| “ | Constance, look at me! Look at me. As long as I'm here, I will never let anyone hurt you. | „ |
| ~ Horace attempting to calm his wife down before her death. |
| “ | So, I finished the house. She would've wanted that. She died, but she didn't leave. That night, that... that one night of every year. I had to take precautions, I had to... I had to. She attacks anyone who comes near. | „ |
| ~ Nebbercracker after Constance's death |
Horace Nebbercracker is the overarching protagonist of the 2006 animated horror movie Monster House.
He's an elderly man who often gets wrathful whenever children cross on his house's lawn. However, it is later revealed that behind his wrathful persona lies a good man who had a very good reason why he acts so hostile towards those who cross on his lawn, as it's revealed that his house is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his wife, Constance Nebbercracker.
He was voiced by Steve Buscemi.
What Makes Him Pure Good?[]
- He fell in love with Constance Nebbercracker, saving her from a horrific circus job and marrying her.
- When his wife is angered by two children throwing eggs at her, Horace tries to calm her down, telling her they're just kids having fun and that he'd never let anything harm her.
- He tries to stop Constance from attacking the children with an axe.
- Due to his wife Constance's wrath, he was forced to adopt the façade of a cruel and grumpy old man to save children who got near his house and to keep his wife's anger in check.
- Prevented Constance from killing DJ and his friends.
- Gave DJ dynamite to destroy the house, knowing that Constance couldn't be stopped in other ways.
- He ultimately redeemed Constance and greeted her before she passes on.
- Specifies he had been protecting the neighborhood children for 45 years.
- He embraced DJ, Chowder and Jenny, thanking them for freeing him, his wife Constance, and all of the neighborhood.
- Made a Halloween service to give back all the toys he had taken from children as an apology for scaring them despite indirectly saving their lives.
- It is strongly implied he was planning to blow up the house (Constance) with himself still in it with dynamite, and probably would have succeeded and sacrificed himself and end his wife's suffering had DJ not intervened. Had it truly the case, that unfortunately also stressed how much putting up the façade of cruel and grumpy old man took its toll on him than he realized just as Constance's own undeath life became too unbearable for her due to all her torment and suffering. Moreover, while wary toward the insightful young man at first (it occured to him that DJ had both spied on him for quite a while and even managed to see through such façade at some point), DJ's unlikely assistance was the exact thing he and Constance desperately needed all along.
Trivia[]
- Ironically, Horace's voice actor Steve Buscemi also voiced Randall Boggs in Disney-Pixar's Monsters, Inc. franchise, who is instead Pure Evil.
- He's the current icon of the Deletion template, possibly as a reference to him scramming people away from his house.
External Links[]
- Horace Nebbercracker on the Heroes Wiki
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