| “ | Change of plan... I no longer just want her abilities for TAS Corp. I want HER. | „ |
| ~ Derek Lucks. |
| “ | So you are behind this. Well played- | „ |
| ~ Derek Lucks' final words before getting shot by Masa's hacked Meta Runner arm. |
Derek Lucks is the main antagonist of the Glitch Productions' science fiction animated web series Meta Runner. He is the former boss of Tari and Masa Shimamoto and the arch-nemesis of the latter.
He was voiced by David J. G. Doyle.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- He was shown to be very abusive towards his employees, as he threatened to decommission Belle Fontiere after failing a single speedrun, he constantly yelled at Tari when she failed, he flipped out over interviews, etc.. It was even heavily implied that he may had been responsible for some of their deaths.
- Though Season 2 flashbacks showed him as much more polite and caring towards Masa, Belle and Lucinia, he ultimately subverted any care for them after Lucinia's disappearance and only focused on protecting his own reputation.
- Sofia Porter stated how TAS Corp's employees had been connected to fatal gunshots and car accidents, showing he's probably done several arranged murders, with it being shown that he has killed at least one person as shown in images of a man being hit by a car and the words "ripinpeace" being put in a message talking about it.
- In Death Warp, Lamar Williams said that growing up, he had seen what TAS Corp did to their Meta Runners after they had outlived their usefulness, implying that the act of decommissioning a Meta Runner is painful.
Season 1[]
- He experimented on Tari's Meta Runner arm in the real world, causing her to feel excruciating pain inside Theo's game. Even Belle Fontiere thought he was going too far with that, and when she said so to him, he yelled at her saying that only he knew when it was too far.
- He ordered Belle Fontiere to kidnap Tari and Theo so he could make tests on them.
- After witnessing Tari's skills while chasing her car, he switched his plans around from only wanting Tari's abilities to wanting Tari herself. Belle even said how creepy he sounded when he said that.
- He shot Masa's Meta Runner arm off and threatened to have him murdered if Sofia Porter didn't show up to hand his hacked data back to him.
- He crushed Theo's Cartridge which resulted in him feeling immense pain due to not being in his game, Ultra Jump Mania. He then kept the remains of the cartridge to hold him hostage into the TAS Corp servers and guaranteed that both Tari would unquestionably work for TAS Corp from that point on and that MD-5 would never try to interfere in his plans again, threatening to completely erase Theo should they go against any of his demands. This showed Luck was perfectly fine with child murder.
Season 2[]
- He tortured Theo by trapping him into a virtual replica of Ultra Jump Mania which kept constantly glitching out, subsequently making the original game's landscape more dangerous, its enemies bigger and stronger, and preventing Theo from defending himself. He even displayed sadistic gratification while watching as Theo's despair grows from the disturbing experience, he put him through.
- He basically did everything involving Lucinia Porter: stating he doesn't need her, threatening his employees to cover it up, telling the public that she "went missing", lying to Belle Fontiere, and firing Masa Shimamoto as he may had been on his tail. Therefore, he was also responsible for Sheridan's path to villainy.
- After Sofia Porter reveaeds to him that MD-5 is back scheming against him during the Hidden Heroes event, he ordered Evelyn to kill off the rest of the players to end the game as fast as possible and foil their plans again.
- He sent Evelyn to TAS Corp's server to kill Theo and Tari to prevent them from obtaining his data.
- He attempted to retrieve the cartridge from Tari by angrily threatening to kill Masa. He then tried to shoot Masa after all his information was released to the media and public.
- His claim that Masa could have saved Lucinia had he stayed loyal to him are so hypocritical it angered Belle to say she's had enough of his lies. Belle also remarked that he is still responsible for what happened to Lucinia since he allowed Sheridan's experiment despite knowing its dangers, and that he could have been honest and taken responsibility for what happened from the start, but instead lied to her and everyone else about Lucinia's whereabouts only to protect his own reputation, reinforcing his selfishness.
- Although his death caused by Sheridan ended up horrifying the main characters, it was not played for sympathy; the heroes were scared solely because Masa would be charged with murder. And whenever brought up in season three, his death is seen and portrayed as well-deserved karma for everything he has done to Tari, Lucinia, the MD-5 and other Meta Runners at TAS Corp.
Season 3[]
- Despite Sheridan becoming way worse than him with his crimes being unjustifiable, Lucks selfishly stealing Sheridan's credit for the invention of the Meta Runner Arm was what caused the latter's descend into insanity and villainy to begin with, thus making Lucks indirectly responsible for Sheridan becoming the Pure Evil cyberterrorist he was in season 3.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He fails the heinous standards to Sheridan, as he ends up commited way worse crimes than Lucks, such as torturing Masa and Belle in order to brainwash them into serving him, and trapping all the Meta Runners in the world on his server where they would kill each other, all while they are able to feel everything that is happening, and endangering their lives in the process. Masa even tells Sheridan that he outdid Lucks by being a "bigger monster" than he ever was.
Trivia[]
- As shown in a video containing deleted scenes for Season 1, the act of decommissioning (removing a Meta Runner's arm) would have been demonstrated by having Lucks tear off a Meta Runner's arm with his bare hands. If this had been kept, it would have made Lucks even worse.
- Although an A.I of him that was created by Sheridan purely just to be tortured gives sincere advice to Tari that allows both her and Theo live on in a server after the former gives up her life to save Lucinia, this isn't a redeeming factor on Lucks' end as they aren't the same character.
External Links[]
- Derek Lucks on the Villains Wiki
- Derek Lucks on the SMG4 Wiki
- Derek Lucks on the Meta Runner Wiki
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 Near Pure Evils
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