History Characters / TheBoogieMan

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Can die from being attacked by dogs[[spoiler: if the player either finishes the dog attack sequence with 30 HP or less]].

!!Sophie Grundler

The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheSandMan''. She and her father were invited by David to stay at the castle.

* ACupAngst: Invoked by Keith, who in one of the endings teases her that rather filling her head with fantasies like fairies, she should fill her chest because "they look so pathetic that he can't even look at them".
* BrutalHonesty: She says exactly what's on her mind.
* CassandraTruth: Seeing as how she sees and knows about fairies, but no one else does. She even mentions at one point that she's met the Boogie Man before [[spoiler:only it was the real one, so she knows the one threatening them is a fake.]]
* DaddysGirl: Makes sense seeing how he's the only family she has left.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Twice; once for a SadisticChoice and again when the Boogie Man sics his dogs on her.]]
* FieryRedhead: Ever since ''VideoGame/TheSandMan'', she has become much more extroverted.
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheSandMan'', and you even control her again for a short portion of the game.
* StepfordSmiler: Used to bottle up everything she felt out of fear that she'd burden her father with her complaints. After her adventures dealing with the Sand Man, she's resolved to stand up for herself more.

!!Richard Grundler

Sophie's father.
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* HeroicBSOD: When the Boogie Man implies that he's pulled a [[spoiler: [[Film/Se7en John Doe]] on his wife]].

!!Shirley Webber

David's wife. A cool independent woman who prefers doing things on her own.

* AnAxeToGrind: She never uses it but to assure Keith that she can keep the rest of the group safe without him or David, Shirley took down the axe that was hanging on the safe room's wall with the full intention of beating Boogie Man with it if he attempted to enter and kill them again. You can see her hanging on to it in a few cut scenes as well.
* CoolBigSis: Is this for Sophie.
* HappilyMarried: To David.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Reveals to Helena in the Bad Ending: Happy Dream that she was close with David's mother, and regrets how by the time she returned to David his mother had already passed on.]]
* OppositesAttract: She's more willing to state what's on her mind and David is a people pleaser.
* ParentalAbandonment: The Boogie Man reveals [[spoiler:that her parents dumped her in the past. Worth noting, in Japanese he states that she's a "coin-lock baby", a Japanese phenomenon of parents abandoning their babies in coin lockers.]]

!!Sophie Grundler

The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheSandMan''. She and her father were invited by David to stay at the castle.
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David seems to have gotten married to his fiancée, Shirley, after the events of ''The Sandman'' and are currently vacationing together. He originally intended to have his friends, Paul and Marion, join them on the tour, but because Paul became sick, he instead invited the Grundlers to come along.

* BerserkButton: Insulting his mother's death or his father's [[ParentalAbandonment parenting]]. [[spoiler:The Boogie Man ''and'' Keith purposefully trigger David at certain points. While the Boogie Man did it just to rile him up, Keith did it to verbally slap some sense into David.]]

!!David Hoover

The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'', currently vacationing with his wife. After his friends were unable to accompany him, he invited Sophie and her father along in their place.

* BerserkButton: Insulting his family and his relationship with them, particularly with his mother's death and his father's ParentalAbandonment. [[spoiler: Both Boogie Man and Keith use this to trigger his temper, the former in an attempt to rile him up and the latter in an attempt to stop him from doing something stupid.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: He sees Sophie as a little sister. For a little while, she had a huge crush on him. That changed after ''VideoGame/TheSandMan''.
* DrivenToSuicide: He attempted this about a year and a half ago in ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'', troubled by his past. Thankfully, his best friend was there to stop him.
* HappilyMarried: To Shirley.
* HeroicBSOD: When the Boogie Man heavily implies that [[spoiler:he's pulled a [[Film/{{Se7en}} John Doe]] on his wife]].
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: Protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'', and has the largest role of the minor characters.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: More emotional compared to Keith.

!!Shirley Webber

David's wife. A cool independent woman who prefers doing things on her own.
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Helena suffered badly when her son died and that, along with Keith's workhalic tendencies, has several strained their relationship. She wanted to wait until after the tour, but decided to tell him about thinking of getting a divorce during, because she felt like she couldn't take it much longer.

!!The Boogie Man

The antagonist of the game. He's a mysterious creature who decides to cause trouble by kidnapping the rest of the tourists, leaving Keith the only one left. One by one, he starts killing off people.

* BreakThemByTalking: One of his favorite tactics. This creep loves to talk, and talk about things that hit a raw nerve with his playthings.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Enjoys doing this, such as gleefully describing his challenge to Keith as a game and presenting him with a 'tutorial mission'.
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:In the Good End, Keith unveils him to be Brendon. Yes, the boy that was "killed" in the beginning.]]
** [[spoiler:In the first Bad Ending, Keith's unmasking the Boogie Man reveals...[[MindScrew Keith himself]]. Indicating that the Boogie Man Keith sees is different from the one everyone sees.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: While Sophie was hiding from VideoGame/TheSandMan, the Boogie Man came up behind her and creepily whispered in her ear, "Hi there, ''sweetie''." [[spoiler: Actually Averted as it's not the same Boogie Man. Sophie points out that the Boogie Man that she met in ''Sandman'' had cold hands, while the one in this game had warm ones that felt human.]]
* ExpressiveMask: His paper bag mask changes with his emotions.
* LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't care about the people he's killing. [[spoiler:He's even willing to kill a teenage girl.]]
* LargeHam: Oh yes. [[spoiler:Except not, see below.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When speaking to Sophie, his voice is unusually monotone. [[spoiler:It's hinted that this is how the Boogie Man actually speaks, and his hammy way of speaking is Keith's projection onto him.]]
* SoftSpokenSadist: He speaks very quietly and he seems to enjoy killing people in the cruelest ways possible.

!!David Hoover

The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'', currently vacationing with his wife. After his friends were unable to accompany him, he invited Sophie and her father along in their place.
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* OnlySaneMan: He's the only one that doesn't fly into a panic. Though he admits that he's aware of the fact that if ''he'' were to panic, the others on the tour would feel worse and make things more difficult. Staying calm allows some semblance of control to remain.

* {{Workaholic}}: His single-minded devotion to his job, to avoid having to think of his son's death, has led to a lot of tension between him and his wife.

!!Helena Baring

Keith's loving wife. However, his tendency to put work over everything else has seriously strained their relationship.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: With her husband.
* DecoyDamsel: Turns out that [[spoiler:all that running she does was all about distracting the Boogie Man in order to protect Keith]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In the Bad Ending Happy Dream.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Even her [[spoiler:considering a divorce]] is for Keith's sake, as she feels [[spoiler:he won't be able to heal as long as he's busy supporting her]].
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:She feels guilty for her husband's inability to move on from their son's death because he's too busy supporting her emotionally]].
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Her fellow vacationers start wondering this as they see Keith repeatedly blowing off any requests that they spend time together.
* WomanInWhite: Spends most of the game running around in her white nightgown.

!!The Boogie Man

The antagonist of the game. He's a mysterious creature who decides to cause trouble by kidnapping the rest of the tourists, leaving Keith the only one left. One by one, he starts killing off people.
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* OnlySaneMan: He's the only one that doesn't fly into a panic. Though he admits that, if ''he'' were to panic, the others would feel worse.

* CharacterDevelopment: In the Happy End[[spoiler:, he realizes that he is broken from not working through the grief of losing his son and vows to seek therapy and not let his emotions remain bottled up]].
* CowboyCop[=/=]RabidCop: The media has portrayed him as a mixture of these, more intent on catching criminals and refusing to think of the civilians and commnunity that he is actually supposed to protect.

* PhotographicMemory: Keith has a very precious mind for details.

!!Keith Baring

The protagonist. A serious, emotionless detective.
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* AnAxeToGrind: A fireman's axe is one of the items he picks up and he hangs onto it until the end. [[spoiler: He uses it in one of the worst endings to attack the Boogie Man after finding Helena dead.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:He ultimately realizes that he's a very broken person in the Good End, and he opts to try and solve these issues by going to therapy instead of trying to bottle them up and allow them to get worse]].
* CowboyCop: The local paparazzi have been painting him as a mixture of this and RabidCop, who supposedly doesn't care about the community he's meant to protect.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Has a bad habit of not answering his phone for long periods of time. {{Inverted}} when Dick tells him to enjoy his vacation instead of trying to pump his partner for more information on their current case.
* DeadpanSnarker: Very.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Two of the Bad Ends involve him shooting himself.]]
* HappilyMarried: To Helena, or so it seems.
* HiddenDepths: Helena reveals that he's actually pretty funny. You could never tell by looking at him.
* MurderSuicide: [[spoiler:In Bad End 3, he kills Helena and then himself, feeling like he failed to keep those precious to him safe.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Feels this way about [[spoiler:his son dying in a car accident while he was at work]].
* NoSocialSkills: Keith's social graces are rather lacking, due to being incredibly blunt and straight-to-the-point.
* PhotographicMemory: Has a very ''precise'' mind for details.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Suffers the worst of it in the bad endings.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Much gruffer compared to David.
* TheStoic: He's emotionless and speaks in monotone.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He makes one to the Boogie Man before the final battle.
* UnableToCry: With the only exceptions being [[spoiler:the worst Bad End and the GoldenEnding]].
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: It's hinted later on that what he sees and hears isn't the same as what everyone sees or hears. The most obvious clue is the cell phone ringing. He hears it, but David can't.]]
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: After Keith takes off his jacket, it doesn't take long for his shirt to get splattered with blood.
* {{Workaholic}}: Which has led to a great deal of tension, due to his single-minded devotion to his job.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Takes a pretty calm approach to getting Keith to take a break from work.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. He's actually very nice to Keith and the other officers.

* BadassDamsel: Turns out that [[spoiler:all that running she does was all about distracting the Boogie Man in order to protect Keith]].

* SanitySlippage: [[spoilers:Suffers the worse of this compared to the other characters.]]

* HappilyMarried: To Helena.

* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheSandMan', and you even control her again for a short portion of the game.

* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. He's acting very nice to Keith and the other officers.

* BerserkButton: Insulting his family and his relationship with them, particularly with his mother. [[spoiler: Both Boogie Man and Keith use this to trigger his temper, the former in an attempt to rile him up and the latter in an attempt to stop him from doing something stupid.]]