The criminals and other antagonists from Grandville.
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Knights of the Lion
In General
The Knights are a group of French government officials involved in terrorism, corruption, and trying to restore France to its former glory, through any means necessary.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: They're all high-ranking members of society and members of the French government.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Every single Knight (excluding Reinhardt) is abruptly shot to death in a massive shootout with little fanfare. Even the Emperor only has three lines of dialogue, and one appearance, before he's killed.
- He Knows Too Much: Anyone who was indirectly involved with the Robida Tower attack was murdered to prevent any leaks. And anyone who discovered that they planned on bombing the Paris Opera House was also murdered. Even minor characters who were merely questioned by LeBrock and Ratzi (like Sabrina and Sarah) had to go.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: No one in the Knights even attempts to arrest of bribe anyone who knows about their evil plans. They just have them all killed.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: They claim that they want to restore French society and prevent a revolution. But their plans to do so involving spreading anti-British propaganda, starting a war, establishing a branch of corrupt cops who will kill innocents if ordered to, and committing terrorist attacks on their own country just to turn Britain into a scapegoat.
- The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: By far the biggest one in the entire series. They secretly plan murder and mayhem behind closed doors, and their motivations and schemes aren't revealed until two-thirds of the way into the first volume.
- Smug Snake: Everyone in the Knights is overconfident and believes they can easily cover up whatever crime they commit, thinking that there's no way two lone inspectors can stop them. LeBrock and Ratzi prove them wrong.
- Villain with Good Publicity: They're all members of the French cabinet who were elected into office by French citizens. Everyone in the country loves them and doesn't suspect that they're behind any of the turmoil going on in France.
- Walking Spoiler: The fact that the group is called Lion and not Lyon is a spoiler exposing who the leader of the group is.
Emperor Napoleon XII
The Emperor of France, and the leader of the Knights of the Lion.
- Big Bad: He's the main villain in the first volume.
- The Emperor: Obviously.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The bomb he intended for the Knights to use to destroy the Opera House was used by LeBrock to destroy his house.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: "Holy Mother of—" KABOOM.
- Oh, Crap!: The emperor is visibly shocked when he realizes his plans to bomb the Opera House failed. He's even more shocked when he looks out his window and sees his bomb-loaded dirigible heading right towards him.
- President Evil: He the ruler of France, and by far one of France's biggest enemies, considering he used his power to form the Knights, plan multiple terrorist attacks, and tried to start a war with Britain.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only has a single scene in the volume, but he's behind everything that happened, and is the reason why French and British citizens are currently prejudiced against one another.
- Walking Spoiler: His mere identity is one of the biggest reveals in the series.
Jean-Marie Lapin
The Prime Minister of France.
- Corrupt Politician: He's the Prime Minister of France, and he's also responsible for promoting anti-British propaganda and rigged elections so other corrupt officials would gain government recognition in France.
- Multiple Gunshot Death: His chest is obliterated by LeBrock's massive handgun.
- Oh, Crap!: He understandably looks like he's about to piss himself after LeBrock guns down his allies and realizes he's the only one left.
Claude Reinhardt
The War Minister of France.
- The Brute: He's a rhino, so this is a given.
- Dragon Ascendant: After his comrades and the dirigible pilot are killed, he decides to pilot the dirigible to the Opera House himself, and nearly succeeds.
- Multiple Gunshot Death: Gets shot several times by LeBrock after he bails out the dirigible and opens his parachute.
- Not Quite Dead: He's one of the dozens of casualties shot during LeBrock's rampage at Krupp's estate. As it turns out, he only got shot near the shoulder.
Madame Edna Krupp
A newspaper magnate and arms manufacturer.
- Almost Dead Guy: She's accidentally shot to death and presumed dead, but LeBrock goes over to her body and finds out she's still alive. She lives long enough to expose the Knights' leader.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: She's a well-known arms dealer and she runs a newspaper company. She's also assisting in terrorist attacks and wants to start a war with another country.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Dies while LeBrock is cradling her head, after he presumed she was killed earlier.
- Just Following Orders: Even as she dies in LeBrock's arms, she claims she's just doing what the Emperor ordered her to do.
Bruno Hyen
The Police Chief of Grandville.
- Dirty Cop: He's the corrupt chief of police who used his power to create the Imperial Secret Police Death Squad, a branch of officers that assassinated anyone the Knights needed to be disposed of.
- Heinous Hyena: He's a hyena, and runs a death squad.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only shows up briefly towards the end, but he's the leader of the Death Squad, meaning all the assassins LeBrock and Ratzi face in the first volume were all acting on his orders.
- Smug Smiler: Look at it. He has this expression on his face while he's explaining how he has nothing to do (officially) with the Death Squad's actions.
Archbishop
The Archbishop of Paris who's secretly working with the Knights.
- Ear Ache: LeBrock slices off one of his ears while he's interrogating him.
- Kill It with Fire: LeBrock burns him alive in his mansion after drenching him in wine.
- No Name Given: He's the only member of the Knights whose real name is never revealed.
- Sinister Minister: He's an Archbishop and a devout religious person, yet he's also working alongside a group of government officials who want to start a war with another country, and doesn't care how many innocents have to die so the Knights will succeed.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only shows up to get tortured by LeBrock and Ratzi, but if it wasn't for him, LeBrock wouldn't have known the Knights' motivations, or that they intended on bombing the Paris Opera House so they could start a war with Britain.
Krapaud's Cabal
Baron Aristotle Krapaud
The leader of the cabal trying to restore French society, similar to Napoleon XII.
- Big Bad: For Volume 3, Bête Noire. He's secretly attempting to stage a coup and plans on using his army of automatons to take over Grandville.
- Disney Villain Death: Gets thrown out of his makeshift chopper by LeBrock during the climax.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Krapaud cares deeply for his pet Bubbles, and is traumatized when the toad's accidentally blown up with an explosive in front of him.
- Expy: He's shares many similarities with Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Both of them have zero tolerance for failure, kill their own minions to keep them in line, run a Nebulous Evil Organization, and have their own professional assassin do their dirty work. Both of them are even introduced elegantly stroking their cat (or toad in Krapaud's case).
- Faux Affably Evil: He almost never raises his voice, attends art exhibits, and speaks to everyone in a reasonable manner. He maintains this same casual behavior when he's ordering the deaths of those around him or talking about his diabolical schemes.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Just like Napoleon XII, he's trying to help the country of France. But his methods include staging a coup on the government, killing anyone in his path, and causing wanton destruction with his automatons.
- Smug Snake: Krapaud is a very smart, resourceful toad, but he's far too overconfident and spends too much time gloating about his schemes before victory. And when his plans start to go awry, his first instinct is to cut and run.
- Toad of Wealth and Taste: The Baron's always seen dressed in a swanky suit with a pink rose on it.
- Villain Ball: Near the end of the volume, his guards capture LeBrock and have the badger outnumbered. He has absolutely no reason to keep him alive, but he does anyway because he wants LeBrock to die a slow, painful death and gloat about his evil plans.
- Wicked Cultured: He always dresses nice, has his own art gallery full of paintings, and even has various automatons he uses as instruments of torture.
Krapaud's Secretary
Krapaud's personal aid and assassin.
- Cats Are Mean: He's always frowning and tends to be aggressive towards anyone who so much as approaches the Baron without permission. He's also the Baron's main assassin who's been going around murdering innocents.
- Creepy Hairless Animal: Though he'd be a creep even if he weren't a Sphynx cat.
- Defiant to the End: As he bleeds out on the ground after getting shot in the back by LeBrock, the last thing he does is spit blood in the badger's eye.
- The Heavy: He's the one going around assassinating civilians on the Baron's orders. LeBrock, Rocher, and Ratzi spend half of Bête Noire chasing after him before they realize the Baron's his boss.
- No Name Given: His real name is never revealed.
Isaac
One of the cabal's more reluctant members.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Gets drunk during the Baron's big gallery reveal and tells the Baron he's going to back out of his plans and might try to expose him. Because of this, he's killed not long afterwards.
- The Alcoholic: He's always seen drinking some kind of alcoholic beverage.
- He Knows Too Much: He's murdered by Krapaud's secretary after he starts speaking to LeBrock about Krapaud's schemes.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Supported the Baron without question, up until he discovered that the Baron was willing to slaughter innocents to accomplish his goals. Just as he's about to expose his operation to LeBrock, he's killed.
- High-Class Glass: Wears a monocle wherever he goes.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Dies right as he's about to reveal what Krapaud's cabal plans on doing.
Other Antagonists
Edward "Mad Dog" Mastock
A former British anarchist turned Serial Killer.
- Arch-Enemy: For LeBrock in Mon Amour. He holds a huge grudge against LeBrock for maiming his face and getting him arrested, and he kidnaps Billie and holds her hostage just to make things personal.
- Ax-Crazy: He loves to kill people just because he can, and doesn't mind slaughtering innocents if they get in his way.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first thing he does before facing execution is escape from his straitjacket using concealed weaponry, moments before he guns down dozens of innocents with a nasty smile on his face.
- Eye Scream: His left eye is pale and scarred. Presumably, LeBrock maimed it when he originally apprehended him.
- The Heavy: He's not the main villain of Mon Amour, but he's LeBrock and Ratzi's biggest threat, and his escape from prison is what kicked off the plot.
- Mad Bomber: During his time with the Angry Brigade, he set off bombs that killed innocent men, women, and children. And when LeBrock and Ratzi nearly apprehend him after he's killed a prostitute, he threatens to blow them and himself up with a bomb vest unless they let him escape.
- Multiple Gunshot Death: Billie shoots him several times with a gun he dropped, seconds before he can kill LeBrock.
- Near-Villain Victory: Mastock is one of the few characters in the series who not only completed his objective, but came very close to murdering LeBrock.
- The Pig-Pen: His clothes are disheveled and ratty, and Ratzi mentions more than once that Mastock is an "odious" character.
- Red Right Hand: Mastock's pale left eye (and other facial scars) should be a dead giveaway that he's evil.
- Serial Killer: After leaving the Angry Brigade, Mastock decided to start butchering prostitutes—and goes right back to doing so in Mon Amour.
- Slasher Smile: Pulls off quite a few, as demonstrated in the image.
- Sociopathic Soldier: Used the anti-French rebellion as an excuse to indulge in his homicidal tendencies. Once Britain had regained her independence, he promptly turned to a "career" of being a prostitute-hunting serial killer until caught by LeBrock.
- You Killed My Father: Mastock killed Billie's parents with one of his bombs when he was part of the Angry Brigade.
Prime Minister Harold Neville Drummond
The British Prime Minister and a former Resistance war hero.
- Affably Evil: He's the only major villain in the franchise who wasn't trying to start a war and had a genuine Freudian Excuse. Even after LeBrock catches him, he holds no grudge against LeBrock and surrenders peacefully. Until LeBrock threatens to kill him if he doesn't commit suicide.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's never revealed if Drummond jumped off a skyscraper or if LeBrock threw him off.
- Big Bad: For Volume 2, Mon Amour. He's the one who ordered Brigadier Belier to get Edward Mastock released from prison.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Harold Drummond had a Serial Killer broken out of prison so he could have five prostitutes murdered (with said serial killer murdering dozens during his escape alone). But he did this all so no one would find out that he was behind the Brick Lane Massacre, an event that allowed Britain to keep their independence from France. Contrast this to Emperor Napolen XII from the first volume, who tried to start a war by killing thousands of French civilians all so he could keep the power he already had.
- Cop Killer: He panics and murders two police officers after LeBrock tries to expose him in public.
- Driven to Suicide: It's implied that he jumps off a skyscraper to his death to avoid prosecution.
- Evil All Along: Drummond was behind everything in Mon Amour. He helped Woolf set up the Brick Lane Massacre so that everyone but him would die and he would become Prime Minister (as any of the other resistance leaders would have been a powerful political rival to him in an independent Britain); he was forced by Woolf to confess that he was part of said massacre. When five prostitutes found out about the recording he made, he ordered Brigadier Belier to have Edward Mastock released from prison so he would kill them all.
- I Did What I Had to Do: How he justified leading the resistance leaders into Woolf's trap. He claimed "it was the price of peace," and considering that Woolf allowed Britain to keep their independence, he's not entirely wrong.
- Idiot Ball: When LeBrock exposed Drummond during his inauguration, he immediately steals an officer's gun and kills two police officers in public. Drummond himself admitted that he panicked and wasn't thinking clearly.
- Near-Villain Victory: Drummond was seconds away from gaining presidential immunity, which would've wiped his slate clean of everything he orchestrated in Mon Amour.
- President Evil: Narrowly subverted. He was about to become president of Britain, up until LeBrock and Ratzi spoiled his ceremony and exposed his conspiracy.
- Walking Spoiler: The fact that he's even on this page is a spoiler.
Odo Morse
A clerk who worked at the War Ministry in Grandville.
- Fat Bastard: He's a very fat walrus who murdered Pierre Woolf just to fuel his greed.
- Karmic Death: Morse killed Woolf just so he could steal the money from his safe. The money he stole was then used to buy lots of drugs and alcohol, which resulted in him having a fatal heart attack.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Morse died of a heart attack shortly after killing Woolf. His death is what led to the five prostitutes discovering the recording he stole and subsequently blackmailing Prime Minister Drummond.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Morse was the one who killed Woolf and stole his recording exposing Prime Minister Drummond to the Brick Lane Massacre. The plot for Mon Amour wouldn't have happened if he hadn't stolen it.
- Too Dumb to Live: After killing Woolf and stealing the valuables from his safe, what does Morse do? Get drunk, and spend a lot of his money snorting cocaine and drinking absinthe. Fittingly, he dies of a heart attack.
Pierre Woolf
A former general within the French army and the architect of the Brick Lane Massacre.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Pierre Woolf is a wolf.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Despite playing a huge part in Britain and French history and largely being the one who helped Harold Drummond become Prime Minister, he's Killed Offscreen by some greedy walrus who wanted to steal the contents in his safe.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Woolf was the one who led the Brick Lane Massacre and got several British Resistance leaders killed. He was also the one who forced Drummond into making a confession that he exposed his fellow British comrades, and kept a recording of it in his safe.
- You Killed My Father: Woolf was responsible for the death of LeBrock's father, who was present during the massacre.
Stanley Cray
One of the gang leaders in Britain, and one of the two men involved in the murder of LeBrock's wife.
- Asshole Victim: He's nowhere near as vile as many other villains in the series, but he still helped his brother kill LeBrock's wife and massacred a gangster's entire family, not caring whom he had to kill in order to fuel his vengeance against Tiberius. Hard to shed a tear when he's shot to death by one of Tiberius' assassins.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Cray tries to be a bloodthirsty foe and starts off being LeBrock's only lead in Force Majeure. But he's nothing more than one of several chess pieces Tiberius is controlling.
- Disc-One Final Boss: He's murdered about a third of the way into Force Majeure after spending a good portion of the volume dropping several bodies and coming off as a huge threat.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Cray holds no hostile grudge against LeBrock despite being involved in his wife's murder. At no point in Force Majeure does he target LeBrock or his family (despite knowing LeBrock was assigned to investigate his restaurant's massacre) because he doesn't wanna give law enforcement a justified reason to go back to prison.
- Foil: To Tiberius Koenig. Cray is nowhere near as smart or as level-headed as Tiberius, going well out of his way to slaughter dozens and painting a target on his back in the process. Even after Cray finds out Tiberius is the one behind the attack on his restaurant, his immediate plan is to continue wandering around killing dozens until he gets what he wants. He also holds no grudge against LeBrock despite what he did to his wife, while Tiberius tried to murder Billie and LeBrock's family all to avenge a person he didn't even care about.
- The Heavy: The entire first third of Force Majeure only happened because Cray recklessly murdered gang members who were involved in shooting up his restaurant. As a result, LeBrock and Ratzi ended up following his trail of bodies, knowing full well he was involved.
- Would Hurt a Child: Cray had no problem with killing Harry Feathers' wife and children, one of whom looked no older than ten.
