History Characters / WolfCreek

Several decades later, in 1999, Mick meets the protagonists of the original ''Wolf Creek'' movie. His MO is clearly established: find a small group of tourists (preferably with one or more women among them), disarm them with his seemingly friendly manner, drug them, take them to one of his numerous lairs and torture/play with them, eventually raping the females and killing everyone according to his own whim. Only Ben Mitchell escapes this attack, and at the price of considerable physical and mental turmoil. In the 2000s, Mick repeats the cycle, killing a pair of jackass cops before going after a German couple. The woman manages to escape and seek refuge in the car of Paul, an English surfer, but she meets a bitter end at the hand of Mick's rifle. Infuriated, Mick chases Paul all across the outback for revenge and finally captures him. Subjecting him to some [[Fingore]] sadism and rigged quiz questions, Paul tries to escape but is recaptured by Mick, who frames him for some of the murders and causes him to lose his sanity. Several years later, Mick happens across an American family of four. He massacres them, but unbeknownst to him Eve the daughter survives her injuries and recovers. Going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she sets out to track him down and end his reign of terror. He gradually becomes aware of her journey and attempts to find her himself, leaving a fresh trail of bodies in his wake.

Mick starts to lapse into his impulsive, murderous tendencies again, and gradually attracts the attention of Cutter, his Kiwi older nemesis. Cutter warns him that there are "Others" who make the greater surrounding area their territory, and tries to manipulate Mick into clearing the field for the pair of them under threat of blackmail. But Mick kills him and takes up the quest of his own desire, and also to recover a murder weapon Cutter planted somewhere in the lairs of one of the Others. He quits his jackaroo work, starts as a freelance dingo tracker, enters into a relationship with a prostitute and starts stalking the rest of the serial killers. He finds each, narrowly escaping them, but not without butchering a few more innocents himself. This draws their attention directly to him, but he just manages to take them all down and thus more or less make the great Outback his exclusive hunting range. He then decides to enlist for the army, specifically to be posted to Vietnam and hone his "craft" out there. A corrupt sergeant takes Mick under his wing and lets him join in in spoils of rape, slaughter and torture. It is in 'Nam where Mick learns the "Head In A Stick" sadistic paralysis technique. Back at home, he puts his sharpened skills to use, preying on a group of bus tourists.

Several decades later, in 1999, Mick meets the protagonists of the original ''Wolf Creek'' movie. His MO is clearly established: find a small group of tourists (preferably with one or more women among them), disarm them with his seemingly friendly manner, drug them, take them to one of his numerous lairs and torture/play with them, eventually raping the females and killing everyone according to his own whim. Only Ben Mitchell escapes this attack, and at the price of considerable physical and mental turmoil. In the 2000s, Mick repeats the cycle, killing a pair of jackass cops before going after a German couple. The woman manages to escape and seek refuge in the car of Paul, an English surfer, but she meets a bitter end at the hand of Mick's rifle. Infuriated, Mick chases Paul all across the outback for revenge and finally captures him. Subjecting him to some FinGore sadism and rigged quiz questions, Paul tries to escape but is recaptured by Mick, who frames him for some of the murders and causes him to lose his sanity. Several years later, Mick happens across an American family of four. He massacres them, but unbeknownst to him Eve the daughter survives her injuries and recovers. Going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she sets out to track him down and end his reign of terror. He gradually becomes aware of her journey and attempts to find her himself, leaving a fresh trail of bodies in his wake.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Some of his kills in ''Origin'' are definitely this. One of the Others is a disgustingly obese peadophile who abducts children, rapes them in his compound, [[TheCollector steals keepsakes from them]] and leaves them to rot as they escape and fall to his booby traps. He even brings their parents to the burial place if they find his hideout, likely making them aware of their child's suffering just to increase their anguish. Another of the Others are a [[TheDividual pair of Serbian brothers]] who run a local crime syndicate and in particular, get off to videos of horrifying sexual torture of people by rats devouring them.

Several decades later, in 1999, Mick meets the protagonists of the original ''Wolf Creek'' movie. His MO is clearly established: find a small group of tourists (preferably with one or more women among them), disarm them with his seemingly friendly manner, drug them, take them to one of his numerous lairs and torture/play with them, eventually raping the females and killing everyone according to his own whim. Only Ben Mitchell escapes this attack, and at the price of considerable physical and mental turmoil. In the 2000s, Mick repeats the cycle, killing a pair of jackass cops before going after a German couple. The woman manages to escape and seek refuge in the car of Paul, an English surfer, but she meets a bitter end at the hand of Mick's rifle. Infuriated, Mick chases Paul all across the outback for revenge and finally captures him. Subjecting him to some FinGore sadism and rigged quiz questions, Paul tries to escape but is recaptured by Mick, who frames him for some of the murders and causes him to lose his sanity. Several years later, Mick happens across an American family of four. He massacres them, but unbeknownst to him Eve the daughter survives her injuries and recovers. Going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she sets out to track him down and end his reign of terror. He gradually becomes aware of her joruney and attempts to find her himself, leaving a fresh trail of bodies in his wake.

* AloneWithThePsycho: If this happens to you at his hand, better hope you can run and hide '''fast''', preferably with a weapon, or that he gives you a fast MercyKill. He also found himself in this situation several times in ''Origin'', but managed to prevail every single time, finally wiping out the other killers.

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: He's also a serial rapist.

* YouAreWhatYouHate: For all he despises his father, he's basically turned into him but as a serial killer and rapist. He was also disgusted by the sex criminal side of the Others, but in his older year's he's sadistically abusing women, turning them into his slaves and specifically preying on them. He might even be comfortable with peadophilia at this point.

* BerserkButton: Several. Fighting back or trying to escape, for one thing. At the time of ''Origin'', threatening and ESPECIALLY sexually abusing children (although he seems willing to hurt kids in later years). Getting in between him and his victims. Flaunting your book smarts in his uneducated face. He also seems to bear a grudge for the UK for sending colonial convicts to populate Australia, which indeed may have led to the circumstances behind his rise as a killer, as it's in the national blood to some extent. So when he meets a "Pom" on tour, naturally the button gets slammed.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: His disgust for the Others just adds to his resolve to take them down. And he's pissed off by unfairly been given a speeding ticket, so takes vengeance on the corrupt cops who gave it to him.

* SerialKillerKiller: Took out the Others to leave the Outback free for him to prowl and choose victims as he liked, and as insurance against the inevitability that if he didn't kill these people, they'd have found and got him themselves as he's a young upstart and might draw unnecessary heat against all of them.

* WhosLaughingNow: The traffic cops learned all too late that this is NOT a man you should belittle, or really even come into contact with at all.

* BerserkButton: Several. Fighting back or trying to escape, for one thing. At the time of ''Origin'', threatening and ESPECIALLY sexually abusing children (although he seems willing to hurt kids in later years). Getting in between him and his victims. He also seems to bear a grudge for the UK for sending colonial convicts to populate Australia, which indeed may have led to the circumstances behind his rise as a killer, as it's in the national blood to some extent. So when he meets a "Pom" on tour, naturally the button gets slammed.

* BerserkButton: Several. Fighting back or trying to escape, for one thing. At the time of ''Origin'', threatening and ESPECIALLY sexually abusing children (although he seems willing to hurt kids in later years). Getting in between him and his victims.

* DeathGlare: Look at his character image. It might not look it, but that's the first sign that he wanted to do unspeakable things to all of his victims. It's also a tell that he was offended by Ben comparing him to [[Film/CrocodileDundee]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: His disgust against the Others just adds to his resolve to take them down. And he's pissed off by unfairly been given a speeding ticket, so takes vengeance on the corrupt cops who gave it to him.

* SmugSnake: While he's very sharp and cunning (like a ''wolf''!), he is poorly educated and it is possible to outsmart him in certain cases. He's also shown some poor judgment on occasion like yelling at Liz while she held a loaded rifle on him, or granting Paul's request of cutting off a finger on his ''left'' hand which gave him a chance to flee.

* [[spoiler: SelfMadeOrphan]]:

* TranquilFury: This is usually bubbling up within him for any given social interaction.

Several decades later, in 1999, Mick meets the protagonists of the original ''Wolf Creek'' movie. His MO is clearly established: find a small group of tourists (preferably with one or more women among them), disarm them with his seemingly friendly manner, drug them, take them to one of his numerous lairs and torture/play with them, eventually raping the females and killing everyone according to his own whim. Only Ben Mitchell escapes this attack, and at the price of considerable physical and mental turmoil. In the 2000s, Mick repeats the cycle, killing a pair of jackass cops before going after a German couple. The woman manages to escape and seek refuge in the car of Paul, an English surfer, but she meets a bitter end at the hand of Mick's rifle. Infuriated, Mick chases Paul all across the outback for revenge and finally captures him. Subjecting him to some FinGore sadism and rigged quiz questions, Paul tries to escape but is recaptured by Mick, who frames him for some of the murders and causes him to lose his sanity. Several years later, Mick happens across an American family of four. He massacres them, but unbeknownst to him Eve the daughter survives her injuries and recovers. Going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she sets out to track him down and end his reign of terror. He gradually becomes aware of her and attempts to find her himself, leaving a fresh trail of bodies in his wake.

* TheCollecter: Takes items from his victims, such as travel videos, tourist souvenirs and the like.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Some of his kills in ''Origin'' are definitely this. One of the Others is a disgustingly obese peadophile who abducts children, rapes them in his compound, [[TheCollecter steals keepsakes from them]] and leaves them to rot as they escape and fall to his booby traps. He even brings their parents to the burial place if they find his hideout, likely making them aware of their child's suffering just to increase their anguish. Another of the Others are a [[TheDividual pair of Serbian brothers]] who run a local crime syndicate and in particular, get off to videos of horrifying sexual torture of people by rats devouring them.

* BerserkButton: Several. Fighting back or trying to escape, for one thing.

* ColdSniper: Given the heat of the setting, one would almost call this a Hot Sniper, but yes. His terrifying accuracy will send chills up your spine. He's pulled off several uncanny crack shots.

* MoralMyopia: Mick is enraged with Paul for [[spoilers: accidentally making him kill the German woman]], despite the fact that he is the reason [[spoilers: she]] was placed into danger in the first place.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Some of his kills in ''Origin'' are definitely this. One of the Others is a disgustingly obese peadophile who abducts children, rapes them in his compound, steals keepsakes from them and leaves them to rot as they escape and fall to his booby traps. He even brings their parents to the burial place if they find his hideout, likely making them aware of their child's suffering just to increase their anguish. Another of the Others are a [[TheDividual pair of Serbian brothers]] who run a local crime syndicate and in particular, get off to videos of horrifying sexual torture of people by rats devouring them.

* BeserkButton: Several. Fighting back or trying to escape, for one thing.

* PragmaticVillainy: He lets some people go in some of the series installments without a second thought if they can give him information (and he doesn't have to interrogate for it, just ask calmly), a pint of beer or some fuel. And as a bushwhacker he's employed by local authorities to help kill invasive species and pests. Sometimes even this isn't enough to save yourself from him, if you keep interacting with him (and thus getting more chances to tap his Berserk Button) over the fullness of time, or if he's going by a murderous whim.

* AwesomeAussie: Very much subverted. Though still occasionally played straight, when he [[PayEvilUponEvil deals vigilante justice]] and does other occasional good deeds for reasons only fathomable to him.

* PragmaticVillany: He lets some people go in some of the series installments without a second thought if they can give him information (and he doesn't have to interrogate for it, just ask calmly), a pint of beer or some fuel. And as a bushwhacker he's employed by local authorities to help kill invasive species and pests. Sometimes even this isn't enough to save yourself from him, if you keep interacting with him (and thus getting more chances to tap his Berserk Button) over the fullness of time, or if he's going by a murderous whim.
* SignatureWeapon: Uses a series of rifles for mid to long range sniping such as the .22 Remington Model 54 and the Tikka 595, and a massive stereotypical ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' style hunting knife for close combat and butchery.

!!Vincent

The BigBad of the series and it's only character, besides the Australian Outback itself, to appear in all five works to date. Raised in the rural boondocks of Eribil, Queensland in the 50s to an abusive tracker father and a weak willed, catatonic mother (both alcoholics) whose family name is sadly losing it's prestige, young Mick was frequently beaten and downtrodden. One day, while exploring the wilderness with his little sister (and being accosted by a mentally simple man), tragedy strikes. Mick states that the simpleton abducted her, and his father executes the man in vigilante justice, butchers his corpse and leaves it for the dingoes to feast on. However, it gradually comes to light that Mick was not being entirely truthful. Forced to flee, Mick lives off the land and gradually evades his father using their knowledge of tracking behaviour, then camps out in an abandoned shack, having to eat rats and facing a terrible fever to survive. He confronts his parents, and is sent to a foster camp which also hosts Aboriginals. Bullied daily, he eventually retaliates by beating another boy so badly that his eye hangs out of it's socket by the stalk. Only barely evading serious punishment for this, he goes to work on a cattle and sheep farm as a teenager with several other hard man types who also have a lot to hide.