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Howard Howe is the main antagonist of the 2014 black comedy film Tusk. He is a serial killer and a former sailor who has a disturbing fascination with walruses.
He was portrayed by the late Michael Parks.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- He kidnaps people to turn them into walruses. The operations are shown to be painful.
- While the operations themselves are directly shown onscreen for only a couple of frames, what is seen onscreen is still very horrific. Not to mention that it completely destroys Wallace as a person.
- LaPointe says he killed 23 people, but it's implied there are even more. While it happened offscreen, it still has a very informative description.
- LaPointe gives a pretty good description of how the corpses of Howe's victims look like with even Ellie and Teddy being horrified.
- When Wallace (already as a walrus) swims in Howe's pool, he sees at least one corpse of a human, who was turned into a walrus similarly to Wallace himself. This indicates that Howe drowned at least one victim to death.
- The suits he makes are made from human skin and bones, which he takes from his victims. This can be deduced from numerous factors:
- Wallace's walrus suit is obviously made from skin with even some similar humans' faces seen on it.
- When Wallace regains his consciousness, Howe is temporarily seen cleaning a sharpened bone (which is implied to become one of Wallace's tusks when he becomes a walrus).
- A part of Wallace's leg is constantly seen onscreen.
- LaPointe says that his colleagues once found a piece of a leg's bone inside of a mouth of one of Howe's victims.
- Although Wallace manages to survive and kill Howe, Howe technically still wins, as he manages to turn him into a walrus with (currently) no chance to return humanity. Also, Wallace now faces the the fate worse than death as he now looks and behaves as a walrus and also believes he's one.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He's extremely tragic. When he was a child, his parents were killed by robbers in front of him, after which he ended up in an orphanage, where he was raped by everyone (particularly by clergy and politicians). Later, he escaped and began a career of a sailor, but after a shipwreck, he was the only survivor and was saved by a walrus, whom he had to kill to survive, and he killed him minutes before being saved.
- He cares about his walrus friend and feels remorse for killing him. He's also implied to care about his parents, who were killed by robbers.
External Links[]
- Howard Howe on the Villains Wiki
- Howard Howe on the Shonen Villains Wiki
