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(click here to learn more)| Oscar Espinosa | |
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| Character in Just Cause 4 | |
| First appearance | Operation Whiteout |
| Faction | Espinosa Dynasty |
| Job | Ruler of Solís (actual title unknown) Head of every major business at Solís |
| Last known status | Deceased |
Oscar Espinosa is the main antagonist of Just Cause 4.
Personal info[]
As a sign of personality, he sounds a little arrogant and bored with the information provided by Gabriela during the opening sequence of the game.
As revealed by the Solís Hoy radio, Oscar has written an autobiography called "I am the son of my father".
As also mentioned by the radio, his father was León Espinosa, who died in a plane crash 20 years ago. Oscar is also a descendant of Diego Espinosa.
The book also reveals that he had a stutter until age 11 and that he had to work hard to overcome it.
According to Diago from the radio show, Oscar is a fan of Diago, although he is unable to prove it upon being questioned about it by Santiago.
There's an acoustic guitar in his office when Gabriela is briefing him at the start of the game and seen again during the last mission. This suggests that Oscar plays the guitar as his hobby.
According to César (mission César's Theory), he is likely a reptilian alien disguised as a man. However, it is strongly implied that Cesar is insane, lending almost no credibility to this rumor.
On 2020.11.10, the official Just Cause social media pages published a short video that revealed some additional minor facts about him. These include his height of 5' 11" (180 cm), his age of "early 50s" and a story about his funding and career. See the career section below for a quote.
Career[]
He is the ruler of Solís and leader of the Black Hand. His formal title as head of state however, is never mentioned.
Oscar is the ruler of Solis and the Espinosa Dynasty has held power for about 500 years.
When his father died, Oscar took over all the companies and turned the Black Hand from "a bunch of local badasses" into what they are now. In fact, because he funded the Black Hand, he is their employer. Because Solís has no other police, or military, this puts him well above the law.
His father's plane was taken down by a storm, so officially, this is what motivated him to start Project Illapa, to end all storms. It is revealed during the course of the game that this was a lie. The origin story of the project and the circumstances of León Espinosa's death were actually more complicated.
In the ending cutscene of Operation Illapa, the storm core that he planned to unleash on the mountain fortress of Illapa was instead redirected to his plane, destroying the plane and killing him with it.
On November 10th, 2020, the official Just Cause social media pages published a short video that revealed some additional minor facts about him. The following is a quote from there: "Oscar Espinosa rose to prominence at the age of 25 when he inherited the Espinosa Empire from father León. He leveraged this to break into private military contracting. At 25, Espinosa discovered his father was spending the family's fortune on a machine to protect Solís from extreme weather caused by global warming. Espinosa murdered him so he could weaponize the technology and sell it to the highest bidder - in this case, the Agency. With a talent for impassionated speeches, Espinosa captured the imagination of the people by making promises about future greatness and prosperity for the region. Meanwhile, he and the Agency formed a mutually beneficial partnership that would fund the Illapa Project. Espinosa and the Agency manufactured a perpetual state of war. Together, they established dictators and then knocked them down. The Black Hand scored lucrative military contracts and the Agency used the arrangement to manipulate the power structures of rogue nations. Eventually a former Agency operative, Rico Rodriguez, (current affiliation unknown), prevented Espinosa and the Black Hand from devastating Solís with the Illapa Project. Eyewitnesses reported that Espinosa's private plane was brought down by a storm as he attempted to flee Solís."
Vehicles[]
As the owner of Grupo Próspero, he indirectly owns all the military vehicles at Solís, but he is known to have only 2 personal vehicles.
- He used to own a customized Verdeleon Eco (or possibly multiple of them, because the car is also available to Rico via DLC.) As stated by one of the games loading screens: "Escarlata is famous in the Solino Underground for boosting Oscar Espinosa's personal Verdeleon Eco and driving it off the cliff at Dos Padres."
- He also has an EM-909 Private Jet, which he uses during the last storyline mission Operation Illapa.
Trivia[]
- There was a fan theory that Oscar survived, but the chances of this are impossible, as the Solís Hoy radio reported Oscar's death, and they would have nothing to gain from lying about his death.
- Oscar Espinosa rarely appears in game. He only appears three times in the missions. His first appearance is during Operation Whiteout. One of his moments was in the surveillance footage of the Operation Thunderbarge. His last appearance is during Operation Illapa.
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