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| “ | Classic foster product. Three years old, Marshall Krupcheck witnesses daddy kill mommy then sees daddy kill himself. You can guess the rest.
Yeah. Why's he standing there? Why's he just standing there? He's not just standing there. [pause] He's watching him die. We're talking to the wrong guy. |
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| ~ Jeff as he describes Marshall's sadistic nature. |
Marshall "Mars" Krupcheck is the main antagonist of the 2001 thriller novel "Hostage" by Robert Crais and its 2005 action film adaptation.
Mars is a violent sociopath who takes sadistic pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering. Callous and devoid of empathy, he exploits those around him, discarding them without hesitation. Mars' depravity reaches its zenith when he sadistically torments two innocent children, cementing his status as a villain of the darkest order.
He was portrayed by Ben Foster.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- At 17 years old, he committed a violent robbery at a gas station, where he shot the clerk and took pleasure in the clerk's suffering. After the clerk died, he walked away without any remorse, even throwing newspapers over the body. This incident occurred four months before the movie's events.
- He planned a home invasion against the Smith family, intending to scare them, especially Jennifer, as revenge for a rude gesture towards his friend.
- Upon the police's arrival in response to a silent alarm, he shot an officer and began firing at Talley and other officers, despite Talley's announcing is intention to transport the injured officer to safety.
- He used a gun to intimidate Talley and a paramedic who came to take Walter, only allowing the transfer to proceed afterward.
- He disrupted Talley's negotiations with Dennis by threatening Jennifer with a gun, forcibly demanding her to join him even when there was no space in the helicopter.
- He became obsessed with Jennifer, making unwanted advances, and when she rejected him, he strangled and attempted to rape her.
- After Kevin announced his plan to proceed with the transfer and release the hostages, he violently threw him from a railing, resulting in his death. He later shot Dennis, another accomplice, and watched without remorse as his former partners died.
- After Jennifer stabbed him and escaped with Tommy to the vents, he pursued them and dragged her as she made her escape. When they reached the panic room, he set the house on fire with Molotov cocktails to kill them and destroy their home.
- As Talley tried to save the children, he threw a cocktail onto Talley's car, setting it ablaze.
- As the syndicate arrived to seize Walter's encrypted DVD, he set two of them on fire and shot another in the head. Although he intervened to prevent one of the criminals from killing Talley, his intention was merely to push him away, not to protect Talley or the others.
- As he was about to use his last Molotov cocktail to kill Talley, Jennifer, and Tommy, he dropped it on himself because of his injuries.
- While his look at Jennifer before he died might have appeared remorseful, his death was not a moment of redemption; it was simply a sign of his defeat.
- While he had a supposed tragic backstory of having witnessed his father murdering his mother and then committing suicide when he was just 3 years old, it does not excuse his actions. If anything, he willingly became worse than his father.
- To simply put it, he'd rather actually enjoyed watching his parents getting murdered, showcasing that, even at a younger age, he displayed early red flagged signs of a psychopath.
- It’s also heavily implied that he also somehow influenced his father into killing both his mother and himself, showing he’s also manipulative at the early age.
Trivia[]
- The film is based on a Robert Crais novel, where Mars is described as more psychotic and brutal. In the book, Jennifer escapes from Mars when he accidentally digs a nail into her cleavage, while in the film, Mars approaches her menacingly while taking off his jacket.
- While he did attempted to do so with Jennifer, it’s been heavily implied that he actually already raped several other teenage girls before her just prior to the film, and the reason the authorities weren't able to put him behind bars for a crime he'd possibly repeated multiple times was because it's implied that he killed his rape victims and their families in order to dispose any witnesses who might report on him for his crimes. If this was confirmed true, then this would make him even worse.
External Links[]
- Marshall Krupcheck on the Villains Wiki
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