History Characters / GoneGirl

* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Both of them are child psychologists, but are borderline-emotionally abusive towards their daughter, passive aggressively expressing disappointment in her by using Amazing Amy to compensate for her flaws, not realizing that doing this could cause psychological damage on the real Amy (which it kind of does). They also both fail to notice (or maybe even choose to ignore) Amy's sociopathic traits.

* FemaleMisogynist: Subtle, but it's there. Amy has a lot of negative beliefs about men and women and how they socialize. When Greta and her friend rob her, Amy writes off Greta and thinks that her (male) friend put her up to it; choosing to address him instead. She also mocks Go for how needy she is with Nick. When she sees Andie on TV she goes into a short angry SlutShaming rant about her (though it's not surprising, given Andie did seduce her husband).

* BookDumb: She's not especially educated (though she does appear to like reading), but she ''is'' smart, and she knows how to get by with very little cash. To say nothing of how she figured out that Amy was lying about her identity.

* KarmaHoudini: She never receives punishment for robbing Amy. Hard to feel sorry about this, though, considering it's ''[[TheSociopath Amy]]''.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Again, robbing Amy. (Although she did deserve it.)

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: It's heavily implied she's the more ruthless one of her relationship with Jeff. When Amy immediately assumes Jeff forced Greta to rob her, Greta is quick to point out that ''she'' is the one who convinced him.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Amy assumes Greta's just a ditz whom she can control. ''Big'' mistake.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: For Desi, at least. Had Greta not robbed Amy, she wouldn't have gone to him and he wouldn't have been murdered. She's an inverse of this for Nick as her actions resulted in him avoiding the Death Penalty. Ironic considering Greta believes his guilt and seems to be pushing to see him die.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Greta and Jeff disappear after robbing Amy, but it's invoked at the ending as they're the only loose end in Amy's plan. She's not overly worried about her, but they do give her a pause.

* DontYouDarePityMe: At the end of the book, Nick realizes just how truly miserable Amy really is deep down and tells her he that feels genuinely sorry for her. Amy's reaction? She is deeply ''disturbed'' by being told this. Her last lines of narration in the book is spent vehemently denying that Nick was right and that she will not let him have the last word, just before she also admits that she cannot stop thinking about what he said.

* DrivenToSuicide: Her plan was dependent on her taking her own life, something she seems perfectly willing to do to hurt Nick.

* SmugSnake: She's ''very'' confident in herself, and for the most part has the skills to back it up, but [[TooCleverByHalf she does overestimate herself at times]] -- and ''underestimate'' others.

* TooCleverByHalf: Amy is indeed very socially and technically intelligent, having been able to pull off a complicated scheme with many moving parts and manipulated several people through various {{Batman Gambit}}s into framing Nick for murder. However, due to her high opinion of her own intelligence and her dim view of other people, she manages to screw up her own plan of staying under the radar simply by seriously underestimate some of the people she encounters along the way. She comes up completely short against Jeff and Greta, experienced petty criminals who utterly outmatch her in terms of low cunning, as they quickly realize from a few interactions that she has quite a bit of money on her, is travelling alone, and cannot go to the authorities, allowing them to rob her blind and get away with it completely scot-free. She then turns to Desi for help, only to manage to underestimate how much control she has over him and how dangerous he actually is, forcing her into improvise an escape plan that undermines her original scheme.

* BookDumb: She's not especially educated (though she does appear to like reading), but she ''is'' smart, and she knows how to get by with very little cash.

* WrongGenreSavvy: He remarks to Boney that "the simplest answer is often the correct one." In a PoliceProcedural, sure, but not in a twisty domestic thriller like this one. For the record, Boney disagrees.

* PyrrhicVictory[=/=]PyrrhicVillainy: Amy ultimately gets away with everything but Nick tells her that he feels sorry for her because she has to wake up every day and be the same miserable person.

* NotSoDifferent: To Amy. He has a few sociopathic traits to his personal himself, and he proves just as able to lie convincingly as her when the situation calls for it (which includes what [[UnreliableNarrator he tells the audience]]). And finally, once he caught on to her true nature, he proves so capable of keeping up with and countering her schemes that Amy is actually slightly disturbed by it.

* SmugSnake: She's ''very'' confident in herself, and for the most part has the skills to back it up, but she does overestimate herself at times -- and ''underestimate'' others.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Mildly. He comes off as a much nicer, more normal guy in the movie.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Nick in the book when he tries to dump her: "Fuck you. You think I'm some dumb kid, some pathetic student you can ''manage?'' I stick by you through all this -- this talk about how you might be a murderer -- and as soon as it's a little tough for you? No, ''no''. You don't get to talk about conscience and decency and guilt and feel like you are doing the right thing. Do you understand me? Because you are a cheating, cowardly, selfish ''shit''."

[[folder: Noelle Hawthorn]]

!!Noelle Hawthorn

* LovingAShadow: Amy feels that they loved their "Amazing Amy" book character more than her and made said character perfect, flawless, and lovable in a way she herself could never live up to, no matter how she tried.

* ParentsAsPeople: Were they great parents? Probably not. Did they have a hand in making Amy the psycho she is today? Almost certainly. But do they genuinely love her? Yes.

* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about her without revealing that she's a psychopath.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Nothing excuses what she did, but she's pretty clearly severely messed up, and she's at least somewhat aware of this.

* {{Adorkable}}: [[invoked]]{{Exploited}} during her press conference, where she comes off as cute, awkward, sweet, and nervous. This makes the public sympathize with her and allows her to escape the media shitstorm relatively unscathed.

* AbusiveParents: Not intentionally, but basing a fictional character off of your real daughter and making that character absolutely perfect in all the ways your daughter is not exactly what you'd call good parenting. It gets worse when Amy disappears -- they act more like their fictional child has disappeared than their real one.

* ManofWealthandTaste: He comes from a rich family, lives in a very grand, elegant home, dresses up to the nines and evidently has a taste for fine wine in the film.

* FamedInUniverse: For ''defending wife killers''.

* {{Adorkable}}: {{Exploited}} during her press conference, where she comes off as cute, awkward, sweet, and nervous. This makes the public sympathize with her and allows her to escape the media shitstorm relatively unscathed.

* YourCheatingHeart: He's cheating on Amy with Andie and ''boy'' does it cost him.

* FemaleMisogynist: Subtle, but it's there. Amy has a lot of negative beliefs about men and women and how they socialize. When Greta and her friend rob her, Amy writes off Greta and thinks that her (male) friend put her up to it; choosing to address him instead. When she sees Andie on TV she goes into a short angry SlutShaming rant about her.