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Zeebad (Zabadie in the French version) is an jack-in-the-box-like evil ice wizard who is a doppelganger of Zebedee and the main antagonist of the 2005 film.

He was trapped inside the lava-filled cavern underneath the Magic Roundabout for 10,000 years, waiting to get revenge on Zebedee who imprisoned him away to stop him from freezing the world again. He wanted to obtain all three enchanted diamonds to freeze the sun but his evil plan was ultimately foiled by Dougal and his friends.

Background[]

Personality[]

Zeebad is a cold-hearted, tyrannous and cruel ice wizard who is Zebedee's arch-nemesis. He seeks revenge on Zebedee for locking him away in a lava-filled cavern with is far below the Magic Roundabout and eventually has the chance to overpower him after waiting so long to escape his prison. He despites all of the warmth and beauty in the world as he prefers everything to be frozen solid the way he wants them to be.

Although he has his henchman Soldier Sam to assist him to get the three diamonds, Zeebad would be annoyed by his stupidity and often abuses him to the point where Zeebad leaves an injured Sam for dead and putting an end to his life without a single regret upon wounding him and taking out the third diamond from inside his chest. Zeebad fails, or most likely to refuse to understands the value of loyalty, allies and friendship, which he calls compassion a weakness.

Physical appearance[]

Zeebad is a small wizard who bears a near-spitting image of his arch-nemesis Zebedee with the similar appearance and having a mustache and a spring at the bottom instead of legs, only he has icy blue skin with frost crystals on his face, arms, neck, and abdomen, white zigzag lines on the sides of his head, black ponytail, purplish mustache and matching goatee with some blue hair strands. His ponytail was spilt into two braids with gold bands. For attire, he wears a brown leather sleeveless tunic tied on with ropes.

Biography[]

10,000 years prior to the events of the 2005 film, Zeebad had tried to encase the world in ice, implying that he has started the ice age, until Zebedee halted his plan and locked him away in a lava-filled cavern where he resides on a stack.

In the current timeline, Dougal accidentally released Zeebad from his lava-filled cavern prison when he crashes Mr Grimsdale's motorbike into the roof of the Magic Roundabout. Zeebad flies out from his prison through the bright light inside the roundabout and through the hole in the roof where he flies out and far from the village where he crashes lands into some rocky and icy terrain. Pleased that he has now escaped, Zeebad plans to freeze the world once more. After spotting Solider Sam that was catapulted off the roundabout when Zeebad froze it over, he animates him and enlists Sam as his henchman where he is tasked into helping Zeebad to find three enchanted diamonds so he can use them to fully freeze the world by freezing the sun.

Zeebad and Sam return to his old lair where they will plan their first line of attack and when Dougal and his allies set camp near his lair for the night, Zeebad sets out and captures Dougal. With Dougal imprisoned, Zeebad interrogates him where Dougal accidentally lets slip of the information of the map, but he refuses to tell Zeebad more. Zeebad orders Sam to torture him while he goes off to monologue to himself about carrying out his evil plan. However, Ermintrude rescues Dougal, prompting Zeebad to chase after the gang and corner them. The gang summon Zebedee who then prepares to duel the evil ice wizard once more. But because Zebedee was distracted in questioning Sam's actions when he is working as Zeebad's henchman, Zeebad manages to weaken Zebedee in the arm and defeats him where Zebedee is trapped in ice. Zeebad collapses the cliff which Zebedee is trapped, causing him to fall to his presumed demise, to Zeebad's delight and joy.

After defeating his arch-enemy, Zeebad secretly follows the gang to the volcano where he takes both the first diamond and the map before leaving them stranded in the volcano by ordering Sam to destroy the bridge. When Sam destroys the bridge and nearly falls to his death, Zeebad saves him from his fiery demise and later travels on a small rowboat to the next destination where the second diamond is held in the temple. When he arrives at the temple with Sam, they discover the gang have escaped alive and he hides with his henchman out of sight where the gang will clear the path free from booby traps.

Zeebad arrives in the room where the diamond is undetected, he is held back by the alarm beams until Dougal accidentally trips one with his gobstopper, forcing the gang to battle the skeletons that emerge from the floor. This allows Zeebad to swipe the second diamond unnoticed and demands the gang the whereabouts of the third diamond until he and Sam fell through the trapdoor and into the mines, courtesy of Dougal under Ermintrude's command. However, Zeebad had found the driller train and uses it to pursue the gang. When Brian is accidentally ejected from Train and lands on the roof, he overhears that the gang are heading back to the roundabout where the third diamond is supposedly hidden. Zeebad orders Sam to dispose of Brian, but the soldier refuses under the Geneva Convention. As the chase continues and with Train overtaking Zeebad, he then tries to ram the driller train into Train's carriage with the nameplate on the carriage holding back the drill bit, but Sam tries to warn Zeebad that the boiler's pressure is at the dangerous level. Zeebad didn't seem to take the situation seriously until the driller train explodes, blasting Zeebad and Sam into the snowy wasteland where Sam is injured from the explosion. Zeebad sets off to the village alone and cruelly leaves Sam to die in the snow.

After returning back to the village, Zeebad is unable to find the third diamond anywhere on the frozen roundabout, even if it wasn't frozen solid. Just then, Zeebad sees Sam, who realises his true duty, arriving on the elk who woke him up and confronts his evil boss where Zeebad learns that Sam was part of the roundabout and that he is guarding it from Zeebad. Sam tries to battle his former boss, Zeebad quickly defeats and wounds Sam in the chest where he discovers the third diamond is hidden inside Sam and removes it from him, thus killing his former henchman. With all three diamonds in possession, Zeebad uses their power to complete his plan of freezing the world by freezing the sun just as Dougal and the gang arrive to witness it all.

Before Zeebad can fully succeed, Dylan throws a snowball at him, provoking him to try and zap him, but only zaps Ermintrude's tail, causing her to scream loudly where Dougal discovers that it can break the ice off the roundabout. After Ermintrude uses her singing to break most of the ice off the roundabout, Zeebad tries to zap the gang, but they steal back the first and second diamonds by using Brian to knock the diamonds out of Zeebad's magic. They slot the two diamonds into their places on the roundabout, but Zeebad has his eye on the third diamond and after catching Brian who hides in his shell, he rolls him into catapulting the diamond in the air and knocks Dylan to the ground to prevent him from batting the diamond into its slot. Zeebad manages to get hold of the diamond once again, but Dylan tries to use Zebedee's magic box on him, but only to fail. As it looks like Zeebad is about to reclaim his victory, he is run over by Train where the diamond is knocked free from his grasp.

Dougal goes after the diamond in his change to redeem himself for causing Zeebad's escape. Zeebad tries to stop this by trying to zap him with his icy blasts, but Dougal evades his attacks and head-butts the diamond into its slot on the roundabout. The magic currents from the diamonds and the roundabout activates where it reverses all of Zeebad's evil magic to the world by melting the remaining ice on the roundabout and thawing the village along with the world and the sun back to normal. Horrified that his evil magic is being undone, Zeebad tries to flee from the village in panic, but the magic currents grab him to stop him from getting away and despite Zeebad's efforts to break free, the currents pull him back through the hole of the roundabout roof and through the white light back in his prison.

Zeebad wakes up back in his lava-filled cavern prison to his chagrin and dismay.

Relationships[]

Zebedee[]

Zebedee is Zeebad's sworn enemy and has extreme hatred towards him for magically imprisoning him away to stop him from creating a new ice age. Once released and duels Zebedee again, Zeebad unleashes his wrath and manages to overpower the good wizard, finally managing to get revenge on him for locking him away.

Dougal[]

Dougal became Zeebad's next target for his plan after he accidentally releases him and he soon became his next arch-enemy after abducting him and trying to get information from him. Even though he doesn't interact with Dougal's owner, Florence, he cruelly mocks Dougal's concern for her. Zeebad faces Dougal in the final showdown and loses once Dougal manages to re-imprison the evil ice wizard.

Soldier Sam[]

Sam became Zeebad's henchman and was tricked into serving him. He often abuses Sam with "pain, misery and torment" as his constant companion, though Zeebad at one point saved Sam from falling into the volcano. Unfortunately, Zeebad abandons his former henchman to die which ultimately leads to Sam redeeming himself by remembering his original life and catches up with Zeebad to battle him until Zeebad easily overpowers and kills him.

Abilities and talents[]

  • Magic: Like Zebedee, Zeebad is good at magic, but Zeebad has his own evil magic that produces ice and snow. During the battle with Zebedee, Zeebad uses his mustache to generate icy magic which he uses to overpower Zebedee and trap him in ice.
  • Reanimation: Zeebad can give life to inanimate objects to serve as his henchmen. He did this to Soldier Sam and has him under his spell, but he is unable to take control of his personality or free will.

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Trivia[]

  • Zeebad was created solely for the 2005 animated film adaptation and did not exist in the original series.
  • In the original British and French version of the 2005 film, Zeebad had a sinister and menacing personality whilst in the American dub, his personality was changed to having Zeebad being a comical villain with a sarcastic yet wisecracking sense of humour.
  • Zeebad has some similarities in common with Buxton from Dougal and the Blue Cat
    • Both have blue colour schemes
    • Both have motives of dominion in forms: Buxton plots to take over the garden while Zeebad plans to rule the world once he has frozen it all over.
    • Both have Dougal as their enemy and imprisoned his young owner Florence, who was rescued by Dougal who foiled their respective plans which lead to their defeat. In Buxton's case, he reformed after his title of King was revoked while Zeebad on the other hand cannot be redeemed and was re-imprisoned back to his lava-filled cavern prison.
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