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| “ | You were scared little pricks, both a you's. All a you's, scared sh-tless. But I tried to make you tough, I tried to make you hard. | „ |
| ~ Nokes justifying the ritual child molestation he committed |
Sean Nokes is the main antagonist of the novel and film Sleepers. He is the sadistic head guard at Wilkinson's Home for Boys who physically and sexually abuses the boys in his charge.
He was portrayed by Kevin Bacon, who also played Sebastian Caine in Hollow Man, Sebastian Shaw in the X-Men film series, Bobby Hayes in R.I.P.D. and Owen Whistler in They/Them.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He regularly beats and sexually abuses young boys.
- He leads the other guards in beating and raping Lorenzo Carcaterra, John Reilly, Tommy Marcano, and Michael Sullivan.
- He threatens to kill the boys if they tell anyone about the abuse.
- While he is raping Shakes, he instructs him to pray while being raped, ridiculing his religion.
- He was already a psychopath even before the boys arrived. On the boys' first day at Wilkinson's, he forces Lorenzo to take off all his clothes on the floor and watches him as he does so, then he tells him to get dressed. He then takes all the boys down the storm cellar and forces them to perform oral sex on him and the other guards and beats them with batons while doing so.
- He encourages Styler to sodomize Michael with his baton.
- When faced with the situation of another child bullying Michael and intentionally throwing all his food onto the floor, Nokes chose to handle the situation leniently with the bully, while unfairly ordering Michael to eat the food that had been tossed aside. Michael, understandably, refused to comply with this unreasonable demand. In response, he beats him twice, striking him on the chest and arm with a baton and then orders his friends to do the same despite not being involved in the fight. It was only when another guard replaced him that his true intentions became evident, as he smirked deviously, clearly displaying a sadistic desire to torment the boys.
- He hurls racial epithets at Rizzo, the only Black inmate on his block and while he beats the guards in football, this angers the guards.
- He leads the other guards in beating Rizzo to death as punishment for the boys beating the guards in a football game and for the boys he beats them and places them in solitary confinement.
- On the boys' final night before their release, he and the other guards subject them to an especially brutal night of rapes and beatings
- As they led the boys down the tunnel, he casually complained about his job to the other guards, who joined in with typical conversation. This suggests that the abuse and violence he inflicted on the boys had become routine at the institution.
- His and the other guards' abuse turn John and Tommy into hardened killers.
- It is implied that he makes inappropriate advances toward Ferguson's son.
- He walks out on his wife and child, owing them years of alimony and child support.
- When an adult John and Tommy confront him in a bar, he dismisses what he did to them as trying to make them "tough" and "hard".
- With his final words, he tells John and Tommy to "burn in hell".
- He shows absolutely no remorse for his actions nor did he feel sorry for the boys and just cared about himself.
External links[]
- Sean Nokes on the Villains Wiki
