History Characters / CannibalHolocaust

The crew controlled by the director Alan Yates who were sent in the Amazon to make their next documentary called "The Green Inferno" about the cannibals, only to end up missing months later and turn up dead when a rescue team came to find them.

Turns out that they were frauds who staged events to "spice things up". It's revealed that Alan was an utter monster who, along with his crew, did horrific things in the Amazons for fame, greed and pleasure. During their time there, they had terrorized the indigenous people. Their atrocities included burning their huts with people inside it, raping a woman--it's strongly implied that they murdered and impaled her on a stick for their documentary--and being cruel to animals. They were so vile that the cannibals seemed to [[TheDreaded fear them]] and [[EvenEvilHasStandards called them evil]].

* TheHero: Perhaps the closest the film has to a wholly good protagonist.

The crew controlled by the director Alan Yates who were sent in the Amazon to make their next documentary called "The Green Inferno" about the cannibals, only to be missing months later and ended up dead when a rescue team came to find them.

Turns out that they were nothing what the people expected them to be as it was actually revealed that Alan was an utter monster who with his crew did horrific things in the Amazons for fame, greed and pleasure. During all those years, they had terrorised the tribe people such as burning their huts with people inside it, raping a woman and highly implied that they impaled her and being cruel to the animals. They were so vile that the cannibals seemed to [[TheDreaded fear them]] and [[EvenEvilHasStandards called them evil]].

* ArchEnemy: To the Yanomamo tribe for doing all the atrocious things towards them.

* AllMenArePerverts: He only has a girlfriend to fuck her.

* DirtyCoward: He leaves his other members to be tortured, butchered and eaten by the cannibals possibly just to save himself.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: He is one of the only two crewmembers who has a family member that cares about them, his father.

* KarmicDeath: Is set upon by the pissed off Yanomamo tribe along with the rest of his party in retaliation for their extreme cruelty towards them. To make matters even more karmic, the executives who watched his abomination of a documentary decided to burn it afterwards, rendering both his legacy and his attempt at fame and fortune AllForNothing in the end.

* ArchEnemy: To the Yanomamo tribe for doing all the atrocious thing towards them and making them look bad in the documentary.

* TooDumbToLive: Again, what do you ''think'' is gonna happen to the morons who go out of their way to antagonize a cannibal tribe?

* KillEmAll:The crew burns down their whole village and manipulates the footage to make it look like the Yanomamo did it.

* AxCrazy: An absolute ''fucking'' psychopath who did deranged wicked stuff with a huge sadistic streak.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: Like the Yanomama tribe, they are fierce natives, but they are nowhere near as bad as the crew.
* ImAHumanitarian: Averted. Unlike the Yanomama, they don't take part in cannibalism.
* KillEmAll:The crew burns down their whole village and manipulates the footage to make it look like the Yanomama did it.
* NobleSavage: Like their enemy tribe, they are noted to be a warlike tribe that engages in conflict with the neighboring tribes. However, they are less savage than the Yanomama, and neither of them are as bad as the crew.

* NiceGuy: He is shown to be a good-hearted person with morals. As a result, he stands out when compared to the savage cannibalistic Yanomamo[[spoiler: and the even more psychopathic film crew who would slaughter people for fame (save for Faye, at least.)]]
* SkinnyDipping: Read above [[MrFanservice Mr. Fanservice]].

!!Alan Yates' Crew

The crew controlled by the director Alan Yates who were sent in the Amazon to make a documentary about the cannibals, [[spoiler: it turns out that they were nothing what the people expected them to be as it was revealed that they terrorised the tribe people such as burning their huts with people inside it, raping a woman and highly implied that they impaled her and being cruel to the animals, they were so vile that the cannibals seemed to [[TheDreaded fear them]] and [[EvenEvilHasStandards called them evil]].]]

Check the folders below about them.

* ArchEnemy: To the [[spoiler: Yanomamo tribe for doing all the atrocious thing towards them and making them look bad in the documentary.]]
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler: It's even worse since these were real animals that were killed.]]
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler: Would you ''really'' want to go pissing off a tribe of cannibals who decorate their huts with bones?]]
* TheDreaded: [[spoiler: Even the cannibals seem to fear Alan and the crew after seeing how evil they were.]]
* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:They go around committing chaos towards the tribe, they don't take it well.]]
* HateSink: [[spoiler:Deodato created the movie as a critique of sensationalism and the depravities that people will sink to just for a good story, which is precisely what Yates and the crew do.]]
* MightyWhitey: [[spoiler:They ''think'' of themselves as this, but in reality, are a dark deconstruction, becoming more savage than the cannibalistic tribe.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: The gangrape scene is one of their moral event horizon crossings. Faye is outright horrified by it.]]
* SnuffFilm: [[spoiler:Their documentaries are filled with actual deaths recorded to be shown in them.]]
* StupidEvil: Alan and the crew [[spoiler:fuck with the cannibals so badly that it leads to their own cruel death.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Again, what do you ''think'' is gonna happen to the morons who go out of their way to antagonize a cannibal tribe?]]
* WouldHitAGirl: More like would [[spoiler: rape a girl and possibly impale her later.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: It's possible that there were children still inside the burning huts.]]

The main man of the crew. A documentary filmmaker and an anti-war activist[[spoiler: who also added violence in his projects such as with his documentary aired in BBC about innocent people being executed]]. He and his crew went to the Amazons to create their next documentary called The Green Inferno, years later they went missing and a rescue team came to find them. [[spoiler: Despite them being dead, it was actually revealed that Alan was an utter monster who with his crew did horrific things in the Amazons for fame, greed and pleasure.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Nobody is gonna feel bad for Alan when the cannibals finally get him. The people who knew him (even family members) said that he deserved his fate.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: An absolute ''fucking'' psychopath who did deranged wicked stuff with a huge sadistic streak.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Shoots Jack and leaves Faye to to be butchered by the cannibals.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: The true villain of the film.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: While not shown but its highly implied that he dies just like how the other members died.]]
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: He leaves his other members to be tortured, butchered and eaten by the cannibals possibly just to save himself.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. He [[spoiler:strongly considers abandoning the documentary to save Faye from the vengeful Yanomamo, but he's easily talked out of it by Mark]].
* EvilIsHammy: A rather loud speaking person[[spoiler:, especially when he goes full massacre mode]].
* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:Everything he does towards the Yanomamo and his KickTheDog moments is just him wanting to be an sadistic and total dick]].
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: He looks like a pretty cute person[[spoiler: however in reality he's just about anything but good]].
* FatalFlaw: The [[spoiler:chaos]] he and his crew commit is the main reason why [[spoiler: the cannibals got revenge on them.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: He puts on a facade of an enthusiastic filmmaker and documentarian, but is in reality nothing more than a sadistic sociopath.]]
* ForTheEvulz: While also committing these [[spoiler: actions]] for fame, its also done because he clearly just enjoys it.

* HateSink: The Green Inferno footage just shows how utterly despicable Alan (and his crew) is. He and his crew [[spoiler: burn down a village full of people, gang rape a girl and then implied impale her. And if that wasn't enough he then leaves his members to die which ends up him dead too, it's nothing but [[AssholeVictim satisfactory]] when he dies.]] Without a doubt, Deodato intended him to be a prime example of the depths to which people will sink just for fame. Even his own actor hates him.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Not him but it's implied he did this to his rape victim.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: The [[spoiler:actions]] he commits in the Amazon are just for fame and making him look good.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: He might look like to genuinely care for Faye and look concerned when the cannibals get her, but thanks to Mark it seems that he no longer cared and recorded her about to be raped and butchered, at the end Alan destroys his '''only redeeming quality'''. Furthermore, it's implied the only reason he didn't want the cannibals to murder Faye was because he was worried he would have no other woman to have sex with, not because he actually cared about her.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Is set upon by the pissed off Yanomamo tribe along with the rest of his party in retaliation for their extreme cruelty towards them. To make matters even more karmic, the executives who watched his abomination of a documentary decided to burn it afterwards, rendering both his legacy and his attempt at fame and fortune AllForNothing in the end.]]
* {{Narcissist}}: [[spoiler: He only makes the snuff documentaries just to be famous and never cared for others except him and his fame, in fact he leaves his own people just to survive]].

* {{Sadist}}: A textbook example. Alan puts violence in his documentary because in his words it makes them more ''exciting''. Also the [[spoiler: Amazon footages show Alan being so cruel and sadistic that you might just compare him to [[Characters/GameOfThronesRamsayBolton Ramsay Bolton]] when it comes to sadism, it could just be a tie.]]
* SexIsViolence: [[ImpliedTrope Implied.]] He has sex with Faye after [[spoiler:burning down the native's huts.]]
* SlasherSmile: Does this sometimes[[spoiler: like when watching the impaled corpse]].
* TheSocialDarwinist: When he's about to [[spoiler:burn down a hut.]] See his quote above.
* TheSociopath:[[spoiler: An extremely violent, remorseless, careless, arrogant man who only cares for himself.]]
* StupidEvil: [[spoiler:His need for fame through committing increasingly atrocious acts blows up in his face, especially given that said acts are committed against a tribe of cannibals who make huts out of human bones]].
* TooDumbToLive:[[spoiler: He and Mark decide to film Jack and Faye's gruesome deaths instead of running for dear life. Needless to say, they pay for that mistake (and many others) with their lives.]]

* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Though he thinks the natives are perfectly acceptable to kill because of their savagery, he is far more vicious than any of them. The only thing he doesn't sink to that they do is cannibalism, and he ''still'' manages to be a far worse person than they are.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It's clear that in spite of their practices that are seen as barbaric by most of "civilized" society, they have their morals and will act out in vengeance if they're provoked enough. They also might punish premarital sex with impalement, though it's [[spoiler:Yates]] who claims as such, [[spoiler:and might have done the impalement himself]].

* ItsAllAboutMe: The [[spoiler:atrocities]] he commits in the Amazon are just for fame and making him look good.

* ItsAllAboutMe: The [[spoiler:actions]] he commits in the Amazon are just for fame and making him look good.

* DarkIsNotEvil: They have huts made out of bone and practice cannibalism, but they're otherwise shown to actually be relatively decent people, at least compared to [[spoiler:the film crew]].

* BigGood: Contrasting with [[spoiler:Yates]] and his crew, they're the primary good guys in the film. At worst, they're ALighterShadeOfBlack, and at best, the gray in BlackAndGrayMorality.

* WomenAreWiser: She’s the only one that has any morals, at least compared to the three guys on the crew, and cares for them despite all being horrible people.

* BullyingADragon: Would you ''really'' want to go pissing off a tribe of cannibals who decorate their huts with bones?

* HateSink: Deodato created the movie as a critique of sensationalism and the depravities that people will sink to just for a good story, which is precisely what Yates and the crew do.

* TooDumbToLive: Again, what do you ''think'' is gonna happen to the morons who go out of their way to antagonize a cannibal tribe?

The main man of the crew. A documentary filmmaker and an anti-war activist who also [[spoiler: added violence in his projects such as with his documentary aired in BBC about innocent people being executed]]. He and his crew went to the Amazons to create their next documentary called The Green Inferno, years later they went missing and a rescue team came to find them. [[spoiler: Despite them being dead, it was actually revealed that Alan was an utter monster who with his crew did horrific things in the Amazons for fame, greed and pleasure.]]

* AxCrazy: An absolute ''fucking'' psychopath who did deranged wicked stuff with a huge sadistic streak.

* EvilIsHammy: A rather loud speaking person, especially when he goes full massacre mode.
* EvilIsPetty: Everything he does towards the Yanomamo and his KickTheDog moments is just him wanting to be an sadistic and total dick.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: He looks like a pretty cute person however in reality he's just about anything but good.

* ItsAllAboutMe: The actions he commits in the Amazon are just for fame and making him look good.

* SlasherSmile: Does this sometimes like when watching the impaled corpse.

* TheSociopath: An extremely violent, remorseless, careless, arrogant man who only cares for himself.

* TooDumbToLive: He and Mark decide to film Jack and Faye's gruesome deaths instead of running for dear life. Needless to say, they pay for that mistake (and many others) with their lives.

* NiceGuy: He is shown to be a good-hearted person with morals.

* HateSink: The Green Inferno footage just shows how utterly despicable Alan (and his crew) is. He and his crew [[spoiler: burn down a village full of people, gang rape a girl and then implied impale her. And if that wasn't enough he then leaves his members to die which ends up him dead too, it's nothing but [[AssholeVictim satisfactory]] when he dies.]] Without a doubt, Deodato intended him to be a prime example of the depths to which people will sink just for fame.

* HateSink: He is just as evil as Alan. Even his own father has nothing good to say about him.

* BlondesAreEvil: He has blonde hair, and a black heart.

* BadassMustache: Downplayed. He isn't really a badass, but he has a pretty cool mustache.

* MightyWhitey: [[spoiler:They ''think'' of themselves as this, but in reality, are a dark inversion, becoming more savage than the cannibalistic tribe.]]

* AntiVillain: At worst, they don't show any qualms with rape, murder, war, and cannibalism, but they care about each other and are generally nice to outsiders provided that they're shown the same respect in return.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: He shoots a defenceless pig [[ForTheEvulz just for kicks.]]

* StupidEvil: [[spoiler:His need for fame through committing increasingly atrocious acts blows up in his face, especially given that said acts are committed against a tribe of cannibals who make huts out of human bones.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: He might look like to genuinely care for Faye and look concerned when the cannibals get her, but thanks to Mark it seems that he no longer cared and recorded her about to be raped and butchered, at the end Alan destroys his '''only redeeming quality'''.]]
** Furthermore, it's implied the only reason he didn't want the cannibals to murder Faye was because he was worried he would have no other woman to have sex with, not because he actually cared about her.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: The gangrape scene is one of their moral event horizon crossings.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: It's possible that there children were still inside the burning huts.]]

* BullyingADragon: Would you ''really'' want to go pissing off a tribe of cannibals who decorate their huts with bones?

* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Leaves his crew members to be butchered by the cannibals]]

* AllMenArePerverts: He only has a girlfriend because he wants to fuck her.