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Why did you tell them you’re only launder money on the first of the month?
~ Willy Lopez asks Carl about money.

Willy Lopez is the secondary antagonist of the 1990 film Ghost. He is a small-time crook working for Carl Bruner and is the one responsible for killing Sam Wheat, setting off the events of the film.

He was portrayed by the late Rick Aviles, who also played Ratty "Rat Man" Erwins in Stephen King's The Stand.

Biography[]

Willy first appears when he attempts to rob a wallet belonging to Sam Wheat. This results in a tussle, and Sam gets killed as a result, prompting Willy to run away as Molly and two newcomers tend on a dying Sam, who dies shortly afterwards on a hospital. Later on, we see that Willy has Sam's wallet, although he fails in getting the codes.

He then tries to break into Molly's apartment to find the codes, but Sam (now a ghost) has a cat scare Willy into fleeing away from the apartment just as he looked on an oblivious Molly. Sam later finds out that Willie lives alone in a small flat in Oda Mae Brown's neighborhood and the worst part being that his own friend Carl Bruner was the one who sent out Willy to steal Sam's codes to launder money from bank accounts, thus making Carl partially responsible for his death, although Carl didn't want Willy to kill his friend.

Upon hearing that a medium named Oda Mae has withdrawn $4 million from the bank (under Sam's directions), Carl and Willy head over to her apartment to attack her. Fortunately, Sam physically attacks Willy, who then attempts to escape but is killed in a traffic accident.

Willy's ghost arises from his dead body and Sam taunts him by saying, "You're dead, Willy!". A group of howling shadowy demons then appear out of the nowhere and pulled a screaming Willy into the darkness, to Hell for his sins. Carl would join Willy in Hell some hours later after being stabbed to death in the abdomen by sprinting glass from a falling window while trying facing Sam.

Personality[]

Willie is a rogue robber and trickster, but he has never been arrested due to being a crafty, cunning and clever mugger, given that he had no criminal records on the New York City Police Department. He is kind of stressed (as he should just rob Sam and not kill him, but Willie did not expect Sam to react and so he fired the gun at him) as seen in his discussions with Carl Bruner.

He is also something of a womanizer since he looked at Molly undressing herself when he tries to raid her apartment and when Carl visits him to tell him that Oda Mae knows where she lives, he responds that a bunch of females know where he lives, implying that Willy must have some one-night stands (most likely prostitutes).

Trivia[]

  • He is seen to drink Pepsi and eats noodles, possibly showing that he is cheap but reckless for living in the projects while being a competent crook who mugs for cash and spends his stealings on prostitutes.
  • Despite the fact that Carl Bruner is the main antagonist of the film, Willy Lopez served as The Heavy because his murder of Sam drove the plot of the film, which made Carl the Big Bad and the one behind the plot.
    • Nevertheless, Willy is more evil than Carl, as he did not express any kind of remorse for killing Sam.
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