Robert Thorn

Robert Thorn is the main protagonist of the 1976 horror movie, The Omen. He was played by the late - who also portrayed Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, Sam Bowden in Cape Fear, and Keith Mallory in The Guns of Navarone - in the original, and by - who also portrayed Cotton Weary in the Scream franchise - in the 2006 remake.
==Biography==
===Past===
Robert was one of the sons of Reginald Thorn and inherited his fortune, allowing him to continue running Thorn Industries. He and his brother Richard both went to Davidson Military Academy in Chicago, Illinois. Robert was an athlete as well and was the quarterback for the academy's rugby team.
===The Omen===
Then he became the CEO of Thorn Industries and married Kathy, his high school sweetheart. At the beginning of the events of The Omen, Robert and Kathy are in Rome, Italy, where she has a son in a catholic hospital on June 6. When he gets to the hospital, Father Spiletto tells him that the baby is stillborn, and he convinces Robert to adopt another infant, whose mother has died and left him alone in the world, without telling Kathy the truth. Fearing that Kathy cannot handle the grief of losing a child, Robert agrees, and adopts the child, whom he names Damien.
Later they move to London and Robert becomes US Ambassador to Great Britain and on Damien's 5th birthday their nanny hangs herself, which freaks out both Robert and Kathy. The next day, he runs into a photographer, Keith Jennings, and accidently breaks his camera, Keith tells him he owes him and then Father Brennan sees and talks to Robert and tells him that he saw Damien's birth and his real mom. Robert has the priest removed before he reveals to him who Damien truly is believing it's blackmail.
On the same day Damien's new nanny, Mrs. Baylock comes to the Thorn home and the next day he and Kathy take Damien to a wedding, where Damien attacks Kathy because he sees the church and then they go back home. Later Robert and Kathy talk about Damien's health, which is strangely perfect. Then he finds Damien's watchdog outside of his room, which Mrs. Baylock found without asking nor telling Robert and Kathy, and Robert angrily demands that she have it taken away in the morning.
The next day he realizes Father Brennan has been following him and later Kathy admits that she's scared of Damien. Then the next day the priest tells Robert to meet with him the next day. He meets with Father Brennan, who says that Damien is the son of The Devil, his wife is pregnant, their unborn child will die, then Kathy will die also, and then when Damien inherits all that is Robert's he'll die. Robert refusing to believe him, tells him that he never wants to see the priest again.
Then Robert discovers Kathy is pregnant and that Father Brennan is dead and talks to and sees his wife's psychiatrist, who says that Kathy believes Damien is not their son and that he's evil. Robert refuses to have an abortion and Kathy falls from the second floor of their home because of Damien and Mrs. Baylock, Kathy lives and recovers but loses the unborn baby. That evening, Jennings calls Robert and asks him to come to his place. There Jennings tells Robert that Father Brennan had been following him for a while, on the day Damien was born, a comet turned into a star like the star of Bethlehem, over the continent of Europe, and the time of Damien's birth is the number of the beast 6th hour of the 6th day of the 6th month.
Then they go to Rome and find out that the hospital, where Damien was born burned to the ground soon afterward and that the rebuilt hospital is in the Monastery of San Benedetto. Robert and Jennings realize the events the biblical poem says is the son of The Devil and when Damien was born too. A monk at the monastery tells them the meaning of the number of the beast and Father Spiletto writes down that Damien's mom is in Cerveteri.
They go there and find the grave of Damien's real mother, who was a jackal, and Robert's son was killed so Damien could get adopted by them. Then a cadre of Hellhounds attack Robert and Jennings, who escape before they can destroy them. Robert calls Kathy and tells her to meet him and Jennings but she is murdered by Mrs. Baylock. Then Robert decides he wants to kill Damien and he and Jennings go to Megiddo, where Bugenhagen gives Robert daggers to destroy Damien and that he'll find proof on Damien 666 somewhere on his body. Later Jennings is killed in an accident, where he loses his head, after Robert refuses to kill Damien.
Then Robert returns home with the daggers of Megiddo and locks Damien's watchdog in the basement and then Robert discovers that Damien is indeed the son of The Devil, under his hair was the Mark of the Beast. Then Mrs. Baylock attacks Robert and attempts to kill him but is killed by him. He then takes Damien to a church with the cops following him; Robert hesitates due to his emotional attachment to the boy, despite its demonic origins, but resolves to save the world by trying to destroy Damien with daggers, but is prevented due to being shot and killed by the cops.
The death of Mrs. Baylock and his attempted murder of Damien evidently covered up, as Robert and Kathy receive state funerals; among the important attendees, is the US President and his wife, between which stands Damien, thus Robert's friends have made a connection with what they believe to be his innocent orphan child. Also, indicating the prophecy of the Beast rising from the "endless sea," which means world of politics, is well under way.
=== Damien - Omen II ===
Due to being an orphan, Damien was adopted by Robert's brother, Richard. While Robert's "insanity" was hidden by the public, Richard believed that his brother did go insane, since Damien seemed like a normal young boy, which seemed validated by 7 years of unremarkable behaviour and average childhood mannerisms. When worrying signs do arise that point to Damien's inhuman nature, such as inexplicable deaths and a school field trip mishap that left every boy, except Damien, with some level of sickness, Richard initially remained in denial for fear of succumbing to insanity like he believed his brother did.
Upon the mysterious death of Richard's son, Mark, who had a brain aneurysm when alone with Damien, his suspicions drove him to investigate the boy by going to New York to see Dr. Warren, who was an associate of late archaeologist Carl Bugenhagen; despite Bugenhagen's death, he had the sacred daggers and the mural of Yigael's Wall sent to Thorn Museum, curated by Warren, to alert him of the Antichrist and provide the tools to kill him. The mural was still in a trainyard in New York, thus Richard followed Warren to inspect it; when Richard saw the mural, he was horrified to see Damien's image, which made him realise that Robert didn't go insane, but was trying to save the world from his Satanic son. Richard's belief was reinforced by the sudden violent death of Warren caused by an out of control train cart.
Richard rushed back to the Thorn Museum, to collect the Daggers of Megiddo to complete the task he brother was prevented from doing. Upon his return, Richard has Damien picked up from his graduation at the academy while taking his wife, Ann, to the museum in order for them to retrieve the daggers, and protect her. However, when he grabbed the daggers, Ann revealed herself as a Satanist - likely the Whore of Babylon - and she used the daggers to fatally stab him. When Damien arrived at the museum, he overheard Ann's declarations of loyalty, but used his powers to make the boiler explode, causing a fire that killed Ann and finished off Richard, leaving Damien an orphan once more, yet with access to his family's corporation.
=== The Omen III: The Final Conflict ===
As an adult, Damien Thorn had inherited the CEO position from his family's conglomerate, and he also entered politics as a diplomat like his late adopted father, Robert. Damien had embraced his Satanic destiny, so was aiming to prevent the Second Coming of Christ, which would threaten his dominion over Earth.
Damien began a romantic relationship with journalist Kate Reynolds, while also sculpting her young son, Peter, into being his disciple. His paranoia of being overthrown by a prophesied Christ child caused Damien to have his followers murder several infants, who were born during an alignment of stars in the Cassiopeia constellation on March 24, 1981, as it made what is described as a second Star of Bethlehem,
Led by Father DeCarlo, priests recovered the Daggers of Migiddo from the ruins of the Thorn Museum; despite their efforts, Damien killed all but DeCarlo.
Reynolds encounters DeCarlo and he reveals Damien's true identity to her while giving her evidence of the murders. The following morning she discovers Damien's birthmark. Reynolds eventually agreed to assist DeCarlo in the hope of saving her son and the world at large.
Reynolds tricks Damien with the promise to bring him to the church ruins where the Christ child is in exchange for Peter. The plan backfires when Damien spots DeCarlo first and uses Peter as a human shield against the dagger. As Peter dies in his mother's arms, Damien throttles Father DeCarlo before calling out for Christ to appear before him and "face him". This leaves Damien open to be stabbed in the back by Reynolds using DeCarlo's Megiddo dagger.
Damien staggers outside, and in the archway appeared a light that embodied Jesus Christ; Damien mocked him for believing he had won, but died immediately afterwards. DeCarlo reappears carrying Peter's body and hands him to a praying Kate. With the death of the Antichrist, the world would be saved by Christ's return, and the untimely demises of Robert, his entire family, and everyone who had been murdered during the Satanic plot had been avenged.
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