![]() When they did nothing to stop it, he continued broadcasting, causing the world's end to hasten and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. After discovering that the world would end, he used the Monitor to broadcast the warning to humanity. Years later, Nix has been the mayor/Governor of Tomorrowland for decades and has become corrupt and deluded. Nix, a man who values technical accomplishment over creative thinking, banishes Frank and all the other creative thinkers from Tomorrowland sometime later, allowing him to focus purely on aesthetics and technical advancement for its own sake and eventually sees him becoming its Governor while Frank becomes a recluse, having forged an agreement with Nix that sees him living far away from Tomorrowland and that he has to turn over anyone who threatens the secrecy of Tomorrowland's existence or risk being executed. Frank later uses the jet pack to save himself. When an 11-year-old Frank enters "Tomorrowland", Nix is the one who sees his jet pack but is unimpressed with it, even warning Anthea to stay away from him. Nix is only interested in the more utilitarian platform of research life for him is an endless scientific quest because he believes that man was put on this Earth to accumulate and develop knowledge."įrank Walker first encounters David Nix at the 1964 World's Fair. "Frank's idea was to create things that are fun, that make people's lives better because they bring pleasure and joy, and express hope. It is said he values technological achievement over scientific creativity. Gregory House in House, MD, Newton in LittleBigPlanet 3 and Richard Roper in The Night Manager.ĭavid Nix is an inventor and a mayor. He was portrayed by Hugh Laurie, who also portrayed Prince Ludwig the Indestructible and Prince George IV in Blackadder, Jasper in 101 Dalmatians, Dr. ![]() He is the malicious founder and leader/Governor of Tomorrowland and Frank Walker's arch-nemesis. ~ Nix, revealing his true nature to Frank, Casey and Athena.ĭavid Nix (also known as Mayor Nix) is the main antagonist in the 2015 Disney science-fiction film Tomorrowland (or Tomorrowland: A World Beyond). So, yes, you saw the iceberg and warned the Titanic, but you all just steered for it anyway, full steam ahead. So you dwell on this terrible future and you resign yourselves to it, for one reason: because that future doesn't ask anything of you today. And because you won't believe it, you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality. You've got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation! Explain that one! Bees and butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, algae blooms all around you, the coal mine canaries are dropping dead, and you WON'T TAKE THE HINT! In every moment, there is the possibility of a better future, but you people won't believe it. Meanwhile, your Earth was crumbling all around you. The entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse, and sprinted towards it with gleeful abandon. It can be enjoyed as video games, as TV shows, books, movies. They didn't fear their demise, they repackaged it. But how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom? They gobbled it up, like a chocolate éclair. What reasonable human being wouldn't be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything they've ever known or loved? To save civilization, I would show its collapse. ![]() ![]() The only way to stop it was to show it, to scare people straight. Now, what if.what if there was a way of skipping the middleman, putting the critical news directly into everyone's heads? The probability of widespread annihilation kept going up. The only facts they won't challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in. If you glimpsed the future and were frightened by what you saw, what would you do with that information? You would go to.who? Politicians? Captains of industry? And how would you convince them? Data? Facts? Good luck.
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