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Eating her is honoring her. Otherwise, it's just murder!
~ Hobbs explains his attitude towards his victims.

Garret Jacob Hobbs, also known as The Minnesota Shrike, is the overarching antagonist in the novel Red Dragon and one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Francis Dolarhyde) in Season 1 of NBC TV show Hannibal. Despite his death in the first episode, he drastically impacts Will Graham's life throughout the earlier season, appearing as a hallucination after Will shot him.

He was portrayed by Vladimir Jon Cubrt.

Biography[]

Red Dragon[]

In the novel, Hobbs is a serial killer who abducts and murders several young female college students over an eight month period. He leaves small pieces of metal at each murder scene, and FBI Special Investigator Will Graham deduces from this that the killer is a plumber or a steamfitter.

While investigating a construction site near one of the murders, Graham finds a resignation letter Hobbs had written; from the timing of Hobbs' resignation, shortly before the last murder, Graham deduces that Hobbs is the killer. He goes to Hobbs' house to question him, but Hobbs knows immediately that Graham is on to him and decides to commit suicide by cop. He slits his wife's throat, killing her instantly, and begins slashing at his daughter's throat when Graham opens fire and kills him. Graham is so traumatized by the incident that he briefly checks himself into a mental institution.

Hannibal[]

Hobbs' actions in the TV series Hannibal are the same as in the novel, but the TV series expands on his character and motivations. In this incarnation, Hobbs is a sexual predator and cannibal who eats his victims' organs as a way of "honoring" them; he claims that if he doesn't eat his victim's flesh, "it's just murder". When he is unable to eat one victim's organs because she had cancer, he reverently places her body in her own bed as a way of showing remorse.

By his first appearance, Hobbs has murdered eight female college students from eight different Minnesota campuses, all of the same age and with the same eye and hair colo. The cannibalism, as well as his signature of mounting his victims on antlers, earns him his moniker "the Minnesota Shrike"; a shrike is a bird that impales its prey on spikes before eating it.

It is implied that Hobbs murders girls who resemble his daughter Abigail because he harbors a secret, violent sexual desire for her; he kills them to keep himself from killing her. He eventually makes Abigail his unwilling accomplice.

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Garret Hobbs on the phone with Hannibal Lecter.

As in the novel, Graham finds Hobbs' resignation letter and theorizes that he is the killer. Hannibal Lecter, who is consulting with Graham on the case, calls Hobbs and warns him that the FBI is onto him, simply because he wants to see what Hobbs will do. When Graham shows up at his house, Hobbs kills his wife and attempts to kill Abigail, but Graham shoots him dead before he can finish slitting her throat. Together, Graham and Lecter are able to save Abigail.

After Graham kills Hobbs, he fears that he enjoyed it and begins having nightmares in which Hobbs appears along with the stag and the Stag-Man (which represent Lecter).

Victims[]

He should have killed you, so he wouldn't kill me!
~ Elise Nichols, one of Garret's victims, yelling at Abigail Hobbs in her nightmare.
  • D. Woodword
  • A. Anderson
  • R. Winn
  • S. Olsen
  • L. Sorenson
  • D. Latimer
  • P. Cohen
  • Elise Nichols
  • Louise Hobbs (his wife; slashed her throat)
  • Abigail Hobbs (attempted; slashed her throat

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Novels
Hannibal LecterGarret Jacob Hobbs† • Francis Dolarhyde† • Paul Krendler† • Buffalo Bill† • Mason Verger† • Rinaldo Pazzi† • Cordell Doemling† • Vladis Grutas† • Grutas' Group† (Petras Kolnas† • Zigmas Milko† • Enrikas Dortlich† • Bronys Grentz† • Kazys Porvik†) • Paul Momund† • Dieter

Movies
Hannibal Lecter/LecktorFrancis Dolarhyde† • Paul Krendler† • Buffalo Bill† • Mason Verger† • Rinaldo Pazzi† • Cordell Doemling† • Vladis Grutas† • Grutas' Group† (Petras Kolnas† • Zigmas Milko† • Enrikas Dortlich† • Bronys Grentz† • Kazys Porvik†) • Paul Momund† • Dieter

Television
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