| “ | You think I'm stupid, huh? You know I can't do that. Cause the men I work for will kill me if I don't get it back for them. You should've paid me and been done with it. But no. Clever boys like you always think you can be clever. So how's this for clever? I'm gonna take you and your drive and your helicopter. And I'm going to make you watch as your building burns to ash, and there's nothing you can do about it. | „ |
| ~ Kores Botha to Zhao Long Ji on how he's going to make him suffer for having incriminating evidence against his clients. |
| “ | Kores Botha: All I care about is what my business partner is holding behind those doors. And you're going to get it for me. Will Sawyer: Listen to me. The only way those doors open is from the inside, or the fire alarm on this floor triggers it, but that can't happen because you took the entire system offline. Kores Botha: Is that so? Well, let me tell you something. Every man has a weakness. It's easy to find. Once you know what he loves, you have it. Zhao, he loves this building. And you, your weakness is your family. So now we're going to find out how much you love your family, Will. Will Sawyer: Listen to me. Opening those doors from this floor can't be done. Kores Botha: Anything can be done with the proper motivation. You do this for me, or I'll throw your fucking daughter off the roof. |
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| ~ Kores Botha to Will Sawyer on threatening to throw Georgia Sawyer to her death unless if he can access Zhao's penthouse. |
Kores Botha is the main antagonist of the 2018 action thriller film, Skyscraper. He is a freelance terrorist who, along with his right-hand Xia, sets a massive fire on the 96th floor of "The Pearl", the world's tallest building, and kidnaps Will Sawyer's daughter to use as a hostage.
He was portrayed by Roland Møller.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Tried using extortion and blackmail to get Zhao Long Ji to give him money.
- Strangles and snaps the neck of a random employee when he gets inside of The Pearl.
- Sets The Pearl ablaze on the 96th floor with flammable materials and chemicals activating when the sprinklers turn on, hoping to spread it across the entire building.
- Orders Xia to massacre dozens of innocent technicians and security guards inside the facility that contains The Pearl's security systems.
- Has Skinny Hacker successfully spread the fire from the 96th floor all across The Pearl by hacking the security systems, incinerating those trying to escape and has his henchmen murder several security guards and police officers throughout the film.
- Orders Skinny Hacker murdered by Xia to make sure nobody can successfully reverse the process.
- Enters a room containing Zhao's security team and himself trying to escape in a helicopter and slaughters everyone except Zhao, even cruelly shooting his closest friend Ajani Okeke when he tries fighting back before saying he's going to make Zhao suffer as much as possible.
- Ambushes Will Sawyer and his daughter, Georgia Sawyer, taking the latter hostage and forcing Will to go to Zhao's penthouse to get him and the USB drive or he'll throw Georgia off the roof to her death, taunting that he's going to learn how much Will loves his family.
- Points a gun to a minion's head and forces him to give up his parachute to Zhao when he arrives and states that he'll only give the drive if he had a parachute, condemning the minion to die a fiery death when the Pearl burns down to the ground.
- Tries one last time to make Will Sawyer surrender the USB drive to him otherwise not only would he drop Georgia Sawyer off the roof, but also blow her up into bloody pieces with a grenade he was carrying on him.
- Although he is angry at Zhao for trying to incriminate his clients, he deserved it for trying to force Zhao to give him cash, he also decides to make him suffer as much as possible by killing dozens who had done nothing to him, plus he doesn't want to get killed by his bosses because he wants to continue being a terrorist, proving he doesn't care for them either.
- While he tells several of his henchmen to look out when a helicopter was about to crash on top of them and himself, it's purely for pragmatic reasons as he was going to lose valuable resources and he has no qualms with either arranging their deaths like in Skinny Hacker's case or forcing another to give up their parachute despite knowing that he would die.
External Links[]
- Kores Botha on the Villains Wiki
