History Characters / TheLostBoys

* AllThereInTheManual: David's gang are for the most part {{Satellite Character}}s who rarely speak. The novelization gives them individual traits.

* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Max refers to the Lost Boys as "his boys" at the end in a tone that shows he saw them as his sons and it's heavily implied they saw him as a father figure, and he is saddened by their deaths and the two families together not being brought together.

* ItCameFromTheSink: Paul is pushed into a bathtub full of holy water, his blood begins coming out of all the pipes, including through the bathroom and kitchen sinks.

* BewareOfViciousDog: Paul is push by Nanook, into a tub of Holy Water and Garlic, which burned and dissolved him.

* {{The Moving Experience}}:Sam lived in Phoenix, Arizona with his older brother Michael, where they lived until the divorce of their parents. Sam and Michael moved with Lucy to the coastal community of Santa Carla, California to live with their Grandpa because they were flat broke.

* AmbiguouslyGay: He has a poster of Creator/RobLowe in a provocative pose on his wall -- specifically, on the door to his ''[[VisualPun closet]]''. He also croons both the boy and girl verses from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXKGZo7RbE "I Ain't Got a Man"]] while taking a bubble bath. However, WordOfGod explains this in the commentary: the Rob Lowe and Creator/MollyRingwald posters in Sam's room were intended as a ShoutOut to the Creator/JohnHughes teen movies of the time, and Schumacher directed ''Film/StElmosFire'', which starred Lowe. It still doesn't explain Sam wearing a 'Born to Shop' T-shirt to bed, and some of his fashion choices aren't really justified by "it's the '80s". Maybe Sam's just a metrosexual ahead of his time?

* DudeNotFunny: Sam's reaction after Michael (fresh from joining David's group of vampires) makes a joke about their grandfather going on a date with the widow Johnson.

* {{Wacky Racing}}: Michael is challenges by David to a deadly motorcycle race, which Michael loses.

* BewareOfViciousDog: Paul is

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[[folder:"The Believer"]]
!!Niko Petropoulos

->'''Played by:''' Tim Capello

* AscendedExtra: Initially just a band leader in the movie, but in ''Comicbook/TheLostBoysTheLostGirl'' he gets a name, is revealed to be an amateur vampire slayer and tems up with Sam to fight the Blood Belles.
* {{Determinator}}: In case his song didn't make it clear, Niko still believes. Through the rain, through the tears, though the crowds and through the cheers, HE STILL BELIEVES!
-->I'll march this road\\
I'll climb this hill\\
Upon my knees if I have to\\
I'll take my place upon this stage\\
I'll wait 'till the end of time for you\\
Like everybody else!
* IncomingHam: FEEL THE POWER OF SAX ROCK!
* ManOfKryptonite: The Believer regularly anoints himself with holy oils so that vampires will burn if they even touch him.
* SexySaxMan: He's ridiculously muscular, covered in oils and when he sings and plays the saxophone he gyrates his pelvis.
[[/folder]]

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: David and his gang certainly think so. It's their main sales pitch to Michael.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: David and his friends ''revel'' in this mentality. It's pretty hard for security guards and other authoritative figures [[spoiler:except for [[BigBad Max]]]] to keep them from going wherever they want or doing whatever they want, since those people tend to go "missing" afterwards.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Gets impaled through the chest with a stake by the Frog brothers while he is sleeping upside down]].
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Marko and other Lost Boys certainly think so. It's their main sales pitch to Michael.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Marko and his friends ''revel'' in this mentality. It's pretty hard for security guards and other authoritative figures [[spoiler:except for [[BigBad Max]]]] to keep them from going wherever they want or doing whatever they want, since those people tend to go "missing" afterwards.
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: How Marko and the other Lost Boys lay waste to a group of punk rockers/skinheads having a beach bonfire party.
* TheQuietOne: Marko, has the least lines among all leading and supporting cast members - and by extension the four Lost Boys.

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Paul and other Lost Boys certainly think so. It's their main sales pitch to Michael.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Paul and his friends ''revel'' in this mentality. It's pretty hard for security guards and other authoritative figures [[spoiler:except for [[BigBad Max]]]] to keep them from going wherever they want or doing whatever they want, since those people tend to go "missing" afterwards.
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: How Paul and the other Lost Boys lay waste to a group of punk rockers/skinheads having a beach bonfire party.

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Dwayne and other Lost Boys certainly think so. It's their main sales pitch to Michael.
* PastimesProvePersonality: In the novelisation, it is said to be that he likes skateboarding.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Dwayne and his friends ''revel'' in this mentality. It's pretty hard for security guards and other authoritative figures [[spoiler:except for [[BigBad Max]]]] to keep them from going wherever they want or doing whatever they want, since those people tend to go "missing" afterwards.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: When the movie aired on network television, a scene of Michael pointing to a plant outside the window and miming smoking pot was removed, and "a God-damned shit-sucking vampire" lost not only the shit-sucking but also God. The shot of Michael's bleeding hand after Nanook bites him was removed, making it seem like he'd just been pushed out of the room by the dog. Oddly, however, every single bit of flying blood and violence at the bonfire slaughter was left intact.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Michael randomly lifting weights, Michael pointing out a pot bush outside the kitchen window to Sam and miming smoking a joint, the vamps flirting with the girl at the video shop, Marko holding the chopsticks between his teeth as he hands out the Chinese food.

* BreakingAndBloodsucking: Sam is hauling one of the creepy taxidermy animals into the closet. When he turns around, half-vampire Michael has suddenly appeared in the room by way of the second story window. After some arguing between the brothers, Star arrives, first yelling up to them from the ground, then suddenly floating in via the window.

* VampiresHateGarlic: After Sam, discovers Michael is a vampire, he began to sleep with his mother in her bed and with garlic around his neck.

* ItCameFromTheSink: Paul is pushed into a bathtub full of holy water, his blood begins coming out of all the pipes, including through the bathroom and kitchen sinks.

[[folder: Max]]

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:He may be the BigBad, but ignoring the "murderous vampire" part, he's just a lonely widower who wants a wife and mother for his boys]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: At first the BigBad seems to be David, the vampire pack leader trying to corrupt the main character into joining him, but it's revealed at the end that [[spoiler:he answers to Max, who wants Sam and Michael's entire family turned]].
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: [[spoiler: Max refers to the Lost Boys as "his boys" at the end in a tone that shows he saw them as his sons and it's heavily implied they saw him as a father figure, and he is saddened by their deaths and the two families together not being brought together.]]

** Max confuses the superstition of not seeing the bride before the marriage for being about not seeing the food before the meal. [[spoiler:He plans to make his intended "bride" (Lucy) into ''food.'']]
** [[spoiler:Max very formally requests permission to enter the house. Initially, it seems like an obvious giveaway that he's a vampire, but then he passes all the Frog brothers' vampire detection tests, confusing the issue until it's revealed him being invited in nullified the effects of the tests.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Max. A fence post destroys most of his torso, and he's flung backward several feet.]]
* MustBeInvited: Played with. [[spoiler:Vampires ''can'' enter a home uninvited, as seen during the climax, but if you invite them in first, you lose all power over them as long as they are inside your home -- which includes rendering them invulnerable to your attacks or attempts to exploit their weaknesses and expose them as vampires. Max uses this to trick the protagonists into thinking he's human]].
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Max comes within a hair's breadth of getting Lucy turned into a vampire before Grandpa intervenes.]]
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: [[spoiler: Max is a perfectly normal-seeming video store clerk who is really the head of a pack of vicious vampires.]]
* TomTheDarkLord: The head vampire who leads them in regular acts of shockingly brutal murder is simply named David. His friends have the similarly normal names of Marko, Paul, and Dwayne, and [[spoiler: their leader is Max]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: We can ''parent'' together, anyway. [[spoiler: Max believes his boys need a mother's influence, and that Lucy can provide it to them. He specifically told David to target her sons so that once they were turned, she couldn't refuse to be turned herself. His genuine and heartfelt ([[AnOfferYouCantRefuse albeit not-really-negotiable]]) offer is to make her his vampire bride so they can lead his vampire "family" as father and mother.]]

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* {{Flight}}: One of the vampires' abilities.

* {{Flight}}: One of the vampires' abilities.

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* {{Flight}}: One of the vampires' abilities.

* {{Beware of Vicious Dog}}: Nanook the husky, kills Paul by tackling him into the holy water-filled bathtub.
* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Paul was sincerely saddened at Marko's death.
* {{Flight}}: One of the vampires' abilities.

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* {{Flight}}: One of the vampires' abilities.

* VillainousFriendship: With Laddie. He refers to him as "bud", and helps Laddie get on his motorcycle, pointing to a friendship existing between the two.

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: How David and his buddies lay waste to a group of punk rockers/skinheads having a beach bonfire party.

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: How Dwayne and the other Lost Boys lay waste to a group of punk rockers/skinheads having a beach bonfire party.

* {{Vampire Hunter}}: The Frog Brothers committed to fighting bloodsuckers after exposure to horror comics due to their parents owning a comic book store.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:One of the vampires, Marko, gets impaled through the chest with a stake by the Frog brothers while he is sleeping upside down]].

* {{TheHeroes}}: The Frog Brothers are the main heroes of the film.

* {{Heroes}}: The Frog Brothers are the main heroes of the film.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Michael naturally has this toward Sam. Star also exhibits the big sister instinct toward Laddie, a young boy that the vampire gang kidnapped and started the process of turning into a vampire, as she wants to get him out of the gang with her, and protects him from the Frog brothers when they threaten to stake him. David attempts to be this to Michael. [[spoiler:It doesn't take]].

* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes go from their natural colour to golden-red when they transform into 'vampire mode'.
* {{Flight}}: One of the vampires' abilities.

* HangingByTheFingers: Michael is taunt by David and other Lost Boys until he joins them in dangling beneath a railroad bridge. The strain and vibrations of a passing train cause his fingers to lose grip, and he slips more and more until he finally falls.

* IAteWhat: Michael is tricked into drinking blood by prior illusions that make it look like his Chinese food is worms one minute, noodles the next, and again with rice/maggots [[note]]it's left somewhat ambiguous which is the illusion and which is real[[/note]]. By the time that he's told that the red beverage in the bottle is blood, he doesn't believe anything he hears.

* {{The Moving Experience}}: Michael lived in Phoenix, Arizona with his younger brother Sam, where they lived until the divorce of their parents. Michael and Sam moved with Lucy to the coastal community of Santa Carla, California to live with their Grandpa because they were flat broke.

* {{Attack on the Heart}}: Sam with his crossbow, kill Dwayne by impaling him into the radio.

* {{The Moving Experience}}:Sam lived in Phoenix, Arizona with his older brother Michael, where they lived until the divorce of their parents. Sam and Michael moved with Lucy to the coastal community of Santa Carla, California to live with their Grandpa because they were flat broke.
* VampiresHateGarlic: After Sam, discovers Michael is a Vampire, he began to sleep with his mother in her bed and with garlic around his neck.

* {{Divorce Is Temporary}}: Lucy and her husband began having fights, and soon Lucy divorced him. Because of financial troubles accompanying the divorce.

* {{The Moving Experience}}: Lucy packed up and took her sons with her from Phoenix, Arizona, to live with her eccentric, widowed father in Santa Carla, California.

* HypnoticEyes: Vampires apparently have this power, but the only time it's used is when David makes Michael see Chinese takeout as maggots and worms.

* {{Wacky Racing}}: David challenges Michael to a deadly motorcycle race, which Michael loses.

* TheQuietOne: Marko, has the fewest lines among all leading and supporting cast members. At the same time, he has the least dialogue of the four vampire Lost Boys.

* TokenGoodTeammate: According to the novelization, Star finds Paul the most approachable of the Lost Boys; he was the most recently turned before she and Laddie joined, and he's always trying to cheer her up with humor.

* {{Attack on the Heart}}: He was shot in the chest with arrow by Sam (presumably near the heart) and was thrown and pinned into the stereo, where he got electrocuted until he exploded.

* PastimesProvePersonality: In the novelization, it was said to be that he likes skateboarding.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Dwayne had with Laddie, he refers to him as "bud", and help Laddie on getting on his motorcycle, indicating friendship.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Sam. He has a poster of Creator/RobLowe in a provocative pose on his wall -- specifically, on the door to his ''[[VisualPun closet]]''. He also croons both the boy and girl verses from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXKGZo7RbE "I Ain't Got a Man"]] while taking a bubble bath. However, WordOfGod explains this in the commentary: the Rob Lowe and Creator/MollyRingwald posters in Sam's room were intended as a ShoutOut to the Creator/JohnHughes teen movies of the time, and Schumacher directed ''Film/StElmosFire'', which starred Lowe. It still doesn't explain Sam wearing a 'Born to Shop' T-shirt to bed, and some of his fashion choices aren't really justified by "it's the '80s". Maybe Sam's just a metrosexual ahead of his time?

* CarFu: With Grandpa's CoolCar, no less!

* CloudCuckoolander: Grandpa. Also, Edgar and Alan have shades of this, along with being ProperlyParanoid.

* BigBad: David is the leader of the Lost Boys, [[spoiler:but answers to Max]].

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: David is actually this to other Lost Boys.]]

* SequelHook: Subverted with [[spoiler:David's body never disintegrating]], because plans for a immediate sequel never came to fruition. Averted in ''The Tribe'' with the two unused alternate endings. See What Could Have Been under Trivia for more detail.

* {{Abusive Parents}}: In the novelization, She comments later that her father wished she'd never been born and her mother had almost killed her.

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Max]]. To some degree, David and the rest of the Lost Boys as well. David seems to honestly like Michael and see him as a friend and believes he's giving him a gift by making him a vampire, seeing his existence as a neverending party.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Max. He may be the BigBad, but ignoring the "murderous vampire" part, he's just a lonely widower who wants a wife and mother for his boys]].

* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: [[spoiler: Max refers to them as "his boys" at the end in a tone that shows he saw them as his sons and it's heavily implied they saw him as a father figure, and he is saddened by their deaths and the two families together not being brought together.]]

* {{Heroes}}: The Frog Brothers are the main heroes of the flim.

* VampiresHateGarlic: After Sam, discovers Michael is a Vampire, he began to sleep with his mother in bed and with garlic around his neck.

* VampiresHateGarlic: After Sam, discovers Michael is a Vampire, he began to sleep with his mother and garlic around his neck.

VampiresHateGarlic: After Sam, discovers Michael is a Vampire, he began to sleep with his mother and garlic around his neck.