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| “ | I'd like to dedicate this first lick to your mother... f--ker. | „ |
| ~ O'Bannion preparing to beat up Carl. |
Frederick "Fred" O'Bannion is the main antagonist of the 1993 comedy film Dazed and Confused.
He was portrayed by Ben Affleck, who also played Shannon Hamilton in Mallrats, Bartleby in Dogma, Ivan Block in Runner, Runner, Pierre d'Alençon in The Last Duel, Vic Van Allen in Deep Water, and Doug MacRay in The Town.
Personality[]
O'Bannion is the school bully, who takes special delight in tormenting incoming freshmen. He is aggressive, cruel, and not very bright; he flunks out of his junior year, meaning he will "get to be a dick two years in a row". In addition to being mean-spirited, he is also virulently sexist and homophobic, calling women he doesn't like "bitches" and men who anger him homophobic slurs. Even his supposed friends dislike him and mock him behind his back, but nevertheless keep him around in case they need someone to back them up in a fight.
Biography[]
O'Bannion is one of the incoming seniors who participates in the ritual of paddling incoming freshmen to "initiate" them; he takes a savage delight in inflicting especially brutal beatings. He chases down freshmen Tommy Houston, Carl Burnett, Hirschfelder and Mitch Kramer, but Tommy's mother pulls a shotgun on him. He swears revenge against all four boys. Later that night, he and his friends catch Mitch as he leaves his Little League game, and he leads them in beating Mitch to a pulp.
Mitch gets revenge later that night at a party that a few of the more kindhearted seniors invited him to as an apology for the beating. He has Carl pretend to get caught by a group of seniors, luring O'Bannion outside. As O'Bannion prepares to paddle Carl, Tommy and Hirschfelder dump a bucket of paint on his head from the top of a nearby roof. Humiliated and enraged, O'Bannion curses everyone at the party, shoves Mitch, break his paddle and drives away.