The Kurgan (Highlander)

""Ramirez was an effete snob! He died on his knees. I took his head and raped his woman before his blood was even cold.""

- Kurgan, Highlander film

In the movie "The Highlander", the world is host to a rare race of immortals, each of which ressurected after they die and ever since cannot die again. They are ageless, have a fast healing factor, have disturbing eyes (neither beast nor man can look into them for long) and cannot die, unless you remove their head. When one immortal beheads another, an electrical/magical phenomena known as "The Quickening" occurs, where the victor takes the knowledge (including sword skills) and power of the one he/she has beheaded. The immortals struggle to reach the time of the gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last. The most deadly of the Immortals is the Kurgan.

Taking the very name of his people, am extinct tribe of Barbarians who inhabited the steppes of Russia in ancient times, the Kurgan is a ferocious and wicked warrior, the strongest immortal on earth, indeed so large and powerful that he must have seemed a giant to the shorter ancients. According to extra sources outside the film, the Kurgan was born nearly 3000 years ago (in 950 BC) and has terrorized both mortal and immortal ever since. From riding with the Visigoths and Huns to partaking in the depravities of Tartars, Mongols and even the Vikings, the Kurgan has left continents drenched in blood. Like other immortals, he grew more formidable with each beheading of an immortal by his broadsword, and eventually due to age and mass beheadings the Kurgan grew to have abilities that few other immortals possessed, such as being able to tell by ESP-like abilities when and where a new immortal was roaming the earth, to strike them down before they could attain centuries and heads of their own. In one such encounter, he fought for the Scottish clan Frazier against the clan Macleod, hunting down Connor Macleod and running him through with his sword. He was about to behead him when Connors cousin and other clansmen interviened. Later after ressurecting and being banished form his clan, Connor encountered Ramirez, an Immortal originally from ancien Egypt who taught him the arts of swordfighting. However, the Kurgan was not finished with the Highlander: attacking Connor's home while he was gone, he battled Ramirez to the death, taking his head and a woman that he thought was Ramirez's, a woman which turned out to the the wife of Connor.

Later, during the 1980's the Gathering commenced, and both the Kurgan and Connor found themselves the last of a dying breed. After a titanic battle, Connor Macleod defeated the Kurgan and recieved a hellish quickening, in part due to the age and power of Kurgan and in part due to the fact that the Kurgan was the last immortal to die. After this, Connor recieved the prize, a reward given to the last immortal in the gathering, a prize that was mysterious until the end: Connor not only could age and have children like any other mortal, he had incredble telepathic abilities, which he used to help world leaders, ambassadors and scientists understand one another better.

It was a good thing that Connor became the last; for it was prophesied that if an immortal like Kurgan won the pize, mankind would suffer a never ending dark age.