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“ | I understand. It's natural for a dying leaf to be frightened by the autumn wind. It's not about pulling a rabbit out of your hat anymore. It's about pulling your heart out of your chest. | „ |
~ Steve Gray explaining his way of magic, and what he think of Burt Wonderstone. |
“ | It means I take people's nightmares and turn them into dream realities | „ |
~ Steve Gray |
Steve Gray, also known as The Mind Rapist, is the main antagonist in the 2013 movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. He is a newly discovered street magician that tends to inflict bodily harm to himself so he can entertain his audience. At first, it appeared that Steve was just doing what he enjoyed, entertaining his audience, but he later sought to out-best Burt Wonderstone as the superior magician.
He was portrayed by Jim Carrey, who also played the title character in The Mask, the Riddler in Batman Forever, the title character in The Cable Guy, Hank Evans in Me, Myself, & Irene, The Grinch in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Walter Sparrow in The Number 23 and Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series.
Biography[]
Steve Gray aka The Mind Rapist, is a street magician who loves to do extremely dangerous extreme street magics but he makes to himself a huge bodily damage.
Known "Magic Tricks"[]
Steve had done a series of magic tricks. Almost all of them does physical damage to his own body, and some other magicians and illusionists debate on whether or not that are magic tricks.
- Cutting himself to reveal that he has the card that one of the audience selected in his deck was in his cheek.
- Holding his urine for several days.
- Prevent himself from blinking for a few days without using tape, hooks or anything to keep his eyelids open. He even had someone use pepper spray on both of his eyes and he still didn't blink.
- Slept on a bed of burning coal for the whole night.
- Steve ate a thousand pieces of hard candy. So he dressed up like a piñata, have his assistant hang him on a cable, and had the audience hit him with baseball bats. After getting hit multiple times, Steve proceeded to throw up a bunch of candy and gave them to the kids.
- Burned his arm to entertain a kid's birthday party, and to out-shine Burt Wonderstone, in which the welts on his arm said; "Happy Birthday" in cursive.
- Hammered a nail onto a table, by bashing his own head on the nail.
- Squeezed a puppy into non-existence, only to have "the same puppy", though it was another puppy that looked exactly like the first puppy, in a present. The real puppy was placed into Burt's pants.
- Drilled a real drill bit through his skull. He survived but now has a crooked eye, and is now mentally disabled.
Trivia[]
- It is likely that Steve Gray is based on the real-life magician Criss Angel.