Ethan Roark, Jr.

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Pure Evil
Full Name	Ethan Roark, Jr.
Alias	Junior The Yellow Bastard
Origin	Sin City
Allies	Ethan Roark, Sr. (father) Patrick Henry Roark (uncle) Basin City Police Department Kevin Lenny and Benny Bob
Powers / Skills	Skill with knives Charisma Manipulation
Goals	Rape and murder as many little girls as possible Escape arrest (both succeeded). Rape and murder Nancy Callahan Kill John Hartigan (both failed).
Moral Event Horizon	Raping and murdering children.
Kill Count	Dozens (almost 100)
Worst Crimes	Serial child murder Serial rape Torture Pedophilia Kidnapping Incrimination
Type of Villain	Perverted Serial Killer

“	Do you think I'm tired? You think I'm getting tired? You're the one who's gonna crack! You'll crack! You'll cry and beg! You'll scream! Oh, yeah, you'll scream, you big, fat, ugly cow! You'll scream!	„
	~ Roark Jr. as he tortures Nancy Callahan

Ethan Roark, Jr., also known as The Yellow Bastard, is a major antagonist in the graphic novel series Sin City, serving as the main antagonist of the 1996 story That Yellow Bastard as well as its adaptation in the 2005 film.

He is a sadistic pedophile who rapes, tortures, and murders little girls, and is the archenemy of Detective John Hartigan.

In the film adaptation, he was portrayed by Nick Stahl.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

• He rapes, tortures, and murders little girls and finds sadistic pleasure by doing so.
• He uses his father's money and political influence to get away with his crimes.
• He kidnaps the young Nancy Callahan with the intention of raping and killing her.
• He shoots Hartigan in the chest and flees at the docks where he holds Nancy hostage threatening to kill her not only to be stopped by Hartigan, before Hartigan stops him, he calls him a "piece of shit cop" and taunts him.
• He bribes John Hartigan's partner, Bob, to betray and shoot him.
• He and his father blackmail Hartigan into taking responsibility for his crimes by threatening his family.
• This leads to Hartigan spending eight years in solitary making him more miserable and worried about Nancy.
• His accusations against Hartigan destroyed his personal life and career causing his wife (who thinks that he is the one who committed the crimes that he committed), to leave him.
• He murders at least dozens-hundreds of women over a period of eight years and abuses his repaired body that he had received from his surgery in order to continue his atrocious acts.
• He visits Hartigan in jail just to punch him in the face out of spite.
• He cuts off a woman's finger and sends it to Hartigan to make him think Nancy is in danger.
• He forces Hartigan to forcibly confess to the parole board that he committed the actions despite the actions all being committed by him.
• As soon as Hartigan gets released from solitary, he stalks and chases Hartigan and Nancy to a stirp club, pursues them in his car while shooting at them and puts their lives at risk.
• He breaks in their motel room, beats Hartigan up while he's taking a shower and teases him.
• He brags about murdering his victims before he kidnaps Nancy and rapes her via injection.
• He ties Hartigan up in a noose and leaves him to die.
• He sends his two henchmen to finish Hartigan up.
• He tortures Nancy by whipping her until she screams so he can be turned on and threatens to torture her at the most sadistic level.
• He attacks Hartigan and berates him.
• He holds Nancy at knifepoint while Hartigan arrives to rescue her and refuses to let her go, he then throws Nancy on the ground and chooses to kill Hartigan not before his defeat.
• He indirectly is responsible for Hartigan's suicide because of all the trouble he had caused to him.

External links

• Ethan Roark, Jr. on the Villains Wiki