The Garcia Family
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Anna
Anna Tate-Garcia
Portrayed By: Linda Cardellini
Appearances: The Curse of La Llorona
The mother one of two Los Angeles families that fall victim to La Llorona in 1973.
- Department of Child Disservices: Anna is a social worker, and by all appearances, she is very good at her job. However, since her latest case involves a supernatural Outside-Context Problem she was initially unaware of, her intervention ultimately ends up ensuring that Patricia's sons are drowned by La Llorona.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Taking Carlos and Tomas away from Patricia ensures that La Llorona lures them to their deaths that night.
Chris and Samantha
Chris and Samantha Garcia
Portrayed By: Roman Christou (Chris), Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen (Samantha)
Appearances: The Curse of La Llorona
Anna's two children.
- The Load: Sam is obnoxiously useless compared to her brother, as on two occasions, she managed to put them in greater danger against La Llorona. First, she breaks a warding circle of fire seeds to retrieve her doll Misty, and then she unintentionally unveils a mirror, ruining Chris' attempt to reach out to La Llorona.
The Alvarez Family
Patricia
Patricia Alvarez
Portrayed By: Patricia Velásquez
Appearances: The Curse of La Llorona
The mother of one two families that fall victim to La Llorona in 1973.
- The Dragon: Her sons' deaths motivates Patricia to try to be this for La Llorona... but obviously, it doesn't work out.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: La Llorona knocks Patricia out after she lets her enter the Garcia residence.
- Face–Heel Turn: Patricia's desire to exact vengeance against Anna slowly escalates to the point that she breaks into the Garcia residence, takes Anna's two children hostage, shoots Rafael in one of his shoulders, and deliberately breaks the line of fire tree seeds in order to let La Llorona inside.
- Heel–Face Turn: However, by the same token, she redeems herself after La Llorona knocks her out and she overhears the ensuing commotion. Not wanting Anna to suffer like she did, she frees her from her house's basement.
- Prayer of Malice: After she is arrested under suspicion of killing Carlos and Tomas, Patricia's Face–Heel Turn begins with her fervently praying for La Llorona to "give [her sons] back to [her] and take [Anna's children] instead."
- Recovered Addict: It's briefly mentioned by Anna that Patricia was once an alcoholic.
- Revenge by Proxy: After Carlos and Tomas are drowned, Patricia initially prays for La Llorona to kill Chris and Samantha in exchange for her sons being resurrected. In the film's climax, she shows up to Anna's house armed with a gun in an attempt to make sure it happens.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Patricia is never seen or talked about again after the film's climax. While logic dictates that she was arrested and imprisoned again, it's equally as likely that Anna and Rafael choose to let her actions slide because of all the hell La Llorona put them through.
- Would Hurt a Child: As part of her crazed plan for revenge, Patricia intends to sacrifice Chris and Samantha to La Llorona. However, her change of heart firmly averts this trope.
Carlos and Tomas
Carlos and Tomas Alvarez
Portrayed By: Oliver Alexander (Carlos), Aiden Lewandowski (Tomas)
Appearances: The Curse of La Llorona
Patricia's two sons.
- Abuse Mistake: Carlos and Tomas are taken into the custody of Los Angeles' child services after it's believed that Patricia abused them by burning them, after which she locked them up in a closet. In reality, it was part of their mother's efforts to protect them from La Llorona.
- Disappeared Dad: Carlos and Tomas' father is nowhere to be seen, nor is he even mentioned.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Carlos and Tomas try to inform Anna that Patricia didn't burn them, but given her initial lack of knowledge about La Llorona, she doesn't believe their account. That night, both boys are lured out into a hallway by La Llorona and then drowned in the Los Angeles River.
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Rafael Olvera
Rafael Olvera
Portrayed By: Raymond Cruz
Appearances: The Curse of La Llorona
A "curandero" and former Catholic priest who helps people deal with supernatural threats.
- Good is Not Nice: He is entirely on the side of good, but that won’t stop him from using the entire Garcia family as bait for La Llorona.
- Occult Detective: He uses his knowledge of the supernatural to try and protect people.
La Llorona
La Llorona
Portrayed By: Marisol Ramirez
Appearances: The Curse of La Llorona
A ghostly spirit who was believed to have drowned her sons and was forever unable to pass on until she found them.
- Ax-Crazy: Her predilection for killing children that aren’t hers speaks a lot about her terrible mental state.
- Barred from the Afterlife: As part of her punishment, La Llorona could not pass on.
- Big Bad: Of The Curse of La Llorona.
- Deader than Dead: After Anna stabs her in her chest with a cross made from a fire tree, she dissolves into nothing... hopefully for good.
- Driven to Suicide: Consumed by guilt, La Llorona drowned herself in the same river in which she killed her sons.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Patricia may have allowed her into the Garcia residence by breaking the line of fire tree seeds at its front door, but even so, La Llorona simply knocks her out and resumes her pursuit of Anna's children shortly afterwards.
- Fate Worse than Death: La Llorona's double murder-suicide resulted in her being cursed to walk the Earth until she found her sons.
- Ghostly Goals: Find her late sons and move on into the afterlife with them.
- Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: Possesses sickly golden eyes that glow.
- Green-Eyed Monster: According to Father Perez, she drowned Bartolo and Diego "in a fit of jealous rage" after learning of her husband's affair.
- It's All About Me: She murdered her own children upon discovering her husband's infidelity, and continues to murder other children that aren't hers.
- No Name Given: La Llorona's real name is never uncovered.
- Offing the Offspring: Killed her own children after she found out that her husband was cheating on her with a younger woman.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Likely inspired by this trope, while not an onryo.
- Undead Abomination: La Llorona borders on this, as she is a monstrous, homicidally insane spirit who is twisted in body and mind. If the legends surrounding her are any indication, she has been active since the 19th century at the bare minimum.
- Walking the Earth: Her punishment until she finds a way to reunite with Bartolo and Diego.
- Was Once a Man: She started off as a beautiful woman residing in a village in New Spain, but Rafael argues that any humanity she may have had left is long since gone. In spite of his claims, Chris is able to reach out to her by holding up the necklace her sons gave her. She gently caresses his face and sheds what seems to be a genuine tear of remorse. However, it only lasts until Samantha unintentionally unveils a mirror.
- Would Hurt a Child: Oh, hell yes. After drowning her own sons, drowning other parents' children two at a time becomes her modus operandi.
