Leprechaun

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Leprechaun

Background

Leprechaun is a leprechaun from Killarney, Ireland and a shoemaker. He traded his soul for gold and is 600 years old. The Leprechaun can regrow limbs or other body parts. His birthday is the 17th of March and he is over 2000 years old.


During the events of Leprechaun (1993) played by Warwick Davis

Leprechaun follows O'Grady to North Dakota from Ireland, after O'Grady steals his gold. He scares Mrs. O'Grady who falls down the basement stairs and breaks her neck, but is trapped into a crate by O'Grady who uses a four leaf clover to trap the Leprechaun in the crate. Ten years later he is freed by Ozzie, and he demands to know where his gold is. He scratches Tory in the leg and when J.D., who thinks it was a cat that scratched her, puts his arm into a tree hole, the Leprechaun bites J.D. The Leprechaun then follows Tory, Nathan, Alex and Ozzie into town. He kills Shop Owner, who had been left one of the Leprechaun's coins by Alex and steals a toy electric car. While driving the electric car, the Leprechaun is stopped by Deputy Tripet. The Leprechaun attacks Deputy Tripet and chases after him before killing him by breaking his neck. When Nathan goes outside to check out a noise, the Leprechaun attacks him, but is driven off when Nathan shoots him with a shotgun. Tory eventually gives him back his gold, but the Leprechaun continues to terrorize Tory, Nathan, Alex and Ozzie when he counts his gold coins and finds one missing. When Ozzie tells the Leprechaun that the final coin is inside of his stomach, the Leprechaun attacks Ozzie, but is dissolved when Alex uses gum and a sling shot to shoot a four leaf clover into the Leprechaun's mouth. The Leprechaun's dissolving body falls into a well, but he vows vengeance.

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During the events of Leprechaun 2 (1994) played by Warwick Davis

In Ireland, William O'Day is running away from the Leprechaun. He is caught by the Leprechaun who offers William his freedom if the Leprechaun gets married. The Leprechaun explains to William if he can get a maiden to sneeze three times without someone saying god bless you, then she will be the Leprechaun's wife. They go and spy on a woman who turns out to be William's Daughter. The Leprechaun blows at a dandelion and it's thistles blow towards William's Daughter and she sneezes. He blows again and she sneezes for a second time. After William's Daughter sneezes for a third time, William says god bless you my child and then runs away. The Leprechaun stops him with his magic and breaks his neck after putting a curse on his family that in a thousand years he will claim William's prettiest descendant as his bride. William's Daughter hears the sound of William's neck being broken and runs to his body and screams.

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A thousand years later, the Leprechaun unravels a scroll which depicts the family tree of William leading to Bridget in the United States. A Homeless Man puts his bedroll down next to a tree that was given to Houdini from the people of Killarney, Ireland and lays down to sleep. Suddenly his whiskey bottle starts to roll towards the base of the tree and the Leprechaun appears when a doorway opens in the tree. The Leprechaun takes a drink of whiskey and is upset when he finds out it is Canadian whiskey and not Irish. He sees the Homeless Man has a gold tooth and forcibly pulls it out and the Homeless Man runs away as the Leprechaun adds his gold tooth to his pot of gold. The Leprechaun spins his cane to point the way to Bridget and a Talent Agent sees him and tosses him a quarter and offers the Leprechaun his business card. The Leprechaun notices the Talent Agent's gold ring and rips off the Talent Agent's finger and steals his ring. As Ian is walking he appears to see Bridget standing in a garage. The Leprechaun laughs as Ian starts to walk towards the image of Bridget, who in reality is two spinning lawnmower blades. Ian eventually kills himself by kissing the spinning blades.

The Leprechaun sneaks into Bridget's house and causes Bridget to sneeze. She sneezes again and after she sneezes again, Cody starts to say god bless you, but is stopped by the Leprechaun. Cody tries to attack the Leprechaun with a knife, but the Leprechaun causes some pans to fall on his head. Bridget tries to run out of the front door and finds Ian dead hanging outside. The Leprechaun makes his pot of gold appear and throws a wedding choker on Bridget. She knocks over the Leprechaun's pot of gold, and a coin rolls into Cody's hand and he wakes up. The Leprechaun then disappears with Bridget and takes her inside of his tree home at Houdini's house. Bridget hits the Leprechaun in the back of the head with a rock and tries to run away and comes face to face with the skeleton of William O'Day. The Leprechaun wraps Bridget in a burlap sack and tells her he will have to transform her body in order for her to be able to produce a litter of leprechauns and change her face so the leprechaun children will like her face. As the Leprechaun is about to have sex with Bridget, he notices one of his gold coins is missing and leaves to find it.

The Leprechaun goes back to Bridget's house and steals the card Cody put in the flowers as a Detective shows it to her partner. The Leprechaun appears in Cody and Morty's apartment and attacks Morty and Cody. Cody offers the coin for Bridget, but Morty reminds him he can't trust Leprechauns. At the pub, Morty challenges the Leprechaun to a drinking contest and asks Frank for a Red Special rye while the Leprechaun continues to drink Irish whiskey. African-American Leprechaun, Drunk at the Pub and a group of little people start cheering on the Leprechaun by chanting "one of us, one of us". The Leprechaun gets too drunk to use its magic, but hits Morty with a bottle and runs away. The Leprechaun goes to the Espresso Bar and drinks multiple cups of coffee. The Waiter tells the Leprechaun he is closing up and then starts to insult the Leprechaun. The Leprechaun stabs forks through the hands of the Waiter and then turns on the espresso machine which scalds off the skin on the Waiter's face, killing him. At the Go Kart track, The Leprechaun appears and asks Morty where Cody is and starts to attack Morty. Andretti starts barking at the Leprechaun, but is scared away by the Leprechaun. Cody tricks the Leprechaun into jumping into the safe and Cody locks him inside. While Cody goes to get some wood to make a ramp, Morty locks him inside the janitor's closet. Morty then demands three wishes from the Leprechaun and the first wish he asks for is the Leprechaun's gold. The gold then starts to appears inside of Morty's stomach, which becomes distended. Morty's second wish is to free the Leprechaun and his third wish is to have the gold taken from him. Morty is then killed when the Leprechaun slits his stomach open and takes back his gold and disappears.

The Leprechaun mimics a woman's voice asking for help and as Cody and Wiggins walk onto the track, the Leprechaun appears in a Go Kart and starts to chase them. He chases down Wiggins and kills him, but can't kill Cody, because he has the Leprechaun's gold, which Cody is able to figure out. Bridget tries to kill the Leprechaun with the awl, but the tip just bends against his back. Cody enters the Leprechaun's tree and is attacked by William's skeleton, but he manages to destroy William's skeleton. Cody finds Bridget, but they become separated as they are trying to make their way out of the tree maze. Cody seemingly finds Bridget again, but when he gives her the coin, which she asks for, it is revealed to be the Leprechaun in disguise. Cody appears to be killed by the Leprechaun but throws the wrought iron piece into the Leprechaun and reveals the coin he gave him was the chocolate one given to him by the African-American Leprechaun. The Leprechaun explodes and Cody and Bridget find their way out of the tree.


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