He blows up all the trucks and fighers, kills Flagg's pilots, and then disappears in the desert. He proves to be useful until he gets harassed by a few of the workers, which causes him to relive memories from his past and abandons his loyalty to Randall Flagg. Trashcan Man also has a gift with discovering weapons and very dangerous devices and searches for them in the desert and arms the fighter jets at Indian Springs Air Force Base as well. Trashcan Man, like all of Flagg's followers, is given a black gem and becomes one of Flagg's top men. He then travels to Las Vegas, the kingdom of Randall Flagg and his followers, and encounters The Kid, a mentally unstable drunkyard, who only agrees to side with Randall Flagg if he gets to take over, but The Kid is killed by the wolves sent by Randall Flagg. While burning down Gary, he gets rough burns on his left arm and then gives up his plan to burn the United States and joins Randall Flagg, who appears to him in his dreams and says that he has great work for Trashcan Man in the desert.
He then lays waste to cities and oil tanks with fire and while he's running he experiences an agonizing accident by jumping over a railing and breaking his right wrist, the net result of the accident is his hand points away from his body at a 90 degree angle. When the superflu kills all the inmates and guards, Trashcan Man is able to escape prison and goes to his hometown, Powtanville, Indiana. He got shock treatments from an Indiana institution until he went to prison for arson.
His name comes from his past when, as a youngster he would start fires in trashcans. In the 2020 miniseries, he was portrayed by Ezra Miller, who also portrayed Kevin Khatchadourian in We Need to Talk About Kevin and Credence Barebone in the Fantastic Beasts film series.ĭonald Mervin Elbert aka Trashcan Man is a deadly schizophrenic, who has a love for fire and using fire to destroy things. In the 1994 miniseries, he was portrayed by Matt Frewer, who also played Panic in Disney's Hercules and Jobe Smith in Lawnmower Man 2.
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Trashcan Man is a major antagonist of the Stephen King 1978 novel The Stand and its 19 TV miniseries adaptations of the same name.
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