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| “ | I loved my wife very much. She taught me a valuable lesson. If you do not control your own fate, it will control you. So I took control. I brought them all here to die. But now there is only one left: Mr. Carver, the man who murdered my wife. | „ |
| ~ The White Death mistaking Ladybug for the Carver before attempting to kill him. |
| “ | The Carver, I want the Carver, I hired the Carver! | „ |
| ~ The White Death to Ladybug in his final confrontation. |
| “ | DO NOT CALL ME BRO!!! | „ |
| ~ The White Death's breakdown and last words, to Ladybug before his death. |
Roshan Reznikov, better known as the White Death, is the main antagonist of the 2022 action/comedy film Bullet Train, based on Kōtarō Isaka's 2010 dark comedic thriller novel Maria Beetle.
He is the cruel and brutal leader of a criminal empire in Kyoto, Japan, who seized control over it by betraying and killing its former leader. The White Death is also the father of the Prince and the arch-nemesis of the Elder.
He was portrayed by Michael Shannon, who also played Zod in Man of Steel.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He worked his way up a criminal organization just to lead a brutal takeover that got a large number of the former members killed including the leader Minegishi himself.
- He's implied to have worked for the KGB before arriving in Japan, meaning he may have killed even more people during his time in it even if it was under government orders.
- According to Tangerine he at some point chopped off a woman's arm because she delivered a sum of money to him five minutes late.
- His sexist views made him favour his son more than his daughter, the Prince, leading to a more strained relationship between the two siblings. His neglect of her also makes him indirectly responsible for all the crimes she committed to get revenge on him.
- While him saying "I always saw you" in Russian gives the idea that he does care for his daughter this is immediately undercut with him saying "You were just never apart of my plan" while also harshly pushing the prince out of his way.
- Him not even trying to ensure her safety while the bullet train was crashing further proves that he really couldn't care less about the Prince.
- When his wife got caught in an assassination that killed her while trying to bail his son out, he blamed Carver, Lemon, Tangerine, the Hornet and his son for her death.
- He got Lemon, Tangerine, the Hornet and his son on the same train giving them the same mission to retrieve a briefcase on the same train hoping all of them would kill each other.
- He killed Kimura's (The Elder) wife and destroyed their house and even years later mocked him about the fact saying he'll join his wife if he doesn't get out of his way.
- His plan nearly succeeded as he got Tangerine, the Hornet (though she definitely had it coming) and his son killed on the Bullet Train.
- He and his men fought the remaining assassins on board the train which later caused the train to go out of control and get destroyed once it hit Kyoto.
- When he realized Carver wasn’t on the train and Ladybug is his replacement, he tried killing him out of frustration.
- He also wanted to kill The Elder and his family, as well as find Carver and kill him as well.
- He tried to shoot Ladybug but failed to do so since he was using the rigged gun that ended his life.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He cares for his wife, as he’s willing to hunt down anyone he believes was responsible for his wife’s murder and this loves is never contradicted throughout the movie with him even outright saying he loves his wife very much at one point.
Trivia[]
- The White Death is, alongside his daughter the Prince, one of the two Bullet Train villains to be Near Pure Evil.
- Interestingly, before portraying the White Death and the Prince respectively, Michael Shannon and Joey King appeared separately as Near Pure Evil villains from DC Comics, those being Zod in Man of Steel and Talia al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises respectively.
External Links[]
- White Death on the Villains Wiki
- White Death on the Bullet Train Wiki
