The Baron (Metro Exodus)

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Pure Evil
Full Name	Unknown
Alias	The Baron
Origin	Metro Exodus
Allies	Munai-bailer
Powers / Skills	Leadership Firearms Manipulation Hand-to-hand combat Vast resources
Goals	Take over the oil reserves in the dried-out Caspian Sea. Enslave the Caspian tribals. (both succeeded) Eliminate the Aurora Crew and Giul. (failed)
Moral Event Horizon	Enslaving the entire tribal population of Caspian Desert and subject them to his abusive ideals of Social Darwinism by beating them up to submission.
Kill Count	Numerous
Worst Crimes	Mass slavery Kidnapping Abuse of power
Type of Villain	Tyrannical Mobster

“	Giul! You are weak, and you value the weak... But the world lives by different rules! The strong ones always win! Our strength lies in unity, our faith that keeps our flock together. It is through this faith that we protect them, direct them, keep them from disappearing in this desert... But you, Giul... You are leading our flock astray. They see you as something of an icon, there's this aura of rebellion about you, the attraction of forbidden... It is an aura of problems nobody needs. Luckily, your death will dispel it!	„
	~ The Baron's most famous dialogue.

The Baron (Russian: Барон) is the main antagonist of the Caspian Arc in the 2019 video game Metro Exodus. He serves as the leader of the Munai-bailer, an army of raiders he commands who control the entire oil reserves of the vast dried-out Caspian Sea. He serves as the main nemesis of Giul and the Aurora Crew.

He was voiced by Andre Sogliuzzo, who portrays General Korbut in Metro: Last Light.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

• While kidnapping and subjecting to sick and twisted acts is a common thing among bandits in the Metro series, the Baron stands out as heinous and sadistic even for a bandit. He did not only enslave the entire tribal populace of the Caspian Desert with his far more powerful faction: the Munai-bailer, but he also was willing to abuse them and subject them to his Social Darwinistic ideology through intimidation.
• The Baron is extremely cruel and tyrannical, where it is clear that he is a slaver who does not hesitate to call out his tribal slaves weak, and has no qualms of beating them up and mistreating them into submission, just to prove his own point that the weak has to be ruled over by the strong.
• The Baron's own men are not even safe from his wrath, as it shows in all of his radio conversations throughout the Caspian level where he cruelly belittles them for their failures and even gave them literal death threats if they failed in killing the Aurora Crew. This shows that he does not care not just to his slavers, but even for his own men, which shows his egotistical, failure-intolerant nature.
• The Baron is stubborn, as he does not accept his failure and is defiant to the end, which shows that he has no remorse over his actions, and went so far in deriding his nemesis Giul how her own resistance would change nothing.
• While The Baron mentioned in the game that he justifies his actions of enslaving Caspian's local populace to give them purpose and not to oppress them by force through the "Holy Flame", which would be a mitigating factor, all of this is simply Faux Affability, as he does not show any mercy to his slaves and even to his own men.

External Links

• The Baron on the Villains Wiki
• The Baron on the Metro Wiki