Joe Vickers, also known as Theodore "Ted" Warnicky, Gary Henly, or as Psycho Cop, is the main antagonist of the slasher film Psycho Cop and its sequel
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Starts the first film killing a random couple after they find the killing of another random person.
- Murders the caretaker of an apartment and then murders Zack.
- Picks off the couples in the film, killing Eric, Julie, and Sarah and then killing two cops.
- Crucified the bodies of his victims.
- Tricks the guard into letting him into a bachelor party and then kills him by stabbing his eye with a pencil.
- Murders another guy by pushing him off an elevator shaft and then shots another guy and pushes the stripper he was with off the roof, and then murders two more people who were having sex.
- Murders Larry.
- Chases 3 women up in the stairwell with him threatening to shoot one of them if the other, Sharon, doesn't back down, to make sure Sharon knows he is serious he shoots another woman. However, he was invoking Exact Words and snaps the woman's neck.
- After he survives his beatdown he murders 4 people inside of the hospital.
- Ultimately ends both films with a body count over 20, putting him well above the baseline even for horror films, with some of his kills also being very brutal.
- While he does technically have a Freudian Excuse that being that his parents being abusive towards him. The thing is though, this apparently isn't the motive for any of his killings it is solely because he was refused by god. Vickers himself never brings up this past nor is there any indication he is broken from it, we are also not told just his home was abusive and that is it with nothing else beyond that.
- While he does make multiple puns this doesn't detract from his villainy and is more to highlight how much of a psycho he is by him making light of his brutal murder spree, with every other character being horrified and scared at what he is doing.
External Links[]
- Joe Vickers on the Villains Wiki.