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Fictional character

Kevin
Sin City character
Elijah Wood as Kevin in Sin City
First appearance	The Hard Goodbye
Created by	Frank Miller
Portrayed by	Elijah Wood
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Residence	Basin City

Kevin is a fictional character in Frank Miller's graphic novel series Sin City, featured prominently in The Hard Goodbye. He is a mute, cannibalistic serial killer who preys on the titular city's prostitutes, The Girls of Old Town. He is protected by the powerful Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark, who also acts as his accomplice. Kevin lives at the Roark family farm, and uses the basement as an execution chamber for his victims; after he kills and eats them, he stuffs and mounts their heads on the walls like hunting trophies.

While he appears harmless and unassuming, Kevin is a fierce, inhumanly fast fighter adept in martial arts; accordingly, the Roark family uses him as an assassin from time to time. He is usually accompanied by his pet wolf, which he feeds whatever parts of his victims he does not eat himself.

Appearances

The Hard Goodbye

The Hard Goodbye establishes Kevin's back story, as related by Cardinal Roark. He first meets Roark when going to him for confession, wracked with guilt over the murders he is committing. Roark eventually comes to believe that Kevin is doing God's work by consuming his victims' souls as well as their bodies, and eventually joins him in cannibalistic rituals. Roark also claims that Kevin is mute by choice, and when he speaks it is with "the voice of an angel".

In the main plot, Kevin kills Marv's one true love, Goldie, at Cardinal Roark's behest when she learns the truth about their murder spree; he then frames Marv for the crime. Marv swears revenge, and cuts a bloody swath through the city's underworld until he learns the identity of the killer he seeks. He then follows Kevin to the Farm, where Kevin surprises him and knocks him unconscious. He also kidnaps and imprisons Marv's parole officer, Lucille, and forces her to watch while he eats her hand.

Marv eventually escapes, however, and confronts Kevin again. This time, Marv overpowers him and subjects him to brutal, systematic torture, eventually sawing his limbs off and feeding him to his pet wolf. Much to Marv's frustration, Kevin does not make a sound the entire time, and dies with a blissful smile on his face.

That Yellow Bastard

Kevin makes a cameo appearance in That Yellow Bastard, set a few years before The Hard Goodbye. He appears at the Farm, sitting in a rocking chair and reading the Bible while Roark Junior tortures Nancy Callahan.

In other media

Kevin is portrayed by Elijah Wood in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film adaptation of Sin City.

Character notes

Frank Miller has stated in the Sin City: Recut and Extended DVD commentary that Kevin and another supporting character, Miho, are the supernatural beings in Sin City. Miller characterizes them as "demons"; Miho is a good "demon" and Kevin is an evil one.

Reception

In 2011, UGO Networks ranked Kevin together with Miho as #1 in their list "Quiet as the Grave: The Silent Killers of Film and TV".

References

"30 Craziest Movie Casting Moments | TotalFilm.com". totalfilm.com. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
"REELZ: Movie News". reelz.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
Fitzpatrick, Kevin (January 31, 2011). "Quiet as the Grave: The Silent Killers of Film and TV". Ugo.com. Archived from the original on May 29, 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

v t e Sin City by Frank Miller
Yarns	The Hard Goodbye A Dame to Kill For The Big Fat Kill That Yellow Bastard Family Values Booze, Broads, & Bullets Hell and Back
Characters	Nancy Callahan Goldie and Wendy John Hartigan Kevin Ava Lord Marv Dwight McCarthy Miho Wallace
Organizations	Magliozzi crime family The Girls of Old Town Roark family Wallenquist Organization
Films	Sin City soundtrack Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Category

Frank Miller

Millerverse

Other comics

Written

Daredevil / Elektra	Daredevil "Born Again" Elektra: Assassin
Martha Washington	Give Me Liberty Martha Washington Goes to War
RoboCop	RoboCop RoboCop Versus The Terminator Frank Miller's RoboCop
Other series	Bad Boy The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot Hard Boiled

Written
and drawn

300	300 Xerxes
Daredevil / Elektra	Daredevil Elektra Lives Again
Sin City	The Hard Goodbye A Dame to Kill For The Big Fat Kill That Yellow Bastard Family Values Hell and Back
Other series	Ronin Holy Terror

Drawn

Characters

DC Comics	Carmine Falcone Carrie Kelley Gillian B. Loeb Holly Robinson
Marvel Comics	Chaste Elektra John Garrett Karma Maggie Murdock Mauler Nuke Shingen Yashida Stick
Dark Horse Comics	Martha Washington
Sin City	Ava Lord Dwight McCarthy Goldie and Wendy John Hartigan Kevin Marv Miho Nancy Callahan Roark family The Girls of Old Town Wallace Wallenquist Organization

Films

Written

RoboCop 2 (1990)
RoboCop 3 (1993)

Directed

Sin City (2005)
The Spirit (2008)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

Adaptations

The 300	300 (2006) 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Blood and Ashes (TBA)
Millerverse	Batman: Year One (2011) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part One (2012) Part Two (2013)

TV and
video games

RoboCop Versus The Terminator (1993)
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (1999–2001)
300: March to Glory (2007)
Cursed (2020)

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