Thaddeus Valentine

"The man who controls this, controls the world."

- Valentine's most famous line "Sorry you had to hear that."

- Valentine kicking Tom down the garbage hole.

Thaddeus Valentine is the main antagonist of novel Mortal Engines and its movie. He is the Head of the Guild of Historians, Katherine Valentine, Tom Natsworthy's former mentor and father like figure and Hester Shaw's arch-nemesis. An obsessed leader and attempting to rule everything all over, Thaddeus attempts to find a very important book so he can rule London and all of the world but not before trying to kill Hester who takes it upon herself to kill Valentine.

He was portrayed by the famous actor Hugo Weaving, who also played Agent Smith in The Matrix, Noah in Happy Feet, Megatron, Red Skull in The Avengers series and Bill Smoke and Old Georgie in Cloud Atlas.