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| “ | AHAHAHA! We have those gringos exactly where we want them! | „ |
| ~ General Diego preparing to assault the invading U.S. soldiers. |
| “ | What!?! Did you forget how to use those rifles?! I've had enough! A thousand pieces in gold to the man who brings me that gringo's head. | „ |
| ~ General Diego ordering his men to have Red Harlow killed. |
| “ | I have a case of cigars and case of tequila, and I'm not going anywhere. | „ |
| ~ General Diego in Showdown mode. |
General Javier Diego is the secondary antagonist of the 2004 video-game Red Dead Revolver.
Javier is a playable character in Showdown after the player buys his stars and stripes.
He was voiced by Robert Jimenez.
Biography[]
Diego was once a respected general of the Mexican Army but when he "retired" from the military, he actually kept his title and created his own army made up of many men of various nationalists and former war veterans. His right-hand-man was an American even.
In a flashback told by Sheriff Bartlett, General Diego and his men fought U.S. soldiers who attempted to cross the Rio Grande River into Mexico. He ordered his subordinate, Colonel Daren to prepare some artillery while he himself and his soldiers, like Jose and Franco, were ordered into the trenches to fight the soldiers. After the first wave, Diego used flares on his self-made Bayonet rifle to target enemy cannons, which were knocked out with concentrated artillery fire. However, when a bigger second wave of U.S. soldiers arrived, Diego ordered 2 of his lieutenants, Juan and Alonso Cleu, to rig the bridge with explosives, while he personally fended off the enemy soldiers. After the charges under the bridge were detonated, Diego's men rounded up some survivors, including a man named Griffon.
Diego took account of the captured prisoners and wanted to execute Griff after Daren assumed he was a spy. Griffon protested and claimed he was actually a businessman with ties to a gold mine. Upon learning of the wealth locked in Bear Mountain mines and Griff's unique position as legal claim holder to give it to him, Diego sealed their new partnership with a firm handshake and a cliche villain laugh by sending Colonel Daren and some hired goons to slaughter Griff's partner, Nate Harlow. Despite successfully killing Nate and his wife, Daren got his entire left arm blown off by Nate's Scorpion revolver by Red Harlow. Diego rewarded him by paying the best doctors and gunsmiths he could afford to implant a mortar cannon on Daren's arm. While Nate's son, Red, escaped alive and would become a bounty hunter, Diego and his renegade army started mining Bear Mountain's rich gold deposits, using captured American soldiers as slave labor all the while Griffon used his position as a Governor to make it all legit.
Years later, Diego had taken up residence in an abandoned fort, named it after himself and put flags of his face all around. He was also using a heavily-armed stagecoach and an entire railroad and the gold mining operation was a huge success. However, this was interrupted when a fully-grown Red Harlow, having learned the part they played in his family's murder, started hunting for Diego, Daren, Griffon and all their associates. Red found and disabled the armored stagecoach at Sunset Canyon, blowing it up in the process but was captured by Daren.
Red was imprisoned at the Bear Mountain mines along with a Buffalo Soldier, but Red's cousin Shadow Wolf freed him and they all escaped the mines. Red and Wolf then raided the Fort Diego which resulted in the deaths of Shadow Wolf, Colonel Daren, and a lot of Diego's men and miners. After a mobile battle on Diego's railway and train, Red was able to disable the sucker with Willy Wilson's gatling gun. Unable to kill Red with his rotating, train-mounted cannons and the soldiers he had left, Diego charged at him with his bayonet rifle while taunting him sadistically.
Red shot him down, and as Diego lied, crawling away on his back on the train tracks, he started to barter for his life with promises of gold, whiskey, weapons and women, but Red executed him with a point blank shot to the face. Red then left the place and head back to Brimstone to finish off the rest of his family's killers.
Notable Victims[]
- Nate Harlow and Falling Star - Ordered; shot by Colonel Daren during a raid in order to claim Nate’s gold at Bear Mountain.
Trivia[]
- In an ironic twist concerning Diego and Governor Griffon's roles in the game, Diego died a coward in disgrace while Griff died in an honourable duel with Red despite that Griff was begging Diego for his life 12 years prior and had he not reveal his share of the Bear Mountain gold mine, would have been executed.
- To make matters more ironic, Diego was depended on Griffon to make sure his gold mine operations were not interrupted as he captured American soldiers and veterans to work in his mines but only after Griffon allowed him to.
- He is about 168cm (5'6'' feet) tall and weighs 69kg (152 pounds).
External Link[]
- General Diego on the Red Dead Wiki
