Little is known about the Hooded One. For a mysterious reason, yet to be revealed, The Hooded One has an obsessive fixation on Phoney Bone. Implementing Kingdok as field commander, The Hooded One has mobilized battalions of thousands of Rat Creatures in the search for "the one who bears the star." Still, the Hooded One is not totally autonomous. He too must answer to a higher power--the enigmatic Lord of the Locusts.