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“ | Doesn't matter how many blessings you think you have. I've seen your opposite. It's me. I am a curse. One curse. And there are thousands of me. We will find you in the sin fields and slaughter you. One day, we'll stop you. Our bodies will form your graves. | „ |
~ Carl's speech to 50 Blessings before his suicidal mission. |
Carl is a minor character in the indie top-down shooter video game Hotline Miami and the titular protagonist of the spin-off comic Hotline Miami: Carl. He is a renegade 50 Blessings operative who wielded a drill and wore a Locust mask.
He was seemingly aware of 50 Blessings and their connection with the phone calls and, one day, when he was tasked to clean a Russian nightclub, he finally snapped and decided to get himself killed to add to the pile of dead operatives in hopes of them getting tracked back to 50 Blessings and sabotage their operation.
Appearance[]
Carl is a young man with short brown/ginger hair. He wears a long-sleeved white shirt with a green vest on top, brown pants, and white shoes. In the comic, he dresses almost identically to Jacket but with his letterman jacket closed, likely because the comic wasn't originally meant to be canonical.
Biography[]
Nothing is known about Carl's past. When 50 Blessings takes a stand against "Russian oppression" in America by using cryptic and threatening phone calls to coerce people into killing members of the Russian Mafia, Carl is one of the many people in Miami who start receiving these phone calls. Implied to be experienced enough in combat for 50 Blessings to target him, Carl complies with the messages left on his answering machine, which order him to kill members of the Russian Mafia. It's implied that he was one of the only Operatives that fully realized the identity of the people behind the phone calls and started plotting against their operation behind their backs.
One night, when he was tasked to attack the Russian nightclub at NE 165th Street, he finally snapped against 50 Blessings. He decided that the best way to sabotage their operation was to get himself killed in hopes that his body, alongside the other countless dead Operatives, would help authorities track down the source of the calls. Armed with his drill, Carl walks to the nightclub, fully knowing what his fate will be. He throws his drill at the Mobster guarding the entrance and beats him to death with his bare fists. He kicks the door open, knocking another Mobster on the other side of it, making him fall to the floor and allowing Carl to drill his head. Carl finally enters a dancefloor, where three Mobsters with double barrel shotguns ambushed him. Carl aims at them with his drill, claiming that it was "his rifle," before getting shot to death.
On the night of May 27th, 1989, his body was passed by Jacket, who was cleaning the location after Carl's "failure" and presumably grabbed his mask and drill.
Trivia[]
- Carl's mask is required to complete the achievement Always On Top, as it's the only way to have access to the drill.
- The drill is the one of the only meelee weapons in the game that doesn't immediately kill the target.
- Carl is one of the only 50 Blessings Operatives whose owners are physically seen in the game.
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