Darkman: Eddie Black (Jessie Lawrence Ferguson)

Comments for death : Darkman: Eddie Black (Jessie Lawrence Ferguson).

I was going to add this death as "Cheating Death"

Possibly, but i think that it is fair to say that if he does not appear in the film after this point, he is dead.

I agree with Kooshmeister's view that the scene was to show how evil durant was, and therefore how deserving his death at the end is. It is highly unlikely that Durnat would kill all of Black's gang and then cut off all his fingers, and let him live.

Eddie lives!

In the short-lived series of Marvel comics that followed the movie, not only does Durant return, but Eddie does as well (with two new metal, gun-outfitted hands).

If the comics are considered official canon, then the Cheating Death category should be there.

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Eddie does as well (with two new metal, gun-outfitted hands).

You must be joking, right? Did he get them in Jamaica, when a salvage crew found them swimming in the middle of a pool of toxic waste?

Nope. He's a gangster. He has connections.

Here he is (from DARKMAN #1):

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The gun hand in action

Well I personally think the comics and novels are a separate continuity from the films, therefore as far as the movies are concerned, Eddie is presumed dead. However the gun hands in the comic is a nice touch. How does Durant come back? Hopefully it's a better explanation then Darkman II offered...

I only have issues 1 and 6, but from what I gather, Durant was badly burned in the helicopter explosion. He's been in a coma in hiding at the hospital that Julie works for now. I'm just guessing here, but he gets some reconstructive surgery on his head and face (the only parts salvageable) and a brand new cybernetic body (where he can detach his head and walk around on an pider-like cybernetic apparatus, like Mr. Freeze).

The final issue (number 6) has Darkman found floating near a shantytown by the bums who live there (after being thrown from a building by Durant in the previous issue). When Claude Bellasarious (the same Bellasarious of the memo that destroyed Peyton Westlake's life and the comics' Wo Fat), head of the powerful Metropolitan Club (which run's the city's illegal activities) finds out, he sends Durant and and some men to finish him off and take care of the bums (witnesses). As bums are gunned down, Darkman strikes, using animal-like fury and savagery to defeat the gang and badly beat up Durant (he even seperates his head from his body and smashes it into the ground). He doesn't kill him though: he sees the horrified expressions on the faces of the surviving bums, and reailizes that the mosnter within him still sets him apart (he had considered setting up a home there). Before it keels over, Durant's cybernetic body grabs the head from Darkman and throws it away. The still-living Durant escapes with the spidr-like cybernetic apparatus to fight again another day. Darkman, to make up for what happened to the shantytown, finds Claude and tells him that he's protecting the city. He's protecting the people Claude preys on. He tells him that Claude is looking at a dead man, and this dead man's haunting him.

INCONCEIVABLE! Well at least Black was a bit "surprised" to hear Durant survived in this version, everyone in the film seemed to just "accept" it

when Eddie Black was having a freightened look on his face was he doing his best impression of Col. Dietrich or Gollum?