History Characters / PuppetCombo

* InvinsibleBoogeyman: All of them (except for the Driller Killer, since his two respective games have no combat system) at some point get to show off the fact that they're ImmuneToBullets and [[MadeOfIron other such combat mechanics]], inconvenienced by revolvers at most.

* MadeOfIron: All of them (except for the Driller Killer, since his two respective games have no combat system) at some point get to show off the fact that they're ImmuneToBullets, inconvenienced by revolvers at most.

The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/StayOutOfTheHouse'' and ''VideoGame/NightShift''. At first, he seems like a rather "typical" serial killer, abducting night shift convenience store workers and butchering them in his home. However, it turns out [[spoiler:he's a member of the CFV, a cult that worships an EldritchAbomination through human sacrifice]].

The protagonist of ''VideoGame/NightShift'' and a supporting character in ''VideoGame/StayOutOfTheHouse''. A Quick Mart cashier who gets kidnapped by the Night Shift Abductor.

* TragicVillain: The majority of them are depicted as being so hopelessly insane that they're in constant agony and unable to comprehend the full moral extent of their actions, with the exception of the book version of Neokalus Burr, the Night Ripper, the Easter Ripper, and Slaw.

* HateSink: While most Puppet Combo slashers are so profoundly mentally ill they're almost pitiable in their complete inability to function as human beings (barring the Easter Ripper and the novelization of Neokalus Burr, who are just as deplorable), the Night Ripper is just a hateful, bigoted asshole.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Presents himself as an agent of God wiping out sexual immorality, but in reality he's just a deranged lunatic murdering innocent women en masse out of bloodlust and sexual sadism. He's also indicated to be a necrophiliac, showing him to be a {{Hypocrite}} as well.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:It turns out he's not just an independent killer like all the others. Like Billy, he's actually just the (very eager, in his case) servant of an EldritchAbomination.]]
** And the Butcher himself has his own [[TheDragon Dragon]], an accomplice who stakes out potential targets for him.
* DropTheHammer: The Abductor never actually tries to kill the player, simply giving them a TapOnTheHead with a ball-pen hammer so they can be recaptured. [[OhCrap Until he pulls out the chainsaw.]]

* OminousWalk: Like Neokalus Burr, his chases are slow-paced. This makes sense, because he's trying to put on a show for the audience. However, the meta reason for this is that the game would be downright impossible if there was a high-speed chase in a room full of buzzsaws.

* TheButcher: His cleaver and blood-splattered smock suggest this, [[spoiler:and interestingly enough he's ''not'' a cannibal butcher. He's actually preparing victims for an EldritchAbomination]].

* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Despite being a clearcut [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]] {{expy}} who butchers his victims, it turns out to be subverted. The twist is that he isn't preparing the human meat for himself: it's actually for the ''demonic alien living in his basement/bunker'']].

* DepravedBisexual: Billy picks up both horny men and horny women at the club. To kill them, of course.
* GuiltInducedNightmare: Hard to tell if it's a nightmare out of guilt or brought on by his disturbed actions, but Billy gets a bad dream where a figure forcefully enters his apartment and suddenly shoots him. [[spoiler:The figure also just so happens to be ''himself'']].

* IveComeTooFar: During his second night out, he expresses this sentiment while inspecting one of the victim's bodies.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: He carries a potent snub-nosed revolver to kill his victim.
* SanitySlippage: Billy is insane from the very beginning, however he gradually goes from crippling guilt to sociopathic callousness.
* SlippingAMickey: How Billy sometimes gets his victims.

* ActionGirl: For a teenaged girl, she’s rather quick on her feet outmaneuvering Neokalus Burr and is shown to be pretty good with a gun as she manages to shoot him with a pistol multiple times in the garage.

* ActionGirl: For a teenaged girl, she’s rather quick on her feet outmaneuvering Neokalus Burr and managing to shoot him with a pistol.

* BadSanta: He can wear a variety of outfits, but a Santa costume is his main one. Furthermore, he’s a Christmas-themed killer, killing people for being "naughty" and hallucinating talking Christmas trees.

* WalkingSpoiler: Even though the game and book are very different, one thing they have in common is that it's impossible to talk about Mrs. [=McDonnell=] without spoiling the fact that either her daughter Janie is long dead, or that she and the Nun are one in the same.

-->''"[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain This Night Ripper that's been going around; maybe it's the city's redemption. Maybe it's like white blood cells, that this is the city taking care of its own disease. A disease of filth, of prostitution, of drugs, of homosexuality.]]"''

* InsaneEqualsViolent: The fact that they're all dangerous serial killers who relentlessly hunt the player down doesn't make them the most flattering portrayal of people suffering from mental illness.

* TheMentallyDisturbed: Most of the killers in these games are shown to be afflicted with severe mental illness and incapable of understanding right from wrong, though there are a few who explicitly know the cruelty of their actions and enjoy it.

* ReligionOfEvil / HollywoodSatanism: [[spoiler:It's implied most if not all of the killers are connected by a GreaterScopeVillain cult called the Church of the Father's Vision. We know for a fact Billy and the Night Shift Abductor are high-ranking CFV members with their own personal pet monsters. It's implied the Nun and Easter Ripper are members too, given their CFV memorabilia. The Driller Killer and Womb Ripper are also both Satanists, and Satanism seems to be closely related with whatever the hell religion the CFV follows.]]

* SilentAntagonist: They all rarely if ever speak. Burr speaks once over the phone (which isn't even confirmedly him), the Driller Killer is TheUnintelligible, the Night Ripper never speaks in-person but if he’s the radio host then he can't shut his mouth, the Night Shift Abductor writes in notes, Billy has unvoiced monologues, the Easter Ripper only speaks out-of-costume, and the Womb Ripper sings over a baby monitor. Otherwise, pure silence.

* TragicVillain: The majority of them are depicted as hopelessly insane and unaware of understanding the full moral extent of their actions, with the exception of the book version of Neokalus Burr, The Night Ripper, The Easter Ripper, and Slaw.

The titular main antagonist of ''VideoGame/NightRipper''. A UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper-inspired killer who prowls the slums of New York, butchering prostitutes left and right. It's implied he has an alter-ego as the ultraconservative radio host Nathan Talbot, which gives insight into his misogynistic motives.

* ButHeSoundsHandsome: If he really is Nathan Talbot, then singing the praises of the Night Ripper on his radio podcast is little more than hyping himself up as a righteous crusader when he’s really as sick and twisted as they come.

* {{Expy}}: Of the killer in Film/TheNewYorkRipper with his weird Donald Duck voice, gloves and misogyny, though without the former's sad backstory.

* HateSink: While most Puppet Combo slashers are so dysfunctionally mentally ill they're almost pitiable (barring the Easter Ripper and the novelization of Neokalus Burr, who are just as deplorable), the Night Ripper is just a hateful, bigoted asshole.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Targets prostitutes out of some misguided sense of self-righteousness, yet he doesn't care if women who are innocent even by his own definition get caught in the crossfire.
** Despite railing against sexual degeneracy in his apparent alter ego Nathan Talbot, he's indicated in news printings to have committed necrophilia with several of the prostitutes he kills.

* ILoveTheDead: He engages in necrophilia with the corpses of the prostitutes he murdered.
* KnightTemplar: Kills prostitutes because he considers them to be sexually degenerative and impure.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Views himself as an agent of God wiping out sexual immorality, but in reality he's just a deranged lunatic murdering innocent women en masse out of his delusions. He's also indicated to commit necrophilia against his victims, showing him to be a {{Hypocrite}} as well.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: If he's Nathan Talbot, as he's implied to be, he extends his hatred beyond just women towards homosexuals and black people, blaming the former for [=AIDs=] and insulting the music styles of the latter.
* ShockJock: Nathan Talbot, possibly his alter-ego. Women, sex workers, minorities, queers, drug abusers; he clearly aims to offend them all.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:It turns out he's not just an independent killer like all the others. Like Billy, he's actually just the (very eager) servant of an EldritchAbomination.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: If you kill his mom, he'll start screaming for 5 minutes straight. It's actually quite pitiable.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Slaw fits this towards every other slasher in the Puppet Combo line up. Unlike Burr, The Night Ripper, or The Nun, Slaw has a full personality as shown as a sadistic and psychopathic manchild Slaw, and as a [[spoiler:bad and uncaring boss Keith]]. Unlike the Driller Killer or Billy, he shows no mental illness’ that explain his behavior, lacks a Freudian Excuse that Dylan or The Womb Ripper has, and even then, unlike The Easter Ripper, [[spoiler: shows to not even hide his true behavior as the video store manager Keith]], being a completely unlikable and hated person in all his appearances.

* MadeOfIron: All killers are this, but special mention goes to the Womb Ripper. Not only does she survive several gunshots while ''naked'', but she survives ''being dissected alive''.

[[folder: Tony Brown]]

* ActionSurvivor: For a average person, manages to fight back against the serial murdering Slaw.

The main protagonist of VideoGame/RewindOrDie. Tony is an employee for [=Video2Go=] store, who is stalked and chased down by the serial murdering Slaw.

* PsychopathicManchild: He accosts his victims under the pretense of having fun and playing games with them. At the end of his initial chase after Tony near the beginning of the game, he childishly screams "Why won’t you just play with me?!"

The main protagonist of VideoGame/RewindOrDie. Tony is an employee for {{Video2Go}} store, who is stalked and chased down by the serial murdering Slaw.

The main protagonist of VideoGame/RewindOrDie. Tony is an employee for {{Video2Go}} store, who is stalked anD chased down by the serial murdering Slaw.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Slaw fits this towards every other slasher in the Puppet Combo line up. Unlike Burr, The Night Ripper, or The Nun, Slaw has a full personality as shown as a sadistic and psychopathic manchild Slaw, and as a bad and uncaring boss Keith. Unlike the Driller Killer or Billy, he shows no mental illness’ that explain his behavior, lacks a Freudian Excuse that Dylan or The Womb Ripper has, and even then, unlike The Easter Ripper, [[spoiler: shows to not even hide his true behavior as the video store manager Keith]], being a completely unlikable and hated person in all his appearances.