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6. Surprise! Pedro Pascal Is The Villain - The Equalizer 2

The Equalizer 2
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Between Kingsman: The Golden Circle and this film, it's starting to feel like Pedro Pascal is becoming typecast as the suave supporting hero who's actually a secret a**hole.

Though Pascal's Dave York is introduced to audiences as an old army pal of Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), it's hilariously obvious to anyone who's ever seen a movie before that he's going to end up the ultimate antagonist.

Sure enough, it's later revealed that he was responsible for the murder of Robert's friend Susan Plummer (Melissa Leo), and the third act sees McCall battling York to the death. Spoiler: McCall wins.

It's a shame this didn't turn out to be a red herring, because that would've been an awesome misdirect.

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