And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off.
—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2025
Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts.
—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
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