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| “ | I'm gonna make this hurt! | „ |
| ~ Killian's catchphrase. |
| “ | Killian: You don't remember me, do you? Lance: What can I say? I meet a lot of bad guys. Killian: I'm gonna show you pain that you can't imagine. |
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| ~ Killian as he is attempting to kill Lance, and his most famous quote. |
Tristan McFord, falsely known as Lance Sterling, better known as Killian or Robo-Hand, is the main antagonist of Blue Sky Studios's 13th and final full-length feature film Spies in Disguise.
He is Lance Sterling's arch-enemy, a crime lord, and a terrorist mastermind with a cybernetic left arm. He wants to kill Lance for maiming him and killing his crew in a past mission.
He is voiced by Ben Mendelsohn, who also played John Daggett in The Dark Knight Rises, Danny Rayburn in Bloodline, Orson Krennic in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Nolan Sorrento in Ready Player One, the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, Talos in Captain Marvel and Special Agent Mace in Infinity Train.
Personality[]
Killian was once a protective leader to all of his underlings until the Kyrgyzstan attack caused by Lance Sterling. He truly cared for his minions, and was deeply saddened when they died due to Lance's actions. The fact that his minions were killed off and his disfigurement were what ultimately caused him to become Lance's arch-nemesis.
However, he let his grief transform him into an arrogant, greedy, merciless, remorseless, intimidating, menacing, and terroristic criminal mastermind, having no regard or care for how many lives he costs in order to get what he wants. He holds a hateful grudge against Lance Sterling for the incident that left him crippled with half his face intact and replaced with robotics. He is also shown to be quite a sly man, as he is able to make his robotic face become a holographic of Lance's, framing his enemy in the process. Killian is also homicidal, as shown by him dropping a scientist to his death. However, when the agents pointed out that Walter saved Killian, Killian's eye went from red to blue, possibly hinting he regretted what he had done or that he felt grateful to Walter after he saved him.
Appearance[]
Killian is a tall man with black hair, thick black eyebrows, and pale blue eyes. He wears a dark gray double breasted suit, a navy blue shirt, and has a cyborg claw in place of his left hand and a cyborg eye on the left side of his face.
Biography[]
Background[]
In one of HTUV (Honor, Trust, Unity and Valor) agent Lance Sterling's past missions, the former killed Killian's crew of terrorists in Kyrgyzstan. During that mission, Killian lost his left eye and arm, which eventually leads him to have them cybernetically enhanced.
Spies in Disguise[]
Years later, plotting his revenge for the loss of his crew and his disfigurement, Killian arrives in Japan to buy a weaponized attack drone from Japanese arms dealer Katsu Kimura before Lance appeared to retrieve the drone. Recognizing the agent, he immediately seized and then scanned him prior to engaging into a fight with Lance; Kimura's men soon surround both Killian and Lance, leaving the former to easily get away with the briefcase containing the drone in a helicopter, though the latter would seemingly manage to recover it. However, Killian secretly left the briefcase empty and escaped with the actual drone while under the holographic disguise of Lance, leading to the agent being labeled as a traitor.
Killian breaks into the H.T.U.V. weapons facility and had one of its scientists build multiple drones before having him killed due to how he promised that he'd "let him go". One of his drones in Venice, Italy gets destroyed by Lance (who was turned into a pigeon by one of Walter Beckett's inventions) trying to get the H.T.U.V. agent database, although Killian himself shows up and takes it back as he prepares to kill Walter. With help from hundreds of hungry pigeons in the surrounding area, Walter distracts Killian and flees with Lance. Disguised as Lance once more, Killian escapes the H.T.U.V, shaking Marcy's suspicions of Sterling upon her seeing him with a robot hand.
Whilst underwater in a submarine, Walter reveals he planted a tracking device on Killian and locates him at the weapons facility, and upon arrival at the facility, Lance leaves Walter behind (not wanting to get him in danger) and sneaks into the base; unfortunately, he is soon spotted, knocked out and captured as Killian reveals he has mass produced hundreds of drones to target everyone at the agency using the database as revenge for killing his crew in a past mission led by Sterling. Noticing Walter returning in the submarine from one of the monitors, Killian destroys it, leaving Lance devastated. Although, Walter survived the attack with the help of one of his inventions, the inflatable hug, and frees Lance prior to tracking Killian.
During a skirmish between the H.T.U.V. agents and Killian with his drones, Walter attempts to hack into Killian's bionic arm while hidden from his sight. When Killian realizes this however (thanks to Lance revealing the hack while under the sprayed truth serum), he tries to flee with a drone, but Walter catches up. He tries to stop Walter from deactivating his cybernetic arm, believing that the deactivation would kill them both; facing this predicament, Walter risks his life by trapping Killian in one of his protective gadgets, a inflatable balloon, and deactivates the arm (and by extent all of the drones including the one carrying Killian) before being rescued by Lance, who transformed back into a pigeon. As the rubber-balloon-trapped Killian gently lands on the ground, the agents arrive to arrest him; and when they point out that Walter saved him, Killian's eye goes from red to blue, implying he may have felt remorse for what he did or felt grateful to Walter for saving him.
Quotes[]
| “ | Scientist: I hope this works. I hope this works. I hope this works. Please, please, please. (Killian walks in) Automated Voice: Weapons system online. Agent Database required for targeting. Scientist: It's done! The entire facility Is running at full capacity. Everything is exactly how you wanted It. But, please, the destruction this is capable of... (Killian sighs) Killian: Since when does your agency care about the many, many, many lives It destroys? (The M9 Assassin grabs the scientist) Scientist: No! Wait! Wait! Wait! No, no, no! No. Please, please! Wait! Wait! Wait! You said if I helped you, you'd Let me go. Killian: Oh, yeah, I did. Didn't I? (Scientist screams) I hear Venice Is wonderful this Time of year. |
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| ~ Killian talking to the scientist before killing him. |
| “ | Killian: Uh-uh-uh. That belongs to me. Walter: Technically, it belongs to the united states (Killian kicks Walter) government. Lance! Lance!. Killian: Sterling? What do you say, Lance? Come out. We'll have some Good fun. You're the Hero, right? The spy who saves the day... Destroying anybody that Stands in your way. Oh, I'd love to have some fun. Guess he's not coming. Lance: No. Killian: Ah, life's full of dissapointment. Walter: You don't have to do it this way. It won't make anything better. Lance: No! No! WALTER! (Walter throws breadcrumbs to Killian) Killian: Breadcrumbs? (The pigeons react) Walter: They're gluten free. |
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| ~ Killian while stealing the database from Walter and Lance. |
| “ | Lance: I told you I don't even know you man. Killian: But I know you. Think about it. No I'll give you a little bit of help, Kyrgyzstan. Aww, he remembers! I mean, I certainly never forgot that day. You were magnificent! You were a one-man army... Lot of witty catch phrases, and you had all these fancy toys that just went Boom!! Boom... boom... Lance: You were a bunch of bad dudes about to hurt a lot of innocent people, and it's my job to keep everyone safe. Killian: Everyone...I watched every single one of my people die as your agency's weapons rained down on us. You took everything from me and you know the rules. You hit me hard, Sterling. I hit back harder. All of this, because of you. |
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| ~ Killian |
| “ | Killian: Nowhere to run from this, Lance. Lance: Listen, I'm sorry about what happened in Kyrgyzstan. But we are stuck In this good guy-bad guy vortex. We do not have to do it like this. Killian: Yeah, bit late for that. Lance: It's not. We're both just people who makes mistakes. We can work this out, man. Walter: That's it. Almost there. You're doing great. Lance: I mean, come on. We can break this cycle. Walter: Got it. I'm connected. Lance: Nobody else has to get hurt. Killian: You should know better than anyone. Someone always gets hurt. Lance: Not today-day. Killian: You brought your own soundtrack? Lance: We like to make an entrance (The music plays) Killian: Huh? Oh. |
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| ~ Killian while Lance distracts him. |
| “ | Killian: If you shut'em down now, you'll kill us both. (Walter looks yo an down) You are no killer. Walter: No, I'm a hugger. (He gives Killian an inflatable hug). Killian: What? |
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| ~ Killian to Walter. |
| “ | Take your best shot. | „ |
| ~ Killian when attacked by Lance. |
| “ | Bubbles? | „ |
| ~ Killian when he reacts to Walter's invention. |
| “ | Are those pigeons wearing tiny backpacks? | „ |
| ~ Killian seeing the pigeons. |
| “ | Oh, come on, now! | „ |
| ~ Killian reacting to Walter's second invention. |
| “ | Marcy: I have five Cats, each named after a member of New Kids on the Block. Lance: Oh, I love New Kids. Marcy: Jon, Joey, Jordan, Donnie, and Danny. Killian: I really wanna hurt you right now.(Shots hit Walter) You. What are you doing? Walter: I'm not telling you anything. Lance: I'll tell you what he's doing. He's gonna back into your claw and shut down your drones. Wow, this stuff really works. |
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| ~ Killian, Lance and Marcy while under the effects of the truth serum. |
Trivia[]
- Killian is never referred to by his actual name in the film. He is only casually referred to as "Robo-Hand" by Lance and Walter and as his nickname "Killian" in the movie's end credits.
- Killian has the distinction of being the final Blue Sky Studios main antagonist, as Spies in Disguise ended up becoming the studio's final film following its closure in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced The Walt Disney Company to close down Blue Sky to cut costs.
External Links[]
- Killian on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki