# Misery Q (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114 "2024-08-01T14:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/1 "2024-08-01T14:27:34Z")
Don’t you think making Annie Wilkes a serial killer detracts from the theme of fandom gone amuck?? “I’m your number one fan!!”…well, you’re also a crazy murderer so that kind of detracts from things. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/2 "2024-08-01T16:03:31Z")
Seems like she was a serial killer that had a wonderful piece of luck. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/3 "2024-08-01T16:07:57Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > “I’m your number one fan!!”…well, you’re also a crazy murderer so that kind of detracts from things. Are you suggesting he should have been kidnapped and held prisoner by a non-crazy fan? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/4 "2024-08-01T16:21:43Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Don’t you think making Annie Wilkes a serial killer detracts from the theme of fandom gone amuck?? FTR: Rob Reiner has stated that the movie character was based on [Genene Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genene_Jones) – personally, after reading that article, the depiction doesn’t detract but rather adds to her nuttery. It’s been a very long time since I read the novel so I’d forgotten that the literary version had also killed several hospital patients, likely out of a misguided attempt to end suffering. I’ve read about enough real-life versions of that mentality. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/5 "2024-08-01T18:26:35Z")
I took her murderous past as a form of Munchausen by proxy. She liked the attention that was caused by the death of the babies she killed. She would get caught, but the hospitals would just fire her rather than prosecute. At least that’s how I remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/6 "2024-08-01T19:58:56Z")
She also burned down her neighbor’s house, killing the kids, when she was young. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/7 "2024-08-02T00:13:21Z")
I think im operating from the wrong premise. OR King just absolutely didn’t want there to be any sympathy for Annie at all. You take out the serial killer aspect and she’s a very twisted fan who will do anything to protect ‘her precious’. But there’s a little room for sympathy. In a nutshell…as written and in the movie theres {–} that much room for sympathy, if she wasnt a serial killer…there’d be {-----} that much room. In fact, if she wasnt a killer already, we couldnt be 100 pct sure she intended to kill Paul at the end. By the way, im sure everyone knows but just in case…this was written BEFORE Kings accident. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/8 "2024-08-02T00:36:43Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > King just absolutely didn’t want there to be any sympathy for Annie at all. Yeah, well… she was right to feel cheated. Rocket Man never got out of the cockadoodie car! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misery-q-spoilers/1005114/9 "2024-08-02T23:13:17Z")
There is a certain panache in running over a state trooper’s head with a lawnmower.