Valentine McKee first appeared as the protagonist of Tremors. (played by Kevin Bacon) as the friend and workmate of Earl Bassett. When we first meet Val, he and Earl made their living as hired hands but eventually they got sick enough of their job that they packed up their belongings and left Perfection for Bixby. On the way there both he and Earl discovered the first victims of underground animals including Edgar Deems and Old Fred. They where also the first in the film to survive an encounter with a Graboid when a Graboid tongue grabbed onto the rear axle of their truck after they discovered a landslide caused by the beast when it killed two road workers. It was also Val and Earl who indirectly killed the first Graboid by causing it to ram head-first into a concrete trench. At the end of