Freddy Hanscom, more commonly simply called Freddy was the false protagonist turned antagonist in The Return of the Living Dead. He was portrayed by Thom Mathews.
He was Tina's boyfriend.
Plot[]
Freddy was a new stock boy at the Uneeda warehouse. He and a man named Frank burst of the lost military's 2-4-5 Trioxin barrels, where they unknowingly died when they breathed in the gas. To Freddy, they simply were knocked unconscious. When the naked zombie attacked their boss, Burt, it didn't attack Frank or Freddy, possibly because they were already technically dead.
Later on, after they finished burning the split dogs and the naked zombie, the effects of the Trioxin chemical kicked in much more severely. After being checked by paramedics and seeing how the dead were coming back to life, the survivors realized both men were in the process of turning too, so they decided to contain them in the cemetery's chapel so they wouldn't hurt anyone. However, Tina didn't want to abandon Freddy he most needed help and decided to remain with him and Frank in the chapel.
Much to Tina's dismay, Freddy finally died; however, just a few seconds later he reanimated and furiously attacked her. Ernie, the cemetery's embalmer, manages to temporarily subdue the ravaging Freddy by throwing an acid liquid into his eyes, which renders him blind. Tina and Ernie manage to escape by hiding in the building's attic... although only temporarily.
In the final act, Freddy finally manages to break into the attic; however, at that precise moment a nuclear missile launched by the military as an emergency contingency plan, hits the town and kills everyone, with Freddy's body being burned and presumably completely disintegrated.