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“ | It doesn't matter how brutal the world is. If you kill enough, it hollows you out. Guess I wanted to see if I could make myself whole again, and find some kind of redemption. | „ |
~ Nathaniel Moon |
Nathaniel Moon, also known as Silver Moon, is a major character in the AMC series Into the Badlands.
He is a legendary Clipper in the Badlands, and once considered the best prior to his retirement. After becoming a bounty hunters in the Outlands, he eventually loses his hand during a battle with Sunny. He returns to the Badlands in order to get revenge on Sunny for destroying his honor, but ultimately stays in order to help the Widow in her mission of changing the Badlands for the better.
He was portrayed by Sherman Augustus.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
- While he did serve his Baron for many years, he despised him for his brutality and considered murdering him on multiple occasions. Eventually he abandoned his life as a Clipper and left to live in the Outlands where he started a family.
- After his family is killed, he becomes a bounty hunter, although he still retains a great sense of honor, as when he first crosses paths with Sunny and Bajie he doesn't attempt to collect the bounty that has been put out on their heads by the Engineer out of respect for Sunny's fighting ability. While he does later try to fight Sunny, he lets Sunny and Bajie stay in his shelter overnight and makes it clear he is fighting Sunny out of a desire to have a worthy opponent again rather than to collect their bounty.
- After losing his hand, the Widow contacts him and has him return to the Badlands to become her Regent, where he helps her in taking down Baron Chau and ending the Cog slave trade.
- He is willing to call out the Widow on her foolish or extreme actions. Furthermore, when he and Lydia rekindle their romance from long ago, and when Nathaniel learns that Lydia warned a group of outlaws that the Widow was planning to attack them, he does not tell the Widow of Lydia's treason since he recognizes that Lydia is a critical ally and that she was correct in going against the Widow in this instance.
- He eventually confronts Sunny over letting Bajie cut off his hand and therefore depriving him of the honorable death he wished to have, he decides to end his grudge against Sunny due to him having an infant son named Henry, and Nathaniel does not want to be responsible for Henry growing up without a father. Despite his grudge being over, Nathaniel decides to stay in the Badlands and keep helping the Widow in her mission, proving he really does care about helping the Badlands.
- Nathaniel leads a group of Clippers in stopping Chau's forces from abducting refugees, this is despite the fact that many people in said refugee camp were outlaws that the Widow and Nathaniel had fought against in the past.
- He and Lydia lead and army of Clippers into Chau's territory and break through her front lines, effectively ending the war and therefore putting a stop to the Cog slave trade for good.
- After a new conflict arises due to a dangerous false messiah named Pilgrim coming to the Badlands to conquer it in the name of Azra, Nathaniel helps lead the Widow's army against Pilgrim's. Once Lydia is murdered by Cressida, a blood witch and close ally of Pilgrim, Nathaniel goes on a quest to kill her for revenge, but he makes it clear to Cressida that this is not for honor, and instead him getting justice for Lydia's murder.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- While he did eventually abandon it, he was once a merciless killer for his Baron, and is stated to be the Clipper with the highest recorded kill count ever, with 999 recorded kills prior to his retirement.
- He works as a bounty hunter in the Outlands, and while he seems to have a sense of honor he still has undoubtably killed people who didn't deserve it to collect their bounty.
- He is extremely lethal, and while this is generally out of self-defense, there are many times where he is lethal unnecessarily, such as when he tries to force Sunny to battle him to the death or when he kills the outlaws working against the Widow.
- Nathaniel can extremely jerkish, such as insulting Sunny for his desire to get back to his family or beating M.K. unnecessarily during their sparring match.
- When Sunny bests Nathaniel in combat, Nathaniel demands that Sunny give him an honorable death, and when Sunny refuses he proceeds to charge at Sunny with his sword intending to stab him in the back, only being stopped by Bajie cutting off his hand. This leads to him having a grudge against Sunny for denying him his honorable death, and it only stops after he learns that Sunny has an infant son.
- Him working with the Widow puts him into the morally grey conflict between her and the vigilante outlaws who want to end the war, and Nathaniel killing the outlaws in battle is morally ambiguous since the outlaws don't necessarily deserve to die.
- At one point a Clipper named Arthur lashes out at the fact that the Widow has not sent resources to him and his fellow Clippers and is sending them onto the front lines to die, at which point Nathaniel stabs him in the shoulder in order to get a message across about Clippers not questioning the Widow's orders.
- The Widow at one point orders him to torture a girl named Odessa for information, and while he's not shown doing it on-screen the fact that the Widow had no hesitation in asking him to do so suggests that he was willing or had done it before.
External Links[]
- Nathaniel Moon on the Heroes Wiki
- Nathaniel Moon on the Villains Wiki
- Nathaniel Moon on the Into the Badlands Wiki
- Nathaniel Moon on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
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