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| “ | You will eat. | „ |
| ~ Sardo Numspa coaxing the Golden Child into eating the blood-soaked oatmeal. |
| “ | By the time he finds you, it will be too late. | „ |
| ~ Sardo threatening the Golden Child. |
| “ | Tell your friends that Sardo Numspa sends his greetings. | „ |
| ~ Sardo sending his greetings to Chandler Jarrell and his friends in a controlled dream. |
| “ | I could destroy you... just like that. | „ |
| ~ Sardo threatening Chandler while snapping his fingers. |
Sardo Numspa is the main antagonist of the 1986 fantasy comedy movie, The Golden Child. He is a shape-shifting demon who is the leader of a secret Tibetan cult of devil worshippers.
He was portrayed by Charles Dance who also played Claus in For Your Eyes Only, Mr. Benedict in Last Action Hero, David Carlton in Ali G Indahouse, Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones , Justice Lawrence Wargrave in And Then There Were None, the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold, Emhyr var Emreis in the Witcher video game series, Alan Jonah in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Roderick Burgess in The Sandman.
Personality[]
No matter what form he takes, Sardo Numspa is shown to be cruel, mean, stubborn, deceitful, opportunistic, aggressive, selfish, arrogant, ruthless, and merciless and no matter how calm and charming he likes to represent himself, his habit of killing or even threatening to kill people renders him more murderous, sacrilegious, sociopathic, sadistic, bloodthirsty, insane, senseless, and psychotic. He doesn't take kindly to sarcasm, insults, and rejections from anyone including Chandler Jarrell while demonstrating a slight level of impatience towards the latter's attitude.
Biography[]
Sardo Numspa arrives on horseback with his men including his three top men: Fu the chain-wielding monkey-like minion, Khan the overweight crossbow killer, and Til the large-headed yet childish henchman at a remote Tibetan temple where they break in, slaughter every monk, and abduct a boy known as the Golden Child. During the abduction, one of Sardo's men is converted to good by the Child with one touch and tries to kill his former master, but, using his demonic powers, Sardo disappears to avoid death and reappears elsewhere while Khan kills the traitor before they leave with the Child.
In Los Angeles, Sardo has been holding the Golden Child in different abandoned places surrounded by evil on all four sides at all times to make sure he doesn't project himself astrally while trying to get him to eat food soaked in human blood in order to make the latter vulnerable to earthly harm: blood provided by another one of Sardo's men, Tommy Tong, a Chinese restaurant owner from victims they abduct and kill. At one point, Sardo interrupts entertainment with a living Pepsi can for Til, coaxes the boy into eating blood-soaked oatmeal provided to him, and reprimands Til for his childish incompetence. The latest victim named Cheryll Mosely having been sold to Tommy by a motorcycle gang known as the Yellow Dragons in exchange for a case of cigarettes and pork fried rice draws the attention of Chandler Jarrell, a social worker who's been looking for her and eventually becomes involved in the same case concerning the Golden Child as the "Chosen One" along with a woman named Kee Nang.
Knowing that Tommy Tong would've eventually betrayed him to his enemies pursuing him, Sardo, appearing in rat form, reverts back to human form and kills Tommy in an alley at night before re-assuming rat form again and disappearing. Later, at his current hideout, after threatening the Child, Sardo performs a ritual to enter a hellish world where he communes with his master, a unseen powerful demon who informs him of how to kill the child using a powerful magical mystic weapon capable of killing the latter known as the Ajanti Dagger. Then, Sardo draws Chandler into a controlled dream where he appears in person along with his three top men and presents his demands: the dagger in exchange for the boy while giving him a burn mark on his left arm shaped like the dagger as a reminder and constantly referring to him as "Yarell" instead, thus, persuading Chandler to take the case more seriously while constantly referring to the former as "Sardo Numpsie".
A few days later, after Chandler has finally acquired the dagger after much difficulties in Tibet, Sardo tries to have him arrested at the airport for supposedly "stealing his property" in order to acquire the dagger for himself, but Chandler manages to talk his way out as he coaxes the former into bringing him the boy in exchange for the dagger, as per agreed. Later, at night, Sardo and his men attack Chandler and Kee staying at a friend's place. During the attack, Sardo seizes Khan's crossbow and manages to kill Kee having taken a crossbow bolt meant for Chandler whereas his men manage to steal the dagger. Luckily, Sardo can't kill the Child until nightfall the following day and with the help of the Child's familiar (an eastern Rosella recently revived by the Child before his abduction), Chandler manages to locate Sardo's hideout, kills both Fu and Khan, retrieves the dagger, and frees the boy with the help of Til (having been converted to good by the Child with one touch). Then, when Chandler comes in to confront Sardo, Sardo finally reverts to his true form as a winged demon and begins chasing both Chandler and the boy. During their escape, Sardo traps Chandler and the boy inside a warehouse which begins to collapse and bury him under falling masonry while the dagger is lost within as well.
However, when Chandler and the boy arrive at Dr. Hong's shop where Kee's body is being kept under sunlight, a badly injured but berserk Sardo suddenly bursts out of the ground and tries to kill Chandler with the dagger, but thanks to an amulet sold to Chandler by Kee's father in Tibet, the dagger is blasted from Sardo's hand. Then, the Child uses his magic to place the dagger back into Chandler's hands and Sardo is stabbed through the heart and destroyed completely by Chandler once and for all.
With Sardo Numspa dead, the Child uses the last rays of sunlight and his powers to bring Kee back from the dead before all three take a walk to discuss the Child's return to Tibet.
Trivia[]
- When shifting between his rat and human form and vice-versa, Sardo Numspa's true demon form can be briefly seen between shots.