Mason Verger

Mason Verger is a character in the novel Hannibal. He is played by Gary Oldman in the movie.

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Hannibal - Gary Oldman

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Mason Verger was the son of a wealthy meat packer. While claiming to have accepted Jesus into his life, this was clearly self-serving, as he used his faith to gain access to a Christian summer camp where he molested children. He had a younger sister named Margot, whom he regularly abused when they were children and brutally raped when they were teenagers, dislocating her arm. Margot went into therapy and met Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who was sickened by Verger's abuse and reassured her she should hate her brother, not herself. Years later, she worked as Verger's bodyguard and tried to get into his good graces so he would donate his sperm to her lesbian partner.

Related Topics:
Jesus - Christian - Molested - Rape - Therapy - Hannibal Lecter - Abuse - Sperm - Lesbian

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Lecter was introduced to Verger in the 1970s when a court recommended therapy after he was found guilty of child molestation. Verger and Lecter seemed to get on well until Verger invited Lecter to his pied a terre. After Verger showed him the noose he used to perform autoerotic asphyxiation, Lecter fed him Angel Dust and several other mind altering drugs, and convinced Verger to tear his face off with a shard of mirror and feed it to his pet dogs. Verger did so, and also gouged out one of his eyes and ate his own nose. Lecter finished him off by breaking his neck. Amazingly, he survived this horrific assault, but was left a hideously disfigured quadriplegic dependant on a life support machine.

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1970s - Therapy - Noose - Autoerotic asphyxiation - Angel Dust - Quadriplegic - Life support

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According to the police, Verger was one of three victims to survive Lecter's attacks. When Lecter was captured, Verger never issued a statement in Lecter's trial.

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In 1989, Lecter escaped from prison. Verger, furious that he didn't have him killed, contacted a group of Sardinians to breed several large, man eating boars to eat Lecter.

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1989 - Sardinia - Boars

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In 1996, the boars were ready. Verger had planned to use Clarice Starling as bait by discrediting her. A crooked FBI agent, Paul Krendler, also helped in the frame up. A tip off from a detective called Pazzi located Lecter in Florence under the name "Dr. Fell." Pazzi tried to kidnap Lecter but ended up murdered along with a Sardinian and a pickpocket. Lecter then fled to the United States.

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1996 - Clarice Starling - FBI - Pazzi - Florence - Kidnap - United States

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Lecter killed a deer hunter and the FBI knew that he was back in America. Lecter was eventually kidnapped by Verger's men and was about to be eaten by the boars when Starling rescued him. She was wounded and Lecter took her to safety. Verger was murdered by his sister, who forced his pet electric eel down his throat while stimulating him with the Sardinians' cattle prod causing him to ejaculate in his death throes, providing Margot with the needed sperm. Lecter claimed responsibility for the death.

Related Topics:
Deer - Electric eel - Ejaculate

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In the movie version of Hannibal, in which the character of Margot doesn't appear, Verger dies at the hands of his long-suffering personal physician, Cordell Doemling, who throws him to the boars.

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