Luc Deveraux

Luc Deveraux is the main protagonist of the Universal Soldier film series.
He is most famously portrayed by Belgian actor and martial artist Jean-Claude Van Damme in Universal Soldier, Universal Soldier: The Return, Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning. Van Damme also played Frank Dux in Bloodsport, Louis Burke in Death Warrant, Sam Gillen in Nowhere to Run, Chance Boudreaux in Hard Target, Max Walker in Timecop, Colonel Guile in Street Fighter, Darren McCord in Sudden Death, Christopher Dubois in The Quest, Alain Moreau in Maximum Risk and Kyle Leblanc in In Hell.
Matt Battaglia played Deveraux in Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business.
==Early life==
Devereaux was born to Cajun parents and raised in a farm in Louisiana. Most of the details of his childhood are left unexplained, though it is reasonable to surmise that he was born around or before 1948, making him at least 21 when he is deployed to Vietnam.
==Universal Soldier==
In 1969 in Vietnam, Luc Deveraux is nearing the end of his tour of duty in the Vietnam war, Luc's friend Sergeant Andrew Scott, went insane and began killing Vietnamese civilians and his own soldiers indiscriminately. After attempting to reason with Scott, Luc attempts to stop him from killing two villagers, resulting in the two soldiers shooting each other to death. Their bodies are recovered from the field and put on ice, and they are falsely listed as "missing in action."
Twenty Three years later in 1992, The U.S. Government has the Black Tower or 'Universal Soldier' program commissioned Luc and Andrews bodies are chosen to be reanimated as UniSols. Luc rebelled when he met Veronica Roberts, a TV journalist who manages to break his conditioning. Having been essentially brain dead for over twenty years, Luc cannot properly function in civilization. The two attempt to find the source of the Black Tower program and help Luc regain his identity, while Scott and other UniSols are sent to kill them. In the end, he learns about the origin of the program and regains his memories.
When he returns to Louisiana his aged parents are overjoyed to see him, reunion is cut short when Scott appears, taking Roberts and Luc's parents hostage. Luc and Andrew fight to the death, which ends as Luc impales Scott on the spikes of a hay harvester and eviscerates him with it.
==Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms==
Following the events of Universal Soldier, the budget of the program has been cut by the government. However, under the orders of a CIA Director, a gang of mercenaries take control of the new line of Universal Soldiers to use them in the diamond smuggling business.
Luc Deveraux, survivor of the first incident with the Universal Soldiers, continues to cause problems, the enemy takes his newly found brother and news reporter Veronica Roberts prisoners.
==Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business==
Luc Devereaux and Veronica Roberts continue their attempts to expose the Universal Soldier unit. After a hostage situation mistakenly leaves Veronica a fugitive, the two escape the city and go into hiding.
==Universal Soldier: The Return==
Seven years after the events of Universal Soldier, Luc Deveraux, now an ordinary human after having had his cybernetic implants removed, is a technical expert who is working for the US government with his partner Maggie, who has been through countless hours of combat training with him. They work to refine and perfect the UniSol program in an effort to make a new, stronger breed of soldier that is more sophisticated and intelligent to reduce the use of normal, human soldiers in the battlefield. All of the new UniSols, which are faster and stronger than the original UniSols, are connected through an artifcially intelligent computer system called S.E.T.H. (Self-Evolving Thought Helix).
When S.E.T.H. discovers that the Universal Soldier program is scheduled to be shut down because of budget cuts, it takes action to protect itself. It unleashes a platoon of super soldiers, led by the musclebound Romeo, to kill those who try to shut off its power, but spares Devereaux because he has a secret code that is needed to deactivate a built-in program that will shut S.E.T.H. down in a matter of hours. A team of four UniSols massacre most of the troops stationed outside the premises. Luc goes in later with a team of USA Army Rangers, but most of them are killed when a UniSol sentry sees them sneaking into the building.
Not only must Luc contend with ambitious reporter Erin Young, who will not leave his side, but he must also contend with General Radford who wants to take extreme measures to stop S.E.T.H., planting a time bomb in the facility. S.E.T.H. has sent Romeo to kidnap Luc's injured 13-year-old daughter Hillary, killing Maggie in the process.
Luc is the only person who can rescue Hillary, because Luc knows firsthand how a UniSol thinks, feels, and fights. Luc infiltrates the UniSol building again, but finds Maggie, now revived as one of the UniSols. S.E.T.H. has healed Hillary with UniSol technology, and when it figures out the code it decides to kill Luc and raise Hillary as a daughter. During the fight Luc covers S.E.T.H. in liquid nitrogen and then shatters S.E.T.H.'s frozen body. Luc and Hillary leave the lab and head towards the exit, but find Romeo waiting for Luc. Luc then engages into a final fight with Romeo, which ends when Maggie finally rebels against the UniSols by shooting Romeo, allowing Luc and Hillary to get out of the building before the bomb detonates. However, S.E.T.H. had deactivated the bomb, and Romeo and the other UniSols start to march out for battle. Luc fires at the explosive charge, blowing up the building, killing all UniSols and destroying their laboratory.
==Universal Solider: Regeneration==
Luc Deveraux is undergoing rehabilitation therapy in Switzerland with Dr. Sandra Fleming with the goal of rejoining society, is taken back by the military to participate in the mission.
With 30 minutes remaining on the bomb's timer, a re-conditioned Deveraux is geared up and sent to the plant, where he kills every terrorist he encounters. He searches the buildings and finds the children cornered by Scott. Scott, who has distorted memories of Deveraux, is about to kill the children when Deveraux attacks and a grueling fight ensues. In the end, Deveraux impales Scott on the forehead with a lead pipe and fires a shotgun through it, blowing his brains out.
As Deveraux escorts the children to safety, they are attacked by the NGU. Deveraux and the NGU take the fight to the site of the bomb, with less than two minutes remaining. During the melee, Deveraux removes the detonator and jams it in the back of the NGU's uniform as they both jump out of the reactor chamber. NGU pulls the detonator off his back as it explodes, taking him with it. U.S. soldiers quickly arrive on the scene and tend to the children as Deveraux leaves. Burke's body is placed in a black bag and taken away, as well as recovered pieces of the NGU.
==Trivia==
*Luc Deveraux is an American (presumed to be a Cajun or American-French), even though Jean Claude Van Damme is a Belgian, Matt Battaglia on the other hand is American in real life.
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