 ✓
| ||
|
This Villain was proposed and approved by Villains Wiki's Pure Evil Proposals Thread. Any act of removing this villain from the category without a Removal Proposal shall be considered vandalism (or a futile "heroic" attempt of redemption) and the user will have high chances of being | ||
|
| “ | Mason: Drop your weapon! What the hell are you doing ?! Klaber: Uhm, what the doctor tells me, miss Mason. (...) No witnesses. |
„ |
| ~ Klaber upon being confronted by Agent Mason after he and Hauke killed two college professors. |
| “ | HOW YOU LIKE THAT, YOU SAVAGES?! | „ |
| ~ Klaber's breakdown while shooting at Roman soldiers. |
Klaber is the secondary antagonist of the 2023 action-adventure film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and final installment of the Indiana Jones franchise.
He is a deranged neo-Nazi who works for the ex-Nazi and current NASA engineer Jürgen Voller. In 1969, Klaber is assigned by his boss to pursue the American archaeologist Indiana Jones, who tries to retrieve the Dial of Destiny, which Voller also desires.
He was portrayed by Boyd Holbrook, who also played Donald Pierce in Logan and Clement Mansell in Justified: City Primeval.
History[]
Along with Hauke, Klaber is an American Neo-Nazi who assists Dr. Jürgen Voller in his plan to obtain both halves of Archimedes' Antikythera device and use it to travel back in time and assassinate Adolf Hitler in order to replace him with someone else who would lead Germany to victory in the Second World War. To that end, he and his cohorts begin observing Helena Shaw, daughter of Oxford University professor Basil Shaw, who helped American archaeologist Indiana Jones to steal the first half of the Antikythera from Voller in 1944.
In 1969, Klaber, Hauke and Voller's CIA handler Agent Mason observe Helena in New York City, where she meets with Jones and convinces him to take her to the archive at Hunter College where he keeps the Antikythera half. They follow her there and observe the two going through the archives before being interrupted by two college professors, Mandy Gould and Chris Plimpton, who are shot dead by Klaber and Hauke in order to leave no witnesses, enraging Mason. The group then walk in just after Jones gives the Antikythera half to Helena and demand they hand it over at gunpoint, but Helena flees out the window and escapes over the rooftops with the Antikythera. Jones is captured and forced into the back of a car at gunpoint, but Klaber's car is cut off by a parade in celebration of the Apollo 11 launch and he is forced to bring Jones through it on foot, allowing him to get free and forcing Klaber to fire into the air in order to get through the crowds. He then knocks out a police officer who tries to arrest him before chasing after Jones with Hauke and Mason until he manages to escape on the subway.
Voller, Hauke and Klaber follow Helena and Jones to Morocco, where Helena is planning to sell the half of the Antikythera she had stolen at an illegal auction. They interrupt the auction at gunpoint and manage to steal the Antikythera half after a fight, after failing to buy it when Jones reveals Voller's Nazi past to Helena, before fleeing in their car, pursued by Jones, Helena and Helena's teen sidekick Teddy Kumar in a tuk-tuk. Helena at one point manages to board Voller's car, breaks through the back window and begins strangling him until Klaber and Hauke manage to knock her off. The chase continues until an attack by Helena's former fiancée Aziz Rahim and his men leave the tuk-tuk too badly damaged to continue, allowing Voller to escape; however, he and his men are then arrested by a CIA team led by Agent Mason for the murders in the United States. Mason attempts to take Voller, Hauke and Klaber back to America as prisoners, but Hauke and Klaber manage to overpower and kill their CIA captors and take control of the plane, with Klaber personally shooting Mason. They then set out to Greece to recover the Graphikos tablet, which contains the directions to the other half of the Antikythera.
Voller, Klaber and Hauke track the Graphikos to a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea, where they allow Jones and Helena to recover the Graphikos with help from a diving team provided by Jones' friend Renaldo before hijacking his boat, with Klaber and Hauke killing the ship's crew and taking Jones and Helena prisoner. However, Helena manages to distract them with false directions to the second half long enough to ignite a stick of dynamite and throw it at Voller, who kicks it over to Klaber. By the time Klaber has tossed the dynamite into the hull, Jones, Helena and Teddy have stolen Voller's boat and escaped. They then establish that the second half is in a cave in Sicily and head in that direction, not realizing that Voller is watching them and has ordered them followed.
Voller, Klaber and Hauke pursue them to Sicily, where they capture Teddy and force him to tell them where Jones and Helena are going. They then follow them to the cave, where they murder a worker who tells them the cave is closed and pursue Jones and Helena. While they are tracking the two, Teddy, who is handcuffed to Hauke, manages to drag the two of them into the water, resulting in Hauke drowning; Voller orders Klaber to keep moving and leave them. Voller and Klaber keep moving and corner Jones and Helena just after they recover the second half, with Klaber wounding and capturing Jones, who has the second half, although Helena gets away with Teddy's help and follows them to a nearby airfield, where Voller explains his plan. He then assembles the Antikythera and he, Klaber, a few other Nazis and Jones board a plane and fly it through a time fissure identified by the Antikythera, with Helena stowing away aboard and Teddy following in another plane.
However, Archimedes didn't take continental drift into account, so Voller's plane ends up in Ancient Syracuse in the middle of a pitched battle. Klaber loses his mind and begins indiscriminately firing out the window at the Romans and Syracusans while Voller panics. This draws fire from both sides, eventually culminating in the plane being shot down by a Roman ballista from Pontimus and his troops, killing Klaber, Voller and the remaining pilot while Jones and Helena parachute to safety.
Trivia[]
- Klaber's role in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny resembles that of Donald Pierce in Logan. Ironically, Boyd Holbrook portrayed both characters and both films were directed by James Mangold, which may mean that Holbrook's casting was partly due to his previous collaboration with Mangold.
- In fact, Holbrook was originally reluctant to take the role due to finding Klaber too similar to Pierce as both are second-in-commands to the main villains (Jürgen Voller and Dr. Zander Rice respectively) of their films. However, Mangold convinced him to accept the role by reminding him that it would be the last Indiana Jones movie, which incited Holbrook to accept the role due to loving the franchise and wishing to work with Harrison Ford.
- In spite of Klaber's ruthlessness and lack of scruples, Boyd Holbrook mentioned to Total Film that he sees Klaber as a "very confused individual" who has difficulty over fitting in with others, which led him to join the Neo-Nazis in order to feel as part of something.
External Links[]
- Klaber on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Klaber on the Indiana Jones Wiki
[]
 Villains
| ||
|
Nazi Party Thuggee Soviet Union Others | ||