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Did Gus Mean to Kill...

posted 10 years ago by garrettok13
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...Clyde the Bully? I used to assume that he did based on my assumptions of the genre but now as I'm a bit older I notice in Clancy Brown's performance the absence of homicidal malice particularly in this scene. Now I'm wondering if maybe Gus didnt care either way obviously, at least in the moral sense. He seems to say "uh-oh" after Clyde's scarf gets caught in the spokes. I think Gus was just rough housing really dangerously with Clyde to teach him a lesson, probably would have smacked him around some more after he had made him pee his pants. The point of the scene I'm guessing is that either way no good can come from making Zombies.

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[–] TalesfromTheCryptfan 10 years ago

That's right, Gus and the resurrected are NOT zombies! they are dead corpses possessed by demons and evil spirits even the animals are possessed by spirits. Gus was probably possessed by the master demon the Wendigo (an evil psychic cannibalistic homicidal demon spirit of Native American legends) that soured the ground long time ago according to the novel, and it cursed the grounds with the forest with whatever was buried in that ground becomes possessed by the Wendigo or other demons/spirits, the dead come back as demons who return to torment the living. Basically Deadites in a way.

"*beep* the law, i want meat"-Nightbreed.

[–] Fawkes_Rocks 9 years ago

I think Gusdidnt mean to kill the bullyin that moment but was going to at some point. The "whoops" was probably because he wanted to torment him more before finally making the kill.

[–] AmyJolamb 9 years ago

Yes. He was a demon and possessed by evil.