Characters / Fear Street Trilogy

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Main Characters

Deena

Deena Johnson

Played By: Kiana Madeira

• Agent Scully: Deena (initially) doesn't believe in the Curse, in contrast to her brother being part of a group devoted to gathering information on the Shadyside killers and the Witch's curse.
• Always Save the Girl: Her main priority is keeping her girlfriend alive and wouldn't accept if the latter is willing to sacrifice herself to save everyone else.
• Apologetic Attacker: Becomes this after accidentally wrecking the Sunnyvale car towards Sam, saying she's sorry repeatedly as she checks to make sure she's okay.
• Blinded by Rage: The one time Deena acts out of uncharacteristically angry impulse is when she sees that Sam is in the Carload of Cool Kids from Sunnyvale that is harassing the Shadyside bus. This leads to her grabbing the drink cooler, apparently planning to dump it on the car, which would be dangerous enough... though given her reaction when Sarah Fier's influence makes her throw the cooler at the car, it's clear she didn't intend to do any real harm, even in the depths of her anger.
• The Champion: For Sam, particularly once their relationship restarts.
• Determinator: Deena has a will of iron when it comes to protecting her loved ones, facing down threats mundane and supernatural without hesitation. All attempts to talk her down or discourage her fail, and she never stops looking for a way to save Sam, even when C. Berman tries to dissuade her. This fierce determination ultimately inspires others to fight as well; both times Deena is cornered, she's able to inspire others to fight alongside her, putting the odds in her favor. Her determination is such that Deena becomes the one to, finally, avenge Sarah Fier's unjust death, and free Shadyside from the Goode curse.
• Due to the Dead: Deena makes sure to give Sarah Fier's actual resting place a proper headstone for the first time in centuries, and even claims her as the first Shadysider; she also fulfills Sarah Fier's last, hopeless wish with her lover, re-enacting the date Sarah wished to have with Hannah with her own girlfriend Sam.
• Final Girl: Deena is the heroine of the trilogy, using her sharp wits, courage, and most of all her simple unwillingness to quit to overcome the supernatural killers stalking her and her friends.
• In Another Man's Shoes: Deena experiences this when she finally reunites Sarah Fier's hand with her corpse, letting her access all of Sarah's memories and see the events of her last few days alive... which leads to the final reveal that the Goode family is responsible, not Sarah Fier.
• Lethal Chef: Both Josh and Mr. Johnson are not particularly fond of Deena’s cooking.
• Only Sane Man: Comes off as this in her interactions with a lot of her friends; she's less nerdy and more practical than her brother, and she admonishes Kate and Simon for restarting their drug-dealing business. She's really only irrational when it comes to Sam, since her emotions run high when the girl she loves is involved.
• Promoted to Parent: With Mr. Johnson always working or drinking, Deena has been responsible for taking care of herself and her younger brother.
• Queer Establishing Moment: The first time we see Deena, she is writing a letter to her ex "Sam". We later see her looking at a couple, and we are led to believe that the boy is the ex in question... till the girl confronts her afterwards and Deena addresses her as Sam.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Willing to fight an army of the undead to protect Sam, she will not surrender until the curse is broken and her girlfriend can be safe.

Sam

Samantha "Sam" Fraser

Played By: Olivia Scott Welch

• Damsel in Distress: Sam spends most of the trilogy in danger, with Deena and the others fighting to save her from undead killers or demonic possession. She pulls her own weight when she can, to her credit, and is willing to die to save others; she just doesn't get much of a chance to do either, due to the aforementioned possession.
• Demonic Possession: After her near-death experience, her name is added to the list of Killers and she becomes possessed. The second and third films involve Deena's quest to free her.
• Deadpan Snarker: When the gang figures out the killers are following Sam and Josh tells everyone to make sure they have none of her blood on them, she snarkly quips that there's not much she can do about that.
• Face Death with Dignity: Despite clearly being scared shitless, she composedly holds her ground in front of an undead serial killer storming towards her to stick an ax in her chest. Even before, she didn't hold it against the others for wanting to sacrifice her if it meant the killings would stop, and the last thing she does before going out alone is to quietly rest her forehead against Deena's as a last goodbye.
  • Same thing happens later, when she has to OD to get her heart to stop and break the curse. She's visibly scared and upset by having to die, but still goes through with it with no hesitation after getting some reassurance from Deena, only faltering when the drugs start to kick in and she gets dizzy.
• Fighting from the Inside: She briefly manages to remember Deena long enough to stop herself from choking her to death in 1994 Part Two, allowing Deena to safely knock her out.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Accepts to die to put a stop to the curse and keep the group safe.
• Preserve Your Gays: Despite dying briefly at the end of 1994 and almost becoming a victim of the curse, Sam makes it to the end of the series alive and well.
• Transparent Closet: After moving to Sunnyvale and breaking up with Deena, she tried going back into the closet despite that everyone we meet, including her boyfriend, are well aware of their relationship (although the more unsympathetic characters like her Mom put all the "blame" on Deena alone.)

Josh

Josh Johnson

Played By: Benjamin Flores Jr.

• Alliterative Name: Josh Johnson.
• Agent Mulder: Is part of an online group of people devoted to investigating the involvement of the witch's curse in the different murder sprees that happen in Shadyside. Deena says this obsession is the reason he doesn't have friends.
• Black and Nerdy: Josh spends most of his time on the internet, then still a fringe technology.
• Guile Hero: Josh is not physically strong or tough, but he's clever and has extensive knowledge of the lore surrounding the Shadyside curse. His information and quick thinking repeatedly helps them escape danger, helping them to uncover clues on how to end the curse.
• Metal Head: Is listening to Iron Maiden while on his computer and White Zombie while playing Castlevania: Bloodlines.
• Mr. Exposition: As the "witch nerd" he's the one that explains to the group the previous killers' identities, MOs, and the way they're connected to the curse.

C. Berman

C. Berman a.k.a. Christine Berman

Played By: Gillian Jacobs

• Adults Are Useless: She is initially reluctant to help Deena and Josh, convinced that trying to stop the curse is pointless. They are eventually able to convince her to help them, and she proves to be a valuable ally once she's rediscovered her courage.
• Broken Bird: Being the Final Girl of a massacre isn't great for one's mental health. When we first see her, she seems to need alarm clocks to set every detail of her life and is a possible alcoholic.
• Experienced Protagonist: She is the sole survivor of the previous generation's massacre, though she's initial reluctant to get involved again.
• Final Girl: Newspapers identify her as the sole survivor of the Camp Nightwing massacre, bringing her to the attention of the Johnson siblings.
• The Reveal: Her name was never revealed in the papers, and she recounts the events of the Camp Nightwing massacre in a manner that makes her identity unclear. It isn't until the conclusion that she confirms to Deena and Josh that she's not Cindy, but Ziggy.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss her character without revealing that she is Christine "Ziggy" Berman, the protagonist of 1978.

Nick

Sheriff Nick Goode

Played By: Ashley Zukerman (1994), Ted Sutherland (1978)

• Big Bad: As the latest member of the Goode family, he is the source of the curse and the main villain of the series.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Initially seems to be a reasonable, good-natured guy, and he has a romantic subplot with Ziggy in 1978, until it's revealed that he is current one keeping up the Shadyside curse.
• Dramatic Irony: One of the few acts of genuine good he does, ends up biting him and his family back hard in the future. As his successful attempt to revive Ziggy in 1978 gives Deena and her friend group an idea on how to save themselves from the Shadyside killers and it also gives them a lead to where Sarah's hand was so they could reunite it with her body. Giving them a full picture to all the horrible things done by the Goode Family, the truth of the curse and Nick's role in it.
• Dirty Cop: After he's revealed to be the Big Bad among his many more arcane and monstrous crimes it's also revealed he's been framing Martin (and presumably other Shadysiders) for more mundane crimes, like tagging.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Nick clearly has feelings for Ziggy, stating his intentions to protect her. He's wounded trying to protect her from the killer, and later performs CPR to save her life. Even many years later, he seems to have a soft spot for her when she confronts him at Shadyside Mall. That doesn't stop him from threatening to kill her, when the heroes have him cornered, thus subverting this trope.
• Evil All Along: He is the latest scion of the Goode family and as such, is responsible for keeping up the curse that plagues Shadyside.
• Evil Is Petty: Frames Martin for leaving graffiti over the mall for seemingly no other reason that he can,
• Politically Incorrect Villain: As he is about to stab her, Goode calls Deena a "dyke".
• Star-Crossed Lovers: As a teenager, he had a crush on Ziggy, the self-described "weird girl" from Shadyside. It clearly did not work out for them, with Nick following in his father's footsteps as Sheriff while Ziggy barely survived the massacre and becomes a shut-in.
• Three Successful Generations: Nick's father and grandfather were both Sheriff before him, marking the Goodes as the most prominent family in Sunnyvale.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard not to talk about Sheriff Goode without spoiling the fact that he's the real villain of the trilogy.

Martin

Martin P. Franklin

Played By: Darrell Britt-Gibson

• Adults Are Useless: Completely averted. Despite his own fears, Martin is more than willing to help Deena and Josh end the curse and proves to be an invaluable ally.
• Black Dude Dies First: Averted. Martin was working the night of the massacre at Shadyside Mall, but he survived without encountering the possessed killer. He also survives the final confrontation in the mall.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Martin is first introduced as a janitor in the mall, and seems like a background character. But after Josh helps him at the police station, he offers a card with his contact information. The Johnson siblings turn to him for help in the final chapter, utilizing his knowledge of Mall Security to come up with a plan to deal with the killers.

Sarah

Sarah Fier

Played By: Kiana Madeira, Elizabeth Scopel (True Appearance)

• An Arm and a Leg: The legend focuses heavily on her severed right hand, which she supposedly cut off as part of her deal with the Devil. In reality, she lost it while struggling to defend herself against Solomon. Her hand is supposedly the centerpiece of the curse.
  • There's even some theories about how the hand might be used to end the curse; the party in 1978 comes to the conclusion that reuniting Sarah Fier's corpse with her hand will put an end to it. It doesn't... but reuniting Sarah Fier's corpse with her hand not only makes her whole, but makes the memories she gives others much more complete. Reuniting Sarah Fier's corpse with her hand thus is instrumental in ending the curse, just not the way anyone in 1978 thought.
• Big Bad: The witch who cast the curse that makes Shadyside's people turn into slasher movie villains.
  • Big Good: Sarah Fier's actual role- her intervention is the only reason the curse on Shadyside can be broken.
• Butch Lesbian: This is downplayed given the gender roles of her time period, but Sarah is much brasher and more masculine in personality than her lover Hannah. Her father even says this of her, saying that she was "raised like a boy."
• Composite Character: Of Sarah Fear from the Fear Street Cheerleaders series and Susannah Goode from The Fear Street Saga: The Betrayal. She retains Sarah's history as a legendary spirit whose grave was disturbed during a bus crash and source of a curse among the residents of Shadyside, and is also not the real Big Bad, instead actively fighting the curse and dying to it herself. On the other hand, she lived during the 1600s and was killed during a witch hunt orchestrated by a member of the rival family (Simon Fier in the books, Solomon Goode in the movies) and had a Star-Crossed Lovers forbidden romance: all key beats of Susannah's story.
• Dark Is Not Evil: As stated above, Sarah Fier is basically the Big Good of the series; without her, Deena would never have figured out that the Goode family were behind it. Even Nurse Lane, who was otherwise the most knowledgeable about Shadyside's curse, had no idea that the Goode family were behind it; only Sarah Fier's ghost could tell the true story behind the town's suffering.
• Dying Curse: According to legend, Sarah cursed the land just before she was hanged. Sarah's dying promise was to expose the Truth, ensuring that one day someone would learn her story and break Solomon's curse.
  Sarah: The truth will come out. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but it will. The truth shall be your curse. It will follow you for eternity. I will shadow you forever. I will show them what you’ve done. I will never let you go.
• Good All Along: Sarah Fier was never a witch. She was accused by the townsfolk and ultimately framed by Solomon Goode, the real party responsible for the town's curse; in fact, Sarah Fier's last acts before being caught and dragged to her hanging were attempts to stop him!
• Precursor Heroes: Sarah Fier was the first person to try and stop the curse, with her attempt in 1666 directed at the man who started it, Solomon Goode.
• Related in the Adaptation: In the books, Sarah married into the Fier family. Here, she was born into it, making this also a case of Adaptation Name Change, as her original name in the novels was Jane Hardy.
• The Scapegoat: When the village of Union began suffering misfortune, the people were quick to accuse Sarah of being a witch. Solomon uses this to pin his crimes on her, and his descendants continue the legend of the Witch to conceal the truth.
• Walking Spoiler: The truth of Sarah's curse is the central mystery of the trilogy.

1994

Kate

Kate Schmidt

Played By: Julia Rehwald

• Anti-Hero: Kate is more morally... flexible than the others, between her dealing drugs and her willingness to sacrifice others to save herself. She changes her mind, and ultimately dies while acting as bait to buy Deena and Sam more time.
• Brainy Brunette: Black-haired, and valedictorian.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Has her head shoved through a bread slicer. Notably, her death haunts Josh for a bit after, and not just because of his crush on her.
• Everyone Has Standards: Kate is not above having the children she’s babysitting sort her drugs for her (albeit while also making it very clear that they are not allowed to have any, as well as lying to them about what it is)— but when a man (who she thinks is Sam’s boyfriend Peter) breaks into the house, Kate not only immediately takes the children over to a neighbor’s house to watch them, but is also furious that he would endanger and scare the kids in that way.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Sam. Kate goes from being being angry at her on Deena's behalf and wanting to sacrifice her to save herself to risking and ultimately losing her life to allow Sam the chance to die temporarily to stop her from dying for real.
• Getting High on Their Own Supply: Kate explicitly states that she doesn't use, and only sells drugs in the hopes of saving up enough to leave Shadyside.
• High-School Hustler: She's a drug dealer with surprisingly thorough connections; the fact that a nurse at the local Shadyside hospital is one of her clients is how she's able to get Deena access to Sam when she really shouldn't. Unusually for this trope, Kate's also a cheerleader and a valedictorian.
• The Lad-ette: Despite being a cheerleader, she still has a bit of boorish and abrasive nature in her and cusses a lot.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Kate’s Shadyside’s head cheerleader, and is equally snarky and charming. Unusually for this character archetype, she's also a drug dealer.
• Sacrificial Lion: Her death in the climax sets up the fact that the main characters can die. Sure enough, Simon dies soon after she does.
• What You Are in the Dark: When defeating the killers seems impossible, Kate insists that they sacrifice Sam so that the rest of them can live— rather than keep fighting when they have no chance and getting them all killed. When Deena realizes that they have even a slim chance to save Sam, however, Kate is immediately onboard and puts herself in danger to help.

Simon

Simon Kalivoda

Played By: Fred Hechinger

• Alone Among the Couples: After Sam and Deena get back together and Josh and Kate hook up.
• Big Brother Mentor: Becomes this to Josh in a way, giving him a pep talk to encourage him to be more assertive.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Sam and Deena run by at breakneck speed and tell the group to flee, he wonders out loud if they got back together.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Sam. After initially joining Kate in wanting to sacrifice her to save himself, he like the rest of the group risks his life in a gambit to save Sam and like Kate dies in the process.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite his easy-going, stoner persona, Deena mentions that Simon has been financially supporting his family since the age of fifteen. He's also apparently a good worker, since his picture is on the grocery store's "Employee of the Month" wall multiple times.
  • He's very knowledgeable about drugs, their effects, and how to pace oneself when taking them. Justified as he's a dealer.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Gets his leg slashed bad by Ruby Lane, but just kind of ignores it afterwards. Might be justified as he's clearly a little high for a lot of the film.
• Nice Guy: Simon is a friendly fellow, and Josh describes him as "funny and brave" after his death. He does mock Josh for being a nerd, but then is quite supportive afterwards, indicating he probably didn't mean any harm by his mockery.
• One of the Girls: His only friends seen in the series are all girls: Kate and Deena and by implication Sam used to be part of their group before she "abandoned" them to Sunnyvale.
• Stoners Are Funny: Simon is clearly a little bit blitzed for the whole movie, and provides a lot of comic relief.

Peter

Peter

Played By: Jeremy Ford

• The Beard: He is Sam's new trophy "boyfriend" for her new "perfect" Sunnyvale life in an effort to hide the fact that she's a lesbian.
• Incompatible Orientation: He's in a relationship with Sam, a lesbian, and seems to be aware of it.
• Jerkass: Mocks Shadyside at a memorial of all places and shows no empathy for those touched by the tragedies.
• Pet the Dog: By all accounts, Peter was a classist, homophobic jerk — however, he did stay with Sam all night at the hospital, seemingly of his own accord.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He isn't of huge importance to the main characters, but his decision to tailgate the Shadyside bus is what leads directly to Sam finding the grave of Sarah Fier, which kickstarts the entire plot.

Heather

Heather

Played By: Maya Hawke

• Decoy Protagonist: Heather is the focus of the opening scene, built up as a clever and strong-willed Final Girl. Instead, she's the last victim of the most recent Shadyside killer.
• Expy: She serves the same role as Casey Becker from the first Scream (1996) movie, being the Decoy Final Girl who is tormented by a white-masked killer and unmasks the latter just before she succumbs to her wounds. Even the casting choice and the way she dies are similar!

1978

Cindy

Cindy Berman

Played By: Emily Rudd

• Decoy Protagonist: She is set up as C. Berman, the lone survivor of the Nightwing massacre, due to her initial and meeting the traits of the Final Girl archetype. However, she ends up being hacked to death at the end and it is her sister Ziggy (whose real name is Christine) who is in fact the survivor.
• Final Girl: Cindy is the more wholesome sister, and trying to leave behind her former friends and Shadyside for a better life. Subverted. Cindy sacrifices herself trying to save Ziggy, and is hacked to death by her possessed boyfriend.
  • Also a Deconstructed Character Archetype: her wholesome, good girl image is one that she has spent a lot of time and effort cultivating, hoping that following the rules and working hard will get her out of Shadyside. This also cost her her friendship with Alice due to her throwing Alice under the bus when they were younger in order to save herself. Also, it ultimately does nothing to save her from the killers.
• From Dress to Dressing: Cindy is initially obsessed with keeping her fancy polo shirt clean. After admitting to her mistakes, she rips material from it to make splint for Alice.
• Staking the Loved One: Cindy admits when asked that she couldn't possibly kill Tommy. She finds the strength to put her possessed boyfriend down to save Ziggy. When he revives and kils Alice, Cindy decapitates him with a shovel. Too bad it doesn't save her.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Cindy spends most of the night doing everything she can to save her sister. When cornered, she tries to save Ziggy by fighting the undead killers. The sisters die together without breaking the curse, and Ziggy expresses the belief that Cindy sacrificed herself for nothing.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Cindy is trying to become more wholesome and has a boyfriend, in comparison to her more rebellious sister.

Ziggy

Christine "Ziggy" Berman

Played By: Sadie Sink

• Burn the Witch!: Sheila and her friends threaten to do this to Ziggy, and take it as far as burning her arm with a lighter before counselors intervene.
• Cynicism Catalyst: She was already cynical enough to begin with, but the death of her older sister finally destroys whatever's left of her optimism.
• Fiery Redhead: She is both red-haired and hot-tempered.
• Final Girl: Newspapers identify her as the sole survivor of the Camp Nightwing massacre, bringing her to the attention of the Johnson siblings.
• Given Name Reveal: Her name is revealed as Christine at the end of 1978.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: Clad in a striped tank top, and characterized as a loud-mouthed troublemaker who's on the verge of getting kicked out of camp for bad behavior.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Ziggy is the more aggressive and rebellious of the Berman sisters, in comparison to the more wholesome image Cindy is trying to achieve.

Alice

Alice

Played By: Ryan Simpkins

• Byronic Hero: Alice is a very pessimistic individual who tries to cope with her problems with drugs and sex and as it turns out with Self-Harm too but she’s also a reliable ally when things get serious. She’s also a loyal friend when she wants to be. She’s shown to be quite brainy too when it comes to deciphering Nurse Lane’s map. unfortunately none of this does anything to prevent her death!
• Character Development: Has the single most complicated arc of any character in the trilogy.
  • She starts as a drug-doing, sex-having, Hard-Drinking Party Girl with her lover, Arnie, and has a lot of contempt for Cindy Berman- not just for her goody two shoes image, but because Cindy betrayed her in the past. She only joins in on following Nurse Lane's book because she thinks it's harmless fun.
  • After Arnie's death and the duo being dumped into the ritual cave, Alice admits to Cindy while injured that all her "fun" is as fake as Cindy's nice-girl persona; being a Shadysider has destroyed Alice's life, and she's so torn up over Arnie's death that she just wants to die in the darkness, not even bothering to try and get out.
  • Recovering her courage with Cindy's help, Alice ends her arc by becoming a firebrand full of hope for ending the Shadyside curse, inspiring the Berman sisters to make one last attempt at reuniting Sarah Fier with her hand, and hopefully saving her town.
• Good Bad Girl: Alice is a cynical, over-sexed teenager that likes drinking and getting high. In spite of this, she's one of the nicer characters and cares deeply for her friends.
• Inspiration Nod: Alice is named after Alice Hardy, one of the inspirations for 1978.
• Rousing Speech: Alice gives one to the Berman sisters during the finale, to convince them to risk trying to break the curse.

Arnie

Arnie

Played By: Sam Brooks

• Erudite Stoner: Arnie spends most of his screen time on drugs, waxing philosophical and trying to identify the white pills found on Nurse Lane's desk.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: gets the least screentime and is Tommy's first victim.

Sheila

Sheila

Played By: Chiara Aurelia

• Alpha Bitch: Sheila is a popular girl from Sunnyvale, and enjoys brutally tormenting Ziggy and the other Shadyside campers.
• Barbaric Bully: Goading her friends into hanging Ziggy by her arms from a tree and burning her arm with a lighter makes Sheila to this.
• Hate Sink: Sheila is a straight-up sadist with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
• Karma Houdini: Sheila is ignored by the Killer, and seems to survive the massacre along with the other Sunnyvale campers. Though with the curse being broken in the finale, she's likely to suffer for her past transgressions and selfishness alongside the rest of Sunnyvale in adulthood.
• Sadist: Sheila gets an uncomfortable amount of enjoyment from tormenting Ziggy, to the point of even physically torturing her. Her persistence and glee in doing so imply that she might be The Sociopath.

Nurse Lane

Nurse Mary Lane

Played By: Jordana Spiro

• Apologetic Attacker: She's clearly not happy with being forced to kill someone who is ostensibly a fellow victim of the curse, but it's the only means at her disposal to prevent a mass murder.
• Cassandra Truth: Nurse Lane knows of the curse's existence, and is desperate to prevent others from suffering her daughter's fate. Her warnings are ignored as the ramblings of a woman gone insane from grief or on drugs, and she's taken to the hospital before the massacre begins.
• Hero of Another Story: We find out that she was trying to figure out the nature of the curse on Shadyside and even found the site where the curse on the land was first cast. Unfortunately, being stopped from preventing the Camp Nightwing Massacre combined with Ziggy's insistence that the curse can't be broken is likely why she doesn't show any interest in fighting the curse anymore come the events of 1994.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her research on the curse helped her figure out that Tommy was going to become the next Shadyside Killer. Thus, she tried to kill him before it could happen.

Joan

Joan

Played By: Jacqi Veneacute;

• Good Bad Girl: Joan is a free-spirited Hippie, enjoying sex and drugs with abandon. She also tries to play peacekeeper between the Campers from Shadyside and Sunnyvale, countering their competitiveness with cheerful words.
• Granola Girl: Joan is a free-spirited, sweet Hippie that always has a positive spin on things. She reassures her fellow Shadysiders that they're "all winners in their hearts", overly positive in contrast to the more jaded Shadysiders Alice and Ziggy.
• Ms. Fanservice: Joan is a scantily-clad Counselor with an obvious enjoyment of sex.
• Sexy Shirt Switch: After having sex with Kurt, Joan puts on her underwear and a large blue button-down shirt, which she leaves open.
• Sex Signals Death: She's brutally murdered right after having sex, with her dismembered body left for others to discover.

1666

Hannah

Hannah Miller

Played By: Olivia Scott Welch

• Distaff Counterpart: She plays the same role as Edward Fier does in The Fear Street Saga books.
• Lipstick Lesbian: Both gay and feminine-presenting, though this is a Justified Trope given the era.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When the town begins to suffer misfortune, Hannah blames herself for giving into her feelings and worries her Sin has doomed the town.

Solomon

Solomon Goode

Played By: Ashley Zukerman

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Much like his descendant Nick, Solomon seems to be a kind man until it is revealed that he is the one responsible for the Shadyside curse.
• Crusading Widower: Solomon's wife and child had died, but he remained determined to see his wife's dream of a prosperous farm become reality.
• Deal with the Devil: Solomon forged a pact with the Devil, sacrificing Cyrus Miller and his victims in exchange for wealth and prosperity. His descendants would continue the bargain, with the first-born of each generation offering the citizens of Shadyside as sacrifices in exchange for Sunnyvale's prosperity.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: He has no problem with Sarah being attracted to a woman, and even offers to protect her once rumors about it start to turn the townspeople against her. He genuinely tries to protect Sarah from the false witchcraft accusations against her and the town's eagerness to blame her and Hannah in his mind justifies him sacrificing them to the curse. Until she rejects him anyway...
• Incompatible Orientation: Despite being aware of Sarah's feelings for Hannah he claims to be in love with her when he offers to share the benefits of the curse with her.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He tries to justify his actions by saying prosperity is worth a person sacrificed every few years, but when Sarah calls him out on how Cyrus Miller killed a dozen children his logic completely fails and he can't make any retort.
• Politically Correct History: He is shown treating Sarah as an equal and a friend. And although he lacks the vocabulary for it, he shows a more tolerant view of homosexuality than the rest of the people of Union. This is a Bait-and-Switch meant to endear him to the viewer before it's revealed that he is the villain.
• Yandere: Has shades of being this towards Sarah for example cursing the father of her love interest and lopping her hand off and framing her as a witch when she rejects him etc.

Henry

Henry

Played By: Benjamin Flores Jr.

• Children Are Innocent: Unlike Sarah, Henry struggles with the harsher parts of farming.

Thomas

Mad Thomas

Played By: McCabe Slye

• Cassandra Truth: Inverted. Before the Curse he's considered a laughable madman always ranting about sin and doom but after the village starts to take him seriously: too bad that he does have the general idea BUT his facts are all wrong.
• Kavorka Man: He's a raving drunk who looks like he hasn't bathed in months, and his teeth are rotted black; nevertheless, it's implied Abigail Berman still has sex with him.

The Widow

The Widow

Played By: Jordana Spiro

• Widow Witch: The Widow was a pariah living far away from the village, considered a practitioner of black magic and rumored to associate with the Natives.

The Killers

In General

• Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear how aware they are while cursed. Sam was able to take control of herself for a brief moment while struggling with Deena, Cyrus Miller had been acting strange for some time before actually killing wheras the other killers started killing right away and Ruby Lane killed herself where every other killer seen had to be killed by others to stop them. It's notable that all these instances happened while each killer was still technically alive, once undead each one appeared to be nothing more than a killing machine.
• And I Must Scream: Every killer was an innocent person possessed by the Devil, made to commit mass murder against their will, and then made an undead slave of the curse until it was finally broken.
• Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Only a handful of them can apparently be summoned at a time, going by the absence of Pastor Miller, the mentioned-only Humpty Dumpty Killer, and who knows how many others from the events of 1978 and 1994.
• Big Bad Ensemble: While basically mindless and slaves to the curse, these people act as the muscle for the force that compels bloody tragedy to strike, murdering their way through town with their own personal style of brutality. By the finale, nearly all of them arrive en masse to hunt down their targets down together.
• Face–Monster Turn: They are actually all innocent people transformed into semi-mindless killers by the Goode family's deal with the devil.
• Implacable Man: Their defining trait. They are by and large very calm and move at a steady unhurried pace as they track down their victims. This gets taken up to eleven when they are called back after their first death to go after someone who's blood has touched Sarah's bones. They can sense their victim's blood and nothing will stop them from getting to that.
• Reduced to Dust: Finally freed from the curse that warped them into killers, they burst into a swarm of flies and are allowed to rest in peace.
• The Voiceless: The only one known to speak was the original killer Cyrus Miller who said "I can see everything now." in his cursed state. As for the others aside from grunts and groans they don't talk, except for Ruby who sings as she kills but she never actually speaks or even changes the song it's always "You Always Hurt The Ones You Love" by the Mills Brothers.

The Pastor

The Pastor / Cyrus Miller

Played By: Michael Chandler

• Eye Scream: Pastor Miller removed the eyes of his victims, and removed his own as well.
• Face–Monster Turn: He is briefly introduced in 1666 as a kind man that got along well with everyone in the village and enjoyed playing with the children. Then, he becomes the first victim of the Curse and goes down in legend as a brutal child murderer.
• Good Shepherd: Before being hit by the curse, he was a warm and kind pastor, and friendly with the children of the village, making it all the more tragic when he's led to kill them.
• The Heavy: Of the first part of Part 3, in the 1666 section as the active killer of the time.
• Sinister Minister: The first Shadyside Killer, a minister that slaughtered the village's children.
• Would Hurt a Child: Though originally a kind man, Miller is remembered in the town's history as a monster that brutally killed the children of Union village.

The Grifter

The Grifter / Isaac Milton

Played By: Keil Oakley Zepernick

• The Big Guy: Given that he's played by the 6'10 Keil Oakley Zepernick, he is by far the biggest of the killers, and the strongest, tossing Harry Rooker like he weighs nothing.
• Cool Mask: For an arguable definition of cool, he sports an odd helmet that looks like a homemade gas mask fixed with a face plate with small, beady eyeholes carved into it.
• Flat Character: The least focused on of the Killers shown in the series, whose only notable appearance is joining in on the hunt for Deena in 1666.
• Vader Breath: When close, he's constantly breathing loudly through his mask.

The Milkman

The Milkman / Harry Rooker

Played By: Kevin Waterman

• Facial Horror: His face was burned and badly disfigured, its second half glossy and badly healed now that he’s reanimated.
• Sadist: While he has Christine in his grasps during the finale, he gives a perverse lick against her throat while preparing to stab her. Martin, when spraying him with Deena's blood, even calls the 'perv motherfucker'.

William Barker

William Barker

Played By: Emily Brobst

• Advertised Extra: Somewhat. Brief footage of his backstory and murder against his family is shown and he's got a spot on Netflix's cover photos for the trilogy, however he only appears to walk menacingly in 1978 and barely gets to join the fight in 1666.
• Batter Up!: His weapon of choice was a baseball bat, which he used to beat his victims to death.
• Creepy Child: A disfigured child that wears a mask and was possessed to kill his brothers.
• Menacing Stroll: He likes to enhance his lax walking speed by constantly hitting objects and the ground with his baseball bat to intimidate targets he’s after.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Thanks to the curse he killed his brothers in their sleep with a baseball bat.

Humpty Dumpty Killer

Humpty Dumpty Killer / Ed Carson

• An Arm and a Leg: His MO was leaving dismembered body parts all over town.
• The Ghost: Only alluded to by Josh’s newspaper clippings and is one of the only named killers to not be resurrected to go after the protagonists (along with Pastor Miller).

Ruby Lane

Ruby Lane

Played By: Jordyn DiNatale

• Dark Action Girl: Ruby is the lone female Killer, a beautiful teenager that sings as she stalks her victims.
• Driven to Suicide: The stories say after her killing spree, she slit her own wrists.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female killer aside from Sam, who's also possessed but never gets to kill anyone.
• The Vamp: Ruby is introduced luring Simon away from the rest of the group, using her singing and her good looks to get him close enough to attack.
• With Catlike Tread: By far the noisiest of the resurrected killers, she's almost always singing out loud as she stalks the target. The protagonists usually know she’s coming from a mile away, for what little good it does for them.

Camp Nightwing Killer

Camp Nightwing Killer / Tommy Slater

Played By: McCabe Slye

• Axe Before Entering: He cuts through a door to get to Ziggy this way, in a scene reminiscent of The Shining.
• Blood Is the New Black: He gets progressively covered in gore as the night wears on.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: McCabe Slye is a somewhat tall 6'0, and Tommy as the Nightwing killer is incredibly strong and fast. Fittingly, his weapon is an axe.
• Expy: To Jason, particularly his initial incarnation. He's a sack-wearing killer that slaughters kids at a summer camp.
• Face–Monster Turn: Tommy is a friendly, easy-going Camp Counselor and Cindy's boyfriend. Then, he's possessed and begins systematically killing every Shadysider he encounters.
• Friend to All Children: He easily befriends the child campers and is noted to be good with kids. Made all the more tragic by the same children ending up his victims.
• The Heavy: Of Part 2, being the central force behind the Camp Nightwing killings.
• Lightning Bruiser: The only other killer besides Torres who moves beyond a menacing walking pace. He's nearly always angrily speed walking when searching for his target and constantly jogs when prey is spotted.
• Nice Guy: Enhancing the horror, everything we know about Tommy indicates he's just, well, nice; he's not a bad guy at all. That's what makes him becoming the Nightwing killer so terrifying- it shows that those chosen don't have a choice about what happens to them.
• Sackhead Slasher: After Ziggy pulls a bag over his head to distract him, the possessed Tommy simply leaves it on. In his undead incarnation, he continues to wear the sack as a mask.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: By all accounts, Slater was just about the other most good natured and beloved counselor in the camp with not a bad bone in him. Unfortunately for him, he'd soon be subjected to a Demonic Possession and go on a bloody rampage against the children he once looked after, and brought back as an undead killing machine time and time again.
• Virgin-Shaming: Played for Laughs, as Ziggy disbelievingly responds to Tommy going on a murderous rampage by describing him as "my sister's boring virgin boyfriend." McCabe Slye also jokingly refers to him this way.
  Slye: "[...] jumping back into playing Tommy, who loves his girlfriend and has never had sex before."
• Wham Shot: Before the group descends into the witch's tunnels, Tommy puts on a red plaid shirt—the one the Nightwing killer was seen wearing in the previous movie. Although it's all but outright stated that he becomes the Nightwing killer at this point, this is the first confirmation, and a sign of things rapidly going downhill.
• Would Hurt a Child: The majority of his victims were children. Children who knew him as one of their caretakers thus increasing the horror as they trusted him.

Skull Mask

Skull Mask / Ryan Torres

Played By: David W. Thompson

• Boom, Headshot!: How he meets his demise, with Sheriff Nick Goode shooting Ryan in the head while he's distracted from being unmasked by Heather. It doesn't stop him from coming back, unfortunately.
• Clingy Costume: While every other killer is forced to resurrect with the attire they wore on death, Ryan is the only one who doesn’t wear casual clothing or a uniform, but instead a costume he apparently put on before going on a rampage, wearing a Halloween skeleton mask and robe.
• Dramatic Unmask: Heather yanks off his mask just prior to succumbing to her wounds. Later, the skeleton killer is unmasked yet again to reveal that it is now an undead Ryan.
• Expy: To Ghostface, from Scream. He's a knife-wielding killer in a black robe and white undead mask, killing people in the 1990s. Even the way he dies is practically similar to everyone who has taken the Ghostface mantle, they get shot in the head.
• The Heavy: Although he has backup, Skull Mask is this for Part 1. He is the central force behind the recent Shadyside killings of 1994 and provides the body count.
• Lightning Bruiser: The only killer besides Tommy Slater to try moving beyond a Menacing Stroll, Ryan enters a full sprint for a charging stab when he's close enough to his victim.
• Undeathly Pallor: Freshly resurrected as a mindless killer, his skin is pale and sickly when he's unmasked.

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