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* {{Deuteragonist}}" {{Deuteragonist}}: Of ''Sloosha's Crossin'''. Zachry is the viewpoint character, but the story revolves around Meronym's quest. In the book, she is implied to be the reincarnation of the other protagonists instead of Zachry.
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* BaldOfAwesome: His older self.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: He may very well just be a hallucination, a product of Zachry's psyche and possibly chronic usage of mind-altering herbs. However, the fact he throws Dr. Goose's motto back at Zachry, even saying it's something he's often said before, raises the possibility he's the real deal.
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* EtherealWhiteDress: Wears white to emphasize her mysterious, otherworldly nature. Her knowledge of history and technology gives her a connection to the past that seems almost magical to Zachry's less advanced culture. And of course, she's implied to be a reincarnation of all the past protagonists of the book.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}" Of ''Sloosha's Crossin'''. Zachry is the viewpoint character, but the story revolves around Meronym's quest. In the book, she is implied to be the reincarnation of the other protagonists instead of Zachry.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Zachry at the end of thestory.film.]]
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* [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Sufficiently Advanced Human]]: SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: A variant. She and her people are human, but are so far advanced in terms of technology compared to Zachry's that they may as well be alien. She has all the technology required to move the plot forward.
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* [[HighPriest High Priestess]]: She seems to function as this to her tribe, who worship Sonmi like a god.
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* [[HighPriest High Priestess]]: HighPriest: She seems to function as this to the religious leader of her tribe, who worship Sonmi like a god.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:We never know what happened to her after the cannibals attacked. It would be safe to assume that she died along with the rest of the villagers.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:We We never know what happened to her after the [[spoiler:the cannibals attacked. It would be safe to assume that she died along with the rest of the villagers.]]
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--> '''Old Georgie''': ''You ain't let go of that rope cuz you were lustlin' for that darky sweet meat!....meat!... You judissin' your kin for a piece of '''ass'''''!
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* TheAtoner: For allowing his brother-in-law and nephew die without trying to save them.
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* EyeColourChange: During her "auguring" of Zachry's fate, cycling from her natural light brown to blue, then green, then finally an Asiatic nut-brown -- presumably, Sonmi's.
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-->''"Lonesome night. Babbits bawlin', wind bitin' the bone. Wind like this full of voices. Ancestry howlin' at you, yibberin' stories. All voices tied up into one. One voice different, one voice whisperin' out there, spyin' from the dark. That fangy devil Ol' Georgie hisself. Now you hear up close and I'll yarn you about the first time we met, eye to eye."''
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** BadassBeard: He has a pretty decent one going on and when we see him as an old man, sports a pretty big and awesome one.
** BadassNative: From the indigenous populations that try to survive in Hawaii after the Fall, that is.
** TookALevelInBadass: From DirtyCoward who always tried to avoid the Kona to capable {{Badass}} when he is forced to fight them.
** BadassBeard: He has a pretty decent one going on and when we see him as an old man, sports a pretty big and awesome one.
** BadassNative: From the indigenous populations that try to survive in Hawaii after the Fall, that is.
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* {{Badass}}: The best example of all stories besides Hae-Joo.
**BadassBeard: He has a pretty decent one going on and when we see him as an old man, sports a pretty big and awesome one.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He ends up escaping the island with Meronym, goes to an offworld colony and winds up HappilyMarried with her.]]
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* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler: The wound across his eye from the second fight with the Kona is still there in his old age]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: From DirtyCoward who always tried to avoid the Kona to capable {{Badass}} when he is forced to fight them.
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-->''"All true. But they got somethin' else. A hunger in their hearts, a hunger that's stronger than all their Smart."''
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!Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After (2321)
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!!Zachry Bailey
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Zachry_23.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Old Uns got the Smart. They mastered sick and seeds, they make miracles and fly across the sky."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomHanks
A Valleysman who helps Meronym find something that's hidden on the island where he and his tribe live.
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* TheAtoner: For allowing his brother-in-law and nephew die without trying to save them.
* {{Badass}}: The best example of all stories besides Hae-Joo.
** BadassBeard: He has a pretty decent one going on and when we see him as an old man, sports a pretty big and awesome one.
** BadassNative: From the indigenous populations that try to survive in Hawaii after the Fall, that is.
** TookALevelInBadass: From DirtyCoward who always tried to avoid the Kona to capable {{Badass}} when he is forced to fight them.
* BaldOfAwesome: His older self.
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: In the film only--in the book, it is Meronym who has the birthmark, and is the only one of the stories' protagonists who does ''not'' appear to be the reincarnation of the previous one. Especially meaningful as towards the end of his life he insists to his children that Meronym is Sonmi reborn, which she very well could be.
* CoolOldGuy: When it cuts to him telling his story.
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* DirtyCoward: During the first Kona ambush, following Old Georgie's "true-true" advices.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Old Georgie accuses him of this when he's helping out Meronym.
--> '''Old Georgie''': ''You ain't let go of that rope cuz you were lustlin' for that darky sweet meat!....You judissin' your kin for a piece of '''ass'''''!
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: He ends up escaping the island with Meronym, goes to an offworld colony and winds up HappilyMarried with her.]]
* ExactWords: The Abbess tells him never to slit the throat of a sleeping enemy. [[spoiler: So when he finds a Kona asleep in his house, he slits his throat as soon as he wakes]].
* EyePatchOfPower: He gets one of these near the end of his story.
* FacialMarkings: Like most people in his tribe.
* FirstNameBasis: Save for Abbess referring him by his full name when he freaks out over a dream, his last name is almost never used.
* GutturalGrowler: In his older age, Zachry has developed this.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Meronym, at the end.]]
* HearingVoices: Courtesy of Old Georgie.
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* PapaWolf: Fiercely protective of his niece, as she's a reminder that he could have saved her brother and father but didn't.
* ThePatriarch: He's a respected elder and his niece and sister clearly defer to him. [[spoiler: Later, he and Meronym have several grandchildren]].
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* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler: The wound across his eye from the second fight with the Kona is still there in his old age]].
* TheStoryteller: He tells his story and several others to a group of children gathered around a fire.
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler: His sister and the rest of the tribe are killed, leaving him and his niece alive. He's more than a little unhappy about this]].
* WastelandElder: He's an elder of a post-apocalyptic tribe of people living on the Hawaiian islands.
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[[folder:Meronym]]
!!Meronym
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Meronym_1229.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"All true. But they got somethin' else. A hunger in their hearts, a hunger that's stronger than all their Smart."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Halle Berry
An ethnologist from the most advanced human civilization left after the Fall.
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* ActionGirl: She can more than hold her own in a fight.
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* BirthmarkOfDestiny: In the book, and she's the only one of the comet-marked that isn't the protagonist of her story. In the film, the birthmark is given to Zachry.
* CoolOldLady: [[spoiler: In the epilogue.]]
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Zachry at the end of the story.]]
* MartialPacifist: She believes in peaceful resolutions, but will resort to violence if necessary.
* MeaningfulName: Her name means "a part of something referred to a whole".
* PerfectPacifistPeople: The Prescients are this.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: [[spoiler:With Zachry at the end.]]
* [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Sufficiently Advanced Human]]: She has all the technology required to move the plot forward.
* WomanInWhite: To emphasize her mysterious, otherworldly nature.
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[[folder:Old Georgie]]
!!Old Georgie
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Old_Georgie_1707.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Ain't no blade can protect you from the True-True!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/HugoWeaving
If Sonmi is God to the Valleymen, Old Georgie is the devil. He is said to exist atop Mauna Kea, which is, in turn, a feared spot for the Valleymen. He appears regularly as a vision to Zachry. He is dressed in old, ruined black clothes and top hat, reminiscent of the dress worn by Adam in the opening scene of ''The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing''. Zachry believed that Old Georgie was the one who "tripped the Fall" before being corrected by Meronym.
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* [[GoodAngelBadAngel Bad Angel]]: To Zachry.
* TheCorrupter: He continuously encourages Zachry to do the wrong thing, as it's the easy way out.
* DarkIsEvil: He's dressed head to toe in black, and is pretty much the devil.
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* EvilIsHammy: Big time.
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* GodInHumanForm: Possibly.
* HearingVoices: How Zachry describes him.
* NiceHat: A top hat, even if it is ruined.
* ObviouslyEvil: Can't get any more obvious than green skin, black outfit, and a hideous face.
* SharpDressedMan: His battered suit is a subversion, and marks him out as a specifically post-apocalyptic version of the Devil.
* SpiritAdvisor: Of the Evil sort, naturally. [[spoiler: He eventually starts to disappear when Zachry almost stabs Meronym, and when the Kona clan are chasing after Zachry, he appears to mess with him. Zachry ignores him and he is never seen again]].
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Zachry describes his voice as like this.
* [[WallCrawl Wall Walk]]: While Meronym and Zachary are climbing a wall, he approaches Zachry with ease despite being on the vertical.
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!!Abbess
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Bridge'a'broken, hide below, Hands'a'bleedin', can't let go, enemy sleepin', don't slit that throat."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Susan Sarandon
A well-regarded spiritual leader within Valleysmen.
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* FacialMarkings: Has them.
* [[HighPriest High Priestess]]: She seems to function as this to her tribe, who worship Sonmi like a god.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: We never know what happened to her after the cannibals attacked. It would be safe to assume that she died along with the rest of the villagers.]]
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!!Rose
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->'''Played By:''' Zhou Xun
Zachry's sister, who loses her husband during a raid by the Kona tribe.
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* FacialMarkings: Has them.
* PuppyDogEyes: Her eyes are big and pleading.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: She's among the many victims of the Kona attack. Zachry is absolutely devastated at her death]].
* {{Yellowface}}: Inversion. Chinese Zhou Xun plays a (presumably) white woman.
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[[folder:Kona Chief]]
!!Kona Chief
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->'''Played By:''' Hugh Grant
The Chief of the savage, cannibalistic Kona tribe.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The most powerful Kona warrior and their leader.
* BarbarianTribe: Leads the cannibalistic Konas.
* BigBad: Of ''Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After''.
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* CannibalTribe: See above.
* ImAHumanitarian: He even has fingers on his clothes as ''decorations''.
* KarmicDeath: See SlashedThroat.
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%%KubrickStare
%%ObviouslyEvil: Seriously. Just ''look'' at this guy.
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%%TheSavageIndian
* SkullForAHead: His facepaint is meant to evoke this.
* SlashedThroat: His favourite method of execution. [[spoiler: And later, Zachry slashes his throat as he wakes up.]]
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* TheVoiceless: He doesn't have a single line.
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!Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After (2321)
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!!Zachry Bailey
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Zachry_23.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Old Uns got the Smart. They mastered sick and seeds, they make miracles and fly across the sky."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomHanks
A Valleysman who helps Meronym find something that's hidden on the island where he and his tribe live.
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* TheAtoner: For allowing his brother-in-law and nephew die without trying to save them.
* {{Badass}}: The best example of all stories besides Hae-Joo.
** BadassBeard: He has a pretty decent one going on and when we see him as an old man, sports a pretty big and awesome one.
** BadassNative: From the indigenous populations that try to survive in Hawaii after the Fall, that is.
** TookALevelInBadass: From DirtyCoward who always tried to avoid the Kona to capable {{Badass}} when he is forced to fight them.
* BaldOfAwesome: His older self.
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: In the film only--in the book, it is Meronym who has the birthmark, and is the only one of the stories' protagonists who does ''not'' appear to be the reincarnation of the previous one. Especially meaningful as towards the end of his life he insists to his children that Meronym is Sonmi reborn, which she very well could be.
* CoolOldGuy: When it cuts to him telling his story.
%%CoveredWithScars
* DirtyCoward: During the first Kona ambush, following Old Georgie's "true-true" advices.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Old Georgie accuses him of this when he's helping out Meronym.
--> '''Old Georgie''': ''You ain't let go of that rope cuz you were lustlin' for that darky sweet meat!....You judissin' your kin for a piece of '''ass'''''!
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: He ends up escaping the island with Meronym, goes to an offworld colony and winds up HappilyMarried with her.]]
* ExactWords: The Abbess tells him never to slit the throat of a sleeping enemy. [[spoiler: So when he finds a Kona asleep in his house, he slits his throat as soon as he wakes]].
* EyePatchOfPower: He gets one of these near the end of his story.
* FacialMarkings: Like most people in his tribe.
* FirstNameBasis: Save for Abbess referring him by his full name when he freaks out over a dream, his last name is almost never used.
* GutturalGrowler: In his older age, Zachry has developed this.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Meronym, at the end.]]
* HearingVoices: Courtesy of Old Georgie.
%%MedievalStasis
* PapaWolf: Fiercely protective of his niece, as she's a reminder that he could have saved her brother and father but didn't.
* ThePatriarch: He's a respected elder and his niece and sister clearly defer to him. [[spoiler: Later, he and Meronym have several grandchildren]].
%%SanitySlippage
* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler: The wound across his eye from the second fight with the Kona is still there in his old age]].
* TheStoryteller: He tells his story and several others to a group of children gathered around a fire.
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler: His sister and the rest of the tribe are killed, leaving him and his niece alive. He's more than a little unhappy about this]].
* WastelandElder: He's an elder of a post-apocalyptic tribe of people living on the Hawaiian islands.
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!!Meronym
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"All true. But they got somethin' else. A hunger in their hearts, a hunger that's stronger than all their Smart."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Halle Berry
An ethnologist from the most advanced human civilization left after the Fall.
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* ActionGirl: She can more than hold her own in a fight.
%%{{Ambadassador}}
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: In the book, and she's the only one of the comet-marked that isn't the protagonist of her story. In the film, the birthmark is given to Zachry.
* CoolOldLady: [[spoiler: In the epilogue.]]
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Zachry at the end of the story.]]
* MartialPacifist: She believes in peaceful resolutions, but will resort to violence if necessary.
* MeaningfulName: Her name means "a part of something referred to a whole".
* PerfectPacifistPeople: The Prescients are this.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: [[spoiler:With Zachry at the end.]]
* [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Sufficiently Advanced Human]]: She has all the technology required to move the plot forward.
* WomanInWhite: To emphasize her mysterious, otherworldly nature.
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[[folder:Old Georgie]]
!!Old Georgie
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Ain't no blade can protect you from the True-True!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/HugoWeaving
If Sonmi is God to the Valleymen, Old Georgie is the devil. He is said to exist atop Mauna Kea, which is, in turn, a feared spot for the Valleymen. He appears regularly as a vision to Zachry. He is dressed in old, ruined black clothes and top hat, reminiscent of the dress worn by Adam in the opening scene of ''The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing''. Zachry believed that Old Georgie was the one who "tripped the Fall" before being corrected by Meronym.
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* [[GoodAngelBadAngel Bad Angel]]: To Zachry.
* TheCorrupter: He continuously encourages Zachry to do the wrong thing, as it's the easy way out.
* DarkIsEvil: He's dressed head to toe in black, and is pretty much the devil.
%%EvilSoundsDeep
* EvilIsHammy: Big time.
%%FemmeFatalons
* GodInHumanForm: Possibly.
* HearingVoices: How Zachry describes him.
* NiceHat: A top hat, even if it is ruined.
* ObviouslyEvil: Can't get any more obvious than green skin, black outfit, and a hideous face.
* SharpDressedMan: His battered suit is a subversion, and marks him out as a specifically post-apocalyptic version of the Devil.
* SpiritAdvisor: Of the Evil sort, naturally. [[spoiler: He eventually starts to disappear when Zachry almost stabs Meronym, and when the Kona clan are chasing after Zachry, he appears to mess with him. Zachry ignores him and he is never seen again]].
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Zachry describes his voice as like this.
* [[WallCrawl Wall Walk]]: While Meronym and Zachary are climbing a wall, he approaches Zachry with ease despite being on the vertical.
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[[folder:Abbess]]
!!Abbess
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Bridge'a'broken, hide below, Hands'a'bleedin', can't let go, enemy sleepin', don't slit that throat."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Susan Sarandon
A well-regarded spiritual leader within Valleysmen.
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* FacialMarkings: Has them.
* [[HighPriest High Priestess]]: She seems to function as this to her tribe, who worship Sonmi like a god.
%%TechnicolorEyes
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: We never know what happened to her after the cannibals attacked. It would be safe to assume that she died along with the rest of the villagers.]]
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[[folder:Rose]]
!!Rose
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->'''Played By:''' Zhou Xun
Zachry's sister, who loses her husband during a raid by the Kona tribe.
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* FacialMarkings: Has them.
* PuppyDogEyes: Her eyes are big and pleading.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: She's among the many victims of the Kona attack. Zachry is absolutely devastated at her death]].
* {{Yellowface}}: Inversion. Chinese Zhou Xun plays a (presumably) white woman.
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[[folder:Kona Chief]]
!!Kona Chief
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->'''Played By:''' Hugh Grant
The Chief of the savage, cannibalistic Kona tribe.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The most powerful Kona warrior and their leader.
* BarbarianTribe: Leads the cannibalistic Konas.
* BigBad: Of ''Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After''.
%%BloodLust
* CannibalTribe: See above.
* ImAHumanitarian: He even has fingers on his clothes as ''decorations''.
* KarmicDeath: See SlashedThroat.
%%KnifeNut
%%KubrickStare
%%ObviouslyEvil: Seriously. Just ''look'' at this guy.
%%RapePillageAndBurn
%%TheSavageIndian
* SkullForAHead: His facepaint is meant to evoke this.
* SlashedThroat: His favourite method of execution. [[spoiler: And later, Zachry slashes his throat as he wakes up.]]
%%TribalFacePaint
* TheVoiceless: He doesn't have a single line.
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