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| “ | It all could have been different Mr. Walker...You should've allowed nature to take its course...in the end, it will anyway... SO LET ME IN THE FUCKING HOUSE! | „ |
| ~ David to Steven Walker. |
David McCall is the main antagonist of the 1996 psychological thriller film Fear.
He is a psychopathic young man with a lengthy criminal record underneath his good looks, which allows him to become easily obsessed with people as well as have constant and violent mood swings.
He was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- As the film has a low standard, it is easier for him to qualify. He represents the dangers of dating people solely based on their looks.
- Also despite the audience finding some unintentional humor including a tattoo on his chest saying “NICOLE 4 EVA”, filmmaker James Folley’s direction makes it seriously clear about the depictions dating abuse. As the title of the movie said, David McCall is absolutely uncomical in the eyes of the Narrative from Writer Christopher Crowe and Director Folley himself, and shows zero remorse for his actions, to the point where he is considered irredeemable, with the narrative painting him as a psychopathic manchild who is dead serious at all times from start to finish, in-universe or not.
- Even before his obsession with his girlfriend Nicole was going too far, he had already started showing signs of violent traits like beating up Gary out of jealousy for thinking that she was in a relationship with him.
- He is said to have a lengthy criminal record and a history of violence, it was revealed that he had to be kicked out of foster homes, moved to an institution and was eventually let off on his own when he turned 18, showing that he was already a bad person before he even met Nicole.
- Sexually harasses Nicole simply for being close to other men, beats her friend Gary to the ground in front of everyone at the school and hits her in the face accidentally when she tries to stop him proving his recklessness.
- He attempts to gaslight Steven (Nicole's father) into thinking that he's not a bad person and that he truly has Nicole's best interests in heart (This is realistic to some extent, as while real world sexual predators don't necessarily gaslight a victim's family members, they are known to gaslight the victims themselves). When Steven catches on to the gaslighting, and tells him to stay away from his daughter by threatening to castrate him, he taunts him then beats himself up and blames it on him to drive a rift between Steven and Nicole.
- Rapes Nicole’s best friend Margo while she's drugged during his friend Logan's party, which also drives a rift between her and Nicole and nearly destroys their friendship as Nicole witnessed the act but mistook it as consensual. (Nicole's misinterpretation is odd as David forcing himself onto Margo was not far away from the window she was looking through.)
- Joins Nicole and her family at the mall, and follows her to the ladies restroom and harasses her.
- Threatened to hurt Margo badly if she didn't set things right with Nicole so that he could continue to have a relationship with her.
- Murders Gary by snapping his neck after he stands up for Nicole. And it’s clear that he wishes for him to die terrified.
- Lied to Nicole about his past when they first met in order for him to look like a good person.
- Orders Nicole to not trust anyone but him or he will kill her family.
- When he first meets Nicole's family, he alters Steven's table clock hands when he was distracted so that he would get hurt at his job, as he failed to deliver a project on time.
- Wrecked Steven's car and left a taunting note on it for him to read.
- Attacks and infiltrates the Walkers' house with his gang, resulting in him killing Nicole's dog by decapitating it and sending it through the dog door just to taunt the family over it, and killing Steven's hired security guard, Larry.
- Subdues Steven and threatens to kill him if Nicole's family does not let them in the house. Even when they cooperate he still orders his men to tie the family up including Nicole's 10 year old brother, taking them hostage just so he could get closer to Nicole.
- Murders his best friend (at least, he referred to him as his best friend) and second in command gang member Logan when he attempts to rape Nicole (though this is somewhat justifiable, he didn't do that because he genuinely wanted to protect Nicole, but, because he wanted her all for himself and nobody else, father included).
- He doesn't care about his friends and only sees them as pawns, as proven when he shows no concern for them when they died or got injured during the home invasion.
- Taunts Nicole over watching her father die for not giving her away.
- After Nicole stabbed him in the back, he finally realized that she would never love him and tried to kill her.
- At the end of the movie, he shows that he did not really love Nicole, he was just obsessed with her, which is the reason for him committing murder of Gary out of jealousy but not for genuine love.
