Pappy McAllan

Pappy McAllan is the main antagonist of the 2017 film Mudbound. He is the racist father of Henry and Jamie McAllan.

He was portrayed by Jonathan Banks, who were most famous for playing Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad.

Mudbound
Pappy is an abusive father as he only sees disappointment in his sons. When Jamie and the coloured Ronsel Jackson returns from World War II, Pappy at first welcomes Jamie but is disappointed when he asks Jamie how many Germans he killed and gets the answear that he did not know due to not having killed anyone face-to-face, but dropped bombs and not to see them being killed in front of him. Which Pappy had done himself at one time.

Pappy is also arrogantly xenophobic against black people as he throwout the movie harasses them at any chance he gets. When he meets Ronsel at a store he refuses him to walk out past the front door as it is a norm that coloured people walk out the back doors.

He hates that his son Jamie befriend Ronsel, and after he sees Jamie driving Ronsel home, he calls the Ku Klux Klan and kidnaps Rosel and ties him up to a snare, preparing to lynch him. However he forces Jamie to decide Ronsel's fate; either have him his eyes, testicles or tongue cut off. To which Jamie chooses the tongue.

Pappy is then killed the same night in the sleep by Jamie whom chokes him with a pillow. In the morning when Henry arrives, he is merely told that Pappy died peacfully in the sleep.

They bury him down, but Henry has his doubts as it turns out the hole they dug up used to be a slave-grave, which Pappy would never want to have his body burried in.