History Characters / ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark2019

[[folder: Humans]]

* ColdBloodedTorture: Used 'electroshock therapy' to torture Sarah in order to force her to confess to hurting children.

[[folder: Monsters]]

-->'''Portrayed By:''' Zoe Colletti

-->'''Portrayed By:''' Michael Garza

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Austin Zajur

--> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GabrielRush

-->'''Portrayed By:''' Natalie Ganzhorn

-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AustinAbrams

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

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

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Will Carr, Elias Edraki (Voice; as a ghost)

-->'''Original Story:''' "Harold"
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Mark Steger

-->'''Original Story:''' ''The Big Toe''
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Javier Botet

-->'''Original Story:''' "The Dream"
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Mark Steger

-->'''Original Story:''' "What Do You Come For", "Mi Tie Dough-ty Walker", "Aaron Kelly's Bones"
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Troy James (Suit), Andrew Jackson (Voice)

-->'''Original Story:''' "The Haunted House"
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Kathleen Pollard

** Somewhat inverted by the fact that, unlike the original Thomas, he doesn't keep tormenting Harold after finding out he's sentient. [[spoiler: On the other hand, he never really gets the chance to, since the first thing Harold does after gaining sentience is turn him into a scarecrow.]]

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Thomas was FlayedAlive in the book. IN the film, Harold impales him with a pitchfork and turns him into a scarecrow.

* UncertainDoom: It's [[spoiler: unknown if he's dead or sentinent and alive like Harold was after turning into a scarecrow.]]

* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Thomas was FlayedAlive in the book. IN the film, Harold impales him with a pitchfork and turns him into a scarecrow.

* LawfulEvil: Or at least lawful {{Jerkass}}. Turner is one of the least likable characters in the movie, but he does have a legitimate reason to suspect Ramon for Tommy's disappearance, and is acting in accordance with the law when he arrests Ramon for DraftDodging.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Stella is the tomboy to Ruth’s girly girl.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ruth is the girly girl to Stella’s tomboy.

* DiesDifferentlyintheAdaptation: Thomas was FlayedAlive in the book. IN the film, Harold impales him with a pitchfork and turns him into a scarecrow.

%%* Bastard Boyfriend: For his date, Ruth.

* BastardBoyfriend: For his date, Ruth.

--> '''Portrayed By:''' Gabriel Rush

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Her descent into villainy was caused by her sadistic family, who tortured and framed her for the crimes they committed after she attempted to warn others about the paper mill poisoning children. Her brother, Efrain, tortured her to death using electroconvulsive shock therapy, causing Sarah to become a vengeful ghost after her death.]]

PinkMeansFeminine: Ruth is a GirlyGirl who wears pink dresses in almost all of her scenes.

* {{Meganekko}}: Stella is the only character to wear glasses onscreen.

-->'''Portrayed By:''' Austin Abrams

* AdultFear: He's clearly worried when Stella calls him and tells him that she may disappear without explaining why. Considering she's his only family and that his wife also disappeared under mysterious circumstances, he has every reason to be worried.

* AdaptionalVillainy: Granted, he's not his only counterpart, but Aaron Kelly was one of the few benign monsters from the books, whose only conflict was trying to get him to accept he's dead. Here, The Jangly Man is as evil and dangerous as the rest, mostly by virtue of being a CompositeCharacter with two other stories.

* DirtyCop: Clearly has a very racist attitude towards Ramon. Also, it's implied he may have known of Tommy's notorious bullying in town, but deliberately turned to a blind eye to it due to their shared support for the Vietnam War and racism, not caring about those who are picked on by Tommy. When Turner visits Ramon at the garage to [[spoiler:question him over Tommy's disappearance]], he seems amused at seeing that Tommy vandalized his car. Even if Ruth made good on her word to snitch on Tommy to Turner if Tommy didn't stop locking in Stella and her friends had Tommy not locked her up too, chances are Turner would have ignored Ruth's warnings out of favoritism for Tommy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When he addresses Stella after her tearful talk with her dad

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* AdaptationalHeroism: Somewhat. What he does to Tommy is still gruesome, possibly even more so if you believe Tommy is still sentient after his transformation, but unlike the books he doesn't psychologically torture him for a good while, preferring to get his revenge swiftly.

* AdaptionalVillainy: In the books, the ghost woman from "The Haunted House" was terrifying to look at, was ultimately benevolent only wanted her murder brought to justice. Sarah is still sympathetic, but is the BigBad of the movie and ultimately gets three teenagers who had nothing to do with the wrongs brought upon her killed.

* AdaptionalHeroism: Somewhat. What he does to Tommy is still gruesome, possibly even more so if you believe Tommy is still sentient after his transformation, but unlike the books he doesn't psychologically torture him for a good while, preferring to get his revenge swiftly.

[[caption-width-right:225:''As Alfred watched, Harold kneeled down and stretched out a bloody skin to dry in the sun.'']]

[[caption-width-right:225:''Who took my big toooooe?'']]

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Gil Bellows

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Stella doesn’t have any siblings.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Like Stella, Auggie doesn’t have any siblings.