History Characters / HalloweenMichaelMyers

'''Michael Myers''' | [[Characters/HalloweenLaurieStrode Laurie Strode]] | [[Characters/HalloweenSamuelLoomis Samuel Loomis]] | [[Characters/HalloweenJamieLloyd Jamie Lloyd]] | [[Characters/HalloweenRachelCarruthers Rachel Carruthers]] | [[Characters/HalloweenTinaWilliams Tina Williams]] | ''[[Characters/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch Season of the Witch]]'' | ''[[Characters/Halloween2007 Halloween (2007)]]'' | ''[[Characters/Halloween2018 Halloween (2018)]]''-]]]]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Not confirmed if Michael is even a human being.

* WouldHitAGirl: Michael murders at least one woman in every single movie he is in.

* WouldHitAGirl: The majority of Michael's victims are women, and he does quite a bit more than just hitting them.

** Michael consistently targets teenagers in every film where he appears, killing any he can get his hands on.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Subverted in the original novelization. The book explores Michael's psyche more thoroughly than the films and offers a possible theory why this kid became a killer, but it doesn't hold back on his evil actions at all and shows he ultimately came to embrace the dark forces tempting him.

* CovertPervert: [[WordOfGod Described as such]] in a [[DependingOnTheWriter number of sources]]. The ''Nightdance'' comic implies that Michael is sexually fascinated by his victims and sisters, adding a sexual aspect to his killings. He also all but stated to have raped his niece Jamie in the sixth movie(confirmed by its creators), and the screenwriter of the sixth movie describes Michael as being a sexual deviant. Creator/JohnCarpenter himself said Michael originally killed Judith "for sexual reasons" before stopping himself mid sentence.

* {{Expy}}: A masked figure in black who breaths deep and husky. He started out as a normal boy before being consumed and corrupted by [[DarkIsEvil an unforeseen darkness]] and chases a younger hero who turns out tobe a long lost relative. [[Franchise/StarWars Sound familiar?]] The difference between Vader and Michael is that while the former still had enough humanity to turn on evil and redeem himself, the latter was already beyond saving even before he met Laurie.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Due to Laurie and Michael being UnrelatedInTheAdaptation, the nature of their antagonism differs in this continuity. While in the previous continuities, Michael spent his various incarcerations obsessed with finding Laurie and/or her children, in this timeline, she spends most of the 2018 film and ''Halloween Kills'' believing that Michael is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and is ultimately after her, even believing that, in the latter film, he'll seek her out in the hospital. The reality, as Hawkins informs her, is that Michael has barely spared Laurie a thought in the past forty years and was brought to her by circumstances beyond his control. Even when he's clearly more aware of Laurie, Michael doesn't go out of his way to find her. [[spoiler:Their final showdown in ''Halloween Ends'' only takes place because Michael wants his mask back from Corey, who stole it for his own murder spree; that Corey was at Laurie's house when Michael finally caught up with him was a total coincidence.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Michael's relation to Laurie is retconned in this continuity, meaning Michael's stalking of Laurie that fateful Halloween night was purely random. Though the event traumatized and haunted Laurie for decades, Michael barely recognizes her when they meet again. In fact, he only bothers going after Laurie because he was taken to her residence while unconscious in Hawkins's car.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Not confirmed if Michael is even a human being