| “ | If you're gonna make an omelet, you gotta kill some people. | „ |
| ~ Lloyd Hansen |
Lloyd Hansen is the main antagonist in the 2022 Netflix action film The Gray Man.
He is an egocentric sociopath and former agent turned skilled mercenary who serves as Denny Carmichael's special asset for undertaking illegal undercover missions with all the CIA's resources at his disposal. Hansen is also Court Gentry's (AKA Sierra Six) ex-colleague turned archenemy.
He was portrayed by Chris Evans, who also played Robert Pronge in The Iceman.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He was kicked out of the CIA for his torturous methods and plotted to get back at them one day, which comes off as an excuse too petty since it was practically his own fault, and was an egotistical sociopath, to begin with.
- He began a career of being a mercenary where he tortured and killed presumably a good amount of victims and often worked for Carmichael. It was even implied by Carmichael that Lloyd has a higher kill count than the entire Mossad, demonstrating how far Lloyd has come.
- He even participated in one of Carmichael's actions where in one video clip within the drive, he was seen assassinating and torturing someone under the former's request.
- He was first seen torturing a man he was interrogating using jumper cables attached to his mouth to shock him.
- Upon being hired to retrieve a drive filed with Carmichael's criminal activities, he first targeted Fitzroy's niece, Claire, upon having her kidnapped and taken hostage as a means to blackmail Fitzroy into helping him kill Sierra Six. This led to Fitzroy forcing his extraction team to kill Six before the latter defended himself which led to said team's deaths.
- He hired some of the best assassins, mercenaries, and teams throughout the world to take down Sierra Six all while putting a bounty on his head.
- Shot and killed Laszlo, a former associate of Sierra Six after his betrayal, when he demanded his pay.
- Treats his partner, Suzanne Brewer, poorly and verbally despite her points about how he was handling the operation.
- Tortured Fitzroy by removing his fingernails to give out information about Cahill, which he then threatened to bring Claire in when he wasn't talking and have her forced to watch or worse.
- Sent a squad of mercenaries to track down Sierra Six and Miranda in Praque to kill them. This resulted in Cahill sacrificing her life to save them and the drive, making Lloyd responsible for her death.
- He sent out teams Alpha, Bravo, and Delta into causing an open crossfire in the public if it meant killing Sierra Six all while having zero regards for the innocent civilians being endangered. Eventually, this led to several to dozens of cops killed and potentially many casualties and deaths of civilians as some were seen driven to the hospital later on.
- Sent a mercenary called the Lone Wolf to retrieve the drive file from Six and Miranda successfully.
- He openly threatened to kill Claire out of spite toward Six, something the Lone Wolf was against and while he still paid him as intended, he went back on his word when Six and Miranded infiltrated his mansion.
- Used one of his men as a human shield when Fitzroy sacrificed himself to save Six and his niece.
- Took Claire hostage and threatened to shoot her with a flare gun, which he demonstrates by giving her a minor burn if Six didn't challenge him. Although he does let her go when Six accepted his challenge, he still wasn't above killing her at the last second as he said.
- Torturously and brutally fought Sierra Six in their first and final fight with one another as he was close to doing so, only to be killed by Suzanne in the end.
- Despite having a few comedic moments throughout the film, most of them just frequently show how much of a sociopath he is and it doesn't detract from his heinousness in-universe as he was still taken seriously as a threat.
- While it is implied that he and Carmichael share a "bromance" with one another, indicating they were more than just friends, it is too vague to count as a redeeming quality since their relationship was never explored to make it genuine. Even then in the present, their interactions come off as professional and rather superficial instead of the former.
