Villains Beginning With 'L'

Leatherface, AKA Thomas Brown Hewitt, Bubba

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
film series (1974-)

Leatherface appears as being severely mentally retarded and mentally disturbed. He lives with a family of mentally disturbed fellow cannibals, who are often abusive and violent towards him. Leatherface wears masks made of human skin, a practice which led to his name, and is he is also a cannibal.

Leatherface differs from other movie Villains in that he is not so much sadistic or evil; he is in fact mentally retarded and most of the time he only does what his family tells him to do, he is completely under the control of them and does whatever they tell him to do. He's a little bit afraid of them. In truth Leatherface is a 'big baby' and kills in self-defense because he feels threatened.

His family includes his much older brother, Drayton Sawyer, his brothers, Nubbins and Chop Top, as well as Grandpa and Grandma.

In Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, Leatherface appears not as a cannibal but a pizza-eating transvestite involved in an Illuminati conspiracy to provide society a source of horror.

In the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface's real name is Thomas Brown Hewitt. His mother died giving birth to him at the meat factory where she worked, and Thomas was left to die in a dumpster. Luda May Hewitt found him and took him home to raise him, but is treated like a pet rather than a member of the family.

Leatherface in this continuity suffers from a facial disfigurement and skin disease that ate away most of his nose. Due to this disfigurement, Hewitt was horribly treated by his peers as a child. He wore a small leather mask to cover up this deformity, and worked at the same meat factory his birth mother did. He also had a tendency for self-mutilation, and was diagnosed with mental degeneration at age 12.

After health inspectors closed the factory, Hewitt was ordered out. When he didn't, he was bullied and called a 'retard' and a 'dumb animal'. Hewitt killed his boss with a sledgehammer, and later discovered a chainsaw in the factory for later use. When the local sheriff, tried apprehending him, Thomas's uncle Charlie came to his aid by killing the sheriff and later assuming his identity.

Thomas would later make a mask out of human skin by slicing off the face of one of his victims.

Although Leatherface is still manipulated by his family here, they are at least somewhat more caring for him and less abusive than they were in the 1974 classic.

At the climax of the remake, his chainsaw arm was chopped off with a meat cleaver by Erin Hardesty, but he survived the attack. He escaped after police discovered his ranch house and found the remains of 33 people.

Leatherface wore three different masks; the "Killing Mask", "Grandmother Mask" and "Pretty Woman Mask." These determined his personality, who he wanted to be that day determined which one he wore.

 

 

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ARCH RIVAL :	Most of the time his victims and enemies are determined by his other family members.
STRENGTHS :	Physically very strong and very violent.
WEAKNESSES :	His facial deformity means he was treated like an outcast when younger and ridiculed, Leatherface has no real control other his actions almost like a very young child, and can't think and make decisions or himself.
WEAPONS :	Leatherface often uses a chainsaw or sledgehammer to slay his victims. A hook (in the comics).
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