Scales to relinquish the final spirit to McCloud. If the player does not take out the Staff it is reveled that he has no fight moves or his own sounds. Instead he just moves around and makes the same sounds as every other Sharpclaw.
As the general falls, he states "You will regret this," implying that he would return in a future title. However, since he is no where to be found, it is assumed that he has either died or has simply been knocked out and imprisond by his fellow SharpClaw. The only other explanation for his statement would be that he may have been warning Fox of Andross' return. However, because Scales did not know of his association with Andross, yet alone could he see Andross, this is highly unlikely.
When Fox returns from fighting Andross, he finds that the SharpClaw have liberated themselves from the general and are holding up his belt in victory.
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[edit] Abilities And Traits
Out of all of the Star Fox characters that reach a humanoid size, Scales is the overall largest and tallest. He is considerably strong when it comes to physical strength, for he was able to pick up a SharpClaw soldier high in the air with ease using one arm (He also did this with Krystal and the Queen CloudRunner) and threw the soldier at Fox when he assaulted Scales in one of the treasure rooms of the CloudRunner Fortress. Although he missed, the distance of the SharpClaw that was thrown was over several feet across the large room. Like Fox and Krystal, Scales can use his body as a container for Krazoa spirits. Strangely, it is said that Krazoa spirits can only be obtained by those who are pure of heart, implying that he somehow forced the spirit inside of himself. Scales had a special belt with a hidden button on it that could turn him invisible at any time. He also appears to have a strong resistance to fire, as he was simply standing in the room of his gallon ship while it was burning everywhere. Although it hasn't actually been seen in the game, it could be implied that Scales has the lizard-like ability to climb walls, as shown when Fox was getting ready to have a final battle with him when he almost landed on Fox from the ceiling (Not seen at first possibly due to his belts camouflage). His weaponry includes a large, double bladed hook attached to his left arm and wielded a large, golden sword in his right hand. His voice appeared to be a mix of an Irish/Scottish and British accent.
Scales is seen as a power hungry tyrant, who desired to rule all of Sauria and possibly even the Lylat System (Heard from him in the deleted audio from Adventures). He was a very cruel leader, even to his own troops, as seen when he hit two of them furiously and almost destroyed one of his security robots because the ClouldRunner Queen wouldn't tell him where Fox was, and also used one of his soldiers as a living shield when Fox was blasting at him, and then threw the SharpClaw at him. Right before Scales released his Krazoa spirit, his fellow SharpClaw blocked themselves with their arms in fear, showing that Scales most likely doesn't tolerate failure from his troops or simply punishes them when angered. When confronted by Krystal for the first time, he laughs and tells her that he is not evil, and claims that he is only doing this for the planet's own good, although he quickly abandons this theory and throws her off his ship, laughing maniacally afterwards. He also appears to be very arrogant, as seen when he says "Nobody can defeat General Scales!". Through his brutal regime, he seems to mostly enslave his prisoners rather then kill them, since he can force them to work on different parts of the planet.
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[edit] Trivia
- The relationship of General Scales and Andross is similar to two other Nintendo character, Zant and Ganondorf, from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in that both have two tyrannical minions given power by vastly more powerful beings who are both arch enemies of the main protagionists. On a related note, both Ganondorf and Andross had completely revived themselves shortly after Zant and General Scales had met their downfall, and both Zant and Scales started serving Ganondorf and Andross when they (or in Scale's case, his tribe) were denied a position of power.
- General Scales and Andross both seemed to have the exact same kind of eyes. This is probably deliberate to hint at Scales and Andross's connection. However, it should be noted that Scales' eyes differ as he is seen with normal eyes in his official renders but is shown different during the course of the game as he possesses a Krazoa Spirit.
- Scales is one of the other three major villains in the series, along with the Aparoid Queen and Emperor Anglar, and the only one to be mentioned in the Star Fox trophy section of Super Smash Brothers Brawl (only mentioned in Tricky's trophy information). He is also the only one not to be fought as the final boss or in the whole game itself.
