Simon Phoenix
Simon Phoenix is a male film character who features in Demolition Man.
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Biography
Simon Phoenix
Phoenix became a wanted criminal responsible for many crimes like theft, kidnapping, robbery, and murder. He declared his own kingdom in South Central within Los Angeles, having all other street gangs, drug dealers and even some murderers under his control. In his last crime in 1996, he took over 30 bus passengers hostage for trespassing at his building, but when LAPD officer Sgt. John Spartan interfered, he set alight tanks of C4 and after a brief fight with Spartan, he was captured and taken away before the building was blown to pieces. Meanwhile, other cops have found the corpses of the hostages with Phoenix being found guilty of the murders and condemned. But he framed Spartan for not caring about the hostages and as a result of Spartan too was wrongly accused of killing the civilians, and the two were frozen in a cryogenic prison, remaining there for years. In 2032, 36 years later, society changed drastically, with San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles being merged in one large so-called utopia named San Angeles. Phoenix was released from his confinement with a rehabilitation program that gave him astounding new skills and extra strength to help him adapt to the future. He discovers this when he knows the password to release him from his cuffs, easily kills many workers at the cyro-prison, is familiar with futuristic technology and overpowers several SAPD officers. During this time, he sees a programme on a computer screen, telling him he has a job to kill a man by the name of Edgar Friendly. Unable to deal with a violent psychopath like Phoenix, the SAPD decides to revive Spartan who was responsible for Phoenix's apprehension back in the 20th Century in hopes of capturing him again. While stealing weaponry from a museum (as all weapons were now banned and the last of them were displayed there), Phoenix was both surprised and annoyed that Spartan has come back, but immediately knows the reason why.
Simon was released from his confinement with a rehabilitation programme that gave him astounding new skills and extra strength to help him adapt to the future. The reason for his release was to kill Edgar Friendly, the leader of the resistance group called Scraps who lived in the sewers of San Angeles since the society of Dr. Raymond Cocteau. Simon reassembles a new gang of not only the hardened residents of the sewers, but also half a dozen defrosted, bloodthirsty criminals of the 20th century he requested released from the cryo-prison and kills the man who releases him, setting on his own goals to spread chaos again. Simon Phoenix in a scene cut out to shorten running time shoots and kills Spartan's friend Zachary Lamb just when Lenina Huxley and John Spartan go after him on the roads of San Angeles. He was pursued by Sgt. John Spartan of the old LAPD once again. During a car chase Phoenix admits that the hostages Spartan tried to save in 1996 were already dead before he even arrived. With help of Edgar Friendly and Lt. Lenina Huxley of the SAPD along with the armed Scraps, Spartan breaks into the facility and fights Phoenix, who uses his futuristic skills to his advantage. According to what was cut out, John Spartan kills newer henchmen to Simon Phoenix and battles the goon played by Jesse “The Body” Ventura named Adam who did the work for Simon Phoenix in killing Mayor/Gov Raymond Cocteau and defeats Adam just before going up against Simon Phoenix one last time. During an intense battle, Spartan smashes a container of the potent cryogenic liquid against the floor and leaps to grab a malfunctioning crane arm overhead, as the floor and everything in contact with it freezes solid, including Phoenix. Spartan then kicks Phoenix's frozen head off after shouting "Heads up!", reminiscing Simon's predictable loss of his head, and it hits the ground before smashing to pieces. The damaged equipment in the room then explodes, with Spartan escaping just before the CryoPrison is destroyed, along with Phoenix's decapitated frozen body and the criminals he attempted to set free, ending his reign of chaos forever.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Simon Phoenix was an African-American man with an athletic and muscular build, shaven blonde curly hair, and a small black beard. He has heterochromia, his right eye is brown, and his left eye is blue. Both of his ears are pierced with two silver looped earrings, later on he lost one of them on his left ear. In 1996, he wore a black leather jacket with red lining and a black and yellow checker pattern on the back, a grey shirt, and black and white striped trousers. In 2032, he now wears blue dungarees bearing the cryo-prison logo on the chest with an orange vest with a silver stripe underneath and later wore grey underground combat fatigues.
Though impulsive, maniacal, bloodthirsty and barbaric, Phoenix can be highly intelligent, collected, opportunistic, manipulative, polite and even charming if that could work in his favor. Phoenix also acknowledges that he is completely evil, but does not seem bothered and instead enjoys it.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Simon Phoenix was created by Peter M. Lenkov and Robert Reneau where he featured in the setting of the Demolition Man universe.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Demolition Man: (1993)
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