| “ | The Multiverse, every universe in it, is irrational, sloppy. I just try to make it rational. I just try to make it neat. You call it murder. How could I murder myself 123 times? I just took those wasted energies and put them to one container: me. It made me faster, smarter, stronger. What if that is our fate? To unite with our other selves, to be unified forever. To be one. I will be The One. | „ |
| ~ Gabriel Yulaw's rationalization of his atrocities. |
| “ | I am Yulaw! I am nobody's bitch! You are mine! I don't need to know you. You only need to know me. I will be The One! | „ |
| ~ Yulaw's last line of the movie. |
Gabriel Yulaw is the titular main antagonist of the 2001 sci-fi action film The One.
He is a former MVA (Multiverse Authority) officer turned mass murderer, who sought to eliminate all of his alternate-reality selves in order to become The One, regardless of the consequences and anyone who tried to stop him. He's the archenemy of Gabe Law, who is the last heroic recipient of Yulaw's powers and the indirect incrimination of his crimes.
He was portrayed by Jet Li, who also played the film's main protagonist Gabe Law, and Emperor Han in The Mummy: Tomb of the Emperor.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He killed 123 of his alternate reality selves in order to gain power from them and become near-unstoppable.
- While he killed his first variant out of self-defense, upon discovering the new powers he possessed, he subverted his past actions and went on a mass killing spree by killing his other selves to obtain their powers and become nigh-unstoppable in the process.
- At the start of the movie, he shot his 123rd variant and victim Lawless in the head with a pistol.
- Before and after killing Lawless, he beat up and killed several police officers just to escape before he was apprehended by MVA agents Evan Funsch and Harry Rodecker.
- His conversation with his former colleague Harry Rodecker while in a jail cell implies that Yulaw was once a good man but chose to become evil for the sake of absolute power anyway.
- Showed no remorse for the killings of his alternate selves, simply referring to them as "wasted energies" and stating that he wanted to make the multiverse "neat" before declaring that he will be The One.
- He secretly hired his female associate by arming a mouse with a volatile explosive inside the MVA base and made his escape from the Hades Universe to hunt down his last self that is Gabe Law. On his way out, he massacred several MVA guards who attempted to stop him.
- Tried to kill Gabe and attacked his colleagues in a similar way as he did to Lawless of Anubis Universe, injuring several police officers at the station while trying unsuccessfully to shoot Gabe through a bus roof.
- Lured Gabe out of the station, told him that it was "good news" that he wasn't crazy, and then shot him in the chest as "bad news". Luckily, Gabe wore body armor and was saved at the last second by the arrival of Evan Funsch and Harry Rodecker who forced him to flee.
- Impersonated Gabe at the hospital where Gabe was being treated for his earlier shooting, and then aimed a gun at an innocent doctor before engaging in a gunfight with Rodecker and Funsch soon after.
- After getting disarmed by a magnetic machine, he dared the MVA agents to shoot him, telling them that if they did kill him, they'd have to kill Gabe as well.
- When a police officer interrupted the scene, Yulaw broke the machine that disarmed him and then shot that officer dead, incriminating Gabe for murder and shocking both Gabe's colleagues and wife T.K. Law, making them think he went insane.
- After fleeing, he hid himself in a bodybag before stealing a van, not knowing that Rodecker had snuck in with him.
- He had a fight against Rodecker before overpowering him and breaking his former friend's neck, and then disarming a bomb that Rodecker intended to use to murder-suicide.
- When more police officers arrived at the scene, Yulaw smashed up two officers with their own motorcycles that he lifted before using both of them at once to crush the final cop to death.
- He later snuck into Gabe's residence and posed as Gabe to T.K. Law to try manipulate her. After she saw both Gabe and Yulaw, and tricked Yulaw into revealing himself as the impostor, Yulaw casually told her that he will take the gun from her hand and kill her with it.
- After T.K. alerted Gabe's colleague Officer Bobby Aldrich nearby, Yulaw shot him and then shot T.K. at the window, right in front of Gabe who was forced to helplessly watch his alternate self kill his wife. Yulaw then tried to shoot Gabe and still posed as Gabe in front of other police officers who shortly arrived and now believed Gabe to be a mass murderer.
- He waited for Gabe and now-surviving MVA agent Evan Funsch to arrive at a plant where the next wormhole was scheduled to arrive at, before attempting to use Rodecker's bomb to kill the two of them.
- He assaulted Funsch and broke his leg in the process before being confronted by Gabe for a final showdown.
- The murder of T.K. Law sent Gabe into utter and complete blind rage in the final battle that placed himself in a disadvantageous spot against Yulaw and almost got him killed.
- After Gabe started winning the battle, Yulaw dishonorably grabbed a fire axe in a final attempt to kill Gabe before being disarmed, arrested by his other self, and taken to the wormhole location.
- In his last-ditch effort, he attempted to have Gabe Law take his place in the Hades Universe so he could escape the MVA again, but was soon exposed when Funsch sees Gabe's ring finger mark, thus ultimately foiling his plan, and resulting in Yulaw being sent to the Hades Universe for the rest of his life.
- Upon arriving in the Sygian penal colony of the Hades Universe, he started a fight with its inmates, beating up dozens of them while remaining at the top of a ziggurat like in a game of King of the Hill.
- Some prisoners may have died or gotten severely injured due to Yulaw punching, kicking and throwing them off the ziggurat.
- It is unknown if he had defeated those countless other prisoners within the Stygian penal colony or had been eventually outnumbered by the many prisoners.
- Meanwhile, his actions impacted Gabe's posthumous whereabouts; he cannot return back to his home universe, which is later emphasized that he would be forever framed and incarcerated for life due to Yulaw's atrocious felonies if so (due to Yulaw's manipulation and appearance resembling him), otherwise later starting a new life in Los Angeles with an alternate T.K. Law after Evan Funsch gave him a second chance by sending him somewhere he truly belonged.
External Links[]
- Gabriel Yulaw on the Villains Wiki
