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Cindy Campbell
Cindy Campbell
The main protagonist of the first four films.Played by: Anna Faris
- Alliterative Name: Cindy Campbell.
- Ambiguously Bi: Has a boyfriend, and had oral sex with Buffy. But that could have easily been experimentation, given that they swore to never speak of it again.
- Big "NO!": Does this at the end of the first film after discovering Doofy's tools used for his killings and learning he's actually the killer who got away at the end. She's interrupted by a car running over her.
- Brainless Beauty: Looks cute, and despite moments of brilliance is often really dumb.
- Butt-Monkey: In the first two movies. In the later installments, it's her that brings about most of the damage.
- Captain Ersatz:
- Scary Movie: of Sidney Prescott and Julie James
- Scary Movie 2: of Nell Vance
- Scary Movie 3: of Rachel Keller
- Scary Movie 4: of Karen Davis
- Cartwright Curse: A lot of her love interests either die, (Bobby, George) or vanish. (Buddy)
- Dumb Blonde: In the later films, given they're based on blonde protagonists.
- Fan Disservice: The first time she flashed her chest, it was revealed she had chest hair and man-boobs. In the bootleg version of the scene, she has six nipples.
- Final Girl: Averted in the first film, where she's hit by a car.
- Subverted as she somehow survives in the sequel film.
- The Fool: Raises the Genre Blind required by a comedy to ridiculous levels.
- Ms. Fanservice: Often stripped down to revealing clothes. During her sex scene in the first movie, her bra is the only thing not taken off.
- Nice Girl: Cindy is a friendly person.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: A running gag in the third movie when she continuously forgets about her nephew, Cody.
- Say My Name: Parodied in the first film when she calls out Doofy as the killer to the sheriff.
- Sex God: Causes positively explosive and ridiculous large ejaculations from Bobby and Buddy, which results in Bobby literally shriveling from dehydration, and even causes a minor earthquake.
- Shout-Out Theme Naming: Since she is a parody of Sidney Prescott (portrayed by Neve Campbell), her name is Cindy Campbell.
- Slow-Motion Drop: Parodied in the first film when she realizes Doofy is the true killer.
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: "Time to go back down the well, bitch!"
- Unexplained Recovery: Gets run over by a car in the first film, but returns in the sequel.
Brenda Meeks
Brenda Meeks
Cindy’s best friend.Played by: Regina Hall
- Advertised Extra: She doesn’t have much screentime in the third film, given that she is killed off relatively early.
- Asshole Victim: In the first film, when her outrageous antics in a movie theater prompt several members of the audience to stab her before the killer does.
- Black Dude Dies First: Averted in the first film. But she does die. Or, at least, seems to die.
- Crying Wolf: In the third movie, she fakes death three times, so when she really is in danger, Cindy won't help her.
- Deuteragonist: Downplayed in the fourth film, as she doesn’t appear onscreen until midway through but is nonetheless a lead character.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: In Scary Movie 3, although she once more somehow comes back to life.
- Made of Iron: Apparently. Even though she dies in the first and third films (in the latter her body explodes), she comes back to life without explanation. Although in a deleted scene from the second, she says that her presumed death in the original was a "near-death experience."
- Sanity Ball: Holds it in the second movie when Cindy gets chased by a living skeleton, to which Brenda points out that it's, you know, just a skeleton. They then quickly pull the skeleton apart.Brenda: CINDY THIS IS A SKELETON, THIS IS BONES! WOULD YOU RUN FROM CALISTA FLOCKHART?!
- Sassy Black Woman: She plays this trope straight in a comical manner by being sassy to any character no matter if the character is a human or dangerous monster.
- They Killed Kenny Again: She dies in both the first and third movies, only to appear in the next one as if nothing happened.
- Unexplained Recovery: Despite being explicitly killed in the third movie (and having her dead body blown to pieces), Brenda somehow returns in the fourth movie no worse for the wear much to Cindy's surprise.Cindy: I thought you were dead!
Brenda: [fondly] Oh Cindy, I thought you were dead too.
Shorty Meeks
Shorty Meeks
Played by: Marlon Wayans
- Ascended Extra: In the second film. He's more of a background character in the original.
- Black Dude Dies First: Averted in the first film, but he does die.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Doesn't appear in the 3rd or 4th films.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: After watching Hanson molest the turkey in the second film.
- Nice Guy: He's a harmless if irresponsible guy who stones a lot.
- The Stoner: Basically his whole schtick revolves around marijuana. After all, Stoners Are Funny.
- Uncle Tom Foolery: Exaggerated throughout his appearances. He is extremely foolish and annoying and displays a lot of negative stereotypical traits of African American men.
- Unexplained Recovery: Dies in the first film, but returns in the sequel.
Ray Wilkins
Ray Wilkins
Played by: Shawn Wayans
- Black Comedy Rape: Commits this twice in Scary Movie 2. He's also been on the receiving end of this when he was stabbed in the ear by a Gag Penis.
- Black Dude Dies First: Averted in the first film, but he does die.
- Camp Gay: Ray is so, so fruity.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Doesn't appear in the 3rd or 4th films.
- Copycat Killer: He and Bobby are copying the Ghostface Killer's M.O., but they're quickly dispatched by the real killer.
- Depraved Homosexual: He shows his depraved side when he rapes a Monster Clown puppet who really chose the wrong victim.
- Captain Ersatz: Of Stu Macher in the first movie.
- Ear Ache: His first death involves him being impaled through both ears by an erect penis.
- Easily Forgiven: By Cindy in the second film. Never mind the fact that he tried to kill her.
- Gag Penis: Used it to pull a clown who tried to assault him under the bed.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: No one buys his words, anyway.
- Red Herring: Unlike the character he is based on, Ray is not the real Ghostface, but a copycat killer.
- Transparent Closet: No matter how hard Ray tries to deny his homosexuality, no one believes him.
- Unexplained Recovery: Dies twice in the first film, but returns in the sequel.
Bobby Prinze
Bobby Prinze
Played by: Jon Abrahams
- Captain Ersatz: Of Billy Loomis and Ray Bronson.
- Copycat Killer: He and Ray are copying the Ghostface Killer's M.O., but they're quickly dispatched by the real killer.
- Depraved Homosexual: Claims that the lack of sex in his relationship with Cindy drove him to becoming gay with Ray (who denies it), and to be a Ghostface copycat killer.
- Mr. Fanservice: He's completely topless during his sex scene with Cindy.
- Red Herring: Unlike the character he is based on, Bobby is not the real Ghostface, but a copycat killer.
- Undignified Death: Ray fatally stabs him, but after Ray himself gets stabbed by the real killer, he ends up clutching Bobby's ass as he's bleeding to death.
Buffy Gilmore
Buffy Gilmore
Played by: Shannon Elizabeth
- Ambiguously Bi: Has a boyfriend, and had oral sex with Cindy. However, this could easily have been bicurious experimentation, given that they swore to never speak of it again.
- Expy: Of Tatum Riley and Helen Shivers (the latter played by Sarah Michelle Gellar). Her first name references Gellar's iconic character Buffy Summers.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: She continues to deny the existence of the killer even though she watched him kill her boyfriend (which she later dismissed as a prank), he attempted to kill Cindy and called her house (where Cindy was staying after the killer struck at Cindy's house). Even when it's her turn to be murdered, she still thinks it's a prank even after being stabbed by the killer's knife and having her head cut off.
- Ms. Fanservice: Especially in her Establishing Character Moment when she rips off her clothes to display more revealing attire.
- Really Gets Around: Frequently cheats on Greg as evident at the beauty pageant.
Greg Phillipe
Greg Phillipe
Played by: Lochlyn Munro
- Berserk Button: Don't take a picture of his tiny dick.
- Dumb Jock: He's not the smartest guy around, prone to making dumb decisions such as dealing with the man he and his friends ran over.
- Expy: Of Barry Cox, to the point his surname is the same as Ryan Phillipe.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's Hot-Blooded especially about his tiny dick and vindictive towards even women like Cindy.
- Teeny Weenie: Apparently, he has one, judging by his explosive reaction to his naked photos.
Doofus "Doofy" Gilmore
Doofy Gilmore
Played by: Dave Sheridan
- Big Bad: Of the first movie.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Of Dwight "Dewey" Riley, but he's far stupider and useless and is the true killer.
- Dirty Cop: In literal ways at the time.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The apparently mentally challenged Doofy turns out to be the real Ghostace.
- Expy: Of Keyser Soze.
- Karma Houdini: Evades comeuppance for killing various people.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Apparently a huge Manchild. Actually the killer.
Buddy Sanderson
Buddy Sanderson
Played by: Christopher Masterson
- Expy: Of Luke Sanderson.
- Girl of the Week: Only appears in "2", in which he was Cindy's love interest.
- If You Die, I Call Your Stuff: At the climax of the movie when Cindy is about to go up against Hugh Kane, he asks Cindy if he could have her computer if she dies.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: According to the script, he fled at the end of the movie when he saw that Hanson was still alive.
- The Prankster: He seems to like pranking people, such as when he gave one of his roommates an unexpected wedgie.
Alex Monday
Alex Monday
Played by: Tori Spelling
- Falling Chandelier of Doom: Kane's ghost kills her by dropping a chandelier on her.
- I Love the Dead: Has sex with Hugh Kane's ghost.
- Smoking Hot Sex: Shares a cigarette with the ghost after sex.
- Unknown Rival: To Cindy for Hugh Kane's affection, although Cindy doesn't particularly care about it.
- Wall Bang Her: Kane's ghost tosses her around walls and ceiling while having his way with her.
Professor Oldman
Professor Oldman
Played by: Tim Curry
- Affably Evil: As one would expect from a character played by Tim Curry.
- Dirty Old Man: His whole reason for sending some college students to spend the night in Hell House? Because scared young women are easy lays.
- Evil Brit: He is English and is an antagonistic Dirty Old Man.
- Killed Offscreen: The last we see of him, he discovers the mistresses' true form and screams in horror before the scene cuts away with a lightning flash.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He ends up seduced and killed by Hugh Kane's mistress.
- Large Ham: Again, he's played by Tim Curry.
- Those Two Guys: With Dwight, up until he gets killed.
Dwight Hartman
Dwight Hartman
Played by: David Cross
- Disabled Snarker: His insults towards Hanson. To an extent, his attempts to egg on the ghost of Master Kane.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He hates people helping him with his wheelchair.
- Foil: To Professor Oldman. He's nothing but professional when conducting experiments, though much more temperamental.
- Handicapped Badass: Tries to be this, but fails spectacularly.
- Kavorka Man: Despite being a nerd with a combover, he gets the attention of Ray.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Mocks Hanson's misshapen hand, the first time without provocation.
Hanson
Hanson
Played by: Chris Elliot
- Battle Butler: Becomes this in the Charlie's Angels takeoff after he gets possessed by Kane.
- The Dragon: When he gets possessed, he becomes the physical being for his master.
- Handicapped Badass: During the Charlie's Angels parody.
Hugh Kane
Hugh Kane
Played by: Richard Moll
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the second movie.
- Demonic Possession: He's able to possess Hanson and use him as his vessel to try and stop Cindy and her friends. Before that, he used a little girl to scare away the inhabitants of his house.
- Expy: Of Hugh Crain.
- Jerkass: He's been noted to be surly and awful both during his living days and in the afterlife, cheating on his wife, easily brushing off Alex's affections and calling her a "whore".
Tom Logan
Tom Logan
Played by: Charlie Sheen
- Comically Missing the Point: When being told how his wife got injured in the flashback, he asks "She broke her Weiner?"
- Crusading Widower: Lost his wife (played by Sheen's then partner Denise Richards) years prior.
- The Ditz: He apparently thinks that women have penises.
- Expy: Of Graham Hess.
- Papa Wolf: He's willing to fight aliens to protect his children.
George Logan
George Logan
Played by: Simon Rex
- Expy: Of Merrill Hess and B-Rabbit.
- The Lost Lenore: To Cindy in the fourth movie.
- Manchild: In the third movie, when Tom wants to protect the women and children, he asks what the cutoff age is for children.
- Neck Snap: He dies this way by falling down on a chair and breaking his neck.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: He constantly tries to imitate the hood culture and hangs out mostly with black people.
- Word, Schmord!: "Rap's Schmap!"
C.J. and Mahalik
C.J. and Mahalik
Played by: Kevin Hart (C.J.) and Anthony Anderson (Mahalik)
- Ambiguously Gay: Mahalik seems to like George as more than a friend. Then there's the Brokeback Mountain parody scene in the fourth film.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Played by the taller, heavier-set Anthony Anderson and the famously short Kevin Hart.
- Relationship Upgrade: The fourth movie reveals that they became lovers during a fishing trip the past summer.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: Can usually be found debating topics such as whether one can "wake up dead" or "turn up missing", and whether a rat can be a mouse if it's indoors.
- Those Two Guys: Almost always seen together.
President of the United States
President of the United States Baxter Harris
Played by: Leslie Nielsen
Dubbed by: Bernard Dhéran (European French)
- Ambiguously Human: Much like the aliens, he also pees through his fingers.
- Big Damn Heroes: He accidentally defeats Tabitha by knocking her down into a well without realizing it.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He's not the most together man, and he instantly assumes that the handicapped people he invited to the White House could actually be disguised aliens.
- Expy: He's basically Frank Drebin if he was the President of the United States.
- No Name Given: His name is only mentioned in the script.
- Our Presidents Are Different: President Buffoon mainly, befitting of a parodic film. Also with a touch of accidental President Action when he knocks Tabitha down the well while opening a door to wish the main characters facing her down at that moment "I just wanted wish you both good luck -- we're all counting on you."
- Would Hurt a Child/Would Hit a Girl: If he assumes they're alien spies.
The Aliens
Voiced by: Tom Kenny and Derek Stephen Prince
- Attack Hello: They tend to greet people by strangling them and they say goodbye to people by kicking them in the balls.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: They pee through their fingers. Given that they like to put them into other people's mouths, there seems to be the implication the fingers also serve that other purpose.
- The Greys: They fit the image to a T, though their bodily proportions are quite similar to humans'.
- Good All Along: They turn to have invaded Earth to take down Tabitha before she kills them.
- Groin Attack: They kick people in the balls as a way of saying goodbye.
Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan
Played by: Craig Bierko
- Expy: Of Ray Ferrier.
- Replacement Goldfish: To Cindy in the fourth movie.
