Owen Armstrong

Evil-doer
Full Name	Owen Armstrong
Alias	Owen Mr. Armstrong
Origin	Coronation Street
Occupation	Dodgy construction worker Gary Windass' employer Anna Windass' love interest Pat Phelan's business partner Local bully
Powers / Skills	Excellent construction worker and builder Combat expertise Physical strength Intimidation Manipulation Deception
Hobby	Spending time with his family Bullying people Doing dodgy construction deals
Goals	Pledge himself to Phelan in order to prevent Gary from getting arrested for Phelan's assault [succeded]. help Anna to get Faye to stay away from Tim Metcalfe [aboundend]
Crimes	Assault Theft Conspiracy Provocation Bullying Burglary Dodgy construction work
Type of Villain	Redeemed Control Freak

“	Do I think all of this if your fault? Oh, you bet ya I do, one hundred percent!	„
	~ Owen Armstrong has a go at his protégé Gary Windass to the point where he blames the latter for their ordeal with Pat Phelan.

Owen Armstrong is a fictional character and anti-villain of the British soap opera Coronation Street, appearing from June 2010 to April 2015.

In his characterisation, he was a no-nonsense builder and formerly the landlord of Weatherfield. He was also the father of both Izzy Armstrong and Katy Armstrong; the former fiancé of established character Anna Windass; the employer of Anna's son Gary Windass; the parental grandfather of Jake Windass and Joseph Brown; a father figure to Anna's daughter Faye Windass; the ex-husband of Linda Haddock; and an old acquaintance of Anna's future rapist Pat Phelan as well as his first old business partner.

He was portrayed by Ian Puleston-Davies.

Biography

Owen Armstrong was first introduced in June 2010 as the father of Izzy Armstrong, a wheelchair bound factory worker of whom he was overprotective over. She had a fallen out with him just prior to his arrival, but was willing to hear him out and give Owen another chance. Owen also has a second daughter, Katy, whom he moved into Victoria Street with the following month when starting work at the Builder's Yard and later acquiring it.

Soon enough Owen got acquainted with local resident Anna Windass and the two started a relationship. Owen soon employed Anna's son Gary as his protégé and the pair were later blackmailed by his old acquaintance Pat Phelan after the latter's business partnership with them ends disastrously for the two families. This consequently led to Owen departing the street after Anna reluctantly breaks up with him.

Despite mostly being a loving family man and devoted father, Owen still had a lot of flaws and was known for having a short temper and could be quite unpleasant. Please note that as with many soap characters, certain viewers may interpret these scenarios differently and not consider it outright bad:

• In 2010 when Owen was dating Liz McDonald he was jealous of her ex-husband Jim McDonald sniffing around for her, so had his team of builders beat Jim up to threaten him to stay away.
• In 2012 he slapped his girlfriend Anna's daughter Faye after she killed his fish and she didn't like him (at the time) being in the house.
• In 2014 he goaded Anna's son Gary about not having a job, causing the desperate lad to rob the local cafe and get injured by cafe owner Roy Cropper. However taunting Gary may have been justified from Owen's perspective as Gary was the one who beat up Pat Phelan, albeit with fair reasons, due to Phelan figuratively raping Anna and caused him to blackmail the family, leading to them being bankrupt.
• In 2015, it turned out he had deliberately cut off contact with his ex-wife from seeing their daughters when she cheated on him and left them. However to some this maybe justified as he was heartbroken.