History Characters / Scream

* HairTriggerTemper: The killer often starts off [[FauxAffablyEvil nice enough in conversations]], even if a little weird, but when you start not falling in line, the facade breaks. The BigBad following TheReveal in the movies tends to be prone to losing their temper which not just to fuel their AxCrazy tendencies, but also making them mean-spirited and emotionally abusive in appearance.

* VillainousBreakdown: Not that any were exactly stable to start with but almost all have moments after the reveal when they go completely mad, usually after Sidney calls bullshit on whatever sympathetic motive they think they have.

* {{PrettyBoy}}: Arguably the most attractive of all the male characters in the film, possibly even the franchise as a whole.

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!!Tara

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!!Wes

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Most Ghostfaces have a past that drove them to become killers, although Sidney's ShutUpHannibal in the third film implies that they're all just that -- excuses to kill people ForTheEvulz. The exception to this being Jill Roberts, who openly admits that she's evil, citing that "sick is the new sane".

Gale’s cameraman.

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When he remembers the 30-second delay on the camera and turns around to find Ghostface right in front of him. He’s killed seconds later]].

* PluckyComicRelief: Most of his dialogue is humorous worrying abotu the situation.

* DeathByIrony: Complains about having a small role that is offed quickly. Meets an early death.

[[caption-width-right:320:''"One generation's tragedy is the annext one's joke."'']]

* SammNameBigEgo: She thinks Gale Weathers is a second-rate celebrity compared to her. Gale Weathers is an award-winning author and anchorwoman who has been invited onto college campuses as a speaker and got to where she is by risking her life covering serial killers. Angelina won a contest to get a role in a movie and she didn't even get there fairly, she just slept with John Milton.

[[caption-width-right:320:''"One generation's tragedy is the next one's joke."'']]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A deconstruction. His backstory is heartbreaking being a child of rape and his own mother wanting nothing to do with him despite it not being his fault. His reaction though is to kill everyone who had nothing to do with his circumstances until the last scene where he kills the person actually responsible, John Mertle [[note]] As horrible as what Maureen did was it wasn't worth killing her over [[/note]]. Since he chooses to embrace the identity he only sees himself as a {{Woobie}} while others see him as a monster. Even when offered sympathy at the end, he is so far gone he doesn't accept it and tries to kill Sidney again.

* GreivousBottleyHarm: As mentioned above, she starts chucking beer bottles at Ghostface when he corners her.

* NothingIsScarier: Exactly how she died is possibly purposely left vague. Her body bag in ''3'' indicates that she sustained stab wounds to the crotch, chest, and head, but it was just a prop for a FilmWithinAFilm, and thus possibly not true to life. She is said to have been tortured, but this is only ever brought up exactly once in the entire series, by self-admitted sensationalist Gale Weathers, who unsurpisingly could have just been embellishing like she did with Kenny's death (he had his throat slit, but Gale said that he was disemboweled). All we know is that [[spoiler:Billy and Stu]] attacked her after she had sex with Cotton (which gave the impression that it was rape-murder) and that the killing left a coat that Cotton had forgotten at the Prescott house after the romp with Maureen drenched in blood.

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%%* InnocentBlueEyes

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Possibly. When Billy reveals his motive to kill Sidney's mother was because Maureen's affair with his father caused Billy's mother to leave, it is clear from Stu's expression that he had no idea. He is evidently shocked and maybe even a little bit horrified.

* ContrastongSequelAntagonist: To Billy. While Billy was a bit abrasive and short-tempered even before he was revealed as the killer, Mickey makes a point of seeming perfectly charming and harmless. Billy had a motive for his actions, if admittedly a fairly flimsy one, while Mickey is only interested in achieving fame. And while Billy planned to get away with it by making himself and Stu look like victims, Mickey wants to get caught so he can achieve notoriety.

* TallDarkAndSnarky

* MundaneHorror: Does mean TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse with their generally ordinary physical appearances while unmasked, does not make them less than an AxCrazy SerialKiller they really are.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Despite appearing to be a sarcastic director, he did seem to be a friendly and harmless HollywoodNerd, but after TheReveal, he's just TheBully.

[[folder:Ghostface in Scream (2022)]]

* BarbaricBully: Her savagery that tops the previous killers, her disposing of Charlie much to his devastation, the way she self-inflicts wounds on herself to make her an authentic survivor of a bloodbath, being prone to being emotionally and verbally abusive and not to mention a bad temper to boot would qualify her as such.

-->'''Sidney''': ''[reveals bullet proof vest]'' I guess [[NotSoDifferent we think alike]].