Line #148 Characters/Hellraiser


1	Character page for the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' franchise's original continuity.
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3	For the characters from the 2022 reboot, see [[Characters/Hellraiser2022 here]].
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7	!!Cenobites
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9	[[folder:In General]]
10	Servants of Leviathan, bringers of pain and pleasure, explorers of the outer reaches of experience. While Pinhead is the most famous of the group, he never appears alone. When he is summoned, he is accompanied by a revolving door of likewise mutilated Cenobites. It appears that three usually go with him. Later films portray him as their leader, or at least the head Cenobite in charge.
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12	* BaldOfEvil: Their morality is a bit more complex than "evil" but they are still fearsome demons without any hair whatsoever.
13	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: To them the human concepts of "good" and "evil" are irrelevant, all that matters is the sensations the flesh gets to experience, from the most excruciating pain to the wildest pleasures, and they're quite eager to show their summoners what it all entails.
14	* BodyHorror: The process of conversion often causes grievous mutilation to the Cenobite, such as ripping their flesh open and making the gaping wound never close or driving sharp objects into their bodies. Not that they seem to care...
15	* ChurchMilitant: Most of the Cenobites seen in the movies are clergymen of Leviathan, imbued with power to shred through everything in their path.
16	* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: They genuinely care about one another as a family would.
17	* FeelNoPain: They're completely numb to any sort of imaginable pain, having experienced the taste of pleasure granted by Leviathan.
18	* HellIsThatNoise: An ominous cue precedes their appearance on Earth, usually it's rattling chains or a short music box melody. [[spoiler: Frank almost says this word-for-word when the Cenobites finally find him.]]
19	* HellSeeker: The Lament Configuration often finds its way into the hands of a person seeking Hell as the ultimate pleasure, and a lot of those become Cenobites.
20	* HellbentForLeather: It seems that their usual priestly or combat gear consists almost exclusively of leather and metal.
21	* ImplacableMan: Conventional weaponry doesn't seem to harm them, only stopping them for a few moments.
22	* MalevolentMutilation: Displayed proudly.
23	* NightmareFetishist: Their tastes are inhuman, and the pleasures they provides are agonizing.
24	* NobleDemon: A relatively consistent trait is that while the Cenobites are demons, they follow a set of rules when going after humans. They typically only go after those who have solved the Lament Configuration or have managed to elude them after opening the box and while they are willing to kill others as collateral, they actively spare those who are truly innocent. Also, simply solving the puzzle isn't enough to get their attention, there has to be a reason or desire behind it. The sole straight forward subversion of this is Pinhead Unbound and his pseudo cenobites from the third movie.
25	* OminousWalk: They never run or chase after their summoners, instead maintaining a slow gait and teleporting when necessary.
26	* SenseFreak: They get off on pain, considering it the ultimate pleasure after being converted.
27	* TortureTechnician: Cenobites are experienced in delivering exquisite torture to humans, but to them it's only a way of receiving delights.
28	* WasOnceAMan: All of them were formerly human until being twisted by the Leviathan or other Cenobites.
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30	[[/folder]]
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32	[[folder:Pinhead]]
33	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pinhead_1.jpg]]
34	[[caption-width-right:350:''"We have such sights to show you..."'']]
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36	->Portrayed by: Creator/DougBradley (''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' to ''Film/HellraiserHellworld''), Stephan Smith Collins (''Film/HellraiserRevelations''), Paul T. Taylor ''(Film/HellraiserJudgement)''
37	->Voiced by: Creator/FredTatasciore (''Hellraiser: Revelations''), Doug Bradley (''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight''), Jun Hazumi ([[Film/{{Hellraiser}} First film]], Japanese Dub), Creator/TesshoGenda (''Film/HellraiserBloodline'' to ''Film/HellraiserInferno'', Japanese Dub), Creator/TakayaHashi (''Film/HellraiserHellseeker'', Japanese Dub)
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39	Main baddie of the series, a mysterious figure known as a Cenobite holding the rank of the Hell Priest. Pinhead is an ''extremely'' dry witted bringer of the ultimate pleasure, which just happens to take the form of horrific tortures. Formerly Captain Elliot Spencer of the British Expeditionary Force, his mind was shattered after participating in The Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). Developing a severe case of [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] and SurvivorGuilt, Spencer buried his grief by seeking out increasingly depraved carnal pleasures. His dark journey would eventually lead him to the Lament Configuration, and his transformation into Pinhead.
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41	* AffablyEvil: He is very polite to those who try to reason with him. In the third and fourth films, however, he is FauxAffablyEvil due to the writers changing him into a traditional bad guy.
42	* AntiVillain: His idea of pleasure is just too off the charts to be what humans want. In most cases, he tends to use this as a form of punishment for the film's primary villain(s). Not that they don't deserve it, though...
43	* AscendedExtra: In ''Literature/TheHellboundHeart'', Pinhead is a minor Cenobite in the retinue and ''Butterball'' was the apparent leader. Come the film adaptation, due to Pinhead's makeup being the easiest for the actor to act in (Butterball couldn't see, Chatterer couldn't see ''or'' talk and the Female Cenobite had a very limited range of motion) Pinhead was promoted to leader. And the rest is history.
44	* BadassBoast: Very fond of them.
45	** From the first movie:
46	-->'''Pinhead:''' We'll tear your soul apart!
47	** ''Hellbound'':
48	-->'''Pinhead:''' [to Kirsty, who tries to bargain with him] Go on ... but trick us again child, and your suffering will be legendary, ''even in Hell!''
49	** And ''Bloodline'':
50	-->'''Security Guard 1:''' Don't make us put some pain on you!\
51	'''Pinhead:''' ''Pain?'' How ''dare'' you use that word?\
52	'''Security Guard 2:''' [[CaptainObvious He's got ... pins in his head]]!\
53	'''Pinhead:''' What you think of as pain is only a shadow. Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you. Gentlemen ... [[IAmTheNoun I ... am ...]] ''[[IAmTheNoun pain]]!''
54	* BadassLongrobe: His leather getup resembles a priest's robes, befitting his status as the high priest of an S&M religion.
55	* BerserkButton: Deceiving him or the Cenobites is a good way to make one's suffering legendary, even in Hell.
56	* BigBad: Revered as the main antagonist of the franchise, though he mainly fulfills this role in the third and fourth films. In the others, he's [[GreaterScopeVillain a more distant problem]] if not outright [[ALighterShadeOfBlack helpful]].
57	* BigGood: Interestingly, Pinhead's human form Captain Elliott Spencer is this of ''Hell on Earth'', making it a Creator/DougBradley vs Creator/DougBradley fight!
58	** In the comics, Pinhead abandons his post in Hell, abdicating it to [[spoiler: Kirsty Cotton]], and pursues redemption. [[spoiler: It's a con, and even without the power of Hell at his fingertips, he's still the BigBad.]]
59	** He also serves as this in most films. However, [[GoodIsNotNice he is far from the nicest example of this trope]].
60	* BlasphemousBoast: He doesn't appreciate God's name being brought up around him.
61	-->'''Pinhead:''' Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks!?
62	** He takes out two pins from his skull complete with brain matter coming out, sticks them in his palms and ''mocks'' Christ's crucifixion!
63	--> '''Pinhead:''' I AM THE WAY!!! (Cue EvilLaugh)
64	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Like all Cenobites, his motives are very hard for humans to comprehend.
65	* BreakoutVillain: He ended up taking over the BigBad role from intended main villain Julia Cotton.
66	* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Killing the angel Jophiel causes him to be exiled from Hell and be reduced to living as a human.
67	* CameBackWrong: In the third Hellraiser film, he comes back from the dead, but is separated from his human half, making him more dangerous than before. By the end of the third film, this mistake is corrected when his human and Cenobite halves merge back together.
68	* ChainPain: His Cenobite power is the ability to summon numerous chains to rip the victim apart.
69	* ColdHam: During the first two movies, Pinhead is simultaneous restrained and dramatic.
70	* CosmicPlaything: Surprisingly, even the Hell Priest isn't immune to the whims of Hellraiser's [[JerkassGod deities]].
71	** In the second film he is killed by [[HeroKiller Channard]] (created by the Leviathan) and returned in the third film as a deranged monster after being separated from his human half. Although the mistake is corrected, the effects were devastating.
72	** In Judgement, [[spoiler: Pinhead kills [[SatanicArchetype Jophiel]] as punishment for letting a serial killer known as the [[BigBad Perceptor]] roam free without consequence, only to be reduced to living as a human as punishment from God.]]
73	* CreepyMonotone: Speaks in one when he's not hamming it up.
74	* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite his menacing appearance and tendency to gruesomely mutilate those stupid enough to solve the Lament Configuration, Pinhead can be reasoned with to help fight against even worse threats or if the box was solved against the person's will or they were tricked into solving it, Pinhead can be reasoned with to find the person(s) responsible. While he does mutilate those who solve the puzzle box, most of them are power-hungry humans who had it coming big time.
75	** This is averted in the third and fourth movies, however, where he becomes a typical power-hungry villain who seeks world domination (although justified in the third as him having been separated from his human half, depriving him of his usual laws and self-imposed restrictions). Though starting from the fifth movie, he goes back to his more anti-villainous ways.
76	* DeadpanSnarker: His sense of humor is planted ''very'' firmly in the deadpan section.
77	* DealWithTheDevil: He's willing to spare a victim, if they offer something worthwhile (usually a more wicked soul) in return. FaustianRebellion remains common however, particularly with Kirsty. DependingOnTheWriter, however, Pinhead may actually keep his word, or he may refuse a victim if he feels they'll come to him eventually anyway.
78	* DependingOnTheWriter: His personality can range from supernatural being who punishes the wicked, to a garden-variety slasher villain.
79	* DragonInChief: Leader of the Cenobites, but answers to [[GreaterScopeVillain Leviathan]].
80	* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Tiffany is tricked into opening the Lament Configuration in ''Hellraiser II'', he stops his fellow Cenobites from claiming her. Hard to pin down as a moral standard or just not being his modus operandi, though.
81	-->'''Pinhead:''' It is not hands that call us. It is desire.
82	* EvilBrit: He was a British officer during the First World War. He lacks the accent as a Cenobite though, presumably due to his time in Hell.
83	* EvilerThanThou: Pinhead Unbound in ''Hellraiser IV'' berates his demonic partner Angelique for trying to win over John Merchant through seduction. Pinhead has a better plan: torture John and his family into obedience.
84	** He also does this to other villains who thinks it's a great idea to incur the wrath of a leather-clad TortureTechnician.
85	* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: His sense of humor is very dry.
86	* EvilIsHammy: When he wants to, he can crank up the ham.
87	* EvilSoundsDeep: He has a dark, booming baritone from his very first appearance, making him all the more regal and intimidating.
88	* FallenHero: Once an upstanding, moral, British military officer of World War I, but he became so deeply traumatized by his experiences in it that he fell into hedonism in an attempt to escape from his pain, and ultimately was claimed by the Box, taken to the Labyrinth and turned into the demonic Pinhead to serve Leviathan.
89	* FamilialFoe: The [=LeMarchand=]/Merchant family are enemies of Pinhead and seek to close the gateway to Hell, which he wants to be kept open. Pinhead's first clash with a member of the family is in 1796, and the feud ends in 2127 with Pinhead's defeat.
90	* {{Flanderization}}: As the sequels kept coming, Pinhead devolved from complex figure, to stereotypical slasher film baddie. Thankfully, this was fixed in the fifth movie and on-wards.
91	* FreudianExcuse: Unlike Frank, he wasn't just a hedonist for the sake of sadistic thrills. His trauma from the war led to him turning to ever excessive pleasures to cope, eventually leading him to the box.
92	* FriendlyEnemy: He seems to have a very one-sided affection for Kirsty. He is grateful for her helping retake souls that have escaped his clutches, and has enough respect for her to be willing to bargain with her. That said, he is very open wanting to claim her soul and sees taking it as an inevitable fate she cannot escape from.
93	* FromNobodyToNightmare: A rare antihero example for a horror film; he went from a shellshocked World War I veteran to becoming one of the most powerful Cenobites in the Hellraiser series after solving the Lament Configuration.
94	* GoodIsNotNice: Pinhead may be the closest thing the series has to an antihero, but when it comes to punishing the guilty, he makes them wish for a quick death and even puts them in a much worse fate.
95	* TheHeavy: Plays a major role in every ''Hellraiser'' installment.
96	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor / WildCard: He goes from neutral in the first two movies, to evil in the third and fourth movie, to neutral again in the fifth movie and on-wards. This could possibly be blamed on bad writing, since the writers of Hellraiser 3 and 4 didn't properly understand the character (although the third at least justifies it through his separation from his human side), while the writers of sequels starting from 5 tried to get his character back on track.
97	* HiddenHeartOfGold: He has a sense of honor, moral standards, is capable of being reasonable with and cares for his fellow cenobite comrades.
98	* HorrifyingHero: For a certain definition of "hero". He's more of an AntiVillain than anything, but nonetheless, remains a terrifying HumanoidAbomination covered in bodily mutilations and is most certainly not above tormenting the souls unfortunate enough to solve the Lament Configuration.
99	* IronicHell: In life Captain Elliott Spencer sought an escape from his past pain and trauma during World War I by seeking out pleasures as a hedonist, leading him to find the Lament Configuration. Ultimately he was dragged down to the Labyrinth and converted into a Cenobite, making him both [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor incapable of feeling]] ''anything'' or even remembering his human past and the trauma in it.
100	-->'''Doug Bradley:''' "A line from one of Clive's plays swam into my mind: 'I am in mourning for my humanity'. At this point, there was no back story for the character, but I had discussed this with Clive and we had agreed that he had once been human. But whether this was yesterday, last week, last year, ten, a hundred, a thousand years ago, I didn't know. I didn't need to. Sufficient to have that idea lodged into my brain. A perpetual, unconscious grieving for the man he had once been, for a life and a face he couldn't even remember. And a frozen grief. I felt now that Pinhead existed in an emotional limbo where neither pain nor pleasure could touch him. A pretty good definition of Hell for me."
101	* LeanAndMean: Like most Cenobites, Pinhead's rather slender.
102	* LegacyCharacter: Hinted at in the films. While Doug Bradley always portrays Pinhead, ''Hellbound'' shows him as the mortal Elliot Spencer, survivor of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. For comparison, Pinhead's first chronological film appearance is in ''Bloodline'', nearly 100 years before Spencer's birth.
103	** Confirmed in the comics, where the Marvel run ties him to Myth/AztecMythology, and the ongoing series has [[spoiler:him replaced by Kirsty Cotton and Harry D'Amour.]]
104	* MotiveDecay: Initially his motives are inscrutable. In ''Hellbound'', he's uncertain, but has echoes of human desires. From ''Hell on Earth'' on, he's a slasher villain, a generic demon, or a punisher of the wicked, DependingOnTheWriter.
105	* NobleDemon: Pinhead's adherence to the order's rules lead him to be one of the more nuanced horror movie icons.
106	* PayEvilUntoEvil: Most of the people he gruesomely kills or tortures often were those who had it coming or in some cases will give the villain a FateWorseThanDeath.
107	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He can be reasoned with to help against a worse threat or if the summoning was unintended, just don't ever lie to him.
108	* SenseFreak: Taken to its utmost, most nightmarish extremes.
109	* StrawNihilist: After the battle of Flanders, he fell into a DespairEventHorizon, losing all faith in humanity, leading to his discovery of the Lament Configuration and subsequent transformation into the leader of the Cenobites.
110	* SuperPowerLottery: He's an [[CompleteImmortality immortal]] super-being with a wide range of demonic abilities. He can teleport anywhere through the Lemarchand Configuration, [[ExtraOreDinary create and control metal chains]], [[YourSoulIsMine imprison the souls of his victims]], [[ReforgedIntoAMinion transform humans into Cenobites]], [[{{Telepathy}} search and mess around in your mind]], and [[MindOverMatter manipulate objects mentally.]] The third movie demonstrates especially well that the human race would be in serious trouble if he wasn't a neutral force most of the time.
111	* TookALevelInJerkass: In the first two movies, he was an anti-villain. However in the third and fourth movies, he becomes a full-fledged bad guy willing to hurt innocents and turn Earth into hell, although in the third this is justified as him being separated from his human side. He does revert back to how he was in the fifth film.
112	* TragicVillain: A ShellShockedVeteran of the First World War who was forcibly and brutally transformed into a Cenobite.
113	* WarIsHell: What began Elliot's downward spiral and eventual transformation into a Cenobite.
114	-->'''Spencer:''' We'd seen God fail you see. So many dead. For us, He too fell at Flanders.
115	* WouldntHurtAChild: In some continuities, Pinhead scrupulously refuses to harm children as "innocents." The comic ''And God Will Send His Angels'' has him gently note to an abused little girl that even if he wanted to hurt her, he's bound by the rules of his order....so he takes her abusive uncle instead.
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118	[[folder:Chatterer]]
119	!!Chatterer
120	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chatterer.jpg]]
121	->Portrayed by: Nicholas Vince (''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' & ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII''), Mike Jay Regan (''[[Film/HellraiserHellseeker Hellseeker]]'', ''[[Film/HellraiserDeader Deader]]'', ''[[Film/HellraiserHellworld Hellworld]]'' & ''Judgement''), Jolene Anderson (''[[Film/HellraiserRevelations Revelations]]''), Jason Liles ([[Film/Hellraiser2022 2022 reboot]])
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123	Pinhead's most constant Cenobite follower, and only one to appear more than twice. He appears as a tan figure, with the skin on his face stretched back by hooks. Obscuring his eyes, and leaving his gums and trademark chattering teeth exposed.
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125	* ArtEvolution: It's subtle, but after the original film, the Chatterer makeup is given a small tweak so his eyes are now visible. An evolution necessary so his portrayer could actually see.
126	* DepravedHomosexual: The first Chatterer was once a young orphan named Jim, whose StartOfDarkness began when he framed his mother for murdering his abusive father. After spending several years in an orphanage, he and another boy named Seth became friends and lovers, eventually becoming rent boys at sixteen years old. Jim was turned into Chatterer years later after he failed to ensnare Seth's soul for the Cenobites, and spent the night having sex with him instead.
127	* DistaffCounterpart: The Female Chatterer from ''Revelations''.
128	* TheDragon / TheBrute: Though the Female Cenobite seemed to occupy it at first, his constant appearances pretty much grant him the title by default.
129	* DumbMuscle: His primary role is that of an enforcer, usually restraining subjects for Pinhead.
130	* EnfantTerrible: At least one incarnation was a child who became a Cenobite.
131	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In ''Inferno'', where he appears as a legless variant aptly called Torso.
132	* LeanAndMean: Like most Cenobites.
133	* LegacyCharacter: Pinhead seems to like having a variant (be it a HellHound or a female) of Chatterer around.
134	* MultipleChoicePast: Chatterer has been given at least three different backstories, two of them ("Look, See" and "Prayers for Desire") written by Nicholas Vince. Of course, since there's been multiple Chatterers and Chatterer-like characters, it's possible that all three origins (little boy, hedonist actor, and gigolo servant of the Cenobites) are applicable.
135	* TheSpeechless: He obviously can't talk with his disfigurement.
136	* TeensAreMonsters: Jim, the boy who would become Chatterer, murdered his father and framed his mother for it; as a teenage male prostitute, Jim was chosen by the agents of Hell to serve the Cenobites; delivering Lament Configurations to potential victims. Eventually he became a Cenobite himself, after failing to damn the soul of his former friend and lover.
137	[[/folder]]
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139	[[folder:Female Cenobite]]
140	!!Female Cenobite/Deep Throat
141	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/female_cenobite_7.jpg]]
142	[[caption-width-right:350:]]
143	->Portrayed by: Grace Kirby (Hellraiser), Barbie Wilde (Hellbound: Hellraiser II), Creator/SeikoTomoe (Japanese Dub)
144
145	One of the original four Cenobites. A raspy voiced female, with wires peeling back the skin around her throat.
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147	* AmbiguouslyBi: A subtle example but when Kirsty offers Frank to the cenobites in her place, the Female Cenobite says in a somewhat lascivious manner, "Perhaps we prefer you..." and seems quite interested in Kirsty later in the movie as well as the sequel. Of course, this could just be a means of intimidation.
148	* BaldOfEvil: As with most Cenobites, she has no hair, and Cenobites are essentially torture demons.
149	* DarkActionGirl: Clearly Pinhead's {{Number Two}}.
150	* DarkMistress: She is Pinhead's second in command as well as his lover, as revealed in the Boom! Studios comic stories.
151	* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments in the second film
152	-->"Didn't open the box? And what was it last time? You didn't know what the box was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we?"
153	* TheDragon: Before Chatterer took the role, she seemed to be Pinhead's second in command, and only one who spoke to him as an equal. Of course she was 1 of the 2 original Cenobite foursome that could speak ''at all''. But still.
154	* EvilSoundsRaspy: In contrast to [[EvilSoundsDeep Pinhead]], her voice is metallic and raspy.
155	* LeanAndMean: Like most Cenobites.
156	* NunTooHoly: In the comics it's revealed that, prior to opening the Lament Configuration she was a Catholic nun named Sister Nikoletta. She obsessively desired sin despite her vocation, leading her to opening the box when given to her by a strange man.
157	* StealthPun: Deep Throat.
158	* WomanScorned: After Pinhead betrays her in the comics, which reveals that she and him have been lovers, and how deeply she cares about him.
159	[[/folder]]
160
161	[[folder:Butterball]]
162	!!Butterball Cenobite
163	[[quoteright:236:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f89a3b4e2614032f4df695c0d1435c84.jpg]]
164	->Portrayed by: Simon Bamford
165
166	Last of the original four Cenobites. A grotesquely fat and mostly silent Cenobite, with a pair of sunglasses.
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168	* DemotedToExtra: Actually had a big role, and the most dialogue of the original four in ''The Hellbound Heart''. In the films, he's mostly a LivingProp.
169	* EyeScream: Has his eyes sewn shut.
170	* FatBastard: He's called "Butterball" for a reason.
171	* SatelliteCharacter: The least active of the Cenobites, usually content to stand in the background.
172	* SinisterShades: What he hides his stitched eyes behind.
173	[[/folder]]
174
175	[[folder:Camerahead]]
176	!!Camerahead
177	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_91d2259690b93f7acd61db4bfff3295b_1ed67a96_2048.jpg]]
178	->Portrayed by: Ken Carpenter
179
180	Formerly cameraman Daniel "Doc" Fisher. The first of several Pseudo-Cenobites, Cenobites forcibly morphed by Pinhead who haven't received their punishment in Hell. Has a camera lens where his right eye goes, and can make things he records explode.
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182	* FaceHeelTurn: Like CD, his turn is unexplained. Unlike CD, we get enough background to wonder why he's suddenly a Cenobite.
183	* ImprobableWeaponUser: More than the other Cenobites of his generation, as he kills someone by extending his camera lens into their skull.
184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:CD]]
187	!!CD
188	[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/worstcenabiteever.jpg]]
189	->Portrayed by: Eric Willhelm
190
191	Formerly Jimmy Hammerstein, local DJ. Jimmy had the misfortune to be DJ'ing the night Pinhead dropped by the Boiler Room. In the midst of the massacre, he was morphed into CD, the second Pseudo-Cenobite. Can launch CD's like shurikens from the CD player imbedded in his stomach.
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193	* DeadlyDisc: His whole schtick.
194	* DullSurprise: Jimmy seems remarkably unfazed during the massacre. Until he gets a bunch of CD's embedded in his head.
195	* FlatCharacter: Unlike his brethren, has no real characterization before his conversion.
196	[[/folder]]
197
198	[[folder:Barbie]]
199	!!Barbie
200	->Portrayed by: Peter Atkins
201
202	Third of the Pseudo-Cenobites. Formerly Rick Bloodstone, Boiler Room bartender. After the massacre, he was morphed into Barbie, a large Cenobite with power over fire.
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204	* BoozeFlamethrower: The only power he seems to really have.
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:Siamese Cenobites]]
208	!!Siamese Twins
209	->Portrayed by: Jimmy Schuelke and David Schuelke (Pre-Cenobite), Michael Polish and Mark Polish (As Cenobites)
210
211	Mark and Michael Norrington were IdenticalTwins, working together as security guards at a certain building. On their rounds one night, they had the misfortune of stumbling onto Pinhead and his ilk. The two inseparable brother were merged together at the head, becoming a ghastly Cenobite pair.
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213	* BodyHorror: While common to all Cenobites, the Twins can separate, only to reunite, destroying anyone between them in a shower of {{Gorn}}.
214	* CreepyTwins: Hard to get much creepier than these two.
215	[[/folder]]
216
217	[[folder:Wire Twins]]
218	!!Wire Twins
219	->Portrayed by: Lynn Speier and Trish Kara
220
221	A mysterious pair of Cenobite Females. They function as the Cenobite equivalent of Succubi, luring in victims with their sexual power.
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223	* CreepyTwins: Though unlike the Siamese, they regularly function as two separate entities.
224	* OverlyLongTongue: One of their signature characteristics.
225	[[/folder]]
226
227	[[folder:Surgeon]]
228	!!Surgeon
229	->Portrayed by: Dale Wilson (Pre-Cenobite), Mike Jay Regan(Cenobite)
230
231	Deacon Vrainian was once a skilled and lauded surgeon in his human life. But one slip up cost him the life of his wife during an operation. His mind shattered, Deacon eventually stumbled upon the Lament Configuration. Pinhead offered him a way to forget his pain. And so, he became a sinister Cenobite Surgeon.
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233	* DarkIsNotEvil: Deacon had more sympathetic reasons for becoming a Cenobite as he simply wanted to escape his grief over his one mistake.
234	* DeadlyDoctor: Well, he ''is'' a Cenobite surgeon.
235	* MyGreatestFailure: The death of his wife is what drove him to become a Cenobite.
236	* SatelliteCharacter: His role in the films is exceedingly minor.
237	* TragicMonster: His origins describe him as a surgeon who fell from grace and wanted to forget his pain.
238	[[/folder]]
239
240	[[folder:Bound I and II]]
241	!!Bound and Bound II
242	->Portrayed by: Nancy Lilley (Female), Gary J. Tunnicliffe (Male)
243
244	A pair of similar, but unrelated Cenobites. Appearing with leather straps bound over their eyes and mouths.
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246	* SatelliteCharacter: Bound I has an almost ancillary role.
247
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:Stygian Inquisition]]
251	Introduced in Film/HellraiserJudgement, The Stygian Inquisition are a group of demons who specialize in weighing the sins of and punishing the guilty. They are a separate branch of the Cenobites, despite having similar levels of BodyHorror and FacialHorror to them.
252	!!In General
253	* BigGood: Of Hellraiser: Judgement.
254	* BodyHorror: Each one of them has similar levels of this to the Cenobites.
255	* DarkIsNotEvil: They are a grim looking group of demonic creatures, but they are simply just doing their jobs of punishing the guilty.
256	* GoodIsNotNice: While they do punish the wicked, the methods are horrifying to even the most evil of souls.
257	* PayEvilUntoEvil: Most of the people they judge tend to be those who had it coming.
258	* TraumaCongaLine: Given that they work with Pinhead and Hell itself, meeting the Stygian Inquisition is never a good sign if you are evil.
259
260	!!The Auditor
261	A demonic office worker who keeps track of those who enter Hell.
262	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_c9987ed7a21cfa18d24152732bb6b157_b43f250d_2048.jpg]]
263	* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a polite, calm fellow, but he is the first of the Stygian Inquisition that human souls meet and the rest goes [[TraumaCongaLine downhill from there..]]
264	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite being a demon, he can be jovial at times and a bit sarcastic. It also helps that he is an office worker...in Hell nonetheless!
265	* CoveredInScars: His whole body and face are covered in various deep gashes.
266	* CreepyGood: He's a little unpleasant to look at, but is simply doing his job.
267	* NiceGuy: Arguably, more friendly than [[GoodIsNotNice Pinhead, the Cenobites, or the other three Stygian Inquisition members.]]
268	* OhCrap: Upon realizing that Pinhead had killed [[spoiler: Jophiel, the angel who was responsible for exiling Adam and Eve,]] he knows that Pinhead is in deep trouble.
269	* SinisterShades: Part of his demonic looking appearance.
270	* TragicKeepsake: He keeps an old music box with him that brings him comfort.
271
272	!!The Assessor
273
274	The more human member of the Inquisition who devours the sins of the guilty.
275
276	* BigEater: Has a tendency to eat the sins of the guilty in the form of pieces of parchment paper.
277	* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The sins of the Preceptor were too abominable even for him, causing him to choke on them.
278
279	!!The Jury
280
281	A group of women who serve in the Stygian Inquisition. Each one of them has a face stripped of its skin.
282
283	* BadassCrew: Well, they are a subgroup of the Stygian Inquisition after all.
284	* DarkActionGirl: More like a group, but still frightening nonetheless.
285	* FacialHorror: Each member has faces with exposed muscle and missing noses.
286
287	!!The Butcher
288
289	A member of the Stygian Inquisition who sports a dollface mask and carries meat cleavers, which he uses to cut the guilty to pieces.
290
291	* AxCrazy: One of the more violent members of the Inquisition, alongside the Surgeon.
292	* {{Expy}}: Of Leatherface.
293	* FatBastard: He is remarkably overweight.
294
295	!!The Surgeon (Worker)
296
297	A Stygian Inquisition member who wears a gas mask and leather gimp suit.
298
299	* AxCrazy: As was the case with the Butcher, he is one of the more violent members, but is the closest thing to being on the side of good.
300	* HellbentForLeather: His ensemble is a leather suit and gas mask.
301	* LeanAndMean: He is noticeably thinner than the other Inquisition members.
302	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. He's the second character to be known as The Surgeon, the other being a minor Cenobite character.
303
304	[[/folder]]
305
306	!!Cotton Family
307	[[folder:Kirsty Cotton]]
308	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kirsty_cotton_1471.jpg]]
309	->Portrayed by: Ashley Laurence, Creator/RikaFukami (Japanese Dub)
310
311	The closet thing the franchise has to a main protagonist, making an appearance in three films. Niece of the despicable Frank Cotton, she winds up entangled in the plans of the Cenobites.
312
313	* ActionSurvivor: She's not physically strong enough to fight off Frank or the forces of hell. So, she uses her brain, of course!
314	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Kirsty is described in the book as being somewhat of a plain Jane, while in the movies she is more conventionally attractive.
315	* AdaptationalNameChange: In the book, her name is Kirsty ''Singer'', since she's not related to Larry in that version.
316	* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the novella, Kirsty is much more of a ShrinkingViolet, with secret, unrequited feelings for her friend Rory and implicitly jealous of Julia. In the film, Kirsty is more confident as well as being changed to the loving daughter of Larry (Rory in the novella) and more cold and critical towards Julia.
317	* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: A portion of the second movie is dedicated to her finding what she believes is to be her father after she sees a blood note. Unfortunately, it's Frank and she doesn't see Larry again. That said, in the original script, it would've been for something as Larry would've saved Kirsty, but unfortunately Creator/AndrewRobinson didn't return.]]
318	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:She successfully bargains her way out of Pinhead's clutches but the methods to do so have most likely damned her to Hell when she dies anyway.]]
319	* BreakTheCutie: The first movie is dedicated to mentally breaking her.
320	* DaddysGirl: She loves her father very much [[spoiler: and his death gets her very close to the DespairEventHorizon.]]
321	* DamselOutOfDistress: After all the years of fearing Pinhead and his ilk, she escapes from them.
322	* DarkIsNotEvil: In the comics, she becomes a Cenobite after Pinhead renounces his status as a Cenobite, but still maintains the same personality she had as a human. She also happens to [[LightIsGood wear a white kimono as a Cenobite.]]
323	* DealWithTheDevil: With Pinhead, more than once, over the course of her movies.
324	* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Her murder of one of her husband's mistresses is heavily implied to condemn the other woman to Hell, despite no sign that she even knew Kirsty existed.]]
325	* DomesticAbuse: In ''Hellseeker'', her cheating husband was planning on killing her.
326	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: In ''Hellseeker'' she murders her husband's three mistresses and gives their souls to Pinhead for eternal damnation to try to save herself from it. While Trevor's boss and neighbor undoubtedly knew of her, there is no evidence that the third mistress, his masseuse, knew of the marriage in the first place, much less wished Kirsty ill.]]
327	* FinalGirl: Survives each of the movies she is in to the end.
328	* GuileHero: She outwits Frank in each of their encounters and becomes the closest thing Pinhead has to an ally.
329	* LatexPerfection: Well, not exactly latex...
330	* MissingMom: Her birth mother died before the story.
331	* MoralityPet: Serves as one for Pinhead.
332	* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Has this when she realizes "Larry" is actually Frank and was too late to save her father.]]
333	* OddFriendship: With the Cenobites and Pinhead on some occasions or to fight against a worse threat.
334	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In ''The Hellbound Heart'', she was just Larry's coworker, with the implication that she had a crush on him. She's his daughter in the movies.
335	* SheWhoFightsMonsters: By the time of Hellseeker it is clear that Kirsty has spent so much time fighting against Pinhead and the Cenobites, struggling to survive against them and the human threats to her life, that she is becoming the very evil she has resisted.
336	* TearOffYourFace: Does this to Julia in ''Hellraiser II'', to KillAndReplace her.
337	* TookALevelInBadass: With each subsequent movie and in the comics.
338	* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Hellseeker'', she becomes a borderline villain.
339	[[/folder]]
340
341	[[folder:Larry Cotton]]
342	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/larry_16.png]]
343	%%[[caption-width-right:320:some caption text]]
344	-> Portrayed by: Creator/AndrewRobinson, Creator/RokuroNaya (Japanese Dub)
345	The poor bastard who inherits his grandmother's old home, not knowing what his depraved brother Frank had unleashed inside it.
346
347	* AdaptationalNameChange: In ''The Hellbound Heart'' his first name was Rory.
348	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Is skinned alive so Frank can assume his identity]].
349	* GoodIsDumb: He's a loving father and clearly loves his daughter. [[spoiler: Though he doesn't realize that Julia is keeping very dark secrets from him.]]
350	* GoodParents: He clearly loves Kirsty and cares a lot for her well-being.
351	* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: We don't see him getting skinned, but it wasn't a pretty sight evidently.]]
352	* NiceGuy: He's shown to be a very friendly and caring man, [[spoiler:which only makes his death even more depressing...]]
353	* SupernaturalProofFather: [[spoiler: He's unaware of what's been happening and is the only one of the Cottons who isn't aware of what's happening in the house. This doesn't save him from his tragic fate.]]
354	* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Doesn't recognize the warning signs about Julia and the house until it's too late.]]
355	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Kirsty is tricked into opening the Lament Configuration again because she sees visions of her father trapped in Hell, this turns out to be a ruse by Frank to trick her into freeing him. Larry is never seen or heard from again. In the book, Kristy sees the image of Frank and Julia trapped inside the puzzle box, but no trace of Larry, and wonders if Larry might have departed to a better place that could be glimpsed with some other puzzle.
356	** In the original script Pinhead says that he is "he's in his own Hell, child. And quite unreachable." Later it is revealed that Larry is indeed in Hell, permanently stitched into the back of Frank, the brothers are inseparable for eternity. Larry also saves Kirsty from a rape attempt by Frank.
357	[[/folder]]
358
359	[[folder:Frank Cotton]]
360	!!Frank Cotton
361	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frankc1.jpg]]
362	[[caption-width-right:320:''"Come to Daddy..."'']]
363	[[caption-width-right:320:[[labelnote:click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frankc2.png[[/labelnote]] to see his skinless form]]
364	[[caption-width-right:320:[[labelnote:click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/h1.png[[/labelnote]] to see him in [[spoiler:Larry]]'s skin]]
365	-->Portrayed by: Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith, and [[spoiler:Creator/AndrewRobinson]], Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo (Japanese Dub)
366
367	The decrepit soul who started it all. Frank believed he had felt all the pleasures the world could offer him, until he found a mysterious puzzle box on a trek through India. Upon solving it, he was whisked off to the Cenobite realm to experience the so called "Ultimate pleasure". And after years of this "Ultimate pleasure" he wants out.
368	----
369	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Frank is described as being overweight with a massive mustache. This is not the case with Sean Chapman.
370	* AssholeVictim: Dies in the most brutal way possible at the end of the movie and then gets trapped in hell forever. A very brutal, but well deserved fate for such a despicable animal like Frank.
371	* BadassBoast: His last words before the Cenobites rip him apart. Also a BlasphemousBoast, as he seems to be implying that he's in more pain that Jesus was, but he just laughs through it.
372	-->'''Frank:''' Jesus ''wept''.
373	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He wanted to experience a sensation he'd never felt before. He got just that when he met the Cenobites.
374	* BigBad: Of the first part. The Cenobites actually ''[[EnemyMine help]]'' Kirsty to an extent in the movie.
375	** BigBadWannabe: Tries to pull the same stunt in the sequel. Julia is having none of it this time though.
376	* BigNo: Frank shouts this when Kirsty tosses the Lament Configuration out the window.
377	** And again when Kirsty sets fire to his digs in Hell, which causes him to lose his skin again.
378	* CainAndAbel: He's the Cain to Larry's Abel. That said, they aren't actually seen talking on-screen. Although there would've been a moment in the sequel where they do.
379	* CrazyJealousGuy: [[spoiler: Threatens Julia on more than one occasion and tells her she needs to love him more than Larry. It's actually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when he backstabs her.]]
380	* CreepyUncle: Repeatedly tries to force himself on Kirsty, his brother's daughter.
381	* DarkIsEvil: He looks like a corpse after escaping the Cenobites and tries to paint himself as a victim, but is a corrupt, sadistic serial killer. Also serves as a counterpart for Pinhead's DarkIsNotEvil characteristics.
382	* DieLaughing: [[spoiler:Frank cackles maniacally as the chains rip him apart in the climax.]]
383	* EvilCounterpart: To Kirsty and Elliot Spencer. While Kirsty solved the configuration by accident and later convinced Pinhead and the Cenobites to stop Frank, Frank solved the box, knowing full well what he was getting into, and tricked the Cenobites. Also serves as one to Pinhead. While Spencer indulged in pleasure as a way to cope with his PTSD after the war, Frank indulged in hedonistic pleasures out of petty sadism. Also, Pinhead went from a human to a Cenobite who goes after those who solved the box (and was simply doing his job) while Frank tricked the Cenobites and was punished for it.
384	* EvilFeelsGood: Frank's motivation.
385	* EvilMakesYouUgly: Played straight in the book, but averted on the ugly part in the movie.
386	* EvilUncle: To Kirsty.
387	* FaceDeathWithDignity: It takes a bit, but he's not afraid of death in his final moments.
388	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: His movie counterpart looks like a romance-novel cover model, but make no mistake, he is a cruel sadist who has no qualms using his charm to manipulate and betray other people and even Cenobites.
389	** The face of an angel part doesn't apply in the book, however, where he's an ugly fat bastard.
390	* FaceStealer: [[spoiler:More like "Skin Stealer".]]
391	* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: See BadassBoast.
392	* FatBastard: In the book at-least, though Averted on the "fat" part in the movie. However the bastard part is played very straight in both the book and movie.
393	* FauxAffablyEvil: He can turn on the charm when he needs to. [[spoiler: It briefly works on Kirsty when he steals the skin of Larry, until she puts the two and two together, ultimately causing his downfall.]]
394	* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Dies with an absolute grin on his face.]]
395	* HatedByAll: Everyone in the Cotton family has a strong dislike towards Frank given his immoral behavior, and cares little about him. Even Julia, in her inner monologue from the book, acknowledges that her fling with Frank had "all the aggression and joylessness of rape." It's possible even the Cenobites hated him, since he was never converted into their ranks.
396	* HateSink: One of the most rotten characters in the series. Frank has no redeeming or likable qualities, enjoys all the bad things he does and is depraved to the very bone.
397	* TheHedonist: Which led him to the Lament Configuration.
398	* {{Hypocrite}}: In ''Hellbound'' he taunts Kirsty for wondering why her father isn't with him by saying "when you're dead, you're f***g dead." This is coming from the guy who just spent the previous film trying to bring himself back to life.
399	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He pretends to love Julia, but is really just using her, and eventually kills her when she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives her usefulness to him]].
400	* KillAndReplace: His brother.
401	* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: Tying with UngratefulBastard, he kills Julia despite all the effort she went through to give him skin and isn't sorry in the slightest.]]
402	* TheNthDoctor: Sean Chapman plays Frank before his opening of the puzzle box. Oliver Smith plays him in his desiccated/skinless stages. [[spoiler: Portrayed by Andrew Robinson after Frank kills Larry and steals his skin.]]
403	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Instead of becoming a Cenobite, Frank reforms as a desiccated skinless figure who rebuilds himself by draining human flesh, and maintains his usual [[SarcasmMode friendly]] personality otherwise.
404	* {{Sadist}}: Frank may be out to restore himself to life, but he does seem to enjoy draining the life from his victims.
405	* SenseFreak: Like most fictional hedonists.
406	* TheSociopath: Completely lacking in empathy, morally bankrupt, sadistic, utterly selfish and even takes pride in all of this.
407	* SpeakIllOfTheDead: [[spoiler: When Kirsty mourns her father, he insults him to her face. It bites him in the ass when it gets Pinhead's group to show up moments later.]]
408	* TooDumbToLive: In the book, even after seeing how heavily scarified the Cenobites are (having previously assumed they'd be beautiful women) and hearing their repeated warnings that their offer of "pleasure" isn't what he's thinking of, Frank goes all in anyway. He soon regrets it.
409	* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: You never would have known just how evil Frank is based on first impressions.
410	* WrongGenreSavvy: His original motivation seems to be that he thinks he is starring in his own personal porn movie, with the Cenobites providing a magical and ultimate production. He is very very very wrong.
411	[[/folder]]
412
413	[[folder:Julia Cotton]]
414	!!Julia Cotton
415	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/julia_cotton.jpeg]]
416	[[caption-width-right:320:''"I'm no longer just the [[WickedStepmother wicked stepmother]]. Now I'm the [[EvilQueen evil queen]]."'']]
417	--> Portrayed by: Clare Higgins, Kazuko Yanaga (Japanese Dub)
418	Kirsty's stepmother, who was having a sexual affair with Frank. When Frank came back from the Cenobite realm, she began to work for him before being taken to Hell herself. In the second film, she escapes Hell under servitude to Leviathan. Forms a BigBadDuumvirate with Channard.
419	----
420	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Julia has no interest in her mild-mannered husband. But three minutes with his pushy, knife-wielding brother is all it takes for her to get in bed with him and promise him anything he wants.
421	* AssholeVictim: She gets betrayed in the first film by Frank, and then gets trapped in hell forever in the second film. But of course, she was such a vile, murderous scumbag that no one will feel sorry for her.
422	* BigBadDuumvirate: With Frank in ''Hellraiser'' and Channard in ''Hellbound''.
423	* BigBadWannabe: Her role in Hellbound. She may have TookALevelInBadass for sure, but she was ultimately nothing to the forces of hell and Dr Channard overtakes her BigBad role [[spoiler: once he becomes a Cenobite.]] Also in comparison to the rest of the villains in the second film, her final fate is largely unspectacular as [[spoiler: she is sucked out of her skin into the abyss with no fanfare.]]
424	* BitchInSheepsClothing: In the first film, she presents herself as a friendly and kind hearted woman, but is revealed to be the complete opposite later on.
425	* CardCarryingVillain: In the second film, to the point of referring to herself as an "Evil Queen".
426	* DarkActionGirl: In Part II.
427	* DarkMistress: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Julia thinks she's this for Frank in the first movie. In actuality, Frank couldn't care less about her, and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness merely drains her of her blood and throws her aside after he accidentally stabs her.]]
428	* TheDragon: To Frank, being the one killing men so he can revive. Later fills this role to Leviathan, alongside Pinhead and Channard.
429	* DragonAscendant: After Frank's death, she forms a BigBadDuumvirate with Channard.
430	* DraggedOffToHell: Twice. And the second time, she remains there for good.
431	* EvilBrit: She is British and just as vile as Frank.
432	* FateWorseThanDeath: What ends up happening to her in the second film.
433	* FauxAffablyEvil: In the first film, she's very polite and friendly, though it doesn't change the fact she's a remorseless serial killer. In the second movie, she doesn't even try to hide her monstrous nature and becomes more of a jerkass on top of that.
434	* FromNobodyToNightmare: Between the first movie and second, she evolves from a bored adulterous housewife to the servant of Leviathan. She was originally intended to take over the franchise as the queen of Hell.
435	* HateSink: Played very straight in the second film, where she becomes even more depraved, sadistic and psychopathic.
436	* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Kills Frank and says the exact words he said when he accidentally killed her.]]
437	* KickTheDog: The way she kills her victims is just brutal and horrifying to watch.
438	* LackOfEmpathy: Sells out her victims to skinless Frank and doesn't give a damn, [[spoiler: including her own husband, who was nothing but a kind and loving one towards her.]]
439	* LaserGuidedKarma: Her actions end up biting her in the ass twice. In the first film she gets killed by Frank, and in the second film she gets trapped in Hell forever.
440	* LoveMakesYouEvil: Even her actress {{Lampshade}}d this in an interview at one point. Julia is in a loveless marriage with Rory/Larry and believes only Frank can give her the passion she craves, which leads her to a very dark place.
441	* LightIsNotGood: In the second film, she spends part of her time covered in white bandages which surprisingly don't end up soiled by blood. She also wears a light blue dress which belies her supernatural monstrosity (though the original ending had her pull an EvilCostumeSwitch by changing the dress's color to black).
442	* ManipulativeBitch: Easily cons Channard into becoming a Cenobite. Not that he minded one bit.
443	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Like Frank, Julia returns from hell in the sequel as a skinless pseudo-Cenobite that drains human blood to regenerate. Also like Frank, she maintains her depraved, remorseless personality.
444	* SerialKiller: She picks up and beats men with a hammer and feeds them to Frank.
445	* TheSociopath: Like Frank, Julia has no morals or empathy for others and kills others in the most brutal and sadistic ways without a shred of guilt.
446	* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Hellbound'', she went from a victim in the first movie to a FauxAffablyEvil FemmeFatale.
447	* TookALevelInJerkass: She was by no means a good person in the first film. However, in the second film, she's even more despicable and sadistic.
448	* UnholyMatrimony: Has this with both Frank in the first film and Channard in the second film.
449	* {{White and Red and Eerie All Over}}: The flayed and bleeding Julia in her pristinely elegant white suit makes for an unsettling visual contrast.
450	* WickedStepmother: To Kirsty, whom she has tried to kill multiple times.
451	* WouldHurtAChild: She plans on killing Tiffany in the second film, who's only a teen.
452	[[/folder]]
453
454	!!Merchant Family
455	Several generations of men tied to the Cenobites and the Lament Configuration. With one exception, [[IdenticalGrandson all are portrayed]] by Bruce Ramsey.
456
457	[[folder:Philip LeMarchand]]
458	!! Philip Lemarchand
459	The creator of the Lament Configuration.
460	* AdaptationalHeroism: Clive Barker originally wrote Lemarchand in the novel and subsequent comics as an evil occultist toymaker who voluntarily created the Lament Configuration to summon demons, as well as creating hundreds of similar nefarious boxes while in league with Leviathan and the Cenobites. ''Bloodline'' portrays him as an unwitting pawn who was tricked into creating one box, with the Duc corrupting it.
461	* DecompositeCharacter: The Duc de L'Isle appears to take on all the villainy of the Phillip Lemarchand of the novel and comics, including being an EvilOldFolks type in league with Leviathan and using Hell's power to make the box the gateway to the Labyrinth and Cenobites. The movie version of Phillip Lemarchand meanwhile was a good toymaker who only created the box as a toy without any nefarious designs in mind, with his creation being corrupted by L'Isle.
462	* FromNobodyToNightmare: Subverted. Lemarchand had been obliquely referenced before, but everything implied he was a Cenobite-worshiping cultist. Nobody expected him to be just some guy, much less someone who'd never willingly worked with Leviathan or spent his efforts trying to stop Pinhead.
463	* UnwittingPawn: He had no clue the toybox he was commissioned to make would bring about his end, and curse his bloodline for generations.
464	* WickedToymaker: Starts out a harmless toymaker and winds up creating dimensional doors to perverted hell dimensions.
465	** Subverted, however, in that Lemarchand is appalled by this, and attempts to undo it.
466	[[/folder]]
467
468	[[folder:John Merchant]]
469	!! John Merchant
470	An architect drawn into his family's feud with Pinhead.
471	* TheInsomniac: He's frequently skipping sleep due to bad dreams.
472	* OffWithHisHead [[spoiler:Stabbed through the throat and beheaded by Pinhead.]]
473	[[/folder]]
474	[[folder:Doctor Paul Merchant]]
475	!! Doctor Paul Merchant
476	A scientist in the far future, and latest of the cursed Merchant bloodline.
477	* {{Badass Bookworm}}: A brilliant engineer who is the one to defeat and destroy Pinhead, for good.
478	* MagicVersusScience: He's the science fighting Pinhead's magic. [[spoiler:His science wins in the end.]]
479	[[/folder]]
480
481	[[folder:Winter]]
482	!! Winter
483	-->Portrayed by Paul Rhys
484	A degenerate member of the family who has gathered a nihilistic cult following by means of his power over death.
485	* AxCrazy: He kills his own followers and brings them back as undead.
486	* BadassLongcoat: Winter is seen wearing a white trenchcoat on a few occasions.
487	* BigBad: Of ''Deader''. He is the leader of the Deader cult.
488	* CainAndAbel: John's wife offhandedly mentions that he has an unnamed brother, who we can reasonably assume is Winter.
489	* DarkIsEvil: He is a sadistic necromancer who turns people into the undead, in contrast with Pinhead who [[DarkIsNotEvil converts people into Cenobites.]]
490	* DarkMessiah: Gathers suicidal hedonists to his side and transforms them into "Deaders" - undead beings in various [[RedRightHand states of decay.]]
491	* EvilCounterpart: To Pinhead. While Pinhead grants power to humans by converting them into Cenobites, making them more powerful than before, Winter turns people into the undead, making them his slaves.
492	* LightIsNotGood: Dresses in white and is one of the most evil members of the Merchant family.
493	* ManipulativeBastard: Easily able to convince depressed hedonists into joining his cult and becoming nihilistic undead followers.
494	* {{Necromancer}}: And a vile psychopath too.
495	* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: The younger villain to Pinhead's older hero as Pinhead is chronologically an old World War I veteran in contrast with the younger Winter.
496	* SmallNameBigEgo: Intends to conquer Hell and overthrow the Cenobites. Pinhead isn't having it. [[spoiler:And when Pinhead finally gets his hands on him, it's not even a [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomp Battle!]]]]
497	* TokenEvilTeammate: Other descendants of Philip Lemarchand are seen trying to reverse engineer the puzzle box into a configuration that can kill Cenobites. Winter intends to use it to conquer them for his own gain.
498	[[/folder]]
499
500	!!Other Characters
501	[[folder:Phillip Channard]]
502	!!Phillip Channard
503	-->Portrayed by: Creator/KennethCranham
504	The sadistic and psychotic namesake and head of the Channard Institute in ''Hellraiser II''.
505	----
506	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Via flashback, we see that his DeadlyDoctor tendencies started with dissecting dogs (which he most likely killed to begin with).
507	* BigBadDuumvirate: Of Part II with Julia, though both are ultimately merely tools of [[GreaterScopeVillain Leviathan]].
508	* CombatTentacles: Tipped with scalpels.
509	* DeadlyDoctor: His killings are medically related ("I recommend amputation!")
510	* DragonInChief: To Julia.
511	* EvilCounterpart: To Pinhead and the other three Cenobites. While Pinhead has grimly and reluctantly accepted his role, Channard hesitated before embracing his role as a Cenobite wholeheartedly. Where Pinhead is cold and professional, reasonable, calm and silently mourning the loss of his humanity, Channard is an out of control emotional sadistic serial killer who revels in being Leviathan's slave. Also, Channard is shown wearing a [[LightIsNotGood white lab coat]] while Pinhead wears a [[DarkIsNotEvil black leather uniform]].
512	* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler:His Cenobite conversion comes with wires burrowed into his face, and a massive tendril stuck in his head.]] His reaction to all this?
513	-->'''Channard:''' And to think...I hesitated.
514	* EvilerThanThou: To Pinhead and his group of Cenobites.
515	* FauxAffablyEvil: He mockingly uses his "bedside manner" voice to [[SmugSnake feel superior to others]] [[spoiler:as a human, let alone after his conversion into a Cenobite. Once he is made into a monster, he drops all pretenses and revels in his sadism.]]
516	* HateSink: Unlike the other Cenobites, there is nothing even remotely redeeming about Channard.
517	* HeroKiller: He killed Pinhead and the other three Cenobites and to add insult to injury, he was responsible for Pinhead [[CameBackWrong coming back as a deranged monster in the third film.]]
518	* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: As a result of his own vile nature and being directly controlled and empowered by Leviathan, he's much more monstrous than any of the other Cenobites, who have at least retained a sliver of their humanity. Channard's human body is drained and withered during his conversion, with tentacles and wires tearing through the remnants of his flesh.]]
519	* KarmicDeath: Twice. First from fellow serial killer [[EvilerThanThou Julia]], [[FemmeFatale who lures him]] into the Labyrinth and betrays him, which sees him turned into a Cenobite puppet of Leviathan. The second and final time he is casually and pathetically discarded and decapitated by [[BadBoss Leviathan]] once he has outlived his use, despite reveling in being Leviathan's puppet. Unlike the other Cenobites he murdered who regain their humanity, he gets no redemption for his soul, and his body simply dropped off the side of the Labyrinth and into an abyss.
520	* LargeHam: As a [[spoiler:Cenobite.]]
521	* LightIsNotGood: Wears a white lab coat and is very evil.
522	* LoopholeAbuse: Thinks getting a crazed patient to open the Lament Configuration will exempt him from the Cenobites' wrath. He's wrong.
523	* MadDoctor: Subjecting his patients to horrific mutilation and solving the Lament Configuration is something he's been doing even as a human.
524	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Has the top of his head pulled off by Leviathan's tendril when his hooks get stuck in the floor.]]
525	* PeoplePuppets: He ''himself'' becomes one for Leviathan [[spoiler:post-transformation, his feet dangling uselessly in the air as his body is supported by a massive, phallic tentacle that has drilled into his head.]]
526	* {{Sadist}}: After becoming a Cenobite, Channard actively enjoys inflicting pain on others, in contrast to the mostly cold professionalism of the other Cenobites.
527	* SchmuckBait: Tries to entice Tiffany by having his CombatTentacles sprout flowers and beckoning fingers. It [[NoSell doesn't work.]]
528	* TheSociopath: He cares nothing for the suffering of others, so long as it brings him closer to discovering the mysteries of the Lament Configuration.
529	* UnholyMatrimony: Hits it off pretty well with the equally depraved Julia, even after she betrays him and offers him up to Leviathan, he still seems interested, as he seems genuinely happy when "Julia" returns to him in the climax.
530	[[/folder]]
531
532	[[folder:The Leviathan]]
533	!!The Leviathan
534	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hellraiser_leviathan_character_image.jpg]]
535	The God of Hell. The Lord of the Labyrinth. Master of the Cenobites, who uses them as foot soldiers. Takes the form of a giant golden lozenge with black beams of light.
536	----
537	* AffablyEvil: In the comics, it appears in visions as a neighborhood milkman.
538	* BadBoss: Ruthlessly murdered Pinhead and his Cenobites the moment they chose to defy it. Unwittingly freeing their souls in the process. Also casually and pathetically discarded Channard, a sadist who very much enjoyed serving it faithfully, the moment it was convenient.
539	* EldritchAbomination: Takes the form of a rhombus emanating a black light (as in ''actually'' black, and not ultraviolet), that forces anyone who it shines down on to face their crimes. His true form -- if he has one -- is unknown.
540	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Very much implied, from its instinctive murdering of Pinhead's Cenobites and forcibly reverting Pinhead back into a human being for his defiance, thinking it was a punishment. When it is clear that was what Pinhead wanted all along, to be the man he was, Captain Elliot Spencer, again.
541	* AGodAmI: The reverberations it makes spell out "God" in Morse code.
542	* GreaterScopeVillain: It's the one [[BigBad Pinhead]] and all the other Cenobites ultimately answer to.
543	* HeroKiller: Was responsible for Channard becoming a cenobite and was therefore responsible for Pinhead's death and the deaths of three other cenobites.
544	* SatanicArchetype: He's essentially the Satan of ''Hellraiser''.
545	* ShoutOut: His comics persona takes on the appearance of [[Webcomic/RedMeat Milkman Dan]].
546	* TheVoiceless: It does make sounds, but it's not clear if those are indeed its voice.
547	[[/folder]]
548
549	[[folder:Joanne Summerskill]]
550	!!Joanne Summerskill
551	-->Portrayed by: Terry Farrell
552	A reporter trying to uncover the mystery behind the Lament Configuration.
553	----
554	* FinalGirl: Of Part III.
555	%%* IntrepidReporter
556	%%* StatuesqueStunner
557	[[/folder]]
558
559	[[folder:J.P. Monroe]]
560	!!J.P Monroe/[[spoiler:Piston-Head]]
561	-->Portrayed by: Kevin Bernhardt
562	Scumbag owner of The Boiler Room, a nightclub in ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth''. After purchasing a certain macabre-looking pillar, he becomes wrapped up in Pinhead's evil plan.
563	----
564	* BeautyIsBad: To put it simply, he's a total hunk. And a morally deficient bastard.
565	* TheDragon: Briefly to Pinhead, as he was the one bringing him women for him to eat so he could resurrect.
566	* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a Casanova scumbag but even he is horrified by Pinhead's cruelty. To an extent.
567	* {{Expy}}: Of Frank, right down to the "come to daddy" line.
568	* TheHedonist: To a lesser extent than Frank.
569	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Right through his noggin, signalling his change into Piston-Head.]]
570	* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed both of his parents for an inheritance.
571	[[/folder]]
572
573	[[folder:Angelique]]
574	!!Angelique
575	->Portrayed by: Valentina Vargas, Creator/YumiTouma (Japanese Dub)
576	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_d734f6133e3aa38dcc53b8659cdcc03b_9bd624d0_2048.jpg]]
577	Demon Princess of Hell. Angelique is a Demon Daughter of Leviathan, eventually turned into a rank and file Cenobite by Pinhead.
578	----
579	* AlasPoorVillain: For all of her manipulative nature, [[spoiler: she spends the entire movie as someone's slave. First Delisle, then Jacques and, eventually, Pinhead himself]]. One really can't help but feel a twinge of sympathy for her state.
580	* AloofDarkHairedGirl: In her physical state.
581	* BaldOfEvil: After her conversion to a Cenobite, her scalp is split open and tethered by hooks.
582	* BelligerentSexualTension: Shared this with Pinhead in the course of their working together, with their differing methods and ideas, underlying tension. Bickering like the daughter of a company's boss and the right hand man of the boss. She even looks like she's getting off on Pinhead sliding his hooked fingers into her flesh.
583	* DemotedToExtra: Pinhead originally addresses her with respect, if disagreeing with her methods, implying that Angelique is his superior. After her conversion, she no longer even receives lines, and is just another Cenobite in his retinue. It is implied Leviathan was punishing his daughter for her failure by putting her under the command of his favored Cenobite.
584	* IronicName: Angelique is French for "angelic".
585	* ManipulativeBitch: She plays with John Merchant's head to complete the Elysium configuration.
586	* MindOverMatter: She demonstrates the ability of telekinesis, such as moving the puzzle box from across the room to her hand.
587	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her Cenobite outfit exposes her cleavage and hips.
588	* TheVamp: Downplayed. She uses her appearance to win favor with John Merchant, but other than an erotic dream he has of her, nothing comes of it.
589	* VoiceOfTheLegion: After becoming a Cenobite, her voice has a darker reverberation to it.
590	[[/folder]]
591
592	[[folder:Detective Joseph Thorne]]
593	!!Detective Joseph Thorne / [[spoiler: The Engineer]]
594	-->Portrayed by: Craig Sheffer, Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese Dub)
595	A hedonistic, asshole detective with a penchant for solving puzzles who is trying to track down a serial killer called [[TheDreaded The Engineer]]. Appeared in ''Hellraiser: Inferno''. [[spoiler: Turns out he is The Engineer himself and has condemned himself to eternal suffering courtesy his {{Jerkass}} behavior and hedonistic tendencies.]]
596	----
597	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Despite being a thoroughly unpleasant individual and VillainProtagonist, his fate might warrant at least some sympathy after he realizes just how horribly he wronged people.]]
598	* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Comes with being trapped in Hell and having to relive your sins for all eternity.]]
599	* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: But doesn't make a difference as he just returns to where he was, doomed to repeat it again.]]
600	* BigNo: [[spoiler: When he realizes he is doomed.]]
601	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of ''Inferno''. He is the Engineer.]]
602	* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler: Consigned to that in the end as a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
603	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In spite of his hedonistic and asshole behaviour, Thorne goes seem to genuinely care about his daughter.
604	* {{Jerkass}}: Rude and condescending to everyone.
605	* TheHedonist: Uses cocaine, cheats on his wife with hookers and steals from crime scenes to fund his depraved lifestyle.
606	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. The creature crawling down halls in the first movie is also canonically named the Engineer, but appears to have no direct relationship with the one Thorne hunts. (The novel has a third entity named the Engineer, but it's unclear if it exists in the film canon.)
607	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: The movie opens with Joseph playing speed chess against a friend of his to show his intelligence. On top of that he has a phone conversation halfway through without interrupting his game and goes right back to playing a basketball game after he trumps his opponent.
608	* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:It turns out he's been chasing himself this whole time.]]
609	* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:The severed finger found belongs to his innocent childhood self.]]
610	[[/folder]]
611
612	[[folder:Trevor Gooden]]
613	!!Trevor Gooden
614
615	Kirsty's husband in ''Hellseeker''. After Kirsty's [[spoiler: fake death]], Trevor suffers amnesia before the Cenobites begin to stalk him. [[spoiler: Turns out he was cheating on Kirsty and planing on killing her with the Lament Configuration. Kirsty turns the tables on him and set the Cenobites on him.]]
616	----
617	%%* AssholeVictim
618	* BigBad: [[spoiler: Technically.]]
619	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: As revealed in the end, was in Limbo from the beginning of the film.]]
620	%%* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: Averted.]]
621	[[/folder]]
622
623	[[folder:The Host]]
624	!!The Host
625	--> Portrayed by: Creator/LanceHenriksen
626
627	The main antagonist of ''Hellworld'', The Host invites the protagonists to a party only to begin picking them off one by one alongside the Cenobites. [[spoiler:It turns out that he blamed them for the suicide of his son, and the Cenobites were hallucinations caused by drugs he had slipped to them.]]
628	[[/folder]]

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