A little boy who begs us to make the flashing lights stop, who suddenly becomes afraid of his best friend because she is telling him to do bad things, who laughs a horrible, cold laugh as he says he wants to kill his mom or dad and make his brother dead forever — and sometimes tries his best to follow through.
The president appeared tentative in his first appearances after the attacks, and then overly bellicose on Monday, when he made his "wanted: dead or alive" remarks at the Pentagon.
The mystic 17th-century Quiteño artist Miguel de Santiago allegedly killed one of his students to make his shocking sculpture of the dead Christ, and today you can still wonder at it in the San Augustin Monastery, where monks live in seclusion.
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.
Latterly, Roberts makes his compromises with "dead dad show" convention, speaking more frankly (albeit while still in dad disguise) about his feelings for the old man.
He then shoots himself dead, making his motive, if he had one, as inexplicable as his crime.
Raimi made his breakthrough with Evil Dead, the classic 1981 horror movie about the perils of staying in a woodland cabin.
In less than five years, Louis's father was dead, making his son a "child-king" and permitting his widow to serve as queen regent until the boy's majority, at 13.
Reid then donned a black mask made from his dead brother's vest, mounted his stallion, Silver, and roamed the West as the Lone Ranger to aid those in need, to fight evil, and to establish justice.
But one of them, the fiddler, Sullivan, is accidentally freed from Newgate in the novel's opening pages, and sets out for County Durham in fulfilment of a vow he made to his dead shipmate, Billy Blair, to tell his family what befell him.
