Well, since Mrs. Super Nova asked me about this, thought to make another "anti-blog" but hopefully this one goes over better than that other.
These two are also from Get Out so don't feel the need to go into detail about the twists and turns of the film.
Who Are They? What Had They Done?[]
Dean and Missy Armitage are the parents of Rose and Jeremy Armitage who, like them, are members of the Order of the Coagula. While they seem to be friendly and open to their daughter dating a black man (that being Chris), they are actually hypocritical psychopaths with god complexes. Now, I will separate both by what they do to assist the brain transferring scheme.
- Missy is the one who uses hypnotism to prep the patient into the surgery by sending them into the Sunken Place where only a sliver of them exists. They are able to see what is happening with their bodies but are incapable of doing anything about it. When hypnotizing Chris into quitting smoking (because that would devalue his body and they couldn't have that), she deliberately forces him to relive his childhood trauma of him being unable to help his mother. She is a willing member of the operation much like the rest of her family.
- Dean, the son of the overarching antagonist Roman Armitage, was tasked with doing the brunt of the operation by studying up on neurology and becoming a trained brain surgeon. He has done the operation dozens of times two of his victims being the ones whose bodies Roman and his wife inhabit. He also tries to train Jeremy so he could take up the profession.
Both get killed by Chris when he manages to escape the chair by tearing cotton from the arms and using it to block out the sound of the tea cup. Dean gets killed by a mounted deer head (funnily calling to mind how he earlier mentioned disliking deer) while Missy bites it I guess by having either the shards of the tea cup forced in her temples or the letter opener she tried to fight Chris off with.
But who cares? They're dead.
Freudian Excuse? Mitigating factors?[]
Obviously no excuses. They are both racist pricks like how Dean tells Chris he would have voted for Obama a third time if he could being nothing more than him being a professional @$$-kisser who's trying to lull him into a false sense of security. But where my issue comes from is how they treat the rest of their family. The reason as to why we determined Rose and Roman counted was because they both show a lack of concern/care for their family: Rose sees the corpses of her parents and brother sprawled on the ground but shakes it off. Roman tries to attack Chris even though his wife's body wasn't that far away and yet he does not take a moment to express grief. In a deleted scene, he even mocks Jesse Owens gloating that he finally beat him. Y'know and not "Oh my god, my wife is dead! I'll kill you!"
But with Dean and Missy, there weren't any scenes where they see a loved one dead and react with indifference. Sure, you could make the argument that they do at least try to depict themselves as being a loving, supportive family when they really treat the whole relationship more like a business where each one had a role like how Dean has Jeremy as an assistant in the operations only doing so so that Jeremy could fill in after his death.
Besides that, to me, what kept Dean off was his relationship to his father. When he relays the story of how he lost to Jesse Owens, he has a notable fondness for his father. Sure, you can just write that off as minor, but that in addition to putting his brain into the groundskeeper, to me at least, reads as being too genuine. But I am not going to hold any ill will towards anyone who does not think the same way. He does go into talking about people like him and his family were the "gods trapped in cocoons" so it is more like he loves the perceived supremacy that comes from the experiments.
Heinous standard[]
As with before:
- Roman is the mastermind as he was the one who came up with the plan. He was the one who ordered Dean to study neurology (and may've even encouraged him to marry Missy, but that is just a personal theory). He is indirectly responsible for all the events that happen in the story.
- Rose forms false relationships with her targets and gaslights them when they rightly believe that there is something up. She does this knowing that they will be sent to the Sunken Place but does not care. She is also more openly sadistic and looks for even more victims in the end.
- Jeremy is not heinous enough. His method of collecting victims just amounts to "catch this one in a choke hold."
But as for the matriarch and patriarch of the family, Missy deliberately makes her victims relive their worst traumas all as a means of ensnaring them into the Sunken Place while Dean does the surgeries that results in just a sliver of the original host's brain being left behind. However, still personally think that Dean edges out more than Missy, but will leave that to you to decide.
Conclusion[]
Indifferent on either, so won't be surprised if they are readily rejected for reasons I have stated.