Ricardo Montana

**Ricardo Montana Koheg** is the antichrist on Record biblical telenovela *Apocalipse*.

He was played by Sérgio Marone, who also played Pharaoh Rameses.

## Role in the History

### Beginning

Anti-Christ's dark spirit became incarnated in human baby called Ricado Montana inside from Débora Koehg's belly. Ricardo is a member of Montana Family, one of the richest and most traditional Italian families, whose main property is Banca Di Cavalieri, one of the largest banks in the world. Same child, Ricardo already show his evil personality as destroying flowers with the golf club, try kill Gloria and very selfish. Always advised by his closest advisor and High Priest, Stefano Nicolazzi,

With the help of evil forces, Debora Koheg murders her grandfather, Giancarlo Montana, making Ricardo Montana the heir of Banca Di Cavalieri. However, due to the fact that she was a minor during Giancarlo's death, it fell to Debora to manage the bank.

### Rise in World Politics

As an adult, Ricardo Montana is a billionaire and philanthropist with numerous investments in technology startups and real estate funds. His main work is the "City of the Future", a self-sustainable smart city model, which in the future will become New Babylon, the world capital of the government of Ricardo Montana. Ricardo Montana also secretly funds terrorist groups and other authoritarian regimes.

Durante the Rapture, Ricardo assumes leadership of the Council of Nations, where he has a rapid rise in world politics. Out of the limelight, Ricardo organized a secret union with the main multinationals and financial organizations in the world, the Council of Ten, with the objective of containing the economic crisis generated by the Rapture, and pressuring governments to follow their will. Thanks to this alliance, Ricardo achieved a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, which guaranteed the construction of the Third Temple and the creation of a Palestinian State.

After three and a half years, there is a split of three of the ten leaders of the Council of Ten. During Ricardo Montana's wedding to Isabela Gudman, ballistic missile bombings take place in New York, Rome and Jerusalem, the latter saved by an anti-missile system, organized by Libyan terrorist organizations allied with the three insurgents. Not only was Ricardo unable to negotiate with the three insurgents, he also failed to break tensions between the American and Italian generals against the Libyan government. The United States and Italy invaded Libya, starting World War III. The intervention angered Russia, which demanded that the US government withdraw its troops from the Mediterranean Sea. As it was not answered, Russia bombed aircraft carriers and US ships, generating tensions that would result in a nuclear war. The following cities were destroyed by nuclear attacks: Moscow, Washington, Rome, London and Paris. The war, above all, generated a great cholera pandemic. After weeks, Ricardo secretly organizes an agreement with the three insurgent leaders, as well as the ceasefire between the USA and the countries of Western Europe with Russia and Libya. After the agreement, Ricardo orders the assassination of the three insurgent leaders in New Babylon. One of these leaders hired an assassin for hire, whose mission was to assassinate Ricardo if anything happened to him.

The following day, at the inauguration of the New Babylon, Ricardo Montana was killed with two shots, one in the arm and the other in the eye.

#### Resurrection and Ascension as King

Three days after his assassination, Ricardo is indwelled by Satan and resurrected, demanding worship as a god. He has surgery that implants a smart prosthesis in his arm and a robotic eye in place of the eye injured by the bullet. After that, the organization of agreements with all nations allowed the creation of a world state, the Single Government, where Ricardo Montana is decorated as the King of Humanity.

Israel becomes the only nation to refuse his power, so Ricardo invades Jerusalem with a robotic army and desecrates the temple. After the invasion, Ricardo announces the “Mark of the Single Government”, an invisible mark capable of transferring all personal and banking data to people on their wrists. The brand became the world's single currency, as it was completely credit-based, and also operated with universal basic income, as every citizen who supported the Single Government received credit for consumption.

Three and a half years later, Ricardo together with Stefano Nicolazzi lead an army against the last insurgents of his power, where they meet the main public enemy of the government, Benjamim Gudman. When Ricardo is about to decapitate him, there is a sound of a trumpet, making Ricardo and Stefano faint. Jesus returns to take the Christians to heaven, while Satanas, Ricardo and Stefano are chained and thrown into the abyss.

###### Ricardo Montana's political views

During the telenovela, we can use some of Ricardo Montana's opinions and determine some points of view.

* Ricardo Montana is a great free trade enthusiast, in one of his speeches at the Council of Nations, Ricardo proposes the end of all customs barriers.
* Ricardo Montana advocated a kind of universal basic income through the use of the mark.
* When King, Ricardo Montana ordered that mark's advertising campaign should have ethnic diversity.
* As a member of the Council of the Ten, Ricardo convinced the other members by stating that this was the only way to keep the capitalist system standing.
* Ricardo Montana defends massive state intervention in the economy.
* When King, Ricardo Montana nationalized the Aisen Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. In a conversation between Susana and Uri Gudman, Uri says that he believed that Ricardo was a defender of liberalism, where Susana responded by stating that whoever is on Ricardo's side prospers in business, whoever is against Ricardo has his assets taken by the government. Something very similar to the capitalism of Mussolini's fascist Italy, where entrepreneurs who supported the regime benefited from the market, while those opposed to the regime had goods and companies confiscated by the government.
* As soon as he took over as King, Ricardo preached against the monogamous nuclear family, defending open relationships.
* During his speeches at the Council of Nations, Ricardo Montana quoted and paraphrased phrases by Adolf Hitler.

## What Prevents Him To be a Complete Monster?

* Despite being the main antagonist, after being "ressurrected", there's a moral agency isue, since he become indwelled by Satan. Also, his worst acts would be made after such possession.

## Servants

* Stefano Nicolazzi (False prophet)
* Omar (Califa do Yemen, líder do oriente médio)