- "I told the others. They didn't believe me. You're all doomed. You're all doomed."
- ―Crazy Ralph
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| Doomsayer | |
| Classification: | Vocation |
| Associated franchises: | Friday the 13th Halloween film series |
| Associated films: | Friday the 13th Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers |
| Character examples: | Crazy Ralph; Jack Cracker; Jackson P. Sayer |
A doomsayer, or Prophet of Doom, is an individual, usually of questionable mental fortitude, who believes that a series of traumatic events is destined to befall a particular individual or location. Doomsayers are often regarded as crackpots, but oddly enough, tend to be more right than wrong. Due to their obsessive and often harassing rhetoric, doomsayers are generally dismissed by those whom they would try to warn.
These mental cases goes on spouting a bunch of gibberish about the end of the world and how everybody is going to be judged or die in flames or whatever crazy, whack-a-loon notions suddenly pop into their head at any given moment. Oddly, none of these chaps are eve well-dressed clean-shaven types. They are usually middle-aged men with bad facial hair and even worse hygiene. Even less surprising is the fact that these clowns usually suffer from some sort of drug or alcohol abuse.
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- 28 Days Later: In the 2002 film 28 Days Later, an unseen prophet of doom wrote the words "The end is extremely fucking nigh!" on the walls of a stairwell following a plague that turned normal people into crazed, bloodthirsty maniacs.
- Friday the 13th: Not far from Crystal Lake Township in New Jersey lived a man known as Crazy Ralph. Ralph would frequently ride around town on his bicycle warning others about the dangers surrounding Camp Crystal Lake. In 1979, he approached a young woman named Annie and tried to discourage her from hitchhiking up to the campground citing, "It's got a death curse!"
- Friday the 13th Part 2: Crazy Ralph returned to Camp Crystal Lake five year later, riding his bicycle to the cabins to spread his gospel, but was driven away by the camp counselors. While exiting the camp, Crazy Ralph was murdered by Jason Voorhees, who wrapped a piece of metal wire around his neck, slicing into his throat.
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers: While traveling on foot towards Haddonfield, Doctor Sam Loomis was picked up by a strange man named Reverend Jackson P. Sayer, whose old-time pick-up truck was adorned with various religious symbols. The two men shared a bottle of whisky and Sayer told Loomis that he had been "chasing evil" for nearly thirty years. Loomis sympathized, for he too was pursuing a man he believed to be the very epitome of evil - Michael Myers.
- Mummy's Shroud, The: A Muslim radical named Hasmid Ali warns archaeologist Sir Basil Walden against desecrating the Tomb of Kah-to-Bey. Naturally, Basil ignores him, so Hasmid awakens the mummy known as Prem to take vengeance against the members of the archeology dig.
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- Adventure Into Fear 17 - Hektu warns about Dakkam's destruction.