Eric Draven

Eric Draven is the titular main protagonist of The Crow franchise by . He was a former rock guitar player in the band Hangman's Joke, who had a hit with the song "It Can't Rain All the Time" alongside his lo
In the 1994 , he was played by the late martial arts actor , who was accidentally killed on set of the film on 31st March, 1993, making the film his final appearance. In the , he was portrayed by . In the 2024 , he is portrayed by , who also played Zeitgeist in Deadpool 2, Keith Toshko in Barbarian and Boy in Boy Kills The World.
==Biography==
Eric was engaged to Shelly Webster, and their wedding due to be on Halloween. But on Devil's Night before Halloween, a gang led by T-Bird attacks Shelley in their home and rapes her. When Eric walked in, Tin-Tin throws a knife into his spine paralyzing him. He could only watch them rape Shelly before being thrown out the window. A year later, a crow brings his soul back from the dead to avenge Shelly's and his deaths on T-Bird's gang.
Eric emerges from his grave on a stormy night, stumbling his way back home to his ruined apartment. There he has flashbacks of Shelly, and discovers that any wound he takes heals instantaneously. With that, he paints his face and sets out to kill the thugs who killed Shelly.
The crow first helps Eric locate Tin Tin, whom he kills with his own knives and steals his trench coat. He then goes to the pawn shop where Tin-Tin pawned Shelly's engagement ring. Eric forces the owner Gideon to return it before blowing up the shop.
He then finds Funboy, T-Bird's right-hand man, getting high on morphine with Darla, the mother of Eric’s friend Sarah, and drags him into the bathroom before putting him into the bathtub; he then tells Sarah's mother Darla that she needs to be there for her daughter, before killing Funboy with his own needles. Eric then kidnaps T-Bird while T-Bird is waiting for Skank at a convenience store and kills him.
After Eric takes down three of the four thugs, the fourth one, Skank, runs back to Top Dollar, the head of a major crime syndicate and warns him about this undead avenger. Eric arrives and asks Top Dollar for the thug, only to be met with gunfire. Eric is forced to kill the entire room full of mobsters in order to fulfill his revenge.
Afterwards, Eric's powers begin to fail, as his role on Earth has been fulfilled. He is briefly called back in order to take down Top Dollar, who has kidnapped his friend Sarah. Eric fights Top Dollar on the roof of a church and manages to gain the upper hand by transferring the memories of pain that both he and Shelly had to endure into the mind of the top-level criminal. Top Dollar then falls to his death. Eric is finally able to rest in peace after this.
==Personality==
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==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Superhuman Physiology: After being resurrected by a mystical crow, Eric gained superhuman attributes and special abilities.
**Superhuman Strength: Eric's strength was boosted to the point that he could lift and throw around grown men.
**Superhuman Speed: Eric is fast enough to disappear from people's sight and outrun gunfire.
**Superhuman Agility: Eric is agile enough to jump across the rooftops and perform acrobatic leaps and maneuvers in combat, even hanging from a ceiling light upside-down.
**Superhuman Reflexes: Eric's reflexes were great enough to dodge, deflect, and even catch thrown knives in midair. He could even avoid gunfire.
**Accelerated Healing Factor: Eric gained inhuman healing, with his blood returning back into his body when his wounds close. He can heal from blunt force trauma, cuts, and gunshots.
*Tactile empathy and telepathy: Eric possesses the ability to see through the eyes of the crow. He is also able to feel the emotions and see the memories of others by touching them. He can also absorb and store these memories and emotions to transfer into others, usually as a form of torture; this is shown when he virtually kills Top Dollar by making him feel thirty hours of Shelly's pain.
===Abilities===
*Master Acrobat: Due to his superhuman agility via his resurrection, Eric is able to pull off agile maneuvers even while in a fight.
*Expert Hand to Hand Combatant: Despite not having any formal training, Eric is a highly capable hand to hand fighter, using his superhuman attributes to his advantage. He was able to defeat multiple gangsters at once, defeated skilled fighters such as the knife-expert Tin Tin, and fought against the sword-wielding Top Dollar.
*Psychological inducement: Eric gained his powers of Psychometry as part of his revenge and allows to empower the pain of his enemies through manipulating their actions. 
**Expert Marksman: Eric is proficient in using firearms, using Funboy's revolver and T-Bird's handgun to take out serval gangsters in quick succession. Even managing to shoot them while on the ground. He could even dual-wielding other gangster's pistols to hit a thug on the scaffolding, and using then during close-quarters fights while incorporating unarmed strikes and grapples.
**Knife Proficiency: Eric has shown skill at using knives in combat. Throwing Tin Tin's own knife into his shoulder and used his other knives to kill him. He even used a hunting knife to impale Gideons' hand and used a combat knife to kill a gangster.
**Skilled Swordsman: Eric possesses some skill at using a sword in combat. He was able to use a katana from Top Dollar's cabinet to take out multiple thugs in quick succession. He was even able to duel Top Dollar using the church's weather vain.
*Skilled Tactician: Eric is a skilled planner and improviser. He is able to improvise an explosion by using gasoline and setting it off with rings fired out of a shotgun.
*Stealth: Using his superhuman speed and agility, Eric can sneak around his targets or even disappear from people in just a few moments.
*Musician: Before his death and resurrection, Eric was a talented musician, being the guitarist for his band. He still retains these skills even after his resurrection.
===Weaknesses===
Link to the crow: Eric's powers are tied to the crow avatar that watches over him while he enacts his vengeance; his powers subside if the crow avatar is destroyed.
==Equipment==
*Wedding Ring: Eric wears his fiancée's ring as a necklace in memory of her and a reminder of his mission of vengeance.
*Leather Trenchcoat: Eric took Tin Tin's coat after killing him, wearing it up until killing Skank.
*Smith & Wesson Model 629: Eric took Funboy's revolver after taking deadly vengeance on him, using it in combination with T-Bird's handgun.
*Taurus PT92: Eric took T-Bird's semi-auto handgun from him before taking revenge on the gang leader, using it in combination with Funboy's revolver.
*Mossberg 500 Cruiser: Eric took this pump action shotgun from Gideon's pawn shop and filled it with rings to destroy the shop in a gasoline explosion.
*SOG Government Agent combat knife: Eric used Tin Tin's combat knives against him to take vengeance on the gang member, he later used another one to kill one of Top Dollar's men.
*Katana: Eric took this sword from Top Dollar's collection to take out some thugs during the penthouse confrontation.
==Quotes==
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=== 1994 Film ===
=== 2024 Film ===
==Gallery==
===Images===
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==Trivia==
* , , , and were originally signed to play the title role in the remake.
* Johnny Depp was originally considered for the role before Brandon Lee was cast.
* Brandon's remaining scenes were filmed using a stunt double.
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