Duke Red is a reoccurring character in the Osamu Tezuka Star System. He is one of Tezuka's first characters, an arrogant and stylish man of shady authority. And he is the secondary antagonist of the 2001 anime movie Metropolis. He is an extremely wealthy man, who has such influence over the city of Metropolis, that he holds far more power than even it's president or mayor. As such, Duke Red is the city's unofficial ruler.