Mike Pearson

Mike Pearson is the main protagonist of the Phantasm series and the brother of Jody Pearson. After the deaths of his parents, Mike tries to convince him and their local ice cream man Reggie that a local mortician nicknamed The Tall Man is responsible for their deaths. 
He was portrayed by A. Michael Baldwin.
== Story ==
=== Phantasm ===
Mike is a precocious 13-year old who lives with his adult brother Jody after their parents passed away in an accident. Mike is very attached to him as a result, and lives in fear of Jody leaving. After noticing the Tall Man lift a coffin on his own, he investigates the Morningside mortuary and discovers the Tall Man is an alien. He escapes with one of the Tall Man's fingers, which proves his story to Jody. After the finger turns into an aggressive insect, Reggie is convinced as well and they eventually return to the mortuary to gather more evidence. There, they discover the Tall Man's Dimensional Fork, which he uses to send the shrunken down undead to his own Red Planet to use as slaves.
At the end of the film, it's revealed that Mike had dreamed it all up, and that Jody himself was also actually dead. Reggie consoles Mike and promises to look after him. As Mike goes up to his room to pack for a road trip, he finds the Tall Man waiting.
=== Phantasm II ===
Reggie rescues the unconscious Mike from the Tall Man and carries him out of his house shortly before it explodes. 
7 years later, Mike is in an institution and fakes recovery in order to hunt down the Tall Man and track down a girl he's been seeing in her dreams called Liz. After the Tall Man murders Reggie's family, he and Mike join forces and track the Tall Man to Perigord, Oregon alongside a friendly hitchhiker called Alchemy, who lives there.
They rescue Liz from the clutches of the Tall Man and inject the villain with acid to melt him down, seemingly killing him for good. After escaping in a hearse, Alchemy is revealed to have become an agent of the Tall Man and attacks Reggie, leaving Liz and Mike trapped in the back where they try to calm each other by saying it's only a dream. However, the Tall Man reveals himself, and proclaims that it is not.
== Characteristics ==
Mike is a perceptive and inventive individual, who holds family very dear to him after losing his parents. Once Jody disappears, Reggie becomes his closest companion as well as partner in the war against the Tall Man. 
He has considerable mechanic skills, repairing cars in Phantasm and Phantasm IV, and also constructing a smaller sphere all on his own after being imbued with the Tall Man's powers. Like Reggie, he is also an effective soldier, wielding a flame-torch in Phantasm II and a rocket launcher in Phantasm V.
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