Warren Pike is the main antagonist of the 1999 film Life.
His younger counterpart was portrayed by Ned Vaughn, and his older counterpart was portrayed by the late R. Lee Ermey, who also portrayed Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket and Sheriff Hoyt in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
- He banished his former friend (Hancock) from his local town out of spite.
- He then murdered Hancock after the friend hit his face out of self-defense. It cannot be considered as self-defense in his case because he was the one who threw the first hit at Hancock's leg.
- He is directly responsible for the false imprisonment of Winston Hancock and Ray Gibson, despite it being him who committed the crime, making him a Karma Houdini. That was until Dexter Wilkins shot him giving him a comeuppance years later.
- He admitted that he merely got the two sentenced to prison just to force them into doing hard labor for 40+ years.
- To make matters worse, he taunted the two when they were awaiting their trial to be sent to prison for something that was solely his fault.
- It could be implied that he did the same to more victims as well.
- Forty years after having the two innocent men falsely accused of murder and sent to prison, he attempted to kill the two when they found out that it was him again.
- He was highly racist as he blatantly called the pair the N-word.
- He was indirectly responsible for Wilkins' death by a heart attack in the bathroom, which kept the pair in prison until they were in their senior citizenship since they were never pardoned.
- Overall, he has absolutely no redeeming qualities to him, the only thing that seems close to redeeming for him is his ambiguous love for his wife, which is unconfirmed by the creators of the movie.
- He is a scarily accurate portrayal of police brutality and corrupt police officers and the effects that they have on falsely accused inmates (the movie is strongly based on a real-life tale).
- While the movie itself is meant to be a comedy movie, he detracts from the comedic tone of the movie by his very presence alone by adding a purely dark tone to it.
Trivia[]
External Links[]
- Sheriff Warren Pike on the Villains Wiki
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