History Characters / TheShining

* AdaptationDyeJob: Wendy is blonde in the novel, but has black hair in the movie.

* HateSink: [[AdaptationalVillainy Unlike his literary counterpart]], the film reimagines him as a self-centered, abusive father and husband. He views his wife as only being good enough to have his child, and he was also dismissive towards his son Danny. When the hotel starts to corrupt him, Jack deliberately destroys the radio to strand his family in the hotel before trying to kill them.

* ArchEnemy: Of Danny Torrance and Abra.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Rose is so seated in her ways and hooked on her pseudo-immortality that she can't comprehend why Abra & Dan would have a problem with torturing Shining children to death to extend their own lives.

* FauxAffablyEvil: She's exceptionally charismatic and always speaks in a polite tone but is pure evil underneath.

* TheStoic: In the film, Danny rarely expresses emotions and is utterly stone-faced for the most part. The only feeling he definitively displays is fear, mainly of the ghosts haunting the Overlook.

* FatBastard: He's described as being plump in the novel, and he's quite a {{Jerkass}}.

* BadBoss: Played with, working under him sure as hell isn't fun, but it's not out of ego or sadism like this trope usually is, but because Ullman is dedicated to running the Overlook smoothly at the cost of everything else.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's a minor character in the grand scheme of things. However, his refusal to replace the Overlook's malfunctioning boiler eventually leads to the hotel's destruction.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Ullman chooses to leave the Overlook's highly dangerous boiler installed to cut costs, despite numerous warnings from his employees. It eventually destroys his beloved hotel.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Inverted, as Ullman's dangerous corner-cutting winds up saving the protagonists. Ullman chose to leave the Overlook's unstable and volatile boiler in place to save on costs despite warnings, which eventually destroys the Overlook.

* IRejectYourReality: Implied. Ullman denies that there's any problem with the Overlook, no matter how small. It's hinted he's unaware of its supernatural nature in part because he's in denial about it.

* MrExpostiion: He exposits most of the history of the Overlook and the history of its management failing to make a profit of it. It's played with, as he leaves out most of the Overlook's darker history, something Jack calls him out on.

* ThePerfectionist: He demands that the Overlook be run with the utmost competence, and it makes him a nightmare to work with.

* SlobsVsSnobs: Part of the reason why Jack despises him is because Ullman is fastidious, wealthy, and runs an establishment catering to upper-class clientele. Jack' own envy and resentments color his impression of Ullman, which isn't helped by the fact that Ullman treats his underlings horribly and views them as disposable.

* CardCarryingJerkass: He's well aware he's a jerk and that his employees don't like him, he just doesn't care. As Ullman puts it, he thinks one needs to be "a bit of a bastard" to run a hotel properly.

* InvisibleToNormals: Like Watson, Ullman either has no Shining at all, or it's so minuscule the Hotel can't affect him. It's ambiguous whether or not his attachment to the hotel is influenced by its supernatural nature, but it's entirerly possible it's just a psychological attachment considering how much work he's put into running it, rather than the hotel itself making him obsessed like it does with Jack. At any rate, he can leave at the end of the season, even if he's not really happy to do so, as he hates the hotel he manages during the winter.

* {{Cloudcukoolander}}: Implied and downplayed. Al refers to beer as "martians" for whatever reason, but never demonstrates any other sing of eccentricity.

* UpperClassTwit: Downplayed. He and Jack got up to a lot of drunken shenanigans together, but Al quit drinking and seems more responsible on the whole than Jack.

* AllegoricalCharacter: The Overlook represents addiction, and alcoholism in particular, and how it corrupts people. Jack falling under the Overlook's sway is tied to him falling OffTheWagon and regaining his drunken mannerisms. On a subtler level, the Overlook corrupts people first through positive stimuli and then gradually influencing their behavior until they are consumed by their worst aspects, much like how addiction can bring out the worst in people.

* RagnarokProofing: Despite being closed down for forty years, it's still in pristine condition as if it's still in use when Dan returns in ''Doctor Sleep'' with its electricity and boilers working perfectly and areas like the ballroom not having changed in decades. Likely justified by its supernatural nature.

* DeadlyEuphemism: He never states that he murdered his wife and daughters, merely that he "corrected" them.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: the Hotel manager describes Grady's daughters as being eight and ten, but these characters appear to be identical twins. So they may not have been intended to be Grady's daughters at all, but just other girls who died in the hotel. Then again, the movie is full of MindScrew so this may just be another example of that.

* WickedCultured: He's well-educated and a fan of classic literature. He's particularly familiar with the works of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe despite despising the man's work. "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath" becomes a particular fixation for him as he descends into madness.

* WickedCultured: He's well-educated and a fan of classic literature. He's particularly familiar with the works of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe despite despising the man's work. "Literature/TheMasqueOfRedDeath" becomes a particular fixation for him as he descends into madness.

* LogicalWeakness: As a building, it can't affect people beyond its grounds. [[spoiler: Unless it consumes Danny and/or Abra and gains their power...]]. It can also be destroyed like any other building or simply abandoned as it was after Jack's rampage.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To the ghosts of the Overlook from the previous film. The spirits of the hotel belonged to people who had passed away decades prior while the True Knot are alive and immortal. The spirits are bound to the hotel and unable to leave while the True Knot must endlessly travel to avoid being found out. The spirits belonged to people who in life were very wealthy and refined and remain so while the True Knot are working-class and live a very rustic, nomadic existence. The spirits of the hotel were mostly people who didn't know each other and express little genuine affection while the True Knot are a family of choice who genuinely care very deeply for each other.

* ParentsAsPeople: In the novel and miniseries. Jack is a violent alcoholic, but he does love his son and feels intense regret for his behaviour.