Arcot "Thorny" Ramathorn

Arcot "Thorny" Ramathorn is one of the four main protagonists (along with Foster, Mac, and Rabbit) of the police comedy movie Super Troopers. He is a Vermont State Police Trooper stationed near in the town Spurbury, who along with the other officers prefers to pull pranks than do police work. He is second in command of the State Troopers. Thorny is portrayed by the Broken Lizard comedy group member Jay Chandrasekhar.

Highway Patrol
On a day of doing police work Thorny along with his partner, the rookie state trooper, Robert "Rabbit" Roto, drive up next to a car, with three college boys driving under the influence. After one through a bag of weed of the car the two take advantage of the college boys being high by first driving away, then driving back and acting like they pulled the college boys for speeding, when they were driving slightly under the speed limit, and driving way again, and finally driving back again and revealing that they know the college boys are high, after Thorny pulls out the bag of weed they through of the car. Thorny and Rabbit then decide to teach the college boys a lesson by standing in front them while they smoke the whole bag, much to the dismay of the college boys. However, a speeding driver then races pass them then Thorny and Rabbit chase after him with the college boys in their cruiser. Along the way of chasing the driving they are meet by fellow officer Jeff Foster. After the driver stops at bar, Thorny, along with Rabbit and Foster, go into the bar to arrest the driver, who is revealed to by another state trooper MacIntyre "Mac" Womack, who was pranking them. Thorny claims that he knew it was Mac, but the latter tells Thorny not to lie in front of Rabbit, because it would set a bad example for the rookie. After Thorny is contacted by dispatcher, Rod Farva, who is an outcast among the other troopers, Thorn tells him to shut up, and then has Mac scare the college boys in his cruiser.

Danger of being shutdown
The next day at a local diner, Thorny is having breakfast with the other troopers,Thorny then has competes with Rabbit in chugging down maple syrup, which Thorny wins.

Trivia

 * The local police officers mistake Thorny for a Mexican