Baron Dante

Baron Dante is a wizard who looks like (and possibly is) a frog. He is also the main villain of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Croc 2. He seeks to capture the Gobbos and kill Croc to conquer the Gobbos' island. He has small, devil-like henchmen named Dantinis, which aid him on his quest to rule the island as well. He is similar to Bowser.

Video game appearances
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
In the original Croc game, Dante is first seen in the intro when he and his henchmen, the Dantinis, invade the Gobbos' island and captures them, including the Gobbo King. He is then seen in all of the introductions every boss fight in which he transforms innocent, little animals like ducks, ladybugs, fish, penguins and other creatures into fighting machines to prevent Croc from getting to his island. However, every single one of them has failed to do so, and Dante was forced to fight Croc himself, three times as a matter of fact. After his defeat in round three, the evil Dante screamed a death cry, spun around, and disappeared just like that, leaving Croc to rescue the Gobbo King. However, once Croc recovers the eight hidden jigsaw pieces scattered across the islands, and reveals the secret fifth island, Dante is revived as a crystaline monster that Croc must fight again. Upon defeat, he shatters into many crystal fragments, and Croc keeps one to prevent his revival (this may be responsible for his missing eye in Croc 2).

Croc 2
In the introduction of Croc 2, we see a Gobbo scientist stumble onto a ritual held by the Dantinis that has somehow resurrected the evil Baron. Dante tries to kill Croc by hiring a pirate, creating a lava monster and sending out a fire-breathing, robotic dinosaur. Again he faces his nemesis, Croc, on a mountain called Dante's Peak. The second time, Croc fights Baron Dante in his castle but, thanks to the Professor Gobbo, they open a black hole and Dante gets killed by getting sucked in there.

Game Boy

On the Game Boy Color version of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Croc fights Dante and kills him.

On Croc 2 Croc fights Dante twice in a temple. On Fight No.1, Croc throws barrels at him. Then, Dante faints and Croc meets his mother, but Dante wakes up again and they fight again. When Croc defeats Dante, Dante shouts " I don't forgive you!!" and gets sucked into a white vortex.

Theme music
The theme song of Baron Dante consists mainly of an organ and is heard in the intro when he invades Gobbo Island, when he fights Croc in round two, and when Croc fights him once more as the Crystal Baron on the secret island.

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