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* BerserkButton: Revok hates being compared to Dr. Ruth. Makes sense considering [[spoiler:Ruth is his and Cameron's father and abandoned them both]].
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* CreepyMonotone: Vale's voice is almost always even and robotic


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* BaritoneofStrength: Revok has Creator/MichaelIronside using his naturally deep and commanding voice, demonstrating his power.
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* AxCrazy: One of the most homicidal Scanners as well as one of the strongest. He ''will'' murder you in a gory fashion if you threaten his operation. Or if you turn down his offers. Or just to prove he can.

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* DullSurprise: Cameron has no personality whatever, which makes Stephen Lack's performance easily mistaken for simple bad acting. He's shown a much wider range of emotion in his other acting roles.


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* DullSurprise: Cameron has no personality whatever, which makes Stephen Lack's performance easily mistaken for simple bad acting. He's shown a much wider range of emotion in his other acting roles.
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* DullSurprise: Cameron has no personality whatever, which makes Stephen Lack's performance easily mistaken for simple bad acting. His acting performances normally have a somewhat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k0vKC2hUBk&feature=related wider range of emotion]] to them.

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* DullSurprise: Cameron has no personality whatever, which makes Stephen Lack's performance easily mistaken for simple bad acting. His acting performances normally have He's shown a somewhat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k0vKC2hUBk&feature=related much wider range of emotion]] to them.emotion in his other acting roles.

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* SuperSupremacist: He's a terrorist cult leader and the result of a BizarreBabyBoom that produced telepathic children known as "scanners." His own plot is to reproduce this previous accident by design, then train the next generation to be his foot soldiers on the path to creating a worldwide scanner supremacy.

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* SuperSupremacist: He's a terrorist cult leader and the result of a BizarreBabyBoom that produced telepathic children known as "scanners." His own plot is to reproduce this previous accident by design, then train the next generation to be his foot soldiers on the path to creating a worldwide scanner supremacy. He also dismisses Obrist and her neutral group as a "band of cripples" to justify their murder.



* WithUsOrAgainstUs: He doesn't tolerate any other scanners who aren't a part of his underground network. Every scanner known to Ruth who was approached by Revok was either recruited, or murdered. His goons murder most of Kim's people.




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* NeutralityBacklash: Kim and her group of fellow scanners have chosen to remain neutral in the war between Revok and [=ConSec=]. This results in the murder of all but Kim at the hands of Revok's men, since Revok doesn't allow for independent scanners.
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* {{Badass in a Nice Suit}}: Revok is seen wearing three-piece suits a few times in the film.


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* WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: As we learn more of Darryl Revok's backstory, it becomes increasingly apparent that he became a psychic supremacist with ambitions of world conquest due to all the abuse he suffered because of his supernatural abilities. He transformed his inferiority complex into a superiority complex to cope with being called a freak and locked up in a mental asylum for years, as pointed out by Dr. Paul Ruth:
-->'''Dr. Ruth:''' At the age of 22 he was extremely self-destructive; now at the age of 35 he is ''simply'' destructive.
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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Revok is the leader of his renegade faction and is one of the most powerful scanners around. This is because both he and the hero were the first products of Ephemerol.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Revok is the leader of his scanner faction and easily the strongest. Only Cameron can go toe-to-toe with him.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Revok attempts to forcefully take his brother's body, but unfortunately for him Vale has grown strong enough to overpower and take over his own mind. Revok dies in the body of the man he bloodily ravaged. His awesome PsychicPowers were what destroyed him.


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* JoinOrDie: Revok wants a Scanner army, but if you're a Scanner who wants no part of it, he'll terminate you. And he nearly succeeds in wiping out Kim's heroic faction.
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* BadBoss: He tries to force a team of technicians to execute Vale through shutting down the communications line he's scanning. When one of them points out the risks, Keller pulls a gun on the man to make him do it. [[spoiler:Naturally this gets him and everyone else in the room killed by the psychic backlash.]]

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* BookEnds: Revok's first and last scene have him engage in a gruesome psychic duel with another Scanner. [[spoiler:He's not as lucky the second time.]]




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* YourHeadASplode: Quite memorably inflicts this on a poor fellow Scanner in his introduction.
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* CainAndAbel: The leader of the villainous, rogue scanner faction and the older brother to the protagonist Cameron Vale.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While he's enraged at the abuse of his father, Revok is reluctant to have him killed and admits to Cameron he never meant to hurt him. Tellingly, when Cameron switches bodies with him, Revok seems to go from shrieking in pain and rage to calming down as he dies in his brother's body.


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* VisionaryVillain: Believing scanners are bound to be oppressed by humanity, Revok aims to create a new world order where they may be free of companies like [=ConSec=].

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