Spike is the tertiary antagonist in Flushed Away. He is assumed to be the leader of Toad's henchrats and is Whitey's friend and partner-in-crime.
Fiction[]
Flushed Away film[]
Voice Actor: Andy Serkis
An evil rat desperate to prove himself worthy to the Toad, Spike joined the Toad's henchrats and would become good friends with a stray lab rat named Whitey. The two would then serve the Toad although it would seem that they were kept in the dark about the amphibian's plan to eradicate the population of Ratropolis and repopulate it with his tadpole army. When Rita takes back a ruby the Toad stole from her, Whitey, Spike, and the other henchrats arrive to take it back. Despite her attempts to cloak her ship, the Jammy Dodger, a rat on board her ship named Roddy set off an alarm. The henchrats subdue the two rats and, with a failed interrogation by Spike and an extensive search throughout the ship, are unable to find the location of the ruby. However, Roddy makes a hint that the ruby lies within Rita's back pocket when Spike threatens him with the Persuader and Whitey manages to shake the ruby out of Rita's back pocket.
Congratulating Roddy on his cooperation, Spike lets Roddy roam around the henchrat's ship as they return to the Toad's headquarters. After Roddy meets the Toad, the amphibian gives Roddy a tour of his prized collection of objects he found in the sewer. However, the clumsy rat destroys a numerous amount of the Toad's collection, causing the amphibian to order them to the Icemaker, a gigantic refrigerator that freezes all of the Toad's enemies. Whitey and Spike are sent inside the Icemaker to secure Roddy and Rita inside a glass case where liquid nitrogen would be fired inside to freeze them. However, Whitey shows Spike that he brought his mittens which sends Spike into a tantrum about how he should have the mittens. As the two wrestle for the mittens, Roddy and Rita break free from the chains holding them together using a paperclip and manage to get Whitey and Spike inside the case instead before escaping, freezing the two henchrats instead. Despite being freed from the ice cube from a kick by the Toad, Whitey and Spike fail to stop Rita from taking the Toad's master cable and using it to zipline with Roddy out of the headquarters on a power cord. Attempting to use Spike as the zip-line to continue their pursuit, Whitey's weight causes the power cord to unplug itself from a nearby wall and the two fall towards the river below. Although Spike gives a suggestion to keep their legs straight before hitting the water, Whitey lands safely in the river while his partner crashes onto the pavement next to it, and gets hit by the power cord.
The two continue to pursue Roddy but the rat manages to escape when he jumps off a bridge and lands onto the Jammy Dodger. Later on, the two uncover shards of the ruby in the river, following its destruction in the hands of Roddy, and hand it over to the Toad, who then reveals that the ruby is not a priority and that he wants the master cable Rita stole instead for his plan. The Toad then kicks Whitey and Spike out a window to pursue Roddy and Rita after Spike offers to watch the upcoming World Cup Finals with the Toad. Planning to pursue the Jammy Dodger, Spike announces to his fellow henchrats to get to the Ratmobiles, which turn out to be a bunch of hand mixers, a mousetrap with a motor, and a toaster which electrocutes its owner during the chase. Chasing after the Jammy Dodger, Whitey and Spike, aboard the mousetrap, manage to evade most of the ship's attacks and Whitey is ordered by Spike to launch him onto the Jammy Dodger. However, the ship speeds up, causing Spike to fly backwards, crashing into multiple sewer pipes and objects on the way back and finally slamming back onto the mousetrap, puncturing a hole in it and causing the two to sink.
The two are scolded by the Toad at their second failure to apprehend Roddy and Rita. The Toad then puts the mission into more capable hands while Whitey and Spike attempt to make it up to the Toad by finding replacements for the cable. After a while, Whitey and Spike manage to capture Rita and tie her up in front of the floodgates while the Toad regains the master cable. However, Roddy manages to save Rita by riding a fan with a balloon but gets shot down by the Toad, who uses a stapler. With the pair subdued, the Toad reveals his plan to everyone to unleash the floodgates onto the citizens of Ratropolis using the master cable while they watch the World Cup Finals in the main square, therefore fulfilling his plan on amphibian domination. Busting a nearby liquid nitrogen tube, Roddy and Rita keep the henchrats distracted while they attempt to stop the Toad. Getting knocked into one of the nearby tadpole jars, Spike tries desperately not to be chewed up by the tadpoles while Whitey rushes to save him but to no avail as the dim-witted rat continues to run on a frozen slab on the floor. When the Toad and Le Frog are defeated, Roddy uses the liquid nitrogen tubes to freeze the incoming wave unleashed by the floodgates and is honored as a hero. During the celebration as Roddy and Rita leave aboard the Jammy Dodger II, Whitey states how much he loves happy endings while Spike argues the opposite before being hit into a rupturing wine bottle, which sprays the rat forward and causes him to crash into a nearby wall. Whitey then asks if Spike is happy now.
Flushed Away - The Game[]
When Rita infiltrates the Toad's headquarters to reclaim her ruby, Whitey and Spike, along with other henchrats, keep watch near the Toad's headquarters and later lounge in a room opposite from the room where the ruby is being kept. Despite being cornered when she attempts to escape, Rita manages to escape by attaching her bungie cord to a window on the roof and the force causes her to shoot forward and smash through the window, successfully escaping the two. The duo, along with the henchrats, then pursue Rita and her new partner Roddy through the streets and eventually in the rivers of Ratropolis but are eventually brought down. However, after defeating Le Frog, Roddy and Rita are captured by Whitey and Spike and are brought to the Toad. They are not seen again after that.
Languages w/voice actors[]
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Azerbaijani-???
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Cantonese-???
Catalan-???
Croatian-???
Czech-???
Danish-Jens Jacob Tychsen
Dutch-Ewout Eggink
English (US)-Andy Serkis
English (UK)-Andy Serkis
Estonian-???
Finnish-Niko Saarela
French (Canada)-Philippe Martin
French (France)-Jean-Loup Horwitz
Georgian-?
German-Andreas Frohlich
Greek-???
Hebrew-Gilad Kletter
Hindi-???
Hungarian-???
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Indonesian-Not Dubbed
Italian-Roberto Draghetti
Japanese-Hiashai Izumi
Korean-???
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Lithuanian-???
Malay-???
Mandarin Chinese-???
Mongolian-?
Norwegian-Espen Beranek Holm
Persian-???
Polish-Marcin Perchuć
Portuguese (Brazil)-Cláudio Galvan
Portuguese (Portugal)-Nuno Markl
Romanian-Not Dubbed
Russian-???
Serbian-???
Slovak-???
Slovene-???
Spanish (Latin)-Jesse Conde
Spanish (Spain)-Carlos Di Blasi
Swedish-Ola Forssmed
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Trivia[]
- Spike is sometimes thought to be the secondary antagonist of the film.
- Spike is sometimes argued to be reformed but he most likely did not reform.
- He might not necessarily be evil, but rather insecure due to his small size compared to the other henchrats. This is evident when Whitey comments on Spike's "little hands," where Spike shows obvious frustration and attempts to dismiss the comment, even contradicting his own statements (Changing from "I ain't got little hands!" to "They might be small, but they're lethal weapons, these!").