Horton Boone

> My mother always said, never trust a man who can't handle his Whiskey.
>
> Horton Boone., Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

**Horton Boone** is the leader and self-appointed preacher of a New Orleans resistance cell in the US. He is shown to be a drunkard, a Marxist-Leninist communist, and an anti-capitalist as well as anti-fascist.

According to Grace Walker, Horton has all connections to all remaining Resistance cells in the U.S. As the result, it is important for B.J. to recruit him to rally and unite all the Resistance cells to ignite the Second American Revolution.

## Background

Before the Nazi's occupation of the US, he highly advocated against the military intervention in Europe conducted by the U.S. and its Allies as he felt this action was simply meant for the capitalists of Wall Street to fill their pockets with war profits while sending innocent young men to their deaths. During WWII, he led a small group that advocated for civil rights as part of their communist beliefs. After the Nazi's occupation of the US, he formed a left-wing resistance group to fight back against the Nazis with little success, to the point that he nearly gave up hope, merely fighting to survive in the isolated ghetto of New Orleans until, after an initial disagreement over political ideology, he is recruited by B.J. into the Kreisau Circle. His group also managed to steal and reprogram a Panzerhund. Horton meets with Anya and Fergus/Wyatt and boards the Eva's Hammer while B.J. distracts the Nazis until he returns on the sub.

Boone aids the resistance by telling them to defeat the Nazis, is to stop the Ausmerzer and B.J. knows that it has an security system called ODIN. After returning from Venus, Horton is part of B.J.'s surprise party, and is eventually slapped by Shoshana. The following morning, Horton assists B.J. and Anya's attempt to wake Fergus by using the hangover cure that he has. In Wyatt's timeline, Horton doesn't appear until B.J. assists in finding Wyatt and stopping him from committing suicide.

After B.J. and the resistance gain control of the Ausmerzer, Horton, along with Grace, Anya, B.J., and Fergus/Wyatt enter Jimmy Carver's show to assassinate Frau Engel. After doing, Horton joins the group on telling America to stand against the Nazis, starting the revolution.

## Personality

Animated, eccentric and verbose, Horton styles his behavior and mannerisms to that of a street preacher - indeed, his use of Biblical references indicate he may have been involved with the Church in a past life before becoming a Communist. By his own reckoning, Horton has been fighting a war before the Nazis arrived in America, against the ruling political elite and the new class of Wall Street bankers and industrialists he believed exploited the average citizen with unacceptable impunity. Horton passionately if somewhat condescendingly extols equality and civil rights for all, and despises the hypocrisy afforded by privilege and power, to the point where he and his followers dodged the draft on principle. Upon meeting B.J., he quickly summarizes his compartmentalized, soldier-like personality as that of a jar-head, a lackey of the old establishment, a "pawn, a patsy of cantankerous men in marble mansions!". Horton prides himself on being an unpredictable actor - his political argument with B.J. has him play an emotional gauntlet of fanaticism, resignation, indignation, anger, contempt, camaraderie, bitterness and ultimately, glee - like Grace, he does so as a character test to draw out B.J.'s (drunken) passion as he challenges them on their weakness and goads them into joining a nation-wide revolution.

In the time since America's occupation, Horton has developed into a wily military leader - he has formed contacts with multiple Resistance groups across the country, giving him access to numerous individuals with useful skills. Resistance attacks under his leadership are spread out and small scale, with even the Kreasiu Circle unable to determine their base of operations, and despite New Orleans being walled off and turned into a murderous hellhole, Horton and his crew are clownishly defiant, drinking, playing music and screaming litanies into a megaphone even as they fend off waves of Nazi death squads.

Horton is the proud creator of Horton's Special, a particularly lethal type of moonshine brewed in the improvised distillery set up at the bank. Thanks to his enhanced supersoldier body, B.J. is just able to take multiple shots before passing out, earning him Horton's esteem. He later brews a batch aboard the Eva's Hammer for B.J.'s 50th birthday, with Mary Sue giving Grace the recipe.

## Gallery

Horton's bio.Horton meets William "Terror-Billy" Blazkowicz.Horton with B.J. and Paris Jack with a reprogrammed Panzerhund.Horton's wanted poster created by the Nazi.Horton tries to make Shosana to drink his special alcohol.Horton makes the statement about all the lies the Nazi fed to the US people all these years after Engel's execution.Horton with Wyatt and Grace.Horton's poster among resistance members, mission to save Dimitri Fedorov on Venus.
## Trivia

* Horton Boone appears to be a composite of various real-world historical figures from the United States' "Sewer Socialism" movement which came to prominence between the First and Second World Wars, including activist and Socialist Party USA candidate, Eugene V. Debs. As well as Louisiana governor Huey "Kingfish" Long.
* His character could be seen to be a homage to The Reverend Horton Heat, a psychobilly band from Dallas.
* It is possible that BJ could have the first "Horton's special" whisky because his new body has a more powerful metabolism.