Shanmugam's Psycho Robber

This unnamed robber is one of Shanmughan's men, which has a bizarre approach to things that he sees.

## Biography

### Early Life

At an unknown point The Robber became involved in a gang of thieves led by Shanmugan, where despite not being the leader the Robber took a dominating position of Shanmugan and thus having a tendency to disobey and go rogue.

### Chain of Murders

One day they rob an elderly collector whom Shanmugan kills while the Robber impales his dog with a metal rod. He sticks around to steal the collector's revolver and then finding a young girl hiding from the gang in a room. The Robber sinisterly smiles before locking himself in with the girl, raping and killing her offscreen. Days later the gang attacks the car of a veterinarian living in Theog. The Robber demands his bank account pin number and shoots him when he refuses to give it.

### Need for Chocolate Coffee

Days later the gang hits a store which they plan to rob, but the Robber gets distracted and goes into the closed Café Wild Beans run by Parthiban. He demands chocolate coffee and takes waitress Shruthi hostage to get it, and Shanmughan joins on the Robber's demand. When the Robber eyes Shruthi, Leo smashes a coffee maker across his face and disarms him, leading to Shanmugan and his men attacking. Leo skilfully fends them all off, injuring them all and breaking the Robber's arms and teeth. The Robber attacks Leo twice and is visciously beaten both times, but Leo's forced to let him live when Shanmugan holds Shruthi at knifepoint. He instructs the Robber to kill Leo, but he turns his attention to Leo's daughter Mathi who witnessed the fight. He smirks at Leo before trying to attack her, but Leo suddenly picks up the revolver and shoots the robber, Shanmugan, and all the men dead before breaking down.

### Aftermath

Leo is sentenced and imprisoned following this but is bailed out by his ranger friend Joshy Andrews. During his imprisonment, Joshy reveals that the robber and other members of the gang had elaborate rap sheets.

## Personality

The robber takes great joy in torturing, killing, and psychologically injuring others (by sexual assault, intimidation, and targeting their close friends and relatives). The robber is consciously malevolent and evil. He's proven to be a crafty risk-taker who can calculate the best course of action to raid his targets covertly, but this is also a weakness because he occasionally shows signs of overconfidence and lets his guard down.

## Abilities

* **Hand-to-hand Combat:** The Robber has skill in hand to hand combat and also has unique fighting maneuvers such as when he briefly runs quadrupedally to pick up a knife from the café floor.
* **Physical Will and Strength:** The Robber is moderately resilient to painful injury, being able to walk off multiple blows to his head and body easily, however he still feels the pain of these. He also demonstrates incredible physical strength, being able to hurl a large rock easily at the veterinarian's oncoming car. He's also prone to violent retaliation and frequently screaming and growling, as seen recklessly attacking Leo many times despite being injured from it.
* **Multilingualism:** The robber is also fluent in Tamil and is able to speak and understand Hindi and English decently.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Shanmugam's Gang
	+ Shanmugam † - Superior

### Enemies

* Unnamed dog † - Victim
* Unnamed girl † - Victim
* Unnamed Collector † - Victim
* Theog Veterinarian † - Victim
* Shruthi -Attempted Victim
* Parthiban - Killer
* Mathi Parthiban - Attempted Victim

## Trivia

* Sandy made up a meme quote for his character that reads "Keep Calm and Wait For Chocolate Coffee".
* Sandy reveals in an interview that he enjoyed the role so much that he begged Lokesh to keep his character alive throughout the movie or give him a twin brother or father for him to play, but Lokesh insisted that the Robber was one-off.
* Before the film's release, there was a fan theory that the Robber was actually a younger Rolex due to their sinister appearences and shared trait of blue eyes, however this was proven to be incorrect as the movie took place in 2021 and Rolex was already an older adult in 2019.
	+ Regardless, both characters have similar personalities and characterizations.
* Whether or not the Robber is related to Shanmugan or his wife is unknown, but it's possible that they're not given Shanmugan's line "His gangsters will be the death of me", implying that he's sent by someone else.