General Mandible is the main antagonist in the filmAntz, voiced by Gene Hackman. He is the leader of the soldier ants who envisions a colony as being inhabited by only the "strong elements", and seeks to fulfill the vision by sending theQueen Ant's most loyal soldiers on a suicide mission to fight Termites and having the workers dig a tunnel to their own deaths. He also wishes to marry Princess Bala and make her his queen as well as the mother of thousands of larval children (the aforementioned "strong elements"), but she ultimately calls off the wedding and rejects him after becoming suspicious of his plans. He is killed by falling to his death on a root at the near-end of the film.
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