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"Aaagh!! It's the Purple-Shirted Eye-Stabber!"
―A victim before being attacked by Purple-Shirted Eye-Stabber

Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber is a character derived from one of the official cartoonists, Rob DenBleyker. His appearances were formerly limited to the comics, but he has since been featured in three animated shorts, as well as Season 3. He mostly uses a knife to stab people's eyes but sometimes uses other objects such as a pen and even a Nerf blowgun. Since the colour of his shirt is his only distinguishing trait, which is often reused in his jokes, this shade of dark purple is hardly reused for any other character.

The eyestabber disappeared for some time and briefly returned to his stabbing spree one Halloween. Afterward, he became a hobo only recognized by fans, who ask for eye stabs.

The eyestabber apparently loses all purpose in life and becomes a beggar on the streets. A passer-by even berates him for being a waste of space.

Suddenly, an alien invasion brewed comprising of giant eyeball aliens. The Eye Stabber went to the rescue. Since the aliens never reappeared, but the Stabber did, he was probably successful.

The Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber is one of the most popular characters of C&H, despite having nearly completely disappeared from more recent comics. This is probably due to his unforgettable and very specific personality. As an example of his fame, a poster featuring the Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber exists and can still be ordered on the website. He's also the star of three shorts, "Return of the Purple Shirted Eye Stabber", "Serial Killer" and "Serial Killer 2".

Physical appearance[]

PSES Rob comic

PSES in Rob's comics

Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber is basically a variant of a Purpleshirt, that is, a basic Cyanide & Happiness' character with a purple shirt. However, in order to distinguish himself from other characters without personality, he usually appears with a knife in his hand and a bad face.

Personality[]

"I'm not for eyes... I'm against them."
―The Purple-Shirted eye stabber before stabbing four people's eyes

The Purple Shirted Eye Stabber is a psychopathic and murderous maniac. He is shown to be highly dangerous and sadistic, taking great pleasure in thrusting his knives into random people's eyes so as to occasionally wound or kill.

Powers and Abilities[]

While not possessing superhuman powers and being a vulgar character, Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber is known for wielding knives as his personal weapons. He is also able to use his knees and feet to use the knives (even when he is using other knives in his hands), suggesting that he has trained hard to do this. However, it is unknown whether he ties the knives to his knees and feet or even uses them. In Shorts and "Now That's When I Call Those Guys", he demonstrates exceptional precision in throwing knives without missing targets (usually eyes).

Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber is also a master of disguises, because in many comics, he wears a shirt of a different color and hides the knife in order not to be recognized. This works so well that in the comic 2019.04.26, he (disguised as a Greenshirt) tells the Blueshirt and the Yellowshirt that one of them was going to be killed by the "Purple Guy" (himself), although they thought he was talking about a movie.

Presence[]

The short titled "Return of the Purple Shirted Eye Stabber" released on July 23rd, 2014 was dedicated to his character. The name and description of the video - "it lives!"- both refer to the erratic appearances of the Eye Stabber, who had merely been in a comic for a long period of time. Very "Inceptionish", as we follow a show within a show within a movie, the short was also the occasion to gently mock the very fanbase of C&H that frequently criticized the previous shorts as roughly "too predictable" and "not as good as before". It also contains a lot of plot twists, in pure CH fashion. The Purple Shirted Eye Stabber's most recent appearance was comic 2020.03.23. There's a reference to him in Freakpocalypse an achievement called Blue Shirted Eye Grabber.

Trivia[]

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