History Characters / Hellraiser

** Confirmed in the comics, where the Marvel run ties him to Myth/AztecMythology, and the ongoing series has [[spoiler:him replaced by Kirsty Cotton and Harry Lamour.]]

* IronicHell: In life Captain Elliott Spencer sought an escape from his past pain and trauma during World War I by seeking out pleasures as a hedonist, leading him to find the Lament Configuration. Ultimately he was dragged down to the Labyrinth and converted into a Cenobite, making him both incapable of feeling anything or even remembering his past and the trauma in it.

* DarkChick: As the only original female Cenobite.

* IronicHell: In life Captain Elliott Spencer sought an escape from his past pain and trauma during World War I by seeking out pleasures as a hedonist, leading him to find the Lament Configuration. Ultimately he was dragged down to the Labyrinth and converted into a Cenobite, making him both incapable of feeling anything or even remembering the trauma of his past.

* IronicHell: In life Captain Elliott Spencer sought an escape from his past pain and trauma during World War I by seeking out pleasures as a hedonist, leading him to find the Lament Configuration. Ultimately he was dragged down to the Labyrinth and converted into a Cenobite, incapable of feeling anything or even remembering the trauma of his past.

* IronicHell: In life Captain Elliott Spencer sought an escape from his past pain and trauma during World War I by seeking out the pleasures of the Lament Configuration. Ultimately he was dragged down to the Labyrinth and converted into a Cenobite, incapable of feeling anything or remembering the trauma of his past.

-->'''Doug Bradley:''' "A line from one of Clive's plays swam into my mind: 'I am in mourning for my humanity'. At this point, there was no back story for the character, but I had discussed this with Clive and we had agreed that he had once been human. But whether this was yesterday, last week, last year, ten, a hundred, a thousand years ago, I didn't know. I didn't need to. Sufficient to have that idea lodged into my brain. A perpetual, unconscious grieving for the man he had once been, for a life and a face he couldn't even remember. And a frozen grief. I felt now that Pinhead existed in an emotional limbo where neither pain nor pleasure could touch him. A pretty good definition of Hell for me.]]"

[[caption-width-right:320:Come to Daddy...]]

[[caption-width-right:320:I'm no longer just the Wicked Stepmother. Now I'm the Evil Queen.]]

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to see him in [[spoiler:Larry]]'s skin]]

Main baddie of the series, a mysterious figure known as a Cenobite holding the rank of the Hell Priest. Pinhead is an ''extremely'' dry witted bringer of the ultimate pleasure, which just happens to take the form of horrific tortures. Formerly Captain Elliot Spencer of the British Expeditionary Force, his mind was shattered after participating in The Third Battle of Flanders (Battle of Passchendaele). Developing a severe case of PTSD and SurvivorGuilt, Spencer buried his grief by seeking out increasingly depraved carnal pleasures. His dark journey would eventually lead him to the Lament Configuration, and his transformation into Pinhead.

Character page for the ''Hellraiser'' franchise's original continuity.

** In the comics, Pinhead abandons his post in Hell, abdicating it to [[spoiler:Kirsty Cotton]], and pursues redemption. [[spoiler:It's a con, and even without the power of Hell at his fingertips, he's still the BigBad.]]
** He also serves as this in most films. However, [[GoodIsNotNice he is not exactly the nicest example of this trope.]]

* TheDragon: Leader of the Cenobites, but answers to [[GreaterScopeVillain Leviathan]].

Servants of Leviathan, bringers of pain and pleasure, explorers of the outer reaches of experience. Pinhead never appears alone. When he is summoned, he is accompanied by a revolving door of likewise mutilated Cenobites. It appears that three usually go with him. Later films portray him as their leader, or at least the head Cenobite in charge.

->Portrayed by: Creator/DougBradley (''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' to ''Film/HellraiserHellworld''), Stephan Smith Collins (''Film/HellraiserRevelations''), Paul T. Taylor ''(Film/HellraiserJudgement)'', Creator/JamieClayton ([[Film/Hellraiser2022 2022 reboot]])

[[folder:In General]]

* BigBad: Revered as the main antagonist of the franchise, though he mainly fulfills this role in the third and fourth films. In the others, he's [[GreaterScopeVillain a more distant problem]] if not outright [[ALighterShadeOfBlack helpful.]]

* EvilBrit: He was a British officer during the First World War. He lacks the accent as a Cenobite though, presumably due to his time in Hell.

* BadassBaritone: Deep voiced and leader of the Cenobites.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: She kills Frank in the second film for betraying her in the first film with the exact same phrase he used when he killed her.

* HellIsThatNoise: An ominous cue precedes their appearance on Earth, usually it's rattling chains or a short music box melody.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: A portion of the second movie is dedicated to her finding what she believes is to be her father after she sees a blood note. Unfortunately, it’s Frank and she doesn’t see Larry again. That said, in the original script, Larry would’ve showed up, but unfortunately Creator/AndrewRobinson didn’t return.]]

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: A portion of the second movie is dedicated to her finding what she believes is to be her father after she sees a blood note. Unfortunately, it’s Frank and she doesn’t see Larry again.]]

* CainAndAbel: He's the Cain to Larry's Abel. That said, they aren’t actually seen talking on-screen.

* SupernaturallyProofFather: [[spoiler: He’s unaware of what’s been happening and is the only one of the Cottons who isn’t aware of what’s happening in the house. This doesn’t save him from his tragic fate.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Kristy is tricked into opening the Lament Configuration again because she sees visions of her father trapped in Hell, this turns out to be a ruse by Frank to trick her into freeing him. Larry is never seen or heard from again. In the book, Kristy sees the image of Frank and Julia trapped inside the puzzle box, but no trace of Larry, and wonders if Larry might have departed to a better place that could be glimpsed with some other puzzle.
** In the original script Pinhead says that he is "he's in his own Hell, child. And quite unreachable." Later it is revealed that Larry is indeed in Hell, permanently stitched into the back of Frank, the brothers are inseparable for eternity. Larry also saves Kristy from a rape attempt by Frank.

* ClingyJealousGuy: [[spoiler: Threatens Julia on more than one occasion and tells her she needs to love him more than Larry. It’s actually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when he backstabs her.]]

* CainAndAbel: He's the Cain to Larry's Abel.

* DaddysGirl: She loves her father very much

* GoodParents: He clearly loves Kristy and cares a lot for her well-being.