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| “ | Hello? Loyal trusty crew, come in! I know you can hear me. Whatever it is you’re thinking of doing isn’t going to work, but it is going to cost you! If you thought what happened to you in the past was bad, that was nothing! What I’m going to do to you is gonna be goddamn f-cking BIBLICAL! I’m literally gonna turn your insides out! BUT... I’ll keep you alive! In tiny little jars! And there you’ll stay until I’M BORED OF YOU! | „ |
| ~ Daly threatening his mutinous crew onboard his ship. |
Robert Daly is the main antagonist of the Black Mirror Season 4 episode "USS Callister".
The unassuming Chief Technical Officer of the wildly successful gaming company of the same name, he lives an extensive fantasy life as the captain of a starship in his custom-made virtual reality playground; though at first this appears to merely be a harmless way of escaping from the stresses of real life, it's soon revealed that his creation and use of the game has actually been driven by something much more unpleasant.
He was portrayed by Jesse Plemons, who also played Prince Joachim in The Jungle Cruise and the Militiaman in Civil War.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- While at first it first appears he is simply living out his fantasies of being a spaceship captain, the truth turns out to be far more sinister.
- He cloned those who even remotely wronged him and abuses them in his game world, even digitally castrating them. To make it worse, the clones were sentient even in the game world, also removing their reproductive or digestive organs and any experience to feel pleasure.
- When Nanette tries to disobey him, Daly removes her facial features to be unable to see or breathe, warning that she can't die unless he wants her into.
- He frequently bosses around his crew, to the point of turning them into monsters if they do not obey his orders.
- When Walton kept disobeying him, Daly decided to torture him by making him watch his son Tommy die, sending him out through the airlock, which made him freeze and shatter into pieces.
- When Valdack begs to be killed to escape the alternate reality, Daly simply refuses. Additionally, he says that killing in cold blood is against the Space Fleet code, which is hypocritical considering what he did to Tommy.
- When his clones come up with an escape plan, he decides that he shall torment them on a biblical level. He also intended to kill Tommy again.
- Although it's clear that Walton had took advantage of Daly's genius and mistreated him, he far surpasses the excuse by being even worse than Walton, and killing a digital clone of his son.
External Links[]
- Robert Daly on the Villains Wiki
