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| 2 | |
| 3 | For characters from ''Literature/TheNeverMythos'' short story click see [[Characters/TheNeverMythos here]]. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | !!The Girls |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:Kate Davies]] |
| 8 | !!Kate Davies |
| 9 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_10_17_at_123822_am_6.png]] |
| 10 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MarleyShelton, Brittany Mayers (young) |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Kate is a writer in a newspaper firm, where she met her on/off boyfriend Adam Carr. She is also best friends with Paige, Dorothy, Lily and Shelley since they were young. Back in middle school, she was the simple yet most popular one inside her circle. Jeremy Melton asked her for a dance which she turned down politely. |
| 13 | ---- |
| 14 | * AloneWithThePsycho: Late in the film, Kate finds herself [[spoiler:alone in Dorothy's house, unable to find anyone except Adam, who's drunk and acting very erratic, coaxing her into a slow dance in various tones ranging from calm to mildly threatening where he blubbers that she's the only good thing in his life. She kicks him in the nuts, he chases her down twice, babbling that he's always loved her. Downplayed because it's implied that Adam (or Jeremy) would never have actually hurt her.]] |
| 15 | * ClassPrincess: While all the other girls are at least somewhat AlphaBitch-y, she's actually rather nice despite being pretty and popular, and is still nice as an adult. |
| 16 | * DumbBlonde: Averted. Kate isn't a med student like Shelley, but she holds a consistent job and does most of the research regarding Jeremy Melton. |
| 17 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Kate is dismayed when Dorothy reveals that she lied about Jeremy and effectively ruined his life, as her first response is to ask why Dorothy would do that to someone. |
| 18 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Back in middle school, she was the most popular in her group and everyone loves her, including Jeremy. With her kind personality it isn't hard to see why. |
| 19 | * {{Expy}}: Marley Shelton drew inspiration from Creator/MiaFarrow's performance as [[Film/RosemarysBaby Rosemary Woodhouse]] to portray Kate. |
| 20 | * FinalGirl: The only female lead to survive the film. Not surprising, as [[spoiler: she was never a target.]] |
| 21 | %%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic |
| 22 | * GoodWearsWhite: Kate is shown wearing a lacy white dress in the prologue and is the kindhearted popular one among her friends. |
| 23 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Kate is the kindest among her blonde friends. She was also up to the rescue when Dorothy shouted her name for help, even though they had a fight moments before the attack happened. |
| 24 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: To [[spoiler:Jeremy/Adam. Near the end of the film, he says that Kate is the only good thing in his life.]] |
| 25 | * NiceGirl: Kate was the nicest in her circle of friends. Back in middle school, she was the only one who politely turned down Jeremy and did not accuse him of attacking Dorothy, [[spoiler:which is the reason why she survives the film]]. |
| 26 | %%* OnlySaneMan: The most levelheaded of the main characters by far. |
| 27 | * RedOniBlueOni: |
| 28 | ** Kate is the blue to Paige's red. She's the cool chick who is more reserved and calm while Paige's the hot chick who is more impulsive and outgoing. |
| 29 | ** Kate also has this dynamic with Lily as another Red. The demure and kind-hearted Kate is the blue to occasionally callous Genki Girl Lily's red. This contrast is reflected in how they pursue men: Kate met her boyfriend Adam at her office and has known him for years, she's cautious around him, and yet serves as a steadying influence for him while Lily knew that Max was a "cheap, hypocritical sleazeball" yet dated him anyway. |
| 30 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Kate is very uncomfortable at bumping into Gary outside her apartment wearing only a towel, to say nothing at her general unease around him. |
| 31 | * SupportingProtagonist: The primary viewpoint character but the story is really Jeremy's revenge on her friends for framing him. |
| 32 | * TrueBlueFemininity: She wears blue at turbo dating, the art exhibition, and Dorothy's party, as well as a jeans jacket; this color associates to her kind and gentle personality. |
| 33 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Jeremy uses Kate to keep tabs on her friends and later to top off his scheme by using Dorothy in the Cupid costume to attack Kate.]] |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | |
| 37 | [[folder:Paige Prescott]] |
| 38 | !!Paige Prescott |
| 39 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_10_17_at_123551_am.png]] |
| 40 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DeniseRichards, Chelcie Burgart (young) |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Paige is best friends with Kate, Dorothy, Lily and Shelley since they were kids. In middle school, she was the sexy one in their group, she likes boys and boys like her. During their middle school dance, Jeremy Melton asked her for a dance which she rejected harshly. |
| 43 | ---- |
| 44 | * AlliterativeName: '''P'''aige '''P'''rescott. |
| 45 | * AllWomenAreLustful: Subverted. Unlike what Dorothy thinks, Paige does choose men she sleeps with. She won't hesitate to reject any man that turns her off. |
| 46 | * AlphaBitch: She was arrogant and cruel as a teenager, and is even worse as an adult. |
| 47 | * BeautyIsBad: She's sexy but not totally evil, however what she did to Jeremy was definitely cruel. |
| 48 | * DeadpanSnarker: Almost all her lines are sarcastic. |
| 49 | * ElectrifiedBathtub: [[spoiler:Killed when the killer throws her into a hot tub and tosses a power drill inside, electrocuting her.]] |
| 50 | %%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric |
| 51 | * HellBentForLeather: MsFanservice Paige has a liking for black leather jackets, as shown in the turbo dating scene (to contrast with the jeans jacket worn by Kate) and the scenes where the ladies speak with Detective Vaughn. |
| 52 | * IgnoredEpiphany: After the maggoty chocolate incident, Paige has maybe a moment of regret regarding how mean she acted towards Jeremy Melton, but only for a moment. Publicly she maintains that he isn't a threat. |
| 53 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Paige doesn't like that Dorothy is allowing a man whose last name she doesn't know to live in her house. While Dorothy retorts that Paige [[ReallyGetsAround has slept with men who she's known for less than an hour]], Paige's point still stands since Dorothy's man is a GoldDigger who's only into her for her family's money. |
| 54 | * KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:The motifs surrounding her death all involve water. Paige said she'd rather be boiled alive at the middle school dance, she blows off Jeremy's threat by saying he couldn't manage a water fountain without screwing up, and she's [[ElectrifiedBathtub electrocuted in a hot tub]].]] |
| 55 | * LadyInRed: She wears red during the middle school dance, turbo dating, and Dorothy's party. It symbolizes her sexy persona. |
| 56 | * MsFanservice: She's definitely the hottest and most sexual among the girls. Her {{Fanservice}} scenes prove it. It gets to the point that Lily chides Paige for removing her coat and showing off her cleavage at [[spoiler:Shelly's funeral]]. |
| 57 | -->'''Lily''': Jesus Paige, it's a funeral. |
| 58 | * ProudBeauty: A MsFanservice with a haughty, arrogant personality. |
| 59 | * RedHerring: About halfway through the film, Paige randomly shows up in Kate's apartment, the last place the killer was seen. |
| 60 | * RedOniBlueOni: Paige is the red to Kate's blue. She's the hot chick who is more impulsive and outgoing while Kate is the cool one who is more reserved and calm. |
| 61 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: Twice over regarding her friends' boyfriends. |
| 62 | ** For Dorothy: She fingers Campbell as a suspect because they don't know him as well (Dorothy's only known him for a month and doesn't even know his last name). While Campbell may not be a murderer, he is a GoldDigger. |
| 63 | ** For Kate: Paige doesn't think Kate should get back with Adam; it was her idea for Kate to do turbo-dating to take her mind off Adam and due to Adam's drinking problem, Kate should dump Adam. While Adam isn't the best boyfriend, the drinking [[spoiler:isn't the worst problem.]] |
| 64 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Denise Richards was the biggest name in the film at the time of its release and Paige's death marks the point where the party clears out, leaving only a handful of people to deal with the killer.]] |
| 65 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: Paige shows a lot of annoyance at guys ogling her throughout the film, such as Campbell and Detective Vaughn. |
| 66 | * TheSociopath: Paige is a high-functioning, non-criminal type whose behavior is nonetheless unnerving. Paige has a general glibness with everyone she interacts with, shows no remorse to learning she participated in a FrameUp job, is mentioned as being [[ReallyGetsAround rather promiscuous]], pretends to offer sex and manipulates the guy she's with into taking off his clothes, then reacts to what she sees by pouring hot wax onto his crotch and leaving him ChainedToABed, and doesn't acknowledge she's in any danger once she learns how badly she screwed up in regards to the FrameUp; while Kate is dismayed at what her friends did, Paige attempts to reassure Dorothy (who made the initial accusation) by telling her that Jeremy surely can't be capable of an intricate revenge plot despite him claiming responsibility for the death of one of their friends. |
| 67 | * TooCleverByHalf: Paige manages to work out that Jeremy Melton sent the Valentines and [[spoiler:killed Shelley]], but never once does she think that [[spoiler:he'd come to kill her for helping frame him.]] |
| 68 | * TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Disobeying Vaughn's instructions by wandering off on her own makes her an easy target for Jeremy when he comes for her. This can be justified because Paige is ''[[SmugSnake just that arrogant]]'' and openly states she doesn't take Jeremy seriously.]] |
| 69 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: None of the girls take the threats against them seriously and try to go about their lives as normal, but Paige might take the cake as she admits to Detective Vaughn that she thought the valentine and maggot-infested chocolate she and Lily received were jokes and tries to reassure Dorothy that Jeremy wouldn't be capable of concocting a revenge plot. |
| 70 | -->"Dorothy, I really wouldn't worry about this. Jeremy Melton couldn't manage a water fountain without screwing up. I don't think he's capable of an intricate revenge plot." |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Dorothy Wheeler]] |
| 75 | !!Dorothy Wheeler |
| 76 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_10_17_at_121429_am.png]] |
| 77 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JessicaCapshaw, Kate Logie (young) |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Dorothy is best friends with Kate, Paige, Lily and Shelley since childhood. Back in middle school, all of her friends were popular and she was too because she is in their circle. She was the called "the fat one" and school bullies even called her "buffalo". Back at their middle school dance, Jeremy Melton was the only one who asked her for a dance which she agreed on. They started to make out and when the school bullies found out, Dorothy told them that Jeremy attacked her which caused him to be sent to reform school. |
| 80 | ---- |
| 81 | * ArchEnemy: To Jeremy Melton. Dorothy framed Jeremy for sexually assaulting her in middle school, and this is the root of his vendetta against Dorothy and her friends (minus [[TokenGoodTeammate Kate]]). While Jeremy is fully intent on killing them for corroborating Dorothy, he has an even crueler fate for her when [[spoiler:he murders her boyfriend just so he could break her and make her easier to frame.]] |
| 82 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:In a film full of jerks being murdered, Dorothy takes the gold star as the person whose FalseRapeAccusation set everything in motion, culminating in her death.]] |
| 83 | * BearerOfBadNews: Dorothy has to inform Kate of Shelley's murder. |
| 84 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: In the opening scene, Dorothy pretended to be nice to Jeremy by taking up his offer to dance, only to throw him under the bus by falsely accusing him of sexually assaulting her when the bullies found them. |
| 85 | * BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Blood is shown trickling from her mouth after getting shot by Adam.]] |
| 86 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Shot seven times by Adam, marking her as the ninth and final victim.]] |
| 87 | * DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Her eyes are open when Adam unmasks her.]] |
| 88 | * DirtyCoward: Framed Jeremy for raping her just to avoid embarrassment. |
| 89 | * FatBitch: She was both fat and a bitch in middle school. Then again, [[FormerlyFat even as a less chubby adult]], she's still a bitch. |
| 90 | * {{Foil}}: To Kate. During the opening scene, both girls appeared to be nicer to Jeremy than Shelley, Lily, and Paige, but went about it in different ways; Kate rejected him nicely while Dorothy seemingly accepted Jeremy's offer to dance, but then took him under the bleachers and threw him under the bus (so to speak) [[BitchInSheepsClothing when it was inconvenient for her]]. There's also how they act with their significant others: in the present day, Kate is much more cautious around Adam than Dorothy is around Campbell thanks to Adam's drinking habits while Dorothy threw herself into her relationship out of loneliness. Consequently their actions [[spoiler:determine their fates: Kate survives because she let Jeremy down nicely, while Dorothy, who pretended to be nice but cast him aside, is murdered and framed for the massacre.]] |
| 91 | ** Granted, a document shown briefly in the film reveals that [[spoiler: Paige, Shelly, and Lily all acted as witnesses to Dorothy's false allegations]] against Jeremy. Kate's name was not listed, meaning she was never a target. |
| 92 | * FormerlyFat: Dorothy was fat during the gals' childhood but has since slimmed down. However, she still carries a lot of insecurities from that time. |
| 93 | %%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic |
| 94 | * LackOfEmpathy: Dorothy has little remorse for framing Jeremy Melton and ruining his life, pathetically citing how fat she was in middle school as justification. |
| 95 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Dorothy started this whole mess by setting up Jeremy as a fall guy when they were seen by the bullies and she lied that he assaulted her to save face. So what does [[spoiler:Jeremy/Adam do to her as his last victim? He knocks Dorothy out and puts her in his costume so that she bumps into Kate as she comes to, knocking them both down the stairs. When the disoriented Dorothy sits up, Jeremy/Adam guns her down and "unmasks" her, pinning all his crimes on her.]] |
| 96 | * LonelyRichKid: Despite having popular friends, Dorothy is rich but she is not close with her father who prefers his mistress over his daughter. Also, ever since childhood no boys wanted her until Campbell walked in her doorstep. |
| 97 | * MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler:Shot seven times by Adam.]] |
| 98 | * NeverMyFault: Downplayed; while Dorothy admits that it's her fault that Jeremy killed Shelley she doesn't show any remorse for framing him. |
| 99 | * TheResenter: Dorothy has a lot of bones to pick with people. She wasn't as popular as her friends in school, never had any luck with guys until Campbell, and her father clearly favors his new wife over her by taking her side in an argument. |
| 100 | %%* RichBitch |
| 101 | * StrawLoser: She was the least popular among her friends. |
| 102 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Dorothy was the one who claimed that Jeremy attacked her, leading to him being beaten, stripped, and his life practically ruined. [[DidntSeeThatComing She didn't actually think]] that he'd come back for revenge. |
| 103 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:The second half of the film is one long one for Dorothy. After Campbell goes missing, Dorothy starts binge-eating. Then she learns that her boyfriend wasn't the guy she thought he was. Finally, Dorothy, still in denial about Campbell, lashes out at Kate, the last of her friends, for being "the popular one". All of this just makes her look suspicious.]] |
| 104 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Dorothy assumes that being the one who framed Jeremy, she's the one who would be murdered next after Shelley. She doesn't realize that [[spoiler:Jeremy intends to kill the whole friend group minus Kate, and give Dorothy a taste of her own medicine.]] |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:Lily Voight]] |
| 109 | !!Lily Voight |
| 110 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_10_17_at_10917_am.png]] |
| 111 | !!!'''Played By:''' Jessica Cauffiel, Chelsea Florko (young) |
| 112 | |
| 113 | Lily is best friends with Kate, Paige, Dorothy and Shelley ever since they were young. In middle school, she was "the fun one" among them. Back in their middle school dance, she cruelly rejected Jeremy Melton when he asked her for a dance. |
| 114 | ---- |
| 115 | * AgeInappropriateDress: The outfit she wore to the middle school dance at the beginning of the film shows part of her abdomen, a surprising outfit on a 13-year-old. |
| 116 | * DeathByMocking: After receiving maggoty chocolate from Jeremy Melton, Lily makes impressions of his unattractive appearance and dorky personality. [[spoiler:She winds up being the second of the gals to die.]] |
| 117 | * DumbBlonde: She's a blonde, airheaded party girl. |
| 118 | * {{Foil}}: To Kate. Both are blonde and like to wear jeans jackets but while Kate's hair is long and straight, Lily's hair is blonde QuirkyCurls. Kate averts DumbBlonde, Lily plays it straight. Kate is kind-hearted, had forgotten about the dance, and was concerned about Jeremy when she learns what her friends did, Lily takes a much shorter time to remember Jeremy, makes fun of his appearance and awkwardness, and is unconcerned with what happened to him. |
| 119 | %%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine |
| 120 | * GenkiGirl: Lily is the most cheerful and energetic among the girls, the "fun one". |
| 121 | * LifeOfTheParty: She enjoys gatherings and is usually the one who lightens up the mood in the group. |
| 122 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Shot three times with arrows, then falls [[TrashLanding 10 stories into a dumpster]]]]. |
| 123 | * QuirkyCurls: She definitely wears it perfectly, as the GenkiGirl and LifeOfTheParty with a head of blonde curls. |
| 124 | * RailingKill: [[spoiler:Shot three times with arrows, causing her to fall over a railing and [[TrashLanding into a dumpster]], marking her as the second victim.]] |
| 125 | * RedOniBlueOni: Lily is the red to Kate's blue. She's the GenkiGirl who is occasionally callous while Kate is demure, reserved and kind-hearted. |
| 126 | * TooDumbToLive: Most people in their right mind wouldn't pick up an unmarked package just lying at their doorstep. On the other hand this is still in character since Lily's a DumbBlonde. |
| 127 | [[/folder]] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[folder:Shelley Fisher]] |
| 131 | !!Shelley Fisher |
| 132 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2016_10_17_at_14241_am.png]] |
| 133 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/KatherineHeigl, Sarah Mjanes (young) |
| 134 | |
| 135 | Shelley is best friends with Kate, Paige, Dorothy and Lily since they were kids. Back in middle school, she was the smartest among the girls. Jeremy Melton asked her for a dance during middle school which she savagely turned down. As an adult Shelley is in medical school, studying to become a doctor. |
| 136 | ---- |
| 137 | * BadDate: Had one at the start of the film with Jason Marquette. By the time the scene begins Shelley is already regretting the date. |
| 138 | * BrainyBrunette: She's the smartest among her friends, has dark hair, and even went to med school to become a doctor. |
| 139 | * MsFanservice: A mild example compared to Paige, but she wears [[HellBentForLeather a red leather jacket]] and spends much of her screen-time in a cold morgue wearing a low-cut tank top where she'd probably be expected to wear a lab coat. |
| 140 | * SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:The first character to die in the film whose death scene establishes some of the killer's trademarks (his FallenCupid look, penchant for leaving macabre Valentine cards, switching up tactics, and finally the nosebleed he suffers which appears to link the crime to Jeremy Melton. Also counts as DeadStarWalking]]. |
| 141 | * SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:The killer cuts her throat.]] |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | !!Boyfriends of The Girls |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Adam Carr]] |
| 147 | !!Adam Carr/[[spoiler: Jeremy Melton]] |
| 148 | %% |
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| 151 | %% |
| 152 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9b6ff8b4_55a0_443b_9185_20c802acfb74.jpeg]] |
| 153 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Click here to see the killer in costume]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6982f8a9_ca70_47f2_b405_25614532b2ea.jpeg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 154 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidBoreanaz, [[spoiler:Joel Palmer (young)]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | A writer and Kate's on-off boyfriend who has a drinking problem. |
| 157 | ---- |
| 158 | * TheAlcoholic: Adam has had a recurring drinking problem, and this has soured his relationship with Kate. He's doing his best to change his ways however. |
| 159 | %%* BigBadFriend |
| 160 | * ConsummateLiar: [[spoiler:Apparently made up a whole life story to win Kate over.]] |
| 161 | * EvilAllAlong: Behind his friendly, unassuming exterior [[spoiler:is a cold, vengeful SerialKiller. Of course, depending on how justified the viewer may feel he was, he may actually be a subversion.]] |
| 162 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Toes the line between this trope and AffablyEvil. Adam puts up a pleasant front, albeit one marred by his drinking, [[spoiler:to deceive his targets into a false sense of security before offing them.]] The mask begins to slip at Dorothy's party where he acts quite callously towards Dorothy when it looks like her boyfriend stood her up [[spoiler:(which he's responsible for).]] When he's interacting with Kate and other people, he apparently acts a lot friendlier. |
| 163 | * FunctionalAddict: Having a drinking problem does nothing to keep him from being good at his job. [[spoiler:Or from being good at killing.]] |
| 164 | * HardHead: [[spoiler:Takes a bottle to the head and is still able to fire a pistol with a reasonable sense of accuracy.]] |
| 165 | * HiddenVillain: [[spoiler:His status as the main villain isn't apparent until the final shot of the film.]] |
| 166 | * MasterActor: [[spoiler:At no point does he let slip that he's a highly dangerous person to be around until the ending where there's no way to stop him. This also makes the depths of his alcoholism ''very'' difficult to ascertain.]] |
| 167 | * MoodSwinger: When Adam drinks, he apparently gets out of control. During the climax when [[spoiler:he and Kate are alone in Dorothy's house after he's had a few drinks, he shifts between calm ("Dance with me, Kate") to threatening ("Don't make me beg, Kate") to placating ("You're the only good thing in my life") very quickly. The way Kate responds indicates she's seen it enough to play along until she finds an opening.]] |
| 168 | * MrViceGuy: Outside of his drinking habit, Adam seems to be an okay guy who will also drop whatever he's doing to help Kate. [[spoiler:It turns out that alcoholism is the least of his issues.]] |
| 169 | * OffTheWagon: Adam has been trying to keep his drinking under control for some time prior to the film's events, but starts drinking again near the end of the film. |
| 170 | -->'''Adam''': ''[after drinking a glass of champagne]'' There you are, I've been looking all over for you. |
| 171 | -->'''Kate''': ''[icily]'' And I wasn't at the bottom of the bottle? |
| 172 | * PlayingDrunk: [[spoiler:Pretends to be more drunk than he really is during the climax to make his actions look less suspicious.]] |
| 173 | * RecoveredAddict: Adam's been clean from drinking for a few weeks by the time the film begins. [[spoiler:He starts drinking near the end of the film though by its end it's heavily implied that he was never really as addicted as he made it look (in fact being a drunk would be a rather minor issue).]] |
| 174 | * RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Adam and Kate have an on-off relationship due to his drinking problem, and much of their screentime together is trying to get back together after some time apart. |
| 175 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Adam goes on a complete bender towards the end of the film thanks to falling OffTheWagon, begging a dance from Kate in two different tones, declaring her the only good thing in his life, and asking her why she wants to hurt him. Subverted since the ending implies he [[ObfuscatingStupidity deliberately acted more off-kilter to lull Kate into a false sense of urgency]]. Or it's the Jeremy part of his personality leaking back in.]] |
| 176 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Primarily appears in scenes where Kate is present. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he's been a few other places in the film.]] |
| 177 | * SharpDressedMan: Dorothy says that Adam always looks good. |
| 178 | %%* TallDarkAndHandsome |
| 179 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Adam appears to be the best of the gals' current boyfriends; despite his alcohol problem he is genuinely making an effort to change his behavior and is supportive of Kate, contrasting the openly sleazy Max and the GoldDigger Campbell. [[spoiler:Emphasis on appears.]] |
| 180 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Zigzagged; while Adam is more suave and less socially awkward [[spoiler:than he was as a child, he is much more ruthless, dealing with threats and enemies with murderous intent.]] |
| 181 | * UnknownRival: To Gary. Gary appears unaware of the relationship between Kate and Adam when he asks Kate out [[spoiler:but the moment Adam hears that Kate is uncomfortable around Gary, he [[BludgeonedToDeath acts accordingly]].]] |
| 182 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about Adam without [[spoiler:mentioning his true identity as Jeremy Melton, the Cupid serial killer]]. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Campbell Morris]] |
| 186 | !!Campbell Morris |
| 187 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000012354.jpg]] |
| 188 | !!!'''Played By''': Creator/DanielCosgrove |
| 189 | |
| 190 | A tech entrepreneur and Dorothy's boyfriend. |
| 191 | ---- |
| 192 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:As a GoldDigger who's taking advantage of Dorothy, barely anybody (save for Dorothy herself) mourns his death.]] |
| 193 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:The killer plants an axe in his back, making him the fourth victim of the killer and the last before the party.]] |
| 194 | * DeathByMaterialism: [[spoiler:In a roundabout way, as dating a girl with a trust fund and a target on her back gets him killed.]] |
| 195 | * {{Foil}}: To Kate. Campbell and Kate are the significant others of [[spoiler:Dorothy and Jeremy, the two people whose years-long conflict drives the plot. Both are "taken" from Dorothy in the second half of the film: Campbell by death, Kate by Jeremy making Dorothy lash out at her and make Kate believe she went on a killing spree. Both their significant others (Jeremy for Kate, Dorothy for Campbell) [[LivingEmotionalCrutch place a lot of their own self-worth on their partner]]. However while Kate never tried to manipulate Adam aside from wanting him to behave around her friends, Campbell wants Dorothy's money.]] |
| 196 | * GoldDigger: A male example as a ConMan staying at Dorothy's house to get access to her money. |
| 197 | * InTheBack: [[spoiler:Gets killed when the killer plants an axe in his back.]] |
| 198 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Dorothy, mainly because he was the first guy who Dorothy had any luck with. When Campbell fails to show up at the party ([[spoiler:because somebody killed him]]), Dorothy starts binge-eating. |
| 199 | -->'''Dorothy''': You know [Kate], you go back and forth about Adam..."should I or shouldn't I?" Campbell's all I've got. |
| 200 | * MrFixit: Dorothy counts on him to do some of the maintenance around the house, much to his annoyance. Campbell's relighting the pilot light to the water heater when [[spoiler:he gets killed]]. |
| 201 | * RedHerring: Given that he conveniently showed up when the killing started and the girls don't even know his last name, he quickly becomes a suspect. |
| 202 | * WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler:Campbell is wearing a white bathrobe when he is killed.]] |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Max Raimi]] |
| 207 | !!Max Raimi |
| 208 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000012358.jpg]] |
| 209 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnnyWhitworth |
| 210 | |
| 211 | Lily's boyfriend, a visual artist. |
| 212 | ---- |
| 213 | * CasanovaWannabe: Shows signs of this trope, what with bringing his assistant Amy for a threesome with Lily and making passes at Kate at Dorothy's party which are all rejected. |
| 214 | * ChekhovsGunman: Downplayed. At Dorothy's party, he informs Kate that [[spoiler:Lily has been missing for a week, meaning that Jeremy probably killed her. With that knowledge, Kate realizes that Jeremy might try to strike at the party since all three remaining girls are there.]] |
| 215 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: Very blatantly looks over Kate when they meet at the art gallery and Lily introduces them. |
| 216 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: Seems to have this mindset. Why else did he bring his assistant for a threesome with Lily? |
| 217 | * IResembleThatRemark: When Lily is disgusted by him bringing his assistant for a threesome, calling Max a "cheap hypocritical sleazeball", Max replies "Yeah, but you knew that." |
| 218 | * PermaStubble: Consistently shown with a day or two of stubble to give him a more rugged look. |
| 219 | * PerpetualSmiler: Always shown with a goofy grin on his face. |
| 220 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:He's one of the partygoers who books when the power goes out at Dorothy's house.]] |
| 221 | %%* SmallNameBigEgo |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | |
| 225 | !!Others |
| 226 | [[folder:The Cupid Killer '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']] |
| 227 | !!Jeremy Melton/Adam Carr |
| 228 | [[quoteright:997:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000012352.jpg]] |
| 229 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidBoreanaz, Joel Palmer (young), Marshall Virtue (stuntman wearing Cupid Killer's costume) |
| 230 | |
| 231 | A young man who Dorothy framed for sexually assaulting her when they were children. |
| 232 | ---- |
| 233 | * AntiVillain: Decidedly a JerkassWoobie. If the bullies hadn't shown up, Dorothy hadn't panicked and accused him of AttemptedRape, resulting in him being beaten by the GangOfBullies and subsequently sent to a mental institution, he wouldn't have become a vengeful SerialKiller. |
| 234 | * BadassLongcoat: Wears a knee-length duster as part of his killer getup. |
| 235 | * TheBadGuyWins: A rare example that's not a full-blown DownerEnding, if you even consider him a villain at all. By the end, he's killed all the girls who bullied him and had a hand in his FrameUp, and he even got the girl. |
| 236 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Kate is the only girl who Jeremy does not kill, because she was absolutely polite to him even when she rejected him. |
| 237 | * BerserkButton: |
| 238 | ** Downplayed. Jeremy doesn't openly get angry, but the main targets in his plot receive a lot more physical violence, like trying to choke Shelley to death, stabbing Paige with a drill before electrocuting her, and utterly thrashing Dorothy before putting her in his costume, with her room littered with the signs of their struggle. |
| 239 | ** Messing with Kate is a quick way to get on his bad side as the only time he breaks from his plan is to kill Gary for stalking/stealing from Kate, and what [[FacialHorror he does]] is [[BludgeonedToDeath brutal]]. |
| 240 | * BestServedCold: He's waited ''13 years'' to take revenge on the girls who framed him and kept him from a normal life. |
| 241 | * BigBad: The central antagonist of the film, as the killer hunting the central group of gals. |
| 242 | * BullyHunter: According to the director, Jeremy killed the bullies who beat him first before targeting everyone who had a hand in the FalseRapeAccusation. |
| 243 | * ByronicHero: Adam (really Jeremy) is a TallDarkAndHandsome, charming, and skilled man, but broods over the injustice he received as a boy and is obsessed with [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge murdering those who framed him]] by any means necessary. He still carries a soft spot for his girlfriend Kate because she rejected him nicely when they were children and did not participate in the FrameUp as her friends did; unfortunately his idea of looking out for her is to murder a man who stalks her. |
| 244 | * TheChessmaster: A rare example for a slasher villain. Jeremy spent years accumulating resources, changing his appearance and mannerisms, cultivating a relationship with Kate, observing her friends' habits and movements, and hiding his true intentions with doses of booze until it was time to strike. |
| 245 | * CombatPragmatist: Of a couple shades: |
| 246 | ** Very rarely attacks his victims head-on, instead using their surroundings to mask his appearance (concealing himself in a curtain that Shelley bumps into), striking from behind blind corners in a disorienting environment (Lily), catching them while in a compromising position (Gary), straight-up attacking from behind (Campbell), using objects to distract them (Paige), and averts WhyDontYouJustShootHim (Lily (again) and Dorothy). Every blow is aimed to hurt or kill. |
| 247 | ** Of the ImprovisedWeapon type. Aside from standard slasher weapons like knives and axes, he'll use anything and everything at his disposal from running irons to glass shards to power drills. And unlike most SlasherMovie killers he's not adverse to just shooting his quarry (contrast with [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers Michael Myers using a shotgun to pin a victim to a door]]). Anything goes as long as his target is dead when he's through. |
| 248 | * CopKiller: Detective Vaughn is his second-to-last victim. |
| 249 | * CrazyPrepared: Jeremy always makes sure he cleans up after his kills, particularly due to his nosebleed habit. |
| 250 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Jeremy was a loner as a child. [[FromBadToWorse Then he was framed for sexual assault]] and locked up in a mental institution. |
| 251 | %%* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Especially from Kate. |
| 252 | * {{Determinator}}: Nothing will stop him from taking his revenge. |
| 253 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Slap him with a FalseRapeAccusation? He'll murder you, murder your friends for corroborating you, and make it look like ''you'' killed your friends after you apparently snapped due to a lifetime of loneliness. |
| 254 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Kate seems to be the only person he cares about because she was the only person who was nice to him at any point. Of course, depending on how justified the viewer may feel he was, calling him "evil" may be a stretch. |
| 255 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 256 | ** To Dorothy. Both have self-esteem issues stemming from being marginalized while growing up and took steps to make themselves more attractive (Dorothy exercised a lot, Jeremy had plastic surgery and also exercised), place a lot of their own self-worth on their significant others, and are really good deceivers when the chips are down. Unlike Dorothy (and sadly for most everyone she knows), Jeremy is prepared to murder people just so he can resolve his psychological issues. |
| 257 | ** To Campbell. While both men are manipulating Dorothy, Campbell just wants her money; Jeremy wants her dead and her life ruined. Both are also viewed with mistrust by Kate's friends; Jeremy for his drinking, Campbell because Dorothy barely knows him. |
| 258 | * EvilGloating: Sends an unsympathetic remembrance card to Shelley's parents and even signs his name. |
| 259 | * EvilPlan: Kill the girls who framed him for sexual assault, then frame whoever was responsible for the initial accusation. |
| 260 | * EvilerThanThou: Compared to the various jerks, sleazeballs, gold diggers, and stalkers, Jeremy/Adam is much more dangerous as none of them are murderers (presumably). |
| 261 | * FreudianExcuse: It's pretty clear that while Jeremy already had some obsessive tendencies from his yearbook, being framed for rape made him much worse. |
| 262 | %%* FriendlessBackground |
| 263 | * GeekPhysiques: Paige remembers him as being quite skinny and the prologue corroborates this. |
| 264 | * GeniusBruiser: Jeremy isn't just a killing machine, he's put together a revenge scheme ranging over a decade, coupled with a contingency plan doubling as a pièce de résistance. |
| 265 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Manages to empty a pistol into Dorothy and not hit Kate despite suffering from a couple head injuries. |
| 266 | * KarmaHoudini: Depending on the viewer's point-of-view on how sympathetic Jeremy/Adam is, this trope applies either way as he murders multiple people and gets away clean by framing Dorothy for his crimes. He even manages to patch things up with his girlfriend. |
| 267 | * {{Leitmotif}}: A high-pitched piano line, starting out innocent but with darker tones that creep in. It crops up whenever Jeremy sends Valentines and finally the ending. |
| 268 | * MadeOfIron: Downplayed compared to other slasher villains but Jeremy takes a decent amount of damage with barely a moment or two spent recovering from wounds he suffers throughout the film that would otherwise incapacitate him. First he got beaten to a pulp as a child and suffered no lasting physical damage. In the opening scene he gets stabbed in the leg and walks it off. In the climax he gets a pool cue smashed into his head, [[GroinAttack kneed in the crotch]], and a bottle smashed against his head and appears none the worse for wear by the end; he can even aim and shoot quite well. |
| 269 | * ManipulativeBastard: |
| 270 | ** Jeremy works his way back into Kate's life as [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Adam]] through her job and then uses the opportunity to observe how her friends act for ''years'' before deciding to strike. To cap things off he tricks Kate (and probably the cops he called) into thinking that Dorothy snapped and went on a killing spree. |
| 271 | ** The entire second half of the film is Jeremy playing a mind game on Dorothy; he kills her boyfriend just to make her suffer a breakdown and make her turn on Kate so that she, Dorothy, will look even more guilty. |
| 272 | * MightyGlacier: Never moves faster than a MenacingStroll, but he ''will'' get to his target and once he does [[CurbStompBattle he ends fights quickly and painfully]]. This might be due to the coat constricting his movements as he has no problem chasing Kate down stairs while not wearing his coat. |
| 273 | * MysteriousPast: Everything after winding up in the mental hospital and the film's main events is up in the air. The audience knows that Jeremy met up with Kate at some point while they were working at the same newspaper, he made up a story about his family being from Seattle, and that he's met Dorothy and Paige, but other than that it's left blank. |
| 274 | * NotGoodWithRejection: Downplayed. Jeremy is probably angry with Paige, Lily, and Shelley for rejecting him, but the story emphasizes their role in helping Dorothy frame him for putting them in his crosshairs. |
| 275 | * PlayingDrunk: Jeremy's likely been spending much of his interactions around his targets (most notably Paige) for the past several years pretending to be be a drunkard. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Or being around his targets makes him drink more.]] |
| 276 | * PoeticSerialKiller: Matches up his targets' deaths with how each insulted him. For Dorothy, he frames her for his crimes like she framed him for assaulting her. |
| 277 | * RedRightHand: His nose bleeds every time he experiences a strong emotion, such as anger (every time he kills) or happiness (the film's ending). |
| 278 | * RevengeIsSweet: The expression he makes at the very end suggests that he's just going to live out his life as Adam with Kate at his side, free from the pain Dorothy caused him. |
| 279 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His objective is to kill the women who framed him all those years ago. |
| 280 | * SerialKiller: According to the director, Jeremy also killed the bullies who beat him, meaning that his murders are more spread out than depicted in the film. |
| 281 | * SingleTargetSexuality: After the age of 12, Jeremy/Adam seems to have had eyes for no girl but Kate, the only person who showed him any sort of kindness. |
| 282 | %%* StalkerWithACrush: Towards Kate. |
| 283 | %%* StalkerWithoutACrush: Towards Kate's friends. |
| 284 | * StartOfDarkness: Dorothy and her friends framing him for assaulting her, getting beaten by the bullies, and being locked up in a mental institution had a horrible effect on him. |
| 285 | * TookALevelInBadass: Went from a dorky loser to a cold, calculating SerialKiller. Also counts as FromNobodyToNightmare. |
| 286 | * TranquilFury: Jeremy spends much of the film (and probably the last 13 years) in a state of controlled rage until he has the opportunity to strike, with little to show at how angry he is. His unmasked one scene with one of his targets (Dorothy) has him using an almost casual tone of voice which clashes horribly with the DeathGlare he affixes her. |
| 287 | * TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Adam Carr is the cover identity of Jeremy Melton, who moonlights as a SerialKiller wearing a FallenCupid mask. |
| 288 | * {{Unperson}}: Jeremy has essentially erased his identity by the time of the film's main events; nobody has heard from him since his stint in the mental hospital and the only people who would have known him, his parents, died in a fire a few years back. |
| 289 | * VillainProtagonist: While the film takes place from Kate's point of view, Jeremy's quest for revenge is given the most narrative weight. He is the main character of the opening scene, his murders drive the plot, and the fact that the film ends with him achieving his main goals: revenge on Dorothy and finding that Kate loves him. |
| 290 | * XanatosSpeedChess: Jeremy plays a mean game of this in the finale. When Ruthie finds him in the middle of DisposingOfABody, [[HeKnowsTooMuch he plugs up the leak by killing her]]. At some point he finds Detective Vaughn after the latter learns of Lily's death and deals with him before targeting Paige. When Kate sees him starting to hit the drinks, he creates a way to get back into her good graces by framing Dorothy for his murders right after the latter pours out all her issues to Kate, making it look like Dorothy snapped after all the years of being lonely and took it out on everyone she resented, only being stopped because Adam killed her. |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Detective Vaughn]] |
| 294 | !! SFPD Detective Leon Vaughn |
| 295 | [[quoteright:990:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000012360.jpg]] |
| 296 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/FulvioCecere |
| 297 | A detective tasked with investigating Shelly's death. |
| 298 | ---- |
| 299 | * DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:His eyes are wide open on his decapitated head.]] |
| 300 | * FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:He apparently had Jeremy/Adam right under his nose for questioning and didn't realize it. Unless Adam was lying about that, which is [[ConsummateLiar certainly possible]].]] |
| 301 | %%* GoodIsNotNice |
| 302 | * IgnoredExpert: {{Deconstructed}}. His advice to the gals to stay put and in groups might have made Jeremy's plan a lot harder to implement since [[spoiler:Paige wanders to the hot tub alone and Dorothy gets ambushed later after everyone leaves]], but his behavior towards Paige made it unlikely they would listen. |
| 303 | * {{Jerkass}}: He sexually harasses Paige at the police station. |
| 304 | * JurisdictionFriction: Averted, as he has no problem going back and forth between Los Angeles and San Francisco to investigate a case (Shelley was killed in Los Angeles, most of the rest of the cast lives in the Bay area). |
| 305 | * KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Killed at some point after arriving at Dorothy's house, with only his head being found (his corpse in deleted scenes).]] |
| 306 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The killer decapitates him offscreen and deposits his head in a pond at Dorothy's house.]] |
| 307 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler:He had an epic one since his decapitated head is screaming.]] |
| 308 | * PoliceAreUseless: Zig-zagged. While he's not bad with his research and following up on leads (he makes sure to check in on as many people as he can on who the girls have been in contact with), he [[spoiler:gets taken out without much of a fight by the killer.]] |
| 309 | %%* TheStoic |
| 310 | * WhatTheHellHero: Chastises the ladies (particularly Paige) for not telling him about the cards signed J.M., meaning he essentially went on a wild goose chase after Jason Marquette. |
| 311 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Vaughn is seen rolling his eyes when Paige and Dorothy start bickering about Campbell. |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[folder:Ruthie Walker]] |
| 315 | !!Ruthie Walker |
| 316 | [[quoteright:386:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000012348.png]] |
| 317 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/HedyBurress |
| 318 | A woman with a grudge against Campbell and accuses him of scamming her. |
| 319 | ---- |
| 320 | * HairTriggerTemper: Tetchy and sounds like she's about to fly off the handle whenever she speaks. |
| 321 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Winds up in the same room as the killer as he tries to dispose of Millie's body, and that marks her for death.]] |
| 322 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:The killer throws her through a shower door, then shoves her head/possibly her [[ImpromptuTracheotomy neck]] onto a shard of glass.]] |
| 323 | * ImprovisedWeapon: Uses a pool cue to knock the killer down. |
| 324 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Turns out everything she said about Campbell was right all along as he turns out to be a GoldDigger. |
| 325 | * RedHerring: Appears to be one for [[spoiler:Campbell's murder, with the audience meant to believe she targeted him out of revenge for scamming her.]] |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Gary Taylor]] |
| 329 | !!Gary Taylor |
| 330 | [[quoteright:748:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000012346.png]] |
| 331 | !!!'''Played By:''' Claude Duhamel |
| 332 | Kate's neighbor who has a crush on her. |
| 333 | ---- |
| 334 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:A StalkerWithACrush who gets beaten to death and nobody is concerned with what happened to him.]] |
| 335 | * BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:The killer beats his face in with an iron.]] |
| 336 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Burned with an iron and beaten to death, marking him as the third victim.]] |
| 337 | * FacialHorror: [[spoiler:The killer burns half his face with an iron.]] |
| 338 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Ends up on the wrong end of one when the killer finds him trying on Kate's pantyhose. Despite Gary's attempts to beg for his life, the killer strikes him in the face with an iron, burns his face with the iron, then beats him to death using the iron as an impromptu flail. The script called for him to be hit 11 times, while unedited footage shows him being struck at least four more times before the scene cuts away.]] |
| 339 | * NoSocialSkills: Considering that Kate looks ''visibly uncomfortable'' around him and this completely flies over his head. |
| 340 | * PantyThief: [[spoiler:The killer goes to Kate's apartment to find Gary trying on Kate's underwear. Despite Gary's claim that it's NotWhatItLooksLike and that he's mentally ill (the term he uses is "not well"), what it doesn't look like is left to the imagination as the killer beats him to death with an iron.]] One of the deleted scenes takes this further by Kate going back to her apartment after Gary asks her out in rhyme (and she's partway through a shower after her water ran out) and finding some of her outfits missing. |
| 341 | * RhymesOnADime: Makes three or four rhymes in an attempt to ask Kate out. "You look great, Kate. How about a date, Kate? You could be my mate, Kate... This could be our fate, Kate." Adam mentions a couple others he's made in the past: "Don't be late, Kate. You're first-rate, Kate." However, Gary appears to do this just to impress Kate, as he speaks in a more normal pattern when [[spoiler:the killer confronts him]]. |
| 342 | * StalkerWithACrush: He's very interested in Kate, to the point of [[PantyThief sneaking into her apartment and trying on her underwear]]. Kate admits to Adam that she is very uncomfortable around Gary. |
| 343 | * WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler:Wears a white undershirt throughout his screen time, and gets killed in it.]] |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[folder:Jason Marquette]] |
| 348 | !!Jason Marquette |
| 349 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000012362.jpg]] |
| 350 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AdamJHarrington |
| 351 | A man who goes on a date with Shelley at the beginning of the film. |
| 352 | ---- |
| 353 | * TheAlibi: Has an unknown one that clears him of Shelley's murder. |
| 354 | * CasanovaWannabe: After his failed date with Shelley, Jason turns back to the bar and starts mooching up to another woman at the bar by complimenting her dress. |
| 355 | * {{Jerkass}}: Marquette is shown to be egotistical and inconsiderate (didn't bring enough money to pay for dinner). |
| 356 | * RedHerring: The most obvious of the bunch, as he shares similar initials with the figure sending threatening Valentines to the gals and creepily leers at Kate and Paige at Max's art exhibit, where the killer strikes for a second time. |
| 357 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Jason speaks of himself in the third person, which speaks to how arrogant he is. |
| 358 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Completely disappears after the art exhibit scenes, though Vaughn mentions he picked him up for questioning since Shelley had dinner with him and was forced to let him go after his alibi cleared him. |
| 359 | [[/folder]] |
| 360 | |
| 361 | [[folder:Brian]] |
| 362 | !!Brian |
| 363 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000012364_6.jpg]] |
| 364 | !!!'''Played By:''' Woody Jeffrys |
| 365 | A guy at the turbo dating session who later hooks up with Paige. |
| 366 | ---- |
| 367 | * ChainedToABed: Paige ties him down to a bed before pouring wax on his crotch. |
| 368 | * ChekhovsGunman: First appears during the turbo dating scene introducing Kate and Paige before being invited as the latter's date to Dorothy's party. |
| 369 | * GroinAttack: Paige pours hot wax on his crotch after proving not to her liking. |
| 370 | %%* OnlyOneName |
| 371 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's last seen tied down to a bed in Dorothy's house and promptly forgotten about. |
| 372 | [[/folder]] |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder:The Bullies]] |
| 375 | !!The Bullies |
| 376 | !!!'''Played By:''' Sterling [=McCray=] (Joe Tulga), Creator/NoelFisher, Cody Serpa, Mark Mullan |
| 377 | A GangOfBullies who found Jeremy and Dorothy kissing in the prologue. |
| 378 | ---- |
| 379 | %%* TheBully: Naturally. |
| 380 | * FrameUp: Joe corroborated Dorothy, Paige, Lily, and Shelley's testimonies in framing Jeremy for assaulting Dorothy. |
| 381 | %%* GangOfBullies |
| 382 | * KidsAreCruel: Teased Jeremy and Dorothy which caused her to lie that Jeremy assaulted her, then poured punch on him, ripped off his clothes, and beat him to a pulp. |
| 383 | * NoNameGiven: Three of the bullies minus their leader Joe are not given names. |
| 384 | * OffscreenKarma: Blanks mentioned in an interview in 2021 that all four of them are dead by the film's main events; Jeremy murdered them first before targeting everyone else. |
| 385 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: The gang only appears in the prologue, but their teasing of Jeremy and Dorothy and the latter's [[FalseRapeAccusation subsequent lie to save herself]] kicks off the plot. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
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