The characters in the monster movie Abominable (not to the confused with the DreamWorks Animation film of the same name).
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Preston Rogers
Played By: Matt McCoy
A paraplegic who lost the use of his legs and his wife in a mountain climbing accident who has returned to his old home for therapy.
- Handicapped Badass: Preston is paralyzed from the waist down but manages to effectively evade and fight the villainous monster.
- "Rear Window" Witness: Preston witnesses a monster attacking a guest at his neighbor's house while curiously watching the bachelorette festivities with binoculars.
Amanda
Played By: Haley Joel
One of the women staying at the cabin next to Preston's cabin.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Amanda is kind, mature, and wears a purple beanie hat when she first arrives at the cabin.
- Made of Iron: Amanda dives through a window to escape the monster, drops at least ten feet when she unclips her climbing harness, and is propelled through a windshield when the station wagon crashes, but only suffers a few cuts to her face.
- Male Gaze: Downplayed, but Amanda's butt isn't exactly out of focus throughout the scene where she's lowering herself off Preston's deck with a climbing rope.
- Tears of Fear: Amanda is visibly crying as the monster pulls her back up by her climbing rope and looks her over hungrily.
Ziegler Dane
Played By: Lance Henriksen
One of the hunters that accompanies Farmer Hoss to hunt down the Sasquatch.
- Creepy Good: Ziegler states that he's only accompanying the other men hunting the yeti for an excuse to kill something and is a bit too fond of talking about Darwin Awards. However, he does show a more caring and compassionate side when he finds a wounded Karen in the monster's cave.
"Buddy" The Convenience Store Clerk
Played By: Jeffrey Combs
A convenience store clerk who helps Hoss in his attempt to hunt down the Sasquatch.
- Creepy Gas-Station Attendant: Downplayed. The gas station clerk is an unshaven, wide-eyed, string-haired man with an oxygen tank who is reading about the Yeti attacks when the protagonists stop at his establishment. He means well, but he's quick to start an unprompted conversation about the death of Preston's wife and calls her a "looker" with an odd smile.
- Creepy Good: The clerk's demeanor and appearance in his first scene are that of an archetypal Creepy Gas-Station Attendant. Still, he seems sincere in expressing sorrow about the death of Preston's wife and joins in an attempt to hunt down the dangerous Yeti that's terrorizing the area.
- Deadpan Snarker: The clerk loves making dry quips, such as saying "Giddy up," when Ziegler says that his smoking is turning his lungs into leathery saddle bags.
- Non-Action Guy: Buddy goes into the woods unarmed, apparently serving as the hunting party's tracker, and doesn't put up a fight against the yeti.
Farmer Hoss
Played By: Rex Linn
A local farmer who forms a hunting party to hunt down the Sasquatch.
- Only Sane Man: Hoss comes across as more focused and wary than his fellow two hunters, in addition to being the one with the best reason for pursuing the monster.
- Punny Name: Hoss is a livestock farmer whose name sounds similar to "horse."
- Sudden Name Change: He is alternately called Ethan and Billy.
Otis Wilhelm
Played By: Christian Tinsley
Preston's dickweed therapist.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: He dies attacking the Sasquatch head-on with an axe, buying enough time for Amanda to escape.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Dies attacking the Sasquatch so Amanda can escape.
- Jerkass: He's a prick who abuses Preston when not just being a jackass towards him, and is a bit of a creep overall.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He's not wrong about disbelieving Preston, and has reason to believe he's mentally unstable and backsliding into insanity. Of course, his point is a bit limited considering that if Preston has snapped, he is the reason thanks to dragging him back to a place that holds traumatic memories for him.
- Redemption Equals Death: After acting like a jackass throughout the film, hedges in a Heroic Sacrifice to allow Amanda to escape.
Michelle
Played By: Natalie Compagno
- Character Tics: When she's frightened of the monster stalking her group, Michelle touches her engagement ring a few times and twists it back and forth around her finger.
- Former Teen Rebel: During the movie's events, Michelle is happily engaged and has the behavior and wardrobe of a Final Girl (although she isn't one), but her Childhood Friends Amanda and Tracy recall that Michelle was more sexually active when they were younger and was apparently a major flirt even as a preteen. These memories cause Tracy to ask if Michelle is really going to wear a white dress for the wedding. Tracy then refers to "the junior high numbers" while Amanda affectionately recalls something Michelle did with a boy named Bobby Thomas behind the locker rooms.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Michelle wears a violet t-shirt and is generally sweet and grounded.
- Too Happy to Live: Michelle spends the first half of the movie happy about her upcoming wedding and getting to spend a weekend with her friends. The monster rips her throat out.
CJ
Played By: Karin Anna Cheung
- Action Survivor: She does better against the monster than various armed gunmen, through competence and intelligence.
- Asian Airhead: Downplayed. She doesn't comprehend the seriousness of the situation, but she also proves to be fairly competent against the Sasquatch.
- Cowardly Lion: CJ has quite a few Screaming Woman moments (one of which ruins Amanda's attempt to sneak away from the monster) and refuses to go into the woods to look for the missing Karen. However, she also delays her escape attempt to check on a hurt Amanda, and after the monster knocks her down, she defiantly curses him and sprays him with pepper spray.
- Defiant to the End: Her last act is spraying the Sasquatch in the eyes with pepper spray while screaming "Die, you fucker!"
- Flush the Evidence: CJ smokes a joint in the bathroom and flushes it down the toilet when Karen knocks on the door.
- Food Slap: After CJ's Never Split the Party comment, Tracy (in an apparent Anger Born of Worry moment) accuses her of being a useless, self-centered Dirty Coward. CJ responds by throwing the contents of her wine glass at Tracy.
- Never Found the Body: CJ's body disappears soon after the main monster apparently kills her with a Finishing Stomp, although it's likely that the monsters merely spirited it away to hide the evidence or for food.
- Never Split the Party: CJ empathetically declares that she's not going to split up and look for Karen in the dark woods which may have a dangerous person or creature in them, an opinion which ultimately prevails.
- Only Known by Initials: Whatever CJ's initials are short for is never revealed. Given that she's the only Chinese-American in her circle of friends, it's possible that she dropped her full name in an attempt to fit in better.
- Screaming Woman: CJ lets out about forty high-pitched screams in five minutes once she sees evidence of Tracy's death and the monster attacks the house. Unusually for the trope, she manages to do some thinking, running, hiding, and fighting back between screams.
- Sexy Sweater Girl: CJ spends the film in a relatively well-fitting sweater which comes to a stop above her midriff.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: CJ's decision to volunteer her uncle's cabin for Michelle's bachelorette party has the unfortunate and unforeseen side effect of putting the girls in the same neighborhood as a homicidal Bigfoot-creature, which seems more enticed than repelled by the noise from their celebration.
Karen Herdbergler
Played By: Ashley Hartman
- Fatal Family Photo: Karen is constantly calling her boyfriend and is the first girl attacked by the monster.
- The Friends Who Never Hang: Despite her friendship with the other women, Karen doesn't particpate in their activities and conversations during the first part of the movie. However, she does happily note during a phone call to her boyfriend that Michelle seems to be having fun.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: After being found by Ziegler, Karen begs him not to leave her alone because the monster is coming back.
- Slashers Prefer Blondes: Karen is blonde and is the first victim of the monster (although her fate is slightly ambiguous).
- Uncertain Doom: Karen is found alive in a cave by Zeigler but with part of her stomach gone, looking like it was bitten off and eaten. She is dragged deeper into the cave with a scream, where she presumably (although not explicitly) is finished off or dies of her wounds.
Tracy
Played By: Tiffany Shepis
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tracy makes some borderline Slut-Shaming comments and harshly insults CJ for voicing a perfectly rational concern. However, she also cares about helping Michelle have a good time during their vacation and shows great concern for Karen after her disappearance.
- The Leader: Briefly. When Karen disappears, Tracy is the most thoughtful and proactive of her friends, checking Karen's cellphone to see if it has any messages which might provide clues, contemplating search strategies, and calling the police in an attempt to report Karen as missing.
- Meaningful Name: It may be coincidental, but when Tracy is attacked and dragged off by the monster, she leaves visible traces of the attack behind in the form of her blood and a broken window. This is what lets her friends realize the monster is after them.
- Ms. Fanservice: There is a very detailed scene of Tracy stripping down and showering.
Ethel Hoss
Played By: Dee Wallace
- True Blue Femininity: Ethel is a kind, nervous woman with a blue bathrobe.
- Women Are Wiser: Ethel has more reservations about going into the dark to investigate scary sounds (even while armed) than her husband.
Deputy McBride
Played By: Phil Morris
- Only Sane Man: He's the only member of the Flat Woods County Police Department to be legitimately competent and does actual police work unlike his colleagues.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's very competent and, unlike his colleagues, does actual police work and checks on any potential lead.
- Token Good Cop: The only cop who believes Preston and his claims that Bigfoot is killing his neighbors: he accepts this may be more than a prank call, goes to investigate, and gets a Big Damn Heroes moment, while Sheriff Halderman and most of his men completely ignore the calls for help.
Sheriff Dick Halderman
Played By: Paul Gleason
The sheriff of Flat Woods County.
- Bolivian Army Ending: The film ends with him and his men, with the exception of Deputy McBride, wandering into the territory of the other Sasquatches.
- Jerkass: He's an overbearing, overly macho asshole who seems more concerned with putting on a show of bravado than doing his job and generally makes an ass of himself.
- The Lopsided Arm of the Law: He ignores Preston's calls for help and, in a deleted scene, believes Preston committed the murders, in spite of him being a paraplegic.
- Meaningful Name: Sheriff Dick Halderman is a deeply abrasive man who mocks his deputies for their perceived unmanliness.
Deputy Parker
Played by: Chad Smith
- Clueless Deputy: Parker seems too laidback for police work and mocks Preston's emergency calls.
Dr. Seussmeyer
- Played By: James Morrison
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He's a bespectacled man who confidently and accurately says that something bigger and worse than Bigfoot has made the area its hunting ground.
Flatwoods Monster
- Always a Bigger Fish: Dr. Suessmeyer insists "This is not Bigfoot. This is bigger than Bigfoot. And meaner."
- Ax-Crazy: It's extremely violent for a predator and is completely unreasonable in its habit of killing, seeming to exist solely to kill and eat any living thing it comes across.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The monster is described by a scientist as being "more like the abominable snowman of the Himalayas," which seems to be the movie's way of justifying the title which implies a Yeti more than Sasquatch/Bigfoot. The Flatwoods residents however refer to it as 'Squatch.
- It Can Think: It took down the phone lines and later attacked the satellite dish for Preston's cabin to shut off power so Amanda and Preston couldn't email the police.
- Misplaced Wildlife: It's anyone's guess what yetis are doing in North America.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: It has very long and sharp teeth and it has the ability to unhinge its jaw and open up its mouth wide enough to literally bite a person's face off in one chomp.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: It has horrifying red eyes.
