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4. Brian Cox Is...A Guy Who Always Creates Amnesiac Killers

The Long Kiss Goodnight The Bourne Supremacy X Men 2 The Wolverine Hugh Jackman Brian Cox
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Brian Cox is a master at creating cold-blooded killers, having done so on three very specific, unforgettable occasions.

Examples: Under the employ of the CIA, Cox's characters have been responsible for the creation of agency assassin Charly Baltimore (The Long Kiss Goodnight) and blank slate asset Jason Bourne (The Bourne franchise), while as General William Stryker, he headed up the Weapon X program which led to the creation of Wolverine (X-Men 2)

In each instance, his tinkering comes back to bite him, though, as he ends up dead in all three movies when his creations don't exactly take his experimentation lightly, shockingly enough.

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