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Blake Dexter motivation spoilers

posted 11 years ago by Fwank_The_Nutter
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Besides being a terrible villain that would only be worth one hit in an old game, this guy's motivation just doesn't make sense. He owns a huge weapons factory, with production and R&D, just about the whole town near it, cops and all, a penthouse in Chicago, with the influence to be able to lock it down (same with the Terminus hotel), and he risks his life and freedom by going up against The Agency for $10 million in illegal cash. Why? It seems his assets are worth far more, and in legal money.

Or do I remember wrong and he wanted to keep Victoria for himself? Either way, it's a lot of risk.

[–] Mack666 11 years ago

I always wondered why someone so rich would hang out in a crummy dive like the Terminus hotel in the first place, especially when he owns the worlds biggest penthouse in the same city.

[–] corckball 11 years ago

i thought blake dexter was a great villain. he would give anyone the creeps. he sure as hell was a bastard you wouldnt miss. the thing that makes him a good adversary is he's crazy but also smart and thinks 2 steps ahead of his enemies. He knew Travis would *beep* with his money so he shot a girl in cold blood to prove a point. He killed an innocent cleaning lady by stabbing her himself to frame 47. He's smarter and isnt afraid of taking a life. Benjamin Travis on the other hand probably never killed anyone in his life and paid his henchmen to do the job and wasnt nearly as smart to be in charge of a scary agency. The other villains like wade and skurky were insane but not smart. Lenny was just a poor kid trying to be like his dad. Dom Osmond, well you didnt get to know him at all. Skurky was a perv who got what he deserved. The saints were hyped but didnt live upto it. they were as dumb as any NPCs. So yeah that would make Blake Dexter a memorable villain in the hitman franchise. The only villain who really got to 47 twice. His only mistake was not killing him the first time he had him trapped in the hotel.
In Blood money Alexander Leland Cayne ( who surprisingly looks just like Kane from kane and lynch) never got to know 47 and only saw after he was "dead". The only villain i think who genuinely knew 47 was his "father" Ort Meyer, and Blake Dexter.

[–] Fwank_The_Nutter 11 years ago

I think the reason I don't think he was a great villain was because I think he was wrongly written as an enemy of 47. He might've gotten to 47 twice, but I thought it was out of character for 47 to be overcome by a lowlife cowboy arms dealer. 47 seems smarter than that.

[–] gregforttmags 10 years ago

I know where you're coming from when you had multi-billionaire Blake Dexter crashing out in a rotting, tumbled down roach hotel (when he had the slick Blackwater Park) guarded by low rent hired guns and brawlers straight out of Road House (when later on he is revealed to have PMC grade security men guarding his business empire and his Blackwater property protected by MIB bodyguards as well equipped, well trained as the Agency teams). Was his stay at the Terminus supposed to be Dexter's way of being low key?

But I think Dexter having a hard on over getting a comparatively small amount of money was to show how unreasonably, disgustingly greedy he was (as unreasonably, disgustingly backstabbing - as another villainous tycoon: Devon Weston - was in GTA V).