| “ | The Syndicate was civilization's last hope! A chance to smash the old world order. That hope is gone now because of you and your pathetic morality. You should have killed me, Ethan. The end you've always feared is coming. It's coming! And the blood will be on your hands. The fallout of all your good intentions. | „ |
| ~ Solomon Lane to Ethan Hunt. |
Solomon Lane is the main antagonist of the 2015 action spy film Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, the fifth installment of Paramount Pictures‘s Mission: Impossible film series, and one of the two main antagonists (alongside August Walker) of its 2018 sequel Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
He is a relentless anarchistic mastermind and the arch-enemy of Ethan Hunt. He is the leader of a terrorist organization named The Syndicate, later renamed as the Apostles following his first defeat. He is the arch-enemy of Ethan Hunt.
He was portrayed by Sean Harris, who also played Stretch in Harry Brown.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He was willing to kill his arch-enemy Ethan Hunt various times.
- Used the funding provided by Atlee, originally meant to create a sophisticated spy network, to fund terrorist attacks across the planet.
- He kills an innocent young woman working in a disc-store and has no remorse for it.
- He assassinated the Chancellor of Austria and his wife by a car bomb put in place as a redundancy.
- He also set a fire at a chemical plant that gassed an entire village of two thousand people.
- He once crashed a plane with 236 passengers just to kill one particular person.
- He was willing to wipe out a third of the Earth's population out of spite unlike Walker who wants to do so in order to achieve peace. It was Lane himself who convinced Walker to do this, planning everything out to do this.
- Kidnapped the closest friend of Ethan Hunt, Benji Dunn, and strapped him to a bomb while using a headset and contact lens camera to speak through him to threaten Ethan with killing him unless he hands over a file with billions of dollars on it that he intends to use to fund The Syndicate's operations.
- Was somewhat misogynistic towards Ilsa Faust, a redeemed former member of The Syndicate.
- Tried to kill Ilsa Faust several times even when she was loyal to the Syndicate, causing her defection.
- He was, in short, a calculating and deranged terrorist and his past had nothing to do with his later actions.
Trivia[]
- While Solomon Lane is currently Pure Evil, there's a slight chance that this may change if he returns in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 2 (that is, if MI6 didn't have him executed after Fallout), which is set to conclude the Mission: Impossible film series, and showcases a redeeming quality.
- He is, alongside Owen Davian and Sabine Moreau, one of the three Mission: Impossible villains to be Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Solomon Lane on the Villains Wiki
- Solomon Lane on the Mission: Impossible Wiki
