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| “ | I told you I would make my career with you, Cleric. | „ |
| ~ Brandt simultaneously revealing his involvement in DuPont's plan and his self-serving motive for it. |
Andrew Brandt is the secondary antagonist in the 2002 film Equilibrium.
He was portrayed by Taye Diggs.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Under the guise of keeping order, he participates in raids on citizens' houses for any materials that are forbidden on account of being considering things than can incite an emotional reaction. If anything is found, the items are burned, the people are deemed "sense offenders", and they are ultimately sent to the furnaces underneath the city halls to be incinerated.
- He participates in violent raids in the Nethers where they track down and shoot any members of a resistance called the "Underground" on site.
- During one such raid, they find a bunch of dogs, and on account of being considered creatures that elicit an emotional reaction and attachment, he coldly orders a Sweeper to shoot them all, with only one that Preston decides to keep under the guise of testing it for any diseases getting away.
- He discreetly, but sadistically mocks Preston over his murder of a Sweeper squad that he was forced to kill by telling him that because of it, the Tetragrammaton Council have decreed an acceleration in the crackdown on offenders, meaning all whoever killed the squad accomplished was ensuring a quicker end to the resistance.
- He participates in the Sector 7 massacre, ambushes a group of rebels that Preston was trying to lead to safety, and has them executed by a firing squad - though not before trying to force Preston to do it knowing full well he has trying to save them under the guise of giving him the "honor" of it.
- He arrests Preston when he breaks down crying outside City Hall when he's unable to save a woman named Mary O'Brien from being executed and outs him as a sense offender and traitor.
- Though Preston seemingly frames him as the traitor by previously switching guns with him, he shows up later and reveals that he and DuPont had staged the whole thing to make Preston believe he had gained the latter's trust. Therefore, while Preston pretended to help them discover and arrest Jurgen and all the others leaders of the resistance so they could infiltrate and liberate Libria from the inside, they had really tricked him into delivering them on a silver platter so they can execute them all in one fell swoop and solidify control over Libria, something Brandt taunts him over.
- While most of Brandt's actions are typical for a Cleric, the difference between him and others is that it's highly implied, if not outright shown by the way he takes delight in taunting Preston at different points that like DuPont, he's off Prozium, the emotion-suppressing drug everyone is required to take. Therefore, like him, he's actually a hypocrite who both orders others to be killed and does so personally for something he does himself.
- By the same token, he fully understands that his actions are immoral, but did them willingly, as well as assisted DuPont in his scheme to manipulate Preston into becoming a sense-offender so he would eventually discover the resistance and try to help them, only to unwittingly orchestrate their downfall, just to get into his good graces and advance his career.
Trivia[]
- He is one of two Pure Evils in Equilibrium, alongside his boss Vice-Counsel DuPont.
External Links[]
- Andrew Brandt on the Villains Wiki
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