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| “ | I loved my wife very much. She taught me a valuable lesson: If you do not control your own fate, it will control you. So I took control. I brought them all here to die. But now there is only one left: Mr. Carver, the man who murdered my wife. | „ |
| ~ The White Death's most famous quote - mistaking Ladybug for the Carver before attempting to kill him. |
The White Death is the main antagonist of the 2022 action-comedy film Bullet Train, based on Kōtarō Isaka's 2010 dark comedic thriller novel Maria Beetle.
He is the cruel and brutal leader of a criminal empire in Kyoto, Japan, who seized control over it by betraying and killing its former leader. The White Death is also the father of the Prince and the arch-nemesis of Ladybug and the Elder.
He was portrayed by Michael Shannon, who also played Frankie Lombardo in Kangaroo Jack, Richard Kuklinski in The Iceman, Bobby Monday in Premium Rush, Zod in Man of Steel, Rick Carver in 99 Homes, Colonel Richard Strickland in The Shape of Water and Captain Beatty in the 2018 Fahrenheit 451 remake.
History[]
The White Death is an expert fighter from Russia, who was mentioned to have been exiled from the Russian mafia prior to the events of the film. Some time upon arriving in Japan, he joined a local criminal organization with the objective of winning the trust of its leader, Yoshio Minegishi. He succeeded due to his skill and worked his way up the organization, until he rallied a large group of fellow members to overthrow Minegishi. The coup was successful, and Minegishi was killed in a forced game of Russian Roulette between him and the White Death. The White Death would take over the criminal empire for himself, forcing Minegishi's surviving loyalists into hiding.
At one point he met his wife, which whom he had a son and a daughter. However, he much preferred his son, sending his daughter down a revenge path against him. One day, their son was arrested and in an attempt to bail him out, the White Death's wife was accidently caught in the middle of an assassination attempt carried out by an assassin named Carver. The White Death himself was not in the car and couldn't help his wife, due to many of his men being killed in Bolivia by the assassin duo Lemon & Tangerine and the emergency surgery of his wife failed, due to a more skilled surgeon being poisoned by an assassin called The Hornet a few days earlier.
After the death of his wife he blamed Carver, Lemon, Tangerine, The Hornet and his own son for her death and decided to give them all the same job of retrieving a briefcase on a Japanese bullet train, in the hopes of them murdering each other. He only succeeded partially, because Lemon survived his plans and Carver was replaced by another mercenary called Ladybug for the day of the plan.
After trying to kill Ladybug, Lemon and a former member of his criminal empire, called The Elder it is revealed that his daughter, calling herself The Prince, was also in the bullet train with a plan to kill the White Death. He managed to avoid her, but she sneakily gives him a rigged gun that kills the one who pulls the trigger.
After the train crashes, White Death is still alive but injured and he approaches Ladybug as he is upset he isn't Carver but either way, the White Death prepares to kill him but he had no bullets left and pulls out a secondary pistol. This pistol however, is the rigged gun he took from his daughter. The White Death aims the gun and fire, but the rewiring reverses the shot, sending it into his cheek and blowing his head in half, finally killing him and avenging all those deaths he caused, either directly or indirectly. His daughter would soon join him in death moments later, when Lemon runs her over with a tangerine truck. As now White Death's reign of terror over Japan has finally ended.
Quotes[]
| “ | I see you, dochka... but you have never been part of my plan. | „ |
| ~ The White Death acknowleding his daughter The Prince in their final confrontation. |
| “ | I loved my wife very much. She taught me a valuable lesson. If you do not control your own fate, it will control you. So I took control. I brought them all here to die. But now there is only one left: Mr. Carver, the man who murdered my wife. | „ |
| ~ The White Death mistaking Ladybug for the Carver before attempting to kill him. |
| “ | The Carver, I want the Carver, I hired the Carver! | „ |
| ~ The White Death to Ladybug in his final confrontation. |
| “ | DO NOT CALL ME BRO!!! | „ |
| ~ The White Death's breakdown and last words, to Ladybug before his death. |
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Unnamed wife †
- Unmaned son †
- The Prince - Daughter and Indirect Killer
Allies[]
- The Criminal Empire
Enemies[]
- Ladybug - Archenemy and Attempted Victim
- Lemon
- Tangerine †
- Yuichi Kimura
- The Elder - Archenemy, Attempted Victim, and Attempted Killer
- Carver - Archenemy
- Hornet †
Trivia[]
- White Death's novel counterpart is a Yakuza boss named Yoshio Minegishi. Minegishi's character is also adapted into the movie version of Minegishi for a small role.
- Michel Shannon was given a Japanese-American accent in the film when playing White Death.
External Links[]
- White Death on the Bullet Train Wiki
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