History Characters / District9

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: He speaks Swahili to Wikus, calling him a "mzungu" (meaning "white person") but Nigerians don't speak Swahili.

* AntiHero: Starts off as a ClassicalAntiHero, then evolves into an UnscrupulousHero over the course of the film.

* IdiotHero: At times, and intentional.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He suffers one of the most brutal deaths in the movie -- and he deserves it, too.]]

%%* {{Jerkass}}

* {{Adorkable}}: He has his moments. One of the last scenes in the film is archive footage of him working with the documenters, and he pulls out the little wedding photo of his wife and gushes over her a little bit.
-->"Let me show you my wife...My special angel! She even looks like an angel, with a halo. You want to see that, you see--with the white...the white veil over the...over the head...She even looks like an angel. Everybody insists that his wife is an angel but this is a ''real'' angel that you are seeing there...on the cameras...they won't put that in the video, I know."

* OpposeWhatYouSuffered: Wikus initially does not seem to mind harassing and even killing the aliens [[spoiler:while he is still human]]. It is only later[[spoiler:, when he hasn't only started turning into an alien himself, but has also been treated as less than human and even been experimented upon by humans]] that he starts fighting alongside the aliens, though it is not made clear whether he is truly doing this because he, having suffered the same treatment, now sees it as wrong and fights it for that reason[[spoiler:, or because he still believes he needs to protect the aliens so they can turn him human again]].

* DaddysGirl: Her father is Piet Smit, head of the SMU.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Piet early on declared that he did not promote Wikus because he was his son-in-law. This is revealed to be a lie, but it's implied to be because Piet hoped that Wikus would be humiliated or killed because he was out of his element. [[spoiler: When Piet had Wikus helplessly StrappedToAnOperatingTable, he coldly ordered him cut up and his body dissected and studied without any anesthetic.]]

* AmoralAfrikaner: He tries to vivisect Wikus for the sake of profit. He also turns Tania against her husband for a while (by falsely claiming that Wikus has had sex with a prawn).

* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:He's willing to vivisect his own son-in-law, who's begging for his life.]]
* OffscreenKarma: [[spoiler:It's implied that his company gets investigated for his unethical acts.]]
* OverprotectiveDad: To his daughter Tania, although his idea of protecting her is pretty extreme.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He (and MNU as a whole) have a lot of power and regularly ignore the law and basic rights of Prawns in order to profit off of them.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He suffers one of the most brutal deaths in the movie--and he deserves it, too.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:It's implied that his company gets investigated for his unethical acts, so it may be a subversion.]]

* BadassAdorable[=/=]TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He brutally kills several gangsters to save Wikus. Not a big deal on its own, but he reacts with youthful enthusiasm, even though the deaths are pretty intense..

* AmoralAfrikaner[=/=]CorruptCorporateExecutive: He tries to vivisect Wikus for the sake of profit. He also turns Tania against her husband for a while (by falsely claiming that Wikus has had sex with a prawn).

* DeathByRacism[=/=]KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He is surrounded by the aliens he spent most of the film abusing, and [[TheDogBitesBack torn limb from limb]]]].

* EvilCripple[=/=]HandicappedBadass: He hasn't let being confined to a wheelchair stop him from running a gang of brutal arms dealers.

%%* ActionSurvivor

%%* AndThenJohnWasAZombie:[[spoiler: See KarmicTransformation.]]

%%* BreakTheHaughty

%%* ChewToy
%%* {{Determinator}}

%%* GoodIsNotNice
* FireForgedFriends: With Christopher, by the end.

%%* LargeHam

%%* NobleBigot
%%* NotSoDifferent

%%* BreakTheCutie
%%* ChewToy

%%* {{Determinator}}
* FireForgedFriends: With Wikus, by the end.

%%* SomeCallMeTim

* MessianicArchetype: Just switch the initals of Christopher's name.

%%* ScaryBlackMan

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* EvilGloating: Stops several times before killing prawns to taunt them. [[spoiler:Ends up saving Wikus, who would have died if Koobus had just shot him instead of stopping to inform him that he was going to die.]]

* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: He is a different color from the rest of the prawns (green) and he is clearly more intelligent and driven than the rest of them. It's implied that he's likely from a different caste than them and that the rest of them are drones, similar to an ant colony.

* HairTriggerTemper: Bursts into a violent fit of rage in his first scene when Wikus suggests he wear body armor and precedes to yell at the cameraman for filming him.

* GoodIsNotNice: He would've been a fully-fledged villain if he is completely obsessed with keeping law and order.

* PapaWolf: To Little CJ.

* ChildProdigy: Helps his father in his research. [[spoiler: Plus, he's the one who activates the mothership.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: He's willing to vivisect his own son-in-law, who's begging for his life.

* OhCrap: When Wikus uses the Prawn weapons.

%%* ApologeticAttacker

%%* CharacterDevelopment

%%* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney

%%* DatingWhatDaddyHates

%%* MoralityPet: For Wikus.

%%* HairTriggerTemper

%%* AxCrazy
%%* CreepyMonotone

%%* RuthlessForeignGangsters

%%* HappilyMarried
%%* HeroWithBadPublicity

%%* SirSwearsALot

* CreepyGood - For all that he looks like a prawn, Christopher is arguably the wisest and most moral character in the film.