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Victor was a lame villain.

posted 10 years ago by gpapa1998-24-961204
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First of all we don't know why he's such a threat, one and most important, second he only killed the guy who stole from him. Personally I think that if someone steals needs to have his/her hand cut off. Also he didn't do the killing him self but he had Zack do it for him. Mikey wasn't a good guy either. I mean he wanted to steal a car (if I had a car and it was stolen I wish that whoever stole it would have his hand cut off, he wasn't a nice guy at all. So I didn't really feel pitty for Mikey. So Victor was a very lame villain. We don't even know if he's a threat to anyone who doesn't mess with him.

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[–] VanillaLimeCoke 9 years ago

He was kind of scary for me I guess because of this bully who gave me a lot of trouble in middle school.

What's odd is that the bully looked like Axl only younger but that's how I saw the bully would grow up but the bully thought I was slimy.

I pictured Victor as slimy.

One other thing that was scary and familiar is that Victor reminded me of the bad guy from Sister Act, which really was how the bully acted. Pushing and bossing me around and if I didn't act right he'd give me trouble.

I would just like to say this though. Both of those villians are slimy. They always have to have their men do the dirty work.

Like seriously, victor has Axl thrown out of a window and then later he could have killed Axl at the warehouse but instead leaves his men to do it.

And that's usually the case with bullies, is they always have a gang of friends. It's hardly ever 1 on 1. That's how they get their imitidation.

[–] pjmcgill142 9 years ago

Mike, sorry, Zack! Zack still gives me nightmares, though.

[–] okwong-e 9 years ago

Maitland was a drug dealer posing as a respected member of Beverly Hills society. That cancels out automatically any belief that he was right to kill Mikey for stealing from him. Yes Mikey was an idiot but he didn't deserve THAT.

Secondly while the character, despite Steven Berkoff's ever present creepiness, isn't one of the great movie villains, in terms of how he's a threat? The idea of a rich and powerful man who can get away with literal and metaphorical murder is a frightening one.

[–] TMC-4 (20304) 3 years ago

This is what TV Tropes said about Victor Maitland's failings as a movie villain:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/BeverlyHillsCop?from=Characters.BeverlyHillsCopII

Villain Ball: Much of the plot depends on Maitland being a moron. If he had just played dumb and told Axel that he had no idea who would want to kill Michael Tandino, that, yes, he uses bearer bonds in his business all the time, which is completely normal in the art world, and no, he has no idea why Michael would have brought bearer bonds with him to Detroit, that would have been the end of the movie, as Axel at that point had no real basis of suspicion against him. Instead, he calls in a group of thugs to his office to have Axel thrown out, as in literally thrown through a plate glass window, at which point Axel is certain that Maitland is behind it all. Then there's the fact that when Maitland catches Axel and Jenny in one of his warehouses, having discovered a crate of cocaine, instead of having them both killed then and there, when he has them completely at his mercy, he kidnaps Jenny, taking her back to his house, while leaving Axel there not to be killed, at least not right away, but first to be beaten up by two thugs. That of course leaves enough time for Billy to rescue Axel, and for Axel, Billy, and Sgt. Taggart to rescue Jenny. If Maitland had even the slightest sense, the movie would have been much shorter.