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Never fear death. They are prey. We are predators. Man should be only animal that is threated.
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~ Nikolai Krainoff teaching his son Sergei how to hunt with his brutal ideals and famous quote.
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Fear will eat you. It makes you weak.
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~ Nikolai's second famous quote.
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Sergei... each of us has a path to walk. Embrace who you really are and you will have the strength to walk it. You are more than my child. You are me... and I am you. We are hunters, the greatest the world has ever known.
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~ Nikolai's last written words to his son leaving behind the pelt of a lion that attacked Sergei years ago for him to wear as a show of respect.
He is a ruthless Russian oligarch and mob boss who treats all the people he is hired to kill as his "prey". Deeming his wife weak, Nikolai sends her away to die alone so he can shape his sons, Sergei and Dmitri, in his own image and likeness.
Nikolai's past is largely unknown; one can only speculate. It is known that he is Russian, and at some point he founded or joined a criminal syndicate that he would turn into a criminal empire of international reach. Dimitri also developed a passion for hunting and decided to become the best and greatest hunter in the world.
At some point, he married a woman named Anna Kravinova, with whom he had a son, Sergei Kravinoff. Shortly after this, Nikolai had an affair with a woman named Sonya Smerdyakova, with whom he had another son, Dmitri. Sonya apparently died in childbirth, and Nikolai decided to take Dimitri in and raise him with the rest of his family.
Kraven the Hunter[]
Following the death of his wife, Sergei Kravinoff and his half-brother Dmitri are taken by their father Nikolai to prepare to take over his drug trafficking operations. During a hunting trip in Ghana, Sergei is injured protecting his brother from a lion. The lion then brings him to a girl named Calypso, who heals him with a serum and calls for rescue, leaving a tarot card behind. Sergei soon discovers his physical attributes have become animalistic. When Nikolai reveals he killed the lion to teach his sons a lesson, a disgusted Sergei flees to a sanctuary owned by his mother in Russia.
Sixteen years later, Sergei, now going by Kraven, is a vigilante who hunts criminals. After killing an arms trafficker in a Russian prison, Kraven travels to London for Dmitri's birthday. Their reunion is short-lived when mercenaries abduct Dmitri. When Nikolai refuses to pay the ransom, Kraven tracks down Calypso, now working as a lawyer, and convinces her to help. Meanwhile, Dmitri meets the man behind his kidnapping, Aleksei Sytsevich, who took part in an experiment granting him the strength and visage of a rhinoceros. Aleksei proposes an alliance to overthrow Nikolai. Discovering Kraven's connection to Dmitri, Aleksei lures him to a monastery in Turkey, but Kraven survives the ambush. Aleksei hires the Foreigner, an assassin who uses ocular hypnosis to disorient his targets, to kill Kraven.
After killing the Rhino and discerning that Nikolai was the one who revealed his existence to Aleksei, Kraven tracks his father for answers; Nikolai reveals that he knew Aleksei was targeting him and manipulated his sons to remove him. Kraven steals ammunition so that his father will be killed by a bear, leaving Chameleon to be in charge of his company, planning to exact revenge on Kraven.
Personality[]
Nikolai is a social Darwinist who believes that only the strong should survive and be respected and that the weak should be ostracized. As such, he hates the weak, and hates appearing weak, believing that if someone shows himself to be so, he is unworthy of any privilege.
Nikolai's relationship with his sons is extremely complex: Sergei has always been his favorite, and he wasn't exactly subtle about hiding the fact that he preferred him to Dmitri, whom he considered weak, although he has protected Dmitri from the mockery of others when they made fun of him for being an illegitimate son, considering that the fault of it was only his and no one else's.
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Trivia[]
In the comics, Nikolai Kravinoff is far more a minor character in Kraven the Hunter's backstory, only being mentioned that he was Kraven's father who came from noble royalty, without elaboration on if he was ever evil or not.
Nikolai Kravinoff is Russell Crowe's second role in a Marvel production. His first role was as Zeus in Thor: Love and Thunder.
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