History Characters / HalloweenSamuelLoomis

* WouldHitAGirl: Implied by Loomis when he has Marion at gunpoint in ''Halloween 2''. [[spoiler:He has no qualms about Jamie's gender when he raises his gun to her after seeing that she has stabbed her stepmother.]]

* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: Loomis is old enough to Michael's father.

** [[spoiler:Laurie is killed offscreen in a car accident before the events of Halloween 4, meaning that Loomis never got to say goodbye to the young woman he protected from Michael 10 years ago before her actual death.]]

* HurtingHero: By the time of ''Halloween 4'', Loomis has spent ten years watching over the patient he unsuccessfully tried to stop from killing people and has had to look at his scars from the night that haunts him every day. But despite his physical pain, and his past failure, he still does everything he can to save Jamie from Michael.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Subverted. In ''Hallloween II'', he shot Michael in the eyes and tried to blow both himself and Michael to bits. Fortunately, Loomis lived. Unfortunately, ''so did Michael''.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the Zombieverse sequel, [[spoiler:he chooses to confront Michael to save Laurie, but unlike in the last film and the original sequels, he does so unarmed, [[TooDumbToLive it goes well as one would expect]]]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Subverted. After exploiting people with his novel, he is killed by Michael in Zombieverse sequel, but by then, realizes what he has done and tries to save Laurie at the end.]]
* BerserkButton: In the Zombieverse sequel, asking about Michael being alive greatly annoys him.
* BigBadEnsemble: In the Zombieverse sequel, he acts as the secondary antagonist, but more of a downplayed VillainyFreeVillain considering the low he stooped down to is emotionally hurting the relatives of Michael's victims by profiting off their deaths with his latest book.
* BigBadWannabe: In the Zombieverse sequel, unlike Michael however, he never was able to stoop to such lows as taking an innocent life.
* FallenHero: By the Zombieverse's sequel, he became heartless, greedy, snooty and temperamental then before. At least until his JerkassRealization.

* {{Slimeball}}: In the Zombieverse sequel, he degrades to a greedy and heartless writer who profits off the deaths of Michael's victims.
* SociopathicHero: In the Zombieverse sequel (though "hero" could be stretch), even though he pursued Michael in the 2007 film, he shows LackOfEmpathy towards the tragedies caused by Michael's murder spree and shamelessly tries to profit the murders through his books in the next film.
* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: In the second film, he became a greedy and cold-hearted {{Jerkass}} author nearly bordering on sociopathy in contrast to a point of being unrecognizable to his portrayal in the 2007 film until his JerkassRealization at the climax.
* TooDumbToLive: Loomis, what were you thinking when you choose to confront Michael in the sequel without bringing a gun this time?

* TheOtherDarrin: Colin Mahan voices Dr. Loomis, since Donald Pleasance had passed away. To his credit, Mahan's voice sounds like a dead ringer for Pleasance's. Tom Jones, Jr. appears in the 1978 flashback scenes in ''Kills'', which Mahan also voices.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: In this continuity, Loomis played a key role in getting his patient recaptured, advocated for his death, and died peacefully with Michael still institutionalized. Even though Michael later gets out, Loomis will remain one of the few characters from the original film to not get murdered in a sequel.

[-Played by: Creator/DonaldPleasence (''[[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} I]]'' to ''[[Film/HalloweenII1981 II]]'' and ''[[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers 4]]'' to ''[[Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers The Curse]]''), Creator/TomKane (''[[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater H20]]'') (Voice Only)-]

[-Played By: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell-]

->'''Played by: Colin Mahan (Voice), Tom Jones, Jr. (Body)'''

** The fifth film has Loomis trying to get Jamie to use her telepathic powers to help him find Michael. She eventually agrees to his plan and Michael chases after Jamie. Loomis uses her to lure Michael into a trap and he beats Michael while shouting for him to die. While this technically stops Michael's killing spree for the night, as he is taken to the police department in his weakened state, Loomis suffers a stroke in the process and is incapaciated, and thus absent and incapable of preventing [[spoiler:Wynn from busting Michael out of jail and abducting Jamie, with Loomis failing to stop him permanently (as he had intended) and being unable to protect Jamie.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Loomis has this reaction at the end of the Producer's Cut of ''Curse'' as he stands over what appears to be Michael's body and tells him that it's all over, proceeding to remove his mask and discover it was an unconscious Wynn instead.]]

* CassandraTruth: His entire career in regards to Michael is this. No one ever listens to his warnings about the danger Michael poses to society until it's too late. Though this is actually not as bad as in most cases; in both the first two movies and the fourth movie, the cops at least heed his warnings and take some action. Unfortunately, it isn't enough.

* MadeOfIron: Survived a large explosion, has been tossed around, slashed and stabbed by Michael, and even beat Michael Myers down while in his 70's and having a stroke (which he survived).

* OnlyFriend: He seems to be this to Terrence Wynn, the only character in the original timeline to call him by his first name, as Wynn is not shown spending time with others in his free time. [[spoiler:Even after Wynn is revealed as the Man in Black, and Loomis displays a willingness to both denounce him as a monster and shoot him, Wynn never speaks ill of him and even wants him to join his cult.]]

* WildCard: Loomis is on the side of good, but expect him to do just about anything to stop Michael.

** In the fourth film, after being assaulted by Michael, an injured Loomis gets to watch him seemingly be killed by Meeker and the state troopers, and later voices his satisfaction to know that he is in "hell". For the first time, it appears that he has killed him and with little personal cost. [[spoiler:That makes the reveal that Jamie has stabbed her stepmother all the more tragic, as Loomis has lived to see the Main/StartOfDarkness begin again.]]

* GunNut: His WeaponOfChoice for the first two films is [[RevolversAreJustBetter a Smith and Wesson Model 15]], but switches over to a Smith and Wesson 639 pistol with pearl grips for his next two appearances.

* GoodIsNotNice: Loomis is definitely on the side of good, but his SanitySlippage caused by dealing with Michael has left him a borderline psychotic man will to scream at and manhandle children.

* BusCrash: Due to the death of Donald Pleasance, Dr. Loomis is stated to have died in between films in ''H20'' and the 2018 installment.