Elliott Spencer || The Cenobit/Pinhead || DBD

Early life Pinhead was originally an Englishman, an educated soldier by the name Captain Elliott Spencer, who fought during World War I, serving under the British Expeditionary Force, his last battle having taken place during one of the Battles of Flanders. Barker describes Captain Elliott Spencer as being an old-fashioned British intellectual. After the war had ended, Captain Spencer was left traumatized by the experience and began developing both post traumatic stress disorder and survivor guilt. He subsequently lost all faith in humanity and in God, whom he believed had failed him and everyone else. Captain Spencer was left nihilistic and disillusioned, wandering the Earth and living a hedonistic life. He committed acts that were considered taboo by most modern society. Sometime during the year 1921, Captain Spencer traveled to British India where he discovered the Lament Configuration and bought it from its current guardian. Solving the box inside his tent, Spencer was immediately impaled by hooked chains. He was dragged into the Labyrinth and then transformed into the Cenobite Pinhead. In the decades that followed he obediently served the dark entity Leviathan as the new leader of the Cenobites, losing all memory of his past life as a human being in the process. Hellraiser In Hellraiser, Pinhead makes his first appearance as a shadowy figure that tortured a man named Frank Cotton in his own attic, after the latter had solved the Lament Configuration. After tearing Frank apart in his own house, Pinhead picks up the puzzle box and uses it to teleport himself, his entourage, Frank's remains and their tools back to the Labyrinth, the attic appearing as if nothing had ever taken place to begin with. Shortly after their departure, Frank had escaped his captors after his brother Larry's blood fell on the spot where he had died.

Cold, calculating, relentless and unforgiving are the words which best describe the Cenobite Lord's behavior. As described by Clive Barker, Pinhead had been envisioned as being an insane intellectual well aware that all his actions are perverse and vile, yet goes out of his way to accomplish his deeds without ever second-guessing them. During the first movie of the franchise, when Pinhead confronts Kristy Cotton for the very first time he kindly asks her stop crying, claiming that she was wasting her emotions at the wrong moment. As the Cenobite high priest, Pinhead has been shown to be strictly loyal to the creed and lifestyle of the Order of the Gash. While in the first film he was largely neutral, Pinhead, as the series progressed, became a more standard horror villain and murdered more frequently.

Halysikinesis: Pinhead's signature move is his ability to mentally summon barbed iron hooks and chains out of thin air with the purpose of mutilating and/or restraining victims, often brutally pulling said victims in several directions to tear their whole body apart. These hooks and chains are subject to his total mental control and he may direct them at will, there also seems to be no limit to the amount he can summon forth. The chains are also shown to be able to puncture through both stone and concrete walls with little difficulty. Pinhead is an unmatched master of this ability and is arguably his most powerful method of attack. Teleportation: In both hell and the physical world pinhead is capable of teleportation, appearing out of thin air at any location as he so desires. There is no known limit to this power or to how often he can teleport, but it's safe to assume that he can't teleport over infinite distances or outside of the Lament Configuration, unless he has been purposely summoned into the physical realm. This is also how he summons his fellow cenobites. Conjuration: As shown in the third Hell-Raiser movie (Hell on Earth) Pinhead as well as lesser cenobites are capable of creating explosions out of thin air, at least powerful enough to destroy cars. He is also able to summon objects out of thin air which is likely how he summons forth his chains. Telekinesis: Pinhead has been shown to mentally shake and crack the walls of a room, fling items such as CD's and pool sticks hard enough to embed them deep in a man's stomach or skull, and even more elaborate things such as lifting all the water out of a glass and turning that same water into solid ice in the shape of his own face in order to stab a woman through her throat. Necromancy: Pinhead has the power to turn the dead (both human and animal) into new Cenobites. Telepathy: Not much is known about the extent of this power but what is known is that Pinhead is able to read the fear and sins of other beings w

Natural Abilities Immortality: Pinhead is shown to be biologically immortal, he is ageless and his body never decays. It's also heavily implied that he can't outright die from physical attacks, such as getting blown up, since he can easily reform or revive himself back in Hell. Only another supernatural being of his caliber or above such as the doctor has the ability to truly kill him, as shown in the second Hell-Raiser film where his human and cenobite forms were split from each other though even then he was later able to fully reform himself via the use of a object known as the pillar of souls. Pain Immunity: As a master of pain and pleasure, Pinhead has subjected himself to an uncountable number of different tortures, both willingly and unwillingly. Because of the iron pins that has been nailed deep into his head, Pinhead is assumed to be in a perpetual state of pain, a pain that he has since his transformation from human to cenobite gotten used to and seems to derive pleasure from it. This allows him to endure extreme amounts of pain without slowing down. Superhuman Durability: Pinhead is shown to be highly resistant to physical attacks, he is able to nullify gunshots from the most powerful assault rifles (which implies he has full bullet immunity) and even futuristic energy weapons. Superhuman Reflexes: In the third movie Pinhead is seen catching three bullets in his mouth fired from a handgun at almost point-blank range.

Pinhead's unique physical description has made him a notable figure in the horror genre. Rather than a hulking brute, Pinhead is lean and thin, his musculature is that of an average soldier. While not massive, the cenobite lord is particularly tall, easily towering over his fellow adherents, as well most of the cenobite's victims. As a Cenobite, the being which would eventually become Pinhead had undergone drastic cosmetic surgery which had stripped him of any remains of his previous mammal self. He is completely hairless, having a fully shaved head. His skin has been bleached nearly entirely white, a product of either the blue blood circulating through his veins (within the movies), or due to the white ash doused over him (within the novella). Several scars can be noticed on his chest. His namesake is derived from the complex scarification and piercing of his entire head: a heavily detailed grid which had been either sliced over his head, according to the films, or tattooed, if we look at The Hellbound Heart. At every intersection of horizontal and vertical lines there has been rammed a jeweled pin. Within The Hellbound Heart, Pinhead's tongue has been similarly decorated.