Leatherface Topps Comics' miniseries, Nubbins the Hitchhiker (bearing only a minor resemblance to his film counterpart and without his name mentioned) appears as a main character. His speech impediment came from the actor who portrayed him, Edwin Neal, who played the hitchhiker as someone with schizophrenia. The character also has a bizarre speech impediment and a large birth mark on the left side of his face. Sadistic and violent, he is generally one of the most threatening characters in the movie, unintelligent and behaving erratically. In the original script for The Next Generation, Vilmer's character was originally the Hitchhiker, but when Edwin Neal turned down the role, his character was altered into what he is now today. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, another Sawyer brother named Vilmer practices self-mutilation like the Hitchhiker. Also, in this movie, Nubbins has another brother, Tex/Eddie, who also hitchhikes. Like the hitchhiker, Alfredo has a speech impediment and he also uses an old polaroid camera to shock people. In Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, another Sawyer brother, Alfredo, appears to be very similar to his brother Nubbins. The Hitchhiker's corpse is presumably destroyed when a hand grenade, accidentally set off by Drayton and the film's secondary protagonist, Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright (Dennis Hopper), blows up the family's hideout with the Hitchhiker's body in it. At one point, Drayton refers to him as Nubbins, indicating that that is his real name. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, the Hitchhiker appears only as a macabre puppet-like corpse: his family has reassembled him after the events of the first film, and his twin brother, Chop Top (Bill Moseley) carries him around and treats him as if he were still alive. While slashing Sally with a knife, the Hitchhiker meets his demise when he is run over by an 18-wheeler. As Sally flees, the Hitchhiker and Leatherface chase her, with the Hitchhiker catching up to her on a road. The Hitchhiker forgets to keep a hold on Sally when he tries to take the hammer from Grandpa, allowing her break free of their grasp and jump out a nearby window. Eventually deciding to kill Sally, the Hitchhiker, Drayton and Leatherface are at first content to allow their highly-regarded Grandpa (John Dugan) to do so, but when Grandpa proves unable to kill Sally with a hammer, the Hitchhiker and his brothers become impatient and over-eager with trying to help him. Together, they torment Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), Franklin's sister, whom Drayton had captured. He was taking photographs of decomposed corpses and making horrific art and statues out of them at the cemetery. It's also revealed that he was the one responsible for the grave robberies, which are mentioned at the beginning of the film. The film later identifies the Hitchhiker as the brother of the two other main villains of the film, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) and Drayton Sawyer (Jim Siedow), as well as the middle son of a mentally unstable family of murderous cannibals. The smeared blood on the van is a symbol to help assess which vehicle Drayton should go after as a target for murder. The Hitchhiker briefly chases after the van, kicking and yelling as he smears a bloody handprint onto the side of the vehicle, but soon relinquishes his attack on it. After Franklin refuses to buy the picture, the Hitchhiker sets the photo on fire and slashes Franklin's arm with the straight razor before being kicked out of the van. Nubbins takes a picture of Franklin, and tells him it's a good picture. Shortly after, the hitchhiker shows off the straight razor he keeps in his boot and then takes a picture of Franklin using a camera he pulls out of his satchel. The group is shocked and appalled when the hitchhiker uses Franklin's knife to cut open the palm of his own hand. Partain) pocket knife out of his grasp after he sees the teen picking his fingernails with it. The Hitchhiker suddenly pulls Franklin Hardesty's (Paul A. He soon begins acting erratically after the disgusted travelers return the photographs. He shows them pictures of him and his family killing the cattle while telling them a story about how head cheese comes from the cows when their heads are melted, all while attempting to get them to drop him off at his home and even inviting them to dinner. The group asks him what he was doing out there and he tells them that he was "over at the slaughterhouse" where he and his brother and his grandfather used to work. The Hitchhiker first appears in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre walking along the road, where he is picked up by a group of friends traveling through the area, who feel sorry for him having to walk in the heat.
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