Villains Wiki

Hi. This is Thesecret1070. I am an admin of this site. Edit as much as you wish, but one little thing... If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!!

READ MORE

Villains Wiki
Register
Advertisement
           KeyLocker

This Villain was proposed and approved by Villains Wiki's Pure Evil Proposals Thread. Any act of removing this villain from the category without a Removal Proposal shall be considered vandalism (or a futile "heroic" attempt of redemption) and the user will have high chances of being terminated blocked. You cannot make said Removal Proposal without permission from an admin first.
Additional Notice: This template is meant for admin maintenance only. Users who misuse the template will be blocked for a week minimum.

Warning
Scarfaceinthefall
This article's content is marked as Mature
The page contains mature content that may include coarse language, sexual references, and/or graphic violent images which may be disturbing to some. Mature pages are recommended for those who are 18 years of age and older.

If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page.

Stuart: I think Cardinal Richilieu said it best: "Treason is merely a matter of dates." This country's got to learn that it can't keep cutting the legs off of men like General Esperanza. Men who have the guts to stand up against Communist aggression.
McClane: And lesson #1 starts with killing policemen? What's lesson #2, the neutron bomb?
Stuart: No, I think we can find something in between. Watch this.
~ Stuart explaining to McClane why he wants free Esperanza, and prepares to show McClane his power over the airport by crashing a plane.

Colonel William Stuart is the main antagonist of the 1990 action thriller film Die Hard 2. He is a former senior United States Army Special Force colonel who went rogue and became a terrorist leader bent on freeing General Ramon Esperanza from prison and escaping the United States.

He was portrayed by William Sadler, who also played Vernon Trent in Hard to Kill, Luther Sloan in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Niles Talbot in Tales From the Crypt, Gary Dolan in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Wilson Concannon in The Hills Run Red, Tony Teresi in Power, Don Perry in Trespass and Friedrich Mann in Hunters.

Biography[]

You can have two words: f-ck, and you.
~ Colonel Stuart to reporters.

Stuart is a former army colonel who was once trained by Major Grant, and he plans to betray his country and free General Ramon Esperanza from confinement in America. This all starts when Stuart and his men take over a church and tamper with Dulles Tower's controls, making replicas of them.

When Dulles Terminal police try to get to an antenna, Stuart retaliates by deliberately misguiding a British airliner while impersonating an air traffic controller, causing the jet to crash into the tarmac and explode, killing all 230 people on board, much to the horror of John McClane. Stuart and some of his henchmen later try to kill McClane with hand grenades, and Grant leads his team in joining forces with Stuart.

Happy landings, a--hole!
~ Colonel Stuart to John McClane, which turned out to be his last words.

At the end of the film, Stuart, Grant and Esperanza board an empty 747 getaway plane along with the other terrorists, preparing to fly to South America to retire to paradise. McClane, however, jumps onto the wing of the plane from a helicopter and jams the flaps, preventing the plane from taking off. Stuart and Grant investigate and McClane battles Grant on the wing, eventually kicking him into the jet engine. Furious at McClane for interfering with his plans, Stuart attacks him and easily gains the upper hand due to McClane being exhausted and too injured. He manages to kick McClane off the wing but not before McClane is able to open the fuel dump hatch, unnoticed by Stuart as he re-enters the plane. This sends fuel spilling out onto the runway which McClane then ignites using a lighter. As the plane soars into the air, the flames follow the trail of fuel back to the plane and cause it to explode, finally killing Stuart and everyone onboard, including Esperanza.

Personality[]

We've got you.
~ Colonel Stuart to the pilots of Windsor 114, right before the plane explodes.

Stuart has all the symptoms of a complete psychopath, he is ruthless, manipulative and is perfectly willing to kill anyone to prove a point, as shown when he crashed a plane full of innocent people just so his demands of getting a cargo plane and freeing Esperanza would be met. He is also failure intolerant, threatening to kill one of his men for "letting" John kill another one of his men despite it not being anyone else's fault, showing even his own men aren't safe from his utter evil.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Col. Stuart is likely inspired by real-life Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. During the Reagan administration, North was a member of the U.S. National Security Council and spearheaded various operations in Central America to combat communism. Most infamously, he was one of the key figures of the Iran-Contra scandal, where U.S. senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran and to use the proceeds to fund the Nicaraguan Contras - effectively violating the arms embargo imposed on Iran and violating the Boland Amendment passed by U.S. Congress. North was heavily scrutinized by U.S. congress during the 1987 hearings - much like in the movie where McClane makes a quick assertion that Stuart was "kicked out by congress." Much like North, Stuart is a staunch anti-communist. In the mid-1980s, North had a good working relationship with Manuel Noriega, with the latter serving as inspiration for General Ramon Esperanza.

External Links[]

Navigation[]

           DieHardTitle Villains

Movies
Die Hard: Hans Gruber | Karl Vreski | Theo | Alexander | Tony Vreski | Fritz | Marco | Uli | James | Kristoff
Die Hard 2: William Stuart | Ramon Esperanza | Major Grant | Garber | Kahn | Oswald Cochrane | O'Reilly | Baker | Thompson | Burke | Miller | Sheldon | Shockley | Mulkey | Sherman | Albertson | Richard Thornburg
Ricochet: Earl Talbot Blake | Kim
Die Hard with a Vengeance: Simon Gruber | Katya | Mathias Targo | Karl | Otto | Mischa | Nils | Klaus | Rolf
Live Free or Die Hard: Thomas Gabriel | Mai Linh | Emerson | Rand | Trey | Robinson | Robert Russo | Del | Casper
A Good Day to Die Hard: Yuri Komarov | Irina Komarov | Vadim | Mako | Viktor Chagarin | Alik | Anton

Video Games
Die Hard: Vendetta: Piet Gruber | Jack Frontier | Marlin | Nitric
Die Hard Arcade: Wolf Hongo
Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas: Kenny Sinclair | Reese Hoffman | Elena Goshkin | Victor Rashenko | Amir El Kahr

Comic Books
Die Hard: Year One: Alan Douglas
A Million Ways to Die Hard: Mr. Moviefone

Advertisement