Jedidiah Sawyer

## Leatherface

Leather

Nubbins Sawyer (older brother)

Higgins Sawyer (older brother)

Robert Sawyer (older brother)

Anne Sawyer (paternal aunt)

Edward Sawyer (older cousin)

Tinker Sawyer (older cousin)

Alfredo Sawyer (older cousin)

Lolita Sawyer (niece)

Vilmer Slaughter (younger cousin)

Walter Slaughter (younger cousin)

Darla Slaughter (cousin-in-law)

Butchery

Extreme strength and endurance

Identity dysphoria

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## Grandfather Knows Best

42 years before the events of the original film, The elderly Enoch Sawyer takes notice to his grandson Drayton's macabre and sadistic behavior toward animals. He soon teaches him out to treat them and skin them, as well as, "how to play with them," just as the boys in his day did. Against Drayton's learning, Enoch singularly provides for his family-- his son, in his forties, being injured in a workplace mishap, through mysterious, secretive means-- murder and highway robbery, and soon, blood leeching-- to satiate his perverse desires, known only perhaps to little Drayton.

When Drayton grows, he will take an interest in preparing the slaughtered cattle into chillies..

## The Texas Massacre/The Boys Sawyer

A young, developmentally disabled Jed Sawyer (at this point unblemished) is resistantly moral as his family slides into increasing perversion. Oldest brother, Drayton, who took on the patriarchal role with their father's death, is a well-hiding, charming sadist. The twins Nubbins and Robert (Chop-Top) are unbridled young psychopaths, only in line at Drayton's order.

When an accident (caused by Jed, though only he knows this) in the slaughterhouse in which Jed and their mother work kills their mother, the 'house is shut down and the Sawyers are out of jobs. Deciding to exact revenge on the employers they see responsible, Drayton leads the twins to "take care" of the suits who were looking to shut down the slaughterhouse house to begin with to replace it with mechanized means. When a comparison between the blue collar works and cattle is made, the boys Sawyer see a vile opportunity.

Unable to immediately acquire the beef man, they instead kidnap his two sons and daughter from the highway, with Nubbins luring them to the house as a Hitchhiker. The challenged Jed, berated by his siblings, is sympathetic to the three, particularly the daughter, and tries to help and feed them, now taking on the roles of his mother. A notable aspect that separates Jed from the twins is the lack of the birthmark they both have. He sees this blemish as a mark that they are evil and he is not.

At one point, Drayton offers her freedom if she kills Jed. She refuses, even after being fed her brothers.

By the end of the story, the daughter, the last survivor and object of Jed's affection now, lied to him, disobeying a promise she made, just as the slaughterhouse promised security to the Sawyers. In a fit of rage he attacks her. But as she defends herself she strikes him with a meat hook. Noticeably, though not debilitatingly, scarring his face. Now he sees himself as similar to his brothers. Wanting to remove this accountability and conceal his blemish, he cuts her face off, just has Drayton casually had her brother's, which he discarded. Leatherface wears hers, just in time for Nubbins and Robert to return with the beef man. They goad Leatherface, and with the Chainsaw the family had been using to cut up cattle, he kills the man.

In a post credit, Jed is seen turning the girl's face into the pretty woman, his mother's into the old lady, and the beef man's into the killer

## The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 3

After Benny shoots up all of the Sawyers, only grandpa and Leatherface are left alive, although Leather is not aware of this.

## Batman, Scooby-Doo, and Tommy Jarvis, Too: Freddy/Jason/Michael/Leatherface

When we last left Leatherface he has been caring for his family. Freddy jumps through Leatherface's dream to the Sawyer house. There he quickly dispatches of W.E. and interacts with Drayton, musing their similar lethal ways and depravities; Freddy is disgusted by the notion of eating people, and Drayton remarks that there's no good point in killing kids, though their meat is tender; as Drayton holds Leather at bay for killing W.E., and muses that Freddy is probably going to have to kill him, and then Freddy does. A squealing Leatherface attacks Freddy, who, though still dangerous and limber, is fairly vulnerable in the waking world, and thus has to break Leather like a dog to get his submission. He ends his rage by jamming the chainsaw with his claws, and grabs his mallet from him and knocks him out. In dream world we get a look into Leather’s mania, and Freddy terrorizes him a little, because, after all, he is a monster, and then gains his compliance, telling him, “I'm your daddy now.” Since Freddy can't yet pull Leather through the dream world, they have to steal a truck to get to the others. The dialogue between Drayton and Freddy works so well because they are both morbid psychopaths with whom we can identify because they are charming and funny and as such we forget their depravity.