Minor Characters in Preacher (comics)
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The following is a list of minor characters in the Preacher comics.
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[edit] Allfather D'Aronique
'Allfather D'Aronique' is a character from the comic book series "Preacher," created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. He is French, and his first name is never given.
He was the leader of the Grail organization, one occasion Allfather stating "I am the hundred and twelfth Allfather of the Grail". Extremely obese, he was barely mobile and at one point his weight caused a small plane's wheel to fall off during landing.(Although Herr Starr replies to it "Every Fucking time.",so it seems to be regular) D'Aronique was also bulimic, retaining a stick with the shape of two human fingers that he would put in his mouth upon every meal and vomit (though the Allfather's bulimia seems to be closer to the Roman practice of vomiting so as to enable more eating than it was a weight-control method). He is depicted as a ruthless and sadistic murderer, albeit very pious and fully believing in the cause of The Grail and the potential of the messiah. He is also fond of manipulation and is somewhat egomaniacal; he required multiple world leaders (including the American President) to call him daily and thank him for preserving their power.
He has a habit of speaking in oddly-constructed sentences, often using poetic reduplication (ie: "You wonder, you wonder, why do you wonder"). He is related to Jesse Custer and the L'Angelles, being Jesse's distant uncle. Allfather D'Aronique died in Herr Starr's coup of the grail. While attempting to escape the collapsing Grail compound in a helicopter Herr Starr kicked him out while in mid-air. D'Aronique landed on the Grail's messiah, killing both instantly. Starr subsequently inherited the title of Allfather, becoming the Grail's 113th.
[edit] Jesus DeSade
Jesus DeSade was a millionare hedonist who believed in pursuing every sexual fantasy, no matter how perverted. He engaged in, among other things, drug dealing and zoophilia. DeSade was known for throwing wildly hedonistic parties for Hollywood's elite, where literally no fetish or sexual perversion was left unpursued.
During one such party, Jesse Custer and friends had crashed the party, looking for DeSade. Upon encountering DeSade, Custer ordered the millionaire to stay where he was while he found Cassidy. DeSade did not take Custer seriously, and tended to other affairs, primarily among which was an act of child pornography. Custer again found DeSade during this act, and beat DeSade savagely, promising DeSade that when he got out of jail, he would be waiting.
[edit] "The Duke"
"The Duke" can best be described as Jesse Custer's imaginary friend, appearing to him shortly after the death of his parents. Although he has the mannerisms and speech pattern of John Wayne, this character is most obviously a coping mechanism for Custer, as Wayne was still alive at the time "The Duke" first appeared to Jesse.
[edit] Genesis
The Genesis entity is the result of the mating of an angel and a demon. this mating was more than likely arranged by God himself, as the father explained to Jesse Custer, "Our minds were not our own." Immediately after Genesis' birth, God left Heaven, leaving the Seraphi angels in command. Soon after, Genesis escaped and bonded itself to Custer, leading the Adephi angels to appoint the Saint of Killers to retrieve it. Genesis was ultimately killed when Custer was assassinated at the Alamo.
The Genesis entity generally manifested itself as a crying infant before it bonded itself to Custer. It also possessed all the memories of Heaven and Hell, and gave Custer the power to command people to do whatever he ordered.
[edit] Jody
Jody is Ms. L'Angelle's most trusted enforcer. Jesse calls him "the leading expert on fucking people over before they can fuck him". He has a gift for machines and spent his teen years on the Llano, which gave him a deep knowledge of cattle. He has passed on both of these skills to Jesse. Massively muscled, he can send a man flying with one punch. He kills with no remorse; after shooting Jesse's father, he turned to the six-year old boy and called him a "fuckin' little crybaby".
Jody apparently believed that he was toughening Jesse up with his pattern of abuse. Shortly before their final fight, he expressed disappointment that Jesse's father (a Medal of Honor-winning Marine) had failed to give him a tough upbringing. After Jesse broke his back by stomping on his spine, Jody's last words were "prouda you, boy"
[edit] Conan Quincannon
Conan Quincannon is the younger brother of Odin Quincannon. A kind-hearted enviromentalist, he is the polar opposite of everything Odin was. He moved to Salvation, Tx. after the destruction of his brother's meat processing plant, and converted the plant to produce fertilizer from manure. He offered Arseface a job shoveling manure at the request of a smitten Lorrie Bobbs.
[edit] Hugo Root
Hugo Root is a fictional character in DC Comics title Preacher.
Root was introduced as the mean-hearted father of Arseface. Hugo is characterized as a stereotypical racist redneck, who refers to marauding “Martian Niggers” as the source of America's ills. He also readily believes most conspiracy theories about aliens and government.
Root is the sheriff of an un-named county in Texas. He used his job ( as well as his son ) as a means to take out his frustrations on how unhappy the state of his life turned out. Once his son shot himself, and in the process deformed his face, his wife soon left him, leaving behind a scathing "Dear John Letter," in which she berated both Root and their son.
The turning point in Root's life came after his first encounter with Jesse Custer, who used his "Word of God" power to order him and all deputies on the scene to drop their weapons. Shortly after, the Saint of Killers appeared also, and slaughtered nearly all his fellow deputies, but inexplicably spared Root. His account of what happened there was discounted by a federal investigator that was at the sheriff's office, and Hugo was dismissed for the day. Later on that night, he received a tip as to Custer's whereabouts and decided to pursue that lead independently. Unbeknownst to Root, his son stowed away in the back seat of his squad car.
Root committed suicide in front of his son and several paramedics on the scene after Jesse Custer used his power to order him to "fuck himself." Root ended up taking this order literally, inserting his penis in his anus, thus forcing him to sever his penis against his will. As a consequence of his death, his son vowed to hunt Custer in order to avenge his father and thus would from thereon be known as Arseface.
[edit] Martha Root
Martha Root is the wife of Hugo Root and the mother of Arseface.
Martha heavily abused prescription medication and alcohol to deal with her misery in her marriage, and attended church on a regular basis in attempts to deal with her dissatisfaction in her marriage to Hugo and life in general.
The final straw for Martha came after her son's suicide attempt, after the doctors refused to tell her anything about her son's condition. She threw away her drugs, poured her alcohol down the sink, and left her family behind for parts unknown, leaving behind a scathing Dear John Letter, in which she berated Hugo's alleged penis size, and calling her son an idiot.
It is not actually shown in the comics, but it would not be an unreasonable assumption to make that Martha was a frequent victim of domestic violence from Hugo.
[edit] T.C.
A stereotypical good ol' boy, T.C.'s primary interest is having sex with practically any creature or inanimate object he can get his hands on. He has been seen having intercourse with a chicken and has mentioned how much he loves sex with fish. In the one-shot "Preacher: Good Old Boys," T.C. also mentions that he has had intercourse with one or more of Jesse Custer's birthday cakes, and it is implied that he had intercourse with a German Shepherd.
T.C. is very violent, willing to kill anyone he is ordered to or anyone who gets in his way/annoys him.
Ms. L'Angelle instructed Jody to make sure that TC was kept away from Tulip O'Hare's newly-dead body. Custer beat him savagely, but Tulip was the one who ultimately killed him by way of his own shotgun.
