Mister Revise

Mister Revise
Biographical information
Real name	Revise
Aliases	The Cutting Man The Master Librarian Slayer of Stories The Unmaker The Warlock's Bane
Status	Alive
Species	Literal
Gender	Male
Occupation	Head of the Golden Boughs Retirement Village Anthropomorphic personification of censorship
Affiliation	Golden Boughs Retirement Village The Literals
Family information
Relatives	Pathetic Fallacy (grandfather) Kevin Thorn (father) Writer's Block (uncle) Eliza Wall (sister) Bookburner (twin brother) Robin and Priscilla Page (nieces) Hillary Page (daughter)
Appearances
Firstmentioned	Jack of Fables #1 — "The Long Hard Fall of Hollywood Jack"
First issue	Jack of Fables #2 — "Jack in the Box"
Last issue	The Literals #3 — "The Great Fables Crossover, Part 9 of 9: Kill Your Darlings"

“	My job is to neuter you; to take away all in you that is potent and fearsome.	„
	~ Revise to Jack Horner in Jack of Fables #2 — "Jack in the Box"

Mr. Revise runs the Golden Boughs Retirement Village, a "prison" for Fables. He debuts in Jack of Fables #2 — "Jack in the Box." As a Literal, he has the power to change Fables into safer or nicer versions of themselves.

History

Mr. Revise is in overall charge of the Golden Boughs Retirement Village. His exact status is unclear, but he is descended from Literals, a group of magical beings who, unlike the Fables, who are characters from story, appear to personify literary concepts. He is the son of Kevin Thorn and the grandson of the Pathetic Fallacy, though he appears older than both of them. As such, Revise holds a considerable amount of supernatural power.

Revise considers his role to be "neutering" Fables partly by stripping them of their darker elements, with his ultimate goal being to rid the world of magic. He had been close to accomplishing that before the Fabletown refugees made their way to this mundane world.

Tying in to Revise's intention to destroy magic, The Golden Bough was originally written by Sir James Frazer to show that even the "enlightened" faiths of the 19th Century were descended from the most superstitious and primitive. Like Frazer, Mr. Revise appears to be a modernist who wants to abolish superstition. In the end of the Great Fables Crossover, he's revealed in a more sympathetic light, as it is mentioned that keeping the laws of physics constant over time had been his idea, making science possible. It's also pointed out that he's been a stabilizing force against the whims of Kevin Thorn, who could justify any event by claiming poetic license. Eventually, he decides to follow his father in the new universe created by the Deus ex Machina.