The Usher

'''"Good evening, movie-goers, and welcome to the Universal Palace. Since the grand opening in October 1922, all of Hollywood's greatest movies have graced to us screams! She is a proud and dignified lady. One that demands the proper respect in dignity. She will not be insulted, and rude behavior will not be tolerated........ever! Buy the ticket to the Universal Palace and let me usher you into a experience you would never, EVER forget. Tickets please!"

- His quote in the preview teaser for Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen at Universal Studios Florida during 2009. '''

Julian Browning, also known as the Usher, is the main icon for Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen in 2009 at Universal Orlando Resort.

Background
Julian Browning was an usher at the Universal Palace Theater, a popular movie house that had been converted from a playhouse during the 1920s. Browning truly enjoyed working at the theater and loved the movies, especially horror movies, becoming something of an expert. However, Browning was also very strict about enforcing the rules, and hated rude patrons who disrupted the movie experienced for others.

During a 1940 re-release of his all-time favorite horror film, Lon Chaney Sr.'s The Phantom of the Opera, Browning engaged in a scuffle with a rude theatergoer. During the fight, Browning's flashlight was seized by the boorish parton who tossed through the new screen, tearing it.

As the furious usher went backstage to retrieve it, he was somehow entangled in one of the old playhouse's sandbag's ropes, causing him to die a slow, painful death of strangulation with his feet mere inches above the floor. It is also revealed that this was the first horrible event of many in the theater's history, meaning that either the Universal Palace itself is evil, or Julian's "revenge" has been to destroy other rulebreaking patrons with classic movie monsters (almost in the same way the Phantom from The Phantom of the Opera would do by causing incidents in the opera house).

Trivia

 * Shockingly, he did not appear in commercials unlike the other icons.