-Duke Red's Ziggurat speech Duke Red is the owner of the Ziggurat tower and the main antagonist of Metropolis. He believed that as long as President Boone is in charge, everything would be all right. The people don't know he's constructing weapons in the tower. He arranged for mad scientist Dr. Laughton to build a robot named Tima after his daughter died very young. With Tima nearing completion, Rock, Duke Red's adoptive son and right hand storms into the lab and kills Laughton then starts to destroy the factory believing machines are evil. When Duke Red heard of the fire in his quarters, he ordered Rock to give him some time alone. He then tests his giant laser cannon to get omotanium fusion. This succeeds causing robots on the surface to go nuts. He heard of a revolution being prepared a