Analyzing Evil: Richmond Valentine

Hello everyone and welcome to the eighty-third episode of Analyzing Evil! Our feature villain for this video is Richmond Valentine from Kingsman: Secret Service. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

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[tonts]

It's a pretty good analysis, though I feel you missed out on something rather important. His relationship with his lethal bodyguard/henchwoman Gazelle. How considerate she is of his needs and his fragility when seeing blood or death, how much he seems to rely on her and how well he knows her.

[alicenolfi]

"A fly spiritual tech guru that Mark Zuckerberg only wishes he could be."

Someone give this man a Pulitzer Prize for that line alone!

[ptolemeeselenion]

Richmond Valentine is practically a blend of everything that any warlord or despot in Western history has ever dreamed of, combined altogether with the pizzazz that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk ever hoped to project onto people.

[evictionnotice]

I honestly loved this villain and for Samuel L Jackson it was a really different role to play, but he absolutely killed it

[MrKeepItGoing]

The real evil is how he wore crooked fitted hats the whole movie like T.I.

By the way, you should analyze the evil of “Bishop” from the film “Juice”

[jtfbreedlove]

Dude the sim cards went in the phones the neck implants were to protect his chosen few from being driven berserk, and the head explosion security measure for the few that knew of his plan.

[elpadrino]

George Carlin felt the same way. He said if humans are being a nuisance to the planet, the earth will shake us off like a dog with a bad case of fleas.

[Gadget-Walkmen]

LOL I totally forgot Samuel L Jackson has done ALOT of villains in his roles. Like even Jules from Pulp Fiction is even a villain considering he's a hitman for hire to take people out!

[anthonyandrade]

I always thought Richard Valentine was a highly, highly underated villan. He always made a point to be a very polite and amicable, and offered the world a deal that would be too good to pass up. I enjoyed that you brought up instances where his darker side manifests. I noticed this after watching the movie and always went back and forth in my head trying to decide if Valentine truly believed what he was doing was the right thing to do despite it obviously being brutal and unfair. Especially since he was giving a large group he was friendly with immunity from the carnage, or if his entire polite persona was simply a mask he used to take power after losing faith in the normal means of trying to make a change ( funding politician's/lobbying, hiring scientists and research teams, ect..). The old addage " the path to hell is paved with good intentions" imediately came to mind. Great video as always!

[Gigas]

Sammy Jackson makes villains memorable, his role as The Octopus in The Spirit is one of the only reasons I even remember that movie.

Could you please cover Clay Puppington from Moral Orel?

[DFloyd]

Killing four billion at random seems grossly inefficient when the problem can be better solved by killing just the few hundred select targets who are directly responsible for causing, prolonging, and exacerbating that problem and replacing them with people who will make the necessary changes.

[GalaxyOfTerror]

I really can’t wait to see you cover Homelander!

[AceSpadeThePikachu]

He was basically Thanos but without the immense strength and stoicism, but he had a sense of humour to make up for it.

[idrkbruh]

Spoiler For Unbreakable (2000)






On the subject of Samuel L Jackson, I think that Elijah Price would be an interesting villain to analyze, particularly due to his reasoning and history that led to him committing his crimes. You never miss on your content, keep up the good work!

2023 update: it happened!

[michaelkaduck]

Valentine reminds me to a certain degree of Otto Octavius from the Spider-Man Ps4 game. Someone who originally intended to do good for the world, but after being pushed back from actually being able to affect change, abandons all his ideals to make sure this goal is fulfilled.
Speaking of which, I'd love if this channel could cover some of the Spider-Man foes like Doc Ock or the Green Goblin!

[wilemelliott]

note, the sim cards go into the phones, the implant was a "counter agent" for the people he didn't want to have effected by the "signal". Nobody had to implant anything, they just had to swap the free sim card on their existing cell phone... the cheese AND the trap, as it were

[bradfork]

Definitely a very underappreciated villain, especially how one usually expects Sam Jackson to play "cool" villainous characters and Valentine is anything but. It's a shame how the woefully inferior Kingsman 2 had such a weak follow-up of a main antagonist in Poppy Addams.

[sifatshams]

Rupert Pupkin from The King of Comedy. One of the most fascinating and mysterious protagonists in all of cinema. He initially comes across as an annoying and obnoxious little shit, but slowly and subtly, the film eerily hints at the loneliness and desperation that secretly drives him.

[baronofbahlingen]

One of the most lovable villains done so far, obviously a bad goal with evil means, but he is so enjoyable while doing it.

[ben_sisko]

This is yet another reason why Kinsman is such a good movie: it portraits malthusians as evil.