Fear The Walking Dead Villains: Who’s The Worst, Part 2

Marco

To put it bluntly, Marco is a criminal, pure and simple. If Randall’s group was any sort of indication, people like that can thrive in the lawless world of a zombie outbreak, and Marco certainly does.

He is the leader of an organized gang of thugs who run the “El Pelicano” supermarket in Tijuana, using it as their base.

If all they did was run the supermarket, Marco wouldn’t be here. Even their method of demanding valuables for a cart to shop with isn’t really nefarious. It’s a simple trade, really.

No, what nets Marco on this list is how he operates. Much like Negan, the demands he makes on his “customers” seems to get worse as time goes on.

If you recall, during Nick’s first meeting with him, Marco tells Luciana her offering is only worth one carriage, when previously (As she herself complains) it had been worth two. This seems a lot like The Saviors in The Walking Dead, who slowly demand more and more until they, essentially, grind other groups down.

If this weren’t bad enough, Marco has absolutely no problem resorting to violence to assert his authority over people.

For example, there was his attempt to cut off Nick’s hand for stealing a damned pastry.

This method of punishment is certainly not unique and could easily have been worse. But, the fact Marco immediately goes to that shows just how routine extreme violence is for him.

Though, frankly, what more could you expect from a gangster? Violence is natural for a man in his line of work.

Yet, he wasn’t simply satisfied with threatening to cut off the hands of a thief. Nope, like so many gangsters, when he realized that someone had what he wanted, he decided to take it. Not by negotiating, no, but, by killing anyone who stood in his way.

Starting with the torturing and murdering of Francisco and his family (Including his young daughter), Marco set about taking over La Colonia.

Once he’d discovered its location, he, along with his henchmen, broke in, heavily armed.

Yeah, it was partially to deal with the herd of infected outside the fence, but, make no mistake, they would have been more than happy to use them on any residents of La Colonia he came across.

He wanted their community, he wanted their houses, and he wanted their medicine, especially their painkillers. Once he found something he wanted, he believed he had every right to take it. Why? Well, because he had a gang of armed killers backing him up, and, frankly…because he wanted it.

Sadly, in a lawless situation, like a zombie apocalypse, men like Marco see the situation as paradise. All the things they wanted to do, but had to deal with cops and governments trying to stop them doing, are now wide open to them.

With so many being unarmed and unprepared for the violence and chaos of the outbreak, criminals’ natural inclination towards violence becomes an asset. The Marcos of the world use it to extort, intimidate, and subjugate anyone else around them.

At a time when people have bigger problems on their hands (Like zombies), the Marcos of the world will seek to exploit it. A more straightforward example of evil you will not find.

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