Ramón is the main antagonist of the 1980 horror film Alligator. It is a large alligator that went on a rampage in Chicago.
He was once owned by Dr. Marisa Kendall as a baby, but was flushed down the toilet by her father, ending up in the sewers.
Biography[]
Ramon was taken home as a pet by a young teenage girl named Marisa Kendall, who named him, but he was soon flushed by her animal-hating father. Over the next twelve years, Ramone not only managed to somehow survive, but also devoured dog corpses infected by growth hormones, growing to gargantuan size (30 to 40 feet long), also causing him ravenous hunger.
After devouring a man unseen, Ramon made his debut in the film attacking and devouring Luke Gutchell, who was trying to dump more dead dogs for the company Slade Pharmaceutical, responsible for the growth hormone that caused Ramone to become so huge. Ramon later attacked David Madison, a detective investigating his victims' deaths, and his partner, Officer Jim Kelly, who he caught and devoured. No one, however, would believe Madison's claim about Ramon Later, reporting Thomas Kemp went down into the sewers to investigate himself and, as Ramon attack and devoured him, took photos which proved his existence. Madison, sided by Dr. Marisa Kendall, Ramone's previous owner, mounted an operation to kill Ramon, which he evaded, smashing through concrete afterwards, and biting the leg off of another police officer, before retreating into a pool. Colonel Brock, a professional big-game hunter and tracker, is brought in and hired to kill Ramon.
The next night, Ramon devoured a little boy playing pirate with his friends, who was thrown into the pool. He was later found by Brock, who he devoured after being shot multiple times. Before that, however, Kendall and Madison had found his lair in the sewers. The next day, Ramon was found in the canal by a pair of motor boats mounted by national guardsmen and policemen, one of which he wrecked and the other he evaded. He continued on to Slade mansion, owned by the man running the company responsible for Ramon condition, where he killed several people, including Slade himself, his son-in-law, who ran the experiments with the hormone, and the mayor. Kendall and Madison tracked him and found he was back in the sewer. Madison found him and shot him several times, managing to lure him to an ideal place to kill Ramon with a bomb. Ramone hit him with his tail, but didn't manage to devoured Madison, who escaped in just enough time to evade the explosion of the bomb, which blasted Ramone to pieces, ending his reign of terror on the city.
Powers and Abilities[]
Given his gargantuan size, Ramon had incredible physical strength, able to easily smashed through solid concrete, albeit with great physical exersion. Thanks to the growth hormone that caused his size, Ramon had a ravenous appetite which seemed to never end, and his flesh was so hard, only the bomb that killed him could hurt him.
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Trivia[]
- The animatronic for Ramón would often malfunction during filming.
- Due to his size, Ramón closely resembles a Deinosuchus, an ancestor of modern-day alligators.