James Munroe

James Munroe is the main antagonist in the 2010 film The Expendables.

He is portrayed by Eric Roberts, who also played the Master in the Doctor Who movie.

Biography
Munroe was once a CIA agent but eventually started working as a mercenary with General Garza, the dictator of the fictional island of Vilena, and planning to profit from drug dealing on the island. Munroe often humiliates Garza in front of his men and Garza becomes increasingly agitated with him. Mr. Church, a member of the CIA, soon hires the Expendables to find and assassinate Munroe. Barney Ross and Lee Christmas, two of the Expendables, explore Vilena and meet Garza's daughter, Sandra. After a fierce battle with some of Garza's men, Barney and Lee manage to kill them but Munroe survives. He rightly suspects that Sandra had been helping them and that she is involved in a plot to kill him and Garza, leading him to kidnap and torture her. One of the Expendables, named Gunnar Jensen, had previously been dismissed from the group due to his unstable and overly violent nature, and Munroe offers him £100,000 in exchange for helping him to track down and kill all of the Expendables. Jensen goes after the group but ultimately fails.

Eventually, Garza stands up to Munroe after witnessing him torturing Sandra, mainly because she is his daughter but also because he believes Munroe had hired the Expendables to kill him. In response, Munroe shoots Garza dead and attempts to escape from the Expendables with Sandra as his hostage. Ross chases after him and confronts the villain as he holds a gun to Sandra's head. Munroe taunts Ross, telling him that they are both mercenaries and therefore no different from one another, but Sandra is then able to break free of his grasp. Barney immediately shoots Munroe several times just as Christmas throws a large knife through his chest, killing him instantly.