Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight

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Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight is a brash, talkative former Confederate militiaman who claims to be the new sheriff of Red Rock, serving as a volatile and darkly comic presence in Quentin Tarantino’s snowbound Western thriller.

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instanceOf fictional character
film character
affiliation Confederate States of America
alignment initially Confederate sympathizer
appearsIn The Hateful Eight
appearsInGenre Western
mystery
thriller
associatedWithLocation Red Rock
characterArc moves toward upholding law and justice
claimsPosition sheriff of Red Rock
createdBy Quentin Tarantino
createdFor The Hateful Eight screenplay
familyBackground son of a notorious Confederate marauder (Mannix gang leader)
firstAppearance The Hateful Eight (2015 film)
linked to: The Hateful Eight
formerRole Confederate militiaman
gender male
interactsWith Bob
Daisy Domergue
General Sanford Smithers
Joe Gage
Major Marquis Warren
Oswaldo Mobray
languageSpoken English
loyalty Mannix family legacy
medium feature film
moralAmbiguity oscillates between bigotry and emerging sense of justice
narrativeFunction comic relief
source of tension between Union and Confederate characters
nationality American
notableAction claims authority as sheriff to influence events in Minnie’s Haberdashery
forms uneasy alliance with Major Marquis Warren
occupation sheriff
partOf The Hateful Eight ensemble cast
personalityTrait brash
darkly comic
talkative
volatile
politicalSideInCivilWar Confederate
portrayedBy Walton Goggins
primaryLocationInFilm Minnie’s Haberdashery
setting Wyoming
post-American Civil War era
travelsWith John Ruth

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Walton Goggins portrayed Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight