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[[folder:Stu Macher]]
!!Stu Macher
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stu_scream.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Surprise, Sidney!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewLillard [[note]]Skeet Ulrich was wearing the costume in the scene where Ghostface menaces Randy before killing Kenny, which WordOfGod says was Stu.[[/note]]
->''"You see, Sid, everybody dies but us! Everybody dies but us! We get to carry on and plan the sequel, because let's face it, baby, these days, you gotta have a sequel!"''
Tatum's boyfriend and a classmate of Sidney who is Billy's accomplice in the murder of Maureen Prescott. His motive for both her murder and the events of the first film amounts to little more than peer pressure and simply being crazy.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: While his failures can be attributed to him not being very bright to begin with, it's not helped by the fact that he drinks a bit at his own party even though he has plans to orchestrate a series of murders, and frame a guy. This is something that is noticeably not repeated by his successors.
* TheAlibi: Has one for the murders of Casey and Steve in the form of Tatum, who informs Randy that Stu was with her at the night of the murders. Randy counters that Stu could have killed Casey and Steve before or after visiting Tatum. It is implied that Randy was right, since Stu looks noticeably guilty afterwards, and Tatum resorts to interrogating Randy about ''his'' whereabouts on the night of the murders.
* AxCrazy: Eventually revealed to be one of the Ghostface killers. Overall, he's one of the biggest ForTheEvulz killers in the franchise.
* BarbaricBully: His grotesque enthusiasm in engaging in the killings and him and Billy stabbing each other to makes themselves look like authentic victims qualify him as such.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's probably the goofiest character in all the series. That said, he still efficiently carries out a number of murders, and does it all ForTheEvulz. Even Mickey isn't this goofy or dangerous.
* TheBully: Of the lackey variety, accompanying the main bully within their classic high school/college posse, even if he gets bullied himself amongst the two.
* BullyBrutality: Him taking part in most grisly kills, including the murder of his ex, is a reflection of this.
* CrazyJealousGuy: His motive for murdering Casey and Steve is bitterness over Casey breaking up with him.
* DirtyCoward: His pathetic VillainousBreakdown where he's reduced to bawling like a baby, in contrast to Billy's more aggressive one, confirms him to be this overall.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He brutally murders Casey and her boyfriend for her dumping him.
* TheDragon: Billy's accomplice, assisting him in multiple murders.
* DumbMuscle: It's clear after TheReveal that Stu is just the brawns of the operation, following the more intelligent Billy's lead for the most part. He does come up with the idea to frame Neil Prescott as the culprit for their killing spree, though.
* EntitledToHaveYou: He kills Casey for the sin of dumping him, even though he was dating Tatum at the time of the murder.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: And papas too, possibly. While he'll gladly kill, he doesn't want his parents to know because he's afraid of how angry they'll be at him. Although his reaction's mostly because he doesn't want to get caught, he ''might'' also be scared of breaking their hearts.
-->'''Stu:''' Did you really call the police?\\
'''Sidney:''' You bet your sorry ass I did.\\
'''Stu:''' ''(begins to cry)'' My mom and dad are gonna be ''so mad at me''!
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Heavily downplayed, considering he mostly killed ForTheEvulz, but even he was shocked to hear Billy's mother abandoned him after Sidney's mother had an affair with his father.
* EvilIsBigger: Matthew Lillard is 6'3", the tallest of the main cast of the first film.
* EvilIsHammy: He seemingly goes crazy following TheReveal in a twisted FunPersonified way, but even before that, the ham is barely constrained.
* EvilIsPetty: Besides helping Billy being for his sick [[ForTheEvulz amusement]], he murders his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend out of jealousy.
* EvilLaugh: He lets out a real one when he reveals himself as the killer.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts like a FunPersonified party animal of a PluckyComicRelief, but he's really one of the villains.
* ForTheEvulz: No motive except getting his kicks. Subverted in the case of Casey and Steve, though, since Casey dumped him for Steve.
-->''"Watch a few movies, take a few notes. It was fun!"''
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Randy's line "I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife." Bonus points for the reason why he said it: it was in reply to Stu saying "I'll be right back!" in a mocking voice when he went to the kitchen to grab a beer. Stu said that because, as the killer, he knew he had nothing to fear.
* FrameUp: While Billy came up with most of the plans, it was Stu's idea to pin their crimes on Neil Prescott.
* HeroKiller: Stu murders both [[https://archive.is/AG7BC Casey]] and Steve in the opening scene and kills Kenny while chasing Sidney. He also comes close to stabbing Randy in the back.
* HighVoltageDeath: Electrocuted when Sidney drops a TV on his face.
* IfICantHaveYou: Implied to be his reason for killing Casey Becker and her boyfriend Steve Orth.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: For most of the movie, Stu acts obnoxious and immature, but ultimately seems to be harmless. Once he and Billy are revealed to be the killers, Stu quickly goes from humorous to frightening.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Alongside Billy, Stu had gotten away with his participation as Billy's accomplice in Maureen's murder when they pinned it on Cotton Weary, but a year later, their killing spree in the first movie is brought to an end when Sidney kills them both in self-defense.
* LargeHam: Especially after TheReveal.
* LaughablyEvil: Thanks to Matthew Lillard's LargeHam performance.
* MoreDespicableMinion: While the murder spree was Billy's idea, Stu outdoes him in terms of evilness. It was his idea to murder Casey and Steve, which was probably their most horrific murder. Also, Billy at least has a [[FreudianExcuse somewhat tragic motive]], while Stu is just in it ForTheEvulz.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: He leans on Billy's neck to hang right over his shoulder when they're menacing Sidney in the kitchen. Given that he does the same to Randy in the video store and hangs all over Tatum after the principal lets school out early, it seems to serve as a both an intimidation tactic and possibly a gesture of affection.
* NotQuiteDead: Hinted at by Mindy in ''Scream VI'' when she and Kirby see the television he was electrocuted with. Kirby calls it the TV that killed him, Mindy quickly replies with "if you believe he's dead..."
* OvershadowedByAwesome: While Stu is one of the original Ghostfaces and came up with some of the plans[[note]]Attacking Casey and Steve was his idea, and he chose Neil Prescott as the FallGuy.[[/note]], Billy was the leader of the duo and is consequently the one most people remember as Ghostface.
** ''Scream 2'': When Mickey [[EvilGloating starts bragging about his plan]], he compares himself to Billy.
** ''Scream 3'': Roman mostly talks about how he inspired Billy. In contrast, he regards Stu as the disposable accomplice Billy could blame if things went wrong.
** ''Scream 4'': Charlie was so focused on making Trevor the new Billy Loomis that he forgot that a true remake would need a new Stu Macher too, which is why he was [[DidntSeeThatComing unprepared for Jill's betrayal]].
** ''Scream 5'':
*** When the new Ghostface quizzes Tara on the identity of the first Ghostface, Tara, who only saw ''Stab'' once many years ago, quickly recalls Billy but forgets that Stu was also Ghostface.
*** It's implied that Richie and Amber see Billy as the more important Ghostface. Notably, they went out of their way to trick Billy's daughter Sam into returning to Woodsboro so that they could frame her as the requel Ghostface when it would have been easier to frame Stu's nephew Vince, a local Woodsboro resident, as the requel Ghostface.
** Finally averted in ''Scream VI'' where Quinn (who wears Stu's mask to commit her own murders) states that Stu was actually her favorite killer. Kirby also takes a moment to marvel at the TV that killed Stu, which she later uses to dispatch Ethan.
* PsychoExBoyfriend: To Casey. They dated before the films started, and he murders her in the opening.
* PsychopathicManchild: Really immature, and comes off as a crazy, sadistic kid. Notably, when he learns he's been exposed, his first thought is how angry his parents will be.
* {{Sadist}}: Billy at least had some kind of sympathetic motive for his crimes, however inexcusable they were. Stu seems to have killed for no other reason than sheer pleasure.
* SayingTooMuch: After Sidney rhetorically questions how someone can gut another person, Stu enthusiastically describes how to gut a human body. He probably would have given himself away as the killer if not for Billy's quick interference.
* SkewedPriorities: When Stu is bleeding out from his stab wounds and Sidney informs him that she's just called the police, the last thing that should've been on his mind would be how mad his parents were going to be when they found out.
* SlashedThroat: He slits Kenny's throat while trying to attack Sidney.
* SmugSnake: Like Billy, but he's the dumber and less efficient of the duo, so he comes across as even more smug.
* TapOnTheHead: Slams Sidney's head against the floor to stun her during the attack in her house.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Trolled by Sidney with his own Ghostface phone antics after she escapes.
* TeensAreMonsters: One of the two killers in the first film, and is virtually [[CardCarryingVillain card-carryingly psychotic]] after TheReveal.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He tries to invoke this as an excuse when he blames his crimes on "peer pressure" from Billy.
* VillainousBreakdown: He bawls like a baby when Sidney reveals to them that she has called the police on him and Billy.
-->''"My mom and dad are going to be so mad at me..."''
* WrongGenreSavvy: Played with. Stu believes that he and Billy are the [[InvincibleVillain invincible slasher villains]] that can never die and therefore can return for the sequels. While Stu is correct in assuming that he is in a slasher movie, the slasher movie in question is a DeconstructiveParody, which means he and Billy definitely don't have the supernatural powers of, say, Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees to cheat death.
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[[folder:Mickey Altieri]]
!!Mickey Altieri
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"That's what Billy was good at. He knew it was all about... execution."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TimothyOlyphant
->''"I'm gonna blame the movies. It's pretty cool, huh? It hasn't been done before. You see, this is just the beginning, a prelude to the trial. That's where the real fun is, because these days, it's all about the trial. Could you see it? The effects of cinema violence on society. I'll get [[Creator/OJSimpson Dershowitz or Cochran]] to represent me, UsefulNotes/BobDole on the witness stand in my defense. Hell, the [[MoralGuardians Christian Coalition]] will pay my legal fees!"''
A Windsor College student and Nancy Loomis' accomplice, Mickey sought to become famous as a result of the killing spree, hoping for a sensationalized trial where he would claim that he, horror buff that he is, was driven to kill due to watching too many violent movies.
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* FifteenMinutesOfFame: Became Ghostface and did the killings intending to be caught and subsequently gain fame and a trial, where he planned to blame horror films for his rampage.
* AllegoricalCharacter: Mickey fits the idea of a movie sequel. He not only wants to cash in on the success of the first outing but also wants to outdo it as well through SequelEscalation. This results in him performing bigger, riskier stunts such as killing Maureen and Phil in public, taking on two trained cops at once, surpassing the body count of Billy and Stu with Nancy's help, and purposefully surrendering to the police (or at least that was the plan).
* AttentionWhore: He killed simply so he could stand trial for it afterwards and bask in the limelight.
* AxCrazy: The only Ghostface who was already an active serial killer before ever getting involved in the Ghostface biz.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He acted nice and caring towards Sidney before TheReveal.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: The result of his MultipleGunshotDeath when Sidney and Gale shoot the hell out of him after he tries for one more jumpscare attack (also counts as LaserGuidedKarma after he nearly shoots Gale in his initial death throes).
* CardCarryingVillain: Mickey is noteworthy for being the only Ghostface to openly acknowledge and relish in their villainy. He makes no attempt to excuse, downplay, or ignore his violent behavior and gleefully looks forward to the fame he believes his trial will spark. While there have been other killers who've displayed giddy behavior after the reveal, Stu has the weak excuse of "peer pressure" and Ethan is implied to be an incel who acts just as much out of frustration as he does violent urges. Mickey lacks even the weakest of excuses, having already been a serial killer before becoming Ghostface.
-->'''Sidney''': "You're psychotic!"
-->'''Mickey''': "Yeah, well, sshh. That'll be our little secret."
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Billy. While Billy was a bit abrasive and short-tempered even before he was revealed as the killer, Mickey makes a point of seeming perfectly charming and harmless. Billy had a motive for his actions, if admittedly a fairly flimsy one, while Mickey is only interested in achieving fame. While Billy planned to get away with it by making himself and Stu look like victims, Mickey ''wants'' to get caught so he can achieve notoriety. Whereas Billy explicitly shot down the idea that movies made him go on a killing spree, Mickey fully intends on using this as his legal defense.
* CopKiller: Murders Officers Andrews and Richards.
* CopycatKiller: Like most Ghostfaces, Mickey is a copycat of Billy and Stu, but his objective of getting the trial of the century is [[RippedFromTheHeadlines inspired by the contemporary O.J. Simpson trial]]. Mickey states that he will hire Dershowitz and Cochran, members of Simpson's Dream Team, to defend him.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: It never occurred to Mickey that his grand plan of becoming famous by standing trial for his crimes might not be to the liking of his accomplice, who ''doesn't'' want to be implicated for her role in the killings. His planned defense is likewise ill-conceived; even Mrs. Loomis, who is only marginally saner than Mickey, never believed it would work.
* TheDragon: To Debbie Salt, also known as Mrs. Loomis. She paid for his college tuition and essentially nurtured him into being her accomplice, and he more or less follows her directions throughout the film. He's also the scapegoat she intends to blame the murders on after killing Sidney.
* DragonTheirFeet: Survives Mrs. Loomis by scant seconds, popping up for one last scare.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: As Ghostface, he takes Sidney, Hallie, and Officer Richards on a wild car ride, Richards clinging onto the hood for dear life. The ride ends when Ghostface crashes the car into a construction site, sending a pipe through Richards' head.
* EvilCounterpart: Mickey is one to Cotton Weary in ''Scream 2''. Both of them are {{Attention Whore}}s looking for their FifteenMinutesOfFame and threaten Sidney to get those fifteen minutes. Mickey and Cotton are also suspects for Ghostface and end up killing at least one person: As Ghostface, Mickey murders plenty of innocent people while Cotton kills Nancy, the other Ghostface.
* EvilIsPetty: Mickey wants to get famous, and considers that worth any number of innocent lives.
* FameThroughInfamy: He ''wants'' to get caught so that he can have the trial of the century for his crimes, putting himself at the center of political debates about violence in the media.
* FauxAffablyEvil: A very nice and charming student, until he unmasks himself as Ghostface to Sidney and Derek, yet acts like a thrill-seeking FunPersonified party animal in reaction to his kills. He originally was intended to be straight-up affable, not a killer at all.
* ForTheEvulz: Unlike every other Ghostface (apart from Jill), Mickey freely cops to the fact he's just murdering people because he likes it and the idea of being an infamous serial killer.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: During the final confrontation, Mickey has a large cut on his forehead from crashing the police car.
* HeroicBuild: {{Exploited}}. Mickey's muscular build is similar to that of his victim Phil, which allows the masked Mickey to disguise as him after stealing Phil's jacket.
* HeroKiller: Murders everyone in the film except Randy.
* KickTheDog: Murdering Derek in front of Sidney, after claiming that Derek was his partner, all just to make her feel even ''worse'' about his death.
* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: Unlike Mrs. Loomis, Mickey is a true left-hander and grips the knife with his left hand when stabbing his victims. In one deleted scene, Derek pointed out that both Mickey and Ghostface were left-handed.
* LaughablyEvil: Like Stu above, he acts like ComicBook/TheJoker as Ghostface.
* LoveInterestTraitor: Mickey has [[ShipTease some playful flirtation]] with Hallie, who he later kills.
* MadeOfIron: Somehow managed to survive Mrs. Loomis's gunshots and get up to his feet [[ContinuityNod for one last scare]]. It takes [[MultipleGunshotDeath a barrage of gunfire]] from Sidney and Gale to knock him down. He also survives crashing a car into a construction site.
* ManipulativeBastard: Mickey goes out of his way to plant doubts in Sidney's mind about Derek's trustworthiness, even flat-out claiming Derek to be his partner during the climax, all to psychologically torment Sidney and make her feel that much worse when Mickey kills Derek.
* MoreDespicableMinion: Self-centered as it is, Mrs. Loomis at least has the motive of trying to avenge her son. Mickey killed simply because he enjoyed it and wanted to get famous.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: How he ultimately dies, courtesy of Sidney and Gale.
* MurderSimulators: Invoked with his plan, which was to get caught and, at the trial, blame violent horror movies for turning him into a psycho killer, earning him sympathetic media, legal attention, and quite possibly a light sentence.
* NotQuiteDead: After Cotton saves Sidney by shooting Mrs. Loomis dead, Mickey suddenly springs up back to life. He suffers a MultipleGunshotDeath from Sidney and Gale for his trouble.
* {{Sadist}}: Just look at the way he murders Maureen and Derek.
* SerialKiller: Notable in that he was ''already'' an active one before becoming Ghostface, which means that his total body count is much higher than what is seen on screen. Mrs. Loomis recruited him for this reason.
* SignificantNameOverlap: As part of his "blaming violent movies" motive, he murders people who share the same names as the Woodsboro victims from the [[Film/Scream1996 original Ghostface killing spree]] in a similar order. However, this is dropped after Mrs. Loomis kills Randy, presumably because Loomis, the leader of the two, had a plan to target Sidney later that night, so there would be no time for Mickey to find other similarly-named victims.
* SwordAndGun: He arms himself with both a pistol and Ghostface's signature knife in his final confrontation with Sidney.
* UnwittingPawn: Mrs. Loomis easily duped Mickey into believing that their killings would lead to him winning fame through an inevitable trial for his crimes. As soon as she had Sidney in her crosshairs, however, Mrs. Loomis gunned Mickey down, having never believed his "blame the movies" defense would work and only using him as muscle and as a useful scapegoat.
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[invoked]] Mickey is under the impression that his and Mrs. Loomis's killing spree is the EvenBetterSequel to Billy and Stu's rampage. In reality, most ''Stab'' fans consider ''Stab 2'', the film based off he and Mrs. Loomis's killing spree, to be a ContestedSequel, a solid entry that is superior to every ''Stab'' movie made after ''Stab 3'' but not necessarily superior to the original one.
-->'''Mickey:''' Just wait until the trial. It is gonna ''rock''!
-->'''Mrs. Loomis:''' Oh Mickey, there's not going to be a trial.
* YoureInsane: Both Sidney (who calls Mickey "psychotic" to his face) and Mrs. Loomis express a (justifiably) low opinion of Mickey's sanity.
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[[folder:Charlie Walker]]
!!Charlie Walker
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charlie_walker_killer.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is making a move."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/RoryCulkin
->''"You know, you learn a lot when you watch movies over and over. All the plots are about trying to kill you!"''
Charlie was secretly dating Jill, and planned on becoming the Randy of the killings to Jill's Sidney, the geeky guy who makes it out alive.
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* AlasPoorVillain: While he was a sadistic murderer, his death is almost pitiable. He is visibly devastated at Jill's betrayal and dies a slow, agonizing death as he bleeds out on the floor. Even Sidney seems horrified, calling Jill out afterwards on becoming so fame-hungry that even her only ally is disposable to her.
* AllForNothing: His desire to become one half of a power couple with Jill ends up being for naught as she ruthlessly kills him to take the spotlight for herself. He spends his final moments realizing he killed his friends and threw his life away for absolutely nothing.
* AssholeVictim: A particularly unique example of this trope, since he's one of the killers!
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's really ''not'' nice. At all.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's not the nerdy timid guy he appears to be.
* BlamingTheVictim: After stabbing Kirby ([[UngratefulBastard immediately after she desperately tried to save his life]]), he blames it on her for not reciprocating his crush sooner.
* TheBully: He's not as mean-spirited as the other Ghostfaces, though. He even explains the rules of surviving this movie to his potential victims, though of course it doesn't help most of them in the end.
* BullyBrutality: He delivers some of the most vicious deaths in the series. He ends up crippling Jenny and stabbing Perkins deep in the forehead, and that's not even including his disembowelment of Olivia.
* CopKiller: Charlie murders police officers Hoss and Perkins and takes one of their handguns. He then drives the police car two blocks away to hide their bodies.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: As a huge movie buff who's also a little bit of a nerd and has sexual/romantic feelings for Sidney archetype Jill, he closely resembles Randy. But Randy wasn't actually the killer and could usually be counted on to help or save Sidney.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: A movie fanboy DoggedNiceGuy like Randy... who, in fact, is not nice at all, and is every bit as self-absorbed and EntitledToHaveYou as you'd expect.
* TheDragon: He is Jill's accomplice.
* EntitledToHaveYou: His actual attitude towards Kirby, whom he feels should've noticed him in the four years they had classes together, instead of just as a killing spree committed by him had started. He tells her this as he is stabbing her.
* EtTuBrute: He does seem to have loved Jill, judging by his visibly devastated reaction to her betrayal.
* EvilCounterpart: To Randy, the MetaGuy and horror film geek. Unlike Randy, who was just a harmless PluckyComicRelief and a DoggedNiceGuy, Charlie is (to loosely quote Billy in the first film) a "movie freak whose mind lost its reality button" and who feels entitled to Kirby's affections.
* EvilIsPetty: As he stabs Kirby, Charlie takes a moment to criticise her for only taking an interest in him recently, as opposed to a few years earlier when he first developed a crush on her.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Even more so than his accomplice Jill and the previous Ghostfaces. To the point where he can be considered the OnlySaneMan amongst the killers, as he does seem to feel remorse for stabbing Kirby.
* HeroKiller: After the reveal, Charlie brags about murdering Jenny, Marnie, Olivia, and Robbie and takes credit for the murders of Officer Hoss and Officer Perkins by showing off the handgun he took from them. He also almost kills Gale and Kirby.
* {{Irony}}: Sidney notes that Charlie is similar to Stu in that both of them are the less intelligent lackeys following the plans of Jill and Billy respectively. However, as Jill stabs Charlie to death, she informs him that she intends to frame him as the "ideas man", which would make Charlie the next generation's Billy Loomis (and Trevor the new Stu) if Jill's frame job was successful.
* KarmicDeath: He rejects Kirby's love for him and stabs her two times in the stomach before leaving her to die. Five minutes later, his actual girlfriend Jill kills him by stabbing him twice and reveals that she has always intended to betray him.
* LaughablyEvil: While not as much of a LargeHam as his predecessors Stu and Mickey, and more mellow then the other Ghostfaces, he's still much a quirky nerd, especially when he preps himself to get stabbed to appear as a victim by slapping himself in the face, before Jill double-crosses and kills him to take the sole spotlight.
* LoveInterestTraitor: He betrays Kirby, who did return his feelings, but "too late" according to him.
* MetaGuy: Of the Ghostfaces so far, he is the only one to explain the new slasher rules to his victims.
* TheNapoleon: At 5'6", he's one of the shortest guys in the film. He's also a psychopathic killer.
* OhCrap: The look on his face when he realizes that Jill's plan wasn't for him to join her in fame and fortune, but for him to be the new Stu Macher, says it all.
* OutOfFocus: The Ghostface with the least amount of screen time post-reveal.
* PetTheDog: His apparent genuine remorse at having stabbed Kirby to please Jill.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Betrays and kills his friends at the behest of Jill, who then betrays and kills him.
* SayingTooMuch: Since Charlie is one of the two Randy {{Expies}} explaining the rules, he pretty much gives away his plan of recording the murders and publishing them online. That said, Charlie is able to avoid the usual consequences because Robbie, the other Randy expy, is a livestreaming vlogger with an apparently sizable following, making him the more suspicious one of the two.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Even after TheReveal, he doesn't really raise his voice, [[EvilIsHammy unlike previous killers and his partner Jill]]. He's perhaps the only Ghostface to be one until Jason Carvey in the sixth film.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He states that he's going to be the next Randy to Jill's Sidney during TheReveal. As Sidney notes, however, he is much like Stu, which leads to his death by Jill. This also makes him a substitute to Mickey, based on his film knowledge and getting offed by the BigBad, except he doesn't survive for the last scare.
* SycophanticServant: Charlie is definitely a follower, as he is willing to kill his friends to serve his master Jill.
* TeensAreMonsters: A willing accomplice in Jill's murderous scheme.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Jill, until she disposes of him.
* UnwittingPawn: Jill used Charlie as a willing accomplice, but never intended on sharing the spotlight with him; when the moment comes to "fake" their injuries, Jill [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness fatally stabs him in the heart]].
* WithFriendsLikeThese: One of the more notable cases, as he seems pretty much inseparable from Robbie due to their shared interests. Not only does Charlie murder Robbie, he also records a video of it and brags about it to Jill. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves Jill in turn kills him and]] [[LaserGuidedKarma pretty much does the same.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: How he manages to trick Kirby into coming out of her house to "save" him. Then, he (non-fatally) stabs her.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: As soon as they run out of targets and the final act arrives, Jill kills him so she can come out the other side as the sole survivor. He's the second Ghostface [[TheDragon Dragon]] to get killed by the partner, after Mickey Altieri in ''Scream 2'', but he stays dead, unlike Mickey.
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[[folder:Amber Freeman]]
!!Amber Freeman
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MikeyMadison
->''"See, we had to bring the legacy characters back to make it matter. Can't have a bonafide Halloween without Jamie Lee!"''
Growing up in the former home of Stu Macher made Amber obsessed with the Woodsboro murders and the ''Stab'' films. Just as outraged by ''Stab 8'' as Richie was, she helps bring him to Woodsboro in the fifth film to carry out their murderous scheme to "fix" the franchise.
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* AllThereInTheScript: An early script confirms she killed the security guard protecting Tara as Richie was still in the motel around this time and only went to the hospital because Sam told him to check on Tara.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Amber is hinted to be in a relationship with Richie, with the two calling each other "hon" and "baby" multiple times, in a UnholyMatrimony-like situation. However, she is very touchy-feely and close with Tara beyond even being a "best friend", actually naming IfICantHaveYou as a potential reason to have attacked her. In an earlier draft of the film, Tara and Amber were even girlfriends; however, this was ultimately removed, leaving her romantic preferences for either a massive question mark.
* ArchEnemy: Since she killed Dewey and backstabbed Tara, Amber ends up as one for both Gale and Tara. Sidney acknowledges this while handing Gale the pistol for the final blow. When Amber comes back for one last scare, Tara finishes her off.
* AttackTheInjury: When Gale throttles her, Amber jams her fingers into her gunshot wound to get Gale off her.
* AxCrazy: Amber commits most of the murders in the film and still tries to kill Gale, Sidney, and Sam even after being ''burned alive''.
* BatmanGambit:
** Amber lures Tara outside the front door, where Richie is standing, by texting Tara a deceptive video of Ghostface stalking Amber.
** Amber later leads Chad outside by hacking Liv's phone and sending him a message to have him come find "Liv."
** After revealing herself as one of the killers, Amber wears the Father Death costume to pretend that she is the second killer, which allows Richie to ambush Sam and take Sidney's gun.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She is the youngest Ghostface (in terms of an absolute timeline) so far. She hadn't even been conceived yet during the original trilogy.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Amber appears to be Tara's closest friend, but in reality, she wounds Tara severely, and orchestrates (with Richie) the deaths of several people.
* BoobsOfSteel: Unlike the previous female Ghostfaces, Amber has more of a bust and is a DarkActionGirl.
* BoomHeadshot: Amber reveals that she is one of the Ghostface killers by shooting Liv in the head. Later, Amber is finally finished off with a gunshot through the head by Tara.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The only reason Tara survives both of Amber's attacks is because she and Richie need her alive but wounded and vulnerable to lure Sam to Woodsboro for their plan, by taking advantage of her BigSisterInstinct towards Tara.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** To Stu Macher, the lead killer's accomplice, a comparison that is capped off by the fact that they lived in the same house.
*** Stu has the outward veneer of a sociable, yet obnoxious, party animal with a serious lack of tact, while Amber presents herself as an empathetic and intelligent DeadpanSnarker who is sensitive to her friends' needs.
*** Both are obsessed with slasher films, though only Amber's motive is directly tied to them (wanting to revive the ''Stab'' franchise with new "source material"), while Stu's motive is a combination of ForTheEvulz (as he claims) and to get back at his ex-girlfriend, while also taking some lesser inspiration from slasher flicks.
*** Stu had an antagonistic relationship with [[BadBoss Billy]] (with possible HomoeroticSubtext within their interactions), while Amber seems to get on well with her partner-in-crime Richie because of their similar motivations (and with confirmed [[UnholyMatrimony romantic undertones]]) - even if Amber acts more like the muscle of the operation than Richie does.
*** Both are AxCrazy with extremely petty motives and lackluster justifications for their actions. Stu claims to have committed his deeds because of "peer pressure" by Billy, though he is also implied to have had an IfICantHaveYou motive when it came to killing Casey and Steve. Meanwhile, Amber's motives deal with her dissatisfaction with the direction her favorite film franchise was heading, and decided to give the franchise new "source material" to work with, though she later tries to cover her ass by saying that she was "radicalized" by toxic Internet message boards. Regardless, both prove merciless and sadistic towards their victims, whom they either know or are even friends of/lovers with.
*** Whereas Stu reveals his true identity as Ghostface after Billy does, Amber takes Billy's place in the reveal order, even shooting someone just like Billy did.
*** Both prove to be a DirtyCoward when they are confronted with their crimes, and yet both of them are DefiantToTheEnd as they try to kill the remaining characters. However, Stu is still the first of the two between him and Billy to die, whereas Amber ever so briefly outlives her boss Richie.
** To Charlie Walker, the previous Ghostface accomplice. Both Amber and Charlie play the henchman role to Richie and Jill respectively and are obsessed ''Stab'' fans. However, while Charlie likes ''all'' of the ''Stab'' movies, Amber only likes the first ''Stab''. In addition, it is hinted that Amber doesn't like the contemporary trend of elevated horror whereas Charlie enjoys classic horror movies like ''Film/Suspiria1977'' and ''Film/DontLookNow'', both of which would be considered elevated horror in modern times. And while Charlie is disposed of by Jill as a mere pawn, Amber is treated as an equal in her and Richie's scheme, with neither of them backstabbing each other.
* CopKiller: She murders the lone cop guarding Tara in the hospital. A little later, she successfully kills ex-sheriff Dewey Riley after previous Ghostfaces failed to do so.
* [[CrazyJealousGuy Crazy Jealous Girl]]: She clearly dislikes Sam, who is dating Richie, but is much warmer around Richie, even though they supposedly hadn't met before. When she's revealed to be Richie's ''real'' girlfriend (probably -- which is confirmed by Sam in ''Film/ScreamVI'') and partner-in-crime, her attitudes towards Sam and Richie suddenly make a lot more sense.
* CrazyPrepared: She wears a BulletproofVest while infiltrating the hospital as insurance against the cops defending the hospital. It later comes in handy when Dewey unloads three bullets into her torso.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the most prolonged, painful, and ignominious in the history of the series. Amber is beaten, shot, and her face gets burned alive on an oven stove, ''melting'' half of it. She still survives long enough to try killing the heroes one more time in delirious agony before being shot to death. What seals it is that Amber goes down [[VillainsWantMercy pathetically begging and sobbing for her life]], mercy that the heroes empathetically don't grant:
-->'''Amber''': Wait, wait, ''wait, no!'' I-I'm sorry about Dewey!
-->'''Gale''': ''Fuck'' you. (''guns her down'')
* DarkActionGirl: Amber is the Ghostface that kills most of the victims in the fifth movie in brutal fashion, and is distinctly the muscle between her and Richie. She also puts up a fight against Sidney and Gale in the finale, though is eventually overpowered and taken down.
* DeathByDisfigurement: By the time she's finally killed, half her face has been burnt off. Her flesh has visibly ''melted'' in the shot we get of her charging at Sam, Gale, and Sidney.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite being shot several times and being severely burned, Amber still attempts to kill Sam, Gale, and Sidney, only stopped when Tara lands a headshot on her.
* DirtyCoward: When backed into a corner, she attempts to bargain with the heroes, claiming that she's an innocent victim who was merely radicalized on the internet. They don't buy it for a second.
* DragonInChief: If an interview with Radio Silence is any indication, Amber was not only the one who did most of the legwork in the film, but is also the one who actually came up with the idea for a killing spree whereas Richie only ''believes'' it was his plan, with Amber being content to lead from behind. Given nothing in the film supports this, it's ambiguous how true it really is.
* DragonTheirFeet: Though she and Richie act more like partners than any Ghostface duo before them, Richie is still the central Ghostface given the bulk of the MotiveRant and the final confrontation with Sam in the climax, referring to their plan as "his" movie and giving Amber orders she follows with little complaint. She still survives him by a few seconds after getting half her face burnt off, attempting one last time to kill everyone before Tara anticlimactically shoots her brains out.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Much like her predecessor Jill, Amber is a pale-skinned, murderous brunette.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One of her legitimate admirable qualities is not only her VillainousFriendship with Richie is seemingly genuine, but there appears to be UnholyMatrimony ShipTease between the two.
* EvilGloating: Amber does this to Gale, taking delight in killing Dewey. Gale responds by punching her out.
* EvilVirtues: One of the few admirable things is that her VillainousFriendship with Richie is genuine.
* FalseFriend: To Tara who believes Amber is her best friend. It's unknown if the friendship was ever genuine on Amber's part but she is undeniably this by the time of the film.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Her VillainousFriendship with Richie is genuine and there is even hints of UnholyMatrimony ShipTease between the two. She's also a completely ruthless killer who has no problems gleefully mocking Dewey's death to Gale's face.
* ForTheEvulz: She gloats about Dewey's death purely to spite Gale.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Similar to Roman Bridger, Amber throws suspicion off herself by texting Tara from a cloned phone with her name as the sender. Sheriff Hicks clears Amber as a suspect when she checks Amber's cell phone records and finds them free of any evidence of this.
* TheHeavy: She's the one who commits most of the murders and attacks in the fifth film.
* HeroKiller: No other Ghostface in the series can say they killed Dewey Riley; Amber even declares that "it's an honor" after doing so. She also puts a bullet in Liv's head during her reveal. Amber almost kills Dewey's ex-wife Gale and Chad as well.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Parodied. When cornered by the heroes, Amber cries and claims that she was radicalized on the Internet, expressing remorse for her actions. They don't believe her, and it's all an act.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Claims that Dewey "died like a pussy," and yet has the gall to plead with Sidney and Gale once they gain the upper hand on her.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: She stabs Vince in the throat and watches him bleed out.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Amber is aloof at times, but initially seems to be a good friend to Tara and very protective of her, which informs her dislike of Sam (because of her criminal history and her previous abandonment of Tara). Then she turns out to be one of the killers, and is specifically the one who wounded Tara inside her home in the first place.
* KarmicDeath: After brutally murdering Dewey and sadistically gloating about it to Gale, she's beaten up, shot by Gale (with Dewey's gun), and catches fire from the stove behind her. When she gets back up shortly after Richie's death, Tara, the first victim she attacked and attempted to kill in the hospital (and the one whose life Dewey died saving), is the one who kills her by shooting her in the head.
* KickTheDog:
** Amber mocks Sam and Tara's mother's alcoholism during the MotiveRant towards the end of the film.
** She also mocks Dewey's death (caused by her), saying that he "died like a pussy", and taunts Gale with the fact that she was the last thing Dewey saw before he died.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: She goes after Tara in the hospital, after she's been left wheelchair-bound and is still recovering from the injuries she sustained from her initial attack (which Amber herself was the perpetrator of) at the beginning of the film.
* LaughablyEvil: She and Richie are a riot due to their LargeHam tendencies after TheReveal. Amber even jokingly hums PsychoStrings while pretending to aim her knife at Sidney.
* LoonyFan: Like Richie, her motive is her possessive fixation on ''Stab''. In Amber's case, it was an obsession that started when her parents bought the house that the Macher family originally lived in.
* MadeOfIron: Even after getting burned alive, she's still ready to try and murder the remaining survivors, and is only brought down by a headshot.
* ManOnFire: Sidney smashes a bottle of hand sanitizer on her head, and eventually gets her to accidentally set off the stove, lighting her ablaze. Remarkably, it's not enough to kill her.
* ManipulativeBitch: At the start of the film, Amber makes herself look like a potential victim of Ghostface by sending a video to Tara in order to get her out of the house. Additionally, Amber's suspicions of Sam because of her DarkAndTroubledPast are meant to look like concern for Tara's well-being (and to make Sam look like a RedHerring). Overall, Amber makes herself look like a good friend, all the while planting seeds of distrust against Sam to throw attention off herself and Richie and make the intended plan of a FrameUp against Sam look plausible.
* MilesGloriosus: Amber brags about killing Dewey, and taunts Gale by telling her she was the last thing he saw before he died, but she begs for mercy once she's cornered by Sidney and Gale, even "apologizing" for Dewey's death.
* NeverMyFault: While crying for Gale and Sidney to spare her life, Amber claims to have been radicalized on the Internet, and is not to blame for her actions. Naturally, neither Sidney nor Gale are buying it, and Amber herself probably doesn't believe it and is just saying whatever comes to mind to try and save her own neck.
* NotQuiteDead: Sidney and Gale's confrontation with Amber ends with Gale shooting Amber and setting her on fire when she falls onto the lit stove behind her. After Sam dispatches Richie and shoots his corpse several times, Amber gets back up and rushes towards Sam, Sidney, and Gale with a knife, before quickly being dispatched by a headshot from Tara.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: She's in her late teens and TheBabyOfTheBunch, in contrast to Sidney in her forties and Dewey and Gale in their fifties.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Amber kills Vince, a creepy man who was stalking Liv and pulled a knife on Chad when he tried to stick up for Liv.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She puts up a solid fight against Dewey and holds her own with Sidney and Gale in the climax.
* RasputinianDeath: Even by Ghostface standards, Amber takes a ''lot'' of punishment before she goes down for good, managing to live through gunshots (albeit blunted by a bulletproof vest), a beating from both Gale and Sidney, a bottle being smashed into her face, a gunshot, and being set on fire before a bullet to the head finally ends her life.
* {{Sadist}}:
** Her attack on Tara in the opening of the film exemplifies her sadistic brutality, as she stabs her seven times, breaks her ankle, impales her palm, and throws her against the ground--all the while tormenting her via phone threats. And Tara was supposedly ''her best friend''. Not to mention that Tara thought ''Amber'' herself was in danger, and was coming to rescue her.
** She and Richie both accuse Liv of being the killer during a tense moment after Mindy is attacked at Amber's house. Since they had planned their third act killer reveal at the party well in advance, this could only be just to enjoy Liv desperately pleading her innocence. And it is since Amber shoots her in the head in front of everyone mere moments after.
** Her murder of Vince is both simple and sadistic in its execution. She sneaks up on him while he's distracted, stabs him once in the neck, and watches him slowly bleed out—while clearly relishing the moment.
* SlashedThroat: This is how she takes out the cop guarding Tara.
* SmugSnake: Arguably the biggest example out of any of the Ghostfaces; when she has the upper hand, Amber has a smug grin on her face and gloats about her crimes, but the second she's at a disadvantage, she starts begging for mercy and coming up with hollow excuses for what she's done.
* TeensAreMonsters: She's about seventeen years old, and commits several murders. She might not be the deadliest of all the killers, but like Richie, she is arguably the pettiest and amongst the most sadistic.
* TwoFaced: Amber's not-quite-fatal immolation leaves half her face burnt to a crisp. Thanks to Tara, she didn't have to live with the disfigurement for long.
* VillainRespect: Subverted; as she's killing Dewey, Amber tells him "it's an honor", but once she has Gale at her mercy, Amber is bragging about how Dewey "died like a pussy".
* VillainousValor: Not only is she a {{Determinator}} like her predecessors to see the success of her scheme go through and does one LastStand of a berserker charge, but still keeps her VillainousFriendship with Richie up even when their plan is thwarted.
* VillainsWantMercy: She alternates between attempting to kill Sidney and Gale, and then begging them to have mercy on her when they overpower her during their confrontation. Her murder of Dewey makes this a cowardly, futile attempt to save herself from Gale's revenge, with Gale responding by shooting and ''[[ManOnFire immolating]]'' her.
* WaifFu: Amber is only 5'3" with a slender frame, easily making her one of the smallest people to don the Ghostface persona. Nevertheless, she kills at least four people [[HeroKiller including Dewey]], and wounds several others in gruesome fashion.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Amber has Tara dead to rights two times at Tara's own house and at the hospital, yet she instead settles for torturing her. It's {{justified|Trope}} as Amber and Richie need Tara alive, albeit severely injured, to lure Sam back into Woodsboro long enough for their plan to work.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Richie and Amber's killing spree commences with Amber attacking Tara, her supposed best friend, putting her in the hospital by stabbing her multiple times and breaking her leg. Later on, Amber also menaces Tara in the hospital as well, when she's vulnerable in a wheelchair, but Dewey fends her off. Plus, her overall plan is basically to kill off her friends in order to "revive" her favorite film franchise with Amber herself killing Liv and seriously injuring Chad.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Tries to pull this on Sidney and Gale. When they see right through it, she pulls out her gun and starts shooting.
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[[folder:Ethan Bailey]]
!! Ethan Bailey (alias: Ethan Landry)
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!!! '''Played By''': Creator/JackChampion
->''"Mindy was right. It was easy to juke the roommate lottery. I mean, all I had to do to meet you is room with a conceited, condescending alpha'' literally ''named Chad."''
Chad's college roommate and the brother of the late Richie Kirsch. Ethan is one third of a new trio of Ghostfaces along with his father Wayne and older sister Quinn.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Of Tara.
** He at one point yells that he's wanted to "stick something in" her for a while. Tara [[AttackTheMouth pays him in kind]].
** At another point, she yells "Fuck you!" at him, and he invites her to "go ahead."
* AffablyEvil: Despite being TheUnfavorite, he and his sister and father are more akin to a dysfunctional family than a gang of sociopathic killers. They also seem to genuinely care for each other, treating their murder attempt on Sam and Tara as having family fun time.
* TheAlibi: Ethan keeps bringing up his Econ alibi when the others point out his absence during the apartment murders. Given the confirmation that he is the one responsible for the apartment murders, it is suggested that either he didn't have an economics class that night, skipped said class, or [[ExactWords went to class but still had enough time to act as Ghostface]].
* AttackTheMouth: Tara stabs him through the mouth and twists the knife.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Ethan is the youngest of the three Bailey siblings.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Although Mindy immediately pegs him as a suspect, Ethan keeps up a facade as a stuttering, soft-spoken nice guy, the complete opposite of his genuine, sadistic personality.
* BloodFromTheMouth: When he comes back for one last scare, he's yelling with blood from the mouth.
* TheBrute: Between him and his sister, he's the most eager to indulge in violence following TheReveal. Even his own family seem to regard him as little more than extra muscle in their scheme. Fittingly enough, he is also the tallest of the trio.
* CallBack: Ethan's characterization provide several nods to Stu Macher, a killer from the first film. He tells the heroic Tara that he's always wanted to stick something in her while trying to kill her, much like how Stu, in a similar struggle with the heroic Sidney, told her, "I've always had a thing for ya, Sid!" He also comes back briefly after the heroes have thought they killed him, and dies once and for all by getting a TV (the ''same'' TV used to kill Stu, even) smashed over his head.
* CoDragons: He, along with Quinn, are Bailey's accomplices in the sixth film's murder spree.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Tara stabs him deep in the mouth and twists the knife. However, he still has some energy to try and attack Tara and Sam, only for Kirby to drop a television set (the very same set that fried Stu Macher, no less) on his head, crushing it and killing him for good.
* DragonTheirFeet: In franchise tradition, he comes back for one last scare after Bailey is killed.
* EvilGloating: After stabbing Tara in the side, he yells out "Gotcha!" before she stabs him through the mouth.
* EvilIsPetty: While stabbing Kirby, he makes sure to aim for exactly the spot where Charlie had stabbed her twelve years prior, even using Charlie's old knife to do it.
* FalseFriend: He pretends to be Chad's friend, but, in addition to secretly being one of the killers, Ethan admits that he actually hates him, considering him a JerkJock (more out of incel-esque jealousy than anything else) and gleefully reveling in having "[[NotQuiteDead killed]]" him.
* {{Foil}}: Ethan doesn't have much luck with the ladies and even claims to be a virgin. This is in contrast to his "sex-positive" sister Quinn and brother Richie, who was able to attract the likes of Sam and Amber.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Ethan is constantly undermined by his friends even before TheReveal, and everyone quickly believes he's the likeliest candidate to be Ghostface based on [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]]. Even his father seems to view him as an afterthought.
* GreenEyedMonster: The reason why Ethan stabbed Chad nearly to death is, among other things, because he's envious of his success with girls; Tara in particular. [[IfICantHaveYou Though he eventually goes on to attempt the same thing on Tara]].
* HeroKiller: Radio Silence stated in an [[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/scream-6-spoilers-explained-directors-neve-campbell-stu-1235548929/ interview]] that Ethan was the Ghostface in the apartment, which means he killed Anika and "Paul".[[note]]While Radio Silence are also open to the idea that his father Wayne can be the killer responsible for Anika and Paul's deaths, they remark that Ethan's actor Creator/JackChampion did some of the stunt work during the apartment attack, implying they lean more to Ethan as the Ghostface in said sequence.[[/note]] He also stabs Tara and Kirby, and almost kills Chad.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Ethan was always considered the likeliest suspect to be the killer, even before TheReveal. He is antagonized and no one particularly respects him, even more so as the body count rises. After the reveal, it's implied that his father favored his late brother more than him.
* LaughablyEvil: Acts very overtly deranged following TheReveal in a complete 180 from his "shy and dorky" (in Mindy's words) personality beforehand.
* MadeOfIron: Sam hits him in the head with a brick and stabs him five times in the chest, neither of which does much to slow him down. Tara seemingly kills him by stabbing him through the mouth and twisting the blade... but even then he has enough energy for one last scare until Kirby drops a television on his head, finally killing him for good.
* NotQuiteDead: After Tara stabs Ethan through the mouth with the knife that Sam gave her, Ethan is down for the count while Sam shoots Quinn in the head and stabs Detective Bailey to death while wearing the Ghostface costume. After the deaths of both his father and sister, Ethan gets up and rushes at Sam and Tara before Kirby crushes Ethan to death by dropping a television on him - the very same television that Sidney used to kill Stu in the first movie.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: It's implied that Ethan's motivated more by sadism and his own pent-up frustration than avenging Richie.
* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescription: He scoffs that being a psychotic SerialKiller must really run in Sam's family, apparently without realizing the irony.
* ObviouslyEvil: Mindy immediately describes him as suspicious because he's new to the group, and they all respond negatively to him when he arrives at the crime scene after Anika's death. This time, they're right about him.
* OnlyOneName: He is one of the very few characters not to have his surname revealed explicitly in the movies. This turns out to be for a good reason - to hide that he's a Bailey, like his sister Quinn and his father Wayne.
* PragmaticVillainy: Saving Mindy's life after Quinn attacked her was only done to throw suspicion off of him and sow distrust between the others, with he and his family stating their intent to finish her and Gale off at the hospital after killing the rest.
* {{Sadist}}: While he's with his family in a plot avenging Richie, he seems to relish in the killings and doesn't mention Richie like his sister or father. During the ladder scene, Ethan opts to put down his knife and toy with Anika as she tries to cross to the other side, which eventually causes her to fall to her death. While waiting for Tara to fall from a railing, Ethan slashes at her feet, laughing and cheering as he does.
* ScreamingWarrior: When he comes back for one last scream, he charges at Sam & Tara, while yelling like a berserker.
* SlasherSmile: He has three notable ones. The first when he unmasks himself as one of the killers, the second when he says he always wanted to "stick something" in Tara, the third after he stabs Tara and gloats out loud "GOTCHA!" with the widest smile ever before the former stabs him in the mouth.
* TemptingFate: At one point, he asks Sam, "What are you gonna do about it, bitch?" She responds by carving him up like she did his brother.
* TheUnfavorite: Implied since Wayne gushes over his bond with Richie, while conveniently ignoring Ethan.
* VillainousCrush: He's implied to have a crush on Tara, nevermind that he's trying to kill all her friends and her eventually.
* VillainousValor: Not only is he a {{Determinator}} like his predecessors to see the success of his family's vengeance go through, but does one LastStand of a berserker charge before getting a television set dropped on his head.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Implied in how Wayne treats him about the massacre, while praising Richie, to be at least part of his motive.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Implied to be part of his motive; it's heavily implied that he tried to murder Chad out of jealousy for his comparative success with women.
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[[folder:Quinn Bailey]]
!!Quinn Bailey
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!!! '''Played By''': Creator/LianaLiberato
->''"Do you know how easy it was to turn Sam from the hero of Woodsboro into the villain? How easy it is to convince the world to believe the worst in people rather than the best?"''
Sam and Tara's roommate and the sister of the late Richie Kirsch. Quinn is one third of a new trio of Ghostfaces along with her father Wayne and younger brother Ethan.
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* AffablyEvil: She and her brother and father are more akin to a dysfunctional family than a gang of sociopathic killers. They also seem to genuinely care for each other, treating their murder attempt on Sam and Tara as having family fun time.
* TheAlibi: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Quinn attacks Gale and Mindy to give Ethan an alibi for both situations since the protagonists are still suspicious of her brother.
* BerserkButton: Insulting her family. She charges at Sam when she brings up Richie's pathetic last moments, and later tries to attack Sam again when Tara stabs Ethan and Sam gleefully tells her she's "down another brother."
* BigBrotherWorship: Even before revealing herself as one of the killers, she mourns her brother and can't keep her emotions completely at bay while talking about him to Tara (even though she doesn't say it was Richie). Once she does reveal herself, speaking ill of Richie sends her into a rage.
* BoomHeadshot: Sam takes Quinn down this way, calling it a very effective way to kill someone in front of Quinn's father.
* CoDragons: Along with Ethan for Bailey in the sixth film.
* DaddysLittleVillain: She loves her family and especially loves helping her father in his criminal schemes.
* DarkActionGirl:
** Downplayed. Her only confirmed kill is Gale's boyfriend which was done with ambush tactics. Outside of that after TheReveal, she's the least threatening of the Ghostfaces and goes down with a single bullet to the brain without doing much to either of the Carpenter sisters.
** Having said that, Quinn ''is'' the one who puts Gale and Mindy out of commission for the grand finale along with nearly killing Chad with Ethan which makes her the Ghostface who does the most damage to the experienced characters.
* {{Determinator}}: Takes ''a brick'' to the face and gets back up because she's so determined to kill Sam and Tara for killing Richie.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's arguably the most upset about Richie even early on. She gets pissed when Sam speaks ill of him and when Tara stabs Ethan, she gets even more pissed.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In her phone call to Gale, Quinn expresses disgust at how she was willing to use past Ghostface murders as a means to make a successful career and sees it as an ample reason why Gale should suffer a painful death.
* EvilGenius: It was her idea to spread the rumors that Sam was the Ghostface of the third Woodsboro killing spree instead of her brother and Amber. One has to admit that it's very smart tactics to ruin someone's reputation, leaving them even more vulnerable.
* EvilRedhead: Has fiery orange hair and is one of the Ghostfaces.
* FakingTheDead: She staged her murder and used her father's influence as a cop in order to throw off suspicion that she was actually a Ghostface.
* FieryRedhead: Quinn has red hair and is the hot head of the trio.
* HeroKiller: After the reveal, Quinn takes credit for Gale's and Mindy's attacks; by extension, this means she was the one who killed Brooks, Gale's new boyfriend. {{Subverted}} in the case of Gale though as when it looks like that she's killed Gale, the paramedics on site confirm that Gale is still alive, albeit with a weak pulse. Still, it's the closest any Ghostface has gotten to killing Gale Weathers. She and her brother also come close to killing Chad.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Much like her brother Richie, whom she admires so much. She claims to be "sex-positive," but after she's revealed to be one of the Ghostfaces, she yells at Tara to shut her "[[SlutShaming whore]] fucking mouth."
* KarmicDeath: Shot in the head by her former roommate after being revealed as the one responsible for most of Sam's psychological torture.
* LoveInterestTraitor: Quinn allows Ethan to murder her boyfriend as part of a faked attack on her.
* MadeOfIron: A brick to the face doesn't keep her down for long - Gale also hits her square in the face with a cast-iron pan and it only slows her down for a few seconds.
* MaliciousSlander: Quinn is the one responsible for spreading the rumor that Sam framed Richie and Amber for the 2022 Woodsboro murders, to smear her name in revenge for Richie's demise.
* MistakenDeathConfirmation: She is apparently confirmed to have died in the apartment attack, but is actually still alive. Her father helped her to be inaccurately identified.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: She's the Ghostface who attacks and almost kills Gale, who is in her late fifties.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She's the smallest member of the Ghostface trio in this movie, but it doesn't hinder her too much when she's killing someone far bigger and muscular like Gale's boyfriend Brooks.
* ReallyGetsAround: Apparently. Quinn's promiscuity is commented on by everyone in the movie, though it's unclear if she's really like that or if it's a facade so that no-one will come into her room when she's thought to be having sex/faking a Ghostface attack.
* {{Sadist}}: While approaching Sam, who is seemingly helpless trying to save Tara from falling into Ethan's murderous clutches, Quinn approaches her with a [[PsychoticSmirk smile]], strolling casually while tapping her knife on a railing to show how much she's enjoying Sam's helplessness.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: At one point, she flips her knife in the same way that Richie does.
* SlasherSmile: Gives Sam a blood-soaked one when she confronts her post-reveal. It goes away quickly, and pales to the one Sam gives right back to her.
* TheToothHurts: When Tara takes a brick to Quinn's face, she knocks out several of Quinn's teeth.
* VillainousValor: Doesn't take a brick to face that knocked the teeth out of her mouth to impede her effort to avenge her fallen brother, but a bullet to the head to stop her dead on her tracks.
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Note that this page only covers the Ghostface killers from the films. The Ghostfaces from [[Series/ScreamTVSeries the MTV series]], ''[[Series/ScreamResurrection Resurrection]]'' and ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' can be found [[Characters/ScreamTVSeries here]], [[Characters/ScreamResurrection here]] and [[Characters/DeadByDaylightKillersPart1 here]], respectively.
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[[folder:Stu Macher]]
!!Stu Macher
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Surprise, Sidney!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewLillard [[note]]Skeet Ulrich was wearing the costume in the scene where Ghostface menaces Randy before killing Kenny, which WordOfGod says was Stu.[[/note]]
->''"You see, Sid, everybody dies but us! Everybody dies but us! We get to carry on and plan the sequel, because let's face it, baby, these days, you gotta have a sequel!"''
Tatum's boyfriend and a classmate of Sidney who is Billy's accomplice in the murder of Maureen Prescott. His motive for both her murder and the events of the first film amounts to little more than peer pressure and simply being crazy.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: While his failures can be attributed to him not being very bright to begin with, it's not helped by the fact that he drinks a bit at his own party even though he has plans to orchestrate a series of murders, and frame a guy. This is something that is noticeably not repeated by his successors.
* TheAlibi: Has one for the murders of Casey and Steve in the form of Tatum, who informs Randy that Stu was with her at the night of the murders. Randy counters that Stu could have killed Casey and Steve before or after visiting Tatum. It is implied that Randy was right, since Stu looks noticeably guilty afterwards, and Tatum resorts to interrogating Randy about ''his'' whereabouts on the night of the murders.
* AxCrazy: Eventually revealed to be one of the Ghostface killers. Overall, he's one of the biggest ForTheEvulz killers in the franchise.
* BarbaricBully: His grotesque enthusiasm in engaging in the killings and him and Billy stabbing each other to makes themselves look like authentic victims qualify him as such.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's probably the goofiest character in all the series. That said, he still efficiently carries out a number of murders, and does it all ForTheEvulz. Even Mickey isn't this goofy or dangerous.
* TheBully: Of the lackey variety, accompanying the main bully within their classic high school/college posse, even if he gets bullied himself amongst the two.
* BullyBrutality: Him taking part in most grisly kills, including the murder of his ex, is a reflection of this.
* CrazyJealousGuy: His motive for murdering Casey and Steve is bitterness over Casey breaking up with him.
* DirtyCoward: His pathetic VillainousBreakdown where he's reduced to bawling like a baby, in contrast to Billy's more aggressive one, confirms him to be this overall.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He brutally murders Casey and her boyfriend for her dumping him.
* TheDragon: Billy's accomplice, assisting him in multiple murders.
* DumbMuscle: It's clear after TheReveal that Stu is just the brawns of the operation, following the more intelligent Billy's lead for the most part. He does come up with the idea to frame Neil Prescott as the culprit for their killing spree, though.
* EntitledToHaveYou: He kills Casey for the sin of dumping him, even though he was dating Tatum at the time of the murder.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: And papas too, possibly. While he'll gladly kill, he doesn't want his parents to know because he's afraid of how angry they'll be at him. Although his reaction's mostly because he doesn't want to get caught, he ''might'' also be scared of breaking their hearts.
-->'''Stu:''' Did you really call the police?\\
'''Sidney:''' You bet your sorry ass I did.\\
'''Stu:''' ''(begins to cry)'' My mom and dad are gonna be ''so mad at me''!
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Heavily downplayed, considering he mostly killed ForTheEvulz, but even he was shocked to hear Billy's mother abandoned him after Sidney's mother had an affair with his father.
* EvilIsBigger: Matthew Lillard is 6'3", the tallest of the main cast of the first film.
* EvilIsHammy: He seemingly goes crazy following TheReveal in a twisted FunPersonified way, but even before that, the ham is barely constrained.
* EvilIsPetty: Besides helping Billy being for his sick [[ForTheEvulz amusement]], he murders his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend out of jealousy.
* EvilLaugh: He lets out a real one when he reveals himself as the killer.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts like a FunPersonified party animal of a PluckyComicRelief, but he's really one of the villains.
* ForTheEvulz: No motive except getting his kicks. Subverted in the case of Casey and Steve, though, since Casey dumped him for Steve.
-->''"Watch a few movies, take a few notes. It was fun!"''
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Randy's line "I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife." Bonus points for the reason why he said it: it was in reply to Stu saying "I'll be right back!" in a mocking voice when he went to the kitchen to grab a beer. Stu said that because, as the killer, he knew he had nothing to fear.
* FrameUp: While Billy came up with most of the plans, it was Stu's idea to pin their crimes on Neil Prescott.
* HeroKiller: Stu murders both [[https://archive.is/AG7BC Casey]] and Steve in the opening scene and kills Kenny while chasing Sidney. He also comes close to stabbing Randy in the back.
* HighVoltageDeath: Electrocuted when Sidney drops a TV on his face.
* IfICantHaveYou: Implied to be his reason for killing Casey Becker and her boyfriend Steve Orth.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: For most of the movie, Stu acts obnoxious and immature, but ultimately seems to be harmless. Once he and Billy are revealed to be the killers, Stu quickly goes from humorous to frightening.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Alongside Billy, Stu had gotten away with his participation as Billy's accomplice in Maureen's murder when they pinned it on Cotton Weary, but a year later, their killing spree in the first movie is brought to an end when Sidney kills them both in self-defense.
* LargeHam: Especially after TheReveal.
* LaughablyEvil: Thanks to Matthew Lillard's LargeHam performance.
* MoreDespicableMinion: While the murder spree was Billy's idea, Stu outdoes him in terms of evilness. It was his idea to murder Casey and Steve, which was probably their most horrific murder. Also, Billy at least has a [[FreudianExcuse somewhat tragic motive]], while Stu is just in it ForTheEvulz.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: He leans on Billy's neck to hang right over his shoulder when they're menacing Sidney in the kitchen. Given that he does the same to Randy in the video store and hangs all over Tatum after the principal lets school out early, it seems to serve as a both an intimidation tactic and possibly a gesture of affection.
* NotQuiteDead: Hinted at by Mindy in ''Scream VI'' when she and Kirby see the television he was electrocuted with. Kirby calls it the TV that killed him, Mindy quickly replies with "if you believe he's dead..."
* OvershadowedByAwesome: While Stu is one of the original Ghostfaces and came up with some of the plans[[note]]Attacking Casey and Steve was his idea, and he chose Neil Prescott as the FallGuy.[[/note]], Billy was the leader of the duo and is consequently the one most people remember as Ghostface.
** ''Scream 2'': When Mickey [[EvilGloating starts bragging about his plan]], he compares himself to Billy.
** ''Scream 3'': Roman mostly talks about how he inspired Billy. In contrast, he regards Stu as the disposable accomplice Billy could blame if things went wrong.
** ''Scream 4'': Charlie was so focused on making Trevor the new Billy Loomis that he forgot that a true remake would need a new Stu Macher too, which is why he was [[DidntSeeThatComing unprepared for Jill's betrayal]].
** ''Scream 5'':
*** When the new Ghostface quizzes Tara on the identity of the first Ghostface, Tara, who only saw ''Stab'' once many years ago, quickly recalls Billy but forgets that Stu was also Ghostface.
*** It's implied that Richie and Amber see Billy as the more important Ghostface. Notably, they went out of their way to trick Billy's daughter Sam into returning to Woodsboro so that they could frame her as the requel Ghostface when it would have been easier to frame Stu's nephew Vince, a local Woodsboro resident, as the requel Ghostface.
** Finally averted in ''Scream VI'' where Quinn (who wears Stu's mask to commit her own murders) states that Stu was actually her favorite killer. Kirby also takes a moment to marvel at the TV that killed Stu, which she later uses to dispatch Ethan.
* PsychoExBoyfriend: To Casey. They dated before the films started, and he murders her in the opening.
* PsychopathicManchild: Really immature, and comes off as a crazy, sadistic kid. Notably, when he learns he's been exposed, his first thought is how angry his parents will be.
* {{Sadist}}: Billy at least had some kind of sympathetic motive for his crimes, however inexcusable they were. Stu seems to have killed for no other reason than sheer pleasure.
* SayingTooMuch: After Sidney rhetorically questions how someone can gut another person, Stu enthusiastically describes how to gut a human body. He probably would have given himself away as the killer if not for Billy's quick interference.
* SkewedPriorities: When Stu is bleeding out from his stab wounds and Sidney informs him that she's just called the police, the last thing that should've been on his mind would be how mad his parents were going to be when they found out.
* SlashedThroat: He slits Kenny's throat while trying to attack Sidney.
* SmugSnake: Like Billy, but he's the dumber and less efficient of the duo, so he comes across as even more smug.
* TapOnTheHead: Slams Sidney's head against the floor to stun her during the attack in her house.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Trolled by Sidney with his own Ghostface phone antics after she escapes.
* TeensAreMonsters: One of the two killers in the first film, and is virtually [[CardCarryingVillain card-carryingly psychotic]] after TheReveal.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He tries to invoke this as an excuse when he blames his crimes on "peer pressure" from Billy.
* VillainousBreakdown: He bawls like a baby when Sidney reveals to them that she has called the police on him and Billy.
-->''"My mom and dad are going to be so mad at me..."''
* WrongGenreSavvy: Played with. Stu believes that he and Billy are the [[InvincibleVillain invincible slasher villains]] that can never die and therefore can return for the sequels. While Stu is correct in assuming that he is in a slasher movie, the slasher movie in question is a DeconstructiveParody, which means he and Billy definitely don't have the supernatural powers of, say, Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees to cheat death.
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[[folder:Mickey Altieri]]
!!Mickey Altieri
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a5636aaa_6f33_4a25_9b64_f5f72a78fc8a.jpeg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: ''"That's what Billy was good at. He knew it was all about... execution."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TimothyOlyphant
->''"I'm gonna blame the movies. It's pretty cool, huh? It hasn't been done before. You see, this is just the beginning, a prelude to the trial. That's where the real fun is, because these days, it's all about the trial. Could you see it? The effects of cinema violence on society. I'll get [[Creator/OJSimpson Dershowitz or Cochran]] to represent me, UsefulNotes/BobDole on the witness stand in my defense. Hell, the [[MoralGuardians Christian Coalition]] will pay my legal fees!"''
A Windsor College student and Nancy Loomis' accomplice, Mickey sought to become famous as a result of the killing spree, hoping for a sensationalized trial where he would claim that he, horror buff that he is, was driven to kill due to watching too many violent movies.
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* FifteenMinutesOfFame: Became Ghostface and did the killings intending to be caught and subsequently gain fame and a trial, where he planned to blame horror films for his rampage.
* AllegoricalCharacter: Mickey fits the idea of a movie sequel. He not only wants to cash in on the success of the first outing but also wants to outdo it as well through SequelEscalation. This results in him performing bigger, riskier stunts such as killing Maureen and Phil in public, taking on two trained cops at once, surpassing the body count of Billy and Stu with Nancy's help, and purposefully surrendering to the police (or at least that was the plan).
* AttentionWhore: He killed simply so he could stand trial for it afterwards and bask in the limelight.
* AxCrazy: The only Ghostface who was already an active serial killer before ever getting involved in the Ghostface biz.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He acted nice and caring towards Sidney before TheReveal.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: The result of his MultipleGunshotDeath when Sidney and Gale shoot the hell out of him after he tries for one more jumpscare attack (also counts as LaserGuidedKarma after he nearly shoots Gale in his initial death throes).
* CardCarryingVillain: Mickey is noteworthy for being the only Ghostface to openly acknowledge and relish in their villainy. He makes no attempt to excuse, downplay, or ignore his violent behavior and gleefully looks forward to the fame he believes his trial will spark. While there have been other killers who've displayed giddy behavior after the reveal, Stu has the weak excuse of "peer pressure" and Ethan is implied to be an incel who acts just as much out of frustration as he does violent urges. Mickey lacks even the weakest of excuses, having already been a serial killer before becoming Ghostface.
-->'''Sidney''': "You're psychotic!"
-->'''Mickey''': "Yeah, well, sshh. That'll be our little secret."
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Billy. While Billy was a bit abrasive and short-tempered even before he was revealed as the killer, Mickey makes a point of seeming perfectly charming and harmless. Billy had a motive for his actions, if admittedly a fairly flimsy one, while Mickey is only interested in achieving fame. While Billy planned to get away with it by making himself and Stu look like victims, Mickey ''wants'' to get caught so he can achieve notoriety. Whereas Billy explicitly shot down the idea that movies made him go on a killing spree, Mickey fully intends on using this as his legal defense.
* CopKiller: Murders Officers Andrews and Richards.
* CopycatKiller: Like most Ghostfaces, Mickey is a copycat of Billy and Stu, but his objective of getting the trial of the century is [[RippedFromTheHeadlines inspired by the contemporary O.J. Simpson trial]]. Mickey states that he will hire Dershowitz and Cochran, members of Simpson's Dream Team, to defend him.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: It never occurred to Mickey that his grand plan of becoming famous by standing trial for his crimes might not be to the liking of his accomplice, who ''doesn't'' want to be implicated for her role in the killings. His planned defense is likewise ill-conceived; even Mrs. Loomis, who is only marginally saner than Mickey, never believed it would work.
* TheDragon: To Debbie Salt, also known as Mrs. Loomis. She paid for his college tuition and essentially nurtured him into being her accomplice, and he more or less follows her directions throughout the film. He's also the scapegoat she intends to blame the murders on after killing Sidney.
* DragonTheirFeet: Survives Mrs. Loomis by scant seconds, popping up for one last scare.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: As Ghostface, he takes Sidney, Hallie, and Officer Richards on a wild car ride, Richards clinging onto the hood for dear life. The ride ends when Ghostface crashes the car into a construction site, sending a pipe through Richards' head.
* EvilCounterpart: Mickey is one to Cotton Weary in ''Scream 2''. Both of them are {{Attention Whore}}s looking for their FifteenMinutesOfFame and threaten Sidney to get those fifteen minutes. Mickey and Cotton are also suspects for Ghostface and end up killing at least one person: As Ghostface, Mickey murders plenty of innocent people while Cotton kills Nancy, the other Ghostface.
* EvilIsPetty: Mickey wants to get famous, and considers that worth any number of innocent lives.
* FameThroughInfamy: He ''wants'' to get caught so that he can have the trial of the century for his crimes, putting himself at the center of political debates about violence in the media.
* FauxAffablyEvil: A very nice and charming student, until he unmasks himself as Ghostface to Sidney and Derek, yet acts like a thrill-seeking FunPersonified party animal in reaction to his kills. He originally was intended to be straight-up affable, not a killer at all.
* ForTheEvulz: Unlike every other Ghostface (apart from Jill), Mickey freely cops to the fact he's just murdering people because he likes it and the idea of being an infamous serial killer.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: During the final confrontation, Mickey has a large cut on his forehead from crashing the police car.
* HeroicBuild: {{Exploited}}. Mickey's muscular build is similar to that of his victim Phil, which allows the masked Mickey to disguise as him after stealing Phil's jacket.
* HeroKiller: Murders everyone in the film except Randy.
* KickTheDog: Murdering Derek in front of Sidney, after claiming that Derek was his partner, all just to make her feel even ''worse'' about his death.
* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: Unlike Mrs. Loomis, Mickey is a true left-hander and grips the knife with his left hand when stabbing his victims. In one deleted scene, Derek pointed out that both Mickey and Ghostface were left-handed.
* LaughablyEvil: Like Stu above, he acts like ComicBook/TheJoker as Ghostface.
* LoveInterestTraitor: Mickey has [[ShipTease some playful flirtation]] with Hallie, who he later kills.
* MadeOfIron: Somehow managed to survive Mrs. Loomis's gunshots and get up to his feet [[ContinuityNod for one last scare]]. It takes [[MultipleGunshotDeath a barrage of gunfire]] from Sidney and Gale to knock him down. He also survives crashing a car into a construction site.
* ManipulativeBastard: Mickey goes out of his way to plant doubts in Sidney's mind about Derek's trustworthiness, even flat-out claiming Derek to be his partner during the climax, all to psychologically torment Sidney and make her feel that much worse when Mickey kills Derek.
* MoreDespicableMinion: Self-centered as it is, Mrs. Loomis at least has the motive of trying to avenge her son. Mickey killed simply because he enjoyed it and wanted to get famous.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: How he ultimately dies, courtesy of Sidney and Gale.
* MurderSimulators: Invoked with his plan, which was to get caught and, at the trial, blame violent horror movies for turning him into a psycho killer, earning him sympathetic media, legal attention, and quite possibly a light sentence.
* NotQuiteDead: After Cotton saves Sidney by shooting Mrs. Loomis dead, Mickey suddenly springs up back to life. He suffers a MultipleGunshotDeath from Sidney and Gale for his trouble.
* {{Sadist}}: Just look at the way he murders Maureen and Derek.
* SerialKiller: Notable in that he was ''already'' an active one before becoming Ghostface, which means that his total body count is much higher than what is seen on screen. Mrs. Loomis recruited him for this reason.
* SignificantNameOverlap: As part of his "blaming violent movies" motive, he murders people who share the same names as the Woodsboro victims from the [[Film/Scream1996 original Ghostface killing spree]] in a similar order. However, this is dropped after Mrs. Loomis kills Randy, presumably because Loomis, the leader of the two, had a plan to target Sidney later that night, so there would be no time for Mickey to find other similarly-named victims.
* SwordAndGun: He arms himself with both a pistol and Ghostface's signature knife in his final confrontation with Sidney.
* UnwittingPawn: Mrs. Loomis easily duped Mickey into believing that their killings would lead to him winning fame through an inevitable trial for his crimes. As soon as she had Sidney in her crosshairs, however, Mrs. Loomis gunned Mickey down, having never believed his "blame the movies" defense would work and only using him as muscle and as a useful scapegoat.
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[invoked]] Mickey is under the impression that his and Mrs. Loomis's killing spree is the EvenBetterSequel to Billy and Stu's rampage. In reality, most ''Stab'' fans consider ''Stab 2'', the film based off he and Mrs. Loomis's killing spree, to be a ContestedSequel, a solid entry that is superior to every ''Stab'' movie made after ''Stab 3'' but not necessarily superior to the original one.
-->'''Mickey:''' Just wait until the trial. It is gonna ''rock''!
-->'''Mrs. Loomis:''' Oh Mickey, there's not going to be a trial.
* YoureInsane: Both Sidney (who calls Mickey "psychotic" to his face) and Mrs. Loomis express a (justifiably) low opinion of Mickey's sanity.
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[[folder:Charlie Walker]]
!!Charlie Walker
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charlie_walker_killer.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is making a move."'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/RoryCulkin
->''"You know, you learn a lot when you watch movies over and over. All the plots are about trying to kill you!"''
Charlie was secretly dating Jill, and planned on becoming the Randy of the killings to Jill's Sidney, the geeky guy who makes it out alive.
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* AlasPoorVillain: While he was a sadistic murderer, his death is almost pitiable. He is visibly devastated at Jill's betrayal and dies a slow, agonizing death as he bleeds out on the floor. Even Sidney seems horrified, calling Jill out afterwards on becoming so fame-hungry that even her only ally is disposable to her.
* AllForNothing: His desire to become one half of a power couple with Jill ends up being for naught as she ruthlessly kills him to take the spotlight for herself. He spends his final moments realizing he killed his friends and threw his life away for absolutely nothing.
* AssholeVictim: A particularly unique example of this trope, since he's one of the killers!
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's really ''not'' nice. At all.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's not the nerdy timid guy he appears to be.
* BlamingTheVictim: After stabbing Kirby ([[UngratefulBastard immediately after she desperately tried to save his life]]), he blames it on her for not reciprocating his crush sooner.
* TheBully: He's not as mean-spirited as the other Ghostfaces, though. He even explains the rules of surviving this movie to his potential victims, though of course it doesn't help most of them in the end.
* BullyBrutality: He delivers some of the most vicious deaths in the series. He ends up crippling Jenny and stabbing Perkins deep in the forehead, and that's not even including his disembowelment of Olivia.
* CopKiller: Charlie murders police officers Hoss and Perkins and takes one of their handguns. He then drives the police car two blocks away to hide their bodies.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: As a huge movie buff who's also a little bit of a nerd and has sexual/romantic feelings for Sidney archetype Jill, he closely resembles Randy. But Randy wasn't actually the killer and could usually be counted on to help or save Sidney.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: A movie fanboy DoggedNiceGuy like Randy... who, in fact, is not nice at all, and is every bit as self-absorbed and EntitledToHaveYou as you'd expect.
* TheDragon: He is Jill's accomplice.
* EntitledToHaveYou: His actual attitude towards Kirby, whom he feels should've noticed him in the four years they had classes together, instead of just as a killing spree committed by him had started. He tells her this as he is stabbing her.
* EtTuBrute: He does seem to have loved Jill, judging by his visibly devastated reaction to her betrayal.
* EvilCounterpart: To Randy, the MetaGuy and horror film geek. Unlike Randy, who was just a harmless PluckyComicRelief and a DoggedNiceGuy, Charlie is (to loosely quote Billy in the first film) a "movie freak whose mind lost its reality button" and who feels entitled to Kirby's affections.
* EvilIsPetty: As he stabs Kirby, Charlie takes a moment to criticise her for only taking an interest in him recently, as opposed to a few years earlier when he first developed a crush on her.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Even more so than his accomplice Jill and the previous Ghostfaces. To the point where he can be considered the OnlySaneMan amongst the killers, as he does seem to feel remorse for stabbing Kirby.
* HeroKiller: After the reveal, Charlie brags about murdering Jenny, Marnie, Olivia, and Robbie and takes credit for the murders of Officer Hoss and Officer Perkins by showing off the handgun he took from them. He also almost kills Gale and Kirby.
* {{Irony}}: Sidney notes that Charlie is similar to Stu in that both of them are the less intelligent lackeys following the plans of Jill and Billy respectively. However, as Jill stabs Charlie to death, she informs him that she intends to frame him as the "ideas man", which would make Charlie the next generation's Billy Loomis (and Trevor the new Stu) if Jill's frame job was successful.
* KarmicDeath: He rejects Kirby's love for him and stabs her two times in the stomach before leaving her to die. Five minutes later, his actual girlfriend Jill kills him by stabbing him twice and reveals that she has always intended to betray him.
* LaughablyEvil: While not as much of a LargeHam as his predecessors Stu and Mickey, and more mellow then the other Ghostfaces, he's still much a quirky nerd, especially when he preps himself to get stabbed to appear as a victim by slapping himself in the face, before Jill double-crosses and kills him to take the sole spotlight.
* LoveInterestTraitor: He betrays Kirby, who did return his feelings, but "too late" according to him.
* MetaGuy: Of the Ghostfaces so far, he is the only one to explain the new slasher rules to his victims.
* TheNapoleon: At 5'6", he's one of the shortest guys in the film. He's also a psychopathic killer.
* OhCrap: The look on his face when he realizes that Jill's plan wasn't for him to join her in fame and fortune, but for him to be the new Stu Macher, says it all.
* OutOfFocus: The Ghostface with the least amount of screen time post-reveal.
* PetTheDog: His apparent genuine remorse at having stabbed Kirby to please Jill.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Betrays and kills his friends at the behest of Jill, who then betrays and kills him.
* SayingTooMuch: Since Charlie is one of the two Randy {{Expies}} explaining the rules, he pretty much gives away his plan of recording the murders and publishing them online. That said, Charlie is able to avoid the usual consequences because Robbie, the other Randy expy, is a livestreaming vlogger with an apparently sizable following, making him the more suspicious one of the two.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Even after TheReveal, he doesn't really raise his voice, [[EvilIsHammy unlike previous killers and his partner Jill]]. He's perhaps the only Ghostface to be one until Jason Carvey in the sixth film.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He states that he's going to be the next Randy to Jill's Sidney during TheReveal. As Sidney notes, however, he is much like Stu, which leads to his death by Jill. This also makes him a substitute to Mickey, based on his film knowledge and getting offed by the BigBad, except he doesn't survive for the last scare.
* SycophanticServant: Charlie is definitely a follower, as he is willing to kill his friends to serve his master Jill.
* TeensAreMonsters: A willing accomplice in Jill's murderous scheme.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Jill, until she disposes of him.
* UnwittingPawn: Jill used Charlie as a willing accomplice, but never intended on sharing the spotlight with him; when the moment comes to "fake" their injuries, Jill [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness fatally stabs him in the heart]].
* WithFriendsLikeThese: One of the more notable cases, as he seems pretty much inseparable from Robbie due to their shared interests. Not only does Charlie murder Robbie, he also records a video of it and brags about it to Jill. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves Jill in turn kills him and]] [[LaserGuidedKarma pretty much does the same.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: How he manages to trick Kirby into coming out of her house to "save" him. Then, he (non-fatally) stabs her.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: As soon as they run out of targets and the final act arrives, Jill kills him so she can come out the other side as the sole survivor. He's the second Ghostface [[TheDragon Dragon]] to get killed by the partner, after Mickey Altieri in ''Scream 2'', but he stays dead, unlike Mickey.
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MikeyMadison
->''"See, we had to bring the legacy characters back to make it matter. Can't have a bonafide Halloween without Jamie Lee!"''
Growing up in the former home of Stu Macher made Amber obsessed with the Woodsboro murders and the ''Stab'' films. Just as outraged by ''Stab 8'' as Richie was, she helps bring him to Woodsboro in the fifth film to carry out their murderous scheme to "fix" the franchise.
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* AllThereInTheScript: An early script confirms she killed the security guard protecting Tara as Richie was still in the motel around this time and only went to the hospital because Sam told him to check on Tara.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Amber is hinted to be in a relationship with Richie, with the two calling each other "hon" and "baby" multiple times, in a UnholyMatrimony-like situation. However, she is very touchy-feely and close with Tara beyond even being a "best friend", actually naming IfICantHaveYou as a potential reason to have attacked her. In an earlier draft of the film, Tara and Amber were even girlfriends; however, this was ultimately removed, leaving her romantic preferences for either a massive question mark.
* ArchEnemy: Since she killed Dewey and backstabbed Tara, Amber ends up as one for both Gale and Tara. Sidney acknowledges this while handing Gale the pistol for the final blow. When Amber comes back for one last scare, Tara finishes her off.
* AttackTheInjury: When Gale throttles her, Amber jams her fingers into her gunshot wound to get Gale off her.
* AxCrazy: Amber commits most of the murders in the film and still tries to kill Gale, Sidney, and Sam even after being ''burned alive''.
* BatmanGambit:
** Amber lures Tara outside the front door, where Richie is standing, by texting Tara a deceptive video of Ghostface stalking Amber.
** Amber later leads Chad outside by hacking Liv's phone and sending him a message to have him come find "Liv."
** After revealing herself as one of the killers, Amber wears the Father Death costume to pretend that she is the second killer, which allows Richie to ambush Sam and take Sidney's gun.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She is the youngest Ghostface (in terms of an absolute timeline) so far. She hadn't even been conceived yet during the original trilogy.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Amber appears to be Tara's closest friend, but in reality, she wounds Tara severely, and orchestrates (with Richie) the deaths of several people.
* BoobsOfSteel: Unlike the previous female Ghostfaces, Amber has more of a bust and is a DarkActionGirl.
* BoomHeadshot: Amber reveals that she is one of the Ghostface killers by shooting Liv in the head. Later, Amber is finally finished off with a gunshot through the head by Tara.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The only reason Tara survives both of Amber's attacks is because she and Richie need her alive but wounded and vulnerable to lure Sam to Woodsboro for their plan, by taking advantage of her BigSisterInstinct towards Tara.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** To Stu Macher, the lead killer's accomplice, a comparison that is capped off by the fact that they lived in the same house.
*** Stu has the outward veneer of a sociable, yet obnoxious, party animal with a serious lack of tact, while Amber presents herself as an empathetic and intelligent DeadpanSnarker who is sensitive to her friends' needs.
*** Both are obsessed with slasher films, though only Amber's motive is directly tied to them (wanting to revive the ''Stab'' franchise with new "source material"), while Stu's motive is a combination of ForTheEvulz (as he claims) and to get back at his ex-girlfriend, while also taking some lesser inspiration from slasher flicks.
*** Stu had an antagonistic relationship with [[BadBoss Billy]] (with possible HomoeroticSubtext within their interactions), while Amber seems to get on well with her partner-in-crime Richie because of their similar motivations (and with confirmed [[UnholyMatrimony romantic undertones]]) - even if Amber acts more like the muscle of the operation than Richie does.
*** Both are AxCrazy with extremely petty motives and lackluster justifications for their actions. Stu claims to have committed his deeds because of "peer pressure" by Billy, though he is also implied to have had an IfICantHaveYou motive when it came to killing Casey and Steve. Meanwhile, Amber's motives deal with her dissatisfaction with the direction her favorite film franchise was heading, and decided to give the franchise new "source material" to work with, though she later tries to cover her ass by saying that she was "radicalized" by toxic Internet message boards. Regardless, both prove merciless and sadistic towards their victims, whom they either know or are even friends of/lovers with.
*** Whereas Stu reveals his true identity as Ghostface after Billy does, Amber takes Billy's place in the reveal order, even shooting someone just like Billy did.
*** Both prove to be a DirtyCoward when they are confronted with their crimes, and yet both of them are DefiantToTheEnd as they try to kill the remaining characters. However, Stu is still the first of the two between him and Billy to die, whereas Amber ever so briefly outlives her boss Richie.
** To Charlie Walker, the previous Ghostface accomplice. Both Amber and Charlie play the henchman role to Richie and Jill respectively and are obsessed ''Stab'' fans. However, while Charlie likes ''all'' of the ''Stab'' movies, Amber only likes the first ''Stab''. In addition, it is hinted that Amber doesn't like the contemporary trend of elevated horror whereas Charlie enjoys classic horror movies like ''Film/Suspiria1977'' and ''Film/DontLookNow'', both of which would be considered elevated horror in modern times. And while Charlie is disposed of by Jill as a mere pawn, Amber is treated as an equal in her and Richie's scheme, with neither of them backstabbing each other.
* CopKiller: She murders the lone cop guarding Tara in the hospital. A little later, she successfully kills ex-sheriff Dewey Riley after previous Ghostfaces failed to do so.
* [[CrazyJealousGuy Crazy Jealous Girl]]: She clearly dislikes Sam, who is dating Richie, but is much warmer around Richie, even though they supposedly hadn't met before. When she's revealed to be Richie's ''real'' girlfriend (probably -- which is confirmed by Sam in ''Film/ScreamVI'') and partner-in-crime, her attitudes towards Sam and Richie suddenly make a lot more sense.
* CrazyPrepared: She wears a BulletproofVest while infiltrating the hospital as insurance against the cops defending the hospital. It later comes in handy when Dewey unloads three bullets into her torso.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the most prolonged, painful, and ignominious in the history of the series. Amber is beaten, shot, and her face gets burned alive on an oven stove, ''melting'' half of it. She still survives long enough to try killing the heroes one more time in delirious agony before being shot to death. What seals it is that Amber goes down [[VillainsWantMercy pathetically begging and sobbing for her life]], mercy that the heroes empathetically don't grant:
-->'''Amber''': Wait, wait, ''wait, no!'' I-I'm sorry about Dewey!
-->'''Gale''': ''Fuck'' you. (''guns her down'')
* DarkActionGirl: Amber is the Ghostface that kills most of the victims in the fifth movie in brutal fashion, and is distinctly the muscle between her and Richie. She also puts up a fight against Sidney and Gale in the finale, though is eventually overpowered and taken down.
* DeathByDisfigurement: By the time she's finally killed, half her face has been burnt off. Her flesh has visibly ''melted'' in the shot we get of her charging at Sam, Gale, and Sidney.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite being shot several times and being severely burned, Amber still attempts to kill Sam, Gale, and Sidney, only stopped when Tara lands a headshot on her.
* DirtyCoward: When backed into a corner, she attempts to bargain with the heroes, claiming that she's an innocent victim who was merely radicalized on the internet. They don't buy it for a second.
* DragonInChief: If an interview with Radio Silence is any indication, Amber was not only the one who did most of the legwork in the film, but is also the one who actually came up with the idea for a killing spree whereas Richie only ''believes'' it was his plan, with Amber being content to lead from behind. Given nothing in the film supports this, it's ambiguous how true it really is.
* DragonTheirFeet: Though she and Richie act more like partners than any Ghostface duo before them, Richie is still the central Ghostface given the bulk of the MotiveRant and the final confrontation with Sam in the climax, referring to their plan as "his" movie and giving Amber orders she follows with little complaint. She still survives him by a few seconds after getting half her face burnt off, attempting one last time to kill everyone before Tara anticlimactically shoots her brains out.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Much like her predecessor Jill, Amber is a pale-skinned, murderous brunette.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One of her legitimate admirable qualities is not only her VillainousFriendship with Richie is seemingly genuine, but there appears to be UnholyMatrimony ShipTease between the two.
* EvilGloating: Amber does this to Gale, taking delight in killing Dewey. Gale responds by punching her out.
* EvilVirtues: One of the few admirable things is that her VillainousFriendship with Richie is genuine.
* FalseFriend: To Tara who believes Amber is her best friend. It's unknown if the friendship was ever genuine on Amber's part but she is undeniably this by the time of the film.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Her VillainousFriendship with Richie is genuine and there is even hints of UnholyMatrimony ShipTease between the two. She's also a completely ruthless killer who has no problems gleefully mocking Dewey's death to Gale's face.
* ForTheEvulz: She gloats about Dewey's death purely to spite Gale.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Similar to Roman Bridger, Amber throws suspicion off herself by texting Tara from a cloned phone with her name as the sender. Sheriff Hicks clears Amber as a suspect when she checks Amber's cell phone records and finds them free of any evidence of this.
* TheHeavy: She's the one who commits most of the murders and attacks in the fifth film.
* HeroKiller: No other Ghostface in the series can say they killed Dewey Riley; Amber even declares that "it's an honor" after doing so. She also puts a bullet in Liv's head during her reveal. Amber almost kills Dewey's ex-wife Gale and Chad as well.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Parodied. When cornered by the heroes, Amber cries and claims that she was radicalized on the Internet, expressing remorse for her actions. They don't believe her, and it's all an act.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Claims that Dewey "died like a pussy," and yet has the gall to plead with Sidney and Gale once they gain the upper hand on her.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: She stabs Vince in the throat and watches him bleed out.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Amber is aloof at times, but initially seems to be a good friend to Tara and very protective of her, which informs her dislike of Sam (because of her criminal history and her previous abandonment of Tara). Then she turns out to be one of the killers, and is specifically the one who wounded Tara inside her home in the first place.
* KarmicDeath: After brutally murdering Dewey and sadistically gloating about it to Gale, she's beaten up, shot by Gale (with Dewey's gun), and catches fire from the stove behind her. When she gets back up shortly after Richie's death, Tara, the first victim she attacked and attempted to kill in the hospital (and the one whose life Dewey died saving), is the one who kills her by shooting her in the head.
* KickTheDog:
** Amber mocks Sam and Tara's mother's alcoholism during the MotiveRant towards the end of the film.
** She also mocks Dewey's death (caused by her), saying that he "died like a pussy", and taunts Gale with the fact that she was the last thing Dewey saw before he died.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: She goes after Tara in the hospital, after she's been left wheelchair-bound and is still recovering from the injuries she sustained from her initial attack (which Amber herself was the perpetrator of) at the beginning of the film.
* LaughablyEvil: She and Richie are a riot due to their LargeHam tendencies after TheReveal. Amber even jokingly hums PsychoStrings while pretending to aim her knife at Sidney.
* LoonyFan: Like Richie, her motive is her possessive fixation on ''Stab''. In Amber's case, it was an obsession that started when her parents bought the house that the Macher family originally lived in.
* MadeOfIron: Even after getting burned alive, she's still ready to try and murder the remaining survivors, and is only brought down by a headshot.
* ManOnFire: Sidney smashes a bottle of hand sanitizer on her head, and eventually gets her to accidentally set off the stove, lighting her ablaze. Remarkably, it's not enough to kill her.
* ManipulativeBitch: At the start of the film, Amber makes herself look like a potential victim of Ghostface by sending a video to Tara in order to get her out of the house. Additionally, Amber's suspicions of Sam because of her DarkAndTroubledPast are meant to look like concern for Tara's well-being (and to make Sam look like a RedHerring). Overall, Amber makes herself look like a good friend, all the while planting seeds of distrust against Sam to throw attention off herself and Richie and make the intended plan of a FrameUp against Sam look plausible.
* MilesGloriosus: Amber brags about killing Dewey, and taunts Gale by telling her she was the last thing he saw before he died, but she begs for mercy once she's cornered by Sidney and Gale, even "apologizing" for Dewey's death.
* NeverMyFault: While crying for Gale and Sidney to spare her life, Amber claims to have been radicalized on the Internet, and is not to blame for her actions. Naturally, neither Sidney nor Gale are buying it, and Amber herself probably doesn't believe it and is just saying whatever comes to mind to try and save her own neck.
* NotQuiteDead: Sidney and Gale's confrontation with Amber ends with Gale shooting Amber and setting her on fire when she falls onto the lit stove behind her. After Sam dispatches Richie and shoots his corpse several times, Amber gets back up and rushes towards Sam, Sidney, and Gale with a knife, before quickly being dispatched by a headshot from Tara.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: She's in her late teens and TheBabyOfTheBunch, in contrast to Sidney in her forties and Dewey and Gale in their fifties.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Amber kills Vince, a creepy man who was stalking Liv and pulled a knife on Chad when he tried to stick up for Liv.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She puts up a solid fight against Dewey and holds her own with Sidney and Gale in the climax.
* RasputinianDeath: Even by Ghostface standards, Amber takes a ''lot'' of punishment before she goes down for good, managing to live through gunshots (albeit blunted by a bulletproof vest), a beating from both Gale and Sidney, a bottle being smashed into her face, a gunshot, and being set on fire before a bullet to the head finally ends her life.
* {{Sadist}}:
** Her attack on Tara in the opening of the film exemplifies her sadistic brutality, as she stabs her seven times, breaks her ankle, impales her palm, and throws her against the ground--all the while tormenting her via phone threats. And Tara was supposedly ''her best friend''. Not to mention that Tara thought ''Amber'' herself was in danger, and was coming to rescue her.
** She and Richie both accuse Liv of being the killer during a tense moment after Mindy is attacked at Amber's house. Since they had planned their third act killer reveal at the party well in advance, this could only be just to enjoy Liv desperately pleading her innocence. And it is since Amber shoots her in the head in front of everyone mere moments after.
** Her murder of Vince is both simple and sadistic in its execution. She sneaks up on him while he's distracted, stabs him once in the neck, and watches him slowly bleed out—while clearly relishing the moment.
* SlashedThroat: This is how she takes out the cop guarding Tara.
* SmugSnake: Arguably the biggest example out of any of the Ghostfaces; when she has the upper hand, Amber has a smug grin on her face and gloats about her crimes, but the second she's at a disadvantage, she starts begging for mercy and coming up with hollow excuses for what she's done.
* TeensAreMonsters: She's about seventeen years old, and commits several murders. She might not be the deadliest of all the killers, but like Richie, she is arguably the pettiest and amongst the most sadistic.
* TwoFaced: Amber's not-quite-fatal immolation leaves half her face burnt to a crisp. Thanks to Tara, she didn't have to live with the disfigurement for long.
* VillainRespect: Subverted; as she's killing Dewey, Amber tells him "it's an honor", but once she has Gale at her mercy, Amber is bragging about how Dewey "died like a pussy".
* VillainousValor: Not only is she a {{Determinator}} like her predecessors to see the success of her scheme go through and does one LastStand of a berserker charge, but still keeps her VillainousFriendship with Richie up even when their plan is thwarted.
* VillainsWantMercy: She alternates between attempting to kill Sidney and Gale, and then begging them to have mercy on her when they overpower her during their confrontation. Her murder of Dewey makes this a cowardly, futile attempt to save herself from Gale's revenge, with Gale responding by shooting and ''[[ManOnFire immolating]]'' her.
* WaifFu: Amber is only 5'3" with a slender frame, easily making her one of the smallest people to don the Ghostface persona. Nevertheless, she kills at least four people [[HeroKiller including Dewey]], and wounds several others in gruesome fashion.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Amber has Tara dead to rights two times at Tara's own house and at the hospital, yet she instead settles for torturing her. It's {{justified|Trope}} as Amber and Richie need Tara alive, albeit severely injured, to lure Sam back into Woodsboro long enough for their plan to work.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Richie and Amber's killing spree commences with Amber attacking Tara, her supposed best friend, putting her in the hospital by stabbing her multiple times and breaking her leg. Later on, Amber also menaces Tara in the hospital as well, when she's vulnerable in a wheelchair, but Dewey fends her off. Plus, her overall plan is basically to kill off her friends in order to "revive" her favorite film franchise with Amber herself killing Liv and seriously injuring Chad.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Tries to pull this on Sidney and Gale. When they see right through it, she pulls out her gun and starts shooting.
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[[folder:Ethan Bailey]]
!! Ethan Bailey (alias: Ethan Landry)
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!!! '''Played By''': Creator/JackChampion
->''"Mindy was right. It was easy to juke the roommate lottery. I mean, all I had to do to meet you is room with a conceited, condescending alpha'' literally ''named Chad."''
Chad's college roommate and the brother of the late Richie Kirsch. Ethan is one third of a new trio of Ghostfaces along with his father Wayne and older sister Quinn.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Of Tara.
** He at one point yells that he's wanted to "stick something in" her for a while. Tara [[AttackTheMouth pays him in kind]].
** At another point, she yells "Fuck you!" at him, and he invites her to "go ahead."
* AffablyEvil: Despite being TheUnfavorite, he and his sister and father are more akin to a dysfunctional family than a gang of sociopathic killers. They also seem to genuinely care for each other, treating their murder attempt on Sam and Tara as having family fun time.
* TheAlibi: Ethan keeps bringing up his Econ alibi when the others point out his absence during the apartment murders. Given the confirmation that he is the one responsible for the apartment murders, it is suggested that either he didn't have an economics class that night, skipped said class, or [[ExactWords went to class but still had enough time to act as Ghostface]].
* AttackTheMouth: Tara stabs him through the mouth and twists the knife.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Ethan is the youngest of the three Bailey siblings.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Although Mindy immediately pegs him as a suspect, Ethan keeps up a facade as a stuttering, soft-spoken nice guy, the complete opposite of his genuine, sadistic personality.
* BloodFromTheMouth: When he comes back for one last scare, he's yelling with blood from the mouth.
* TheBrute: Between him and his sister, he's the most eager to indulge in violence following TheReveal. Even his own family seem to regard him as little more than extra muscle in their scheme. Fittingly enough, he is also the tallest of the trio.
* CallBack: Ethan's characterization provide several nods to Stu Macher, a killer from the first film. He tells the heroic Tara that he's always wanted to stick something in her while trying to kill her, much like how Stu, in a similar struggle with the heroic Sidney, told her, "I've always had a thing for ya, Sid!" He also comes back briefly after the heroes have thought they killed him, and dies once and for all by getting a TV (the ''same'' TV used to kill Stu, even) smashed over his head.
* CoDragons: He, along with Quinn, are Bailey's accomplices in the sixth film's murder spree.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Tara stabs him deep in the mouth and twists the knife. However, he still has some energy to try and attack Tara and Sam, only for Kirby to drop a television set (the very same set that fried Stu Macher, no less) on his head, crushing it and killing him for good.
* DragonTheirFeet: In franchise tradition, he comes back for one last scare after Bailey is killed.
* EvilGloating: After stabbing Tara in the side, he yells out "Gotcha!" before she stabs him through the mouth.
* EvilIsPetty: While stabbing Kirby, he makes sure to aim for exactly the spot where Charlie had stabbed her twelve years prior, even using Charlie's old knife to do it.
* FalseFriend: He pretends to be Chad's friend, but, in addition to secretly being one of the killers, Ethan admits that he actually hates him, considering him a JerkJock (more out of incel-esque jealousy than anything else) and gleefully reveling in having "[[NotQuiteDead killed]]" him.
* {{Foil}}: Ethan doesn't have much luck with the ladies and even claims to be a virgin. This is in contrast to his "sex-positive" sister Quinn and brother Richie, who was able to attract the likes of Sam and Amber.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Ethan is constantly undermined by his friends even before TheReveal, and everyone quickly believes he's the likeliest candidate to be Ghostface based on [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]]. Even his father seems to view him as an afterthought.
* GreenEyedMonster: The reason why Ethan stabbed Chad nearly to death is, among other things, because he's envious of his success with girls; Tara in particular. [[IfICantHaveYou Though he eventually goes on to attempt the same thing on Tara]].
* HeroKiller: Radio Silence stated in an [[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/scream-6-spoilers-explained-directors-neve-campbell-stu-1235548929/ interview]] that Ethan was the Ghostface in the apartment, which means he killed Anika and "Paul".[[note]]While Radio Silence are also open to the idea that his father Wayne can be the killer responsible for Anika and Paul's deaths, they remark that Ethan's actor Creator/JackChampion did some of the stunt work during the apartment attack, implying they lean more to Ethan as the Ghostface in said sequence.[[/note]] He also stabs Tara and Kirby, and almost kills Chad.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Ethan was always considered the likeliest suspect to be the killer, even before TheReveal. He is antagonized and no one particularly respects him, even more so as the body count rises. After the reveal, it's implied that his father favored his late brother more than him.
* LaughablyEvil: Acts very overtly deranged following TheReveal in a complete 180 from his "shy and dorky" (in Mindy's words) personality beforehand.
* MadeOfIron: Sam hits him in the head with a brick and stabs him five times in the chest, neither of which does much to slow him down. Tara seemingly kills him by stabbing him through the mouth and twisting the blade... but even then he has enough energy for one last scare until Kirby drops a television on his head, finally killing him for good.
* NotQuiteDead: After Tara stabs Ethan through the mouth with the knife that Sam gave her, Ethan is down for the count while Sam shoots Quinn in the head and stabs Detective Bailey to death while wearing the Ghostface costume. After the deaths of both his father and sister, Ethan gets up and rushes at Sam and Tara before Kirby crushes Ethan to death by dropping a television on him - the very same television that Sidney used to kill Stu in the first movie.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: It's implied that Ethan's motivated more by sadism and his own pent-up frustration than avenging Richie.
* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescription: He scoffs that being a psychotic SerialKiller must really run in Sam's family, apparently without realizing the irony.
* ObviouslyEvil: Mindy immediately describes him as suspicious because he's new to the group, and they all respond negatively to him when he arrives at the crime scene after Anika's death. This time, they're right about him.
* OnlyOneName: He is one of the very few characters not to have his surname revealed explicitly in the movies. This turns out to be for a good reason - to hide that he's a Bailey, like his sister Quinn and his father Wayne.
* PragmaticVillainy: Saving Mindy's life after Quinn attacked her was only done to throw suspicion off of him and sow distrust between the others, with he and his family stating their intent to finish her and Gale off at the hospital after killing the rest.
* {{Sadist}}: While he's with his family in a plot avenging Richie, he seems to relish in the killings and doesn't mention Richie like his sister or father. During the ladder scene, Ethan opts to put down his knife and toy with Anika as she tries to cross to the other side, which eventually causes her to fall to her death. While waiting for Tara to fall from a railing, Ethan slashes at her feet, laughing and cheering as he does.
* ScreamingWarrior: When he comes back for one last scream, he charges at Sam & Tara, while yelling like a berserker.
* SlasherSmile: He has three notable ones. The first when he unmasks himself as one of the killers, the second when he says he always wanted to "stick something" in Tara, the third after he stabs Tara and gloats out loud "GOTCHA!" with the widest smile ever before the former stabs him in the mouth.
* TemptingFate: At one point, he asks Sam, "What are you gonna do about it, bitch?" She responds by carving him up like she did his brother.
* TheUnfavorite: Implied since Wayne gushes over his bond with Richie, while conveniently ignoring Ethan.
* VillainousCrush: He's implied to have a crush on Tara, nevermind that he's trying to kill all her friends and her eventually.
* VillainousValor: Not only is he a {{Determinator}} like his predecessors to see the success of his family's vengeance go through, but does one LastStand of a berserker charge before getting a television set dropped on his head.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Implied in how Wayne treats him about the massacre, while praising Richie, to be at least part of his motive.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Implied to be part of his motive; it's heavily implied that he tried to murder Chad out of jealousy for his comparative success with women.
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[[folder:Quinn Bailey]]
!!Quinn Bailey
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!!! '''Played By''': Creator/LianaLiberato
->''"Do you know how easy it was to turn Sam from the hero of Woodsboro into the villain? How easy it is to convince the world to believe the worst in people rather than the best?"''
Sam and Tara's roommate and the sister of the late Richie Kirsch. Quinn is one third of a new trio of Ghostfaces along with her father Wayne and younger brother Ethan.
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* AffablyEvil: She and her brother and father are more akin to a dysfunctional family than a gang of sociopathic killers. They also seem to genuinely care for each other, treating their murder attempt on Sam and Tara as having family fun time.
* TheAlibi: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Quinn attacks Gale and Mindy to give Ethan an alibi for both situations since the protagonists are still suspicious of her brother.
* BerserkButton: Insulting her family. She charges at Sam when she brings up Richie's pathetic last moments, and later tries to attack Sam again when Tara stabs Ethan and Sam gleefully tells her she's "down another brother."
* BigBrotherWorship: Even before revealing herself as one of the killers, she mourns her brother and can't keep her emotions completely at bay while talking about him to Tara (even though she doesn't say it was Richie). Once she does reveal herself, speaking ill of Richie sends her into a rage.
* BoomHeadshot: Sam takes Quinn down this way, calling it a very effective way to kill someone in front of Quinn's father.
* CoDragons: Along with Ethan for Bailey in the sixth film.
* DaddysLittleVillain: She loves her family and especially loves helping her father in his criminal schemes.
* DarkActionGirl:
** Downplayed. Her only confirmed kill is Gale's boyfriend which was done with ambush tactics. Outside of that after TheReveal, she's the least threatening of the Ghostfaces and goes down with a single bullet to the brain without doing much to either of the Carpenter sisters.
** Having said that, Quinn ''is'' the one who puts Gale and Mindy out of commission for the grand finale along with nearly killing Chad with Ethan which makes her the Ghostface who does the most damage to the experienced characters.
* {{Determinator}}: Takes ''a brick'' to the face and gets back up because she's so determined to kill Sam and Tara for killing Richie.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's arguably the most upset about Richie even early on. She gets pissed when Sam speaks ill of him and when Tara stabs Ethan, she gets even more pissed.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In her phone call to Gale, Quinn expresses disgust at how she was willing to use past Ghostface murders as a means to make a successful career and sees it as an ample reason why Gale should suffer a painful death.
* EvilGenius: It was her idea to spread the rumors that Sam was the Ghostface of the third Woodsboro killing spree instead of her brother and Amber. One has to admit that it's very smart tactics to ruin someone's reputation, leaving them even more vulnerable.
* EvilRedhead: Has fiery orange hair and is one of the Ghostfaces.
* FakingTheDead: She staged her murder and used her father's influence as a cop in order to throw off suspicion that she was actually a Ghostface.
* FieryRedhead: Quinn has red hair and is the hot head of the trio.
* HeroKiller: After the reveal, Quinn takes credit for Gale's and Mindy's attacks; by extension, this means she was the one who killed Brooks, Gale's new boyfriend. {{Subverted}} in the case of Gale though as when it looks like that she's killed Gale, the paramedics on site confirm that Gale is still alive, albeit with a weak pulse. Still, it's the closest any Ghostface has gotten to killing Gale Weathers. She and her brother also come close to killing Chad.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Much like her brother Richie, whom she admires so much. She claims to be "sex-positive," but after she's revealed to be one of the Ghostfaces, she yells at Tara to shut her "[[SlutShaming whore]] fucking mouth."
* KarmicDeath: Shot in the head by her former roommate after being revealed as the one responsible for most of Sam's psychological torture.
* LoveInterestTraitor: Quinn allows Ethan to murder her boyfriend as part of a faked attack on her.
* MadeOfIron: A brick to the face doesn't keep her down for long - Gale also hits her square in the face with a cast-iron pan and it only slows her down for a few seconds.
* MaliciousSlander: Quinn is the one responsible for spreading the rumor that Sam framed Richie and Amber for the 2022 Woodsboro murders, to smear her name in revenge for Richie's demise.
* MistakenDeathConfirmation: She is apparently confirmed to have died in the apartment attack, but is actually still alive. Her father helped her to be inaccurately identified.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: She's the Ghostface who attacks and almost kills Gale, who is in her late fifties.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She's the smallest member of the Ghostface trio in this movie, but it doesn't hinder her too much when she's killing someone far bigger and muscular like Gale's boyfriend Brooks.
* ReallyGetsAround: Apparently. Quinn's promiscuity is commented on by everyone in the movie, though it's unclear if she's really like that or if it's a facade so that no-one will come into her room when she's thought to be having sex/faking a Ghostface attack.
* {{Sadist}}: While approaching Sam, who is seemingly helpless trying to save Tara from falling into Ethan's murderous clutches, Quinn approaches her with a [[PsychoticSmirk smile]], strolling casually while tapping her knife on a railing to show how much she's enjoying Sam's helplessness.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: At one point, she flips her knife in the same way that Richie does.
* SlasherSmile: Gives Sam a blood-soaked one when she confronts her post-reveal. It goes away quickly, and pales to the one Sam gives right back to her.
* TheToothHurts: When Tara takes a brick to Quinn's face, she knocks out several of Quinn's teeth.
* VillainousValor: Doesn't take a brick to face that knocked the teeth out of her mouth to impede her effort to avenge her fallen brother, but a bullet to the head to stop her dead on her tracks.
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