Romeo (Minecraft: Story Mode)

Romeo, also known as "the Admin", is the main antagonist of the series, serving as the unseen overarching antagonist of the first game from 2015, and the main antagonist of its sequel in 2017.
He is the most powerful and dangerous enemy that Jesse and the gang has ever come across, and an evil powerful human who returned to the world when he heard that a new hero has risen (Jesse) and intending on challenging said hero for his own entertainment. Romeo also disguised himself as an old man named Vos, who was one of Jack's old friends, alongside Sammy. However, at the end of the story, he eventually redeems himself for his past sins after losing his powers. He is also Jesse's former overall archenemy.
In his true form (both as an Admin and as a normal human), his Vos disguise, and his Snowman form, he is voiced by . While disguised as Jesse, he is either voiced by or , depending on the gender the player chooses Jesse to be. In his Jack form, he is voiced by and in his Petra form, he is voiced by .
== His Greatness and Evil Rankings ==
=== What Makes Him Great? ===
* His onscreen aura has a lot of cool emphasis on it due to a remarkable performance by JB Blanc, his cool-looking character design, his many different forms and his motivation for turning evil. He is also an impressive user of resources and a talented fighter.
* He disguised himself as Vos and pretended to be trapped in the Sea Temple as well as creating an avatar for himself in the form of a Prismarine Colossus, which he used to try and kill Jesse, Petra, and Jack, either leading to Petra losing her sword, Miss Butter, or Jack losing his bad eye.
* After his Prismarine Colossus avatar was killed by Jesse, he created another one in the form of a snowman and changed the temperature to a snowstorm, and allowed more monsters to attack Beacontown to create a deadly and unbeatable challenge for Jesse and his friends. The challenge ended at the Awesome, Fantastic, Super-Deadly Icy Palace of Despair, where the gang lost Stella and Radar as they all tried to beat the challenge. It is later revealed that the snowstorm hit Beacontown's rival Champion City as well, forcing their Mayor Stella to join forces with Jesse.
* He disguised himself as Jesse and went to Beacontown alongside Stella, usurping Jesse's role as Mayor, and turning it into a dictatorship where he lied about defeating "the Admin" and gaining his powers, making the people live in the fear of him.
* He cared for Xara and Fred, as he created the Terminal Space for them to enjoy so they could be happy.
* He is somewhat insecure, as the reason why he turned against Xara and Fred was that he was upset at the three of them having to live their own separate lives instead of being able to remain together, which Petra admits was hard for all of them.
* Even when he killed Fred and imprisoned Xara, he still honored their memories together as he preserved the cabin that they all once lived in and even planted a birch tree there since it was Fred's favorite.
* If he kills Xara. he looks at her inventory with sadness and calls her "old friend", showing that he is remorseful for his murder and still cared about her deep down.
* Even if he did subvert it, he still showed some respect to Jesse by congratulating him/her on his/her achievement of defeating the Wither Storm.
* He ultimately redeems himself in the last episode. After being completely stripped of his powers, he becomes extremely remorseful for all of his actions to the point where he feels as if he should die for what he did, which leads Jesse to make an important decision:
*# Take Romeo with you - Romeo sacrifices his own life so that Jesse, Petra, and Jack can escape by luring the glitched Prismarine Colossus to him as he is trapped inside the collapsing Terminal Space, unless Jesse let Radar save the townspeople in the Underneath, in which case Romeo decides to make up for all of his crimes, starting with helping said townspeople rebuild their lives and, depending on Xara's current status, try to make amends with her or make up for killing her.
*# Leave Romeo behind - Romeo still tries to do something good in his life by sacrificing himself so that the gang can escape the Terminal Space while the glitched Prismarine Colossus potentially kills him, but if Jesse let Radar save the Underneath's inhabitants, Romeo is unable to make his sacrifice as he is left behind in the Terminal Space forever.
=== What Makes Him Heinous? ===
* He took over his homeworld and bedrocked all over it, turning it into the Underneath as a result. Even before that, he slowly tortured Fred until he died right in front of Xara's eyes before building the Sunshine Institute and imprisoning Xara in its strictest cell Cellblock X. She wasn't even the only prisoner there, as Romeo had kidnapped numerous other people to make their lives as hellish as he could in his prison.
* He created a Sea Temple with dozens of Elder Guardians in it, which caused two of Jack's friends Vos and Sammy to die in the temple, giving Jack severe PTSD and vowing to never return there.
* He tried to kill Jesse by ambushing Beacontown and destroying some of the buildings. He also tries to kill Petra/Jack and Lukas just for interrupting their battle, and this pushes Romeo to destroy Reuben's memorial out of sadistic spite, with Jesse getting very angry at him for doing such a thing.
* He passed the gauntlet over to Petra or Jack depending on who the player chooses to get the clock and renders one of them his "champion" before forcing them to fight Jesse against his/her will to the death in the Sunshine Institute.
* He had Ivor hunt down and kill anyone who may be posing as Jesse because it is chaotic, no longer viewing it as beneficial.
* He imprisoned all the members of the New Ocelots, including Lukas, in his floating tower above Beacontown.
* He made a point to force Axel and Olivia to remain his "friend" or he'll destroy Redstonia and Boom Town, and set up an example with Champion City. The following occurs on whether or not Jesse gave Xara her bed:
*# Give Xara her bed - he obliterates Champion City with Axel, Olivia, and even Stella watching in horror, resulting in the deaths of hundreds to thousands of innocents. When Stella sobs over losing her citizens and her home, Romeo makes up a nasty comment about how she should shrug it off, claiming that she was always worried about Champion City.
*# Don't give Xara her bed - Romeo outright murders Xara when she charges at him and calls him a liar, only refraining from destroying Champion City because he feels like he's already made his point. He then scolds one of his golems for failing to notice that Xara was even coming.
* He twisted the "lessons" he claimed to have learned from Jesse and intended to bedrock all over his/her homeworld, endangering billions of lives as a result since he could have simply built a new city rather than remaking the entire world. He then tried to prevent Jesse, Petra and Jack from defeating him, at one point trying to kill Jesse so he/she couldn't depower him or even if he/she offers to help him when he is in his Fred form.
== Trivia ==
*Eric Stirpe, who is one of the writers for the game, stated that there was going to be a scene where Romeo teleports all the citizens of Champion City to Beacontown right before bombing Champion City right in front of them, meaning that the entire population of Champion City would all be homeless rather than killed, but this scene was cut due to budget restrictions. Had the scene been included in the game, Romeo bombing Champion City wouldn’t be a Moral Event Horizon crossing as he would simply destroy the city without killing everyone in it.
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