Wilford

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NOTE: This article is only on account of the movie version of Minister Wilford, because his TV series incarnation was not voted as Pure Evil, and so only the movie version of Wilford's unfo and crimes should be put here.

Pure Evil
Full Name	Wilford
Alias	Mr. Wilford
Origin	Snowpiercer
Allies	Gilliam (formerly) Minister Mason Claude His Goons Egg-Head Franco the Elder Franco the Younger The Teacher
Powers / Skills	Machinery Construction
Goals	Continue Snowpiercer's operations at all costs to keep humanity alive.
Moral Event Horizon	Executing his reluctant ally Gilliam during a riot he manipulated Gilliam into creating in the first place Forcing children to operate his train Ordering the Massacre Of the Tailies
Kill Count	At least 100 (indirectly)
Worst Crimes	Mass murder Abuse of power Gaoling Oppression Child slavery
Type of Villain	Manipulative Tyrant

“	Curtis, dear boy. The fact is that we are all stuck inside this blasted train. We are prisoners in this hunk of metal. And this train is a closed ecosystem. We must always strive for balance. Air, water, food supply, the population... must always be kept in balance.	„
	~ Wilford

Wilford is the main antagonist of the 2013 film Snowpiercer. He is a genius inventor and the founder of his own corporation, Wilford Industries. He also masterminds the operations on the globe-trotting Snowpiercer locomotive, which carries the last remnant of humanity, but divides them into two distinct social classes, with a luxurious upper class of passengers at the front and an oppressed lower class of passengers at the back.

He was portrayed by Ed Harris, who also played Leonard Dekkom in Geostorm.

Biography

This section is too long. Visit here for more details: Wilford's Synopsis on the Villains Wiki.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

• Engineered a train with a very decisive class system, favoring the rich and both endangering and oppressing the poor:
  • People at the front have good food to eat, as seen by a large freezer full of meat, Wilford cooking a steak, and the fact that they very occasionally get served sushi made from fish in an aquarium, whereas people at the back are only given gelatinous protein bars made from cockroaches and other pests.
    • During the first years of the Snowpiercer, the conditions were so poor in the tail section that people we're forced into cannibalism, including Curtis Everett who was traumatized by this event.
  • People at the front have free roam of the train's many pleasures, whereas people at the back are literally held at gunpoint, forced to live in cramped conditions, which is genuinely comparable to life in a prison camp.
  • In spite of all the classism, Wilford claims that his own position at the front of the train has noteworthy drawbacks, citing that it's noisy, lonely and claiming he's nonetheless imprisoned within the train like everyone else. This is a laughable argument, as he speaks as though all people on the train are equals when these are minor inconveniences, and the front of the train has luxuries that people at the back are forbade access to, not to mention how people at the back are treated like dirt; Curtis outright calls him out on this while Wilford is grilling a steak.
• Ordered Claude and his goons to kidnap Andy and Timmy to use them as manpower. This results in Tanya getting beaten and Andrew losing his arm.
• He manipulated and orchestrated several rebellions to have passengers at the back killed off to keep a sustainable population
• Brainwashed the masses, even misleading them to believe that the tail section and other poor people are evil, and portrayed himself as a messiah figure.
• Fooled the benevolent Gilliam into helping him arranging riots, both for sadistic pleasure and for keeping the population in constant check.
• Ordered Egg-Head and the rest of his goons to massacre the people in the tail sections.
  • While he told Egg-Head to spare 18 persons, he only did to conserve the population and to "celebrate" the 18th anniversary of the Snowpiercer.
• He taunts Curtis by playing him the audio of his people getting massacred.
• Lamenting on Gilliam's death was boredom from losing an intellectual equal rather than actual remorse (he never mourns him nor cries), as shown when he executed Gilliam during one of the latest riots even before the latter could outlive his usefulness.
• It is implied he impregnated a teacher, which means he left his own unborn child to be killed in a riot.
• It is shown that he forces children from the back to operate parts of the train that have broken beyond repair. Even if this is necessary to keep the train running, child slavery is inexcusable, and he takes absolutely no issue in employing it.
  • He seems to be a horrible boss since Andy And Tim are working in underwear despite the cold weather and it's never show caring for them or at least feeding them.

Trivia

• Only the movie version of Wilford is approved as Pure Evil, and it should be noted that it's currently unknown if his TV show incarnation will be approved as Pure Evil.

External Links

• Wilford on Villains Wiki