What you are about to see is the result of
multiple production companies milking a long
dormant franchise: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Specifically, it's about Leatherface.
In 1974 he slashed his way on to the silver-screen, and he's since appeared in 7 more films.
This is his evolution. Animated.
 
Leatherface first appears in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre sporting an apron and face mask
with large misformed ears and dark brown hair.
He switches into a more grandmotherly attire to meal prep, before putting on his Sunday
best and a makeup-covered mask just in time for family
dinner.
In the sequel, which takes place 13 years
later, Leatherface is thinner and wears a
heavily stitched mask with messy hair and a fancy tuxedo.
He falls in love with a radio DJ, but the
romance is interrupted when he faces off against
a vengeful Lieutenant, resulting in an explosion no man could survive.
But he's back – somehow - in Leatherface:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, wearing an
orange dress shirt, brown pants,
and a leg brace.
His mask features an angrier expression, with shaggy hair.
This time, Leatherface has a young daughter he's raising, but he gets hit with a rock,
then drowns in a swamp...
But his death is short lived, and in Texas
Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Leatherface is now chunkier and has longer,  curlier hair poking through a darker mask.
He wears a long white tee, a camo jacket and an orange apron.
Later, he briefly steps
into another grandma-esque apron and mask,
and eventually settles on a younger female look with a sleek black dress to show off
his new curvy figure.
Finally, it’s revealed that Leatherface
is being paid by an Illuminati type organization
to scare unsuspecting victims or, uhhh, something like that.
But it doesn't matter, because this timeline would be forgotten for a
reboot series.
Starting with the reboot-prequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, we see a
baby Leatherface, apparently born with a
skin disorder, get tossed into a dumpster.
He's saved from the garbage, and grows into a muscular man wearing a leather-muzzle
to cover his face.
After getting fired from his slaughterhouse job, he fashions a young male mask with curly hair.
In the original reboot, Leatherface's hair
is shorter, his clothes darker and ragged,
and he's wearing arm protectors.
His mask is grey with a furrowed brow, and for a short while, he also dons a mustachioed
mask.
Despite losing an arm, he leaves a
quick video behind before disappearing forever.
The reboots would be dropped in order to make a direct sequel to the original.
Picking up where the first movie left off,
Leatherface is shown once again in a slightly
altered Sunday best ensemble.
When his house is set on fire, he’s assumed to be dead,
only to reappear 40 years later.
He starts by wearing a red shirt, brown pants and apron, and a dark uneven mask, then upgrades
to a pale unshapely mask.
He meets his long-lost oddly attractive cousin, who eventually helps him face off against
the people who burned
down his house.
The origin film, Leatherface, depicts a young child Leatherface wearing a cow head.
He's tossed into an institution and grows
into a large young man built exactly how we
remember him – oops, nevermind that's the wrong character, he’s actually the skinny
handsome boy.
He falls for an attractive nurse and breaks
out of the institution.
When his face becomes disfigured, he decides
to,
shall we say, act out, and start wearing skin masks... because, well, he's angry I guess.
I don't know, I'm just waiting for the
prequel-sequel where he grows six inches and
gains 200 pounds to become the Leatherface we actually care about.
And If you're interested in learning more
about Leatherface, I highly recommend checking
out Chain Saw Confidential.
It's a wonderful audiobook narrated and written
by Gunnar Hansen, the original actor behind the mask,
where he details his intimate knowledge of
the 1974 classic and it's lasting impact.
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