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!!Jennifer Simpson
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[[caption-width-right:228:Jennifer in ''The First Fear'']]
[[caption-width-right:228:[[labelnote:Click here for her appearance in the second game]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jennifer_7.png[softreturn]Jennifer in ''Clock Tower/Clock Tower 2''[[/labelnote]]]]
-> '''Voiced by''': Rumiko Varnes (Clock Tower), Creator/ChinamiNishimura (Clock Tower 2 Drama CD)
The heroine of the first and second games, she has to find a way out of the Barrows' mansion without getting murdered by the Scissorman.
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* ActionSurvivor: Just an ordinary girl who gets adopted into the mansion.
* BreakTheCutie: The first game's events take a serious toll on her.
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:In the ''Clock Tower: Adventure Novels'', Ending B will have Jennifer become the mother of a reborn Dan and Bobby Barrows after Dan tricks her into reciting the reverse door spell.]]
* ConnectedAllAlong:
** If the player finds the skeleton in the room, it reveals to be Jennifer's father and he has connections to the Barrows as he helped deliver them.
** [[spoiler:Jennifer is related to the Barrows, according to the novelization.]]
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: [[spoiler:Or not so convenient, since it's Mary Barrows' fault.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of the deaths she can suffer, usually getting chopped up by Bobby.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Happens to Jennifer in the last part of Helen's route in the second game. If you do everything before and after right, you'll be fine. [[DownerEnding But if you don't...]]
* DoomMagnet: AnyoneCanDie just by associating with her or if they happen to get in the way, considering she's Scissorman's main target.
* DrivenToSuicide: In the first game, the second to worst ending said that Jennifer was found dead. It's implied that she may have killed herself.
* {{Expy}}: Obviously based on Jennifer Corvino from ''Phenomena'', minus the ability to talk to insects.
* FaceHeelTurn: In one ending of Helen's adventure novel [[spoiler: after finding out about her Barrows heritage and Helen accepts her own murderous impulses, Jennifer becomes a Scissorman.]]
* FinalGirl: Averted if you get an ending where one or more of your friends live, but she's the only survivor of the orphan girls in the canonical ending.
** Almost every character can survive in the second game but in the best ending of Jennifer's path she will be the one left to face Scissorman by herself in the end.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Ending B in the second game: She opens the portal that seals Dan forever, but the bastard manages to take her with him.]]
* HappilyAdopted: To Helen, but not to the Barrows family.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jennifer is modeled and named after Jennifer Corvino, [[TheDanza Jennifer Connelly's]] character in Creator/DarioArgento's movie ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'', which the original game is loosely based on.
* OhCrap: Nonverbal, but iconic nonetheless in the first game's Ending H.
* SoleSurvivor: Officially confirmed to be this after the first game.
* StrawVegetarian: Hinted at in the second game when she refuses to eat red meat. Justified in that if ''anyone'' saw half the stuff she did, they would lose their appetite for meat.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: While Jennifer is mostly a non-combatant she does show some feats of strength in certain situations that are quite impressive for someone that is so young, such as holding Bobby's scissors with her bare hands if he catches up to her during a chase and managing to hold Mary's arm as she tries to stab her during one of the endings.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Lotte's tomboy.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: By the start of the sequel, she's suffering from this. She remembers only a little bit of what happened during ''The First Fear'', so Professor Barton constantly puts her under hypnosis to find the truth. [[spoiler:If all the requirements are met to get the best ending, though, she remembers everything when she confronts the true Scissorman.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity: She wears a blue dress in ''The First Fear'' to further emphasize the difference between herself and her more tomboyish friend, Lotte, who wears red. However, Jennifer switches to a red coat in the second game.
* VomitDiscretionShot: If Jennifer sees the horribly murdered corpse of Rose in the university research building, she vomits in the corner of whatever room she finds the body in, but nothing is shown.
* YamatoNadeshiko: She's all dressed up for an adoption interview, so she really isn't in much shape to fight back, [[ActionSurvivor but she refuses to just lay down and die]].

!!Lotte
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[[caption-width-right:254:Lotte's guidebook artwork]]
Jennifer's best friend. A red-haired tomboy with a strong will.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: If you're playing a route where Jennifer was not locked up in the cell, she'll find Lotte down in the caves, laid out as an apparent sacrifice. Lotte passes along some crucial information, then quietly dies.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The redhead to Laura's blonde and Anne's brunette.
* BoyishShortHair: Given she's a tomboy.
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Unlike Anne or Laura, she can't survive the events of the game no matter what path you take.]][[note]][[spoiler:Don't even try to avoid seeing her die, because you'll just end up getting ''Jennifer'' killed instead.]][[/note]]
* GirlyRun: Weirdly enough. The best way to see this is to get thrown in the cell.
* HeroicSacrifice: One of two ways for her to die. [[spoiler:She frees Jennifer when she's locked in the shack, but Mary shoots Lotte in the chest as she tries to escape.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Unlike Anne and Laura, she discovered Mary's true intentions and/or found a way to defeat Bobby Barrows during the course of the story, implying that she also investigated the mansion [[spoiler:before being killed by Mary.]]
* HumanSacrifice: Her fate if Jennifer wasn't thrown in the cell.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Aside from Jennifer, Lotte has no other friends due to difficulties in socializing as a child. However, she is the only one of the three girls who [[spoiler:will save Jennifer, or alternately finds a way to kill the Scissorman, which is also used to save Jennifer's life. At the cost of her own.]]
* NoSocialSkills: As a child. Which is why Jennifer is her only friend, as explained by Hifumi Kono.
* OnlyFriend: According to Hifumi Kono, Lotte and Jennifer are each other's only friend in the orphanage.
* OnlyOneName: Lotte has no last name, having been taken to the orphanage as a baby with no known familial ties.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Jennifer's girly girl.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:Although Anne or Laura can survive in one of the endings, the tomboy Lotte always ends up dying.]]

!!Laura Harrington
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[[caption-width-right:190:Laura's guidebook artwork]]
One of Jennifer's friends, she accompanies Jennifer, Lotte, and Anne to the Barrows mansion.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: The Playstation and Windows 95 ports have her be the one teasing Lotte's nervousness when they arrive at the mansion instead of Anne.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The blonde to Anne's brunette and Lotte's redhead.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Being stuffed into a steel suit of armor.]]
* DeadlyBath: [[spoiler:One of her deaths has her being stabbed and hung up in a shower. This is her official death in both the manga and the Clock Tower novelizations.]]
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Although she can survive in Ending S of the first game, the second game affirms that Jennifer is the only one of the four girls that survives the incident, which means she canonically dies.]]
* KnightsArmorHideout: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed.]][[spoiler:One of her deaths has her dying in a set of armor because the hard steel compressed her lungs just enough that she couldn't breathe.]]
* NiceGirl: As seen from the game and additional information, Laura is a polite if meek girl.
* PeekABooCorpse: Unlike Anne, whose various deaths are always shown onscreen, Laura's corpse is usually found by Jennifer unexpectedly.
* TrueBlueFemininity: She dresses in blue, and is described by Hifumi Kono as "elegant".

!!Anne
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[[caption-width-right:178:Anne's guidebook artwork]]
Another of Jennifer's friends, who accompanies Jennifer, Lotte, and Laura to the Barrows mansion.
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* AlphaBitch: Has shades of this when talking to the other girls in the beginning, and additional information in the novel describes her as a "somewhat" selfish person. Though she seems to be happy to see Jennifer in the A ending, and doesn't behave badly toward her in the S ending. So she may be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The brunette to Laura's blonde and Lotte's redhead.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:One of her deaths has her being thrown out a window after being stabbed by the Scissorman. This is her official death in both the manga and in the Clock Tower novelization.]]
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Although she can survive in Ending S of the first game, the second game affirms that Jennifer is the only one of the four girls that survives the incident, which means she canonically dies.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Two of her deaths have her being impaled by Bobby's giant scissors, either falling from a giant stained glass window or being pushed by Scissorman out of a window after being stabbed.]]
* HollywoodDrowning: [[spoiler:She can meet her end this way, being pulled into the pool by Bobby. Probably the more disturbing option of all her potential deaths since she spots Jennifer and cries out for help before Bobby pulls her under one last time.]]
* OnlyOneName: Like Lotte, she has no last name. According to the novelization, she was abandoned as a child and doesn't have one.
* TemptingFate: The prologue manga has her claiming how lucky they are to be living in the mansion. Sure...

!!Mary Barrows
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[[caption-width-right:200:Mary's guidebook artwork]]
The owner of the house and main antagonist of the game. She's the mother of Bobby and Dan, and adopted the four girls as well.
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* AxCrazy: She doesn't seem to have much of a motivation beyond "watch people suffer".
* BigBad: Of ''First Fear''.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Pretends to be a sweet, nurturing woman when taking the girls in, but it's an act.
* BlackMagic: Revealed via WordOfGod.
* DealWithTheDevil: If [[spoiler:the ceremony room]] is any indication, she seems to have made one to have her children.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:If she dies from being electrocuted, she's stuck to the circuit board in a way that resembles this.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:She can also die in the climax by falling from the Clock Tower.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She genuinely cares for her monstrous children. [[spoiler:Her StepfordSmiler facade shatters when you kill Dan, and she drops everything to kill you if Bobby dies as well.]]
* EvilOrphanageLady: Ms. Mary arranges for the protagonist Jennifer and her friends to be adopted by Simon Barrows with seemingly no ill intent. Then the whole thing is revealed to be a group sacrifice for her satanic sons, Dan and Bobby.
* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler:In one ending, she's knocked into the tower's circuit board and electrocuted.]]
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Goes apeshit on Jennifer for causing the deaths of Bobby and Dan.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: To everyone except for her sons.
* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler:WordOfGod says that Mary locked up her husband, instead of just simply killing him, so she could enjoy seeing him lose his sanity.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Type C.]] She can be smiling serenely one moment, and [[spoiler:stabbing Jennifer in the chest]] in the next.
* TakeYourTime: If Jennifer gets drugged by Mary, Lotte will rescue you out of the cell, but Mary will come over with a gun to kill you. But Mary won't start killing Jennifer until either she hides in the crate or you pick up the club to knock her out.
* UnreliableIllustrator: Due to the color palette limitation, her sprites doesn't match her artwork.
** Her artwork in both mannual and novels depict her more younger with a dark blue top with a long green skirt and blue leggings. The game sprite depicts her wearing a light blue top with a dark blue skirt and no leggings.
** According to the manuals and novels, Mary is in her mid thiries by the time the events of the first game happen. But both ingame and portrait sprites make her look much older.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** Mary doesn't hesitate to [[spoiler:try strangling Jennifer or throw her last living friend into the gears of a clock tower]].
*** She's not above [[spoiler:shooting or stabbing them either]].

!!Bobby Barrows/The Scissorman
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Mary's creepy, deformed child, he stalks Jennifer around the mansion, trying to murder her with a pair of oversized scissors.
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* AxCrazy: His only motivation is to maim and kill, and he does both with sadistic glee.
* BodyHorror: He has a hunchback and a skull face. ''Definitely'' not the cutest kid.
* CaptainErsatz: Scissorman is ''very'' similar to the character Cropsy from the slasher movie ''Film/TheBurning'', even using a similar weapon, more so in ''Clock Tower 2'' than the first game.
* CreepyChild: There's little more creepy than a deformed child trying to murder you with a gigantic pair of shears.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Falls into the gears of the clock tower after becoming disoriented by time starting up again. [[AssholeVictim Not like he didn't deserve it.]]]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: The clock tower striking the hour ends up disorienting Bobby enough that he falls from the ledge and into the gears of the clock.
* DoomedByCanon: Considering the second game, it's clear that Bobby is confirmed dead in the canon storyline.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:For Mary Barrows. He's subservient to his mother, but also the most frequently encountered antagonist of ''First Fear''.]]
** DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:If you kill Mary Barrows first, Bobby will show up to make one last effort to kill you.]]
* EnfantTerrible: While most kids his age would be playing hopscotch, Bobby instead is playing homicide.
* TheHeavy: He's probably the least important member of the Barrows family in the mythos, but also the single biggest thing the player has to worry about, by far. Once he scores his first kill, the chase is on, and from that point forward, getting the hell away from Bobby is what drives Jennifer deeper into the house.
* HumanoidAbomination: Bobby looks mostly humanoid, but he is quite clearly a demon.
* ImAHumanitarian: The first thing he did when he was born? [[spoiler:''Eat Jennifer's father's hand.'']]
* ImplacableMan: He can't be stopped when he appears -- all you can do is hide from him.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Scissorman does this constantly. If he didn't, he'd never get closer to you.
* ShearMenace: His weapon is an enormous pair of scissors that he's constantly cutting with.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite only appearing in the first game, Bobby's role would be handed over to his brother.
* TheSpeechless: He does have a [[EvilLaugh vile cackle]], though.

!!Dan Barrows/[[spoiler:Edward]]
[[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dan_official_artwork.png]]
[[caption-width-right:221:[[labelnote:Click here for his appearance in the second game]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edwardrender.png[softreturn]Dan as Edward[[/labelnote]]]]
-> '''Voiced by''': Terry Osada (Clock Tower, [[spoiler:As Edward]]), Creator/MotokoKumai (Clock Tower 2 Drama CD, [[spoiler:As Edward]])

Mary's other child.
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* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:Dan's motivation for killing Jennifer is to avenge his mother and brother.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the sequel, Dan can ''win''. The game does have a lot of endings.]]
* BeautyIsBad: [[spoiler:How he was able to manipulate Kay.]]
* BeneathTheMask: [[spoiler:Counts as a literal example as well. Edward is a nice, gentle boy, who turns out to be a vicious killer in the end.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: In the second game, he pretends to be a nice and gentle boy]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of the second game.]]
* BodyHorror: Holy ''Christ'', his giant baby form.
* BodyOfBodies: According to outer sources, [[spoiler:Dan's giant baby form is actually a shell made from his murdered victims]].
* ChekhovsGunman: You can catch a glimpse of his face through the static of a TV near the beginning of ''The First Fear''.
* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler:Towards Barton, Kay, and animals.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Kay's perspective, [[spoiler:before TheReveal]].
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Edward, the boy who survived with Jennifer, is revealed to be Dan, the giant grotesque baby she accidentally burned back in ''The First Fear''. Jennifer[[note]]and by extension the player[[/note]] is very shocked by TheReveal.]]
* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:That giant fetus thing is made from all the people he killed.]]
* EvilOrphan: [[spoiler:In the sequel, with his mother and father dead by then.]]
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: [[spoiler:In the sequel, he was able to fool everybody. Including Jennifer, Helen (a trainee psychiatrist), and Barton (an actual psychiatrist). WordOfGod says that he was able to control Kay through his 'beautiful face'.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The same applies to Dan once it's revealed that he's Edward.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Subverted: the fire burnt out his outer shell, but he survived.]]
* MadwomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler:Dan in the basement]] in the first game.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Exploited Kay's feelings for him, manipulated Harris into becoming the decoy, and even fooled Barton.]]
* NoSell: Downplayed. Dan can shrug off bullets, but hitting him with an umbrella or covering him with a bed sheet can incapacitate him.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:He survived the first game and in the second, he can survive in a couple of endings.]]
* SpaceMaster: It is suggested on the game's wiki that Bobby's OffscreenTeleportation is due to Dan's meddling with the space inside the mansion.
* SpecialPersonNormalName: Who would expect a would-be [[spoiler:TranshumanAbomination]] to simply be called Dan? Although, [[spoiler:Edward]] sounds more fitting.
* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:In the novelization. He even says he loves Jennifer, trying to convince her of her heritage, and in the novel's Ending B, he successfully impregnates her.]]
* StrongerSibling: He's notably much harder to kill than Bobby.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Exploited, he's faking it.]]
* VillainousCrush: In the novel, as noted above in the StalkerWithACrush entry.
* VillainsOutShopping: He also goes to the library.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about Dan without revealing everything.

!!Simon Barrows
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[[caption-width-right:215:Simon's guidebook artwork]]
[[caption-width-right:160:[[labelnote:Click here for his In-game profile]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simon_91.png[softreturn]Simon's real appearance[[/labelnote]]]]
Mary's husband, and presumably the father of Bobby and Dan.
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: When Simon was locked inside the cage for a long time, he has gone crazy and if the ham was not given he will attack Jennifer and eat her]].
* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:He was locked in a cage both so that he couldn't do anything about his sons, and so he would go mad. By the time Jennifer finds him, he's lost his grip on reality.]]
* TheFaceless: [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Simon_Barrows.png All the]] [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Simon-clue-book.png official]] [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Simon_Method_to_capture_victory.png artwork]] depicts him as such, no doubt to prevent spoiling what happened to him.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:He will kill and eat Jennifer if she can't feed him. Ham will do... even if it ''is'' covered in insecticide.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Jennifer feeding him is sadly non-canon. By the time the police arrive, he is already dead -- probably from starvation.]]
* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler:Before going insane, he was genuinely disturbed by the evil nature of his two sons, and Mary locked him up so he couldn't stop them.]]

!!Dr. Walter Simpson
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[[caption-width-right:320:Jennifer holding Walter's skeleton]]
Jennifer's biological father, long since missing.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Bobby and Dan devoured his right hand seconds after being born.]]
* DisappearedDad: To Jennifer.
* DyingClue: [[spoiler:He wrote a message about the twins' true nature before he suffocated. If Jennifer finds his corpse and the note, she won't fall for Mary's facade.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:He delivered Bobby and Dan, and Mary locked him in an airtight room to keep him from revealing her secret.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:...was not killing the evil twins. He curses himself for not trying even on his dying breath.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Naturally, with Jennifer being an orphan. [[spoiler:The twist is that he was killed by the woman who adopted her in the first game.]]
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!!Helen Maxwell
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->'''Voiced by''': Risa Shiraishi (Game), Creator/HiromiTsuru (Drama CD)
The heroine of the second game. She adopts Jennifer.
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* AbusiveParents: No, not [[MamaBear Helen]] [[GoodParents herself]], but her own parents. The novelization of her scenario reveals that her father physically and sexually abused her as a child, while her mother kept quiet by it. This ended up affecting her as an adult, as she initially had a relationship with Professor Barton, who reminded her of her father.
* ActionGirl: She's not afraid to shoot a gun or kick a psycho killer in the balls.
* AffectionateNickname: Gotts calls her "Teach".
* BigSisterInstinct: Is very protective of Jennifer and doesn't want to force her to remember the Clock Tower murders.
* CassandraTruth: If Helen calls the police in the first scenario, the operator refuses to believe her claims and hangs up on her -- mostly because of previous prank phone calls claiming the same thing.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of the deaths she can suffer, usually getting chopped up by [[spoiler:Dan]].
* FaceHeelTurn: In one ending of her novel [[spoiler: Helen, Jennifer and Edward accept their murderous impulse and plan to start a new killing spree beginning with Edwards new adoptive family.]]
* FinalGirl: Though everyone can possibly survive, in the best ending of her path she will be the one to take on and defeat Scissorman.
* GroinAttack: When dodging Scissorman's scissors, she'll duck and kick him in the groin.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Helen is a good person, and probably the first adult to ever genuinely care about Jennifer.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Ending B in the second game; she opens the portal that seals Dan forever, but she gets pulled in as well. [[SenselessSacrifice Not that she manages to accomplish banishing Dan since his hand rises up from the rubble of the castle afterwards.]]]]
* InfernalBackground: [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/clocktower/images/6/69/HelenFire.jpg In this artwork]].
* MamaBear: Helen isn't afraid to go head-to-head with the Scissorman if it means protecting Jennifer.
* MurderByInaction: It is revealed in the novelizations that, as a young girl, when her abusive father had a massive angina attack and he begged for her to get his medication, she decided to go to the park instead.
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:In Ending B, although Helen banishes Dan into a vortex at the cost of her getting sucked in as well, Dan's hand later rises from the remains of the castle, meaning that Helen's sacrifice was in vain.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: In the novelizations, she and Barton were in a relationship before the events of the games, which didn't work out due to how inhuman Barton was.
* VomitDiscretionShot: If Helen sees the horribly murdered corpse of Rose in the university research building, she vomits in the corner of whatever room she finds the body in, but nothing is shown.

!!Professor Samuel Barton
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-> '''Voiced by''': Robert Spencer (Game), Creator/AkioOtsuka (Drama CD)
Jennifer's psychiatrist. Is really interested in the Clock Tower murders.
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* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Driven insane by [[spoiler:Dan, who manipulated him into becoming a decoy to fool everybody]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:In Helen's scenario.]]
* FakeBoss: In the second game in Helen's scenario, this is [[spoiler:Professor Barton, who was masquerading as Scissorman]]. If you haven't found the Door Spell by this point in the game, Helen concludes he was the real culprit and the game ends.
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:In Jennifer's scenario.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Barton in the second game. Starts out studying Scissorman and then ends up being a fake one in Helen's scenario.]]
* TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler:He's the fake Scissorman in Helen's scenario.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Some [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Bartonconcept.png official]] [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Bartonfamitsuart.png artwork]] has him having more than a passing resemblance to Creator/AnthonyHopkins.
* LackOfEmpathy: Towards Jennifer, as he's using her to discover more on the Clock Tower murders with little regard for her own well-being.
* TheProfiler: Professor Barton and all of his assistants are criminal psychologists working on the Clock Tower case. Slightly subverted in that Prof. Barton originally just views the Scissorman as "some nutjob."
* TheShrink: Depending on the scenario, Professor Barton can fit in Type 1 and 2. He acts as Jennifer's therapist, but is more interested in finding out the truth about the Clock Tower murders than in taking care of Jennifer's psyche. He also believes that Scissorman is something Jennifer fabricated to cope with her trauma, and is annoyed that Scissorman has been sensationalized by the press.
* SourSupporter: In Jennifer's scenario. He's insistent that Scissorman is not real, but he'll still come along with the group to Barrow's Castle and ends up being vital in translating something for Jennifer.
* TeacherStudentRomance: With Helen before the events of the games, as the novel describes.

!!Nolan Campbell
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-> '''Voiced by''': Jeff Manning (Game), Creator/MitsuakiMadono (Drama CD)
Reporter for the Oslo Weekly Newspaper assigned to cover the Clock Tower murders.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: The Novelization reveals that his sister Julia was one of Mary Barrows victims, which is why Nolan is so intent on investigating the Scissorman Murders, as he's trying to avenge her death.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In Jennifer's scenario, he comes in and offers to fight Scissorman, which buys Jennifer enough time to seal Scissorman away in the vortex.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: If he takes a shot of alcohol at Rick's house, when he's being chased by Scissorman, he'll fall down a flight of stairs.
* {{Ephebophile}}: He falls in love with Jennifer, who is not only eleven years younger than him, but is a minor by Norwegian standards. But he also subverts this trope and is shown as a contrast to [[spoiler:Harris]] in that their relationship is portrayed positively.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:While the Scissorman chases him, Jennifer and Helen in the novelization of Helen's scenario, he stays behind to barracade a door and buy the other two time to escape, [[UncertainDoom with him never being mentioned again afterwards.]]]]
* IntrepidReporter: Has no problem inserting himself into the Clock Tower investigation, but also [[spoiler:in Jennifer's scenario, will actually ''fight'' Scissorman to buy Jennifer some time]].
* LoveInterests: He serves as Jennifer's love interest.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:In the novelization of Helen's scenario, he stays behind to barricade a door so that both Helen and Jennifer can escape the Scissorman. He is never mentioned again afterwards, so it is unknown if he survives or not.]]

!!Stan Gotts
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-> '''Voiced by''': Peter Stone (Game), Masaharu Satō (Drama CD)
Assistant inspector who is obsessed with solving the Clock Tower murders.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:At the end of Ending A for Helen's scenario, he comes just in the nick of time to save Helen by shooting Scissorman and making him fall into the vortex.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: If he takes a shot of alcohol at Rick's house, when he's being chased by Scissorman, he'll fall down a flight of stairs.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:In Helen's scenario, he literally gives her a gun that she can use to save Jennifer.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: When Scissorman chases after him and Jennifer in the Barrows castle in the novelization of Jennifer's scenario, he stays behind and holds off the Scissorman with a gun so that Jennifer can escape. [[spoiler:The best ending of the novel reveals that Gotts survives this situation.]]
* InsistentTerminology: He's insistent on being referred to as 'Assistant Inspector' Gotts.
* TheNicknamer: He nicknames Helen "Teach" and gives nicknames to other characters as well.
* RunningGag: Gotts always insists that he is an "Assistant Inspector" whenever anyone refers to him as "Inspector Gotts".
* SirSwearsALot: He swears much more than the other characters.
* TriggerHappy: His first confrontation with Scissorman has him shooting Scissorman until his gun runs out of bullets. [[NoSell Scissorman isn't fazed.]]

!!Harris Chapman
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-> '''Voiced by''': Jojo Otani
An assistant psychology professor to Professor Barton, and someone the professor trusts to handle important errands.
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* AdaptationalJerkass:
** [[spoiler: [[https://youtu.be/90Z5XZOFcPg?t=4758 Jojo Otani’s tone of voice when he says "Jennifer" in the voice acting of the Japanese release]] after revealing to her his deal with Scissorman implies that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's regretful of what he's done]]. In contrast, [[https://youtu.be/YPOaJ3j86f8?t=3432 his tone of voice is more creepy and lecherous]] in the voice acting in the American release]].
** [[spoiler:He's much more of a jerk in the novelizations than he is in the games once he reveals his involvement with the Scissorman, as he openly regards both Rose and Helen as sluts, feels pleasure with both Scissorman killing people and with killing people himself, and threatens to physically harm Jennifer for defying him.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: He's far more horrible of a person in the novels than he is in the games:
** [[spoiler:In Jennifer's scenario, the worst thing he does in the game is kidnap her under the real Scissorman's orders and act as a fake Scissorman. While he mentions being ordered to kill people, he doesn't explicitly say how he feels about killing his victims, and while he is lecherous towards Jennifer after kidnapping her, he shows no signs of wanting to physically hurt her. However, in the novelization, he explicitly mentions feeling pleasure from killing both Rose and Baker and threatens to chop off Jennifer's legs for her non-compliance.]]
** [[spoiler:In Helen's scenario, he does nothing villainous and comes off as a bit of a jerk at worst. However, in the novelization, he explicitly gains pleasure in watching Beth's death, kidnaps Jennifer under the Scissorman's orders and leads Helen into a trap so that the Scissorman can kill her.]]
* ApatheticCitizens: In Helen's scenario, he seems very detached from the deadly situation and remarks nonchalantly that the Scissorman wants to kill Helen instead of him.
* ArtifactOfDoom: He gives Helen a key to unlock the Chapel in her scenario. [[spoiler:But if the key is used, then Jennifer will die and it's impossible to get the best ending.]]
* {{Ephebophile}}: He falls in love with Jennifer, who is twenty years younger than him and is a minor by Norwegian standards. This serves as a contrast to Nolan's feelings for Jennifer, as Harris's feelings are treated like an obsession [[spoiler:and he becomes the decoy Scissorman in Jennifer's Scenario because the real Scissorman promised him he could have Jennifer]].
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[spoiler:After kidnapping Jennifer in her scenario as the fake Scissorman, Harris notes that he has Jennifer all to himself. Luckily, Scissorman kills him before he could do anything more with Jennifer.]]
* TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler:He becomes the fake Scissorman in Jennifer's scenario.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Falls in love with Jennifer [[spoiler:and becomes the decoy Scissorman in her scenario when the real Scissorman promises him that he could have her]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:In the Japanese release of the game, Harris sounds regretful of what he's done after he kidnaps Jennifer and tells her about his deal with the Scissorman in Jennifer's scenario.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:In Helen's Scenario, Helen can find his decapitated head inside of a bucket. Also, in both of the novelizations, he dies from having his head chopped off by the Scissorman.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves:
** [[spoiler:After becoming a fake Scissorman and kidnapping Jennifer in Jennifer's scenario under the real Scissorman's orders, the real Scissorman kills him right afterwards.]]
** [[spoiler:In the novelization of Helen's scenario, after helping Scissorman murder Beth, kidnapping Jennifer and leading Helen into a trap to be murdered, the real Scissorman kills him.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: Harris from the second game is infatuated with Jennifer, so much that [[spoiler:[[LoveMakesYouEvil he becomes the fake Scissorman in her route because the real one bribed him with the belief that he would have her if he did so]]]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** [[spoiler:In Jennifer's scenario, the real Scissorman murders him after he kidnaps Jennifer and brings her into the Barrows castle.]]
** [[spoiler:In the novelization of Helen's scenario, the real Scissorman kills him after he captures Jennifer and lures Helen into a trap.]]

!!Beth
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-> '''Voiced by''': Sayoko Kamei
One of Professor Barton's research assistants and a close friend to Helen. She admires the close sisterly relationship between Helen and Jennifer.
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* AdultChild: She loves stuffed animals and goes along with the main characters to hunt for Scissorman because she think it'll be fun. She even compares it to a picnic.
* BreakTheCutie: When everyone gets separated in the final scenario, Beth can be found in either Jennifer or Helen's scenarios hiding and scared out of her mind.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:She's possibly the nicest and most sociable person of the cast, and she can become one of Scissorman's victims should either Helen or Jennifer fail in saving her. In either of the novelizations, her only fate is for the Scissorman to murder her horrifically.]]
* JumpScare: If Helen allows Beth to follow her, [[spoiler:Scissorman will appear and drag her through the floor]].
* NiceGirl: She is very friendly and bubbly, and is genuinely concerned for Jennifer.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:One of her possible deaths in the novelization of Jennifer's scenario involves her head being chopped off by the Scissorman.]]

!!Kay Satterwhite
->'''Voiced by''': Maya Moore
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She took over the Granite Orphanage after Mary died. She also acts as Edward's guardian and escort when the group travels to England.
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* CorruptionByAMinor: [[spoiler:Although in the end, she begs Edward to stop, as well as to spare her life. Dan kills her.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Edward's killing spree became too much for her, and she begs him to stop. He kills her for this.]]
* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:Dan was able to manipulate her, simply by his charms.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:In Ending A, Kay feels guilty about allowing Edward's killing spree. Her pleading for him to stop ends up getting her killed.]]
* [[PaedoHunt Pedophiles Are Evil]]: [[spoiler: She's a repressed pedophile who is a willing accomplice in Edward's murders because of her feelings for him. Though she does beg him to stop in Ending A.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Can kill Jennifer in Ending C.]]

!!Tim
-> '''Voiced by:''' Jojo Otani
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Nolan's cameraman.
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* TheGenericGuy: He has the least characterization out of the main cast in the games due to being Nolan's cameraman, and he doesn't speak often.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:In both novelizations, Scissorman kills him by cutting him in half horizontally.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: His main purpose in the story is being Nolan's cameraman, which means he usually only appears with Nolan. The exception is when the search group gets split up in the Barrows castle.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: ''Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within'' / ''Clock Tower: Ghost Head'']]

!!Alyssa Hale/Yū Midōshima/[[spoiler:Lynn Maxwell/Rin Saidou]]
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-> '''Voiced by''': Rebecca Wink (English), Creator/KaeAraki (Japanese)
The heroine of the game. She was recently released from a mental hospital after being the vessel of her alter ego that ended up murdering her classmates in cold blood. To prevent this, an amulet was formed to keep her alter ego at bay indefinitely, unless it is removed.
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* ActionGirl: Subverted. She ''can'' fight back (even collecting a gun as she goes), but only with certain objects like chairs, brooms, and fire extinguishers, she leaves firearms to Bates. (And occasionally will refuse to pick up guns.)
* AmuletOfDependency: A literal example, Alyssa needs the amulet to keep Bates dormant. Then again...
** MagicFeather: Alyssa's amulet might be this. Interpretations can vary if the amulet can truly quell Bates, but it's possibly just a placebo. [[spoiler: The Drama CD confirms it to be a placebo, at least in the sense that Bates can still see and hear everything Alyssa sees while she has it.]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: In the drama CD, Alyssa actually yelled, [[spoiler:She's the one who snaps nurse Cook out of her trauma, not Bates.]] She's also willing to unleash Bates if needed to survive.
* BewilderingPunishment: A recipient of one; [[spoiler:she has no idea why people want her dead]].
** To elaborate, [[spoiler:Shannon hates her for being with Allen, while Maxwell wants her dead because she's the curse he thought he prevented, and finally Phillip tried to kill her upon realizing she may have something to do with his family's demise]]. Compare MisplacedRetribution bellow.
* BoringButPractical: Despite the above, you will be using her a lot because she is
** A. The key to the good ending.
** B. She can hide and use evade points by attacking her stalkers with a [[ImprobableWeaponUser broom or a fire extinguisher.]]
** C. She is a lot more sensible compared to [[TooDumbToLive Bates.]]
* BrainsAndBrawn: Seems to be more intelligent and observant than Bates, and actually has something vaguely resembling people skills.
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:Subverted. Bates did promise that he'd protect Alyssa, and he does, but he could also get her killed due to his arrogance.]]
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:Her adoptive father rescued her]], which leads to a lot of complications.
* CursedWithAwesome: Having a murderous, sociopathic alter ego of a brother comes in handy once in a while.
** IJustWantToBeNormal: She really resents her evil side.
* DaddysGirl: If you pay any attention to the dialogue between Allen and Alyssa, it comes off as this.
** HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:To Allen Hale]].
* DeathByPragmatism: Played with, and a poorly done example. The main difference between her and Bates is that she isn't TooDumbToLive. However, some of her deaths don't make sense, as we are shown that she can fend for herself and she can avoid them in the same separate scenarios. Another frustrating example is that sometimes panic is locked and the player can't intervene, as if Alyssa herself isn't trying. The game really wants to enforce that she's really helpless without Bates or it's needed to expand the endings.
* DoesntLikeGuns: To a ridiculous extent, even if she's cornered or low in courage. She will always prefer mundane objects over the shotgun she can find. Perhaps enforced to make room for Bates.
* FightingFromTheInside: She doesn't want Bates out for good reasons, once you know her backstory.
* {{Foil}}: Alyssa is Bates' antithesis, timid yet quick-witted and empathic towards others.
** RedOniBlueOni: She's the blue oni to Bates' red.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.
* HearingVoices: Seems to be able to hear Bates in her head by the ending, where there was no indication of being able to do so before.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Alyssa will use chairs and other mundane objects.
* InterfaceScrew: When Alyssa goes into Panic Mode.
* JekyllAndHyde: Alyssa / Yu is Dr. Jekyll to while Bates / Sho is Mr. Hyde.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Could count, Alyssa's visage is not that of a typical pretty anime character, but her rendering and her manga portrayal is that of a simple yet realistic Japanese teenager with no exaggeration whatsoever. You don't see this kind of style everyday. This is in contrast to [[spoiler:Shannon]], who seems to have bleached her skin.
* MeaningfulName:
** Alyssa: means, to cure rabies i.e madness; or to be against madness.
** Yuu: means superiority, gentleness, and distant. Her Japanese name foretells who she truly is. Bonus points for it being unisex.
* MisplacedRetribution: A victim of one, this girl can't catch a break. [[spoiler:Everybody wants her dead as well as revenge for the fault of her adoptive and actual fathers.]] Her fate can vary in the endings. See TheWoobie.
* MoralityPet: To Bates.
* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:Of Dan. Surprisingly, she's not a psycho, unlike her brother.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Has elements of this.
* SiblingYinYang: The opposite to Bates' violent personality.
* SplitPersonality: See Bates.
* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler: Seems to develop this in the Drama CD, latching onto Bates when everyone except Alex is dead in the end.]]
** HelplessGoodSide: Though she can attack her stalkers with mundane objects. Once confronted, she stands in fear and can only dodge, unlike Bates, who attacks head on.
* {{Synchronization}}: Alyssa / Yu herself shares this attachment to her amulet; without it, she's helpless against her brother's influence. Downplayed, as it only happens when she's really stressed or scared. Bates is linked to his sister, he can awaken once the amulet is gone. If he happens to get her killed, he dies as well.
* TheKillerInMe: A non twist version, we already meet Bates at the start of the game as well as establishing he's a gun wielding maniac who likes to swear a lot. Although, Alyssa's a Type 2 at the beginning of the drama CD.
* UnknownRival: To Shannon, she really has no idea why she hates her. That is, until Allen revealed it.

!!Bates/Shō
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[[caption-width-right:350:Alyssa & Bates]]
-> '''Voiced by''': Roger L. Jackson (English), Creator/FujikoTakimoto (Japanese - Game), Creator/HoukoKuwashima (Japanese - Drama CD)
Alyssa's evil alter ego. He can awaken within Alyssa to take over her mind and body, and [[{{sadist}} takes great pleasure in causing harm to others]], with the exception of Alyssa herself (possibly because she IS his means to interact).
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Drama CD makes Bates slightly more caring for Alyssa, not so much to everyone else.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the game the reason why [[spoiler:he killed two of Alyssa's classmates was because they were bullies that were harassing her]]. In the Drama CD however, [[spoiler:he kills three of her classmates for no reason]], he also [[spoiler: physically assaults Nurse Cook to get her to talk and executes Allen in the end.]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: He can use guns, but he can't hide and use evade points, unlike Alyssa. [[spoiler:He is also the cause of many of the bad endings.]]
* AxCrazy: The reason why Allen gave Alyssa the amulet in the first place. The first thing he did when he woke up was [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplarBigBrother kill two boys harassing Alyssa.]]]] You think that's not bad? His personality is revealed more in the drama CD. [[spoiler:[[EstablishingCharacterMoment When he explicitly killed Alyssa's classmates for no reason.]]]]
* BrainsAndBrawn: Not stupid, but definitely not the cerebral type. Prone to impulsive, violent actions and decisions. A more-than-capable fighter, unless the plot says otherwise.
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:He didn't survive, unlike his sister.]]
* CutsceneIncompetence: Fights off zombies and psychos with aplomb. Unless, of course, it's time for a bad ending.
* DissonantSerenity: It may not be noticable during gameplay, but you could say he could be enjoying himself. Made obvious by his voice acting.
** DeadpanSnarker: He'll snark here and there. He also does it even when Alyssa's crying after the climax.
** {{Understatement}}: Some of his lines come off as this, especially when you find [[spoiler:Ashley's body parts]]. He also delivers a dark chuckle at it.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's a psycho around everybody but Alyssa.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Kills Allen Hale for his deeds in one bad ending, though this may not be a matter of "standards" so much as anger at getting him and Alyssa in trouble.]]
* {{Foil}}: Bates is Alyssa's antithesis, he's an intrepid yet arrogant and impulsive psycho.
** RedOniBlueOni: The red oni to Allysa's blue.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric.
* TheGhost: Bates shares his [[spoiler:sister's body]], but we never saw what he truly looks like without Alyssa. The closest thing we've got is [[http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120304213342/clocktower/images/1/1c/Bates2.jpg this picture]] from the drama CD.
* {{Jerkass}}: To anyone not named [[HiddenHeartofGold Alyssa]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Outright executes Alan with a pistol in the Drama CD in the ending.]]
* MeaningfulName
** "Bates" hearkens back to the [[{{Film/Psycho}} Bates Motel]].
** "Shou" can mean "to rise", and he regularly rises to the surface.
* NightmareFetishist: Unlike Alyssa, who's understandably shocked and scared, Bates seems a little too lax and very amazed upon finding Ashley[[spoiler:'s scattered pieces.]]
* NoSympathy: Towards nurse Cook when he finds her scared out of her mind in the hospital, which is infested with zombies. He even threatens to kill her if she doesn't divulge some info about said zombies.
* PetTheDog: Bates can be a jerk to others, but he is totally kind to his main ego, Alyssa.
--> "Don't be afraid, Alyssa".
* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:Of Bobby.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: Talk to Alyssa's father as Bates in an early scene [[spoiler:and he'll kill him on the spot, granting you a bad ending]].
* SensorCharacter:
** [[spoiler: Claims to have been able to sense the evil in Alan since Alyssa was a child in the Drama CD.]]
** He also can tell something is evil/dangerous about the statue [[spoiler:which is covered in an insanity-inducing toxin]].
* SharingABody: With Alyssa.
* SiblingYinYang: The opposite to Alyssa's meek personality.
* SirSwearsALot: His voice acting and this are the reasons why he's so well liked.
* SociopathicHero: Would be a full-on villain if not for his concern for Alyssa.
* SplitPersonality: In ''Ghost Head,'' there's Yu / Alyssa and her male alter ego Sho / Bates.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: One of Bates' biggest flaws is his tendency to flaunt his arrogance over the antagonists. Even when said antagonists are wielding weapons and perfectly capable of killing Alyssa within the next second.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: He's not that super, but he can use magic if you activate the cheat code for the milicana. Plus he's a lot braver, and unfortunately arrogant. See TooDumbToLive.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Some of the endings in the game result from Bates [[ThreatBackfire threatening people whom he should know are both unhinged, antagonistic towards Alyssa (possessed or not), and have weapons they are willing to use.]]]]
* VoicesAreMental: Played straight in the English localization, when Bates takes over Alyssa body, the voice coming out from her mouth is definitively masculine and voiced by a different actor. Averted in the original Japanese, however; while Yuu and Sho still don't share the same voice actress, Sho is still voiced by a woman (Creator/FujikoTakimoto in the game, Creator/HoukoKuwashima in the Drama CD) who gives him a deeper, rougher register than the soft-spoken Yuu.
* WouldHurtAChild: He spartan kicked a little girl in the face. Justified, she was homicidally crazy. [[spoiler:Then you stab her later.]]

!!Alex Corey/Hitoshi Ishizue
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-> '''Voiced by''': Greg Weber (English), Issei Futamata (Japanese - Game), Naoki Kinoshita (Japanese - Drama CD)
The police detective of the game who is seen questioning Alyssa after the events of the first chapter. He conducts his own investigation after zombies begin appearing and is willing to cooperate with Alyssa to figure out what is going on and to put an end to it.
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* CluelessDetective: An unintetional example. See IdiotBall.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler:Why he brought and left a teenage girl all alone, in a zombie infested research lab, is this game's mystery.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In the end, Alex ultimately kills Maxwell before he could attack Alyssa. That's assuming [[PressXToNotDie that you hit the panic button fast enough the second time.]] ]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Phlegmatic.
* IdiotBall: The game seems to imply that Alex is an incompetent detective. Read at your own risk, but here are his faults in order:
** [[spoiler:After his introduction, he left Alyssa after hearing a scream without saying a word to her and just ran off.]]
** [[spoiler:He immediately suspects Phillip without investigating/questioning[[note]]as a detective, he should have had training on psychology and body language[[/note]]. The latter is actually paranoid.]]
** [[spoiler:He took Alyssa with him to the lab after establishing there are zombies running amuck, when he should have taken her to a shelter.]]
** [[spoiler:He left Alyssa again, just because she wouldn't leave with him. Although this is subverted, but he actually left her until the climax.]]
** [[spoiler:He runs off again after being brutally honest to Alyssa[[note]]why Alyssa likes him is the biggest mystery of this game.[[/note]] and leaves her alone at the street.]]
* LetsGetOutOfHere: Near the end, Alex reasons that there is nothing he can do about the zombie situation and suggests to Alyssa that they ought to leave. He'll stay behind if you choose not to.
* PoliceAreUseless: Alex does not really help around much aside from a couple of his [[BigDamnHeroes heroic moments]] and providing occasional exposition and speculation.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: In the final part of Chapter 2, he pulls one out when you play as him, and [[spoiler:uses one in the ending to kill Maxwell]]. Averted in the former since the gunplay somehow got worse...
* SomeoneHasToDoIt: In the [[spoiler:good ending, Alex decides to walk off to take care of the remaining zombies himself]].

!!Doug Bowman/Wataru Gōmoto
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-> '''Voiced by''': David Nowlin (English), Creator/AkioOtsuka (Japanese - Game), Yoshiyuki Kono (Japanese - Drama CD)
One of the people Alyssa meets at the second scenario of the game. He is a newspaper reporter who came to investigate the strange occurrences at the hospital.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Leukine.
* TheGenericGuy: He adds nothing to the plot. He's barely a character.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:He left a 17 year old girl all alone in a zombie-infested Research Lab. Granted, you can decline his offer to leave with him and you're not that helpless. But still...]]

!!Allen Hale/Takashi Midōshima
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-> '''Voiced by''':Terry [=McGovern=] (English), Tamio Ōki (Japanese - Game), Ginzō Matsuo (Japanese - Drama CD)
He was once an outstanding scientist working at the Memorial Pharmaceuticals Research Lab, until Maxwell showed up and removed him from his high position. Since this is Alyssa's story, a lot of the things he does are offscreen.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Maxwell again.
* TheAtoner: After George Maxwell buried Alyssa, Allen dug her up again, [[spoiler:although it's not clear if he did this to save Alyssa or just to spite George]]. However, he's definitely TheAtoner for [[spoiler:abandoning Shannon and making her jealous]].
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: It's more like: Did we just have a chat with my ax crazy rival? Allen and Phillip's apparent offscreen 'conversation' with Maxwell.
* DressedToHeal
* GreenEyedMonster: To Maxwell.
** RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:So the guy just proved himself to be better than you, and got you demoted. Did you really have to plan a 17[[note]]Alyssa's seventeen years old by the time the game starts[[/note]] year long complicated scheme to ruin him?]] Then again, he could have been a [[InsufferableGenius jerk]]. Allen's hatred for him was never fully explained. Subverted, [[spoiler:if Allen never did this trope, Alyssa would never have lived]].
* HoldingYourShoulderMeansInjury: At the climax, he was seen holding his abdomen while confronting Maxwell.
* KickTheDog: He tricked his friend Phillip into doing the above deed with him, and then later (possibly) tried to frame him for his crime by sending him the statue. [[spoiler:Or he was the intended victim of the toxin, making it look like he commited a familicide. Allen's plan almost succeeded, as he was Alex's number one suspect.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His plans succeeds at driving [[spoiler:Maxwell]] insane and almost framing [[spoiler:Phillip]]; however, he didn't count on [[spoiler:Shannon]] coming after [[spoiler:Alyssa]] for his mistake and [[spoiler:Phillip]] still being alive to learn the truth; let's not forget [[spoiler:Maxwell]], who actually got back on him. What's worse is that he didn't expect his [[spoiler:''daughters'']] to come to look for him. And everybody, as in everybody, believes this is Alyssa's fault for being 'cursed'. Although, when it comes to Katherine, she seems to be in denial, and Phillip switches from this to in-between. To make it short, [[spoiler:everybody attacked Alyssa for his fault]].
* NoodleIncident: We were never clearly told of whatever [[spoiler:Maxwell]] did to him to deserve his fate, and why [[spoiler:Bates]] and him hate each other so much.
* [[MaternallyChallenged Paternally Challenged]]: He's a brilliant doctor, but when it comes to parenting, that's where he fails.
** ParentalFavoritism: Towards Alyssa. [[spoiler:To Shannon, not much.]]
** ParentalNeglect: Always buried in his "work"[[note]]slash [[spoiler:revenge plan]][[/note]].
** FatherlyScientist: Implied, even though he's neglectful. Through his [[spoiler:daughters' perspective, Shannon and Alyssa]] see him as this.
* PapaWolf: Despite being neglectful, he is this to Alyssa. He attempts to talk to the insane Maxwell while he hides her in a room.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:He was originally going to use Alyssa to ruin Maxwell, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.]]
-->[[spoiler:"I... I loved you as if you were my very own daughter. I never thought of you as a tool to harm anyone."]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Invoked by Allen in a more literal sense. [[spoiler:When Maxwell learned that his twin babies are the cursed generation, he responds by burying them alive. [[LittleDidIKnow Little did he know]] his two pissed-off colleagues who hate him with a passion would decide to rescue his children. Not out of disgust or concern, but for revenge.]] Subverted [[spoiler:in the end, ''as he states above.'' Allen admitted he tried to invoke this trope by using Alyssa/Yu, but he eventually grew fond of her, and decides to fulfill the "curse" himself.]]
* StupidScientist: His plan on getting revenge is driving his rival murderously insane. Needless to say, this didn't go well.

!!Shannon Lewis/Fujika
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-> '''Voiced by''': Lee Kitts (English), Tomiko Suzuki (Japanese - Game), Mieko Nebashi (Japanese - Drama CD)

When her mother died, her father apparently didn't want to take care of her, so she was left in the care of her relatives. She's extremely envious of Alyssa, enough to want her dead.
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* DaddysGirl: Invoked, she wants to be.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: So pale she's practically blue and a stalker/murderer.
* FreudianExcuse: Unlike the others (whose craziness is justified), she went completely mental because [[spoiler:Allen didn't want to care for her]].
* GreenEyedMonster: To [[MisplacedRetribution Alyssa, who doesn't even know her]] or what she did to her.
** RevengeBeforeReason: She doesn't care that Alyssa has no idea who she is, [[spoiler:she wants to kill her for living with their dad while their mom, who took Shannon, died soon after]].
** MurderIsTheBestSolution: [[spoiler:Therefore killing Alyssa would definitely make Allen want to take her back.]]
* IneffectualDeathThreats: She likes to threaten the [[BewilderingPunishment confused]] [[BullyingADragon Alyssa]] that she will be the one to kill her. In the true ending, at least, this is played straight. Though this can be averted with [[spoiler:Alyssa's [[TooDumbToLive dragon]] [[ThreatBackfire Bates]]]], in the other ending. Surprisingly...
** DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:When she found out that Allen is willing to die in Alyssa's place.]]
* IrrationalHatred: She blames Alyssa for something that's barely her fault.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:She's Alyssa's step-sister.]] After she did the above.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: In ''Struggle Within'', Shannon only helps Alyssa in the hospital just so she can let her suffer before killing her later on. [[spoiler:She kills her early if Bates talks to her in the next chapter, and will succeed in strangling her if she still had her amulet on later. Also, she ultimately kills herself.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler:Averted with the former. She gets points for being savvy, by shooting [[TooDumbToLive Bates]] as he continues to threaten her.]]
* {{Yandere}}: A platonic example, [[spoiler:she is willing to watch her step-sister suffer for awhile and then attempts to kill her. All for the sake of being with daddy]].

!!Philip Tate/Hajime Takano
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-> '''Voiced by''': Doug Boyd (English), Kōji Yada (Japanese - Game), Shinobu Satouchi (Japanese - Drama CD)
Alyssa's 'uncle', a family man and close friend of Allen. Like Allen, he was once a brilliant scientist working at the research lab, before Maxwell showed up and took his position. At the beginning of the game, he is seen contemplating the Maxwell curse with his wife, before Alyssa arrives in their home.
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* DrivenToMadness: Briefly in the end of Chapter 1. Tate decides to [[spoiler:strangle Alyssa in hopes to be free of a liability, though she can fight back. Bates, for some reason, can't, and is locked to a bad ending.]]
* GoodParents: Implied, Philip and Katherine are the only characters shown to be HappilyMarried with children before the tragedy came about. In contrast to Allen Hale's habit of ParentalNeglect and the Maxwell family's practice of burying their children.
* KickTheDog: Talk to Tate the second time as Bates, and one bad ending will result in this on Tate.
* ProperlyParanoid: Played with, [[spoiler:at the beginning of the game, we see him and his wife Katherine dreading Alyssa's arrival. Except, Alyssa had nothing to do with their misfortune. Subverted even further, as his friend Allen is the cause of the [[SelfFulfillingProphecy curse]], not Alyssa.]]

!!Stephanie Tate/Chinatsu Takano
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-> '''Voiced by''': Lee Kitts (English), Tomiko Suzuki (Japanese - Game), Chiaki Maeda (Japanese - Drama CD)
The youngest daughter of the Tate family. She just happens to be possessed and going around murdering her family by the time Alyssa arrives. She's also your first stalker in this game.
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* CreepyChild: She's younger than Bobby.
* DemonicPossession: Subverted, [[spoiler:everybody thought it has something to do with the curse. In truth, she was infected when she touched the tainted statue.]]
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: There's obviously something wrong with a seven-year-old wielding a butcher knife, going about the house, slaughtering her family. Yet Alyssa still thinks she's her cousin and refuses to harm her. Subverted with [[WouldHurtAChild Bates]].
* IllKillYou: "I'm going to kill you."
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: After Stephanie/Chinatsu is stabbed in the chest, she's mentioned to be expected to make a full recovery in the beginning of the next stage.
* LaughingMad: That's when you should be on your alert. Can also become annoying due to her insistence in invoking this, even in the endings.
* MadeOfIron: She can take bullets really well, even if it does slow her down. Also, [[spoiler:at the end of chapter 1, she gets ''stabbed'' by Bates. At the beginning of chapter 2, Alex reassures Alyssa that she'll be alright.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Bates stabs the girl in the chest, presumably killing her. She gets right back up and either stabs him if he just stands there (therefore granting you a bad ending), or prepares to stab Alyssa (which gives you a game over).]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: In the bad endings, this is implied or invoked. Thankfully, subverted otherwise.

!!The Samurai[[spoiler:/Michael Tate/Masaharu Takano]]
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A suit of samurai armor that comes to life when you inspect it, and the second stalker of the game.
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* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:His end, via [[MalevolentMaskedMen George Maxwell]] throwing him at Alyssa. Which occurs in the lab, though it's not explained how he got there.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His weapon.
* MadeOfIron: Thanks to the armor, he can't be stopped with any of the game's weapons. Bates still kicks him over, though.
* NonStandardGameOver: [[spoiler:If you don't inspect the armor before finding the golden statue, you'll find Michael stabbed to death in his room -- and when Maxwell throws the armor without him inside, it'll crush you -- [[IdiotBall for some reason, you can't just dodge it like you normally do.]]]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rather than relentlessly pursuing you, if you move into another room, he'll stay in the same room -- and if you leave him out there long enough, he'll wander off to another part of the house.

!! Ashley Tate/Akiyo Takano
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The second child of the Tate's family. And the first victim of the Cerebral Toxin.

* BornUnlucky: Noted to be such in her biography.
* GamerChick: Implied, as she has a poster of the previous game in her room.
* SacrificialLamb: The first victim in the game. Thankfully off-screen.
* SailorFuku: Artwork depicted her wearing this one, she's a middle schooler.

!!George Maxwell/Fushito Saidō
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-> '''Voiced by''': Terry [=McGovern=] (English), Akio Ohtsuka (Japanese - Game), Tomotsu Nishiwaki (Japanese - Drama CD)
The main villain of the game, who chases you around in the lab.
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:A rare justified version, thanks to Allen; he was a victim of his vengeance, the former infecting him with toxins that drive anybody mad.]]
* ArchnemesisDad
** LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Fushito Saido, turns out to be Yu's biological father driven insane by a curse.]]
** YoureNotMyFather: Alyssa says this at the climax.
* {{BFS}}: A giant hatchet in this case.
* {{Determinator}}: Say what you will about the man, but he managed to retain enough sanity to get back at Allen. [[spoiler:He managed to capture him and cuff him to a pipe[[note]]it should be noted that he didn't kill him on the spot, he had plans on making him suffer, but first he has to kill his supposedly dead daughter[[/note]]. It's also revealed in the drama CD that he was the cause of Ashley's zombification,]] meaning he figured out Phillip's involvement.
* HellIsThatNoise: When you hear scraping, that's your cue to run, hide, evade, or shoot twice.
* HereditaryCurse: The source of conflict in this game.
* DressedToHeal: Complete with a bloodstained labcoat.
%%* ImplacableMan
* InformedAbility: Everybody likes to stress what a genius chemist Maxwell is, yet [[spoiler:Allen]] is the one who perfected the toxin.
* MadDoctor: [[spoiler:Phillip and Allen used to help him experiment on patients.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMen
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: They may not be referred to as doctors, but they are doctors. Maxwell probably has a doctorate in chemistry as well.
* MuggingTheMonster: [[spoiler:Ending F]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:He really didn't want to kill his children.]]
* NotQuiteDead: Again at the [[spoiler:end where Maxwell is shot in the back by Alyssa's father. Then he gets right back up at the very very end to attempt to kill Alyssa again, unless you manage to perform the QTE for Alex to intervene]].
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:A common practice for the Maxwell family, especially if they're twins.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: "Everyone must die!" [[spoiler:Then he released a horde of zombies to the world.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He is Alyssa's[[note]]and Bates's[[/note]] real father. He was the one who orchestrated their burial... alive.]]

!!Chief Nurse Cook/Atsumi Kishi
-> '''Voiced By''': Colleen Quintana (English), Taeko Nakanishi (Japanese - Game), Makiko Mizogami (Japanese - Drama CD)
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The chief nurse who works at the memorial hospital.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:She becomes one if the player comes to check on her as Bates]].
* DrivenToSuicide: She comes off as this, considering her situation does not seem to be getting better. [[spoiler:Then she goes through with it if you check on her as Bates.]]

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[[folder: ''Clock Tower 3'']]
See [[Characters/ClockTower3 here]].
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* SensorCharacter: [[spoiler: Claims to have been able to sense the evil in Alan since Alyssa was a child in the Drama CD.]]

* GutturalGrowler
** HamAndCheese: Compare [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously Roger Jackson's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l52zDGv1tK4 voice acting]] from the rest. He's the only one who went to the trouble of making Bates sound like a sociopath.

* StalkerWithACrush[=/=]StalkerWithATestTube: [[spoiler:In the novelization. He even says he loves Jennifer, trying to convince her of her heritage, and in the novel's Ending B, he successfully impregnates her.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch[=/=]CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Jennifer feeding him is sadly non-canon. By the time the police arrive, he is already dead -- probably from starvation.]]

* PetTheDog[=/=]TheAtoner: [[spoiler:He was originally going to use Alyssa to ruin Maxwell, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.]]

* GreenEyedMonster[=/=]DrivenByEnvy: To [[MisplacedRetribution Alyssa, who doesn't even know her]] or what she did to her.

** DrivenToSuicide[=/=]CyanidePill: [[spoiler:When she found out that Allen is willing to die in Alyssa's place.]]

* CreepyChild[=/=]EnfantTerrible: She's younger than Bobby.

* GirlWithPsychoWeapon[=/=]AxCrazy: There's obviously something wrong with a seven-year-old wielding a butcher knife, going about the house, slaughtering her family. Yet Alyssa still thinks she's her cousin and refuses to harm her. Subverted with [[WouldHurtAChild Bates]].

* TheDogBitesBack[=/=]{{Determinator}}: Say what you will about the man, but he managed to retain enough sanity to get back at Allen. [[spoiler:He managed to capture him and cuff him to a pipe[[note]]it should be noted that he didn't kill him on the spot, he had plans on making him suffer, but first he has to kill his supposedly dead daughter[[/note]]. It's also revealed in the drama CD that he was the cause of Ashley's zombification,]] meaning he figured out Phillip's involvement.

* ImplacableMan

* SpaceMaster: It is suggested on the game's [[TheWikiRule wiki]] that Bobby's OffscreenTeleportation is due to Dan's meddling with the space inside the mansion.

* ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler:Jennifer is related to the Barrows, according to the novelization.]]

* UnreliableIllustrator: Due to the color pallete limitation, her sprite doesn't match her artwork. The ingame and protrait sprites make her look much older.

* PetTheDog: Bates can be a jerk to others, but he is toal kind to his main ego, Alyssa.

* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler: Seems to develop this in the Drama CD, Latching onto Bates when everyone except Alex is dead in the end.]]

* BrainsAndBrawn: Seems to be more intelligent and observant than Bates, and actually has something vaguely resembling people skills.

* DeadlyBath: [[spoiler:One of her deaths has her being stabbed and hung up in a shower. This is her official death in both the manga and in the Clock Tower novelizations.]]

* OnlyOneName: Like Lotte, she has no last name.

* HasTwoMommies: Justified in a gender-inversion. [[spoiler:Alyssa's adopted.]] This trope isn't played straight unlike its other examples, however, Alyssa Hale's story is an interesting take on this trope. It's a long, complicated MindScrew of a story. Subverted, though, [[spoiler:as they're both dead by the end]].

* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:In the ''Clock Tower: Adventure Novels'', Ending B will have Jennifer become the mother of a reborn Dan and Bobby Barrows. It is never specified if it was through the use of BlackMagic or if Dan had raped her.]]

* InfernalBackground: [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:HelenFire.jpg In this artwork]].

* FaceHeelTurn: In one ending of Helen's adventure novel [[spoiler: after finding out about her Barrows heritage and Helen accepts her own murderous path, Jennifer becomes a Scissorman.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: When Scissorman chases after him and Jennifer in the Barrows mansion in the novelization of Jennifer's scenario, he stays behind and holds off the Scissorman with a gun so that Jennifer can escape. [[spoiler:The best ending of the novel reveals that Gotts survives this situation.]]

** [[spoiler:In Jennifer's scenario, the real Scissorman murders him after he kidnaps Jennifer and brings her into the Barrows mansion.]]

* SatelliteCharacter: His main purpose in the story is being Nolan's cameraman, which means he usually only appears with Nolan. The exception is when the search group gets split up in the Barrows mansion.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Jennifer in ''The First Fear'']]
[[caption-width-right:228:[[labelnote:Click here for her appearence in the second game ]] \\https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jennifer_7.png[softreturn]Jennifer in ''Clock Tower/Clock Tower 2''[[/labelnote]]]]

* DeadlyBath: [[spoiler:Her canon death, being stabbed and hung up in a shower.]]
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Officially confirmed dead by canon.]]
* KnightsArmorHideout: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed.]][[spoiler:She died in the armor because the hard steel compressed her lungs just enough that she couldn't breathe.]]

* TrueBlueFemininity: Dresses in blue, and is described by Hifumi Kono as "elegant".

* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:Her canon death, confirmed by the manga.]]
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Like Laura and Lotte, Anne is officially confirmed to be dead after the events of this game.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:By Bobby. This particular death seems to be the most common.]]
* HollywoodDrowning: [[spoiler:She can also meet her end this way, being pulled into the pool by Bobby. Probably the more disturbing option since she spots Jennifer and cries out for help before Bobby pulls her under one last time.]]

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[[caption-width-right:299:Mary's guidebook artwork]]

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[[caption-width-right:221:[[labelnote:Click here for his appearence in the second game ]] \\https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edwardrender.png[softreturn]Dan as Edward[[/labelnote]]]]
-> '''Voiced by''': Terry Osada (Clock Tower, [[spoiler: As Edward]]), Creator/MotokoKumai (Clock Tower 2 Drama CD, [[spoiler: As Edward]])

* TheBadGuyWins[=/=]KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In the sequel, Dan can ''win''. The game does have a lot of endings.]]

[[caption-width-right:160:[[labelnote:Click here for his In-game profile ]] \\https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simon_91.png[softreturn]Simon's real appearence[[/labelnote]]]]

* TheFaceless: [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Simon_Barrows.png All the]] [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Simon-clue-book.png official]] [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Simon_Method_to_capture_victory.png artwork]] depicts him as such, no doubt to prevent spoiling what happened to him.

* AbusiveParents: No, not [[MamaBear Helen]] [[GoodParents herself]], but her own parents. In the [[https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/Helen_Maxwell#Background novelization]], her father physically and sexually abused her as a child, while her mother kept quiet by it. This ended up affecting her as an adult, as she initially had a relationship with Professor Barton, who reminded her of her father.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Ending B in the second game; she opens the portal that seals Dan forever, but she gets pulled in as well.]]
** SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Dan is later revealed to have escaped.]]

* MurderByInaction: As a young girl, when her abusive father had a massive angina attack, he begged for her to get his medication. She decided to go to the park instead.
* TeacherStudentRomance: With Barton before the events of the games, as the novel describes.
* VomitDiscretionShot: When Helen sees a horribly murdered corpse for the first time in the lady's bathroom of the university research building, she vomits in the corner of the room, but nothing is shown.

* {{Ephebophile}}: Falls in love with Jennifer, who is not only eleven years younger than him, but is a minor by Norwegian standards. But he also subverts this trope and is shown as a contrast to [[spoiler:Harris]] in that their relationship is portrayed positively.
* LoveInterests: For Jennifer.

* InsistentTerminology: It's 'assistant inspector' Gotts, mind you.
* TheNicknamer: Nicknames Helen "Teach" and gives nicknames to other characters as well.
* SirSwearsALot: Swears much more than the other characters.

* AdaptationalJerkass: [[spoiler: [[https://youtu.be/90Z5XZOFcPg?t=4758 Jojo Otani’s tone of voice when he says "Jennifer" in the voice acting of the Japanese release]] after revealing to her his deal with Scissorman implies that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's regretful of what he's done]]. In contrast, [[https://youtu.be/YPOaJ3j86f8?t=3432 his tone of voice is more creepy and lecherous]] in the voice acting in the American release]].
* ArtifactOfDoom: Gives Helen a key to unlock the Chapel. [[spoiler:But if the key is used, then Jennifer will die and it's impossible to get the best ending.]]
* ApatheticCitizens: In Helen's scenario, he seems very detached from the deadly situation and incredibly blunt about their chances.
* {{Ephebophile}}: Falls in love with Jennifer, who is twenty years younger than him and is a minor by Norwegian standards. Serves as a contrast to Nolan's feelings for Jennifer, as Harris's feelings are treated like an obsession [[spoiler:and he became the decoy Scissorman because the real Scissorman promised him he could have Jennifer]].
* TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler:Becomes the fake Scissorman in Jennifer's scenario.]]

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[spoiler:Luckily, Scissorman kills him before he could do anything more with Jennifer.]]

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* AdultChild: Loves stuffed animals and goes along with the main characters to hunt for Scissorman because she think it'll be fun. She even compares it to a picnic. Which leads to...

** KillTheCutie: This can ultimately become her fate.

* NiceGirl: Very friendly and bubbly, and is genuinely concerned for Jennifer.

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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Invoked by Allen in a more literal sense. [[spoiler:When Maxwell learned that his twin babies are the cursed generation, he responds by burying them alive. Little did he know his two pissed-off colleagues who hate him with a passion would decide to rescue his children. Not out of disgust or concern, but for revenge.]] Subverted [[spoiler:in the end, ''as he states above.'' Allen admitted he tried to invoke this trope by using Alyssa/Yu, but he eventually grew fond of her, and decides to fulfill the "curse" himself.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ham

* CreepyChild: There's little more creepy than a deformed child trying to murder you.

* KillEmAll: You could subvert this, but Dan is pretty fond of this tactic.

-> '''Voiced by''': David Nowlin (English), Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese - Game), Yoshiyuki Kono (Japanese - Drama CD)