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Summary
Art the Clown is the main antagonist of the Terrifier franchise, serving as a minor antagonist in the short-film The 9th Circle, the main antagonist of the 2013 low-budget horror film All Hallows' Eve, along with the 2017 film Terrifier and its 2022 sequel Terrifier 2. He is a demonic killer clown with mime-like qualities who appears on Halloween nights to wreak havoc.
In All Hallows' Eve, he was portrayed by Mike Giannelli. He is later portrayed by David Howard Thornton in Terrifier 1, 2 and 3.
Note: Credit to Villains Wiki for this summary.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-C, higher with weaponry
Name: Art the Clown, The Miles County Clown, Maurice Jackson (fake identity)
Origin: Terrifier
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown (But according to Terrifier 3, he might have been around some generations back.)
Classification: Supernatural Serial Killer, Clown
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Stealth Mastery (Art the Clown is adept in stealth to a borderline supernatural extent. Possessing such stealth intuition to the degree that he makes little to no noise while in action, can go completely undetected in public areas, and sneak up on victims with ghostly silence until it is too late, sometimes even giving off the illusion of teleporting. Savagely murdered Steve without alerting Ramone, decapitating him and carving his head like a jack-o-lantern with a meat cleaver.[1] Art the Clown is easily able to evade capture from the police, with him going undetected by several passing police cars while standing in the middle of an alleyway,[2] and similarly went entirely unnoticed by passing officers while sneaking up on Dawn.[1] Was able to easily sneak up on Tara, sneaking up from behind despite Tara watching him move away from her moments beforehand.[1] Was able to follow Tara up a flight of stairs without making any noise in quick succession,[1] and similarly snuck up on Mike while on alert, making zero sound while climbing up stairs to catch him.[1] Scalped and skinned the cat lady alive without alerting anyone in the building, and then used her severed scalp to trick Victoria, making her think he was an injured victim.[1] Creeped up on Will, snuck up on him so efficiently that it seemed like he just suddenly appeared behind him.[1] Art managed to sneak up on Victoria, despite the area being dead silent and Victoria being on high alert after seeing several dead bodies.[1] Somehow went completely undetected in a public laundromat while covered in blood and naked.[2] Slipped inside a public school undetected.[2] Loudly broke into Allie's house, and mutilated her, without alerting any nearby neighbors, same thing with Allie's mother.[2] Snuck into Barbara's house and vandalized her car, covering it in shaving cream, toilet paper, and smashing a pumpkin on its hood, while making minimal sound.[2] Ambushed Jeff with a knife from the front, completely evading his vision somehow before stabbing him in the genitals.[2] Went completely unnoticed by Sienna while standing right in front of her.[2] All of this, despite being a large man wearing a black and white clown costume that is usually covered in blood)
- Overwhelmingly Frightful Presence (Art the Clown's presence and reputation is one that inspires fear. Terrified a man so much that he was reduced to a mumbling mess shortly after encountering him,[2] despite being completely desensitized due to being a coroner for twenty two years, experiencing such horrific things such as an eight month year old baby microwaved to death.[1] Completely traumatized Victoria, and even drove her insane[1] to the point she loved him.[2] Ever since the events of Terrifier, Art the Clown has garnered so much of a reputation that he has inspired people to dress like him.[2] Jonathan bringing him up at the dinner table was enough to make Sienna have a nightmare featuring him[2])
- Weapon Mastery (Art the Clown across his films has explicitly shown the ability to use weapons, both conventional and improvised, as effective murder tools to mutilate people)
- Demonic Protection (Is protected by a sinister entity that takes on the form of a little girl with the same clown get-up as Art. If Art the Clown dies, this mysterious entity will bring him back from the dead,[3] one way or another)
- Immortality (Type 2 - Survived after[1] shooting himself in the head,[1] remained alive after being stabbed in the head with a pole,[2] and even continued to live as a severed head.[2] Type 3 - See Regeneration for explanation. Type 8 - Is governed by a sinister entity that will resurrect him if he dies[3])
- Regeneration (Mid - Recovered after shooting himself through the head, albeit after an unknown amount of time)
- Fire Manipulation (In Terrifier 2, Art while in Sienna's dream, caused a candle to suddenly burst into abnormally large flames[2])
- Sleep Manipulation via sedatives
- Acid Manipulation via Fluoroantimonic Acid
- Resurrection
- Technology Manipulation (The sinister entity has shown to mess with technology. In Terrifier, while resurrecting Art the Clown, it caused the lights to rapidly flicker and started to make the phone and radio malfunction.[1] In Terrifier 2, upon appearing to Art the Clown, it shut off a washing machine.[2] Turned on a television despite having a broken electrical cord[2])
- Invisibility (Is naturally only visible to Art the Clown,[2] however, the pale girl can make itself visible[2] to other people if it chooses to[2])
- Shapeshifting (Turned into Barbara to emotionally mess with Sienna[2])
- Vocal Mimicry (Did a perfect imitation of John's voice to lure Sienna to Art the Clown's lair[2])
- Retrocognition (Gave Sienna a vision of Art the Clown murdering her mother[2])
- Regeneration (High-Low - Regenerated from mutilating her own face, including missing eyeballs[2])
- Reality Warping (Brought Sienna's nightmare into reality, creating a complete copy of it within the confines of Art the Clown's lair[2])
- Necromancy (While recreating Sienna's nightmare, it also brought the people Art the Clown killed in the dream back to life)
- Spatial Manipulation
- Glowing Eyes
- Biological Manipulation (Made Victoria give birth to Art the Clown's severed head[2])
Attack Potency: Street level (Sawed a woman almost in half vertically.[1] Crushed a man's skull in three stomps[1], skull crushing would be around 3000-3900 J worth of energy. Effortlessly overpowered a man with one hand,[1] shortly after being shot in the head.[1] Cracked open a man's skull with a tiny hammer before tearing it open with his bare hands.[2] Can decapitate[1] people[2] Stabbed a broken piece of a mop into a man's head.[2] Broke and tore off a woman's arm by the elbow before tearing the other arm in half horizontally,[2] which would at least be worth 375 Joules. Easily fragmented a car window.[2] Tore open a woman's ribcage.[2] Knocked a door off its hinges by smashing Sienna Shaw into it,[2] which would at minimum require 4583.660707 Joules), higher with weaponry (Carries around a garbage bag full of weapons, which include guns, flamethrowers, knives, saws, etc.)
Speed: Athletic Human physically (Traveled in quick succession across a room to chase Allie.[2] Is capable of attacking humans before they can react, such as here, where he began to choke a man before he can properly defend himself, even though they were looking straight at Art.[1] There are many other instances where Art attacks people before they can react, but those can be explained away with his stealth). Subsonic+ to Supersonic attack speed with guns (Has access to a[1] M1911 and a[2] sawn-off shotgun)
Lifting Strength: At least Peak Human (Frequently[1] overpowers[2] humans[2] easily.[2] Can toss and[2] drag around[2] humans like it is nothing.[2] Shoved a piece of a mop into a man's head.[2] Usually carries a garbage bag full of weapons)
Striking Strength: Street level
Durability: Street level (Shown very little damage from being shot by a sawn-off shotgun[2]). His Immortality and Regeneration make him harder to kill.
Stamina: Superhuman (Art the Clown, shortly after shooting himself in the head, through the brain, and seemingly dying,[1] got up and continued his killing spree, effortlessly overpowering a poor man before[1] beating him to death and tearing his head open.[2] Continued chasing Sienna and her brother after taking several hits from his own makeshift weapon, one of said hits stabbing into his head, embedded into his skull.[2] Further pursued them after being slashed up by blades on a cat o' nine tails, having a pole shoved down into his head, and being shot with a shotgun at close range.[2] Art the Clown was even able to survive as a severed head[2])
Range: Standard Melee Range physically; Extended Melee Range; with melee weapons; Tens of Meters with guns.
- Standard: Garbage Bag (A bag Art uses to carry his personal belongings. Mainly uses it to carry all his murder weapons. His lots and lots of murder weapons[1] that range from scalpels to guns), Sedatives
- Optional: Fluoroantimonic Acid
Intelligence: At least Average (Art the Clown, despite never once speaking throughout his movies, has proven to have some level of intellect. Mainly in his capability of stealth and creativity, which is uses to great effect in his evil, murderous ways. Is able to recognize and understand human languages like English.[1] Art the Clown can create his own weapons,[2] and specializes in melee weaponry, but is capable of using firearms)
Standard Tactics: Art the Clown is an excessively violent, cruel, sadistic and aggressive being with zero pity or mercy for others, no regard to any forms of life, even his own. This enables Art to be extremely brutal. Art the Clown is capable of using guns, and is willing to use them if his opponent gets the upper hand on him, but he prefers melee weapons, usually sharp ones like knives, scalpels, cleavers, etc. When approaching a potential victim, Art utilizes the element of surprise and his natural talent in stealth, creeping up on his target with ghostly silence. Art the Clown seems to enjoy attacking the head area, whether that be stabbing the face of a person until their skull caves in, or slowly saw their heads off with a meat saw. Art going for the head is a very common trend with his kills across all his films. Art the Clown is also not above torturing people, or deliberately making their deaths slow and painful, as the act of murder is essentially just a game to him, reveling in their mortal suffering.
Weaknesses: Art the Clown is mentally ill and is very clearly sadistic, usually taking pleasure from causing agony to his victim rather than killing them outright. However, once enraged, he goes for the kill immediately.
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Laughing Jack (Laughing Jack Stories) Laughing Jack's Profile (Standard Battle Assumptions were used. Starting distance: 10 m)
Losses:
Inconclusive:
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 Terrifier
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 Terrifier 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Terrifier 2 DVD
Discussions
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