General Scales

General Scales in Star Fox Adventures.
General Scales
Species	SharpClaw
Eye color	Black
Voiced by	John Silke
Debut	Star Fox Adventures

General Scales is the self-proclaimed ruler of Sauria, the Dinosaur Planet, who acts as the primary antagonist of Star Fox Adventures until the ending in which it is revealed that he was manipulated by the true villain, Andross.

Background

Scales was a deadly dinosaur who controlled the SharpClaw Tribe and had designs to conquer the rest of Sauria. He ruled through fear in order to prevent others from uprising and was always seeking more power. At first, his attempts at conquest ended in defeat. However, things changed when a mysterious force aided him in a brutal attack on Krazoa Palace. Scales did not know it, because he was blinded by power, but he was being aided by the spirit of the deceased space tyrant Andross. General Scales was able to break the seals of the Force Point Temples and stole the four SpellStones that kept the planet together. Without it, much of the planet began to split apart.

He had sought the Krazoa Spirits to give him more power, but they were hidden from him within the Krazoa Shrines. Within the game, he was first seen aboard his flying galleon when he had a confrontation with Krystal, whom had come answering a distress call, unaware that he had caused the distress. She then retreated when she found out, but Scales followed her to the Krazoa Palace. Krystal was able to return one of the Spirits to the palace, at which point Scales pushed her into the way of the beam it breathed. This entrapped her in a crystal which channeled the Krazoa energy, which was part of the plan which Andross was presumably subliminally influencing Scales to follow.

The general also began to make war on the various segments of Sauria, in order to conquer them and to hide the SpellStones. However, he needed power from each tribe's GateKeeper to access their respective territories. At the Snowhorn Wastes, Scales confronted the SnowHorn tribe's GateKeeper, Garunda Te, and he offered to let the SnowHorns live if they opened the gate to the DarkIce Mines for him. Garunda refused, but his daughter opened the gate for him instead to protect the tribe. Scales kept his word, but by forcing the SnowHorns to work as slaves in the mines. There, Scales placed one SpellStone in the care of the monster Galdon.

To access the CloudRunner Fortress, General Scales captured both the king and queen of the CloudRunner Tribe, and he used her power to access the fortress. During his time at the fortress, Scales became aware of the "famous Fox McCloud" working against him, as by that point Fox had restored the first SpellStone. He grabbed and interrogated the Queen CloudRunner when she returned to the fortress (as Fox had freed her) about Fox's whereabouts, but Fox then came in person to confront Scales. Scales then had Fox ambushed and captured. Fox escaped and later found Scales again with the second SpellStone. The general entrusted the stone to a pair of SharpClaws on hoverbikes and then teleported away, although Fox was able to take this SpellStone as well.

Scales also captured the King EarthWalker and had him imprisoned within the Walled City, which he sent the RedEye Tribe to overrun due to the King EarthWalker having hidden his GateKeeper power away. He also had one of the SpellStones hidden there under the guard of the RedEye King, but Fox was able to kill the monster to retrieve the SpellStone. Finally, General Scales was shown to have defeated a team of four dinosaurs who rebelled against him. One of them, a Thorntail, was the GateKeeper of Dragon Rock, so it seems that Scales returned him to Thorntail Hollow to open the way to Dragon Rock. Dragon Rock was ravaged by the dark energies into a desolate wasteland, and there Scales experimented on the dinosaurs to turn them into his mutant army, and the ThornTail's three companions were imprisoned there. Scales also placed the last SpellStone there, under the watch of the demonic Drakor.

Despite all of this, Fox was able to defeat all of Scales's underbosses and restored the four SpellStones, which restored all of Sauria save for the Walled City. This would also seem to have ended the war, but General Scales refused to believe this and attacked Fox at the Krazoa Palace while he released another of the spirits. However, before the battle could begin, Andross's voice called out to Scales, whom had been unaware of the spirit's presence all along. It turned out that one of the Krazoa Spirits had been within Scales all along, and Andross's spirit proceeded to rip it from his body, at which point he dropped over while warning (either Fox or Andross's spirit) that he would regret this. While Andross spoke, he had summoned a large amount of SharpClaws which surrounded Scales's fallen form, and during the credits they were seen celebrating while holding up Scales's belt, leading to the assumption that Scales had died or been permanently overthrown.

Trivia

• General Scales was intended as the game's ultimate villain back when the game was known as Dinosaur Planet. It was after the game was altered to Star Fox Adventures that Andross was added into the game as the true villain.
• General Scales has become notorious for the boss fight with him being completely skipped in favor of the Andross boss battle. Rare has since stated in Scribes that this was because they ran out of development time due to Microsoft buying them out, which left them with enough time to focus on only one boss battle.