Lampwick
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Lampwick is a character from Pinocchio. He is tall and slender, and sports red hair and buckteeth. He is a tough older boy from the street who becomes friends with Pinocchio on their way to Pleasure Island. They spent their free time roughing up other boys, vandalizing property, smoking, eating turkey and ice cream, drinking beer, and playing pool. He is badly behaved and laughs at all forms of authority, preferring to engage in more crooked activities like drinking and vandalizing.
When Jiminy Cricket arrives at the island trying to convince Pinocchio to leave, Lampwick is quick to shut him down, stating Pinocchio was foolish to take orders from a beetle or a grasshopper. After Lampwick harasses him, Jiminy leaves the two boys in a huff.
In one of more frightening scenes, while he and Pinocchio are playing pool, drinking, and smoking he transforms into a donkey. First, he grows donkey ears, a tail, and a muzzle. The transformation is not painful, as evidenced by Lampwick's ignorance of his condition. However, this also creates a paradox in the film: Pinocchio does notice when his ears and tail grow in, even though Lampwick does not. It is theorized that Lampwick's overly intoxicated condition led to his ignorance of the changes.
When Pinocchio sees Lampwick's ears grow into donkey ears, he immediately stops drinking, places his beer on the table, and slides it away. Lampwick then sprouts a donkey tail, complete with a long black tassel that sweeps across the floor. Pinocchio stops smoking. After Lampwick grows a muzzle, Pinocchio laughs at him when the former asks if he looks like a "jackass," which he literally does. Lampwick doesn't notice these changes until he accidentally brays while laughing at Pinocchio, who also brays by accident. When he sees what is happening to him in a mirror, he panics and begs Pinocchio for help. (All the while he was watching the whole thing and having no idea what to do and could not think of any advice) He yells "call that beetle, call anybody" not realizing Jiminy was already on his way (having learned of the island's curse) but would not be there in time to save him. His hands and feet then become hooves, and his body is covered in hair. He screams for his Mama as he falls to all fours, losing his ability to speak and braying wildly. He destroys the pool hall with his hind legs and kicks off his clothes, and then flees the scene braying in terror.
It was never shown onscreen what happened to Lampwick, but he was likely sold by the evil Coachman.
