Just for the information, Gundala is one of the early Indonesian's superhero.
So, this character, Pengkor, is the bad guy of the show.
This is the original look of the character:
image courtesy of Bumi Langit
So, I decided to give him a new look and background story so it fits more into the modern superhero's world.
Here's the new look:
the background story:
With all respect to the original story, here presented is an
alternative story of Pengkor.
Blessed with extraordinary intelligence and abundance wealth
of his parents, Pengkor grew up as a fine gentleman who educated himself in
many top institutions all over the world. His intelligence prodigy allowed him
to study in best places and meet important people from different countries. Steady
and sure, day by day, leadership instinct grew inside young Pengkor. Certainly,
he was born to lead.
Being well-aware of his leadership ability, Pengkor went
back to his hometown and decided to help his parents ran the family company.
Without doubt, he succeeded. Not only his company’s reputation greatly
increased, he also proved himself a perfect leader by achieving many awards in
a very short of time. But after one success lead to another, his dark side emerged.
His perfectionism upon rule and order had surpassed the limit. In no time, he
had become a control freak. He started to ignore his family, even looked down
on them. He believed that he was the chosen one, the only one born to lead the
world in balance.
Pengkor was greatly influenced in the principle of balance.
He believed that evil and good was created to balance the world. With his
ability to lead as well as his abundant wealth, he took control of both evil
and good of the world. Everything were in his hands : people, economy,
politics, etc. He played God by trying to put everything in order. For him, the
world would be a better place if there was balance between good and evil.
His peace didn’t last long. A hero named Gundala was heard
to fight underground against the evil. For Pengkor, fighting evil was an act to
destroy balance. Thus, he was furious as he felt his world balance was shaken.
Now he won’t stop at anything to get rid of Gundala and reclaim his world back.
(Thanks to my friend Silvia for helping me with the grammar and arrangement)
I really want to make this character as a layered characters, complex, that in the end we got impression that actually, this guy just do something necessary for him to do. Just maybe in the way that we can't really accept.
Hope you guys enjoy the character!
Cheers!
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