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| “ | You should have come for me. | „ |
| ~ Ronnie blaming Stan Hurley for his scars. |
| “ | Put the gun down, or she's dead. (...) Come on Mitch, be nice. She wants to live. She wants to see her family. You put the gun down. | „ |
| ~ Ronnie to Mitch Rapp while holding Annika Ogden hostage. |
| “ | That bomb can't be stopped, just like you couldn't stop that beautiful girl from dying on the beach. It's a shame. The last thing your girl saw was you not saving her. Didn't Hurley teach you anything, little brother? To NEVER make it personal! | „ |
| ~ Ronnie taunting Mitch in their final confrontation. |
Ronnie, better known as Ghost, is the main antagonist of the 2017 action thriller film American Assassin.
He was an Orion operative, and one of Stan Hurley's pupils who disobeyed his orders. After these events, he turned into a terrorist who planned on building a nuclear weapon, and would kill anyone who aided or got in his way of his goals, all because his former leader had abandoned him. He was the arch-enemy of both Hurley and one of his other pupils, Mitch Rapp.
He was portrayed by Taylor Kitsch.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He disobeyed Stan Hurley's orders, which resulted in his provisional demise in the eyes of the latter, who had to save hostages while leaving him behind.
- It's also stated by Hurley that he was already and always psychotic, violent, and reckless before disobeying his orders and being tortured by a terrorist once captured.
- He also brings this up as a freudian excuse for his actions, meanwhile it is also petty since his later worst actions subverted his redeeming qualities.
- He murdered the sellers and two police officers before fleeing after verifying the weapon sales of plutonium in Poland.
- He murdered Victor, one of Mitch Rapp's Orion operative acquaintances.
- He had his men capture both Mitch and Annika Ogden hostage, to extract information from them on Hurley's whereabouts, until the latter arrived sooner to save both, and he later fled the scene.
- During a meeting with Hurley and an Iranian contact, he kills the contact and kidnaps Hurley.
- He subjects Hurley to prolong torture by ripping off his fingernails, and asking him where the rest of his team went before proceeding to electrocute his feet submerged in water.
- He took Annika as hostage, and by gun-point. The tension was too extreme for both Mitch (with her blocking his view by Ghost) and Annika that the latter had to shoot herself to escape the situation. He doesn't feel remorse after her death, since he continued to shoot at Mitch once she killed herself, and later took off on his boat.
- Implying he said that "She wants to see her family", her only family was killed by terrorists presumably ordered by Minister Behruz and General Rostami, so he was also planning to kill her after taking her hostage until she ended up doing that, unless he never acknowledged her family's death and was only persuading Mitch to release his firearm amidst having the upper hand.
- He took off in his yacht that contained the nuclear bomb, in efforts to destroy the US Navy's Sixth Fleet in his vicinity by kamikaze.
- He assaulted and attempted to kill Mitch with a knife one last time on his boat, even to mock him relentlessly for not saving his fiancee before Mitch got the upper hand and stabbed him in the throat, palatalizing him.
- After his bomb detonated, he caused minor damage to Mitch's and Stan's escape helicopter, and several Arleigh Burke-class and Ticonderoga-class ships (including USS Dwight D. Eisenhower) of the United States Navy's sixth fleet. It's unknown if his bomb had killed how many of the Navy sailors that day, since it's never confirmed in the film how many were dead.
- All of his worst crimes were only to spite Hurley for abandoning him, because he was totally reckless of his team, having not obeying any of Hurley's orders and that the latter had to save his pupils and the hostages by leaving him. The fact he had to kill thousands of both innocent victims and his allies to hurt one specifically, goes to show not only how he easily passed the heinous standards but also how hypocritical he is for his actions.
External Links[]
- Ghost on the Villains Wiki
- Ghost on the Antagonists Wiki
