For this knight too, “revenge” was necessary to be one step closer to obtaining his prize. The revenge story was prominent in this version for the sole reason that the revenge was not carried out by the Knight but by the person who controlled him. Although the ending gives the Knight the chance to take revenge by bringing his lover Van Tassel to the pits with him and his horse. In both the Disney original and Irving's there was no form of revenge, the poor guy just wants his head decapitated. The way the Knight lost his head will always be the same, a Hessian beheaded during a battle fought in the Revolutionary War. The variations in Tim Burton's film were that the knight had his head cut off instead of being blown off by a cannon. The description of the Knight was large, headless and gave the grave deception of the demon knight. “Climbing rising ground, which raised the figure of his traveling companion, gigantic in height, and shrouded in a cloak, in relief against the sky, Ichabod was horrified to realize that he was headless! – but his horror was still further increased by observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of the saddle!”(). Being a company for children, Disney made the knight a less scary version of the original, with him being skinny and in the film the pumpkin was present for the entire chase. Burton made the Horseman do a one hundred and eighty degree turn from Disney. From his sharp teeth and pale skin to match the snow surrounding him. Furthermore, he was shorter and carried two weapons. The dangerous headless being was walking around at night, there was a good chance that someone might have entered the omen of death.