Antagonist

Character Role Analysis

Walter Donovan

Don't let the expensive suits and glitzy dinner parties fool you: Walter Donovan is a first-rate slimeball. (Actually, expensive suits and glitzy dinner parties might have been our first clue…) He aligns himself with the Nazis to hunt the Holy Grail, and he manipulates our hero, Indiana, into helping him, too, first by kidnapping Henry, and later by shooting Henry in the stomach, thereby forcing Indiana to face down the trio of obstacles that protect the Holy Grail to make way for him.

Donovan's not just greedy—he's lazy. He tries to turn the Joneses into his henchmen. He wants eternal life, and he wants it hand delivered to him on a silver platter.