History Characters / WolfCreek

* InvincibleVillain: No one seems able to keep him down for long and he's so far suffered zero consequences for all of his horrible actions.

* EvilOldFolks: Being a Vietnam veteran, this makes him at least 65 years old by the start of the television series. He's still tough as nails, and as evil as he ever was. It's justified, as he works out a lot to stay in fine murdering shape.

* EvilSoundsRaspy: He talks in a very hoarsy Aussie voice.

* WeaponOfChoice: 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.

* 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 [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame whatever species he likes]] and being at [[ColdBloodedTorture liberty to 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.

* EvilOldFolks: He's at least 65 years old by the start of the TV series. He's been killing for decades, and doesn't show any sign of stopping.

* 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.

->'''Played By:''' John Jarratt

* 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. Mick finishes him off by [[KarmicDeath forcing him to eat his own guts]]. 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.

%%* SerialKiller

* DepravedBisexual: He very clearly prefers women, but when Paul accidentally causes Mick to kill the woman he was after in the second film, he decides to make Paul wear a dress and "improvise".

* FreudianExcuse: Various ones. His father instilled in him the awe of conquering an animal and taking it's power. His old man also terrified him with his alcoholic, abusive behaviour. His friend Eddy Taylor explained that the Aborigines believe that by slaying and skinning a foe, and wearing the hide, you can fully absorb it's qualities and embody them in a new form. Being threatened by other serial killers also intimidated Mick into becoming the apex predator of the Outback.

* LargeHam: He's quite bombastic.

* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: Possibly sees Eve as this. He survives her attempts to kill him in the series and doesn't go after her when she's asleep. It's unknown if this was out of respect or because he'd come to be afraid of her. Possibly a mixture of the two.]]

* CatchPhrase: "What the bloody hell are you buggers doing out here?"

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: His "good" facade in the first film was significantly different than in the sequel and subsequent first and second seasons of the miniseries. In ''Wolf Creek'', apart from one or two moments, Mick did a much better job of hiding his true nature from people and came across as charming and intriguing. But for some reason from ''Wolf Creek 2'' onward, Mick (while pretending to be a jovial and pleasant man around miscellaneous people and/or travellers) portrays himself in a more obnoxious and much less innocent manner - occasionally letting out racist or homophobic slurs or even making it clear to those around him that he's bad news.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: It's heavily implied that his motive about foreigners is just an excuse he gives himself to justify his horrid actions.

* EvilOldFolks: Being a Vietnam veteran, he's at least 65 years old by the start of the television series. He's still tough as nails. It's justified, as he works out a lot.

* 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 practising said skills in earnest.

* HateSink: One of, if not, the most vile, depraved and loathsome scumbags in australian cinema.

* [[spoiler: SelfMadeOrphan]]: Killed [[spoiler: his sister]] by accident, [[spoiler: his mother]] probably due to a warped sense of wanting to do right by [[spoiler: her]] and end the misery, and [[spoiler: his father]] out of lust for revenge and to try to steal his power.
* SerialKiller: Well, duh.

* 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 [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame 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.

* BadassGrandpa: Being a Vietnam veteran, he's at least 65 years old by the start of the television series. He's still tough as nails. It's justified, as he works out a lot.

* [[spoiler: EvilOrphan]]: What he would eventually become.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: His "good" facade in the first film was significantly different than in the sequel and subsequent first and second seasons of the miniseries. In ''Wolf Creek'', apart from one or two moments, Mick did a much better job of hiding his true nature from people and came across as a charming and intriguing. But for some reason from ''Wolf Creek 2'' onward, Mick (while pretending to be a jovial and pleasant man around miscellaneous people and/or travellers) portrays himself in a more obnoxious and much less innocent manner - occasionally letting out racist or homophobic slurs or even making it clear to those around him that he's bad news.

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 former 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.

** Also, despite all his diatribe against foreigners, he is descended from one of the criminals who was sent to Australia when it was a prison colony. He seems to acknowledge this, though, and as [[spoiler:Paul]] [[{{Fingore}} learned]], it "pisses him off."

* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInThisWorld:

* TwoKindsOfPeopleInThisWorld:
-->'''Mick:''' You see, in this world, there's people like me and there's people like you. And people like me eat people like you for breakfast and shit 'em out.

* 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 almsot proves to be his undoing]].

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 then 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.

* AxCrazy: Clearly not a man of sound mind, he butchers anyone he comes across in the outback, with the occasional torture and — if his victim is female — rape. However, he displays some capacity for organized thought, at least when it comes to disposing of his victims' bodies and making it look like they just disappeared.

* AxCrazy: Clearly not a man of sound mind, he butchers anyone he comes across in the outback, with the occasional torture and — if his victim is female — rape. However, he displays some capacity for organization, at least when it comes to disposing of his victims' bodies and making it look like they just disappeared.