Kevin (Sin City)
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Kevin is a fictional character in Frank Miller's Sin City yarns, most prominently featured in "The Hard Goodbye." In the film adaptation, he was portrayed by Elijah Wood.
[edit] In Miller's yarns
He is an intentionally mute sociopath who resides at "The Farm", a shadowy retreat owned by the powerful Roark family. Though he never spoke a single word in the film nor in the comics, Cardinal Roark mentions that he had a voice of an angel. He kills prostitutes, mounts their heads on a wall like hunting trophies, and eats their remains. The leftovers go to his pet wolf. He is sheltered by Cardinal Roark, whom he came to supposedly tormented by guilt over his cannibalism. He appears as a small, shadowy figure with occasionally glowing glasses, razor-sharp fingernails that he uses as weapons, Converse shoes, and a Charlie Brown-esque sweater (argyle). Kevin is supernaturally silent and quick, and combined with his frighteningly effective personal martial art which can be best described as a cross between kickboxing, Capoeira and ninjutsu, he manages to sneak up on, blind and beat Marv into unconsciousness without breaking a sweat (quite a feat, as Marv is over 7', 300 pounds, and is nearly impervious to physical pain).
After escaping the Farm after their first confrontation, Marv returns armed with his Colt 1911 'Gladys', gasoline, handcuffs, razor wire, several lengths of rubber tubing, and his "mitts", and, knowing most of Kevin's tricks at this point, sets up a series of traps around the Farm. He then flushes Kevin out by bombarding the Farm with a Molotov cocktail bomb. Kevin avoids Marv's razor wire rig, and the two of them fight it out hand-to-hand.
Marv again takes quite a beating, but keeps on fighting and eventually manages to outsmart Kevin by handcuffing him to Marv's wrist, trapping Kevin's fighting hand and allowing Marv to knock him out with one strong punch to the jaw. Wendy shows up with a gun, intending to kill Kevin herself; but Marv knocks her out, because he intends to torture Kevin first, and doesn't want Wendy to have nightmares from witnessing it.
The audience later sees Kevin, now conscious, propped against a tree, missing his arms and legs; Marv has amputated them with the hacksaw and used the rubber tubing as tourniquets to keep him alive. He beckons Kevin's pet wolf, who begins to eat his master. Even as his entrails are being devoured by his own pet, Kevin simply smiles calmly and doesn't utter a sound. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, Marv finishes the job by sawing Kevin's head off, but the lunatic's stony silence and unwavering gaze robs him of any satisfaction the kill would have given him.
Kevin also makes a cameo, during the climax of That Yellow Bastard (set almost four years before The Hard Goodbye), reading a Bible in a rocking chair while John Hartigan infiltrates the Roark Farm.
[edit] In other media
Wood never met Mickey Rourke (who portrayed Marv) during the filming. The two were shot completely separately, with each one fighting the other's respective stunt double.
Frank Miller has stated in the Recut DVD that Kevin and Miho are the supernatural beings in Sin City. Miller characterizes them as "demons"; Miho is the good "demon" and Kevin is the evil one.
| Sin City | |
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| Yarns | The Hard Goodbye | A Dame to Kill For | The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories | Silent Night | The Big Fat Kill | That Yellow Bastard | Daddy's Little Girl | Lost, Lonely, & Lethal | Sex & Violence | Just Another Saturday Night | Family Values | Hell and Back (a Sin City Love Story) | Booze, Broads, & Bullets |
| Films | Sin City | Sin City 2 (in production) |
| Characters | Marv | Jack Rafferty | Nancy Callahan | John Hartigan | Dwight McCarthy | Wallace | Miho | Kevin | Cardinal Roark | Ava Lord | Junior/That Yellow Bastard | Senator Roark | The Girls of Old Town | List of characters from Sin City |
| People | Frank Miller | Robert Rodriguez |
Categories: Dark Horse Comics characters | Fictional mute characters | Fictional serial killers | Fictional demons | Fictional martial artists | Fictional cannibals | Fictional Catholics | Fictional characters who can move at superhuman speeds | Fictional torture victims | Fictional amputees | Fictional farmers | Film characters
