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[[folder:Maxwell Roth]]
!!Maxwell Roth
!!!"The Treacherous Gangster"
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-->''"London's Criminal Mastermind"''
-->'''Voiced by:''' John Hopkins

-->'"'When the world is full of nasty things, we must tear those things apart."''

The leader of the Blighters and Starrick's head figure in gang warfare. Notably, he is ''not'' actually a Templar, but is closely associated with them anyway.

* {{Foil}}: Aside from being an EvilCounterpart to Jacob he's this to [[TheDragon Lucy Thorne.]] Both work for Starrick, are important figure within his empire with Thorne leading the search for the Shroud of Eden, and Roth running the Blighter's gang on Starrick's behalf, have AxCrazy tendencies, and have personal beef with the Frye twins, Evie and Jacob respectively. However Lucy Thorne has UndyingLoyalty towards Starrick and carries out his orders until she death, while Maxwell Roth is TheStarscream towards Starrick because he hates taking orders.

The leader of the Blighters and Starrick's head figure in gang warfare.

* {{Foil}}: Aside from his EvilCounterpart with Jacob he's this to [[TheDragon Lucy Thorne.]] Both work for Starrick, are important figure within his empire Thorne leading the search for the Shroud of Eden, and Roth running the Blighter's gang on Starrick's behalf, have AxCrazy tendencies, and have personal beef with the Frye twins, Evie and Jacob respectively. However Lucy Thorne has UndyingLoyalty towards Starrick and carries out his orders until she death, while Maxwell Roth is TheStarscream towards Starrick because he hates taking orders.

* {{Foil}}: Aside from his EvilCounterpart with Jacob he's this to [[TheDragon Lucy Thorne.]] Both work for Starrick, are important figure within his empire Thorne leading the search for the Shroud of Eden, and Roth running the Blighter's gang on Starrick's behalf, have AxCrazy tendencies, and have personal beef with the Frye twins, Evie and Jacob respectively. However while Lucy Thorne has UndyingLoyalty towards Starrick and carries out his orders until she death, Maxwell Roth is TheStarscream towards Starrick because he hates taking orders.

* {{Foil}}: Aside from his EvilCounterpart with Jacob he's this to [[TheDragon Lucy Thorne.]] Both work for Starrick, are important figure within his empire Thorne leading the search for the Shroud of Eden, and Roth running the Blighter's gang on Starrick's behalf, have AxCrazy tendencies, and have personal beef with the Frye twins, Evie and Jacob respectively. However while Lucy Thorne has UndyingLoyalty towards Starrick and carries out his orders until she death, Maxwell Roth is TheStarscream towards Starrick simply because he hates taking orders.

* VillainSong: Does a cover of "Then you'll remember me" from the opera, "The Bohemian Girl".

--> '''Roth''': I can do whatever I want!

* PsychopathicManchild: He is a mentally unstable gang leader who rebels against Starrick just because he hates taking orders. There is also this bit when [[spoiler: Jacob tries to persuade him into not blowing of the factory full of children]] Roth's response

* PsychopathicManchild: He is a mentally unstable gang leader who rebels against Starrick just because he hates taking orders.

-->'''Elliotson:''' (''after killing a patient with what appears to be some kind of corkscrew'') As you've just witnessed, the application of too much pressure can sometimes result in... [[WorstAid unexpected outcomes]]. Unfortunately, [[{{Understatement}} it appears I have ruined the organ]].

* LoadBearingBoss: His empire and reach is so intricate that Jacob and Evie can't attack him without causing chaos in the transportion, medical and banking sector. Jacob realizes this too late when he finds out that [[spoiler:crippling Starrick's business permanently would require him to burn down quarters that house his child workers]].

* TranquilFury: She only raises her voice on two occasions (the first mission and her [[spoiler:white room confession]]), but she's decidedly good at keeping calm when angered. Just hear her say, "He thinks he can burn my buses?" or her "unbecoming" speech shown above.

-->''"...with terrifying results"''

-->''"Owns all transportation, the ebb and flow of the city's traffic at her fingertips"''

--> '''Attaway''': I have sacrificed so much! I don't want to lose my buses.

--> '''Attaway''': It's business, Mr. Frye. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo One does what one must]] to come out on top.

--> '''Attaway''': Unbecoming?! I've had to hear that odious word dribble from men's lips all my life. Refusing to marry is unbecoming. Refusing to allow a man to conduct my affairs is unbecoming. How unfortunate that I didn't accept your hand in marriage all those years ago. How easy things would be for you now. The omnibuses would be yours by right and [[StayInTheKitchen I would be at home, acting as hostess to your guests]] instead of standing here being so... unbecoming!
--> '''Starrick''': It [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint always ends this way with you]], Pearl. I wish it were not so.

--> '''Twopenny''': Do I steal you now, or wait until the moment is more opportune?

--> '''Twopenny''': I say [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids we stop this goodwill toward strangers nonsense]] and focus on what London really needs, solid leadership whose hard work will raise everyone up to success. As go the titans of business, so goes the world.

--> '''Twopenny''': [[KillThePoor Those animals]] squander their savings. [[ItsAllAboutMe We are the experts in investments. Nothing would be built or improved, nothing would rise above the muck without our hand guiding - no, creating - the future]]! They [[TheSocialDarwinist benefit as much as their worth]].

!!James Brudenell

-->''"Crippled the masses to grow their fortunes"''

-->''When the world is full of nasty things, we must tear those things apart.''

--> '''Roth''': I've had my eye on you for some time. I find your... heroics in battling the great Crawford Starrick quite magnificent.
--> '''Jacob''': I've been picking off your soldiers one by one, doesn't that make you angry?
--> '''Roth''': On the contrary. Surprise is the spice of life! Now, Mr. Starrick, that's a different story. I'm drowning in directives, all terribly boring. Let's say we work together and bring him down?

The various leaders of the Blighters that control the districts of London.

-->''"Regulates the industry with a steel rod and an iron fist"''

--> '''Ferris''': You Assassins can circle London to your heart's content. The mechanism we have built has been going strong for a hundred years, and will run a thousand more. It is the very city itself.
--> '''Jacob''': [[BringIt We will take London]] from your hands.
--> '''Ferris''': From Croydon? You lurk in the shadows, like a coward. I doubt it.

!!David Brewster

-->''"David Brewster and Dr. John Elliotson push science and medicine to their very limits..."''

--> '''Brewster''': We fight to gain what we cannot take with us. It's in our nature.

--> '''Brewster''': It's God's Apple...I will display it in public! Darwin will be vanquished, banished in shame to the blasted Galapagos to roost with his beloved finches.

* {{Badass}}: Not as much as some of the pre-Revolutionary Grandmasters, but he's at least decent. Pickpocketing a Master Assassin is no small feat, and [[spoiler: in the final battle]] he's able to at least put up a competent fight against Jacob, Evie, and [[spoiler: Henry]] in hand-to-hand, though he's clearly not in their league and would have been killed in seconds if not for [[spoiler: the Shroud of Eden's regenerative powers]].

* {{Badass}}: She genuinely can throw down against Evie and occasionally gain the upper hand in a fight. She also manages to somehow escape a 100 foot fall without a single haystack in sight.

* {{Badass}}: Paints himself to be a major one, lamenting how [[spoiler:after surviving the Crimean War and several hunting trips in India, he finally fell to the Assassin's blade, in Parliament no less]]. Of course, Brudenell is an UnreliableNarrator and when Jacob comes for him, he's cowering in a corner behind several guards.

--> Voiced by: Kris Holden-Ried

* ForegoneConclusion: He died in February 1868.

* {{Understatement}}: Following killing a patient during a surgical procedure in an operating theater.
--> ''"Unfortunately, it appears I have ruined the organ."''

* {{Expy}}: He's one for William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting, as played by Creator/DanielDayLewis in ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', especially apparent in the Alhambra sequence, which borrows from Satan's Circus. He also borrows more than a few cues from SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker with his ForTheEvulz personality and theatricality.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Averted. [[spoiler: After Jacob assassinates his cousin Pearl, Starrick explicitly rejects engaging in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, reasoning that doing so would make him no better than the Assassins themselves. Lucy still convinces him to have her kill the Fryes, as long as it's done discretely.]]

* GenreSavvy: Also doubles as an EstablishingCharacterMoment. Upon seeing Jacob approach her, Attaway expects he is going to murder her. [[spoiler:Later during her discussion with Starrick, she reveals she knew Jacob was an Assassin, but ''Jacob'' didn't know she was a Templar, so she took the opportunity to use him for her ends.]]

Crawford Starrick's second-in-command, Thorne is an occultist in charge of hunting for Pieces of Eden located in England, with her current focus being on the Shroud of Eden.

--> '''Brewster''': It's God's Apple...I will display it in public! Darwin will be vanquished, banished in shame to the blasted Galapagos to roost with his beloved bitches.

** He could also be seen as one for Majd Addin from the ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI''. Like Addin, Roth is a TokenEvilTeammate in a group of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] whose only reasons of for his actions are ForTheEvulz