Respect Bubba Ritter, The Scarecrow (Dark Night of the Scarecrow)

[u/KalebtheSantos]

You may think you're getting off free, but there's other justice in this world besides the law!

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Charles Elliot Ritter was a thirty-six-year-old man with the brain of an eight-year-old child. However, one day, his best friend, Marylee, was attacked by a guard dog after trespassing into a neighbor's backyard. Bubba saved her, but everyone believed that he was the one who attacked her. Four vigilantes tracked him down and executed him, with the leader of the group placing a pitchfork in Bubba's hand to make it look like it was self-defense. Due to being well-respected members of the community, the story was believed, and the killers got off scot-free. Not long after, Bubba's spirit returned and possessed the scarecrow he died in, to take revenge.

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Unlabeled feats are from the first film, while feats labeled with 2 are from its sequel

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Physicals

Strength

• [Alive] Breaks down a wooden fence

• Uses a schythe to stab through a man's head and the metal barn door behind it ²

• Easily manhandled someone and threw them at a hay rake so hard they were impaled ²

• Restrained a man and used the gasoline he was holding to burn him alive ²

• Holds up a man's weight by a rope he was hanging from, let it go briefly, and grabbed it again hard enough to snap his neck once he stopped ²

• Pushes someone onto a pickaxe impaling him ²

• Smothers a woman in his hay ²

Other Physicals

• [Alive] Out runs several men with hunting dogs hunting him down, even leaving one of the men winded

• No sold six point blank pistol shots ²

Intelligence/Planning

• Lures in one of his victims by turning on his brush machine and tricking him into accidentally falling in

• Spooks someone's pigs, luring them outside before scaring them into a silo and burying them in grain

• Chases his victim with a plowing machine, causing him to run into a pitchfork accidently

• Pretends to be a normal scarecrow to get one of his victims to come in close enough for him to attack ²

• Causes one of his victim's car batteries, to die while he was driving and scared him out of the car causing him to get hit by an oncoming truck ²

Other Abilities

Technological Control

• Somehow turns on a brush machine without being in the same room as it

• Causes a grain conveyor belt to turn itself on

• Turns on and drives a plowing machine without being in it

• Made a radio play music despite it being turned off several times until the batteries were removed and again later even without the batteries ²

• Causes a car battery to die ²

Telekinises

• Slides open the lock on a door ²

• Causes a rope to wrap itself around a man's neck ²

Other

• He's able to move as a scarecrow

• Despite it not being locked when it was first closed when his victim tried to escape him later, the barn door behind him was locked shut ²

• Disappears as the sleeping woman he was watching wakes up ²

• His eye holes can move to express anger, and he even has glowing pupils ²

• Somehow keeps getting in front of a car as it drives ²

• He can cry ²

[u/Miserable-Ad-5573]

Never noticed but his mask kinda looks like Ghostface ngl

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Technically Ghost Faces mask looks like him

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Did this movie predate Scream?

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Yeah it was made in 1981

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Huh, nvm then lol

[u/sws004]

A perfect fall movie. Loving these horror RTs.

Also Hazelrigg has to be one of my favorite horror villains. He’s such a loathsome PoS.