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Francis Dolarhyde
Francis Dolarhyde
is a fictional character and the primary
antagonist
of
Thomas Harris
' 1981 novel
Red Dragon
. He is a
serial killer
who
murders entire families
by shooting them in their beds. He is nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" due to the nocturnal nature of his crimes, his tendency to bite his victims' bodies, the uncommon size and sharpness of his teeth and other apparent
oral fixation
s. He kills at the behest of an
alternate personality
; he refers to
his other self
as "The Great Red Dragon" after
William Blake
's painting
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun
. He believes that killing people - or "changing" them, as he calls it - allows him to more fully "become" the Dragon.
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