Diver (The City of Lost Children)

The Diver is the hidden tertiary, later secondary antagonist of the 1995 French-German-Spanish Steampunk/Fantasy film The City of Lost Children

He was portrayed by french actor Dominique Pinon

The Diver originally was a scientist who in search of a family created a wife (Mademoiselle Bismuth) and children (the clones and Krank), but his inventions were cursed by a bioengineering fairy, so they will have failures, the fairy made his wife "small as a grasshopper", gave the clones the curse of sleep and krank to never sleep, this made him angry so he and Bismuth attacked him and throw him into the sea believing him dead, but he only lost his memory.

One day he rescues the girl Miette from the sea, and takes care of her until she has to go back to his mission of rescuing his best friend One brother and the other children from Krank, he later retrieves part of his memory and sets on a suicide mission to destroy Krank's rig, when he arrives, he kills Bismuth with a harpoon gun and betrays Miette, then he convinces the clones to help him as he is "the original".

Miette and One rescue the kids and escape on boats while the Diver ties himself to one leg of the rig with dynamite, the Clones and Uncle Irvin escape from the rig on a boat, the rig starts to explode while the Diver screams in victory but he later remembers Irvin and that he created the clones and regrets his decition, he begs the clones to return but they don't listen, he orders Irvin to return but he ignores him, screaming in terror he tries to untie himself but a bird stands on the detonator and blows up the rig while the diver accepts his fate and dies.