Line #145 Characters/Thir13enGhosts


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2
3	!Humans
4	[[folder:Arthur Kriticos]]
5	!!Arthur Kriticos
6	--> '''Played by:''' Creator/TonyShalhoub
7
8	* NiceGuy: He's described as a selfless man who would never hurt a fly.
9	* PapaWolf: Willing to brave the dangers of the house to save his children.
10	* StraightMan: Arthur refuses to believe in any of the ghosts until he's given a pair of the Spectral Viewers and sees the Jackal for himself.
11	[[/folder]]
12
13	[[folder:Cyrus Kriticos]]
14	!!Cyrus Kriticos
15	--> '''Played by:''' Creator/FMurrayAbraham
16
17	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Due to the heinous acts he's committed, including using his own nephew's wife in a profane ritual, his gruesome death is not entirely undeserved.]]
18	* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:His entire plan hinges on Arthur being willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of his children and become the thirteenth ghost.]]
19	* BigBad: [[spoiler:He is the one behind the operation of capturing the titular 13 ghosts and using them on Basileus's mechanism. He also captured his niece-in-law as one of the ghosts and intends to sacrifice his own nephew as the 13th one.]]
20	* EvilUncle: He's Arthur's rich uncle whose house the latter inherited. However, the entire house is a storeroom for twelve dangerous ghosts, and was designed that way by Cyrus. [[spoiler:He is also after the ghosts to power up an arcane mechanism.]]
21	* FatalFlaw: His belief in his own greatness and inability to recognize the "little" people around him. [[spoiler: He never even ''thinks'' about Maggie's presence in his house and is caught completely off guard when her interruption of the ritual results in his own death.]]
22	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The ghosts he's collected in his house to control turn on him once the defenses fail and tear him to shreds.]]
23	* PosthumousCharacter: Is killed by the Juggernaut in the beginning. [[spoiler:He's been faking his death to use Arthur in his plan.]]
24	[[/folder]]
25
26	[[folder:Dennis Rafkin]]
27	!!Dennis Rafkin
28	--> '''Played by:''' Creator/MatthewLillard
29
30	* BlessedWithSuck: He's a medium that can detect ghosts and read people's minds through physical contact. However, he can't control his powers, and has ConvulsiveSeizures because of them.
31	-->'''Dennis:''' I come within ten feet of anything dead, I go into seizures! I touch somebody, and a whole life full of shit just flashes in front of my eyes!
32	* EveryoneHasStandards: While he did help Cyrus in capturing the ghosts strictly for the paycheck, once he finds out who Arthur is and realizes the connection between him and the fourth ghost, he feels awful and does what he can to help Arthur rescue his family.
33	* HeroicSacrifice: Gives his life to save Arthur from the Hammer and the Juggernaut.
34	* LargeHam: A staple of Matthew Lillard's. Dennis chews the scenery more often than not.
35	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Despite being in on some of Cyrus' plan and being complicit in some of his crimes, Dennis decides to do one selfless act and sacrifices himself for Arthur's sake.
36	* SuddenlyShouting:
37	-->'''Dennis:''' In case you haven't noticed, [[LargeHam I'M A LITTLE BIT OF A FREAK!]]
38	* TouchTelepathy: Of a sort. Whenever Dennis touches a live person's skin, he sees flashes of their entire life.
39	* UnhappyMedium: He absolutely hates having his powers, as they wear on him both physically and mentally. The fact that Cyrus used him to entrap people's souls certainly doesn’t help matters.
40	[[/folder]]
41
42	[[folder:Kalina Oretzia]]
43	!!Kalina Oretzia
44	--> '''Played by:''' Creator/EmbethDavidtz
45
46	* BigDamnHeroes: She first appears in the house to save Arthur and Kathy from the Jackal.
47	* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:She's been working with Cyrus to make sure that Arthur goes through his sacrifice.]]
48	* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Even though she's been complicit in helping Cyrus with his plans, she's horrified when he orders her to put Arthur's children in real danger so he will sacrifice himself for them and complete the ritual.]]
49	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Cyrus leaves her to get crushed in a glass cage after she's convinced Arthur to go through the ritual.]]
50	[[/folder]]
51
52	[[folder:Kathy Kriticos]]
53	!!Kathy Kriticos
54	--> '''Played by:''' Creator/ShannonElizabeth
55
56	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: She's a bit of a brat, due to being depressed because of her mother's death and her deteriorating relationship with Arthur.
57	* DamselInDistress: She gets kidnapped by the ghosts halfway through the movie.
58	[[/folder]]
59
60	[[folder:Bobby Kriticos]]
61	!!Bobby Kriticos
62	--> '''Played by:''' Alec Roberts
63
64	* CreepyChild: He shows an unhealthy interest in true crime stories.
65	[[/folder]]
66
67	[[folder:Maggie Bess]]
68	!!Maggie Bess
69	--> '''Played by:''' Rah Digga
70
71	* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:She disrupts Cyrus's plan by messing with his incantation, causing the Broken Heart ritual to fail.]]
72	[[/folder]]
73
74	[[folder:Ben Moss]]
75	!!Ben Moss
76	--> '''Played by:''' J.R. Bourne
77
78	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: He's spooked by the Angry Princess into backing into a glass door and gets cut vertically in half from the side.
79	* TooDumbToLive: Don't you think that briefcase with the money is standing on that pedal for a reason, Ben?
80	[[/folder]]
81
82	!The Black Zodiac
83	[[folder:The Ghosts In General]]
84	* ThirteenIsUnlucky
85	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: With the exception of a select few, the ghosts are primarily hellbent on death and destruction, and cannot be reasoned with or stopped through normal means.
86	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Nearly all of them met their demise through horrible circumstances.
87	* EvilCounterpart: Each spirit represents a negative and exaggerated interpretation of the Traditional Zodiac signs.
88	* FreudianExcuse: Most of the ghosts were normal people before their violent deaths and a good number of them became violent after death [[spoiler:Except for the Withered Lover]].
89	* GhostlyGoals: Experiencing horrible deaths and having their spirits trapped inside glass containers has left them very angry and vengeful.
90	* GratuitousLatin: When Kalina explains to Arthur the meaning behind the ghosts, she opens a book and shows him the pages with the descriptions of the ghosts, their titles written in Latin.
91	* JacobMarleyApparel: Their attire consists of items related to their lives and/or deaths.
92	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A good majority of their titles.
93	* PowerLevels: To a degree. The first four ghosts in the Zodiac are effectively harmless to the human inhabitants of the house (though undeniably eerie and frightening in appearance). The next few gradually escalate in danger, culminating with the final two being ghosts of psychopathic {{Serial Killer}}s.
94	* ResurrectedMurderer: While most of the ghosts were actually normal people who didn't become violent until [[MurderIntoMalevolence after they came back as ghosts]], the Jackal and the Juggernaut were both AxCrazy serial killers before their deaths. The Juggernaut in particular accumulated 40 additional kills before Cyrus and his team trapped him in the opening.
95	* VengefulGhost: They exist in a tortured realm, so violence is all they know.
96	[[/folder]]
97
98	[[folder:The First Born Son]]
99	!!Billy Michaels
100	--> '''Played by:''' Mikhael Speidel
101
102	* AccidentalMurder: His death. It tends to be the result when little kids play with real weapons.
103	* BoomHeadshot: Billy died when a local boy shot him right between the eyes with a bow and arrow.
104	* CowboysAndIndians: Was fond of this when he was alive. Unfortunately, it also killed him.
105	* CreepyChild: He's one of the ghosts, and still has the arrow that killed him sticking out of his head.
106	* SpoiledBrat: In life, he was obsessed with his favorite game and reportedly flew into a rage if told to stop.
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder:The Torso]]
110	!!Jimmy "The Gambler" Gambino
111	--> '''Played by:''' Daniel Wesley
112
113	* DismemberingTheBody: How he died and thus how The Torso came to be.
114	* FatalFlaw: Pride. Despite knowing the risks when betting with "self-made man" Larry Vitello, Jimmy wanted to preserve his own reputation above all else.
115	* TheGamblingAddict: Cyrus notes that his childhood was spent in seedy gambling rings until opening a booking business of his own. He was known to never turn down a bet, and barely scraped by to cover his payoffs as a result.
116	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: They don't call him "The Torso" for nothing.
117	* {{Gorn}}: His death. Chopped into pieces, wrapped in cellophane, and dumped into the bottom of the ocean.
118	* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Or rather, several small examples.
119	[[/folder]]
120
121	[[folder:The Bound Woman]]
122	!!Susan [=LeGrow=]
123	--> '''Played by:''' Laura Mennell
124
125	* ADeadlyAffair: Susan cheating on her boyfriend got her and her lover murdered by said boyfriend.
126	* AlphaBitch: During her time in high school.
127	* IfICantHaveYou: She was murdered by her prom date after he caught her cheating on him with another boy.
128	* IntentionalHeartbreaker: She went through boys like tissues, apparently for kicks.
129	* NeckSnap: How she died after her boyfriend strangled her. In her murderer's words, "The bitch broke my heart, so I broke her neck".
130	* RichBitch: Was the daughter of a wealthy family and had a habit of breaking boys' hearts.
131	* SpoiledBrat: Cyrus describes her as "born with a silver spoon in her mouth".
132	[[/folder]]
133
134	[[folder: The Withered Lover]]
135	!!Jean Kriticos
136	--> '''Played by:''' Kathryn Anderson
137
138	* FriendlyGhost: All she does as a spirit trapped in the house is try to help her family.
139	* TokenGoodTeammate: As loving in death as she was in life. Its possible that its because she's a ''recent'' ghost and less tortured by the spectral realm. [[spoiler: She also manages to pass on without much trouble once her family is safe.]]
140	* TwoFaced: The left side of her face is covered in burn scars.
141	[[/folder]]
142
143	[[folder: The Torn Prince]]
144	!!Royce Clayton
145	--> '''Played by:''' Craig Olejnik
146
147	* BatterUp: Carries around a baseball bat as his weapon of choice, and is quite violent with it.
148	* FromNobodyToNightmare: While he'd rankle at [[SmallNameBigEgo being called a 'nobody']] in life, he was a fairly accomplished - though [[JerkJock arrogant]] - high school athlete with a potentially bright future. As a ghost he's easily one of the nastier Zodiac spirits, in the same [[{{Pun}} league]] as two murderous {{Serial Killer}}s and an unjustly killed Black man who [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds watched a racist mob lynch his family before they tortured him to death.]]
149	* JerkJock: A star slugger on his high school baseball team, he became one of the more aggressive ghosts trapped in the house.
150	* MurderIntoMalevolence: While he was a relatively harmless teenaged athlete, after dying in a drag race, he became one of the more aggressive spirits haunting the house.
151	* SmallTownBoredom: Royce's life in his small hometown was miserable, at least according to Cyrus.
152	* TheFifties: His era judging by the car he died in.
153	* TwoFaced: The car accident that killed him gave him this appearance.
154	* VehicularSabotage: Some material implies that the greaser who challenged Royce to the drag race tampered with his brakes.
155	[[/folder]]
156
157	[[folder: The Angry Princess]]
158	!!Dana Newman
159	--> '''Played by:''' Shawna Loyer
160
161	* BathSuicide: How she met her fate in life.
162	** BloodBath: Her ghost takes one after being released from her container.
163	* BlackEyesOfEvil
164	* CouldntFindAPen: Wrote her suicide note on the bathroom floor with her own blood.
165	* DespairEventHorizon: Her accidentally blinding herself was her final straw, and resulted in her suicide.
166	* DrivenToSuicide: How she died.
167	* FanDisservice: She might be completely naked, but she's also covered in self-inflected slash wounds.
168	* FemaleMisogynist: Seems more aggressive toward the female houseguests, potentially due to [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy.]]
169	* MurderIntoMalevolence: A woman with poor self esteem became quite violent after death.
170	* ThePerfectionist: Despite her natural beauty, she always perceived herself as having flaws and imperfections, even when they weren't there. This is actually a real life mental disorder, called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder Body Dysmorphic Disorder]]
171	* SelfSurgery: Dana apparently tried to fix some imperfection on her face by herself. It went so wrong that it left her blind in one eye.
172	[[/folder]]
173
174	[[folder: The Pilgrimess]]
175	!!Isabella Smith
176	--> '''Played by:''' Xantha Radley
177
178	* ColdBloodedTorture: Put on public display, mocked, and stoned for weeks on end until succumbing to hunger.
179	* StockPunishment: Was accused of being a witch and was stuck in these until she died. As a ghost, she's still locked in them.
180	* UnluckilyLucky: She managed to escape from a burning building without a single burn. Unfortunately, this made the townsfolk even ''more'' certain she was a witch.
181	* WitchHunt: The victim of one.
182	[[/folder]]
183
184	[[folder:The Great Child and The Dire Mother]]
185	!!Harold Shelburne
186	--> '''Played by:''' C. Ernst Harth
187
188	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was frequently the target of ridicule due to his unusual appearance and relationship with his mother.
189	* AssholeVictim: The carnival barker he killed, who [[MoralEventHorizon raped his dwarf mother.]]
190	* BarbaricBattleaxe: His ghost carries the same hatchet he used to dismember the other carnies.
191	%%* ChildByRape: How he was conceived.
192	%%* TheGrotesque: Harold ain't exactly a looker.
193	* ManChild: Wears a bib and diaper even though he died fully grown.
194	* PsychopathicManchild: Went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge after his mother's death.
195	* SmallParentHugeChild: He and the Dire Mother are the ghosts of a 3-foot-tall sideshow performer and her enormous adult son.
196
197	!!Margaret Shelburne
198	--> '''Played by:''' Laurie Soper
199
200	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was mocked and ostracized by everyone around her, even after joining a circus freakshow.
201	* DesperatelyCravesAffection: When she was alive, being treated as different from everyone else since childhood resulted in this mindset.
202	%%* TheGrotesque
203	* MyBelovedSmother: Treats her son Harold like a baby, even after they've both died. She can even be seen spoon-feeding him in one scene.
204	* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: A three-foot-tall freakshow performer.
205	* RapeAsBackstory: Her son was conceived when she was raped by one of the freaks known as the Tall Man.
206	* ShrinkingViolet: In life, she was shy and rarely stood up for herself.
207	[[/folder]]
208
209	[[folder: The Hammer]]
210	!!George Markley
211	--> '''Played by:''' Herbert Duncanson
212
213	* BaldOfEvil: He's as bald as an egg and a very violent spirit.
214	* CrusadingWidower: Sought revenge for his family's lynching.
215	* DeathByIrony: After being tied to a tree, nails were driven into his body using his blacksmithing hammer. Then, his prized left hand was severed and replaced with the hammer head.
216	* MurderIntoMalevolence: An honest and hardworking family man unjustly persecuted in life, a vicious and terrifying spectre in death.
217	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His family was murdered so he went and beat their murderers to death with his hammer.
218	* ScaryBlackMan: Easily one of the most intimidating ghosts.
219	* WeaponsOfTheirTrade: In life, he used his blacksmith's hammer to lay waste to Nathan and his goons, and as it was attached to his wrist before his death, he thus still uses it as a ghost.
220	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In the top three of the deadliest ghosts in the house, but unlike the [[AxCrazy other two]] was just a humble blue-collar worker who wanted to be left alone - until a racist lynch mob killed his family and brutally tortured him to death.
221	[[/folder]]
222
223	[[folder: The Jackal]]
224	!!Ryan Kuhn
225	--> '''Played by:''' Shayne Wyler
226
227	* AnimalMotifs: Well, [[CaptainObvious a jackal.]] He's an opportunistic predator most likely to attack single houseguests that wander away from the group, and his signature [[LaughingMad demented cackling]] is similar to the yipping of a wild dog. [[spoiler: In his final onscreen appearance he walks away from the burning ruins of the Ocularis and throws back his head for a victory howl, [[DeathEqualsRedemption finally free of his torment in the afterlife.]]]]
228	* AxCrazy: Both in life and in death.
229	* BedlamHouse: The asylum he checked himself into ''put his head in a metal cage'' à la {{VideoGame/Bloodborne}}.
230	* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he was alive he often attacked stray women and prostitutes. Hoping to be cured, he checked himself into an asylum.
231	* EvilLaugh: His presence is accompanied by echoed laughter.
232	* FaceDeathWithDignity: While it's implied he could have managed to escape the asylum fire that killed him, he chose to let himself die, as it's what he deserved.
233	* TheHyena: Was [[EnforcedTrope originally his name]] in early drafts of the script. Tends to announce his presence with a villainous cackle.
234	* IronicFear: He let himself die in the asylum fire, and now is afraid of fire.
235	* LaughingMad: He does that a lot.
236	* ReluctantPsycho: The whole reason why he checked himself into the asylum in the first place.
237	* SerialRapist: What he was in life. He did realize it was evil, but the asylum he checked himself into did '''not''' help matters.
238	* SonOfAWhore: His mother was a prostitute, and he never knew his father.
239	[[/folder]]
240
241	[[folder: The Juggernaut]]
242	!!Horace "Breaker" Mahoney
243	--> '''Played by:''' John [=DeSantis=]
244
245	* AxCrazy: He was a violent serial killer in life, luring stranded drivers back to his junkyard where he would brutalise them with his bare hands before feeding the gore to his dogs. Being dead hasn’t tempered his taste for psychotic violence at all, given that he had murdered over 40 more people who visited his junkyard before being brought to heel by Cyrus and his forces.
246	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was an outcast in life due to his abnormal height.
247	* AssholeVictim: Considering he was a serial killer in life, it's not the biggest tragedy that the police gunned him down.
248	* TheBrute: He uses his brute strength to wreak havoc and mutilate those who get in his way, even ripping apart human bodies with his bare hands.
249	* TheDreaded: The biggest and most dangerous ghost in the house. His body count only grew after he died.
250	* MakeSureHesDead: He was on the receiving end during his death. After he broke free of his handcuffs and claimed three cops' lives, then finally fell underneath a hail of no less than ''fifty'' bullets, the cops unloaded another clip into Horace's body, "just to be sure".
251	* ParentalAbandonment: Part of his backstory. He was abandoned at birth by his mother and his father died years later.
252	* RasputinianDeath: One of his would-be victims turned out to be an undercover cop. After breaking free of his cuffs, it took '''''over fifty rounds of gunfire''''' to take him down. [[MakeSureHesDead With another clip pumped into him just to make sure.]]
253	* SerialKiller: While alive, he would pick up stranded drivers and bring them back to his junkyard, where he would tear them apart with his bare hands and feed the remains to his dogs. He killed six people in this way before the police caught him in a sting operation. After death, he continued killing anyone who visited, racking up a total kill of over 40 before his capture.
254	* TheStoic: Unlike [[LaughingMad The Jackal]], shows little to no emotion besides a cold sneer as he manually rips his victims apart or snaps them in half with his freakish strength.
255	[[/folder]]
256
257	[[folder: The Broken Heart]]
258	* ActOfTrueLove: How The Broken Heart is created.
259	* HeroicSacrifice: The thirteenth and final ghost is created when someone willingly gives their own life in exchange for another.
260	* PowerOfLove

Context Characters / Thir13enGhosts