Jupiter

Mars (son)

Mercury (son)

Mama (wife/partner)

The Reaper (brother)

**Jupiter** is the main antagonist of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes.

## Biography

Jupiter is the patriarch of the cannibalistic hill people and commands authority to his children. Jupiter is also the most aggressive of the family, usually more set to anger than his other family members. His nose is also split open from when his father beat him with a tire iron.

### Backstory

According to Fred, Jupiter was born irregularly for unknown reasons, causing his wife's death. He was also bigger than usual size and much more aggressive, even eventually killing his sister. When Fred realized what Jupiter had done, he severely beat him with a tire iron and left him to die in the hills. Jupiter survived, however, eventually fell in with a prostitute named Mama, with whom he had 4 children; 3 sons and a daughter. Together, they lived off killing and cannibalizing unlucky people passing through.

### Attack on the Carters

After the Carter family gets stranded in the desert and Bob goes off back to Fred's gas station, Jupiter strikes. After Fred explains everything about the Hill People to Bob, Jupiter breaks through a window and drags Fred outside, where he beats him to death with a tire iron. Jupiter then attacks and knocks out Bob. Later, Jupiter confronts his daughter Ruby about trying to leave and taunts her with Fred's death before tying her in place to prevent her from sneaking away. After that, Jupiter crucifies Bob to a tree and has his children, Pluto and Mars, attack the family trailer after setting Bob on fire to distract the family from the trailer. Bob dies from the burning and his wife and oldest daughter are killed by Mars. The two then escape with Bob's granddaughter. Soon afterward, Jupiter's third son, Mercury, is killed by the family dog, Beast.

After hearing of his son's death, Jupiter is enraged and goes with Pluto to finish off the rest of the Carters. On the way to the trailer, Pluto is attacked by Beast, who bites out his achilles tendon. Jupiter is forced to go on alone, to which Beast bites out Pluto's throat. Jupiter arrives at the trailer where he finds the mother's body in a chair. This turns out to be a trap set by the remaining children, who snare Jupiter on a rope and drag him towards them with the car engine. The engine gives out before the trap can work and Jupiter cuts himself free, now intent on killing the children.

### Death

The children go inside the trailer and Jupiter tries to get in, but they temporarily subdue him before leaving the trailer, rigging it with matches on the sliding door and a gas leak. Jupiter doesn't notice this and quickly slides open the door, setting the matches alight and causing the trailer to explode, catching Jupiter in the inferno. However, he survives and attacks the children again, almost killing the son before the daughter strikes him in the back several times with a hatchet before being shot twice in the torso by the son, finally killing him.

### After-Death

After Jupiter's death, the Carters escape after disposing of the rest of the clan (excluding Ruby, who had helped them). However, Pluto is saved by Jupiter's older brother, The Reaper. The two then hide out in the hills for 8 years before encountering a group of teens, Ruby being among them. Reaper is able to kill Ruby, but he and Pluto meet their ends shortly afterwards.