Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez

Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez
Highlander character
Portrayed by	Sean Connery
Born	898 BC, Egypt (Highlander) 896 BC, Egypt (Highlander II)
Teacher	Nakano Graham Ashe
Appearances	Highlander Highlander II: The Quickening

Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez is a fictional character in the Highlander film series. He is an Immortal.

Ramírez was portrayed by Sean Connery in Highlander and Highlander II: The Quickening. These are the only screen appearances of Ramírez, though he is mentioned in Highlander: The Series.

Other than James Bond, Ramírez is the only character that Connery has played in more than one film.

Ramírez was born Tak-Ne in Egypt in 896 BC, and became Immortal after being run down by an out-of-control cart in the streets of his city. The fearful populace, upon learning of this, banished him, and he began to wander the world, encountering many other Immortals, good and evil alike. Among the most powerful of all the Immortals on Earth was the Kurgan (Clancy Brown), whom Tak Ne battled a number of times throughout early history, including encounters in Babylonia, Greece, and ancient China, including the Battle of Plataea, where he fought under the Spartans, and managed to shatter the Kurgan's blade.

Ramírez married three different times, until he finally decided having loved ones was no longer worth the resulting emotional pain of their inevitable deaths. His last wife was Shakiko, a Japanese princess, whose father, the great swordsmith Masamune, gave Ramírez a "dragon head" katana in 592 BC, a sword originally intended for Masamune's adopted, pre-Immortal son, Ren. The resulting grudge would be carried by Ren against Ramírez for the next 2,500 years. During this time, he also trained with the ancient Immortal Nakano (portrayed by Mako Iwamatsu), from whom he learned the arts of metallurgy.

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