History Characters / HappyDeathDay

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The last time we see her, she's on a gurney being wheeled away and receiving medical attention; leaving the possibility of her surviving. Either way, things don't look good for her since she could either die of her injuries or survive and face imprisonment.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Gregory shoots her in the chest as he doesn't want to stay trapped in the marriage to her any longer and she completed her part in the plot to kill Lori.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Motive wise. In the first movie [[spoiler:Lori was after Tree because she was jealous of an affair Tree was having with him]]. In the second [[spoiler:he's out to kill Lori to cover up an affair he's having with her.]]

* EvilerThanThou: In comparison to [[spoiler:Lori]], he is not motivated by a crush or yandere affection, but instead spite. He also tries to murder his own wife for no discernible reason apart from "wanting a divorce".
* HateSink: While Danielle is portrayed as a LaughablyEvil AlphaBitch, Dean Bronson is an equally LaughablyEvil DeanBitterman and [[spoiler:Lori]] is at least shown to be an actual good person in the alternate universe, Gregory is shown to be an all around unlovable prick who at best is a cheating asshole who seduces his students and then threatens to fail Tree when she breaks off their affair and at worst, a smug sociopath who is willing to kill his mistress to cover up his affair and shoot his own wife to get out of an unhappy marriage. Even then, he makes the previous version of himself look harmless by comparison.

** The second time he doesn't seem to realize that he's standing in a room with an MRI machine behind him, a large magnetic object in front of him, Tree holding an equally lethal magnetic object in her hand and her other hand near the MRI's "on" button. Not that it would've made any difference, but when he's pinned to the MRI machine, he calls her a bitch when he demands she shut the machine down. Not a smart thing to say to someone whom you just tried to kill and has a screwdriver pointed at your heart.

** The first time, he's approaching Tree wielding a knife while Tree not only has a gun but is capable of using it which she demonstrates by firing a warning shot when he doesn't back off. The only reason she doesn't kill him right then is because the police were minutes away and she wanted him to "rot in prison".

* MsFanservice: She changes clothes without caring if Carter or Ryan sees her in a bra or without pants. In one loop Tree goes streaking in public though we only see her TopLessFromTheBack. In the sequel, she skydives in her underwear.

* GriefInducedSplit: {{Downplayed}}. She has a familial variation with her father, and it's made clear that the reason she's so distant and ignores him before her character development is because of her inability to healthily process and move past her mother's death, for which she eventually apologizes to him and opens up to him before the first loop ends.

* AboveTheInflunce: Despite her initial assumption that they slept together, Carter actually took Tree home because she was blackout drunk and he was worried she'd hurt herself. He let her take his bed for the night, while he slept in Ryan's. He's appalled when he realizes Tree assumed he'd have sex with her while she was too drunk to remember anything.

->"I missed breakfast."

[[folder:Teresa "Tree" Gelbman]]
!!Teresa Gelbman

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JessicaRothe

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RubyModine

[[folder: Carter Davis]]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/IsraelBroussard

[[folder: Ryan Phan]]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PhiVu

[[folder: Babyface Killer I '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST FILM)''']]
!! Lori Spengler
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RubyModine
The first film's main antagonist, Lori turns out to be plotting Tree's murder out of jealousy of her affair with Dr. Butler and spite towards her AlphaBitch tendencies.
* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: A ''literal'' case, although Tree gets better.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She seems like the only good person, and is the killer.
* BigBad: Of the first film.
* EvilIsPetty: Why is Tree being killed? [[DisproportionateRetribution Because she's dating a guy Lori is into, and also for being "a dumb bitch".]]
* HateSink: She is Tree Gelbman's roommate and is the one wearing the Bayview Baby mask killing her in every loop of Tree's regular timeline. Lori constantly kills anyone in the loops too who happens to be in her way and gets others killed by releasing serial killer John Toombs as a cover as well. Her motivation is nothing but petty and harsh as she is jealous of Tree's affair with Dr. Gregory Butler (who at one point is another of Lori's victims too).
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Wears a baby mask (it's the school mascot).
* MurderTheHypotenuse: She's tired of being the hypotenuse to the relationship between Tree and Gregory, and she wanted Gregory for herself.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In an early loop, Tree decides to try barricading herself in her room and waiting it out. [[spoiler: It's the first time she decides to eat the cupcake, but Lori gets impatient and stabs her anyway. If Tree ''had'' eaten the cupcake, she might have figured out that Lori was the killer earlier, '''but''' this is also the first loop where the news report about [[ChekovsGunman serial killer John Tombs]] appears. If Tree had figured out so early that Lori was the killer, not only would Tree not have fallen in love with Carter, but she would have solved the crime without realizing Tombs was loose, and how many people would have died in his escape?]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Calls Tree a "dumb bitch" and "cheap slut" during her MotiveRant.
* SamusIsAGirl: The masked villain turns out to be the female Lori.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The first intended murder weapon was a cupcake.
* UnintentionalBackupPlan: Inverted in the second-to-last timeline. Her plot to have John Tombs murder Tree fails, only for the poisoned cupcake Lori originally planned to use to finally do her in.
* WomanScorned: Seeing Tree dating her boss is enough to make Lori want to kill her roommate.
* {{Yandere}}: Is willing to kill Tree and anyone who gets in their way just because the teacher she's crushing on is having an affair with Tree.

[[folder: Babyface Killer II '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR THE SECOND FILM)''']]
!! Dr. Gregory Butler
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/CharlesAitken
The second film's main antagonist, Dr. Butler turns out to be plotting to kill Lori and his wife after his affair with Lori comes out.
* BigBad: Is revealed to be the killer in the sequel's alternate dimension. Downplayed as his plans and killings are not what drives the plot so much as Tree trying to get back home.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Motive wise. In the first movie [[spoiler:Lori was after Tree because she was jealous of an affair Tree was having with him]]. In the second [[spoiler:he's out to kill Lori to cover up an affair he's having with her.]]
* EvilBrit: If his accent is anything to judge by.
* EvilCounterpart: The first dimension version of him was just a prick having affairs with his students and cheating on his wife. Here, he has no problem killing people.
* EvilerThanThou: In comparison to [[spoiler:Lori]], he is not motivated by a crush or yandere affection, but instead spite. He also tries to murder his own wife for no discernible reason apart from "wanting a divorce".
* HateSink: While Danielle is portrayed as a LaughablyEvil AlphaBitch, Dean Bronson is an equally LaughablyEvil DeanBitterman and [[spoiler:Lori]] is at least shown to be an actual good person in the alternate universe, Gregory is shown to be an all around unlovable prick who at best is a cheating asshole who seduces his students and then threatens to fail Tree when she breaks off their affair and at worst, a smug sociopath who is willing to kill his mistress to cover up his affair and shoot his own wife to get out of an unhappy marriage. Even then, he makes the previous version of himself look harmless by comparison.
* InSpiteOfANail: He has the same game plan as the first movie's killer: release John Tombs from captivity in order to use him as a fall guy so they can murder their real target.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Like the first film's killer, he commits his murders while wearing a Babyface mask.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: At least in this dimension.
* TheSociopath: He has no compunctions about murder in order to cover up his affair.
* TooDumbToLive: Twice in the final loop.
** The first time, he's approaching Tree wielding a knife while Tree not only has a gun but is capable of using it which she demonstrates by firing a warning shot when he doesn't back off. The only reason she doesn't kill him right then is because the police were minutes away and she wanted him to "rot in prison".
** The second time he doesn't seem to realize that he's standing in a room with an MRI machine behind him, a large magnetic object in front of him, Tree holding an equally lethal magnetic object in her hand and her other hand near the MRI's "on" button. Not that it would've made any difference, but when he's pinned to the MRI machine, he calls her a bitch when he demands she shut the machine down. Not a smart thing to say to someone whom you just tried to kill and has a screwdriver pointed at your heart.
* VillainBall: In the final loop, he has Tree dead to rights ''twice'' and doesn't kill her when he has the chance to. The first time, he shoots his wife first and then gets distracted by Carter. The second time, he lets Tree have a last word. See TooDumbToLive above.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:John Tombs]]
!!John Tombs
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RobMello
A serial killer who escaped from the hospital the same night Tree was killed.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Tree manages to kill him in more than one loop. He's also used as a scapegoat by another murderer and either doesn't realize it or doesn't care.]] No one sheds a tear for him.
* AxCrazy: His character begins and ends with the fact he's a rampantly homicidal maniac.
* CopKiller: Killed at least one cop before being taken in, and kills a security guard in another timeline.
* DemotedToExtra: While he's the secondary antagonist of the first movie, he barely appears in the sequel and is easily dispatched the two times he does.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His conversations with Tree have an almost charming air to them. ''Almost.''
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler: Both movies have him as the wrong killer who's being set up by the real ones.]]
* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler: The alternate universe Tombs is just as violent as the one in the main universe, and he has the same role in the killer's plan.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: John '''Tombs''' just screams SerialKiller.
* {{Sadist}}: His defining character trait is that he enjoys toying with his victims when he can, as seen with both his attempts on Tree.
* TheScapegoat: To the Babyface killer [[spoiler:in both movies]]. [[SerialKillingsSpecificTarget They break him out of custody to take the fall for their own murders.]]
* SerialKiller: By the start of the movie, he's killed six women, claiming to have killed over a dozen more.
* TheSociopath: He's a textbook low-functioning sociopath with no impulse control, empathy, or remorse.
* VillainDecay: [[spoiler: In the second film he goes from a dangerous serial killer to a minor threat that is dispatched easily thanks to Tree's experience dealing with him.]]
* VillainOfAnotherStory: He is not the BigBad villain of the attempts on Tree's life, but is still a rampaging murderer, whose story Tree walks into.

[[folder: Dr. Gregory Butler]]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/CharlesAitken
A medical doctor ''and'' university professor who cheats on his wife.

* {{Jerkass}}: Cheats on his wife, and threatens Tree's grade for refusing to continue their affair.
* RenaissanceMan: Along with being a doctor in the university hospital Lori is working in, he also teaches a more applied subject (Advanced Biochemistry) in the class Tree goes to.
* TeacherStudentRomance: He's cheating on his wife with Tree (in the first movie) or Lori (in the second).
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: He's conventionally handsome, but it's hard to understand why [[spoiler: so many women seem to think he's worth committing murder for.]]

[[folder: Danielle Bouseman]]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RachelMatthews

The leader of Kappa Pi Alpha.

* AlphaBitch: While all the Kappas are this, being the sorority leader makes her the meanest.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: When pretending to be a blind French student to distract Dean Bronson, she says "gracias".
* BrainlessBeauty: Hinted at in the first movie (when Tree asks about deja vu, Danielle replies "Oh yeah, it means someone's thinking about you while they're masturbating. I get it five times a day.") and downright proven in the sequel, where she manages to confuse Helen Keller with Anne Frank, believes 'gracias' is French and is implied to only be passing her courses at all because her boyfriend is doing her coursework for her.
* GoodCounterpart: In the second film, her counterpart is a kind woman who donates to charity and is best friends with Tree. [[spoiler:It's zigzagged when she turns out to be cheating on Carter (and is dating him so he'll do her schoolwork for her), but she still agrees to distract the dean for Tree without a moment's hesitation.]]
* {{Irony}}: In the first movie, she is angry at Tree for wanting to hook up with Nick despite her feelings for them. [[spoiler:In the alternate universe in the sequel, she's cheating on Carter for Nick.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She's incredibly catty and mean.
* JerkassHasAPoint: For all of her bitchy nature, she was actually right about [[spoiler: Lori trying to poison Tree with a cupcake being a stupid idea. The Kappas are apparently all about eating right. It's literally how Tree averted death in the first loop.]]
-->'''Tree:''' ''[in a condescending singsongy voice]'' [[spoiler: Sorry, too many carbs.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: According to her actress, Danielle is mean because she wants the best for her sorority sisters.
* MsFanservice: Her introduction in both movies show off her physique, wearing a sports bra in the first, and in the sequel, with a tailored shirt whose ImpossiblyLowNeckline impresses Samar very much ("[[MyEyesAreUpHere Hey, Samosa! My head's the middle one!]]"
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Well, not really a villain so much as just a {{Jerkass}} bitch but she does help [[spoiler: Tree kill off Lori by distracting the latter]].
* ValleyGirl: Best demonstrated when she's interviewed following [[spoiler:Lori's death.]]
-->[[FelonyMisdemeanor I just knew there was something wrong with]] [[spoiler:Lori]]. [[FelonyMisdemeanor She never wore makeup, never posted any cute selfies, and she literally owned a pair of crocs.]]

[[folder: Officer Santora]]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DaneRhodes
A freeway/highway cop who pulls over then arrests Tree for speeding plus other charges Tree lied to him about such as driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
* CarFu: How he dies.
* FatIdiot: He's rather overweight and rather useless.
* PoliceAreUseless: The killer runs him over before he can cart Tree off to jail where she'd be safe from the killer.

[[folder: Becky Shepard]]
->"I missed breakfast."
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Cariella Smith
A black member of Tree's sorority who dumps chocolate milk on Tree.
* BigEater: A little overweight and eats fairly unhealthy.
* BlackSheep: She's African-American and gets dissed by her fellow sisters, including Tree, for eating junk. Tree calls her preferred foods a "cat lady buffet".
* ButtMonkey: Not only is she singled out by Danielle for eating junk food, but one loop has Tree accidentally knocking her out with a bat when she mistakes her for Babyface Killer.
* GirlsLoveChocolate: She likes chocolate milk.
* NiceGirl: She's seen in the background comforting Emily while Danielle is giving her interview [[spoiler: after Lori is killed.]]

[[folder: Emily]]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Tran Tran
An Asian member of Tree's sorority. She wants Tree to acknowledge her.
* AllThereInTheScript: Her name isn't spoken of, and only her first name was revealed in the credits.
* IgnoredEnamouredUnderling: Not as popular or outgoing as Tree, she always gives a shy, slightly flirtatious wave whenever Tree passes her, only to be completely ignored.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She wants to be friends with Tree, but [[IceQueen Tree]] doesn't like her, possibly even hates her. In the sequel, Tree still doesn't want anything to do with Emily.
* TheVoiceless: Doesn't talk other than [[spoiler: her scream at the end]]. All she does is smile and wave to Tree but get the cold shoulder.

[[folder: Stephanie Butler]]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Laura Clifton
Gregory's wife, who is oblivious to the fact that her husband is cheating on her.
* AscendedExtra: She has a slightly bigger role in the sequel [[spoiler: and turns out to be working with the killer, though said killer shoots her after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she has outlived her usefulness]].]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Is shot by her own husband in the second movie, but she had masterminded Lori's murder along with him and egged him on to kill Tree, so she won't be missed.]]
* DemotedToExtra: She was originally written as the true Babyface Killer (or one of two along with the one in the folder above), but test audiences scorned the ending as uninspired and lacking irony (not to mention cruel after Tree's development). Therefore, her role in the final version of the first film is very minor.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: To Gregory in ''2U''.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Stephanie in the first film was a pretty normal person who loved her husband. [[spoiler: Her counterpart in the second film is an accomplice to her husband's own counterpart in the second film, who's the killer of that dimension.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Gregory shoots her in the chest as he doesn't want to stay trapped in the marriage to her any longer and she completed her part in the plot to kill Lori.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Samar Ghosh and Andrea "Dre" Morgan]]
--> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SurajSharma and Creator/SarahYarkin
Ryan's fellow physics students.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: They and Ryan built a time machine without meaning to, [[ReluctantMadScientist and then get stuck trying to clear it all up.]]
* AsianAndNerdy: Samar is an Asian inventor.
* BoyishShortHair: Dre's hair is barely any longer than Carter's.
* ForeignCussWord: Samar, when Ryan briefly strikes out, mistaking him for an attacker.
* HoldTheLine: They try to block the door when the Dean is barging in during the final experiment.
* TheInternetIsForPorn: Samar got their machine damaged by downloading spam porn.
* LovableCoward: They bail on Ryan in the face of the Dean being mad about their experiments and are reluctant to help steal back the machine but ultimately do.
* ThoseTwoGuys: A rare male female example. They are almost always seen together and have some rapport.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Samar is often seen eating churros.