Ricky Beamer is the protagonist of the fiftieth Goosebumps book, Calling All Creeps!.
History
Calling All Creeps!
At his middle school, Ricky is constantly tormented by bullies. One day, fed up with his teasing, Ricky attempts to get revenge on Tasha McClain, one of his many tormentors. He types up an ad in the school newspaper, putting in her phone number and inviting "creeps" to give her a call after midnight. This backfires when Tasha catches onto his plan and puts Ricky's number in the ad instead. Things go from bad to strange when Ricky gets calls late at night, from people calling themselves creeps. Eventually, the creeps reveal themselves to be four of Ricky's bullies, who have secretly been shape-shifters in disguise. The creeps tell Ricky they intend to turn the whole school into creeps via the planting of seeds. Ricky is both terrified and hesitant and tries to find ways to sabotage the plan. Eventually, when the creeps decide to plant seeds in the cookies of the school bake sale, Ricky decides to let them go through with it, as life as a creep seems better than what he had before.
Goosebumps (film)
Ricky appears in the Goosebumps movie, depicted in his creep form. Like most monsters in the film, he has no lines.
General Information
Physical appearance
Ricky is twelve years old, Caucasian, skinny, with short black hair, dark eyes and cheek full of freckles. He also wears glasses.
In the Goosebumps film , he is in his Creep form. Like all the Creeps, he has purple skin with some yellow parts, green eyes, six fingers, long sharp teeth and pink tongue. He wears a gray hoodie, a T-shirt with tiger patterns, jeans and sneakers. In the movie, he doesn't need glasses anymore.
Personality
For a lot of his life, Ricky had to put up with a whole load of sadistic teasing in school, such as being called "Ricky Rat" and "Sicky Ricky". He never had any friends because most of them viewed him as a nerd. Ricky has often been angry and bitter about the kids constantly picking on him and he couldn't really understand why they always picked on him and there are possible moments when Ricky would really lose it and would be driven to have revenge. The person that Ricky has the worst relationship with is Tasha, as she looks down on him because he is a sixth grader and she would always scream at him if Ricky made a mistake. He also had the worst relationship with Brenda, David, Jared and Wart as they had picked on him also, up until they had found out Ricky was their "commander". The only person that Ricky is good friends with is Iris as she is the only person that was able to see what was inside Ricky. Ricky is a good person, though sometimes he can be pretty naive and clumsy and he is also very hardworking. It is unknown if Ricky still has this personality now that he has become a Creep.
List of appearances
Books
- Goosebumps
- Goosebumps Presents
- Calling All Creeps!
- Goosebumps The Movie:
Television and Film
- Television series:
- Movies:
Video Games
Actors
- Zachary Carlin (television series)
- Lucky Mangione (2015 film, credited as Monster #19)
Trivia
- Ricky was the first protagonist in the series to actually let an antagonist succeed in their plan.