Londo Mollari

Londo Mollari
Babylon 5 character
First appearance	Babylon 5: In the Beginning (chronological) Babylon 5: The Gathering (airdate)
Last appearance	War Without End (chronological), Objects at Rest (airdate)
Portrayed by	Peter Jurasik
Information
Species	Centauri
Home planet	Centauri Prime
Affiliated with	Babylon 5, Centauri Republic

Babylon 5: In the Beginning (chronological)

War Without End (chronological),

Londo Mollari is a fictional character in the universe of the science fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Peter Jurasik.

Although Londo began as a supporting player in the early episodes, his actions and character development as the series progressed had immeasurable effect on how the show progressed making him one of the more significant characters in the entire series. He begins as an apparent assigned to the role of a loud jovial comic relief. However, he is shown later in the series to be an embittered patriot of a dying empire eager to restore its primacy. In doing so, he becomes largely an unwitting pawn of the Shadows and the intrigues that he engages in are central to the show’s plot. However, Mollari is also a man of honor and the moral consequences of his plots weigh on him heavily. By the series' end, he finally makes things right at the cost of his own life.

Londo Mollari is a member of one of the oldest Noble Houses of the Centauri Republic. He is a mercurial personality given to extreme manifestations of anger, sadness, or joviality, depending on the power of the catalyst provoking them. While he is an avid hedonist who is fond of drink and leisure, he is also a devout Centauri patriot and would gladly give his life without hesitation to protect the Republic. A staunch traditionalist, Londo has a profound sense of pride which is very heavily tied to the heritage of the Centauri imperial history, when the republic was a vast empire with tremendous influence across the known galaxy; Londo himself was once a military officer with several heroic accomplishments, which he relishes and often reminisces when intoxicated. But the decline of the expansionist tradition has weakened the prestige of the Centauri Republic in the eyes of the galactic community, particularly the emancipation of the Narn homeworld from Centauri colonial rule. These developments have wounded Londo’s pride in his people and self and he is extremely bitter about his people’s loss of face. He resents the Narn for their eventual success in establishing themselves as a viable independent power and for what he feels is their part in the increasingly unimportant and humiliating political positions he has held in the latter years of his life, most of which were diplomatic titles with little significance in the royal court. Londo’s greatest desire is to see the restoration of the Centauri Republic to the glory and influence it held in older times and it is this desperate longing that proves the undoing of himself and his people.

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