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Jamie Lloyd/Jamie Carruthers

Played By: Danielle Harris (4 and 5) and J.C. Brandy (The Curse)

Appearances: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

"He'll never die."

Nine-year old orphan daughter of Laurie Strode, who is Michael's main target throughout Halloween 4 and 5.

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• Aborted Arc: Quite a few.
  • The fourth film's ending of Jamie stabbing her stepmother led to considerations to have her replace Michael and be the main antagonist of the fifth film. This idea was rejected by series producer Moustapha Akkad, who felt that the then twelve-year-old Danielle Harris would not be convincing as a killer (it must be pointed out that this was long before things such as Columbine and Esther) but also could not replace her since he had promised she would come back to play the character in the sequel to 4.
  • Daniel Farrands wanted a script where Jamie survives the sixth film and in a seventh film, which would be a sequel unlike the eventual H20, she would be hunted down by Haddonfield civilians and offered as a sacrifice for Michael's crimes, only to be saved by her mother. Akkad rejected this script because he believed Jamie Lee Curtis would never come back to the Halloween franchise.
  • After H20 and Resurrection, a movie centered around introducing Jamie into the franchise's second timeline was considered. It would have had Jamie fight Michael at the start and be taken to a hospital, where a nurse would botch her blood storage by giving some of her blood to other people there, who Michael would target since they were now technically part of his bloodline.
• Adapted Out: Laurie's first child does not make an appearance in any of the timelines after the original one. Even when older versions of Laurie appear with children, they are never her. This would have been justified if H20 had followed through its original purpose of being set after Curse, which depicted Jamie's death, and included a planned scene of Laurie vomiting after hearing of her daughter's murder.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Jamie shows this when, after Rachel is rendered unconscious and Michael begins pursuing her from the Meeker house, she runs down the street begging for someone to help her. Later, after Loomis gets thrown through a glass door by Michael at the schoolhouse, Jamie knocks on the other doors begging for someone's aid.
• All for Nothing: In the fifth film, Jamie sneaks out of the clinic to find Tina before Michael does. Not only does she find Tina after Michael kills her friends, Tina dies anyway. Also her efforts to stop Michael by helping Loomis, although successful in stopping him for the night, are revealed to have been fruitless in keeping him incarcerated as the Man in Black gets him out later that night.
• All of the Other Reindeer: She's bullied at school because of her deceased mother and Serial Killer uncle.
• Alone with the Psycho: Twice with Michael.
  • This is the case when Jamie runs from Michael as he incapacitates Loomis by throwing him through a glass door in Halloween 4. A crying Jamie looks around and it appears Michael has left her alone, only to see him standing in a corner with his knife. Their alone time is cut short by Rachel, who is able to get Jamie away from him.
  • In Halloween 5, Michael kills Charlie Bloch, the officer assigned to protect Jamie. He stalks Jamie throughout the Myers house without any opposition and she even makes a last second move to save herself when she addresses him as "Uncle" and asks to see his face. Loomis comes to her rescue and she is with either him or officers anytime she's with Michael for the rest of the film.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • Her psychic powers allow her to see when Michael is killing someone. Yet when she discovers Rachel's corpse, she is surprised. This could mean she either did not see the killing in this instance, with her powers only making the murders clear in certain instances, or she did not want to believe Rachel was really dead until she saw the body.
  • The sixth film reveals that the Man in Black was responsible for getting Michael to kill his family so that he could maintain his superhuman abilities. It is unclear if Wynn tried to get Jamie to follow down her uncle's path when it appeared he was dead, as he would later try doing with Danny in the sixth film.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: The big twist at the end of 4 is that Jamie, the child running away from her murderous uncle, attempts to (and seemingly succeeds until the following film reveals otherwise) kill her stepmother at the end of the film.
• Animal Lover: She is shown with a pet that she is very fond of in both 4 and 5. Both end up murdered by Michael, and she even stumbles across the corpse of the one in the fifth film.
• Arch-Enemy: To Michael. While Loomis is always on the latter's trail and continues to try and stop him, killing Jamie is Michael's actual goal and his return to Haddonfield is centered on getting to her. Jamie is plagued with nightmares of him and his actions in the original and second films loom over her as she is mocked for being related to him. In 5, Jamie's animosity toward Michael increases due to his murder of Tina, who she tried to save, and the mere confirmation by Loomis that he may be able to kill Michael is enough to get her to want to go along with his plan. Even after the franchise's multiple Canon Discontinuity sequels that introduce several new protagonists, she remains the only character besides Laurie that Michael stalks for multiple films.
• Audience Surrogate: Jamie is the sympathetic, normal kid who the audience can easily identify with.
• Ax-Crazy: Shortly after becoming possessed by Michael, she loses any semblance of innocence or morality and stabs her stepmother. When confronted by Loomis, Rachel, Meeker, and her stepfather, all she does is stare at them and breathe heavily.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest member of the Carruthers family.
• Bait-and-Switch: Her death in the theatrical cut of Curse sees her extending her hands to Michael and the latter reaching out to her in an apparent callback to his moment of humanity towards her in 5. Instead, he presses down on her to further her pain.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Jamie is depicted in 4 as praying for her stepmother (among other loved ones), being protected by Loomis and law enforcement, and being targeted by her serial killer uncle. The film's ending features her stabbing her stepmother, Loomis aiming a gun at her after this (before Meeker knocks it out his hand), and Jamie seemingly becoming the new killer.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason Jamie cares so much for Tina. Tina would regularly come to visit her in the year between 4 and 5, even at the expense of her romantic relationship with Mike. At a time when she was alienated for both being related to Michael and stabbing her stepmother, Jamie became very fond of Tina in that time together.
• Being Good Sucks: She gets hit with this trope severely in Halloween 5. First, she is still dealing with the fallout of stabbing her stepmother while possessed by Michael and has to see the current activities of the man who put her where she is now thanks to their psychic link. She also gets blamed for the attack despite it being out of her control. Then Rachel dies and after she goes out of her way to stop the same thing from happening to Tina, she dies too.
• Being Watched:
  • In 4, Jamie and Rachel are separated when the latter is confronted by Brady after she discovers his cheating on her with Kelly and Jamie goes off with some schoolmates to continue trick-or-treating. Jamie looks around for Rachel, and in feeling that she is being watched, warns whoever is looking at her that she has a dog with her. Her fears are partly confirmed when Michael is revealed to have been close by when her and Rachel reunited and are taken away from the area by Meeker and Loomis. This happens again when she's in the schoolhouse after Loomis is dispatched by Michael, who she initially does not see upon running away from. Feeling that she's been observed, she looks around until finally spotting Michael staring at her in a corner with his knife drawn.
  • In 5, her feelings of being observed are amplified thanks to her telepathic link to Michael and she runs out of her room when incorrectly believing he is outside of the clinic.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Jamie is a nice kid who is loving to her stepfamily and anyone else that is decent to her. This makes it all the more surprising when she stabs her stepmother, who had no way of seeing the attack coming until it was too late. In addition, after Michael murders Tina she goes along with Loomis's plan to kill Michael.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Jamie manages to evoke this twice. In her Michael-possessed state at the end of 4, she no longer speaks but is very dangerous, overpowering her stepmother and nearly killing her. In 5, although she is reluctant, her new telepathic link to Michael makes her his greatest threat because she can see where he is at any time and only chooses to not tell Loomis seemingly out of a desire to keep herself safe from her uncle.
• Big Damn Reunion: She shares a big hug with Tina after the pair are reunited at the clinic following the police getting Tina away from Michael, who was disguised as the latter's boyfriend and driving his car.
• Birds of a Feather:
  • With Billy. Both children are institutionalized, have some speech issues, and are generally not shown to have many friends.
  • Although the narrative doesn't focus much on it, she seems to have this with Dr. Loomis after 4, as both are among the few who know that Michael is still alive. By extension he's one of the few who takes her warnings about Michael seriously and tries to act on them when she supplies him with information. Notably when she breaks out of the Cult of Thorn's clutches at the start of Curse, Loomis is the one she tries contacting for help.
• Blatant Lies: When left alone after being separated from Rachel, Jamie hears a noise and warns whoever it is that she has a big dog that bites with her.
• Blessed with Suck: While her telepathic connection to Michael in 5 would be of service to anyone trying to catch the latter, they are a disservice to his terrified niece who thanks to them, is made aware of every single murder he commits.
• Blood from the Mouth: The theatrical cut of 6 has Jamie bleeding from the mouth after Michael impales her.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: The reveal that Jamie stabbed her stepmother shows her clown costume covered in the latter's blood and holding the blood-stained scissors that she used to attack her.
• Book Ends:
  • Jamie's first and last scenes in Halloween 4 feature her in the Carruthers house at night. The first scene has her staring outside and talking to Rachel about her vulnerabilities with regard to not feeling loved like a real sister. The last scene, after Jamie stabs her stepmother, features her standing in place showing no emotion, a complete contrast of her earlier vulnerability.
  • The first scene of the original film has Michael stab his sister after the viewer watches from his perspective and ends with him silently holding his weapon. The last scene of the fourth film has Jamie stabbing her stepmother after the viewer watches from her perspective and ends with Jamie silently holding her weapon.
  • Jamie's first and last scenes in Halloween 5 feature her alone and in distress in relation to Michael. The first scene is her waking from bed after Michael has killed the hermit that took care of him for a year. The last scene is Jamie standing and crying in the police station after seeing that the officers have been murdered and Michael is free again.
• Boom, Headshot!: In the Producer's Cut of Curse, Dr. Wynn shoots her in the head.
• Born Unlucky: Her very existence as a member of the Myers family is the sole reason Michael wants her dead. She also gets mocked for her mother's death, which was similarly out of her control.
• Boyish Short Hair: She cut her hair short in the six years with the Cult of Thorn.
• Big "NO!": She gives two out firstly when Michael murders Tina in front of her and secondly when she sees Rachel's corpse in the Myers house in Halloween 5.
• Break the Cutie: Two films worth of being hunted by her evil uncle leave Jamie traumatized and broken, culminating in her abduction and death in the sixth film, and this is after she lost both her adopted sister and her best friend in the fifth film.
• Breeding Slave: The Cult of Thorn forces her to have a baby as part of their studies into the power of Thorn and seeing if they can replicate Michael's pure evil.
• Bridal Carry: Jamie gets carried this way by Rachel after she saves her from Michael at the schoolhouse in 4.
• Bully Magnet: When Jamie is not trying to avoid being murdered by her uncle, she gets made fun of for being related to him by kids at her school in 4 and becomes a pariah for his possession of her in 5.
• The Cameo: Jamie, along with the Thorn symbol and a scarred Loomis, appears in an H20 timeline comic where an adult Tommy Doyle draws the events of 4 to 6 as a comic story.
• Cannot Spit It Out: During the scene where Jamie has a convulsion after Michael picks up Tina, she cannot form the words to tell Loomis and the others where she is.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': She refuses to help Loomis look for Michael by using her psychic powers. Because of this he's not there to help her when she's attacked by Michael and Tina sacrifices herself for her.
• Character Development:
  • Although terrified of Michael through all of her appearances, the level of fear she has for him decreases significantly between the fourth and fifth films, as she always ran away from him in the fourth film while she speaks directly to him and tries touching him in the fifth one.
  • She also goes from believing he can die to no longer thinking this after seeing him survive the shooting Meeker and the other cops give him in the fourth film and the abuse he takes from Loomis in the fifth.
• Characterization Marches On: Halloween 4 ends with Jamie stabbing her stepmother and a silent, remorseless Jamie seemingly being set up as the new killer of the franchise. The next film reveals that she was under the possession of her uncle and she never shows any signs of villainy again.
• Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Jamie survives multiple killing sprees by her uncle, who is explicitly killing to get to her, and is unharmed when they are kept together by the Cult of Thorn...just to die hours after escaping.
• Cheerful Child: Jamie shows this during Halloween 5, as she smiles when Tina comes to visit her and is shown to be very happy when getting a new costume.
• Children Forced to Kill: Michael possessing her forces Jamie to stab her stepmother.
• Clothing Damage:
  • In Halloween 4, her clown costume gets ripped on the side while Michael is trying to get to her at the Meeker house.
  • Her pink dress in Halloween 5 gets ripped up while she is running from Michael as the latter drives a car.
• Color Motif: Pink. Her pajamas and shirt in 4, and her shirt and Halloween costume in 5 are all this color.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Laurie.
  • Laurie is a teenager; Jamie is a child.
  • Laurie was depicted with multiple friends of her own age while Jamie is not seen with any friends of the same age (at least until the fifth film).
  • Laurie protected herself from Michael; Jamie is protected from Michael.
  • Laurie did not wear a costume for Halloween while Jamie does.
  • Laurie started off not knowing she was related to Michael while Jamie started off knowing Michael was her uncle.
  • Although they both encounter Dr. Loomis, Laurie only meets Loomis twice, and both times at the end of the film in the first and second movies; Jamie meets Loomis multiple times throughout the fourth film.
  • While both know the sheriff's daughter, Laurie is friends with Annie while Jamie is neutral toward Kelly.
  • Laurie dies in a car accident after spending her last years with no torment from Michael; Jamie dies at Michael's hands after spending six years hidden away with him.
  • Laurie did not have a child until she was an adult while Jamie had one as a teen. And while both become mothers, Laurie has a daughter while Jamie has a son.
• Cool Mask: The mask she wears in 4 covers her eyes and has a red nose, though she only wears it once before the ending.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Her death in the theatrical cut of Curse can come off as this. First she gets impaled by a corn thrasher, and then when it appears that Michael may have an ounce of humanity for his dying niece, he pushes her further back. And to top things off, he presses a button to make the machine tear through her insides as she screams in pain.
• Curtains Match the Window: Inverted as she has brown hair and brown eyes, which are both natural in real life.
• Cute Is Evil: What the town of Haddonfield believes her to be in 5.
• Cute Mute: For most of 5, the trauma of the events of 4 have rendered her unable to speak. She's still a cute kid, though.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Seeing Michael survive getting shot and blown up by the police in 4, and later repeatedly being struck by Loomis in 5, led her to believe he would never die.
• Damsel in Distress: Due to her young age in 4 and 5'', she often has to be protected from Michael by Loomis, Meeker, Rachel, and a plethora of other Haddonfield officers and citizens.
• Deadpan Snarker: She can be pretty snarky at times.
  • In Halloween 4, she says this to Rachel when she doesn't want to babysit Jamie.
    Jamie: I'm sorry I ruined everything. If I wasn't here, you can go out.
  • And in the ending of Halloween 5, where the police lock up Michael in a maximum security facility.
    Sheriff Ben Meeker: He'll stay 'till the day he dies.
    Jamie: He'll never die.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: In 4, she speaks highly of her parents and misses them.
• Decoy Protagonist: The sixth film starts with her screaming and being pursued by Michael while appearing to set up that Tommy and Dr. Loomis are going to come to her aid. Instead, she dies in the first act and the film focuses on the latter two, Kara, and Danny.
• Defiant Captive: We don't see much of her time with the Cult of Thorn, but we see her curse the Man in Black and escape with the help of a midwife.
• Defiant to the End: In the theatrical cut of 6, Jamie tells Michael that he cannot have her son as her last words.
• Demoted to Extra: After the fourth and fifth films chronicle her avoiding Michael's attempts to kill her, she is killed in the first act of the theatrical cut of The Curse.
• Despair Event Horizon: Crosses it by the end of Halloween 5. The third act of the film starts with Tina's death, Jamie finding the corpse of Rachel, and realizing Michael has escaped from incarceration right after being put behind bars. All she can do is stand in place and cry.
• Determinator: From an early age, she resists getting murdered by Michael as hard as she can, including hiding, running, and dodging his attacks.
• Didn't See That Coming: She was surprised to see Michael for the first time when she was getting her costume (and he was reassembling his own).
• Doom Magnet: Being the niece of of evil incarnate means having almost everyone that is around you or tries to protect you get killed. By the end of her life, Jamie left her foster parents with two dead daughters, Loomis with the guilt of knowing he could not protect her from Michael and the Cult of Thorn, and her son without a mother. The most heartbreaking thing of all is that if she had not been adopted, Rachel would have lived, as she never would have protected Jamie and thus become a target for Michael through her intervention. This also means Tina would have lived, given that Michael only followed her to get to Jamie.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: 4 starts with Jamie having a dream of Michael appearing in her home and trying to kill her. Not only does Michael awaken and try to kill her, he even briefly enters her home, but for the purpose of confirming her identity as his niece.
• Dying Alone: In Curse, Michael fatally impales Jamie and leaves her to die as he continues his pursuit of her child.
• Easily Forgiven: While random Haddonfield citizens don't trust her, this is the case with Rachel and Dr. Loomis, who are convinced she only stabbed her stepmother because of Michael controlling her at the time.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She's quite pale, has dark hair, and comes off as quite creepy at times in the fifth film.
• Emotion Suppression: Jamie stands wordless after stabbing her stepmother, apparently indifferent to what she has done.
• Establishing Character Moment: In the fourth film, we're introduced to Jamie as she stares out a window and she asks Rachel if she loves her like a real sister, showing her insecurity over the loss of her birth parents and lack of a place of belonging.
• Even Evil Has Standards: After stabbing her stepmother, a knife holding Jamie sees Loomis downstairs. One would think if she is now fully evil, she would attack him. Instead she lowers her weapon and just stares at him as he screams in horror. It can be implied that she did not attack him because she was grateful for his efforts to save her that night.
• Experienced Protagonist: In 5, Jamie remembers how evil Michael was from the previous film and this motivates her to try and keep Rachel and Tina safe with warnings on the part of her new powers.
• Exploring the Evil Lair: Throughout the series, Michael goes back to the Myers house. In 5, while she is fleeing Michael, Jamie looks around and sees the coffin that Michael stole from a cemetery and is planning to put her in if he successfully kills her. She also sees the corpses of Tina's boyfriend Mike, her dog, and Rachel.
• Expy: Of Tommy Jarvis from Friday the 13th. Both are children characters introduced in the fourth installment of their series who have an older sister that protects them from a silent killer. They play an instrumental role in the defeat of the villain and the film they're introduced in ends with it appearing that they will follow in the footsteps of the now-deceased antagonist.

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• Face–Heel Turn: Subverted. The ending of Halloween 4 depicts Jamie as having begun to follow in her uncle's footsteps as a new murderer before the following film reveals she was just under his possession.
• Fall Guy: She becomes this in 5 by virtue of being blamed for her stepmother's stabbing despite Michael doing it while possessing Jamie. While some such as Loomis and Rachel know the truth, most others are either unconvinced or blame her for anything Michael does due to their familial bond.
• Failure Hero: Her status at the end of 5. She fails to save Rachel or Tina from Michael, and her efforts to help the latter's capture are short-lived as he's busted out by the Man in Black right as she gets ready to depart the police station.
• The Farmer and the Viper: The Carruthers adopted Jamie after her parents died and treated her like their own daughter, even catering to her emotional issues that arose from her relation to Michael.For their kindness, at the end of 4, Jamie stabs Darlene and her husband gets to see his stepdaughter covered in his wife's blood.
• Final Girl: Of Halloween 4 (shared status with her foster sister Rachel) and 5.
• Freak Out: Happens a few times.
  • She has one after her nightmare of Michael coming in her room to grab her, requiring the Caruthers to dash to her aid and comfort her.
  • After Michael kills everyone in the Carruthers house, and she thinks Rachel is dead from trying to save her, Loomis finds her outside as she cries over what's happened.
  • Jamie is reduced to tears by Tina leaving to go to the party instead of listening to Jamie's warnings about Michael and staying with her.
  • After Michael fatally stabs Tina, Jamie tearfully repeats Tina's name until Billy drags her away all the while Tina is urging her to run, all while the poor girl is still uttering Tina's name and it gets worse when she sees Tina's lifeless body get carried into an ambulance.
  • When she finds the body of Rachel in the Myers house and lets out a scream of terror. It's made worse by the fact that Jamie tried to warn her about Michael being in their house and the last time they spoke, Rachel assured her she was fine.
• Friendless Background: In Halloween 4, Jamie is never shown being friendly or getting along with her classmates who tease her for her relation to Michael and her mother's death. It can be inferred she was still made fun of for being related to Michael when Laurie was still alive and they used the latter's death as another excuse to pick on Jamie. It gets worse in Halloween 5 after she stabs her adopted mother and is a town pariah with Billy being her only friend that is actually her age and her only other friend being the older eccentric party girl Tina.
• Friendly Enemy: She can come off this way to Michael in 5. Despite going along with Loomis' plan after the latter says he thinks he can kill Michael, she still calls the latter her uncle and tries to speak to him calmly and touch his face. In Curse, after being impaled by Michael, she even reaches out to him with both hands in a last-ditch effort to appeal to his humanity.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: Implied to be the case with her and Tina's friend Samantha. Samantha knows who Jamie is and that Tina visits her, but never is shown visiting her in 5.
• Foil:
  • To Dr. Loomis. Both of them are connected to Michael in some way. However, Loomis is not related to Michael and has years of experience with him. Jamie in contrast is related to Michael and had never met him before the events of the fourth film. Michael never targets Loomis and is very restrained when inflicting harm on him whereas he actively tries to kill Jamie with no regard for how it's done. Both experience some Sanity Slippage owing to their experiences with Michael, although Jamie is institutionalized while Loomis goes untreated and continues working as a psychiatrist. Although both survive the 1989 spree, Loomis willfully retires to live alone while Jamie is forced to stay with the Cult of Thorn for the next six years. While both are acquainted with Dr. Wynn by the time of the sixth film, the latter never tries to harm Loomis and tries to recruit him for his cult while he (in the Producer's Cut) kills Jamie and has seemingly no desire to keep her around after she gives birth.
  • To Rachel Carruthers. Both are young girls, although Rachel is a teenager and can defend herself while Jamie is a child and needs protection. Rachel is the biological daughter of the Carruthers while Jamie is the adopted daughter. Rachel has short blonde hair while Jamie has long dark brown hair. Rachel is shown to be friendly with others such as Lindsey while Jamie is not shown to have any friends. Both also share the same fate of being teenagers when they are killed by Michael after surviving a previous spree of his.
  • To Tina Williams. Jamie is a young child who spends most of her time in the clinic while Tina is a teenager who travels around during the day. Jamie is very quiet at the start of the film with few friends while Tina is loud and acquainted with a wide array of either friends or peers. Both are targets of Michael, but the latter knows where Tina is from the start of the movie while having to figure out where Jamie is. While both are attacked by Michael, Tina is killed when the latter is trying to strike Jamie and Jamie survives despite Michael's attempts to end her life.
  • To Tommy Doyle. Both of them first meet Michael when they are kids and are protected by a female teenager, who later dies prematurely. Both are left traumatized after surviving Michael, Tommy being a recluse obsessed with Michael while Jamie is institutionalized and has a telepathic link with him after being possessed by him. Where they differ is that Tommy is never directly targeted by Michael while Jamie remains the subject of her uncle's efforts to end his bloodline. They also are different in their fates; Tommy lives to fight another day while Jamie dies.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish Sibling to Rachel's Responsible Sibling. Rachel is trusted by her parents and considered mature enough to watch Jamie while the latter's well-being is of great concern to Rachel's parents due to her young age and having her life drastically changed due to her parents' death. Despite their different personalities, they care greatly for each other.
• Foreshadowing: Jamie picks a clown costume and holds it up to herself in a mirror, a brief flash of Michael as a child in the clown costume he wore when he stabbed his sister appearing. This foreshadows her eventual stabbing her of stepmother at the end of the film.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: The effect of being controlled by Michael. Jamie is never shown as being violent, let alone homicidal, and that all changes during the fourth film's ending.
• Generation Xerox: To all three Myers siblings.
  • She starts off as one for Michael. Both are introduced as young children in a family with an older sister and when Jamie picks her Halloween costume, a clown outfit, there's even a flash of Michael as he appeared in the opening scene of the original film. The film's ending, Jamie stabbing her stepmother while wearing the clown costume, deliberately invokes Michael's murder of his sister Judith and sets up the idea that she will follow in his footsteps. Halloween 5 begins with Jamie mute, something that Michael has been for years.
  • Jamie is similar to Laurie in being pursued by Michael and him killing people in his quest to get to her. They are both somewhat aloof and noted for their differences with their peers, as Jamie was teased by her schoolmates while Laurie was made fun of by Annie for being uninterested in boys. They both are saved by Dr. Loomis, who rushes to their aid as to try and prevent Michael from harming them. They both survive multiple encounters with Michael just to eventually die prematurely and leave behind a young child who becomes Michael's next target in their place.
  • Halloween 5 invokes this with Judith, as Jamie is made to sit in her late aunt's room and brush her hair in a trap set by Loomis to invoke Michael's memories of his past. Jamie also has brown hair like Judith. Given the events of 6, where Michael finally succeeds in killing Jamie, she also parallels Judith in being a female teenage relative of Michael that he kills.
• Good Counterpart: To Michael. Both are introduced as children, depicted as wearing clown costumes on Halloween night, and have an older sister. They both also have their first bout of violence as a kid with Michael stabbing his sister to death and Jamie stabbing her stepmother. The difference is that while Michael gave into his homicidal urges and became a recurring threat to Haddonfield, Jamie's only act of violence was while under his position and never does this of her own accord.
• Good Is Not Soft: Evidenced by her willingness to aid in a plot to kill Michael after his murder of Tina.
• Hallucinations: In 5, Jamie has a hallucination of Michael coming to attack her at the clinic and tries to run away from him as she perceives him to be getting closer to her.
• Heartwarming Orphan: Despite the deaths of her parents, Jamie turns out as a nice person.
• The Hero Dies: Meets her end at Michael's hands in the sixth film.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: In 5, some people in the town of Haddonfield blames her for Michael's possession of her at the end of the last movie.
• Heroes Love Dogs: In complete contrast to her uncle.
• Heroic Lineage: Jamie's mother, Laurie, was stalked by Michael before she was born, though was polar opposite of her brother in being a good person. Jamie inherits her goodness.
• Hourglass Plot: The first film begins with Michael fleeing Smith's Grove so he can go to Haddonfield so he can begin his murder spree. The sixth film begins with Jamie escaping Smith's Grove so she can go to Haddonfield, although this is different since she wants Loomis's help to protect herself and her baby.
• Human Sacrifice: Subverted. Loomis seems to betray her as he holds her up and offers her to Michael while slowly backing away, goading him to "catch the little girl", before eventually trapping Michael and tossing Jamie to the side in a reveal of his true intention.
• Iconic Outfit: The clown costume she wears in Halloween 4, so much so that it's been replicated and sold as a real-life costume.
• Iconic Sequel Character: One of the most popular characters in the franchise and introduced in the fourth film.
• I Got Bigger: Between the end of 5 and the start of 6, Jamie goes from a child to a teenager and is much taller than she was introduced as.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Jamie wants to be loved by her foster family, specifically in a way which she believes would certify her as a real member instead of an adopted one.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Getting teased by her classmates for things she can't control like her mom being dead and her uncle being Michael Myers cause her to want to fit in so she can make friends, which is why she quickly changes her mind from not wanting to trick-or-treat to getting a costume.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She dies in the theatrical cut of The Curse when Michael impales her on tractor harrows.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: A central theme of Jamie's story is that she has similarities to Michael which may push her to act out the same murderous desire. The closest this comes to happening is her stabbing her stepmother, which is revealed to have only happened because she was under Michael's possession. Even upon being institutionalized and not saying a word like Michael before her, Jamie never comes close to willfully harming another person.
• Innocence Lost: Jamie is introduced as a sweet, polite child with only a few problems like missing her parents and being picked on at school. After her uncle kills people during Halloween, she becomes exposed to the reality of his terror and indulges in it herself that same night when she attacks her stepmother. Even a year of being institutionalized does nothing to erase the effect her exposure to Michael had on her. In fact a second encounter only makes her more convinced she'll never be rid of him.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Dr. Loomis. He is the only person to be with her throughout both of Michael's sprees to get her when she's a kid and she remembers this years later when she escapes the Cult of Thorn and tries to solicit his help while being hunted by Michael.
• Irony:
  • Toward the beginning of Halloween 4, Jamie prays for various family members, including her stepmother. By the end of the film, as her stepmother draws her a bath, Jamie stabs her.
  • Jamie leaves the clinic in 5 to find Tina so she can avoid her being killed by Michael. She finds Tina and ends up indirectly causing her death when Michael tries to attack her and Tina sacrifices herself for her.
• It's Personal: After Michael kills Tina, one of the friends she grew close to in the year between the fourth and fifth films, this causes a distraught Jamie to finally agree to assist Loomis with a trap for him.
• Just a Kid: Rachel cites this when defending Jamie at the start of 5, reasoning that her young age and Michael possessing her while she stabbed her stepmother as reasons for her not to be blamed for the act.
• Killing Intent: Jamie goes along with Loomis's trap in 5 because she wants Michael dead.
• Kill the Ones You Love: Jamie prays for her stepmother at the start of 4 and the Carruthers are shown to be loving toward Jamie, making Jamie's attack on her stepmother all the more surprising.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: A defining characteristic of Jamie is running away when she knows she has no one to defend her from Michael.
  • In the fourth film, Jamie and Rachel run away from Michael after he murders everyone in Sheriff Meeker's home.
  • In the fifth film, after participating in a trap to get Michael to show up at the Myers house, Jamie consents to Officer Charlie Bloch's plot to override Loomis and leave the house through a window. Jamie later runs away from Michael as he is murdering Bloch.
• Last Request: In 5, as Michael prepares to stab her once she lays in the coffin in the Myers house, Jamie makes a request to see his face, which he grants.
• Last of His Kind: By the start of Halloween 4, Jamie is the last living relative of Michael.
• Legacy Character: In the sense that she inherits the role of her mother as the relative that Michael kills people to get to.
• Light Is Good: Every outfit she wears is some light color.
• Little "No": She delivers a few at the end of 5 as she goes into the Haddonfield Police Station after the Man in Black murders the officers and frees Michael.
• The Load: Jamie is initially this during Michael's murder sprees, as a young child cannot defend herself from an adult murderer. A counterpoint is that she becomes an asset to his defeat during 5, and she is mostly able to get herself away from him without anyone's help in each of their encounters.
• Made a Slave: The Cult of Thorn kidnaps Jamie right after the ending of the fifth films and she remains locked away with Michael for six years.
• Mama Wolf: She goes out of her way to protect Steven from Michael when she flees from the Cult of Thorn.
• Mask of Confidence: Before Jamie stabs her stepmother, she makes sure to put on the mask for her costume. This is meant to mirror Michael wearing something to cover his face whenever he kills someone, but also can mean Jamie may not have tried attacking if she didn't have something to cover her face.
• Meaningful Name: She is named for her mother's portrayer Jamie Lee Curtis.
• Mirror Scare: In the fourth film, she sees a vision of Michael as a child wearing a clown costume similar to the one she just picked out and backs away, rubbing up against present-day Michael and screaming.
• Misblamed: The opening of 5 establishes that some Haddonfield residents view her as responsible for Michael's attack, both on the town and his possession of her that led to Jamie stabbing her stepmother.
• Morality Pet: Jamie is the only person shown to snap Tina out of her playful fits and cause her to begin acting serious, especially when she thinks Jamie is in danger.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: Despite dying, her desire for Steven to be protected from Michael is carried out by others, namely Loomis, Tommy, and Kara. Despite Jamie not even meeting the latter two, they help her son continue her and her mother's legacy of being the one relative alive that Michael unsuccessfully tries to kill.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye:
  • A literal case with Rachel in 5. The last time Jamie hears from her, Rachel tells Jamie that she's fine and the latter cannot answer back due to her mute condition.
  • At the beginning of Curse, she pleads over the radio for Dr. Loomis to come and help her again. She dies by Michael's hand before he can reach her in the theatrical version of the film, and is in a coma (during which Loomis sees her) that she never wakes from because Wynn kills her in the Producer's Cut.
• Nice Girl: Jamie starts off as a sweet, innocent girl.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jamie going to try and find Tina before Michael gets to her only succeeds in putting herself in danger and Loomis having to get Meeker and law enforcement to search for the girl before her uncle can get to her, which is his main goal.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: A heroic version. As soon as she encounters Michael, Jamie immediately runs away or tries to find safety. After Rachel fell into an unconscious state, and Jamie saw that Michael had come down to the pair, she ran away instantly. The same trend repeated when Michael attacked Loomis to get to her in the schoolhouse and her seriousness puts her at odds with Tina in the next film, as the latter ignores her warnings.
• No One Could Survive That!: Believed by Haddonfield to have died at the Man in Black's hand, when he massacred the police force in 5, at the start of the sixth film.
• No Social Skills: The one scene of her at school shows her retorting when mocked by her classmates for not having a costume and running away from them when they tease her.
• Not Herself: Throughout 4, Jamie is depicted as a kind girl who loves her foster parents. This is what makes her stabbing her stepmother in the conclusion all the more surprising, as its contrary to how she behaved previously. 5 would elaborate that her different behavior was the result of Michael controlling her, and thus she really wasn't herself.
• Not Quite Dead: The Producer's Cut of the sixth film features Jamie surviving getting stabbed in the stomach by Michael and surviving long enough to go to the hospital.
• Not So Stoic: When she's not having convulsions, Jamie is largely silent and reserved in Halloween 5. Then she becomes worried about Tina, and sees her die trying to save her from Michael.

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• Odd Friendship: The quiet, reserved, and often sad Jamie has very little in common with the loud, boisterous, and outgoing Tina.
• Oh, Crap!: Jamie has one when she realizes Michael is standing close to her during the schoolhouse scene in 4.
• Older and Wiser: In 6, Jamie is more well-spoken and is able to successfully outsmart Michael and free herself from captivity.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Haddonfield citizens do not forget her stabbing her stepmother, with one even throwing a rock through her window.
• Only Friend: Billy is the only friend she has at the clinic, as he is the only one living there seen visiting her and playing with Jamie.
• The Only One: Following Laurie's death before the events of Halloween 4, Jamie is Michael's only living relative for eight years.
• Opt Out:
  • Jamie originally was not going to go trick-or-treating in 4, until her schoolmates teased her for not having a costume.
  • She declined to help Loomis during his hunt for Michael a year later, and then one of her closest friends was murdered.
• Parental Abandonment: Both her parents were killed in a car accident, leaving her virtually alone (still having friends and allies by her side, not that they do her any good). In the Chaos Comics run - which ties her trilogy to the 'H20'' timeline - her mother faked her death and simply left her behind.
• Passing the Torch: Her son Steven becomes the new target of Michael after she dies.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: In the fifth film, Jamie wants Michael dead for all the deaths and pain he's caused.
• Perpetual Frowner: Though a good and pleasant child, Jamie is very rarely seen smiling throughout the films. This can be attributed to her bullying, being hunted by her own uncle, and many of the experiences she has. The rare exceptions are when she smiles after Rachel agrees to get a Halloween costume in 4, and when she is visited by Tina at the clinic at start of 5.
• Piggyback Cute: Jamie receives one from Rachel when the two are on the roof of the Meeker house, though they lose their formation when Michael catches up to them and stands up.
• Pink Means Feminine: Wears a pink shirt in both the fourth and fifth films. She also has a pink dress in Halloween 5.
• Platonic Kissing: She is the receiving end of this from Tina in 5, after the latter comes to visit her at the clinic through a window.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: She tearfully begs for Tina to stay with her at the clinic after the latter encounters Michael posing as her boyfriend and is only saved due to Jamie's psychic link to him.
• Please Wake Up: After Rachel falls off the roof while protecting her, Jamie comes over to her and shakes her as she begs for her to wake up.
• Pragmatic Hero: In large part due to her fear, Jamie will mostly stick to others to protect her, and run away when she encounters Michael by herself.
• Prone to Tears: The first two times she encountered Michael, Jamie was prone to this. Loomis became so frustrated with her lack of willingness to help him that he even points out that her crying won't help her stay away from her uncle.
  Loomis: Tears won't get you through him.
• Properly Paranoid: Many of her premonitions about Michael turn out true.
  • She has a nightmare of Michael coming to get her in her room. Not only does Michael eventually come to get her the following day, he even visits her room and looks through her belongings to make sure she is Laurie's daughter.
  • She screams when she sees Michael while getting her costume. Though it was brushed off by Rachel as Jamie being afraid of a mask, it turns out it wasn't a vision or nightmare like before, given that Michael wears the same mask he's seen donning for the rest of the film.
  • She has a convulsion related to Michael being inside the Carruthers house while Rachel is there. Not only does Michael turn out to be inside the house, but her paranoia was justified because Rachel was attacked and killed a short time later.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: The original intention of Halloween 4 was to show Jamie's transformation from a nice, if slightly troubled, child to a cold, young murderer that would carry on the legacy of her uncle.
• Psychic Link: Has a one-sided one with Michael during Halloween 5, allowing her to sense when he is around.
• Psychic Powers: She shares a psychic connection with her uncle.
• Pyrrhic Victory: In 5, Jamie's willingness to help Loomis in his plot to kill Michael succeeds in getting the latter defeated for the night, but fails to end his life (as both Jamie and Loomis wanted), his jailing is only for hours at most as the Man in Black busts him out later that night, and Jamie herself is kidnapped to boot.
• Red Baron: After stabbing her stepmother, she becomes known as "The Evil Child".
• Red Herring: The ending sequence of 4, where Jamie stabs her stepmother, is designed to make it appear Michael is now in the house and silently targeting her. This is why the camera is a first-person perspective and we see a mask being donned before the attack, with the camera cutting away after Darlene is struck and screams.
• Red Is Heroic: Jamie wears a red and white clown costume throughout Halloween night in 4 and is unquestionably on the side of good until the ending.
• Redemption Quest: Halloween 5 director Dominque Othenin-Girard said Jamie's psychic powers in the movie were meant to give her a way to redeem herself after stabbing her stepmother by giving her an instrumental role in stopping Michael.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Freed from her uncle's control, Jamie is never violent again after the fourth film's climax, but is still blamed for what happened by some who live in Haddonfield.
• Refusal of the Call: Throughout 5, Loomis tries to get Jamie to help him with finding Michael so he can stop his newest murder spree. Traumatized from the events of the previous film and the past year of being institutionalized, Jamie will not answer him and tries at one point to save the day herself, which indirectly leads to Tina's death.
• Reluctant Warrior: She spends most of 5 trying to not get involved in Loomis's attempts to stop Michael and just enjoy Halloween before being driven to want him dead.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: After the explosion at the police station in 5, the last place she was seen before the Cult of Thorn abducted her, Jamie and Michael are presumed dead by the town of Haddonfield.
• Retcon: The ending of 4 indicates Jamie will become the new killer of the series, but the following film reveals she was possessed by Michael and mostly ditches this plot point.
• Revenge: Her motive in the climax of Halloween 5. She agrees with Loomis's plot to trap Michael after he kills Tina. Not only does the plan not work, but Michael would have killed her if Loomis had not beaten him into unconsciousness.
• Running Gag: Loomis catching her by surprise while she is alone in the dark.
• Sacrificial Lion: Her death in the sixth movie causes Tommy and Loomis to begin hunting Michael and for the film's protagonists to look after her son so that Michael cannot kill the last member of his family.
• Saved to Enslave: Dr. Wynn, after saving Michael, kidnaps Jamie as well. During the six year period, the Cult never allows the murderous Michael to bring any harm to her until she has served her purpose of birthing a child, at which point none of them seem to care for her well-being any longer.
• Say My Name: After regaining her ability to speak in the fifth movie, at least half of her dialogue is "TINA" and its her first word much to Tina's delight. Even while Michael is chasing her, she's still mostly shouting for Tina, the trope becomes downright heartbreaking when Tina gets stabbed and for the next 2 minutes all Jamie can really say is Tina's name in a downright despairful tone.
• The Scapegoat: In the case of Halloween 5, Jamie is blamed for Michael's attempt at killing her stepmother while he possessed her. Her stepparents sought to institutionalize her and Loomis works with her and realizes she was not herself when she attacked her stepmother.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In Halloween 5, Jamie is supposed to stay at the clinic at all times. Her connection to Michael tips her off to his tailing Tina and this causes Jamie to flee the clinic to find her.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She initially complies with Loomis's order to stay put when he goes to confront Michael, although she also has no problem listening to deputy Bloch's plan to escape through the window. While Michael is killing Bloch, she runs out of the room to get away from her murderous uncle.
• Shear Menace: The ending of Halloween 4 sees Jamie use a pair of scissors when she attacks her stepmother.
• Sibling Team: Jamie and Rachel are this throughout 4 with Rachel being the one that comes up with ways of getting away from Michael and Jamie following her orders.
• Siblings Wanted: She wants to know if Rachel loves her like a real sister because she misses her parents and wants to return to having a real family.
• Single-Episode Handicap: Jamie's psychic powers, and the pain that come with them, are never mentioned again after 5.
• Slain in Their Sleep: In the Producer's Cut, Jamie is shot while she is sleeping in the hospital.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Jamie is barely featured in the sixth film, but her escape triggers the plot as it bring Michael and the Cult of Thorn out of lurking in the shadows, and Loomis out of retirement.
• Sneaky Departure: Jamie was able to sneak out of the clinic to begin her search for Tina, partially because the two cops there were assigned by Loomis to follow Tina.
• Sole Survivor: She and Loomis are the only two to survive both of Michael's sprees in the fourth and fifth films.
• Spider-Sense: The way her connection with Michael in the fifth film works. She becomes aware of Michael anytime he kills someone or is around a person that she cares about like Tina or Rachel and is often sent into a convulsion that leaves her twitching. Michael avoids being caught due to Jamie's powers not telling her specifically where he is before he hides and because with the exception of Loomis, most are doubtful of her claims.
• Spin-Offspring: The main protagonist of the fourth and fifth films is the daughter of the main protagonist of the first two films.
• Stepford Smiler: Shows this when she pretends to be okay after Rachel finds her crying.
• Story-Breaker Power: Jamie's telepathic link with Michael, which she acquires sometime before the events of 5, allows her to know where he is. Her being mute and not wanting to get involved with trying to stop him is the only thing keeping her from telling Loomis, who will very likely find Michael and incapacitate him.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Invokes this after Michael pulls his mask off for her in the fifth film and she sees his face for the first time.
  Jamie: You're just like me.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: In the sixth movie.
• Superior Successor: Zig-zagged. Although she cannot fight back against Michael the way her mother could, her telepathic connection arguably makes her more dangerous to Myers than Laurie as it allows her to know where he is and potentially lead anyone who can kill him to him. The duration to which she lowers her uncle's guard, when she calls him as such and asks to see his face, is longer than any past pleas by Laurie and could very well have led to his death if she had planned using this advantage with Loomis.
• Sympathy for the Devil: When Jamie holds Michael's hand after he is ran over by Rachel, she has a sorrowful look on her face.
• Take Up My Sword:
  • A villainous variation. After Michael appears to die at the end of 4, Jamie appears poised to inherit his role as the murderer in their family.
  • In the sixth film, her son Steven inherits her role as the last living direct relative that Michael tries to kill, and the role of his protector is taken up by both Tommy and Kara.
• Talking to the Dead: After letting out a scream upon finding Rachel's corpse in the Myers house, she requests for her to help her as she hears Michael coming.
• Taught by Experience: She seemed just as convinced as Loomis and Rachel that Michael had been killed at the end of 4, but the following film sees her admit that Michael will never die, a view she's adopted because she's seen him survive the impossible.
• Tears of Fear: Happens many times, usually when it has to do with Michael.
  • She has a nightmare of Michael in her room and pulling her under a bed. When she wakes from it, Jamie is scared and crying to the point of needing to be consoled by her stepparents.
  • After Loomis is attacked by Michael at the schoolhouse, Jamie calls for help before sitting on the ground and crying. She notices Michael is no longer around and then turns to see him and screams with a visible tear in her eye.
• Teen Pregnancy: In the sixth movie she is fifteen years old when she has her son Steven. As she was nine years of age in the fifth movie and six years have passed since then.
• Temporarily a Villain: After becoming possessed by her uncle, Jamie stabs her stepmother. She becomes good again by the start of the fifth film and never attacks anyone again.
• Tempting Fate: Jamie can be seen as doing this in 5 by going to the Myers house and purposely mirroring her aunt Judith, Michael's first victim.
• Terms of Endangerment: She twice calls Michael "Boogeyman" in 5, first when talking to Tina and later when laying in the coffin at the Myers house. The name had been used by children to refer to Michael before, and Jamie was even teased in the previous film for being the niece of "the boogeyman".
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: How she is viewed by Haddonfield citizens who know about her stabbing her stepmother.
• Thinking Out Loud: Jamie tells herself that she is okay when she is alone after running away from her bullying schoolmates.
• This Cannot Be!: Her reaction to Rachel falling unconscious as they try to flee the Meeker house, with Jamie exclaiming that Rachel can't be deed.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • Following losing her parents at a young age, she is adopted by the Carruthers family, who regard her as one of their own and are especially patient with her given the circumstances she joined their family under.
  • After being institutionalized following her possession by Michael and stabbing of her stepmother during it, she becomes friends with Tina Williams and Billy Hill, who treat her very well and look past the grievances that people have with her for her association with Michael.
• Time-Shifted Actor: She is played by Danielle Harris as a child and J. C. Brandy as a teenager.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Jamie is introduced as a sweet, caring kid. She spends the last seven years of her life being mocked by her classmates, despised by other people who live in Haddonfield, abducted by a cult, and hunted by her uncle until he eventually kills her.
• Tragic Bromance: Has this with Tina, as 5 shows their friendship before Tina's murder. Tina is one of the few people that Jamie has become close to in the year since being possessed by Michael and is shown to enjoy her visits. Unlike Rachel, Tina can put her needs or desires over Jamie's, which includes wanting to spend time with her friends or boyfriend. She also does not take Jamie's warnings seriously. This culminates in Tina deciding to go out while Jamie senses that she is in danger and Jamie leaving the clinic to find her before Michael does. Not only is Jamie unable to get to her before she is cornered by Michael, but she also indirectly causes Tina's murder when the latter sacrifices herself for her. The death of one of her closest friends causes Jamie to be willing to do anything to kill Michael.
• Tragic Keepsake: The photos she keeps of her parents in 4 can qualify as this, given their premature passing and the implication that Jamie looks at them when she thinks of them.
• Tragic Heroine: A young girl who lost both of her parents and happens to be the niece of her town's notorious serial killer, who happens to desire to kill all members of his family.
• Trash Talk: Jamie trash talks her schoolmates when they tease her about not having a costume.
• Trauma Conga Line:
  • In the span of a year, she loses her parents, begins living with the Carruthers who, try as they may, cannot fill the void that Jamie has for her real parents. At school, Jamie's peers treat her poorly for things out of her control like her mother being deceased and her uncle being an infamous killer who last operated before she was born. The teasing gets her to change her mind about trick-or-treating around the same time her uncle, who has just woken from his coma, has decided to kill her. After getting lost from her stepsister, she is taken to the sheriff's personal home, where everyone except for her and her stepsister dies. A group of disgruntled residents try to save her by driving her out of town, only to be picked off one-by-one. After it looks like her uncle is dead and she can finally rest, he possesses her and gets her to stab her stepmother, the same woman who's been raising her since her actual mother died.
  • It manages to get worse a year later, after she's already lost her voice and become telepathically linked to a murderer. Her stepsister dies, after she tried to warn the latter about her uncle being in her vicinity and was not believed. Then, she enters another convulsion after sensing her uncle around another friend, who ends up dying anyway despite Jamie leaving the clinic and risking her own life to save her. Then, as part of a trap, she has to sit in her aunt's room, the same aunt who's death started her uncle's killing sprees, and mirror her. She is made to stay at the house after most of the cops that were there to protect her leave and the one officer still there gets murdered soon after. She has to run for her life from her uncle again and is seemingly betrayed by her psychiatrist, who offers her to her uncle. After the latter beats her uncle to death, Jamie is left with the unconscious bodies of an old man and his demonic patient. Right after she leaves the police station, and it looks like Michael is down for the count, she goes back inside and sees a room riddled with corpses.
• True Companions: She is this with Rachel and Tina, as she cares just as much about their well-being as her own.
• Trying Not to Cry: Jamie struggles to hold back tears after she gets made fun of by her classmates for not having a Halloween costume and for her familial relations.
• Two First Names: "Jamie" and "Lloyd" can both be used as first names.
• Undignified Death: Jamie spends her final moments screaming as the corn thrasher she's impaled against tears through her insides after Michael presses a button.
• Undying Loyalty: To Tina. She goes out of her way to warn Tina about Michael and risks her own life to find her before Michael does.
• Unknown Rival: To Michael, at the start of the fourth film, as he wants to kill all of his family members and believes them all to be deceased until he learns of Jamie's existence.
• Unwitting Pawn: When Jamie flees from the Cult of Thorn and she and her baby are chased by Michael, she naturally tries to contact Dr. Loomis. Later in 6, Wynn reveals it was his intention to follow Loomis around because he knew Jamie would seek him out for help and that would lead him to the baby.
• Unlikely Hero: Given that she spends most of her time running from Michael in 4 and 5, it's ironic that the same child he's trying to kill knows where he is and can cause his death by leading Loomis and the police to him.
• Violence Really Is the Answer: Before agreeing to help him, Jamie pointedly asks Loomis if he can kill Michael after she tears up over Tina's death.
• The Voiceless: She is almost mute in the start of 5, due to the traumatic experiences in the last film. She regains her voice later.
• Walking Spoiler: Her existence confirms that Laurie Strode survived the first two films.
• Weak, but Skilled: Jamie's a child during the fourth and fifth films and thus has to be protected by others from Michael. That being said, she's fairly adept at staying out of her uncle's clutches when she finds herself alone and in his crosshairs. Examples of this include the costume store scene in 4 where she draws attention to herself and Michael with her scream and Jamie being inside a laundry shoot and adjusting her position as Michael tries to stab her in 5.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Loomis asks Jamie why she's protecting Michael when she does not tell him where he is.
• White Shirt of Death: She wears a white hospital gown when she meets her end in the sixth film's theatrical cut.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: A line in Halloween 4 ("You going for a record here? The Seven-Year-Old Insomniacs' Hall of Fame?") confirms that Jamie is seven-years-old. However Halloween 5, which takes place one year later, has a line by Tina where she calls Jamie "a nine-year-old girl".
• Yank the Dog's Chain: As Halloween begins in 4, Jamie is having fun trick-or-treating with Rachel and is acknowledged by her peers who like her costume. Then she finds out her uncle is out trying to kill her...
• You Can't Go Home Again: In 4, Jamie is prevented from returning to her home by Loomis, who knows that it would be the first place Michael would look for her after going there himself and knowing that Michael had been there once he discovered the corpse of the Carruthers family dog.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the Producer's Cut, Wynn says this as he points a gun at her head while she lays unconscious in the hospital before he shoots her.