Because of some issues with the old "6 more upvotes" rule, I have to repropose these two characters. Everything is copied from Stolen and Scary Movie's proposals.
Who is he?
Montgomery "Monty" de la Cruz is a student at Liberty High and a friend of Bryce Walker and Justin Foley. He is a notorious and violent bully who is on the baseball team and serves as a major antagonist of the 13 Reasons Why series. Ironically, unlike most of the other characters he isn't even listed as a reason why on Hannah's tapes.
His actions?
- He almost runs over Alex with a car,, as well as several other kids while speeding to school while speeding to school
- Beating up Alex
- Helping Courtney spread lies about Hannah being a "psycho lesbian"
- Ran Clay off the road, in an attempt to kill him
- Left a sex doll hanging on Jessica's (a rape victim) porch calling her a "slut"
- Mailed a loaded gun, as well as a shooting dummy diagram, along with a note saying " how could you live with your self" to Alex (a recent suicide survivor) Side note: Montgomery is basically trying to force Alex to kill himself, which makes him uncomfortably similar to Kilgrave and Valak.
- Wrecked Tony's car
- Left a crippled Alex in the middle of nowhere
- Broke into Clay's house and stole Justin's gun
- Left a dead rat in Zach's gym bag
- Vandalized the Bakers shop
- Left notes threatening to hurt or kill people who may testify against Bryce
- In the school bathroom, he beats up Tyler in a very violent way. Smashing his head on mirrors and sinks, dumping his head into the toilet repeatedly, and in one of the most graphic rape scenes he shoves a mop handle in Tyler's and sodomizes him with it
Redeeming Qualities/Freudian Excuse?
He has an abusive father who at one point came after him with a hammer and had broke Monty' s arm after he acted up in school. Because of this he sometimes has to leave home. However I don't find this excuse mitigating, several characters come from abusive homes, that are just as bad, if not worse than Monty's. Justin who is a Foil to Montgomery comes from a broken home where his mother is a junky and his father walked out on him. The step father is also always abusing Justin. Justin himself became strung out on drugs because of this but he still has a moral consencice and didn't ever get up to what Monty has done.
Montgomery also is very loyal to Bryce even when the other jocks such as Scott were against Bryce for the rapes he had committed, Monty still wanted to protect him no matter what. However he is protecting Bryce because Bryce is the captain of the baseball team and without Bryce there season will be cancelled (which it was) so it is more to do with him protecting him becoming famous and protecting his social status. It is also never played as a redeeming quality, Bryce himself told Monty to fuck off since his Stupid Evil actions were putting his case at risk.
There is also this quote:
{{Quote|Do you know what I got Alex? I got my friends, I got the team. I don’t get to be all boo-hoo I’m sad my friend died, I’m gonna put a bullet in my head so the whole world feels sorry for me. Jesus, you wave that gun around like I give a s**t. I don’t man. If I sell out Bryce or lie either way my life falls apart. I got no one else on my side. I can’t run home that team’s my home. Going to playoffs, winning state, being an athlete? That’s not about fun for me it’s about survival. It’s all I got. It’s everything.| Monty telling Alex his motives for his crimes.}}
The show never plays this for sympathy though, and makes it sound kind of like he's using them as a means for his own survival rather than legit care about them...but they may just be my interpretation.
Heinous Standard?
The only competition he has is the main antagonist himself Bryce Walker (who is Pure Evil). Bryce is a Serial Rapist but I'd say Monty still does enough to stand out enough from him. Monty's rape of Tyler is portrayed in a more graphic and painful way than Bryce's rapes were. I also think shoving a mop up someone's ass goes far beyond standard rape.
Also, unlike Bryce he has attempted murder and the mailing Alex a loaded gun part was beyond cruel.
So yes, I think Monty qualifies because he pretty much doesn't do anything other than hurting others, and he has the most onscreen MEHs.
Now, to Lewis Dodgson.
Who is Lewis Dodgson?
Lewis Dodgson originally appeared in Jurassic Park novels and served both as the main antagonist and the heavy. He was a high-ranked industrial spy, whom goal in the first novel was bringing Jurassic Park down by using Dennis Nedry. After Nedry got killed, and therefore failed, Dodgson went on to a more sinister plan. In "The Lost World", Dodgson wanted to get dinosaurs as hunting attractions. The novel make it clear that it was far from the first time Dodgson did something like that. As a veteran industrial spy, he stole other people's idea and endangered their life throughout his career. He even killed at least 10 people with an experimental rabies virus. By the time the story took place, Dodgson already had at least 10 victims.
Does he have redeeming qualities or Freudian Excuse?
The others Jurassic Park villains had. Dodgson don't. Some of the villains were tragic. examples: Indominus-Rex and Indoraptor grew up with a horrible treatment from their creators. Billy Yoder lost all of his friends. Others had freudian excuses. Examples: Vic Hoskins believed he's improving the world and save human lives with his ideas of biological weapons. Ludlow lived his life with severe inferiority complexes, knowing he could never be as successful and visionary as his uncle. Henry Wu lost his way after losing Hammond, who was a father figure for him. Even Eli Mills, who murdered his own boss and tortured Indoraptor, not to mention he endangered the characters for his selfish goals, had a brief moment of remorse about killing his boss. Dodgson have non. He was serious, dangerous, had no excuse/tragedy and never cared about anyone or anything beyond his own gains.
Is he heinous by the standards of the story?
Here are some of the heinous things he did:
1. Long before Billy Yoder and Eli Mills, Dodgson was the first villain who tried to kill a human being with his bare hands. Up until Dodgson, all of the attempts on human lives were commited by dinosaurs. When he tried to drown Sarah Harding, who trusted him to help her get to the island, he became the first human who tried to kill another human on-screen.
2. Even Mills, who became the third human who tried to kill another human on-screen, and the first to succeed, never commited a confirmed kill off-screen. Dodgson killed at least 10 people, some of them are children, without even the slightest remorse. When he spreaded the experimental rabies virus without informing the locals, he could kill the whole town.
3. He corrupted a poor man named Howard King. Not every JP villain, or any villain, can claim he/she corrupted someone. Indominus-Rex corrupted the raptors, but only to an extent. Dodgson corrupted King completely. Even ruined his life. He brought a good man like King to lose it all and take part of dangerous plans. King wasn't the only man Dodgson corrupted. Many other scientists fell victim to Dodgson's manipulations.
4. Every life he took, every theft he commited, every time he put someone in danger... No regrets. Ever.
5. When talking about his idea of making dinosaurs into hunting attractions, he dared to compare shooting a tiger to kill his own parents, mockingly said " it's a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents". That cinical statement was part of a whole conversation about explotation, hollow arguements, hypocrisy and even sadism.
And finally: The book do everything in its power to emphatize Dodgson is a sadistic psychopath who know exactly what he's doing and have no wish to achieve anything which ain't directly connected to his narrow interests. In other words, he cant be argued as extremist, tragic, anti-villain or amoral.
My conclusion? Easy yes. Any murders committed by a human in the JP franchise is considered heinous. Dodgson murders ten people, making him a frigging serial killer.
So please comment on both of them.