Tony D., alias The Blade, is the knife-carrying punk who
constantly poses a threat to Kevin and Max in Rodman Philbrick's teen novel,
Freak the Mighty. In one memorable scene, Kevin and Max escape from
Tony by running headlong into the murky pond on the Fourth of July. When Kevin and Max
turn around, they find Tony's head barely above water, stuck in the mud
beneath.
But in the final chapter, Tony D. shows a bit of
humanity when he tells Max
... that it was a shame what happened, and I
could see he really meant it, and I just blew up and told him if he ever felt sorry for
me again, I'd put him headfirst in the millpond and pound him down into the mud like a
fence post.
This did nothing
to improve their relationship, and Max seemed perfectly content that the two "are
enemies again."
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