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| “ | I thought I knew you, Lucas. "After" everything these sons of bitches have taken from us in the past I didn't think you'd be the one I lost faith in. Be the one I couldn't trust. Every day, New Helghan continues to exist we are under threat. I've shown them that. And now I'll show them how we can remove that threat. Forever. I've always tried to protect you son. I'm sorry I couldn't be that person. | „ |
| ~ Sinclair showing his true nature to Lucas Kellan. |
Thomas Sinclair is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Jorhan Stahl) of the 2013 video game Killzone Shadow Fall.
In Shadow Fall, Sinclair serves as a major character in Chapters 1 to 8 as a supporting figure to Lucas Kellan. However, at the end of Chapter 9, Sinclair betrays Kellan after stopping Stahl, thereby making him the final antagonist of Chapter 9 and the main antagonist of Chapter 10.
He is the former VSA (Vektan Security Agency) Shadow Marshal prior to Lucas Kellan, his surrogate son, succeeding him. He is the corrupt director of the Vektan Security Agency, using his own power to orchestrate a war against the Helghast.
In reality, however, Sinclair is a warmongering xenophobe, who seeks to use his views to convince the Vektans to wage war against the Helghast within the eastern side of The Wall, in an attempt to exterminate the Helghast race, once and for all, with reckless disregard for the lives it would cause in the coming conflict. His plans would also include him taking over all of Vekta.
He is voiced and portrayed by David Harewood, who also played Captain Poison in Blood Diamond and Lane Klaxon in Wendell & Wild.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Shows no traces of care and sympathy after Michael Kellan's death at the hands of the New Helghast soldiers in front of a child Lucas, as his only reaction was him seeing dead and ordering him to escape the Helghast side of the Wall.
- While he tells Kellan that the New Helghast are still a threat and told him that he has to defend the Vektans from it, it is clear that he only propagandises Kellan for petty reasons, so that he would instill his darkly xenophobic views onto him.
- Turned on Kellan during the events of "The Handler", moments after Kellan killed Massar and sided with Echo.
- During Stahl's retaliatory attack against the ISA fleet with the Red Dust, Sinclair only exhibits a pragmatic reaction to losing several of his own forces. This shows that he only sees his own men as nothing more than disposable pawns to his own endgame.
- He attempted to use Stahl's weapon, as means to reignite the Helghast-Vektan war to exterminate all Helghasts permanently within Vekta, which would amount to massive casualties on both sides, irrespective of their lives.
- After killing Jorhan Stahl inside the Spire, Sinclair then betrayed Lucas Kellan, his own son figure, and coldly killed him at the end of "The Destroyer" mission for siding with Echo/Maya Visari, who also wanted to put an end to the years-long conflict between both sides.
- While he seems to be a capable leader for the VSA, Sinclair is nothing more than a hypocritical, vicious warmonger, who was willing to kill his own surrogate son Lucas, when he finally revealed his own true colours, showing that he wanted to use Stahl's weapon, the Red Dust, to wipe out the Helghast in Vekta, as also shown in his speech in the final mission.
- Sinclair is proud to restart a war that had casualties on the table, all for him to fuel his xenophobic views towards the Helghast, while showing no regard to the lives he put at stake, even trying to convince the Vektans in his speech at the game's final mission that the Helghans do not "coexist" alongside them.
- While in the beginning of the game he did help the Kellan family, but this was out of pragmatism, which costed Michael Kellan's life. Due to this, Sinclair decided to use Lucas as his own personal weapon. When training him, while he appears to be a teacher and father figure to Lucas, but in reality, he's using Lucas for his own gains just so he revive the Helghast-Vektan war, only to later silence Lucas when he found Stahl inside the Spire, showing Sinclair cares about nobody but himself.
- While he did apologize to Lucas, this was all fake as he only used him throughout the game to start another war and only to finish him off with a bullet to his head. And the fact that he was Affably Evil to begin with before descending into villainy at his worst makes it all the more shocking. To take this even further, while New Helghan does have the worst of the worst in terms of overall, deplorable living conditions, Vekta City was far more utopian yet under Thomas Sinclair, he's more than willing to destroy his own city just for his twisted goals, showing no care or concern for innocent lives, and views his soldiers as nothing more than mere expendables.
External Links[]
- Thomas Sinclair on the Villains Wiki
- Thomas Sinclair on the Killzone Wiki
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