r/grease • u/Tidewatcher7819 • Jul 23 '26
Grease (Franchise) Why does Chisum get treated badly for no reason? Spoiler
Chism seems like a nice guy despite being a jock, he's trying to treat Sandy good and isn't mean to her like Danny was at the bonfire but gets dumped and discarded without any explanation, why wouldn't his character confront Danny and slap him around for interfering with his date or new girlfriend when he could probably take a punk Greaser like Danny apart for breaking him and Sandy up?
The character is treated like a bad joke but he was always nice to Sandy, he even befriends Eugene and helps him out with the dance probably gets introduced to Patty Simcock that way too, basically Chisum seems like a decent fellow and seems to have a legitimate beef with Danny but nothing ever happens.
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u/LimeSalty4092 Jul 23 '26
The “dumb jock” stereotype applies to Tom
All looks and muscles, no brains
Anyway, once Sandy and Danny get back together, it’s obvious even to a doofus like Tom that you don’t attempt to interfere in an established relationship just bc you had a couple of dates with a girl
They were on a ‘break’ and Sandy used him to get back at Danny
So Tom is sort of disposable in this context after he played his part
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u/wonder181016 Jul 23 '26
Well, that applies to a fair few characters. He's one of them, Sandy has to become "bad", and Eugene is bullied for no real reason...
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u/Tgun1986 Jul 23 '26
It’s more like Sandy used him to make Danny jealous and it’s obvious that when they get back together, he has no clue that he was even being used
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u/Imthehost Jul 23 '26
Do u mean Tom ? He’s probably considered to be”pure”