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* DeathGlare: A literal example. Whenever her face is revealed through her long stringy hair, only one of her eyes is seen which is enough to kill anyone who looks back at it.
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* DeathGlare: A literal example. Whenever her face is revealed through her long stringy hair, only one of her eyes is seen which is enough to kill anyone who looks back at it.her.
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* StringyHairedGhostGirlStringyHairedGhostGirl: The one and only TropeCodifier, Samara established this trope as an iconic kind of ghost.
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* IntrepidReporter: After her sister asks her to look into Katie's death, she dives in head first in trying to find out what happened to her niece, and later what happened to Samara, in an attempt to break the curse.
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* IntrepidReporter: After her sister Ruth asks her to look into Katie's death, she dives in head first in trying to find out what happened to her niece, and later what happened to Samara, in an attempt to break the curse.
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!!Ruth Embry
->'''Played By:''' Creator/LindsayFrost
* CoolAunt: In spite of her grieving Katie, she still agrees to watch over Aiden while Rachel goes off to discover what happened to Samara, on her last day.
* IncitingIncident: She asks Rachel to investigate what happened to Katie, which is what sets off Rachel and Aiden getting involved with the Morgan family trauma.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her being in mourning over Katie is what gives Rachel the drive to find out what to her niece, to help Ruth through her grief.
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!!Ruth Embry
->'''Played By:''' Creator/LindsayFrost
* CoolAunt: In spite of her grieving Katie, she still agrees to watch over Aiden while Rachel goes off to discover what happened to Samara, on her last day.
* IncitingIncident: She asks Rachel to investigate what happened to Katie, which is what sets off Rachel and Aiden getting involved with the Morgan family trauma.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her being in mourning over Katie is what gives Rachel the drive to find out what to her niece, to help Ruth through her grief.
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* PsychicNosebleed: Her influence on those marked with her curse can manifest these. Rachel, while finding she can pull things from Samara's tape into physical reality begins to bleed from her nostrils, and Aiden while explaining to Rachel that Samara is evil and setting her free from the well was a mistake, begins bleeding profusely from his nose.
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* DeathGlare: A literal example. Whenever her face is revealed through her long stringy hair, only one of her eyes is seen which is enough to kill anyone who looks back at it.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Is barefoot at the prologue, in contrast to Becca, who kept her shoes and kneesocks on.
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: When she was still alive, she had milky skin, long dark hair and was a CreepyChild.
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* TragicVillain: Heavily hinted that the relationship between Samara and her foster parents was anything but a loving one. [[TheDogBitesBack She repaid the favor]] [[MindRape by making their]] [[EnfanteTerrible lives a living hell]]
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* TragicVillain: Heavily hinted that the relationship between Samara and her foster parents was anything but a loving one. [[TheDogBitesBack She repaid the favor]] [[MindRape by making their]] [[EnfanteTerrible lives a living hell]]hell.]]
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* PapaWolfPapaWolf: While the two barely have a relationship [[spoiler:he goes into double overdrive in helping Rachel, after learning Aiden watched the tape.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: [[spoiler:He openly acknowledges to his son he wasn't father material when Aiden was born, but he does care about him, and will move heaven and hell to keep him safe. After helping Rachel investigate Samara, he seems ready to finally connect to Aiden, who is willingly reciprocal. Unfortunately his 7 days run out...]]
* ParentsAsPeople: [[spoiler:He openly acknowledges to his son he wasn't father material when Aiden was born, but he does care about him, and will move heaven and hell to keep him safe. After helping Rachel investigate Samara, he seems ready to finally connect to Aiden, who is willingly reciprocal. Unfortunately his 7 days run out...]]
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* BigSisterInstinct: To help prepare him for losing her, she told Aiden her seven days were almost up.
-->'''Rachel''': Katie said she was going die?\\
'''Aiden''': She told me, she didn't have enough time.
-->'''Rachel''': Katie said she was going die?\\
'''Aiden''': She told me, she didn't have enough time.
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* CreepyChild
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* CreepyChildCreepyChild: One of the TropeCodifier, what with the long stringy hair, the quiet voice and the dirty dress. Oh yeah, and that she was able to make a killer video tape after being killed by her mother.
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* EvilAllAlong: Despite her innocent facade, she simply is an evil little girl, who wants to ensure that the world suffers.
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* CoolAunt: According to her sister, Katie was close with Rachel and confided things in her that she wouldn't have with her mother.
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* CoolBigSis: From the all photo's of the two of them we see that Katie and Aidan were incredibly close, and that Aidan thought the world of her, making her death and his depression because of it all the more tragic.
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* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:In ''The Ring 2'', when Samara has fully taken over Aidan's body, the only way to subdue her and drive her out of her son is by nearly killing him. Which Rachel accomplishes by taking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and lacing it with enough pills to horrify the audience.]]
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* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:In ''The Ring 2'', Two'', when Samara has fully taken over Aidan's body, the only way to subdue her and drive her out of her son is by nearly killing him. Which Rachel accomplishes by taking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and lacing it with enough pills to horrify the audience.]]
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* ParentalAbandonment: It's strongly hinted that Rachel's focus on her career takes her away from Aidan, resulting in her being in the dark about his anxieties (if not outright dismissive) and going to parent-teacher meetings only out of obligation. This changes A LOT by the second film, specifically seeking out a smaller newspaper so she can spend more time with her son.
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* ParentalAbandonment: It's strongly hinted that Rachel's focus on her career takes her away from Aidan, resulting in her being in the dark about his anxieties (if not outright dismissive) and going to parent-teacher meetings only out of obligation. This changes A LOT by the second film, specifically seeking out a smaller newspaper so she can spend more time with her son.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Surprisingly does this a lot in the series. Aidan calls her out when she reveals she freed Samara's body from the well, but he never told her before that she can never be at peace so he shares this trope.
** Rachel unleashes the tape onto an unsuspecting world, causing the events in ''Rings''.
** And again in the second film when she seals Samara in the well.
** Rachel unleashes the tape onto an unsuspecting world, causing the events in ''Rings''.
** And again in the second film when she seals Samara in the well.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Surprisingly does this a lot in the series. Aidan calls her out when she reveals she freed Samara's body from the well, but he never told her before that she can never be at peace so he shares this trope.
** Rachel unleashes the tape onto an unsuspecting world, causing the events in ''Rings''.
** And again in the second film when she seals Samara in thewell.
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* PeekABooCorpse: Perhaps one of the [[NightmareFuel scariest images of the film]] is when Kaite's mum Ruth opens a closet and finds Katie's body with a deformed face. The fright is not from the corpse but from the sudden appearance of the imagery.
** Katie's facial fate is hinted at in the final frames of the opening scene when the camera zooms at her face - it distorts.
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* PeekABooCorpse: Perhaps one of the [[NightmareFuel scariest images of the film]] is when Kaite's mum Ruth opens a closet and finds Katie's body with a deformed face. The fright is not from the corpse but from the sudden appearance of the imagery.
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* CompositeCharacter: Obviously based on Sadako, but also on her evil twin from ''Ring 0''.
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* HumanoidAbomination: see HalfHumanHybrid. Aside from that she's got PsychicPowers that are borderline RealityWarper in scale. The power she possesses is so intense that she can MindRape people just by being in proximity to her.
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-->'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurt anyone.
-->'''Samara''': [[PowerIncontinence But I do]] [hurt people], and I'm ''sorry'' it won't stop.\\
Later, Rachel remembers the video with a slight change in tone:
-->'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurt anyone.
-->'''Samara''': But I ''[[ForTheEvulz do]]'' [want to]... And it ''won't stop''.
-->'''Samara''': [[PowerIncontinence But I do]] [hurt people], and I'm ''sorry'' it won't stop.\\
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-->'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurt anyone.
-->'''Samara''': But I ''[[ForTheEvulz do]]'' [want to]... And it ''won't stop''.
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-->'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurt anyone.
-->'''Samara''': [[PowerIncontinence But I do]] [hurt people], and I'm ''sorry'' it won't stop.anyone.\\
'''Samara''': [[PowerIncontinence But I do]] [hurt people], and I'm ''sorry'' it won't stop.\\
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'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurtanyone.
-->'''Samara''':anyone.\\
'''Samara''': But I ''[[ForTheEvulz do]]'' [want to]... And it ''won't stop''.
-->'''Samara''': [[PowerIncontinence But I do]] [hurt people], and I'm ''sorry'' it won't stop.
'''Samara''': [[PowerIncontinence But I do]] [hurt people], and I'm ''sorry'' it won't stop.\\
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'''Samara''': But I ''[[ForTheEvulz do]]'' [want to]... And it ''won't stop''.
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* MakingASplash: Samara is so terrified of water, she can subconsciously use her powers to repel it high into the air --only for it to come splashing down when her focus is removed.
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* [[CoolHorse Cool Horses]]: The Morgans' famous racing horses made them famous. Then they killed themselves, making them even more famous.
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* [[CoolHorse Cool Horses]]: {{Cool Horse}}s: The Morgans' famous racing horses made them famous. Then they killed themselves, making them even more famous.
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* RedHerring: That Richard killed Samara, when in fact Anna did. In-universe example: Rachel believes Anna may have made the cursed video, when it was actually created by Samara.
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* RedHerring: That Richard killed Samara, when in fact Anna did. In-universe example: Rachel believes Anna may have made the cursed video, when it was actually created by Samara.
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* [[CoolHorse Cool Horses]]: The Morgans' famous racing horses made them famous. Then they killed themselves, making them even more famous.
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* RedHerring: That Richard killed Samara, when in fact Anna did. In-universe example: Rachel believes Anna may have made the cursed video, when it was actually created by Samara.
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* RedHerring: That Richard killed Samara, when in fact Anna did. In-universe example: Rachel believes Anna may have made the cursed video, when it was actually created by Samara.
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* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion]]: [[spoiler: He's killed so that Rachel knows the curse isn't over]].
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* YankTheDogsChain: Samara possesses Aidan and finally has her wish granted, to be loved by a mother, in this case Rachel. That is until Rachel drugs her and then exorcises her from her son in a bath, before sealing her again in the well. Nice, really nice. Any wonder many people [[{{Sequelitis}} hate the sequel?]]
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* YankTheDogsChain: Samara possesses Aidan and finally has her wish granted, to be loved by a mother, in this case Rachel. That is until Rachel drugs her and then exorcises her from her son in a bath, before sealing her again in the well. Nice, really nice. Any wonder many people [[{{Sequelitis}} hate the sequel?]]
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->'''Played By:''' Martin Henderson
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* VillainousBreakdown: Richard ("MY WIFE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A CHILD!")
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Is barefoot at the prologue, in contrast to Becca, who kept her shoes and kneesocks on.
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* BadassNormalBigNo: After she discovers Aiden watching the tape.
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* NecessarilyEvil: In ''The Ring 2'', [[spoiler:when Samara has fully taken over Aidan's body, the only way to subdue her and drive her out of her son is by nearly killing him]]. Which Rachel accomplishes by taking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and [[spoiler:lacing it with enough pills to horrify the audience]].
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* NecessarilyEvil: In [[spoiler:In ''The Ring 2'', [[spoiler:when when Samara has fully taken over Aidan's body, the only way to subdue her and drive her out of her son is by nearly killing him]]. him. Which Rachel accomplishes by taking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and [[spoiler:lacing lacing it with enough pills to horrify the audience]].audience.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By destroying Samara's tape, Rachel frees Samara to do more damage in the world.]]
* OneHourWorkWeek: Her office hours are pretty irregular; it isn't too jarring considering she's a journalist, and her domineering personality.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By destroying Samara's tape, Rachel frees Samara to do more damage in the world.]]
* OneHourWorkWeek: Her office hours are pretty irregular; it isn't too jarring considering she's a journalist, and her domineering personality.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:In the second film, when she kicks Samara down the well.]]
-->''"I'm not your ''fucking'' mommy!"''
* PsychicNosebleed: One of the symptoms of being contaminated by the tape.
* ShowerOfAngst: She takes one in the first film.
-->''"I'm not your ''fucking'' mommy!"''
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!The Keller-Embry Family
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!!Rachel Keller
->'''Played By:''' Creator/NaomiWatts
* ActionMom
* BadassNormal
* {{Expy}}: Of Reiko Asakawa.
* FalseReassurance: She tells Aidan that they did nothing wrong when they sent Samara's tape out into the public.
* [[GoodParents Good Parent]]: To Aidan, yes. To Samara, no.
* HeroicBSOD: When she finds [[spoiler: Noah's corpse.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: In the second film, Rachel allows Samara to drag her into the tape's monochromatic world to protect Aidan. She escapes though after sealing Samara in the well.
* HotScoop
* IntrepidReporter
* MamaBear
* NecessarilyEvil: In ''The Ring 2'', [[spoiler:when Samara has fully taken over Aidan's body, the only way to subdue her and drive her out of her son is by nearly killing him]]. Which Rachel accomplishes by taking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and [[spoiler:lacing it with enough pills to horrify the audience]].
* ParentalAbandonment: It's strongly hinted that Rachel's focus on her career takes her away from Aidan, resulting in her being in the dark about his anxieties (if not outright dismissive) and going to parent-teacher meetings only out of obligation. This changes A LOT by the second film, specifically seeking out a smaller newspaper so she can spend more time with her son.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Granted, the Curse is hardly believable as it is, but she only has herself to blame when the lack of reasonable explanation for her actions in the second film gets Child Protection Services on her head.
* WhatTheHellHero: Surprisingly does this a lot in the series. Aidan calls her out when she reveals she freed Samara's body from the well, but he never told her before that she can never be at peace so he shares this trope.
** Rachel unleashes the tape onto an unsuspecting world, causing the events in ''Rings''.
** And again in the second film when she seals Samara in the well.
* WorkingWithTheEx: With Noah, who was her boyfriend for a time until they had Aidan.
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!!Aidan Keller
->'''Played By:''' David Dorfman
* CreepyChild: On par with Samara, and it becomes worse when she possesses him.
* DemonicPossession: At the hands of Samara, who appears behind him in ''The Ring Two'' in a public bathroom and approaches him with each photo he takes of himself in a mirror.
* {{Expy}}: Of Yoichi Asakawa.
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: He drew many unsettling sketches of his cousin Katie buried deep underground (or even underwater) in the run up to her death. After watching the tape, his artistic focus changes to Samara's house, the inside of the well, and progressively obsessive drawings of circles.
* PromotionToParent: Rachel's parenting and Noah's absence have forced him to take this role.
* PsychicPowers
* SpiderSense
* PoorCommunicationKills: He never volunteers any information on his visions, it has to be Rachel who asks him about them after his behavior or drawings tip her off. It's only after Rachel frees Samara from the well that he tells her she will continue to kill people.
* WhatTheHellHero: He's the one to break this to Rachel.
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!!Katie Embry
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AmberTamblyn
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Katie draws sketches of images in her head in her work book, eventually writing "Why is this in my head!?"
** She also scribbled "hair" over the faces in a fashion magazine, making all the models look like Samara.
* PeekABooCorpse: Perhaps one of the [[NightmareFuel scariest images of the film]] is when Kaite's mum Ruth opens a closet and finds Katie's body with a deformed face. The fright is not from the corpse but from the sudden appearance of the imagery.
** Katie's facial fate is hinted at in the final frames of the opening scene when the camera zooms at her face - it distorts.
* VictimOfTheWeek: Katie fills this along with three others, or four if you count Becca as witnessing her death.
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!!Samara Morgan
->'''Played By:''' Daveigh Chase
* AbusiveParents: Richard Morgan banished her to the ranch barn. Her biological and adoptive mother tried to drown her.
* AffablyEvil: This is debatable, even though she is an eight-year old girl.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Her version of the cursed videotape which is as twice as long as Sadako's and twice as terrifying.
* BreakTheCutie: It doesn't appear to take long. She makes verbal threats about her future rage against the world.
* CreepyChild
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Samara was nearly drowned by her birth mother Evelyn, and then received even more misery at the Morgan Ranch thanks to her uncontrolled powers. She was locked in the barn by her father, and took her frustration out on her mother's beloved horses by driving them to suicide. She was eventually tossed down a well by Anna.
* DemonicPossession: Possesses Aidan and fails to act like him when in Rachel's company.
* {{Expy}}: Obviously based on Sadako, but also on her evil twin from ''Ring 0''.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half human, half [[EldritchAbomination something else]], according to her birth mother.
* HumanoidAbomination: see HalfHumanHybrid. Aside from that she's got PsychicPowers that are borderline RealityWarper in scale. The power she possesses is so intense that she can MindRape people just by being in proximity to her.
* IronicEcho: Rachel watches an interview from the mental institution:
-->'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurt anyone.
-->'''Samara''': [[PowerIncontinence But I do]] [hurt people], and I'm ''sorry'' it won't stop.\\
Later, Rachel remembers the video with a slight change in tone:
-->'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurt anyone.
-->'''Samara''': But I ''[[ForTheEvulz do]]'' [want to]... And it ''won't stop''.
* IronicNurseryTune: "[[{{Leitmotif}} Here we go, the world is spinning, when it stops, it's just beginning. Sun goes up, we live and we cry, Sun goes down, and then we all die.]]"
* MadnessMantra: [[VoiceOfTheLegion "Mommy!"]]
* MakingASplash: Samara is so terrified of water, she can subconsciously use her powers to repel it high into the air --only for it to come splashing down when her focus is removed.
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Unwittingly made on X-ray plaques with her PsychicPowers. Like any other child, she likes images of horsies and trees, but the images themselves are horrifying.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* PowerIncontinence: Even before birth, she possessed PsychicPowers that exceeded her ability to control. Anyone who came close to her, man or beast, suffered horrendous hallucinations just from her being there.
* PsychicPowers: Samara has uncontrollably nensha powers, which allow her to burn images onto surfaces and into people's minds.
* SealedEvilInACan: Trapped in a well by Anna Morgan. Suffered the same fate as a ghost in ''The Ring Two''.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl
* TragicVillain: Heavily hinted that the relationship between Samara and her foster parents was anything but a loving one. [[TheDogBitesBack She repaid the favor]] [[MindRape by making their]] [[EnfanteTerrible lives a living hell]]
* WomanInWhite
* {{Yandere}}: A non-romantic example in ''The Ring Two''. Samara considers Rachel to be a surrogate mother [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe because she was nice to her in the first movie]], and [[DemonicPossession nothing is going]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse to stop them from]] [[IfICantHaveYou being a happy family]].
* YankTheDogsChain: Samara possesses Aidan and finally has her wish granted, to be loved by a mother, in this case Rachel. That is until Rachel drugs her and then exorcises her from her son in a bath, before sealing her again in the well. Nice, really nice. Any wonder many people [[{{Sequelitis}} hate the sequel?]]
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!!Anna Morgan
->'''Played By:''' Shannon Cochran
* [[CoolHorse Cool Horses]]: The Morgans' famous racing horses made them famous. Then they killed themselves, making them even more famous.
* DownOnTheFarm: Make that horse ranch.
* DrivenToSuicide: Pretty much everyone in the family save Samara. Anna leapt off a cliff, Richard electrocuted himself in a bathtub, and the family horses leapt off cliffs thanks to Samara.
* {{Expy}}: Anna is the equivalent of Shizuko Yamamura.
* MirrorScare: A scene on the tape depicts Anna brushing her hair and the mirror is moved about telekinetically by Samara, lifted straight out of the Japanese films.
* RedHerring: That Richard killed Samara, when in fact Anna did. In-universe example: Rachel believes Anna may have made the cursed video, when it was actually created by Samara.
* VillainousBreakdown: Richard ("MY WIFE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A CHILD!")
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Richard]]
!!Richard Morgan
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BrianCox
* AbusiveParents: Richard in particular, forcing Samara to live in the barn and prefers the horses to her.
* BathSuicide: Richard kills himself via electrocution in a bath. It's not a pretty sight.
* [[CoolHorse Cool Horses]]: The Morgans' famous racing horses made them famous. Then they killed themselves, making them even more famous.
* DownOnTheFarm: Make that horse ranch.
* DrivenToSuicide: Pretty much everyone in the family save Samara. Anna leapt off a cliff, Richard electrocuted himself in a bathtub, and the family horses leapt off cliffs thanks to Samara.
* ElectrifiedBathtub
* FalseReassurance: Richard tries to pull this on Rachel when she asks about the existence of Samara and the tape.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As soon as Rachel reveals she's made a copy of the tape, Richard realizes that killing her right then and there with a hook won't keep the curse from spreading.
* IronicEcho: When Richard refers to all reporters (and Rachel in particular) as unable to leave well enough alone, "spreading the sickness" via their investigations. Which is exactly what Rachel did with Samara's curse.
* LivingRelic: Richard after losing his family and quitting his business.
* RedHerring: That Richard killed Samara, when in fact Anna did. In-universe example: Rachel believes Anna may have made the cursed video, when it was actually created by Samara.
* VillainousBreakdown: Richard ("MY WIFE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A CHILD!")
[[/folder]]
!Other Characters
[[folder:Evelyn]]
!!Evelyn
->'''Played By:''' Sissy Spacek & Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead
* BedlamHouse
** Her younger self is played by Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead.
* MadnessMantra: The melody she hums to herself, which is [[{{Leitmotif}} the American series' theme tune]].
* ParentalAbandonment
* PassingTheTorch: Evelyn asks Rachel to out away her child since she failed to in the past.
* PatronSaint: According to an orderly at the asylum, Evelyn is visited by young mothers for guidance.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Noah]]
!!Noah Clay
->'''Played By:''' Martin Henderson
* BadassNormal
* IndyPloy: He's very resourceful at getting what he wants.
* LighterAndSofter: He couldn't be more different from Ryuji if he tried. Unfortunately, this also extends to his investigative skills.
* PapaWolf
* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion]]: [[spoiler: He's killed so that Rachel knows the curse isn't over]].
* TechnoWizard
* WorkingWithTheEx: Noah works with Rachel. They seem to rekindle their old flame in the process.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Max]]
!!Max Rourke
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SimonBaker
* DaEditor
* {{Expy}}: Appears to be the American equivalent of Okazaki.
* InnocentBystander: He is killed by Samara when he tries to record her on camera.
* IntrepidReporter
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Becca]]
!!Rebecca "Becca" Kotler
->'''Played By:''' Rachel Bella
* BedlamHouse: Poor Becca ends up in one after seeing Samara kill Katie, and has a fear of televisions.
* PowerBornOfMadness: Becca appears to gain some form of PsychicPowers, predicting the number of days Rachel has to live.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ring Groups]]
!!The Ring Groups
After Rachel released the tape into the public, copies were made among teenager groups, creating a teenage cult called "Rings" as seen in the short film of the same name. These [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Secret Circles of Secrets]] involve about five people, each person watching the tape to see how long they can last with the supernatural symptoms of the curse, whilst recording what they see. If they panic or give up, they can pass the tape to the next member, and so on. Very few rings have seen anyone get beyond Day 7, and the Astorian Ring seem very determined to do that, particularly with their newest member Jake.
* AssholeVictim: Subverted for Jake, who desperately tries to trick his friend Emily to watch the tape only for her to close her eyes when watching it.
* {{Cult}}
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Vanessa really wants to see the outcome of Day 7, regardless of who gets sacrificied.
* LoveHurts: Jake's crush on Vanessa leads to his involvement with the tape and to his fate at the beginning of ''The Ring Two''.
* SecretCircleOfSecrets
[[/folder]]
!The Keller-Embry Family
[[folder:Rachel]]
!!Rachel Keller
->'''Played By:''' Creator/NaomiWatts
* ActionMom
* BadassNormal
* {{Expy}}: Of Reiko Asakawa.
* FalseReassurance: She tells Aidan that they did nothing wrong when they sent Samara's tape out into the public.
* [[GoodParents Good Parent]]: To Aidan, yes. To Samara, no.
* HeroicBSOD: When she finds [[spoiler: Noah's corpse.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: In the second film, Rachel allows Samara to drag her into the tape's monochromatic world to protect Aidan. She escapes though after sealing Samara in the well.
* HotScoop
* IntrepidReporter
* MamaBear
* NecessarilyEvil: In ''The Ring 2'', [[spoiler:when Samara has fully taken over Aidan's body, the only way to subdue her and drive her out of her son is by nearly killing him]]. Which Rachel accomplishes by taking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and [[spoiler:lacing it with enough pills to horrify the audience]].
* ParentalAbandonment: It's strongly hinted that Rachel's focus on her career takes her away from Aidan, resulting in her being in the dark about his anxieties (if not outright dismissive) and going to parent-teacher meetings only out of obligation. This changes A LOT by the second film, specifically seeking out a smaller newspaper so she can spend more time with her son.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Granted, the Curse is hardly believable as it is, but she only has herself to blame when the lack of reasonable explanation for her actions in the second film gets Child Protection Services on her head.
* WhatTheHellHero: Surprisingly does this a lot in the series. Aidan calls her out when she reveals she freed Samara's body from the well, but he never told her before that she can never be at peace so he shares this trope.
** Rachel unleashes the tape onto an unsuspecting world, causing the events in ''Rings''.
** And again in the second film when she seals Samara in the well.
* WorkingWithTheEx: With Noah, who was her boyfriend for a time until they had Aidan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Aiden]]
!!Aidan Keller
->'''Played By:''' David Dorfman
* CreepyChild: On par with Samara, and it becomes worse when she possesses him.
* DemonicPossession: At the hands of Samara, who appears behind him in ''The Ring Two'' in a public bathroom and approaches him with each photo he takes of himself in a mirror.
* {{Expy}}: Of Yoichi Asakawa.
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: He drew many unsettling sketches of his cousin Katie buried deep underground (or even underwater) in the run up to her death. After watching the tape, his artistic focus changes to Samara's house, the inside of the well, and progressively obsessive drawings of circles.
* PromotionToParent: Rachel's parenting and Noah's absence have forced him to take this role.
* PsychicPowers
* SpiderSense
* PoorCommunicationKills: He never volunteers any information on his visions, it has to be Rachel who asks him about them after his behavior or drawings tip her off. It's only after Rachel frees Samara from the well that he tells her she will continue to kill people.
* WhatTheHellHero: He's the one to break this to Rachel.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Katie]]
!!Katie Embry
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AmberTamblyn
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Katie draws sketches of images in her head in her work book, eventually writing "Why is this in my head!?"
** She also scribbled "hair" over the faces in a fashion magazine, making all the models look like Samara.
* PeekABooCorpse: Perhaps one of the [[NightmareFuel scariest images of the film]] is when Kaite's mum Ruth opens a closet and finds Katie's body with a deformed face. The fright is not from the corpse but from the sudden appearance of the imagery.
** Katie's facial fate is hinted at in the final frames of the opening scene when the camera zooms at her face - it distorts.
* VictimOfTheWeek: Katie fills this along with three others, or four if you count Becca as witnessing her death.
[[/folder]]
!Moesko Island
[[folder:Samara]]
!!Samara Morgan
->'''Played By:''' Daveigh Chase
* AbusiveParents: Richard Morgan banished her to the ranch barn. Her biological and adoptive mother tried to drown her.
* AffablyEvil: This is debatable, even though she is an eight-year old girl.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Her version of the cursed videotape which is as twice as long as Sadako's and twice as terrifying.
* BreakTheCutie: It doesn't appear to take long. She makes verbal threats about her future rage against the world.
* CreepyChild
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Samara was nearly drowned by her birth mother Evelyn, and then received even more misery at the Morgan Ranch thanks to her uncontrolled powers. She was locked in the barn by her father, and took her frustration out on her mother's beloved horses by driving them to suicide. She was eventually tossed down a well by Anna.
* DemonicPossession: Possesses Aidan and fails to act like him when in Rachel's company.
* {{Expy}}: Obviously based on Sadako, but also on her evil twin from ''Ring 0''.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half human, half [[EldritchAbomination something else]], according to her birth mother.
* HumanoidAbomination: see HalfHumanHybrid. Aside from that she's got PsychicPowers that are borderline RealityWarper in scale. The power she possesses is so intense that she can MindRape people just by being in proximity to her.
* IronicEcho: Rachel watches an interview from the mental institution:
-->'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurt anyone.
-->'''Samara''': [[PowerIncontinence But I do]] [hurt people], and I'm ''sorry'' it won't stop.\\
Later, Rachel remembers the video with a slight change in tone:
-->'''Psychiatrist''': You don't want to hurt anyone.
-->'''Samara''': But I ''[[ForTheEvulz do]]'' [want to]... And it ''won't stop''.
* IronicNurseryTune: "[[{{Leitmotif}} Here we go, the world is spinning, when it stops, it's just beginning. Sun goes up, we live and we cry, Sun goes down, and then we all die.]]"
* MadnessMantra: [[VoiceOfTheLegion "Mommy!"]]
* MakingASplash: Samara is so terrified of water, she can subconsciously use her powers to repel it high into the air --only for it to come splashing down when her focus is removed.
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Unwittingly made on X-ray plaques with her PsychicPowers. Like any other child, she likes images of horsies and trees, but the images themselves are horrifying.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* PowerIncontinence: Even before birth, she possessed PsychicPowers that exceeded her ability to control. Anyone who came close to her, man or beast, suffered horrendous hallucinations just from her being there.
* PsychicPowers: Samara has uncontrollably nensha powers, which allow her to burn images onto surfaces and into people's minds.
* SealedEvilInACan: Trapped in a well by Anna Morgan. Suffered the same fate as a ghost in ''The Ring Two''.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl
* TragicVillain: Heavily hinted that the relationship between Samara and her foster parents was anything but a loving one. [[TheDogBitesBack She repaid the favor]] [[MindRape by making their]] [[EnfanteTerrible lives a living hell]]
* WomanInWhite
* {{Yandere}}: A non-romantic example in ''The Ring Two''. Samara considers Rachel to be a surrogate mother [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe because she was nice to her in the first movie]], and [[DemonicPossession nothing is going]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse to stop them from]] [[IfICantHaveYou being a happy family]].
* YankTheDogsChain: Samara possesses Aidan and finally has her wish granted, to be loved by a mother, in this case Rachel. That is until Rachel drugs her and then exorcises her from her son in a bath, before sealing her again in the well. Nice, really nice. Any wonder many people [[{{Sequelitis}} hate the sequel?]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Anna]]
!!Anna Morgan
->'''Played By:''' Shannon Cochran
* [[CoolHorse Cool Horses]]: The Morgans' famous racing horses made them famous. Then they killed themselves, making them even more famous.
* DownOnTheFarm: Make that horse ranch.
* DrivenToSuicide: Pretty much everyone in the family save Samara. Anna leapt off a cliff, Richard electrocuted himself in a bathtub, and the family horses leapt off cliffs thanks to Samara.
* {{Expy}}: Anna is the equivalent of Shizuko Yamamura.
* MirrorScare: A scene on the tape depicts Anna brushing her hair and the mirror is moved about telekinetically by Samara, lifted straight out of the Japanese films.
* RedHerring: That Richard killed Samara, when in fact Anna did. In-universe example: Rachel believes Anna may have made the cursed video, when it was actually created by Samara.
* VillainousBreakdown: Richard ("MY WIFE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A CHILD!")
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Richard]]
!!Richard Morgan
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BrianCox
* AbusiveParents: Richard in particular, forcing Samara to live in the barn and prefers the horses to her.
* BathSuicide: Richard kills himself via electrocution in a bath. It's not a pretty sight.
* [[CoolHorse Cool Horses]]: The Morgans' famous racing horses made them famous. Then they killed themselves, making them even more famous.
* DownOnTheFarm: Make that horse ranch.
* DrivenToSuicide: Pretty much everyone in the family save Samara. Anna leapt off a cliff, Richard electrocuted himself in a bathtub, and the family horses leapt off cliffs thanks to Samara.
* ElectrifiedBathtub
* FalseReassurance: Richard tries to pull this on Rachel when she asks about the existence of Samara and the tape.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As soon as Rachel reveals she's made a copy of the tape, Richard realizes that killing her right then and there with a hook won't keep the curse from spreading.
* IronicEcho: When Richard refers to all reporters (and Rachel in particular) as unable to leave well enough alone, "spreading the sickness" via their investigations. Which is exactly what Rachel did with Samara's curse.
* LivingRelic: Richard after losing his family and quitting his business.
* RedHerring: That Richard killed Samara, when in fact Anna did. In-universe example: Rachel believes Anna may have made the cursed video, when it was actually created by Samara.
* VillainousBreakdown: Richard ("MY WIFE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A CHILD!")
[[/folder]]
!Other Characters
[[folder:Evelyn]]
!!Evelyn
->'''Played By:''' Sissy Spacek & Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead
* BedlamHouse
** Her younger self is played by Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead.
* MadnessMantra: The melody she hums to herself, which is [[{{Leitmotif}} the American series' theme tune]].
* ParentalAbandonment
* PassingTheTorch: Evelyn asks Rachel to out away her child since she failed to in the past.
* PatronSaint: According to an orderly at the asylum, Evelyn is visited by young mothers for guidance.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Noah]]
!!Noah Clay
->'''Played By:''' Martin Henderson
* BadassNormal
* IndyPloy: He's very resourceful at getting what he wants.
* LighterAndSofter: He couldn't be more different from Ryuji if he tried. Unfortunately, this also extends to his investigative skills.
* PapaWolf
* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion]]: [[spoiler: He's killed so that Rachel knows the curse isn't over]].
* TechnoWizard
* WorkingWithTheEx: Noah works with Rachel. They seem to rekindle their old flame in the process.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Max]]
!!Max Rourke
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SimonBaker
* DaEditor
* {{Expy}}: Appears to be the American equivalent of Okazaki.
* InnocentBystander: He is killed by Samara when he tries to record her on camera.
* IntrepidReporter
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Becca]]
!!Rebecca "Becca" Kotler
->'''Played By:''' Rachel Bella
* BedlamHouse: Poor Becca ends up in one after seeing Samara kill Katie, and has a fear of televisions.
* PowerBornOfMadness: Becca appears to gain some form of PsychicPowers, predicting the number of days Rachel has to live.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ring Groups]]
!!The Ring Groups
After Rachel released the tape into the public, copies were made among teenager groups, creating a teenage cult called "Rings" as seen in the short film of the same name. These [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Secret Circles of Secrets]] involve about five people, each person watching the tape to see how long they can last with the supernatural symptoms of the curse, whilst recording what they see. If they panic or give up, they can pass the tape to the next member, and so on. Very few rings have seen anyone get beyond Day 7, and the Astorian Ring seem very determined to do that, particularly with their newest member Jake.
* AssholeVictim: Subverted for Jake, who desperately tries to trick his friend Emily to watch the tape only for her to close her eyes when watching it.
* {{Cult}}
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Vanessa really wants to see the outcome of Day 7, regardless of who gets sacrificied.
* LoveHurts: Jake's crush on Vanessa leads to his involvement with the tape and to his fate at the beginning of ''The Ring Two''.
* SecretCircleOfSecrets
[[/folder]]
