Osmosis Jones Wiki
Register
Advertisement
Thrax
Thrax
Gender Male
Species Virus
Occupation
Character Info.
Aliases La Muerte Roja/The Red Death
Red
Viral-lookin’ mother
Family
Pets
Friends Joe Cramp
Bruiser
Several gangs of bacteria
Enemies Osmosis Jones

Drix
Leah Estrogen
Mayor Phlemming

Production Info.
Voiced by Laurence Fishburne
Movies Osmosis Jones

Thrax is the main antagonist of Osmosis Jones. He’s a deadly virus coming from a filthy egg. His main goal is to kill human bodies so that he can make a name for himself in the medical books and be named the most deadly disease of all time.

Appearance[]

Thrax is virus-like humanoid with red skin and long purple "hair". He has dull, crooked teeth and yellow eyes with dark yellow sclera. His hands have dark red nails, his index finger (on his right hand) glows orange when he touches something. He dons a black trench coat over a gray turtleneck shirt, black pants and matching feet (or shoes).

Concept and creation[]

Thrax "We-Khan" Concept Artwork

Concept art of Thrax

Thrax’s original design had much more resemblance to a virus. His original name was "We-Khan". Interestingly, his original name is used on the movie summary of the Swedish DVD back cover of Osmosis Jones.

Personality[]

Thrax is extremely disgusting, cold, sadistic, intimidating, callous, murderous,, destructive, pernicious and deadly. He’s shown to lose his temper when things don't go as he'd hoped. Thrax also has no problem deceiving and even killing his own allies.

Thrax also shown his intelligent and manipulative nature. He's knowledgeable about how to take down a human being and while he only mentions three previous victims, the chain made up of trophies from his kills Thrax keeps with him consists of at least 23 links, indicating far more. He was able to use his prior experience to near-lethal effect, making it appear that he was a common cold virus until he attacked Frank's hypothalamus gland.

Background[]

Osmosis Jones (film)[]

Thrax arrives in Frank on an egg that he dropped on the ground at the zoo. The first thing he does is destroy the cells that found him in order to eliminate witnesses, despite the fact that Artie's coworker surrendered. He then sets a saliva boat on fire and causes a sore throat. He then ventures to the left armpit to start a gang to help him take down Frank. After killing the current mob boss, Thrax and his new gang go to the sinus dam to cause a runny nose. After he and the gang escape, Thrax sets up a meeting at the Zit to gather new crew members for the final stage of his plan. There he confronts Ozzy and Drix who are almost successful in killing him. Thrax and two of his cronies survive the explosion at the Zit and set up shop at an old adrenaline station in the ingrown toenail. After Bruiser suggested that they incubate until they can get more men, Thrax kills them and goes by himself to attack Frank's hypothalamus gland. He escapes Frank as his fever quickly climbs to 108 degrees. As he escapes though, Ozzy follows him and they both land and fight on Shane's eye. After a struggle, Osmosis Jones tricks him into jamming his claw into one of her false eyelashes, which falls into a beaker of rubbing alcohol. Thrax falls with the false eyelash and disintegrates. His claw is one of the last things to go.

Victims[]

  • Artie: Killed off-screen (Possibly sucked into the vacuum after death)
  • Artie's Coworker: Killed with Thrax’s nail via a tap on his shoulder, causing his Cellular disintegration to destroy him.
  • Scabies: Sliced into bits by Thrax’s claw.
  • Worker at Frank's nose: Sliced by Thrax's claw.
  • Bruiser and Joe Camp: Killed in an explosion caused by Thrax after angering him.
  • Two Scientists at Frank's hypothalamus: One is thrown into the hypothalamus tube, electrocuting him and causing him to explode while the other is killed off-screen.

Powers and abilities[]

  • Cellular disintegration: Thrax is able to disintegrate living cells or objects using his index claw. Upon contact, the victim starts to disintegrate and glow red, afterwards an explosion happens. If contact is made with an object, cracks start to form and it's set on fire.
  • Super strength and hand-to-hand combat: Thrax is shown to possess great strength as proven when he easily grabbed Bruiser and overwhelmed him and his boss. Thrax is skilled in Hand-to-hand Combat, being able to fight multiple cells at once and even able to overwhelm Jones in terms of strength and endurance.
  • Glider: Thrax is able to use his coat as a glider as a means of gliding to certain areas and even glide to his next human to kill.

Quotes[]

“Careful. I'm Contagious.”

”Think I’ll turn up the heat in ‘ere!”

So. This is where the scum of Frank comes to fester.”

”I’m lookin’ for volunteers, yo. Some nasty germs who want in on a big score.”

”Oh baby, this ain’t about no hustle. This is about the baddest illness any of y’all’ve ever seen.”

"Ebola? Let me tell you something about Ebola, baby. Ebola is a case of DANDRUFF compared to me!"

”You see this? This here little DNA bead comes from a little girl in Riverside, California. Didn’t like to wash her hands. Took me three whole weeks. And this one. Nice lady, Detroit Motown; Six days flat. And then there’s old guy in Philly. I killed him in 72 hours. Yeah, I’m gettin’ better as I go along baby, but the problem is I never set the record! Until my man FRANK, that is. I’m gonna take ‘im down in 48 hours! Get my OWN chapter in the medical books!”

”Well, what do we have here? An officer of Frank’s finest. Somebody lay down a towel, this is gonna be messyyyy…!”

”They’re making this too easy!”

“Y’know in all the bodies I been in, no one has ever gotten wise to me, and now for the FIRST TIME, an Immunity cell has figured out EVERYTHING, and they DON’T believe him! Can you TASTE the irony in that?”

”Medical books aren’t written about losers!”

"Whew. This cat was sick before I even got here."

Hi Baby.”

”If you follow me she dies.”

"Enjoy the funeral, boys!"

“You just don’t know when to QUIT, do ya Jones?”

”You know what, Jones? You want this chain so bad? Big Daddy Thrax is gonna let’chu have it. Looks good on ya, Jones! You wear it WELL! Shame you had to come this far from home just to die.”

”Can you feel the heat, Jones? Too bad you won’t be here to see me break my record, when I take down Frank’s pretty little GIRL.”(final Words)

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • LeVar Burton, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Daniels, Tom Cruise, Edward Norton, Patrick Stewart, Robert Downey Jr., Mike Myers, Chuck Norris, Kurt Russell, Tim Allen, Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Spacey, Dennis Hopper, and Isaac Hayes were all considered to voice Thrax before Laurence Fishburne was cast.
  • Thrax’s name is similar to the disease Anthrax, which is EXTREMELY fatal to humans and has even been used as a biological weapon.
  • During the film, it's possible that Thrax also killed Frank's wife, as Frank lost his wife to an unknown disease.
  • Thrax was referred to as La Muerte Roja, which means The Red Death. However, Thrax differs greatly from the disease from Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe. That disease marked its presence by severe external hemorrhaging and death within hours. Thrax, on the other hand, masqueraded as a cold virus, and according to his boasting in the Zit, the quickest he'd ever killed someone was 72 hours.
  • Thrax is described as a tall, extremely virulent and unusually powerful pathogenic agent.
  • According to Thrax, out of the cells in all the people he's taken down, Osmosis Jones was the only cell who had ever figured out his plan.
  • Interestingly, despite Thrax using his claw to set things on fire, it would appear that Thrax is unable to defrost his claw when frozen, as shown in the fight scene in the uvula.
Advertisement