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| “ | Bev! You need me! BEEEEV!!!!!! | „ |
| ~ Tom Rogan's villainous breakdown after getting beat up by Beverly and being left for good. |
Tom Rogan is a major antagonist in the Stephen King book It, and a minor antagonist in the 1990 TV miniseries and the 2019 film of the same name. He is the abusive husband (boyfriend in the miniseries) of Beverly Marsh who is like a copy of her father Alvin Marsh.
He is portrayed by Ryan Michael in the 1990 It miniseries and by Will Beinbrink in the 2019 sequel It: Chapter Two.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
All versions[]
- He abuses his own wife/girlfriend Beverly Marsh just like her father did.
- He has no redeeming qualities nor comedic nor likeable moments and is taken completely seriously.
Novel only[]
- He has a predatory view of women and thrives on the control he has over his vulnerable wife, Beverly, influenced by his physically abusive mother.
- He sees Beverly as a sexual object and uses her chain-smoking as an excuse to beat her.
- When Beverly tries to leave for Derry to keep the promise she had made to the Losers Club in 1958, Tom, also on a bender after drinking too much while watching the Chicago White Sox lose a game earlier that evening, refuses to let her go, giving her a "whuppin" with an old leather belt he kept specifically for such incidents.
- Desperate to find his wife, he finds one of Beverly's friends, Kay McCall, and beats her senseless until she reveals where Beverly is.
- Flying out of Chicago while obsessively handling one of Bill Denborough's novels, Tom arrives in Boston and tries to rent a car. Seeing his horrifically scarred face, car rental agents refuse to rent him a vehicle. Unfazed, Tom looks through the local want-ads and buys a clunker from a young teenager and steals the plates from another car in long-term parking.
- He drives to Derry with the intent on killing Beverly after making her eat a whole carton of cigarettes, and possibly her "writer friend" Bill, whom he suspects to be her lover, before getting eaten by It.
1990 miniseries and 2019 film[]
- Unlike the novel version, there is no mention of Tom having grown up with an abusive mother.
- When Beverly left him, she was exhausted, meaning he’d always abused her.
- Additionally, in the 2019 film, she takes off her wedding ring and leaves it out in the rain, which shows that she never wants anything to do with Tom ever again.
- Since he is never seen again, he was never punished for his actions, making these two versions of him Karma Houdinis,
1990 miniseries only[]
- When Beverly’s secretary tells her that Mike is calling, he interrupts her saying they are not to be disturbed. Bev tells her secretary she can answer the call in a minute but he says no and tells the secretary to hang up the number.
- When Bev is scared he tells her "that stuff spreads like cancer" instead of consoling her.
- He messes up Beverly’s hair and warns her to not fix it which foreshadows his abusive nature towards her.
- When he forcibly kisses her and says ‘’good luck’’, he tells her to never contradict him again in front of her secretary.
- He tells her to get herself under control because they’re going to meet the Japanese investors which shows he shows no care for her.
- He tells her that she plays the "Charming ‘Flamboyant Designer’’ which shows how terrible of a boss he is to show the Japanese Investors.
- He only cares about a deal to be rich, showing off how greedy he is.
- He didn’t even teach Beverly to speak Japanese to the Japanese investors and he didn’t even bow to them.
- After he went to go get some more wine, he finds Beverly packing up, thinking she is leaving him for some “old boyfriend,” and he violently slaps her across the face like her father did to her and tells her to shut up.
- After slapping her, he accuses her of contradicting him again, and Leaving him for some other Lover cutting the deal to be rich, and smarting him off there.
- When he said that to her he sarcastically tells her what does she takes him for
- He cackles that he knew that she would do that and calls her a little girl that's lost her manners.
- He tells her that she had forgotten her lessons and goes to the closet wardrobe and grabs a belt intent on beating her with it.
- He said that it was too long since last time implying that he has already beaten her with the belt previously.
- When Beverly tells him to put the belt down he ignores her.
- While holding the belt, he orders her to put her clothes back and get back in bed with him.
- He tried to keep her with him so that she could leave the house for 2 days instead of 2 weeks.
- When Beverly says "not ever, ever again!", he was seen being furious meaning he was going to beat her with the belt but gets hit on the head with a jar.
- After the aforementioned hit, he tells Beverly when she starts to leave him that she needs him and screams her name in a fit of rage, but he says that just because he wanted to be rich.
- When Beverly goes to the airport she started to remember her past childhood that she was abused by her father the same way that Tom Rogan did to her.
2019 film only[]
- When Beverly receives Mike's call, he initially appears calm about her request to leave but abruptly accuses her of cheating on him with Mike without establishing or believing that she never cheated on him.
- After falsely accusing Bev of cheating, he proceeds to beat her with a belt, telling her that she is not going anywhere, then punches her in the face.
- He then throws Bev down on the bed and attempts to rape her.
- After Bev knocks him down with a picture frame onto his head and leaves the house, he screams that she's nothing without him at her while she is fleeing.
External Links[]
- Tom Rogan on the Villains Wiki.
- Tom Rogan on the Stephen King Wiki.
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