Vaas Montenegro

Vaas Montenegro, also known as The Psychopath and The Lunatic, is one of the main characters from the Far Cry series.
== Charactah Account ==
Simply put, Vaas is downright nuts. He's also violent, unpredictable, mercurial, prideful, and extremely dangerous. Vaas started on this downward spiral when he became addicted to drugs brought to Rook Island by Hoyt Volker. He eventually joined up with the self-appointed warlord after Hoyt promised him power and wealth. Now, on an island of madness, he is the most feared madman of them all.
What is known about Vaas' personality comes from his close and often dangerous encounters with the main protagonist. Close observation shows that he is reckless, violent, sadistic, brutal, unpredictable, cynical, Machiavellian, psychopathic, insane, extremely prideful, and a remorseless pirate with a dark sense of humor and a violent personality - who is feared even by his own men, some of whom are as chaotic and psychotic as Vaas.
Vaas, unlike his sister, admires the colonialists who have set foot on the island since he was a child. He even mixed Rakyat mythology with Western technology, such as adding modern weapons to mythological figures.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Far Cry: Rite of Passage
=== Manga ===
* Happy Vaas Day
=== Video Games ===
* Far Cry 3
* Far Cry 6
* Far Cry VR
* Far Cry: The Wild Expedition
== Trivia ==
* Vaas is voiced and motion captured by Canadian actor Michael Mando.
* An interview with Michael Mando from G4TV revealed that when Michael went to audition for Ubisoft, Vaas did not actually exist. He originally auditioned for the character "Lupo" with features very similar to Vaas, but decided to do a different take of insanity on the written persona, and didn't get the part. However, Ubisoft was so impressed by his performance that they decided to scrap "Lupo" altogether and give Mando the role of Vaas, the main antagonist.
* Originally the character of Vaas' was a huge, heavily scarred man called Bull, who looked nothing like Vaas; but Mando's audition was so good the writers changed the character design to the Pyro enemy, who looked just like Vaas, but with the left side of his face and upper body badly burned. Mando's casting and performance led to more changes that eventually led to Vaas.
* Vaas is featured in The Far Cry Experience, a web-series short film promoting the game, where he terrorizes a celebrity who is filming a reality show/documentary. He is played in live-action by his voice actor, Michael Mando.
* All the antagonists of Far Cry 3 are killed with a knife, including Vaas. This is due to Rakyat honor, which requires killing with a knife.
* Despite being the secondary antagonist, Vaas has more appearances than Hoyt Volker and his role has the most impact on the story. This led to rumors of Vaas being the true main antagonist (since he is Jason's and Dennis's arch-enemy).
* Vaas' definition of insanity monologue is based on a quote often misattributed to Albert Einstein.
** According to Vaas: Insanity, while watching an American televangelist while on drugs, the televangelist referenced the "definition of insanity", to which Vaas shoots the television sets, believing the televangelist to have copied him.
* Vaas seems to be an avid fan of movies as he has made references to Bambi, Forrest Gump and mentioned that he is a fan of Christopher Mintz-Plasse having seen most of his movies, "even the shitty ones". He immediately refers to Christopher as "McLovin", a reference to the film, Superbad.
** Vaas makes a reference to the movie Forrest Gump at the beginning of the game when he tells Jason: "Run Forrest, run!"
* You can spawn Vaas as an hostile AI in the Map editor, but his voice will not be used. Instead, it uses a pirate's voice.
* In the mission Payback, the same music in the club is used in Vaas' compound. The song name is I Fink U Freeky.
* Montenegro is Spanish for "Black Mountain".
** Montenegro is also a former Yugoslavian country.
* Much of Vaas' fight scene foreshadows the climax of the game, with Jason essentially descending into Vaas' remorselessness and insanity, thus rebirthing Vaas through Jason.
* Vaas seems to have respect for and loyalty to his men and allies. This is notably shown in the video with Liza Snow, as he only told one of the pirates to leave for interrupting the video, rather attacking or killing him. This is also shown in the Far Cry Experience videos where he respectfully talks to his men.
* The only time Vaas and Hoyt interact is in the mission A Man Named Hoyt, where you can hear them talking through an intercepted radio.
** They also appear physically together in the mission Make a Break for It, when Hoyt orders Vaas to stop harassing Jason and Grant.
* Vaas is one of the few characters to use a pistol, the other is Jason and Sam (who never fires, however).
* A prestige outfit, bobblehead doll and shirt of Vaas is available as a vehicle and clothing customization in Far Cry 5. The outfit does not include his beard for some reasons.
* In promotional material for Far Cry 3, Vaas has been compared to The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. The lead writer of Far Cry 3, Jeffrey Yohalem, says in an interview with OutsideXbox; "He's a creature of this rabbit hole of the game incursion. So there's this other layer to the game, there was the real layer of the game, which is the island layer. But there's this kind of Neverland, Alice in Wonderland layered of the game, and he's sort of The Cheshire Cat. So he's leading the protagonist Jason through this experience but at the same time he's trying to kill him."
* The actor of Vaas, Michael Mando, has worked with the actor of Antón Castillo, Giancarlo Esposito, on the Netflix show Better Call Saul.
* Vaas along with Pagan and Joseph, appears as a playable character in Far Cry 6's Season Pass. Vaas part will focus on his inner mind of insanity, and how Jason Brody is affecting his mind.
* Vaas's conversation with God in the secret ending of "Insanity" is in reference to the famous and disputed story of Diogenes the Cynic and Alexander the Great. In the story, Alexander the Great approached Diogenes as he was lying in the sun and offered to grant him any wish he desired. Despite Alexander's immense power and wealth, Diogenes simply and rudely asked Alexander the Great to step aside because he was standing in front of the sunlight. This act led to Alexander expressing some envy towards Diogenes by saying "If I were not Alexander, I would want to be Diogenes."
* In Vaas: Insanity, Vaas's takedown animation are more gruesome and bloody compared to Jason's takedown animation due to Vaas has been a warrior of Rakyrat a long time ago along with his psychotic episode in his mind before the main events of Far Cry 3.
* Vaas' tennis ball in the secret ending to Vaas: Insanity is a reference to how Far Cry 3 was filmed. Michael Mando would film his scenes talking to a tennis ball on a stick which stood in for Jason.
* In the post-credits scene of Far Cry 6, Juan Cortez speaks to a smuggler about a Viviro trade, and the recent deaths of Antón and Diego Castillo. The smuggler's voice is that of none other than Michael Mando, the voice actor of Vaas Montenegro, who calls Antón's "mercy killing" of his own son "crazy". Juan agrees, then bids farewell for the time being.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Vaas Montenegro at Far Cry Wiki
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