The Boss is the unnamed main antagonist in Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" music video.
He was portrayed by Lou Diamond Phillips, who also portrayed Victor Paul Gitano in Law & Order and Victor Delgado in Elena of Avalor.
Biography[]
The boss is the head of an underground fighting ring between sentient stuffed animals and puppets. The undefeated champion of the ring, a purple gorilla-like beast called Gorigula, mutilates multiple stuffed animals and puppets forced to fight against him, with Gorigula always winning to the spectators' and the boss' amusement. Should the opponent somehow survive the onslaught, the boss pulls a lever to a trapdoor, sending the stuffed animal into a cell in the basement where the band members of Imagine Dragons were being held captive.
Then a female drifter (played by Alexandra Daddario) arrives with her contestant, a small pink teddy bear. At first, Gorigula savagely beats the teddy bear, with the boss sadistically laughing as he watches the teddy bear take a beating. Just before the boss could activate the trapdoor, the teddy bear unleashes a mysterious energy force from its paw, and knocks out Gorigula with a single uppercut. Enraged by his champion being defeated, the boss sends two bodyguards onto the arena to seize the teddy bear, only for it to unleash lasers from its eyes and vaporizes both of them.
Horrified, the spectators flee from the scene with the boss stumbling out from his chair. Realizing too late that he landed on top of the trapdoor, the drifter snatches the cell key from his neck while the teddy bear pulls the lever, sending the boss straight into his own dungeon. The drifter opens the cell gate and rescues the band, leaving the boss alone in his dungeon. Just then, the stuffed animals and puppets previously thrown into the dungeon get up, and stare menacingly at the boss. He can only scream in fear as they lunge towards him to enact their revenge.