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“ | The idea of Scissorman's blades comes from watching the movie "The Burning" when I was a child. The scary backlit silhouette of a murderous demon, with his garden shears, sent shivers down my spine. | „ |
~ The creator's comment about Bobby. |
Bobby Barrows, better known as the Scissorman, is a major antagonist in the Clock Tower video game series. He is the secondary antagonist of the first game, Clock Tower and the 2024 remaster Clock Tower Rewind.
He is the demonic son of Simon and Mary Barrows and the twin brother of Dan Barrows, who seeks to kill Jennifer Simpson and her friends. He is the first incarnation of Scissorman to appear in the series.
Appearance[]
Bobby Is a demonic and deformed 8-year old kid with creepy white eyes and a creepy skull like face with blonde hair. He wears a blue schoolboy uniform with shorts and with a blue coat which matches his shorts.
Biography[]
Background[]
When Mary Barrows gives birth to a pair of twins, Bobby and Dan, they were not human, they discovered as demons by a doctor named Walter Simpson, who was the one who help Mary give birth to the twins. He tried to kill the twins, but he was sealed in a padded room where he died of suffocation.
Clock Tower: First Fear[]
The game immediately begins with the five of them walking towards the Barrows Mansion and settling in the main foyer. Mary instructs them to wait there in the foyer and leaves to find Mr. Barrows, but she takes an unusually long time. Jennifer offers to investigate, but upon leaving the room, a scream is heard from the main foyer. Jennifer returns to find the lights are off and the girls are missing.
She soon finds herself being stalked after finding either Laura or Anne killed by a murderous little boy with deformed features, wielding a giant pair of scissors. Laura's corpse would be found hanged at the bathtub, or found in a suit of armor in the second living room if the player dares to click on it, while Anne would die either by being impaled through a stained-glass ceiling, drowning in the pool of the courtyard, or being impaled through a window in Mary's office. The boy is Bobby Barrows, the Scissorman, who will be Jennifer's main stalker and tormentor for the rest of the game.
The Demise of Bobby Barrows[]
When Jennifer gets on the clock tower, Bobby will appear to try to avenge his brother's and mother's deaths. however, when the clock tower rings, Bobby falls off the of the tower falling to his death because of the tower.
Clock Tower 2[]
Bobby's legacy as Scissorman lives by his giant scissors and mentioned throughout the game.
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Trivia[]
- According to Clock Tower creator Hifumi Kono, Bobby was based on Patau Brückner, the secondary antagonist of the 1985 Dario Argento horror film Phenomena, who shares a similarly deformed appearance, and also utilizes bladed weapons. His relationship with his mother, Frau Brückner, is likewise similar to Bobby's relationship with Mary Barrows.[1]
- As mentioned above, Bobby is also inspired by Cropsy, the main antagonist of the 1981 slasher film The Burning, another deformed killer that uses a large pair of shears as his primary weapon.
References[]
- ↑ D'Amico, V., "Sergio Stivaletti: 'Il racconto dei racconti? Resta il dubbio, come sarebbe stato se lo avessi fatto io?'", Movieplayer.it, April 26, 2017
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