Hank Gibbons

Henry "Hank" Gibbons is a character on the science fiction series Roswell, New Mexico. He was friends with Wyatt Long and a regular at the Wild Pony.

Character[]

Hank is a regular at the Wild Pony. He is friends with Wyatt Long and shares his racist ideologies, even helping him terrorize the Crashdown Cafe and beat up Arturo Ortecho. Due to his ideologies, Isobel Evans-Bracken once refers to him as "Mr. All-Lives-Matter,"^[1] and Maria refers to him as "Racist Hank."

History[]

Hank was most likely the same age and grade as Wyatt or least was a grade or two ahead of Wyayy. After Wyatt's sister died when he was in Eighth Grade. The boys became less tolerant of immigrants and Wyatt began terrorizing the Crashdown Cafe owned by the Ortecho family each year on the anniversary of Kate's death most likely helped by Hank up until Pilot (Reboot).

Plot[]

At the Wild Pony, Hank asks Maria to read his palm, and she tells him that he's going to marry Lindsay.^[2] He and Lindsay see Liz Ortecho and Kyle Valenti hook up in the Wild Pony parking lot later that night.

When Max Evans and Jenna Cameron visit the Long Farm to question Wyatt about the shooting, Hank is there and stops Wyatt from saying too much. He laughs when Jenna shoots out Wyatt's mudflaps. He later helps Wyatt beat up Arturo Ortecho.

When Isobel needs to practice her telepathic powers, she goes to the Wild Pony and manipulates Hank. She gets him to do things out of character, such as order himself a raspberry cosmopolitan and a daiquiri, and make a $200 donation to the Friends of Immigrants Partnership and ask for additional literature be sent to him.^[1]

Max and Cameron investigate the alien serial killer at the Wild Pony since several victims were there the night they died. Maria suggests that Hank might know more since he plays in a band on the nights the victims were there. He remembers one of the victims, but he was arrested that night on a drunker disorderly so he couldn't have been the one who killed her.^[3]

When Noah is later severely injured, he runs into Hank in the Wild Pony parking lot. Hank tells him to watch where he's going and insults him, so Noah kills him, taking his energy to heal himself.^[4]

Alien conspiracy theorist Graham Green later puts up a poster about Hank's unusual death.^[5]