Major Sweets

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"**Major** **Sweets‏‎**" is a significant character from *Halloween Horror Nights*.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

The boy who would become Major Sweets was born in 1905. His parents owned the historic *Tribute Theater* playhouse at fifth avenue in New York City (though sometimes identified as the small town of *Hollow Hills*). The boy grew up often being left alone in the second story of their house, rarely leaving and having few friends, though he still adored his parents.

From 1930 to 1931, the playhouse was turned into a movie-theatre and updated their logo. The theater owners' son considered the movie theater to be his second home which he could use for escapism. While working the concession stand, he made friends with a young girl who after learning his favourite candy was a lollipop, would regularly buy two lollipops with one for him and one for her. This girl frequently returned to the theater and became inseparable friends with the boy before eventually getting a job at the theater during weekends to be with him more.

#### Candy Poisonings

In early September 1939, the owners of the theater disappeared. Their last known location was their office which was inexplicably left filled with candy. Unknown to the public, the boy had actually discovered the corpses of his parents propped up within the Tribute Theater's theatre 1 (and years later deduced that they were poisoned with a poison left in the theater). Their 24 year old son put out a missing-persons bulletin before taking ownership of the theater to, "Make his parents proud".

In the following three years, the theater diminished in popularity with his childhood friend as the only employee. One night, after the friend brought him two lollipops on her while he was sad in the ticket booth, the boy got an idea to invent a new form of candy which they would include free with each ticket bought to boost sales. Having nothing left to lose, the two experimented in engineering a new form of candy during which time they found a bottle of poison in the theater that made the boy realize the cause of his parents' death. When the boy had a breakdown from the realization, his companion suggested that they use the poison to poison the candy and to hopefully poison whoever murdered his parents.

The free treat with each ticket offer caused the theater to once again boom in popularity causing many to get sick and die. In 1942, mysterious disappearances were linked to poisoned concessions served at the theater. The then 27 year old owner and his girlfriend were suspected and wanted for questioning, but they fled town causing a manhunt. In 1943, the theater was closed, and funds from the building's sale was arranged to go to the families of those who disappeared at the theater.

#### Sweet Revenge

The boy became a candy-making tycoon known as "Major Sweets" who lead the *Major Sweets Candy Co.* while his girlfriend is believed to have become his accomplice, "Miss Treats". He was overweight, had an eccentric moustache, brown/yellow crooked-teeth, and a large veiny and knobbly nose.

In 1953, the mayor announced that a candy-maker benefactor was arranging for the closed-down Tribute Theater to be turned into a family-friendly Halloween attraction; though said candy-maker appeared to be using it as a means to commit murders. The experience was set to open in the year 1954 and included a ride along with an, "Eerie Emporium" and theming to a small-town called *Hollow Hills*.

At the 1954 Halloween parade, Major Sweet and Miss Treats distributed a candy which turned children into ravenous murderers who attacked the adults. The mayor's own daughter would stab her father in the back with a knife, given to her by Major Sweets after the mayor presented Major Sweets with a key to the city. Several other grotesque murders took place, such as people having their severed heads wrapped like lollipops, a head being forced into a snow cone machine.

The later history of Major Sweets, Miss Treats and their company remains a mystery.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Halloween Horror Nights 31

Various locations sold a Major Sweets ice cream sandwich.

##### Horrors of Halloween

In the scarezone *Horrors of Halloween*, the Pumpkin Lord had various items connected to Major Sweets' Halloween crime while also accompanied by one of the mutated trick 'r' treaters.

##### Sweet Revenge

Major Sweets was the main-antagonist of this scarezone. His backstory was elaborated on in the tie-in audio story "Sweet Revenge".

#### Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store

The 2022 Tribute Store was set in the Tribute Theater after being turned into a Halloween attraction then abandoned. One of the rooms within the store was a depiction of Hollow Hills. Also in 2022, the tribute store sold candy from the *Major Sweets Candy Co.*.

## Trivia

* Sweet Revenge is often presented as being part of the fictional town of Hollow Hills, though newspaper clippings tying into Sweet Revenge found at the Tribute Store officially identified the Tribute Theater as being in New York City.
* The Tribute Theater was also setting for the *Summer Tribute Store* of 2022.
* Who murdered Major Sweets' parents has yet to be solved.
	+ One speculation is that the murderer could be a separate, or yet-to-be-introduced HHN murderer character.
	+ Another theory is that it could have been the girl who became Miss Treats as the poison was kept within the theater (where she worked), it allowed her partner Major Sweets to inherit the building, and as she was the one who encouraged Major Sweets to poison the concession stands.
* Major Sweets' Legion of Horror is unknown. It is however most likely that he would be sorted into the *Morphans Legion* given how Morphans are typically those who corrupt or perverse childish/childhood imagery and personas.
* Major Sweets' licence plate is "SW33TS" with the word "Major" printed overtop.
* Major Sweets' deformed nose may have been the result of *Rhinophyma*.
* *Sweet Revenge* and *Bugs: Eaten Alive* were both HHN 31 attractions set in the 1950s.

## External links

* *Major Sweets on the Halloween Horror Nights wiki.*

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2022/10/review-sweet-revenge-scare-zone-at-universal-orlandos-halloween-horror-nights-31/
2. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2022/08/universal-orlando-resort-reveals-full-look-at-specialty-food-and-beverages-for-halloween-horror-nights-31/
3. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2022/08/more-props-food-booth-decorations-added-as-halloween-horror-nights-31-nears-at-universal-studios-florida/