History Characters / TheBoogieMan

Introduced in this game

!!Characters from The Boogieman
Beware of Spoiler from VideoGame/TheCrookedMan and VideoGame/TheSandman

!!Introduced in this game
Beware of Spoiler from VideoGame/TheCrookedMan

* HairDecorations: Has taken to wearing a yellow hairband.

* WomanInWhite: Spends most of the game in her white nightgown.

* HiddenDepths: Helena says Keith is actually pretty funny. Hard to believe! In the best endings and even in ‘’VideoGame/TheHangedMan’’, we get to see some of his humor.

Helena suffered badly when her son died and that, along with Keith's workhalic tendencies, has severely 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.

* DecoyDamsel: She spent majority of the game running around. [[spoiler:She admits that she did it to distract the Boogie Man from Keith as much as possible, to keep her husband safe.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Her considering divorce was for Keith's sake[[spoiler: because she knew that he couldn't accept their son's death, since he was too busy taking care of her the whole time]].

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He's bald, black, and high-ranked officer in the police department.

* HappilyMarried: He's married and seems to be very loving father to his kids, judging by how he mentions them.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Takes a pretty calm approach to getting Keith to take a break from work. He's also open minded when Sophie implicitly mentioned her experience in Fairy Land from ''Videogame/TheSandman''.
* ScaryBlackMan: Not that apparent with his sprite, but the in-game's bio (which can be seen after completing the game) mentions he's physically intimidating. Subverted that he's actually very nice to Keith and the other officers, as well as other characters in the game.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Turns out he's the detective who investigated David's cases during the events in ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'', namely when David almost accidentally killed his mother and when David found Duke's hanged corpse. He also interrogated David's two friends, Paul and Marion. This provides Keith information about David's troubled past without David telling him too much about it. Eric also recalls David's colorblind in one of the endings.

* {{Jerkass}}: Upon recognizing Keith, he immediately tells him that he's going to be watching him during their trip and sell information about him to his fellow paparazzi. Also makes sleazy comments about Helena, and [[spoiler:considered flirting with her just to provoke Keith into making a scene so he'd have some juicier stuff to sell]].

* BreakThemByTalking: His favorite tactic to use. The Boogie Man loves to talk and often talks about the thing that hits one's nerve the most and send them into a frenzy.

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: His modus operandi; he loves to display the corpses, often theatrically, and leave them in the most open and easiest way for Keith to find them.

* ExpressiveMask: His paperbag mask changes with his emotions.

* LargeHam: Very theatrical in his speech. [[SubvertedTrope Or not]], given how he talks to Sophie- it is indicated that his voice is actually monotone, and Keith [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness just imagines it as hammy]].
* ManipulativeBastard: He knows every character's personal BerserkButton to push, and will often use this to taunt them and break them down- for instance, he brings up David almost killing his mother.

* OffWithHisHead: How the Boogie Man offs him. Subverted as he ''is'' the Boogie Man.

* SacrificialLamb: Subverted. The Boogie Man seemingly kills Brendon to show Keith he's serious about their little game, but the corpse was a fake used by Brendon himself.

* EarlyBirdCameo: The Boogie Man appears for a brief stint in ''The Sandman''. Subverted, since the antagonist not the ''real'' Boogie Man. Sophie reveals that the real Boogie Man's hands were ice-cold, while the fake one has warm hands, like a human's.

* BerserkButton: Insulting his mother's death or mentions 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 and prevent him from doing something stupid.]]

* MistakenForRomance: Sophie’s father initially believed David was Sophie’s boyfriend. This misunderstanding is cleared up, though.

* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: He was the protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'' and has had a cameo role in ''VideoGame/TheSandman'' and in this game, having the largest role of the minor characters.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Can die in a gas-chamber [[spoiler:if the player doesn't realize how to avoid the toxic puddles and inhales too much of the gas]].

Shirley is the opposite of her husband and is a very levelheaded, independent woman that can and prefers to do things on her own. She was knocked out by the Boogie Man and left for David to find, before the Boogie Man got him, too. She becomes the de facto leader of the others.

* CassandraTruth: She knows about fairies and their existence, compared to the others. She even mentions having met the Boogie Man once before,[[spoiler: except it was the real one and not the fake in this one]].

* SadisticChoice: The Grundlers' first trap. Sophie and Richard are suspended over a hole, filled with sharp spikes at the bottom by rope - choosing to pull one rope will have the other dropped, meaning one of them has to die. [[spoiler:Both get saved.]]

* SadisticChoice: The Grundlers' first trap. Sophie and Richard are suspended over a hole, filled with sharp spikes at the bottom by rope - choosing to pull one rope will have the other dropped, meaning one of them has to die. [[spoiler:Both get saved.]]

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: With his wife, Helena.

* HiddenDepths: Helena says Keith is actually pretty funny. Hard to believe!

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: With her husband, Keith.

* ItsAllMyFault: Over Keith's inability to deal with Tod's death [[spoiler:since she knows he's too busy supporting her emotionally]].

* SacrificalLamb: He is the first named character that Brendon kills, and shows that he is serious about his DeadlyGame.

* EarlyBirdCameo: The Boogie Man appears for a brief stint in ''The Sandman''. [[spoiler:Subverted, since it's not the ''real'' Boogie Man. Sophie reveals that the real Boogie Man's hands were ice-cold and this one's are warm, like a human's.]]

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[[folder:Dick Anderson]]

Keith's superior officer. Gives him a month off from work and tickets for the castle tour.
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* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of LetsPlay/ManlyBadassHero.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He's bald, black, and high-ranked officer in the police department.
* BenevolentBoss: He's just very kind to his subordinates.
* HappilyMarried: He's married and seems to be very loving father to his kids, judging by how he mentions them.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Takes a pretty calm approach to getting Keith to take a break from work. He's also open minded when Sophie implicitly mentioned her experience in Fairy Land from ''Videogame/TheSandman''.
* ScaryBlackMan: Not that apparent with his sprite, but the in-game's bio (which can be seen after completing the game) mentions he's physically intimidating. Subverted that he's actually very nice to Keith and the other officers, as well as other characters in the game.
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[[folder:Eric Simpson]]

One of Keith's coworkers. Ambitious, but not very organized.
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* ContinuityNod: Turns out he's the detective who investigated David's cases during the events in ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'', namely when David almost accidentally killed his mother and when David found Duke's hanged corpse. He also interrogated David's two friends, Paul and Marion. This provides Keith information about David's troubled past without David telling him too much about it. Eric also recalls David's colorblind in one of the endings.

* AmicableExes: Becomes this with Helena in the ''Precious Box'' ending. [[spoiler:Averted, when he kills her...]]

* BloodyTears: [[spoiler:Cries them in ''The Boogie's Fine Tonight'']].

%%* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Inverted, when Keith tries to find out about the investigation's progress from his subordinate and Dick tells him to not bother and just enjoy his vacation.
%%** Keith also has the terrible habit of not answering phone calls. [[spoiler:Justified, when he reveals that he was informed of his son's death from a phone call he answered. He's terrified that the next phone call he answers will give him news about a family member's death again.]]

* IHaveAFamily: Not that the Boogie Man cares.
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:"Turn on the lights..."]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The only person from the tour that Keith cannot save in time.]]

* BerserkButton: He knows every character's personal button to push.

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: His modus operandi. The Boogie Man ''loves'' to display the corpses, often theatrically, and leave them in the most open and easiest way for Keith to find them.
* DisneyDeath: He supposedly died in the beginning.
* DramaticUnmask
** ''Come Rain, Come Shine'' reveals him to be none other than [[spoiler:Brendon, the owner of the castle that was 'killed' at the beginning of the Boogie Man's little game]].
** In ''The Boogie Man's Fine Tonight'', he takes the mask off and turns out to be [[spoiler: [[MindScrew Keith himself]]]].

* LargeHam: Very hammy in his speech. [[spoiler:Or not, given how he talks to Sophie.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Doesn't seem particularly bothered by Livingstone's tragic history, nor does he see anything wrong with trying to turn it into a tourist destination.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When he talks to Sophie, his voice is quite monotone. [[spoiler:Indicating that this might be how he really talks and the hammy theatrics are just a projection of Keith's.]]

* SacrificialLamb: The Boogie Man uses him to show Keith he's serious about their little game.

[[folder:Stevie Small]]

!! Keith Baring

!! Helena Baring

!! The Boogie Man

The antagonist of this game.

He's a mysterious creature that popped up during the first night and decided to play an entertaining game with Keith: he kidnaps the rest of the tour group and will kill them one by one, until Keith is either the only one left or has managed to thwart all of the Boogie Man's traps.

* BerserkButton: He knows every person's personal button to push.

* EarlyBirdCameo: The Boogie Man appears for a brief stint in ''The Sandman''. [[spoiler:Averted, since it's not the ''real'' Boogie Man. Sophie reveals that the real Boogie Man's hands were ice-cold and this one's are warm, like a human's.]]

!! David Hoover

!! Shirley Webber

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The Boogie Man leaves a box as a gift for David behind, implying that Shirley is in it. [[spoiler:She's fine.]]

!! Sophie Grundler

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

!! Richard Grundler

!!Lance Kamal

A photographer working for a travel magazine, taking the tour as part of his job.
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* BerserkButton: Being called a 'chicken' or a DirtyCoward.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Insists that he's not like the sleazeballs who work for gossip rags, and refuses to take pictures of people. [[spoiler:In reality, it's less about having standards and more about losing his former job as a journalist for going too far in the past.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Upon recognizing Keith, he immediately tells him that he's going to be watching him during their trip and sell information about him to his fellow paparazzi. Also makes sleazy comments about Helena, and [[spoiler:considered flirting with her just to provoke Keith into making a scene so he'd have some juicier stuff to sell]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's willing to help everyone survive, even though he keeps butting heads with Keith.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His excuse for tipping off the gossip-mongers about Keith being on vacation.
* {{Paparazzi}}: Claims that he isn't, but this seems to be a matter of semantics more than anything else, as he sees absolutely nothing wrong with taking advantage of Keith's presence to make some extra cash.
* WhatTheHellHero: Very quick to call out Keith on his more questionable behavior.
* YouMonster: Or rather, “you bastard”, but he says this to the Boogie Man when he forces Keith into a SadisticChoice between saving either Richard or Sophie.

!!Stevie Small

The group's tour guide for their vacation.
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* IHaveAFamily: Not that the Boogie Man cares.
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:"Turn on the lights..."]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The only person from the tour that Keith cannot save in time.]]

!!Brendon Dumont

The current owner of Livingstone Castle, who inherited it from his parents. Hopes to turn it into a vacation hotspot.
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, Keith and David can come across different rooms in a basement hallway. In one of the rooms is a stack of papers filled with rewritten Bible verses, and a diary entry where the writer mentions to hate their life in the basement as they are not allowed to do anything else but study the Bible and listen to their parents. Going by a locked room with shelves of movie tapes and movie posters all over the walls, it can be inferred that the writer of the diary entry was Brandon.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:He supposedly died in the beginning.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Doesn't seem particularly bothered by Livingstone's tragic history, nor does he see anything wrong with trying to turn it into a tourist destination.
* OffWithHisHead: How the Boogie Man offs him. [[spoiler:Subverted as he ''is'' the Boogie Man.]]
* SacrificialLamb: The Boogie Man uses him to show Keith he's serious about their little game.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He is the Boogie Man.]]

!!Dick Anderson

!!Eric Simpson

* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:Turns out he's the detective who investigated David's cases during the events in ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'', namely when David almost accidentally killed his mother and when David found Duke's hanged corpse. He also interrogated David's two friends, Paul and Marion. This provides Keith information about David's troubled past without David telling him too much about it. Eric also recalls David's colorblind in one of the endings]].
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* UnreliableNarrator: It's hinted that his view of things in the castle might not be what the others see. [[spoiler:He can hear a phone ringing, while David can't. In the Happy Ending, the others also mention not having seen some of the red writing that Keith did.]]

* HappilyMarried: She's actually been contemplating divorce for a while.

* ParentsAsPeople: Helena was struck hard by her son's death and needs a lot of emotional support.

* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Inverted, when Keith tries to find out about the investigation's progress from his subordinate and Dick tells him to not bother and just enjoy his vacation.
** Keith also has the terrible habit of not answering phone calls. [[spoiler:Justified, when he reveals that he was informed of his son's death from a phone call he answered. He's terrified that the next phone call he answers will give him news about a family member's death again.]]

* DisneyDeath: [[spoilers:He supposedly died in the beginning.]]

The protagonist of ''The Boogie Man''.

* CharacterDevelopment: In ''Come Rain, Come Shine''[[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]].

* ItsAllMyFault: Over Keith's inability to deal with Tod's death[[spoiler: since she knows he's too busy supporting her emotionally]].

* SoftSpokenSadist: He's very quiet when talking about cruely killing people.

The protagonist of ''The Crooked Man''.

David seems to have gotten married to his fiancée, Shirley, after the events of ''The Sandman'' and the two 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.

* DrivenToSuicide: He attempted it in ''The Crooked Man''.

* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: He was the protagonist of ''The Crooked Man'' and has had a cameo role in ''The Sandman'' and in this game, having the largest role of the minor characters.

* ParentalAbandonment: The Boogie Man reveals that [[spoiler:Shirley was abandoned by her parent. In Japanese, she's referred to as a 'coin-lock baby', a phenomenon of parents leaving their babies in coin locks]].

The protagonist of ''The Sandman''.

* CassandraTruth: She knows about fairies and their existence, compared to the others. She even mentions having met the Boogie Man once before[[spoiler:, except it was the real one and not the fake in this one]].

* FieryRedhead: She's much more outspoken and assertive, compared to ''The Sandman''.

* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: She was the protagonist of ''The Sandman'' and is briefly playable.

* StepfordSmiler: In ''The Sandman'', she was very passive and chose to never voice how she actually feels about things in her life and bottled everything up. After those events, though, she chose to speak up, toning this trope down a lot.

He's trying to better his relationship with his daughter after the events of ''The Sandman'' and is more open about how much she means to him. He came along for the tour, after David invited Sophie and him.

* {{Workaholic}}: Richard was one in ''The Sandman'', though he also did it because he felt like Sophie didn't want him around. With him being on this vacation, he's obviously trying to work on this.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: The only person from the tour that Keith cannot save in time.]]

!!Brandon Dumont

* [[spoiler:AbusiveParents: Near the end of the game, Keith and David can come across different rooms in a basement hallway. In one of the rooms is a stack of papers filled with rewritten Bible verses, and a diary entry where the writer mentions to hate their life in the basement as they are not allowed to do anything else but study the Bible and listen to their parents. Going by a locked room with shelves of movie tapes and movie posters all over the walls, it can be inferred that the writer of the diary entry was Brandon.]]
* [[spoiler:DisneyDeath: He supposedly died in the beginning.]]

* WalkingSpoiler

* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:Turns out he's the detective who investigated David's cases during the events in ''The Crooked Man'', namely when David almost accidentally killed his mother and when David found Duke's hanged corpse. He also interrogated David's two friends, Paul and Marion. This provides Keith information about David's troubled past without David telling him too much about it. Eric also recalls David's colorblind in one of the endings]].

* PapaWolf: He does not take it well, if Sophie happens to die.

** In ''The Boogie Man's Fine Tonight'', he takes the mask of and turns out to be [[spoiler: [[MindScrew Keith himself]]]].

* 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 and prevent him from doing something stupid.]]

* SadisticChoice: The Grundels' first trap. Sophie and Richard are suspended over a hole, filled with sharp spikes at the bottom by rope - choosing to pull one rope will have the other dropped, meaning one of them has to die. [[spoiler:Both get saved.]]

* StepfordSmiler: In ''The Sandman'', she was very passive and chose to never voice how she actually feels about things in her life and bottled everything up. After those events, though, she chose to speak up and not hide everything anymore, toning this trope down a lot.

!!Richard Grundler

* BoundAndGagged: Happens to him if [[spoiler:Sophie dies, at the hands of his fellow survivors]].
* OverprotectiveDad: In the game's bio, it's stated that he initially mistook David as Sophie's boyfriend and was mad at him for dating his daughter.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:He doesn't take the news of Sophie's death well.]]
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: As much as he loves his daughter, his job at JP Gordon & Chase has kept him incredibly busy.
* {{Workaholic}}: Though he's trying to get better about this for Sophie's sake.

!!Lance Kamal

A photographer working for a travel magazine, taking the tour as part of his job.
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* StepfordSmiler: Compared to ''The Sandman'', she has stepped down on this part and learned to not bottle up her dissatisfaction and feelings up.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Can die from being attacked by dogs[[spoiler: if the player finishes the dog attack sequence with 30 HP or less]].