Funboy

Funboy is a supporting antagonist in James O'Barr's 1989 graphic novel The Crow, as well as the 1994 film adaptation. He is one of the five criminals who murdered young couple Eric Draven and Shelley Webster, and who Eric seeks to kill one year later when he is resurrected by a mystical crow.

In the film adaptation, he is portrayed by the late Michael Massee.

In the comic book
In James O'Barr's original graphic novel, Funboy and a gang of four other criminals - Tin-Tin, Tom-Tom, Top Dollar and T-Bird - ride by Shelley and Eric, who are stranded on the side of the highway, and decide to kill them for fun. They gang-rape Shelley, shoot both her and Eric in the head, and leave them to die.

A year later, Eric is brought back to life by the crow, and seeks vengeance against his and Shelley's murderers. After killing Tin-Tin, Tom-Tom, and Top Dollar, Eric finds Funboy at his lover Darla's apartment, high on morphine. Funboy is amused by the idea of killing Eric twice, and accepts his challenge to meet at a remote dive bar to settle their feud. Funboy recruits his and T-Bird's henchmen to eliminate Eric, but is amazed to see the undead avenger effortlessly kill every single one of his men. Funboy accepts defeat and even apologizes to Eric, who shows his appreciation by offering Funboy a painless death via morphine overdose. As he dies, Funboy tells Eric to kill T-Bird as slowly and painfully as he can.

In the film
The film adaptation alters the character somewhat, making him a professional arsonist who, along with the rest of the gang, kills people and burns down buildings at the behest of crime boss Top Dollar. When Shelley Webster starts a petition against unfair tenant eviction in a building owned by Top Dollar, the gangster sends Funboy and the other criminals to kill her and burn down the building. They gang-rape and torture Shelley, and kill Eric when he walks in on them; Funboy fires the fatal shot.

A year later, Eric is resurrected and seeks revenge against his and Shelley's killers; Funboy is second on his list, after Tin-Tin. Eric finds him with his lover and fellow morphine addict Darla, whose daughter, Sarah, had been Eric and Shelley's unofficially adopted ward. Eric dares Funboy to shoot him in the hand, and laughs as Funboy gapes in horror as the wound closes up before his eyes. Eric then shoots Funboy in the leg, drags him into the bathtub, and carves a crow shape into his chest with his own discarded syringes. After persuading Darla to quit drugs and be a better mother to Sarah, Eric hangs Funboy by his wrists and leaves him to bleed to death.