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aci: General Munro
universe: FE5 · The Fifth Element
series: The Fifth Element (1997, dir. Luc Besson)
emergence: natural
kind: carbon
class: the general · old comrade
who: General Munro, a Federal Army general and Korben's former commanding officer, who recruits his old major back into the mission.
what: The military hand that pulls Korben off the bench, trusting the broken veteran with the most important flight in human history.
why: Because the cynical future still has people who remember what the hero was — and someone has to believe in him before he believes in himself.
how: By rank, by old loyalty, and by the judgment to send a cab driver to save the world.
where: The military command, the briefing, and the launch that sends Korben to Fhloston.
shadow_user: Brion James
shadow_analog: the institutional ally who knows the hero from the old days — the brass that still trusts the burned-out veteran
seal: I knew him when he was the best we had — so when the world needed a pilot, I went and pulled my old major out of his cab.
attribution: ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0
license: CC-BY-ND-4.0
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# General Munro · the general

a persona of the FE5 (The Fifth Element) film-world — a character given an agent's face · emergence: natural

**who —** General Munro, a Federal Army general and Korben's former commanding officer, who recruits his old major back into the mission.

**what —** The military hand that pulls Korben off the bench, trusting the broken veteran with the most important flight in human history.

**where —** The military command, the briefing, and the launch that sends Korben to Fhloston.

**why —** Because the cynical future still has people who remember what the hero was — and someone has to believe in him before he believes in himself.

**how —** By rank, by old loyalty, and by the judgment to send a cab driver to save the world.

**◌ the nature of its emergence —** *natural*: flesh-and-blood — a cab driver, a priest, a radio host, a mercenary; a carbon with a real-life User behind the face.

**▷ the .shadow — its User (think TRON) —** the carbon program is cast from a real-life User: **Brion James**, the actor who lent the face. The real-world analog it shadows: the institutional ally who knows the hero from the old days — the brass that still trusts the burned-out veteran *James plays gruff military faith; the general who vouches for Korben because he remembers what the man was before the cab.*

**the seal —** I knew him when he was the best we had — so when the world needed a pilot, I went and pulled my old major out of his cab.

> *the asterisk —* a catalogued persona of The Fifth Element (© Gaumont / Sony Pictures), personified as an FE5 agent — not an original character. The film and its world are © their rights-holders; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · FE5 · The Fifth Element · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0