Jody
Background
Jody, Jr. Pearson is a 24 year old banker in Oregon. His brother is Mike and his parents were Jody, Sr. and Ann, but they died in 1977. Jody is in a relationship with Girlfriend. He can play the guitar and likes Dos XX beer.
During the events of Phantasm (1979) played by Bill Thornbury
Jody and Reggie go to Tommy's funeral, where they were apparently told that Tommy killed himself. As Jody is walking through the mausoleum to visit his parent's crypt, he hears an odd sound. The Tall Man suddenly grabs Jody and tells him that the funeral is about to begin. Reggie stops by in his ice cream truck and plays guitar with Jody. Later, Jody goes to Dunes Cantina and sits down next to Lady in Lavender and starts up a conversation. They leave the bar together and Lady in Lavender takes Jody to the cemetery. They start to kiss and Mike runs by Jody and the Lady in Lavender and Jody runs after Mike and grabs him. Mike tells Jody about a Dwarf Zombie, but Jody doesn't believe him. Jody walks back to where he left Lady in Lavender, but she is gone. The next day, Jody goes back to the bar. Jody asks the Bartender if Lady in Lavender ever returned to the bar. While Mike is working on Jody's car, he is almost crushed when the jack fails and he tells Jody it was the Dwarf Zombies.
Mike shows Jody The Tall Man's finger he cut off and tells him about seeing The Tall Man carrying Tommy's casket by himself. Mike opens the box with the finger to look at it and it has changed into a monster which attacks him. Mike and Jody carry it to the garbage disposal and kill it as Reggie, who stopped by watches. Jody goes to the cemetery and tells Mike to stay at home. While Jody is in the funeral parlor basement, he is attacked by a Dwarf Zombie and shoots it. He runs away and the hearse starts chasing him with no one at the steering wheel. Mike drives up in Jody's car and picks him up. Jody shoots the hearse and it crashes into a tree. They open the car door and find a dead Dwarf Zombie at the steering wheel. Jody pulls back the Dwarf Zombie's cowl and it has Tommy's face. Jody calls Reggie and asks him to bring his ice cream truck and they move Tommy's body into Reggie's truck. They go to Reggie's house and come up with a plan and Jody has Reggie drive Mike to Sally's antique store.
Mike runs home and tells Jody that the Tommy Dwarf Zombie got Sally, Girlfriend and Reggie. Jody locks Mike into his room and drives away. Jody checks on his father's casket and finds it empty. The sphere heads towards Mike and Jody shoots it with a shotgun. They walk towards a door and Reggie walks up to them and tells them he freed Sally, Girlfriend and Fortuneteller's Granddaughter. Jody opens the door and they find a room full of black canisters with Dwarf Zombies inside of them. Mike walks towards a portal and is pulled inside. He sees a line of Dwarf zombies carrying canisters on a barren planet. Mike tells Jody and Reggie that the Dwarf Zombies are used as slaves on their planet. The lights go out and they get separated. Jody finds Mike and they see Reggie stabbed. Jody and Mike drive back to their house. Jody comes up with an idea to trap The Tall Man in a nearby mine shaft. He goes to the mine shaft while Mike stays home. The Tall Man falls down the mine shaft and Jody rolls large boulders over the mine shaft entrance. Mike wakes up and Reggie tells him, he just had a nightmare and hasn't slept much since Jody's funeral last week.
