Varg Vikernes (Lords of Chaos)

"Laugh now you fake fucking nazi!"

- Varg after assaulting a wannabe nazi.

"Varg Vikernes: I thought you were true Norwegian black metal.

Euronymous: I invented it.

Varg Vikernes: And now you betray it!"

- Varg as he murders Euronymous by stabbing him to death.

Varg Vikernes is the main antagonist  of the infamous biographical horror-thriller film ''Lords of Chaos. ''He was the bassist of the Norwegian black-metal band Mayhem and a nihilstic and homophobic nazi supremacist (as fictionally portrayed in the film) who is responsible for several church burnings in Norway alongside band-mate and friend Euronymous of whom he murdered later on. He is also a roughly fictionilsed and evil version of his real-life counterpart. He was portrayed by Emory Cohen.

Biography
Kristian Vikernes was born in Bergen, Norway. His father was an electrical engineer while his mother was "working in a large oil comapany" and his older brother worked as a civil engineer. Much like Euronymous, he was heavily inspired by metal bands of the 60's, 70's and 80's such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Slayer. He lived in Iraq during his childhood and took interest in the Swastika symbol and Nazism.

Lords of Chaos
Kristian, an aspiring musician who nicknamed himself Varg took interest in the black-metal scene in Norway and attended a concert led by Mayhem. Soon after, at a restaurant, as a fan, he approaches lead bassist Euronymous who looks down on him due to having a stiched logo of the rock band Scorpion on his jacket. Eventually, Varg managed to charm him and the rest of the band with his charisma, intelligence, nihilism and racism. Intrigued, Euronymous assigns him to earn his respect and a spot in the band. Varg does so by burning down a church which earns him the respect of Euronymous, his band-mates and other metalheads. He then became the new bassist of Mayhem as well as a wingman of Euronymous and co-leader in his Inner Circle Black Metal cult. Together, they recorded their most famous album titled De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

fter a wave of church burnings begins, he brutally kills a gay man, leading police to link black-metallers to the crimes. Helvete is raided and shut down by the police, and Varg is arrested as prime suspect because of an interview with a Bergen newspaper in which he claimed to have been the one who burned the churches and killed the gay man. He is soon released for lack of evidence. Varg meets with Euronymous and tells him that he is leaving Mayhem and that he is going to start his own record label. Euronymous reveals that the "skull piece" necklaces were fakes, and that he never intended anyone to actually follow through on his angry rhetoric, which infuriates Varg.

In anger, Euronymous rants to a peer about wanting to kill Varg, but later calms down and sends him a contract to release the rights for his music back to him. Varg, having heard that Euronymous was making death threats against him, travels to Oslo in the early morning of August 10 to confront him. Telling Euronymous he wants to sign the contract, he enters his apartment and, after a brief conversation, stabs him. Euronymous pleads for his life, but Varg follows him through the apartment to the stairwell outside and stabs him to death. The next day, the news of Euronymous' murder spreads throughout Norway and Varg is soon arrested. He is sent to prison for a maximum of 21 years, guilty of both the murder of Euronymous and the burning of several churches.

Personality
Varg may come off as a clumsy, charismatic, intelligent and enthusiastic individual. However he is actually a racist, homophobic, satanic and homicidal individual (which is the opposite of the real-life Varg). He also did not seem to care for others and only for the cause of the Inner Circle Black Metal cult which leads him to murder Euronymous when he left black-metal to redeem himself and live better, normal life. At last, he is remorseless and unsympathetic as he calmly took a quick break from stabbing the helpless Euronymous by drinking a glass of chocolate milk before resuming the murder whilst taunting him.

Trivia

 * The real-life Varg was skinny and had a handsome look while in Lords of Chaos he is chubby and bulkier.
 * Although being portrayed as a satanic, racist, homophobic and a nihilistic nazi in the film, the real -life Varg was never any of those things.
 * Varg was relased from prison in 2009.
 * The real-life Varg has seen Lords of Chaos and was displeased by his portrayal and the overall film itself alongside his former bandmates Necrobutcher and Hellhammer.
 * In the film, Varg murdered Euronymous for abandoning black-metal while in real-life, Varg murdered him over a power struggle and financial problems.