Blunderbore

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Pure Evil
Full Name	Blunderbore
Alias	Blunderboar Thunderbore Blunderbus
Origin	Cornish mythology
Allies	Rebecks
Powers / Skills	Supernatural Size Supernatural Strength Combat-Mastery Weapon-Mastery Authority
Goals	Force human women to be his brides Kill and eat Jack the Giant Killer
Moral Event Horizon	Kidnapping three women and starving them for refusing to eat their husband's corpses. Attempting to torture Jack to death.
Kill Count	Dozens
Worst Crimes	Murder Kidnapping Enforced cannibalism Torture
Type of Villain	Sadistic Giant

Blunderbore is a legendary giant from Cornish mythology, featured as an antagonist in the legend of Jack the Giant Killer.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

• He terrorized the region of Penwith and regularly killed and devoured locals, with his lair being strewn with the blood and bones of men and women he had eaten.
  • In some versions of the story, he gloats to Jack that he particularly enjoys eating the hearts and livers of his victims.
• He kidnapped three women to be his brides, forced them to watch as he slew their husbands, and tried to force them to eat the bodies. When they refused, he hung them up by their hair and left them locked in the dungeons of his castle to starve in order to force them to obey. They would have starved to death had Jack not saved them.
• He kidnapped Jack and planned to torture, kill, and eat him with his brother because he had the temerity to kill the giant Cormoran, gloating that he would eat his heart and liver with vinegar.
• While he wanted to avenge Cormoran's death, it seems to be more out of outrage that a human would kill a giant than out of sympathy, and his relationship with his brother Rebecks isn't explored except for the fact they share meals. In some versions he's even shown to be abusive to Rebecks.

Trivia

• Another evil giant named Blunderbore appeared in the folk tale "Tom the Tinkeard," but this version was not voted pure evil as he gave all his money to Tom as he laid dying.
  • The Blunderbore name is also sometimes given to the giant from the famous fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk".

External Link

• Blunderbore on the Villains Wiki.