Characters / Carrie — The Mortimer Snerds

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• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead:
  • In the '76 version Chris and Norma are Blonde, Sue is Brunette and Helen has Auburn hair.
  • In the '13 version Chris and Tina are Brunettes, Sue is Blonde, and Heather is a Redhead.
• Girl Posse: Chris's gang, though the members are different in each version.
  • In the '76 version, the gang consists of Chris, Norma, Helen and Sue. A pair of twins called Rhonda and Cora also appear to be close with the group.
  • In the '02 version, it's Chris, Tina, Helen and Sue, with Norma being a Preppy girl who annoys the other girls.
  • In the '13 version, it's Chris, Sue, Tina, Heather and a pair of twins named Nicki and Lizzy.

Sue Snell

Susan "Sue" Snell

1976

2002

2013

Played by:

Amy Irving (1976 version, and its sequel)
Kandyse McClure (2002 version)
Gabriella Wilde (2013 version)

A popular high school student who feels guilty about taking part in the humiliation of Carrie in the showers. To make up for it, she asks her athlete boyfriend Tommy to take Carrie to the prom instead of her, choosing to stay home on prom night. She is one of the survivors of Carrie's rampage, and in the sequel, she has become a guidance counselor at the new high school. She functions as The Fairy Godmother to Carrie's Cinderella.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: Her reaction in the 2013 version to Carrie accidentally hitting her in the head with a volleyball.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • The 2002 film makes her motives more sympathetic, and she goes out of her way to befriend Carrie before the prom.
  • Mildly the case in the 2013 movie. In the book and the 1976 film, she enthusiastically throws tampons at Carrie. In 2013, she only throws one before looking horrified and stopping.
• Alliterative Name: Sue Snell.
• Anonymous Benefactor: In every version but the 2002 film she asks Tommy to take Carrie to the prom in order to make up for what she did, but never talks to her or helps her out directly, possibly because she figured that Chris will bully her as well if she tries to befriend or stand up for Carrie.
• The Atoner:
  • In every version of Carrie, she tries to atone for going along with the other girls in pelting Carrie with tampons by asking Tommy to take Carrie to the prom in her place to ease her conscience.
  • The book featured snippets of her autobiography/memoirs in which she attempts to make amends for what had happened that night. In the '76 film, she's suffering from nightmares about it at the end, and in the sequel, it's her memory of the incident that drives her to stop the bullying against Rachel before it's too late.
• Big "NO!": She repeatedly screams "No!" after her Dream Sequence with Carrie grabbing her arm at her grave in the end of the '76 film.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: In the '13 film, Sue is blonde, Tina and Chris are brunettes, Heather is a redhead, and Nicki and Lizzy have black hair.
• Blue Is Heroic: She is shown to wear a blue dress in the '76 film and sympathizes with Carrie and tries to atone for teasing her.
• Break the Cutie: So very much; it gets so bad she hopes she makes enough money from the memoir she writes after The Black Prom so she can move far away where nobody knows her.
  • And considering that she lost her friends and teachers after Carrie killed them one by one, she also has nightmares about being haunted by Carrie who died with her mother and appears very traumatized in the end of the '76 film.
• Butt-Monkey: She probably has it as bad as Carrie as she tried to make things good for her, but fails and it backfires on her.
  • In the novel, she was made the scapegoat, along with Tommy who were believed to be the culprits behind the pig blood prank, but she proved their innocence by writing a memoir of what really happened.
  • She has it worse in the 1976 film where Miss Collins doesn't believe her intentions are good. When Sue sneaks into the prom, Miss Collins throws her out who believes she's trying to set up a disaster and becomes traumatized of her experiencing Carrie's rampage. She even has a nightmare of Carrie grabbing her arm when she places flowers on the rubble of her house.
  • In the sequel, her trauma led to her going to an asylum for a while, and she tries to help Rachel who has telekinesis like Carrie did, but doesn't get listened to by Rachel and gets called "crazy" by her, and even gets killed trying to stop the rampage Rachel was causing.
• Bystander Syndrome: Sue recognises this as one of her major problems when she joins in on everyone bullying Carrie in the shower. She later corrects it after her Jerkass Realization.
• The Cassandra: Downplayed, but she has psychic intuition that something is going terribly wrong at the prom — and, in the '76 and '13 versions, she sees Chris and Billy plotting to drop the bucket — but is disregarded and ignored even after Chamberlain is on fire.
• Catapult Nightmare: In her dream where she lays down flowers on Carrie's grave, Carrie's arm rises up and grabs Sue's arm and Sue wakes up screaming with her mother trying to comfort her.
• Convicted by Public Opinion: In the book, after the "Black Prom", she and Tommy are blamed for having driven Carrie over the edge. From the snippets we see of her memoirs, she spends the rest of her life trying to live it down.
• The Cynic: Some of her lines in the book suggest that she has a bleak view of human nature. At one point, she says that people don't change for the better when they grow up, they just get more skilled at hiding their true nature.
• Deadpan Snarker: She can be sassy at times, mostly towards Chris.
  Chris: (while running in place) She can't get away with this. I'm gonna get her.
  Sue: (rolls her eyes) Let it go, Chris.
  Chris: (stops running in place) Like hell I will!
  • and sometimes to Tommy.
  Tommy: Did you apologize to Carrie White?
  Sue: Did you apologize to Danny Patrick?
• Death Seeker: The closing lines of her memoir suggest that she's become this.
• Defector from Decadence: In all of the versions she starts out as a member of Chris' Girl Posse, but leaves after she feels guilty for helping terrorize Carrie in the shower scene.
• Deuteragonist: Sue gets the most focus in the book after Carrie herself, one of the strongest character arcs, and can be seen as the actual hero of the story.
• Establishing Character Moment: A notable one in the 2002 film. When Helen calls Carrie "retarded" during the baseball game, Sue doesn't say anything, but it's clear from the look on her face that she doesn't approve.
• Final Girl: In the book, she survives Carrie's rampage and is the one to confront her at the end, though Carrie is already dying when Sue finds her. She is the only survivor out of the main cast in the '76 version.
• Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: She helps torment Carrie in the shower, but quickly has a change of heart, and tries to make up for what she did.
• Heel–Face Turn: Very early on, after her Jerkass Realization described below.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In the sequel, she suffers this fate as she arrives at Mark's house and tries to get in, but Rachel throws a fire poker through the door, impaling her and Brad's heads who tries to escape.
• Innocent Beta Bitch: She is a friend of Chris, the cruel leader of the popular girls, but later feels guilty for joining Chris and her friends in the bullying of Carrie.
• Jerkass Realization: After being on the receiving end of Chris' "The Reason You Suck" Speech after Chris ditches detention, she realizes that she is no better than Chris for bullying Carrie.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may have tormented Carrie, but she soon feels bad for it and tries to make it up to her.
• Kill the Cutie: She gets impaled through a door when she tries to stop Rachel in the sequel.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: She may have participated in the tormenting of Carrie, but she does have a Jerkass Realization and tries to set things right with Carrie by having Tommy take her to the prom.
• Mind Rape: At the end of the book, a dying Carrie does this to her, angry about the prank that she thought Sue had pulled on her... only to find that she had meant her no harm, and that she hadn't planned to humiliate her at the prom. She even lets her into her mind intentionally to prove this to her.
• Moment of Weakness: Implied. According to Rita Desjardin, Sue Snell is not a bully by nature and therefore joining her classmates in gleefully taunting Carrie and pelting her with tampons was very out of character. It is implied that Sue only acted under peer pressure, being one of Chris Hargensen's cronies. Sue was actually disgusted with herself; she unfriended Chris, and tried to make up with Carrie by having her boyfriend take her to the prom.
• Morality Pet: She tries to be this to Chris, but fails. She could also be seen as this to Carrie, as she spends most of the climax trying to find Carrie and try to calm her down. After reading Sue's mind, Carrie comes to understand that she was trying to help her, and allows Sue to comfort her as she dies.
• Most Writers Are Writers: Downplayed, but she writes a memoir that is one of the central texts of the book.
• Ms. Fanservice: The 2013 version gave her an additional Shower Scene other than the one in the opening and a sex scene with Tommy. In addition, her introduction has her wearing a blue one-piece swimsuit.
  • Also, in the locker room scene in the '76 version, she has a lingerie on while talking to her friends.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Her whole reason for asking Tommy to take Carrie to the prom was to make up for helping bully her and make it so Carrie's actually happy for once. While it works at first, Carrie eventually gets completely humiliated and kills dozens to hundreds of people (depending on the version). Tommy also dies from the bucket landing on his head. Sue has it the worst in the 1976 movie, where she's badly traumatized after and has frequent nightmares.
• Not So Above It All: Chris correctly tells her she has no right to act self-righteous to her since she went along with pelting Carrie with sanitary napkins.
• Not So Similar: To Chris. Chris may be right that Sue may have bullied Carrie with her, but unlike Chris, she has a Jerkass Realization and changes for the better, even deciding to give up her own prom for Carrie to make up for it, whereas Chris blames Carrie for her being banned from prom, and decides to punish Carrie for it.
• Oh, Crap!: In the sequel, she has this when she sees Rachel telekinetically destroying the snowglobe in her office in a fit of anger. She remembers very clearly what had happened with Carrie, thank-you-very-much.
• Only Sane Woman: In the 1976 version, she finds out about Chris and Billy's plot against Carrie at the prom and very nearly blows the whole thing wide open.
• Pet the Dog: In addition to having Tommy take Carrie to the prom to make up for what she did, she's the only person in the book who puts in a good word for Carrie at the White Commission, saying that Carrie wasn't really evil, but was Driven to Madness by the bottomless cruelty of her mother, and classmates.
• Race Lift: She was played by black South African-Canadian actress Kandyse McClure in the '02 version. This adds an interesting nuance - she's part of the clique, but still set apart from them and more primed to see herself as an outsider.
• Reformed Bully: A downplayed example. Sue never went out of her way to be a bully, but joined in with her classmates' bullying of Carrie due to peer pressure. She repents deeply, and goes as far as sacrificing her own prom night for the sake of giving Carrie one beautiful evening.
• The Scapegoat: With Tommy in the book.
• Screaming Woman: She wakes up screaming uncontrollably from her nightmare in the 1976 version.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's 5'9 1/2" in the 2013 version, played by the beautiful Gabriella Wilde.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: She gets a fire poker through the eye the moment she arrives at the front door of the party in Rage.
• Supporting Protagonist: She can be seen as the book's actual protagonist, even though Carrie is the title character.
• Teen Pregnancy: Suggested in the book. During the climax, it's strongly implied that Carrie uses her powers to cause her to have a miscarriage. In the '13 film, it's stated outright when Carrie places her hand on her belly and tells her she has a baby girl.
• Token Good Teammate: She's the only popular girl who feels bad for Carrie — the others have no problem bullying her.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In all versions. She feels bad for her bullying and asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross to take Carrie to the prom.
• There Are No Therapists: Averted in the sequel. It's revealed that she went into psychiatric care after surviving Carrie's rampage, and by the events of the film, she is the therapist.
• The Unapologetic: A rare example of this trope where the character is very sorry for what they have done and believe that a simple apology is not enough. Sue Snell joins her friends in taunting Carrie and pelting her with tampons after she had her first period. She was disgusted with herself after a talk with her boyfriend Tommy Ross, who helped her realize how disgusting her behavior was. Despite this and Tommy calling her out for not apologizing, Sue does not apologize to Carrie because she thinks that an apology was not enough. Instead, she decides to have her boyfriend take Carrie to prom so she can feel accepted for one night, with tragic consequences.
• The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): In the sequel, she is the only one who knows what psychics like Carrie and Rachel are capable of. She gets killed trying to stop Rachel.
• Zen Survivor: After her experience in the first film, she's become this in the sequel.

Chris Hargensen

Christine "Chris" Hargensen

1976

2002

2013

Played by:

Nancy Allen (1976 version)
Emilie de Ravin (2002 version)
Portia Doubleday (2013 version)

The Alpha Bitch of the school and Billy's girlfriend. She leads the class as they humiliate Carrie in the shower. Feeling that Carrie is responsible for her misfortune, she sets out to get revenge on her after finding that she is going to the prom with Tommy, enlisting her Girl Posse, her boyfriend Billy, and his friends in the plan.

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• Accuser of the Brethren: Why she grows to hate Sue. Sue regrets the shower incident they pulled on Carrie and tries to make up for it and Sue breaks off from Chris' Girl Posse because of this.
  Sue: She doesn't like me much?...
  Helen: Susie, she hates your guts.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • The French translation of the book states that she got multiple detentions for bullying handicapped students, as opposed to "misfits" in the original. Her language is also more vulgar at several points.
  • In the 1976 film, she is even worse than in the book, being in every way the driving force behind the prank and trying to run Carrie over, which she wasn't willing to do in the book.
  • Her villainy is also ratcheted up in the 2013 version, as she not only leads the class in humiliating Carrie in the shower but also films it all on her phone and posts it on YouTube, where it goes viral. The YouTube video is also displayed at the prom after the pig blood scene, which, together with Tommy getting knocked out/killed, sets Carrie off.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the book she was not only a Jerkass but also a juvenile delinquent and had no problems threatening other students with serious harm; the films tone her down to simply being a vindictive Alpha Bitch. The 2002 film goes further; in this version she shows reluctance to follow through with the prank after seeing Carrie happy, and only does so under pressure from Billy; she also vainly screams for Billy to stop when he is about to run Carrie down, in stark contrast to the other two films in which she herself attempts to kill Carrie (or urges Billy to do so).
• Adaptational Ugliness: In the 2013 film where Portia Doubleday's Chris is done up as an overly tanned and made-up ratchet with ratty extensions, contrasting to Carrie's more natural beauty.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She has Black hair in the book, but blonde in the '76 and '02 versions. Ironically in the 2013 film, her actress is a natural blonde (but dyed dark brown for this).
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: It's said in the book that the main reason she stays with Billy is because he's the only boy she can't manipulate. Also when he makes advances on her, she finds that she loves his aggression.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: In the book and in the 2013 version. She is the Alpha Bitch for a reason!
• Alpha Bitch: To a sociopathic degree, going out of her way to make students like Carrie miserable, and leading a Girl Posse of accomplices (nicknamed the "Ultras" in the 2002 film). This gets lampshaded in the parody Scarrie!:
  Chris: The Carrie Whites of the world aren't meant to go out with the Tommy Rosses of the world! For if God had wanted that, he would have given her a kick-ass bod, and long hair that layers easily and DANCES IN THE WIND!!
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Her surname is probably meant to sound like German or Danish (following the model of names like "Jørgensen"), but seems to have been made up by Steven King, as Googling it only turns up references to the character.
• Asshole Victim: The Alpha Bitch with no redeeming qualities, who humiliated a girl that had done nothing to her. She's given a cruel death in every version of the story.
• Ax-Crazy: By the end of the 2013 film. Chris is aware of the mass murder done to her senior class by Carrie, and when she sees Carrie in the road she orders Billy to run her down despite all logic telling her that trying to run over Carrie isn't a good plan, proving Chris has just about lost all her sanity.
  Chris: Run. Her. Down. Kill her. Kill her, Billy. KILL HER, BILLY! KILL HER!
  Billy: Shut up, I got this!
  • In the book, she wasn't really all that mentally well even before Carrie goes off the deep end, what with her trying to blow someone's toes off with a firecracker simply because she had a cleft lip.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: In all the versions she has Billy bash some poor pig's head in to harvest its blood. In the 1976 and 2002 versions she is disgustingly thrilled as she watches Billy kill the thing. The 2013 version makes it even worse: she personally slits the pig's throat.
• Beauty Is Bad: She's gorgeous and pretty, but is a horrendous person.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted in the '13 version, where she gets thrown through a windshield, leaving her face torn up with huge shards of glass sticking out of it... and that's before Carrie inflicts the Coup de Grâce by blowing up the car.
• Big Bad Ensemble: She and Billy along with Margaret are the main antagonists in the story.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: In the '13 film, Chris and Tina are brunettes, Sue is blonde, Heather is a redhead and Nicki and Lizzy have black hair.
• Break the Haughty: In the book, but it doesn't stick in the films. Having been brutally attacked by Billy, raped by him, and being on the brink of being abandoned by him, she still begs him to take him with her, while he plans not to.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: She has a very high IQ, but only a C average.
• Bullying a Dragon: She's got a pretty good idea of both how destructive Carrie has become and how utterly enraged she is over her little stunt with the pig's blood by the time of their final meeting. However, instead of doing something sensible, like backing up the car and hitting the gas in the opposite direction or at least attempt to apologise, she instead tries to mow her down. It's even more utterly dumb in the 2013 version where even after seeing her boyfriend's head pancaked by the steering wheel, she tries to run her down again, receiving only a faceful of glass and a Darwin Award for her stupidity.
• Bully Brutality: Aside from tormenting Carrie over her first period, and the pigs' blood prank, it's noted in the book that she's committed such horrible things as stuffing fireworks on someone's shoes and nearly blowing her toes off. The principal of the school even flat-out tells Chris' father that, with all of the things she's done, they could easily have her thrown in prison.
• Bullying the Disabled: In junior high, she slipped a firecracker in someone's shoe and nearly mutilated her foot because she had a cleft lip.
• Classic Villain: She's very ambitious, manipulative and power hungry. Her main sins are Envy, Pride, and a little Wrath. Finally, her whole goal throughout the story is to inflict maximum suffering on Carrie, first just to indulge her petty sadism, then later for "revenge" for getting banned from the prom.
• Daddy's Girl: Chris is a particularly toxic example. Her father is an Amoral Attorney who has spoiled his daughter and ignores everything she's done. He tries to sue the school district, only backing off when he learns that they will counter-sue him for Chris's record of violations. It's downplayed in that Chris is happy to use his influence to get what she wants, but she doesn't seem to care about him at all on a personal level.
• Daddy's Little Villain: And how. Her father is an Amoral Attorney and she is a very spoiled, violent monster. Except in the 2013 film where her father seems to believe she didn't participate in the shower incident - and he's furious to learn that Chris filmed a video and uploaded it.
• Deadly Prank: Not only was her plot to rig the election so Carrie became Prom Queen, and then traumatize and humiliate her in front of everyone unbelievably cruel to begin with, it leads directly to Carrie losing it and killing dozens of people (hundreds in some versions.)
• Deadpan Snarker: She has a pretty sarcastic banter, especially towards Billy and Carrie.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Alpha Bitch, The Bully, and the Delinquents. What kind of person do you have to be to enjoy humiliating and hurting other people so badly? A really damaged person. Her "friends" don't actually like her that much, the principal thinks she needs to be locked up, and the only reason she hasn't is because her father is a corrupt attorney. Chris is so twisted, she is exhilarated by the abuse she gets from Billy.
• Delinquent: Her characterization in the book. It's stated that she's been sent to detention 73 times in four years, twenty of them for bullying, and that she skipped most of them. In addition, during Junior High, she had once put a firecracker into a girl's shoe and nearly blew off two of her toes. The film adaptations largely downplay this to focus on her Alpha Bitch tendencies.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Even if Carrie didn't have any Psychic Powers, it's unlikely Chris would have gotten away with what she did. She would be the first person everyone would suspect, since she has the most reason to want revenge, and it's highly likely her Girl Posse would rat her out for a lighter sentence, particularly considering Tommy's death would put them on the hook for manslaughter, if not outright murder.
  • In the 2013 film, she not only leads the other girls in humiliating Carrie in the showers, but films the entire incident and posts it on YouTube. Apparently she never considered that doing such a thing would provide concrete evidence of her being the ringleader of the incident, which is exactly what happens in the principal's office.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • In Junior High, she nearly blew off a girl's front two toes because she had a harelip.
  • She ruins Carrie's life by dumping pigs blood on her at the Prom because she was pissed off that she was banned from attending.
• Entitled Bitch: She's furious that she's banned from the prom after what she did to Carrie in the shower, believing it's her right to go.
• Enfant Terrible: The book version at least was awful even when she was younger, as they mention a time when she put a firecracker in a girl's shoe for no reason other than the girl had a cleft pallette.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • As cruel as Chris is to her, she never wanted to kill Carrie. Right before Carrie kills her and Billy she screams in her mind at Billy not to kill Carrie. In the 1976 and '13 version, though, she completely subverts this by being the person who wants Carrie dead, and it's debatable how sincere she is when she thinks that.
  • In the '76 film she can be seen watching the prom massacre from the outside with a look of horror on her face. In fact, when Miss Collins is killed by the falling basketball board, Chris looks horrified.
  • She displays some redeeming qualities in the '02 film, appearing reluctant to pull the bucket once she sees how happy Carrie is (and Billy eggs her on). When Billy tries to run Carrie down on the road, Chris screams at him to stop (in contrast to '76 where she's the one driving, and '13 where she cheers Billy on).
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In every version she doesn't get why Sue feels guilty about being so cruel to Carrie, and assumes she must just be faking it to get into the prom.
• Evil Counterpart: To Sue. Both of them are popular girls and they both bully Carrie in the shower and get punished for it, along with the other girls, but the difference is that Sue feels remorse for what she's done and has a Heel–Face Turn and tries to make it up to Carrie by asking her boyfriend, Tommy to take Carrie to the prom, while Chris has no change of heart and remains a sociopathic bully, and even thinks Carrie deserved it and tries to get revenge on her by dumping pig blood on Carrie in order to humiliate and traumatize her, and asks her boyfriend Billy to help.
• Evil Feels Good: Her whole reason for being so cruel to Carrie (and a bunch of other victims, in the book version) is basically just "because it's fun."
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Towards the end of the book Chris is finding out the hard way that the utterly sociopathic Billy is not someone she can use and throw away as she has her other boyfriends—he's beaten her, raped her, and is planning to abandon her and flee the state.
• Evil Is Petty: Chris only gets banned from prom because she can't hold out on detention, which she thoroughly deserved. For this she blames Carrie, and sets about ruining and humiliating her one last time.
• Facial Horror: In the '13 version. Getting thrown through a windshield will do that to you.
• Fatal Flaw: She suffers from a bad combination of pride and wrath. Even when her peers know messing with Carrie again will only get them in trouble, she still strives to make poor Carrie miserable.
• For the Evulz: Her actions both in the book and the various films seem to be motivated by little more than either petty sadism or the desire to be a violent thug for its own sake.
• Faux Affably Evil: In the '02 film, she tries to convince Carrie to doubt Sue by acting friendly to Carrie in the locker room, and she tells her lies about Sue to do so.
• Gender-Blender Name: More of "gender blender nickname." Chris is a name associated with men, but this is what people call her.
• Hate Sink: In every version of the story (save the 2002 film), Chris is presented as a sadistic, violent, and vulgar bully without any redeeming qualities and no motivation behind her bullying other than the pleasure of it. It's very clear Chris isn't meant to be liked.
• Hidden Depths: In the '13 film, director Kimberly Pierce states the overly-make up and tan look Chris has in the movie is supposed to represent the character's insecurities.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Despite being a terrible bully and tyrant all her life, she's managed to avoid being send to military school or juvenile hall due to her father pulling strings on her behalf. She almost manages to get unbanned from the prom when her father threatens to sue the school but, thankfully the school doesn't cave. When she pours blood on Carrie, she and Billy manage to escape before everything gets pear-shaped. They plan to flee, but have the bad luck to run into Carrie. Chris tries to run Carrie over, but Carrie makes the car crash and she finally pays for her cruel actions.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Suggested in the book. Her previous boyfriends were college fraternity brothers who she always had following her around like lost puppies. However, other characters say that Billy is largely under her control (most of the time) and would do anything for her.
  "Billy had not been her first lover, but he was the first she could not dance and dandle at her whim."
• Jerkass Has a Point: While she may have deserved it, she's still correct in saying Miss Collins shouldn't hit her students in the 1976 version.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Anytime Chris shows a hint of basic human decency or even remorse over what she does, it’s either a ploy to better manipulate someone or, in the case of the 2002 version, does not give an ounce of justification for what she both does and what she would go on to do.
• "Just Joking" Justification: In the 2002 version she talks to Carrie after the shower incident, pretending to be contrite, and tells Carrie she and the other mean girls were "Just playing around."
• Karmic Death: Especially in the versions where she thinks hitting Carrie with a car is enough to murder her.
• Kick the Dog: She does this a lot. Her first very first act in the 1976 version is going right up to Carrie and telling her "You eat shit!" after she misses a volleyball that was deliberately thrown at her with the hope she'd miss. While this pales in comparison to most of what she does through the movie, it still well illustrates her base cruetly.
• Never My Fault: Though it was clearly her own fault that she got detention and was banned from the prom, instead of taking responsibility, she decides to plot an elaborate revenge against Carrie. She even tries justifying herself by claiming that Carrie was "running around saying everyone except her and her gilt-edged momma were going to hell" as an excuse.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Heavily downplayed in the 2002 version, she appears reluctant to pour blood on Carrie after seeing how happy she is, and it seems like she would have not gone through with it if it weren't for Billy calling her chicken. That said… she still does it, and clearly enjoys her humiliation.
  • A very minor one, but, in the 2013 version of the shower scene she initially tells Carrie it's just her period and hands her a tampon, and only starts terrorizing her when she (Carrie) accidentally gets blood on her hand.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: According to the book, Chris bullied "misfit pupils", including one girl with a cleft lip whom she almost blew a couple toes off of by sticking a firecracker in her shoe. She also sneers that one of her classmates, who is Jewish, would never win prom queen for that reason.
• The Prankster: An incredibly malicious example. Her "pranks" include such things as nearly blowing some poor girl's toes off with a firecracker, getting everyone to terrorize Carrie in the locker room when she's having a Heroic BSoD about her first period, and, of course, pouring blood on her. In all cases, her "jokes" aren't meant to be funny to anyone but her and her vile minions.
• Privilege Makes You Evil: Her father is a rich lawyer who often uses Loophole Abuse to ensure she never faces the consequences for her actions.
• Prom Wrecker: Plans to get revenge on Carrie by rigging the vote so she gets elected prom queen, and them dumping pig's blood on her. Arguably the Trope Codifier, as most examples of this trope reference this in some way.
• Really Gets Around: In the book, she had several boyfriends before Billy, all of whom were college fraternity brothers. This detail doesn't appear in any of the adaptations.
• Sadist: Though she clearly enjoys Carrie's humiliation at the Prom in all the versions, in the '76 and '13 films she relishes in it, shaking with excitement and licking her lips in the '76 version, and laughing uncontrollably and even screaming "freak" despite hiding on the catwalk in the '13 film.
• The Sociopath: In the book. Toned down in the adaptations, but not by much.
• Spoiled Brat/Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Her father, a rich lawyer, got her into Oberlin despite her poor grades, and threatens to sue the school if they punish Chris for what she did to Carrie in the shower. He backs off when he sees her record of violations (or, in the 2013 movie, when mention was made of the video she had on her phone of the shower incident). Later, after getting kicked out of the prom, she plans to humiliate Carrie as payback for it, feeling that she is entitled to go to the prom. She's so annoying you just want to squash her. Thanks, Carrie!
• Stupid Evil: It's most prominent in the 2013 film, but trying to run down Carrie after it's astonishingly clear that she could literally end their life by simply thinking about it was not the most intelligent decision she could have come up with.
• Teens Are Monsters: She's 17, and is an incredibly cruel young woman. The book reveals that she was like this even when she was younger.
• Threw My Bike on the Roof: She pours blood on Carrie, both to humiliate and traumatize her, and to ruin the beautiful prom dress she worked so hard to make.
• Too Dumb to Live: Despite witnessing Carrie waste an entire school with just her mind, Chris still thinks it's a good idea to mow Carrie down instead of, say, running like hell for her life. It's especially egregious in the '13 version, where she continues trying to kill Carrie even after watching her kill her boyfriend and tear up the road in front of them...especially when she hits the pedal to run her over after Carrie contemplates sparing her!
• Tomboyish Name: Her full name is Christine but she's known as Chris by everyone except her father.
• Toxic Friend Influence: It's implied the other girls don't actually hate Carrie (other than Norma/Tina and a few others), and are mainly mean to her just because Chris encourages them to be, and possibly out of fear they will be her next victims if they dare stand up for Carrie.
• Unbuilt Trope: Can be considered one to the bullies that populate some of Stephen King's later works. On the one hand, she's only slightly less cruel than Henry Bowers, with relatively close levels of Bully Brutality. On the other hand, she does not have the benefit of Derry's perception filter, and the school officials know full well that she is a Devil in Plain Sight and threaten her father with a very, very ironclad countersuit.
• The Unfettered: If she wants something, nothing can hold her back.
• Unreliable Narrator: In the ‘13 film, despite Chris's father appearing to realize that she was behind the shower prank, Chris says in the next scene that he's still suing the school over it. It's unclear if she's telling the truth or not.
• Uptown Girl: Chris is a rich lawyer's daughter while her boyfriend Billy is a common street thug and delinquent. They're a match made in hell.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: While her 1976 incarnation is even crueler than the book version, that movie's version of Billy has been Demoted to Dragon, and is a dim-witted buffoon who she plays like a fiddle.
• Villain Song: "Crackerjack (Out for Blood)" in the original 1988 production of the musical and "The World According to Chris" in the 2012 revival.
• Villainous Breakdown: In the '13 version, she completely loses it when she realizes that Carrie has Psychic Powers.
• Virtue Is Weakness: When Sue tells her she feels guilty about being so cruel to Carrie, Chris just scoffs and acts disgusted.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Chris tries to get her friends to do this to get out of detention in the '13 film.

Norma Watson

Norma Watson

Played by:

P. J. Soles (1976 version)

Meghan Black (2002 version)

1976

2002

A classmate of Carrie's who greatly changes from one version to another. She's a minor survivor in the book, Chris's Beta Bitch in the 1976 movie and the peppy prom organizer in the 2002 film.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: Norma is blonde in the book and played by blonde PJ Soles - but she becomes a brunette in the '02 film.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the 2002 film, Norma is a much more sympathetic character than any of her other portrayals, and the worst thing she does is laugh with the Girl Posse when they make fun of Carrie in gym class. She is genuinely kind to Carrie at the Prom, and is disgusted once she realizes Carrie was subjected to a cruel prank by someone.
• Adaptational Villainy: Norma was a Student Council President in the original book and in the '02 version, and barely figured at all in the story. The '76 version upgrades her to Chris' partner-in-crime, replacing Tina.
• Asshole Victim: Norma in the 1976 film, especially after she laughs at the Prank and Tommy's death.
• Ambiguous Innocence: Like Tina, it's unclear if she helped set Carrie up at the Prom in the novel, all that's known is Chris called in a few favors to secure Carrie wins Prom Queen, and that Norma and Tina were in charge of the Prom ballots. Her interactions with Carrie before the latter is crowned Prom Queen, as well as the novel she writes after surviving the Black Prom, only add fuel to the debate.
• Baddie Flattery: Acts all nice when taking Carrie's prom vote from her in the '76 version.
• Beta Bitch: Her P.J. Soles version, anyway. She doesn't hang out with Chris in the book or the '02 film.
• Big Eater: In the 2002 film, she eats at least two donuts during her police interview.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While the book version isn't as outright malicious as the 1976 version, her compliments to Carrie about her dress seem very insincere, and she's the first one to laugh at Carrie's humiliation.
• Blood-Splattered Innocents: In the '02 version, she gets splattered with some of the blood dumped on Carrie.
• Butt-Monkey: In the 2002 film, Norma gets picked on a little by Tina, and Helen hurries away when she sees Norma coming at the prom. However, she is shown giggling with the rest of the girls when they taunt Carrie during gym class.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: Norma's reaction after Tommy is downed by the falling metal bucket in the '76 film.
• Composite Character: Tina was Chris's best friend in the book while Norma was a side character. The 76 film gives Norma Tina's role as Chris's gal pal.
• Death by Adaptation: Survives in the book and the second film, but not in the '76 version.
• The Dragon: To Chris, in the first film.
• Enigmatic Minion: She taunts Carrie and Tommy at the prom, though she claims innocence afterwards. Chris claims that she set up Carrie and Tommy's victory with friends, and Norma was in charge of running the prom, but it's never directly confirmed that she was involved.
• Evil Counterpart: She is this to Sue in the 1976 version. Sue is an Innocent Beta Bitch who is strongly implied to normally be a Nice Girl who just happened to succumb to peer pressure, hence why she feels so guilty afterwards. Norma, on the other hand, is a straight-up Beta Bitch who feels no remorse for her actions, and is almost as cruel as Chris herself.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Her 1976 version is rather cute, with her Girlish Pigtails and Tomboyish Baseball Cap. It's also by far her most villainous incarnation.
• Fakeout Makeout: In the 1976 film, this what Norma does with Freddie as a cover up so she can swap the ballots from Prom King and Queen with mock ones.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Norma seems to have this status in the book. Even Tina, whom she escapes with, doesn't actually like her at all. In the 2002 film, when Helen sees her coming, she shuffles away saying "life is too short".
• Genki Girl: Meghan Black's portrayal of Norma.
• Girl Posse: She's part of Chris's in the 1976 movie. In the '02 version she teases Carrie when she has her period with the other girls, but Norma states to the police Chris and her friends weren't really close due to Norma's peppy nature.
• Iconic Outfit: Norma's red baseball cap in the '76 version, which she is never seen without — she wears it to prom, and even at the hairdresser, where it's sitting atop her hair dryer. Reportedly, this was P. J. Soles' idea. Freddy vs. Jason had Katharine Isabelle (who played Tina in the 2002 version) wearing a similar hat as a direct Shout-Out.
• Jerk Justifications: Her whole excuse for laughing at Carrie's humiliation is:
  " It was either laugh or cry, and who could bring himself to cry over Carrie after all those years?"
• Karma Houdini: If she actually did assist Chris with ensuring Carrie is humiliated at Prom, then she definitely qualifies as she's among the 11 people who escaped. Even if she wasn't involved, she still was the first person to laugh at Carrie's humiliation (which got everyone else laughing at her and set her off), and tried to justify what she did in an incredibly callous way.
• Most Writers Are Writers: In the novel, after the incident is over, Norma writes a book called "We Survived the Black Prom".
• Motor Mouth: In the 2002 film. She's implied to be this in the book too.
• Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Norma claims this happened to her in the book - that she couldn't stop herself from laughing after seeing Carrie covered in blood, especially after Carrie was bullied by others - but it's ultimately left ambiguous if this is true.
• Sadist: Her reaction to Carrie's humiliation at the prom is utterly stomach-churning in the book and the 1976 film.
• Tomboyish Baseball Cap: The aforementioned Iconic Outfit of hers in the 1976 version, which she wears all the damn time.
• Uncertain Doom: Norma's fate is left unanswered in the 1976 film, as Sue confirms in the 1999 sequel that a few people somehow survived Carrie's massacre with her, and Norma is never seen dying on-screen. But considering Norma's last appearance is her being knocked unconscious, or even possibly killed, by the water hose by Carrie's telekinesis powers, her chances aren't good.
• Unreliable Narrator: In the book, Norma claims that she felt nothing but sympathy for Carrie and just couldn't restrain herself from laughing. This rather clashes with the fact that she taunted Carrie and Tommy earlier in the night, and judging by her expression, seemed to be hoping something bad would happen.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the 1976 film. Mind you, Norma isn't innocent in laughing at the prank and Tommy's death at all, but she also had no idea that by doing so, once Carrie, whose mind had snapped from all the abuse she suffered over the years, witnesses her laughing, would then imagine everyone attending the Prom laughing at her. This directly is what causes Carrie's Roaring Rampage of Revenge that killed all of Norma's classmates.
• Verbal Tic: In the book, Norma has a HABIT of PUTTING random EMPHASIS on her WORDS.
• Villainous Breakdown: She loses her shit after the doors slam on Freddie and Kenny in the 1976 film.

Tina Blake

Tina Blake

Played by:

Katharine Isabelle (2002 version)
Zoë Belkin (2013 version)

2002

2013

Tina Blake is Chris' best friend and part of her Girl Posse, and just as catty as she is. While Adapted Out of the 1976 film, she assists Chris in her plan to humiliate Carrie in both subsequent films, where she is the one who switches out the ballots to get her and Tommy in position.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Tina was merely just Chris's friend in the book. The most evil thing she does is allow Chris to look at the King and Queen ballots without realizing why she wanted to know. In the films she has a direct role in the evil prank pulled at the Prom by swapping the ballots.
  • This is taken a step further in the '13 version, where she flirts with her English teacher just so Carrie will have another bully and also displays the humiliating locker room video in front of all the Prom-goers just to extend Carrie's humiliation. It's very cathartic when Carrie singles her out during her slaughter.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Tina is described as redhead in the book but is brunette in the '02 and '13 films.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In addition to the Adaptational Villainy below, Tina gets upgraded into quite the ditz in the '02 film.
• Ambiguous Innocence: Like Norma, it's unclear if she helped set Carrie up at the Prom in the novel, all that's known is Chris called in a few favors to secure Carrie wins Prom Queen, and that Norma and Tina were in charge of the Prom ballots. She is the only character at the Prom to scream after the blood is dropped on Carrie, though this could just as easily be a case of Pragmatic Villainy to feign innocence.
• Asshole Victim: In both films where she's upgraded to Chris' Beta Bitch. Especially in the 2013 film where she plays the humiliating locker room video in front of all the prom-goers, promptly after Carrie has pigs blood dumped onto her. No tears were shed for Tina when Carrie burned her to death in her rampage.
• Baddie Flattery: She does this when collecting Carrie's ballot from her in the '02 and '13 films. She even tells Carrie she and Tommy have her vote in the '13 version, but Carrie expresses doubt on her face.
• Beta Bitch: In the second and third film versions. Implied to be this in the novel too, as she's Chris' best friend and lets her look at the Prom ballots.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: In the '13 film, Tina and Chris are brunettes, Sue is blonde, Heather is a redhead and Nicki and Lizzy have black hair.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: Tina's reaction after Tommy is downed by the falling metal bucket in the '02 film.
• Chekhov's Gun: Played with in the '13 film. Tina having a sexual relationship with her teacher, Mr. Ulmann, just to get him to torment Carrie further is obviously repulsive, but it almost saves her life during Prom because he tries to find and help her and they head for an exit, before Carrie notices them in time and she starts to focus on killing Tina.
• Composite Character: Tina was Chris's best friend in the book while Norma was a side character. The ‘76 film gives Norma Tina's role as Chris's gal pal.
• Death by Adaptation: In both films she appears in, having made it out the fire doors in the book.
• Demoted to Extra: In the '76 film when Miss Collins is doing the register, she calls out a 'Blake' - which implies that Tina is among the nameless students who get no lines.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: In the '13 film, Tina has a heart condition, according to Chris.
• The Ditz: In the 2002 film. She's the only one of the girls to fail to recognise that Miss Desjardin's suggestion of skipping softball is sarcastic. She also believes a Brazilian wax is in the shape of the country.
• The Dragon: To Chris.
• Enigmatic Minion: In the book, Tina takes part in the shower incident, but it's ultimately unclear whether she was involved in the prank, though Chris mentions that she "set it up" with her friends so that Carrie would win.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In the '13 film, despite arguably being at her worst, she stops her malicious laughter and is genuinely horrified when Tommy is hit with the bucket, unlike the previous two films where Chris' Beta Bitch only laughs harder at such.
• Everyone Has Standards: In the book, Tina is one of Carrie's bullies, but doesn't seem to know about the prank, and seems horrified when told that the stuff on Carrie was blood.
• Evil Gloating: While Tina is collecting the ballots from Tommy and Carrie, she wishes them “good luck” with a suspicious smile in the second and third film adaptations.
• Evil Redhead: In the book, Tina is described as a "small, pretty girl with a billow of red hair". However it's a subversion since she's not explicitly evil in the book - as the worst thing she does is participate in the shower incident. In the films where she is evil, she is brunette.
• Girl Posse: Part of it, and the most important member barring Chris herself.
• Karma Houdini: If she did in fact help Chris humiliate Carrie at the Prom by securing Carrie wins Prom Queen that is, she survives the massacre so she qualifies.
• Karmic Death:
  • In the 2002 film, Tina is given such a death. As she's slapping someone away from getting out through the fire doors, Carrie makes a basketball hoop come loose, knock Tina to the floor and then crush her. She either dies instantly, gets trampled by other students or electrocuted when the scoreboard comes down.
  • In the 2013 film, Carrie singles her out as direct punishment for playing the video. She's separated from Mr Ulmann when a decoration is hurled at them, then whipped with live electrical cords and finally set on fire.
• Kill It with Fire: Her death in the '13 version. Carrie sets her dress on fire and immolates her alive.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In the '02 film, Tina is seen slapping someone trying to escape the gym during the massacre. Carrie's powers then make the basketball hoop fall on her.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Tina lets Chris look at the prom ballots in the book, but seems shocked at the prank. It's possible that Chris didn't tell her because she's on the prom committee, and wouldn't want any disruption. Averted in the films, where she's fully on-board with it.
• Meaningful Background Event: In the '13 film, she serves one scene to indicate that Chris' Girl Posse are no longer on good terms with Sue, via when Miss Desjardin is confronting Sue and Tommy about asking Carrie to the prom, Tina gives Sue a bitchy look as she passes by the trio.
• Modesty Towel: In the '02 film, Tina is in a towel as she's testing the locker room showers' water due to Katherine Isabelle refusal to do nudity.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In the '13 film, Tina briefly objects to posting the shower video online, only because she can be seen in the video. Chris tells her that nobody will notice.
• Race Lift: In the 2013 film, where she is played by the mixed race Zoë Belkin.
• Sadist: She gleefully reacts to Carrie's humiliation at the Prom in her film appearances, extra points to Tina in the '13 film, who reacts the same way while also displaying the humiliating YouTube video at the Prom.
• Skewed Priorities: In the middle of Carrie's rampage in the 2013 version, she takes the time to retrieve her laptop. To say she had a chance of escaping Carrie's wrath at all would be laughable, but perhaps running and hiding might've been smarter all the same.
• The Sociopath: In the '13 film, Tina has a sexual relationship with her teacher solely for Carrie to have another bully, and gleefully uploads the shower video onto the TV screen during Prom to further humiliate her.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Rita Desjardin and George Dawson watch in horror when she's burned alive in the 2013 film.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Downplayed. While it's not explored enough to know if she does it for Sextra Credit, in the 2013 film, Tina has a romantic (or at least sexual) relationship on some level with her English teacher, Mr. Ulmann, and they openly exchange flirty smirks in class. It's heavily implied she utilized this affair with an authority figure as leverage for Mr. Ulmann to single Carrie White out in his class, to humiliate her and belittle the poem she chose for her assignment.
• Tempting Fate: Tina gleefully displaying the locker room video in the 2013 film promptly after the pigs blood is dumped on Carrie, not to mention her sadistic laughter in both adaptation films she’s in.
• Two First Names: Tina and Blake are both commonly used as given names.

Helen Shyres

Helen Shyres

Played by:

Edie McClurg (1976 version)
Chelan Simmons (2002 version)

1976

2002

A minor side character in the book who functions as one of Sue's best friends. In the first film, her role as Sue's best friend is given to Frieda Jason, while Helen herself functions as a completely different character. In the TV remake, Helen is once again combined with Frieda, taking her role of being nice to Carrie at the prom.

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• Adaptational Heroism: While not an evil character in the book, the '02 film has her being nice to Carrie at the prom and spotting the bucket of blood moments before it spills, and trying to stop it. She's also seen trying to move Tommy's body while the rampage is going on in the prom.
• Adaptational Ugliness: While attractiveness isn't stated in the novel, she is mentioned to be a Prom Queen candidate, and the Truer to the Text 2002 film casts the very pretty Chelan Simmons. In the '76 film she's portrayed as a chubby Butt-Monkey of the girls, who doesn't appear to have a date for the prom.
• Adapted Out: Her name is on the Prom ballot as a cameo in the '13 version, but otherwise her role is given to Heather.
• Big Fun: Edie McClurg played her this way in the '76 film.
• Bitch Slap: Delivers a big one to Kenny in the 2002 film when he laughs cruelly at Carrie.
• Butt-Monkey: In the '76 film, she seems to get picked on a lot by Chris's group despite being a member.
• Composite Character: With Frieda Jason in the '76 and '02 films. Helen is the one who talks with Sue while decorating the prom, and Frieda is the girl who is nice to Carrie at the prom. Frieda takes both roles in the '76 film (and Helen has a completely different role) while Helen does both in the '02 film.
• Death by Adaptation: Her fate isn't stated in the book, but she's strongly implied to die in both the 1976 film and 2002 films.
• Decomposite Character: In the 2013 version, Helen's name is seen on the prom ballot... and that's all we see or hear of her. Instead, her role from the book and 1976 version are given to Heather.
• Enigmatic Minion: In the book, she seems to express remorse for the shower incident, but Sue suspects that she knows something about the prank and is deliberately keeping quiet.
  • In the '02 film it's also ambiguous if she took part in filling Carrie's locker with tampons early on.
• Even the Girls Want Her: In the '02 film, she excitedly comments on how great Carrie's ass looks in her dress.
• Everyone Has Standards: In the 1976 film, she's seen looking horrified when Carrie is covered in blood.
• Evil Redhead: In the 1976 version.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: She's part of Chris's gang in the book, but Chris isn't fond of her, sneering that she "couldn't get elected dogcatcher". She's one of Sue's best friends though.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Notably her most positive portrayal is in the one adaptation where she's blonde.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the 2002 film she starts out as one of the bullies - she calls Carrie 'retarded' in gym class and is laughing at her expense with Tina after Chris is suspended. However, she acts nice to Carrie at the prom, and slaps Kenny for laughing at her.
• Hypocritical Humour: She mocks Tommy and Roy for their Ho Yay...and immediately compliments Carrie's ass.
• Jerkass Realization: Like Sue, she seems guilty and introspective during Ms. Desjardins' "The Reason You Suck" Speech at them after the locker room prank.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the '02 film. She picks on Carrie at first but is revealed to be a nice enough girl who never really hated her.
• Ms. Fanservice: In the 2002 film, she hasn't put her top back on for the shower incident and spends that whole scene in her bra.
• Official Couple: With Roy in the 2002 film.
• Redemption Equals Death: In the '02 film, she earns her redemption by trying to help Carrie at the prom - and is soon among those killed in the massacre.
• Uncertain Doom:
  • Her fate isn't mentioned in the book, though her mother died from stepping on one of the downed power lines. During the White Commission, one of the survivors mentions the Shyres' address in her testimony and says it's where "they live" in present tense, which implies that she may have survived.
  • Possibly also in the '02 film, as while she is seen being shocked, based on the number of survivors given by Jackie Talbot it's possible that a few of the prom-goers survived being electrocuted.
• When She Smiles: Shows some dazzling smiles in the '02 film, like when she and Sue playfully comment about their falling out with Chris, and the rumors about a lesbian relationship between Sue and Carrie.

Movie exclusive

Rhonda and Cora Wilson

Rhonda and Cora Wilson

Played by: Deirdre Berthrong and Cindy Daly (1976 version)

Cora Wilson

Rhonda Wilson

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• Always Identical Twins: Averted, they're fraternal twins.
• Boyish Short Hair: Rhonda's hair is cut pretty short.
• Composite Character: In the book there's twin sisters in Chris's clique named Lila and Mary Grace Thibodeau, and a prom-goer named Rhonda Simard who has a mother named Cora.
• Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: They take part in the shower prank but show some silent remorse afterwards.
• Heroic Bystander: Both of them go to try and help Tommy as the gym devolves into chaos.
• Informed Attribute: The final cut of the film doesn't reference their relationship much.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Both of them turn their backs on Chris and show happiness for Carrie at the prom, and disgust at the prank.
• The Voiceless: Neither of them says anything in the final version of the film, although they had a couple Finishing Each Other's Sentences lines in the original script.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They spend a while trying to carry Tommy during the prom disaster, then stumble, fall and just disappear from the story.

Nicki and Lizzy Watson

Nicki and Lizzy Watson

Played by:

Katie and Karissa Strain

Nicki and Lizzy Watson

A set of Creepy Twins who serve as supporting antagonists in the 2013 film and almost always seen when tormenting Carrie. They are based off a mix of Norma Watson's role (assisting Tina in swapping the Prom King and Queen ballots), and also the twin Thibodeau sisters from the novel.

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• Adaptational Villainy: In the books, Norma Watson and Donna and Mary Thibodeau were Chris's friends but they weren't as evil as Nicki and Lizzy. The 1976 film also features a pair of twin sisters, Rhonda and Cora, among those involved in the shower incident, but neither participates in the prank (and in fact seem horrified by it) and they also try to drag the dead or unconscious Tommy to safety for a while before things get out of control.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the books, Norma was a goody-two shoes type character. Nicki and Lizzy are Chris's second best friends. Although both Norma and Nicki and Lizzy help Tina replace the ballots.
• Alas, Poor Villain: They're evil, but it's sad to watch them scream each other's name and holding each other's hands when they know they're toast.
• All There in the Script: The original script reveals Nicki's last name to be Watson.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: They have the darkest hair of the girls, are implied to be bitchy and less outwardly so than Chris and Tina.
• Ascended Extra: Downplayed, as their role is still quite small. But the Thibodeau twins are mentioned only twice in passing in the book and the Wilson sisters have no dialogue. The Watsons get to be proper members of the Girl Posse.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed compared to some of the other Girl Posse due to their brief Alas, Poor Villain scenes, but they're still bullies and participated in the evil prank Carrie in subjected to at the Prom.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: In the '13 film, Nicki and Lizzy have black hair, Tina and Chris are brunettes, Sue is blonde, and Heather is a redhead.
• Broken Heel: Lizzy can be seen slipping on her heels when the sprinklers go off in the gym.
• Composite Character: The twins are based seemingly on Norma Watson and the Thibodeau sisters.
• Creepy Twins: Their movements are completely synchronized, their expressions are always identical, they hardly ever talk, and when they do, they almost always talk simultaneously.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: They come to a rather gruesome end at the hands of Carrie in the prom scene. She holds them down with her telekinetic powers and the other prom-goers trample Nicki and Lizzy to death.
• The Dragon: To Tina seemingly despite the fact that Tina herself is also The Dragon.
• High Heel Hurt: A very dark example. The twins are trampled to death, and focus is given to several feet wearing high heels going over their backs, and their bodies have puncture marks where the heels stabbed them.
• Holding Hands: As they're being trampled to death, one twin grabs her sister's hand.
• Identical Twin Mistake: Mr Ulmann can heard getting them mixed up in English class.
• My Nayme Is: It's not 'Nikki' (or 'Nicky' for the male variant) and 'Lizzie').
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Even the teachers call them Nicki and Lizzy.
• Sadist: One sister is seen looking excited when the humiliating video is played.
• Satellite Character: Don't really do much, if anything, outside of the Girl Posse and fulfilling their worker bee duties (Like sneering at Carrie at the Prom and helping Tina swap the Prom ballots). They basically only exist for more deaths at the Prom.
• Single-Minded Twins: Whenever they speak, it's in unison. They dress identically and one never appears without the other. The only time they're not 100% identical is during an English class when one sister has her hair in pigtails.
• Together in Death: They briefly hold hands as they're trampled to death by the Prom-goers.

Heather

Played by:

Samantha Weinstein

A girl from Carrie's class and a minor member of Chris' Girl Posse. She only appears in the 2013 film adaptation of Carrie, and is primarily based on the novel's Norma Watson and Helen Shyres.

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• Adaptational Name Change: Although Heather is a Composite Character of multiple characters from the novel and past film adaptations, her name itself is modernized from Helen Shyres.
• Adaptational Villainy: Unlike Helen Shryes from the novel, she unambiguously laughs maliciously at the prank poor Carrie is subjected to, and only stops when she's the one in trouble.
• Asshole Victim: Regardless if she was aware of the prank itself, she laughs very maliciously at it, just as hard as the rest of the Girl Posse, making it hard to feel sorry for her when she gets a face full of broken glass.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first she seems to know nothing of the prank, even telling Sue that Chris was nowhere at the Prom, only to gleefully laugh at Carrie getting pig's blood dumped on her and Tina displaying the locker room video in front of the whole class.
• Blatant Lies: Maybe because of some slight bad editing (which is likely since a lot of her scenes were deleted), but it seems that Heather is unaware that the prank is about to happen at first, as implied when she says at the Hair Salon that she knows Chris isn't coming to prom because she's suspended, and when she tells Sue at prom that Chris isn't there. However, judging by her reaction to the eventual prank, which is glee and laughter, it becomes blatantly obvious that she knew the whole time and lied to Sue.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: She's a redhead, Tina and Chris are brunettes, Sue is blonde, and Nicki and Lizzy have black hair.
• Composite Character: Of Helen Shyres and Norma Watson. Arguably of other minor past Girl Posse members too.
• Death by Adaptation: She is a Composite Character of Norma Watson and Helen Shyres, and Norma survives the prom massacre in the novel and 2002 version. Helen's fate is unknown in the novel but she dies in the two previous film adaptations as well. In this version, she's flung across the gym by Carrie and smashed into a gym door, for Sue to watch.
• Evil Redhead: She's visually distinguishable from the rest of the Girl Posse by her red hair, and is seen laughing cruelly at the blood prank, implying she knew what was going on.
• Hope Spot: A villainous example. Heather is the first prom-goer to notice that blood is levitating off of Carrie, and promptly rushes to the gym doors and almost makes it before Carrie sees her and flings her across the gym.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She almost seems to have some Hidden Depths unlike the other girls, as she seems completely unaware of the prank, that is until the blood is dropped, and she laughs hysterically.
• Laser-Guided Karma: She's singled out by Carrie during the latter's Roaring Rampage of Revenge because of her evil laughter at Carrie's humiliation. It's also implied by her laughter that she was in on the prank.
• Mythology Gag: A minor example, she wears a baseball cap during the gym class scenes, a reference to Norma Watson from the 1976 version who always wore her signature red baseball cap. She's a Composite Character of Norma Watson and Helen Shyres.
• Pet the Dog: She sees Sue looking nauseous while hanging decorations and sincerely asks if she's alright.
• Sadist: Like the rest of the Girl Posse, she relishes in Carrie's suffering at the Prank.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She tries to get her date to go with her when she sees the blood levitating off Carrie - but when no one will budge, she runs for the exit.
• Tempting Fate: She lies to Sue that Chris is not at prom, delaying Sue from finding her and sabotaging her prank.
• You Can See That, Right?: Heather, who was maliciously laughing at Carrie, at prom asks her boyfriend, "Are you seeing this?" when Carrie begins making the blood on her body levitate. What happens next leaves little room for doubt.

Associates

Billy Nolan

William "Billy" Nolan

1976

2002

2013

Played by:

John Travolta (1976 version)
Jesse Cadotte (2002 version)
Alex Russell (2013 version)

Chris' boyfriend. He is one of the school's delinquents, and his characterization ranges from merely a jerkass (in the 1976 film) to outright thuggish (in the book). He frequently hits Chris, and in the book he forces himself on her. He breaks into a local farm in order to kill the pigs and drain their blood into the buckets.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: A lot of his more reprehensible aspects are toned down in the film adaptations. While he's still an asshole in the films, in the original book he was a straight-up thug who hits dogs with his car for fun and beats and rapes Chris. The '13 film is the closest to the book's depiction, as he's shown to be controlling and abusive to Chris, and even more heartless (compare Chris' reaction to Tommy's death to Billy's complete non-reaction.)
• Adaptation Personality Change: Billy is a sociopath in the book, but John Travolta portrays him as a bumbling dork.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Part of his appeal to Chris is the fact that he's aggressive and abusive. The book says that part of the reason Chris is with him is because she's used to manipulating other boys, but Billy is the only one she hasn't been able to do that with. This is arguably inverted in the 1976 film, where Chris is the bad girl to Billy's Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain (although he still hits her several times).
• The Alleged Car: The original book has him driving a rusty, beat-up, jacked-in-the-back '61 Chevy Biscayne with a broken headlight. The film versions, fortunately, upgrade him to something much cooler.
• And Starring: The 1976 film has "And introducing John Travolta, in his first motion picture role".
• Asshole Victim: He's so relentlessly horrible that it's hard to feel anything when Carrie kills him.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: In the book, he runs over stray dogs with his car for fun and kills two pigs to get the blood for the prank. The films tone it down to just one pig, but the cruelty of it is emphasized in the '13 film, when he gleefully does the deed himself (complete with kissing the hammer) after one of his cronies can't bring himself to do it.
• Berserk Button: He hates it when Chris calls him a "stupid shit."
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Chris. While in some of the film adaptations - notably, '76 - he's mostly just along with it because she's his girlfriend, in the book, he enjoys every step of it, and even plans to abandon Chris and his supposed friends to face the consequences, although he's never met Carrie.
• Bullying a Dragon: First there was his role in the prank, but even more egregiously, he tries to run Carrie down rather than get as far away from her as possible after learning about her powers and rampage.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: In the '13 version, Billy actually witnesses Tommy’s death and doesn't react at all to it, even Chris at least is briefly taken aback.
• Cool Car: The films all upgrade his choice of ride over the old jalopy he had in the book, giving him a '67 Chevelle in the '76 film, a souped-up Ford truck in the '02 film, and a '70 Pontiac GTO in the '13 film. Which makes it a much greater shame when Carrie blows it up.
• Deadpan Snarker: He can be pretty dry like Chris and fires insults right back at her.
• Delinquents: Both him and his friends.
• Domestic Abuse: He is frequently shown hitting Chris, and in one scene in the book, rapes her. When trying to run Carrie over at the end, he admits to himself that he wishes it was Chris (and his stepfather) going under his tires.
• Dragon-in-Chief: To Chris in the book where he seizes control of the plan early on and becomes the driving force behind it.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Disturbingly subverted in the book. While he seems to love Chris at first, he turns out to be an abusive asshole who hates her just as much as everyone else, and even rapes her at one point. Also, as he is setting up the buckets we read his inner monologue and find he doesn't care who gets covered in blood, even if it was Chris herself, just as long as he gets to terrify and humiliate someone. In the adaptations, he actually does seem to love her.
• Eviler than Thou: To Chris. While Chris is a very cruel Alpha Bitch, Billy is a brutish and psychopathic delinquent who simply love to hurt others for no apparent reasons. It's also implied he might have homicidal tendencies. Not in the '76 film where Chris is the more evil of the two - even trying to run Carrie down herself. The 2013 film has Chris be just as evil as Billy since she cheers him on as he tries to run Carrie down.
• Evil Counterpart: To Tommy. Tommy's a lovable jock who comes to care for Carrie. Billy is a damaged asshole who takes joy in the suffering of others.
• For the Evulz: Where Chris wants to harm Carrie personally, Billy is out to ruin the prom for everyone for no reason beyond his own amusement.
• Freudian Excuse: While it's not fully spelled out, the book implies that he has a troubled home life, with his father absent and his mother constantly fighting with her four boyfriends. Doesn't excuse his actions though. Doesn't excuse them at all.
• Greaser Delinquents: In the book, and to a lesser extent in the '76 film, as the subculture had a revival in that era. Both remakes largely update him and his friends to a more modern "white trash" portrayal.
• Hate Sink: If it wasn't made obvious enough already, Billy is designed to be a completely loathsome piece of crap. This is particularly true for the book version. Margaret may be a very abusive nutcase, but she has a pretty big Freudian Excuse. Even Chris engenders more sympathy than this asswipe, consider he tells her he'd be just as happy if she was the victim of the blood-pouring, and even rapes her, something that's been removed from all of the adaptations thus far.
• Hates Everyone Equally: In the book, Billy seems motivated only by general disdain for everyone around him. It's clear that his preferred target is Carrie, but he ultimately wants to ruin the prom for whoever wins, regardless of who it is. When setting up the prank, he thinks to himself that he would find it just as funny if Chris was the target of the pig blood, and later tells her directly that he would have done it to her if he could.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: He wears a black leather jacket in the book.
• Henpecked Husband:
  • Averted in the book, where his refusal to be this is the reason Chris is attracted to him.
  • Played straight in the '76 version. While he slaps her around once or twice, it's made clear that Chris is calling the shots in their relationship.
  • In the original script for the '13 version, Sue states that, for all of Billy's bravado, Chris essentially has him under her thumb, with it being implied that this is why he agreed to go through with Chris' prank. Ironically, the actual finished film has the exact opposite portrayal, with him acting controlling toward Chris and putting pressure on her.
• Jerkass: Almost every page he's on has him doing something reprehensible or expressing the desire to hurt someone. While the films tone down his villainy somewhat, he's still portrayed as an all-around asshole.
• Kick the Dog:
  • Literally. In the book, one of his hobbies when his mother and stepfather are fighting is to take his car for a drive and look for stray dogs to run over.
  • Leaving his "friends'" fingerprints on the buckets.
  • Raping and planning to abandon Chris.
  • Not to mention he kills the pigs on a night when the farmer is away at his mother's funeral.
• Lack of Empathy: He barely knows who Carrie White is, he just wants to destroy her life. In the book, it's stated that he does the prom prank only For the Evulz, and that he would find it just as funny if Chris was the target of the pig blood. And his reaction to learning the town is burning? "This place sucks anyway."
• Lean and Mean: Jesse Cadote's portrayal of him in the 2002 film. He's much skinnier than Fat Bastard Jackie Talbot and Tommy's Heroic Build.
• Manipulative Bastard: He pushes his greaser friends into helping him slaughter the pigs by playing on their desire for revenge against the farmer. He doesn't tell them what he wants the blood for, and even sets them up to get arrested if things go south.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Billy hates everything and everyone, and he wants them all to suffer, even if he doesn't know them, like Carrie, or even if he does, like Chris.
• No Honor Among Thieves: In the book he tells Chris he'll take her with him, but his Inner Monologue shows that he actually plans to just leave Chris behind to get killed by Carrie.
• Pet the Dog: In the '13 film, he actually seems sincere when he tells Chris he will take her with him when he plans to ditch town, even promising her everything will be okay.
• The Power of Hate: Hatred towards everything motivates all his monstrous actions.
• Psychopathic Manchild: John Travolta plays him like this in the De Palma film. Stephen King called his performance "half funny, half crazy."
• Sadist: The only time Jackie recalls seeing him smile in his whole life is after they slaughter the pigs and attain their blood for the prank.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When he learns of Carrie's rampage, he decides to leave for California, intending to dump Chris and leave her at Carrie's mercy. He doesn't get far.
• Sex God: When Chris flashes back in the book to Their First Time, we learn Billy made unwanted advances on her and she was initially disgusted. But she quickly finds herself enjoying it and gets into it. Essentially, Chris is with him because Billy is really good in the sack.
• The Sociopath: Billy in the book is a psychopath who kills animals for fun, beats his girlfriend, and wants to murder both her and his stepfather.
• Stupid Evil: He intentionally leaves his "friend's" fingerprints on the buckets, even though, as Chris points out, his friends could well testify against him if they are caught.
• Two First Names: While not common, his last name can be used as a given name.
• The Unfettered: Nothing holds him back. Not even his "beloved" girlfriend.
• Villain Ball: He tries to set his friends up to get arrested for the prank, despite having no sane reason for doing so. He realizes too late that they would immediately turn him in if they were caught. He also tries to run Carrie down with his car when he sees her, which even Chris was smart enough in the book to know not to do.
• Villainous Crush: Downplayed in the 1976 film, he has no qualms with dumping pigs blood on Carrie and ruining her Prom experience, but still will voice Chris that he thinks she’s attractive still:
  Billy: That Carrie White sure is cute!
• With Friends Like These...: His "friends" honestly seem terrified of him, and Billy deliberately leaves their fingerprints on the buckets, hoping they'll get arrested afterwards.

Jackie Talbot and Kenny Garson

Jackie Talbot/Freddy and Kenny Garson

Jackie Played by:

Michael Talbott (1976 version)
Malcolm Scott (2002 version)
Max Topplin (2013 version)

Kenny Played by:

Rory Stevens (1976 version)
Miles Meadows (2002 version)
Kyle Mac (2013 version)

Members of Billy's Gang of Bullies in the novel and fairly minor characters in the novel, along with the other members of Billy's gang. In the films, Jackie and Kenny are both adapted as the Composite Characters of every member of Billy's gang in the book (save the '76 film, where Jackie is renamed Freddy), and they both play a more active role in the prank.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: Kenny is a much bigger bully in the '02 film than in the novel, as he laughs the hardest at Carrie's humiliation, and snorts like a pig to mock her, as well as laughs at her in their science class with Tina.
• Adaptational Karma: Jackie and Kenny assist Billy in killing the pigs in the novel, but are never punished for it. In every film version, they both die. With the sole exception of the '02 film, where Jackie survives, but is exposed to the police for his role in the Prom.
• Adaptational Villainy: In every film, they're aware of what the pig's blood they collect with Billy will be used for at the Prom and they go along with it just fine, even going to the prom to watch and take part in mocking Carrie (except Jackie in '02 film).
  • This is especially the case for Kenny in the '02 film, where he openly mocks and laughs at Carrie after she's drenched in blood.
• Adaptation Name Change: The Composite Character equivalent to Book!Jackie is named Freddy in the '76 film.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the films, at least one of them attends the prom with Chris' Beta Bitch to help her swap the prom ballots with mock ones to ensure Carrie is Prom Queen. In the novel, neither of them interact with any of Chris' friends.
• All There in the Script: Kenny's name is never mentioned in the '76 film, but his actor is credited as "Kenny" in the after-film credits.
• Ambiguously Bi: This rather suspect line from Freddy in the 1976 film:
  Ernest: Take it easy, man.
  Freddy: I'll take it any way I can get it.
• Ascended Extra: Kenny's biggest role is in the '02 film, whereas in the novel he only appears when Billy kills the pigs. Freddy and Jackie also have bigger roles in the '76 film and '13 film respectively, than Jackie in the novel.
• Asshole Victim: In the films where they perishes in Carrie's Roaring Rampage of Revenge, due to their roles in her own humiliation.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Freddy tells Ernest in the '76 film that he wants on the Prom committee and wants to collect the Prom King and Queen ballots because he has pride in their school, however Chris' evil smirk in the background while watching this shows Freddy is up to no good.
• Book Dumb: Kenny can only read at a third-grade level in the book.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: Kenny's reaction when Tommy is hit with the bucket in the '76 and '02 films.
• Composite Character: With other Adapted Out members of Billy's gang.
• Cruel and Unusual Death:
  • In the '02 film, Kenny's arm is crushed in the gym door, and he is trapped there the entire prom disaster until he eventually is electrocuted like the other prom-goers.
  • In the '13 adaptation, Carrie zones in on Jackie and closes the bleachers as he desperately runs up them to escape her rampage, only for her to slam them shut and bisect him inside them.
• Death by Adaptation: Jackie and Kenny don't die in the novel, But with the exception of Jackie in the '02 film, and possibly Kenny in the ‘13 one, they're both killed off in every film adaptation.
• Demoted to Extra: A minor example in the '13 version. Kenny Garson was always a minor character even in the novel, but he was a supporting character in the 1976 and 2002 films as Norma and Tina's accomplices in rigging the ballots (Jackie plays that role in this film), in this film he's barely present, appearing in 3 scenes (one in which he's at the farm ready to kill the pig with everyone else), only named once, and his fate isn't answered during prom, the last time he's seen is when falls off the bleachers after Carrie forcefully closes them.
• Delinquents: Both of them. Jackie's criminal record goes back to when he was a kid.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Jackie objects to killing the second pig in the book, only to be ignored. It's also implied that he wouldn't have gone along with Billy in the first place if he'd known what the blood would be used for.
  • Freddy in the '76 film refuses to kill the pig, doesn't laugh at Carrie getting drenched, or Tommy when he's downed by the bucket, Jackie clears Sue's name in the '02 film of any involvement with the evil prank, and in the ‘13 film Jackie both refuses to kill the pig and gasps in shock when Tommy is downed by the bucket in the.
  • Averted with Kenny in every film where he only has Kick the Dog moments contrasted to Freddy/Jackie, except when he refuses to kill the pig in the ‘02 film and the '13 film where he is shocked when Tommy is hit with the bucket.
• Fakeout Makeout: Freddy does this with Norma in the '76 film as a front to replace the prom ballots with mock ones to set up Carrie for the prank.
• Greaser Delinquents: In the book. Every remake largely updates them and Billy to a more modern "white trash" portrayal.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Freddy in the '76 film proves himself to be this when he joins the Prom committee under the pretense of having school spirit, but really, he's only a part of it for his role in the prank.
• Karma Houdini: The book implies that all of Billy's friends survived, them included. It's downplayed, since they weren't aware of the actual prank and cooperated with the investigation afterwards.
• Locked Out of the Loop: In the book, Billy doesn't tell them why he wants the pig blood. They only go along with it becuse they want to get back at the farmer for prosecuting one of their friends.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Jackie is horrified in the book and 2002 film when he realizes his unwitting role in the prom disaster (and that Billy is going to let him take the fall for it).
• Psychopathic Manchild: Kenny in the book. He's said to have a third-grade reading level, and he can't stop giggling and making bad jokes when helping kill the pigs.
• Shout-Out: When trying to get psyched up to kill the pig, Jackie Talbott says, "Don't worry, little piggy, Uncle Jack's just gonna bash your head right in." It's very similar to Jack's threat when he's coming after Wendy in the baseball bat scene.
• Sickening "Crunch!": Kenny's arm in the '02 film when it's crushed in the door.
• The Stoner: Other than the long distance back to their hometown, the only other reason Jackie goes along with Billy to the pig farm in the novel because of the weed Billy provided. Kenny is also stoned out of his mind throughout the scene.
• Tragic Dropout: Subverted with Kenny in the novel, as Sue mentions he only has a third-grade reading level.
• Uncertain Doom: Kenny in the '13 film. He is last seen falling off the bleachers after Carrie shuts them, and it's not answered if he escapes the Prom or not.
• Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: Their general personalities scream this even when they're unaware they’re helping with the prank. In their short amount of screen time they spend it on getting stoned, breaking into someone else’s property to slaughter a pig, and Kenny is a high school dropout with a third-grade reading level. Jackie is slightly more downplayed than Kenny but not by much.