| “ | May there be peace on Earth... | „ |
| ~ Hendrick's most famous quote |
Kurt Hendricks (Russian: Курт Хендрикс, Kurt Khendriks), also known as Cobalt, is the main antagonist of the 2011 action spy film Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible film series.
He was a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist and a terrorist who attempted to ignite a conflict between Russia and the United States of America. In doing so, Hendricks hopes to strengthen the remnants of humanity that are surviving and ultimately save humanity.
He was portrayed by the late Michael Nyqvist.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Conspired a plan to start a nuclear war between USA and Russia, with the idea to eliminate most of the world population,
- Set up IMF agent Ethan Hunt and his team to infiltrate the Kremlin in Moscow to retrieve his high-security file.
- Chokes and breaks the neck of one of the Kremlin's guards
- Blew up the Kremlin, after stealing a nuclear launch control device and framing Ethan Hunt and his team as the culprits
- Goes to nuclear code expert: Leonid Lisenker who is attempting to flee the country and kidnaps Leonid's wife and son, in order to force Leonid to work alongside him & his right-hand man Marius Wistrom
- Goes to Dubai under the disguise of Wistrom with Leonid for a meeting with Professional Assassin Sabine Moreau to acquire launch codes Sabine stole from a late IMF agent. However, they are both deceived when they are actually meeting Hunt's teammate Jane.
- After Leonid verifies the launch codes, Hendricks takes him out to the hallway and kills Leonid, and orders the real Wistrom to murder his family
- Goes on an extensive chase throughout the city of Dubai until Hendricks gets on a truck and escapes and unmasks himself
- Goes to Mumbai, India, and enters a relay station where Wistrom murders a security guard who only wanted to help.
- Unleashed a missile from a submarine and sent it to San Francisco in an attempt to detonate the entire city and kill millions.
- Upon being discovered by Ethan and Jane, he orders Wistrom to disable the Relay station while Hendricks escapes with the control unit briefcase
- Goes on another chase with Ethan through the streets of Mumbai
- Fights Ethan in a parking Garage brutally until Hendricks commits suicide by falling to his death with the briefcase in his arms hoping that he has brought it out of Ethan's reach and ensured the missile hits San Francisco. Although it proved to be in vain as Ethan managed to catch up by driving a car off and falling the same distance and only surviving from the airbag, then Ethan disabled the missile and the missile crashes into the Bay with no deaths whatsoever.
- While Mission: Impossible has high Heinous Standards with villains like Solomon Lane and Owen Davian, Hendricks easily passes as his actions would have resulted in the deaths of millions by bombing San Francisco and billions post-mortem in the nuclear war. if it were to happen.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He is a well-intentioned extremist as he believes that at the end of the nuclear war, he will achieve world peace for whatever is left of humanity and hopes that they will be stronger. it's not a huge prevention however as he is killing billions as a means to achieve this goal.
Trivia[]
- Kurt Hendricks is, alongside August Walker, one of the two Mission: Impossible villains to be Near Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Kurt Hendricks on the Villains Wiki
- Kurt Hendricks on the Mission Impossible Wiki
