Henry Evans

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## Evil-doer

### Resources

High intelligence
Ability to wreak havoc
Minor technical skills
Cunning
Manipulation

### Hobby

Wreaking havoc.
Making what he calls "minor accidents".
Bullying his cousin Mark and his little sister Connie.
Manipulating anyone to get his way.
Killing innocent people no matter what it takes.

### Goals

Kill his brother, Richard (succeeded).Kill Mark and his own family, so that he would not be able to be sent to a reformatory (failed).

### Moral Event Horizon

Drowning his baby brother Richard over a rubber duck.
Shooting someone's dog and killing it for revenge.
Attempting to murder his sister Connie.
Dropping a toy dummy over a bridge onto a road, resulting in a massive car crash that caused numerous deaths.
Attempting to kill the rest of his own family and planning to lie about it.

### Kill Count

2 (including a dog)
4 (attempted)
Dozens (indirectly attempted)

### Crimes

Murder (inc. child murder)
Incrimination
Assault
Terrorism
Canicide
Underage smoking
Kidnapping
Fratricide
Public endangerment
Attempted mass murder (including double familicide; indirectly)
Vandalism
Defamation
Conning
Stalking
Torture
Attempted infanticide
Abuse

### Type of Villain

Envious Psychopath

**Henry Evans** is the main antagonist of the 1993 psychological thriller drama film *The Good Son*. He is the monstrous and arrogant cousin as well as the archenemy of Mark Evans, the film's titular main protagonist.

He was portrayed by Macaulay Culkin, making him the actor's only role as an antagonist so far.

## Personality

Henry was an extremely ruthless, dishonest, disrespectful, callous, dishonorable, rude, manipulative, sadistic, unsympathetic, selfish, and ungrateful child who never appreciated the well-being of others. He found the idea of death to be rather enthralling, with the exception of his own. Not only did Henry show no remorse for his actions, but he enjoyed them immensely; for example, after murdering an aggressive dog with his homemade crossbow, rather than feeling remorse or regret for what he had done, Henry instead felt only joy and satisfaction and had a broad, wicked smile on his face whilst watching the car accident he caused get bigger. Henry has been described as a Cluster B psychopath with antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders with sadistic features. Thus, while psychopathic and twisted, he is capable of understanding why his actions are so terrible.

It seemed that envy was what awoke the beast in Henry as he drowned his baby brother, Richard, in the bathtub purely out of jealousy for how his parents were paying more attention to him, even giving him Henry's favorite rubber duck, which Henry kept after he killed him as it was in his words; "mine before it was his", after finding that killing Richard had been so easy for him, Henry discovered that he did not feel saddened when bad things happened to other people and then learned to live by a philosophy; "once you realize that you can do anything, you're free. You could fly. Nobody can touch you, nobody".

Henry took surprisingly little to no care of his own health, rationalizing that smoking was okay because everyone would die one way or another. Had he lived to be older, he possibly would have started using other drugs and alcohol. Henry stated that he used to be afraid before realizing that doing horrible things made him happy instead of sad or had no impact on him either way. Therefore, it is possible that he is willing to die in order to torment others as long as it's done by his own terms.

Henry's reason for attempting to kill his little sister and mother seemed to stem from a desire to devastate Mark more than from jealousy, as he noticed how close Mark was becoming to them both and had already demonstrated that other people's suffering thrilled him. Henry had already made it clear he disliked (and even hated) his sister, Connie but it was odd how he chose to kill his mother instead of Mark. He possibly preferred her to be dead than be a mother/mother-figure to anyone else or felt that she was too close to learning the truth about Richard's death.

Henry never felt any genuine love for anyone, even for his family, it was likely that he only wanted Richard out of the way so he would get all the attention and praise of his family and so that they would serve him. Henry was horrible to Connie; aside from trying to kill her, he would psychologically and physically torture her on many occasions and addressed her as "vermin" at one point.

Henry was also surprisingly calculating for his young age, he was able to make the murder of Richard and the attempted murder of Connie seem like an accident. He also stretched out his hand towards Connie to make it seem like he was trying to save her, though considering his sadistic personality, he may have also tantalized his sister by keeping his hand right out of her reach.

Had Henry gotten away with killing his mother, he could have lied about it, having been there when it happened and it would have been surmised that she had either fallen or committed suicide due to her heartbreak over Richard's death, the latter of which is something everyone knew she felt guilty for. Henry also convinced everyone that Mark's grievance over his mother was driving him to insanity, keeping all suspicion off himself, and was even willing to blame him for the traffic collision he caused.

At first, Henry's psychopathic nature had simply been due to jealousy, but since then it had developed to the point that another person's life having value was a fact that Henry simply ignored. The shine he took to Mark at first was possible because he saw Mark as a potential pawn rather than a friend, as he viewed everyone he knew as disposable if they no longer satisfied his needs or posed a threat to his freedom (which was what he valued above everything else).

What was really disturbing about Henry was that he understood the difference between right and wrong, and knew perfectly well that what he was doing was bad but he did not care. If he wanted to do something and if it was within his reach to do it, he would - without caring at all about how it affected other people or, as mentioned above, if he endangered his life in the process.

Despite Henry's interest in death and enjoyment for causing it to others, he valued his own life and was afraid of dying himself; as far as Henry was concerned, it was OK for everyone except himself to die or be in pain (or at least, refusing to let others kill him unless he wants to), he briefly tried to convince Mark to follow in his footsteps and give up all traces of empathy so his life would be better, possibly implying that Henry thought everyone should be like him. Henry also had a ridiculously excessive sense of self-worth, as he felt that he was entitled to everything he wanted just because he wanted it, with no rational reasoning.

Henry's greatest weakness was his incapability to understand love completely, this was evident by when he still thought that his mother would always love him unconditionally, even after he had subtly admitted to killing Richard to his mother and then tried to kill her despite her trying to reach him upon finding out his true nature. Henry also asked Mark if a person is expected to cry at their mother's funeral, apparently only guessing that it is something most people would do.

## Biography

At first to Mark, Henry was nice and well-mannered. But Henry started to show his true behavior after showing Mark his nail gun that he made in his shed, using it to kill a neighborhood dog, and starting a pile-up on a highway using a dummy. Henry then starts to make dark threats towards Mark about trying to kill his little sister, Connie, and his parents. One night, Mark is convinced that Henry put something in his family's food, which makes Mark take all the food out of the refrigerator and throw it down the drain. Henry then took Connie ice-skating and purposely threw her towards the thin ice. He crawled towards the ice to make it seem like he was trying to help, only to leave his hand out and watch her drown. Henry then started to show his true behavior towards Susan after violently playing tug-of-war with her over Richard's rubber ducky before running to the cemetery and throwing the duck in the well. This indicates that Richard meant nothing to him. After framing Mark for his sociopathic behavior, Henry goes on a walk with Susan to the cliffs until she asks Henry if he killed Richard, which Henry responds with "What if I did?" Henry then runs up to the cliffs after thinking Susan is going to send him to one of those "places" and says that he would rather be dead. Susan follows him, fearing that the boy will turn suicidal.

Henry hides behind a bush and pushes Susan off a cliff, and is about to drop a rock on her to finish her off, but Mark tackles Henry to the ground, initiating a fight between the two. They roll off the cliff but are luckily caught by Susan, who then has each boy in each hand. Henry begs and pleads for her to give him her other hand. However, she lets go of Henry after she thinks that he is going to try and kill her if he survives. Henry falls to his death on the rocks below. Susan and Mark watch his dead body being washed away into the sea.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* While he seems to want to be Mark's friend at first, it's indicated that he doesn't want any friendship and would later plan to kill Mark.
* While he does not entirely fear death, he also refuses to take care of his health for the sake of his family, more or less.
* He drowned his baby brother over a rubber duck as well as out of pure envy of getting more attention.
* He built a philosophy that if people rid themselves of morals, then they are free to do any evil acts they wanted to without anything holding them back. Indeed, he never stops to consider whether his actions will hurt people or not, unless he wants a specific person dead.
* He killed a dog with a nail gun and smiled when he lied that he was "just trying to scare him", leaving Mark horrified.
* He convinced his cousin Mark to help him bring a dummy named "Mr. Highway" to a bridge. When Henry pushes the dummy over into a highway, it results in a massive car accident that could have killed or injured lots of innocent people, with him smiling at it with no remorse whatsoever.
* He tried to drown his little sister in a frozen lake when they were skating together. To add further insult, he was pretending to reach in to try to save her.
* He kept trying to manipulate his family, as well as Mark's therapist, into making Mark look like the crazy one instead of himself.
* He plotted to kill his family so he wouldn't get sent to a mental hospital or prison, especially his mother when she was suspicious of his behavior, whom he tried to throw off a cliff.
* He showed himself to be a hypocrite to the point of hating his mother deeply, yet being surprised to see her choosing Mark over him and letting him fall from the cliff to his defeat and demise, suggesting he took her love to him for granted. Furthermore, this was just after he tried pushing her to fall to her death.
	+ It's very clear that had his mother saved him and not Mark, Henry wouldn't have learned anything from the experience and would have continued to harm and kill innocent people for his own amusement.
* Despite being a child, he is shown to have a clear sense of right and wrong and commits his crimes willingly. On top of that, his death was not played for sympathy either; if anything, any possible sympathy played in the scene goes to his mother, who saw no other option than to let her son fall to his death to put an end to his threat even though it costed her another one of her children.