| “ | Are you a little bit curious to watch the world… burn? | „ |
| ~ Duncan to Jake, expressing joy at the Geostorm causing mass destruction on the world. |
Duncan Taylor is the secondary antagonist of the 2017 sci-fi disaster film Geostorm.
He is a software engineer who was hired by Leonard Dekkom to sabotage the Dutch Boy by putting a virus on his system.
He was portrayed by Robert Sheehan.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Duncan accepted Dekkom's proposal to sabotage the Dutch Boy, which consisted of earning much more than he, as a software engineer, earns, out of pure greed, without apparently having suffered any threat from Dekkom or anything else that had made him accept. He didn't even hesitate and showed that he was more than willing to cause millions of deaths simply for a good amount of money.
- Having accepted the proposal, Duncan not only put a virus in the Dutch Boy's system, causing it to generate catastrophes worldwide, killing millions of people, but was also willing to kill anyone who could disrupt the genocidal and corrupt scheme.
- When one of the scientists, Habib Makmoud, discovered Dekkom's corrupt scheme, Duncan locked him in a corridor of the space module and opened the windows, causing the air to escape and cause him to be sucked out and die terribly.
- When the space team was measuring efforts to contain the Dutch Boy and stop it from generating catastrophes and geostorms, Duncan put another virus in the system that programmed the module where they were for self-destruction, which would end up killing everyone who was trying to fix the sat.
- He attempted to murder Jack and wipe out all evidence that could expose his horrible crimes.
- When confronted by Jake as the only person who could have put the virus in the system, Duncan not only confesses his greedy motivation, but also expresses neglect, sadism, and joy at all the destruction and deaths that the Dutch Boy was doing with geostorms, sadistically questioning whether Jake was not curious to see the world burn.
- His excuse for villainy, is laughably petty as Duncan believes that he isn’t paid enough for his job. So because he wasn’t paid what he saw as satisfactory enough to feed his greed, Duncan helped Leonard kill millions of people around the globe, which outweighs any excuse or false justification that Duncan once had.
- While he does have some comedic moments, they are both only apart of his Façade thus is before he reveals his true colours and they don’t detract from his heinous acts. As the humour he has after his reveal, is dark, morbid and extremely twisted.
- While Dekkom did worse, Taylor has less resources than him, being a computer programmer rather than a powerful US politic, meaning he does stand out.
