YMMV / Halloween: Sins of a Father

• Accidental Aesop: It's okay to lie to kids when it's for a good cause. When Steven asks Tommy if he was ever going to be told if he was Michael's son, Tommy said that he was never going to tell him and Steven says that he wouldn't have wanted to know anyways.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: It's clear throughout the first volume that out of all his adversaries, Michael hates Tommy more than anyone not from his family (or named Strode in the 2018 continuity). Is it because Tommy beat him hand-to-hand or Michael resents Tommy for being Steven's father? There's evidence for both.
• Complete Monster: Dr. Prox is a psychologist at Smith's Grove Sanitarium and Dr. Terence Wynn's successor as the head of the Cult of Thorn. Fascinated by Michael Myers's ability to defy death from an early age, Prox became an apprentice of Dr. Wynn and was personally responsible for impregnating numerous women with Michael's seed in order to create a child that was pure evil, resulting in Steven Lloyd when Michael impregnated his niece Jamie. Thirteen years later, and 30 years after Michael's first killing spree, Prox was called to conduct psychological evaluations on the eighth graders after Michael attacked a field trip. Prox lured Steven and his friends to his house, intending to sacrifice them to Michael and admitting that he'll enjoy watching Steven die. Purely driven by his obsession with understanding Michael, Prox finally attempted to kill Steven by strangling him and managed to incite Michael's wrath by trying to harm his son.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Michael rips out a man's jaw here. In Halloween (2018), he accomplishes the same move, albeit offscreen.

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