| “ | I have enemies, father. I have enemies. And, as long as I have enemies, the executions will continue. They'll continue 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And, if that disturbs the people, well, then, if that's then what? Then let them do something about it. Let them go in the caves. Let them starve for a year! Let them raise an army like I did! I don't care what they do! | „ |
| ~ Ramos Clemente in the throes of his paranoid, homicidal fury. |
Ramos Clemente is the protagonist villain of The Twilight Zone episode "The Mirror". He is a revolutionary in a fictional country somewhere in South or Central America who overthrows an oppressive dictatorship only to become a new dictator himself.
He was portrayed by the late Peter Falk, and based on the late real-life Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Even before becoming extremely paranoid, he's shown to be very violent, demanding that De Cruz is killed in a slow and painful way and that his followers are all to be executed without a trial.
- When De Cruz's supposedly magic mirror shows him that his friends are going to kill him, he kills them one by one. While one could argue this is technically self-defense, it's more likely that the mirror actually isn't magic but that it's just Clemente seeing things because of his paranoia; this seems to be proven by the fact that, after shooting one his friends, as he dies he says that he genuinely wasn't trying to kill him. Even if the mirror was actually magical, this would mean that it's a liar and in either case Clemente is too quick at deciding to kill his friends for it to be seen as sympathetic.
- For a whole week, he has people he considers his "enemies" executed en masse.
- While he does end up killing himself, it isn't out of regret, but simply because he's completely lost his mind, making his suicide unsympathetic.
External Links[]
- Ramos Clemente on the Villains Wiki
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 Pure Evils
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