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| “ | Come morning I'll be hangin' them all. | „ |
| ~ Hoodoo Brown |
| “ | I'm Hoodoo Brown! | „ |
| ~ Last words. |
Hoodoo Brown is a major antagonist in the best-selling video game Gun. He is the mayor of Empire City who is in league with Thomas Magruder.
He was voiced by Ron Perlman, who also played Clayface in the DC Animated Universe, Pap Finn in The Adventures of Huck Finn, Mr. Grasping in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, Drekk in Men in Black: The Series, Count Nikolas Rokoff in The Legend of Tarzan, Dieter Reinhardt in Blade II, the Viceroy in Star Trek: Nemesis, Slade in Teen Titans, Bane, Killer Croc and Rumor in The Batman, Kago in Tarzan II, Sheriff Collie Entragian in Desperation, Biff Wellington in Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!, Justice in Afro Samurai, Warhok in Kim Possible, Sozin in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Clay Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, Gha Nachkt in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Nicola in Bunraku, the Stabbington Brothers in the Tangled franchise, The Lich in Adventure Time, Nino in Drive, Red Cap in The Spiderwick Chronicles, Sinestro in Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Deathstroke in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Polyphemus in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Rust in Payday 2, Xibalba in The Book of Life, Armaggon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Gnarlak in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Bular in Trollhunters and the Podestà in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.
Personality[]
Although appearing to be a well-intended public servant, Hoodoo Brown is a smug and cunning individual. He is on Thomas Magruder's payroll and stops at nothing to suppress the rebels in his city. His deputies and right-hand men are Webb and Rudabaugh, who follow Hoodoo's orders loyally and kill innocents just for fun.
Brown is a skilled gunfighter, owning an assortment of rifles in his office. He also carries dual Colt .45 Peacemakers with him at all times. Hoodoo also likes to use a sword in close combat. He also enjoys torturing his victims, most notably Clay, whom he personally pulled teeth from.
Hoodoo Brown has a rather luxurious lifestyle, as he always wears fancy attire and owns a casino. The second floor of his casino is the location of the mayor's customized office, complete with a balcony viewing the town square. Because of his wealth and social status, Brown is actually not as involved in Magruder's affairs as his other henchmen are, nor does he care very much about making money. Hoodoo is mostly concerned about his social status, serving his citizens and suppressing rebellion, as well as making Empire a safe haven from the Apache Indians, the main reason he sides with Magruder.
History[]
Hoodoo Brown first appears when Colton White and Jenny reach the city of Empire. Brown presents himself as a close and trusted friend of Jenny's and expresses his thanks to Colton for killing the Apache Indians along the way. Jenny told Colt that Hoodoo Brown could help track down Reverend Josiah Reed, the man who helped lead the steamboat raid at the beginning of the game. Brown agrees to help find the "scalawag Reed" and makes Colt a deputy.
During a mission to capture a rebel leader named Chavez y Chavez, his lawman Rudabaugh shoots and kills an innocent couple in a barn, with Webb planting a gun on the dead man. Colt attempts to arrest them and bring them before Hoodoo. However, the duo reveals a shocking secret: The mayor already knows Reed. After engaging them, Colt then proceeds to kill the duo and returns to Hoodoo Brown's casino. There, he confronts Hoodoo at gunpoint, accusing him of playing him like a puppet. Brown claims he has the wrong idea but does express concern when Colton tells him that he "plugged" Webb and Rudabaugh. Hoodoo Brown informs Colt that the preacher is upstairs with Jenny, who had lured him there. After hearing Jenny scream, Colt slams Hoodoo aside and rushes upstairs to the mayor's office where Josiah Reed proceeds to cut Jenny's throat and kill her. Just as Colt was about to kill Reed, Hoodoo Brown struck him in the head with a bottle, knocking him out. He agrees to hang Colton White in the morning for the murder of Jenny, per Magruder's orders.
Colt manages to escape his cell and joins the rebellion against Hoodoo. They kill many of his corrupt lawmen in ambushes and defensive missions, even freeing some Apache Indians from a train car, assumed to be used for forced labor. However, once the rebels learn that their leader, Clay, has been captured and brought to Empire, they decide to go and rescue him while killing the devious mayor in the process.
Colton eventually rescues Clay, whose teeth had been yanked out by Hoodoo. Colt enters the casino from the basement and engages Brown. Once Hoodoo retreats to his office, seemingly defeated, he begs for mercy. Colt interrogates him once again and discovers that Reed was after the piece of Coronado's Cross on board the steamboat, which was in the protagonist's father's possession. Knowing that it wasn't recovered, and the snow isn't melting this time of year, Colt realizes he can recover it from the wreckage. He thanks Hoodoo for the information and slides a revolver towards him. Enraged, Hoodoo Brown tries to kill Colton with it, but Colt blasts it out of his hands. The mayor then screams "I'm Hoodoo Brown!" before being shot by Colton White and falling to his death off the balcony of his office. Colt looks down at his corpse and replies "You were.".
Immediately after this mission, Hoodoo Brown's body is put in the town square by the rebels, who seem to enjoy throwing stones at it, making a game of who can knock his top hat off.
Trivia[]
- Hoodoo Brown was indeed an actual outlaw from the 19th century that also happened to be the mayor of a town named Dodge City in the United States. The same is true about Webb and Rudabaugh being real life outlaws. Historically, they were all in a gang together at one point.