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| “ | Following the conclusion of the trial, the young men donated the vast wealth they obtained from Baxter to the orphanage and then disappeared. Upon investigating the adopted third son who perished on that fire, I have arrived on this court record. I have zero doubts. The middle brother and the boy from the trial are the same: William James Moriarty. After the family manor burned down, he took the place of the real William. And judging by the fact that the other brothers readily accepted him, one can presume all of the brothers are complicit. William James Moriarty. I see. The name of my enemy. | „ |
| ~ Milverton declaring war against Moriarty. |
| “ | The age old question: why do devils tend to men? To try sully their hands with evil? The answer is remarkably simple. For a devil, compelling those who do good deeds to do despicable acts, well there is no greater pleasure. Since the dawn of time, nothing has held more allure for mankind than wrongdoing. Consequently, it is depicted in the Bible as a sin; a forbidden delight; the true essence of evil is the pursuit thereof. When pure it transcends the vigors and morals established by man. The Lord of Crime's sins are banal, merely based on societal conventions. Whereas I am evil incarnate. | „ |
| ~ Milverton boasting about his evil when organizing the murder of the Whitley household. |
Lord Charles Augustus Milverton is the main antagonist of the 2016 manga series Moriarty the Patriot and the second season of its 2020 anime adaptation.
Publicly operating as a media mogul that owns various newspaper firms, Milverton is secretly a powerful blackmailer and crime lord that seeks to to usurp control of British society, and masterminds the Jack the Ripper murders through a cult devoted to his classist ideals. This places him at odds with the more noble William James Moriarty, becoming his rival as the lord of Crime as Milverton seeks Moriarty's complete destruction for his own personal gain.
He was voiced by Kenji Nojima in Japanese and Kayleigh McKee in the English dub.
Appearance[]
Milverton is a man of average height and white skin. He has curly white hair and yellow eyes with slit pupils to give him an appearance of a snake. He also dons a pair of chainless pince-nez glasses with round lenses. He usually appears wearing a darkly coloured three-piece suit along with a tie and a black fedora. Judging from his appearance, he seems to be in his 30s.
Personality[]
Milverton is a sociopath to the extreme. A sadist with no conscience, Milverton's primary motive for being evil is that he can, deeming him evil at its purest and akin to the snake that corrupted Adam and Eve on Eden. He takes absolute joy destroying the lives of anyone he can as a mere hobby, focusing on corrupting others by forcing them to do heinous crimes than killing people himself. As expected of his prideful nature, Milverton revels on his status as an upper class noble. He dismisses the notion on commoners to be valued on the same light to be ridiculous which is the reason he has enmity with Adam Whiteley, and why he specifically aims at middle to lower class people for his vile crimes.
He is also perfectly willing to murder disabled children, which is shown by him forcing Sturridge to murder Whitely’s young handicapped brother while being aware that he was handicapped. However he does not seem interested in profiting from his blackmails as he has never received money from his victims. Milverton is highly manipulative, exploiting the emotional weaknesses of all the victims he blackmails to ruin them, however, as his final scene shows, he overestimates how truly in control he is, not expecting Sherlock to be willing to point a gun at him or associate himself with Moriarty. This consequently leads to his death.
Biography[]
Publicly acting as a British noble owning various newspaper firms all across England, Milverton is a crime lord that cultivated a cult of people who devote themselves to his classist beliefs and seek to reform society to how he sees fit. He is also a very prolific blackmailer who uses his position to blackmail others and force them to commit horrid crimes like murder for his own amusement and overall ruin dozens of lives in the process before having his mooks slaughter all loose ends, gaining him the self-appointed title as the "King of Blackmailers".
In the "Phantom of Whitechapel" arc, he uses his cult to organize the Jack the Ripper murder of prostitutes that occurred around Whitechapel in hopes of stirring up conflict between the commoners and Scotland Yard. Milverton seeks to use this conflict to spark a revolt that will spread all across Britian and tear the entire country apart so that it is free for him to take over and increase his power. However, Moriarty enlists the help of his own combat mentor, the original Jack the Ripper, retired assassin Jack Renfield. With Jack posing as the killer, Milverton's pawns get exposed and are killed by Moriarty and his associates while leaving evidence for Moriarty's nemesis, Sherlock, to expose the corruption. However, Milverton had seen from a secret room that the Lord of Crime is none other than William James Moriarty. In "Merchant of London", Milverton declares William his enemy and a threat he amasses information upon claiming a court record on William's case against Lord Baxter to deduce that William is not the real William James Moriarty and the fire was a set up, intending to get rid of William and his brothers for good by exposing them and destroying their lives in the process using his newspaper agency.
In the "White Knight of London" arc, he was asked on behalf of multiple members of the Parliament to deal with Lord Adam Whitely, who is campaigning for free election for all. Dismissing conventional methods like hiring a bomber like they did earlier as useless, Milverton decides to use his style of eliminating people as the King of Blackmailers, by tearing Whitely's life down and watch his ensuing despair with glee. For this end, Milverton blackmails a cop, Bartholomew Fowler by threatening his ill mother to kill the bomber that attempted to kill Whitely in his cell, before having his main assassins kill the Inspector by having his head crushed. To finally destroy Whitely properly, Milverton has kidnapped the family of Inspector Sturridge, who was appointed to protect the Whitely household. Threatening his wife and daughter's lives, he forces Sturridge to murder every last person in the Whitely house, including his young handicapped brother Sam. This prompts Whitely to kill Sturridge in rage as he predicted, now laying the stone for Whitely's reputation to be tarnished. This leads to Whitely turning to Moriarty to organize his death and be a martyr to his cause as Moriarty recognizes his war with Milverton as one between "necessary" and "pure" evil.
In "The Sign of Mary", Milverton learns of Sherlock Holmes' roommate, Dr. John H. Watson, is having plans to marry Mary Morston. Deciding to exploit this as a means to become closer to Mary, Milverton claims information on Mary's participation during her university's activist campaigns on Paris that lead rise to multiple radicals running rampant, intending on using this to end their marriage as Mary gets extradited to France for imprisonment. Sherlock eventually deduces that Milverton is the culprit while expressing his disgust over his modus operandi. When Sherlock invites him to his office to get information on where he hid the evidence, Milverton gets his assistant to urinate on Sherlock’s violin case and tells him to play a piece. Then he puts his nasty cigar ash in the tea and serves it to John. After this he announces that he is hungry, then invites Miss Hudson to his office. Miss Hudson finally has enough and tells him that he can’t tell her what to do since it is her house, so Milverton flips the table and steps on the sandwiches which makes Miss Hudson cry.
In "The Two Criminals", Milverton goes to Sherlock's flat to present his blackmail material to ensure he gets the treasure. However, Sherlock decides to personally destroy the material himself by breaking into his material where he sees William holding Milverton at gunpoint. There Milverton's true game was revealed: to destroy Moriarty by forcing Holmes to arrest him for the sake of Mary and John, threatening to release William's identity if Holmes refuses to. However he slips in that he no longer keeps the blackmail evidence against Mary since he did so just to get to Sherlock. With that, Sherlock turns his gun on Milverton to which he freaks out and attempts to jump into the ocean to escape. But Sherlock shoots him repeatedly and sending him falling from his balcony to the river below, ending his evil for good.
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External Links[]
- Charles Augustus Milverton on the Moriarty the Patriot Wiki
- Charles Augustus Milverton on the Pure Evil Wiki
