Scissorman
Scissorman is the name given to several characters in the Clock Tower.
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Scissorman (John Barrows)
- Main article: John Barrows
John was the first known Scissorman, who belonged to the 13th generation of the Barrows Family. According to Rick, in a local fairy tale, a demon was born in the Barrows Castle, and terrorized and killed the local children. He was eventually killed by his father, Quintin Barrows, the head of the household, in a desperate attempt to stop him from killing.
Scissorman (Bobby Barrows)
- Main Article: Bobby Barrows
The Scissorman was the name adopted by several individuals with the original being Bobby Barrows was the deformed young son of Mary Barrows and Simon Barrows. Having accidentally been set on fire, Dan was far more larger and less mobile when Jennifer accidentally set him ablaze during her escape from the tunnels. According to sources, when the fire died out, what was left in the rotting and burnt corpse of Dan Barrows was Dan himself.
At some point in time, either before or after Barton's therapy sessions, Edward regained his memory and realized who he is and everything that happened in the past. He then decided to follow his brother's legacy in order to become the new Scissorman, starting by calculating murders with the use of his demonic powers to sense pedophilic tendencies, then by drawing them out and fostering them. As a result, Kay became mentally and physically inseparable from Edward, to the point of willing to assist him in his crimes. Edward also began to sense Harris Chapman's desires for Jennifer. At one point, Edward told Harris that if he caught Jennifer, then he could have her all to himself.
In an attempt to bring his memory back, Kay traveled with Edward to Oslo, Norway, where Jennifer now lives, for therapy with Professor Samuel Barton who is investigating the Clock Tower case. Kay suggests for Jennifer to talk with Edward so that his memory might return, but after a visit or two, no progress seems to have been made. In both Helen Maxwell's and Jennifer's scenario, if the Demon Idol is given to Sullivan, Edward is seen visiting the Municipal Library out of boredom. When Scissorman attacks, Edward hides under a desk in the office. Helen takes him to the library and puts him under another desk, then sends him to a vent leading to outside. When Edward learns of the gang's plan to travel to Barrows Castle in England, he requests to come along to help. Although worried about his safety, Kay ultimately allows it when Edward mentions England probably being safer than their city which Scissorman is in.
He would chases Jennifer Simpson through the Barrows mansion in an attempt to kill her. He seems to take some childish delight in playing with his victims before he kills them, as he can be seen dancing for a short while if he knocks Jennifer to the floor. It is heavily implied that he is a demonic being, as it is discovered that his mother Mary was a cultist, and in the opening cutscene the baby Bobby's eyes are completely white.[1] Bobby meets his fate as Jennifer activates the clock tower bells, and the chimes disorient him enough so that he falls off the clock tower to his presumed death.
Scissorman (Edward)
- Main Article: Edward
Afterwards, the Scissorman returned with a blue overcoat, a mask and an exaggerated limp. Scissorman appears in each scenario, and his appearances are mostly triggered by the player's actions. Scissorman appears to be immortal, therefore the player must either try to hide until he is gone, or use an object to knock him out. In one of the levels, he can be found resting in a rocking chair and watching cartoons on TV. It is revealed that the Scissorman in this game can be a variety of people, depending upon the choices the player makes within the game. However, no matter who the fake Scissorman in this game turns out to be, the real Scissorman is always Edward, the only survivor of the original Clock Tower murders apart from Jennifer. It was revealed that Edward is actually Bobby's brother Dan Barrows, a massive monster child using supernatural powers of telekinesis. In the port of the original Clock Tower for the PlayStation (subtitled The First Fear), an Easter egg is added after Dan's apparent death during the explosion: Edward can be seen rising from Dan's charred remains. Edward's role as Scissorman comes to an end as Jennifer and Helen find a spell to open a massive door, which sucks the Scissorman in.
Furthermore, the main characters, Alyssa and Bates, were theorized by their parents to be reincarnations of the previous Scissormen, Bobby and Dan. According to the game, another Scissorman (also known as Little John from the Big Castle) prior to Bobby and Dan had lived a long time ago. He had been stopped from murdering people by his father, Quinten Burroughs, and his corpse can be found in a stone coffin in England's Burroughs Castle.
Scissorman and Scissorwoman (Ralph and Jemima)
- Main Article: Ralph and Jemima
A Scissorman and Scissorwoman later appeared where they both look like circus performers, and both wield a pair of knives that they can put together to create makeshift scissors. Their true names are Ralph and Jemima (named Rudy and Janis in the Japanese version of the game), and both were servants to Lord Darcy Burroughs, acting as his executioners. After the death of Burroughs, they were stoned to death by local villagers in retaliation for their murdering ways. However, both were resurrected, sharing a single entity between them.
Overview
In appearance, the Scissorman (Japanese: シザーマン, Hepburn: Shizāman) was an identity shared by a number of serial killers. Originally, they wore a blue school uniform with their most distinctive feature of them was their signature weapon which took the form of garden shears. These were used as a stabbing weapon and was responsible for a number of murders. Later on, the identity was held by an adult who wore a green trench coat and a mask modelled after the first Scissorman's face. One of these later Scissormen also walked with a limp.
Notes
- The Scissorman was created by Hifumi Kouno and designed by Kuniomi Yoshida where they first appeared in the Clock Tower (1995).
- It was noted that the idea of Scissorman's blades came from Hifumi Kono watching the movie The Burning as a child with the scenes sending a shiver down his spine.
- In NightCry, a spiritual successor to the Scissorman appeared in the setting of the survival horror game with this being the Scissorwalker.
In other media
Novels
- In Clock Tower: Adventure Novels, the Scissorman appeared in the novel adaptations of the Clock Tower video game. It said that the Scissorman was regarded as the Son of the Great Father in the demonic cult followed by Theodore Barrows who was an ancestor of the Barrows Family. The Great Father gave immortality to those who worshiped him and bestowed death on others, but this was an immortality of the spirit, not of the flesh. The idea differed slightly from the endless cycle of rebirth in which the Celts believed in that death of the flesh was necessary to gain this immortality; one gained deathlessness by dying. Through this immortality of the soul, even dead flesh could be animated as if it were once again alive. Terror was what fed this immortality - one escaped death by absorbing the spiritual energy known as terror. The one who bestowed this immortality upon the worshipers was known as a "son of the Great Father"
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