Sir Beowulf, or Beo for short, is a character from Dominic Barker

Dominic Barker

Dominic Barker is a British children's author.-Biography:Dominic Barker was born in Southport in 1966. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in English and then spent two years as part of a comedy double act before deciding to become a teacher...

's fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 novel

Novel

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 Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World

Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World

bla bla blaBlart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World is a fictional comedy novel by Dominic Barker. It was published in 2006, by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in Great Britain. It tells the tale of Blart, a young boy on a pig farm, who refuses to save the world. The book is largely a...

and its sequel Blart II: The Boy Who Was Wanted Dead Or Alive - Or Both

Blart II: The Boy Who Was Wanted Dead or Alive - Or Both

Blart II: The Boy Who Was Wanted Dead Or Alive - Or Both is the sequel to Dominic Barker's Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World, released in 2007. It was published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.-Plot summary:...

. He is a burly warrior who joins Blart

Blart (character)

Blart is the main protagonist in Dominic Barker's fantasy novels Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World, Blart II: The Boy Who was Wanted Dead or Alive - Or Both and Blart III: The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest. He is lazy, rude, obnoxious, self-centred, negative, critical and...

 and Capablanca

Capablanca (Blart)

Capablanca of the Wizard Order of Caissa is a primary character from Dominic Barker's novel Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World and the sequel Blart II: The Boy Who was Wanted Dead or Alive - Or Both. He also plays a smaller, but equally important, role in Blart III: The Boy Who Set...

 on their quest.

Description

Beowulf is very large and burly (He is described as the biggest person Blart had ever seen). His muscles are easily visible, and he wields a large broad sword. He has black hair that trails to his shoulders and a thin beard. His attire (As seen on the book's cover) appears somewhat barbaric. He also wears wrist gauntlets

Gauntlet (gloves)

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Personality

Beowulf is stern and has a quick temper. For example, when he first meets Blart he tries to kill him because Blart laughs at him when he falls over. He is somewhat clumsy, this probably because of his size. He can be ignorant and doesn't think before he acts. He likes to torture his enemies and finds violence to be the answer to most problems. He has a hunger that could match Blart's and complains when he hasn't had any food. He is very proud and moans when his shiny armor rusts from a previous underwater encounter with shark

Shark

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s.

Beo enjoys singing great bards, but, unfortunately for his companions, he is tone-deaf and his singing is more like wailing.

Beowulf is a warrior, and his one true goal in life is to become a knight. To become a knight, he must kill a dragon

Dragon

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 and present its severed tail to someone of royal stature. He eventually succeeds in severing a dragon of Illyria's tail, angering fellow companion Princess Lois.

Role in Blart

Beowulf joins Blart and Capablanca on their quest in the Jolly Murderers Inn. He is the third member of the party. He seems to have a history with Capablanca and apparently fought by his side against skeleton armies at a battle called the Battle of Longbarrow Hill. He joins them on their quest after a quick conversation.

Beowulf is one of the main reasons that Zoltab

Zoltab

Zoltab is a fictional character, the main antagonist of the novel Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World, by Dominic Barker.-Origin:...

's minions and ministers learn of their quest. He drunkingly tells two undercover minions, Mr. Motte and Mr. Bailey, about their quest and the identities of the company.

While in Illyria, Beowulf sees an entire field of dragons. He kills one and severs its tail to present to the king of Illyria. A furious Princess Lois chases after him in fury but he takes no notice of her. When at the palace, Beowulf is declined a knighting by the overly-peaceful king and queen.

When they arrive one night at a desert, Beowulf (Along with Princess Lois and Pig the Horse) are kidnapped by Zoltab's minions. Beowulf is imprisoned in the tower.

When Capablanca and Blart arrive and the entire company is taken to Zoltab, Beowulf and the others must fight Zoltab's greatest servants: Famine, Disease, Pestilence and Death. Once defeated, before they are all to be immediately executed, Beowulf asks Zoltab to knight him. Zoltab does so, but is defeated before he may kill Beowulf. At the novel's ending, Beowulf is still with the company and full-fledged knight.

Role in Blart II

Beowulf is first seen threatening Uther the Merchant in Murkstan, as Uther had pretended to sell "Blartarina the Shy" (Blart in a red dress) to a young man. He is still on a quest to become a knight, as his knighthood was revoked because of Zoltab's evilness and therefore he could not appoint a good knight. He threatens to cleave Uther in two to save a damsel in distress. He then helps the company to search for Princess Lois and Pig the Horse. Along the course of this he murders two border guards which causes the party to become well known as murderers as well as enemies of the state. He later aids the party when they are trapped by Baron Kilbride, killing many enemy troops. Later he falls into a glacier on Mount Xag and has to have his feet massaged back to life by Blart. He ends up getting the knighthood he deserves.

Trivia

• Although never directly mentioned by the author himself, it is obvious Beowulf's name comes from the epic poem Beowulf
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