| “ | Max Grendel: Are we really going to kill so many children? How will we live with ourselves" Julia: Rather more comfortably than before." |
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| ~ Julia Rothman in response to Max Grendel's disgust over killing children. |
| “ | Death should always come smartly dressed | „ |
| ~ Julia Rothman |
Julia Rothman is the main antagonist of the fifth Alex Rider book Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz, as well as the third season of the Alex Rider TV series.
She is a wealthy woman who serves on the board of directors for the terrorist organization SCORPIA and seeks to get richer by launching the deadly terrorist campaign: Operation Invisible Sword.
In the TV series, she was portrayed by Sofia Helin.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
- Serves on the SCORPIA board of directors for years and was involved in numerous of their plots such as the kidnapping of the college-aged son of a senior British civil servant with eagerness.
- After learning that John Rider had been a double agent, she had him and his wife killed by bombing their plane.
- When SCORPIA member Max Grendel attempts to resign, she kills him by giving him a briefcase full of scorpions. In the TV series, she has Yassen execute him.
- She volunteered to lead SCORPIA's Operation Invisible Sword which would involve the poisoning thousands of British children in London on mass using nanotechnology if the United States government refused to comply with a series of demands that SCORPIA knew they would never accept.
- She tests Invisible Sword on an entire sports team, killing them all for a demonstration.
- Attempts to groom Alex Rider into becoming a killer by claiming his father worked for SCORPIA and sends him to assassinate Ms. Jones, promising to let him join SCORPIA though she had been lying and planned on killing him anyway, having injected him with the same nanites she would use to murder the British children.
- Shoots one of her own guards after he gave her his gun for no reason.
- While motivated by revenge over having been betrayed by John Rider who she was attracted to, this is not a redeeming quality because she didn't truly love John Rider but was simply lustful for him and subverts this "love" by having him killed and trying to kill his son.
External Links[]
- Julia Rothman on the Villains Wiki
- Julia Rothman on the Alex Rider Wiki
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