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13[[caption-width-right:350:"...[[Characters/HalloweenMichaelMyers Michael Myers]] is...the Boogeyman...[[Film/Halloween2018 [T]his Boogeyman is real]]. [[Characters/HalloweenLaurieStrode An evil like his never stops...]]"]]
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15->'''Dr. Terrence Wynn:''' I was getting worried Sam, I was afraid you wouldn't make it.\
16'''[[Characters/HalloweenSamuelLoomis Dr. Samuel "Sam" J. Loomis]]:''' Why now?\
17'''Wynn:''' Because you were the first one to see it. You recognized its power. Evil. Pure, uncorrupted, ancient...\
18'''Loomis:''' You are a madman.\
19'''Wynn:''' I have my plans for this baby. [[Characters/HalloweenJamieLloyd Jamie]]'s baby, will be the dawn of a new age. And I'm asking you to join me.\
20'''Loomis:''' I thought [[Characters/HalloweenMichaelMyers Michael]] was a monster, but you...
21-->-- ''[[Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers The Curse of Michael Myers]]''
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23The ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' franchise, [[Film/Halloween1978 beginning]] in [[LongRunners 1978]], greatly influenced the SlasherMovie genre. While [[Characters/HalloweenMichaelMyers Michael Myers]] himself reigns as the quintessential [[CompleteMonster monster]] of the series, there are others equally as heinous.
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25![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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29* Michael Myers, aka "The Shape", is a [[MalevolentMaskedMan masked]], cold-blooded SerialKiller with [[PsychoKnifeNut a fondness for carving knives]]. In [[Film/Halloween1978 the first film]], after killing his sister at the age of six, Michael breaks out of prison as an adult and goes on a killing spree through his hometown of Haddonfield. He's stopped, but the horror doesn't end there. While the timeline diverges from then on, one thing remains constant: Michael repeatedly returns, making numerous attempts on [[Characters/HalloweenLaurieStrode Laurie Strode]], [[FamilialFoe whatever family she might have]], and anybody else who gets in his way. Incapable of feeling empathy, and driven by a loathing of seemingly everybody he encounters, the unstoppable and perpetually silent Michael Myers helped define the slasher movie villain, and remains one of the most bone-chillingly evil.
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32* In [[Film/HalloweenII1981 the 1981 sequel]], Michael Myers pursues [[Characters/HalloweenLaurieStrode Laurie]], his sister in this continuity, to a local hospital, massacring the staff before attacking Laurie again. From there, the timeline diverges again:
33** 4-6 timeline: Michael [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers reawakens]] from a decade long coma, now out to kill his young niece, [[Characters/HalloweenJamieLloyd Jamie]], and those who get in his way. He taunts [[Characters/HalloweenSamuelLoomis Dr. Sam Loomis]] of his return, and massacres the police station. Eventually, [[Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers Michael kills those who get close to Jamie]] to torment her, such as her foster sister [[Characters/HalloweenRachelCarruthers Rachel Carruthers]], and her friends, taunting Jamie with the bodies of his victims. In the theatrical cut of [[Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers the sixth film]], Michael is theorized to be under a curse, but it is shown that instead Michael's rage is what drives him. Michael forcibly impregnated a now-teenage Jamie and mocks a previous moment of humanity towards her by pretending to have been reached out to a second time, only to gruesomely kill her, before killing members of the Strode family. With the Cult of Thorn, seeking to aid and control him to study his evil, Michael eventually slaughters them too before resuming his hunt for Jamie's baby Steven.
34** ''H20'' timeline: [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater Twenty years]] after his original rampage, Michael tracks Laurie to a boarding school in California, killing several students and Laurie's boyfriend before trying to kill her and her son John. While seemingly killed by Laurie, [[Film/HalloweenResurrection it is revealed]] that he escaped by crushing a paramedic's larynx and switching clothes with him, leaving the man to die in his place. Michael then tracks Laurie to an insane asylum where he finally kills her. Afterwards, when a reality TV crew starts filming in his childhood home, Michael attacks and kills nearly all of the crew and contestants out of annoyance with their intrusion.
35* ''[[Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch Season of the Witch]]'': [[BigBad Conal Cochran]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of Silver Shamrock Novelties, a company known for its Halloween masks, which it shipped all over the United States. Cochran had built these masks with a computer chip made from a fragment of Stonehenge. When Silver Shamrock's commercial would air on Halloween night, the chip was to unleash a lethal swarm of insects and snakes, killing the wearer and anyone in the immediate vicinity. Cochran is shown demonstrating how these masks work on an innocent family, causing them to be poisoned and eaten. His plan is to [[WouldHurtAChild kill thousands of children]] all over the country, partially to bring back the darker aspects of the [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Celtic festival Samhain]], which he connects to witchcraft, but also just because he considers this [[ForTheEvulz mass murder to be a fun joke]], the best ever in fact, because it's a joke on the children.
36* ''[[Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers The Curse of Michael Myers]]'' theatrical cut: [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Terence Wynn]] is revealed to be as monstrous as Michael himself. Wynn uses the ancient Cult of Thorn as a front for his experiments, using Michael's DNA to create evil in its purest form by [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate impregnating female patients]] of Smith's Grove Sanitarium with Michael's DNA, most resulting in stillbirths. It is also discovered Wynn helped mentor Michael into being the killer he is today, and helped him escape in the [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} first movie]]. In the [[Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers previous movie]], Wynn followed Michael in his killing spree, and blew up a police station before abducting Michael's niece [[Characters/HalloweenJamieLloyd Jamie]] and escaping with Michael. After Jamie successfully births a new baby, Steven, Wynn plans on making Steven the next cycle of evil, and even forms a fascination with Danny Strode, trying to get him to become a killer too.
37* [[Film/Halloween2018 2018 film]] timeline: [[TheDreaded Michael Myers]], forty years after his original killing spree, escapes from a crashed prison bus, killing several people, including [[WouldHurtAChild a young boy]], just to retrieve his mask. Beginning a new spree, Michael breaks into several homes to butcher their residents throughout the night, as well as the friends of Laurie's granddaughter, Allyson Nelson. After stomping his psychiatrist's head in and killing Allyson's father, Michael is left to burn by Laurie, Allyson, and Karen. [[Film/HalloweenKills Surviving that]], Michael escalates his killing spree by slaughtering responding firefighters and the mob formed by Tommy Doyle, killing Tommy himself; Michael then [[ForcedToWatch makes Allyson watch]] as he brutalizes and kills her boyfriend, before murdering her mother Karen. [[Film/HalloweenEnds Four years later]], Michael manipulates town pariah Corey Cunningham into committing a new killing spree for him; Michael then disposes of Corey once the former is strong enough to himself go after Laurie one final time. With several dozen kills to his name, Michael easily shows that [[EvilOldFolks age has not slowed his brutality]].
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40* Kelly O'Rourke's trilogy[[labelnote:Titles]]''The Scream Factory''; ''The Old Myers Place''; ''The Mad House''[[/labelnote]]: [[SerialKiller Michael Myers]] is the same [[SpreeKiller brutal killer]] of Haddonfield as ever. Frequently returning to butcher teenagers, Michael kills Haddonfield's mayor and attempts to burn down the attraction in City Hall with multiple teens inside. Michael returns to slaughter everyone he encounters, terrorizing a girl for residing in his old house and murdering her friends, before returning again to the old sanitarium he was confined in to massacre a documentary crew.
41* [[Film/Halloween2018 2018 film]] timeline {{novelization}}s [[note]]''Halloween'', by John Passarella; ''[[Film/HalloweenKills Kills]]'', by Tim Waggoner; ''[[Film/HalloweenEnds Ends]]'', by Paul Brad Logan[[/note]]: The now-adult [[Characters/HalloweenMichaelMyers Michael Myers]], having previously [[SiblingMurder murdered his sister]] on Halloween night years ago and escaped to kill several teenagers in Haddonfield, is [[AxCrazy a barely-human evil contained in human form]]. Having potentially [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] Dr. Sartain into freeing him, Michael [[SpreeKiller goes on a rampage]] while brutally killing almost everyone he encounters in the town before corrupting a girl to kill her father and escaping. Likewise dominating the minds of a homeless man to bring him victims to cannibalize, Michael infects Corey Cunningham and starts a new rampage before killing the rebellious Corey. Even in death, Michael seemingly poisons Laurie Strode herself with the same darkness that resides in him.
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44* Creator/ChaosComics series[[labelnote:Titles]]''Halloween''; ''Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes''; ''Halloween III: The Devil's Eyes''[[/labelnote]]: Michael Myers, as always, is the epitome of evil. After [[SiblingMurder murdering his older sister]] at the age of [[EnfantTerrible six]], Michael was sent to a mental institution where he tortured and murdered everyone unfortunate enough to cross his path, including boiling a fellow child to death because they took some of his birthday cake. Following the events of [[Film/HalloweenII1981 the second film]], Michael begins stalking Tommy Doyle, once again sadistically tormenting and killing everyone he sees along the way, including decapitating someone and throwing it at their friend just to traumatize them. Even after [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater Laurie kills him]], Michael has tormented [[Characters/HalloweenLaurieStrode her]] so much that she undergoes a psychotic break and begins killing in his method, her mind long since broken from his actions.
45* ''[[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater Halloween H20]]'' timeline comics, by Stefan Hutchinson et al [[labelnote:Titles]]''One Good Scare''; ''Autopsis''; ''[[ComicBook/HalloweenNightdance Nightdance]]''; ''30 Years of Terror''; ''Sam''[[/labelnote]]: Michael Myers, as a child, would fantasize about stabbing his mother when she was pregnant with [[Characters/HalloweenLaurieStrode Laurie]]. Before tracking Laurie down, Michael went on a huge murder spree, where he decapitates a beauty pageant winner; murders an elementary school teacher, then strings her up for her students to find; [[RazorApples shoves razor blades into Halloween candy]]; and scoops a reporter's eyes out before replacing them with film rolls. Michael torments a dying [[Characters/HalloweenSamuelLoomis Dr. Sam Loomis]] by torturing a friend of his in front of him and leaving them to die. A year after ''[[Film/HalloweenResurrection Resurrection]]'', Michael goes on yet another killing spree, where he [[WouldHurtAChild slashes a child's throat]]; kills numerous people in horrific ways, such as hollowing a woman's skull to make a jack-o'-lantern; tricks the police into killing a man under the illusion he was Michael; and follows this up by [[BuriedAlive burying one of his more evasive victims alive]] after stripping her naked.

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