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The list of Ax-Crazy cannibals and their victims throughout the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. Due to the many reboots and alternate continuities, characters are simply listed by the films where they debuted.

For characters from the 2023 video game adaptation, see here.


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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    The Sawyer Family 

Jedidiah "Leatherface" Sawyer

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Portrayed By: Gunnar Hansen, Bill Johnson, R.A. Mihailoff, Robert Jacks, Dan Yeager, Sam Strike, Boris Kabakchiev (as Child Leatherface), Mark Burnham

A chainsaw-wielding, mask-wearing, mentally-challenged man who assists his psychotic family in slaughtering humans. He is the only character to appear in every film of the franchise.


  • Acrofatic: Most films present him as being on the heavier side and can move quite fast, especially with the fact that he's carrying a chainsaw most of the time.
  • Adaptation Personality Change: He's a frequent victim of this throughout the series. Depending on the Writer, he can be a Token Good Teammate who genuinely doesn't comprehand human interaction outside of his deranged family, or he can be an outright Sadist who actively enjoys making his victims suffer. Or somewhere in between. Leatherface in particular completely rewrites the character as we know it for the sake of its reveal.
  • Alter-Ego Acting: In the first film, Leatherface has three different masks and outfits he wears during the runtime. He wears a chef's outfit with a grotesque man's face when he's chasing the protagonists, a maid's apron and face while he's tending to the house and greeting his family and a make-up adorned woman's face and dinner suit for the dinner scene. According to Word of God, this is because he had no core personality and needed his various guises to express himself, a trait that seems to have been abandoned in the various sequels.
  • Anti-Villain: A definitive Woobie Anti-Villain, as most films have him acting out of fear of his own family and their cannibalism habits being discovered by outsiders.
  • Ax-Crazy: A cannibal who has a fondness for chainsaws and stitching masks out of people's faces. Although he has sort of a Freudian Excuse for his psychotic behavior.
  • Badass Normal: Compared to other slashers such as Michael, Jason (the undead version of Jason especially) and Freddy, Leatherface is just a big burly dude with a capacity for violence. Oh, and also a chainsaw that can easily cut through people. Conversely, taking a wrench to the face is a pretty big blow for him, and without his chainsaw he can be beaten up by a sufficiently vicious Rabid Cop, and can't handle an angry mob like Myers can. He also loses a chainsaw duel with Sheriff Lefty, but given that Lefty is as much a force of nature as he is that's not much of a knock against him.
  • The Berserker: Unlike his slasher counterparts such as Jason and Michael he mostly just charges in wildly in a psychotic frenzy.
  • Big Bad: Despite being the face of the franchise, being the only character to be in every film, Leatherface almost never plays this straight, as he is often the Dumb Muscle to the rest of his family.
    • Played with in 3D, where he appears to be the sole antagonist, but is actually a Villain Protagonist.
    • Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) is the only film to play this completely straight, as he serves as the sole antagonist whose blood-soaked rampage drives the plot of the movie.
  • Break the Cutie: Leatherface reveals that he was a genuine Nice Guy and as a child was terrified at the prospect of killing like his family did. After witnessing at least two of their murders as a child, sent to a institution into his teens, was taken hostage by two escapees, witnessing the violence they commit, watching his great friend get shot by police, getting shot through the cheek by a cop, being gaslighted by his mother who brow beats him into killing his other friend, the guy breaks into the Leatherface we all know.
  • Breakout Villain: Leatherface is the mascot of the series.
  • The Brute: He serves this role in his family.
  • Chainsaw Good: He iconically uses a chainsaw to kill people. Going through quite a bit in the series through different movies, from somewhat normal ones to even a golden chainsaw in Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. Possibly the Trope Maker.
  • Character Death: Accidentally blown up with a grenade by Drayton in the second film and gets his head bashed in the original cut of the third film.
  • Child by Rape: His father is also his grandfather in III.
  • Cool Mask: Never seen without one of his trademark masks. While he goes through a lot of them, they are obviously easily identifiable due to being made out of human faces.
  • Creepy Crossdresser: More than a few of his outfits are of him wearing female faces and accompanying clothing. His infamous dress in The Next Generation has him even wear fake boobs to complete the look.
  • Creepy Souvenir: His masks can be interpreted as this, as they are the remains of his past victims.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Leatherface becomes this in Texas Chainsaw 3D as he is by that point, simply protecting the Sawyer household after the rest of the Sawyer clan (with the exception of Heather) ends up being killed and later becomes Heather’s protector after she learns of her lineage.
  • Deadpan Snarker: In Leatherface, he was quite witty as a teenager.
  • Determinator: Wouldn't be a slasher villain without this trait. The most extreme case is in the second film, where he takes a chainsaw to the gut and continues fighting Lefty.
  • The Dragon: Takes up this role in a majority of his appearances
  • Dumb Muscle: He is mentally handicapped, possibly due to inbreeding. The prequel reveals he was relatively normal mentally as a kid, only to suffer Sanity Slippage on account of his mother's manipulations and a number of traumatic experiences.
  • The Faceless: He is almost never seen without his mask.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: He is mistreated by his family and in 3D, they are willing to sacrifice him to save themselves because he is mentally handicapped.
  • The Heavy: He almost never serves as the Big Bad of his films, but is always the biggest individual threat that each films protagonists have to escape from.
  • Hooks and Crooks: Alongside his chainsaws and hammers. Meat hooks are another part of his arsenal. Either carried by hand or suspended.
  • Humongous-Headed Hammer: Has a thing for hammers or mallets when not using chainsaws. He even kills most of his victims with hammers in the first film.
  • I Have Many Names: He has yet to stick to a name outside of Leatherface. Barring the remake completely changing the Sawyers into the Hewitts, he has been referred to as Bubba, Junior and Jedidiah (and the alias Jackson) across the different films.
  • I Was Quite the Looker: As Leatherface shows, he was quite handsome as a teenager due to being played by Sam Strike. A bullet to the face undoes that quickly.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Is impaled by a chainsaw in the second film, although he is actually killed by Drayton's dropped grenade.
  • Mad Artist: His creation of masks from victims could be interpreted as this.
  • Made of Iron: Less so than most Slashers, as Leatherface is just a giant hillbilly with a chainsaw. Still, he tends to take horrible wounds and walk them off such as a chainsaw to the leg and keep fighting with one planted in his stomach.. Subverted in that he usually carries wounds from these encounters and actually dies in some continuties.
    • Played completely straight in the 2022 film however, as he survives multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings, slashings and drownings without any hindrance to his rampage.
  • Malevolent Masked Men: He always wears masks made from human faces.
  • Mental Handicap, Moral Deficiency: A mentally challenged cannibal slasher.
  • Obliviously Evil: He only seems to commit acts of evil at the behest of his abusive family.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Despite his brutal nature, he is incredibly submissive to his family and is easily fooled. This is highlighted in the third film, where he uses a Speak 'N Spell-like device.
  • Retired Monster: According to the 2022 film; after the original massacre, Leatherface retires from his killing spree to tend to his mother at the orphanage. Only after her passing does he take up the chainsaw again.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Avenging his mothers death serves as his motivation in the 2022 film.
  • Split Personality: According to Tobe Hooper and Gunnar Hansen, the original purpose of Leatherface's masks was to serve as a means of expressing himself depending on his mood, as he had no core personality. This can be observed in how he wears an old lady's face when greeting his family and wears a dinner suit at the table. Later films seem to drop this aspect and have him just wear one mask at all times.
  • Token Good Teammate: Downplayed. He's by no means "good", but he's generally depicted as the least malevolent and sadistic of the family, as well as the most sympathetic. Leatherface shows he played this much straighter in the past, having been the only Sawyer to be horrified at their murders and a genuine Nice Guy before a massive Trauma Conga Line left him Driven to Madness.
  • The Unintelligible: On the rare occasions he speaks, it's gibberish that only Drayton can understand.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The prequel Leatherface shows, as a child he was quite naive and afraid of his family's antics, tearfully refusing to kill someone at his families behest on his birthday. As a teenager, he was a friendly, witty, and chivalrous and during a conversation with his friend Lizzy, laments that he couldn't have had a normal life.
  • Villainous Breakdown: His infamous one at the end of the first film, waving his chainsaw and dancing like a Sore Loser.
  • Villainous Crush: Has one towards Stretch in the second film.
  • The Voiceless: He makes noises, but he never actually speaks. In the first film, he seems to communicate in gibberish when Drayton scolds him for damaging the door.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: While how much of a Woobie he is depends on the film, he slips into this full-force in Leatherface as he Used to Be a Sweet Kid until he was condemned into an mental facility and the inmate outbreak ends with his best friend dead, his face mutilated with a bullet, and having to kill the nurse taking care of him at his family's behest.

Drayton Sawyer/"The Cook"

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"I could never take no pleasure in killing.."
Portrayed By: Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley, Dimo Alexiev,
"The saw is family."

The eldest brother and de facto patriarch of the Sawyer clan. In Texas Chainsaw 3D, he is the father of Nubbins and Leatherface instead.


  • Ass Shove: He gets a case of this in the second film, with Lefty shoving a running chainsaw up his butt. It leaves him in agony, but on the bright side, at least it took care of his hemorrhoids!
  • Big Brother Bully: He is quite a bit older than Leatherface, Nubbins, and Chop Top and bullies them around. In Texas Chainsaw 3D, he swaps this for Abusive Parents.
  • Big Bad: He is the primary villain of the first two films, as he is the oldest of the family and bosses the others around. The only relative not subservient to him is Grandpa, who is too old, feeble, and senile to act as this. Also a borderline Non-Action Big Bad, as Leatherface, Nubbins, and Chop Top are the killers of the family while Drayton simply cooks. The only time he gets his hands dirty is when he captures Sally.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In the first film, he is initially presented as a fairly friendly guy when meeting the five youths but when Sally escapes Leatherface, it is soon revealed that he is part of the Sawyer family.
  • Child by Rape: He's one of these in the third film's continuity.
  • Creepy Gas-Station Attendant: He runs the Last Chance Gas Station. Encountered early on by the protagonists, he appears normal enough, but when Sally goes to him seeking aid after her friends are killed, he is revealed to be the head of Leatherface's family and captures the girl to take home for dinner.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Due to being the most sane of the original Sawyer family members, he gets a couple of digs in with sarcasm.
  • Driven to Suicide: In the sequel, he blows himself up with a grenade. Doubles as a Taking You with Me, intentional or not.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted. He is perfectly okay with killing and eating people, seeing it as a necessary evil to survive, but he claims he disapproves of taking pleasure in it. This is shown in the first movie, when the torture of Sally by Leatherface and the Hitchhiker starts to get to him and he screams at them to stop it and put the “poor girl” out of her misery. However, his actions also show that he does take some joy in the torment of the victims.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He's thinks killing and cooking people is so normal that he can't even comprehend that a loved one of one of his victims might show up one day looking for revenge. When Sheriff Lefty shows up to massacre him and his family, he just assumes Lefty was sent by another meat distributor to bump off the competition.
  • Evil Chef: He does all of the family's cooking, and is talented enough to win an award for his chili.
  • Evil Is Hammy: He's fairly flamboyant in his villainy.
  • Faux Affably Evil: After tying up Sally and stuffing her in a sack in the first film, he calmly reassures her that there's no need to worry and she won't be harmed, all while sadistically poking at her with a stick.
  • Hypocrite: He claims he doesn't approve of taking pleasure in killing, which is why he only does the cooking and refuses to kill anyone himself. Despite this, he is clearly getting sadistic joy out of Sally's torment, poking her with a stick and laughing at her misery during the dinner scene.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: He continues his family's tradition of cannibalism, but he takes it to a disturbing new level by causing members of the public to unwittingly engage in cannibalism as well. His gas station in the original film sells barbecue and he participates in a chili cook-off in the sequel.
  • Mood-Swinger: Vacillates between Pragmatic Villainy and vicious, sometimes petty sadism.
  • Murder by Mistake: He accidentally takes Leatherface and Grandpa with him when he blows himself up.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Played with in that while his real name is revealed in the second film, he is only credited as "The Cook" in the first two films.
  • Only Sane Man: While he's still a cannibal like the rest of his family, he plays this role next to Leatherface, Nubbins, and Chop Top as he doesn't have many eccentricities.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Reams Nubbins out for exhuming the graveyard, as such acts attract negative attention. More ambiguously, he dissuades the Hardestys and their friends from encroaching upon locales later revealed to be Leatherface's haunts, instead suggesting that they remain with him at the gas station for a few hours — ostensibly to await refuelling, but possibly to die more reliably.
  • Related Differently in the Adaptation: His relation to the family changes depending on the continuity. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 identifies him as Leatherface's older brother, while Texas Chainsaw 3D identifies him as his father.
  • The Renfield: His grandfather is not technically a vampire, but Drayton ensures that he receives human blood like one.
  • Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: He is executed offscreen in the opening of Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. He's killed in the opening of Texas Chainsaw 3D by the mob hunting for the Sawyers after being the Big Bad of the first film.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: In the second film, he is more openly sadistic and doesn't even try to hide it.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: He maintains an affable public persona and achieves a mild level of notability by winning a state chili competition two years in a row in the first sequel.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Is not seen or referenced at all in the 2022 film. Considering his age and the time gap between the original and sequel it's likely he died of old age between films.

Grandpa Sawyer

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Portrayed By: John Dugan, Ken Evert, Grayson Victor Schirmacher, Eduard Parsehyan

The patriarch of the Sawyer family who is aged beyond human standards.


  • Abusive Parents: He forced his sons, one of whom being developmentally disabled, to help him kill and butcher people well into their prime. And that's not even getting into his daughter in the third film.
  • Age Without Youth: When Sally first sees him, she mistakes him for a corpse.
  • Bald of Evil: He sports a skullet and is one mean SOB. He also appears to lack eyebrows.
  • Blood Lust: He drinks blood to stay alive.
  • Bludgeoned to Death: The Sawyer brothers hand him a hammer to kill the Final Girl in the original and 2, but Grandpa can't seem to hold onto it long enough to do so. We finally get to see him kill someone with it in Leatherface.
  • Character Death: Accidentally blown up with a grenade by Drayton in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. He is shot by the mob in the opening sequence of Texas Chainsaw 3D.
  • Dark Lord on Life Support: He is only able to cling to life by drinking human blood.
  • Evil Cripple: He can hardly move on his own.
  • Evil Old Folks: He is well over 100 (137 at the time of the second film) and is evil. In fact, he's so old that he's initially mistaken for a rotting corpse.
  • Freudian Excuse: According to flashbacks, he was once a slaughterhouse worker. When he was made redundant by machinery and lost his job, the family was forced to resort to hunting and killing other humans to avoid starving.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: In the sense that he introduced his family to their cannibalistic ways.
  • Groin Attack: In the III continuity, his daughter castrated him to stop him from raping her.
  • Killed Offscreen: Dies of old age in between the first and third films.
  • Mummies at the Dinner Table: His family preserves his corpse, treating it as if it were still alive, after his death in the third film.
  • No Name Given: We never learn Grandpa's first name.
  • Posthumous Character: In the third film, where he is just a corpse.
  • Predecessor Villain: In the past, he is stated to have been "the ultimate killer," though he has long since passed the torch onto his grandsons.
  • Villainous Incest: In the third film's continuity, he raped his daughter Anne numerous times, fathering all six of her sons, until she sterilized herself and then castrated him to stop the abuse.
  • The Voiceless: He never says a word in most of the movies. Possibly justified by his advanced age and senile state rendering him incapable of speaking. He apparently was much more of a talker when he was younger, as he is shown speaking in Leatherface.

Nubbins Sawyer/"The Hitchhiker"

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Portrayed By: Edwin Neal, Dejan Angelov, Hristo Milev (as Child Nubbins)

Better known as "The Hitchhiker," he is one of the Sawyer brothers. Has a twin brother named Chop Top in the second film.


  • A Real Man Is a Killer: Has shades of this type of thinking, as he calls other people "weak" for not being a murderous sadist like him.
  • Asshole Victim: He ends up being hit by a truck near the end, though it's hard to feel any sympathy for him, considering he was a serial killer, cannibal, grave-robber and sadistic bully with no redeeming qualities.
  • Ax-Crazy: He is schizophrenic and acts violently as a result.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: The reason he got a job at the slaughterhouse in the first was to inflict his sadistic desires onto the animals there, most notably using a sledgehammer to kill cows with (though he claims it's because it's supposedly more effective that way, the real reason why is too obvious).
  • Card-Carrying Villain: Implied, as he seems to enjoy the evil things he does and is completely unrepentant.
  • Character Death: Hit and ran over by a truck.
  • Co-Dragons: He and Chop Top fill this role in the Sawyer family.
  • Evil Twin: He and Chop Top are twins, though both of them are evil.
  • Formerly Fat: Leatherface depicts him as being on the hefty side as a child.
  • Hate Sink: Unlike Leatherface and Drayton, who only kill for food and survival, Nubbins is just a sadistic bastard who revels in the suffering of his victims.
  • Hostile Hitchhiker: He menaces the protagonists of the original film after they pick him up by behaving erratically, even cutting himself with a razor.
  • Inbred and Evil: In the third film's continuity, Grandpa is also his father.
  • Jerkass: Exceptionally so. His taunting of Sally in the first film is extremely mean-spirited and cruel, mocking her cries of desperation.
  • Kick the Dog: Nubbins' habit of Grave Robbing has absolutely nothing to do with his family's eating habits. He's just cruel like that. In fact, Drayton calls him out on the whole thing being stupid and pointless.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: While he doesn't have the mind of a child like his brother, Leatherface, his behavior is still noticeably child-like, with his taunting of Sally being similar to that of how a school-yard bully behaves.
  • Macho Masochism: Slices his palm with a razor for no real reason.
  • Mad Artist: Heavily implied to be the one responsible for the bizarre bone sculptures in the family home, given that he is the one who raided the graveyard at the beginning.
  • More Despicable Minion: He, along with Drayton and Leatherface are technically henchmen for Grandpa, though unlike Drayton and leatherface, who are both Punch-Clock Villains in a way, seeing their killings as a means of survival, Nubbins contrasts them both by being a bonafide sadist who enjoys every bit killing, torturing and tormenting his victims. He is also the only member of the family to be killed off in the first first, fittingly so.
  • Mummies at the Dinner Table: Following his death in the first film, his family members turn him into a puppet in the second.
  • No Social Skills: When he is picked up by the protagonists in their van, he thinks it is perfectly normal to show them photos of animals he has killed, cut himself in-front of said protagonists for no reason, attempting to start a fire, again, for no reason, and then cutting one of the protagonists' arms without any provocation. Predictably, this gets him kicked out from the van.
  • Obviously Evil: To the point where Franklin is able to accurately tell that Nubbins comes from a family of "draculas" based on his appearance alone, before the others pick him up.
  • Oh, Crap!: His reaction when a truck is about to hit him.
  • Posthumous Character: In the second film, where his corpse is carried around by his family members.
  • Red Right Hand: He has a prominent birthmark on his face.
  • Sadist: What contrasts him with the rest of his family is that he kills and tortures people for his own amusement, rather than for survival reasons, which is something the other family members, most notably Drayton, call him out for doing.
  • The Sociopath: His villainy has nothing to do with his mental issues, Nubbins is just an evil human being who loves doing evil things For the Evulz.
  • Stupid Evil: His main flaw is his impulsiveness, such as attacking people for no reason and sharing disturbing things with people, that would normally get anyone in real life imprisoned. He also doesn't bother to look both ways when crossing a road.
  • Token Evil Teammate: The Sawyer family are not good to begin with, but they at-least see killing people as a means of survival and for feeding themselves, rather than out of sadism. Nubbins sticks out like a sore thumb, however, for being a blatant psychopath and a sadist, to the point that gets criticized by even members of his own family for his vile personality.
  • Too Dumb to Live: He tries to attack Sally while on a busy road, which causes him to get killed by an on-coming trunk.
  • Virtue Is Weakness: He makes fun of and belittles Drayton for his refusal to kill people or take any pleasure in it, during the dinner table scene.

    Other Characters 

Sally Hardesty

Portrayed By: Marilyn Burns, Olwen Fouere
Protagonist of the first film. She encounters the Sawyers when she and her friends investigate the possible robbing of their grandfather's grave. In the second film, she is the niece of Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright and has the last name Hardest-Enright.
  • Angst Coma: The second film reveals that she "sank into catatonia" after the events of the original film.
  • Butt-Monkey: She gets kidnapped, hit on the head with a hammer, cut with razor and has to endure all sorts of mental torture thanks to the Sawyer family.
  • Final Girl: Of the original film.
  • The Generic Girl: Sally doesn't have much of a personality.
  • Hysterical Woman: At the end of movie, after escaping Leatherface, she begins to laugh hysterically.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Is killed by Leatherface this way in the 2022 film. Surprisingly she survives for several minutes after this attack and is even able to fire a few shots off at Leatherface before bleeding out.
  • Laughing Mad: After escaping from Leatherface, probably as a mixture of utter mental breakdown and relief.
    • This carries over to Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), where the trauma of the original movie has clearly done a number on her and results in her making a lot of irrational decisions.
  • Not Quite Dead: Despite being thoroughly impaled by Leatherface's running chainsaw, she lives for a few more minutes despite what should have realistically been an instantly fatal attack.
  • Screaming Woman: Sally spends the the final third of the film screaming her head off.
  • Slashers Prefer Blondes: Averted. Sally is a blonde and the sole survivor of the film.
  • Sole Survivor: Sally is the only person to escape Leatherface alive in the first film.
  • Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: She is mentioned to have died in the third film's opening narration.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Taking a page out of Laurie Strode's book, the elderly Sally of the 2022 movie has become a well-armed Texas ranger determined to hunt down Leatherface 50 years later.

Franklin Hardesty

Portrayed By: Paul A. Partain
Sally's wheelchair bound brother. They and their friends set out to see if a family plot was tampered after a series of grave robbings. He is killed and his death motivates his uncle to hunt the Sawyers in the second movie. In the second film, he is Lefty's nephew.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Franklin doesn't do much other than complain a lot but it's clear that he and Sally certainly care for each other.
  • Blowing a Raspberry: Franklin does it many times to the other kids upstairs while he's stuck on the first floor.
  • Bury Your Disabled: Is the only person killed by a chainsaw in the original movie.
  • Butt-Monkey: Poor Franklin just can’t catch a break, besides being in a wheelchair he also rolls down a hill while trying to pee, then he gets his arm sliced by the hitchhiker’s straight razor, then he is taunted by his friends about the hitchhiker coming to get him, he also gets stuck while trying to move around the house and finally he is sliced and diced while stuck in his chair and becomes the only person killed by Chainsaw in the movie.
  • Hidden Depths: He assumes that Nubbins the Hitchhiker came from a family of cannibals and worked at a slaughterhouse based on his appearance alone. He ends up being right.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, he's a whiny prick who annoys most people around him and has a bit of a macabre personality. But he genuinely does care for his sister.
  • The Load: Given he's in a wheelchair, there's not much he can do to help out.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

    The Sawyer Family 

Robert Paul "Chop Top" Sawyer

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"Lick my plate, you dog dick!"
Portrayed By: Bill Moseley

One of the Sawyer brothers and a Vietnam veteran with a plate in his head who appears in the sequel.


  • Autocannibalism: He has a habit of picking at his metal plate with a heated wire hanger and eating the dead skin he burns off.
  • Ax-Crazy: He is mentally unstable and is psychotically violent.
  • Bald of Evil: Underneath his wig, at least. Barring the metal plate.
  • Bludgeoned to Death: When Leatherface knocks L.G. to the ground in the radio station, Choptop starts wailing on his head with a hammer to knock him out.
  • Body Horror: He scratches at his head wound so much that his steel plate is exposed to open air.
  • Character Tics: Scratching his plate with a heated wire hanger.
  • Co-Dragons: He and Nubbins fill this role in the Sawyer family.
  • Deadpan Snarker: It's rare, but it's certainly there. Just listen to his Drayton impersonation.
  • Disney Villain Death: Falls to his death from an amusement park ride.
  • Dodgy Toupee: He wears an obviously fake Sonny Bono wig.
  • Dragon Ascendant: After the rest of his family gets blown up, Chop Top tries to avenge their deaths.
  • Evil Twin: He and Nubbins are twins, though both of them are evil.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He presents himself as this to Stretch in the radio station, although his antics end up with her weirded out instead. He more or less drops the act completely after, but still remains Laughably Evil.
  • Gutted Like a Fish: Slashed open with a chainsaw by Stretch.
  • Laughably Evil: Most of his habits and dialogue is Played for Laughs.
  • Macho Masochism: Randomly cuts his neck to intimidate Stretch towards the end of the movie.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is never revealed onscreen.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Refers to the Vietcong soldier who gave him his infamous head wound as a "lucky gook."
  • Red Right Hand: He has a prominent birthmark on his cheek and an exposed metal plate in his head.
  • Remember the New Guy?: He did not appear in the original film because he was serving in Vietnam at the time.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: It's likely that his mental state was not improved by the horrors of the Vietnam War.
  • Sociopathic Soldier: He was one of these in Vietnam prior to his appearance in the sequel.
  • The Vietnam Vet: He served in the Vietnam War, and suffered a head wound that required a steel plate. Chop Top often remarks about Ho Chi Minh and napalm, and also talks about having flashbacks from the war.

    Other Characters 

Vanita "Stretch" Brock

Portrayed By: Caroline Williams

Protagonist of the second film. A radio DJ who unwittingly becomes the target of the Sawyer family when her station played a live recording of one of Leatherface's murders. Leatherface falls for her and refuses to kill her. She ends up being captured by the Sawyers and is eventually rescued by Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright.


Lieutenant Boude "Lefty" Enright

Portrayed By: Dennis Hopper
Sally and Franklin's uncle, who set out to find the Sawyer family. He is the main male protagonist of the second movie and is known for going up against Leatherface in a chainsaw duel.
  • All There in the Manual: His first name is only mentioned in the script.
  • Badass Boast: "I'm the lord of the harvest!"
  • Character Death: Killed by Drayton's grenade after taking care of Leatherface.
  • The Hero: He's the main protagonist of the second film, as his pursuit of the Sawyers is what drives the plot.
  • It's Personal: He's after the Sawyers for the death of Franklin and the torture of Sally.
  • Large Ham: Being played by Dennis Hopper, this was inevitable. Especially prominent when he starts mowing down support beams in the Sawyer's lair.
  • Religious Bruiser: Prays to God and makes biblical allusions at several occasions.

L.G. McPeters

Portrayed By: Lou Perryman
Manager of the radio station Stretch works at. Like Stretch, he becomes an unwitting target of the Sawyer clan.
  • Body Horror: Gets most of his skin peeled off by Leatherface and remains alive for a good amount of time afterwards.
  • Butt-Monkey: Goes through a horrendous amount of crap courtesy of the Sawyers. Even before then, he's on the receiving end of several rejections and remarks from Stretch.
  • Character Death: Gets bashed by Chop Top's hammer and has most of his skin stripped off by Leatherface. He remains alive for a short time afterwards before succumbing to his wounds.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rather crass and abrasive, but he cares about Stetch and is a good guy deep down. He even describes himself as a "semi-hardass" with a soft heart.
  • Not Quite Dead: He appears to be dead after his encounter with the Sawyers, yet he still survives having his face carved off for a while before eventually bleeding to death.

Rick the Prick and Buzz

Two obnoxious yuppies who harass Stretch on her radio show while causing havoc in Texas. They end up being murdered on air by Leatherface and kick off the film's plot.
  • Asshole Victim: They almost come across as a parody, given they are so obnoxious in what little time they have that their deaths come across as a blessing.
  • Bit Character: They barely exist before getting chainsawed by Leatherface.
  • Jerkass: They shoot up road signs and harass Stretch on her show, in addition to swearing profusely at Leatherface and Chop Top even before they attack them.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Their real names are not revealed.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: They get murdered very quickly, but their deaths prompts Stretch and Lefty to investigate the Sawyer clan.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Have barely any screen time before Leatherface kills them.

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

    The Sawyer Family 

Edward "Tex" Sawyer

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Portrayed By: Viggo Mortensen

The head of the Sawyer clan after the Cook's death.


  • Ambiguously Gay: He wears a women's apron and paints his fingernails, implying that he may be homosexual. According to Viggo Mortensen, he portrayed Tex as being homosexual.
  • Berserk Button: Calling him by his real name.
  • Big Bad: He fills this role in III, being the most active and prominent member of the Sawyer family for that film.
  • Child by Rape: His father is also his grandfather.
  • Cowboy: He dresses like a cowboy and calls himself Tex.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Hates being called by his real name, Eddie.
  • Evil Chef: He does some of the family's cannibalistic cooking.
  • Gay Cowboy: Dresses like a cowboy and his actor played him as gay.
  • Hostile Hitchhiker: He hitchhikes in order to find victims.
  • Man on Fire: Burned to death when Benny sets him on fire.
  • Not Quite Dead: In the original cut of the third movie, he survives being set alight by Benny and shows up to attack Michelle in the swamp, before being impaled by a spike trap.

Tech "Tinker" Sawyer

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Portrayed By: Joe Unger

A member of the Sawyer family who builds devices for slaughtering people.


Alfredo Sawyer

Portrayed By: Tom Everett

Yet another one of Leatherface's brothers. He runs the Last Chance gas station.


  • Ax-Crazy: Openly violent and psychotic and stands in stark contrast with the rest of his more relatively subdued family members.
  • Big Brother Bully: Refers to Leatherface as "Stupid-fuck face". Yeah, not exactly brother of the year.
  • Child by Rape: His father is also his grandfather.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: He spends a lot of his screen time rambling to himself and generally being weird.
  • Creepy Gas-Station Attendant: Alfredo Sawyer runs the Last Chance gas station and is quite deranged, making perverse comments towards Michelle and being openly violent.
  • Dragon Their Feet: Reappears at the end for one last confrontation with the heroes long after the rest of his family has been defeated.
  • I Love the Dead: Kisses the severed head of one of Leatherface's victims before disposing of it in the swamp.
  • Mad Eye: One of his eyes is cloudy which emphasizes his derangement.
  • Motor Mouth: Alfredo talks very fast, to the point it's hard to make out what he's saying a lot of the time.
  • Not Quite Dead: Survives sinking into the swamp and shows up for one last confrontation at the end of the movie.
  • The Peeping Tom: Spies on Michelle while shes using the gas station bathroom.
  • Swamps Are Evil: His job is to dump bodies in a swamp.
  • Tempting Fate: "What are the chances a brainless bitch like you knows how to use that thing ?" Not something you ask a woman with a shotgun.

Anne Sawyer

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Portrayed By: Miriam Byrd Nethery

The matriarch of the Sawyer clan.


  • Evil Cripple: Anne is wheelchair-bound and uses an electronic voice box.
  • Evil Matriarch: She is the mother/half-sister of the six Sawyer boys.
  • Evil Old Folks: She is a violent cannibal despite being pretty old.
  • Freudian Excuse: Being raised by a cannibalistic serial killer who taught her to follow in his steps and repeatedly raped her. While this doesn't excuse her actions, it certainly explains why she is so screwed up.
  • Groin Attack: She sterilized herself and then castrated her father.
  • Multiple Gunshot Death: Shot several times with an assault rifle by Benny.
  • Parental Incest: She was subjected to sexual abuse by her father, who impregnated her six times.
  • Rape as Backstory: She was repeatedly raped by her father.

Babi Sawyer

Portrayed By: Jennifer Banko

Leatherface's daughter.


    Other Characters 

Michelle

Portrayed by: Kate Hodge
A young woman who gets captured by the Sawyers while on a trip with her boyfriend across Texas. She teams up with a survivalist named Benny to escape them.
  • Action Girl: Probably the most active female protagonist in original series. She stabs Tex, hits Leatherface in the head with a rock and blasts Alfredo with shotgun after he calls her a "brainless bitch."
  • Final Girl: Michelle become this at the end of her movie, alongside fellow survivor Benny.
  • Impaled Palm: Tex nails her to a chair during the dinner sequence by her hands. Presumably the family learned from what happened in the first film.
  • Laughing Mad: In the original ending when the police car that comes to get her turns out to be driven by the Sawyers.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Michelle starts the film being passive and unwilling to even mercy kill an animal she ran over, to taking on the Sawyer clan and defeating Leatherface in a one on one fight.

Benny

Portrayed By: Ken Foree

A survivalist in the third movie who meets up with the Final Girl and helps protect her from the Sawyer family.


Sara

Portrayed By: Toni Hudson
A woman who has been hiding in a bog near the Sawyers' hideout for a week, since they killed her sister and took her only means of transportation.
  • Laughing Mad: After a week of living in constant fear of a brutal death, Sara occasionally breaks out giggling at odd points.
  • Mysterious Watcher: She has a few scenes watching either Leatherface or his potential victims, then running off before her backstory is revealed.
  • Sanity Slippage: The torment from the Sawyers has done some damage to her mental wellbeing.
  • Unkempt Beauty: Sara has spent a week hiding in a swamp, and her appearance reflects it, but she's still fairly pretty.
  • We Need a Distraction: When Sara sees Leatherface overpowering Benny, she yells to get him to chase her (which he unsuccessfully does), buying Benny time to escape.

The Next Generation

    The Slaughter Family 

Vilmer Slaughter

Portrayed By: Matthew McConaughey

The head of the Sawyer family in The Next Generation. He is part of an Illuminati conspiracy to spread fear.


  • Artificial Limbs: Has a fake leg due to begin run over several times in his life.
  • Ax-Crazy: Easily the most deranged out of all the family, and unfortunately is also their new leader.
  • Big Bad: Of The Next Generation.
  • Car Fu: Uses this at one point.
  • Domestic Abuser: Directs this towards his wife, Darla, as well as the rest of his family. It is implied that Darla is a victim with Stockholm Syndrome.
  • Self-Harm: He cuts into his own chest and arms with a knife to terrify Jenny.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: To Leatherface, who more or less gets Demoted to Extra. Vilmer steals nearly every scene he's in as the main villain of the film, and has the highest bodycount in the film, with Leatherface only killing one person.
  • Unstoppable Rage: When he gets angry, there really is no stopping him on a rampage. To the point that the Illuminati has to step in and kill him.

W.E. Slaughter

Portrayed By: Joe Stevens

Another member of the Sawyer family who also works for the Illuminati.


  • The Dragon: To Vilmer.
  • Shock Stick: His weapon of choice is a cattle prod.
  • Uncertain Doom: Vilmer hits him in the head with a hammer and he collapses and doesn't recover for the rest of the film, leaving it uncertain if the blow killed him or just knocked him out.
  • Wicked Cultured: Has a tendency to quote famous authors and historical figures in his one liners.

Darla Slaughter

Portrayed By: Tonie Perensky

Vilmer's wife.


  • Affably Evil: Despite being part of a vague evil conspiracy, she's quite kind to Jenny and doesn't approve of Vilmer's sadism.
  • Domestic Abuse: At Vilmer's hands.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Vimer's attractive wife whose first scene has her flashing her breasts at some passing by vandals.
  • Villains Out Shopping: A lengthy sequence has her buying pizza while Jenny is bound in the back of her car.

    Other Characters 

Jennifer "Jenny"

Portrayed By: Renée Zellweger
A high school student whose prom night was ruined by the Sawyer family, now led by Vilmer. As she soon learns, Vilmer Sawyer is part of some sort of fear-based Illuminati conspiracy. She ends up being saved by Agent Rothman.
  • Action Girl: She tried to shoot Leatherface with a shotgun, too bad it wasn't loaded.
  • Dumb Blonde: A notable inversion. She is the smart one while the brunette Heather is the idiotic one, contrasting both this trope and Brainy Brunette.
  • Expy: Of Sally. They are both blondes, they both run in places to find help only to find out that their apparent saviors are actually villains, and they both escape in the end.
    • Funnily enough, Sally's actor (or maybe even Sally herself) would cameo in the ending of her movie. So this could be a case of Expy Coexistence.
  • Final Girl: In The Next Generation.
  • Slashers Prefer Blondes: Averted. Jenny survives over the brunette Brainless Beauty Heather.
  • Sole Survivor: She is only person to escape Leatherface in The Next Generation.

Heather

One of Jenny's friends from The Next Generation. A completely air-headed bimbo who's Too Dumb to Live.
Heather: I just had a really cool thought! What if we got in a car crash and all of us died!

Agent Rothman

The Slaughter's boss in The Next Generation. He is the apparent leader of the Illuminati, although he thinks the Slaughters are going to far. Eventually he steps in to stop Vilmer's massacre.
  • Affably Evil: He may be the head of an evil organization, but he's nice enough to give Jenny a ride back home at the end.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: He thinks the Slaughter's are going too far in their evil despite being their boss.
  • Gratuitous French: Downplayed considering he reads *Le Figaro* and has a foreign accent.
  • Karma Houdini: While he does save Jenny, he still does not have to pay for being complicit in the Slaughter families killings.
  • The Man in Front of the Man: Vilmer and the rest of the family apparently answer to him.
  • Villainous Rescue: Eventually steps in to save Jenny and kills Vilmer at the end of the movie.

Remake Continuity

     The Hewitt Family 

Thomas Brown "Leatherface" Hewitt

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Portrayed By: Andrew Bryniarski

The Leatherface of the rebooted continuity. Unlike the original Leatherface, who is described as a "Big Baby", he is more vicious and seemingly more smart. He is the adopted son of Luda Mae, who was fiercely protective of him. He of course, is the main enforcer of the Hewitts.


  • Adaptational Villainy: This Leatherface is far more consciously vicious than previous incarnations.
  • An Arm and a Leg: In the finale of the first film, he has his arm hacked off by an escaping Erin.
  • Berserk Button: He does not take kindly to being called a freak or animal.
  • Cool Mask: Has his trademark human faces to wear. But early in the prequel, he makes use of a Mankind-like mask which is either a bit ironic or paradoxical.
  • Danger Takes A Back Seat: In the prequel he kills the Final Girl by hiding in the back of her car as she tries to escape.
  • Determinator: Even when Erin chops off his arm, he is still relentless in hunting her down.
  • The Dragon: Just like in the original
  • Face-Revealing Turn: After killing Pepper, Thomas turns to Erin, revealing he's wearing her boyfriends face.
  • The Heavy: Of the 2003 film, naturally.
  • Hook Hand: Receives one built by uncle Monty in the Wildstorm comics, which take place after the events of the 2003 film.
  • Karma Houdini: According to the epilogue, hasn't been found or killed, although he did lose his arm.
  • Mental Handicap, Moral Deficiency: Still handicapped and still evil.
  • You Will Be Spared: When a co-worker nervously pushes his Berserk Button, Leatherface intimidates him with a meat cleaver, but ultimately doesn't kill him.

Charlton "Charlie" Hewitt, Jr. (A.K.A. Sheriff Winston Hoyt)

Portrayed By: R. Lee Ermey

Leatherface's adopted brother, and mentor. He poses as a local sheriff and uses that position to help his family kill people.


  • Ax-Crazy: He is one of the most violent and deranged characters in any of the films. Which is really saying something.
  • Berserk Button: In the prequel remake he despises Dean attempting to burn his draft card for the military, when he himself is a veteran.
  • Big Bad: Of the remake continuity. He is in charge of the family and is responsible for their murderous, cannibalistic lifestyle.
  • Card-Carrying Jerkass: After breaking a bottle over Morgan's face, he proudly quips "That was really rude, wasn't it?"
  • Car Fu: On the receiving end of this, which causes his death.
  • Dirty Cop: Makes sure that people he stops will be guilty of anything. However, he isn't actually a real cop, which justified his unpoliceman-like behavior.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He's liable to violently fly off the handle at the slightest provocation.
  • Hate Sink: While Leatherface at least has somewhat of a tragic backstory, Charlie is a violent, detestable madman with no such sympathetic qualities, making the audience feel nothing but catharsis when he is ran over to death by Erin.
  • I Love the Dead: Admits that he likes to fondle the corpses of pretty girls that he finds at crime scenes.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Developed this habit during the Korean War and introduced it to his family afterwards.
  • Impersonating an Officer: He killed the real Sheriff Hoyt and stole his identity, clothes, weapons and car.
  • Jerkass: Big time, he's a sadistic, foulmouthed bully who loves to use false arrest and police brutality.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • When the real sheriff begins insulting Leatherface right to Hoyt's face, calling him things like "that retard" and "a creature" who should never have been allowed around "normal" people, Hoyt takes offense, and begins to insist that his nephew is just "misunderstood" right before they find Leatherface. Insulting his family appears to be a Berserk Button in general, going by his absolutely livid reaction to Chrissie interrupting grace to call the Hewitts a bunch of cousin-fucking degenerates.
    • When Old Monty becomes feverish after being shot in the leg, Hoyt actually does try to comfort and reassure him (even telling him "I love you") before ordering Leatherface to amputate the damaged leg before it gets worse (though Hoyt does end up going overboard, ordering that the other leg be cut off as well after Leatherface accidentally saws into it, to prevent it from becoming infected like the first one, and also for "balance"). Afterward, he has Leatherface and Luda Mae tend to the stumps, and during dinner, tells Luda Mae to make sure that Old Monty eats to keep his strength up.
  • Obviously Evil: It doesn't take much effort to notice his disposing of the hitchhiker's body breaks just about every rule of proper police procedure.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: What really sets him apart from the other crazy lunatics in the Texas Chainsaw family is that in addition to inappropriately touching women, it is very heavily implied that he raped both the hitchhiker from the first film, as well as Bailey from the second.
  • Revolvers Are Just Better: He carries around a Ruger Vaquero as his main sidearm to harass his victims. Which is rather anachronistic as the films are set before 1980 which was when the Ruger Vaquero was produced. It is most likely just used as a stand in for the Colt Single Action Army.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: The Wildstorm comic By Himself reveals that he is a Korean War veteran who developed his cannibalistic traits during his tenure as a prisoner of war at the hands of Koreans. This also gets a nod in The Beginning.
  • Shotguns Are Just Better: In the prequel, he always lugs around a shotgun. Specifically a Winchester Model 191, and is quick to wield it to intimidate or murder others. He also stole and used said shotgun to murder the original Sheriff Hoyt when he attempted to arrest Thomas.

Luda Mae Hewitt

Portrayed By: Marietta Marich

Thomas's adopted mother, fiercely protective of him and will kill anyone who she suspects of making fun of or being mean to Thomas.


  • Child Hater: She hates all teenagers. However, she is protective of her own children and adopted Leatherface as a baby.
  • Evil Matriarch: She is the matriarch of the murderous Hewitt clan.
  • Mama Bear: Very protective of Leatherface.

Monty Hewitt

Portrayed By: Terrence Evans

Leatherface's uncle. He spends his time in a wheelchair as his legs were amputated by his nephew.


  • An Arm and a Leg: He is kneecapped in The Beginning prequel. Leatherface and Hoyt subsequently saw off both of his legs, to quote Hoyt; "You know, jus' to balance things out."
  • Dirty Old Man: A pervert who is not above groping young women.
  • Evil Cripple: His legs are amputated by Leatherface in the prequel, so he ends up in a wheelchair by the events of the original.

The Tea Lady

Portrayed By: Kathy Lamkin

A relative of the Hewitt family.


  • Fat and Skinny: In her one scene in the 2003 film, she is the Fat to Henrietta's skinny.
  • Fat Bastard: She is monstrously obese.
  • Faux Affably Evil: She is quite polite and affectionately recalls Leatherface as a "Sweet boy" and likes casually discussing different ways to prepare tea. This doesn't stop her from drugging Erin and dismissing the torture of Bailey however.
  • No Name Given: Her actual name is not revealed.

Henrietta Hewitt

Portrayed By: Heather Kafka
Another relative of the Hewitts.
  • Baby Be Mine: She tends to a crying infant in both her scenes, Erin quickly deduces that the baby is stolen from one of the Hewitt's victims.
  • Fat and Skinny: The skinny to the Tea Lady's fat.

Jedidiah Hewitt

Portrayed By: David Dorfman

Leatherface's nephew. Youngest member of the family and apparently abused by them.


  • Redemption Equals Death: In the novelization, he is killed by his uncle for helping Erin escape.
  • Token Good Teammate: He helps Erin out a lot after she and her friends say they won't hurt him. Helping them escape from his Uncle Leatherface and such. Overall he is clearly one of the nicer Hewitts.

    Other Characters 

Erin Hardesty

Portrayed By: Jessica Biel
Main character of the remake. She and her friends become involved with the Hewitts after they rescue a hitchhiker (who later killed herself.) She always insisted on doing the right thing, which led the the Hewitts meeting them in the first place.

Kemper

Portrayed By: Eric Balfour

  • The Big Guy: Tallest and strongest of the group.
  • Decoy Protagonist: He seems to be a main character, being Erin's boyfriend and all, and seems to have a character arc about repairing their relationship. Then Leatherface kills him first.
  • Killed Offscreen: We don't actually see what happens to him after being captured by Leatherface, but not too long after we get an eerie shot of Leatherface using Kemper's face as a mask.
  • Sacrificial Lamb: The writer wanted to shock everyone by killing Kemper first. It seems to have worked.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies about 30 minutes into the remake.

Pepper

Portrayed By: Erica Leerhsen

  • Break the Cutie: The trauma from seeing the Hitchhikers susicide and torment from Sheriff Hoyt causes her to become hysterical.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Erin's tomboy.

Andy

Portrayed By: Mike Vogel
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: A mild example, as he looks for his friend in a tiny fridge and pontificates about what brains look like... After a girl kills herself in front of them.
  • Dumb Muscle: Definitely the dimmest of the group, such as looking for Kemper in a refrigerator.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: To save Erin, though, technically, Andy survives it....
  • Mercy Kill: By Erin, he actually begs her for it.

Morgan

Portrayed By: Jonathan Tucker

Chrissie

Portrayed By: Jordana Brewster
Main character of the prequel to the remake, she and her friends are taken captive by the Hewitt family. She risk's her life many times to save her friends, but since she is a prequel character, it doesn't work out for her.

Eric Hill

Portrayed By: Matt Bomer

Dean Hill

Portrayed By: Taylor Handley

Bailey

Texas Chainsaw 3D and Leatherface

    The Sawyer Family 

Verna Sawyer-Carson

Portrayed By: Marilyn Burns, Lili Taylor

The matriarch of the Sawyer clan.


  • Abusive Parents: Of the psychological and emotional variety. Without her gaslighting, Jed could have been saved from becoming Leatherface.
  • Ax-Crazy: Albeit she's more subdued about it, but she's just as vicious and ruthless as the other Sawyers.
  • Bad Boss: Has a cop on her pay roll to give information on her son, and eventually has him Fed to Pigs.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: On two accounts in Texas Chainsaw 3D she gets her heir in keeping Leatherface, and in the prequel succeeds in getting her son back, forcing him to kill his friend to prove himself.
  • Big Bad: Of Leatherface, being the matriarch of the Sawyer clan, with her efforts to get her son back setting off the plot, and facilitating his corruption into Leatherface once and for all.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: Implied by Hal Hartman. In this continuity, Drayton is Leatherface's father and its stated that Verna is probably both his mother and his aunt.
  • Cerebus Retcon: In Texas Chainsaw 3D, she seem to be a relatively normal old lady despite her familial connection to the Sawyer's and protecting a Serial Killer. Even passing her off as a caring grandmother seeking her long lost granddaughter. Leatherface shows a more sinister side to her and shows despite initial appearances, she's arguably the most ruthless of the Sawyer's and the main reason Leatherface is as messed up as he is.
  • The Corrupter: If not for her emotional manipulation on top of his Trauma Conga Line, Leatherface might have had a chance to be normal.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Seems unable to believe that any one outside of her family can care for her son. Especially his friend Lizzy, his last Morality Pet, whom she calls as an uncaring toxic influence whilst Verna herself is pushing her son into becoming the way she is. It's possible she may genuinely believe this due to cognitive dissonance.
  • Evil Matriarch: Functions as the head of the Sawyer family in Leatherface.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: The events of Leatherface, she is essentially relegated to this being the one who warped him into what he is today. In Texas Chainsaw 3D, her death kicks off the plot with her granddaughter becoming Leatherface's caretaker as part of her will.
  • Hate Sink: Comes off as this due to her ruthlessness and callousness in trying to get her son back and warp him into becoming another killer like the rest of her family. What makes her particularly despicable is how we see he had a shot for redemption and perhaps even a normal life had she not forced him to kill his friend who clearly cares about him and wants to help him.
  • Karma Houdini: Barring the fact that she receives no comeuppance or punishment and gets everything she wanted, as Texas Chainsaw 3D shows that she lived a peaceful life to a ripe old age. This excludes the fact that she was the hated town recluse and her family has been dead for years.
  • Kick the Morality Pet: By proxy. Encourages and browbeats Jed to murder his friend Lizzy to prove his loyalty.
  • Lack of Empathy: Really doesn't give an iota of a shit how her actions effect those around her so long as she can rope her son into the Sawyer fold.
  • Mama Bear: A particularly dark deconstruction. Her attempts to reunite and free her son causes a whole lot a problems and ultimately culminates in her mental and emotional manipulation to warp him into the killer he is today under the blanket of protecting him from a cruel world.
  • Never My Fault: Sees herself as a desperate and innocent victim of a cruel world despite her family being murderous cannibals and that are being pushed around by everybody else, even when she acts abrasively, callously towards other people and gaslighting her son.
  • Only in It for the Money: Implied to be the reason why she left the Sawyer family and married into the Carson family.
  • Posthumous Character: Had died by the present day events of Texas Chainsaw 3D.
  • Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Indirectly incites a riot at a local institution in an attempt to rescue her son.
  • The Sociopath: May be a low functioning one. Has a callous disregard for others around her and the deaths she and her family causes, but has such a warped idea of love and morality that she has a borderline fanatical idea of family loyalty, and her love for her son Jed comes off as manipulative and possessive in order to gaslight him into killing his friend to prove his loyalty.
  • You Look Familiar: Marilyn Burns played Sally in the original movie.

Boss Sawyer

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Portrayed By: Gunnar Hansen

A member of the Sawyer clan and their apparent patriarch at the start of 3D.


  • Beard of Evil: He has a bushy white beard.
  • The Cameo: Played by the original Leatherface, Gunnar Hansen.
  • In the Back: Shot in the back through a wall.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: He's willing to give up Leatherface to the police to avoid further trouble because "he's simple anyway."
  • Redshirt: Only on screen a few minutes before getting killed.

    Other Characters 

Heather Miller/Edith Rose Sawyer

Portrayed By: Alexandra Daddario

A young woman in an adopted family, she finds out she inherited a mansion from her biological grandmother Verna Carson. She and her friends head to Texas to collect, and pick up a hitchhiker on the way. They all find out the hard way Leatherface lives in the basement. It's revealed that when she was a baby, she was a survivor of a Lynch attack on her biological family, the Sawyers. Soon the local mayor, who lead the Lynch mob, finds out and tries to kill her. She ends up teaming up with Leatherface, who manages to save her from the mayor.


  • Action Girl: Takes on this role once Leatherface shows up and her friends start dying.
  • Ambiguously Evil: Sides with Leatherface after going through a Trauma Conga Line, and becomes his new caretaker and accepts her role as Verna's heir. However besides the folks trying to kill them, and her Abusive Parents, she doesn't indicate that she'll be using Leatherface to wantonly kill everyone. In fact the last scene gives a hint she's a little conflicted about it.
  • Anti-Hero/Anti-Villain:Falls into either category when she sides with Leatherface against Burt Hartman and the townsfolk who tried to kill them both. It probably helps that Leatherface is described here as an Anti-Villain, and a disturbed child at heart.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: By the end of the film, she seems to embrace being Edith Rose Sawyer and Leatherface's caretaker. Although the last scene she seems conflicted about it.
  • Create Your Own Hero/Create Your Own Villain: Recieves this; she probably wouldn't have snapped had Burt not tried to kill her for her lineage when it was just revealed to her.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Wears predominantly black and has a penchant for creating artwork out of chicken bones, but is the heroine of Texas Chainsaw 3D. She’s also a member of the Sawyer clan. However, as her other tropes indicate, this is very definitely Played With.
  • Final Girl: Of Texas Chainsaw 3D.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Admittedly even when the mayor was trying to kill her, she crosses a line into this by siding with her Serial Killer cousin.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: Becomes this when her relation to the Sawyer's is revealed, and people suddenly want to kill her simply for her family history, even when she is ignorant of it.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Especially at the end, when you can almost see her breasts.
  • Sins of Our Fathers: The night she finds out she's related to the Sawyers, she becomes a target to some of the lynch mob members.
  • Slasher Smile: Wears a pretty effective one when she starts fliring with Deputy Carl Hartman, who's taking her against her will to the slaughterhouse so his father can kill her. When she asks him to confirm he's a Hartman, she stabs a stolen steak knife through backseat guard of his cruiser, scaring him (though it has no chance of injuring him), and smirks "I'm a Sawyer." This effectively marks the point she decides Then Let Me Be Evil.
  • Tank-Top Tomboy: She loves this trope. She spends most of the film in a crop top, and when she changes into a snap-down, she seems unable to fasten more than the two holding it closed over her breasts, leaving it to flip open around her belly as she moves.
  • That Man Is Dead: By the end of the film, she's set to cast away her identity as Heather Miller and embrace being Edith Rose Sawyer.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: As part of her seeming Sanity Slippage, when it becomes clear to her that she's going to die simply for being a Sawyer, she decides to act the part in addition to siding with Leatherface.
  • Trauma Conga Line: In the span of one night, she gets betrayed by most of her friends and a seeming Nice Guy she just met, goes through a typical Final Girl scenario against Leatherface, has her friends die, learns about her murderous family history, is nearly murdered for it, and learns how her family was executed by a mob including her own adoptive parents, explaining them being low-key abusive.
  • Villain Protagonist: Takes the side of her homicidal chainsaw-wielding cousin.

Nikki

Portrayed By: Tania Raymonde
Heather Miller's friend who joins her to the mansion she inherited. Turns out she's sleeping with Heather's boyfriend. She is later shot in the face by a cop sent to seek out Leatherface.

Kenny

Portrayed By: Keram Malicki-Sánchez

Nikki's boyfriend who comes along on the roadtrip with the others to see Heather's new mansion. He is an aspiring cook who is learning to be a chef. He is killed by Leatherface.


Ryan

Portrayed By: Trey Songz

Heather's boyfriend who joins her to collect her inheritance. It happens that he is cheating on Heather with her friend Nikki. Surprisingly, he is not killed "directly" by Leatherface.


Burt Hartman

Portrayed By: Paul Rae
Mayor of the town of Newt. Shortly after Sally escaped the Sawyers, he sets out to lead a lynch mob against the Sawyers; there where no survivors, as far as he knew. About twenty years later, he learns Leatherface is still alive and Heather is really Edith Sawyer, and he sets out once more to kill them.
  • Asshole Victim: He tries to kill Heather just for being a Sawyer.
  • Anti-Villain: The Sawyers were and are a very dangerous family who have killed and consumed any hitch-hikers they came across but lynching them was far from justified since the sheriff was about to arrest Leatherface. He loses the "Anti" part in the present day when he lets his vendetta cause him to get innocent people killed, and wants to kill Heather simply because she's a Sawyer despite her innocence.
  • Big Bad: Of Texas Chainsaw 3D. He is the man who lynched the Sawyer family, and sets out to finish the job on Heather, making him a mutual enemy of Heather and Leatherface.
  • Create Your Own Villain/Create Your Own Hero: Heather, despite being a Sawyer, was an innocent girl and was ignorant of her family's history, not that it stops him from trying to finish what he started with her. It's really no surprise that Heather ends up siding with Leatherface in that situation.
    • As Leatherface shows that the Sawyers killed his sister and father, ultimately created the person that would be the one to kill off almost every single member of the Sawyer family.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Simply by being a Sawyer, Heather is a target of Burt's vendetta.
  • Hate Sink: Despite his initial Hero Antagonist status, he's portrayed as a self righteous and vindictive vigilante. In the years since he led a lynch mob against the Sawyers, wiping all but a few out, Hartman is a celebrated hero to his community. Upon discovering Heather is a Sawyer by blood, he immediately plans to kill her, despite her otherwise innocence and ignorance on the matter. Furthermore, for all his talk of "justice", he hypocritically covers up the Accidental Murder of Heather's friends by one of his cops, before having Heather beaten and partially stripped to lure Leatherface to her.
  • Hypocrite: Despite his claims that killing Sawyer's is justice in avenging innocent people, he not only seeks "justice" through illegal means, but covers up the Accidental Murder of an innocent girl and attempts to kill Heather whose only crime at the time was being related to the Sawyer's.
  • It's Personal: The Sawyers killing off his sister and father are what give him a very murderous rage against the Cannibalistic Family. Which ultimately leads to him creating a lynch mob that kills off most of the Sawyers.
  • Knight Templar: Insists that killing the Sawyer family is "justice", but he did lynch the Sawyers just has the Sheriff was about to arrest Leatherface, and plans on killing Heather once he realizes he's Leatherface's cousin.
  • Light Is Not Good: Has the appearance of a clean cut, heroic sheriff. However, this doesn’t hide the fact that he is a corrupt, murderous sociopath.
  • Small-Town Tyrant: Mayor Burt Hartman is willing to murder anyone related to the Sawyer clan regardless of whether they had anything to do with the killings.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: He is the mayor, and his victims were the Sawyers, so...
  • Villainous Valor: The only reedeeming quality he has: he's not a coward and stands bravely his ground against a chainsaw wielding giant.
  • You Killed My Father: As Leatherface reveals, the Sawyer's are responsible for the death of his sister and father, explaining his vendetta.
  • Walking Spoiler: Not only does he have quite a bit of an effect in the Texas Chainsaw 3D movie but some of his motivations are also somewhat implied and shown in Leatherface

Carl Hartman

Portrayed By: Scott Eastwood

Burt Hartman's son, and local deputy.


Hal Hartman

Portrayed By: Stephen Dorff

The local sheriff who took young Jed Sawyer away to a reformary as a child after the Sawyer's killed his family.


  • The Atoner: Ends up trying to save Lizzy and apologetic towards her. Not that it saves his life.
  • Berserk Button: Do not mock him over his daughter's death. Clarice learns this the hard way.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Is presented and built up throughout the movie as the main Hero Antagonist seeking revenge against the family who killed his daughter. He gets quickly put in his place when the Sawyers re-enter the fray.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To his own son. Burt Hartman isn't played with any of Hal's sympathetic qualities, an a hypocritical vigilante Knight Templar who turns a blind eye to getting an innocent person killed to focus on the vendetta towards the Sawyer's and plans to kill an otherwise innocent member of the Sawyer's. Hal on the other hand is a police officer who realizes he's gone to far when he gets an innocent person in danger. Unlike his lynching son, Hal is technically following the law in what he's doing up until he gets his hands on Jed in that he's leading the manhunt on dangerous individuals — even if he does shoot Clarice in a rage.
  • Create Your Own Villain: It was mostly the result of his actions that eventually creates Leatherface, although Verna certainly had a part in it.
  • Dirty Cop: Played With. Tempted as he might he doesn't use his position to abuse his power in revenge against the Sawyer's beyond having Jed taken to a psyche home. He does lead a manhunt for the escaped teens but they are clearly dangerous and murderous individuals.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Subverted. He realizes after his attempt to lynch Jed that he's gone to far with nearly getting Lizzy killed.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: Realizing how far he's gone doesn't really save him from the Sawyer's. His fate was already sealed by the time of his realization.
  • Hero Antagonist: Functions as the antagonist for most of the movie in hunting down Jed Sawyer, who himself is on the Protagonist Journey to Villain. Hal is an officer of the law in charge of leading a manhunt in hunting down deranged teenagers, as part of his personal vendetta towards the Sawyer's who killed his daughter.
  • It's Personal: The Sawyer's murdered his daughter and as such seeks justice for her death, to the point where it's more of a priority to him than taking the escapees back alive.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The manhunt against the escaped teenagers, while a legal necessity, is more or less of a pretext for him to hunt down and have Jed Sawyer killed. It doesn't work.
  • You Killed My Father: Inverted. His vendetta to the Sawyer's stem from them killing his daughter. He does get killed by the Sawyers himself, turning this into a strait case for Burt Hartman.

Elizabeth "Lizzy" White

A young nurse and newcomer at Gorman's Youth Reformary. She befriends Jackson and Bud and taken as one of Ike and Clarice's hostages.


  • Break the Cutie: Jeepers does she have it the worst! She witnesses a fellow nurse get brutally murdered in front of her very eyes; gets abducted by Ike and Clarice; witnessing a massacre Ike and Clarice set up; nearly raped by Ike, who earlier tricked her falling face first into a rotting corpse; forced to hide in a dead cow; witnesses Bud get shot and Jackson murder a cop; learns that Jackson is Jed Sawyer; abducted by both Hal Hartman and the Sawyer's; witnesses Jed's gradual transformation into Leatherface and is killed despite her attempts to reach out to him.
    • Exaggerated with the film's alternate ending. Instead of running off to the woods, she stays in the house and is found by Jedidiah, now Leatherface. She has her leg partially cut off, but Jed can't go through with it, so Grandpa clocks her in the head with a hammer. We later see her hanging on a meat hook, with the lower half of her face cut off to mask Leatherface's first mask. She is still alive by this point, barely conscious and twitching in agony. He then turns her attention back to her, and puts his chainsaw between her legs...
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Not in the film proper, but in the alternate ending. See the bullet point above.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Drops a line when Hal asks whose going to know if he kills Jed with a pretty blunt "I will."
  • Final Girl: Fits the bill, being the main female lead of Leatherface. Although she doesn't live through the movie.
  • Morality Pet: To Jackson when he's revealed to be Jedidiah Sawyer, developing a close amicable bond with him over the movie. She even tries to make an appeal to him during the climax, but Verna gaslights him into killing her to prove his loyalty. She could have saved him from becoming who he is today had his mother not had such a hold on him.
  • Nice Girl: A genuinely kind and sweet girl who volunteers to work at the Gorman House as she wants to help people. She pays a horrible price for it.
  • Off with His Head!: For pressing Jed's Berserk Button by accident, she gets her head swiftly cut off.
  • Ship Sinking: Chemistry or no, the revelation that Jackson is Jed Sawyer and his subsequent transformation into Leatherface kind of throws any chance of them being together out the window. Especially when he kills her.
  • Ship Tease: As mentioned above she grows pretty close to Jackson over the movie. In a deleted scene she admits she likes him and tries to kiss him but he rejects her advances.

Jackson/Jedidiah "Jed" Sawyer/Leatherface

Portrayed By: Sam Strike
One of four teenage escapees. Despite this, he's actually pretty cute and charming, with seemingly nothing off with him.
  • Break the Cutie: A genuine Nice Guy and as a child was terrified at the prospect of killing like his family did. After witnessing at least two of their murders as a child, sent to a institution into his teens, was taken hostage by two escapees, witnessing the violence they commit, watching his great friend get shot by police, getting shot through the cheek by a cop, being gaslighted by his mother who brow beats him into killing his other friend, the guy breaks into the Leatherface we all know.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He is quite witty.
  • Facial Horror: When Hal Hartman shoots him during the escape, the bullet tears off his face.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Goes from mental hospital escapee to becoming Leatherface.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Bud are very close.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Jackson wishes he could be different and be with Lizzy under normal circumstances.
  • Unstoppable Rage:
    • After Bud's death he brutally kills the cop who was responsible by crushing his head with a car door after dishing out a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
    • He takes this up a notch after The Reveal that he is Jedidiah Sawyer and having his face stitched up due to Hartman shooting him, and butchers the latter with a chainsaw as he does the same to Lizzy by decapitating her in a fury.
  • Walking Spoiler: He is the one who ends up becoming Leatherface.

Bud Horton

One of four teenage escapees. A large silent patient, with a stunted mind. He's not Jedidiah Sawyer/Leatherface.


  • Ax-Crazy: Although it only comes out when his Berserk Button is pressed.
  • The Big Guy: The largest of the teenage escapees and shrugs off gunshot wounds like they're nothing.
  • Boom, Headshot!: How he dies.
  • The Brute: He's a large lumbering, mentally stunted boy with a nact for brutal violence.
  • Gentle Giant: Zig-Zagged. He's actually pretty friendly and almost childlike when not angered. Which is a problem because...
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He has real bad anger issues, which he displays through extreme violence.
  • Red Herring: With his character description you'd think he is the one who would end up becoming Leatherface. A bullet to the brain throws that idea out the window.

Issac "Ike"

One of the escapees from the youth reformary. One of two hyper-violent, sexual deviants alongside his girlfriend Clarice. Ike takes three hostages as part of his escape plan, acting as the ringleader.


  • Attempted Rape: Attempts to force himself on Lizzy when he catches her trying to escape.
  • Ax-Crazy: Zig-Zagged. As deranged as he is, he shows himself capable of rational and pragmatic thinking. That said he does enjoy violence and carnage to the point of sexual excitement.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With the Sheriff and Verna Carson, functions as one of the antagonists
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Bud forces him to bite down on a large rock before curb stomping his head in.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: Acts as one of the primary villains of Leatherface but is the first one of them to die. Ultimately Verna takes the reigns.
  • The Heavy: Out of all the antagonists, he's the one who drives most of the plot of Leatherface with his abduction and escape plot, and animosity towards the protagonists
  • I Have You Now, My Pretty: Every interaction he has with Lizzy.
  • I Love the Dead: He and Clarice molest a corpse as a way of getting off.
  • The Sociopath: Is as wicked and depraved as they come, without any morals or conscience, with his relationship with Clarice (from his end anyway) seemingly revolving around their love for sex and violence. Despite this he is shown to be capable of pragmatic thinking and long term planning.

Clarice Moseley

One of the escaped patients from the Gorman House. Like her boyfriend Ike, is a hyper-violent, sexual deviant.


  • Ax-Crazy: Just like her boyfriend. Her Establishing Character Moment is trying to force a girl into eating a live mouse and later strangling another with her own pig tails.
  • Boom, Headshot!: After mocking Hartman's grief over his daughter, she is promptly shot in the head by him.
  • Blood Knight: When she gets her hands on a shotgun she exclaims "Fuck I love Texas!"
  • Crazy Jealous Girl: Towards Ike, notably strangling a girl with her own hair for apparently getting between them.
  • Defiant to the End: Spends her last moments mocking Hartman over his daughter's death.
  • Expy: Was based on Chop Top Sawyer from the second movie. Originally it was going to be even more blatant, with her being albino and having a metal plate in her head.
  • Fan Disservice: Gets a sex scene with Ike in which she's completely naked. Not only is she covered in burn scars but she's also molesting a rotting dead body.
  • I Love the Dead: She and Ike have a three way with a dead body.
  • Pet the Dog: Seems to genuinely care about Ike as she spends minutes on end searching for him after his death. That same scene she tries to warn her hostages about oncoming cops.
  • Pyromaniac: According to Word of God she is a pyromaniac and was institutionalized for burning her home down with her family within. It may also explain the burn scars on her body.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022

    The Sawyer Family 

Mrs. Virginia "Ginny" McCumber

Portrayed by: Alice Krige

An elderly woman who runs a derelict orphanage. Is the caretaker of Leatherface.


  • Morality Chain: Serves as one for Leatherface. Her completely avoidable death early in the movie is what triggers Leatherface's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • Plot-Triggering Death: Her stress induced heart attack caused by the threat of eviction causes Leatherface to snap and go on a rampage to avenge her. Anger towards her death is what causes Richter to steal the bus keys and prevent the influencers from escaping the town.
  • Racist Grandma: She has a Confederate Flag proudly displayed outside her house, although by her own admittance she doesn't hold any bigoted views.
  • Some of My Best Friends Are X: Justifying her confederate flag, Mrs. McCumber tells Dante that she took care of kids like him at her orphanage and therefore she doesn't have any problems with negroes.
  • Tear Off Your Face: Post-mortem and non-malicious example; after she dies, Leatherface cuts off her face and dons it for the rest of the movie. Her faceless corpse is discovered by Sally later in the movie.
  • Token Good Teammate: As far as Leatherface's extended family goes; she comes across as a harmless old lady, which is a far cry from the other murderous hillbillies that make up the rest of the Sawyer clan.

    Other Characters 

Lila

Portrayed by: Elsie Fisher

The main protagonist of the 2022 film. A school shooting survivor joining her sister and group of friends to renovate and sell the town of Harlow.


  • Dark and Troubled Past: A school shooting survivor. Overcoming her past trauma serves as her primary Character Development throughout the movie.
  • Final Girl: Alongside her sister, until Leatherface turns out to be Not Quite Dead and kills Melody in a Cruel Twist Ending. Bonus points for the ending with her in the same position as Sally from the original.
  • The Hero: Of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022).
  • Sole Survivor: She and Leatherface are the only characters with any meaningful screentime to still be alive by the time the credits roll.
  • Trauma Conga Line: Survives a school shooting and suffers PTSD as a result. Then her friend group is massacred by a chainsaw wielding maniac, and at the end of the day she completely failed to stop the insane murderer who killed all her friends and is left sobbing in the back of a car while her sister is beheaded right in front of her.

Melody

Portrayed by: Sarah Yarkin

A entrepreneurial influencer partnered with Dante looking to renovate and sell off the town of Harlow.


  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's condescending and entitled, as evidenced by her mockery of Richter and his big truck and gun, and her forced, illegal eviction of Ginny, who subsequently dies of a heart attack. However, she does care about her sister and her friends, and shows remorse for causing Ginny to die, even trying to apologize to Leatherface for it.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When she discovers the deed to the orphanage which proves that Ginny had no right to be evicted, she breaks down crying. When Leatherface has her at his mercy she takes the time to apologies to him directly for accidentally killing his mother.
  • Off with Her Head!: Leatherface beheads her at the very end of the movie.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Along with Dante, her attempted eviction of Ginny causes her fatal heart attack and therefore the plot of the entire movie.

Dante Spivey

Portrayed by: Jacob Latimore

A successful social media influencer looking to purchase and renovate the town of Harlow.


  • Asshole Victim: Is unapologetic about causing an old woman's fatal heart attack, so few tears will be shed when Leatherface ultimately kills him.
  • Black Dude Dies First: Averted. Dante doesn't die until after the officers and Ruth have already been killed.
  • Facial Horror: Leatherface slices his face open giving him a nasty Glasgow Grin which eventually causes him to bleed to death.
  • Hate Sink: Unlike Melody, he shows no remorse for causing Ginny's death and is more interested in getting Harlow sold to the highest bidder. It’s also implied that he lied about obtaining the deed to the orphanage building, thereby making Ginny’s eviction illegal.
  • Not Quite Dead: Leatherface seemingly kills him, but he has enough energy to stumble out of the orphanage before bleeding to death in front of Richter
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Dante having Leatherface's mother illegally evicted causes her to have a fatal heart attack, which enrages Leatherface and sets him on a rampage.

Richter

Portrayed by: Moe Dunford

A local mechanic of Harlow, Texas. Does not like strangers.


  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He initially comes off as mean but shows sympathy to Lila when he learns she is a School Shooting survivor. Likewise, despite being antagonistic to Dante he immediately drops any pretense of aggression when he sees his fatal wounds and tries to save his life.
  • Seen It All: Has a nihilistic outlook on life indicating he has his own stories of dangerous situations.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He steals the bus keys when he learns that the Dante and Melody's intrusion caused the death of the old woman and refuses to return them until they prove they owned the house. This ultimately leaves the bus passengers defenseless and unable to escape when Leatherface gets to them.


Alternative Title(s): The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Leatherface The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Next Generation, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning, Texas Chainsaw 3 D, Leatherface, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022

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