Mason Verger

Mason Verger is the main villain of the book and movie Hannibal, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs. He is the only surviving victim of Hannibal Lecter, who was high on drugs when Hannibal convinced him to simultaneously hang himself and cut off most of his own face with a knife ("It seemed like a good idea at the time") leaving him crippled and horrificly deformed. He is also a sickening, sadistic pedophile who enjoys watching children suffer, and even after being crippled by Lecter he continues to torment children emotionally, and drinks martinis with their tears in them.

Mason Verger is obsessed with getting revenge on Hannibal, and during the story he tries to lure him into a trap by kidnapping Clarice Starling, working with Clarice's personal enemy Paul Krendler. In the book, he is killed at the end by his long-suffering and disturbed sister Margot (who doesn't appear in the movie). In the film, he dies when he is pushed into a pit of vicious pigs he bred to kill Hannibal Lecter, when Hannibal convinces Verger's assistant Cordell to turn on his abusive and ungrateful master, promising him he woulden't tell the police what he had done.

He was played in the movie by Gary Oldman.