History Characters / WolfCreek

* VillainBall: Grips this occasionally due to sloppiness with guarding his victims. Sometimes they escape, but he ''mostly' recaptures them then finishes them off or [[DrivenToMadness metes out some other form of punishment.]] By the time of the miniseries, however, he's accidentally letting Eve go with just a non-fatal bullet wound and a thirst for revenge. He also leaves a rifle casing which helps the police track him down. And his patterns of killing leads Eve to finally find him and [[spoiler: it proves to be his undoing]].

* 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 years he's sadistically abusing women, turning them into his slaves and specifically preying on them. He might even be comfortable with pedophilia at this point.

* TheVietnamVet: Didn't sign up for Australia's effort in the war at the first opportunity due to bad legs, but eventually decided to for a change of scene and as "a scholarly exercise". Unlike many examples of this trope, he didn't come home traumatised beyond a bit more paranoia and his already present inanity. It helps that Aussie soldiers were well equipped for jungle warfare and counter insurgency, much more so than the USA. And, well, he met [[EvilMentor a kindred spirit there.]]

Mick starts to lapse into his impulsive, murderous tendencies again, and gradually attracts the attention of Cutter, his older Kiwi 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.

* KnightTemplar: Absolutely despises foreigners and will go to horrific lengths to keep Australia "clean", even if it means killing anyone who tries to protect his victims from him.

* {{Flanderization}}: He "jokes" about foreigners being "vermin" in the first movie, but never expresses this view again for the remainder of the movie. In the sequel, he claims xenophobia is his primary reason for murder instead of ForTheEvulz.

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

* TheMostDangerousGame: Loves above all else hunting, sadistically playing with and manipulating humans. He'll even let them get away or use weapons against him, just to add to the thrill of the chase.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's pretty warped. His code seems to be through the prism of him being one of the best hunter trackers in Australia, and him having dibs on hunting [[TheMostDangerousGame whatever species he likes]] and being at [[ColdBloodedTorture liberty to]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil play with them as he pleases]]. Getting between him and his food is an [[DisproportionateRetribution unforgivable crime]], but not always one punishable by death, as seen with Paul (perhaps because his English wit and trivia knowledge amused Mick). He's particularly rabid when it comes to foreigners in his native land, but will go after his fellow Australians too if they attract him. In his early years, he took offence to particularly sick killers and sex criminals, but given that he seems to have followed their example in middle age, clearly something about his initial opposition wore away over the decades. According to ''Desolation Game'', he came to become a pattern killer due to the [[HearingVoices suggestion of his friend Eddie to "feed this land"]], suggesting he has some spiritual beliefs.

->'''Played By:''' Jeff Jarret

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's pretty warped. His code seems to be through the prism of him being the best hunter tracker in Australia, and him having dibs on hunting [[TheMostDangerousGame whatever species he likes]] and being at [[ColdBloodedTorture liberty to]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil play with them as he pleases]]. Getting between him and his food is an [[DisproportionateRetribution unforgivable crime]], but not always one punishable by death, as seen with Paul (perhaps because his English wit and trivia knowledge amused Mick). He's particularly rabid when it comes to foreigners in his native land, but will go after his fellow Australians too if they attract him. In his early years, he took offence to particularly sick killers and sex criminals, but given that he seems to have followed their example in middle age, clearly something about his initial opposition wore away over the decades. According to ''Desolation Game'', he came to become a pattern killer due to the [[HearingVoices suggestion of his friend Eddie to "feed this land"]], suggesting he has some spiritual beliefs.

* InterplayOfSexAndVIolence: Has a taste for this ever since being with his self-harming prostitute girlfriend, Rose. [[Squick He sometimes ejaculated on her fresh wounds.]]

* InterplayOfSexAndVIolence: Has a taste for this ever since being with his self-harming prostitute girlfriend, Rose. {{Squick He sometimes ejaculated on her fresh wounds.}}

* ImAHumanitarian: Implied, but to date, never outright confirmed.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's pretty warped. His code seems to be through the prism of him being the best HunterTracker in Australia, and him having dibs on hunting [[TheMostDangerousGame whatever species he likes]] and being at [[ColdBloodedTorture liberty to]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil play with them as he pleases]]. Getting between him and his food is an [[DisproportionateRetribution unforgivable crime]], but not always one punishable by death, as seen with Paul (perhaps because his English wit and trivia knowledge amused Mick). He's particularly rabid when it comes to foreigners in his native land, but will go after his fellow Australians too if they attract him. In his early years, he took offence to particularly sick killers and sex criminals, but given that he seems to have followed their example in middle age, clearly something about his initial opposition wore away over the decades. According to ''Desolation Game'', he came to become a pattern killer due to the [[HearingVoices suggestion of his friend Eddie to "feed this land"]], suggesting he has some spiritual beliefs.

* VillainBall: Grips this occasionally due to sloppiness with guarding his victims. Sometimes they escape, but he ''mostly' recaptures them then finishes them off or [[DrivenToInsanity metes out some other form of punishment.]] By the time of the miniseries, however, he's accidentally letting Eve go with just a non-fatal bullet wound and a thirst for revenge. He also leaves a rifle casing which helps the police track him down. And his patterns leads Eve to finally find him and [[spoiler: it proves to be his undoing]].

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's pretty warped. His code seems to be through the prism of him being the best HunterTracker in Australia, and him having dibs on hunting [[TheMostDangerousGame whatever species he likes]] and being at [[ColdBloodedTorture liberty to]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil play with them as he pleases]]. Getting between him and his food is an [[DisproportionateRetribution unforgivable crime]], but not always one punishable by death, as seen with Paul (perhaps because his English wit and trivia knowledge amused Mick). He's particularly rabid when it comes to foreigners in his native land, but will go after his fellow Australians too if they attract him. In his early years, he took offence to particularly sick killers and sex criminals, but given that he seems to have followed their example in middle age, clearly something about his initial opposition wore away over the decades.

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Essentially inverted then played straight. Mick was a serial killer long before he fought in Vietnam. But it was there that he perfected his skills in murder and torture. He then went home and started practicing said skills in earnest.

* HearingVoices: Becomes subject to the voice of Eddie Taylor, his deceased childhood friend, who tells him more about the "power of this land" in ''Desolation Game''. Eddie suggests to him to carry on his killing sprees, to feed the land with the blood of his victims.

* 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 years 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.

* AnimalMotifs: Mick Taylor is ''the lone wolf''. He is cunning, very adept at hunting his prey, and usually works alone, even going out of his way to eliminate all competition in the local serial killer field.

* EvilLaugh: An insidious, misleading snigger. Jarret worked on it months to get it just right, and it gave his costar Cassandra Magrath nightmares..

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's pretty warped.

* WouldHitAGirl: Oh yes indeed. His torture of women has a sexual dimension, whereas he just plays with and kills his male victims (who are generally just obstacles to him in front of the sheilas).

!!Mick Taylor

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. Changing his last name to "Taylor" after his childhood best friend and 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.

* CoolHat: Almost never seen without his signature Aussie bushman hat and plaid shirt.
* CynicismCatalyst: Other than being kind of dead inside to begin with because of his family situation, [[spoiler: accidentally pushing his kid sister to her death]].

* EvilLaugh: An insidious, misleading snigger. Jarret worked on it months to get it just right.

* HearingVoices: Becomes subject to the voice of Eddie Taylor, his deceased childhood friend, who tells him more about the "power of this land" in ''Desolation Game''.

* HearingVoices: Becomes subject to the voice of Eddie Taylor, his childhood friend, who tells him more about the "power of this land" in ''Desolation Game''.