Howard Howe

### Friends

Wallace Bryton (former acquaintance)Mr. Tuskegee (former trusted janitor at his childhood foster boys home)

### Enemies

Wallace Bryton
Abusive clergies from his childhood
The whole of humanity

### Relationship

1st wife (former wife)2nd wife (former wife)

### Occupation

Chef (former)
Sailor (former)

## Other

### Goal

Turn Wallace into a human walrus (succeeded)Get Wallace to kill him to let his former walrus friend stand-in have another chance at life (succeeded)

### Portrayed by

Michael Parks

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 —Howard's most popular line

***Howard Howe*** is the main antagonist of the 2014 body-horror / psychological thriller / dark comedy film *Tusk*.

## Appearance

Howard has a light rose skin tone, light grey, wavy, medium length hair, a beard, and blue eyes. His eyebrows are also light on his skin, and his eyes are noticeably sad and plentiful looking. He also has black aviator-like glasses on in many scenes.

When Howard and Wallace meet, Howard is wearing a formal black suit and buttoned-up vest underneath, with a light blue-grey button-down underneath the black vest, with the collars popping out. A dark red pocket square with fancy dark patterns on it accompanies the right side of his suit. He is also wearing flared dress pants, black loafers, and black socks.

In the flashback of him meeting Ernest Hemingway, he has black, straight, short hair with his bangs put to the side. He is also wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and a short, white chef hat. In a flashback later on, his hair is messy and puffy, and he has a messy beard. His short-sleeved shirt is torn up and dirty, and his eyes are more manic looking.

When Wallace wakes up, and during the scene when Howard sews Wallace's arms to his torso, he is wearing a brown vest with a grey back side over his light blue-grey button-down, and is wearing the same flared dress pants, loafers and socks. During Wallace's surgery, he is also wearing white surgical gloves.

When Wallace is revealed to be a walrus, Howard is wearing a dark green shirt, resemblance to a Renaissance shirt. He is also wearing grey pants, and wearing his black loafers. However, when he swims with Wallace, he is seen without any of his clothing on, though he does cover up with a white towel after getting out of the water.

Howard is seen with a shaved body, and a slight belly. Despite being old, he does not have many wrinkles on his body.

In a flashback with Guy LaPointe, Howard (called Bartholomew Moseeay during the flashback) has no beard, shorter hair, and looks much younger. He has different, black reading glasses with beige temples. He is wearing a blue denim jacket with off-white fur lining the inside and collars, with a black undershirt.

When Howard and Wallace fight, Howard is wearing a full walrus suit made from sewn human skin.

## Personality

At the beginning of the film, Howard is shown to be very formal, old fashioned, reserved, and somewhat enigmatic. He often speaks in an almost poetic way, but can sometimes be a little crude - though, he tries to be polite or humorous about it. He is shown to be open minded, and likes to listen to Wallace's own experiences and freely makes jokes with him. He is shown to be intensely interested in historical events. He is also shown to be proud of his Canadian heritage.

However, once his plan to turn Wallace into a human-walrus, he starts to slowly show his true side. When Wallace discovers that his leg has been amputated, Howard is apathetic towards Wallace's loss, and even starts laughing at Wallace's expense.

He often makes offensive or crude jokes, such as making fun of Ally's accent, mocking Canadians by saying "aboot" and assuming they're all nice, making jokes about nazis, and often making references to genitalia or sexual activities openly to others. Despite Wallace admitting that he does awful things, he tries making excuses for himself to normalize what he does and to not feel bad about it.

Wallace is shown to be very extroverted, often seeking adventure or dopamine, which he does by finding eccentric people to interview for his podcast and by sleeping with many people. He often has time focusing on things, which causes him to change subject a lot. He is hyper, often talking quickly in a comedic fashion and being dramatic about his emotions and tone of voice.

However, after Wallace is kidnapped by Howard and retrieves his phone, his calls of desperation to Ally and Teddy are very sincere. He thinks these are his last moments alive, and apologizes to Ally about everything he's done. During this time in the film, Wallace is shown to have more will to fight for his life and show more humanity.

Soon after Wallace is successfully surgically transformed into a walrus, Wallace gives up his will to live, possibly showing that Wallace is not all that strong-willed of a person. In the end of the film, Wallace is shown to still have his humanity in him, and regrets his past, as shown through his tears and cries towards Ally.

### Howard's past personality

Ally states many times that Wallace was a much more loving, kind, and selfless man in the past. However, Wallace denies this by claiming that his past self was geeky, unfunny, a cry baby, made Stars Wars puns, and didn't know how to make proper money.