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Manuel
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Full Name
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Manuel
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Appeared in
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Known relatives
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Maria Beltran (mother-in-law)
Unnamed first wife (wife, deceased) Unnamed second wife (wife) Gabriela Beltran (daughter, deceased) |
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Status
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Alive
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Nationality
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Mexican
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Portrayed by
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Marco de la O
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Manuel was a minor character in Rambo: Last Blood. He was portrayed by Marco de la O.
He was the biological father of Gabriela Beltran but he had abandoned his family after Gabriela's mother died of cancer almost a decade previously. Gabriela always wanted to find her father to get answers on why he left her. Things take a turn for the worst when Gabriela is told by her friend, Gizelle, who is living in Mexico, that she has located her father. Despite preparing to go to college and with a promising future ahead of her, Gabriela desires to find closure on why he left her and insists on going to see him. Rambo explains to her that she may not be satisfied with the answers to her questions and implores her to stay until she has thought the matter over further. Rambo also reminds her of how cruel he was to her and her mother, and that he cannot be a changed man. However, Gabriela is too emotional about the situation and secretly leaves to Mexico.
When Gabriela finally gets to see her father again, Manuel rudely rebuffs her attempt at reconnecting and tells her that he simply never cared about her or her mother, and decided to abandon Gabriela after her mother died because he did not want to be "stuck" with her. Gabriela is a wreck because of this and attempts to go home, but her friend tells her to stay and go to a night club so she can calm down before going home the next morning. While at the club, Gabriela is drugged and abducted by human traffickers for use as a sex slave. Rambo quickly learns of Gabrielle's disappearance and travels south to find her. Rambo than confronts Manuel, and after learning that he just told her to leave, Rambo tells him that this all resulted because of his actions, and that he should have killed him years prior, leaving without further incident.