History Characters / Elysium

* CluelessBoss: His Secretary of Defense is let her off with an apparent one last chance, letting her know that she's on thin ice before firing her primary agent. So far so good, but he doesn't put her under more scrutiny, letting her start a plot for a coup and rehiring her PsychoForHire merc. Later, his own policies are used against him to let Delacourt run circles around him, and again when it becomes clear that practically '''no citizens of Elysium are subject to law enforcement.'''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He reprimands Delacourt that refugees were meant to be [[PragmaticVillains handled "quietly,"]] rather than very publicly shot out of the sky and beat down in plain view of the citizen. He's also very disturbed by Kruger's instability and bloodthirsty behavior.

* NonActionGuy: Justified in that he's walking with a limp, and he's got plenty of guys who do the fighting for him, such as Max.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In most settings, he'd barely be considered evil at all.

* AlasPoorVillain: She’s an absolute bitch, but when Kruger [[spoiler: brutally murders her, you can’t help but feel at least a small ounce of sympathy for her as she painfully bleeds to death on the floor.]]
* BigBad: The powerful authority figure behind Kruger.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Her reasoning for acting the way she does is to keep the rabble on Earth out of Elysium, no matter how brutal her methods seem. She even warns Patel of this, and when people certainly do break into Elysium later, she points out that she, literally, "told you so".

* NonActionBigBad: Throughout the entire film, she uses Kruger as her personal attack dog to deal with her dirty work.

* SmugSnake: She has absolutely no problem acting like being the leader of Elysium security and the goal to keep the station safe somehow makes her even more important than anybody else living there, and her morality the only "true" moral road worth taking.
* ThinkOfTheChildren: Her apparent justification for killing dozens of refugees and her plans to take over Elysium. She cites [[MamaBear the need to protect her own children]] as why she is willing to take such lengths.

* IronLady: A smug, highly lethal example of this.

* HesitantSacrifice: Throughout the film, Max asserts that he wants to live and make it to Elysium, fearing death whenever it looks bleak for him. He's even willing to hand over the reboot program to Kruger as long as he gets cured. At the end [[spoiler:however he simply accepts that he has to die to upload the program to make Earth's population into Elysium citizens and kills himself.]]

** Perhaps most blatantly, at the end of the film, Max [[spoiler:gives his life so that the rest of humanity, for all its sins and flaws, can ascend to Elysium - a synonym for Heaven - and never worry about aging, poverty or disease again]].

-> '''Played By''': Creator/BrandonAurret (Drake) and Creator/JoshBlacker (Crowe)

-> '''Played By''': Brandon Aurret (Drake) and Josh Blacker (Crowe)

->'''Played By''': Creator/MattDamon

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:To ensure everyone can become a citizen on Elysium, he sacrifices himself to save the day.]]

* IronLady: A smug, highly amoral example of this.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Delacourt is killed by Kruger, the very psycho she hired.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When [[spoiler: Kruger stabs her in the jugular to usurp power for himself,]] she seems to realise just what a monster she has unleashed upon Elysium in an attempt to take it for herself as she [[spoiler: lays bleeding out on the floor. It’s evident only by how she refuses medical attention from Frey, and allows herself to die.]]

* SmugSnake: She has absolutely no problem acting like being the leader of Elysium security and the goal to keep the station safe somehow makes her even more important than anybody else living there, and her amorality the only "true" moral road worth taking.
* TheStarscream: She plans a coup because she feels the current president doesn't have what it takes to lead. [[spoiler:Kruger later kills her in order to seize control of Elysium for himself. Karma's a bitch.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:She confronts a complete psycho like Kruger without any protection or guards.]]

* {{Cyborg}}: When he's stripped down, his chest has some visible metal on him. This makes grafting PoweredArmor onto his body a relatively simple procedure.

* FacialHorror: Takes a grenade to the face and basically ends up with a hole where any facial features should be. Luckily for him, Elysium's med bays are able to fix this, though he arguably comes out of it crazier than ever.

* TheHeavy: Delacourt is physically removed from Earth so Krugar does most of the fighting on her behalf. He relentlessly pursues Max throughout the film and acts as the BigBad in all but name [[spoiler:until he kills Delacourt and becomes it proper]].

* BigBad: Although he answers to Delacourt he's this for the Earth storyline, being [[TheHeavy most direct antagonistic force]] on the planet, while his boss is far removed and [[spoiler:as soon as she questions him, immediately kills her and takes over Elysium itself]].

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Her reasoning for acting the way she does is to keep the rabble on Earth out of Elysium, no matter how brutal her methods seem. She even warns Patel of this, and when illegals certainly do breach Elysium later, she tries to do an "I told you so" to him.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Until Kruger takes over]].
* TheBeautifulElite: Played by Jodie Foster. Very pretty. The plot makes it very clear she deserves whatever is coming to her, and when it happens it's only tragic because it reveals a greater monster.

->'''Played By''': Wagner Moura

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Favours a katana as his melee WeaponOfChoice and uses it quite effectively throughout the film.

* AmbiguousDisorder:

* AmbiguousDisorder: Is so deadpan that even a horrible shuttle crash and being in the middle of a gun battle doesn't phases him, as well as being a high-class germaphobe.

* KnifeNut: Kruger sure does love his blades, such as his [[CoolSword Katana]].

* ThinkOfTheChildren: Her apparent justification for killing dozens of refugees and her plans to take over Elysium.

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Her plan to reboot Elysium's computers with Carlyle's code, appoint herself as President after the reboot, and use her new authority to increase the harshness against immigrants by a greater percentage (even giving Carlyle's company an exclusivity contract to manufacture weapons for their defense for ''the next 200 years''). Would have been this... except that the plot conpires to keep her from executing the plan as she desires. [[spoiler:Mostly by giving her a bad case of Death-By-BullyingTheDragon.]]
%%* WickedCultured

%%* ActionHero
%%* ButtMonkey

%%* {{Determinator}}

* HesitantSacrifice: Throughout the film, Max asserts that he wants to live and make it to Elysium, fearing death whenever it looks bleak for him. At the end this gets [[spoiler:subverted when he simply accepts that he has to die to upload the program to make Earth's population into Elysium citizens and kills himself.]]
%%* TheHero

** His body is literally pierced by metal when he has the exosuit welded to him, leaving him with bleeding stigmata - he is also stabbed in the chest by a soldier at one point, much like Christ and the Lance.
** Much as Christ kept the company of prostitutes and sinners, so Max keeps the company of people considered to be the dregs of society - in this case, thieves and gangsters.
** In a way, he heals the sick - [[spoiler: he ensures that Frey's daughter is cured of her cancer]].

%%* NeuralImplanting

%%* GuileHero
%%* HospitalHottie
%%* MamaBear
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* BadBoss: While he seems amiable enough with his two henchmen who share his love of violence and disregard of others, he's implied to have killed other henchmen in the past on impulse and the first thing they do when he recovers from a severe injury is holding a gun at his face until he calms down.

* DragonInChief: To Delacourt, she has no hope of recovering her stolen data without relying on Kruger, even when the Elysium council advises against due to his unstable personality. He even seems to be a massive part of her defense plan for Elysium since he's the one who shoots down the immigrant space ships attempting to enter. As soon as [[spoiler:Delacourt attempts to reprimand him for his actions, he kills her to pursue Max himself]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: As he's molesting and interrogating Frey, he doesn't want her daughter to view his atrocities. Subverted later, as it turns out that he is perfectly willing to let her die with no remorse.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: In a last-ditch attempt in his FinalBattle with Max, he triggered an explosive and tries to take Max with him, but he fails.]]

* AssholeVictim: She’s an absolute bitch, but when Kruger [[spoiler: brutally murders her, you can’t help but feel at least a small ounce of sympathy for her as she painfully bleeds to death on the floor.]]