History Characters / HackSlash

A large, disfigured man who serves as Cassie's partner. As a child, Vlad was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth, but quickly rescued and raised by a kindly butcher who raised him, teaching him his trade and educating him with comic books. After the Butcher's death, he begun leaving the deli for item, wearing a gas mask both to hide his disfigured face and to help him breath, since after being raised for years inside a deli his lungs had grown weak. This caused him to grow somewhat famous amongst the locals as "the Meatman". When he first met Cassie, she tried killing him, mistakenly believing he was the slasher she was then looking for, but eventually they realized the misunderstanding and teamed up to take care of the real slasher. Since then, Vlad has joined Cassie's hunt for slasher and assisted her.

* BreakTheCutie: Oh, ''yes''. Just check the BrokenBird entry below to see. And that's without counting the times it happens over the course of the series, such as her torture by Doctor Gross.

* YourWorstNightmare: How he killed his victims in his initial appearance.[[/folder]]

The "child" of [[PsychicPowers Muffy Joworski]] and [[YourWorstNightmare Ashley Guthrie]], the Stillborn was birthed in [[{{Hell}} Nef]] for the express purpose of killing Cassie Hack and securing the Neflords' source of virgins for their offspring.

* SiblingTeam: A villainous version.

The son of a rich and fortunate family, Ashley was a sociopathic and peculiar child, overly possessive of his belongings, to the point he would react brutally to anyone else trying to play with his toys. When he ended up beating his own baby brother to death as a result, his parents ended up killing him by suffocating him in his sleep. He eventually rose as a slasher [[YourWorstNightmare capable of killing people in their sleep]], and haunted his parents' dreams until his father commited suicide and his mother had to be institutionalized. He then proceeded to go on a killing spree.

* {{Gonk}}: Just look at the picture.

* BareYourMidriff: She rarely ever has it covered.

* SiblingYinYang: With Laura. She's cruder, while Laura is more "holy". She's more kind, while Laura is more abusive. Furthermore, she dresses provocatively with BareYourMidriff, a low-cut shirt, and tight jeans while on the job, along with speaking rather colloquially and having a PseudoRomanticFriendship with a girl named Monica, while Laura dressed very conservatively, was often more formal in her talk unless angry, and saw homosexuality as a sin.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Sets his [[SuperSoldier Artemis]] hunters on [[HeelFaceMole Louis]] as soon as he doesn't need him anymore.

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse. Her actual name is Cassandra Krank, but she’s more commonly known as Sandra or Sanny to distinguish from Cassie.

* HotScientist: Is a former Ms. America and a scientist.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Averted. Catherine is a high functioning autistic girl. Cassie eventually flat out says she probably has Asperger's.

* MysteryCuult: The Society of the Black Lamp began as a mystery cult founded by Akakios of Panopolis--the world's first Slasher--in ancient Greece.

* WeaponOfChoice: BatterUp, though she uses handguns just as often if not more. For [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday seasonal, holiday, and one-day-a-year Slashers]], along with booby trapping areas, she prefers to use [[StuffBlowingUp dynamite]].

* WeaponOfChoice: Really big knives and cleavers.

* WhipItGood: Her apparent WeaponOfChoice.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: His WeaponOfChoice is a very large cross. It was also used to kill him by Samuel.

* ShearMenace: His WeaponOfChoice is a set of garden shears.

* SinisterScythe: His WeaponOfChoice.

* KnifeNut: Stabbing and slashing is his preferred method of killing people.

* KnifeNut: Though she is fine with any kitchen instrument, really.

* KnifeNut: He loves murdering with a knife as well as his toys.

* KnifeNut: In ''Slice Hard'' she loves using one of these.

* KnifeNut: His primary weapon seems to be a knife.

* KnifeNut: Prefers his ancient knife over any other weapons.

* BalefulPolymorph: In her first appearance, she turns all the inhabitants of Haverhill into fishmen.

* BastardBoyfriend: DownplayedTrope, But his tendency toward "bad boy" activities to try to get Sarah to go further with him leads to really bad consequences, especially for him.

* BandageBabe: In ''Vs. Chucky'', due to the severe burns she suffered at Cassie's hands. Played for BodyHorror.
* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: At first before she became a BandageBabe.

* {{Meganekko}}: Beautiful with her glasses or not.

* BaldOfAwesome: It seems he can't grow hair.

* WitchSpecies: According to Tim Seeley, [[https://twitter.com/HackinTimSeeley/status/1072204320140128258 she and her sister were "magically inclined by bloodline"]].

* WitchSpecies: According to Tim Seeley, [[https://twitter.com/HackinTimSeeley/status/1072204320140128258 she and her sister were "magically inclined by bloodline"]].

%%* FingerlessGloves

* SiblingYinYang: With Laura. She's more crude, while Laura is more "holy". She's more kind, while Laura is more abusive. Furthermore, she dresses provocatively with BareYourMidriff, a low-cut shirt, and tight jeans while on the job, along with speaking rather colloquially and having a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with a girl named Monica, while Laura dressed very conservatively, was often more formal in her talk unless angry, and saw homosexuality as a sin.

-->'''[[AllThereInTheManual Cassie's Slasher Journal]]:''' Poor Bobby. [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar Usually I don’t have much sympathy for slashers]], but this was a pretty sad case. It just always amazes me how cruel people can be [[YouMakeMeSic too]] [[HumansAreBastards each other]]. Bobby was an innocent caught up in the cruelty and insecurities of others. [[OnSecondThought On the other hand]], [[{{Squick}} I was cleaning dead cat guts out of my clothes for weeks]], [[BlackComedy so I can’t be too sympathetic]].

* BaldWomen: In ''Vs. Chucky''. A JustifiedTrope, since it was clearly burned off.

* DevouredByTheHorde: Ultimately is EatenAlive, back broken from a long fall caused by Chucky, by [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard her own]] {{Voodoo Zombie}}s.

Dr. Gross was a professor at a distinguished Atlanta university, who regularly used hypnosis to sexually assault his students. When several students discovered photos of what he'd done to them, they decided to turn him in. Gross prevented this by killing each of them. Gross was arrested, placed on trial and sent to jail. While improsoned he began a bizarre self-analyzation which ultimately led to him skimming himself in order to be closer to his "true self". Gross was removed from orison, and taken to a psychiatric hospital from which he escaped. He then set about murdering a number of his other students, occasionally convincing them to commit suicide or skin themselves.

* AGodAmI: As Ouroboros, she develops this attitude.

[[folder: Cassandra "Cassie" Hack]]

[[folder: Vlad]]

[[folder: Chris Krank]]

[[folder: Margaret Crump[=/=]Georgia Peaches]]

[[folder: Pooch]]

[[folder: Catherine "Cat" Curio]]

[[folder: Gertrude Hall]]

[[folder: Samhain]]

[[folder: Anjelica Castellini (AKA Sister Sacrilege)]]

[[folder: Daisy Black (AKA the Fearless Flamingo/Sister Nightmare)]]

[[folder: Delilah Hack, the Lunch Lady]]

[[folder: Bobby Brunswick]]

[[folder: Laura Lochs]]

[[folder: Ashley Guthrie]]

[[folder: Jeffrey Brevard, Six Sixx]]

[[folder: The Neflords]]

[[folder: Mary Shelly Lovecraft]]

[[folder: Lynn Jagodinski, Samhain II]]

[[folder: Dale Wildman]]

[[folder: The Beane Clan]]

[[folder: Akakios of Panopolis]]

* FireKeepsItDead: [[spoiler:At the conclusion of "Crossroads," Ava sets him on fire with [[KryptoniteFactor Black Lamp oil]], which first [[{{Depower}} re-kills his zombie animal horde]], then kills him as well. He doesn’t come back again until ''Vs. Chaos'', which has the use of OutsideContextMagic.]]

* VillainousIncest: Showed sexual attraction to his protege, Samuel Lawrence, who was also his nephew.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: His WeaponOfChoice is a very large cross.

* NotSoDifferent: She isn’t all that different from the very Slashers she hunts in a way, [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope since she’s a hereditary potential Slasher herself]]]], which worries her to no end.

* NotSoSimilar: At the same time as she is NotSoDifferent from Slashers, she still distinguishes herself from people who murder because they want to rather than to stop further killing, as she notes of [[SerialKiller Dale Wildman]] and [[EvilCripple Courtney]]. She spells it out to the latter.