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Nathaniel Burke is the main antagonist of the 1997 superhero film Steel.
He was portrayed by Judd Nelson who also portrays Don Cody in Girl in the Basement.
Biography[]
Nathaniel Burke was a military soldier in the U.S. force whom wanted to improve the weapon advances for the improvement of their strength. John Henry Irons who is a modifier of the military's weapons enhances them in a kooky, yet virtuously destructive effect when pulling the trigger. The force where testing a power sonic gun on a dilapidated building, to witness it's result. Burke intervenes and asks for testing permission and sets the weapon strength on the highest state and fires on the building, ensuing the latter to collapse but simultaneously backfire, maiming and crippling John's partner Susan in a large concrete.
During court, John disclosures Burke's actions and the latter is dismissed from the force and is confiscated his rank of lieutenant.
Burke hatches a plot to sell Irons' weapons to criminal gangs. Late, Irons witnesses a bank robbery occurring led by a gang of felons wielding Burke's modified guns.
In the end of the film, Burke prepares to auction off all his modified weapons to every criminal organization in the world over the Internet. When Irons is released from jail, Sparky is captured by Burke's thugs. Irons, as Steel, attempts to infiltrate Burke's headquarters, but is captured himself in the process. When Burke continues with the auction, he is tricked by Steel, which allows him and Sparks to rebel and destroy Burke's lair. Burke himself is killed when a laser he fires towards Steel reflects back towards him due to Steel's suit and crushes him under flaming debris.
Personality[]
Nathaniel Burke is a vicious and greedy psychopath who partakes in criminal activities. Although he was once friends with Irons in the military, his desire to see Irons' weapons at their most powerful, completely disregarding the dangers of that, led to the two no longer being on speaking terms by the time they were out of service. Caring only about himself and no one else, he showed no remorse when his ex-colleague, Sparky, was paralyzed thanks to him overloading one of Irons' sonic weapons to cause debris to fall on her, also killing a visiting senator which he also shows no remorse for. He shows no regard for the well-being of his own allies and minions, and is sometimes willing to kill them should they fail or question him, as a secretary and failed assassin found out the hard way.
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