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| “ | Ralph: You really don't believe Terry killed the Peterson boy? Holly: No more than I think Heath Holmes killed those two girls. I think it was someone else. I think it was an outsider. |
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| ~ Holly Gibney upon figuring out the true culprit. |
| “ | Holly: Strip away the shape-changing, the memory-sucking, and the glowing eyes, and you’re just a sexual sadist and common pedophile. The Outsider: That’s offensive, ridiculous, and untrue. I eat to live, that’s all. Your kind does the same thing when you slaughter pigs and cows. That’s all you are to me— cattle. Holly: You’re lying. [...] You always take children. The Outsider: They’re the strongest, sweetest food! Have you never eaten veal? Or a calves’ liver? Holly: You splooge on them. Oough! The Outsider: To leave DNA! Holly: You could leave it other ways! But you don’t put your thing in, do you? Is it because you’re impotent? Is it is it is it? The Outsider: Shut up! Holly: You’re a child rapist who can’t even do it with your penis, you have to use a— |
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| ~ Holly calling The Outsider out for his serial rape towards children during their final confrontation. |
The Outsider, also known as El Cuco, is the titular main antagonist of Stephen King’s 71st novel from 2018, The Outsider, a stand-alone sequel to the "Bill Hodges" trilogy, and a posthumous antagonist in the 2020 novella If it bleeds, published in the short fiction collection of the same name.
He is a shape-shifting entity that feeds on the suffering of others. In the novel, he rapes and murders 11-year-old Frank Peterson in Flint City, using the form of Frank's baseball coach, Terry Maitland, resulting in Terry's arrest framing and plunging the town into chaos and grief.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Despite his supernatural nature, he clearly has a moral compass and thinks like a human.
- While he does need to kill in order to survive, he has no reason to target and rape innocent children, inseminate all over their corpses, or incriminate innocent people for his crimes.
- He transforms into Heath Holmes and steals a vehicle, using it to lure two young girls away before violently raping and murdering them before ejaculating on their bodies. He then incriminates Heath with the girls' bloody underwear. This leads Heath to get imprisoned and commit suicide.
- He transforms into Terry Maitland, stealing his van and using him to kidnap Terry's eleven-year-old baseball student, Frank Peterson. He then rapes Frank with a tree branch, driving it so far up his anal cavity that it comes out of his stomach, biting off chunks of his throat, chest, and stomach, and finishing by ejaculating on the body. He leaves his body in a local park. Terry is blamed for this and gets arrested, which would lead Ollie Peterson, Frank's older brother, to attempt to kill Terry and cause Ollie to be shot dead by police.
- This action affects Frank's mother, who dies of a heart attack, as well as Frank's father, Ted, who had tried to commit suicide after losing his family, with the Outsider sadistically watching Ted hang himself. The suicide attempt fails, but Ted is left comatose anyway.
- He visits Terry's daughter, Grace, and repeatedly torments her over her father's death.
- Coerces Detective Jack Hoskins into being his minion by mildly poisoning him and falsely telling Hoskins that he gave him cancer, knowing that Hoskins was traumatized from watching his mother die from skin cancer.
- Orders Hoskins to kill Ralph's team, resulting in the deaths of Howie Gold and Alec Pelley, as well as Yune Sablo being seriously injured.
- While his heinousness does not reach the scale of some of Stephen King's other villains, such as It, Crimson King and Randall Flagg, he has far fewer resources than them due to being a simple shapeshifter. Even then, his crimes are extremely vile, even by the standards of King's mythos.
External Links[]
- The Outsider on the Villains Wiki
- The Outsider on the Stephen King Wiki
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