History Characters / Scream

* [[Characters/ScreamRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]][[note]]Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy Meeks-Martin, Neil Prescott, Maureen Prescott, Randy Meeks, Martha Meeks, Cristina Carpenter, Hank Loomis, Cotton Weary, Judy Hicks, Kirby Reed[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ScreamRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]][[note]]Sidney Prescott, Neil Prescott, Maureen Prescott, Gale Weathers, Randy Meeks, Martha Meeks, Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy Meeks-Martin, Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Hank Loomis, Cotton Weary, Judy Hicks, Kirby Reed[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ScreamVI Characters unique to the sixth film]][[note]]Ethan Landry, Anika Kayoko, Jason Carvey, Greg Brockner, Laura Crane, Danny Brackett, Quinn Bailey, Detective Wayne Bailey, Dr. Christopher Stone, Brooks, Bodega Clerk[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ScreamVI Characters unique to the sixth film]][[note]] Danny Brackett, Ethan Landry, Quinn Bailey, Anika Kayoko, Jason Carvey, Greg, Wayne Bailey, Laura Crane, Dr. Christopher Stone[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ScreamVI Characters unique to the sixth film]][[note]]Ethan Landry, Quinn Bailey, Anika Kayoko, Jason Carvey, Greg, Wayne Bailey, Danny Brackett, Laura Crane, Dr. Christopher Stone[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ScreamVI Characters unique to the sixth film]][[note]]
[[/index]]Ethan Landry, Quinn Bailey, Anika Kayoko, Jason Carvey, Greg, Wayne Bailey, Danny Brackett, Laura Crane, Dr. Christopher Stone[[/note]]

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* [[Characters/ScreamRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]][[note]]Sidney Prescott, Neil Prescott, Maureen Prescott, Gale Weathers, Dewey Riley, Randy Meeks, Martha Meeks, Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy Meeks-Martin, Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Hank Loomis, Cotton Weary, Judy Hicks, Kirby Reed[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ScreamRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]][[note]]Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, Dewey Riley, Randy Meeks, Martha Meeks, Cotton Weary, Neil Prescott, Maureen Prescott, Judy Hicks[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Scream1996 Characters unique to the first film]][[note]]Casey Becker, Tatum Riley, Billy Loomis, Stu Macher, Arthur Himbry, Kenny Jones, Sheriff Burke, Hank Loomis[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Scream2 Characters unique to the second film]][[note]]Cici Cooper, Debbie Salt, Derek Feldman, Mickey Altieri, Hallie [=McDaniel=], Joel Jones, Lois, Murphy, Maureen Evans, Phil Stevens, Gus Gold, Andrew Richards, Richard Andrews[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Scream3 Characters unique to the third film]][[note]] Mark Kincaid, Jennifer Jolie, Roman Bridger, Angelina Tyler, John Milton, Tyson Fox, Tom Prinze, Sarah Darling, Steven Stone, Christine Hamilton, Joshua Wallace, Bianca Brunette[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Scream4 Characters unique to the fourth film]][[note]]Jill Roberts, Kirby Reed, Olivia Morris, Trevor Sheldon, Charlie Walker, Robbie Mercer, Ross Hoss, Anthony Perkins, Rebecca Walters, Kate Roberts, Jenny Randall, Marnie Cooper[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Scream2022 Characters unique to the fifth film]][[note]]Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy Meeks-Martin, Amber Freeman, Wes Hicks, Richie Kirsch, Liv [=McKenzie=], Vince Schneider, Chromeface[[/note]]

The character sheet for the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films. For characters appearing in [[Series/ScreamTVSeries the MTV series]], go [[Characters/ScreamTVSeries here]]. For characters from ''Series/ScreamResurrection'', go [[Characters/ScreamResurrection here]].

** [[Characters/ScreamGhostface Ghostface]] '''''(MASSIVE UNMARKED SPOILERS)'''''

* [[Characters/Scream1996 Characters unique to the first film]][[note]]Casey Becker, Tatum Riley, Billy Loomis, Stu Macher, Arthur Himbry, Kenny Jones, Sheriff Burke[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Scream4 Characters unique to the fourth film]][[note]]Jill Roberts, Kirby Reed, Olivia Morris, Trevor Sheldon, Charlie Walker, Robbie Mercer, Ross Hoss, Anthony Perkins, Rebecca Walters, Kate Roberts, Jenny Randall[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Scream2022 Characters unique to the fifth film]][[note]]Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Vince Schneider, Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy Meeks-Martin, Amber Freeman, Wes Hicks, Richie Kirsch, Liv [=McKenzie=][[/note]]

** [[Characters/ScreamGhostface Ghostface]] '''''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)'''''

* [[Characters/Scream3 Characters unique to the third film]][[note]] Mark Kincaid, Jennifer Jolie, Roman Bridger, Angelina Tyler, John Milton, Tyson Fox, Tom Prinze, Sarah Darling, Steven Stone, Christine Hamilton, Joshua Wallace, Martha Meeks, Bianca Brunette[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Scream2022 Characters unique to the fifth film]][[note]]Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Vince Schneider, Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy Meeks-Martin, Martha Meeks, Amber Freeman, Wes Hicks, Richie Kirsch, Liv [=McKenzie=][[/note]]

* [[Characters/ScreamRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]][[note]]Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, Dewey Riley, Randy Meeks, Cotton Weary, Neil Prescott, Maureen Prescott, Judy Hicks[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Scream2022 Characters unique to the fifth film]][[note]]Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Vince Schneider, Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy Meeks-Martin, Martha Meeks, Amber Freeman, Wes Hicks, Richie Kirsch, Liv McKenzie[[/note]]

* [[Characters/Scream2022 Characters unique to the fifth film]][[note]]Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Richie, Wes Hicks, Mindy Meeks-Martin, Chad, Amber, Liv, Vince[[/note]]

The character sheet for the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films. For characters appearing in the MTV series go [[Characters/ScreamTVSeries here]]. [[Characters/ScreamResurrection See here]] for Series/ScreamResurrection.

* [[Characters/ScreamGhostface Ghostface]] '''''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)'''''

* [[Characters/ScreamRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]]
* [[Characters/Scream1996 Characters unique to the first film]]
* [[Characters/Scream2 Characters unique to the second film]]
* [[Characters/Scream3 Characters unique to the third film]]
* [[Characters/Scream4 Characters unique to the fourth film]]
* [[Characters/Scream2022 Characters unique to the fifth film]]
* [[Characters/ScreamGhostface Ghostface]]

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!Characters Appearing in All the Films
[[folder:Sidney Prescott]]
!!Sidney Prescott
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm a fighter."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/NeveCampbell

->''"Psychos can't kill what they can't find."''

The [[FinalGirl professional]] [[ActionSurvivor survivor]], Sidney's life has been defined by a series of killing sprees all directed at her. First her mother Maureen was killed out of a jealous rage, then her friends in high school and college were hacked to bits, and ''then'' they started making [[ShowWithinAShow hit slasher movies]] based on her tragedy. While this has brought her fame, fortune and a bestselling autobiography, it also means that she has had to spend large parts of her adult life constantly looking over her shoulder for the next wannabe Ghostface.
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* ActionGirl: In the fourth film, ready to take on the killer at the drop of a head.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: By the time of the third film, she became distant to other people due to being a BrokenBird.
* BadassAdorable: A very pretty, naturally sweet-natured young woman who only becomes more badass with each passing installment. In her first on-screen fight against Ghostface, she successfully holds her own and knocks him down, and can generally be counted on to put up a fight.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Transforms into this as her character evolves over the course of the series.
* BigGood: Sidney becomes one throughout each of the movies. The second and fourth movie especially, where ItsPersonal and willing to take a proactive approach.
* BrainyBrunette: She's smart enough to live through all the movies.
* BrokenBird: She is what constantly being the FinalGirl [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype in real life is like]].
* BullyHunter: When she actively fights back against Ghostface, who beneath the mask would simply be TheBully in another work if not a SerialKiller in a horror film.
* ButtMonkey: When you consider that she's destined to spend the rest of her life being periodically attacked by masked psychopaths attempting to copy one another's murder sprees. Oh, and Tori Spelling played her in the ''Stab'' movie. Why, Sidney, did you have to [[TemptingFate mention that?]]
* CartwrightCurse: [[spoiler:Both men she’s involved with die; Billy because he was one of the killers and she had to put him down herself, and Derek because he was a suspect and she didn’t act fast enough before Mickey killed him]].
* CharacterDevelopment: At the beginning of the first film, she's just a [[PluckyGirl perky high school kid]] who, over time, develops into a guilt-ridden survivor in the second film, to a seclusive hermit by the third. The fourth, however, shows how, many years later, [[spoiler:[[LetsGetDangerous she's fully willing to take the fight to the killer]], having her first encounter with him directly after Olivia's death. And winning.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Sidney uses anything at her disposal when Ghostface comes for her; [[ParasolOfPain umbrellas]], guns, defibrilators, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick sticking her fingers into open wounds]], you name it.
* DamselOutOfDistress: While she's the target for each Ghostface, she survives each encounter by taking them out instead.
* DeathBySex: Subverted in the first film; she's the only named character in the franchise to have sex and live to tell about it.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Being the FinalGirl in real life is not good for one's mental health.
* DoomMagnet: She's destined to spend the rest of her life being periodically attacked and having all her friends killed by nutjobs trying to imitate the previous killers. In the second movie her drama teacher outright compares her to [[TheCassandra Cassandra, a woman from Greek myth who was cursed.]]
* FamedInStory: Becomes a celebrity after the events of the first movie.
* FinalGirl: Initially played straight (except for the film's subversion of DeathBySex), although she slowly evolves into a {{deconstruct|edCharacterArchetype}}ion as the series goes on, with her life defined by her "perpetual victimhood" and the bloody consequences that this has for those around her.
* FriendlyEnemy: With Cotton, in the second film.
* GenreSavvy: "Horror movies are all the same. Some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can't act who's always running up the stairs when she should be going out the front door. It's insulting."
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Wields an array of [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]] throughout the series, to the point that it's practically a RunningGag. Greatest hits include an ornate ice pick, [[ParasolOfPain an umbrella]], a defibrillator, a framed picture on the wall, and a ''necklace''. Basically, if you're trying to kill her, she can and will use anything she can get her hands on to defend herself, and use it well.
* KirkSummation: In the third film, she can't help but be annoyed and disgusted with [[spoiler:Roman for blaming Sidney's existence for his life, thus his eventual murdering spree]]. Eventually, she gets fed up, having heard this speech before, and shouts furiously that [[spoiler:he's]] really just looking for an excuse and every last one of the scapegoating Ghostfaces should [[RevengeMyopia learn to take some responsibility for once in their twisted lives]].
* MadeOfIron: Similar to the Ghostface killer, she's pretty durable considering she survives getting stabbed a few times, a couple car crashes, and falling out an upper-story window onto a boat.
* NiceGirl: She's introduced as innocent, supportive and caring and it doesn't completely go away after her various traumas.
* PlotArmor: She's been critically injured every movie, but it's never been fatal.
* PluckyGirl: Considering everything she went through.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Through her half-brother's movie tricks]], she apparently undergoes this in the third film, having visions of her dead mother coming for her. It doesn't work though.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: While Sidney has managed to survive four occasions of attacks, there were some scenes that make you wonder whether or not she might end up as a killer, or no different from one. In the third film, this was a part of Ghostface's plan as Ghostface wanted to pin the murders on her. She herself even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this in said film.
-->'''[[spoiler: Roman]]''': I shot you.
-->'''Sidney''': ''[reveals bullet proof vest]'' I guess we think alike.
* ShutUpHannibal: In the third movie, when confronted with Ghostface [[spoiler:revealed himself to be Roman, Sidney's half-brother]], she cuts him off in the middle of his MotiveRant, declaring that she's tired of all the bullshit that the killers she has encountered have told her, and says that all of the reasons she has heard are just pathetic excuses that the killers use to hide the fact that they kill people simply because they enjoy doing it. This leads to a rather large VillainousBreakdown.
-->'''Sidney''': God, why don't you stop your whining and get on with it? I've heard this shit before! Do you know why you kill people, [[spoiler:Roman]]? Do you? [[ForTheEvulz BECAUSE YOU]] ''[[ForTheEvulz CHOOSE]]'' [[ForTheEvulz TO!]] There ''is'' no one else to blame! Why don't you take some ''fucking'' responsibility?!
-->[[spoiler:'''Roman:''']] ''*livid*'' FUCK YOU!!!
-->'''Sidney:''' FUCK ''[[NoYou YOU]]''!!!
* TheScapegoat: Every Ghostface with a motive for their killings finds some way to [[NeverMyFault blame her for how fucked up and psychopathic they are]], naturally seeing murder for revenge as the ideal solution. By the third time this happens, Sidney has completely had it and lividly calls them out on their bullshit.
* SupportingProtagonist: Dewey and Gale are more active than her in the third film but she's still the main character.
* SympatheticMurderer: She deliberately kills most of the killers, even though in the case of [[spoiler:Billy and Mickey]] they were already defenseless and it was unnecessary. However considering the paranoia they made her endures can you blame her ?
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Tatum's Girly Girl in the first movie and Hallie's Girly Girl in the second one.
* TomboyishName: A name befitting of any respectable FinalGirl. While "Sidney" did [[https://www.behindthename.com/name/sidney/top become popular]] as a girl's name in the early '90s (especially in the alternate spelling [[https://www.behindthename.com/name/sydney/top "Sydney"]]), for most people of Sidney's generation it would be known mainly as a boy's name. Even so, many girls with this name often spell it as Sydney.
* TookALevelInBadass: There weren't any doubts about her badassery in the first two movies, but she ''really'' cranks it up by the third.
-->'''Sidney:''' (walks in on Ghostface and starts unloading her gun into him) It's ''your'' turn to scream, asshole!
* VillainKiller: Of the protagonists, she has the highest villain kill count, taking out [[spoiler:Stu Macher, Billy Loomis, Mickey Altieri (with Gale's help), and Jill Roberts]]. It's enough that she's lampshading this tendency in the thrid and fourth films.
* ZenSurvivor: What she becomes after surviving the horrors of the ''Scream'' movies, especially after the events of the second movie. Poor girl needs to catch a break.
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[[folder:Gale Weathers]]
!!Gale Riley (née Weathers)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hey, you'd better check your conscience at the door, sweetie. I'm not here to be loved."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/CourteneyCox

->''"People treat me like I'm the anti-Christ of television journalism."''

A reporter who, in the first film, is fighting to prove that Cotton Weary did not commit the murder that he was put on death row for, and returns to Woodsboro for the one-year anniversary and to cover the new string of murders. Come the sequel, she's written a book about the Woodsboro murders, which has been [[RippedFromTheHeadlines adapted into a film]], and comes to Windsor College to cover yet another killing spree. Has a [[{{Jerkass}} rather abrasive]] personality.
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* ActionGirl: Put a gun in her hand, and she'll take Ghostface down in a heartbeat. The killers from the first two movies found that out the hard way.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: A dark-haired woman and sort of an IceQueen.
* BadBoss: To her cameramen Kenny and Joel. [[spoiler: Though she is shocked and horrified at the murder of the former.]]
* BrainyBrunette: A dark-haired, intelligent, clever, and driven woman.
* BrutalHonesty: She can be pretty rude.
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: Before Billy and Stu were exposed as the killers,]] Gale was the only one who believed Cotton Weary was innocent.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gale is quite snarky when push comes to shove. Most of her interactions with Jennifer Jolie in the third film, for example, are good examples of her snark at work.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her CharacterDevelopment over the course of the series.
* {{Determinator}}: She always gets her story.
* EveryoneHasStandards: In ''Scream 2'', a reporter insinuates that Dewey is responsible for the new Ghostface killings. Gale, clearly outraged that anyone could even make such a claim, says that Dewey is a good guy "unlike some of us".
* FireForgedFriends: She and Sidney initially have a very, very rocky relationship. This changes over the course of the films.
* GenreSavvy: Progressively grows into this as the series progresses.
* GoodIsNotNice: Despite her abrasive personality, she's one of the good guys.
* IfItBleedsItLeads: At first, but she gets better.
* IntrepidReporter: In the first movie she goes to great lengths to get a good story.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Even when she's at her worst in the first Scream, she's still ultimately right that Cotton Weary was innocent.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's rather insensitive towards Sidney in the first movie, but gets better in the sequels. She also ditched Dewey between Scream and Scream 2, but is shown to regret it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In the first film. Most notably highlighted when she explains her motive to prove Cotton Weary's innocence: largely to get good publicity and sell her book.
-->'''Gale''': If I'm right about this, I could save a man's life. Do you know what that would do for my book sales?
[[spoiler: She's right, too. Cotton's innocent.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: She was prone to twisting the facts and misleading people to suit her own needs.
* MeanBoss: Is quite mean towards Kenny and Joel, who don’t appreciate her attitude towards them.
* NonProtagonistResolver: Tries to be this in the first movie and would've been had she not left the safety on.
* OfficialCouple: With Dewey at the end of the third film.
* PitbullDatesPuppy: The Pitbull in her relationship with Dewey.
* PluckyGirl: Gale is willing to risk danger for her ambitions and is confident about things working out for her.
* PunnyName: Though it's quite subtle
-->'''Gale (to Dewey)''': Gale Weathers, right? [[LampshadeHanging Makes me sound like a meteorologist or something]].
* RunningGag: Her getting punched in the face by people (usually Sidney) that she pisses off. In the third film, this is turned on its head when she punches Jennifer, the actress playing her in ''Stab 3''. She threatens to do it again in the fourth film.
* SuddenlyShouting: To her cameraman in the first film.
-->'''Gale''': Look, Kenny, I know you're about fifty pounds overweight, but when I say hurry, please interpret that as ''MOVE YOUR FAT TUB OF LARD ASS, NOW!''
* TookALevelInKindness: She was a major bitch in the first film, but slowly warms up to others as the series continues.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A.
* UnreliableNarrator: Given Gale's reputation as a sensationalist news reporter, her publications are very often accused of this.
** Before the events of the first film, she wrote news stories that vouched for the innocence of Cotton Weary and accused Sidney of falsely identifying her mother's killer. Gale doesn't genuinely believe in Cotton's innocence; instead, Gale felt that saving Cotton's life would make for a great story, which would in turn earn her greater publicity and profit. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that she is RightForTheWrongReasons.]]
** Before the events of the second film, she writes a book about the Woodsboro murders and gets many details wrong, at least if one takes into account the ''Stab'' movie, which is based on her book. At one point, she admits to Joel that she exaggerated the death of [[spoiler:Kenny]] in her book.
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[[folder:Dewey Riley]]
!!Dwight "Dewey" Riley
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[[caption-width-right:320:''"One generation's tragedy is the next one's joke."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidArquette

->''"How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?"''

Woodsboro's deputy sheriff, Dewey is always on the case when a new Ghostface killer comes out of the woodwork, partly due to the loss of his little sister Tatum to the first Ghostface, and partly out of his [[TrueCompanions sense of family]] with Sidney, Gale, and Randy. He is also the only character to [[spoiler:not break any of Randy's horror movie rules.]]
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* ActionSurvivor: Dewey might be the poster child for this trope. He is uncannily lucky, enduring horrible stabbings and beatdowns over the course of four movies. He lives to fight another day.
* BadassMustache: Dewey's trademark moustache.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He frequently dishes taunts from his co-policemen, family and friends, but when they are threatened, he is the first to help.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Literally towards Tatum, metaphorically towards Sidney. [[IllKillYou He threatens to personally kill Ghostface]] in ''3'' when Ghostface attempts to hurt Sidney. [[spoiler:He ultimately does.]]
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:He hates any mentions of his younger sister's death.]]
* ButtMonkey: He gets the shit beaten out of him by Ghostface in each movie, [[spoiler:although he survives them all]]. Also counts as IronButtMonkey.
* EmbarrassingNickname: His real name is "Dwight", with "Dewey" being a childhood nickname he got stuck with. By the time ''Scream 2'' rolls around, he makes a point on being called "Dwight" by Gale - it doesn't take, though.
* GoodHairEvilHair: Dewey sports a heroic cop mustache.
* MadeOfIron: Stabbed in the back in the first film, stabbed multiple times in the second one, beaten almost to death with a bedpan in the fourth one...and still alive.
* NiceGuy: Especially compared to Gale.
* PitbullDatesPuppy: The Puppy in his relationship with Gale.
* TheSheriff: He's been promoted to this in the fourth film.
* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Scream 4'', he's much sharper and competent at his job than ever before, and correctly deduces that [[spoiler: Sidney's cousin Jill is the Ghostface killer after she makes a small comment about Gale's injury that no one else would've known about unless they were present or inflicted it themselves]].
* TwoFirstNames: "Dewey" and "Riley" can both be used as first names.
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!Characters Appearing in Multiple Films
[[folder:Randy Meeks]]
!!Randy Meeks
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"See, you push the laws and you end up dead. Okay, I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JamieKennedy

A horror movie fan who, in the first three films, gave the characters (and the audience) a list of rules for surviving a horror movie. He is one of the key reasons for the series' reputation for self-referential, post-modern humor.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: His laser focused knowledge on horror movies and lack of certain social graces (in the first movie, he discusses gory stuff while the others are eating and multiple characters automatically assume that Ghostface is actually Randy pulling some kind of prank when he comes around) can lead to this conclusion. Then again, he could also just be just a passionate horror geek who's a little socially awkward at times.
* BreakoutCharacter: Randy is probably the most popular character in the franchise, to the point that [[spoiler:fans were ''furious'' when he was killed off in ''2''.]] This is the reason why he got a [[spoiler:posthumous role]] in ''3''.
* CrazyPrepared: As revealed in ''3'', [[spoiler:he made a VideoWill explaining the rules of a trilogy to Sidney and co. in the event that he didn't survive the second Ghostface incident, commenting that he might have broken one of the rules to end up as a victim.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The snarkiest in the entire series. And that isn’t an easy feat when you live in a WorldOfSnark.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:A NoodleIncident involving sex in a video store turns out to be the culprit behind his grisly end at the hands of Mrs. Loomis. Or at least that's what he suspected.]]
* DeathByGenreSavviness: [[spoiler: His recording in ''3'' had him suspect he would be killed in the previous film due to the rules he established for the first two, and how he probably broke one of them along with the fact that he was in a sequel.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Sidney, but he unfortunately isn't allowed much of a shot with Billy or Derek around and even when he HAD a window between the first two movies, [[CanNotSpitItOut he never worked up the nerve to tell her how he felt.]] In the original script of the 1st movie, he asks her out at the end & she happily accepts. He sadly might not have been so unrequited after all.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He gets unexpectedly yanked into Gale's news van about halfway through the second film during a telephone call with the killer (who had been hiding in the van), and is then stabbed to death.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Keeping the killer on the phone so Gale and Dewey could track him down and bravely insulting the killer to his face, er, voice.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Averted. He is the only killed-off character to get a posthumous role, unless you count the impact the original killers have on the sequels]].
* GenreSavvy: A horror movie fan who lists three rules for surviving a horror movie — don't have sex, don't drink or use drugs, and never say "I'll be right back." Naturally, the characters break all three in record time. Randy expands his rules to sequels and trilogies warnings in the later films.
* HollywoodNerd: An dorky film geek.
* InnocentBlueEyes: He has bright blue eyes, and is one of the series's friendliest and most selfless and lovable characters.
* IronicEcho: In the first movie, Randy nearly dies when the killer sneaks up behind him and is about to stab him, before Sidney's screams prompt the killer to abort this plan. In the second movie, Randy is standing in front of Gale's news van talking on the phone with the killer [[spoiler:but this time isn't so lucky.]]
* KillTheCutie: The lovable and excitable movie geek who [[spoiler:gets mutilated beyond belief in the sequel and before that plays the general role of the underdog with many BreakTheCutie moments occurring.]]
* LargeHam: Can get a little too passionate when talking about horror movie rules, even when it's not the time or place.
-->'''Randy:''' (in the video store) The police are always off track with this shit! If they'd watch Prom Night, they'd save time! There's a formula to it. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis A very! Simple! Formula]]! ''[[SuddenlySHOUTING EVERYBODY'S A SUSPECT]]!''
* MetaGuy: In the original trilogy, and is replaced by Robbie and Charlie in the fourth film.
* TheMovieBuff: He even works in a video store in the first movie.
* NoAccountingForTaste: [[spoiler: In the VideoWill, he mentions sleeping with a video store employee, which arouses groaning from the gang and he even anticipates this reaction by talking about the woman's good points]].
* NoodleIncident: You're left wondering exactly [[spoiler:what rule he broke]] when he [[spoiler:becomes Ghostface's next victim]] in ''2''. We find out exactly [[spoiler:[[DeathBySex which rule he fell foul of]]]] in ''3''.
* OhCrap: In the first movie, after [[spoiler:Billy pulls a gun on him.]]
* OneThingLedToAnother: In ''3'': "We were working late, we were putting away some videos in the porno section and, you know, shit happens."
* PluckyComicRelief: An adorable common relief character whose only crime is making constant tongue-in-cheek remarks.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:He dies in ''2'', but makes a cameo via video tape in ''3.'']]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler: Randy assumes that Billy is the killer and went on a spree because Sidney wouldn't have sex with him. He turns out to be right but not for the reason he thinks; Billy became a killer after Roman Bridger revealed Sidney's mother had been sleeping with his father which caused his parents' marriage to dissolve.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:When he's killed in ''2.'']]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Survives the first film, but bites it in the middle of the second. Though he did make a video for the third in case this would happen.]]
* VideoWill: [[spoiler:Made one shortly before his death at Windsor College to provide the "rules of a trilogy." Also counts as TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat, during a humorous exchange with Dewey.]]
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cotton Weary]]
!!Cotton Weary
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[[caption-width-right:320:''"I don't know about homicide, but you've definitely got me for raising my voice in a public library."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/LievSchreiber

The man who was sentenced to death for the murder of Maureen Prescott, Sidney's mother, whom he was having an affair with. In the first film, Gale Weathers is trying to get his name cleared for the murder, feeling that he is innocent. [[spoiler:She's right.]] In the second film, he travels to Windsor College to convince Sidney to do an interview with him. By the third film, his exploits have made him a celebrity, getting him his own talk show.
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* AscendedExtra: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] He has a bigger role in the second film, but in the third film, [[spoiler:he is the second character to die.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:He arrives barely in time to save Sidney from being killed by Mrs. Loomis in the second film's climax.]]
* ClearTheirName: What Gale does for him prior to the first film, and also what he does in the second film.
* DeadpanSnarker: Cotton has a rather dry sense of humor.
* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler:He makes a cameo at the beginning of the third film, only to be killed off moments later. Also doubles somewhat as a case of DroppedABridgeOnHim.]]
* DeathByIrony: A meta example. [[spoiler:He'd just finished shooting a cameo on the set of ''Stab 3'', only to be killed off in little more than a cameo at the beginning of ''Scream 3.'']]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played with: after being found innocent of the murders, he feels pretty entitled to his newfound fame and asks Sidney to help him land a big TV interview, believing she "owes" it to him.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In the first film.
* EveryoneHasStandards: The second film has him unapologetic about wanting his own FifteenMinutesOfFame, but he refuses a TV interview right on the heels of the murder spree's end.
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:The first film reveals that Billy and Stu framed him for Maureen's murder.]]
* FriendlyEnemy: With Sidney in the second film.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As seen in BigDamnHeroes, he's eventually revealed to be this at the end of the second film.
* GoodAllAlong: Sidney was uneasy around him, Gale believed for a second he was the killer and Mrs Loomis believed he was a psychopath like her. However,[[spoiler:it turns out he never intended to hurt Sidney or anybody beside Mrs Loomis for that matter.]]
* PunnyName: His talk-show is named ''100% Cotton''.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:In the second film.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:In the third film, he's offed in ten minutes to set up the "all bets are off" arc.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: In the beginning of ''Scream 3'', he's been hosting the talk show ''100% Cotton'' for some time; furthermore, he has also finished shooting a cameo for the latest ''Stab'' movie.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:After surviving the first two movies, he becomes the "prologue victim" of the third film.]]
* TallDarkAndSnarky: He's 6'3, has dark brown hair and is fairly snarky.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Neil Prescott]]
!!Neil Prescott
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!!!'''Played By:''' Lawrence Hecht

Sidney's father and a widower since the death of his wife.
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* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:During the climax of the first film.]]
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Billy and Stu kidnapped him at some point during the first film and stuck him in a closet at Stu's house.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Sidney mentions he has died in between the third and fourth films.
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Billy and Stu attempted to frame him for the murders in the first film.]]
* NiceGuy: For one thing, he always forgave his wife for her numerous infidelities.
* PutOnABus: He's on "business abroad" in ''Scream 2''.
* RedHerring: He's suspected to be the killer in the first and second films.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maureen Prescott]]
!!Maureen Prescott, nee Roberts
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!!!'''Played By:''' Lynn [=McRee=]

Sidney’s mother, murdered a year prior to the first film.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Ghostface mentions she begged for her life.
-->'''Ghostface''': Do you want to die, Sidney? Your mother sure didn't.
* AlliterativeName: Her StageName '''R'''ina '''R'''eynolds.
* AssholeVictim: Subverted and Deconstructed. While it becomes clear Maureen was a deeply flawed person, Sidney still loves her and she clearly didn't deserve the sheer brutality she got in life.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: She was an aspiring actress who got pregnant after a gang rape by Hollywood honchos in the 1970s, set the baby up for adoption and turned him away out of fear of breaking her current family apart, she cheats on her husband with Cotton Weary and gets murdered by her daughter's boyfriend]].
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Zig-zagged, she cheated on her husband with several men but he and Sidney forgave her and remember her very well.
* 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 unsurprisingly 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 a 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.
* PosthumousCharacter: Murdered a year before the first film.
* PromiscuityAfterRape: [[spoiler:The third movie reveals she was gang-raped at a party, leading to her cheating on her husband with, among other men, Cotton Weary and Mr. Loomis.]]
* SlutShaming: Even after her death, she is more remembered for sleeping around "like she's Creator/SharonStone" while the men she slept with (when you leave Cotton Weary being unfairly jailed out of account) get their reputations off easily.
* StageNames: During her time in Hollywood, she went by the name [[AlliterativeName Rina Reynolds]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A lot of trouble could have been averted if she had accepted [[spoiler:Roman Bridger]] as her son...
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Judy Hicks]]
!!Deputy Sheriff Judy Hicks
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[[caption-width-right:180:''"Wear a vest, save your chest!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MarleyShelton

A dedicated police officer and loyal right-hand woman to Dewey, whom she idolizes and seems to have a crush on (and likes to bake lemon squares to). There is some sort of rivalry between herself and Gale, and the latter doesn't even bother hiding her antipathy towards the deputy (and her lemon squares). Judy knew Sidney from high school, but didn't make a big enough impression for Sidney to remember her.
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* ActionGirl: When she saves Gale from [[spoiler:being shot by Jill.]]
* DistaffCounterpart: To Dewey, complete with having his rank in the original trilogy and having similarly sounding names, [[spoiler: She even gets incapacitated by the killer like Dewey in every movie.]]
%%* FairCop
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: She and Sidney went to high school together and used to act together in plays. Sidney doesn't remember her, though.
* MeaningfulName: 'Deputy Judy' sounds very close to 'Deputy Dewey'.
* NumberTwo: To Dewey, now a Sheriff.
* PoliceAreUseless: [[spoiler:Subverted. She ends up saving Gale's life.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:More subtle than the obvious Trevor, but still.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: Her and Sidney went to high school together, but was not seen or mentioned in the very first film. Sidney even points out that she doesn't even remember her from high school, but stated that they've met before.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Is the only new character in the film to unambiguously survive, with her bulletproof vest saving her at the end.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She's essentially [[GenderFlip the female version]] of Dewey, which is explicitly lampshaded by Gale.
* TomboyishPonytail: She wears her hair this way.
[[/folder]]

!Characters unique to ''Scream''
[[folder:Casey Becker]]
!!Casey Becker
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Listen, it was Jason! I saw that movie twenty goddamn times!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DrewBarrymore

A high schooler trying to spend her week-end night with her boyfriend, watching movies.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: She desperately pleads with her killers to spare her and her boyfriend. It doesn't work.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She's the first onscreen Ghostface victim ever, and her death is ''not'' pretty.]] To further clarify, [[spoiler:the killer [[MindRape psychologically tortures]] her, even [[ForcedToWatch forces her to watch]] as her boyfriend Steve gets GuttedLikeAFish, stabs her in the chest, strangles her to the point where it crushes her vocal cords so she can't call for help, [[DeathByAThousandCuts stabs her again several more times]], and drags her still-living body to a tree, where her parents [[DeadGuyOnDisplay find her corpse hung by the neck]] with her intestines hanging out.]]
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:Ghostface hangs her from a tree, using her guts as rope]].
* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler:A tradition for the films is to have a big-name actor (Creator/DrewBarrymore) in the opening scene, only to kill them off within fifteen minutes.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: Treated as TheHero of the film, she became the inaugural 'prologue victim'.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Not that it does much good but she doesn't go down easy, nailing the killer in the crotch even after being stabbed and trying to escape.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: It's implied [[spoiler:Stu and Billy killed her because she [[IfICantHaveYou broke up with Stu]] for which torturing and killing her seems a little excessive.]]
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:She's the recipient of the treatment. This and her boyfriend's death provided the Trope Namer.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has blond hair and according to the script was intended to seem sweet and innocent.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:She was stabbed by Ghostface.]]
* NiceGirl: From what little we know of her. She even treats the weird phone calls like a joke at first. Which makes her [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath]] all the more heartbreaking. It also makes one wonder why she went out with Stu in the first place.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:The first character who appears in the movie, and the second one to be killed in the first scene, after her boyfriend, Steve.]]
* SawStarWars27Times: PlayedForDrama. During Ghostface's 'trivia game', she claims that she saw ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' "twenty goddamn times" when Ghostface tells her that she was wrong and that Jason wasn't the killer. It turns out she'd only seen the sequels, as Ghostface informs her before [[spoiler:gutting her boyfriend Steve like a fish]].
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tatum Riley]]
!!Tatum Riley
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_6539.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't go there, Sid; you're starting to sound like some Wes Carpenter flick."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/RoseMcGowan
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* ActionGirl: To this day she is still the character (outside of the main cast) to put up the best fight against Ghostface, namely hitting repeatedly with beer bottles and flipping Ghostface onto his back.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She is this to Dewey, as he points out their mom says she needs to respect him while he's in uniform.
* BareYourMidriff: In multiple scenes, Tatum's shirts expose her belly button.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She dies after her head gets punctured by the garage door frame; even Ghostface is noticeably shaken watching it.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Has a dry remark for every occasion.
* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:Her death, which wasn't even the death Ghostface intended for her.]]
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3_sdD1ecmg Oh, you wanna play psycho killer?]] [[TemptingFate Can I be the helpless victim?]]"
* DumbBlonde: Unusually manages to be both this ''and'' a...
* FieryRedhead: Well, Fiery Strawberry Blonde anyway.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Despite being a major character in the first film, she's rarely discussed by Sidney or Dewey in the sequels. Possibly justified as she was Dewey's sister and Sidney's best friend, and neither character would be happy reliving that memory]].
* GirlishPigtails: Wears her hair in braided pigtails sometimes.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She sleeps with a stuffed toy rabbit.
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Her death scene had to be trimmed down to avoid an NC-17 rating. Instead, it's punctuated by the blowing of a light bulb.]]
* GroinAttack: Nails Ghostface in the beans with a beer bottle.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: As mentioned above, she starts chucking beer bottles at Ghostface when he corners her.
* HelpImStuck: [[spoiler:She attempts to escape Ghostface through the cat door on the garage door. She gets stuck in the middle, which Ghostface [[ExploitedTrope exploits]] by opening the garage door and [[YourHeadAsplode crushing her to death]] in the frame.]]
* TheLancer: To Sidney.
* MsFanservice: Surely she has a good reason not to be wearing a bra...
* NiceGirl: She's snarky but generally a good person and a loyal, caring friend to Sidney.
* TheNicknamer: She's the reason why the killer is called "Ghostface", giving him that nickname during their confrontation in the garage. Before that, the killer's outfit was called the "Father Death" costume.
* PluckyGirl: She's very feisty and quick to volunteer help.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:As Sidney's closest friend, she gets a lot of screentime. Still ends up dying in the third act.]]
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Specifically, Your Head Gets Crushed Between A Garage Door And The Edge Of The Roof.]]
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Billy Loomis]]
!!William "Billy" Loomis
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_010.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's all a movie. It's all one great big movie. Only you can pick your genre."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SkeetUlrich
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* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Gets stabbed after having sex with Sidney.]]
* DudeNotFunny: In-universe, when he chastises Stu about his comments on gutting: "Hey. It's called tact, you fuck-rag."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Billy is a bit of an asshole, but he does care about his girlfriend even after Sidney gets him arrested by the police. He even gets Stu to shut up after Stu goes into unnecessary detail of gutting someone while they're eating lunch.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Stabbed four or five times by Ghostface.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is William, but everyone calls him Billy.
* RedHerring: Seemingly every clue points to him being the killer...but is he?
* SayMyName: [[spoiler:After getting stabbed by Ghostface, he groans "Sid" before crumpling to the floor.]]
* TroubledButCute: He's the 'bad boy' out of the group, and definitely a quite handsome one.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Wears a white shirt the night of the finale [[spoiler:and doesn't survive the night.]]
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stu Macher]]
!!Stuart "Stu" Macher
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_200.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Yeah, you're going to love this one. It's a scream, baby!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewLillard
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* TheBully: Picks on Randy all the time. Slightly mitigated by how quick Randy is to throw shade back at him, however.
* EvilLaugh: He likes parodying these.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Spends the majority of his scenes being obnoxious. While he and his friends are eating lunch, Stu describes how to gut a human and would have continued if not for Billy. Otherwise, he's quite harmless and the character compensates for his obnoxiousness through being actually endearingly funny for both the audience and the characters in-universe thanks to the enjoyable performance of his portrayer.
-->'''Billy''': Hey, it's called tact, you fuckrag.
* OverlyLongTongue: One of his CharacterTics is sticking out his tongue which covers his chin.
* PluckyComicRelief: Seems to be his role in the film, with his whacked-out behavior.
* TemptingFate: He really doesn't mind blurting out "I'll be right BACK!", even knowing its against Randy's survival rules.
* TooMuchInformation: As mentioned before, he tells his friends the specifics of gutting someone.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arthur Himbry]]
!!Principal Arthur Himbry
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arthur_himbry.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Remember, your principal loves you. And I want you to be safe."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/HenryWinkler
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* BadassTeacher: As rough as he is, he's no nonsense when it comes to keeping his students safe: getting on the intercom in a passionate plea for them to get straight home after classes and later suspending classes after there's speculation that the killer might have made it into the school at one point. He even lays down the law on students who were pretending to be Ghostface. [[spoiler: Shame he wasn't able to survive the real thing.]]
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:His eyes are seen flickering around after he's stabbed by Ghostface before they finally stop moving and remain open.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: He tells the two pranksters that they ought to be disemboweled and hung from a tree like Casey as retribution for their prank. [[spoiler:He himself winds up getting disemboweled and hung from a goalpost.]]
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:Like Casey Becker, he is gutted and his body hung, this time o a goalpost on the school's football field.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Sure, he's harsh for expelling two students for the Ghostface prank, but considering that two of their schoolmates had been killed by Ghostface while another came very close to suffering the same fate, his treatment may not seem so inconsiderate.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a bit creepy with Sidney and expels two students for an admittedly tasteless prank while telling them he'd like to see them suffer the same fates as the victims but he's not a bad guy overall and clearly cares about the well-being of those under his care.
* LookBehindYou: [[spoiler:Ghostface hides behind his office door until Himbry closes the door and turns his back. Once he does, Ghostface strikes.]]
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: He weirdly strokes Sidney's chin while talking about keeping her safe. This gesture creeps out Sheriff Burke, who then gives Himbry a concerned look.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Himbry expels two students for running around in Ghostface mask but is later seen wearing the mask and doing silly impressions in front of a mirror [[spoiler: before he is killed]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He makes a point of telling students to head home right away for their own safety and later suspends class entirely when there's a real possibility of the killer being among them.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kenny Jones]]
!!Kenny Jones
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kenny_3.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/WEarlBrown

Gale's cameraman.
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* BigEater: Almost always seem snacking on something.
* HiddenDepths: He seems to care more than Gale about how their story will be saving the life of a genuinely innocent man.
* NiceHat: Typically seen wearing a light-colored baseball cap backwards.
* 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]].
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Ghostface kills him.]]
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Burke]]
!!Sheriff Burke
!!!'''Played By:''' Joseph Whipp

The sheriff of Woodsboro, and Dewey's boss.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Burke is a former smoker who resumes smoking due to anxiety over the murders.
* EveryoneIsASuspect: Sheriff Burke is a Ghostface suspect due to wearing the same kind of boots as Ghostface and being absent during the climax.
* NostalgiaFilter: Burke says that twenty years ago, he wouldn't think a kid like Billy could be their killer, but he is less sure with modern youth culture.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Burke firmly investigates Billy and Mr. Prescott based on the evidence but keeps an open mind to their possible innocence.
[[/folder]]

!Characters unique to ''Scream 2''
[[folder:Cici Cooper]]
!!Cici Cooper
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[[caption-width-right:320:''"I'm 'sober sister'. I need to be here in case a drunk sister calls and needs a ride."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahMichelleGellar
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* AlliterativeName: '''C'''ici '''C'''ooper. And her real first name is Casey.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler:Although she doesn't get killed in the opening scene, she's the first victim after that, dying pretty early.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:A heroic [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. She does get stabbed twice but is still alive and screaming before Ghostface throws her off the balcony.]]
* PinkMeansFeminine: She tends to wear pink and purple and is somewhat refined, but fashionable.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Seems to be something like this at Omega Beta Zeta.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Debbie Salt]]
!!Debbie Salt
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_64.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's called a makeover. You should try it. Looking a little tired yourself there, Gale."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/LaurieMetcalf
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* BoyishShortHair: An ActionGirl with short hair.
* FormerlyFat:
--> '''Gale''': Jesus. It can't be, I've seen pictures of you.
--> '''Sidney''': Yeah this is 60 pounds and a lot of work later.
--> '''Debbie''': It's called a makeover. You should try it. Look a little tired yourself there, Gale!
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She has a dead son. [[spoiler:Said son was killed by Sidney at the previous film's climax.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To pre-''Scream'' Gale.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Derek Feldman]]
!!Derek Feldman
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_994.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh thank god Sidney, I thought I was gonna be up there until opening night."'']]
!!!'''Played bB:''' Creator/JerryOConnell
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* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Bound by his Omega Beta Zeta friends as a prank. Ghostface then gags him.]]
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:And maybe he could've been saved if Sidney knew he was a RedHerring.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted. Derek is not mentioned in the following movies but in ''Scream 3'', Sidney can still be seen wearing the necklace he gave her.
* GoodCounterpart: [[spoiler:To Billy Loomis.]]
* NiceGuy: It turns out he really loved Sidney.
* RedHerring: He is suspected to be the killer. [[spoiler: He wasn't.]]
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Part of the reason why Sidney doesn't know whether or not she should trust him.
* UselessBoyfriend: You can't blame him for not trying. The lack of help he provides to protect Sidney from the killer is what makes him suspicious.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mickey Altieri]]
!!Mickey Altieri
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's a perfect example of life imitating art imitating life."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TimothyOlyphant
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* MetaGuy: Like Randy, a big-time horror movie buff.
* NiceGuy: He was supposed to be this, played straight.
* PluckyComicRelief: Somewhat. Getting snarkingly rejected by Hallie, discussing sequels with Randy, supporting Derek's singing performance, conducting the crowd's applause...
* YouAreNotAlone: His words of encouragement to Sidney after Ghostface's attack at Omega Beta Zeta.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hallie [=McDaniel=]]]
!!Hallie [=McDaniel=]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Stupid people go back, okay? Smart people run. We're smart people so we should just get the fuck outta here!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/EliseNeal
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Inverted. She's the last victim before TheReveal. But also played straight in that it's she who dies instead of the Caucasian Sydney.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: As part of her SassyBlackWoman attitude.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: She is never mentioned in the following movies.
%%* PluckyGirl
* SassyBlackWoman: Sidney's snarky, sassy roommate.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of Tatum Riley from the first movie.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Sidney's Tomboy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joel Jones]]
!!Joel Jones
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joel_jones.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:320:''"Brothers don't last long in situations like this."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DuaneMartin

->''"Gutted, slashed, the guy [[note]] Kenny the previous cameraman from the first film [[/note]] ain't in the union no more!"''
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''oel '''J'''ones.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Given how he works for Gale and there's a lot of murders going on around them.
* BerserkButton: Mentioning of the dead cameraman that was his predecessor prompts him to threaten to quit and bolt.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: {{Defied|Trope}}. He leaves before the final act, citing this trope as the reason why.
* TheDragAlong: Becomes this to Gale after she forces him into snooping around locations where murders have taken place.
* GenreSavvy: Downplayed. Joel might just be the most GenreSavvy character in the franchise for taking a leave after [[spoiler:Randy's murder]] and not returning until the killings have ceased. Although seeing as how he didn't read Gale's book ''before'' taking his job as her cameraman, it kind of puts him in check.
* PluckyComicRelief: Most of his dialogue is humorous worrying about the situation.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After he discovers that Gale's previous cameraman was one of the victims in Woodsboro, he begins to threaten to bail on Gale, stating, "I wanna report the news! I don't wanna '''be''' the news!" After [[spoiler:Randy's death, seeing Randy's body, and the subsequent impounding of his news van, where Ghostface/Debbie Salt/Mrs. Loomis skewered Randy]], Joel makes good on his threat and doesn't reappear until [[spoiler:Mickey and Mrs. Loomis]] are killed at the end of the film.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lois and Murphy]]
!!Lois and Murphy
!!!'''Played By:''' Rebecca Gayheart and Creator/PortiaDeRossi
The heads of a local sorority.
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* BearerOfBadNews: Downplayed, their the ones to alert Sidney about the police's arrival after [[spoiler:Cici]] is killed but they aren't; sure why.
* EthicalSlut: The two describe themselves as supporters of "safe condomed sex" and express annoyance that people think that sorority's are just about sex.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Lois and Murphy run the campus's most prominent sorority and are pretty, socially conscious, and a bit shallow, but generally friendly. Sidney is uninterested in joining their sorority or befriending the two but doesn't seem to dislike them. The closest they're ever shown being mean to anyone is when they join Derek's frat brothers in pranking him over giving his letters to Sidney [[spoiler: which has the regrettable but unforeseen side effect of leaving Derek tied up for Ghostface to find.]] Even then, they're doing it out of tradition, not malice, and pause to agree that what Derek did was a nice romantic gesture.
* PluckyComicRelief: They never encounter Ghostface and just show up to occasionally provide some humorous dialogue about college life.
* ShesGotLegs: They both tend to wear skirts above their knees.
* ThoseTwoGirls: They always appear together and pick up after each other in conversations.
* ValleyGirl: They're fashionable, not particularly bright and a bit self-centered, although friendly enough.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maureen Evans]]
!!Maureen Evans
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JadaPinkettSmith
A Windsor senior stalked by Ghostface at the premier of ''Stab.''
----
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Shared with her boyfriend Phil.]]
* BoyishShortHair: Maureen's hair is the shortest of any character in the film.
* ICantLookGesture: Right before Casey dies in the movie, Maureen turns away with a grimace.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gus Gold]]
!!Gus Gold
!!!'''Played By:''' David Warner
The drama teacher at Windsor College.
----
* AlliterativeName: ''G''us ''G''old.
* CoolTeacher: Gus encourages Sidney to follow her passions and shows concern for her when she panics onstage after seeing Ghostface.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Andrew Richards and Richard Andrews]]
!!Officers Andrew Richards and Richard Andrews
!!!'''Played By:''' Christopher Doyle and Phillip Pavel
Two police officers assigned to protect Sidney during the murder spree.
----
* AmbiguouslyGay: Sidney says that she thinks Andrews is gay after noticing Hallie giving him an appraising look. Sidney never elaborates on why she thinks that, though, and it's never confirmed if she was right.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Richards is killed when Ghostface crashes the police car into a construction site, with a pipe going through his head.]]
* SharpDressedMan: Both officers are always seen in fancy suits.
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Andrews' throat is cut by Ghostface.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Richards indirectly saves Sidney's life by forcing Ghostface to crash his car during an attempt to kidnap Sidney. She would have been trapped, helpless and unable to escape from Ghostface otherwise.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The two men have similar names, always appear together and receive little individual characterization.
[[/folder]]

!Characters unique to ''Scream 3''
[[folder:Mark Kincaid]]
!!Detective Mark Kincaid
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kincaid.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"All I know about movie trilogies is that in the third one, all bets are off."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/PatrickDempsey
----
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: [[spoiler:Despite his role as a potential love interest in the third film, he doesn't appear in the fourth film, and his absence is never addressed.]]
* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Allows Sidney to address him by his first name.
* GenreSavvy: He watches a lot of movies and knows what to expect from them. [[spoiler:He arrives at Milton's mansion near the end of the film because he believes that it is the location of a potential [[LeaningOntheFourthWall third-act celebration]].]]
* ImpliedLoveInterest: He and Sidney get along fairly well during their conversations, and there are some subtle signs of flirting between the two of them. [[spoiler:In the ending of the film, he joins the main trio at Sidney's house to watch a movie.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: [[spoiler:Averted, he is the one of the most competent cops in the entire franchise. He holds his own against Ghostface even when ambushed and hands off weapons to the other characters that help them finish off Ghostface.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jennifer Jolie]]
!!Jennifer Jolie (Judy Jurgenstern)
[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jennifer_jolie.png]]
[[caption-width-right:280:''"Where? Nancy Drew wants to know where."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/ParkerPosey
----
* AlliterativeName: '''J'''ennifer '''J'''olie. Her real name, '''J'''udy '''J'''urgenstern, and her actress' name, '''P'''arker '''P'''osey, count as well.
* BareYourMidriff: When she isn't in her Gale costume, Jennifer wears shirts that only go down to around her navel, although she sometimes wears jackets over them.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted in a downplayed fashion. Gale punches her in the mouth due to anger at Jennifer blowing up at Dewey when her house is blown up, and Jennifer spends the rest of the movie with a noticeable cut on her lip.
* BigBad: In-universe. Her role in "Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro" is apparently the killer.
* BrainyBrunette: Albeit one wearing a blonde wig. She's a relatively intuitive character with a witty store of dialogue.
* CastingCouch: She admits to sleeping with Roman after the police bring him in for questioning.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: She's seen smoking a cigarette, bitterly calling it her first in a year-and-a-half, due to the killings and how they seem to be in the order the characters died in the movie (which would make her next).
* CowardlyLion: She tries to run away from Ghostface (and hire bodyguards in case she comes after her), and scream for help but ultimately braves up a bit to help investigate and when cornered, punches Ghostface several times rather than just cower.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: The woman she is portraying in a film gets to live while she does not]].
* FireForgedFriends: There's a lot of jealousy and annoyance between her and Gal at first and Gale punches her at one point but they begin to work well as a pair once things get more serious.
* HeroicBSOD:
** As the murders start up again in the order of their deaths in the script (with hers rapidly approaching) there's a scene of her smoking, nervously pacing and fretting and then randomly jumping into Stone's arms.
** After her house gets blown up and the explosion knocks her off her feet she goes into a brief rant (not helped by how one of her co-stars and her other bodyguard were also just killed) at Dewey for failing to stop that (and for being distracted by kissing Gale in the aftermath of the explosion) and punches him, for which Gale punches her in turn.
* HopeSpot:
** She manages to hide in the closet, away from Ghostface while he gets distracted chasing someone else. Then she tries to sneak out at the wrong time. This is followed by..
** Her managing to alert Gale and Dewey from behind a two way mirror and Dewey shooting through it to try and get to her. [[spoiler:Right as he's getting to the right mirror, Jennifer is tossed through it, stabbed in the stomach and apparently dead.]]
* JawDrop: She's visibly slack-jawed and stunned for a moment when Angelina reveals that [[spoiler:she slept with Milton]] to be cast as Sydney.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is constantly at odds with the woman she's portraying and has a big rant after Ghostface blows up her house, but is more than willing to help Gale and does care about the others. Which isn't too far off Gale anyway.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Subverted and played straight. She tries to stick close to Gale and not split up, but does end up ducking into a closet off on her own by necessity while evading one of Ghostface's attacks when Ghostface steps between her and the others.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Stabbed repeatedly by Ghostface and then thrown through glass doors in front of Gale and Dewey.]]
* PinkMeansFeminine: Wears several pink shirts and jackets and comes across as TheChick for a lot of the movie.
* ProperlyParanoid: She hired bodyguards in case Ghostface poses a threat to her, which he does.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The last victim before TheReveal.]]
* StageName: Her real name is Judy Jurgenstern.
* ThemeNaming: Her name is a portmanteau of Creator/JenniferAniston and Creator/AngelinaJolie's names.
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:When Ghostface catches up to her, she says she can't die because she's the film's killer. Ghostface disagrees.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roman Bridger]]
!!Roman Bridger
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_045.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Not only did they...did they kill the film, but they killed my cast. You know, nobody's gonna work with me. ''Variety'' called me a "pariah". I don't even know what a "pariah" is. Why, why couldn't somebody have killed the cast of ''Stab 1'', huh? Or ''Stab 2''? Why me? What, John? What did we do wrong?"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/ScottFoley
----
* HollywoodNerd: A more literal example, Roman is a Hollywood movie director, who wears NerdGlasses.
* HiddenDepths: He admits that he doesn't think much of the ''Stab'' movies and only agreed to direct one so he could do a romantic movie next.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Quite sarcastic and irritable towards the other characters, but otherwise a friendly HollywoodNerd.
* PunkInTheTrunk: Not a car trunk, but [[spoiler:he's found stabbed to death in, well, a trunk]].
* ThemeNaming: His first name is a reference to Creator/RomanPolanski, a famous movie director.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Angelina Tyler]]
!!Angelina Tyler
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angelina_tyler.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I did not fuck that pig Milton to get a leading role just to die here with second rate celebrities like you two!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/EmilyMortimer
----
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:She pretends to be TheIngenue, but she's actually a diva who slept with Milton to get the part.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Blood is dripping from her corpse's mouth as it's dragged out of sight.]]
* CastingCouch: [[spoiler:How she got the part of Sidney in ''Stab 3''.]]
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:She gets killed ''seconds'' after revealing that she had employed the CastingCouch to get the part of Sidney.]] ''Damn'', do the rules strike fast!
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Her corpse stares up at Gale and Jennifer as Ghostface drags her out of sight.]]
* FinalGirl: She's playing one in ''Stab 3'', and she's initially presented as such. [[spoiler:She dies, though.]]
* {{Fauxshadow}}: Early in the film, she wonders if [[spoiler:it will turn out that her character, Sidney, is the killer in the third ''Stab'' movie (the cast only has partial scripts to prevent leaks)]]. In the original script, [[spoiler:she was one of the killers alongside Roman]], but this was changed in the final draft.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Well, not really ''heel'' but she does snap rather nastily at Gale and Jennifer (while also revealing [[spoiler:her CastingCouch]] but then a few seconds later does call out for them to flee with her, [[spoiler:right before being attacked.]]
* TheIngenue: What she presents herself as. [[spoiler:Actually, she's anything but that.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: In-universe, she’s replacing Tori Spelling as Sidney.
* PetTheDog: She's upset about the idea of continuing to film after people have been murdered and does urge Gail and Judy to get out of there.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Despite the hints, she was not the killer.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: 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.
* ThemeNaming: Her name is a portmanteau of Creator/AngelinaJolie and Creator/LivTyler's names.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:John Milton]]
!!John Milton
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/john_milton_7.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/LanceHenriksen
----
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:His last words.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Milton:''' You don’t have to do this, Roman. Just tell me what you want. I can make it happen. Any picture. Name your budget. Script approval. Final cut!]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Roman:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I already have it.]] [[SlashedThroat (slashes Milton’s throat)]]]]
* ArcWelding: [[spoiler:Milton's indirect actions to Maureen during her time in Hollywood prompted Roman to seek revenge on Maureen for giving him up, setting off the chain of events in the first three films.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:When he's killed by Roman.]]
* BigBadWannabe: His role as a representative of HorribleHollywood.
* HateSink: While the Ghostface killers are evil, they're all over-the-top and grotesquely entertaining. Some of them even come across as sympathetic at times. The same can't be said for Milton; he's just a corrupt rapist scumbag with no likable qualities to speak of whatsoever.
* IronicLastWords: [[spoiler: His method of bargaining for his life is to promise Roman the Final Cut. Something that Roman already has, so it's useless.]]
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: When asked about Maureen Prescott/Rina Reynolds, he claims he's employed too many actors to remember. Gale quickly points out nobody said she was an actress.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He gets his throat slit by Roman, his very own ChildByRape.]]
* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:He possibly was the father of Roman Bridger.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:He led a gangrape against Maureen Prescott, causing her to become pregnant with Roman. Not even Ghostface stoops to that level.]]
* RedHerring: Due to his past affiliation with [[spoiler:Maureen Prescott]], Milton becomes a suspect for being the new Ghostface. He looks all the more guilty when [[spoiler: Roman plants a voice changer in his house]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He's the last victim of Ghostface in the third film. [[AssholeVictim And he absolutely deserved it]].]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Roman kills him.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Raping Maureen and siring Roman had dire consequences for Woodsboro]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tyson Fox]]
!!Tyson Fox
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tyson_2.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DeonRichmond
----
* AdvertisedExtra: Though he's merely part of the "Stab" cast ensemble with no direct relevance to the film's plot, he’s featured on the main poster and his actor Deon Richmond is credited with the lead actors.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. [[spoiler:He's the third to last victim.]]
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Zigzagged, he's a Shakespearan performer, but apparently just for minor performances, so he's happy to have a job in a big budget movie, even if it is a slasher.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:He suffers a heroic inversion of this when he gets thrown off a balcony by Ghostface.]]
* GenreSavvy: He points out how dangerous it is to run in a mansion.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: His character in "Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro" is killed by getting stabbed in the head with scissors, as shown with the prop pair of scissors stuck in his head in one of his first scenes.
* MadeOfIron: After being punched halfway across the room he gets back up and tries to tackle Ghostface, then puts up a decent chase after being stabbed.
* MetaGuy: Invoked in-universe; his character is supposed to be based on Randy Meeks, the main MetaGuy for the first two films. And he's not half-bad, since he's familiar with the "Stab" films (plus the events of the films themselves) and is not enthusiastic about walking around Milton's mansion all willy-nilly.
-->"You wanna go trapsing around this gigantic mansion? Have you ever actually seen the Stab movies? Every time [Dewey] enters the room, he ends up becoming a goddamn shish-kebab!"
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Gets stabbed in the gut, followed by a short foot chase (which is quite hard if you've been stabbed in the gut), lands on his neck after Ghostface pulls a carpet out from under him, gets slammed headfirst into a glass cabinet, and finally thrown off a balcony]].
* TokenMinority: Not only is he the only minority character in ''Stab 3'', he is also the only minority character in ''Scream 3''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tom Prinze]]
!!Tom Prinze
!!!'''Played By:''' Matt Keeslar
The actor playing Dewey in the ''Stab'' movies.
----
* DrunkDriver: He causes a car accident while driving drunk that Gale wrote a story about.
* {{Jerkass}}: He insults Angelina for her newcomer status, doesn't care about his dead co-stars, drives drunk and threatens to key Gale's car because of the story she wrote about it, and mocks Sideny's mental psyche.
* NoSympathy: He doesn't show any sadness or concern about what happened to [[spoiler:Cotton and Christine.]]
* StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler:Ghostface kills him by pumping gas into a house; when Tom pulls out his lighter to read the next page, the gas is ignited and the house explodes.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sarah Darling]]
!!Sarah Darling
[[quoteright:318:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarah_darling.jpeg]]
[[caption-width-right:318:''"I'm not happy that I'm a 35 playing a 21 year old. I'm not happy that I have to die naked and I'm not happy that my character is too stupid to have a gun in the house after her boyfriend has been cut into fishsticks."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JennyMcCarthy
----
* BrainlessBeauty: Partially subverted; she may act as TheDitz, on occasion, but overall she comes off as sharp as her fellow actors. [[TheBeautifulElite This is not saying much, though.]]
* DawsonCasting: In-universe, Sarah is a 35 year old actress playing a 21 year old character. In real life, Creator/JennyMcCarthy was (then) [[PlayingGertrude 27]].
* DeadpanSnarker: She's constantly insulting the situation with wry retorts.
* DeathByIrony: Complains about having a small role that is offed quickly. Meets an early death.
* DumbBlonde: She mistakenly believes that the {{shower scene}} from ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' was in ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' instead.
* HiddenDepths: There's a quick shot of Sarah looking sad and uncomfortable as Tom jokes about the deaths of [[spoiler:Cotton and Christine.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Stabbed in the back by Ghostface]].
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: [[spoiler:Killed by Ghostface when he conceals himself in a rack of prop Ghostface costumes.]]
* SlashersPreferBlondes: [[spoiler:A blonde actress who gets killed by Ghostface. Also fulfills the film series' habit of having the third victim of a spree be blonde.]]
* ThemeNaming: Her first name is a reference to Creator/SarahMichelleGellar. It's been rumored that this was a TakeThat at Gellar, who Creator/WesCraven allegedly had a poor experience working with on ''Scream 2'', such that she was nicknamed "Sarah Darling".
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: She's afraid this will be her fate, and seems quite unsatisfied with the way her career's panning out. As it is, she'd love to get out of ''Stab 3''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Steven Stone]]
!!Steven Stone
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/PatrickWarburton
A professional Hollywood bodyguard working for Jennifer.
----
* AlliterativeName: ''S''teven ''S''tone.
* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: He's the huskiest character in the movie and a hired bodyguard, who gets targeted by Ghostface early on.
* TheComicallySerious: He takes Jennifer jumping to his arms when she's stressing out about the killer in stride.
* CoolShades: Stone wears impressive Hollywood sunglasses.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Killed when Ghostface stabs him in the back, then hammers the knife in with a frying pan.]]
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He mocks how Dewey couldn't protect [[spoiler:Tatum]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and fellow bodyguard Dewey who Stone clearly looks down on.
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: Stone is a professional bodyguard but doesn't fare noticeably better against Ghostface than most of the civilians who are attacked, including Stone's own charge.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Christine Hamilton]]
!!Christine Hamilton
!!!'''Played By:''' Kelly Rutherford
Cotton's girlfriend and co-star.
----
* ActionGirl: Christine briefly escapes from Ghostface by kicking him in the head and tries to defend herself with a golf club afterward.
* AllThereInTheManual: According to the script, she played Cici in ''Stab 2''.
* BreakTheCutie: She's a cheerful woman in a happy relationship with Cotton left confused and thinking he's trying to kill her due to Ghostface's voice impressions.
* InTheBack: She does make a decent effort at defending herself but is distracted by Cotton when Ghostface attacks her from behind.
* LingerieScene: She spends her screen time in a black nightgown.
* SlashersPreferBlondes: Unsurprisingly for the franchise. She's blonde and the first target.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joshua Wallace]]
!!Detective Joshua Wallace
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JoshPais

Another detective working with Kincaid.
----
* AllThereInTheManual: The script refers to him as a FamilyMan.
* DeadpanSnarker: He comments on the irony of an actor in a ''Stab'' movie being stabbed to death, and quips "This is the scene where you come with us" at one point.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Wallace doesn't show up to participate in the climax, something Sidney specifically finds odd and asks Kincaid, which he brushes off due to the danger they're in at the moment.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Martha Meeks]]
!!Martha Meeks
!!!'''Played By:''' Heather Matazarro

Randy Meeks' younger sister, and a friend of Sidney and Dewey.
----
* AlliterativeName: '''M'''artha '''M'''eeks.
* CoolShades: She has a nice pair of coke bottle sunglasses.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Martha is good friends with Dewey, who's almost twice her age.
* MacGuffinGuardian: Downplayed, but Randy entrusted Martha with a video about the rules and logic behind surviving film trilogies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bianca Brunette]]
!!Bianca Brunette
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/CarrieFisher
A former actress employed as a file clerk at the movie studio.
----
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''ianca '''B'''runette.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: Bianca initially refuses to let Gale and Jennifer see confidential files in return for a $50.00 bribe. A $2,000 bribe is enough to convince her, though.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: In an ActorAllusion, Bianca mentions that she auditioned to be Princess Leia.
* MeaningfulName: A dark-haired woman whose last name is Brunette. Might also be a PunnyName.
[[/folder]]

!Characters unique to ''Scream 4''
[[folder:Jill Roberts]]
!!Jill Roberts
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sc4_JR_8263.png]]
[[caption-width-right:180:''"You have to be a hero, don't you?"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/EmmaRoberts

Sidney's cousin, though not very close to her since she and her mother live in Woodsboro, while Sidney left the town many years ago (presumably ever since ''Scream 2''). She [[{{Expy}} reminds]] Sidney of herself, as a young woman. Jill looks like a somewhat ingenuous girl, but she's actually smart and strong-minded. She deals with her complicated relationship with her ex-boyfriend...and the rise of a new Ghostface, who seems determined to kill her and her friends before targeting Sidney.
----
* DisappearedDad: Her dad is not mentioned anywhere.
* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: Subverted.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's very critical towards Sidney, but despite this she does bond with her as family.
* PluckyGirl: Always the optimist.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In keeping with the Remake theme of ''Scream 4'', Jill is set up to be the new Sidney Prescott.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Kirby's tomboy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kirby Reed]]
!!Kirby Reed
[[quoteright:328:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_858.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:328:''"Okay, you continue your little good girl thing and I will drink for the both of us!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/HaydenPanettiere

A notorious horror film fan, Kirby is a quirky and spirited best friend to Jill and Olivia. She's somewhat of a tomboy and "alternative" girl, who likes to watch movies, drink ([[HardDrinkingPartyGirl a lot]], apparently) and party. She seems to be aware of Charlie's crush on her, but instead prefers to "tease and torment" him. Upon realizing she's the only one of the ThreeAmigos not to receive a phone call from the killer, she becomes really uneasy (ultimately insisting it means she'll be the next one to die).
----
* DeadpanSnarker: Has a snarky sense of humor.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Unbelievable speed, real loud music, doesn't always see the stop signs...Jill and Olivia must be very courageous to go to school with her every day.[[note]]This may be a bizarre kind of Actor Appeal, as Hayden Panettiere's been similarly dangerous behind the wheel in ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' and ''Film/ILoveYouBethCooper''.[[/note]]
* DumbBlonde: Subverted; Kirby is probably the wittiest character in the film.
* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: Thoroughly subverted. She absolutely ''loves'' them.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: "You continue your good girl thing and I'll drink for the both of us." The young lady isn't afraid of alcohol at all.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Charlie stabs her in the stomach.]]
* TheLadette: A brash, snarky, tomboyish horror buff who makes the first move on a timid boy she's into.
* TheLancer: To Jill.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:A hotly debated point of contention in the fandom. Those who think she's dead point to her inclusion in Jill's list of the victims in the hospital climax, but the film itself never actually ''confirms'' she's gone -- as Panettiere and director Creator/WesCraven [[WordOfGod point out]] on the DVDCommentary. And you know what they say about horror movies where you don't see a corpse. That said, seeing as she ''was'' last seen bleeding out on a patio from very deep knife wounds and no immediate medical attention, and that nothing in the end of ''Scream 4'' suggests that Kirby survived the event.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:She's only taken out in the third act -- and a good chunk of the fandom believes that she still pulled through.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Tatum. She is Jill's lancer and feisty best friend, like Tatum was to Sidney in the first movie. [[spoiler:Subverted later, in which she becomes one to Casey when Ghostface quizzes her horror movie knowledge while her love interest, Charlie, is held hostage. Might be one to Sidney depending on if she survived or not.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Jill's girly girl.
* TomboyishName: Kirby is a masculine name.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Olivia Morris]]
!!Olivia Morris
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olivia_6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:320:''"That's the worst imitation I've ever heard, Jill."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Marielle Jaffe

Close friend of Jill Roberts and Kirby Reed
----
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Charlie stabs and slashes her multiple times to the point of disembowelment.]]
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:As mentioned before, Charlie disembowels her, and when Sidney finally comes to Olivia's aid, she finds Olivia's corpse, whose intestines are spilling out.]]
* MsFanservice: Takes off her shirt at one point.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Tatum, Sidney's best friend from the original movie, although Kirby shares this role as well.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Trevor Sheldon]]
!!Trevor Sheldon
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_924.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:320:''"I'm not the bad guy. I may be the stupid guy for coming over here, but I'm not the bad guy."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/NicoTortorella

Jill's ex-boyfriend, who is said to have [[NoodleIncident cheated on her]]. Despite being pretty much shunned by Jill and their friends after the incident (they all behave at least uncomfortably towards him, except maybe Robbie), he's eager to win her forgiveness and resume their relationship...with little to no success. He's an avid fan of the ''Stab'' series -- surprisingly even attending to the Stab-a-thon -- a fan of the Ghostface character and is notorious for his [[StealthHiBye ninja-like skills]].
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Does this after [[spoiler:Jill]] shot him in the groin, right before getting shot in the head.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:After Jill shoots him in the crotch, she finishes him off with a shot to the head]].
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:By Jill and Charlie, in the same fashion Neil Prescott was.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Gets shot in the groin by his girlfriend and ''cries'' for forgiveness after revealing that he really did love Jill before she shoots him in the head.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments.
--> "Yeah, 'cause that's what I would do if a was a crazy psycho killer, I'd use my own phone to call you."
* DeathByWomanScorned: [[spoiler:His death was part of the plan, but Jill specifically evokes this trope before murdering him.]]
* {{Determinator}}: "The problem with Trevor is: he never quits".
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Jill and Charlie’s]] plan to frame him for the new Woodsboro murders, making him this generation’s Billy Loomis.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: In Jill's group of friends.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:From Jill, with a gun.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He cheated on his girlfriend, but realized it was wrong and desperately wants to make up with her.
* MomentKiller: For Kirby and Charlie.
* NoodleIncident: The fateful "going out" with someone else that caused his falling out with Jill. The subject is only mentioned, never explored upon.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:And a well played one; because of the fourth movie's whole remake theme, viewers are led to believe that this time the killer will actually be the obvious boyfriend again, just like Billy. Ends up completely {{subverted}}.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: To Jill, his ex-girlfriend, who was still angry with him.
* StealthHiBye: His trademark! He simply pops out of nowhere when people less expect it. Both he and Robbie {{lampshade}} this.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Billy. [[spoiler:Ends up [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], and he gets Neil Prescott's role - though this time it works as planned by the killers. His innocence and genuine love for Jill also makes him a substitute for Derek from ''Scream 2''.]]
* TwoFirstNames: "Trevor" and "Sheldon".
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[[folder:Charlie Walker]]
!!Charlie Walker
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[[caption-width-right:340:''"The unexpected is the new cliché."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Rory Culkin

President of the Cinema Club at Woodsboro High, "one run below the Glee Club, two above Nintendo Wii Fit". Charlie has a vast knowledge about films in general, although with a penchant for the horror genre, and a calm, collected, but somewhat clumsy air. He has a very obvious crush on Kirby, which she is naturally well aware of, but doesn't seem to reciprocate. He and Robbie host the Stab-a-thon every year.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the DoggedNiceGuy Randy type, who is in love with "Sidney" (Jill). [[spoiler:He's also having a secret romantic relationship with her, and that's why he killed a lot of people and was ultimately killed himself.]]
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Has pale skin and is certainly weird to the point of being creepy.
* {{Expy}}: Of Randy, as a brunette HollywoodNerd type with a great deal of meta knowledge.
* HollywoodNerd: Just without the glasses.
* MetaGuy: Replaces Randy in this role, along with his friend Robbie.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Randy.
* {{UST}}: With Kirby.
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[[folder:Robbie Mercer]]
!!Robbie Mercer
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"We have reputations. I mean, we don't, but we'd like to have reputations."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Erik Knudsen

Vice-president of the Cinema Club at Woodsboro High, "in case Charlie takes a bullet". Usually seen with a headset and a camera, broadcasting his school experiences live into a videoblog, something he believes will be common one day. Less collected and more playful and prone to panic than Charlie, but as much a film geek, knowledgeable about the makings of a modern horror movie. He and Charlie host the Stab-a-thon every year.
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* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:He thought gay people always survived horror movies. Ghostface/his comrade Charlie disagrees.]]
* CelebrityParadox: Stab 7 references Film/SawIV. Robbie’s actor played Daniel in Film/SawII.
* CoolLoser: Slightly. "We don't have reputations, but we'd like to."
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Even after being stabbed three times, he barely pulls himself back to the house and warns the girls to run before dying.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: After [[spoiler:the killer attacks at Stab-a-thon]] -- a risk both Sidney and Gale warned Robbie and Charlie about -- and it looks like his website will be shut down, this is his reaction to cope.
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler: Allegedly being gay doesn't save Robbie from getting some serious stabbings from Ghostface.]]
* HollywoodNerd: Just without the glasses.
* MetaGuy: Replaces Randy in this role, along with his friend Charlie.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:When he's attacked and killed by Ghostface.]]
* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Though some do find him somewhat flamboyant on rewatches. Or even first watches. Or so he says, considering that he thinks that gay people always survive in a horror movie.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Randy, the horror movie geek, and to Kenny because of their usage of cameras.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Walking out alone, drunk, after dark, with a serial killer on the loose. He should have thought that through.]]
* {{UST}}: With Olivia. [[spoiler:Probably [[StraightGay would never be resolved]], though.]]
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[[folder:Ross Hoss and Anthony Perkins]]
!!Deputy Ross Hoss and Deputy Anthony Perkins
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[[caption-width-right:279:''"Cops guarding the house, they always get it. It's a movie cop rule. It sucks to be a cop in a movie unless you're Creator/BruceWillis."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AdamBrody and Creator/AnthonyAnderson

Two police officers working under Dewey, assigned to guard Sidney and Jill after it's confirmed that a new Ghostface killer has surfaced. Hoss is a rookie officer, recently graduated, with a reserved, respectful and somewhat apprehensive demeanor -- as well as a sad realization that cops are always endangered in fiction -- while Perkins is an older and seasoned cop with a perpetual cocky and bigoted disposition.
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* DeadlyPrank: [[spoiler:Instead of answering when Hoss reports a suspicious open window in the vicinities, Perkins decides to [[FakingTheDead Fake the Dead]] to scare him. As soon as Hoss comes back to the car to check if he's okay, Ghostface takes advantage of their distraction and kills them both.]]
* GenreSavvy: Hoss, who knows exactly how a cop can get killed in fiction and seems to be knowledgeable about the horror movie rules.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Ghostface stabs Perkins in the head. He manages to stagger out of his car and swing blindly at where he thinks the killer is before collapsing dead in the street]].
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Hoss is stabbed in the back by Jill.]]
* MauveShirt: [[spoiler:Both of them.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: [[spoiler:Ghostface has no problems getting past them.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Perkins is red, Hoss is blue.
* SaltAndPepper: Hoss is salt, Perkins is pepper.
* ShoutOut: Perkins is one to Creator/AnthonyPerkins, who played [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Hoss, to Dewey.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Never seen without the other.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:They're actually ''pranking each other'' instead of watching the area. Unsurprisingly, the killer offs them easily.]]
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[[folder:Rebecca Walters]]
!!Rebecca Walters
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Two girls butchered. Payday. I was so not feeling Woodsboro. I was like, "Lame PR move." Well, fuck me now. Best. Idea. Ever."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AlisonBrie
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Nobody is affected by her death. Sidney had in fact fired her as an employee only minutes before Ghostface made her termination from Sid's employ permanent.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Three girls get brutally killed, and the only thing she can think about is how well this will affect the sales of Sidney's book. She also seems to be somewhat envious of Sidney.
* CompositeCharacter: In the original draft of the script, there were two characters named Bette (Sidney's pushy and secretly envious assistant) and Rebecca (editor-in-chief of the high school newspaper and Gale's fangirl and wannabe), who were eventually combined into Rebecca Walters.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:She dies after she gets thrown from a parking garage by Ghostface. It's [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in that she's a selfish {{Jerkass}} rather than an actual villain.]]
* HateSink: Rebecca is shockingly callous and even excited about the deaths of teenagers driving Sidney's book sales. During her final talk with Sidney she reveals she hasn't even read the book she's promoting and after being fired, smug and uncaring with the little screen time she gets and tellingly [[spoiler:Sidney hardly reacts to Jill offering sympathy for Rebecca's death]].
* IfItBleedsItLeads: If it bleeds, it rockets the book sales.
* MotorMouth: Even when she's completely by herself.
%%* PluckyComicRelief: Somewhat.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Gale, but she acts towards her in a way similar to Debbie Salt.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Instead of staying in her car where it's safe, she gets out to try to outrun Ghostface.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kate Roberts]]
!!Kate Roberts
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'll be right back."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MaryMcDonnell

Maureen's younger sister, Sidney's aunt and Jill's mother.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Coughs up blood when Ghostface stabs her]].
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:By her own daughter no less.]]
* IronicLastWords: [[spoiler: As she dies, she says, "Tell Jill I'm sorry." [[DramaticIrony What she doesn't know]] is that Jill is the one who is responsible for her death, if not actually killed her.]]
* MamaBear: Despite the attention her sister and niece got scarring her. She was still willing to defend Sidney from the killer [[spoiler:at the cost of her life.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: She's never been mentioned at any point before this film.
* ShipperOnDeck: In the deleted hospital scene, she convinces Jill to talk to Trevor and looks like she really supports him.
* TemptingFate: She utters the dangerous sentence "I'll be right back". [[spoiler:Gets killed minutes later, though she DOES come back.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jenny Randall]]
!!Jenny Randall
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AimeeTeegarden

A Woodsboro teenager and ''Stab'' fan who ends up on Ghostface's radar.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Some fans theorize that she's the girl Trevor cheated on Jill with. This is supported in an alternate scene where Kirby refers to her as "The Other Woman" in passing, and in the final cut of the film when she gets a phone call she seems to think it's Trevor. However none of the way Trevor or Jill react to [[spoiler:her death]] show anything to support this.
* DumbBlonde: Subverted. While she is a bit frivolous when Ghostface calls her "the dumb blonde with big tits" Jenny indignantly replies that she has a 4.0 GPA and 135 IQ.
* FanGirl: She's seen the latest ''Stab'' movie five times.
* HiddenDepths: She isn't a DumbBlonde and pauses to check her friend Marnie for signs of life before running from Ghostface.
* MrExposition: She described the current state of the ''Stab'' franchise and how Sidney has been trying to distance herself from it.
* ThePrankster: Pulls a Ghostface prank on her friend Marnie.
* ScreamingWoman: When being chased and stabbed by Ghostface, although it's hard to blame her.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Given that she's an {{Expy}} of Casey and Cici.
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!Characters unique to ''Scream'' (2022)

[[folder:Sam Carpenter]]
!!Sam Carpenter
!!!'''Played By:''' Melissa Barrera

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[[folder:Tara Carpenter]]
!!Tara Carpenter
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JennaOrtega

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[[folder:Richie]]
!!Richie
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JackQuaid

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wes Hicks]]
!!Wes Hicks
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DylanMinnette

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mindy Meeks-Martin]]
!!Mindy Meeks-Martin
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JasminSavoyBrown

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chad]]
!!Chad
!!!'''Played By:''' Mason Gooding

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amber]]
!!Amber
!!!'''Played By:''' Mikey Madison

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Liv]]
!!Liv
!!!'''Played By:''' Sonia Ben Ammar

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vince]]
!!Vince
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/KyleGallner

[[/folder]]

!Ghostface
* [[Characters/ScreamGhostface See here]]

[[folder:Mindy]]
!!Mindy

The character sheet for the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films. For characters appearing in the MTV series go [[Characters/ScreamTVSeries here]].

[[/folder]]

'''''WARNING:''' ALL entries beyond this point are a WalkingSpoiler. '''Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''''

[[folder:General]]
!!Ghostface
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"What's your favorite scary movie?"'']]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RogerLJackson
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SkeetUlrich, Creator/MatthewLillard, Creator/LaurieMetcalf, Creator/TimothyOlyphant, Creator/ScottFoley, Creator/EmmaRoberts, Rory Culkin, Dane Farwell and Brian Avery [[note]]stuntmen who play Ghostface mostly when the killer is wearing the costume, Farwell wore the costume for the first, second and fourth films and Avery for the third[[/note]]

->''"You're a survivor, aren't you Sidney? Your one and only skill: You survive. I've got one question for you. What good did it to be a survivor in this little drama, if everyone close to you is dead?"''

Wearing a white ghost mask and long black robes, the Ghostface killer sneaks and stabs his way through suburban neighborhoods, hacking to pieces pretty young teenagers and college kids -- but not before calling them up with horror trivia games. Word of advice: don't get the wrong answer.
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* ArchEnemy: Every incarnation of Ghostface is an enemy of Sidney and always targets her.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The "Father Death" costume; on one hand, the costume is easily affordable, can be found most everywhere, camouflages in the night thanks to its black robe, hides the physical identity of its wearer to the point where you may not know if Ghostface is [[SamusIsAGirl a guy or a gal]], is intimidating to Ghostface's victims, and [[EvilIsCool it looks badass on whoever wears it]][[invoked]]. Despite its many advantages, the costume was not made for sociopaths to go around chasing and killing people; the costume's skirt constricts the wearer's legs and the mask has darkened fabric lenses, making it difficult to see at night, which is probably why Ghostface is so sluggish and clumsy when he or she attacks people.
* AxCrazy: All the people who donned the identity are all messed-up in the head.
* BadBoss: With the third film as an exception, any mastermind of the killings are this to their henchman following TheReveal, from Billy's nearly lethal bullying of Stu to the former's mother's and Jill's fatal dispositions of their dragons once they accomplished serving them well.
* BigBad: Merges this in with LegacyCharacter.
* BigBadDuumvirate: The identity is usually donned by two people. Except the third film.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Two of them are related to Sidney, two more are mother and son (who were still motivated by the actions of Sidney's deceased mother and her Ghostface son). Every other Ghostface is just a pawn in the schemes of these four individuals.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In each film the person behind the Ghostface mask is presented as a friendly, harmless person before their facade is dropped.
* TheBully: Monstrous mass-murdering psycho or not, they're just bullies who torment their victims at their expense for their selfish amusement especially since most of killers are around the age of those who attend either high school or college where school/campus bullies are likely present. Their killings and savage attitude problems can make them come across as a BarbaricBully with their grisly killings being an allegory of BullyBrutality. Also whenever they're a BitchInSheepsClothing, they have a typical bully's demeanor of pretending to be friendly to a new classmate at school before subjecting them to public humiliations in front of their peers (or in their case, just flat out kill them after TheReveal). To anyone who don the mask, serial killing is enjoyable to them as the typical bully's actions of shoving the defenseless in a locker, giving them wedgies, dunking their victims' heads into a toilet to give them a swirly and pulling humiliating pranks (which their scheme when trying to make them come across as survivors of killings out of fame and glory and their persecution of Sidney are each one cruel childish prank in a guise of a body count). Finally, here is one bad habit that the Ghostfaces and the usual bullies would share and actually shown in the films is to cruelly prank call their victims by phone. Sidney would eventually had enough of running and hiding from their terrorizing that would make her grow pair to become a BullyHunter.
* CainAndAbel: The third and one of the fourth Ghostfaces are Sidney's older half-brother and younger cousin, respectively. Both from her mother's side.
* CardCarryingVillain: He ''enjoys'' killing people. Sometimes ''too'' much.
* CastAsAMask: Roger L. Jackson provides the voice for Ghostface whenever people are using the voice-changer to disguise their identity. Stuntmen Dane Farwell and Brian Avery portray Ghostface onscreen.
* CatchPhrase:
** "What's your favorite scary movie?"
** In the original film, the phrase was actually: "Do ''you'' like scary movies?"
* CheapCostume: The iconic "Father Death" costume is nothing more than a rubber mask and nylon cloak sold "at every five-and-dime in the state."
* CharacterTics: Ghostface has a habit of tripping, holding his knife out horizontally before wiping the blade off with his free hand, and [[QuizzicalTilt tilting his head]] like some other classic slasher movie villains. Some Ghostfaces have their own unique traits that distinguish them from their partner or predecessors.
* ConMan: When the unmasked killers revealed their plans at the climax, which was to make themselves the heroes and survivors of mass murders. However, they are AxCrazy examples of this trope.
* CopycatKiller: Every subsequent Ghostface after Billy and Stu mostly copies the original's modus operandi in the first film. For example, all of them wear the "Father Death" costume as a disguise, wield knives as their main weapon, and utilize voice changers when harassing victims on the phone. That said, all of the later killers have their own twists on the Ghostface formula.
** In the second film, Mickey plays it straight by murdering people who [[SignificantNameOverlap share names]] with the victims from the [[Film/Scream1996 first Ghostface killing spree]] and in a similar kill order as well. On the other hand, Mrs. Loomis seems relatively indifferent to the copycatting and is mainly targeting Sidney and the other Woodsboro survivors. In fact, it is implied that Mrs. Loomis invoked this trope with Mickey so that she would have an easy fall guy after killing off Sidney.
** The third film is an interesting case. Here, Roman reveals that he inspired Billy and Stu to become killers and thus is responsible for inspiring some of Ghostface's tactics, most notably Ghostface's reliance on a partner to facilitate the murder spree and usage of a fall guy to escape the consequences. Despite this, Roman doesn't quite follow his own advice as he is the only Ghostface to work alone.
** In the fourth film, the killers use cameras to record their murders and upload the footage to the Internet for public viewing, ensuring that their notoriety [[AttentionWhore reaches a larger audience]].
* DarkIsEvil: Combined with LightIsNotGood, as the usual ensemble for Ghostface is a BlackCloak (though closer to the body than most versions) and a WhiteMaskOfDoom.
* DeadpanSnarker: When he taunts the victims.
* {{Determinator}}: Any Ghostface will never stop pursuit until performing the kill, even if they fall, trip, and get hit with everything the victims have at hand (including [[TheDoorSlamsYou doors]]).
* DisproportionateRetribution: The dominant Ghostface in the killer duos targets [[TheHero Sidney Prescott]] for reasons that are [[EvilIsPetty usually very petty]] and/or [[InsaneTrollLogic unjustifiable by any sane logic]]:
** Billy's motive for the killing spree in the first film was that Sidney's mom, Maureen had an affair with Billy's dad, leading to his mother leaving him with his neglectful father. But the thing is, that Bill and Stu killed Maureen a year ago, and Sidney had no idea or any involvement in what her mother did, so this veers into RevengeByProxy.
*** It is implied Stu and Billy killed Casey Becker and Steven Orth because Casey dumped Stu for Steve.
** Then in the sequel, Debbie Salt, a.k.a Mrs. Loomis attempts to kill Sidney for killing her son, Billy, which is somewhat understandable, but she ignores the fact that she [[NeverMyFault abandoned her child]], motivating Billy's rampage in the first place and that [[RevengeMyopia Sid only killed Billy because the guy took part in and assisted in the murders of five people, then attempted to murder Sidney herself and frame her father for said murders]]. Mrs. Loomis also murders Randy for insulting her son.
** In the third film, Roman Bridger, Maureen's first child born from rape, is revealed to have manipulated Billy and Stu into killing Maureen for rejecting him as her child; the reason he goes after Sidney is because [[GreenEyedMonster he's jealous of all the fame and attention Sid has received]] because of the killings, [[{{Irony}} which she never even wanted in the first place]].
** In the fourth movie, Jill murders her ex-boyfriend Trevor Sheldon and frames him for her murders as revenge for cheating on her. While Trevor's infidelity was not her motivation for becoming the new Ghostface, she specifically targets him as a patsy because of it. Her reason for targeting Sidney, on the other hand, is simply because, like Roman, she's jealous of her fame and wants it for herself, despising her cousin for all the attention she got and feeling overshadowed as a result.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Each version of Ghostface prefers knives or improvised weapons for their attacks most likely to play up the slasher stereotype image like the other killers in in-universe horror films who don't nor rarely use guns as weapons, although several of them finally resort to using handguns in their last confrontations with Sidney.
* DramaticUnmask: Played with throughout the series.
** In the first film, Casey manages to unmask Stu in the opening scene although the audience unlike Casey [[UnrevealAngle doesn't get a good look at the killer's face]]. Later on, Billy and Stu both subvert this as they reveal themselves in person without the Father Death costumes. Billy reveals himself after shooting Randy in cold blood while Stu reveals himself by using Ghostface's voice changer in front of Sidney.
** In the second film, Mickey plays this straight by unmasking himself in front of Sidney and Derek. On the other hand, this is subverted in the case of Mrs. Loomis, who reveals herself by threatening Gale with a handgun.
** In the third film, Roman plays this straight.
** In the fourth film, this is played straight with Jill and subverted with Charlie, who betrays his true nature by stabbing Kirby.
* EvilAllAlong: They were all introduced as someone close to Sidney or at least someone indifferent yet harmless to her, until TheReveal that they are anything but.
* EvilIsBigger: Most Ghostfaces minus the pair in the fourth film are taller than Sidney, with Matthew Lillard taking the cake at 6'3".
* EvilIsHammy: Every single Ghostface has been depicted as having quite the FunPersonified flair for the dramatic, however, this only makes each of them obnoxious to fuel their despicable nature. Roman, Mickey and Jill take the cake.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Using a voice-changing device.
* FallGuy: In every film, Ghostface has at least one victim on which to pin their crimes, and Ghostface usually murders said victim(s) for a DeceasedFallGuyGambit.
** In the first film, Billy and Stu planned to have Sidney's dad take the blame. As for the murder of Sidney's mother an year ago, they successfully [[FrameUp framed]] Cotton with false evidence.
** The second film plays with this in that Mickey, one of the Ghostfaces, was willing to turn himself in to the police to take all the credit for the murders, but Mrs. Loomis killed him to prevent him from potentially implicating her.
** For the third film, Sidney was Roman's intended scapegoat.
** The fourth film plays with this. Here, Charlie and Trevor are the two patsies, but while Trevor was innocent, Charlie was one of the two Ghostfaces.
* FauxAffablyEvil: All Ghostfaces tend to address their victims in a polite, almost friendly way before brutally killing them.
* FloweryInsults: Usually whenever someone is about to hang up, Ghostface will make an exceptionally violent threat ("Cut you like a fish," "Gut you like a pig," "Cut through your neck until I feel bone," etc.) to shock them into staying on the line.
* ForTheEvulz: While some have sympathetic backstories, all kill largely because they enjoy it.
* 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. Billy even casually says immediately after giving his motive "parental abandonment causes serious deviant behaviour." The exception to this is Jill Roberts, who openly admits that she's evil, citing that "sick is the new sane".
* GenreBlind: ''Every single time'' there were two killers, one tried to kill the other (the only successful case was Jill killing Charlie) and yet they never see it coming.
* GlassCannon: Compared to other slasher movie villains, Ghostfaces are often knocked down or otherwise briefly incapacitated by mundane hazards, which is justified since they are just ordinary people with no supernatural enhancements whatsoever. However, they make up for it by being much faster than your average lumbering slasher and with [[TheDeterminator sheer determination]].
* TheGrimReaper: The costume is largely a BlackCloak similar to Death but only with a ghostface mask.
* 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. It is a consistency since the first film that they lose their composure ''hard'' whenever Sidney turns their sick game onto them.
* HumansAreBastards: They do not have to have supernatural powers to commit monstrous and savage crimes and behave like common bullies.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Whether relying on a gimmick of being theme costumed while killing, anyone who dons the mask proves that humanity alone can be capable of destructive and monstrous sadism and slaughter without any need of supernatural assistance that killers such as Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers have relied on mostly.
* ImplacableMan: Subverted. The various Ghostface killers are ultimately perfectly ordinary people in spooky outfits, not supernatural beings like the numerous '80s slashers they take insperation from. Several times the killer is sucessfully fended off using nothing but fists or various implements, or even knocked unconscious, and basic firearms ''will'' kill them. That said, every Ghostface is very much a {{Determinator}}, so you'd better make sure they're actually dead.
* KickTheDog: They always make a point of taunting their victims as much as possible, often by bringing up past traumas.
* KnifeNut: Every Ghostface has a hunting knife as their primary weapon.
* LackOfEmpathy: As is standard for any sadistic serial killer. They all show no mercy to their victims and none of them ever express any remorse for their crimes when revealed.
* LaughablyEvil: TheDragon for the BigBad is usually this in the films, in contrast to their bosses being a straight-up HateSink.
* LegacyCharacter: Since it's a generic Halloween costume in-universe, a grand total of ''seven'' [[note]]Technically eight, since Sidney herself briefly donned it in the first film[[/note]] characters don the identity.
* LoonyFan: At least one or two of the killers are devoted horror fans.
* MadeOfIron: Although in hindsight, whenever the costume is removed, the killer actually seems to be quite breakable.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Though in some cases the Ghostface killer can be a Malevolent Masked Woman. By the way, Skeet Ulrich (Billy) is the only actor who played one of the killers who actually donned the costume, when Ghostface is menacing Randy on the camera right before Kenny dies.
* MaskOfSanity: Prior to TheReveal and to further fit the description of TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse, while as part of each one being BitchInSheepsClothing.
* MisplacedRetribution: All of the Ghostfaces who were the mastermind target Sidney for events that she was in no way responsible or guilty for, with all of the copycats in the sequels even going after Sidney as a consequence of her ''defending herself from the previous Ghostfaces that have attempted to kill her.''
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: When there's a female Ghostface, they're usually the one calling the shots.
* MotiveRant: A good number of the dominant Ghostfaces do this after they reveal themselves to Sidney.
* MundaneHorror: Does mean TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse with their generally ordinary physical appearances while unmasked and not possessing any remarkable physical capabilities, does not make them less than an AxCrazy SerialKiller they really are.
* NameFaceName: His nickname, ''Ghostface''.
* PsychopathicManchild: Many Ghostfaces fit the criteria quite well when their identities and motives are revealed.
* RevengeMyopia: Most of the Ghostfaces with motives for their killings are attacking out of some loss or turmoil in their past, most often blaming Sidney for it in some indirect way. By the third instance Sidney gets so sick of this bullshit that she delivers a furious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Ghostface in question, telling them it's their own fault they're twisted psychopaths and to just learn to take some responsibility for their lives. Naturally it falls on deaf ears and the Ghostface in question throws a violent NeverMyFault VillainousBreakdown.
* {{Sadist}}: Whatever sympathetic motives each may think they have, it's repeatedly shown that they take immense pleasure in their vicious crimes and try to drag out the experience for as long as possible.
* SamusIsAGirl: Mrs. Loomis in ''2'' and Jill in ''4''.
* SerialKiller: Specifically, a Serial Killer in costume who hunted down all the friends and family of Sidney Prescott.
* SmugSnake: Just about all of them. They're twisted chessmasters when donning the guise, but almost always when Sidney pulls the rug under them or calls them out on their pathetic or hypocritical qualities, they essentially throw an AxCrazy tantrum. This tendency to lose composure very easily is almost always what leaves them open to their defeat.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Most of them believe themselves to be justified in their actions or behavior, but they really just have a sense of superiority over others, and believe MurderIsTheBestSolution to anyone who disagrees with them.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He's not targeting his victims out of love at all.
* StealthExpert: Apparently capable of [[OffscreenTeleportation showing up behind you]] [[StealthHiBye whenever you aren't looking]].
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As detailed [[AwesomeButImpractical above]], the famous costume has some distinct disadvantages and it's also repeatedly shown that the killers are not invulnerable and effortlessly efficient beings but ordinary people who can be knocked down, hurt, make serious mistakes and even be fought off by their victims and react accordingly to pain. Their mask can also be taken off as happens in the opening of the first film.
* SwipeYourBladeOff: A {{Character Tic|s}} of Ghostface is to use the hand not holding the knife to wipe the blade.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: All of the people who have taken up the Ghostface mantle don't scream "obvious serial killer!" at first glance. In-universe, the costume is easily obtainable, so anyone could have the costume.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Played with. Two women have ''officially'' [[note]]Sidney herself briefly donned the costume in the first film [[/note]] donned the Ghostface identity, namely; Mrs. Loomis (in ''2'') and Jill Roberts (in ''4'').
* VeryPunchableMan: It's very easy to root for Sidney to put an end to each killer in the films due to each of them being nasty killers.
* 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, or turns their own sick game onto them.
* VillainousValour: A thoroughly unsympathetic case. Psychotic killer or not, anyone behind the mask are not the kind to know when to give up when hunting down Sidney even if they have endure a ridiculous amount of physical punishment. Rather than making them a badasses however, the intention is more to show them as snarling and bloodthirsty rabid dogs at heart well beyond any possibility of redemption.
* VoiceChangeling: Ghostface's trademark is a voice changer that masks their voice over the phone. Roman Bridger takes it a step further by mimicking others, including Maureen Prescott.
* WeaponOfChoice: Ghostface uses a Buck 120 hunting knife as his/her weapon of choice.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: The white mask worn by Ghostface.
* WouldHitAGirl: Most Ghostfaces are boys who have no problem brutally murdering girls.

[[folder:Ghostface in ''Scream'']]
!!William "Billy" Loomis
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SkeetUlrich

->''"You hear that, Stu? I think she wants a motive. Well, I don't really believe in motives, Sid. I mean, did Norman Bates have a motive? Did they ever really decide why Hannibal Lecter liked to eat people? DON'T THINK SO. See, it's a lot scarier when there's no motive, Sid."''

Billy blamed Sidney's mother for destroying his family, and one year prior, he and Stu Macher murdered her and framed Cotton Weary for it. Now, he is going after Sidney and her friends, intending to frame Sidney's father Neil.
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* TheAlibi: After Billy gets arrested, Ghostface calls Sidney, saying she "fingered the wrong guy again", which means Billy, who was thought to be Ghostface, wasn't the attacker. [[ExactWords This is only half-true]] since Billy is only one of two Ghostfaces; the Ghostface who called Sidney while Billy was in jail was in fact Stu.
* AxCrazy: After he's revealed to be the Ghostface killer.
* BadBoss: He's quite the bully to his cohort Stu, stabbing him repeatedly in a rage after Stu stabs him too hard once, and throwing the phone at him after Sidney reveals she reported him to the police.
* BarbaricBully: His savagery in regards to his kills coupled with his HairTriggerTemper, trying to stab each other to make them believably authentic survivors of a massacre, being a BadBoss to Stu and joys at picking on Sidney would make him qualify.
* BastardBoyfriend: Once he is revealed as a murderer.
* BeautyIsBad: Portrayed as Sidney's handsome boyfriend until he reveals himself as the first film's BigBad.
* BerserkButton: Insulting his mother is a big one.
* BigBad: Of the first film.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Billy at first seems like a nice, friendly guy if not a somewhat frustrated boyfriend to Sidney. The reveal that he is the killer completely shatters this image.
* BoomHeadshot: How Sidney eventually kills him.
* TheBully: To Sidney [[BadBoss and his own partner-in-crime Stu]].
* BullyBrutality: The way he pull off his kills would be an analogy to this, while the way he treats Stu would count as this too.
* DeadpanSnarker: As evidenced by his response to Casey asking "who's there?"
-->'''Billy:''' You might as well come out to investigate a strange noise or something.
* DeathBySex: A rare version where this happens to the killer, since Sidney has sex with him and survives, while Billy doesn't.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The reason why he killed Sidney's mother. He blamed her mother for her affair with Billy's father. Making fun of ''his'' mother is also his BerserkButton.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Given his reaction, he did ''not'' want Tatum to die ''that'' way.
* EvilIsPetty: Makes as many knocks at killing Sidney's mother as possible after TheReveal. Ironically, given his own agenda, all Sidney has to do is mock his mother ''whatsoever'' to send him a fit.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: He's very good-looking and a depraved killer.
* FakingTheDead: Presumably stabbed by Ghostface (Stu) in front of Sidney. He pops up toward the end, faking OnlyMostlyDead, and shoots Randy, setting up TheReveal.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's really a serial killer who happens to have the charisma of a FunPersonified party animal following TheReveal. He also makes the calls, except when he was in jail.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While he was manipulated by Roman into killing Sidney's mother, the killing spree that he and Stu committed was his idea, and more importantly the idea of committing the killings in the Ghostface costume was likely his as well (or possibly Stu's).
* GroinAttack: Tatum hits him with a beer bottle to the groin.
* HairTriggerTemper: Even before TheReveal, he's obviously a bit off.
* HeManWomanHater: Billy killed Maureen for the sin of sleeping with his father and "destroying his family" despite the fact that his father was just as complicit. He gaslighted Sidney to sleep with him again despite her grief, and he and Stu murdered Casey just because she dumped Stu for Steve. It's a given that he has a very limited view of women at best.
* HeroKiller: Billy murders Principal Himbry and Tatum. He almost kills Dewey as well.
* InspirationalMartyr: He's this along with Stu to the potential copycat killers in the sequels after their deaths.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Despite initially acting obviously psychotic during the beginning of the first film, he later on seems to care for Sidney, but when he reveals himself to be one of the killers, it turns out to all be just an act.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: His real first name is William, but everyone calls him Billy.
* LackOfEmpathy: Has a disturbing lack of regard for others, even for Stu.
* MamasBoy: Never really got over his mother leaving the family after it turned out Maureen Prescott slept with his father. Randy even refers to the trope by name in the sequel.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's the mastermind of the whole thing and in Stu's own words, he peer-pressured him into the plan.
* MeaningfulName: Given that Billy is a horror movie fan and one of the Ghostfaces, it is fitting that he is named after major characters from classic slasher movies.
** His first name brings to mind the killer from ''Film/{{Black Christmas|1974}}''. Like the Billy from ''Black Christmas'', Loomis harasses the victims with threatening phone calls before murdering them and is fairly adept at home invasion as well.
** His surname is an allusion to Sam Loomis, Michael's psychiatrist from ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'', and the ''other'' Sam Loomis from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Billy is clearly a fan of the aforementioned movies and even quotes Norman Bates at one moment. That said, he is a villain unlike the two heroic Sam Loomis characters, making this a rather IronicName.
** Taken together, Billy's full name is rather ambiguous about his true nature, which fits with how Sidney can't decide whether or not he is actually Ghostface before Billy's final reveal as one of the killers.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: His and Stu's deaths only martyred them to spawn potential killers in the sequels.
* PragmaticVillainy: Chides Stu for his insensitive talk about gutting people. Given that he and Stu were the killers, it was probably to shut Stu up before he gave up too much information.
* PredecessorVillain: He is this in the sequels. He's long dead by the time the second film starts, but he's mentioned again and again throughout the series, and it's clear that none of the events of the sequels would have happened if he and Stu didn't start the original Ghostface murder-spree. When he and Stu were killed, they only got themselves martyred for any other potential killers to [[TakeUpMySword Take Up Their Knives]] to kill Sidney.
* PrettyBoy: Arguably the most attractive of all the male characters in the film, possibly even the franchise as a whole.
* PsychoExBoyfriend: Downplayed. The break-up is not his motive for murder, he in fact never liked Sidney.
* PsychopathicManchild: A whiny, crazed, immature mama's boy, to say the least.
* RedHerring: He's practically the living incarnation of this. He's obviously messed up, acts incredibly suspicious, and is suspected to be the killer. All of this immediately draws the audience into believing he is innocent [[InvokedTrope because the movie wants you to believe that.]] He's really as bad as he appears.
* SayMyName: During his FakingTheDead ruse, he says "Sid" before crumpling to the floor.
* SmugSnake: He ain't exactly subtle about how proud he is of his plan.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: After escaping Sidney taunts Billy and Stu through phone with their own Ghostface voice changer. They don't take it very well.
-->'''Sidney:''' "We're going to play a little game. It's called guess who just phoned the police and reported your sorry mother fucking ass!"
* TeensAreMonsters: One of the most disturbing killers in the series (which is really saying something).
* ThinSkinnedBully: Less in the sense of being cowardly, but more Billy loses control ''hard'' when Sidney turns the tables on him, only able to throw petty threats and throw a screaming fit when she bests him at even ''that''. He also ironically puts up less of a fight than Stu.
* VillainousBreakdown: He starts losing it once he loses track of the gun, then Sidney and her father, reducing him to just the animalistic, no-holds-barred rage of a man who truly is a steely, snarling monster no matter what form he takes.
* VillainousFriendship: His best friend Stu was TheDragon, though his treatment of Stu makes him a BadBoss. It's ultimately revealed to be quite hollow as Billy has no real regard for Stu. It's implied however that Casey's death was done for Stu's personal interest. This is still an actual friendship compared to the killers of the following films who are either alone or betray their partner.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: During the final night, he's wearing a white shirt.

!!Stu Macher
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Surprise, Sidney."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewLillard, [[note]]Ulrich briefly dons the costume in the scene where Ghostface menaces Randy before killing Kenny, which WordOfGod says was Stu[[/note]]

->''"My mom and dad are going to be so mad at me..."''

Billy's accomplice in the murder of Maureen Prescott and in the events of the film, his motive for both amounts to peer pressure and simply being crazy.
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* TheAlibi: Has one for the murders of Casey and Steve in the form of Tatum, who informs Randy that Stu was with her at the night of the murders. Randy counters that Stu could have killed Casey and Steve before or after visiting Tatum. It is implied that Randy was right since Stu looks noticeably guilty afterwards and Tatum resorted to interrogating Randy of ''his'' whereabouts on the night of the murders.
* AxCrazy: Eventually revealed to be one of the Ghostface killers. Overall, he's one of the biggest ForTheEvulz killers in the franchise.
* BarbaricBully: His grotesque enthusiasm in engaging in the killings and participating in he and Billy stabbing each other to makes themselves look like victims with authenticity would qualify him as such.
* TheBully: The typical lackey kind who accompanies the main one within their posse that are a commonplace in campuses even if he gets bullied himself amongst the two's selves.
* BullyBrutality: Him taking part in most grisly kills including the murder of his ex would be a reflection of this.
* CrazyJealousGuy: His motive for murdering Casey and Steve was bitterness over Casey breaking up with him.
* DirtyCoward: His pathetic VillainousBreakdown where he's reduced to bawling like a baby in contrast to Billy's more aggressive one confirms him to be this overall.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He brutally murdered Casey and her boyfriend for dumping him.
* TheDragon: The accomplice to Billy Loomis, assisting Billy in multiple murders.
* EntitledToHaveYou: He kills Casey for the sin of dumping him even though he was currently dating Tatum at the time of the murder.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: When Sidney as Ghostface taunts him with turning him and Billy over to the police, his sole concern is that his parents will be so mad at him rather than the fact that he is bleeding to death.
* EvilIsBigger: Matthew Lillard is 6'3", the tallest of the main cast of the first film.
* EvilIsHammy: He seemingly goes crazy following TheReveal in a twisted FunPersonified way, but even before that, the ham seems barely constrained.
* EvilLaugh: He lets out a real one when he reveals himself as the killer.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts like a FunPersonified party animal of a PluckyComicRelief when he's really one of the villains.
* ForTheEvulz: No motive except the kicks. Subverted in the case of Casey and Steve though since Casey dumped him for Steve.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Randy's line "I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife." Bonus points for the reason why he said it: it was in reply to Stu saying "I'll be right back!" in a mocking voice when he went to the kitchen to grab a beer. Stu said that because, as the killer, he knew he had nothing to fear.
* FrameUp: While Billy came up with most of the plans, it was Stu's idea to pin their crimes on Mr. Prescott.
* HeroKiller: He murders and guts Steve while Billy is harassing Casey on the phone. Later, he kills Casey as well.
* HighVoltageDeath: Electrocuted when Sidney drops a TV on his face.
* IfICantHaveYou: Implied to be his reason for killing Casey Becker and her boyfriend Steve Orth.
* InspirationalMartyr: He's this along with Billy to the potential copycat killers in the sequels after their deaths, see below PredecessorVillain and MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: For most of the movie, Stu acts obnoxious and immature but ultimately seems to be harmless. Once he and Billy are revealed to be the killers, Stu goes from humorous to frightening.
* LargeHam: Especially after TheReveal.
* LaughablyEvil: Thanks to his actor's LargeHam performance.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: His and Billy's deaths inspired potential killers in the sequels.
* PredecessorVillain: He posthumously shares this with Billy in the sequels, for being the only killers to be referenced by the other killers throughout the series.
* PsychoExBoyfriend: To Casey. They dated before the films started and he murders her in the opening.
* PsychopathicManchild: Really immature and comes off as a crazy, sadistic kid. Notably when he learns he's been exposed, his first thought is how angry his parents will be.
* {{Sadist}}: Billy at least had some kind of sympathetic motive for his crimes, however inexcusable they were. Stu seems to have killed for no other reason than sheer pleasure.
* SmugSnake: Like Billy, but he's the dumber and less efficient of the duo so he comes across as even more smug.
* TapOnTheHead: Slams Sidney's head against the floor to stun her during the attack in her house.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Again, trolled by Sidney with his own Ghostface phone antic after she escapes.
* TeensAreMonsters: One of the two killers in the film, and is virtually [[CardCarryingVillain card-carryingly psychotic]] after TheReveal.
* VillainousBreakdown: Bawls like a baby when Sidney reveals she's called the police on them.
* VillainousFriendship: With Billy, the main antagonist.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ghostface in ''Scream 2'']]
!!Debbie Salt/Mrs. Loomis
[[quoteright:284:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrs_loomis_killer.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:284:''"You don't know what it is to be a mother. To raise a child, to teach him and guide him!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/LaurieMetcalf

->''"No, I'm very sane. My motive isn't as 90s as Mickey's. Mine is just good, old-fashioned revenge. You killed my son and now I kill you and I can't think of anything more rational."''

Debbie Salt turns out to be Mrs. Loomis, the mother of Billy Loomis. She hates Sidney and Gale for killing her son, and plans the murder spree as revenge, intending on framing her accomplice Mickey as the sole murderer and getting away scot-free.
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* AvengingTheVillain: She is the mother of Billy, the BigBad from the first film, seeking revenge.
* BadBoss: She killed her own underling Mickey.
* BigBad: Of the second film.
* BerserkButton: Insulting her son Billy (thus implying she was a bad mother). Randy does this to the killer over the phone, not knowing the killer he was talking to specifically was Billy's mother, and she as Ghostface lets loose on him.
* BondVillainStupidity: She reveals her plan to Sidney and lampshades how stupid saying it was with this following dialogue.
--> "OK, so have I covered everything, are there any questions, any comments. You know what? Who gives a flying [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] anyway!?"
* BoomHeadshot: While she appears dead after Cotton shoots her, when Mickey rises up and yells (and gets gunned down), Sidney decides to put a bullet in her head, "just in case".
* CheshireCatGrin: Whenever she smiles, it's always scary. Taken UpToEleven when considering her giant blue eyes that glow in the dark and her ability to disappear completely, fooling everyone, except for Sidney and Cotton.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Give her this: she loves her son.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: After shooting Mickey, she admits even she finds his "Blame the Movies" idea to be too insane to work.
* {{Expy}}: Can be considered one of [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Pamela Voorhees]]. Both are grieving mothers who seek revenge for their sons' deaths, and murder because of their insanity stemming from it. Even the tropes seen here can be found in Pamela's character page. However, Pamela's [[FreudianExcuse Freudian Excuse]] is stronger, and her character is ultimately more sympathetic and tragic, due to having suffered even before Jason was born and having to raise him during what should have been the best years of her life as a teenager, while Mrs. Loomis' abandonment of Billy makes it hard to sympathize with her, especially since that's a primary factor of how he went insane. There's also the fact that at the time, Jason was an innocent boy, whereas Billy had already become a serial killer.
* GetawayDriver: Judging by the camera footage seen by Gale and Dewey in the auditorium, Mrs. Loomis waited outside the theater for Mickey and once he left the theater, drove him away from the scene.
* HairTriggerTemper: Does not take having her son called out or belittled in any way. When Randy does this, she gets a little "knife-happy" on him.
* HatesSmallTalk: Out of all the killers, Mrs. Loomis has the least patience for horror movie chitchat and goes right to threats.
* HeroKiller: Takes the credit for murdering Randy.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Blames Sidney for killing Billy. Even though abandoning him is what led to him attacking Sidney's family in the first place. She also finds trying to place blame for killers onto their parents is sickening and cheap. When Cotton Weary tries to intervene in her murder of Sidney, Debbie tries to get him on her side by pointing out Sidney's testimony put him in prison for a year even though it was Billy (the person Debbie is trying to avenge) who framed Cotton for Maureen's murder in the first place.
* {{Irony}}: Mrs Loomis despises the implication that she was in any way responsible for Billy becoming a serial killer. However, her own subsequent killing spree could be used as an argument that her son becoming a serial killer was inevitable.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Has absolutely zero sympathy for anyone that was harmed by Billy's crimes and wants to kill the girl who killed him in self defense, believing that she and her son deserve all of the sympathy while Sidney and her friends deserve none. It is heavily implied she was neglectful of Billy in his life anyway and only really flip flopped to a caring and mournful parent [[NeverMyFault after all the blame she received for raising a serial killer]].
* LikeParentLikeChild: After seeing her in action, one can note that Billy was merely a chip off the old block.
* MamaBear: A rather dark portrayal, considering that she's trying to kill Sidney for killing Billy.
* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: She acts like her son was an innocent victim, even though he murdered a woman, framed an innocent man for it nearly resulting in his execution, and went on a killing spree killing 5 people (six if you count Maureen Prescott), three of them by disembowelment.
* MeaningfulName: She's very salty about her son's death.
* NeverMyFault: The defining element of her motive, she'll blame and kill anyone related to Billy's crime spree and death before she blames her own neglectful parenting:
--> Ha! I was a ''good'' mother. You know what makes me sick? I am sick to death of people saying that it's all the parents' fault that all starts with the family. Wanna blame someone? Why don't you blame YOUR MOTHER? She was the one who stole my husband and broke up my family. And then you took my son!
* NoNameGiven: After TheReveal, she's only referred to as "Mrs. Loomis." Her real first name is never revealed, but many people just use her first name in her alias and call her "Debbie Loomis." An early script gives her name as Nancy.
* NoSympathy: Does not give a damn about the fact that Sidney's mother was murdered by Billy, or that he tried to kill her and her father and frame her father for murder posthumously.
* NotQuiteDead: After Mickey proves such, a GenreSavvy Sidney shoots her in the forehead "just in case". Given she twitches afterwards, she was probably correct.
* OhCrap: After Sidney caves in to an earlier bargain with Cotton, she quickly figures out she's screwed before Cotton shoots her dead.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her motivation is that her son was killed by Sidney at the previous film's climax.
* ParentalAbandonment: Abandoned Billy before the first film after she learned that her husband had an affair with Sidney's mother.
* PreMortemOneLiner:
--> "Oh, Mickey...There's not gonna be a trial."
* RevengeMyopia: Arguably the most hypocritical of the lot. She wants to murder Sidney for killing her son, even though it was in self defense and her son murdered Sidney's mother and best friend and tried to kill her and her father and frame her father as a spree killer/mass murderer. Her own abandonment of Billy played a lot into his psychosis in the first place. But she's sick of people using that old BlameGame on her. She even attempts to get Cotton in on this, noting Sidney falsely accused him. For the crimes her son committed and intentionally framed him for.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Her reason for the murders.
* TheReveal: She is Billy's mother from the first film, seeking revenge on Sidney.
* UnseenNoMore: Billy mentions her in the first film although she doesn't appear until the second film.
* WomanScorned: Not in the romantic sense, but in the sense of wanting to kill the person who killed her son.

!!Mickey Altieri
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"That's what Billy was good at. He knew it was all about... execution"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TimothyOlyphant

->''"I'm gonna blame the movies. It's pretty cool, huh? It hasn't been done before. You see, this is just the beginning, a prelude to the trial. That's where the real fun is, because these days, it's all about the trial. Could you see it? The effects of cinema violence on society. I'll get [[Creator/OJSimpson Dershowitz or Cochrane]] to represent me, UsefulNotes/BobDole on the witness stand in my defense. Hell, the [[MoralGuardians Christian Coalition]] will pay my legal fees!"''

Mrs. Loomis' accomplice, Mickey sought to become famous as a result of the killing spree, getting himself a sensationalized trial where he would claim that he, the horror buff he is, was driven to kill due to watching too many violent movies.
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* FifteenMinutesOfFame: Became Ghostface and did the killings to intend to be caught, gaining fame and a trial where he'll blame horror films for his rampage.
* AttentionWhore: He killed simply so he could stand trial afterwards and bask in the limelight.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He acted nice and caring towards Sidney before TheReveal.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: 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.
* CopKiller: Murders Officers Andrews and Richards.
* TheDragon: To Debbie Salt, also known as Mrs. Loomis.
* DragonTheirFeet: Survives Mrs. Loomis for scant seconds by popping up for one last scare.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: As Ghostface, he takes Sidney, Hallie, and Officer Richards on a wild car ride, Richards clinging onto the hood for dear life. The ride ends when Ghostface crashes the car into a construction site, sending a pipe through Richards' head.
* EvilIsHammy: He's even a film student to boot. He's Olyphant's later villain role Willard Stenk from ''WesternAnimation/MissingLink'' as Ghostface.
* FameThroughInfamy: He ''wants'' to get caught so that he can have the trial of the century for his crimes, putting himself at the center of political debates about violence in the media.
* FauxAffablyEvil: A very nice and charming student until he unmasks himself as Ghostface to Sidney and Derek, yet acts like a thrill-seeking FunPersonified party animal in reaction to his kills. He originally was intended to be affable-straight and not a killer.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: During the final confrontation, Mickey has a large cut on his forehead from crashing the police car.
* HeroKiller: Murders (at the very least) Maureen Evans, Officers Andrews and Richards, Hallie, and Derek.
* LaughablyEvil: Like Stu above, he's ComicBook/TheJoker (or even Olyphant's later villain role Willard Stenk from ''WesternAnimation/MissingLink'') as Ghostface.
* MadeOfIron: Somehow managed to survive Mrs. Loomis's gunshots and got up to his feet [[ContinuityNod for one last scare]]. It takes [[MultipleGunshotDeath a barrage of gunfire]] from Sidney and Gale to knock him down. He also survived crashing into a construction site.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: How he ultimately dies, courtesy of Sidney and Gale.
* MurderSimulators: Invoked with his plan, which was to get caught and, at the trial, blame violent horror movies for turning him into a psycho killer, earning him sympathetic media and legal attention and quite possibly a light sentence.
* SignificantNameOverlap: As part of his "blaming violent movies" motive, he murders people who share the same names as the Woodsboro victims from the [[Film/Scream1996 original Ghostface killing spree]] and in a similar kill order as well. However, this is dropped after Mrs. Loomis kills Randy, presumably because Loomis, the leader of the two, had a plan to target Sidney later that night, so there would be no time for Mickey to find other similarly-named victims.
* StupidCrooks: So stupid that even Mrs. Loomis called him out. She specifically recruited him as the FallGuy in her revenge scheme, telling Sidney after killing him that nobody would have believed his media-ready "I'm gonna blame the movies" excuse.
* SwordAndGun: He arms himself with both a pistol and Ghostface's signature knife in his final confrontation with Sidney.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He is killed by Mrs. Loomis for this purpose.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ghostface in ''Scream 3'']]
!!Roman Bridger
[[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roman_bridger_killer.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:301:''"Don't you want to know Sidney? Do you want to know who I am? Don't you want to know who killed your mother?"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Scott Foley

->''"I had no idea that they were going to make a film of their own. I mean, introducing: Sidney, the victim. Sidney, the survivor. Sidney, the star!"''

The GreaterScopeVillain of the entire original trilogy, Roman Bridger is revealed to have gotten Billy and Stu to have killed Maureen Prescott, setting off the events of the series. He is Sidney's half-brother, and loathed both Maureen for having abandoned him as a hated reminder of her old life in HorribleHollywood, and Sidney for both living a happy life before the killings and becoming a celebrity after, feeling that both of those things were owed to him. He is the only solo Ghostface in the four movies, not having a partner working alongside him.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: He can't help but chuckle when he sees that Sidney pulled off the same bulletproof vest trick as him.
* AlasPoorVillain: Subverted. He holds hands with Sidney after she stabs him in the chest in an apparent attempt to connect with her for once, but then rises back up and lunges at her with his knife.
* ArcWelding: Revealed to be the person who put Billy and Stu up to murdering Maureen in the first place.
* AxCrazy: Downplayed. He's an egotistical maniac who enjoys killing, but he has a certain intelligence and cunning, seeing how he orchestrated Billy and Stu's crimes from the first movie. However, he throws out his sanity at the climax when Sidney pulls her ShutUpHannibal on him. In addition, out of all the Ghostfaces, he has the most kills at nine.
* AuthorAvatar: For Creator/WesCraven. He's a horror director who orchestrated the events of the movies, and admits to being tired of horror movies. And when he dies, the original trilogy ends with him.
* BaitTheDog: When he's apparently fatally wounded, he holds onto Sidney's hand as if they are having a brother/sister moment. It turns out he's throwing her off guard in a last attempt to kill her.
* BarbaricBully: After losing his composure and tries to viciously fight Sidney.
* BastardBastard: Roman is Maureen's ChildByRape whom she gave up for adoption. When he confronted her years later, she rejected him saying that her only child was Sidney. He resents Sidney for being the only one of them who got their mother's love and getting the fame that he wanted.
* BigBad: Of the third film.
* BigBrotherBully: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]. Because not only does he bully Sidney, he ruins her life, psychologically torments her and attempts to murder her out of jealousy.
* BoomHeadshot: How Roman met his end. After getting stabbed by his half-sister, Sidney, he gets up for [[ContinuityNod one last scare]] to kill her. While getting shot by Dewey, he wasn't stopping, because he wore a bulletproof vest. It wasn’t until Sidney told Dewey to shoot him in the head, which he does, ending his madness.
* TheBully: He's prone to psychologically tormenting Sidney and then harangue and give out a PrecisionFStrike against her.
-->'''Roman:''' Oh, it's rough being friends with you, Sid. [mocking] When you're friends with Sid, ''you die.''
* BullyingTheDragon: What it ultimately comes down to. Especially telling because by this point Sidney has had well and truly enough of the Ghostface crap so that when the final showdown comes, rather than Sidney on the defense, as usual, she charges at him in an equally murderous rage after deciding to go full BullyHunter.
* CainAndAbel: He's Sid's half-brother from an affair Maureen had when she was living in L.A.
* ChildByRape: He’s John Milton’s son, conceived when he raped Maureen Prescott.
* TheCorrupter: Roman was the one who set Billy down the path of a serial killer by revealing his father's affair with Maureen Prescott to him.
* CreateYourOwnHero: He orchestrated the death of Sidney's mother through Billy and Stu, which makes him indirectly responsible for not only Billy and Stu's later killing spree but also Mickey and Debbie's copycat killing spree. By the time Roman takes up the knife and confronts her in person, Sidney, now a full blown ActionSurvivor and utterly ''sick'' of being a scapegoat for the previous Ghostfaces, furiously dresses him down verbally, fights him toe to toe with equal vicious hatred, and ultimately kills him.
* DarthVaderClone: He gets the typical traits from the other Ghostfaces (black cloak, mask, voice changer, and blade) and reveals himself as a long-lost family member with a cruel, aging overseer who he later kills.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: He deconstructs the archetypal "SerialKiller with a FreudianExcuse" villain seen in numerous horror movies. At the climax, he launches into a MotiveRant detailing his FreudianExcuse for wanting to kill Sidney. He grew up hating her and their mother Maureen because he felt that Maureen loved Sidney more and essentially abandoned him, viewing him as [[ThatManIsDead an unwelcome reminder of her old life]], and that the fame Sidney got after the massacre should've been his. An infuriated Sidney responds to this rant with a blistering ShutUpHannibal speech, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling the killer a selfish brat]] who can't take any personal responsibility, and [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse is only killing people for pleasure and trying to rationalize it after the fact]]. Tellingly, Sidney's speech causes a VillainousBreakdown in the killer, who yells at an unfazed Sidney to stop talking before flying off the handle and attacking her.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's a retroactive one for the franchise as a whole. After scheming behind the scenes, indirectly causing the plots of the first two movies, and becoming the main antagonist of the last section of the original trilogy, he's replaced by new villains for the next movies and the show, which were released years after ''Scream 3''.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Immediately after the unmasking, he initially was smugly polite and charming towards Sidney then he transits to being hyperactive especially when killing John Milton before completely dropping the affable facade when his mean-spirited HairTriggerTemper gets the best of him.
* FakingTheDead: Does this to throw everyone's attention off him as a suspect.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Prior to the reveal, he wore glasses.
* FreudianExcuse: Maureen denied him her motherhood, which coupled with being a ChildByRape, didn't do wonders for his mental health. However...
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Sidney shuts him up by pointing out that he killed solely ForTheEvulz, and thus, any justification he might have had was blown out the window the second he called upon Billy to murder Maureen.
* AGodAmI: In a sense. He treats everything he's orchestrated throughout the series as a bunch of movies with him as the "director". As such, he probably believes [[ShutUpKirk that he doesn't have to listen to Sidney]] [[TheSocialDarwinist since all he has to do is kill her to "reclaim" the life he believes to be his, and that will be the where the film will end]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the series, since his actions are what gave birth to all of the other killers throughout the films.
** Before the first film, he showed Billy evidence that Maureen had slept with Billy's father, and when Billy decided to murder Maureen, Roman suggested an accomplice, and Billy chose Stu. He also suggested that Billy find a {{Scapegoat}} and implied that Stu could be said scapegoat if things went wrong, but Billy eventually decided to frame Cotton instead.
** In the first film, Billy, not satisfied with the murder of Maureen, attacks Sidney on the anniversary of Maureen's death with Stu going along mainly for the kicks.
** For the second film, Mrs. Loomis tries to kill Sidney to avenge Billy's death, and Mickey, Mrs. Loomis's partner, is only killing people to gain fame as a CopycatKiller.
** In the third film, this is subverted as Roman himself is the BigBad and directly confronts Sidney.
** Even after his death in the third film, Roman's actions still influences the events of the fourth film as Jill and Charlie become the new Ghostfaces to replicate Sidney's fame as a survivor.
* HairTriggerTemper: He can barely contain his rage during his MotiveRant, but when Sidney [[ShutUpHannibal shoots his claims down]], he completely snaps, and they two begin to violently beat each other, before Roman tries to strangle her to death.
* ImmuneToBullets: Invokes this by wearing a bulletproof vest under his costume.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His motives for instigating the Ghostface killings? His mother rejected him because he was a reminder of her rape and past. His motives for wanting to kill Sidney? She, Dewey and Gale survived the previous killing sprees and became famous for it, so Roman wants Sidney's fame claiming he should have had her life.
* 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. The one instance he takes where he seemed to bond with Sidney, he only did so to catch her off guard and make one last attempt on her life when she least expects it.
* KickTheDog: His voice changer carries the voices of several different characters from the series, including Maureen's. He uses her voice when talking to Sidney a few times, often covered with a bloody bedsheet.
-->'''Roman:''' (offscreen, speaking with Maureen's voice) I lied, Sidney, I can't protect you at all! You don't deserve to be protected! You didn't protect me!
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Kills his own father, John Milton, who raped his mother.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Roman manipulated Billy and Stu into murdering Maureen Prescott, his own mother. He even kills his father ([[AssholeVictim although he]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil deserved it]]) and tries to kill his half-sister Sidney for good measure.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: He and Milton invoke the CastingCouch to take advantage of desperate actors.
* MadArtist: He approvingly compares Billy's scheme to making a film, and considers his planning out murders a way of fulfilling his role as a filmmaker.
-->'''Roman''': I'm a director, Sid. I ''direct''.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He was the one who incited Billy to kill Maureen one year before the first movie. He also told Billy to have an accomplice: Stu.
* MeaningfulName:
** His first name is a reference to Creator/RomanPolanski. Given his backstory and Polanski's real-life scandals, it's darkly appropriate, especially since both of them are film directors.
** His surname Bridger fits the fact that he's the original trilogy's GreaterScopeVillain who [[ArcWelding set the film series' chain of events in motion]].
* NeverMyFault:
** Claims to be a tragic victim lashing out at the world. Sidney's shattering of his self-delusion results in a VillainousBreakdown.
** He claims he hates Sidney because she became famous for surviving the events of the original film and thinks he deserves that kind of fame. At no point does it ever dawn on him that she only became famous because of events ''he'' orchestrated, so ''he'' is the reason why Sidney gained any noteriety.
* NotGoodWithRejection: ''Boy howdy''. The entire series started off because Maureen Prescott rejected him as her son.
* OneManArmy: Unlike all of the other Ghostfaces, who worked in pairs, he accomplishes his entire killing spree on his own and consequently has the highest kill tally: 9.
* {{Patricide}}: Read KickTheSonOfABitch up above.
* PreMortemOneLiner: When Milton offers him final cut.
--> "I already have it."
* PsychopathicManchild: His childish tantrum after Sidney's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and his overall approach to life. He orchestrated the death of his own mother because she didn't love him, refuses to take any responsibility for his actions and ''enjoys himself like a child in a toy store''.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Excluding Maureen's murder, it was also hinted at that John Milton was his father, and Milton ends up being Roman's last victim.
* TheSociopath: Has a complete LackOfEmpathy toward Maureen on account of her rape, taking to masterminding her murder, simply because she didn't welcome him with open arms when they meet again. This carries on towards his half sister Sidney, who he grows jealous over because she survived two killing sprees, became famous over them, and wanted the fame for himself, so he uses them against her. He has a pretty high sense of self worth, pretending to be the victim, refusing to take responsibility for his choices. Everyone else is gore fodder for him. When he and Sidney seemingly connect before his death, it's a distraction.
* VillainousBreakdown: Sidney's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech dismantling his selfish motive triggers one in him, causing him to essentially throw a violent high octane childish tantrum.
* VillainousLegacy: Aside from his having masterminded most of the events of the series, his actions have inspired copycats wholly independent of him, even after his death.
* 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 Milton [[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.
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[[folder:Ghostface in ''Scream 4'']]
!!Jill Roberts
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I was so believable today, wasn't I? I mean, I told so many lies that I actually started to believe them."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/EmmaRoberts

->''"My friends? What world are you living in? I don't need friends. I need fans. You had your [[FifteenMinutesOfFame 15 minutes]], now I want mine!"''

Far from the FinalGirl she was presented as, Jill Roberts was in fact the mastermind of the film's murders. She was a fame-hungry sociopath who planned on framing Trevor and Charlie for the murders and emerging as the FinalGirl in the eyes of the media, riding it to celebrity status as Sidney had done. She also had her 'survival' filmed so that she could upload it to social media.
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* FifteenMinutesOfFame: Her motivation for the killings. She even uses the exact phrase.
* AttentionWhore: To the point of convincing Charlie to help her kill all of her friends and her ''mother'', just for a few minutes of fame.
* AxCrazy: When she's revealed to be the Ghostface killer. Easily the most Ax-Crazy of all of the Ghostface killers. Even Stu was not that crazy.
* BadBoss: She killed her own underling Charlie.
* BadInfluencer: Her motivation is social media stardom, and she filmed and staged everything in order to achieve that.
* 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 better look like 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.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wanted 15 minutes of fame and she got them, literally. She was hailed as a hero for a very brief period of time, then Sidney killed her and presumably exposed her as a murderer and a liar.
* BigBad: Of the fourth film.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Like most Ghostface killers, she acts like this before TheReveal.
* TheBully: Towards Sidney and anyone around her, as she's prone to insulting and unleashing her [[HairTriggerTemper bad temper]] against others in her way.
* BullyBrutality: She is prone to lashing out her temper, she kicks Trevor in a rage before killing him and she would verbally abuse Sidney and later her friends when they find out the truth before trying to off them to tie up loose ends. It there any other way to describe this all together?
* CainAndAbel: She's Sidney's younger cousin.
* CardCarryingVillain: "Sick is the new sane."
* ClashingCousins: She’s out for Sidney’s blood, but not before she kills everyone else to make herself the SoleSurvivor in the spotlight.
* CopKiller: Murders Officers Hoss and Perkins.
* DarkActionGirl: Ultimately proved to be one and is currently tied for second in the franchise for most kills at seven: Jenny Randall, Rebecca Walters, Officers Ross Hoss and Anthony Perkins, her mother Kate, Trevor, and Charlie.
* DecoyProtagonist: A blatant {{Expy}} of Sidney and was even heavily hinted as her possible successor as TheHero of the franchise, only to be revealed as EvilAllAlong and the fourth film's BigBad.
* {{Determinator}}: She is really driven when it comes to killing her intended victims. And just because she wants Sidney's fame and to be the center of attention.
* DistaffCounterpart: To her immediate Ghostface predecessor Roman Bridger, due to their status as an evil relative to Sidney.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She not only fits the physical description, she's also very scary and psychotic.
* EvilCounterpart: To Sidney. She is set up to be a Sidney {{expy}}, and has a lot in common with her as a young woman. Until she's revealed to be Ghostface. One might argue that she’s also a DistaffCounterpart to her cousin, Roman.
* EvilIsHammy: Especially in the scene where she's self-harming to make herself look like a victim of the killer and behaving like a stuck-up FunPersonified AlphaBitch diva after TheReveal.
* EvilIsPetty: She shoots Trevor in the groin before she kills him, shouting "I am NOT the girl you cheat on!"
* EyeScream: Sidney pokes her in the eye to escape from being strangled.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: She's played by then-family film and television genre actress Creator/EmmaRoberts.
* FameThroughInfamy: Though unlike Mickey, she wants recognition not as a killer but as [[FinalGirl the hero who stopped a massacre]], having seen her cousin Sidney become famous for her ordeal and ride that to movies, talk shows, and books.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts up a nice girl façade while hiding her monstrous killing side, and then brags to Sidney after TheReveal like some [[FunPersonified fun-loving]] party girl having the time of her life just before she stabs her to succeed in her scam.
* FinalGirl: Her goal is to ''usurp'' Sidney's position as the new FinalGirl of the Ghostface massacre and ride it as her claim to fame... [[BigBad by donning the mask herself]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
-->"You think it's all about you."
* ForTheEvulz: While the other Ghostfaces had a FreudianExcuse, flimsy as they were, Jill has none and openly admits she's evil, committing multiple murders purely to get FifteenMinutesOfFame.
-->'''Jill''': That's sick, right? Well, sick is the new sane.
* GreenEyedMonster: It's quite clear that she's envious of the attention and fame her cousin got for surviving the previous Ghostface killings, despite her never wanting it in the first place.
-->'''Jill''': Do you know what it was like growing up in this family? Related to ''you''? I mean, all I ever heard was Sidney this, and Sidney that, and Sidney, Sidney, Sidney. You were always just so '''''fucking''''' special! Well, now I'm the special one.
* HairTriggerTemper: As Trevor found out the hard way, do not make her angry.
* HateSink: A narcissistic sociopath who murdered all of her friends in a killing spree, just so she could gain FifteenMinutesOfFame as a SoleSurvivor out of jealousy for her aunt, which is quite possibly the most disgustingly [[EvilIsPetty petty]] excuse out of all the Ghostfaces. She even sadistically murdered her own mother and her partner for good measure. Once Jill realized that Sidney was recovering in the intensive care unit, she tried to kill her herself so her secret won't be revealed.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: When finding out Sidney survives her initial stabbing, she attempts to do away with her in order to finally tie up loose ends and preventing her to say what really happened. She also attempts to off Dewey, Hicks and Weathers to desperately cover up her tracks as well when they realized the truth.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: She unknowingly reveals herself as the killer by mentioning that she and Gale have "matching wounds". Considering that the details about Ghostface's assault on Gale were never released to the public, the only way Jill could know this was if she attacked Gale herself.
* IHaveNoSon: Cousin variant, it's implied by Sidney's words after she kills her that she no longer sees Jill as her cousin, but a murderer who got what was coming to her.
* IdiotBall: For someone who was able to pull off such a well thought out and intricate plot, blowing her facade by claiming she and Gale had "matching wounds" was pretty boneheaded.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Because she's a sociopath, Jill was willing to kill all her friends and ''her mother'' in a twisted attempt to become famous like her cousin Sidney.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Although she initially appears to be critical towards Sidney, she did appear to try to bond with her. After TheReveal, however, it all turns out to be an act. Even going as far to kill Charlie, who was her accomplice, so that she can claim all the fame to herself which subverts EvenEvilHasLovedOnes.
* KarmicDeath: Gets electrocuted and shot by Sidney after spending the whole night trying to killing her as well as murdering her own mother, who was also Sidney's aunt.
* KickTheDog: Her brutal murder of Trevor, who only wanted to make up with her and confessed that he really did love her before she shot him.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Her BadBoss murder of Charlie, who was her cohort in her killing spree.
** There's also her killing of [[IfItBleedsItLeads Rebecca Walters,]] who was behaving very callous about the murders.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jill isn't too far behind Roman in this department. She commits matricide and tries to kill Sidney, her own cousin.
* MaskOfSanity: As her appearances up to TheReveal shows, Jill is adept at appearing and acting completely normal, barring occasional, brief lapses in composure. However, when she finally drops the act she proves to be [[AxCrazy completely and utterly insane and a danger to everyone around her]].
* MadeOfIron: The girl scratches herself, pulls out her hair, stabs herself in the shoulder, runs her face into a glass picture frame, and then throws herself through a glass coffee table in order to give herself convincing wounds. At the hospital, she's still able to start up another rampage, nearly killing Sidney and Dewey. A defibrillator to the head only momentarily slows her down. It isn't until she's shot directly in the heart that she stops. She's probably the toughest killer yet.
* {{Matricide}}: Killed her own mother.
* ManipulativeBitch: She fooled almost ''everyone'' into thinking she was an innocent victim targeted by Ghostface, when the truth couldn't be further from that.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is similar to Billy's name, which hints at her true nature.
* TheNapoleon: Short (5'2") and a psychopathic killer.
* NearVillainVictory: Out of all the Ghostfaces so far, Jill came the closest to nearly killing Sidney and getting away with her murders. It's only due to not finishing the job properly, unwittingly revealing she knew about Gale's stab wound despite it never being revealed to anyone, and grossly underestimating how much of a fighter Sidney is that she's ultimately thwarted at the endgame.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: She's in her late teens in contrast to Sidney in her mid-thirties.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: She's able to lift and throw Sidney, and then beat Dewey senseless with a bedpan.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Trevor. She personally kills him (after [[GroinAttack shooting him in the balls]]) and planned to frame him for her crimes.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: All her plan was is starting another massacre so she can get so much as a second of fame, a hopelessly banal and childish motivation for so much carnage.
* {{Sadist}}: She ''filmed'' all her murders to watch over and over again.
* TheSociopath: Even more so than any of the previous Ghostfaces and even a worse BadBoss then the previous {{Big Bad}}s towards their right-hand man. Even Roman wasn't as diabolical as her. ''Think about it for a second''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** While she initially looks like an {{Expy}} of Sidney, she actually turns out to be this to Sidney's half-brother Roman, especially with the motivation for wanting Sidney's fame for herself.
** She can also be regarded as one to Billy since her scapegoat plan is more or less the same as his, and she betrays both of her lovers.
* TeensAreMonsters: And quite possibly the most monstrous of them all in the entire series.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Charlie until she kills him too.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the end, after her plan falls apart, it turns into a desperate HeKnowsTooMuch with implications of TakingYouWithMe.
* VillainousValour: A thoroughly unsympathetic case. Like the previous killers, she doesn't know when to give up when hunting down Sidney just for her FifteenMinutesOfFame to satisfy her selfish {{Greed}} even if she have to endure an enormous amount of physical punishment. Rather than making her a badass however, the intention is more to show her as snarling and bloodthirsty rabid dog at heart well beyond any possibility of redemption.
* WomanScorned: Told Trevor that she's not the girl one should cheat on before killing him. She also killed Jenny, the girl Trevor cheated on her with.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Jill's self-mutilation in order to make people think she was a victim.

!!Charlie Walker
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charlie_walker_killer.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is making a move."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Rory Culkin

->''"You know, you learn a lot when you watch movies over and over. All the plots are about trying to kill you!"''

Jill's accomplice, Charlie was secretly dating her, and planned on becoming the Randy of the killings to Jill's Sidney, the geeky guy who makes it out alive.
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* AffablyEvil: Possibly felt some genuine remorse for stabbing Kirby.
* AssholeVictim: A particularly unique example of this trope, since he's one of the killers!
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's really ''not'' nice. At all.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's not the nerdy timid guy he appears to be.
* TheBully: He's not as mean-spirited as the other Ghostfaces, though.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: A DoggedNiceGuy like Randy...who, in fact, is not nice at all and is every bit as self-absorbed and EntitledToHaveYou as you'd expect.
* TheDragon: He is Jill's accomplice.
* EvilCounterpart: To Randy, the MetaGuy and horror film geek. Unlike Randy, who was just a harmless PluckyComicRelief and a DoggedNiceGuy, Charlie is (to loosely quote Billy in the first film) a "movie freak whose mind lost its reality button" and feels entitled to Kirby's affections.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Arguably, even more so than his accomplice Jill and the previous Ghostfaces, to a point where he can be considered the OnlySaneMan amongst the killers and probably solely AffablyEvil, as he did seem to feel remorse for stabbing Kirby.
* KarmicDeath: He rejects Kirby's love for him and stabs her two times in the stomach before leaving her to die. Five minutes later, Jill, his actual girlfriend, kills him by stabbing him twice and reveals that she has always intended to betray him.
* LaughablyEvil: While not as much a LargeHam as his predecessors Stu and Mickey, and more mellow then the other Ghostfaces, he's still much a quirky nerd, especially when he preps himself to make himself an injured victim along with Jill by even slapping himself before Jill double crosses and kills him to take the sole spotlight.
* TheNapoleon: At 5'6", he's one of the shortest guys in the film. He's also a psychopathic killer.
* OhCrap: The look on his face when he realizes that Jill's plan wasn't for him to join her in fame and fortune, but for him to be the new Stu Macher, says it all.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: Like Jill, he's in his late teens in contrast to Sidney hitting 40.
* PetTheDog: His apparent genuine remorse at having stabbed Kirby to please Jill.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Even after TheReveal, he doesn't really raise his voice, [[EvilIsHammy unlike previous killers and his partner Jill]]. He's perhaps the only Ghostface to be this.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He stated that he was going to be the next Randy to Jill's Sidney during TheReveal. As Sidney notes, however, he is much like Stu, which leads to his death by Jill. This also makes him a substitute to Mickey based on his film knowledge and getting offed by the BigBad, except he doesn't survive for the last scare.
* SycophanticServant: Charlie is definitely a follower as he is willing to kill his friends to serve his master.
* TeensAreMonsters: A willing accomplice in Jill's murderous scheme.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Jill, until she disposes of him.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: As soon as they run out of targets and the final act comes, Jill kills him so she can come out as the sole survivor. He's the second Ghostface Dragon to get killed by the partner after Mickey Aliteri in ''Scream 2'', but he stays dead, unlike Mickey.
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[[folder:Ghostface in ''Scream'' (2022)]]
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* BelatedBackstory: A lot is revealed about her in the third film.

** In the second film, Mickey plays it straight by targeting people who have names similar to those of the victims from the first film and in the same kill order as well. On the other hand, Mrs. Loomis seems relatively indifferent to the copycatting and is mainly targeting Sidney and the other Woodsboro survivors. In fact, it is implied that Mrs. Loomis invoked this trope with Mickey so that she would have an easy fall guy after killing off Sidney.