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- “That's lovely, Kent. But let me try to explain how this works... If you told me you'd found, say, a giant footprint, I might send over an expert to make a plaster cast of it. Hell, you get me a photograph of this thing, I could probably get some troops over there! But you tell me you've got a "feeling"?”
- ―General Rogard to Kent Mansley
General Rogard is the leader of the United States Army forces seen in the 1999 animated film, The Iron Giant. He is the former secondary antagonist and (later turned) the pentagonist of the movie film.
He is voiced by the late John Mahoney.
Rogard furious at Mansley.
Biography[]
General Rogard is the archetypal gruff, no-nonsense career officer who serves as the liaison between the United States Army and the Bureau of Unexplained Phenomena's Kent Mansley. Rogard never tolerates Mansley's paranoia, initially disbelieving the latter's claim of a "giant metal monster" in Rockwell, Maine, and even accuses him of "blowing millions of Uncle Sam's dollars out of [his] butt" after a particular debacle. Though the two are often at odds with each other, when Mansley claims that the monster has killed a child, Hogarth Hughes, and is a clear and present danger, Rogard does not hesitate to use the full power of the military at his command to confront it.
Mansley's claim was a lie, however, and the Iron Giant, after a brief confrontation caused by the activation of its defense mechanism, presented a still-living Hughes as proof of its harmless nature. Rogard quickly orders his men to stand down, but the paranoid Mansley steals the general's radio and initializes a nuclear strike, targeted to the Giant's current position-- at the center of the town of Rockwell. Rogard rages at the whimpering Mansley as the latter realizes that he has doomed not only the town but also himself; he attempts to flee, but is quickly intercepted by the Giant. Though the general seems to accept his imminent fate, he and the town watch instead as the Giant sacrifices itself to stop the missile. Rogard wearily recalls his troops from the town and acknowledges the sacrifice of the "monster" that he had been sent to hunt.
Months later, in the spring of 1958, the General, having returned to work in Washington, D.C., personally sends Hogarth a package containing the only part recovered from the Giant, as he believes Hogarth should have it in honor of the Giant's own sacrifice for the town.
Quotes[]
"Damn it, Mansley. You call me at home for this?"
"You realize how much hardware I've brought out here?! You just blew millions of Uncle Sam's dollars out of your butt!"
"Sweet mother of God."
"All battleships fire at the robot! Now! Now, damn it, now!"
"You scare me Manlsey. You want us to bomb ourselves in order to kill it?"
"That missile is targeted to the Giant's current position! Where's the Giant, Mansley?!"
"There's no way to survive this, you idiot!"
[Mansley: You mean, we're all going to...] "To die, Mansley, for our country."
"Let's go home."
"Are you mad, Mansley?"
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Despite being referred to as a general, Rogard holds the rank of a three star lieutenant general in the army (LTG). [1] He also seems to have some authority over the Navy, considering that ships are launched to the coast of Rockwell and both he and Mansley (using his radio) were able to give the crew aboard orders.
- The pistol General Rogard uses against the Iron Giant is a M1911A1 pistol. [2]
- Jack Nicholson, Jeffrey Tambor, Kirk Douglas, Chris Parnell, Andy Garcia, Tim Curry and R. Lee Ermey were all considered for the role of General Rogard before John Mahoney was cast.
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