- Look, here.. here's my gun. I'm unarmed now. See? Just let me get to a doctor. Okay?
- .... (BAM!) ... The night air filled with a sound like a barking mastiff. Parker was laughing.
Parker ... is one of those kinds of characters, where you don't get to know almost anything about him, just his true nature of an absolute maniac, a psychopath, a predator .. who doesn't believe in people, everyone is replaceable just when they cross his line.
Parker is the scum that you want to work with on a heist, why? Not because he's necessarily a fair person, but more because he makes sure the job is done .. and this part is really deep in the character, since he totally changes to a different person just for the job to go smoothly, so he gets along with the part that everyone gets their share, everyone is happy. But if you made one mistake, one little stupid mistake .. and you're out, beg for his mercy... and he'll never .. no no I mean he'll NEVER spare you.
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I really like how Darwyn Cooke pictures Parker with him being a huge man with big hands. And seeing it several times in the whole book adds another definition of the character, it gives the simplest sense of superiority over everyone, even over us the readers.
Parker is really the classic figure of that maniac type of criminal, that you like his standards, like the professional part and the fact that his killings come out of necessity, but in his own kind of necessity. You see, Parker not that kind that goes guns blazing over a bank and kill everyone for the sake of the money... it's more like, you're in the way? Death after half a second for you, if not? Then nothing is going to happen, like it was just a bad dream. This fact has repeatedly been presented through Cooke's whole adaptation.
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Mercy & betrayal ... the world of criminals doesn't forget any of these two, Parker despises both. If you betrayed him, then nothing in this world will stop him, it feels like it's about principles. If you beg for mercy, you'll never have it because you had it coming. These straight options make the reader doesn't worry about it, just paying attention to the details and how far the protagonist is willing to go to achieve these "principles".
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"A protagonist can be interesting without being likable. But the more unlikable they are, the more interesting they have to be."
- C. Robert Cargill
And I think, Parker could be one if not the perfect protagonist of that sort. I got to meet the many faces of Parker ...
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