Armando Armas

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Armando Aretas
Alias	None
Origin	Bad Boys for Life
Occupation	Assassin
Powers / Skills	Gunmanship Hand to hand combat Vast resources High intelligence Bilingualism
Hobby	Killing his mom's targets (formerly).
Goals	Kill his father Mike Lowrey and his best-friend Marcus Burnett for the death of his alleged father. Help his mother Isabel become the number one drug kingpin in Miami (both abandoned). Repay his dept to society (ongoing).
Crimes	Mass murder Orchestrated assassinations Drug dealing Conspiracy Attempted patricide
Type of Villain	Vengeful Assassin

“	Keep it moving, detective.	„
	~ Armando to Marcus.

Armando Aretas is the secondary antagonist of the 2020 buddy cop action comedy film Bad Boys for Life, the third installment of the Bad Boys franchise, and will return in its upcoming 2024 sequel Bad Boys Ride or Die.

He is a cartel enforcer as well as the son of both crime lady Isabel Aretas and policeman Mike Lowrey respectively.

He is portrayed by Jacob Scipio (who also portrayed Carlos in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) in his first villainous role.

History

Armando Armas started off as a criminal who worked for his mother Isabel Aretas, a notorious crime lady who groomed him to become her right-hand man. He helped her to escape from a Mexican prison. Isabel then sends him to Miami with instructions to recover a large sum of money that her husband Benito had hidden, as well as to assassinate the people responsible for Benito's arrest and his death in prison.

While being given instructions by his mother, Armado is told that Miami detective Mike Lowrey is to be his final target. However, Armado disobeys his mother by targeting Mike first; he makes his attempt as Mike is with his best-friend Marcus Burnett celebrating the birth of the latter's grandson, during which Armado shoots Mike in the hopes of ending his life - though Mike survives despite being left in a coma for six months.

When Isabel later finds out what her son had done, she confronts and rebukes Armado for targeting Mike first against her orders; Armado justifies this by stating that Mike is the biggest threat for them. Isabel eventually relents with his decesion, and Armado proceeds to murder the other targets on the list during Mike's recovery.

By the time Mike has recovered, he gradually learns that Armado is the culprit and is determined to take him down; he attempts to recruit Marcus in his quest, but Marcus refuses due to his retirement and the pair end up having a rift over this. Left with no other choice, Mike is forced to do this alone and he manages to obtain the identity of an arms dealer Booker Grassie from an informer. When his superinendent Captain Howard realizes that Mike will ignore his orders to not investigation the matter, he reluctantly allows him to work alongside the tech team in charge - Advanced Miami Metro Operations (AMMO), led by Mike's ex-girlfriend, Lieutenant Rita Secada.

While the team watches Grassie during an arms market, Mike determines that the buyers intend to kill Grassie and intervenes, but fails to save him. Later, Marcus is called by Carver Remy, a former informer who believes that the assassin is after him. Marcus contacts Mike and the pair go to Carver, but are too late to save him. Armando escapes after a fight with Mike.

Captain Howard later reveals his intention to also retire, offering Mike the advice he needs to find a path in life. He is brutally murdered by Armando a few moments later. As Armando prepares to shoot Mike, a female pedestrian, the Referee to Howard’s daughter’s basketball game, gets involved, resulting in Armando in not wanting to shoot a civilian. Armando later arrives in a helicopter to rescue his partner Zway-Lo, but kills him when he blocks Armando's ability to shoot Mike. As he lines up a shot, Armando says to Mike "Hasta el Fuego". Shots from his partner Marcus create a cover for Mike, who falls into the nearby river.

AMMO is closed due to the failure of the operation. In private, Mike reveals to Marcus that Armando is his son. Before joining Marcus, Mike worked as an undercover cop in the Aretas cartel where he met Isabel. They fell in love and intended to flee together, using "Hasta el Fuego" as a secret slogan. Mike eventually remained loyal to the police, realizing how dangerous Isabel had become. Despite Mike's opposition, Marcus and AMMO join him in Mexico to confront her. At the Hildago Palace, Mike meets Isabel and scolds her for hiding the truth from him.

A shootout ensues quickly between AMMO and the men of Isabel. Thereaupon Marcus shoots the pilot of Isabel's support helicopter, causing him to crash into the central hall and start a fire. Marcus confronts Isabel, while Mike tries to explain the truth to Armando. A fight begins between the two, but Mike refuses to fight back. Demanding the truth from his mother, she confirms to Armando that Mike is his father. Isabel inadvertently shoots Armando in the chest while aiming at Mike. Enraged, she tries to kill Mike, but Rita intervenes and shoots Isabel, sending her to fall into the flames below.

Some time later, Mike visits a remorseful Armando in prison and offers him a chance to gain some redemption; Armando accepts.