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9!The Saeki Family:
10[[folder:Kayako Saeki (née Kawabata)]]
11!!Kayako Saeki (née Kawamata)
12-->'''Played by:''' {{Creator/Takako Fuji}} (''The Grudge'', ''The Grudge 2''), Aiko Horiuchi (''The Grudge 3''), Anna Moon (''Tales from the Grudge'' shorts), Junko Bailey (''Film/TheGrudge2020'')
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14The BigBad of the series, Kayako was an ordinary {{Housewife}} who has an obsessive [[StalkerWithACrush crush]] on a teacher Peter Kirk. Unfortunately, her husband Takeo found out and [[LoveHurts brutally killed her]], along with her son Toshio and the family cat Mar. Brought back by her family's rage as a {{Curse}}, Kayako appears as a StringyHairedGhostGirl, crawling about to hunt down and kill anyone who enters her house to consume them in the curse. She is most iconic for crawling her way down the stairs, and lets out a [[HellIsThatNoise chilling death rattle]] whenever she appears.
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16* AndIMustScream: The curse effectively traps her in a cycle of overpowering, murderous rage.
17* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler: If the curse can spread THAT easily the whole world is screwed.]]
18* AxCrazy: A side-effect of the unstoppable, murderous rage from the curse.
19* BedmateReveal: Played with when [[spoiler: Kayako kills Susan.]]
20* BloodFromTheMouth: After she is killed.
21%%* CameBackWrong
22* ChestBurster: In the extended version of ''The Grudge 2'', Kayako [[spoiler: kills Mrs. Davis by ejecting herself from her mouth as a one-eyed hairball.]]
23* CuteMonsterGirl: Seen as this to some viewers and fans.
24* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Kayako often pulls this on most of her victims. Most notable are [[spoiler: Yoko, Jake, Gretchen, Mrs. Davies and Karen.]]
25* EyeScream: Kayako [[spoiler: gouges out Gretchen's eyes.]]
26%%* GhostlyGoals: Type B.
27* {{Housewife}}: Before being killed by her husband.
28%%* ImplacableMan
29* JumpScare: She pulls this a lot on her victims before actually killing them.
30* MadwomanInTheAttic: Make that dead woman in the attic.
31* MayDecemberRomance: She is madly in love with Peter Kirk, a man who is 21 years older than her.
32* NeckSnap: Used on [[spoiler: Doctor Sullivan in the third film.]]
33%%* NightmareFace
34%%* OurGhostsAreDifferent
35* OhCrap: Kayako's expression when she realises Takeo read her diary.
36%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
37* PeekabooCorpse: Her corpse flies out of the attic in front of Peter.
38* PrehensileHair: Kayako uses her hair to hang Takeo, and kill Vanessa in the second film.
39* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:Kayako is trapped inside Rose's body in ''The Grudge 3'']].
40* SpookyPainting: Kayako emerges from a painting to [[spoiler: kill Gretchen]].
41* SpookyPhotographs: Kayako [[spoiler: kills Eason]] by emerging from one.
42* StalkerWithACrush: Karen found several photos of Kayako stalking Peter and his wife in the background of each photo. She wrote a very personal diary of her feelings for Peter, which Takeo found, leading to the family's deaths.
43* StringyHairedGhostGirl: One of the most iconic examples in cinema.
44* TragicVillain: [[spoiler: She was murdered by her husband then in her dying moments witnessed him murder their son, and the curse seems to permanently keep her in the hate-filled state of mind she was in, if not making it even worse. After witnessing her husband kill Audrey Davis in the same way her husband did she finishes the job, pitying the young girl for meeting her end in the same way as she had]]
45%%* TwistedAnkle
46* WomanScorned: Takeo is apparently her first victim, although it looks like he hung himself.
47%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
48* {{Yandere}}: Shows signs of this in her diary.
49[[/folder]]
50
51[[folder:Toshio Saeki]]
52!!Toshio Saeki
53-->'''Played by:''' Yuya Ozeki (''The Grudge''), Ohga Tanaka (''The Grudge 2''), Shimba Tsuchiya (''The Grudge 3'')
54
55Kayako's young son who was drowned by his father Takeo after witnessing him murder his mother. Appearing as a ghostly pale little boy, Toshio is the only ghost shown to talk but most of the time [[CatScare meows]] at his victims.
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57* BlackEyesOfEvil: Sometimes portrayed as having these, noticeably in box-art.
58* CatScare: He often scares characters (and viewers) by meowing at them, sometimes on the phone.
59* CreepyChild: He sits somewhere in the spooky realm (pun intended) between creepy and adorable. For some people, the sight of a small ghost child with the baby fat still visible on his limbs and torso and a habit of meowing like a cat is actually quite hilarious, but for other people, he falls straight in the uncanny valley, especially when he smiles.
60* CreepyMonotone: Whenever he speaks, his voice is usually low, ominous and almost emotionless.
61* ElevatorSnare: Susan flees Kayako into an [[ElevatorEscape elevator]] and appears to be safe. That is until Toshio is seen on the passing floor, and the next, and the next, and so on and so forth... getting closer with each passing floor.
62* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He wasn't really evil while alive but appears to have been somewhat aloof and distant.
63* KillerRabbit: Despite his harmless appearance, he is actually quite dangerous, and appears to be act with genuine intent to harm. At one point he grins before devouring the soul of a woman, suggesting that he gets a sick, child-like pleasure from his activities.
64* KindHeartedCatLover: He appears to have been very fond of his cat, Mar, the bond was so close that his spirit partially merged with the spirit of the black cat. Yet even in life, he was seldom portrayed acting with affection towards other people.
65* PeekabooCorpse: Averted. His corpse was hidden in a closet, Karen finding the ghost of Toshio in there during her first visit to the house.
66[[/folder]]
67
68[[folder:Takeo Saeki]]
69!!Takeo Saeki
70-->'''Played by:''' Creator/TakashiMatsuyama
71
72Kayako's husband and Toshio's father. Takeo found out about his wife's obsessive crush on Peter Kirk and didn't take it very well. He broke his wife's neck, drowned his son in the bath (to cover up his tracks), and then killed the family cat for some reason. He was then [[spoiler: killed by Kayako's ghost]] although it looks like he hung himself. Part of the curse, Takeo rarely appears and when he does, it is to re-enact the murder of his wife.
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74* AssholeVictim: And the first of many victims, assholes or not.
75* AxCrazy: Seems this way when he attacks Kayako, throwing himself against the walls and doing an eerie head spasm before he breaks his wife's neck.
76* CrazyJealousGuy: Basically how the curse got started. He finds out his wife is in love with another man and that sends him into a UnstoppableRage, causing him to kill his family and (in the Japanese version) kill the pregnant wife of the man she is in love with.
77* DemonicPossession: He pulls this in the third film with Max, killing [[spoiler: Naoko, his sister-in-law]] in the process.
78* DrivenToSuicide: Seemingly hangs himself but is [[spoiler: really killed by Kayako using her own hair as a noose.]]
79* FallenHero: Takeo was a loving father and husband before he found out about Kayako's crush.
80* FreakOut: Takeo has one hell of a one, flipping out and ''cutting Kayako's face out of all the family photos!''
81* HarmfulToMinors: He kills Toshio to cover up his tracks, but is still considered the primary suspect by the police.
82* NeckSnap: Takeo kills Kayako this way, and then with [[spoiler: Aubrey]].
83* RoomFullOfCrazy: The room Takeo uses to hide Kayako's body.
84* ViciousCycle: Subverted. Takeo repeatedly kills victims by re-enacting Kayako's death, although in [[spoiler: Naoko's case he stabbed through the back of the neck with a knife.]]
85* WouldHitAGirl: Would kill one, in fact, for having an obsessive crush on another man.
86* WouldHurtAChild: After snapping his wife's neck, he proceeds to drown their son in the bathtub to cover his tracks.
87[[/folder]]
88
89[[folder:Mar]]
90!!Mar
91
92The [[TeamPet family cat]], Mar was Toshio's best friend until both were murdered by Takeo. Rarely appears but is used to lure victims into the house or appear as a "pilot fish" before Kayako comes for her victims. It is confusing why Takeo killed the cat, but its likely out of pure rage.
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94%%* CatScare
95%%* CatsAreMean
96* RightHandCat: To Toshio mostly.
97%%* TeamPet
98* ThatPoorCat: Not PlayedForLaughs however; Takeo kills him after killing his whole family for no apparent reason.
99[[/folder]]
100
101[[folder:Naoko Kawamata]]
102!!Naoko Kawamata
103-->'''Played by:''' Emi Ikehata
104
105Kayako's sister. Naoko goes to the Chicago apartment to exoricse her sister and end the curse. Unfortunately, it doesn't go very well. [[spoiler: She is attacked by a Takeo-possessed Max and killed by him, only to rise as a ghost like her sister and kill Max.]]
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107* BloodMagic: Naoko conviniently has some of Kayako's blood which must be drank by a willing witness to seal Kayako away.
108%%* CameBackWrong
109%%* CruelAndUnusualDeath
110%%* CuteMonsterGirl
111%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
112* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Much like her sister.
113* TwistedAnkle: [[spoiler:Subverted. Instead of breaking her ankle like her sister before her, Takeo-possessed Max breaks her knee instead.]]
114%%* YouKilledMyFather: Naoko recognises Takeo when he possesses Max as the one who killed her sister.
115[[/folder]]
116
117!Characters in ''The Grudge''
118!!Karen Davis
119-->'''Played by:''' {{Creator/Sarah Michelle Gellar}}
120
121An American careworker living in Tokyo, Karen goes to look after the elderly Emma at the Saeki House and is stalked by Kayako. She investigates the family's murder whilst people around her are consumed by the curse including [[spoiler: her boyfriend Doug]]. She eventually attempts to burn the house down, but [[spoiler: is killed by Kayako in the second film]].
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123* AntiHero: She turns into this when she uses pragmatic methods to end the curse, such as burning the house down.
124* BeautyToBeast: Karen's face is badly burnt and disfigured in the fire, causing her to lose her good looks.
125* BigSisterInstinct: After seeing that Aubrey has come to Tokyo to take her home, she feverishly warns her over and over to stay away from the Saeki House.
126* BreakTheCutie: Poor girl had it rough trying to find the solution to avert the curse. [[spoiler:Then Kayako killed her in the second film...]]
127%%* TheDeterminator
128* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Averted. Kayako actually drags her off the roof of a hospital, making it look like Karen jumped.]]
129* FinalGirl: The protagonist and sole survivor of the first movie.
130* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blond-haired and well-meaning.
131* KillItWithFire: Karen attempts to burn the house down to end the curse, but only ends up making it worse by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero breaking the seal that keeps the curse contained in the house.]]
132* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Burning the house down did not work - it only made things worse, with the curse made easier to spread.
133* SexyDiscretionShot: When she's straddling and kissing Doug, in her pajamas, while talking about how he doesn't have to leave for another twenty minutes, right before the camera cuts away from them.
134* ShowerOfAngst: Karen has one, only for [[MoodWhiplash Kayako's hand to come out of the back of her head!]]
135* SiblingYinYang: With her sister Aubrey.
136* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Is one of the first to go in the second movie. Her hospitalization is why her sister comes to Tokyo, investigating her death is why she gets involved with the curse.
137* TearsOfFear: When she first meets Kayako.
138
139!!Doug
140-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JasonBehr
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142Karen's boyfriend who attends the University of Tokyo. He does not play much of a part in the film until the very end where Karen finds him wandering the Saeki House, both at the mercy of Kayako.
143%%* InnocentBystander
144* NiceGuy: He is an incredibly chill and easy guy to get along with.
145* UnderstandingBoyfriend: After Karen steps into the Saeki house, he stays by her side when she is affected by the curse and haunted by the ghosts of the Saeki family .
146
147!!Peter Kirk
148-->'''Played by:''' Creator/BillPullman
149
150A teacher who Kayako had an obsessive crush on, stalking him and writing quite insanely about him a diary, leading to Takeo murdering his family and creating the curse. Peter visits the Saeki House to talk to Toshio's parents, finding Kayako's corpse and how crazy she was about him. He then is (apparently) DrivenToSuicide.
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152* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Not that he knew about it until too late.
153* DeadStarWalking: He's played by [[Film/IndependenceDay Bill Pullman]], and he dies in the first five minutes. (Of course, he appears later due to the AnachronicOrder of the film, but this trope still applies.)
154* DrivenToSuicide: Although it is strongly implied that he may have been under the influence of the curse.
155* GrossUpCloseUp: In the Director's Cut, the camera focuses on his dead face for a couple of seconds.
156* HotTeacher: In Kayako's eyes anyway.
157
158!!Detective Nakagawa
159-->'''Played by:''' Ryo Ishibashi
160
161A Japanese police detective, Nakagawa is the latest in a long line of officers investigating the Saeki house deaths, three officers (who were also his friends) before him disappearing. A bit of a HardboiledDetective, Nakagawa eventually attempts to destroy the house by burning it down. He fails.
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163* BeardOfSorrow: A taped interview with him in the second film discussing the disappearance of his colleagues and the death of the Williams family shows him looking extremely unkempt.
164* CompositeCharacter: He shares the name and profession of Detective Nakagawa from the original ''Film/{{Juon}}'' film series, but his personality and actions are closer to that of retired detective Toyama, also from ''Film/{{Juon}}''. Like Toyama, he lost his colleagues to the curse, and also tries to burn the house down.
165%%* FairCop
166%%* HardboiledDetective
167%%* TheInspector
168* ItsPersonal: It's implied that one of the driving forces behind his attempt to destroy the house is due to three of his friends being claimed by the curse.
169* KillItWithFire: Nakagawa attempts to burn down the house, but is [[spoiler: lured to his doom by Toshio and Takeo.]]
170
171!!The Williams Family (Matthew, Jennifer, Emma, Susan)
172-->'''Matthew played by:''' Creator/WilliamMapother
173-->'''Jennifer played by:''' {{Creator/Clea DuVall}}
174-->'''Emma played by:''' Grace Zabriskie
175-->'''Susan played by:''' Creator/KaDeeStrickland
176
177The American family who moved into the Saeki house after the murders were cleared up. However, they all quickly become part of the curse on the house.
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179* BedmateReveal: Susan gets a nasty surprise when Kayako pops up in her bed.
180* CrazyCatLady: Emma seemingly acts like this at times.
181* DeathFromAbove: Emma is killed when Kayako descends from the ceiling to end her life.
182* DemonicPossession: In deleted scenes, Matthew is possessed by Takeo.
183* ElevatorEscape: Susan flees from Kayako's ghost into an elevator, not noticing Toshio watching her on every passing floor.
184* FamilyVersusCareer: Subtly hinted at with Susan. She wears a wedding ring and one out-of-focus picture in her apartment might be of a little boy (the lighting makes it hard to tell), but she seems to live alone while she works at her overseas job.
185* FishOutOfWater: Jennifer feels particularly out of touch in Japan.
186* GrumpyOldMan: Emma seems like this at first, but it quickly becomes obvious that the reason she acts so sullen is because she knows something isn't right with the house.
187* HonestCorporateExecutive: Susan comes across as one, although it isn't shown exactly what she does so it's hard to tell for sure. She's seen working in a cubicle and talking into a headset, and spends all of her screen time prior to being menaced by the ghosts either showing concerns about getting her mother safe and pleasant care or being respectful of local customs.
188
189!!Yoko and Alex Jones
190-->'''Yoko played by:''' Yoko Maki
191-->'''Alex played by:''' {{Creator/Ted Raimi}}
192
193Employees at a careworkers office. Alex runs the business, whilst Yoko is meant to be caring for Emma. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of the curse and suffers a painful death. Alex later meets his end at the hands of Yoko's ghost.
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195* JawBreaker: [[spoiler:Yoko]] ends up with her jaw torn off at Kayako's hands.
196
197
198!Characters in ''The Grudge 2''
199!!Aubrey Davis/[[spoiler:The New Kayako]]
200-->'''Played by:''' Creator/AmberTamblyn
201
202Karen's younger sister and mistreated by her controlling mother. She goes to Japan to bring Karen home, but soon gets involved in the curse of the Saeki household.
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204* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[spoiler:When Karen is killed.]]
205%%* BreakTheCutie
206* CallingTheOldManOut: She finally tells her mother ''exactly'' how she feels. [[spoiler:Sadly, it's the last time they ever speak.]]
207* FusionDance: [[spoiler:It's possible that by dying the same way as Kayako, not only she becomes the new Kayako, but has somehow assimilated with Kayako herself into one onryo entity, similar to what Kayako would do with another protagonist and [[Literature/TheRing Sadako]] in the ending of Kayako's later crossover outing ''Film/SadakoVsKayako''.]]
208* InnocentBystander: Somewhat so, she goes headfirst into trying to stop whatever killed her sister, however after witnessing Karen's demise by The Grudge she wants nothing to do with the curse, taking both Karen and Eason's warning to heart to stay out of the house. Unfortunately [[spoiler:Toshio drags her across the threshold inside the house, therefore marking her with the curse.]]
209%%* KillTheCutie
210* NeckSnap [[spoiler:She meets her end in the same way as Kayako: having her neck snapped by Takeo.]]
211* StringyHairedGhostGirl: [[spoiler:The ending shows that she too has become an onryo.]]
212* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[spoiler:Becomes the new Kayako.]]
213* WellDoneSonGuy: Has a bit of this going on with her mother.
214
215!!Eason
216-->'''Played by:''' Edison Chen
217
218An IntrepidReporter from Hong Kong who rescued Karen from the house fire but is also cursed as a result.
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220%%* IntrepidReporter
221%%* NiceGuy
222* SpookyPhotographs: One of his many photographs of the Saeki house reveal that the curse has spread by showing Kayako's silhouette emerging from the house. [[spoiler:Which then leads into Kayako herself emerging from the photo.]]
223
224!!Mrs. Davis
225-->'''Played by:''' Joanna Cassidy
226
227Karen and Aubrey's abusive, terminally ill mother.
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229* AbusiveParents: She makes it clear that she prefers Karen over Aubrey, and subjects the latter to constant emotional abuse.
230%%* CruelAndUnusualDeath
231%%* GrumpyOldMan
232* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Having a terminal illness causes her to have this and breathing difficulties as mentioned above.
233%%* JawBreaker
234* {{Jerkass}}: She goes really hard on Aubrey, forcing her to face triad after triad.
235
236!!Allison Fleming, Vanessa and Miyuki Nazawa
237-->'''Allison played by:''' Creator/ArielleKebbel
238-->'''Vanessa played by:''' Creator/TeresaPalmer
239-->'''Miyuki played by:''' Misako Uno
240
241A trio of students in Japan who visit the Saeki house. Vanessa and Miyuki trap Allison in the closet until [[spoiler:Kayako/Aubrey]] appears and they soon become victims of the curse.
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243* AlphaBitch: Vanessa is the queen bee and most popular girl in school but has a very mean streak and picks on targets like Allison.
244* AmbiguouslyChristian: Allison has an angel decoration in her room in a DeletedScene but otherwise doesn't display any overt religious beliefs.
245* AssholeVictim: Vanessa suffers an incredibly cruel fate from the curse, but she is a jerk and bully [[LaserGuidedKarma whose actions led to her own demise]].
246* BeautyIsBad: Vanessa is very beautiful but can be very cruel [[spoiler:and she is responsible for unleashing the curse and potentially dooming humanity.]]
247* BeautyToBeast: Vanessa and Miyuki when [[spoiler:they are transformed into horrifying onryƍs by the curse. Vanessa also loses her good looks while she is still alive, as, at the start of the movie, she is considered by her classmates to be the prettiest girl in the school by far but, by the time she enters the principal's office, she is no longer beautiful and is less attractive than many of her classmates. This process is accelerated in a delete scene, in which the curse has significantly disfigured Vanessa and she becomes distraught in the hallway when she realizes she has become ugly.]]
248* BreakTheCutie: Allison is a shy wallflower that just wanted to be popular but ends up having her life ruined by the curse.
249* BreakTheHaughty: Vanessa starts as a [[AlphaBitch vain, haughty school beauty and queen bee]] that likes to lord her good looks over her friends and has a penchant for bullying certain targets. She loses her haughtiness after being terrorized by the curse [[spoiler:and loses all her beauty as an effect of the curse, and becomes unpopular and much less pretty than the girls she used to make fun of.]]
250* TheBully: Vanessa and Miyuki, although Vanessa is the worst.
251* DirtyCoward: Even though she claims to be brave and tough, when Alison starts screaming in horror after seeing the ghost in a cupboard, Vanessa pushes Miyuki and bolts out of the house. She looks back a couple of times but keeps running and leaves her "friends" behind. Every time she is haunted by the ghosts after that, she always flees in panic.
252%%* DisconnectedByDeath: [[spoiler:Vanessa.]]
253* FemmeFatalons: Miyuki certainly has a long set of nails. [[spoiler:She retains them after becoming a ghost.]]
254* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: A DeletedScene shows that Allison has a yellow teddy bear by her alarm clock.
255* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Vanessa. Despite being an AlphaBitch who vilely bullied Allison and Miyuki, cruelly pranked and scared Allison and got several people killed with her dangerous and careless actions she seemed genuinely concerned when she found out Miyuki was missing, trying to contact her and seemed genuinely remorseful of her actions, which may Imply she was not a bad person but just your typical Insecure and misunderstood teenager who wanted to make people think she was cool and fit in.
256* KarmicTransformation: Isolated, shattered, and disfigured after encounters with and by the effects of the curse, Vanessa loses her status as both queen bee and hot girl of the school for good. She would likely never be popular again and, with her beauty gone, would no longer be one of the prettier girls, some of whom she lorded her looks over and made feel insecure but would now would always be more beautiful.
257* KickTheDog: Vanessa does the kicking, and the dog is usually Allison.
258* LoveHotels: Miyuki goes to one with her boyfriend.
259%%* ManipulativeBastard: Vanessa.
260%%* MurderedInAPhoneBooth: [[spoiler:Vanessa.]]
261* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Allison eventually flees back to the US, hoping that she'll leave the curse behind. It doesn't work. It results in the curse following her and killing her family, Jake's family, and everyone else who enters the apartment building.]]
262* RoomFullOfCrazy: Allison's bedroom, after the curse completely and utterly breaks her.
263* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Allison flees back to her parents' home after being subjected to a series of hauntings in Japan. Unfortunately for her, the curse isn't confined to Japan.
264* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: Being menaced by ghosts in a country she's just arrived in without any of her loved ones has this effect on Allison. A deleted scene shows her calling her parents just to hear their voices. After Miyuki and Vanessa vanish, a desperate Allison repeatedly tells the school counselor that "I just want to go home." Sadly, while she does make it home, this does nothing to remove her from danger.
265* TraumaticHaircut: Allison has a self-inflicted version when she cuts off most of her hair while sobbing in fear after Kayoko uses people's own hair to envelop them during her hauntings.
266* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Vanessa unleashes the curse to the world when she pressures Allison and Miyuki to enter the Saeki house.
267* WithFriendsLikeThese: Allison is cruelly mocked and manipulated by both Vanessa and Miyuki. Vanessa is also extremely mean and scornful towards Miyuki, in spite of their supposed friendship, and Miyuki seems to be pretty afraid of Vanessa, likely only going along with her schemes to appease her.
268
269!!The Kimble Family (Bill, Trish, Lacey, Jake)
270-->'''Bill played by:''' Christopher Cousins
271-->'''Trish played by:''' Creator/JenniferBeals
272-->'''Lacey played by:''' Sarah Roemer
273-->'''Jake played by:''' Matthew Knight
274
275A family living in Chicago who become victims of the curse. Jakes survives his first encounter with Kayako in ''The Grudge 2'' and is hospitalized in ''The Grudge 3'' where [[spoiler: he gets killed when Kayako breaks nearly every bone in his body.]]
276----
277%%* BreakTheCutie
278* CoolBigSis: Lacey clearly cares deeply for her little brother.
279* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Having every bone twisted and snapped in your body has ''got'' to suck.]]
280* DemonicPossession: Bill and Trish come to unknowingly act like Kayako and Takeo, with Bill becoming insanely jealous of anything Trish does without his knowledge. In a reversal, Trish is the one to kill Bill first.
281* {{Determinator}}: Is one of the rare victims who tries to fight Kayako [[spoiler: before she kills him.]]
282* [[FinalGirl Final Guy]]: Well, Jake ''did'' survive the ending of the second film.
283* FryingPanOfDoom: How Trish kills Bill, right in the very first scene of the movie. After burning him with bacon grease.
284* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Lacey.
285* HollywoodDrowning: Subverted. [[spoiler:Lacey is drowned in the bathtub, but it's a completely silent affair, and Jake is further distracted from hearing anything from the terror of finding his own father's corpse.]]
286* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Played straight in the second film, where Jake survives the events of the second film. [[spoiler:Then he gets slapped with SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome ''hard'', therefore averting this trope in the third film.]]
287%%* KillTheCutie:
288* NotNowKiddo: Averted. While it's unclear if Lacey believes Jake about what he's been seeing, she doesn't outright dismiss him and lets him sleep in her room.
289* OhCrap: "She's here!"
290* PomPomGirl: Lacey is a cheerleader, but one of the films nicest characters/
291* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Jake dies very quickly in the follow-up film, shown being institutionalized then dying not too long after.]]
292* TearsOfFear: After Allison's death at the end of the second film.
293* WickedStepmother: A tragic subversion due to the effects of the curse. Trish is a very nice woman who knows that Jake will need time to adjust to her presence, and she's willing to work things out with him at his own pace. Then arguments start happening between her and Bill...
294
295!Characters in ''The Grudge 3'':
296!!Dr. Francine Sullivan
297--> '''Played by:''' Creator/ShawneeSmith
298
299Jake's caseworker and psychologist who begins investigating the curse [[spoiler:After Jake is killed.]]
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