The characters in Deadly Night
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Protagonists/Playable Characters
Carol
- Voiced by: Maria Moore (adult), Sarah Elizabet (child)
- Abusive Parents: Her mom prostituted her as a child, so she killed her by causing a house fire.
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Dylan's Cain.
- Create Your Own Villain: In starting the house fire to escape her abusive mother, Carol had no idea that her brother would become a psychotic Serial Killer, let alone abduct her.
- Ms. Fanservice: Gets a gratuitous Shower Scene. Then again, it's hard to find so few polygons attractive.
- Plagued by Nightmares: She constantly suffers nightmares harkening back to her dark past.
- Self-Made Orphan: As a kid, she started a house fire to kill her mother, because Carol wanted to escape from her mother's prostitution of her.
- Trauma Conga Line: First, her boyfriend cheats on her. Then, he leaves her stranded alone at a gas station after she confronts him about it. Then, she gets plagued by nightmares of her childhood sex abuse. Then, she gets sexually harassed and kidnapped by a pervy motel owner. Then, she's kidnapped by a serial killer. Then, her old wounds are reopened when she learns the killer is her long lost brother. Carol really never got a break.
Susan
Cop
A police officer who can possible appear as a playable character is Carol calls 911 in the motel.
- Big Damn Heroes: Can be this, coming in the end to save Carol and Susan from Dylan.
- Police Are Useless: Averted. If Carol actually calls 911, the police officer will investigate the circumstances of Dylan’s murder spree before coming to the farm to save Susan and Carol.
- Sole Survivor: If Carol and Susan are killed by Dylan and Carol called the police earlier, the cop can come and kill Dylan, being the last one to live.
Antagonists
The Killer
- Abusive Parents: Both his biological and adoptive parents. His birth parents were alcoholics who would lock him in a closet while Carol was prostituted to pedophiles by their mother. After the house fire and death of their birth mother, Carol and Dylan were put in foster care and relocated to Mr. Miller. While Carol was adopted by a normal family, Dylan remained with Mr. Miller, who turned out to be a cannibal psychopath and groomed his adoptive son to be just like him.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Carol's Abel.
- Cannibal Clan: Abducts and kills people to eat them. He learned it from his adoptive father.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Seemed to still love his Adopted father Mr. Miller, taking up his serial killing cannibalism.
- Expy: Superficially, he resembles Leatherface, as a hefty, rural psycho cannibal. But story-wise, he's much like Michael Myers (barring the Blumhouse trilogy), as the surprise long-lost brother of the Final Girl.
- Facial Horror: Wears a mask to hide his horrible burn scars.
- Fat Bastard: An overweight cannibal serial killer, to be precise.
- Final Boss: If Carol managed to call 911 in the Motel section, the game will have the player assume control of the cop that was dispatched and face off against Dylan one final time, armed with a gun.
- Freudian Excuse: Not only was he abused by his birth mother and disfigured in a house fire, but he was adopted by an even ''worse'' abuser who forced him to eat human meat and corrupted him into a serial killer.
- I'm a Humanitarian: He was raised to be a cannibal by his adoptive father.
- Long-Lost Relative: Carol and Dylan were adopted by different parents after the fire.
- Pre-Insanity Reveal: Was shown to be a loving and normal, if naive, young kid before turning into the serial killer he is today.
- Revenge: His targeting of Carol isn't coincidental. She accidentally scarred him as a kid by starting a house fire.
- Sinister Scythe: Like the Easter Ripper, he wields a sickle.
- Tom the Dark Lord: One of the few killers to only be addressed by their real name, lacking any epithet whatsoever.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Was a naive and kind brother in the flashbacks, and him being scarred and raised into an terrible environment turned him to become a psychotic serial killer.
Mr. Shiny
The perverted owner of the motel who stes up cameras in his motels to make tapes of the tenants apartment.
- Asshole Victim: While his ultimate death is brutal, it’s hard to feel any sympathety for him.
- Evil Is Hammy: Outright chews the scenery, with the actor yelling his lines bombastically.
- Fat Bastard: A large, portly and perverted man.
- Hate Sink: Absolutely nothing is shown to be good about this guy.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Is killed by The Killer via getting pinned on a wall.
Carol’s Mother
Carol and Dylan’s disgustingly abusive mother who’s death kickstarts the whole game.
- Abusive Parents: BIG TIME. While never treating Dylan right, locking him in a closet, he sells her own daughter to pedophiles for money for booze.
- Dying Declaration of Hate: If the nightmare is to be believed, her last words while burning to death was insulting Carol and calling her a whore.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Serves this with Mr. Miller.
- Greed: Is purely motivated by money, not caring for her daughter’s well being, which she is explicit in.
- Hate Sink: One of the worst characters in Puppet Combo’s Lineup, while not even being the killer, with being an abusive mother who pimps her own preteen daughter out to pedophiles.
- Would Hurt a Child: Her own children no less.
Mr. Miller
An old man who owned a local farm and took in Dylan after his mother’s death, but in reality is a serial killer and cannibal who taught Dylan his ways and caused him to be a serial killer like him long after his death.
- Abusive Parents: More accurately adopted parent, as he turns Dylan into a serial killer, and was explicit violent with the boy when he wouldn’t enjoy the human flesh he made him.
- Ax-Crazy: Likely is this given Dylan’s diary entries about him.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Shares this with Carol’s Mother.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Serial murders and eats people, and taught Dylan to do the same.
- Villainous Legacy: Despite him being dead, his serial killing cannibalism is taken up again by his adopted son, Dylan.
