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This is a list of the various characters that have appeared in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.
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[edit] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
[edit] Leatherface
Leatherface is the main villain of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre movies. He is severely mentally retarded and severely mentally disturbed, wields a chainsaw and wears the skinned faces of his victims. He was inspired in part by Ed Gein, a serial killer who fashioned clothes and furniture out of corpses he had dug up or of victims he had killed. Leatherface is abused and manipulated by his family, and does what they tell him to do because he is afraid of him. Besides his regular 'killing mask', Leatherface also has an 'old lady' mask and a 'pretty woman' mask to suit different aspects of his personality at different times. Like the rest of his family, Leatherface is a cannibal.
The 2003 remake gave Leatherface the name Thomas Hewitt and explained that, as a child, his nose rotted off and he was thus the victim of mistreatment from his peers, a possible reason why he feels the need to cover his face. He later had one of his arms chopped with a machete in a showdown with one of his victims, but he survived the attack and managed to elude capture from the police.
[edit] Edward Sawyer
More commonly known as the Hitchhiker, Edward Sawyer is a brother of Leatherface and is arguably one of the more psychotic members of the family. His role in the family business is to rob graves for purposes which are never made truly clear, although his "legitimate" employment was at a local slaughterhouse. At the end of the first movie he is run over by an eighteen-wheeler, and spends the entirety of the second film as a puppet-corpse carried around by his brother, Chop Top. He is arguably one of the more psychotic members of the family and is prone to stuttering, laughing hysterically and self-mutilation.
[edit] Drayton Sawyer
Drayton Sawyer is the eldest brother of the Sawyer clan which consisted of Leatherface, Chop Top and Edward Sawyer in the first two Texas Chainsaw Massacre films. Drayton adopts a folksy persona while in public but in reality is a severely unstable person who berates his brothers non-stop, rants at great length about money and the plight of the small businessman, and occasionally brings people "home for dinner". However, he has said he takes no pleasure in killing (though he seems to enjoy beating people), which is why he leaves that duty to his demented siblings. Drayton was originally a gas station owner, but the intense police investigation following Sally Hardesty's escape forced him to abandon that job. After he and his family moved to an abandoned amusement park near Dallas, he expanded his culinary skills and eventually became an award-winning chili and barbecue cook. Unbeknownst to his customers, however, the meats he sells are made of the people his brother Leatherface kills, skins, and cuts up. In order to keep this truth from being known, he dismisses the teeth and bone fragments occasionally found in his meat as hard-shelled peppercorns.
[edit] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
[edit] Chop-Top
Chop Top is Leatherface's older brother. He was in the the Vietnam War during the events of the first film. There received a machete wound and had a steel plate surgically implanted on his skull. To Chop Top's delight he has found that if he heats up a clothes hanger and scratches the metal plate on his brain he will "get off". Any skin that might stick to the heated hanger he will happily eat. He occasionally suffers from Vietnam War flashbacks.Chop Top is a sort of zombified yet intensely hyperactive hippie, he claims "music is his life" and wants to build a theme park called "Nam Land." He can usually be seen carrying around his brother Edward's corpse like a marionette. His role in the family is unclear. He constantly bickers with Drayton Sawyer and teases Leatherface (whom he often refers to as "Bubba") about liking a female radio jockey.
[edit] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film)
[edit] Sheriff Hoyt
Sheriff Hoyt is Leatherface's uncle in the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Born Charlie Hewitt, he was POW during the Korean War and was forced into cannibalism to survive as rations were extremely scarce. Each week, someone had to be killed and eaten. Charlie apparently grew to like the taste of human flesh and would later introduce the grisly practice to his family. After killing the local sheriff when he tried to arrest Charlie's nephew Thomas, he took on the identity of the sheriff, now calling himself Hoyt. 'Hoyt' would use his lawman's persona to track unsuspecting victims to the Hewitt house, where they would be butchered by Leatherface and eaten by the rest of the family. One of his intended victims, Erin Hardesty, proves herself to be tougher and more resourceful than he had expected, however; at the movie's climax, she runs him over repeatedly and kills him as she flees the town.
[edit] Luda Mae Hewitt
Luda Mae Hewitt is Leatherface's adoptive mother in the remake. Luda Mae Hewitt is the matriatch of the Hewitt family and the mother of Sheriff Hoyt. She found the young baby that would later become Leatherface abandoned in a dumpster, and took him in to raise him, naming him Thomas. She ran a local butcher shop in Texas where she, like her son Hoyt, would lure teenagers to their deaths. Unlike in the original 1974 film, in which Leatherface's family was somewhat abusive to him, Luda Mae has a fierce love for her son. Part of her hatred towards the teenagers is due to the abuse that her deformed, mentally retarded son suffered as a child at the hands of bullies. Says Marietta Marich, the actress who portrayed her, "Luda Mae is the matriarch of what I like to call the 'killer brood'. I always make up a personal history of characters I play, so I suspect that Luda Mae was a homeless young woman who had to make her own way during the Depression. When she finds Thomas, she takes him home, even though he's disfigured and hideously ugly, and protects him as much as possible from the cruel people he encounters and the world at large. That's her main purpose, and the only reason Luda Mae sticks around."[1]
[edit] Old Monty
Old Monty is a member of Leatherface's in the remake. His exact relationship to Leatherface is unknown. Marietta Marich has stated she believes Monty to be Luda Mae's husband, whereas Terrance Evans, Monty's portrayer, has argued that the two are in fact siblings. Monty is a bitter, lecherous old man whose legs have been amputated, confining him to a wheelchair. After Sheriff Hoyt killed a biker's girlfriend, the biker sought revenge on the Hewitts and attacked Monty by shooting him in the leg. As a bit of 'surgery', Hoyt ordered Leatherface to remove the wounded leg with his chainsaw. Leatherface accidentally nicked Monty's second leg, so Hoyt told him to remove that as well for 'balance'. Evans says, "Monty is practically an innocent, not totally, but certainly more than Hoyt or Thomas. I see Monty as a secondary character because Hoyt really drives the scenes, and my role is more reactive. Nobody ever asks Monty for his opinion, not even when Luda Mae brings Thomas home, so he just goes with the flow and endures whatever's thrown his way."
