Mountain Men are the overarching antagonists of Season 1 and the main antagonists of Season 2 in the CW show The 100. They are members of the Government and survivors of the Praimfaya nuclear apocalypse who took refuge in a bunker called Mount Weather. They lived under the authority of President Dante Wallace before the coup d'état of his son Cage who took control of the bunker.
History[]
Season 2[]
There are 382 survivors in the bunker according to Dr. Tsing. None of them are immune to outside radiation. For this, the Mountain Men created the Harvest Project which consisted of capturing the Grounders, torturing them and extracting their blood which allowed them to resist the radiation. When the 48 Delinquents arrived, Tsing and Cage saw an opportunity to take all of their blood and heal the entire population, but Dante refused.
This caused Cage to stage a coup and imprison his father in order to continue his scheme to torture teenagers. Although he had all his guards on his side, some residents, including Maya who preferred to help the 47, turned against him. Indeed, some helped the Delinquents to escape and two of them hid Jasper and Maya from the guards even though they were killed. On the other hand, Dante manages to reduce the army waiting outside the bunker by having only the Grounders released and being able to leave Sky People alone.
After which, Cage continues his experiments on Sky People but is pressured by Clarke who threatens to kill Dante. Even though she killed him, Cage continues the experiments on Abby, (Clarke's mother), and Clarke irradiates Level 5, killing all of the Mountain Men present except Cage Wallace and Carl Emerson who were already cured. Despite his action, Cage manages to flee into the forest but is killed by Lincoln, a former Grounder whom he tortured and brainwashed earlier.
Season 3[]
In Season 3, Sky People repurposed Mount Weather as their habitat. However, Emerson, the last survivor of the scene, caused the bunker to be destroyed along with Azgeda. Later in the season, Emerson attacks Clarke and his friends but is ultimately killed when the Flame is implanted in his neck and destroys his brain. After his death, there are no known living members of the Mountain Men and they are extinct.
Members[]
- Dante Wallace (former president; deceased)
- Cage Wallace (current leader; deceased)
- Lorelei Tsing (doctor; deceased)
- Carl Emerson (lieutenant; deceased)
- Maya Vie (medical assistant; deceased)
- Vincent Vie (resident; deceased)
- Sgt. Eric Lovejoy (guard; deceased)
- Sgt. Langston (guard; deceased)
- Sgt. James Shaw (guard; deceased)
- Sgt. Lee (guard; deceased)
- Garza (guard; deceased)
- Paul Tilling (guard; deceased)
- Thorpe (doctor; deceased)
- Whitman (sniper; deceased)
- Keenan Mykulak (docent; deceased)
- Mr. and Mrs. Peters (residents; deceased)
- Mrs. Ryan (resident; deceased)
Trivia[]
- Mount Weather is based on a real facility. The real Mount Weather is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains– near Bluemont, Virginia, 40 miles from Washington, D.C.
- The citizens of Mount Weather were named after writers, musicians, and artists.
- There are similarities between the Mountain Men and "The Enclave" faction from the Fallout series. It is also set generations after a nuclear holocaust devastated most of the Earth's surface.
- They are descended from politicians, elite military units, and other powerful people (the "military-industrial complex") who survived the nuclear holocaust by hiding in the nation's most advanced bunker complexes.
- They still have access to the pre-apocalyptic technology, making them one of the most dangerous factions in the post-nuclear world.
- The Mountain Men saw themselves as the preservers and conservators of culture and civilization, a sharp contrast to the bloody and brutal means they developed to stay alive. However, there was a group of revolutionary-minded people that was against using Grounders' blood to treat radiation poisoning, like Maya's parents and others.
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