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* CompleteMonster:
** The {{sadist}}ic Nicolai Itchenko, aka [[TheHeavy Teddy Rensen]], is the DragonInChief for Vladimir Pushkin. A "sociopath with a business card" who oversees the mob's many gruesome trades, including [[HumanTraffickers that of human beings]], [[AxCrazy Teddy]] regularly murders people for little reason at all; he got on the FBI's list by sending them two dead cops with their own testicles shoved in their mouths, then follows this by beating an Irish mobster to death to "send a message" and strangling Alina's friend to death. Teddy has no issue trying to murder almost a dozen of Robert's colleagues and friends purely to bait him out, either.
** [[WouldHurtAChild Slavi]] is a pimp in the employ of Vladimir Pushkin and an especially revolting StarterVillain for Robert [=McCall=]. Slavi raised a girl named Alina as a prostitute from the time she was a little girl, raping her himself whenever he's not turning her over to others. When Robert inspires Alina to fight back, Slavi beats her half to death and muses next time he'll cut her throat--"maybe a whore who fucks and doesn't speak will make twice as much." Even an offer of nearly ten grand isn't enough to sway Slavi from his vile hold on Alina.

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* CompleteMonster:
** The {{sadist}}ic Nicolai Itchenko, aka [[TheHeavy Teddy Rensen]], is the DragonInChief for Vladimir Pushkin. A "sociopath with a business card" who oversees the mob's many gruesome trades, including [[HumanTraffickers that of human beings]], [[AxCrazy Teddy]] regularly murders people for little reason at all; he got on the FBI's list by sending them two dead cops with their own testicles shoved in their mouths, then follows this by beating an Irish mobster to death to "send a message" and strangling Alina's friend to death. Teddy has no issue trying to murder almost a dozen of Robert's colleagues and friends purely to bait him out, either.
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CompleteMonster: [[WouldHurtAChild Slavi]] is a pimp in the employ of Vladimir Pushkin and an especially revolting StarterVillain for Robert [=McCall=]. Slavi raised a girl named Alina as a prostitute from the time she was a little girl, raping her himself whenever he's not turning her over to others. When Robert inspires Alina to fight back, Slavi beats her half to death and muses next time he'll cut her throat--"maybe a whore who fucks and doesn't speak will make twice as much." Even an offer of nearly ten grand isn't enough to sway Slavi from his vile hold on Alina.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: The bearded henchman in the climax, as he is notably the only character in the entire series to actually give [=McCall=] some trouble as well as put up a rather decent fight.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Much like the theory that [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Number Six]] is [[Series/DangerMan John Drake]], it's possible that Robert [=McKall=] is really an older Series/{{Callan}} who got out of the spy game and decided to atone for his misdeeds.

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Much like the theory that [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Number Six]] is [[Series/DangerMan John Drake]], it's possible that Robert [=McKall=] [=McCall=] is really an older Series/{{Callan}} who got out of the spy game and decided to atone for his misdeeds.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Much like the theory that [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Number Six]] is [[Series/DangerMan John Drake]], it's possible that Robert [=McKall=] is really an older Series/{{Callan}} who got out of the spy game and decided to atone for his misdeeds.
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** '''Robert [=McCall=].''' Holy shit. This man is pushing sixty, but fully capable of killing people with the contents of a room, finding out virtually everything about you, and will destroy everything you have if you don't listen to him. Thank God he's one of the good guys and he only does this shit to ''really'' bad people who hurt and abuse others.

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** '''Robert [=McCall=].''' Holy shit. This man Robert [=McCall=] is pushing sixty, but fully capable of killing people with the contents of a room, finding out virtually everything about you, and will destroy everything you have if you don't listen to him. Thank God he's one of the good guys and he only does this shit to ''really'' bad people who hurt and abuse others.



*** As well deserved as it is, Slavi's death is this trope, not because of how he was killed, but his last moments when Robert coldly tells him how this all could've been avoided by just leaving Alina alone, and now, he's going to die on the floor while she lives another day. Then, the audience gets a POV view of Slavi's vision blurring as Robert counts down his last seconds.

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*** ** As well deserved as it is, Slavi's death is this trope, not because of how he was killed, but his last moments when Robert coldly tells him how this all could've been avoided by just leaving Alina alone, and now, he's going to die on the floor while she lives another day. Then, the audience gets a POV view of Slavi's vision blurring as Robert counts down his last seconds.

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