Delegate Lion (Delegado Leão in the original Portuguese) is the delegate from the city of Oróz responsible for arresting Didi, Soró, and Tatu. He later joined Didi, Passoura, and Tonel to bring water to the city. Delegate Lion is portrayed by Dedé Santana.
History[]
Delegate Lion, as a punishment to two criminals who invaded Colonel Ferreira's farm and stole his water, he ordered one of them to look at the Sun until he have counted a thousand stars, and the other to have his head down looking at the ground and spinning eight hundred times like a turkey. The teacher Aninha, watching the trial, disapproved of the delegate's behavior, stating that she didn't know how she came to like someone as cowardly as him. Lion retorted that he was just doing his duty, to which Aninha asked him which duty he was doing: that of a delegate or that of Colonel Ferreira’s henchmen. Lion said that he would not be against the colonel, because even the judge was on his side and everyone in the city respected him, to which Aninha replied that it was everyone but her.
Later, at the police station, Lion received a visit from the mayor informing him that criminals had hidden themselves in the school and that he was supposed to go and resolve the situation. Arriving with a troop surrounding the school, Lion threatened Didi and his friends by saying that he would count to five and if they didn’t leave by the end of the count, he would shoot them. Aninha left saying that none of those police officers would enter her school. Lion started counting, stopping at three because he didn't know how to count more than that. Aninha then started making fun of him for dropping out of school to become a delegate. Upon seeing one of the police officers loading his gun, Didi and his friends surrendered.
In response to Aninha’s requests, Delegate Lion agreed to go against the city's customs of immediately starting the trial in a public square and challenged Didi to fight with him, if Didi won he could take his gang and leave the city, but if he lost they they would be judged in the public square. During the fight Didi tried to land several blows on Lion but Lion was very agile and dodged them all. Lion managed to grab Didi and throw him against a window, causing Didi to fall inside the house. Didi took advantage of this, as Lion couldn’t see him, Didi attacked him by surprise with part of the broken window. Lion punched Didi against a wooden stick, breaking him in half. The fight ensued in a stable, Didi punched Lion, knocking him to the ground, and tried to knock him out by hitting him with a cart, but Lion dodged at the last second. Lion tried to get up, but Didi threw a bunch of hay at him, destabilizing him and making him fall. Lion gets up and chases Didi, only for Didi to throw a horse saddle at Lion, knocking him down again. The two exchanged punches again for a moment until they two grabbed a piece of wood each and they did a sword-fighting. Didi hit Lion’s foot with his piece of wood and then his back, throwing him against the wall. Didi grabbed Lion and they started to wrestle. Didi threw Lion into the crowd and grabbed a whip which, in na attempt to attack Lion with it, Lion ended up taking the whip from him. When Lion tried to hit Didi with the whip, he ended up grabbing it and the two of them twirled around each other, ending with Lion throwing Didi into a goat rack, where, avoiding the crowd’s watchview, they stop the fighting to rest. When the crowd moved to see them, they returned to fighting, with Lion grabbing Didi by the neck and punching him in the stomach. Didi grabbed Lion’s arm mid-strike and threw him to the ground. Didi tried to kick Lion in the stomach, but Lion grabbed his leg and threw him into the air, with Didi thinking quickly and using this momentum to do several somersaults. Lion grabbed Didi by the waist and placed him upside down, Didi bit his butt to free himself. Lion threw Didi against the wall and hit him with a stick. Didi then landed a series of punches on Lion, almost knocking him out, but Lion throws a final punch to Didi’s head, knocking him out.
After the trial, the judge decided to arrest Tatu and Soró, and the sentence would only be served if Didi, accompanied by Passoura and Tonel, brought water to the city. To ensure that Didi wouldn’t run away, Delegate Lion decided to go with them. On their journey in search of water, they arrived at a Colonel Ferreira’s farm called Fazenda Olho d’Água. To better infiltrate, they attack four guards and steal their clothes. Using his disguise, Didi gained access to the farm’s water reservoir and knocked Colonel Ferreira into it and as punishment he sent two of his minion monsters to go after them. The four of them fled to a desert where they encountered a mysterious figure: The Beatus of the Desert. When Didi asked him if he knew where to find water, the Beatus replied that there is a sea under the sertão, right in the heart of the earth and that they would find it if they dug or asked to the Wizard of Oróz.
After traveling through the desert, Didi and his friends found the Wizard of Oróz’s house. Surrounding the house, they noticed that it had no door. Didi reasoned that since it was a wizard’s house, he wouldn’t need a door, but a magic word. Didi then uttered the spell: “abracadabra, azeitona de cabra”, which created a hole in the ground, into which they fell, teleporting to the inside of the Wizard’s house. The Wizard, aware of their presence, caused na earthquake and raised his voice, asking who they were and why they had invaded his space. Didi tried to explain himself, but the Wizard was not satisfied with it, saying they mocked him and they deserved to be punished. Looking for a way out the house, they accidentally met the Wizard , he asked them what they wanted, to which Lion answered he wanted to feel no fear anymore. The Wizard lectured him, telling him that fear was another side of courage, it could mean virtue for those who think and walk. Didi asked if they could have a glass of water, to which the wizard said that he had not seen water outside his magic mirror for 300 years. Didi asked why the Wizard didn’t make it rain with his magical powers, to which the Wizard replied that it was because the men promised the people of the sertão that they could plant, they could irrigate water and that it wouldn’t be with prayer, promise, or a charlatan wizard that it would rain in the sertão. The Wizard then told them that na old sertanejo told him the story about a metal monster that, twisting its ear, spurted water through its mouth and that appeared during voting time. The Wizard stated that to find this monster it was necessary to move forward, fighting if necessary, but always losing sensitivity.
While leaving Wizard’s house, Didi and his friends met with Colonel Ferreira. Colonel Ferreira was outraged at them because, in addition to trying to steal his water, they also asked that healer for help. Threatening to kill them, Colonel Ferreira threw a machete towards Didi, hitting the ground a few centimeters from his foot. Didi took the machete and threatened to kill Colonel Ferreira, who revealed he had a second machete. The two began to fight until Colonel Ferreira managed to disarm Didi. Seeing that Didi was in danger, the Wizard sent him a magic bone that allowed him to win the fight. Seeing that the bone given to him made a peculiar noise when brought to the ground, Didi threw it far into the air, causing the bone to grow multiple times its own size. Didi, Passoura, Tonel, and Lion then mounted the bone and flew to the city of Rio de Janeiro, almost crashing into Christ the Redeemer if it weren’t for the Wizard who forced them to land at the base of the statue and made the bone disappear. From there, Didi was able to see the “monster” that spurted water through its mouth, which was actually a giant spigot. They then took bicycles and pedaled towards the “monster”, on the way colliding against a can stack, almost causing a traffic accident, and knocking down a fruit seller’s stall. As soon as they reached the giant spigot, they caused chaos, knocking over the basins that people used to wash their clothes. Didi then pulled out the biggest of the spigots, or the mother as Didi puts it, and asked for help from his companions to be able to carry it back to Oróz. As even the four of them together didn’t have enough strength to take the spigot much further, and the sole of Didi’s old shoe had already come off, Didi asked the Wizard of Oróz for strength and a new shoe. The Wizard then gave Didi a shoe-shaped car that disappeared as soon as they arrived in Oróz. Upon seeing Didi and his friends with the spigot arriving in Oróz, the city celebrated, as they would finally have some water. Much to the city’s disappointment, the four did not expect that the spigot would not work when disconnected from its plumbing and could not supply water, causing the Oróz’s population to revolt against them and the mayor to sentence them to death. Didi convinced his companions to have faith that the rain would fall and save them, so their song of faith miraculously caused rain to fall from the sky and the “monster” finally spouted water from its mouth. (Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (film))