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The following is a list of minor Immortals from the Highlander movies, movie scripts, and novels.
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The following is a list of minor Immortals from the Highlander movies, movie scripts, and novels.
| Iman Fasil | |
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| First appearance | Highlander |
| Portrayed by | Peter Diamond |
After becoming immortal, he fought with a "Toledo Salamanca" rapier. Along with Connor MacLeod, The Kurgan, Sunda Kastagir, Yung Dol Kim, and Osta Vasilek, Fasil participated in the 1985 New York Gathering. He was the second Immortal to lose his head [ citation needed ], after Vasilek, when he was decapitated by Connor MacLeod in the parking garage of Madison Square Garden, where the Highlander had gone to see a wrestling match. The police found a Syrian passport with him, and discovered that Fasil had only entered in the country one week earlier.
| Osta Vasilek | |
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| First appearance | Highlander |
Osta Vasilek was briefly mentioned in the first Highlander film, having been beheaded by the Kurgan in New Jersey two days before MacLeod's duel with Fasil. When the police found the body, they discovered that Vasilek had Polish nationality.
| Yung Dol Kim | |
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| First appearance | Highlander |
Yung Dol Kim appeared in a deleted scene in the original Highlander film, as one of the last six Immortals who competed in the 1985 Gathering. Kim fought with two katanas, but eventually lost to the Kurgan, surrendering and kneeling before being beheaded.
| Mulet | |
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| First appearance | Highlander script |
Mulet was an Immortal referred in Highlander 's first-draft screenplay [ citation needed ], but not mentioned in either the film or the novelization.
| The Mongol | |
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| First appearance | Highlander novel |
"The Mongol" was only mentioned in the novelization, and not in Highlander film
| "The Bedouin" | |
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| First appearance | Highlander novel |
"The Mongol" was only mentioned in the novelization, and not in Highlander film
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| Khabul Khan | |
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| First appearance | Highlander III |
| Portrayed by | Raoul Trujillo |
Kane took Khabul Khan as one of his henchmen, along with Senghi Khan. Kane sought to defeat his former master Nakano in order to gain his powers of illusion through the Quickening. The three journeyed to Nakano’s cave at Mount Niri, where Kane beheaded Nakano in front of his current student, Connor MacLeod. The cave collapsed after the Quickening, and only MacLeod was able to escape. Kane and the Khans were trapped for centuries, They were released when archaeological excavations were made inside the cave in 1994. Khan was sent by Kane to New York to kill the Highlander, but ultimately failed.
| Senghi Khan | |
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| First appearance | Highlander III |
| Portrayed by | Jean-Pierre Perusse |
Senghi Khan was one of Kane’s henchmen, along with Khabul Khan. When Kane sought to defeat his former master Nakano in order to gain his powers of illusion through the Quickening, he was trapped along during the cave collapse after the Quickening. Trapped for centuries, he was released when archaeological excavations were made to the cave in 1994. After being released, Kane beheaded Senghi Khan so that his Quickening would warn MacLeod that he was free once more.
| Pierre Bouchet | |
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| First appearance | Highlander III |
| Portrayed by | Louis Bertignac |
Seen only in flashback during the film, Pierre Bouchet was a close friend of Connor MacLeod during the French Revolution, Bouchet asked MacLeod to aid the populace during the conflict. Both fought on the revolutionary side, but MacLeod ended up being arrested by the royal troops in a fortress in Vincennes, a suburb of Paris, and sentenced to be executed by the guillotine. In the day of Connor’s execution, Bouchet visited Connor, and told him he had come to take Connor’s place. He had had enough of his life, and wanted peace. When the Highlander refused to let his friend die, Bouchet struck him unconscious, and took his place. Bouchet was beheaded by the guillotine, and no Quickening took place, since Connor was too far away to even receive it.
Zai Jie: An Immortal archaeologist working with Cardinal Giovanni. He finds ancient writings in Gaza, which lead him to central Europe, where he locates the Source, but awakens the Guardian.
Cardinal Giovanni: This fifteen-hundred-year-old priest is obsessed with the legend of the Source. He has enlisted a group of Immortals to help him find it.
Reggie Weller: This three-century-old astronomer is recruited by Cardinal Giovanni to search for the Source. A cheeky Cockney who grew up in the slums of East London, Reggie uses humor and bluster as survival skills.
The Elder: A repulsive figure — his rotting skin hangs in loose folds like blankets — explains to MacLeod and the others how, millennia ago, he was part of a group of Immortals trying to find the Source, who ultimately turned on each other. They found the Source and fought the Guardian, killing him, and was punished with a fate worse than death — a state of eternal living decay.
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The Watchers are a fictional order of humans who record the lives and activities of immortals in Highlander: The Series and Highlander: The Raven, as well as related stories and movies.
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