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The head nurse ("Big Nurse", in the novel) of the mental ward, and the [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the book and movie. Ratched, a sadistic control freak, runs the hospital with an iron fist. She uses everything from psychological torment to lobotomy to keep the patients under her thumb.

See also ''Series/{{Ratched}}'', a series focusing on her OriginStory.

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The head nurse ("Big Nurse", in the novel) of the mental ward, and the [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the book and movie. Ratched, a sadistic control freak, runs the hospital ward with an iron fist. She uses everything from psychological torment to lobotomy to keep the patients under her thumb.

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See also ''Series/{{Ratched}}'', a series focusing on her OriginStory.[[OriginsEpisode origin story]].


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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Well, not actually everyone, but in the novel Chief Bromden always refers to her as "the Big Nurse".[[note]] A play on Big Brother in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. [[/note]]
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The head nurse of the mental ward, and the [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the book and movie. Ratched, a sadistic control freak, runs the hospital with an iron fist. She uses everything from psychological torment to lobotomy to keep the patients under her thumb.

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The head nurse ("Big Nurse", in the novel) of the mental ward, and the [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the book and movie. Ratched, a sadistic control freak, runs the hospital with an iron fist. She uses everything from psychological torment to lobotomy to keep the patients under her thumb.

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xfag2.jpg]] An Irish rogue who gets himself sent to the asylum to avoid prison for statutory rape charges. He quickly grows attached to the interns and becomes aware of their abuses from the orderlies and nurses and try to makes them get out of it.

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An Irish rogue who gets himself sent to the asylum to avoid prison for statutory rape charges. He quickly grows attached to the interns and becomes aware of their abuses from the orderlies and nurses and try to makes them get out of it.





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--> '''Played By:''' William Redfield
A middle-aged man (in the movies; in the books he's something of a pretty boy) who struggles with being unable to please his promiscuous wife, likely due to being a closeted homosexual.

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middle-aged man (in the movies; in the books novel he's something of a pretty boy) who struggles with being unable to please his promiscuous wife, likely due to being a closeted homosexual.




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-->'''Played By:''' William Duell and {{Creator/Vincent Schiavelli}}

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[[folder:Attendant Washington, Warren and Williams]]
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->'''Played By:''' Nathan George, Mwako Cumbaka

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A group of African-Americans attending the asylum. Washington is the right hand man of Nurse Ratched. He has two orderlies, Warren and Williams.

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A group of African-Americans attending the asylum. Washington is the right hand right-hand man of Nurse Ratched. He has two orderlies, Warren and Williams.Williams (Miller in the film).



* AdaptedOut: Williams is not present in the movie.

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* AdaptedOut: AdaptationNameChange: Williams is not present renamed Miller in the movie.film.



* {{Sadist}}: They deliberately enjoy messing with the interns.
* TragicBigot: Williams witnessed his black mother being raped by a white man when he was only five and hold a grudge against white men since.

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* {{Sadist}}: They deliberately enjoy messing with the interns.
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* TragicBigot: Williams witnessed his black mother being raped by a white man when he was only five and hold has held a grudge against white men ever since.



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The nightguard of the asylum, supervising the interns during bedtime. He accepts to let the acutes do what they want without reporting after Randle offers him drinks.

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The nightguard night guard of the asylum, supervising the interns during bedtime. He accepts to let the acutes do what they want without reporting after Randle offers him drinks.

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