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Schoolboy
Schoolboy
Played By: Matthew Marsden
One of the mercenaries on the mission to recover Sarah.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Schoolboy's .50-calibre sniper rifle, while cool, is very impractical for jungle warfare. The only times it actually becomes effective is when he's given enough time to properly set-up at a vantage point far enough away from the action.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Is ex-SBS and a very capable soldier.
- Friendly Sniper: He's quite cheerful and amiable when he's not using his Barrett to pop SPDC troopers' heads like ripe melons.
- Good Is Not Soft: He's the only unambiguously kind-hearted and unselfish person in the band of mercenaries rescuing the missionaries and the only idealistic character in the movie that still kicks ass.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: "Schoolboy" is a nickname that stuck with him in Sniper School; his true name is never revealed."And me mates won't stop calling me that no matter how many people I shoot."
- Nice Guy: The most decent and friendly member of the mercenaries.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Schoolboy's weapon of choice is a Barrett .50 calibre anti-material rifle, which was designed for disabling lightly-armored vehicles. Naturally, the effect such a large round has on a human body is rather horrific.
Lewis
Lewis
Played By: Graham McTavish
The leader of a group of five mercenaries tasked to locate and rescue Sarah, Michael and the rest of the missing missionaries — who begrudgingly accept Rambo's help in the process.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Calls Major Tint a "Gutless Fuck" and "Ladyboy Cunt" among other things when he is captured and beaten by his men.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Lewis is ex-SAS and is a formidable mercenary.
- Hidden Depths: Lewis is a Jerkass and hired gun, but he mentions that the money he earns goes to his ex-wife and three kids.
- Jerkass: Very much so, in an inverse to Schoolboy.
- Made of Iron: He's badly beaten, wounded horrifically by a landmine, tortured by Tint via Attack the Injury and then shot in the side during the final fight, but still keeps on fighting. As such, he survives the encounter in spite of his horrific injuries.
- Nerves of Steel: Neither Rambo pointing an arrow at him and Major Tint torturing the captive mercenaries scares Lewis.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Lewis has some noble traits, but is full of insults about Burmese locals ("[o]nly a fucking ape would live here") and Christians (whom he calls "God-squadders"). His reasoning for Rambo to stay behind is that he wants a white man watching their boat and "not some fucking dink."
- Spiteful Spit: After he dispatches one of Tint's soldiers during the climax, he hatefully spits on his corpse before rolling away.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: After Rambo demonstrates his combat prowess (and nearly fires an arrow point-blank into him), Lewis reluctantly agrees to work alongside him for the duration of the operation.
Major Pa Tee Tint
Major Pa Tee Tint
Played By: Maung Maung Khin
Major in the Burmese Army (the land-based branch of the Tatmadaw, the Burmese Armed Forces), commanding officer of the 360th Light Infantry Battalion.
- Asshole Victim: Nobody mourned when Rambo disemboweled him at the end.
- Attack the Injury: Just before the climax, after his men have beaten the mercenaries bloody, he tortures Lewis this way after the latter goads him ... by jamming a bamboo staff in Lewis' leg injury caused by a landmine!!
- Beard of Evil: If one looks closely, he has a goatee.
- Big Bad: Of the fourth film.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Early in the film, he tells parents of boys he kidnapped to conscript into his army to fear him along with hearing and believing him.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Pa Tee Tint is this to the previous villains as he himself is a Viler New Villain whose evil deeds graphically overshadows the past foes' own and is a Mundane Horror Soft-Spoken Sadist in contrast to the generally Evil Is Hammy Soviet villains. However, while the prior foes are combatants, Pa Tee Tint is a Dirty Coward who tries to make a run for it until his death at Rambo's hands. Plus, he doesn't face and/or acknowledge Rambo until the end of the film, whereas past villains meet and interact with him early in each installment. Also, he's the only Big Bad who doesn't speak a single word of English.
- Defiant to the End: Averted. He preferred to run for his life and leave his men to die instead of fighting.
- Depraved Homosexual: Is a pedophile with his only known victim being a young boy.
- Dirty Coward: He commits all kinds of war crimes and other horrible acts, but once a real battle appears, he immediately runs away while leaving his own troops to the slaughter after shooting an innocent missionary In the Back.
- Establishing Character Moment: In his first appearance, he forces civilians to run across a minefield before having his men kill them all. He gets even worse from there.
- Expy: Of Zaysen. What makes him different is that Major Pa Tee Tint does nothing but gleefully oppress national minorities in his own country, while being too cowardly to participate in any actual fighting.
- Father to His Men: Averted. He is perfectly willing to provide his battalion with sex slaves and drugs rather than maintain combat readiness, and absolutely ready to abandon them in the midst of the battle, rather than lead and coordinate them.
- Gutted Like a Fish: See Asshole Victim above.
- Hate Sink: Pretty much every single action in the movie comes off as a ruthless Kick the Dog moment that it gives the audience enough reason to hate this monster.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: Especially in the village massacre scene.
- Kick the Dog: He never stops and his actions are Played for Horror unlike the previous villains' misdeeds. One of his last purposeful actions is to shoot an unarmed missionary in the back who posed zero threat to him.
- Mundane Horror: Grounded he may be, his atrocities are quite deplorable and shocking. And all too much based on real life.
- Mundanger: Unlike the military sequel villains in The '80s, he's realistically a walking bucket of Mundane Horror.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Unlike the other villains, he is shown running for his life and hides from the major battle going on at the end of the movie. The only time he adopts a combat pose is to shoot a fleeing, unarmed missionary in the back.
- Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: When facing an aging Rambo.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Watching Rambo gut him like a fish is the high point of the movie.
- Played for Horror: Contributing to the fourth film being Darker and Edgier, his Kick the Dog acts that are usually formulaically expected from the franchise's villains beforehand are this instead, showing how graphically horrifying the villain's misdeeds can be, hence why he's considered a Contrasting Sequel Antagonist compared to past villains.
- Sociopathic Soldier: He's the commander of a Burmese military unit and is a monstrous, murderous Sadist, leaving rape and slaughter in his wake. But when his battalion is decimated by Rambo, mercenaries and rebels, he immediately runs for his life.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: Always remains The Stoic while committing war crimes.
- Sore Loser: He plays a sick game where he forces prisoners to wade through a mine-filled marsh. When they all make it safely across, he gets very pissed and orders his soldiers to fire on them.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: It's pretty hard to tell him apart from every other Tatmadaw Soldier.
- Unknown Rival: Somewhat subverted, as he knew about the mercenaries and tortured them regardless, but he had no idea who Rambo was and never met him in person until Rambo gutted him. Upon seeing Rambo, the expression on his face was more confusion than terror.
- Viler New Villain: Very much in contrast to the previous villains before the fourth film. Every evil deed he does is Played for Horror unlike the prior antagonists' own Kick the Dog acts.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Tried to make a break for it at the end, only to stop dead at his tracks by Rambo who guts him.
- Villain Opening Scene: The movie starts with Pa Tee Tint and his army playing a sick betting game by forcing civilians to run through a marsh filled with landmines. When they make it safely across, his army guns down the civilians as Pa Tee Tint looks on. In the Director's Cut, however, this was moved to a much later time.
- Would Hurt a Child: Allows his men to massacre both adults and children and he himself even rapes them for his own sick kicks (another complete contrast to Teasle, whose resume in the DVD special features states him to have been a little league coach).
Lieutenant Aye
Lieutenant Aye
Played By: Aung Aay Noi
Major Tint's Lieutenant.
- Asshole Victim: If you mourned when Rambo ripped out his throat, then something is wrong with you.
- Attempted Rape: He attempts to rape Sarah, only for Rambo to kill him.
- The Dragon: Seems to be this for Major Tint. However, he doesn't interact with him so much, unlike Galt, Tay, Kourov or even Victor.
- Slashed Throat: Rather, he gets his throat ripped out by Rambo, with his bare hands.
Sarah
Sarah
Played By: Julie Benz
- Attempted Rape: Lieutenant Aye comes into her cell to rape her, but he's killed by Rambo. Rambo also claims that the Burmese river pirates would have raped Sarah multiple times and then killed her if he hadn't stopped them.
- It's All My Fault: In a deleted scene, she admits to Rambo that she feels that everything that has happened is her fault as she convinced Rambo to take them into Burma.
- Morality Pet: For Rambo. She successfully guilts him into taking she and her colleagues upriver into Burma. She's the only one nice to him, and he's only "nice" to her.
- Only Sane Man: For the missionaries. She recognizes the danger they are facing, and is the only one of them to recognize the ugly necessity of Rambo killing the pirates. However, she may in turn strongly avert the trope because she was the one who convinced Rambo to travel to Burma in the first place despite the obvious danger and egged on Michael to continue after Rambo killed some attacking pirates when he adamantly requested to leave and return at a different time.
Michael
Michael
Played By: Paul Schulze
The leader of a group of missionaries, and Sarah's fiance, who heads into Burma to provide humanitarian aid to the local residents.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Michael, who is an avowed pacifist, is forced to beat and repeatedly bludgeon a Tatmadaw soldier with a giant rock during the final fight in order to protect himself, leaving him suffering from shock in the aftermath.
- Tempting Fate: Despite being told (and shown) by Rambo that it is a bad idea to go into an active warzone (even being advised on what will happen if they go inland), Michael actively chews out the latter and orders him to continue on as planned. This results in the missionaries being captured, beaten and nearly killed several times over before Rambo and the mercenaries rescue them in the climax.
