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*CompleteMonster: In Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play, [[AntagonisticGovernor Albrecht Gessler]] is [[TheHeavy the tyrannical deputy]] of the [[GreaterScopeVillain Hapsburgs]] in Switzerland. Imprisoning, torturing and killing many with a law that failure to salute his cap is punishable by death, Gessler has an old man blinded [[DisproportionateRetribution for a trifling offense]] with hopes to [[PretextForWar provoke the Swiss]] so the Hapsburgs may crush them. Upon arresting William Tell, Gessler forces him to shoot an apple off his own son's head for sport, later even showing himself willing to ride down a woman and her children for standing in the way of his horse.

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