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| “ | You're trying to be a hero? Is that what you think this is? You feel like a piece of sh-t so you're trying to be a hero. Ruining my life is not going to save you from your demons, alright? What we went through stays. No amount of sex or drugs or religion or surviving f--king ball cancer, that's not gonna save you, okay? Nothing can. | „ |
| ~ Henderson to Joe Goldberg. |
Joshua "Henderson" Bunter is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Forty Quinn) of the second season of the Netflix show You.
He is a famous, wealthy comedian who is secretly a sexual abuser that targets females so that he can rape them, this even applies to children too. He is the arch enemy of Delilah Alves.
He was portrayed by Chris D'Elia.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He uses his comedian facade to lure various women into his home, then drug, sodomize, and rape them. It is also revealed that he has even been violating several teenagers. Even though we don't see it happen, this isn't really off screen villainy because a detailed glimpse of his photograph collection that features his victims being abused and tied down to a mattress is shown, and it's heavily implied that Henderson gets off on it since he kept it hidden.
- This even disgusted Joe Goldberg, a lovesick killer who still had standards to live by.
- His friendship with Forty Quinn was nothing more than a facade to make everyone believe that he was a polite and reasonable person.
- He sexually abused Delilah when she was only 17 years old. And because of his influence as a local celebrity, no one believed her when she told her story.
- He planned to rape Ellie Alves, a teenage girl, by spiking her drink with a drug and doing exactly what he did to her older sister. And because of this "friendship" between the two of them, it caused tension between the two sisters because Ellie was fooled into thinking that he was a good person.
- When Joe attempts to extract a confession out of Henderson, he hypocritically judges Joe when it comes to morality by saying that he's more f*cked up than he is by doing this, which isn't redeeming since it's just Henderson being fully aware of his actions, and showing no remorse whatsoever.
- Although he claims that he was sexually abused by his stepfather at a young age, it is unknown if it is true, since he could be making an excuse to win Goldberg's sympathy, which was immediately noticed by Joe and he didn't even bother to hear him out because of it. And even if it is true, that wouldn't excuse any of his actions, as he would go on to become a sexual abuser himself.
- Although nowhere near innocent, Joe Goldberg was motivated by his genuinely tragic past to find "The One" because he experienced no real love whatsoever as a child. This is because his father or step father abused him, his mother abandoned him, the boys at a group home relentlessly bullied him, and Ivan Mooney twisted his mind even more by beating him and locking him in a glass cage, and possibly molesting him as well, like Henderson (supposedly).
- His death at the hands of Joe Goldberg was more than well deserved, despite it being accidental.
- Even after his death, his memory would continue to haunt Delilah and everyone else that he raped, because the fact that the public never found out the truth. This would spark a series of events that would eventually lead to Love Quinn revealing herself to be just as obsessive and crazy in love as Joe.
- Although most of the villains in the show are obsessive killers, stalkers, and abusers, Henderson stands out due to his lack of morals, boundaries, and redeeming qualities that all the other villains have. Especially since pedophilia and rape are unique crimes within the show.
- Despite the fact that Joe and Love would become worse and worse as time passed, both of them refused to go as far as to rape, or even hurt a child. (Even if Joe became worse by killing Edward Owens and framing Nadia Farran for the murder of Rhys Montrose, they were pretty much adults. So his moral still holds up)
External links[]
- Henderson on the Villains Wiki
