While it enjoyed a much bigger budget, it gained a large amount of hate from the fans. In other news, the Immortals are revealed to be space aliens from planet Zeist, while the evil General Katana ( Michael Ironside) has come to Earth to kill Connor off.
Connor is back, having parlayed The Prize (the ability to read the minds of all the world's mortals at once) into building a vast planetary force field to replace the broken ozone layer the downside is that the entire planet is now permanently dark. Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991) flash-forwards to the year 2024.Connor kills him in a Final Battle, saves the girl (Roxanne Hart), and gains The Prize. By the end of the film, Connor and the Kurgan are the only Immortals left. The film's other half takes place in Eighties-era New York City, where all the world's Immortals, whose numbers are now growing thin, are drawn together to battle to the last man in a final showdown dubbed "The Gathering".
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In a series of flashbacks, Connor is mentored by Juan Ramírez ( Sean Connery), a wise Immortal who teaches him the basics before being beheaded by Connor's sworn enemy, the Kurgan ( Clancy Brown).
Calling it "a canon" is being charitable. The above paragraph contains the agreed-upon facts. Drifting invisibly through the history of the world, they battle each other in swordfights until only one Immortal remains the last one standing gets "The Prize", the exact nature of which is unknown. This power exchange manifests as an explosion of energy called The Quickening, in which everything within 50 yards blows up. They can live forever, but with a catch - When one Immortal takes the head of another, the winner gets the loser's power, while the beheaded Immortal is dead for good. A long-running Historical Fantasy franchise about a rare collection of beings known as The Immortals.
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