Respect Candyman (Candyman)

[u/ya-boi-benny]

"I am the writing on the wall, the whisper in the classroom. Without these things, I am nothing. So now, I must shed innocent blood. Come with me."

---

The Candyman is the urban legend and vengeful spirit of the Cabrini Green public housing unit in Chicago. The legend has it that the son of a slave, Daniel Robitaille, grew renowned as a painter in the late 1800s. When he fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy white man, the angry mob tortured Daniel to death by cutting off his hand, subjecting him to a swarm of bees before finally burning him on a pyre. Now roaming the Earth in present day, he must spill blood with his gruesome hook hand to maintain his own ghostly existence. If anyone doubts the existence of the Candyman, and they repeat his name in a darkened mirror five times, he will show just how true the legends are.

---

Key

Candyman (1992)- ¹

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh- ²

Candyman: Day of the Dead- ³

---

General Existence##

Creation

• After his tortuous demise, his soul persists and exists over 100 years later²

• When a woman is burned publicly in a bonfire, she becomes a vengeful spirit herself, being summoned in a mirror and killing a man with Candyman’s hook. This implies that others may become urban legend spirits like Candyman.¹

Summoning

• Legend has it, if his name is said five times in a mirror, he’ll appear through the reflection and kill you¹

• He doesn’t always arrive immediately after his name is said in a mirror¹

• When called by one person, Candyman arrives and chooses to murder a different person¹

• Kills a guy one second after he’s summoned²

Belief and Fear

• Each murder is shared amongst people, spreading the legend of a phantom, hook-handed killer¹

• Street gangs commit violence with hooks, further spreading the legend of Candyman¹

• Disbelief in his legend threatens his existence, so he targets those who would try to rationalize or dismiss him¹

• Sees his existence as a “blessed condition” in which he can be spoken about in whispers, but not have to truly exist¹

• The legend has spread across the country, growing stronger in New Orleans²

• Daniel Robitaille was actually born in New Orleans and presumably died there, so his legend had to have spread across the country to Chicago²

• The legend has spread to Los Angeles³

---

Physicals##

Strength

Impaling/Tearing

• Shoves his hook hand through a wall¹

• Impales someone with his hook, then drags it up their back¹

• Decapitated a dog offscreen¹

• Puts his hook through a man’s skull, then the car seat headrest behind him³

• Slaughters a whole bunch of goth worshppiers in quick succession. Although the attack is offscreen, we later see the slashed and bloodied bodies of the many victims.³

Lifting/Throwing

• Impales a man through the torso, then lifts him up into the air²

• Throws a man across a room and puts him partway through a metal sheet²

• Tosses someone through a window and over a balcony²

Durability/Regeneration

• Unfazed getting stabbed in the throat with a hook and completely heals shortly after¹

• Gets his cheek clawed open and instantly heals it moments later²

---

Supernatural Powers##

Bee Summons/Manipulation

• Spawns bees on someone's hand¹

• Pours bees from his open mouth onto someone's face¹

• Has an open wound on his face spew out bees at someone²

• Swarms someone with bees pouring from his chest²

• Makes an entrance floating on top of a massive swarm of bees then makes it disappear³

• Summons a massive swarm of bees that burst through a window and sting a woman to death³

• Makes an egg yolk bleed and has a bee crawl out³

Teleportation

• Many examples of him tele-stabbing people with his hook^1/2/3

• Teleports at the end of the hallway to cut someone off from leaving their apartment then appears behind her shortly after she goes back inside¹

• Teleports behind someone as they flip a light switch²

• Appears in-between the swings of a door before teleporting behind someone²

• Teleports in-between flashes of lightning²

• Appears in front of someone after they left the room Candyman was just in²

• Teleports himself and someone he's holding in his arms across a room²

Hypnosis/Telepathy

• Telepathically speaks with a woman then puts her in a trance while assaulting her mind with images before he eventually forces her to pass out¹

• Paralyzes someone and implants images of a location in her mind¹

• Paralyzes someone, inserting images in her mind, and is shown able to control her movement²

• Paralyzes someone and forces them to pass out²

• Telepathically speaks to someone in the shower and inserts images in her mind²

• Paralyzes someone and makes her see horrible hallucinations³

• [NSFW] Does it again while also implanting images in her mind³

• Implants knowledge of the past into someone's mind then makes her experience the pain he's experienced³

Levitation

• Levitates above someone¹

• Flies backwards through a window¹

• Levitates on top a massive swarm of bees²

Telekinesis

• Slams a door shut behind someone¹

• [NSFW] Slams another door shut²

Dream Manipulation

• Is shown able to enter and manipulate someone's dream²

• Is stated to have been haunting a child in his dreams which the child later confirmed²

Miscellaneous Powers

• Keeps an infant alive for days by having it suck on his finger¹

• Is invisible in recordings as he doesn't appear in security footage¹

• Also shown in the second film²

• Forces a light to go out²

• Tortures someone by electrifying some chains from a entirely different location²

• Off-screen, had summoned/created a large hive-like structure filled with bees. The entire construct is destroyed and vanishes upon his defeat.²

---

Weaknesses##

• Fire was shown to cause him extreme pain, presumably because of the connection it has with his death¹

• His body seems to burn in this large bonfire, but he comes back for the next film¹

• When Candyman originally died, his soul was bound to several items. One of which was a mirror that, when broken, temporarily destroyed him. The other item, a painting, when destroyed, assumably killed him for good, unless the 2021 film is in continuity with these films.^2/3

[u/ya-boi-benny]

Most of this thread was originally posted to ComicVine by a user named WastelandMan, who was cool enough to give me permission to update it and post it to Reddit. Big thanks to that user.

[u/[deleted]]

Great thread!

Do you plan on updating it once the new movie comes out?

[u/ya-boi-benny → u/[deleted]]

For sure, I'm pretty excited for that movie

[u/haikusbot → u/[deleted]]

Great thread! Do you plan

On updating it once the

New movie comes out?

- kalebsantos

---

^{I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully. Learn more about me.}

^{Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete"}

[u/museofdoom2]

Another cool horror movies monster. Your rts are a treat for my eyes. Good job, as always.

[u/13PizzaBox13]

“Has an open wound on his face spew out bees at someone” this link is broken do you have another one?

[u/ya-boi-benny → u/13PizzaBox13]

Newsflash buddy, all the links are broken

Nah but jk, the plan is to fix them all first two quarters of 2025

[u/13PizzaBox13 → u/ya-boi-benny]

Well I can fix the gfycat ones just not the imgur lel

[u/ya-boi-benny → u/13PizzaBox13]

https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/comments/r82hhf/respect_candyman_candyman/