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Clancy Gray is the main antagonist of the science fiction thriller novel The Darkest Minds and its 2018 film adaptation. He also appears as the main antagonist of the sequel, Never Fade, the secondary antagonist of the third book, In the Afterlight and a minor character in the continuation The Darkest Legacy.
He was portrayed by Patrick Gibson, who also played a young Dexter Morgan in Dexter: Original Sin.
Biography[]
In the books[]
Early life[]
As a kid, Clancy would be frequently hiding behind his mother's skirts. Due to his parents' upbringing, he was targeted and bullied by kids at a young age where he would get back at them with his abilities. Early on in his life, his father had abused him and subjected him to lots of experimentation to find a cure for the IAAN and it was made clear that his mother, Lillian Gray, also had him abandoned. He was also caught trying to fight against his father's abuse on camera.
Clancy was the first child released from the Thurmond camp after he was treated by the rehabilitation camps, in which he was reportedly tortured. While his father found out that he still retained his abilities, he tried to have a Secret Service agent to assassinate Clancy to no avail. One day, he eventually met Olivia and Hayes. They set up East River at an abandoned camping ground with Clancy being the head of the project, in where people who gain IAAN abilities are sheltered and are apparently helped to reunite with their families.
However, East River was actually a ruse in order to recruit psi children into an army which he could then use to wage war, having already taken over the government.
Never Fade[]
Whenever Ruby catches herself using her powers in ways she doesn't like, her mind compares herself to Clancy. She even imagined him whispering to her that he's believing she sunk to his low. As Ruby is traveling with her friends, she gets a message from Cate, but she and Vida recognize that the texts don’t match how she talks.
Apparently, it was revealed that Clancy posed as Cate to trick Ruby and her friends into looking for him so that he could steal his mother's research of the IAAN cure he despised. Ruby and her friends defeat him and lock him in a closet.
However, he was able to escape the palace bombing but was later recaptured by them.
In the Afterlight[]
While being held captive by Ruby, Clancy explains to her on how the IAAN cure wasn't reliable. He reveals to him how he was constantly being tortured at a young age and belittled by others over being the subject for a cure. Ruby took advantage of it to search for memories of his mother whom he apparently wrecked the mind of. It was revealed that while Ruby slept, Clancy took control of her and made her contact the President's forces against them. When Clancy tried to escape, his mother, Ruby, and Nico confront him, before his mother shoots him.
However, he survives the attack and was subjected to the cure, in which he loses his Psi powers. It was clear that in the moments where he was able to stand next to his father, his ability was his only means of stopping his father and anyone who tried to harm him. Ruby pities Clancy struggling with his new life, with the past that he can’t let go and erases his memories, replacing them with happier ones.
The Darkest Legacy[]
Six years after the events of In the Afterlight, Suzume, who becomes a spokesperson for the interrim government after the fall of President Gray fighting for the rights of psi kids, finds Clancy who is living as a privileged man who is an innocent green. Worried that he was her only friend, he implies that Ruby would visit him sometimes and open up to him, although it can be said that it was her manipulating his words.
Eventually, he had regained his memories back. He tricked Ruby and made a deal with someone to get him away from his mother.
In the movie[]
The Darkness Minds[]
In the far future, a pandemic dubbed IAAN swept across the United States, killing 98% of its children under the age of twenty. Those that survived developed superhuman and psychic abilities.
When Ruby Daly, Liam Stewart, Chubs, and Suzume arrive to the safe haven, Clancy takes an interest in Ruby upon realizing that they were both "oranges." He offers to teach her how to master her telepathy and she agrees. Clancy asks her to teach him how to "forget something" telling her to think about what happened on her tenth birthday. While she was thinking back, she snaps out of the trance when Clancy tries to force himself on her. Shaking him off, Liam attempts to confront Clancy on his rape attempt only for Ruby to tell him they should leave that night.
As they are attempting to leave the refuge, the government arrives, and Clancy has them round up the psi children. He also sends for a few "reds," psi children with pyrokinetic abilities to kill Ruby and her friends. This results in several children getting killed. Clancy fights with Ruby, expressing disappointment that she did not accept his offer of world conquest. Ruby manages to telepathically cause a helicopter to crash into Clancy and escapes with the others. Clancy is last seen rallying an army to fight against Ruby.
External Links[]
- Clancy Gray on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Clancy Gray on the The Darkest Minds Wiki