Dr. King Schultz

Dr. King Schultz is the deuteragonist of the 2012 western film . He is a dentist who moonlights as a bounty hunter.
He was portrayed by two-time Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz, who also portrayed Dyson Ido, in Alita: Battle Angel.
==Story==
In 1858 Texas, brothers Ace and Dicky Speck drive a group of shackled black slaves (including Django) on foot, only to be stopped by Dr. King Schultz, a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter seeking to buy Django for his knowledge of the three outlaw Brittle brothers. When Ace refuses to sell Django to Schultz and cocks his gun, Schultz kills him and shoots Dicky's horse in order to pin him to the ground; he advises the freed slaves to take the opportunity for revenge. Schultz offers Django his freedom and $75 in exchange for help tracking down the Brittles.
Django and Schultz kill the Brittle brothers at Spencer "Big Daddy" Bennett's Tennessee plantation. In turn, Bennett pursues them with an armed posse. Schultz ambushes the posse with explosives and Django kills Bennett. Feeling responsible for Django, Schultz agrees to help him find and rescue Broomhilda. They return to Texas where Django collects his first bounty, keeping the handbill as a memento. He and Schultz rack up several bounties before spring, when they travel to Mississippi and learn that Broomhilda's new owner is Calvin J. Candie, the charming but cruel owner of the "Candyland" plantation, where male slaves are forced to wrestle to the death in brutal "Mandingo" fights. 
Schultz and Django hatch a plan: deciding that Candie will refuse to sell Broomhilda if they try to buy her upfront, they will instead offer $12,000 (equivalent to $376,000 in 2021) for one of his best fighters as a pretext to acquiring Broomhilda for a nominal sum. They meet Candie at his gentlemen's club and make the offer. Intrigued, Candie invites them to Candyland. En route, the group encounters Candie's slave trackers who have cornered D'Artagnan, an escapee Mandingo fighter. Django is forced to intervene when Schultz foolishly attempts to buy D'Artagnan on the spot to save him. Candie has the trackers' guard dogs maul D'Artagnan to death, visibly upsetting Schultz. 
Having told Broomhilda of their plan, Schultz offers to buy her as his escort while negotiating the initial Mandingo deal during dinner. Candie's staunchly loyal and suspicious head house slave Stephen realizes that Broomhilda knows Django, deduces their plan, and alerts Candie. Enraged, Candie alters the deal at gunpoint to sell Broomhilda for $12,000 instead of the fighter; Schultz reluctantly agrees. During the sale's finalization, Candie threatens to kill Broomhilda if Schultz does not shake his hand to seal the deal. Having had enough of Candie's arrogance, Schultz shoots and kills Candie. Butch Pooch, Candie's bodyguard, kills Schultz, and Django kills Pooch, Candie's lawyer Leonide Moguy, and several of Candie's henchmen, but is forced to surrender when Broomhilda is taken hostage.
==Personality==
Schultz despised the idea of slavery and showed contempt towards anyone who supported slavery. He would often use his ideals as a means to justify killing slave owners even when they aren't wanted by the law. Upon meeting Django his plan was originally to have Django help him kill three bandits for the bounty on their heads. But after seeing Django's skills Schultz chose to help him find Broomhilda Von Shaft (Django's wife). Schultz is also shown to be quite intelligent and can talk his way out of almost any situation. This is shown when Schultz killed a sheriff only to reveal that the sheriff was actually a criminal who fooled the town.
==Trivia==
*One of few times that Christoph Waltz played a good guy in a movie
*This is Christoph Waltz's second Oscar-winning role. Also, Waltz worked with Quentin Tarantino before in Ingurious Bastards, portraying Colone Hans Landa, which lead to his first Oscar Winning Role.
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