Line #93 Characters/PlanetTerror


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6	Character page for the ''Film/PlanetTerror'' part of the ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'' DoubleFeature.
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10	[[folder:Cherry Darling]]
11	!!Cherry Darling
12	->'''Played By:''' Creator/RoseMcGowan
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14	* ActionGirl: Once she's taken a level in badass, she ''tears shit up''.
15	* AmbiguouslyBi: In addition to her romance with El Wray, Cherry gets some ShipTease with Dakota, and the ending implies that they may have gotten together [[spoiler:after Wray's death]].
16	* AnArmAndALeg: Loses a leg during the movie. She uses three different prostheses to make up for it, first a table leg (which she breaks off against a rapist's head and jabs into his eye), then an assault rifle, and finally, a minigun.
17	* ClusterFBomb: Special mention goes to:
18	--> '''Cherry''': Look, you were being an unbelievable dick. I was walking out on you. I was cold, I took your fucking jacket. So, if you're go on one of your psycho, obsessive, controlling rants about a fucking jacket, then fucking take it 'cause I'd rather fucking freeze than fucking hear about it one more time!
19	* CombatStilettos: Well, she only has the one stiletto for her action scenes, but the point remains.
20	* DeadpanSnarker: Recognised as one in-universe. Before the plot kicked off, she intended to become a stand-up comedienne. Wray thinks she could still pull it off.
21	--> '''Wray''' Some of their best jokes are about cripples!
22	* HandicappedBadass: It's only after losing her leg that she actually ''becomes'' a badass.
23	* LegCannon: Literally; she has an assault rifle with underslung grenade launcher instead of a leg for the last twenty minutes of the film. In the epilogue, she has it upgraded to a minigun.
24	* MsFanservice: Cherry starts the movie off doing an exotic dance, gets a sex scene with Wray, and she spends the movie wearing an outfit that shows off her legs (well, ''[[AnArmAndALeg leg]]'').
25	* NoNameGiven: "Cherry Darling" is unlikely to be her real name, and "Palomita" is just Wray's AffectionateNickname for her.
26	* RocketJump: In the climax, she uses the grenade launcher attached to the assault rifle serving as her leg to launch herself into the air.
27	* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:She gives birth to Wray's daughter after he dies saving her]].
28	* TookALevelInBadass: Words fail to describe.
29	[[/folder]]
30
31	[[folder:El Wray]]
32	!!El Wray
33	->'''Played By:''' Creator/FreddyRodriguez
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35	* AmbiguouslyTrained: He is an expert with guns and blades and is the best fighter of the whole group, but the Sheriff refuses to give him a gun because of his criminal shenanigans in the time he'd met him. Once the plot re-starts after apologizing for the missing reel, El Wray has given the sheriff his secret past (but the audience doesn't gets to hear it) and the sheriff is incredibly awed by him ("I knew your name was 'El Wray', but I didn't knew you were '''that''' 'El Wray'",) hands him a firearm and lets him carry on. His interaction with the colonel afterwards implies that Wray was part of some kind of black-ops division or at least saw military service.
36	* BrutalHonesty: Bluntly tells Cherry that she isn't funny when she expresses her desire to become a comedienne. She sees it as unnecessarily mean, however.
37	-->'''Cherry''': There's a difference between being frank, and being ''dick''.
38	* DeadpanSnarker: He has a very dry sense of humour.
39	* FamedInStory: Judging from Hague and Muldoon's almost reverent way of saying his name, Wray must have quite a reputation. [[MysteriousPast Not that the audience is ever made aware of it]].
40	* FragileSpeedster: He's small and quick, but he can't endure any actual hits. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he's actually being shot at; gunshots tend to put down whoever gets hit by them.
41	* HeroicSacrifice: He dies saving [[spoiler:a pregnant]] Cherry from a zombie soldier.
42	* JerkassHasAPoint: While it's more than a bit insensitive to refer to Cherry's missing leg as "spilt milk", Wray is right that the hospital is currently under attack by zombies and they ''really'' need to get out of there.
43	* MysteriousPast: The fact that he's called ''El'' Wray is apparently significant. That's about all we know.
44	* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's even shorter than Cherry, yet Wray is a veritable OneManArmy.
45	* PunnyName: In Spanish "el rey" means "the king".
46	[[/folder]]
47
48	[[folder:Dr. William Block]]
49	!!Dr. William Block
50	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JoshBrolin
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52	* BeardOfEvil: A rather thick goatee.
53	* CharacterTics: Throughout his time at the hospital, he is constantly checking his temperature with a thermometer, and is frequently shown with it [[OralFixation dangling out of his mouth like a tooth-pick]]; he mentions that it helps him monitor his stress levels, although WordOfGod indicates that it's more likely due to the fact that he's a [[TheHypochondriac hypochondriac]] who is [[ProperlyParanoid (justly, under the circumstances) paranoid]] about getting sick, an ironic .
54	* CreepyMonotone: He raises his voice maybe once. The rest of the time, it's cold and steady.
55	* DeadlyDoctor: He never actually kills anyone on-screen, but he gives off this vibe, especially after his infection.
56	* DomesticAbuse: Bad enough that his wife was planning to take their son and leave him.
57	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He treats his wife like garbage, but seems to have some fondness for his son. [[spoiler:Possibly subverted, since after Tony's death, Bill doesn't show any reaction beyond a continuing desire to kill Dakota.]]
58	* FacialHorror: He gets infected pus smeared on his face, which deforms and becomes his only visible sign of infection.
59	* FourEyesZeroSoul: Thick glasses for a complete asshole and abusive husband.
60	* HateSink: Easily the most detestable character in the entire film, especially when compared to [[BigBad Muldoon]], who dies an [[AlasPoorVillain honorable death]] while he dies an UndignifiedDeath in the climax.
61	* DeathByIrony: He is a sociopathic doctor who is paranoid about getting sick... who is turned into a plauge-ridden zombie.
62	* KarmicDeath: Gunned down by his abused wife's father.
63	* LackOfEmpathy: When telling his friend Joe that his infected arm will need to be amputated, Block bluntly tells him so to his face, gives him no time to process the information, and totally ignores the procedure itself. Later, when infected people start coming into the hospital for treatment, his first thought is self-preservation.
64	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: This doctor is also a scumbag wife-beater.
65	* SoftSpokenSadist: His already present CreepyMonotone becomes even quieter and more menacing while threatening Dakota.
66	* TheStoic: He only shows muted hints of emotion during the movie.
67	[[/folder]]
68
69	[[folder:Dr. Dakota Block]]
70	!!Dr Dakota Block
71	->'''Played By:''' Creator/MarleyShelton
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73	* AdrenalineMakeover: By the end of the film, she's ditched the white coat and done-up hairstyle. Her makeup also fades over the course of the film.
74	* AmbiguouslyGay: Possibly. She has a girlfriend, with whom she is cheating on her husband with, and clearly has no love for her husband. She also appears to think Cherry is very attractive.
75	* BrokenBird: Domestic abuse and [[spoiler:losing a son]] will do that to you.
76	* DaddyIssues: When she and Earl see each other, his first words are "I told you I didn't want to see you again". In ''Death Proof'', an otherwise civil, but tense discussion ends with Dakota storming off, calling her father an asshole.
77	* EatingTheEyeCandy: She shows a fair bit of appreciation for Cherry's looks, giving her an impressed once-over when Cherry demonstrates her "useless" talent of flexibility.
78	-->'''Cherry''': I'm Cherry.\
79	'''Dakota''': You sure are.
80	* HospitalHottie: Lampshaded by Bill's friend Joe, who makes several remarks about Dakota... to her husband's face.
81	* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Although this doesn't last long.]]
82	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Dakota leaves Tony a handgun to protect himself from the zombies, but Tony accidentally shoots himself with it.]]
83	* ParentalNeglect : On a very strange level . She seems to be doing everything she can to protect her son, but she left a loaded gun in her son's hands just so he wouldn't see his grandfather , with whom she fought . After he , of course , kills himself by accident, aside from a brief but intense period of shock , she seems to have completely gotten over her son's death .
84	* TookALevelInBadass: From a cringing BrokenBird to genuine badass.
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86
87	[[folder:JT Hague]]
88	!!JT Hague
89	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffFahey
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91	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He comes off as a witless hillbilly, but JT gets quite a few zombie kills under his belt.
92	* CoolOldGuy: Looks to be in his fifties, yet he's quite a badass.
93	* DeadpanSnarker: After Wray orders a cup of coffee at his restaurant.
94	--> '''Wray''': I still eat here, JT.\
95	'''JT''': Oh, yeah. Try not to choke on all that food you're eatin'.
96	* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:JT laughs as he sets off the explosives that kill him and destroy Muldoon's facility.]]
97	* ITasteDelicious: After being wounded, JT tastes some of his barbecue sauce and finds that it's finally perfected, only to be disturbed when his brother points out that JT ''bled'' into the sauce. JT later figures out that the missing ingredient was actually salt.
98	* TeamChef: His barbecue is apparently so "goddamn good" that Jesse James built him a motorcycle "free of fucking charge" in return.
99	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He ''really'' loves his barbecue sauce.
100	[[/folder]]
101
102	[[folder:Sheriff Hague]]
103	!!Sheriff Hague
104	->'''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelBiehn
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106	* {{Determinator}}: Hague goes through the whole latter half of the movie with a gutshot, even managing to drive Wray's truck despite the injury.
107	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:He finally succumbs to his gunshot wound in his brother JT's arms.]]
108	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He raised his brother's rent in an attempt to steal his recipe for barbecue sauce, but they genuinely love each other.
109	* NoodleIncident: He and Wray are already acquainted at the start of the movie, and Hague refers to an incident where he stuck his neck out for Wray (and apparently regretted it).
110	* TheSheriff: Of the unnamed town in the film.
111	[[/folder]]
112
113	[[folder:Tony Block]]
114	!!Tony Block
115	->'''Played By:''' Rebel Rodriguez
116
117	* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:By RecklessGunUsage.]]
118	* DullSurprise: He doesn't react at all when the car he's in is attacked.
119	* TheLoad: He's nothing but a hindrance to his mother's attempts to save them from the entire town going to hell.
120	* TooDumbToLive: His mother told him not to point the gun at himself. [[spoiler:Guess what he did]].
121	[[/folder]]
122
123	[[folder:Lt. Muldoon]]
124	!!Lt. Muldoon
125	->'''Played By:''' Creator/BruceWillis
126
127	* BigBad: The main antagonist of ''Planet Terror''. [[BigBadEnsemble Apart from the zombies, that is]].
128	* BodyHorror: In his final scene, the virus gets the better of Muldoon and he swells into a hideous monstrousity, gruesome even by the standards of the rest of the movie.
129	* TheComicallySerious: His response to being handed a bag of his men's severed balls was just to glare.
130	* FallenHero: He went from killed Osama bin Laden to making deals with a MadScientist and detaining plague survivors.
131	* AFatherToHisMen: His entire motivation is to try and keep his men alive.
132	* TheStoic: Except for one scene where he loses his temper for a moment, Muldoon remains chillingly calm for the entire movie.
133	[[/folder]]
134
135	[[folder:Abby]]
136	!!Abby
137	->'''Played By:''' Creator/NaveenAndrews
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139	* BoomHeadshot: One that blows his head completely apart.
140	* DeadpanSnarker: "Science comes first, but business comes a close fucking second."
141	* EvilBrit: British accent meets MadScientist.
142	* FauxAffablyEvil: He's snarky and friendly enough, but basically the ''entire movie'' is his fault, and he has a disturbing interest in collecting men's severed testicles.
143	* MadScientist: He created the DC-2 that sets off the events of the film. To his credit, though, he wants to develop an antidote after all hell breaks loose ([[SurprisinglySuddenDeath not that he gets the chance]]).
144	* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: He looks around a corner and... [[BoomHeadshot ka]]-[[YourHeadAsplode blam]].
145	* TokenEvilTeammate: Distinctly amoral and slightly villainous at best. However, he intends to cure the virus if the group can escape with their lives (which kind of goes south when Abby himself bites it, but he gets points for trying).
146	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He only released the DC-2 to save himself from Muldoon's men. He certainly didn't intend to set off a ZombieApocalypse. If he was intended to set this apocalypse, he was the GreaterScopeVillain.
147	* YourHeadAsplode: His BoomHeadshot is anything but [[PrettyLittleHeadshots pretty]].
148	[[/folder]]
149
150	[[folder:Earl [=McGraw=]]]
151	!!Earl [=McGraw=]
152	->'''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelParks
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154	* BigDamnHeroes: Kills Bill Block just before he would have killed Dakota.
155	* KillTheOnesYouLove: He had to kill his wife Ramona when she became infected.
156	* OneManArmy: He held off the ''massive'' swarm of zombies that attacked JT's, and not only lived, he made his way to the military base in time for a BigDamnHeroes moment.
157	* PoliceAreUseless: In his cameo in ''Film/DeathProof'', despite give a accurate appraisal of Stuntman Mike's MO, he decides building a case against him would take too much time away from watching UsefulNotes/{{Nascar}}.
158	[[/folder]]
159
160	[[folder:Deputy Tolo]]
161	!!Deputy Tolo
162	->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomSavini
163
164	* ButtMonkey: Gets his finger bitten off, accidentally shoots a hospital patient, accidentally shoots his boss (both of which earn him the title of "dumbass" from Hague), and then is torn apart by zombies. Poor bastard.
165	* MeaningfulName: "Tolo" is Portuguese for "fool".
166	[[/folder]]
167
168	[[folder:Tammy Visan]]
169	!!Tammy Visan
170	->'''Played By:''' [[Music/{{Fergie}} Stacy Ferguson]]
171
172	* MaleGaze: Subject to this from JT.
173	* MsFanservice: Short shorts and a low-cut, midriff exposing top? JT probably puts it best.
174	--> '''JT''': Now ''there's'' a rump roast.
175	* LipstickLesbian: We meet Tammy when she's en-route to save her girlfriend from an abusive marriage.
176	[[/folder]]

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