Larry is a playable killer and the villain protagonist in Blood Maniac, and Christmas Massacre, as well as the intended player character of the demo game Texas Butcher.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Larry is an adult Caucasian male with short, dark brown hair. He is about 6'5" tall[1] and visibly overweight. He wears a wide variety of costumes and masks throughout his appearances.
In Blood Maniac, Larry starts out dressed in a cream-white one-piece pajama with a blue dotted pattern, blue gloves, and white socks. Notably, he is unmasked, but his face is seen completely pixelated.
In Texas Butcher, Larry dons his Baby outfit with a baby mask, a white shirt, and blue overalls. As a child, Larry wears a horse mask and is wearing nothing other than his underwear.
In Christmas Massacre, Larry dons a Santa Claus mask, a filthy Christmas hat, and a classic red-and-white Santa suit, drenched in copious amounts of blood. At the start of the game and the beginning of each day, he wears only a white pair of underpants, his mask, and his hat.
Personality[]
Larry is best described as an overgrown baby and literal man-child. His most notable trait is his delusional mindset, making him heavily disconnected from reality, with his fantasy usually blending over what is actually happening. Having always has been a troubled child, Larry never moved on from this state, even as an adult, remaining oddly childlike, almost infantile at times, living in a cluttered house with numerous TVs constantly running, having imaginary friends, who are really extensions of himself and his twisted desires, and ostensibly playing dress-up in preparation of or while committing his murders. Though he possesses the capacity to drive a car during his crimes and makes use of sneak tactics while invading homes, his apparent motivation for killing is typically impetuous, either in petty revenge for minor slights or justified reactions to his unsocial behavior, and following simple-minded logic of ridding the world of people he perceives as "bad" or, during Christmas Season, "naughty”, though the Game Over screen implies that Larry is, to some extent, aware of his own hypocrisy, noting that by getting caught during his crimes, he too has become guilty of "naughtiness".
History[]
According to Texas Butcher, Larry was born and raised in a strict, Catholic household somewhere in rural Texas. The dates in most games indicate that Larry was born in the late 1940's. He seems to have had a convoluted relationship with his overbearing, temperamental mother, who be verbally and physically abusive towards her son, regularly hitting Larry for his apparent mental handicap, which is often followed up or interlaced with overt pampering and babying of Larry. Sheltered, he relied mostly on his pet dog, known as Doggy, for companionship. At some point during his childhood, he was sent to a Catholic boarding school, where he committed his first mass murder on Christmas Day, 1959.
Texas Butcher[]
Prologue[]
In a flashback to 1951, a younger version of Larry is heard wailing from behind the walls of a grimy kitchen, being beaten by his mother as punishment for not feeding the dog, Max. Her voice, previously screeching and banshee-like, then suddenly switches to a much calmer tone, telling Larry that she'll be out for a big date tonight and will be chaperoned by "Aunt Claire". After she leaves, Larry goes to the kitchen, picks up a knife and stabs a distracted Claire to death as she is complaining over her phone about her babysitting stint.
Chapter 1: Highway 10 Murder Massacre[]
Back in the present day of 1982, a grown-up Larry is seen stalking a sorority near a highway before breaking in and killing the girls inside. Inexplicably, he finds Doggy in the final room of the house, who orders him to kill more to complete his task, doing so by infiltrating a house party and again slaugthering his way through.
Larry returns home to be greeted by Doggy, informing him that "Mother" is waiting upstairs for him. In her room, it is revealed that "Mother" is in fact the rotting corpse of Larry's mother, poorly stitched back together after apparently being dismembered, demanding Larry finally gets married and bring a girl back home, provided she is "no floozy", i.e. a Catholic and a virgin. She then sends her son to bed so she can "watch [her] programs" in peace.
The next morning, after being wished good morning by his imaginary girlfriends, represented by several mannequins named Bambi, Crystal, and Lola, Larry is once more met with Doggy, who openly admits that he believes no woman would ever want to marry him, so in order to please his mother, they would have to improvise. Planning to have Larry build himself a perfect wife, Doggy sends Larry to Maple St. Friday to get his hands on some body parts for this purpose.
Chapter 2: Maple Street Slaughter[]
At Maple Street, Larry enters a three-story building and proceeds to kill everyone in sight as usual, but when he enters the final floor, a woman who had unwittingly avoided certain death downstairs, accidentally walks into Larry, then runs for her life as police make their way to the location. Larry manages to chase her down and harvest her left leg before escaping.
Back in his bedroom, a disturbing scene unfolds, as Larry's new "wife" slides through the door, with the head of Larry's mother attached to a haggard carcass. She beckons Larry to her, saying that she had been waiting for him, but he "never came", as the perspective pans from the head down to the body's feet. Larry then wakes up from what most normal people would call a nightmare, having apparently slept with the leg in his bed. This time talking to neither Doggy nor Mother, who is strangely absent, he heads to his truck for another big night.
Chapter 3: A Desert of Blood[]
Larry appears at the now-abandoned sorority house he had decimated previously, now being used by some locals as a party location. As Larry murders the last of the partygoers, the game abruptly ends, the screen saying that "Larry has collected enough slaves for the afterlife".
Blood Maniac[]
On Thanksgiving, 1984, Larry is creeping through the hallways of the mental hospital, he's institutionalized in, sneaking to the reception and using a make-shift shank to kill the two night-shift attendees. From there, he escapes and starts slaughtering everyone in town. Once outside, he stabs a police officer who tries to stop him to bits, then enters a nearby convenience store, murdering the night-time staff. He steals a van to drive to a slumber party, where he lays waste to the unsuspecting guests. At the end of his slaughter, Doggy appears before Larry to congratulate him, but reminds him that his work is not done yet and that he must go out to search for more victims. This effectively marks the ends of the game, as all available targets are eliminated.
Throughout the game, you can find outfits around the map:
- Baby Outfit
- Miner Outfit
- Santa Outfit
- Clown Outfit
Christmas Massacre[]
During a flashback sequence to December 25th, 1959, a young Larry is told by a nun that he cannot attend the Christmas Party for unspecified reasons. Upset by this, he sneaks down into the kitchen, where he takes a kitchen knife and goes to the party anyway. Instead of celebrating the festivity, he wounds the head nun and attacks the dancing crowd, killing all of the partygoers.
Some 20 years later, on December 23rd 1979, Larry is told by his Christmas tree to kill "naughty people". He does so over the course of 5 days, breaking into several house parties and a convenience store, murdering dozens with the knife he's kept since the school massacre.
During one of his outings, Larry has vivid hallucinations, including images of walls of fire, chattering teeth and his dead mother.
On New Year's Eve, the tree wakes Larry up at night and urges him to return to the school to burn it down. Equipping a flamethrower and burning down the main building along with numerous nuns and children, he confronts the aged nun at the chapel, who had survived his first massacre, although now missing her lower half and confined to a wheelchair. She cusses Larry out as he sets fire to the hall, before he beats the nun into a pulp. Upon returning to his house on New Year's Day, he is ambushed by a unit of Texas Rangers. To his shock, his tree tells him that he sold him out, claiming that he had no choice but to cooperate with the FBI. He is taken into custody and charged with 36 counts of murder.
In the extended ending, 6 years later, on Christmas Eve in 1985, Larry stands in a corner as other inmates of the psychiatric ward dance the night away, then goes off hiding as the orderlies sent the patients back into their rooms. Larry then goes on a rampage, killing patients and nurses alike, before escaping outside, seemingly beginning the events of Blood Maniac.
Victims[]
Texas Butcher[]
- Claire
- Larry's Mother (presumably)
- 23 unnamed people, including ten sorority members
- 40 partygoers, including Ronald, Trevor, Jill and Joe (+10 in a bonus stage)
Blood Maniac[]
- ~30 unnamed people
Christmas Massacre[]
- 63 unnamed people, including the Nun
- 6 people at the mental hospital
Trivia[]
- Larry's incorporates a number of archetypical features of both fictional and real serial killers.
- Larry’s character during Christmas Massacre is directly based on Billy Chapman, the villain of the Silent Night, Deadly Night slasher franchise. Both wore signature Santa costumes during their killing spree, were obsessed with punishing the "naughty", were partially motivated by sexual frustrations, experienced abuse while staying at a Catholic home, which they later targeted towards the end of their rampage, using a flamethrower in the 2012 remake.
- His mother complex and apparent preservation of her remains refer to Psycho's Norman Bates, Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees and Ed Gein (although the latter didn't actually keep his mother's corpse, but tried to recreate her from dead bodies).
- In Texas Butcher, Larry's murderous desires are represented by and are encouraged under the orders of Doggy, reflecting serial killer David Berkowitz's claim, that his neighbour's supposedly demonic Labrador Retriever had commanded him to kill.
- The ending message in Texas Butcher about Larry collecting enough slaves for the afterlife is a reference to the Zodiac Killer, who claimed to be killing people for the same reason in one of his coded messages.
- Larry is the only Puppet Combo villain who is arrested, rather than remaining at large or being killed. He does escape in the extended ending, however.
- "Child Larry" is simply a sized down, miniature version of his default model.
- The Miner outfit is a reference to the main antagonist of the cult slasher My Bloody Valentine.
- The Baby outfit featured in Blood Maniac was first the main killer costume in Texas Butcher.
- Similarly, the Santa outfit in Christmas Massacre was previously an outfit in Blood Maniac.
- The Clown outfit is a reused model from the Fat Clown from Evil Clowns, without the bloated stomach.
- Larry's Santa mask is based on this particular design.
- Puppet Combo once stated that Larry was 6'5'', but since he claimed that this was Larry's height in the prologue to Christmas Massacre in which he was a child, that all the NPCs, including the students, were 5'10'', and that the school was a college, it's probably not canon.[1]
- According to Puppet Combo, Larry is his favorite character[2].
- The game has a potentially unrealistic depiction of the justice system. It's stated that Larry was convicted of 36 counts of first-degree murder, yet instead of being incarcerated, he was institutionalized. This means he would've had to be found not guilty by reason of insanity, and thus couldn't have been convicted of anything, much less first-degree murder. At most, he would've been convicted of second-degree murder, like David Berkowitz (of whom he's based on). It's possible his lawyers successfully pushed for retrial in the five year time-skip.
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