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| ― Maynard phones Zed after capturing Butch Coolidge and Marsellus Wallace. |
Maynard is a major antagonist in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 crime thriller film Pulp Fiction, serving as the secondary antagonist of the chapter called "The Gold Watch". He was a treacherous pawn shop owner and an homosexual rapist and implied serial killer who victimizes men that he and his friend, Zed, kidnaped.
He was portrayed by Duane Whitaker.
Biography[]
Boxer Butch Coolidge was being chased by crime boss, Marsellus Wallace, after he attempted to kill Marsellus by running him over. Butch eventually stumbled into Maynard's pawn shop to hide from Marsellus. Maynard questioned him, wondering what Butch was up to. Ignoring Maynard, Butch ambushed Marsellus as he arrived in the pawnshop, disarmed him, and prepared to shoot him in the head. Suddenly Maynard pulls out a shotgun and holds Butch at gun point, forcing him to drop his pistol and approach the desk with his hands behind his head. Maynard then knocks Butch out by striking him with the butt of the rifle, while Marcellus passes out following his scuffle with Butch. Meanwhile, Maynard phones Zed and states that, "the spider caught himself a couple of flies".
Later on, Maynard woke them both up by spraying them with a fire extinguisher, where they find themselves bound and gagged to chairs in Maynard's basement. Zed then arrives and they awaken "The Gimp", one of their captured victims who was driven insane from their torment. Zed couldn't decide who wanted to rape at first, and so he eventually picked Marsellus with a game of "eenie meenie miny moe". Following this, Zed and Maynard brought him to the back room. They bent Marsellus over a volting horse in the room and took turns raping him. Butch managed to untie himself and knocked The Gimp out. Just as Butch is about to leave the pawn shop, he realizes he can't leave Marsellus at the mercy of Zed and Maynard and goes back to save him with a katana in hand.
Butch sneaks into the back room, witnessing Zed raping Marsellus while Maynard masturbated. Maynard then notices Marsellus turn his head to look at Butch, and turns around, only to be faced with Butch, who slashes him across the chest before stabbing him in the stomach, killing him.
Trivia[]
- The room in which Maynard and Zed take Marsellus to is referred to as "Russel's Old Room", implying that they may have sodomized and killed one of their previous victims, before kidnapping Butch and Marsellus.
- According to the screenplay, Maynard and Zed are brothers.
- In accordance to Quentin Tarantino, Maynard kidnapped a hitchhiker seven years before the events of the film, who eventually becomes The Gimp.