Mads Mikkelsen’s Clash Of The Titans Death Explained

Here’s how Mad Mikkelsen’s Clash Of The Titans character Draco meets his end. While Mikkelsen has enjoyed a long acting career, it really feels like he’s becoming something of an icon in the last decade or so. This is no doubt thanks to his title role in NBC’s Hannibal, which reinvented the cannibal serial killer for a new audience. Mikkelsen’s Hannibal be could utterly charming, witty and terrifying – often in the same scene – and while it only lasted three seasons, its popularity only seems to grow each passing year.

In addition to taking the lead in films as diverse as Polar or Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Mads Mikkelsen has been racking up parts in beloved franchises. He appeared in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, played the main villain Kaecilius in Doctor Strange, and will replace Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald in the next Fantastic Beasts. If that wasn’t enough, Mikkelsen has also joined the cast of the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones.

Before this, he played a supporting role in the 2010 remake of cult fantasy epic Clash Of The Titans. The movie cast Sam Worthington as hero Perseus, the half-human son of Zeus (Liam Neeson), who heads off on a dangerous mission to stop the evil plot of Ralph Fiennes’ Hades. Perseus learns the only way to kill the Kraken is with the severed head of Medusa, so he and the King’s Guard – lead by Mads Mikkelsen’s Draco – have to fight through several monsters like giant scorpions to reach her. The Medusa battle is one of the highlights of the Clash Of The Titans’ redo, but it’s where Draco and the rest of his men meet their doom too.

When Perseus and the others arrive at the Underworld where Medusa resides, they are swiftly attacked and taken out one at a time. Draco is wounded early on by an arrow, but later reappears at a key moment in this Clash Of The Titans bout and manages to impale the creature’s tale with some rock. This gave Perseus enough time to prepare to decapitate the beast, though Draco is killed when Medusa’s stare turns him to stone, though he smiles as dies. The creature also smashes his body once it has fully turned to stone.

Perseus is the only survivor of the group who went into the Underworld but soon manages to avenge the others by cutting off Medusa’s head. The Clash Of The Titans remake is a film with many issues, and despite being a solid success upon release in 2010, it’s not very well-regarded today. It certainly helps that it has a great cast, with Mads Mikkelsen’s Draco proving a highlight of Clash Of The Titans.

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