Jimmy Flinders

Jimmy Flinders is the protagonist of the LDS musical Saturday's Warrior. Of course, one of his sisters, Julie, is another, but it's for a different reason, as while Julie is the love type, Jimmy is the one who fights his inner conflict. He is the oldest of 7 (later 8 in the end) children of Bob and Carol Flinders. He is the older twin of Pam Flinders (who is handicapped during mortal life). It is shown in the video version that he and Pam were born on May 25th. In preexistence, Jimmy promises his littlest sister Emily that he will personally see to it that she will be born, and his twin sister Pam that they'll be close together. During his mortal life, he ends up getting tired of joining his family on a performance, so he hangs out with the antagonists (but not really villains), Mac and his posse, who are his "friends". Because of peer pressure and his peers stating problems with big families, Jimmy rebels against his and gets upset when his mother, being almost 40, is about to have an eighth baby (Emily). It is one summer day at a park when his "friends" leave him alone, and when he talks to non-Mormon Tod Richards (who had been drawing a portrait of who he could be while he was reading a letter from Pam, who was hospitalized, and who had reminded him that freedom is knowing who one is), and when he gets a call that Pam died that he learns the error of his ways. After a conflict between choosing to go with his "friends" and returning to his family (including both Pam and Emily from Heaven), he chooses the latter, proving that he finally sees to it that Emily is eventually born.
He is played by Erick Hickenlooper in the 1989 video.
Category:Teenagers
Category:Theatrical Heroes
Category:Tragic
Category:Male
Category:Anti-Heroes
Category:Redeemed Villains
Category:Titular