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| “ | Are you getting a horror novel? | „ |
| ~ Patriot's famous quote towards the ill girl. |
Patriot is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Dink) of the 2014 film Cooties. He is a school bully in fourth-grade Ft. Chicken Elementary School. He is one of the first children to become infected with the food-borne virus that transforms children into zombie-like savages.
He was portrayed by Cooper Roth.
Biography[]
Patriot was dropped off at Ft. Chicken Elementary on the same day that substitute teacher Clint Hadson arrived to teach Patriot's class. He was arguing with his mother at the playground. Before class began, Patriot tormented a younger classmate, Shelley, mocking her for her new blisters, but was forced to cease his taunting when class began. However, Patriot soon turned his insults on Clint as he tried to teach the class, threatening to tell his parents something when Clint tried to take his phone away. Clint asked him if he wrote "Eat a cock" on his car since the same thing was written on his notebook. Patriot only smiles at him, before Clint let's it go and contuines teaching.
Clint promptly asked another classmate, Calvin, to read his new horror novel to the class. Patriot, uninterested, resumed mocking Shelley, trying to get her attention, he yanked on one of her pigtails. However, to his shock, Shelley's pigtail was torn out of her scalp. This led an enraged Shelley to attack Patriot and bite a chunk of his cheek off, infecting him with the virus. Clint takes Patriot to the nurse's office, unaware that Patriot was beginning to exhibit the same symptoms Shelley had.
During recess, while Dink was running around spreading the virus across the playground after being infected by Shelley when he went to confront her about attacking Patriot. Patriot himself succumbed to the effects of the virus and kills the nurse. Now fully infected, Patriot enters the principal's office and murders the secretary Mrs. Gordon, before sabotaging the phone lines, resulting in the staff being unable to call the authorities. The police officer that did arrive, Sheriff Dave, was dispatched by Rebekkah's Rape button when the teacher's began to notice what was going on outside on the playground. But he is killed when Shelly, who successfully dug a hole leading out of schoolgrounds, snuck into the backseat of his car before jumping and killing him as he tries to drive away from the school after his fingers were mangled by some of the cootie kids. Patriot then manages to enter the teacher's lounge when Wade opens the door to go do something about the onslaught, which allowed him to jump on and attack Wade before he throws him into a rolling chair. He gets up before he grabs Clint and gets him to the ground before he tries to attack Clint. He then turns his attention towards Rebekkah after she attempted to pepper spray him to get him off Clint, but she instead sprayed Clint in the eyes. He charges forward before Rebekkah gets out of the way and instead shoved Ms. Birk into a metal closet with him which closes and he begins to maul her to death. Wade took this opportunity to lock Patriot in the closet, this gives the teacher's enough time to escape the lounge and take Calvin (who was inside the school studying for his English Test) into the music room, but Patriot freed himself, however, and went to the doors to allow the other students into the school.
From there on, Patriot returned to the principal's office and started to sabotage the teacher's means of communicating, destroying their cellphones and later on shutting off the lights. When Clint and Lucy snuck through the air vents to get a chocolate bar for a diabetic Calvin and the cellphones, The Tricycle Girl eventually discovered Clint in the teacher's lounge and screeches, alerting Patriot, who pursues Clint and Lucy through the air vents with some of the other Cootie Kids However, Clint and Lucy manage to escape into the library and block the vent leading into there by using a desk. But soon, Patriot learns that the other teachers and students were in the janitors room and he and the other cootie kids began heading their way. But Clint gave the teacher's a heads up through the walkie talkie about patriot and the kids in the vents and they immediately barricade the vent with different objects before using straps to lock the vent shut, blocking off Patriot and the other kids from entering. An unsuccessful Patriot returned to the principal's office. While in the office, however, Patriot overheard the staff's plan to escape in PE teacher Wade's truck through Vice Principal Simms Walkie Talkie.
While the staff fought the infected students on the playground, Patriot took the opportunity to sneak into the back of Wade's truck. When the staff and students drove out of Fort Chicken driving Wade's truck, Patriot secretly began to climb to the roof and attacks Clint, who was driving, through the open window. However, Clint slams on the brakes and he was quickly flung off the truck and he slides down the road, he then slowly gets up before turning his head towards the back of the truck, showing the teachers and students his heavily mutilated face. Clint puts the truck in reverse as Patriot fully turns around and looks at the truck before Clint repeats what Patriot wrote on his car this morning before slamming on the pedal, sending the truck backwards at high speeds before his head gets impaled by the truck's tow hitch. He is dragged down the road with the tow hitch before he gets slammed against a tree, finally finishing him off for good.
Personality[]
Patriot was shown to be vulgar, cruel and disrespectful, both to the staff and to his fellow classmates. He was held back. He is a delinquent, breaks the rules and does not care. He curses a lot and looks at inappropriate pictures of woman's private parts. He does not have a good relationship with his mother, telling her at the beginning of the movie, "F*** you mom." He appeared to be friends with another of his classmates, Dink, as the two of them participated in bullying Shelley. Patriot also showed clear lack of concern when he saw Shelley's sickness.
Upon transforming into a zombie, Patriot was shown to be very sadistic and even more violent, even more so than the other zombies, gleefully attacking the school staff. He was also shown to be very excited when he was killing the teachers and staff or when he tried too, and seemed very determined to do so. Patriot retained some intelligence even as a zombie, shutting off the lights at one point and releasing the other zombies into the school to attack the staff.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- In one scene, pre-zombification Patriot is implied to be racist against Arabs, as he dreamed of kicking some “towel-head ass” when he joins the Marines.
- He was born on September 11, 2001; the same day 9/11 happened, and vowed that he would join the Marines on his 18th birthday.
- Patriot appeared somewhat more intelligent than the other zombies. At one point, he opens the door to allow the other zombies into the school, and appears to give them directions to find the school staff.
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Cootie Kids (Shelley Linker, Patriot, Dink, Angela, Racer Dopkins, & Tricycle Girl) | ||