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The protagonist of the series, Bryan is an American ex-government agent who's brought back into fighting through the situations his family (and sometimes himself) are put through in the films.

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The protagonist of the series, Bryan is an American ex-government agent working as a bodyguard in the present, who's brought back into fighting through the situations his family (and sometimes himself) are put through in the films.



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[[folder:Ali]]
!!Ali
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->'''Played By:''' Nabil Massad

Sheik Raman's head bodyguard, who serves as Bryan's third and last major enemy in the first movie after Marko Hoxha and Patrice Saint-Clair.
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* TheDragon: On top of being Sheik Raman's head bodyguard and representative at the sex slave auction, he gives Bryan a good fight, inflicting several wounds on the latter before he's able to go after the Sheik.
* EvilWearsBlack: He's dressed in an all-black formal suit.
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A French field agent who's had some past



* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: In ''Taken 2'', when he's interrogated and tortured by the Albanians. It's quite hard to mourn for him, since he previously conspired with the Albanian's relatives in the first film.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Earlier in ''Taken'', he at first seems to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure towards his old friend Bryan, [[spoiler:but when his corruption is discovered, it was all an act]].
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:He's working with the Albanian mob.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: In ''Taken 2'', when he's interrogated and tortured by the Albanians. It's quite hard to mourn for him, since he previously conspired with the Albanian's relatives in the first film.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Earlier in ''Taken'', he at first seems to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure towards his old friend Bryan, [[spoiler:but but when his corruption is discovered, it was all an act]].
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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:He's He's working with the Albanian mob.]]



* FrenchJerk: [[spoiler:When Bryan confronts his former colleague over his involvement with the BigBad of the first film, Pitrel refuses to answer and attempts to force Bryan out of Paris at gunpoint. When his wife attempts to question what was going on, he tells her to shut up]].

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* FrenchJerk: [[spoiler:When When Bryan confronts his former colleague over his involvement with the BigBad of the first film, Pitrel refuses to answer and attempts to force Bryan out of Paris at gunpoint. When his wife attempts to question what was going on, he tells her to shut up]].up.


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* LoveObstructingParents: Kim even mentions at a couple of points that he made security checks of guys she dated, and the final joke of ''Taken 2'' is her asking Bryan not to shoot the man she's dating currently. All three films involve her being in danger at one point or another.



* OverprotectiveDad: Kim even mentions at a couple of points that he made security checks of guys she dated, and the final joke of ''Taken 2'' is her asking Bryan to place not shoot the man she's dating currently. All three films involve her being in danger at one point or another.
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* MoralMyopia: Desperately wants to avenge his son, even though he was far from innocent, and he likely doomed countless girls to sex slavery before Bryan put him down.

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* MoralMyopia: Desperately wants to avenge Invoked by him. Bryan killed his son, even though he and that makes him the bad guy. The fact that Marko was far from innocent, and he likely doomed countless practically a mass murderer to begin with, having condemned an unknown number of girls to sex slavery before a short life of sexual slavery, is irrelevant to the calculations. Murad even cheerfully tells Bryan put him down.that he intends to finish Marko's job of selling Kim as a sex slave.
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* CrazyPrepared: He has a suitcase full of recording equipment, cash, and passports accessible at a moment's notice, which proves handy when Kim says that strange men have entered the apartment.

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* CrazyPrepared: He has It comes as part of Bryan's job as a bodyguard to always have the necessary equipment needed to make sure that he can get out of any situation, but ''Taken 2'' is where it's really shown. For the trip to Istanbul, he brings himself a suitcase full of recording equipment, cash, cash and passports accessible at a moment's notice, which proves plus a hidden cell phone and even a couple ''hand grenades'' just in case. These preparations prove handy when Kim says tells him that strange men have entered the apartment.hotel she's in.

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: In the beginning of ''Taken 2'', when he's interrogated and tortured by the Albanians. Nobody mourns when he's being tortured, since he conspired with the Albanian mob in the first film to sell out Bryan Mills' daughter.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: In the beginning of ''Taken 2'', when he's interrogated and tortured by the Albanians. Nobody mourns when he's being tortured, It's quite hard to mourn for him, since he previously conspired with the Albanian mob Albanian's relatives in the first film to sell out Bryan Mills' daughter.film.]]


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** Jean-Claude vanishes from the film after the scene where the Albanians torture him for information on Bryan's whereabouts. One can only assume that they killed him once they got what they wanted...
** It's also unclear what happened to his wife and children.


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* TheUnseen: The entirety of her family. Her parents are never seen, mentioned or even spoken to via phone; and she says her cousins in Paris have gone on holiday for months, leaving the apartment for her and Kim. This applies even after Bryan finds Amanda's dead corpse, so it's entriely possible that by the end of the film her family still haven't noticed she's missing.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: In the beginning of ''Taken 2'', when tortured by Murad. Nobody mourns when he's being tortured, since he conspired with the Albanian mob in the first film to sell out Bryan Mills' daughter.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: In the beginning of ''Taken 2'', when he's interrogated and tortured by Murad.the Albanians. Nobody mourns when he's being tortured, since he conspired with the Albanian mob in the first film to sell out Bryan Mills' daughter.]]



* BadassLongcoat: On the way to capture Bryan and Lenore, he's seen wearing a black leather trenchcoat.

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* BadassLongcoat: On Whenever he goes outside while on the way to capture Bryan and Lenore, or check on someone, he's seen wearing a black leather trenchcoat.

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* AmericaSavesTheDay: An American RetiredBadass puts a whole sex slavery ring operating in Paris on its knees in just three days, while several people from the French authorities are revealed to be complicit in the trafficking. Less of an example than most in that the grudge is personal, and bringing the ring down is more a side effect of Bryan's actual goal of rescuing his daughter.



Bryan's daughter.

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Bryan's daughter.daughter, who starts off as a 17-year-old teenager in the first film and gets a bit older over the course of the next two.

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The protagonist of the series, Bryan is an ex-CIA agent and special forces commander who's brought back into fighting through the situations his family (and sometimes himself) are put through in the films.

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The protagonist of the series, Bryan is an ex-CIA American ex-government agent and special forces commander who's brought back into fighting through the situations his family (and sometimes himself) are put through in the films.



* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: It's never exactly stated what was Bryan's former occupation back when he was in the US government, even in the TV series.
** His conversations with his buddies and former co-workers implies any combination of wet work, special forces, or intelligence work.
** At one point, Kim admits she was afraid to ask what he did, and all he told her was "a preventer." A [[ProfessionalKiller "preventer"]] of the type known in the movies to inhabit [[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Langley, Virginia]] would seem to be a safe assumption.
** Bryan's friends also reference a previous mission where "the chief" went missing. "Chief" is sometimes short for Chief Petty Officer, an NCO rank in the Navy, suggesting that Bryan was a former Navy [=SEAL=]. Chief also means, well, chief; lots of intelligence agencies have a type of position called station chief or section chief. Given the reference to aforementioned Langley, it's arguable Bryan was part of the CIA's Special Activities Division.







Bryan's daughter.




Bryan's ex-wife and Kim's mother, currently married to the millionaire Stuart.



* AffectionateNickname: Bryan calls her 'Lennie.' During the first ''Taken'' movie, where they don't get along, she reminds him that she asked him not to call her that anymore. From the start of the second movie on, when their relationship is much better, Bryan almost exclusively calls her Lennie and she doesn't correct him again.

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* AffectionateNickname: Bryan calls tends to call her 'Lennie.' During the first ''Taken'' movie, where they don't movie (at which point she doesn't really get along, she along) with him, Lenore reminds him that she asked him not to call her that anymore. From the start of the second movie on, when where their relationship is much better, she doesn't try to correct Bryan as he almost exclusively calls refers to her Lennie and she doesn't correct him again.as Lennie.



The leader of the group of Albanian kidnappers that abducted Kim in the first film.

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The leader of the group of Albanian kidnappers that abducted Kim in the first film.film, which is overall responsible for bringing prostitutes to the market surrounding the sex trafficking organization.


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The sex traffickers' French head of retail, who organizes clandestine showings of prositutes at an underground area of his chapel.


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A millionaire who's Lenore's current husband and Kim's stepfather.
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->''"I have come to take you to Tropoje to face you to the people whose lives you have ruined. To give them justice."''

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The leader of the Albanian kidnapping ring that abducted Kim in the first film.

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The leader of the group of Albanian kidnapping ring kidnappers that abducted Kim in the first film.



* AintTooProudToBeg: It doesn't do him any good.

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* AintTooProudToBeg: He pleads Bryan to spare him from a third and last electric shock that would be prolonged enough to kill him. It doesn't do him any good.



->'''Played By:''' Rade Šerbedžija



->'''Played By:''' Rade Šerbedžija

An Albanian mafia boss and the leader of the criminals seeking revenge against Bryan's family in ''Taken 2''. He's the father of Marko Hoxha from the first film.

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->'''Played By:''' Rade Šerbedžija

An Albanian mafia boss and the leader of the criminals Albanians seeking revenge against Bryan's family in ''Taken 2''. He's the father of Marko Hoxha from the first film.


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->''"I have come to take you to Tropoje to face you to the people whose lives you have ruined. To give them justice."''
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!!Oleg Malankov
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->'''Played By:''' Sam Spruell

A Russian mafia boss who serves as one of the major antagonists in ''Taken 3''.
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* TheMafiya: He's the leader of a Russian mafia organization.
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler:When he loses the final fight to Bryan, Malankov allows the latter to kill him off, even saying that he deserves to die.]]
-->''"[[spoiler:First, he gets me to kill your wife, then you. And when that doesn't work, he pushes you to kill me, no? Either way, he wins. Your wife was just part of a business deal, like many before her. It is my turn to lose the game. Finish me! Finish me! I deserve it!]]"''
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His grown sons whom he swears will avenge him...

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His grown Not only Marko, but also his two other sons whom he swears will avenge him...him.

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* BadassBoast: And not just his iconic threat on phone!
-->'''Jean-Claude:''' You can't just go around tearing up Paris-\\

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* BadassBoast: And not just his iconic threat on phone!
-->'''Jean-Claude:'''
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** When he talks to Jean-Claude:
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You can't just go around tearing up Paris-\\


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** From the sequel:
--->''"This is not a game. I will finish this thing. You'll just have to die."''

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* PragmaticHero / UnscrupulousHero: He goes to absolutely brutal lengths to get his daughter back. From flat out ColdBloodedTorture to [[spoiler:threatening to kill someone's innocent wife for information]].


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* IWillFindYou: Promises this to his family on every film, so he will save them... and says this, word for word, to the man that kidnapped Kim on the first in an oft-quoted line, and promises to kill him as well.



* IWillFindYou:
** Promises this to his family on every film.
** More famously, he says this word-for-word to the kidnapper he talks on the phone (later revealed to be Marko), with the subsequent addition of killing all the kidnappers.



* KarmaHoudini: A rare good guy example. While saving Kim from Paris, Lenore and himself from terrorists in Istanbul, and later [[spoiler: avenging Lenore’s murder]], Bryan commits a multitude of crimes. These include: murder, torture, attempted murder, aggravated assault, resisting arrest, impersonating law enforcement, assaulting multiple police officers, escaping police custody, stealing a police car, causing death by reckless driving, stealing police evidence & breaking and entering. He suffers no legal consequences for his actions and Dotzler only tells him off for stealing evidence from the police database, one of his most minor crimes.

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* KarmaHoudini: A rare good guy example.heroic variant. While saving Kim from Paris, Lenore and himself from terrorists in Istanbul, and later [[spoiler: avenging Lenore’s murder]], Bryan commits a multitude of crimes. These include: murder, torture, attempted murder, aggravated assault, resisting arrest, impersonating law enforcement, assaulting multiple police officers, escaping police custody, stealing a police car, causing death by reckless driving, stealing and r a police evidence & breaking and entering. evidence. He suffers no legal consequences for his actions actions, and in the third film Dotzler only tells him off for stealing evidence from the police database, evidence, one of his most minor crimes.
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: He becomes the main villain of part 3.]]

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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: He becomes the third film's main villain of part 3.villain.]]



A fellow ex-CIA operative and friend of Bryan, and Kim's godfather.

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A fellow ex-CIA operative and friend of Bryan, and Kim's godfather. In all three films, he serves as a minor communications assistant to Bryan.



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* AccidentalMurder: Bryan finds her dead the moment she's seen after getting kidnapped, but it's quite clear that this wasn't intended by the Albanians, as they were intending for her to be sold alongside Kim. Her cause of death could be excessive drug use on part of the Albanians.



[[folder:Sheerah]]
!!Sheerah
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* HeroicBSOD: She has a minor one, when Bryan saves her from a crazed fan with a knife.
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* RichBitch: Averted. She can give off this vibe, but she's merely jaded.
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A friend of Bryan and Kim's godfather.

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A fellow ex-CIA operative and friend of Bryan Bryan, and Kim's godfather.



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* UncertainDoom: We don't know what happened to him after the third film's events. Last we see him, he's unconscious after having been shot by [[spoiler:Stuart]], and while a cop says he's still alive when they find him, we never found out if he survived.

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* UncertainDoom: We don't know what happened to him his fate after the third film's events. Last we see him, he's unconscious after having been shot by [[spoiler:Stuart]], and while a cop says he's still alive when they find him, we never found out if he survived.



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!!Inspector Frank Dotzler
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!!Inspector Frank Dotzler
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A fictional pop star whom Bryan saves from a stalker in the first film.



* {{Expy}}: Of both [[Film/TheFugitive US Marshal Samuel Gerard]] and Lt. Jon Kavanaugh, Whitaker's character on ''Series/TheShield''.

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* {{Expy}}: Of both [[Film/TheFugitive US Marshal Samuel Gerard]] and Lt. Jon Kavanaugh, Whitaker's character on ''Series/TheShield''. HeroicBSOD: She has a minor one, when Bryan saves her from a crazed fan with a knife.
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!!Inspector Frank Dotzler
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/LelandOrser

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A friend of Bryan and Kim's godfather.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't know what happened to him after the third film's events. Last we see him, he's unconscious after having been shot by [[spoiler:Stuart]], and while a cop says he's still alive when they find him, we never found out if he survived.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: Dotzler calls her “Miss St John” presuming she goes by her stepfather’s surname. She promptly corrects him.
--> '''Kim:''' ''Mills''. My name is Mills.
* AffectionateNickname: Her parents and Bryan’s friends call her “Kimmy.”

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* AccidentalMisnaming: In the third film, Inspector Dotzler calls her “Miss St John” "Ms. St. John", presuming she goes by her stepfather’s stepfather's surname. She promptly corrects him.
--> '''Kim:''' -->'''Kim:''' ''Mills''. My name is Mills.
* AffectionateNickname: Her parents and Bryan’s Bryan's friends call her “Kimmy.”"Kimmy."



* DeadGuyJunior: Intends to name her child after [[spoiler: her now late mother in Taken 3]] if it is a girl.

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* DeadGuyJunior: Intends At the end of ''Taken 3'', she mentions that she intends to name her the child she's pregnant with after [[spoiler: her now late mother in Taken 3]] [[spoiler:her now-late mother]] if it is it's a girl.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/XanderBerkeley (''Taken''), Dougray Scott (''Taken 3'')

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't know what happened to him after the third film's events. Last we see him, he's unconscious after having been shot by [[spoiler:Stuart]], and while a cop says he's still alive when they find him, we never found out if he survived.
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:After his arrest at the end of the third film, it's implied that Stuart is set to be executed for his hired murder, although whether or not it ended up carried through is left in the air.]]

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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:After his arrest at the end WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:We're not quite sure what becomes of Stuart after he's arrested in the third film, film. Bryan promises him that he'll come for him after he inevitably gets acquitted or a short jail sentence because of his connections, but it's implied that not clear if Stuart is set would later pull a BetterToDieThanBeKilled to be avoid whatever Bryan has planned for him, if Bryan winds up killing him eventually, or even if he ends up executed for his hired murder, although whether or not it ended up carried through is left in the air.(another outcome that's implied here).]]
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* MirrorCharacter: He and Bryan are a pair of {{Papa Wol|f}}ves who square off over their children, both of them willing to break laws and endanger others if it gets them what they want.
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* GenreBlind: Despite having a pretty good idea of what Bryan is capable of, Murad still insists on prolonging his suffering and [[AndYourLittleDogToo explaining what he intends to do to Bryan's family]], then proceeds to ''[[BondVillainStupidity not]]'' [[BondVillainStupidity have a few dozen mooks with guns trained on him at all times]]. This turns out to be exactly as bad a plan as it sounds.

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An ArabOilSheikh from the first movie who's a customer of the sex trafficking ring, unwillingly purchasing Kim. His boat is where the film's final sequence of fights takes place.



* AristocratsAreEvil: A wealthy, yacht-owning sheik who doesn't have a problem buying kidnapped women.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: A wealthy, yacht-owning sheik who doesn't have a problem buying kidnapped women.women as sex slaves.

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