Adam Carr, formerly known as Jeremy Melton, also known as The Cherub, is the main antagonist of the 2001 slasher film Valentine, based on the 1996 mystery novel of the same name by Tom Savage. He is a mentally ill serial killer who, thanks to being a victim of terrible bullying as a child that culminated in a horrifically cruel joke at a Valentine's Day dance when he was only thirteen, became obsessed with the holiday that had ruined his life and that he had never gotten to enjoy with another that would return his affections, and thus was transformed into a serial killer with the sole intention of seeking revenge against those primarily responsible for his childhood suffering, plotting to do so on and around the holiday of Valentine's Day so as to coincide with the events that ruined his life.