![]() ![]() ![]() into a totalitarian state, where all religions except Christianity (and likely just his particular version of it) are outlawed and he uses terms like " Final Solution" to describe his own plans. President Evil: As evidenced by his actions since taking office, this President has more-or-less turned the U.S.Parental Neglect: His neglect of Utopia after her sister died is implied to be the reason Cuervo was able to get to her.Due to Snake's actions, though, the power shuts off before the act can be carried through. who then orders her to be executed via electric chair. Utopia then attempts to appeal to her father. When it's revealed that Snake (unintentionally) brought her back to the mainland instead of killing her, the President chides him. Offing the Offspring: Orders his own daughter, Utopia, to be executed at the end of the film, for betraying him and the United States.No Party Given: His party isn't given either, though it's obviously a very theocratic far right.No Name Given: He's only referred simplay as The President or Mr.No Celebrities Were Harmed: His character is a thinly-veiled parody of Pat Robertson, a televangelist who made many potentially life-threatening predictions on live television.A Nazi by Any Other Name: If the fact that he outlaws just about everything in the name of a "Moral America" wasn't enough, he even uses the term "Final Solution" to precede what is intended to be a complete wiping of a Cuban attack force coming to the U.S.Large Ham: Lapses into this frequently, most notably during his Motive Rant at the beginning of the film and the final scene where he orders Malloy to follow his commands.Lack of Empathy: He seems to have trouble understanding why anyone would have a problem with him and his administration, and damns people to LA due to finding them immoral.Knight Templar: By the time the events of the film begin, he's effectively stripped most free will from the population and restricted them to "moral" Christian values.Jerkass: He bans anything he finds immoral for insanely petty and racist reasons, appears to suffer a God complex, and cares about himself and his image.I Have No Son!: He makes it very clear to Snake from the get-go that he's disowned Utopia, and is visibly disappointed when the latter reveals that he brought her back to the mainland rather than kill her in Los Angeles.Hypocrite: Despite outlawing all supposedly sacrilegious language/activity, he uses the Lord's name in vain at one point, and makes an outright Blasphemous Boast near the end.Hate Sink: Racist, petty, and a tyrant.A God Am I: He has this view of himself, going so far as to corrupt a passage from the Bible and put himself in the role of God when he sentences his daughter to be executed.Not only is he a maniac who has made an executive order to arrest anybody who doesn't fits his extreme views and sent to the island of the damned that is L.A., but when he thinks he has run out of covert options to fix his problem, he immediately talks about ordering a full mobilization of the Air Force with the objective to wipe the island (and everybody in it) from existence. General Ripper: Well, President Ripper, but the mentality is the same.The Fundamentalist: He's a religious nutjob who ascended to the highest political office, and uses his power to turn the country into a "Moral America", complete with widespread banning of anything he deems to be immoral.Evil Old Folks: He's the aging, corrupt leader of the United States, who seems to think of himself as a god and has no love for anyone, only craving absolute power.Early-Bird Cameo: Chronologically, he appears for the first time (as The Faceless, being seen looking out a window) in the final issue of the Escape from New York comic series by BOOM! Comics, which is set several months before Snake is arrested in New Vegas.It takes his Co-Dragons to snap him back to reality before he composes himself. Dirty Coward: The moment things don't go according to plan, he begins to freak out and pray to God for forgiveness.Blasphemous Boast: When he plans to murder Utopia, he talks about how he sacrificed his only daughter, so that we may be saved, in an obvious rip-off of John 3:16.begin, he has created a "Moral America" and is attempting to mold the world in his image. An unnamed fundamentalist Christian theocrat who accurately predicts that Los Angeles will get washed away due to its sins, and uses the resulting publicity to become President three years after Snake's mission in New York. ![]()
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