General Ryan (The Hills Have Eyes)

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character_name = General Ryan
real_name = General Ryan (first name unknown)
publisher = Fox Atomic Comics
debut = "The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning" (2007)
creators = Jimmy Palmiotti
Justin Gray
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status = Deceased
alliances = U.S. Army
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powers = Skilled in armed combat

General Ryan is a fictional character in graphic novel. "".

He is portrayed as a brutal racist who has a history with the monstrous Hill People in Yuma Flats, New Mexico.

Fictional character history

The son of an apparently high-ranking army officer, Lieutenant Ryan accompanied General Slaughter and lawyer Mr. Goldberg to a town in New Mexico with the intent of buying the property of its residents, which would then be used to test nuclear bombs. After the towns residents refused to sell their land, Ryan and several of his friends, having become drunk in a strip bar, went back to the town for some "fun". Capturing the Sawney Bean family, Ryan brutalized the family patriarch, Dan and said he would kill his son unless he sold his land to the army. Enraged at Ryan for threatening his son, Dan lunged at Ryan and was shot in the head by him, instantly dying. Realizing what he had done, Ryan, panicking, threatened Dan's widow, Karen, and her son before fleeing. The next day, Ryan, General Slaughter, Mr. Goldberg and several other army officers were travelling back to the town when they were attacked by the enraged residents of the town, who had begun sniping them. After General Slaughter and several others were killed, Ryan, who had an ear shot off, fled the scene, abandoning the apparently still living and seriously wounded Mr. Goldberg, Ryan not caring about the "Jew lawyer".

When the army began its assault on the town in retaliation for the murder of General Slaughter, Ryan, after finding Karen and her son, brought them to an empty house and, blaming Karen for his damaged ear, began to brutalize them. Ryan was found a short time later by a superior officer and several others, in the midst of preparing to rape Karen, after killing her son. Restraining Ryan and ignoring his threats about what his father would do, the commanding officer promised Karen that Ryan would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and let her go, not noticing her stealing Ryan's dog tags. After kicking Ryan to the ground, the officer ordered his men to not speak a word of these events to anyone, after having them transport Ryan back to camp. Ryan apparently wasn't prosecuted at all, as he was next shown overseeing the nuclear tests where the town that caused him so much trouble once was.

Years later in the comic, Ryan, now promoted to the rank of general, led the army invasion of a nuclear test village inhabited by murderous, as Ryan described them "incest-loving backwards-mountain fucks", who Ryan assumed were the people he encountered years earlier. After being informed by his minion Blair that a general named Ryan was invading their town, mutant leader Hades ordered that General Ryan be taken to him, alive. When the mutants and army fought, Ryan, while shooting an attacking mutant in his tent, was knocked unconscious from a blow from behind and dragged away by mutants.

The end of the comic reveals that the story about the origin and history of the mutants was being told by Hades to a beaten and bound General Ryan, who is missing an eye; after telling Ryan about how his army destroyed the mutant's town with a tank ordered by Ryan, Hades revealed to Ryan his old dog tags, given to Hades by his mother, Karen. After showing Ryan the dog tags and exclaiming that it was fate that brought Ryan to him, Hades announces to his nearby, blade-wielding mutant brethhren that it was "dinner time".

References

* "The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning" (2007)