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Armando Silang (simply known as Armando) is a major antagonist in Season 9 of FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano.
He is a leader of a band of assassins who were his fellow farmers who kills wanted criminals for them to claim their bounty and their main goal is to eliminate his archenemy Don Ignacio Guillermo. He pretended an ally of Cardo and Task Force Agila, only to trick them since his true motives is to claim their bounties and make alliance with Lily Anne Cortez for them to gain power and wealth.
He is played by John Estrada who also played Rigor Dimaguiba in FPJ’s Batang Quiapo.
Biography[]
Past[]
He was once a fisherman and a close friend of Oscar Hidalgo, Aurora Guillermo, and his wife Lolita. As Aurora Guillermo escaped their home to fight for their love with Oscar, Don Ignacio and his men terrorized their homes to retrieve Aurora causing the death of his daughter Laura. With his daughter’s death he vowed himself someday that he will be extracting his revenge to Oscar Hidalgo, Aurora Guillermo, and Don Ignacio.
He eventually raised Mara and moved into farming life made his life to be more peaceful. However, Don Ignacio and his accomplice have been terrorizing them once again as he steals their lands causing almost of his loved ones and closest friends to be killed once again. This made his grudge to Don Ignacio grew and formed a band of assassin who will kill him someday. As he forms band of assassin he killed one of Don Ignacio’s accomplice and stole his mansion as their headquarters.
Crossing path with Cardo and joining forces with Lily[]
He meets Cardo Dalisay and Task Force Agila during an encounter with Don Ignacio and the authorities in a hotel in North. As he meets Cardo he persuaded him to join forces with him in their battle only to trap Task Force Agila as his way to claim their bounties. He has been helping Task Force Agila in their mission in attempt to exterminate Lily and Renato and eventually reveals his true intention to them. As he also learns about Aurora Guillermo’s return he disposed Mara to prevent her from making contact to each other.
As he takes advantage of Task Force Agila’s situation that Cardo was captured, he then attempted to claim their bounties but thanks to Lucas he helped them escape. As Task Force Agila escapes he was able to capture Delfin thanks to Omar. Days later he joined forces with and asked her to exterminate Don Ignacio which resulted that they were able to extract their revenge and served justice for their loved ones. As Delfin attempted to escape from his hands, his men were able to trap him and beat Delfin mercilessly. As he was about to stab Delfin to death, this was stopped when Cardo arrives only to trap him for his motive to claim his bounty. Delfin managed to stand up after being violently beaten and traded his life by shooting them for Cardo to escape. On the same time, Task Force Agila and Oscar Hidalgo have raided his hideout killing almost his men and escaped with his wife Lolita.
Downfall[]
Days later after encountering Task Force Agila and burned his mansion, he lie lows in the palace under Lily’s control. Oscar Hidalgo has met with Senate President Camilo Edades and exposed Lily and Renato’s corruption and declared him as wanted criminals alongside with Major Albert De Vela. He then retreats in Lily’s hideout in Tierra del Diablo and recruits some of his assassins to be part of Lily’s army in facing Task Force Agila. He also declares that his face off with Cardo is now personal and vowed himself to extract his revenge to him for being humiliated to the First Lady.
As Task Force Agila have raided Lily’s hideout and eliminates Albert and Lolita and their respected armies, Cardo and some members of Task Force Agila have followed him. Upon being followed, Cardo managed to encounter him and beat him bloodily same thing how he beat General Borja. Severely beaten, Task Force Agila have tied him in a reversing vehicles causing his arms to be ripped off. He was ultimately killed upon Cardo bumps him with his disfigured body.
Personality[]
In the past he was seen to be a kindhearted man who just lived peacefully and harmoniously. However, this has changed after his daughter’s death as his grudge to Don Ignacio grew causing him to be a vengeful and wrathful individual. As he continues to become Don Ignacio’s victim, this lead him to continue his path as a vengeful individual who is obsessed in antagonizing him. This also lead him to be opportunistic individual as he enters a life of being mercenary for being a power hungry and greedy individual as he believes that wealth is the one giving him influence and power.
One of his redeeming quality is that he has high fatherly instinct as he shows love true his daughter Laura and expresses his heartache how he lost her caused by Don Ignacio. This was also seen upon he disposed Mara, despite of disposing her he felt a heartache inside him that he raised her as his own daughter and tells her that his true intention in this action is to help her escape from their chaotic life.
Trivia[]
- This is one of the characters that John Estrada would play in Coco Martin’s project in remaking FPJ’s project. Other one is Rigor Dimaguiba who plays in FPJ’s Batang Quiapo.
- He is one of the villains who died by ripping off any body part. First is being Enrique Vera who was slashed by Fernando Mante causing to rip off his hand, and other one is Lucio Santanar who is decapitated by Cardo after a violent brawl in his hideout.
- He shares some similarities with Muto Prime from Godzilla: aftershock, being both responsible for killing their enemies’ respective family members and killed by them by sustaining damage in their body parts. However, Armando was killed by having both his arms ripped apart and getting ran over by Cardo, while Muto Prime had her head stomped on by Godzilla.Also, Jinjin Mushi fought and killed Dagon during the 11th century BC, while Armando killed Lolo Delfin not long before his death.