The menagerie of killers, survivors and others from Puppet Combo games and those published under Torture Star Video.
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The Killers
In General
The antagonists of Puppet Combo games come in many shapes and sizes, but you can always be guaranteed that they will be massive, nigh-unstoppable, Ax-Crazy madmen and madwomen with a body-count.
- Ax-Crazy: These people are full-time serial killers.
- Big Bad: They are each the main antagonists of their individual games, barring Larry and Billy.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: There is rarely an explanation given for why these killers are bulletproof, so unless stated otherwise it can just be hand-waved as psychotic hysterical strength.
- Evil Is Bigger: All of them are at least above average in height, typically being around 6'3" or 6'4". But then you have the freakishly tall ones like the Nun or the Night Shift Abductor, who are pushing seven foot.
- Evil Is Not Well-Lit: Several of them roam through pure darkness while hunting their prey.
- Invincible Boogeyman: All of them (except for the Driller Killer, since his two respective games have no combat system) at some point get to show off the fact that they're Immune to Bullets and other such combat mechanics, inconvenienced by revolvers at most.
- Karma Houdini: Even when the protagonists of their respective games survive against them, the vast majority of them are typically free to continue their killings. Worst case scenario, they kill the protagonist and The Bad Guy Wins.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Clown masks, Greek theater masks, duck masks, rabbit masks, masks made of human flesh...
- The Mentally Disturbed: Most of the killers in these games are shown to be severely mental ill and incapable of understanding right from wrong, though there are a few who explicitly know the cruelty of their actions and enjoy it.
- More Deadly Than the Male: Of the eleven killers listed here, only two of them are women, the Nun and the Womb Ripper. However, both of their 60+ body-counts massively dwarf any of their male counterparts.
- Psycho Knife Nut: The majority of them use a knife (particularly a kitchen knife) as a weapon of choice, besides the Driller Killer, the Night Shift Abductor, the Easter Ripper, and Billy.
- Religion of Evil / Hollywood Satanism: It's implied most if not all of the killers are connected by a Greater-Scope Villain cult called the Church of the Father's Vision. We know for a fact Billy and the Night Shift Abductor are high-ranking CFV members assigned to their own personal monsters. It's implied the Nun and Easter Ripper are members too, given their CFV memorabilia. The Driller Killer and Womb Ripper are also both Satanists, and Satanism seems to be closely related with whatever the hell religion the CFV follows.
- Roaming Enemy: Most of them function as this in their respective games, patrolling the area in their hunt for the Player Character.
- Sensory Abuse: Several of the killers listed here (the Driller Killer, Nun, and Night Shift Abductor) combine this with Hell Is That Noise. Their surrounding environment is completely silent before they catch the player off-guard, disorienting them with an extremely loud noise as they chase them down.
- Serial Killer: In all cases, the character you play as is far from their first target, and often come across the butchered, decaying remains of their previous victims.
- Silent Antagonist: They all rarely if ever speak. Burr speaks once over the phone (which isn't even confirmedly him), the Driller Killer is The Unintelligible, the Night Ripper never speaks in-person but if he’s Nathan Talbot then he can't shut his mouth, the Night Shift Abductor leaves no shortage of notes, Billy has unvoiced monologues, the Easter Ripper only speaks out-of-costume, and the Womb Ripper sings over a baby monitor. Otherwise, pure silence.
- Stock Slasher: Almost all of them are based on slasher movie archetypes, particularly Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and/or Leatherface.
- Tragic Villain: The majority of them are depicted as being so hopelessly insane that they're in constant agony and unable to comprehend the moral extent of their actions, with the exception of the book version of Neokalus Burr, the Night Ripper, the Easter Ripper, and Slaw.
Puppet Combo
Neokalus Burr
- Adaptation Expansion: The novelization provides considerably more input on his backstory, where he is a former family man who snapped and killed his family.
- Adaptation Name Change: Very slight one though. The novelization of Babysitter Bloodbath renders his first name as Neoklaus instead of Neokalus from the game.
- Age Lift: In the game, Burr is stated to be 38 years old, and was hospitalized for 22 years before escaping. However, in the novelization, Burr is revealed to have been a family man 22 years prior to the events of Babysitter Bloodbath, with a wife and two children that he murdered. It's likely that Burr is older in the novelization's continuity than he is in the game, as his stated age of 38 in-game would’ve meant that he was 16 years old at that time, making it impossible for him to be a married man with a family of his own.
- Captain Ersatz: Literally a reskinned Michael Myers.
- Eats Babies: Devoured an infant (his own infant, no less) in the novelization.
- Harassing Phone Call: Sends his victims schizophrenic rants over the phone before killing them.
- Institutional Apparel: His jumpsuit, which might be the uniform he was given as an inmate in a mental hospital.
- Monster Clown: Wears the pink clown mask of his daughter. His colorful red jumpsuit makes him seem even more clownish.
- Ominous Walk: Unlike the other killers, who burst into a sprint upon sighting the player, Burr walks with a robotic stride, just like The Shape.
- Pater Familicide: In the novel, he decided to annihilate his own family up out of the blue.
- Psycho Knife Nut: Nearly all Puppet Combo killers are this, but special mention goes to Burr because his 22-year old rusted kitchen knife has sentimental value to him as his first murder weapon, and his goal is to reclaim it.
- Red Is Violent: A deranged killer who wears a red jumpsuit as he stalks Sarah.
- Tom the Dark Lord: He sticks out when compared to all the other killers. While the rest have menacing epithets the media gave them, Burr is simply referred to by his real name, like Michael Myers. Although to be fair, both "Neokalus" and "Burr" are very unique names.
- Villain Protagonist: At least he would've been if Sanitarium Massacre and A Monster With Eyes of Ice, the prequel games to Babysitter Bloodbath weren't cancelled.
- Word-Salad Horror: Clearly has schizophrenia, judging from his nonsensical phone-call.
- Would Hurt a Child: Not only butchered his young daughter, but even murdered his own infant son. He also specifically targets Billy in the book and is only stopped by Sarah, showing that he prefers preying on children.
The Driller Killer
- Cop Killer: The ending of Night Watch sees him murdering park ranger Jim.
- Expy: Of two. Both Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (being a mentally disabled serial killer who squeals like a pig and wields a power tool) and the title character of The Driller Killer.
- Hell Is That Noise: The wailing he makes while chasing the player is sampled from a pig being slaughtered, to give you an idea. His growls of frustration at the end of Night Watch and Ending A of Power Drill Massacre count too.
- Hollywood Satanism: Graffitis Baphomet and pentagrams on his crime scenes.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Wears a white mask that's apparently supposed to be a Greek tragedy/comedy mask.
- Mental Handicap, Moral Deficiency: A serial killer with the mind of a three-year old child.
- Psychopathic Manchild: His lair is strewn with as many children's toys as severed body-parts.
- Secret Squatter: Implied. The ending of Night Watch shows him imprisoning Jim in the same basement tunnels that he roams in Power Drill Massacre, even though Night Watch takes place in 1978, when the Branden Sawmill was still in operation. This suggests that the Driller Killer was already operating in said tunnels even before the sawmill was shut down in 1981.
- This Is a Drill: Guess what his weapon of choice is!
- The Unintelligible: His mind is so degraded his speech is nothing but infantile babbling, and he gets murderously frustrated whenever his victims can't understand him.
- "Wanted!" Poster: This image right here.
Given the sketch's resemblance to the Driller Killer's mask, it's likely that the witness who provided the description for his appearance mistook his mask for his actual face, thus rendering the sketch useless for identifying him. - Would Hurt a Child: One of his victims prior to 1987 was a young girl named Christine Wilbur, who had been camping with her parents in the Pocono Mountains. She appears as a ghost to Megan in the sawmill, and the teddy bear in the Sugar Tunnel is implied to have belonged to her. It's also very possible that Christine was the child heard screaming for help by Jim at the end of Night Watch, which would place her as one of the Driller Killer's earliest victims in 1978.
The Night Ripper
- …But He Sounds Handsome: If he really is Nathan Talbot, then singing the praises of the Night Ripper on his radio show is little more than hyping himself up as a righteous crusader when he’s really as sick and twisted as they come.
- Car Fu: When he's feeling lazy, he'll just plow Rachel over with his SUV.
- Conspicuous Trenchcoat: It's the standard Giallo killer uniform, after all.
- Dirty Coward: The Night Ripper runs away from mere warning shots. While this is a pretty reasonable human reaction, this is pathetic by Puppet Combo killer standards, who are usually so crazy they have no sense of self-preservation.
- Expy: Of the killer in The New York Ripper with his weird Donald Duck voice, gloves and misogyny, though without the former's sad backstory.
- Eye Scream: He aims for the eye when stabbing women.
- Hate Sink: While most Puppet Combo slashers are so profoundly mentally ill they're unable to function as human beings (barring the Easter Ripper and the novelization of Neokalus Burr, who are just as deplorable), the Night Ripper is just a hateful, bigoted asshole.
- Jack the Ripper: Essentially Jack the Ripper if lived in 1980s New York instead of 1880s London, as a black trenchcoat-wearing killer of street prostitutes.
- I Love the Dead: He rapes the corpses of the prostitutes he murders.
- Malevolent Masked Man: A yellow duck mask, of all things.
- Monster Misogyny: Unlike most Puppet Combo slashers, who don't discriminate, the Night Ripper exclusively targets women.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Presents himself as an agent of God wiping out sexual immorality, but in reality he's just a deranged lunatic murdering innocent women en masse out of bloodlust and necrophiliac sexual sadism.
- Plague Doctor: His attire is essentially a plague doctor uniform if it were duck-themed instead of crow-themed. Black overcoat, white-brimmed hat, boots, and gloves with a beaked avian mask.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: If he's Nathan Talbot, as he's heavily implied to be, he extends his hatred beyond just women towards homosexuals and black people, blaming the former for AIDS and insulting the music styles of the latter.
- Shock Jock: Nathan Talbot, his implicit public identity. Women, sex workers, minorities, queers, drug abusers; he clearly aims to offend them all.
- Straw Misogynist: Considers all female sex workers to be worthless whores, and believes those that aren't should be in a subordinate position to men.
- Van in Black: Prowls the streets in a menacing black SUV.
The Chainsaw Killer
- Chainsaw Good: To a completely ludicrous level, his main weapon is not only a chainsaw, but he owns an entire complex filled to the brim with buzzsaws and chainsaws as traps.
- Hillbilly Horrors: His real name is Jedd, which is a stereotypically "redneck" name. Likely in reference to Leatherface.
- Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: Wears a white hockey mask like Jason Voorhees and wields a roaring chainsaw like Leatherface.
- Institutional Apparel: Clad in an orange jumpsuit, it means that he's either recently escaped from prison or it's just part of his costume due to streaming a live Snuff Film.
- murder.com: He hosts livestreams of his murders on a public dark web service, with even having a live chat of demented viewers and commentators.
- Ominous Walk: Like Neokalus Burr, his chases are slow-paced. This makes sense, because he's trying to put on a show for the audience alongside that the entire complex covered in saw-related traps. However, the meta reason for this is that the game would be downright impossible if there was a high-speed chase in a room full of buzzsaws.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Downplayed, while he only strikes during "MANIAC ATTACK" events and simply goes way when the time is up. He can afford to act this way considering the entire complex has enough deathtraps that if he simply doesn't get you during his events, his many deathtraps will do the job for him.
The Night Shift Abductor
- The Butcher: His cleaver and blood-splattered smock suggest this, and interestingly enough he's not a cannibal butcher. He's actually slaughtering and preparing victims for an Eldritch Abomination.
- Chainsaw Good: He normally uses a cleaver, but in the final act he drops all pretenses of not being a Leatherface ripoff and starts using a chainsaw.
- Creepy Stalker Van: Drives a white van in Night Shift. You can see it parked in his garage in the sequel.
- Evil Old Folks: Not the Abductor himself, but his mother. She'll alert her son to the player's presence.
- Expy: Very clearly one of Leatherface, being a towering, mentally disabled, stout butcher who uses his remote farmhouse as his Cannibal Larder lair, wields a chainsaw, uses human skin as sewing materials, and takes care of elderly family. With a smidge of Jason Voorhees, thanks to his outfit and love for his mummified mother.
- The Dragon: It turns out he's not just an independent killer like all the others. Like Billy, he's actually just the (very eager, in his case) servant of an Eldritch Abomination. The Butcher himself has his own Dragon, an accomplice who stakes out potential targets for him.
- Dumb Muscle: The notes explicitly describe him as unintelligent due to "something wrong with his mind". This is an Informed Flaw though. His AI is no worse than any other killer. As a matter of fact, he has remarkably good path-finding, cutting the player off and catching them by surprise.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He takes care of his elderly, wheelchair-bound mother. What a nice guy.
- Evil Is Bigger: The tallest Puppet Combo killer, tied with the Nun at 6'8".
- Genuine Human Hide: His house is littered with mannequins draped in the stitched-together flesh of his victims. However, he's never seen wearing human skin himself.
- Hillbilly Horrors: He is a Sackhead Slasher who operates in the abandoned Ghost Town of Cedarville, Oklahoma and lives in an isolated farmhouse.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Despite being a clearcut Leatherface expy who butchers his victims, it turns out to be subverted. The twist is that he isn't preparing the human meat for himself: it's actually for the demonic alien living in his basement/bunker.
- Patrolling Mook: His mother will patrol the house in her automated wheelchair and will scream if she spots the player, siccing her son on them.
- Right-Hand Attack Dog: Has a pet Hellhound (literally called the Demon Dog) he sics on the player.
- Sackhead Slasher: His costume is certainly an homage to Jason's from Friday the 13th Part 2.
- Sanity Slippage: His journal starts out well-written (albeit he's still a deranged killer), before devolving into fanatical gibberish with terrible handwriting thanks to the alien parasite rotting his brain.
- Uncertain Doom: It is unclear what happens to the Butcher in the "Mother" Ending, where Roxanne activates the self-destruct system of the bunker located underneath the farmhouse, detonating the entire area.
- Vader Breath: You'll hear him coming before you see him, thanks to his heavy breathing.
- Villainous Breakdown: If you kill his mom, he'll start screaming for 5 minutes straight. It's actually quite sad.
The Nun
- Acid Attack: In one of the endings, she kills Mrs. McDonnell by vomiting acid onto her face. She does this in the novel too, which doesn't make any sense, seeing how she's not even supposed to be supernatural in that.
- Adaptational Villainy: While the game depicts the Nun as a sadistic psychopath, she’s never really given a clear or concrete backstory behind her character aside from a few hints on what she might be. The novelization gives her an actual backstory, in which she massacred everyone in St. Cecelia’s at the tender age of nine years old.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the novel, she's a normal human serial killer instead of a supernatural monster. She's bulletproof and unkillable in the game, save for being burned alive, while in the novel she dies from simple blunt force trauma to the head.
- Ambiguously Human: While most Puppet Combo killers demonstrate inhuman strength and resilience, the Nun seems outright ghostly in contrast. Whether she’s Mother Apollonia, a Mental Monster manifested from Mrs. McDonnell's guilt for the abuse Janie suffered, the Vengeful Ghost of Janie McDonnell herself, or something else entirely, is unknown.
- Blind Seer: Her eyes are gouged out, but she clearly isn't blind. This is a reference to Janie's favorite martyr Saint Lucy, who blinded herself in defiance.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: In the novel, her black, empty eye-sockets turn out to be an optical illusion. They're actually just sunken in shadow.
- Enfant Terrible: Had a body-count of 60 by the time she was nine years old in the novel.
- Evil Is Bigger: The tallest Puppet Combo killer, tied with the Night Shift Abductor at 6'8". Made even more noticeable from the fact that she's a woman.
- Freudian Excuse: The novelization’s take on the Nun reveals her to be Janie McDonnell herself, who was harshly abused as a child by a disciplinarian nun, and developed a split personality based on her monstrous abuser.
- Hell Is That Noise: Her bloodcurdling shrieks are sampled from a 9/11 training tape of a woman (fictitiously, but still) being murdered.
- Jekyll & Hyde: In the novelization, she turns out to be the evil split personality of the game’s protagonist, Mrs. McDonnell.
- Madness Mantra: It's very hard to hear (especially over all the Sensory Abuse), but the Nun is actually very quietly whispering to herself. In the game, it's indecipherable, but in the book it's revealed to be Psalm 27, Janie's favorite Bible passage.
- Man on Fire: Her fate in Ending C, where Mrs. McDonnell sets the Nun on fire while she's trapped behind a cage, and is then forgiven by Bongo the Clown for doing so.
- Mental Monster: In the game, she is implied to be the physical embodiment of Mrs. McDonnell's guilt over leaving her child with an abuser, resulting in her tragic suicide.
- Nun Too Holy: For a supposed Catholic, it seems she didn't take "thou shalt not kill" to heart.
- One-Woman Army: In the novel, she massacred the school's entire student body and faculty, for a total of 60+ victims. This easily makes her the deadliest of all Puppet Combo killers, not to mention one of the most prolific mass murderers in American history. And this was all when she was only a 9-year-old girl.
- Split Personality: In the novel, she has dissociative identity disorder with a total of three personalities.
- Trap Master: She has the school rigged with a pit full of barbed wire and a deadly Bucket Booby-Trap, where the bucket is full of very flammable turpentine.
- Your Size May Vary: The Nun towers over Mrs. McDonnell while patrolling the school throughout the game but is suddenly shrunk to the size of a child in Ending C while behind a cage.
The Easter Ripper
- Adaptational Villainy: He's somehow even worse in the novelization. While Tom in the game loved his brother, Tom in the novel deliberately used Anthony as his scapegoat ever since they were kids. In the game, Tom decided to kill again because he wanted revenge for Anthony's wrongful execution, but the novel has him start up another killing spree purely for his own enjoyment. His mother appearing as one of the zombies that arrives to kill him suggests that he murdered his mother as well.
- Animal Motifs: Rabbits, given his Easter Bunny costume, the Easter egg hunt he forces his victims to participate in, and the heavy libido of rabbits being an appropriate visual metaphor for his crimes.
- Back from the Dead: Subverted. Dana contemplates the idea that the Easter Ripper has somehow come back to life after being executed, but it turns out that the deceased Anthony Smith wasn't the Easter Ripper, but his brother Tom.Dana: Is Anthony Smith, executed in the electric chair in 1985, back from the dead and back for revenge on anyone who enters his house? Find out soon if we don't get the fuck out of here!
- Black Eyes of Evil: His bunny suit's eyes are pitch-black.
- Bondage Is Bad: Several children's skeletons can be found in the secret basement area of the house, one of which is bound in chains. It's suggested that the Easter Ripper forced at least some of his child victims into BDSM play to satisfy his pedophilic urges.
- Bright Is Not Good: He wears a bright pink Easter Bunny costume and is both a sadistic serial killer and child rapist.
- Cain and Abel: The relationship between the Smith brothers is changed to this in the novelization, with Tom being the Cain to Anthony's Abel.
- Devoured by the Horde: His ultimate fate after his fight with Emma in the greenhouse. As the zombies of his victims rise up to surround Tom, Emma takes the opportunity to run away to freedom.
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: After his brother took the fall for him, all Tom had to do to get away scot-free with his crimes as the Easter Ripper was to simply not commit murder again. Unfortunately for both himself and the news crew, Tom just couldn't resist and started another killing spree, rendering Anthony's execution a Senseless Sacrifice when Tom eventually kicks the bucket at the end.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: No one expected the Easter Ripper to be the cameraman.
- Dramatic Unmask: His true identity as Tom is the game's big twist.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Was genuinely upset by his brother's death, and pleaded with him to not turn himself in to save him. He attempts to avenge him by killing the news crew. This is his only positive quality. This gets subverted in the novelization version as it is revealed he intentionally got him imprisoned and didn't even care for him, even when they were young.
- Enfant Terrible: He was an evil sociopath even as a little boy in the novelization.Tom: My mother loved me and thought I could do no wrong… mostly because I was so good at making her think that. When something bad happened, she blamed Anthony and made him confess. It got to be second-nature for him. Any time I did something wrong, he took the blame.
- Evil Twin: The novelization clarifies that Tom and Anthony Smith were twin brothers, and as children, Tom would often get Anthony in trouble with their mother.
- Faking the Dead: Twice, in fact. To the public, the Easter Ripper was executed in 1985 but it turns out that Anthony Smith wasn't actually the culprit. During the massacre of the news crew at the Smith house, Emma watches a tape that leads her to believe that Tom was killed by the Easter Ripper, but his body was never shown and it's revealed that Tom himself was actually the killer.
- Final Boss: The ending of Murder House has Emma fight the Easter Ripper in a final confrontation within the greenhouse.
- Foreshadowing: There are a couple hints to Tom being the Easter Ripper:
- After filming a couple scenes for the documentary, Tom excuses himself to the bathroom. It's at this point that the front door is locked and the van is wrecked, and Tom is the only member of the news crew whose movements were not accounted for during this time.
- Both Dana and Gary's deaths show them being eviscerated by the Easter Ripper, who enters the scene behind them. Tom's "death" is shown entirely in first-person, allowing him to trick Emma into believing he's dead through careful positioning of his camera. His body is never seen at any point.
- Hate Sink: Just like the Night Ripper, the Easter Ripper is an utterly deplorable and heinous serial killer. While he doesn't discriminate for his victims, he mainly targets children and it's outright implied he actually molests them. While most of the killers are at least completely insane, the Easter Ripper fully knows what he's doing and relishes in it.
- Hair-Raising Hare: A serial killer who dresses up as the Easter Bunny.
- Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Tom is dressed in one when the news crew arrives at the Smith house
- High-Voltage Death: Is stated to have been executed by the electric chair, but it's subverted as the real Easter Ripper is Tom Smith rather than Anthony Smith.
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Guess what day he strikes on.
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: When the Easter Ripper gets bored of torturing his child prisoners, he releases them into the greenhouse and hunts them down while also forcing them to participate in an Easter egg hunt of their own, as a way of making a game out of their last moments alive before finally killing them. He repeats this with the news crew when they arrive at the Smith house, killing them off one by one as Emma is forced to find all the hidden eggs strewn throughout the property.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: Tom Smith evaded justice when his brother Anthony decided to turn himself in as the Easter Ripper instead to protect him. It's when he chooses to strike again that his own victims rise from their graves to kill him, saving Emma.
- Karmic Death: Devoured by the zombies of his own victims.
- Killer Bear Hug: One of the game-over screens has him lift Emma up as she turns to run away, before squeezing her to death.
- Kill the Lights: He shuts off the power to the house shortly before beginning his rampage.
- Large Ham: As one of the few antagonists to talk (after his true identity is revealed), he hams it up big time.
- Mama's Boy: Tom mentions being one in his Motive Rant to Emma. The book explores this more showing that he did love his mother at one point, who spoiled him rotten. When the Smith brothers were children, Tom was the one who was favored by their mother and could do no wrong in her eyes, while Anthony was The Unfavorite who was even beaten by her. Being the favored twin wouldn't stop Tom from killing his mother later on, however.
- Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: Was unabashedly favored and spoiled by his mother, who believed he was a little angel who never had a troubled thought cross his mind. Meanwhile, Tom's brother Anthony endured beatings from their mother and would always take the fall for Tom's delinquent endeavors as the two grew up.
- Pædo Hunt: His implied molestation of the children he killed marks him as the most detestable villain of all of Puppet Combo's antagonists. It's further cemented by the fact that he's one of the few Puppet Combo killers to actually receive any form of comeuppance, specifically a Karmic Death at the hands of his own victims.
- Pink Is Erotic: The Easter Ripper wears a pink rabbit suit and was a sadistic, pedophilic serial killer who used BDSM tactics on some of his victims, who were only children. His rabbit suit also invokes the high sex drive of rabbits.
- Psycho Pink: Laugh at his pink rabbit costume all you want. It won't make that sickle any less sharp.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Certainly the most reprehensible of all Puppet Combo antagonists, as an unrepentant child molester.
- Sadist: Not only does he enjoy torturing and raping children, but a note written by one of the Easter Ripper's victims reveals that he actually hid razor blades inside a chocolate egg and fed it to one of the children he kept prisoner (a girl named Cassidy in the novelization) as a sick joke.The blonde girl when she took her bite... Her mouth was covered in blood. She dropped the egg and inside the chocolate, the Easter Bunny had played a trick and put sharp razorblades. There was a lot of blood and she wouldn't stop screaming, and the walls started to laugh at her...
- Sinister Scythe: His weapon of choice is, uniquely, a sickle.
- Slipping a Mickey: Gave children spiked easter eggs so he could molest them.
- The Sociopath: While his love for his brother was a redeeming quality of his in the game, the novelization portrays Tom as having frequently thrown Anthony under the bus for anything he did wrong when they were kids, which would extend over to taking the fall for his crimes. In the flashbacks elaborating on Tom's childhood, he was shown to have already been an adept liar, who played the role of the "good twin" in his mother's eyes while turning her against Anthony, and genuinely enjoyed the pain he brought to others with no indication of him ever feeling any empathy or sympathy for anyone other than himself.
- Spoiled Brat: The novel states that he was pampered by his mother, adopting the image of a good and obedient boy. In reality, he was a troublemaker who had his brother take the blame for his wrongdoings right up to the Easter killings.
- Taking the Heat: His brother falsely confessed to being the Easter Ripper.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The Easter Ripper who abducted, tortured, raped, and murdered several children turns out to be the generic-looking cameraman with the equally generic name of Tom Smith.
- Tom the Dark Lord: Literally. But special mention goes to the almost cartoonishly generic "Smith".
- Vehicular Sabotage: He destroys the van to prevent the news crew from leaving his house.
- Villainous Breakdown: Enters one after being defeated by Emma, which leads to his dead victims rising up to kill him.
- Would Hurt a Child: Targets children specifically, but isn't opposed to killing adults trying to stop him either.
Larry
- Abusive Parents: In the prologue of Texas Butcher, Larry's mother can be heard beating him for not feeding the dog.
- Bad Santa: He can wear a variety of outfits, but a Santa costume is his main one. Furthermore, he’s a Christmas-themed killer, slaughtering people for being "naughty" and hallucinating talking Christmas trees that him to kill.
- Expy: A Bad Santa slasher brings to mind Billy Chapman from Silent Night, Deadly Night, even having a similar origin story of being abused by a nun that caused him to get very violent around the holidays. He's also an expy of the real-life serial killer Son of Sam, who too killed because a dog "told him to."
- The Faceless: Enforced. All of his costumes are masked except for one, and even in that one, his face is pixelated out.
- Fat Bastard: Larry has a pot belly, especially noticeable when he’s naked.
- Freudian Excuse: He was abused as a kid by his mother and a nun for his mental disabilities, both of whom drilled Christian fundamentalism in his head. This explains why he gets psychotic around Christmas.
- Funny Schizophrenia: While Billy's insanity is played serious, Larry's imaginary tree friend is the comic relief of Christmas Massacre.
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Is only shown striking during the holiday season.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He's essentially a deeply troubled child that never grew up. His house in Christmas Massacre is a cluttered and run-down mess that has holiday decorations and toys scattered about with numerous televisions running. He also has imaginary friends that are just extensions of himself and his murderous impulses, and he plays dress-up in various costumes while preparing or committing his killing sprees.
- Treacherous Advisor: Parodied. The Christmas tree "betrayed" Larry by "snitching" to the FBI.
- Villain Protagonist: Just like Billy.
Billy
- Apologetic Attacker: He's initially apologetic to his victims, feeling like their deaths are beyond his control. But he eventually hardens his heart to their suffering.
- The Dragon: To an Eldritch Abomination called The Hole.
- Depraved Bisexual: In the sequel, Billy picks up both horny men and horny women at the club. To kill them, of course.
- Guilt-Induced Nightmare: Hard to tell if it's a nightmare out of guilt or brought on by his disturbed actions, but Billy gets a bad dream where a figure forcefully enters his apartment and suddenly shoots him. The figure just so happens to be himself.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Billy uses this justification when he inspects the body of the first victim.
- I've Come Too Far: During his second night out, he expresses this sentiment while inspecting the corpse of one of his victims.
- Monster Clown: Wears a clown mask, just like Neokalus Burr.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: He carries a potent snub-nosed revolver that can grievously wound or kill his victims with one shot.
- Sanity Slippage: Billy is insane from the very beginning, however he gradually goes from crippling guilt to sociopathic callousness. He becomes full blown villainous by the upcoming Feed Me More Billy.
- Slipping a Mickey: How Billy sometimes gets his victims in the sequel.
- Tom the Dark Lord: At least "Neokalus Burr" sounds cool. You can't get any plainer than "Billy".
- Villain Protagonist: Just like Larry, Billy has the distinction of being one of the only few Puppet Combo killers that take the role of protagonists/playable characters instead of antagonists.
Torture Star Video
The Womb Ripper
- Baby Be Mine: The Womb Ripper specifically targets pregnant mothers, cutting open their wombs to abduct their fetuses.
- Cop Killer: One of the Womb Ripper's victims over the course of the game is Officer Burton, the policeman that responds to Sara's 911 call.
- Covered in Scars: Burn scars, to be specific.
- Dark Action Girl: She takes out several people throughout the night, including the entire night shift staff of an income tax office and a police officer. She also confronts Sara at the end of the game, and like most Puppet Combo killers, takes an absurd number of gunshots before finally going down.
- Evil Is Visceral: The most visceral Puppet Combo/Torture Star Video killer to date. It's difficult to be more grotesque than a fetal abduction-oriented serial killer who targets pregnant women to cut their babies out of their wombs.
- Final Boss: Bloodwash ends with Sara facing off against the Womb Ripper in her hideout, now armed with the gun she found from Officer Burton's severed hand.
- Freudian Excuse: As horrific as her crimes were, the Womb Ripper was once an innocent young woman who was taken advantage of and impregnated by her boss, left to burn by the father of her child, lost her baby in the fire that he started specifically to kill her, and has to live with disfiguring burns all over her body.
- Genuine Human Hide: Her mask is made from the skin of flayed fetuses.
- Green-Eyed Monster: While fetal abduction cases do unfortunately occur in real life, Samantha's motive and pathology behind doing so is not out of a desire to become a mother herself, but to deprive mothers of their children after being deprived of her own, hence why she also murders the children she rips out. Sara concludes that after killing Louis, she targeted pregnant women because they had something she didn’t.
- Hell Is That Noise: She imitates a baby's crying during the night as a way of scaring and disturbing visitors.
- Hollywood Satanism: Commits human sacrifices with bloody pentagrams scrawled across the floor.
- Ironic Nursery Tune: Samantha can be heard singing a lullaby over the baby monitor.
- Made of Iron: All killers are this, but special mention goes to the Womb Ripper. Not only does she survive several gunshots while naked, but she survives being vivisected.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Judging from the Satanic rituals in her basement, it's possible the Womb Ripper gets her superhuman strength from the Devil himself. Or you could just chalk it up to the Charles Atlas Superpower all slashers have anyways.
- Naked Nutter / Full-Frontal Assault: Perhaps the most deranged of all Puppet Combo slashers, the Womb Ripper is so crazy she doesn't even wear clothes.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Really. Can you think of a more viscerally disturbing name than "Womb Ripper"?
- Never Found the Body: After the fire that Louis set, Samantha's remains were never found because she was alive all along.
- Not Quite Dead: It turns out that Samantha survived her encounter with Sara, and proceeded to wake up at her own autopsy.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Her first victim was Louis Kennedy, the man who attempted to kill her and the cause of her Tragic Stillbirth. Other characters even state that he was a creep and that he probably deserved it.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Samantha was declared dead after the fire that consumed the old laundromat with her in it, but it turns out that she survived and became the Womb Ripper in the process.
- Samus Is a Girl: Somehow manages to pull this off despite being naked. The Womb Ripper's breasts and womanhood are covered up by burn scars (not to mention the pixelized artstyle), giving her an androgynous appearance and making it shocking to learn she's not only a woman, but Samantha Rhodes herself.
- Tragic Stillbirth: She was driven insane by her miscarriage, which is why she jealously targets pregnant women.
- Would Hurt a Child: Her entire M.O. is based around killing not just children, but unborn children.
The Deadly Night Killer (spoilers unmarked)
- Abusive Parents: Both his biological and adoptive parents. His birth parents were alcoholics who would lock him in a closet while Carol was prostituted to pedophiles by their mother. After the house fire and death of their birth mother, Carol and Dylan were put in foster care and relocated to Mr. Miller. While Carol was adopted by a normal family, Dylan remained with Mr. Miller, who turned out to be a cannibal psychopath and groomed his adoptive son to be just like him.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Carol's Abel.
- Cannibal Clan: Abducts and kills people to eat them. He learned it from his adoptive father.
- Expy: Superficially, he resembles Leatherface, as a hefty, rural psycho cannibal. But story-wise, he's much like Michael Myers (barring the Blumhouse trilogy), as the surprise long-lost brother of the Final Girl.
- Facial Horror: Wears a mask to hide his horrible burn scars.
- Fat Bastard: An overweight cannibal serial killer, to be precise.
- Final Boss: If Carol managed to call 911 in the Motel section, the game will have the player assume control of the cop that was dispatched and face off against Dylan one final time, armed with a gun.
- Freudian Excuse: Not only was he abused by his birth mother and disfigured in a house fire, but he was adopted by an even ''worse'' abuser who forced him to eat human meat and corrupted him into a serial killer.
- I'm a Humanitarian: He was raised to be a cannibal by his adoptive father.
- Long-Lost Relative: Carol and Dylan were adopted by different parents after the fire.
- Revenge: His targeting of Carol isn't coincidental. She accidentally scarred him as a kid by starting a house fire.
- Sinister Scythe: Like the Easter Ripper, he wields a sickle.
- Tom the Dark Lord: One of the few killers to only be addressed by their real name, lacking any epithet whatsoever.
Slaw
- "You can't outrun me, piglet."
- Animal Motifs: Pigs, obviously. Aside from the pig mask, there are various Mr. Porky plushies that can be seen in his hideout, as well as his Terms of Endangerment for his victims ("little piggy" or "piglet"). The fact that he turns his victims into meat could also make him a Gluttonous Pig as well.
- Bad Boss: Even outside of his Slaw persona, Keith is a shitty boss to his employees.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: He abducts a dog named Zakk in the beginning of the game and imprisons him in a cage. Tony can free Zakk by defeating a Secret Boss.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Slaw fits this towards every other slasher in the Puppet Combo line up. Unlike Burr, The Night Ripper, or The Nun, Slaw has a full personality as shown as a sadistic and psychopathic manchild Slaw, and as a bad and uncaring boss Keith. Unlike the Driller Killer or Billy, he shows no mental illness’ that explain his behavior, lacks a Freudian Excuse that Dylan or The Womb Ripper has, and even then, unlike The Easter Ripper, shows to not even hide his true behavior as the video store manager Keith, being a completely unlikable and hated person in all his appearances.
- Dual Wielding: In the climax, he arms himself with two meat hooks as he tries to take down Tony once and for all.
- Fat Bastard: An overweight serial killer who toys with his victims before eviscerating them.
- Final Boss: The climax sees Tony obtain a security guard's handgun and shoot Slaw in the loft area.
- Foreshadowing: There are some early hints at the beginning of the game that allude to Slaw actually being Keith:
- A reporter that interviews Tony tells him that all of the disappearances seem to stem from around the general location of the Video-2-Go store. Later on, when a detective comes into the store to ask Tony some questions, he mentions that all of the missing people had Video-2-Go accounts and requests to see customer transaction data. With the reveal that Slaw is Keith, this means that he was using the store as a hunting ground for his victims.
- When Tony calls Keith to tell him that someone smashed the window with a cinder block, Keith is unconcerned about Tony's safety and simply tells him to board the window up. Keith was trying to stall for time and ensure that Tony wouldn't be able to escape from him.
- Gluttonous Pig: He specializes in butchering his victims into meat and is associated with pigs.
- Hooks and Crooks: A meat hook with a horizontal handle is Slaw's weapon of choice, befitting his love for butchering his victims and he even gives Tony a good look at it when he tries to escape through the air vents.
- Karmic Death: Slaw dies after Tony impales him with a crowbar, which leads to him falling into the same grinder that he used to kill several of his victims and grind them into meat.
- Not Quite Dead: Even after Tony shoots him several times, he's only rendered unconscious. After finally unlocking the gate from the security office, Slaw attacks Tony once again, but Tony impales him with a crowbar, causing Slaw to fall into the grinder below. It's subverted during the ending, where Slaw's arm falls out of the grinder with a Scare Chord accompanying it… only to show it that it's actually just his dismembered arm, thus confirming Slaw's death.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He accosts his victims under the pretense of having fun and playing games with them. At the end of his initial chase after Tony near the beginning of the game, he childishly screams "Why won't you just play with me?!".
- The Secret of Long Pork Pies: He supplies "Slaw's Mystery Meats" through a butchery/meat supplier known as Chop Shop.
- Sinister Swine: A sadistic and maniacal butcher wearing a pig's head for a mask.
- Terms of Endangerment: Calls Tony "little piglet" as he terrorizes him.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Slaw is revealed to have been VHS store supervisor Keith in The Stinger.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He is completely bare-chested, albeit covered in blood.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Slaw deliberately crashes his van to lure a reporter named Timothy to the site of the crash, before cornering and killing him.
The Survivors
In General
The player characters of most Puppet Combo games. Almost always young women, these girls embody the Final Girl and Action Survivor archetypes in slasher horror.
- Action Survivor: Almost every one of them can defend themselves against the killer in some way, usually with a trusty revolver. Not that it'll do much good against bulletproof lunatics.
- Females Are More Innocent: Although women can certainly be killers in the Puppet Combo universe (albeit still heavily outnumbered by men), final boys are almost nonexistent.
- Final Girl: They're modelled after characters like Laurie Strode and Sally Hardesty.
- Revolvers Are for Amateurs: If any of them are armed with a firearm, it's almost always a revolver (most of the time they're snub-nosed too) and considering most of the protagonists have little to no combat experience, it's very fitting.
- Useless Boyfriend: These girls always seem to have relationship problems. Jack is a scaredy cat who gets killed instantly, Jeff and Brendan are a helpless dudes-in-distress, Liam is a pathetic deadbeat, and Carol's boyfriend is a cheating bastard.
Puppet Combo
Sarah
- Action Girl: For a teenaged girl, she’s shown to be pretty resourceful in a life or death situation. She’s rather quick on her feet outmaneuvering Neokalus Burr and is shown to be pretty good with a gun as she manages to shoot him with a pistol multiple times in the garage.
- Action Survivor: Sarah especially stands out, since she can get even more badass by killing the killer with an axe.
- Expy: Of Laurie Strode from Halloween. She's not a full-blown Captain Ersatz of Laurie like Burr is to Michael though, as she's still Sarah even in the Halloween version of Babysitter Bloodbath.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: In the book, she has a very intense but platonic relationship with her friend Jill.
Megan Brooke
- Blue Is Heroic: Megan somehow thought a blue sweater would look good with blue jeans. She looks like she's wearing a boiler suit in the pixelated darkness.
- Drives Like Crazy: The nature of the car accident is given no details, implying Megan is simply a bad driver.
- The Generic Guy: Puppet Combo protagonists aren't known for their depth, but there is well and truly nothing to say about this wooden plank.
- The Hero Dies: In ending B. And possibly ending A.
- Fan Disservice: She's stripped nude in ending B. In a cage swarming with flies, smeared with human waste and entrails.
- Uncertain Doom: Ending A of Power Drill Massacre features a news report covering what happened to Megan and Jeff. While Jeff's body was found, Megan's body was never recovered, which leaves it unknown if Megan ever did actually escape or not. The arcade version of Power Drill Massacre that can be accessed in Night Shift is less ambiguous, though.Power Drill Massacre Arcade end screen:MEGAN HAS SUFFERED AN EMOTIONAL SHOCKSHE WILL RECOVER IN A CRISIS CENTER
Rachel
- Bubbly Waitress: A cute young waitress who is way too naive for her own good.
- Mistaken for Prostitute: The reason the Night Ripper is stalking her is because he assumes every woman walking home alone at night is a hooker.
- Too Dumb to Live: She honestly brought her woes onto herself, choosing to walk home even when she knows there's a killer prowling the streets and her friend is offering her a ride home. Her justification for this is that the Night Ripper only kills prostitutes and that she should be safe, but she doesn't seem to consider that she could easily be Mistaken for Prostitute or y'know, that the Night Ripper is still a murderous lunatic
- Uncertain Doom: It's heavily implied but not confirmed that the Night Ripper kills her in the end.
Ashland Schoolgirls
The protagonists of Buzz Saw Blood House. A class of Ashland High School girls who were abducted by the Chainsaw Killer and made the unwilling stars of a Red Room livestream.
- Aerith and Bob: Most of them have normal names, like Amanda, Emily, or Samantha, but some of them have names that look made-up or misspelled, like Lorinda, Jesenia, or Reginia.
- Kid Hero: Likely some of the youngest Puppet Combo protagonists, as schoolgirls who look to be around 16.
- Made of Iron: They have little reaction to getting their arms sliced off.
- Naughty Is Good: They're all troublemakers at school, given how they were just getting out of detention when they were kidnapped.
- Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Some of them have green or blue or dyed red hair.
- Ordinary High-School Student: They go from teenage schoolgirls to action survivors in one night.
- Sailor Fuku: For some reason, their school's uniforms are Japanese-style, even though it's likely set in America.
- Smitten Teenage Girl: All the girls talk about is which boy they find cute before they're kidnapped.
Mrs. McDonnell (spoilers unmarked)
- Abusive Parents: Two notes found in Ending A paint Mrs. McDonnell in a more sinister light. While the true meaning of said notes is unclear, she seems to approve of Mother Apollonia's actions and joins in on subjecting Janie to the same religious abuse, under the belief that she needed to for her daughter to be "saved" from eternal damnation. With Janie heavily implied to have been Driven to Suicide, the implication is that Mrs. McDonnell realized her own culpability in her daughter's death and came to St. Cecelia's to be punished.
- Adaptational Villainy: She goes from being the protagonist of the game to being the Nun herself in the novelization.
- The Atoner: Implied to be why she arrived at her daughter's old boarding school, despite Janie being dead and said school being abandoned. Mrs. McDonnell seeks to either punish herself or to repent for her role in Janie's suicide, and is Driven to Suicide herself in Ending A, while she is forgiven in Ending C after burning the Nun, who embodies the abuse Janie suffered.
- Beehive Hairdo: From what can be seen of her in the intro screen of Nun Massacre.
- Buried Alive: She buries herself alive in guilt in one of the endings.
- And in the book, she's buried alive against her will by the Final Girl Dawn.
- Imaginary Friend: Try imaginary daughter. That's right. In the novel, Janie is Mrs. McDonnell's third personality.
- Jekyll & Hyde: In the novel, the big twist is that the Nun is her evil split personality.
- No Full Name Given: Her first name is never given in the game, though Mother Apollonia's letter is addressed to a "Shannon McDonnell" in the files. Her first name is Jane in the novelization, which reveals the twist that the Nun is actually her split personality.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Janie was Dead All Along, by suicide.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: Whenever she lapses into her Janie personality.
- Security Blanket: In the book, it's Bongo the Clown. Dawn uses this to her advantage in the ending, luring McDonnell to her doom with Bongo.
- Walking Spoiler: Even though the game and book are very different, one thing they have in common is that it's impossible to talk about Mrs. McDonnell without spoiling the fact that either her daughter Janie is long dead, or that she, the Nun, and Janie are one in the same.
Debra Kopiske
- Voiced by:' Suzi The Sphere Hunter
- Apathetic Clerk / Soul-Sucking Retail Job: It's a bit sad she values paying rent over her own life.
- Decoy Protagonist: She initially seems like the game's protagonist, before getting usurped by Roxanne.
- Demoted to Extra: She gets demoted from playable protagonist to supporting NPC between games.
- Loser Protagonist: Most Puppet Combo protagonists are young, idealized girls in their early 20s, with their whole lives ahead of them. But Debra is a startlingly relatable middle-aged woman stuck working a Soul-Sucking Retail Job and is still needing a roommate.
- Skewed Priorities: Her largest concern after getting abducted is not being able to pay rent.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: Her fate is up to the player/Roxanne. She can either be rescued, or used as bait.
Roxanne
The protagonist of Stay Out of the House. A woman on a roadtrip with her boyfriend Brendan, who gets captured by the Night Shift Abductor. She ventures into the killer's farmhouse to rescue him.
- Chest Burster: This is her fate in endings B and C, vomiting blood as she gives oral birth to an alien baby. She miraculously survives it in ending C though.
- Distressed Dude: Her motivation is to rescue her captive boyfriend Brendan from the Night Shift Abductor.
- Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: She's pregnant with an eldritch monstrosity's child and gives birth to it in endings B and C.
- The Hero Dies: In endings A and B, she's devoured by some sort of demonic alien.
- The Unseen: Due to the first-person perspective, her appearance is a mystery, other than being described as a white 20-something year old.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can play Roxanne as a total psychopath if you want, getting all of her fellow captives killed to save her own skin.
Jim
- Badass Cape: Wears a poncho to brave the rainstorm.
- Carpet of Virility: When stripped nude, he's shown to have a giant bush of hair on his chest.
- Distressed Dude: Despite being a park ranger with a rifle, he gets no chance to defend himself and gets tied up, humiliated, and killed with ease.
- Fan Disservice: Just like Megan, the Driller Killer strips him nude and skewers him with a power-drill.
- The Smurfette Principle: Gender-flipped. One of the very few non-killer male protagonists.
- The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): Most Puppet Combo protagonists are young, petite, helpless women who are usually college students, waitresses, or cashier clerks. If anyone is qualified to take down a deranged killer, it's the 30-something year old male park ranger trained with a rifle. But he fails the hardest out of any other character.
Emma
- Voiced by: Sarah Nowak
- Achilles' Heel: Literally. Her tendon is pulled so she can't run well.
- Ambiguous Situation: In the extended ending, which reveals that the story of Murder House was actually a movie being shot in-universe, Emma's actress Sarah drives off with the Easter Ripper in her trunk; is Nick, the original actor playing the Easter Ripper stowing away in her trunk, or did Sarah kill Nick and is driving off to dispose of his body?
- Expy: Her brown bobcut, thick-rimmed glasses, nasally monotone, and her traveling with a gang of haunted house explorers makes her seem like Velma from Scooby-Doo.
- The Intern: She's interning for a local news station. Unsurprisingly, she's trampled by her more experienced colleagues.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She books it out of the greenhouse while the Easter Ripper is mauled to death by the zombies of his victims.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Delivers one to the unmasked Easter Ripper during their final confrontation in the novel.Emma: While I see you without the head, you’re not the Easter Ripper. You’re not a mythic figure. You’re a lame guy wearing a bunny costume. A nerd. A loser. That’s it. Get it?
Torture Star Video
Sara
- Voiced by: Olivia Steele
- Ambiguously Bi: She flirts with the sex hotline girl and ogles the women on the porno covers just as much as the men.
- Covert Pervert: She would love to spice up her bedroom life with some BDSM, but her boyfriend is too much of a lazy prude for it.
- Destructive Romance: Her one-sided toxic relationship with her boyfriend, who keeps their already rundown apartment a pigsty and is perpetually hungover. Sara finally dumps the sorry bastard after she survives the Womb Ripper's attack.
- Pregnant Badass: She's arguably the most badass of the bunch, given how she manages to survive the same thing as the others while pregnant.
- The Unseen: Due to Bloodwash being entirely in first-person, we have no concept of Sara's appearance.
- Useless Boyfriend: Her boyfriend Liam is an alcoholic deadbeat.
Carol
- Voiced by: Maria Moore (adult), Sarah Elizabet (child)
- Abusive Parents: Her mom prostituted her as a child, so she killed her by causing a house fire.
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Dylan's Cain.
- Create Your Own Villain: In starting the house fire to escape her abusive mother, Carol had no idea that her brother would become a psychotic Serial Killer, let alone abduct her.
- Ms. Fanservice: Gets a gratuitous Shower Scene. Then again, it's hard to find so few polygons attractive.
- Plagued by Nightmares: She constantly suffers nightmares harkening back to her dark past.
- Self-Made Orphan: As a kid, she started a house fire to kill her mother, because Carol wanted to escape from her mother's prostitution of her.
- Trauma Conga Line: First, her boyfriend cheats on her. Then, he leaves her stranded alone at a gas station after she confronts him about it. Then, she gets plagued by nightmares of her childhood sex abuse. Then, she gets sexually harassed and kidnapped by a pervy motel owner. Then, she's kidnapped by a serial killer. Then, her old wounds are reopened when she learns the killer is her long lost brother. Carol really never got a break.
David
- Voiced by: HB Gibson
- Action Survivor: A classic Zombie Apocalypse example, David is a quiet normal man living by his lonesome but soon finds himself having to fight through hordes of the undead to not only survive the outbreak but also find the root cause of it.
- Expy: David is very similar to Ben from Night of the Living Dead both being dark-skinned, resourceful leaders of their respective survivor groups.
- Eye Scream: He gets one of his eyes gouged out when a zombie arm bursts through a wall and gets his head impaled on a jagged piece of wood. Fortunately it has no negative impact on his combat effectiveness.
- One-Hit-Point Wonder: If a zombie catches him it's game over, however he has kitchen knives that prevent him from becoming zombie chow.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: He can arm himself with a shotgun when he makes his way into the coastal town. It can make quick work of the zombies and doesn't need to be aimed precisely. Zombies with dislocated heads are extra vulnerable thanks to the buckshot.
- Would Hurt a Child: Granted many of these children are zombified already.
Tony Brown
- Voiced by: Mike Lythgoe
The main protagonist of Rewind or Die. Tony is an employee for Video2Go store, who is stalked and chased down by the serial murdering Slaw.
- Action Survivor: For an average person, manages to fight back against the serial murdering Slaw.
- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Is shown to despise his job as a cashier of the Video Store.
- Unlucky Everydude: A store employee who is randomly chosen by his boss as the next victim for his murderous activities.
Supporting Characters/Others
Stan
Voiced by: Devante Johnson
Sara's rather old, friendly and all-around compassionate neighbor from Bloodwash, he later reappears in Night at the Gates of Hell when his vacation in a beach-side village gets rudely interrupted by a satanic zombie apocalypse.- Cool Old Guy:
- He promises to help Sara if Liam graduates into a full-on Domestic Abuser and even keeps true to his word by helping Sara move to Stan's sister's place like he promised when Sara dumps Liam.
- This is increased by several levels in Night At The Gates of Hell, his vacation is put on hold thanks to an outbreak of the undead. Yet he still goes out of his way to save a mother and her child. He even attempts a Heroic Sacrifice to take down a zombie shark but later on is revealed to have survived the encounter at that.
- Nice Guy: He stands out amongst the sea of seedy scumbags in Bloodwash (barring the friendly homeless man). Sara even notes how much of a great guy Stan is.
- Karmic Jackpot: Zigzagged Trope. He's overall a really kind and caring person, helping Sara move out after she dumps Liam, saving Belinda and Charles during a zombie outbreak and even pulling an attempted Heroic Sacrifice to take on a zombified shark to save the rest of his survivor group. However the Zombie Apocalypse puts his vacation on hold, somehow survives the showdown against the shark and saves David, the two of them are now seemingly stuck in Hell. While Stan is very lucky to still be alive, he's probably got a long way to go from getting proper peace and quiet.
