During filming of The Crow actor Michael Berryman played a character known as the Skull Cowboy (Skull for short.) Skull was a guide for Eric, ensuring he stays on the path of vengeance otherwise he loses his healing abilities until gets back on track. The first instance of this is when Eric forces the morphine out of Darla's arm. In a deleted scene Funboy wakes up and wounds Eric. Because he helped out Darla, his wounds either would not heal or the areas were disfigured. So for the rest of the film Eric has duct tape around his hand.
By the end of the film Skull shows up when Eric goes to rescue Sarah. He warns Eric that he may be damned if he goes forth to save the girl. It's implied that Skull was also resurrected by a crow and since he went off the path he's become damned to be this guide as a warning for others. This is why when he gets shot by Top Dollar in the church he's bleeding out. The scene was altered in the final cut to have the crow being injured as the reason for his power loss.
Safe to say that if the Skull Cowboy scenes were complete the franchise would have taken a completely different course. No longer can the resurrected do what they want, they have to stick to a path of vengeance and return to the afterlife when complete.
by the-crow-guy
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They could have also just made it be like the comic book
Top Dollar was the evil that started everything in motion, killing him is the climax of the story so what use would it be for his guide to tell him not to do it?
or, maybe just cut out all the shit and make it about some guy mystically being revived as a completely unstoppable vengence machine like the OG comic was about instead of making it even more convoluted.
I didn’t know that ! I think I’ve read of the Skull Cowboy once before
I prefer the original Crow.