Bill Kilgore

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Bill Kilgore
Alias	Kilgore Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore Colonel Kilgore
Origin	Apocalypse Now
Occupation	Lieutenant Conel, 1st Cavalry Commander
Powers / Skills	Highly Skilled Gunman, Tactical and Strategy expert, Leadership skills, Military experience
Hobby	Surfing and smelling napalm, blowing up Vietnamese land, enjoying the war
Goals	To help Willard and his friends up the Nùng's Viet Cong–held coastal mouth (succeeded). To blow up a Vietnamese village for fun (succeeded).
Crimes	No information
Type of Villain	Amoral Warmonger, Military Villain

Lieuteant Colonel Bill Kilgore is the secondary antagonist of the 1979 film, Apocalypse Now. He is an amoral warmonger who actually enjoys the war and calls it home. He is introduced in the movie when Willard and his allies ask him for help in getting up to the Nùng. Kilgore scoffs, but befriends Lance after discovering his surfing experience and agrees to escort them through the Nùng's Viet Cong–held coastal mouth. They successfully raid at dawn, with Kilgore ordering a napalm sortie on the local cadres. He and his men then proceed to mercilessly kill, shoot and blow up numerous innocent civilians, showing a complete and utter disregard for civilian and human life, and showing Kilgore as what he is, a blood-thirsty, sadistic and amoral warmonger. This arguably makes him more evil than the film's main antagonist, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, as he is willing to involve innocent civilians in his reign of mass murder and destruction, and shows no guilt for his deeds.

He is portrayed by legendary actor Robert Duvall, who also portrayed Tom Hagen, Joseph Pulitzer and Frank Burns.