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* TooDumbToLive: While this trope applies to most of the college students, he deserve a special mention. Seriously, charging and jumping head first into the wood chipper while trying to take out Tucker. Even if he hit Tuck, he would likely fall in regardless.
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* KnightTemplar: Leads a pointless crusade that ends with all of his friends accidentally killing themselves and each other entirely due to his irrational belief that all hillbillies are murderous psychopaths. [[spoiler: Even when he becomes a walking slasher movie villain, he

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* KnightTemplar: Leads a pointless crusade that ends with all of his friends accidentally killing themselves and each other entirely due to his irrational belief that all hillbillies are murderous psychopaths. [[spoiler: Even when he becomes a walking textbook slasher movie villain, he still claims to be the hero.]]
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* DriventoSuicide: Not stated, but implied, due to her [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Have I Done]] moment after contributing to accidentally Jason's death. She made no attempts to flee the burning cabin, instead foolishly lighting her cigarette while still inside.

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* DriventoSuicide: Not stated, but implied, due to her [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Have I Done]] moment after accidentally contributing to accidentally Jason's death. She made no attempts to flee the burning cabin, instead foolishly lighting her cigarette while still inside.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His face says this when he accidentally disfigured Naomi's face with a weed whacker.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Tucker's cabin explodes.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Chad and Chloe accidentally and painfully burn him alive. His death is what causes Tucker's cabin explodes.to explode.


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* DriventoSuicide: Not stated, but implied, due to her [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Have I Done]] moment after contributing to accidentally Jason's death. She made no attempts to flee the burning cabin, instead foolishly lighting her cigarette while still inside.
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* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: The movie chronicles his transformation from an ordinary (if already rather creepy and unpleasant) college student to a full-on slasher movie villain.]]
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* TragicBigot: Albeit not a sympathetic one. Chad's murderous hatred of all hillbillies stems from the fact that a group of them killed his father.

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* TragicBigot: Albeit not a sympathetic one. Chad's murderous hatred of all hillbillies stems from the fact that a group of them killed his father. [[spoiler: Turns out that this isn't the case, but the origins of his birth still involve a traumatic incident involving hillbillies.]]
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* BloodKnight: It quickly becomes apparent that Chad derives sadistic joy from the thought of killing the hillbillies, and goes out of his way to escalate the situation into a full on HillbillyHorror scenario entirely because he wants to be the one to finish off Tucker and Dale himself.

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* BloodKnight: It quickly becomes apparent that Chad derives sadistic joy from the thought of killing the hillbillies, and goes out of his way to escalate the situation into a full on HillbillyHorror HillbillyHorrors scenario entirely because he wants to be the one to finish off Tucker and Dale himself.

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%%* BloodKnight* BloodKnight: It quickly becomes apparent that Chad derives sadistic joy from the thought of killing the hillbillies, and goes out of his way to escalate the situation into a full on HillbillyHorror scenario entirely because he wants to be the one to finish off Tucker and Dale himself.



* EntitledToHaveYou: Believes he and Allison belong together due to both being "special", and [[spoiler: attempts to kill her for "betraying" him when she chooses to be with Dale.]]



* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: His obsession with taking revenge on murderous hillbillies eventually transforms him into one.]]



* KnightTemplar: Leads a pointless crusade that ends with all of his friends accidentally killing themselves and each other entirely due to his irrational belief that all hillbillies are murderous psychopaths. [[spoiler: Even when he becomes a walking slasher movie villain, he



* TragicBigot: Albeit not a sympathetic one. Chad's murderous hatred of all hillbillies stems from the fact that a group of them killed his father.



* WrongGenreSavvy: Chad is convinced that he's the hero of a classic homicidal hillbilly scenario, and convinces the rest of his party after progressive misunderstandings continue to escalate tensions. In reality, the entire situation is a result of PoorCommunicationKills, but Chad is too dead-set on murdering the hillbillies by the end that he just doesn't care.

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* WrongGenreSavvy: Chad is convinced that he's the hero of a classic homicidal hillbilly scenario, and convinces the rest of his party after progressive misunderstandings continue to escalate tensions. In reality, the entire situation is a result of PoorCommunicationKills, but Chad is too dead-set on murdering the hillbillies by the end that he just doesn't care. [[spoiler: By the end, he ''still'' insists that he's the hero even after having become a walking slasher movie villain.]]
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* MeaningfulName: "Chad" is a slang term for a massive douchebag. Which this Chad most certainly is.
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* OnlySaneMan: Compared to Dale. For example, he knows that people won't believe them that one of the college kids jumped into the wood chipper by accident and later makes a WhatTheHellHero reaction when Dale tells the one pointing a gun at them that the safety is on.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: On the receiving end of no less than 3 head injuries.

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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:By the final act, he's more than ready to take on Chad.]]
--> '''Dale:''' [[spoiler:[[BadassBoast You want a killer hillbilly? I'll show you a killer hillbilly.]]]]



* {{Jerkass}}: A prejudiced, entitled prick.
* KnightOfCerebus: Chad has virtually no comedic scenes and always comes across as scary and intimidating. When he comes onscreen, it tends to means shit's about to get serious.



* {{Jerkass}}: A prejudiced, entitled prick.
* KnightOfCerebus: Chad has virtually no comedic scenes and always comes across as scary and intimidating. When he comes on screan, it tends to means shit's about to get serious.



* ManOnFire: Chad accicentally sets him on fire, and eventually the whole cabin goes up in flames.

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* ManOnFire: Chad accicentally accidentally sets him on fire, and eventually the whole cabin goes up in flames.



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* AnAxeToGrind: His initial weapon of choice.



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* WhatAnIdiot: Assumes Allison's attempts to explain the misunderstanding is a result of StockholmsSyndrome.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Assumes Allison's attempts to explain the misunderstanding is a result of StockholmsSyndrome.StockholmSyndrome.
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* MistakenForGay: Their first encounter with the sheriff has it look like [[MakesSenseInContext Dale was sucking Tyler off while he was driving]].

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Impales himself on the spear he fashioned.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Asks if having a recurring dream about sucking a dick but never actually doing it is gay. His friends say yes.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: {{Averted}}, mostly due to his own GenreSavvy efforts to stop it from happening by avoiding direct confrontation with the "killers", as well as the sort of dangerous self-made situations that keep accidentally killing his friends off. He still dies, because everyone except the FinalGirl has to of course, but notably he's the last-but-one male college student standing, meaning he'd already outlived three or four white guys by that point.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Tucker's cabin explodes.
* LovableCoward: Cowers for a majority of the film until attempting a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Rescue]] at the climax. It ends in Tucker's cabin blowing up and his, Naomi's, and Chloe's deaths.
* ManOnFire: Chad accicentally sets him on fire, and eventually the whole cabin goes up in flames.
* TokenMinority: The only African-American guy of the group.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: Asks if having a recurring dream about sucking a dick but never actually doing it is gay. His friends say yes.
BoomHeadshot: How he dies.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: {{Averted}}, mostly due to TookALevelInBadass: After the Sheriff dies, he grabs his own GenreSavvy efforts gun and attempts to stop it from happening by avoiding direct confrontation with kill Tucker and Dale. Too bad he was TooDumbToLive.
* TooDumbToLive: While trying to take
the "killers", safety off the gun, he ''points it at his head''. This goes as well as the sort of dangerous self-made situations that keep accidentally killing his friends off. He still dies, because everyone except the FinalGirl has to of course, but notably he's the last-but-one male college student standing, meaning he'd already outlived three or four white guys by that point.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Tucker's cabin explodes.
* LovableCoward: Cowers for a majority of the film until attempting a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Rescue]] at the climax. It ends in Tucker's cabin blowing up and his, Naomi's, and Chloe's deaths.
* ManOnFire: Chad accicentally sets him on fire, and eventually the whole cabin goes up in flames.
* TokenMinority: The only African-American guy of the group.
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* AbsoluteCleavage
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Tucker's cabin explodes.
* DeathByIrony: After getting a light for her cigarette in Tucker's flaming cabin, the whole place explodes. She's told earlier in the film by one of her peers that smoking is bad for her.
* DumbBlonde: Acts entitled like the rest of her party.
* {{Fanservice}}: Can be seen distantly as topless during the skinny dipping scene and wears a revealing outfit throughout the movie.
** WhoWearsShortShorts
* PinkMeansFeminine
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* DeathByIrony: After getting a light for her cigarette in Tucker's flaming cabin, the whole place explodes. She's told earlier in the film by one of her peers that smoking is bad for her.
* DumbBlonde: Acts entitled like the rest of her party.
* {{Fanservice}}: Can be seen distantly as topless during the skinny dipping scene and wears a revealing outfit throughout the movie.
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* PinkMeansFeminine
* TooDumbToLive: Lights up a cigarette in the middle of a fire lit cabin
HormoneAddledTeenager: Once they arrive at their campsite, Mike immediately suggests they go skinny-dipping.



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* AmbiguouslyGay: Asks if having a recurring dream about sucking a dick but never actually doing it is gay. His friends say yes.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: {{Averted}}, mostly due to his own GenreSavvy efforts to stop it from happening by avoiding direct confrontation with the "killers", as well as the sort of dangerous self-made situations that keep accidentally killing his friends off. He still dies, because everyone except the FinalGirl has to of course, but notably he's the last-but-one male college student standing, meaning he'd already outlived three or four white guys by that point.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Tucker's cabin explodes.
* LovableCoward: Cowers for a majority of the film until attempting a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Rescue]] at the climax. It ends in Tucker's cabin blowing up and his, Naomi's, and Chloe's deaths.
* ManOnFire: Chad accicentally sets him on fire, and eventually the whole cabin goes up in flames.
* TokenMinority: The only African-American guy of the group.
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-->Played by: Chelan Simmons

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Tucker's cabin explodes.
* DeathByIrony: After getting a light for her cigarette in Tucker's flaming cabin, the whole place explodes. She's told earlier in the film by one of her peers that smoking is bad for her.
* DumbBlonde: Acts entitled like the rest of her party.
* {{Fanservice}}: Can be seen distantly as topless during the skinny dipping scene and wears a revealing outfit throughout the movie.
** WhoWearsShortShorts
* PinkMeansFeminine
* TooDumbToLive: Lights up a cigarette in the middle of a fire lit and ''gasoline soaked'' cabin.
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!!!Naomi
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* ButNotTooBlack
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gets her face disfigured before dying in the explosion.
* TokenMinority: Along with Jason.
* WhatAnIdiot: Assumes Allison's attempts to explain the misunderstanding is a result of StockholmsSyndrome.
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!!!Mitchell
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: The first to die of the group.
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* EstablishingCHaracterMoment: After Chad calls hillbillies freaks in the college kids' first scene, Allison sticks up for them.

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* TooDumbToLive: Lights up a cigarette in the middle of a fire lit cabin
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* LovableCoward: Cowers for a majority of the film until attempting a BigDamnRescue at the climax. It ends in Tucker's cabin blowing up and his, Naomi's, and Chloe's deaths.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: Asks if having a recurring dream about sucking a dick but never actually doing it is gay. His friends say yes.


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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Runs at full speed into a sharp, protruding tree limb and impales himself.
* OnlySaneMan: Suggests that the hillbillies aren't psychopaths and that the whole situation is just a misunderstanding.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Tucker's cabin explodes.
* LovableCoward: Cowers for a majority of the film until attempting a BigDamnRescue at the climax. It ends in Tucker's cabin blowing up and his, Naomi's, and Chloe's deaths.
* ManOnFire: Chad accicentally sets him on fire, and eventually the whole cabin goes up in flames.
* TokenMinority: The only African-American guy of the group.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed when Tucker's cabin explodes.
* DeathByIrony: After getting a light for her cigarette in Tucker's flaming cabin, the whole place explodes. She's told earlier in the film by one of her peers that smoking is bad for her.
* DumbBlonde: Acts entitled like the rest of her party.
* {{Fanservice}}: Can be seen distantly as topless during the skinny dipping scene and wears a revealing outfit throughout the movie.
** WhoWearsShortShorts
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Chad is convinced that he's the hero of a classic homicidal hillbilly scenario, and convinces the rest of his party after progressive misunderstandings continue to escalate tensions. In reality, the entire situation is a result of PoorCommunicationSkills, but Chad is too dead-set on murdering the hillbillies by the end that he just doesn't care.

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* HiddenDeths: Has aspirations to be a psychologist, and grew up on a farm, making her no stranger to the task of digging a hole for an outhouse.

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!!!Chad
-->Played by: Jesse Moss

The college kid who designates himself as the leader of the group once they believe they're being hunted by psychopathic hillbillies.
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* AxCrazy: Throws hatchets at trees for no reason at the beginning of the film, which is the first indicator that there's something off about him. [[spoiler:By the end, he's descended into all out horror villain status]].
** AnAxeToTheGrind: His initial weapon of choice.
* BigBad: Has clearly become this by the time Allison's attempt to have him and Dale talk things over fails.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: He will not be swayed from his goal of killing the hillbillies, insisting that they're pure evil and he's the hero.
* BloodKnight
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:The excuse for his deeply rooted hate for hillbillies is that his father was killed in the Memorial Day Massacre and his mother was raped by one of the psychopathic hillbillies. As it turns out, his father ''was'' one of the psychopathic hillbillies]].
* FreudianExcuse: The reason for his hillbilly-hate is because his parents were victims in the Memorial Day Massacre.
* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:Comes to despise Allison because she doesn't return his affection, and attempts to kill her at the sawmill]].
* LikeFatherLikeSon: [[spoiler: Becomes a psychotic killer by the end of the film, just like his father was]].
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: One possible excuse for his declining sanity over the course of the film.
* {{Jerkass}}: A prejudiced, entitled prick.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When it comes to hillbillies.
* PsychoPartyMember: While the rest of the college kids come across as snobbish or dimwittish, Chad is revealed to be a straight-up psycho.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Used a few times.
* TwoFaced: [[spoiler:The left side of his face becomes disfigured by a burn after Tucker's cabin blows up]].
* WeaksauceWeakness: Asthmatic and allergic to Chamomile.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Chad is convinced that he's the hero of a classic homicidal hillbilly scenario, and convinces the rest of his party after progressive misunderstandings continue to escalate tensions. In reality, the entire situation is a result of PoorCommunicationSkills, but Chad is too dead-set on murdering the hillbillies by the end that he just doesn't care.
* {{Yandere}}: For Allison, which is only made worse by the fact that she begins developing feelings for Dale.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Hates hillbillies, but is himself half-hillbilly due to being the result of his mother's rape at the hands of one of the original Memorial Day Massacre killers]].
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* ShipperOnDeck: Supports Dale talking to Allison.
* UnwillingSuspension: Chad captures him and hangs him upside-down from a tree in the woods.
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!!The College Kids
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The injuries and subsequent deaths these teens endure get pretty gruesome.
* DecoyProtagonist: Tucker and Dale are the real heroes.
* SkinnyDipping: They're all excited to skinny dip in the pond, which leads to Allison accidentally hitting her head on a rock and being saved by Dale, kicking off the rising action of the film.
* TooDumbToLive: And a majority don't.
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!!!Allison
-->Played by: Katrina Bowden

A college girl studying psychology who hits her head while skinny dipping and befriends Dale after he rescues her.
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* BareYourMidriff: Even leaves her fly mostly undone to properly sport it.
* DumbBlonde: Averted. Allison is the smartest member of her group.
* EstablishingCHaracterMoment: After Chad calls hillbillies freaks in the college kids' first scene, Allison sticks up for them.
* {{Fanservice}}: A beautiful young blonde who [[BareYourMidriff bares her midriff]] a good portion of the movie and strips down to her underwear to go skinny dipping.
* FinalGirl: Due to the fact that all the college kids who tried to kill Tucker and Dale end up dead, Allison is the only one of the girls to survive.
* HiddenDeths: Has aspirations to be a psychologist, and grew up on a farm, making her no stranger to the task of digging a hole for an outhouse.
* IOweYouMyLife: Sticks around with Tucker and Dale and helps out with some home renovations after Dale saves her.
* OnlySaneMan: Aside from a few of her friends suggesting that the hillbillies aren't psychopathic killers, Allison becomes the only sane member of the group due to the fact that she has both sides of the story.
* RescueRomance: Dale rescues her twice-- first from drowning when she's knocked unconscious into the pond, and second [[spoiler:after Chad kidnaps her and takes her to the sawmill]].
* TapOnTheHead: Is knocked out twice within short intervals of each other. [[spoiler:Dale gives her a helmet as a joke gift at the end of the movie because of this]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: She's a beautiful young girl, and Dale's a dirty, overweight hillbilly. [[spoiler:Naturally, they get together by the end]].
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* MistakenForGay: Their first encounter with the sheriff has it look like [[MakesSenseInContext Dale was sucking Tyler off while he was driving]].
* MistakenForMurderer: The entire point of the movie.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Guys]]: Both of them are nice guys, but Dale particularly steals the show.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Dale plays the role of the sensitive guy-- he's timid, unsure of himself, and wouldn't hurt a fly. Tucker plays the role of the manly man, as he urges Dale to grow a pair and talk to the college girls.


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* PhotographicMemory: Remembers every trivial fact he reads or hears.
* RescueRomance: Develops feelings for Allison after rescuing her from the pond, and she in return is implied to start developing some of her own. [[spoiler:After he rescues her from Chad at the sawmill, they're dating by the end of the movie]].
* ShrinkingViolet
* SinisterScythe: Wields one when talking to the college kids for the first time in an attempt to appear more casual. It just causes him to come across as more creepy.
* UglyGuyHotWife: The reason why Dale doubts anything could happen between Allison and him. He's an overweight, dirty hillbilly, and she's a beautiful blonde young college girl. [[spoiler:By the end of the film, they've started a serious relationship]].


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* BeeAfraid: Accidentally cuts through a bees nest while cutting a fallen tree, prompting him to accidentally scare off the college kids while running around screaming with a chainsaw.
* ButtMonkey: Deals with a lot more shit than Dale has to, even getting his ''[[{{Fingore}} fingers chopped off]]'' by Chad.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After being captured by Chad.
-->'''Chad:''' I've never stood so close to pure evil before. ''(sniff)'' It kinda stinks.
-->'''Tucker:''' That was supposed to be twenty-four hour protection...
* DistressedDude: After saving Jangers from Chad, he's captured and hung upside-down from a rope by the college kids.
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!!The Hillbillies
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Both of them are horrified when they begin witnessing the gruesome accidental deaths of the college kids throughout the woods, and neither of them play any intentional part in their deaths. They attempt to [[spoiler:warn the sheriff when he leans up against a faulty post inside the cabin that leads to his head being impaled by nails, but it happens too fast for them to prevent it]].
* CassandraTruth: Expressed sarcastically by Tucker.
-->'''Tucker:''' Oh hidy-ho, officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing some chores around the house when kids started killing themselves all over my property.
* ChainsawGood: Tucker accidentally scares the college kids with a chainsaw early on in the film while running away from an angry swarm of bees, and Dale uses one [[spoiler:against Chad in their climactic battle at the sawmill]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Upon viewing Tucker's new cabin for the first time, they come to the conclusion that it must have been owned by some sort of archaeologist due to wind chimes made of ''human bones''. Among the newspaper clippings strung up on the wall concerning the Memorial Day Massacre, they only notice a coupon for chilidogs.
* DumbIsGood
* FailedASpotCheck: See ComicallyMissingThePoint above.
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[[folder:Dale]]
!!!Dale Dobson
-->Played by: Tyler Labine

A good-natured but shy West Virginia hillbilly looking to meet a nice young girl and have a good time fixing up his best friend's new vacation home in the woods.
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* {{Adorkable}}: His interactions with Allison make him come across this way.
* BigDamnHeroes: Pulls this off when he [[spoiler:rescues Allison from Chad at the sawmill]].
* BookDumb: Subverted. Dale dropped out of school, but can remember any trivial fact he reads or hears.
* ChekhovsSkill: His ability to remember trivial details comes in handy when [[spoiler:he remembers Chad mentioning that he's allergic to chamomile tea and uses it against him during their final battle at the sawmill]].
* HeroesLoveDogs: Loves his dog, Jangers, which raises the stakes when Chad holds Jangers at gunpoint.
* HiddenDepths: Is a boss at trivia due to his ability to remember every trivial detail he hears or reads.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Is visibly impressed by even himself when he [[spoiler:flings an ax across the room during his fight with Chad and ends up cutting the rope tying Allison to a log headed straight for a buzz saw, allowing her to escape]].
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[[folder:Tucker]]
!!!Tucker [=McGee=]
-->Played by: Creator/AlanTudyk

A fishing-loving, beer-drinking West Virginia hillbilly looking to fix up his new vacation home in the woods with his best friend.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Beer is his solution to everything-- he even pours it on his bee stings and finger stubs.
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