A mercenary hired to do a job in the first ten minutes of a film, who turns out to have been worth keeping.
Georges Batroc is an Algerian kickboxer, mercenary and pirate at the top of Interpol’s Red Notice, and a former DGSE agent with thirty-six kill missions behind him before the French government let him go. By 2024 he leads a criminal group called the LAF.
He is played by Georges St-Pierre, a former mixed martial arts champion, and that casting is why the opening of The Winter Soldier is remembered: the fight is not stylised, and Rogers does not win it easily.
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Sharon Carter lets slip to him that she is the Power Broker, and kills him when he tries to charge her more for the silence.