Wooley Speculation

[SRP76]

I must give credit for this thread. The following quote gave me an idea:


Wooley,
a true force of nature until Peter went all reparations on him.

Well, we all saw what happened to our "hero". But one question should be asked:

If nobody interfered with him, just what would Wooley have done?

Was he going to blast everybody in the tenement? Would he then go out into the street and massacre all of Philadelphia? Was he really insane, or just going after the -ahem- "niggers and spics" because he thought he could get away with some hate crime due to the situation?

So, "what would Wooley do"?

[Legion2213]

I think he was just gonna roll through the place and blast anything that didn't look like Phily SWAT/PD/National Guard.

He was a bloke with "anger management issues" IMO. :D


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[Cupid Stunts]

WWWD?

damn too bad I didn't think of that :hyper:

[krakenslayer]

Yeah, I reckon he was probably a beat cop (or even a volunteer ex-Vietnam vet), with a bee in his bonnet about immigrants, who got drafted into the corpse disposal corps along with Rod Tucker, the suicide kid and all those other n00bs. The shit hit the fan and in the chaos he got a taste of killing, decided he quite liked it (or got flashbacks to My Lai) and started shooting "low lives". I guess he figured there would be no consequences, being that society was on the verge of collapsing anyway.

[darth los]

Well, we have seen through various major disasters that when societal norms break down the true nature of humans come to the surface. Without anything keeping his behavior in check we see what Wooley was really about.

That man had a hard on from the get go about blasting him some "low lives".

Which is interesting, because Wooley freely admits that their standard of living was better than his.

Couple that with his abhorent racist behavior and one can see who the lowlife truly was.

EPIC.

FAIL.

:cool:

[bassman]

I think he was just gonna roll through the place and blast anything that didn't look like Phily SWAT/PD/National Guard.


He would've done this until someone else shot or tackled him. I don't think he would have made it much longer if Peter and Roger had failed.

[sandrock74]

I think he was just really determined to find himself a bigger place to live. ("Shit man, this is better than I got!") He just went all aggressive negotiations and all.

[darth los]

I think he was just really determined to find himself a bigger place to live. ("Shit man, this is better than I got!") He just went all aggressive negotiations and all.

Exactly my point !! :D

He was probably trying to clean house that way he could have the succession rights to their apartments.

Hey, I work for attorney's, alot of grimier things have happened. Trust me.

:cool:

[SRP76]

So the consensus seems to be that after the "mission" was over inside the building, Wooley would just pretty much stop and "go back to normal"?

[krakenslayer]

So the consensus seems to be that after the "mission" was over inside the building, Wooley would just pretty much stop and "go back to normal"?

Difficult to say, but I'd say there are two possibilities:

1) Wooley had a strong passive-aggressive, self-destructive streak that boiled from latent resentment into overt violence thanks to the extreme circumstances. In this case he probably wouldn't go back to normal and would have kept on blasting away until he got himself killed by a team-mate, an armed civilian, a zombie, or otherwise thanks his own maniacal loss of sanity (think of this as the Columbine-type Wooley), or;

2) Wooley had serious anger management issues. An outwardly normal, mild-mannered Joe most of the time except when his repressed inner frustration and hatred bursts free at very occasional intervals like a geyser. In the past, this might have manifested itself as himself beating up a spouse or trashing a shop display when the assistant told him the store had run out of eggs, but in the stressful and possibly repercussion-free situation of raiding a zombie-infested apartment block, it took the form of a killing spree. In this scenario, had he got away with it, he probably would have simmered down eventually, suffered the guilt of knowing what he did, until the next time the rage breaks loose. Think of this as kinda like the Junior Rennie-type Wooley (if you've read Under the Dome).

[darth los]

So the consensus seems to be that after the "mission" was over inside the building, Wooley would just pretty much stop and "go back to normal"?

I don't think anyone who experienced what they were going through would ever go back to normal. Look at what was happening even around wooley. The rookie Rod tucker almost tossing his cookies because he was so nervous, the young swat guy who offed himself. Shit even the tenants, actually keeping their dead around after they knew what they would become.

All these irrational behaviors are signs of various stress disorders. So, since things will never go back to the way they were, (For all intents and purposes eveyone who dies will come back fro now on) it's doubtful ayone would get better, only worse.

Imo, whoever didn't die in the the first 6 months - a year would have had a much better chance of getting past all this psychologically. Over time they would have become more jaded to it all and just accepted it, alot like we saw in LOTD.

:cool:

[AcesandEights]

It all went downhill for Wooley after his application to the Dept. of U.S. Border Patrol was turned down.

[sandrock74]

It all went downhill for Wooley after his application to the Dept. of U.S. Border Patrol was turned down.

:lol::lol: The poor guy had pinned ALL his hopes on that one job! :annoyed:

[Andy]

It all went downhill for Wooley after his application to the Dept. of U.S. Border Patrol was turned down.

:lol:

When we do the member awards 2010, someone remind me to nominate that for quote of the year!

[Cupid Stunts]

Commissioning 5 X 12 WWWD bumper stickers
(beats the shit out of we are going to eat you!)

BUY NOW

[Philly_SWAT]

I think he was just gonna roll through the place and blast anything that didn't look like Phily SWAT.
Guess I would have been safe then! :)


So the consensus seems to be that after the "mission" was over inside the building, Wooley would just pretty much stop and "go back to normal"?
I always took it like this. The Wooley character was a little stereotypical, and not a whole lot of time was spent fleshing out his character (and as Dawn was very long to begin this, this is not a problem). So we the audience are just shown a quick glimpse of the man, complaining that in his mind, these lower class people have a better home and stuff than he does (which begs the question, how is that possible? I know police arent millionaires, however he should live better than someone in the projects on his salary, unless he is a drug addict, has a gambling problems, or is divorced and most of his money goes to alimony/child support. Any of those scenarios obviously have nothing to do with people in the projects, but is a comment complaint of the racist type, even now in 2010). He has no sympathy whatsoever that people are frightened during a zombie outbreak, and are refusing to turn over their (dead) loved ones to the authorities, authorities that they might not exactly trust (and with good reason RE: Wooley). "You cant talk em out, you gotta blow em out". Pre-outbreak he was a bitter man, blaming the world for his own shortcomings. Now he has a chance to show "those people" who is in charge. He gets his first taste of shooting people on the roof (other cops are shooting because they are doing their jobs, following orders, they themselves are being shot at, etc., Wooley is shooting cuz he wants to kill some minorities). Then when he gets inside, he has clearly lost it. The "cover" of other police shooting is gone, yet he continues to shoot. Clearly, he has lost it. I think that had Peter/Roger not stopped him, soon thereafter some other cops would have, either because they saw he was crazy and needed to be stopped, or because at some point Wooley may have started just shooting anything that moved, including cops.

[sandrock74]

Guess I would have been safe then! :)




Oh man, I laughed so hard at that comment, I think I hurt my spleen! :lol: