History Characters / Taken

-->'''Bryan''': ''[to Jean Claude]'' Tell me what I need, or the last thing you'll see before I make your children orphans is the bullet I put between [your wife's] eyes!

-->'''Bryan''': ''[to Jean Claude]'' Tell me what I need, or the last thing you'll see before I make your children orphans is the bullet I put between [your wife's] eyes!

->'''Played By:''' Sam Spruell

A fictional pop star whom Bryan saves from a stalker in the first film.

* SharpDressedMan: He wears a black tuxedo, and his men dress in similar suits with neckties.

* OneManArmy: As ''several'' dozens of RuthlessForeignGangsters find out the hard way.

* YouKilledMyFather: To Malankov in ''Taken 3'', [[spoiler: “You killed my ex-wife.”]]

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

* TooDumbToLive: It wouldn't have saved him anyway, but him saying it [[NothingPersonal wasn't personal]] to the ''father of one of the girls he sold off (whom he also held hostage)'' results in exactly what you think it would.

* OneManArmy: As ''several'' dozens of {{ruthless foreign gangster}}s find out the hard way.

* OneManArmy: As ''several'' men find out the hard way.

* AllThereInTheManual: His name is only stated in the film's casting credits.

* LoveObstructingParents: In ''Taken 2'', Kim mentions at a couple of points that Bryan did background checks of all the guys she dated, which is the first thing he does when he first learns about her then-boyfriend Jamie. Lenore even tells him to not run a background check on Jamie, because she knows that he ALWAYS does this. To top it off, the film's final joke is Kim asking Bryan not to shoot the man she's dating currently.

* LoveObstructingParents: In ''Taken 2'', Kim mentions at a couple of points that he made security checks of guys she dated, and he. The film's final joke is her asking Bryan not to shoot the man she's dating currently.

* 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.

* AmicablyDivorced: From Lenore, by the time of the second movie. In the first film, she treats him with disdain and only reconciles her differences with him after he rescues their daughter from human traffickers.

* OhCrap: His reaction twice to some of Bryan's best lines:

** [[PreMortemOneLiner "I believe you...but it's not gonna save you]].

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Earlier in ''Taken'', he at first seems to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure towards his old friend Bryan, but when his corruption is discovered, it was all an act.

* HoneyTrap: He's a spotter for the human traffickers.

* KilledMidSentence: "We can negoti--" '''*BAM*'''

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A French field agent and former colleague of Bryan who currently serves as a cop in Paris. In the first film, as Bryan finds out, Jean-Claude was an accomplice to the Albanian kidnappers, whose relatives later interrogate him in the sequel with his fate left unknown afterwards.

* AssholeVictim: 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.

* DirtyCop: He's working with the Albanian mob.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a wife and children, and shows he loves his kids very much when he tells them a bedtime story. Bryan is more than happy to exploit this in order to extract information about the ring from him.
* FallenHero: .

** 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...

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:In ''Taken 2'', he gets tortured by different people of the same Albanian mob he had dealings with before in the first film.]]

* FallenHero: He used to be a field agent operative and Mills' colleague [[spoiler:before becoming an unscrupulous DirtyCop]].
* FrenchJerk: 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.
** [[spoiler:His explanation of why he sold out to such horrible people is an annoyed-sounding "My salary is X, my expenses are Y. As long as my family is provided for I do not care where the difference comes from".]]
* GroinAttack: On the receiving end of one in the sequel. Suko stabs his genitals with scissors.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: [[spoiler: He pulls a gun on Bryan, who then reveals he took out the bullets beforehand, and points out Jean-Claude's lost his edge if he didn't notice the weight difference.]]
-->'''Bryan:''' ''"That's what happens when you sit behind a desk: You forget things! Like the weight in the hand of a gun that's loaded and one that's not."''

A French field agent who's had some past

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:He has a wife and children and shows he loves his kids very much in the first film when he tells them a bedtime story. Bryan is more than happy to exploit this in order to extract information from him.]]

* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:In the beginning of the sequel while Pitrel is being tortured, Murad had his genitals stabbed with scissors]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:In ''Taken 2'', he gets tortured and killed by the same Albanian mob he had dealings with before in the first film.]]

->'''Played By:''' Nabil Massad