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* BillingDisplacement: The original film had Donald Pleasence billed ahead of then-unknown Jamie Lee Curtis. For ''Halloween II'', they used diagonal billing.

* CatScare: In the first film, there's a scene where Loomis and Brackett are exploring the abandoned Myers house and a broken gutter suddenly crashes through a window, causing Loomis to whip out a handgun.

** Following the end of the second movie, Michael had burn scars (which we typically saw on his hands) in 4, 5 and 6. No such scars are seen in ''H20''. While the preceding three movies are ignored by ''H20'', the second movie isn't. [[WildManGuessing Unless you think the reason why he didn't turn up for twenty years was because of extensive skin grafts.]]

* CatScare: In ''Halloween II'', a bumbling security guard stumbles around outside the hospital checking for a disturbance. He gets startled by a spring-loaded cat, sighs and relaxes. Three guesses who he encounters next...

* OrIsIt

* FanonDiscontinuity: Many fans prefer to regard Halloween: H20 as the ending to the original series, and because of Halloween: Resurrection's faliure, they try to ignore it.

* [[HesJustHiding He's Just Hiding]]: Jimmy of ''Halloween II''.

** During the filming of the sequel, John Carpenter shot more scenes for the ABC broadcast of the original to help it pad out the alotted time. These scenes don't do much.

''Halloween'' is a series of ten SlasherMovies. The original film, directed by JohnCarpenter and released in 1978, popularized the genre and inspired other similar franchises such as ''FridayThe13th''.

* ObviouslyEvil: Averted. Unlike [[ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]], [[FridayThe13th Jason]], and [[TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], when Michael is (briefly) unmasked in the climax of the first movie, he's revealed to have an almost ''angelic'' face.

* TropeCodifier: The first film, along with ''[[FridayThe13th Friday the 13th]]'', is this for the entire slasher genre.

* ClusterFBomb: Various scenes in the remake.

* ClusterFBomb: [[strike: [[{{Understatement}} Various scenes in the remake]]]] It's practically a second language in the remake.

* PetTheDog: For a CompleteMonster, Michael Myers has some moments where there is some humanity left in him. He does not attack kids like one of Tommy's bullies in the original Halloween, nor does with Lindsay when she is watching ''The Thing From Another World'' in ''Halloween 2007'' (in fact he is watching the end of the film as he had not been able to see the end) and a small boy treat and treating in in ''Halloween II (2009)''. He takes off his mask when Jamie gets through to him near the end of ''Revenge'' and he kills the two orderlies who raped a woman inmate (sparing the woman oddly enough) in ''Halloween (2007)''.

* BedlamHouse: The mental institution in Rob Zombie's ''Halloween'' remake. Michael Myers is kept chained at all times, his wardens degrade and insult him on a daily basis, and he is beaten at night. Even if he ''was'' a mentally stable individual, that sort of treatment would turn ''anybody'' into a CompleteMonster.

** Michael pulls this off by clinging to bottom of a pickup truck in ''The Return of Michael Myers''. Also, Barry's death ''The Curse of Michael Myers''.
* DawsonCasting: The series seems to love this, as teenagers Annie and Lynda were played by actors in their late 20's/early 30's in both the original and the remake. Additionally, Ellie Cornell and various other actors in their early/mid-20's were cast as the teenage Rachel and friends in ''Halloween 4'' and ''5''.

* DawsonCasting: The series seems to love this, as teenagers Annie and Lynda were played by actors in their late 20's/early 30's in both the original and the remake, while Ellie Cornell was cast as the teenage Rachel in ''Halloween 4'' and ''5'' while in her mid-twenties.
** Quite more funnier is when they get one of the TropeNamers, MichelleWilliams of ''DawsonsCreek'' fame, to play one of the main teens in ''Halloween H20''.

** [[Laurie]] doesn't technically die, you could say [[she]] is.