Belch (The Wish List)



Belch is one of the main antagonists in The Wish List book. Belch is a well-known criminal in the Irish town and he is accustomed to theft, violence, drugs and dishonour. Belch is also a bully to Meg Finn and he bullies her into coming with him one night to rob the house of old Lowrie McCall. However, Lowrie finds Belch in the midst of the theft and Belch straightup says he's robbing. Lowrie says he knows he is and tries to shoot him, but Belch's loyal pitbull Raptor bites Lowrie badly. Belch stands over Lowrie, enjoying his pain, and when Meg threatens to ring police on Belch he is angered, and when she runs out to the street he follows her and points a shotgun at her and orders her to prove her loyalty to him. But she can't bring herself to be bad so Belch says he doesn't believe her and shoots the gas tank and kills them both.

In the Afterlife, Belch is sucked through the tunnel which divides the mortal world and the Afterlife, and because Belch and his dog died at the same time, they get mutated into a sort of dog-human monster. This horrible form eventually gets sucked to Hell, because of his sadism, where Satan is waiting to pick through his memories.

Belch is revived and given back his consciousness and ability to talk, where he is given a task by Beelzebub, to be sent back to Earth and hunt down Meg, kill her or send her to Hell. Belch first wants to disobey and plans to, but his spiritual guide says if he disobeys he will explode.

Belch hunts down Meg in each of her ventures, but ultimately fails to defeat her because Meg gets Lowrie to the final wish in time and Belch is thrown into the tunnel again. This time he goes right to Hell forever.