| “ | You wish to do business with us, yes? You wish to make a purchase, yes?! | „ |
| ~ Peter McAllister to one of his clients, Mendez. |
General Peter McAllister is the main antagonist in the 1987 buddy cop action hit film Lethal Weapon, the first installment of the Lethal Weapon franchise.
He is a corrupt senior United States Army Special Forces General and the nefarious founder and leader of the Shadow Company. McAllister is also the boss of Jack Joshua.
He was portrayed by the late Mitchell Ryan, who also played Dr. Terrence Wynn in Halloween 6: Producer's Cut.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- During the Vietnam War, Peter McAllister and his henchman Jack Joshua founded Shadow Company, a corrupt military organization involved primarily in drug dealing, money laundering, and so forth. When Martin Riggs meets McAllister he disdainfully reveals that he has dealt with before, implying that they have been involved criminal activity for a while.
- During the movie itself, he has a prostitute named Dixie poison the Amanda Hunsaker, the daughter of Michael Hunsaker, as a way to intimidate him to continue to launder money for them.
- Burns Joshua's arm with a lighter while the latter barely reacts, as a way to intimidate another crime boss into doing business with him.
- Later on at a Christmas party, he has the party attacked to kill Michael when he no longer needs him.
- He later has Dixie killed as a way to tie up loose ends.
- Has Roger Murtaugh's teenage daughter Rianne kidnapped, which results in her boyfriend being killed in the process, to draw out Murthaugh.
- Has Rianne held hostage in front of Murtaugh while Joshua shoots him in the arm.
- When Martin Riggs turns out to be alive, and sniping their men, he has Riggs and Murtaugh kidnapped.
- Has Riggs and Murtaugh Tortured in his underground base beneath a nightclub.
- He and Joshua make creepy moves on Rianne, who is only a teenager, and it is heavily implied that McAllister intented to rape her to get more information before Riggs escaped. It is never established whether this is out of genuine perversion, to intimidate Murthaugh, or a mixture of both.
- When Riggs and Murtaugh escape from their Clutches, McAllister sends Joshua to kill Murtaugh's entire family out of spite, which also results in the latter killing two cops in the process.
- While the movie is a comedy action film, he is taken seriously in-universe and has no comedic moments whatsoever.
- Shows no care or sadness over his men's deaths, and there is no indication that he cares about Joshua, if anything, him burning his arm to intimidate another crime boss should seemingly prove otherwise.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He fails the Heinous Standards to the sequel villains, Arjen Rudd and Pieter Vorstedt, who with give or take the same amount of resources, commit many of the same crimes as he does, but with an overall slightly higher kill count with 9 confirmed kills, including a relatively cruel one where they drown a women to death, are flat out white supremacists who have presumably committed atrocities against black people in apartheid South Africa, and have a much more personal animosity with the protagonists than McAllister by killing Martin Riggs' wife before the events of the previous film.
External Links[]
- Peter McAllister on the Villains Wiki
