Atoq Navarro Atoq Navarro is a
Peruvian archaeologist and the main antagonist of ''Uncharted: Drake's Fortune'', voiced and motion captured by
Robin Atkin Downes. At first, he is the lieutenant of Gabriel Roman, and helps him hold Sullivan and Drake hostage. He also leads a team of highly trained South American mercenaries hired by Roman. Though never made into a chapter, there was a drafted sequence where Drake and Fisher attempt to sneak into an airship to get to an island in search of El Dorado,
Gabriel Roman Gabriel Roman is the secondary antagonist of ''Uncharted: Drake's Fortune'', though he is built up to be the main villain until the game's climax. He is voiced by
Simon Templeman. had loaned Sullivan a large sum of money in the past. Sullivan had assured him that he would soon find "something big", and then have the money to pay Roman back. Roman, however, decides to steal the information that Drake and Sullivan have gathered and find the treasure for himself. To force Drake into compliance, Roman holds Sullivan hostage, and eventually shoots him, nearly fatally. Roman forces Sullivan to work with him in finding the treasure. Roman continues to use his men in search of the treasure. Roman captures Fisher, but Drake and Sullivan catch up to him, just in time to see Roman about to leave with the statue. However, Navarro tells Roman the real treasure is inside the statue. Roman opens the statue to collect the riches inside, but is met with a mummy infected with an airborne mutagenic virus. He slams it shut, but not before becoming infected. An angered and rapidly turning Roman charges towards Navarro, who shoots Roman in the head and reveals to Drake that he intended to sell the statue as a weapon the whole time. Roman is mentioned in the
Uncharted film.
Eddy Raja Eddy Raja, voiced by
James Sie, Raja first met Drake before the events of
Uncharted: Eye of Indra, where they worked together on a job. Drake double-crosses him, however, and Eddy continues to hold a grudge. Raja again encounters Drake during
Eye of Indra, where Drake enlists his help in stealing the valuable Eye of Indra from
Daniel Pinkerton. Eventually, Raja is dragged down a hole by one of the so-called "Descendants" after being bitten, and is presumed dead. His famous line is "''Don't mess with Eddy Raja!''"
Zoran Lazarević Zoran Lazarević is the main antagonist of
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. He is a ruthless Serbian war criminal who is believed to have died after a bombing raid by NATO aircraft, but he had survived with half of his face scarred. He uses a double-barreled shotgun as his main weapon. Lazarević leads a militia of mercenaries who act as his henchmen, he is also the employer of British treasure hunter Harry Flynn. Lazarević pays Flynn to betray Drake, tricking him into giving Flynn information on the location of
Marco Polo's lost fleet and causing Drake's arrest. In Nepal, Lazarević personally executes Fisher's cameraman Jeff, and follows Drake after he discovers the location of Shambhala's entrance. Lazarević invades the small Tibetan village harboring Drake and Fisher, seeking the key to reveal Shambhala. He kidnaps village resident Karl Schäfer and forces him to reveal the general area of the entrance. When Drake and Fisher follow, Lazarević apprehends them and forces Drake to reveal the entrance to Shambhala. There, he drinks the sap of the Tree of Life.
Harry Flynn Harry Flynn is a longtime business associate of Drake's and the secondary antagonist of
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. He is voiced by
Steve Valentine. He then works with Lazarević in searching for the Chintamani Stone. When Lazarević apprehends Drake, he has Flynn force him to find the location of the entrance to Shambhala. There, Lazarević and his men, Flynn, Drake and company are attacked by the Guardians, where Flynn is gravely wounded due to a gunshot wound from Lazarević, his employer having grown tired of his failures. Flynn ultimately commits suicide with a grenade while attempting to blow up Drake, but severely wounds Fisher instead. Naughty Dog used the dialogue in the game to hint at the relationship between Drake and Flynn, but desired ambiguity regarding the exact nature of their past dealings, and to show what Drake could have become. Flynn mainly served to hint at a darker past where Drake was less heroic. Pinkerton hires Drake, who seeks the funds to raise the coffin of Sir Francis Drake, to find the valuable Eye of Indra. Pinkerton captures Drake and tortures him when he refuses to reveal the treasure's location. When Drake eventually reveals the location of the Eye of Indra, Rika Raja shoots and kills Pinkerton, and the two take the Eye of Indra for themselves.
Katherine Marlowe Katherine Marlowe is the main antagonist of ''Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception''. Marlowe is voiced by
Rosalind Ayres and appears to be modelled after actress
Helen Mirren. She is the coldly calculating leader of a British secret society whose roots date back over four hundred years to the court of
Queen Elizabeth I. She has a long-standing rivalry with Nathan Drake over Sir Francis Drake's ring – something they both contend is rightfully theirs and is also the key to an ancient mystery. Katherine Marlowe is a much more cerebral enemy than Drake has confronted in the past, using both psychological and physical tactics to get what she is after. Marlowe also has the assistance of a team of highly trained agents, who are far more elusive and dangerous than the Cockney gangsters Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan have faced before. She treats her subordinates with slight disdain, being annoyed with Talbot for hiring Charlie Cutter. Marlowe appears to have studied Nathan's past and reveals that he's not actually a direct descendant of Sir Francis Drake; he was merely in an orphanage named after the great explorer. She first meets a teenage Drake in
Colombia, forcing him to give her the
cipher disk he had just stolen from a museum to her, but fails to get Sir Francis Drake's ring when he runs off. Twenty years later, she meets with Drake in an alleyway and steals the ring, but discovers it's a fake and promptly loses both the disc and the ring when Drake takes both. Marlowe then sends Talbot and her agents to France and Syria, successfully getting the clues to the location of Ubar. She then captures Nathan and Sullivan and leaves for the lost city. Nathan eventually finds her using a winch to drag out King Solomon's hallucinogenic talisman from a lake in
Ubar, and destroys the foundations of the city, causing Marlowe to fall into a pool of quicksand. Though Drake attempts to save her, Marlowe submerges and dies, taking Sir Francis's ring with her. In 2013, Liz Lanier of
Game Informer included Marlowe among top ten female villains in video games, stating that "Marlowe is the definition of a
power lady. She runs the Hermetic Order, a secret organization that will do anything to find the Atlantis of the Sands. Marlowe will still take any opportunity to belittle Drake and others that get in her way on a personal level on top of taking violent action".
Talbot Talbot is Marlowe's right-hand man and the secondary antagonist of ''Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception''. He is voiced by
Robin Atkin Downes. He is the one who hired Charlie Cutter to provide security for the deal in the first level. He has an intense rivalry with Nathan Drake and, according to the developers, acts as the "anti-Drake", with similar looks and
freerunning skills to rival Drake's own. Talbot is always by Marlowe's side, and later orders Cutter to shoot Nathan and Sullivan. Despite his unassuming appearance, he is an extremely dangerous hand-to-hand combatant, able to use a combat knife with high proficiency (as seen in his final confrontation with Drake and Sullivan in the collapsing city of Ubar). He also has a special weapon: a dart gun loaded with a special drug which grants him a degree of hypnotic influence over people (he uses it to make Cutter disarm himself). Despite being treated with near indifference, he appears to care deeply for Marlowe, begging Drake to save her from being consumed by the quicksand in Ubar and being driven mad when Drake fails. He tries to murder Drake on top of a collapsing cliff overlooking Ubar, but is briefly distracted by Sullivan, who shoots him in the shoulder with a
Walther P99. He is then finally killed by Drake, who shoots him in the head before he can crush Sullivan's skull with a rock, leading him to plummet to his death. He is an expert at mind control and seems capable of appearing and disappearing almost at will and surviving being shot at point blank. However, due to his mind tricks, it is difficult to tell for sure if he can appear out of nowhere or disappear at will and sustain much bullet damage. After brainwashing Cutter, he manages to vanish before the rest of the team arrive. Cutter shoots him at point blank, but he does not appear to suffer much from it. He manages to attack Sullivan by surprise on a walkway with no place to sneak behind him. He manages to catch up with Drake and Sullivan when the whole city collapses, which is either possible thanks to his freerunning abilities or his unexplained ability to appear and disappear almost at will.
Rameses Rameses, voiced by
Sayed Badreya, is an antagonist of ''Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception''. Shortly after Drake is knocked out by Rameses, he is taken to a
shipyard where he is tied to a chair. Rameses demands Drake to tell him where the Atlantis of the Sands is located, not believing that Drake genuinely does not know and threatening to interrogate Sullivan. After Drake manages to break free and defeat all of the guards, he climbs onto Rameses' cruise ship. He finds a decoy of Sullivan and realizes that he was never there to begin with. Rameses tells him that he lied – he is, after all, a
pirate. Drake then shoots him, critically wounding him, and the ship begins to
capsize. With the ship on its side, Rameses shoots the glass roof of the ballroom in a
murder–suicide attempt; although he is killed, Drake survives by drifting to shore on a piece of flotsam.
Roberto Guerro Roberto Guerro is the main antagonist of
Uncharted: Golden Abyss, voiced and motion-captured by
JB Blanc. A decade before
Golden Abyss, Roberto Guerro was the military dictator of
Panama before being overthrown by a coup d'état. He escaped execution by the new regime and, accompanied by loyalists, formed a revolutionary guerilla army to hound government forces and eventually regain power. However, Guerro quickly realised that without a good source of funds, he would be unable to compete with the military strength of the new government, so he indulged in abductions and drug running to build up the cash. Shortly before
Golden Abyss, Guerro had enough money to equip his army with guns, turrets, vehicles and explosives, but still needed more. He was approached by archaeologist Vincent Perez and his partner Jason Dante, who wished to investigate ruins within Guerro's territory on a potential lead to
Quivira, one of the
Seven Cities of Gold. Guerro agreed, presumably planning to kill both Perez and Dante when he had the gold, which he would use to fund the revolution. After Perez's disappearance, he allowed Dante to take over the excavation only if he complied with orders. Guerro interrogates both Chase and Dante after he captures Drake. Chase manages to escape with Drake and her amulet. Guerro captures Chase and steals the sword of Stephen from Drake. Drake and Sullivan find the Serpent Temple where Dante's mercenaries and Guerro's rebels are fighting. Guerro critically wounds Chase with an RPG before being thrown off a bridge by Nate.
Jason Dante Jason Dante is an old friend of Drake's who halfway helps him find a lost city of
Spaniards, and an antagonist of
Uncharted: Golden Abyss. He is voiced by
Jason Spisak. He has a rivalry with Marisa Chase, and after he betrays Drake, the latter teams up with Marisa to stop Dante and his band of mercenaries. A
Geiger counter in Chase's pack indicates that the gold in the Throne of Gold is radioactive. Dante arrives and reveals he knew about the treasure being radioactive, planning to
strip-mine Quivira and litter the gold through the black market. Nathan and Dante get into an intense fistfight, with Nathan coming out on top. Nathan and Chase leave Dante by the Throne of Gold after he refuses Nate's offer to leave with him and Chase. Chase then detonates the bombs in the caverns to seal it. As she and Nathan flee, the caverns begin to collapse, killing Dante and any of his mercenaries still in the cave system. Dante was known for his greed, even while he and Nathan were friends, and it becomes his undoing.
Rafe Adler Rafe Adler is the main antagonist in ''
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End''. He is voiced and motion-captured by
Warren Kole. Adler is a wealthy American businessman and treasure hunter as well as an old acquaintance of the Drake brothers, working with them by infiltrating a Panamanian prison to find clues regarding the whereabouts of legendary pirate Henry Avery's lost fortune. When Vargas, the corrupt prison warden who was bribed into aiding the trio, demands a share of the treasure, Adler kills him, and they attempt to escape the prison pursued by guards. Sam is apparently killed in the ensuing shootout and Nate, after briefly working with Adler following the escape, eventually loses interest in finding the treasure, forcing Adler to continue alone. Thirteen years later, Adler enlists the help of Nadine Ross and her private military company Shoreline to aid in finding the treasure. Adler also discovers that Sam survived and arranges for his release from prison to enlist his aid as well, but Sam defects and approaches a now retired Nathan, leaving an enraged Adler to search himself. He comes into contact with the protagonists at an auction in Italy, subtly warning Victor Sullivan to stay out of his way, though he fails to obtain the St. Dismas Cross when it is stolen by Sam and Nate. Adler, however, hacks into their phones and uses their GPS to track them to King's Bay,
Madagascar, where he again tries to force Nate to walk away in exchange for being spared to no avail. Later, on the island where Libertalia is located, he reveals to Nate that he had Sam released two years ago. After a brief scuffle, Adler forces Sam to lead him to the treasure, though Sam manages to escape. Adler and Ross eventually reach Avery's ship, though Ross has lost patience with Adler, which is further exacerbated when he seemingly almost let her die during the scuffle with Sam, and demands that she and her men leave with a portion of the loot, fearing that Avery's ship is rigged with traps. Adler refuses and turns Ross's men against her to coerce her into helping him. Inside the ship, however, a trap is sprung and Adler confronts Nate and an injured Sam inside the brig. Ross abandons Adler to die with Nate. In his rage, Adler grabs a sword and duels Nathan, and though he has the upper hand, Nathan unloads a net of heavy treasure onto Adler, crushing and killing him.
Hector Alcázar Hector Alcázar is a Panamnian drug lord and the false main antagonist in ''
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End''. He is voiced and motion-captured by
Robin Atkin Downes. Initially, Samuel told Nathan that Alcázar was his cellmate, and Alcázar's men helped break the both of them out of the Panamanian Prison. In exchange, Alcázar gives Samuel three months to find Avery's treasure. However, it was later revealed that Alcázar was killed in a shootout in
Argentina six months prior to the current events of
Uncharted 4, and Sam's story was a lie to get Nathan to help him find the treasure before Adler and Ross.
Vargas Vargas, voiced by
Hemky Madera, is a minor antagonist in ''Uncharted 4: A Thief's End''. He is a corrupt prison warden who first appears in a flashback prior to the events of the present day, where he is bribed into helping the Drake brothers and Rafe in finding Avery's treasure in a Panamanian prison. He is later killed by Rafe when he troubles the treasure hunters by trying to get a cut of their treasure, though not before alerting the guards with gunfire. His death is the reason why Sam spends thirteen years in prison after he was shot during their escape.
Gustavo Gustavo, voiced by
Alejandro Edda, is a minor antagonist in ''Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'', where he appears fighting Nathan in prison. He and his gang later ambush Nathan, Samuel and Rafe after they examine a St. Dismas Cross which Nathan found. He is however interrupted by the prison guards and subdued by Vargas, who was bribed by the treasure hunters to protect them from being harmed by other inmates.
Knot Knot, voiced by
JB Blanc is a member of Shoreline and an antagonist in ''Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'' and is one Ross's most-trusted lieutenant, along with Orca. He is seen with Nadine Ross when everyone is in Scotland trying to dig up whatever they can find about Henry Avery's treasure. Nadine sends him out with some other men of Shoreline to find anything they can on all sides of the area. Near the end of the game, they all manage to reach Avery's ship, and we see Knot on a boat placing boxes of small parts of Avery's treasure in the boat. When Rafe Adler and Nadine Ross begin arguing over whether to go for the treasure or not, after Rafe is knocked over, he and Orca hold Nadine at gunpoint, taking Rafe's side that they should go get the treasure before Sam gets it after he stole their second boat. He then drives the boat to get them all to Avery's ship. As they get on Avery's ship, they're all caught by Sam in a fight, and Nate sees an explosion go off while he's outside the boat and when he gets on board, he finds Knot killed by that explosion from Sam.
Orca Orca, voiced by
Gideon Emery, is a private military contractor employed by the private military company Shoreline. During ''Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'', he is a lieutenant under the command of Nadine Ross. After their client Rafe Adler finds Captain Avery's treasure on-board his booby-trapped pirate ship, a bribed Orca draws his gun on Ross after she protests Adler on risking further danger in boarding the ship, betraying her command. Orca later appears in
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, taking command of Shoreline after Ross departs from the company, and has struck a deal with the Indian insurgents headed by Asav. He purchases the Tusk of Ganesh from Asav with a bomb that the insurgent leader (Asav) plans to detonate in a nearby city to ignite a revolution. Orca is later attacked by Ross and her associate Chloe Frazer inside his helicopter before it crashes to the ground, severely injuring him. After implying that he sold a bomb to Asav and gave up the Tusk, he quickly tries to shoot Ross, but is killed in return fire after she is saved by Samuel Drake.
Asav Asav, voiced by
Usman Ally, is the main antagonist of
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. The head of a group of Indian insurgents, he competes with Chloe and Nadine in finding the Tusk of
Ganesh in
India, and has captured Samuel Drake and used him as a Hoysala expert until Frazer and Ross rescue him. He manages to capture both Frazer and Ross within the hidden city of Belur, and threatens to kill Ross and Drake to force Frazer to solve a puzzle that will reveal the Tusk. After taking the Tusk, he leaves a handcuffed Frazer, Ross, and Drake to drown in the Tusk's chamber, which fills with water as Asav and his men make their escape. He is revealed to have Shoreline, Nadine's former private military company, working with him, and later sells them the Tusk in exchange for a bomb that he plans to detonate on a train heading towards a nearby city. He goes insane at the end of the game after his plans of sparking a civil war become compromised by Frazer, Ross and Drake's efforts in stopping the train from reaching the city. After making one last stand in challenging Frazer and Ross to a melee, Asav gets his leg caught underneath the bomb as the out-of-control train is headed towards a collapsed bridge. After Frazer and Ross leave, the train falls off into the valley below and explodes, killing Asav.
Jo Braddock Jo Braddock, portrayed by
Tati Gabrielle, is the true main antagonist of the
2022 film adaptation. She is the leader of a group of mercenaries hired by Santiago Moncada, who she kills to both gain power and keep the treasure to herself. She is crushed to death by a falling ship after Sullivan knocks her off of his and Drake's helicopter.
Santiago Moncada Santiago Moncada, portrayed by
Antonio Banderas, is the secondary antagonist and false main antagonist of the
2022 film adaptation. He is a Spanish nobleman and billionaire and the last descendant of the Moncada family that funded the
Magellan expedition, and seeks to finish it himself. He hires mercenaries led by Braddock to find the treasure, but is killed when Braddock slits his throat. ==Supporting characters==