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| “ | Now tell me your secret. | „ |
| ~ Gil Yepes’s most famous quote after using his psychic abilities on a red sparrow bird to show off his powers to Jimbo Farrar for the first time, but nearly killing it in the process causing Jimbo to stop him from killing him foreshadowing his true nature. |
Gil Yepes is the titular main antagonist of the French novel La Nuit Des Enfants Rois and its 2011 French-British animated film adaptation The Prodigies.
He was voiced by Ben Whishaw, who also played Jean-Baptiste Grenouille in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer in the Amazon Studios version, Ben Schiller in all other English versions of the film, and Thomas Sagols in French. He is additionally portrayed by Jacob Rosenbaum in motion capture.
Biography[]
Gil is a 13-year old child living in New Mexico with the ability to control people's minds. He first appears watching and relaxing on top of his apartment, catching two teenagers having sex. Upon being found and attacked due to the teens believing him to be a common pervert, Gil attempts to commit suicide due to his low social standing, although Jimbo talks him out of it with his father. One day, he joined Killian Network's online game "The Game" along with Liza Everton, Harry Sparks, Sammy Goldberg, and Lee Mishon using their psychic abilities to prove they got skills, After completing his test in "The Game", he hacks into Jimbo's computer Fozzie to ask about his location saying "Where are you?", Jimbo picks them under Charles Killian's command and makes Gil do a test on a red sparrow using his own psychic powers, almost killing the bird instantly.
After dropping off the four kids to the Killian Foundation Jimbo appears back at New York City where he learns that Charles Killian has died, The Foundation is then pass on to Killian's lesbian daughter Melanie, who plans with Jenkins, her assistant to end Jimbo's proposal. Jimbo then decides a idea to work on a competition television show to reveal future bright geniuses and then will be send off to the White House so the President of the United States can judge the five participants and finalists and then will be rewarded million dollars if they won they call the show "American Genius" in order to save the company from bankruptcy. Later, he and the four teenagers enters the Killian Network's new game show "American Genius" (a mashup of American Idol and Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, where a large-scale televised competition is to reveal intelligent kids to the public eye) as contestants, seeing Jimbo in the audience.
Afterwards, they decided to meet up with Jimbo as he didn't showed up due to him finding out his wife Ann was pregnant as they see instead see the two German thugs Lorenzo and Diaz, who starts attacking them and sexually assault Liza Everton as he and the three others were left unconscious after being attacked by them. However, Liza's pain of her sexual assault was telepathically extended to the four other teenagers (including Jimbo Farrar as he showed up), they drove over the thugs using their psychic abilities. Jimbo hurries over to Liza after recovering his senses and finds her in a huge coma and then smashes a brick wall at Central Park as a result.
The next day, Gil sees Jimbo after being released from hospital shortly after Jimbo's firing from the Killian Foundation after Jimbo learned that Melanie Killian had to cover up the crime in order to preserve the TV show American Genius, by claiming that Liza was injured by a hit-and-run accident, He ultimately refused a hug from Jim, the three teenagers appears as Jimbo tries to convince to them that he will protect them from something evil if he knows what their doing but Gil says "So their six of us right?". During the night, he and the three teenagers break into Killian University, turn off the cameras by hacking it, and finds a homemade VHS of Jimbo's time during his days at a mental hospital years discussing about his feelings of isolation that are caused by his supernatural abilities, as well as the possibility of others like him being out there. The mention of him bringing them all together to avenge themselves for all the years of mistreatment and to avenge the people that they love and destroying those with their powers.
Jimbo's words causes Gil and the three teenagers Sammy, Harry, and Lee to avenge Liza by brutally killing the two thugs Lorenzo and Diaz who sexually assault Liza and attacking him and the three teenagers while also killing a police officer who helped to cover up the crime along with his wife using their psychic powers. At this point they can control humans's minds if their alive or dead with their psychic abilities, using them as puppets-likes via their minds. That stormy midnight after finding a homemade VHS from the Mental Hospital with himself when he was young on his TV at his apartment, Jimbo pays a visit to them at Killian University he asks them what are they doing at Killian University saying they understood Jimbo's "wisdom" words and accepts it, Gil and the three teenagers then suddenly take Jenkins hostage using their powers. They tried to confess Jimbo to kill him, but ultimately refused.
As a result, they brutally attack Jimbo, knocking him unconscious using Jenkins and their psychic powers. Gil steals Jimbo's phone Fozzie saying to Jimbo "we'll believed in you, Mr. Farrar", feeling betrayed by him, he controls Jimbo's unconscious body attacking and killing Jenkins instantly and they then frame Jimbo by editing security camera footage and its VHS and sending him to jail. At the interrogation room, Jimbo tries to convince to them explaining to the police lieutenant who interrogating him and the policemen, the truth about himself and the teenagers's mind control abilities, but Jimbo begins to hallucinated when Gil and Lee tries to make him to kill the police lieutenant who interrogation him, then we see flashbacks of the four teenagers avenging Liza by brutally killing Lorenzo, McKenzie, McKenzie's wife and Jenkins, we learn that Jimbo was young, As he was beaten up by his parents Jimbo uses his mental powers to kill his parents. As young Jimbo watches sadly as his abusive father commits suicide with his own belt, we learn why Jimbo refuses to use his psychic powers against or kill Jenkins when Gil and the three teenagers tell him to do, After killing a red sparrow bird in a mental hospital, Killian tells Jimbo never use his powers again to kill or touch any living things. After that, the policemen don't believe him, particularly due his supposed history of having schizophrenia and severe psychiatric disorder. Jimbo eventually relents and is sent to prison.
During a appearance on American Genius during Christmas, he, Harry, Sammy and Lee then gave a series of delusional guest and interview appearances while appearing on David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Saturday Night Live, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno alongside with a fifth American Genius contestant named Justin and while asking his final question on the show, he stares widely to the audience saying "Meet us at the White House" to Liza while at a hospital room in bed watching Gil on TV. After learning about her husband Jimbo and the four teenagers's psychic abilities from Jimbo's police interview, Ann visits Liza to get advice and help from her, but Liza refuses and loses control of her psychic powers almost killing Ann's pregnant baby and kicks her out by pretending to the police that Ann "needs help", Liza then gives her a secretly miserable look before shutting and closing the blinds.
Ann calls Jimbo in prison for one minute to tell him about what happened calming she don't think that their baby not going to come out. She tells him that she going to tell Melanie at the White House in Washington the truth about the five teenagers, Upset and enraged over their pregnant baby being attacked by Liza and the four teenagers' ultimate mystery plan, he breaks free from prison by killing the two prison guards using his psychic abilities making his prison escape. Later on at the White House, he, his allies, and a fifth American Genius contestant Justin enter the White House. Ann tried to warn Melanie Killian the truth about Gil and his three friends with psychic abilities and that Liza nearly attacked their pregnant baby while making a visit at the Hospital, but was caught by Gil and his three friends as they were about to enter the Oval Office knowing what she was doing with their evil and nervous look to her, their, they take a photoshoot with the President of the United States.
Meanwhile, Jimbo visits Liza at her house and asks a apology from her, she accepts, At the entrance of the White House, Jimbo and Liza attempted to sneak inside at the White House to stop Gil and the three teenagers by doing his undoing plan, but they were halted by security guards and soldiers, one of them says "This is your last warning: Stop now or we'll shoot!". Jimbo stops and accepts their agreement, but Liza doesn't and uses her psychic powers without permission to make their move, This then triggers a alarm and initiates a security procedure where they take everyone (including him, his three friends, Jimbo's wife Ann, the fifth American Genius contestant Justin and Melanie Killian) at the Oval Office to evacuate and must get to safety to the security bunker to be safe, at the security elevator which takes them down to the security bunker, we learn Gil and his three friends were plotting something dark and evil, with Gil having a malicious smile.
After Liza's attack, as they enter the security bunker, But once inside and all exits are sealed, Gil gives a another malicious smile to a uncomfortable Ann, knowing what she was doing, Ann realizes what Gil and his three friends are doing and plotting something dark as they enter, Gil, Harry, Sammy and Lee then begins killing the security guards, bodyguards, and soldiers and taking the president, Melanie Killian, a fifth American Genius contestant named Justin and Jimbo's wife Ann hostage. He then kills Melanie Killian off as plot of his ultimate revenge giving himself a evil malicious smile. As Jimbo and Liza enters the security bunker, he holds Jimbo hostage by putting him to the security bunker's glass windows, brutally attacks Ann's pregnant baby using his psychic abilities and then launches a missile nuke at Killian University, killing the president of the United States as a result. Sammy then raises the possibility to Gil that her child, being Jimbo's as well, might also be "one of us".
After launching a missile nuke towards Killian University. Gil then tries to brutally kill Ann and her pregnant baby in a violent fashion through his psychic abilities. Gil tried to confess Liza to kill him and his wife, But ultimately refused saying to her "YOU'RE JUST LIKE ALL OF THE REST!", Upset and enraged over Gil nearly brutally attacking and killing his wife Ann and her pregnant baby using his psychic abilities, Jimbo breaks free and he and Gil have a epic fight using bodyguards and soldiers' dead corpses via their psychic powers as Jimbo tries to protect Ann. Gil and Lee try to strangle Ann using Melanie's dead body via their psychic powers by holding Jimbo down, although Jimbo stops Gil and Lee's command. He asks him did he think that Jimbo had "abandoned him", but Gil attacks Jimbo multiple times using bodyguards and soldiers's dead corpses, but Jimbo stops all of Gil's commands. He replies to Jimbo "You did abandoned us, Jimbo.", Jimbo tried to convince Gil for forgiveness by hugging him, but Gil refused and brutally snaps Jimbo's arm using his mind control abilities as Jimbo tries to have a hug with him, a fifth American Genius contestant Justin tries to attempt to kill Gil after the brutally attack from Gil towards Jimbo, before avoiding the fifth American Genius contestant Justin.
Following the fifth American Genius contestant Justin accidentally killing Jimbo, he tried to stop Liza from stopping his undoing plan shouting to Liza and the three teenagers that Jimbo had "betrayed them" (or "betrayed us") but horribly slaps Liza for her refusal to cooperate with him after shouting to him "Look at what we done, Gil!", the horrible slapping of Liza causes Harry, Sammy and Lee to come to his senses and Liza convinces her friends to stop Gil's horrible plan, Sammy then stops him using his powers to stop Gil and Harry stops the missile launching directly towards to Killian University, stopping Gil's horrible plan ultimately, but Jimbo tragically dies shortly afterwards and after the missile to Killian University is disabled.
Four months later after Jimbo's tragic death, he goes on his own journey plotting dark plans as Liza, Sammy, Harry, and Lee goes on their own journey to search for people like them using psychic abilities, doing Jimbo and Killian's plan as a result.
Appearance[]
Gil has brown eyes and brown hair. He is first seen wearing a hat, a sleeveless jacket, a t-shirt and blue jeans, with this outfit being swapped for his American Genius outfit (sans hat) as the film goes on.
Personality[]
Gil Yepes first appears as a quiet and bullied child, but through the events of the film, he turns into an aggressive, megalomaniacal, and cruel person willing to do anything to succeed in his path of revenge.
Trivia[]
- Gil Yepes is very similar to Diane Simmons from Family Guy in a few thirteen aspects and serious similarities:
- Both Gil and Diane share a common background of being bullied by society and feeling like tragic outcasts (Gil because he was bullied by teenagers and thugs despite being a genius and Diane since retiring her job and losing her date to James Woods for Stephanie because of Tom Tucker). Which caused their genius-level intellect sets them apart, but their delusions drive them toward darker paths.
- Initially they actually cared for others, before caring about being self-centered on themselves as both characters eventually become adult animated villains. Their descent into malevolence is marked by a shift from altruism to self-centeredness and their actions escalate to mass murder, As they ended up targeting specific victims.
- Despite the age and gender difference, Gil and Diane share physical traits (brown hair) and wear red clothing, while Gil wears his zipped red jacket that says "Predator" and Diane Simmons wears her usually main red coloured weatherwoman suit and the red guest dress she wored during the episode "And Then There Were Fewer", however unlike Diane, Gil wears his American Genius suit which weren't Red coloured during the film's final climax and his show appearance. Their malicious, satisfied and sadistic smiles during their killings add to their eerie personas.
- Their jobs are very different: Gil works as a student and a contestant on American Genius, while Diane works as her main news anchorwoman on Channel 5 News and both have appeared on live TV.
- Gil’s revenge against Lorenzo and Diaz for assaulting Liza is brutal, while Diane’s killing of James Woods is equally ruthless.
- Some of their unseen murders took place between midnight or night during their mass murdering killings.
- Gil's murdered victims included two females, which uses his psychic abilities to kill off Mr. McKenzie’s wife and Melanie Killian while Diane’s murdered victims include Priscilla, Stephanie, and Muriel Goldman, all female.
- Both characters kill off husbands or wives. Gil uses his supernatural powers to eliminate Jimbo Farrar, Melanie Killian, Mr. McKenzie and his wife, while Diane wields James Woods's Golden Globe and a knife against Derek and Muriel Goldman.
- Their wives Ann and Jillian become widows due to their husbands’ deaths.
- They ended up framing the character who ruined their lives and causing their huge downfall to become a villain: Gil framed the main protagonist Jimbo Farrar for letting him down after making up to the Central Park during his and his friends's assault at Central Park while Liza was sexually assaulted while Diane framed the supporting character Tom Tucker for James Woods and the four people's murders after losing her job due to him and losing her relationship with James Woods who she turned against to, and even manipulated others to get the fake culprit (with Gil and his three friends editing the security footage thinking that Jimbo killed Jenkins off to manipulate others while Diane manipulating the guests thinking that Tom Tucker was responsible for the five murders).
- Both characters remain hidden villains and rejected redemption.
- Their kill counts were very different with Gil killed off more than 17 people using his supernatural powers while Diane killed off more than 5 people with either a knife, a gun or James Woods's Golden Globe.
- They have their own different defeats by the same child; Gil got stopped by his four friends who turned against him after slapping Liza for her refusal to cooperate with him after Jimbo's tragic shot from Justin, resulting him a outcast. and Diane ended up being shot to death by Stewie Griffin against nearly attempting to kill off Lois Griffin.
- Gil Yepes also has another similarities to Gerard Butler's character Clyde Shelton from the critically panned film Law Abiding Citizen: Both were normal characters who gets betrayed by the public and society turned into tragic villains by the public and the society to get bitter revenge on the innocent people who betrayed him, the thugs who ruined and nearly killed their lives and their brutally thugs sexually assaulting a female victim (while Liza is one of their friends and Clyde has a wife) by killing them off one by one, both Gil and Clyde have the same kills expect the fact is Gil having mind control powers of his own controlling and manipulating human beings, being asked questions and even doing a test by participating in Killian Network's online game "The Game", while Clyde is a engineer, a inventor and was a former contractor for the Department of Defense according to Michael Kelly's character Bray, one of their victims both features similarly a blonde haired female victim (while one of his victims Kelly dies from a car explosion massacre by Clyde, Melanie is killed off by Gil by controlling a White House security guard with mind control powers), Sending the main protagonist Jimbo to Jail by framing him for killing Jenkins, expect the fact the main antagonist Clyde gets send off to Jail for his crimes against humanity, Gil tries to brutally kill Jimbo, his wife and their pregnant baby and creating a snuff film by framing Jimbo Farrar thinking they think Jimbo killed Jenkins, but he didn't, while Clyde recorded a snuff film involving his murder Darby, However, unlike Clyde, Gil is a 13-year old child, the main protagonist Jimbo is accidentally killed off by the fifth American Genius contestant Justin and Gil Yepes survives, while Clyde is grown up family man and has a wife and a young daughter before getting killed, Nick Rice and his family survives from him and the villain Clyde dies from a explosion in his prison cell. Furthermore, they have their own different defeats; Gil ends up after slapping Liza causing Harry, Sammy and Lee comes to their true self and stop Gil by having Sammy stopping him and putting a end to him by stopping the missile nuke launch to the Killian Foundation and University and disappears without a trace after Jimbo's tragic death going on his own journey plotting his own dark plans and schemes, while Shelton is killed off in a fire explosion to his prison cell with a accidental bomb he putted in his prison cell realizing his work has been completed.
- The scene where Gil Yepes nearly kills a red sparrow with his psychic powers but stopped by Jimbo could foreshadowed that he's the main antagonist of the movie and isn't remotely friendly as Jimbo assumed he is.
- Gil Yepes serves as a dark parallel to Jimbo Farrar. Both were abused when they young, but when Charles Killian adopts him from the mental hospital, he lives the lives of a luxury teacher for Killian Foundation, Gil wants to be the same too for Jimbo. but when his friend Liza Everton gets sexual assaulted by Lorenzo and Diaz. Jimbo refuses to kill or hurt anyone with his powers ever again after accidentally killing a red sparrow bird after showing his powers to Charles Killian which caused him to ask Jimbo never uses his powers ever again. Gil and his three friends, however, kills anyone who failed on him which was his part of his ultimate vengeance that will bask in the egotist glory without regards for those who will be killed one by one as a result. Jimbo realizes his desire for recruiting the five children has caused him to miss out on his wife and has some remorseful over what happened and apologizes, but Gil has no such realization causing him to break off his arm. If Jimbo started to puts his excessive obsessions with glorifying teenagers with supernatural abilities like him and seeking public recognition before his wife, he would've ended up like Gil Yepes.
- According to details, The Prodigies was originally to have a PS3 and Xbox 360 tie-in game of the movie to be made, with Gil Yepes being the main or secondary player/protagonist or the main antagonist of the video game, but was canceled after the planned video game developer, Darkwoods, was shut down.
- Despite being the main antagonist of the movie, Gil doesn't have much dialogue until the four teenagers meet Jimbo during the stormy midnight.
External Links[]
- Gil Yepes on the Villains Wiki