Fantastic Beasts: Ranking Every Character From Worst To Best

11. Swooping Evil

Swooping Evil Fantastic Beasts
Warner Bros.

Swooping Evil is basically Newt Scamander's Swiss Army Knife, protecting him in open battle, representing a sort of danger yo-yo when needed (because of course no magical police would remove dangerous creatures from the person of a criminal known to be carrying dangerous creatures), and providing a ready made McGuffin.

The creature doesn't have any real personality, it's not cute in any tangible sort of way, but it's a resilient, useful little figure and it does look the part. That name is a little iffy though - particularly as Newt gives all the rest of his creatures nice sanitising names.

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