A New 'Riverdale' Fan Theory Claims This Surprising Character Is Black Hood
This season, Riverdale has us wondering who the heck the serial killer Black Hood is. We’re approaching episode six now, and the creators are still stringing us along episode after episode. But a new Reddit theory has us convinced the killer is closer to the core crew than we originally thought. According to Redditor Kvelynm, who posted their theory on Sunday, there are two major clues that Kevin is the man underneath the mysterious Black Hood. Buckle in and get ready for some chills.
The first hint is that the serial killer’s most notable attribute is the fact that he’s obsessed with Betty. If you recall earlier on in the season, Kevin and Betty had a big blowout of a fight when she stalked him in the woods with Cheryl Blossom to try to stop his cruising in the shady woods—and then she promptly told his sheriff dad.
The next most important clue is that Black Hood doesn’t like sharing Betty with other people. Hence why he manipulated her into cutting ties with the new girl in town, Veronica Lodge, and her new love interest, Jughead Jones, both of whom Betty’s been focusing on. Kevin used to be Betty’s right-hand man (aside from Archie Andrews, of course) before Season 1, when Veronica moved to Riverdale from New York, and she had romantic feelings for Jughead. If Kevin is indeed Black Hood, maybe his reasoning for targeting her would be that he’s spending less time with Betty now that she has new friends.
There’s another tiny detail, too: According to the comic, Kevin and Betty have been best friends since kindergarten. The fact that these two friends go way back would also explain how Black Hood knew Betty would know the Nancy Drew mystery book from two episodes ago—as well as give some logic to his assumption that Betty would share her woes of manipulation with her beloved Archie Andrews.
Of course, the theory isn’t perfect: Although it makes sense in terms of Betty’s plotline, it doesn’t hold up when it comes to Kevin’s motivations behind the other random killings around Riverdale (RIP Miss Grundy!). And he was supposedly cruising for those guys while the Black Hood was striking (or was he?!). We’ll just have to keep watching.
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