History Characters / TheCatLady

* DropTheHammer: His weapon of choice.

* PsychoPsychologist: He's a psychologist who happens to also be a serial killer who likes torturing women. In a twist, he doesn't use his profession explicitly to prey on women and actually does his day job fairly well.

%%* BeardOfEvil

* JerkassHasAPoint: He's a genuinely proficient therapist, and his sessions with Susan actually help her. It doesn't change the fact that he's a depraved murderer.

* PornStash: After invading his flat, Mitzi mentions that he was a lot of pornography in his laptop.

* SourOutsideSadInside: Susan's not exactly the nicest person inside her apartment building, and she's very prone to using bitter comments or sarcasm against others. In reality, she's suffering from depression over her grief of losing [[spoiler: her daughter and husband]], and having been let down by others once too many times, she adamantly refuses to open up to others for fear of trechery. It's only when Mitzi introduces herself as her lodger is when Susan starts to overcome this flaw.

* KarmaHoudini: He receives no punishment for his actions in this game, at least. In fact, in the ''VideoGame/Downfall2009}'' remake, [[spoiler: he only gets killed in the non-canon negative ending -- both others see him on the run with Ivy, whether she's alive and grateful (the GoldenEnding) or dead and rotting (neutral).]]

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* CoolPet: Despite the flack her neighbors often give her for having them around, they often fulfill this role, especialy [[spoiler: when they save Susan and Mitzi's lives.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Almost never seen without her meat cleaver. If Susan runs into her without a weapon, she gets hacked to death.

* PoisonousFriend: She ''presents'' herself as Susan's ally, and maybe she even believes that she is. Nonetheless, her warped worldview and sadism cause her to lead Susan to some very nasty (and excruciatingly painful) situations.

* {{Nerd}}: Hinted at by his appearance and the elaborate gaming rig set up in his apartment.

* IllGirl: She reveals early on that she is dying of a brain tumour. [[spoiler: If she doesn't die in the encounter with the Eye of Adam, she either succumbs to this in the normal ending or inexplicably makes a recovery in the GoldenEnding.]]

* OverarchingVillain: Unlike the other parasites, Adam's influence begins to be felt throughout the story after Mitzi joins Susan.

* NotSoDifferent: Claims that she knows how Susan feels, because she herself felt that way for a long time.

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Is also suicidally depressed, just like how Susan was before she was resuscitated in the hospital.]]

* NotSoDifferent: He has quite a bit in common with Susan, considering that he too lives alone, doesn't seem to have many friends, and has problems with interacting with other people as well.

* CatsAreMean: Zig-zagged. While they really care for Susan, averting the usual egoistical portrait of cats in most western media, they also show to be dangerous to the point of [[spoiler: eating the Fourth Parasite ''alive'']].

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Can die in several ways. She either suffocates in a gas attack caused by The Eye of Adam if Susan puts on the only gas mask, dies in an explosion caused by an oxygen tank leakage if she shoots The Eye of Adam, or succumbs to cancer if the player fails to meet the requirements to achieve the GoldenEnding. Keeping her alive in the end is notoriously hard to achieve. However, WordOfGod is that succumbing to cancer was meant to be her canon fate.]]
** Her canon fate is actually muddied by the ''Downfall'' remake, [[spoiler: which sees her pop up with Susan at the end no matter what the outcome is. The way the story is set makes it clear that this takes place some time after the Eye Of Adam's death, but she looks no worse for wear and is still in high spirits.]]

* DoomedByCanon: She makes an appearance in the ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}'' remake, the ending of which is chronologically set after ''The Cat Lady''. [[spoiler: In the end, she is either brutally murdered by Joe Davis after trying to save Ivy, axed in the back by Ivy, or revealed to descend into the Eye Of Adam's madness and start motivating other people to kill themselves. However, in the case of the "killed by Ivy" ending, a newspaper clipping reveals that she somehow survived the attack.]]

** In the ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}'' remake, [[spoiler: Susan is axed in the back by Ivy in the GoldenEnding and left to bleed to death on the ground. However, the ending newspaper clipping makes it clear that she survived the events. Whether it was because she still has her immortality abilities or because the game was mostly seen [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness through Joe's eyes]] is left unclear.]]

A mysterious old woman who appears in the afterlife to grant Susan ResurrectiveImmortality in exchange for becoming her executioner. She also appears in ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Lorelai}}''.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: On one hand, she seems to have genuine sympathy for Susan. On the other hand, Susan identifies her as [[spoiler: the voice of depression in her life]], and she doesn't deny it. On the gripping hand, the quest she gives Susan, and her actions in ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}'' seem to imply she has a distaste for murderers. On some kind of fourth hand, the immortality she grants Susan comes at the cost of other people's lives. Some of the people were going to die anyway, but still...

A mentally unstable man who lives across from Susan with his wife Ivy. [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo The main protagonist of]] ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}''.

* KarmaHoudini: He receives no punishment for his actions in this game, at least. In fact, in the ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}'' remake, [[spoiler: he only gets killed in the non-canon negative ending -- both others see him on the run with Ivy, whether she's alive and grateful (the GoldenEnding) or dead and rotting (neutral).]]
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: You play as him in ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}''.

* Expy: According to WordOfGod, her character is intended as a reference to Nurse Edna from ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion''.

* AGodIAmNot: She describes herself being as powerful ''as'' gods, never claiming to be one herself. She also explicitly says that she is ''not'' Death, and that she's dead just like Susan.

* AGodIAmNot: She describes herself being as powerful ''as'' gods, never claiming to be one herself. She also explicitly says that she is ''not'' Death, and that she's dead just like Susan.