Eric Draven

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Eric Draven is title hero of The Crow and the TV series, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven who was a former rock guitar player in the band Hangman's Joy, who had a hit with the song "It Can't Rain All the Time". He was played by Brandon Lee who died on set of the film on March 31, 1993.

The Crow

He was engaged to Shelly Webster, their wedding due to be on Halloween. But on Devil's Night before Halloween, a gang led by T-Bird attacks Shelley in their home and rapes her. When Eric walks in, Tin Tin throws a knife into his spine paralysing him. He could only watch them rape Shelly before being thrown out the window. A year later, the Crow brings his soul back from the dead to avenge Shelly's and his deaths on the T-Bird's gang.

Eric emerges from his grave on a stormy night, stumbling his way back home to his ruined apartment. There he has flashbacks of Shelley and discovers that any wound he takes heals instantaneously. With that, he paints his face and sets out to kill the thugs who killed Shelley.

After taking down three of the four thugs, one of them runs back to Top Dollar, the head of a major crime syndicate and warns him about this undead avaenger. Eric arrives and asks Top Dollar for the thug, only to be met with Gunfire. Eric is forced to kill the entire room full of mobsters in order to fulfill his revenge.

Afterwards, Eric's powers begin to fail as his role on Earth has been fulfilled. He's brielfy called back n order to take down Top Dollar, who has kidnapped his friend Sarah. Eric fights Top Dollar on the roof of a church and manages to gain the upper hand by transferring the memories of pain that both he and Shelly had to endure into Top Dollar's mind. Top Dollar then falls to his death. Eric is finally able to rest in peace after this.

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