Luke Bankole

Lucas "Luke" Bankole is the deuteragonist of the Hulu series , the television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood.
He is the husband of June Osborne, one of the Handmaids in Gilead. After failing to get his wife and daughter out of Gilead, she assumes that he was killed in a shootout. In reality, Luke survived and fled to Canada where he became an American refugee. While in Canada, he becomes a political activist and works against Gilead in the hopes of finding a way to rescue his family.
He was portrayed by .
==Personality==
Luke is generally shown to be a calm yet passionate man, being very loving to his wife June and daughter Hannah prior to Gilead. Once Gilead begins removing women's rights in the days leading up to the takeover Luke promises to protect June, although she feels this patronizing even though that isn't how he means it. Eventually he fights to help June and Hannah escape, even firing at soldiers in order to buy them both time to escape. After seeing the violence of Gilead and ending up as a refugee in Canada, he becomes an activist in order to fight against Gilead and try to find some way to save his family. While generally a calm person, he does have an intense hatred of those from Gilead and outright attacks Fred Waterford when he first sees him.
Once June is rescued from Gilead by Moira and takes refuge in Canada, Luke becomes extremely protective over her and often comes into conflict with her due to Gilead making her extremely violent and even outright sadistic because of the horrific things that happened to her. Luke is willing to call her out when she is acting brash, even saying that her emotions are clouding her judgement, and he usually ends up being the more sensible of the two, as seen when June kills Fred Waterford and Luke is devastated, not because he didn't hate Fred but instead due to not wanting June to become a killer. Luke is willing to kill to protect June, as seen when he murders the man who tried to run over her, and he ultimately gives himself up to the police in order to get June on a train out of Canada once it becomes clear they aren't safe there anymore.
==Gallery==
File:Lukehandmaidstalefilm.png|Luke in the 1990 film adaptation.
File:Lukeandjune.png|Luke and June before Gilead.
File:Lukeontheruningilead.jpg|Luke on the run in Gilead.
File:Luke-handmaids-tale.jpg|Luke in Canada.
File:Lukewithnichole.png|Luke with his step-daughter Nichole.
==Trivia==
*Luke's character is perhaps the largest deviation from the original novel, as he was implied to have been shot by Gilead soldiers while trying to escape in the novel, whereas in the show he successfully escaped to Canada and his his own entire storyline separate from June, being the series deuteragonist of the entire series.
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