Waldo

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Villainous Benchmark
Full Name	Waldo
Alias	Regent Tired old man (the Widow)
Origin	Into the Badlands
Allies	Sunny The Widow (formerly) Tilda
Powers / Skills	Advisement Leadership Martial arts Swordsmanship
Goals	Help and advise the Widow in fixing the Badlands (formerly). Serve as a double agent for the Widow against Baron Quinn (succeeded). Become a Baron (possibly; failed and later abandoned).
MEH or Worst Act	Serving as the Regent for Baron Quinn.
Kill Count	Thousands
Crimes	Mass murder Aiding and abetting Child neglect Assault
Type of Villain	Manipulative Advisor

“	People don’t really want to be free. Besides, it’s an illusion. I mean, you take my birds, they just love flying free, but every night they fly on home to their cages where it’s safe and warm.	„
	~ Waldo

Waldo is a major character in the AMC series Into the Badlands.

He was once a highly skilled Clipper and the Regent to Baron Quinn. He trained Sunny from the time he was a child, and after losing his legs he became an advisor to whichever Baron he could be the most useful towards. The loss of his legs helped him to see the world differently, eventually leading him to abandon Quinn in order to help the Widow in her mission to fix the Badlands.

He was portrayed by Stephen Lang.

His Evil Ranking

His Villainous Deeds

• He was once a ruthless Regent who killed countless innocent people, and trained Sunny to act that same way. Sunny himself even referred to Waldo as a bastard several times.
• He tries to dissuade Sunny from growing attached to anyone, believing that any sort of emotional care for another person will get you killed.
• When Ryder asks if Waldo would follow him if he became Baron, Waldo admits that he's on the side that wins and therefore has no loyalties.
• Waldo eventually does betray Quinn to join the Widow due to her wanting to improve the state of the Badlands, but she is a well-intentioned extremist, and Waldo is fully complicit in the terrible acts she commits in order to achieve her goals.
• He essentially has an anarchist view of the Badlands, believing it needs to be destroyed so that they can start a new system, despite the fact that this would lead to innocent people dying.

Why Doesn't He Stand Out?

• He fails the massive heinous standards to main villains such as Quinn and Pilgrim.
• The loss of his legs caused him to finally see how bad the state of the Badlands was, and this revelation prompts him to eventually join the Widow since she wants to end the oppressive structure of the Badlands for good.
• He genuinely cares about Sunny and even warns him about the dangers of working with the Widow despite the fact that he is allied with her.
• While he may not have been affable in the past, he certainly is in the present day, acting very friendly towards Tilda and even helping her escape from the Widow's territory after she turns against the Widow for her hypocrisy.
• He eventually decides to abandon the Widow himself, as he finds that she is now trying to take over the Badlands for the sake of her own personal power rather than trying to help others.

Trivia

• The Widow implies during one of Waldo's final scenes that his entire motivation for everything he did was to become a Baron. This seems to be proven wrong by the fact that Waldo abandons the Widow shortly after this, but there were originally deleted scenes of Waldo becoming the Baron of the Armadillo Territory. If these scenes were kept in, it could possibly make Waldo stand out by calling into question if he truly had noble intentions or his only motive was power.

External Links

• Waldo on the Villains Wiki
• Waldo on the Heroes Wiki
• Waldo on the Into the Badlands Wiki
• Waldo on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki