Lope de Aguirre

"I, the Wrath of God, will marry my own daughter, and with her I will found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen. Together, we shall rule this entire continent. We shall endure. I am the Wrath of God... who else is with me?"

Lope de Aguirre is the main antagonist and title character of Werner Herzog's 1972 film ''Aguirre, the Wrath of God. ''He is a fictionalized version of the real Spanish conquistador who led a doomed expedition to the Amazonian rainforest in 1560. He is portrayed by the late Klaus Kinski, who also portrayed Count Dracula in Herzog's 1972 film Nosferatu, the Vampyre.

Personality
Aguirre is cruel, unpredictable and given to fits of violent rage. While the other members of the expedition genuinely believe they are bringing glory to the Spanish empire, Aguirre believes only in his own glory as the self-styled "wrath of God", and is willing to sacrifice his men in service of his own ego. He is also mentally unstable, and over the course of the film descends into total madness.

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