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Tom Cooper is the main antagonist of the 2020 horror/thriller film Unhinged.
He is an unstable man who feels like he has nothing to lose, and goes on a rampage to teach a stranger what his idea of what a bad day is.
He was portrayed by Russell Crowe.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He uses illegal drugs, which is the reason of him becoming into a spree killer and becoming even worse.
- He beats or kills all people who annoy him.
- He breaks into the house of his ex-wife and beats her and her new partner to death. He then has the house burned down.
- He shows Rachel his idea of what a bad day is, by aggressively stalking and intimidating her in traffic multiple times.
- He runs over an innocent man who escorts Rachel out of the gas station, who then gets hit by another car and very likely dying.
- He steals Rachel's phone and meets with her friend and defense lawyer Andy in a diner, pretending to be her friend in order to manipulate him. As she reveals his true colors, he brutally murders Andy by smashing a mug on his nose, causing him to heavily bleed. He then slams his head on the table, punches him multiple times, chokes him with his tie, and finally stabs him to death with a butterknife.
- He gives Rachel an ultimatum that somebody in her phone will die she can choose one person, or it will be randomly determined.
- He breaks into Rachel's brother's house, where he beats his fiancé Mary brutally, before killing her with the knife Fred was holding. He "blames" Fred for causing the death, has him tied to a chair to read a hateful message over the phone to Rachel. He pours gasoline on him and sets him on fire to allow him to get away from the police as they arrive. Fortunately, Fred survived.
- He is hinted to have killed Rachel's neighbor Rosie off screen, as he is seen driving her car after fleeing her house.
- During one chase sequence with Rachel, he crashes into a random woman's car, killing her.
- He beats Rachel multiple times, along with her son Kyle. He attempts to strangle Kyle to death.
- There is no sympathy to be given to him over losing his job and his wife leaving him, as his violent tendencies are way too disproportionate.
- While he showed a slight degree of mercy by initially apologizing to Rachel for holding her up in traffic, trying to reason with her, this is not mitigating as it is clearly self-serving rather than out of compassion, which is evident from his subsequent reaction to not receiving one back. Plus, it is ultimately nullified by his abusive behavior towards her, and he is only doing it because he expects an apology in return due to the hard time he is having, which hammers the point home that he is a very despicable man.
- Even though he supposedly had hard time before he would met Rachel, he actually deserves hard time because of his actions. To summarize it, he actually deserves to be killed because of his actions.
- While not shown, it is possible that Tom Cooper actually killed even more people, before the events of the film, as he is a serial killer.
External Links[]
- Tom Cooper on the Villains Wiki
- Tom Cooper on the Hate Sink Wiki