History Characters / Halloween

* {{irony}}: [[spoiler:In the Chaos Comics miniseries, he is murdered by Laurie, the same person who protected him from a similar fate from Michael in the original film.]]

* SexSignalsDeath: * DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Although only Spitz is killed while they have intercourse, Sam dies a short time later when she tries attacking Michael.]]

* DeathBySex: She is killed just after getting it off with her boyfriend and is still half-nude when Michael kills her.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:She's killed on her way to have sex with her boyfriend in the original film.]] Double Subverted in the Zombieverse, where she survives Michael's rampage in the first film, [[spoiler:only to die in the following one.]]

* DeathBySex: One of the most famous in the slasher genre.

* DeathBySex: Shared with his girlfriend in both versions.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Although only Spitz is killed while they have intercourse, Sam dies a short time later when she tries attacking Michael.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: While telling Brady to load up a shotgun in ''Return of Michael Myers'', Meeker lets him know that Brady's been seeing his daughter.
-->"Oh, yeah... I catch you gropin' my daughter, I'll use that shotgun on you. You understand?"

* CopKiller: Slaughters the entire Haddonfield police force in ''5'' to free Michael.

* HateSink: Particularly in 6's theatrical cut, Wynn is a cold, arrogant and horrifically amoral scientist who impregnated multiple innocent women, including Jamie, with Michael's cells for his sick experiments in controlling evil. It's even implied he made Michael into the monster he is now. What's more, he doesn't even ''believe'' in his own cult's teachings and is just a power-hungry asshole trying to exploit the Shape's bloodlust for himself. While Michael Myers and the Silver Shamrock organization can be compelling and even entertaining in their mysterious evil, Dr. Wynn and his cult are just a group of repulsive wannabes who aren't missed when Michael does away with them.
* KickTheDog: When he makes his first appearance in ''5'', he literally kicks a small dog while stepping off a bus.

* BookDumb: She regulary forgets her books for school.

* SoleSurvivor: She is pretty much the only recurring person to not get murdered by Michael.

* IdentificationByDentalRecords: [[spoiler:His body is so burnt that it has to be identified by his teeth, and even then it takes some time before the MurderByMistake is discovered]].

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:An utterly repulsive man who receives one of the most brutal deaths in the entire franchise]].

* AnAxeToGrind: Early in the film, he uses a hatchet to chop down several Michael Myers cardboard cutouts displayed on his lawn.

* MsFanservice: She gets an extended lingerie scene and [[ShesGotLegs she's never seen wearing pants throughout the film]].

!!Bennett "Ben" Tramer

[[folder: Laurie Strode]]
!!Laurie Strode/Cynthia Myers
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-> ''"Well, kiddo, I thought you outgrew superstition"''

Laurie Strode is ''the'' FinalGirl and main heroine of the series. Originally just a target that he tries to kill, it is later learnt that she is actually Michael's younger sister and Laurie actively tries to stop him.

[-Played by: Creator/JamieLeeCurtis (original series), Nichole Drucker (''Film/HalloweenII1981'' flashback scene)-]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: ''Resurrection'' reveals that Laurie, in an effort to kill Michael, beheaded a mute paramedic that had his outfit swapped with her murderous brother.]]
* ActionGirl: In ''H20'', where she actually [[spoiler:kills Michael]]. [[spoiler: [[{{Retcon}} Except not really]]]], but she gets points for trying.
* ActionSurvivor: She made it out of Michael's first two rampages alive, even stabbing him three times in the first film.
* AintTooProudToBeg: In the original, an injured Laurie begs for help as she flees the Wallace house with Michael in pursuit.
* TheAlcoholic: She is seen drinking in ''H20'' and it is heavily implied to be a method she uses to cope with her past.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Her fate in the ''H20'' timeline can come off as this. Despite her surviving two encounters with Michael over the course of twenty years, faking her death, and setting traps for him in the prelude to another confrontation, she still gets killed by him.]]
* AmicableExes: Subverted. She refers to John's father as a chain-smoking, Methadone addict and sarcastically compliments him on sending a birthday card for his son two months late.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The Chaos Comics miniseries, [[spoiler:Laurie succumbs to her brother's madness after killing Michael. She ends up becoming the new Shape, bent on murdering people because she can.]]
* AngerBornOfWorry: Her rage at John for trying to get "an off-campus lunch" is out of concern that he will stumble across Michael and be attacked or worse without her being there to protect him.
* ArchEnemy: To Michael in the ''H20'' timeline. All four films feature his pursuit of her in some capacity.
* TheAtoner: She seems to have become this in ''Resurrection''. [[spoiler:Laurie goes to check Michael's mask to make sure he isn't the wrong person again, clearly still feeling guilty for killing the wrong man years ago.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: In the original, she's just an ordinary teen, much like the targeted audience.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: [[spoiler:The second film reveals her to be the youngest of the three Myers siblings.]]
* BackStab: [[spoiler:As Laurie goes to check under Michael's mask, he catches her off-guard with a stab to the back that fatally wounds her.]]
* BadassNormal: She might be a normal teenage girl, but Laurie fights back against Michael with anything at her disposal, including knitting needles, a clothing hanger, and a revolver.
* BeingGoodSucks: [[spoiler:In wanting to end Michael's terror spree once and for all, she accidentally kills the wrong person, and gets killed later on thanks to her guilt of not wanting to kill an innocent person again.]]
* BeingWatched: Throughout the first film, Laurie has a sense that she is being watched and is even mocked for it. Ultimately confirmed when she comes face to face with Michael in the Wallace house.
* BigDamnReunion: In ''H20'', the shot of Laurie and Michael seeing each other again after twenty years through a door with a window is one of the most iconic images from the film.
* BigGood: In the ''H20'' timeline. The only protagonist to appear in all four films, Laurie takes over as the authoritative force seeking to stop Michael after ''II'' and is able to do more damage to him than anyone has since Dr. Loomis in ''H20''.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Despite being terrified, she vehemently protects Tommy and Lindsey from Michael in the first movie.
* BornUnlucky: Being the younger sister of a serial killer who specializes in familicide makes her count as this.
* BrainyBrunette: [[spoiler:She has long brown hair in ''Resurrection'' and is smart enough to have created a trap for Michael once he comes for her.]]
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Michael's Cain. While both want to murder each other, Laurie only develops this desire after Michael tries killing her ''for no reason other than being pure evil''.
* CanonWelding: The Chaos Comics miniseries attempt to tie the Jamie Lloyd trilogy with ''H20'', but was omitted from canon by the later release of ''Resurrection''. [[spoiler:In that version of events, Laurie did in fact kill Michael, but succumbs to madness and becomes the new killer.]]
* CarFu: She demonstrates this in the climax of ''H20'' when, as she notices Michael recovering from his injuries and about to attack her, she hits the brakes and sends him flying out the vehicle.
* CatapultNightmare: At the start of ''H20'', Laurie has a nightmare and jumps up in a scream so alarming that her son has to hold her down.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Seems to be "Do as I say", which she says to Tommy and Lindsey in the original, and to John and Molly in ''H20''. The context is always getting them to follow her orders and get away while she stays behind with Michael.
* ChangedMyMindKid: Laurie initially bars John from leaving the campus before changing her mind.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the ''H20'' timeline, she goes from a frightened teenage girl who mostly runs away from Michael to a woman sick of running from her past and willing to bravely stand up in the pursuit of ending his terror.
* CombatPragmatist: In ''H20'' Laurie knows from past experiences that she cannot beat Michael in a one-on-one fight, and like Loomis before her, uses weaponry and other tactics to catch him off-guard and injure him.
* ConnectedAllAlong: ''Halloween II'' reveals that Laurie and Michael, who seemingly crossed paths by coincidence, are actually sister and brother.
* CrazyPrepared: In the 2018 movie, Laurie is seen practicing her marksmanship (hitting the target right in the head too), loading up her many guns, has a hunting knife on her person, has a house surrounded by boobytraps and cameras, the front door is double padlocked with the windows covered with metal mesh, and the inside has secret passageways. Laurie is not messing around.
* CuteBookworm: The 1978 film presented her as this, a shy, bookish girl who's still a virgin not out of moral purity but because she's too awkward around boys. Later films toned it down, though.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Between being born into a family a few years before her older brother killed their older sister, being stalked by a serial killer seemingly randomly and then finding out he's your brother after he's killed your friends in the same night, and faking your death before assuming a new identity to get away from him, Laurie by ''H20'' has quite a dark background.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Laurie's sarcasm is much more subdued compared to Annie's but nevertheless a present trait of her character.
--> '''Lynda:''' "It's totally insane. We have three new cheers to learn in the morning, the game is in the afternoon, I have to get my hair done at five, and the dance is at eight! I'll be totally wiped out!"
-->'''Laurie:''' "I don't think you have enough to do tomorrow."
--> ''(Upon seeing Annie in her underwear and a flannel shirt.)'' '''Laurie:''' "Oh, fancy."
--> ''(To Tommy Doyle.)'' '''Laurie:''' "Lonnie Elamb probably won't get out of the sixth grade."
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:''Resurrection'' begins with Laurie laying in wait for Michael after she has planned for another encounter with him. She is killed within the first act of the film, and the focus then shifts to Sara.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: In the original film, Laurie decides to go over to the Wallace house to figure out what caused her bizarre phone call with Lynda, who she mistook for Annie. She never expected to find the latter's corpse, nor the person who killed her, there.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: A rare heroic example. [[spoiler:''Resurrection'' begins with her laying in wait for Michael to attack her and the film's opening suggests the entire plot will center around their conflict once more. Instead she's killed in the first act and the focus shifts to new characters.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: Her beatdown of Michael in ''H20'' comes off as this, as she's spent twenty years tormented by his original Halloween killing spree and now can defend herself even better than before.
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:In the first film, as Laurie answers a call from Lynda right after Michael beings strangling the latter, she mistakes her for Annie (who is already dead) trying to mess with her, and tells her that she will kill her if this is a prank.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Subverted for the most part.
** [[spoiler:In the Jamie Lloyd trilogy, she dies offscreen as a result of a car accident, leaving her daughter alone to Michael. This is ironically the closest she got to a happy ending in the previous films, as its assumed she lived a happy live with her daughter before her death and didn't have to contend with Michael for the rest of her life.]]
** [[spoiler:In ''H20'', Laurie seemingly conquers her demons and kills Michael once and for all after twenty years of being haunted by him. ''Resurrection'' reveals she was tricked into killing an innocent man when Michael faked his death and was subsequently placed in a sanitarium before Michael tracks her down and kills her. Creator/JamieLeeCurtis [[WordOfGod went on to state]] she doesn't consider ''Resurrection'' canon because of this.]]
** In the Chaos Comics continuity, which bridged 4-6 and ''H20'' together [[spoiler:''does'' have Laurie successfully kill Michael in that version of events...only to have succumbed to her demons and become the new Shape.]]
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Laurie is this in ''Halloween II'' onward, as she now knows Michael is after her and thus acts more carefully.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In ''H20'', it's a short '90s cut to reflect her new ActionGirl status. In ''Resurrection'', it's long and messy after she's been [[spoiler:living in an insane asylum.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Her death in ''Resurrection'' features her accepting her fate and delivering a promise to see Michael in the afterlife before being thrown to the ground.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:In the non canonical Chaos Comics miniseries she becomes the new killer after suffering a mental breakdown following Michael's decapitation.]]
* FakingTheDead: Between ''II'' and ''H20'', Laurie faked her death to convince Michael that she was deceased and started a new life under a new name.
* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:Laurie's GuiltComplex from killing the wrong man leads her to unintentionally giving Michael an opportunity to kill her when she tries removing his mask to make sure it's him.]]
* FinalGirl: [[TropeCodifier The one that all the others have looked to.]] She TookALevelInBadass in ''Halloween H20''.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Laurie doesn't get mentioned much after ''4'' in the original timeline.]]
* FourIsDeath: [[spoiler:In the original series, Laurie dies before the events of the ''fourth'' film and then dies on-screen in ''Resurrection'', her fourth film appearance in the series.]]
* GenerationXerox: Seems to be one to her older sister Judith. Both are sisters of Michael Myers who he tries to kill due to their relation to him. [[spoiler:While Laurie survives Michael's 1978 spree in the original series and dies from a car crash off-screen before ''4'', she is similar to Judith in dying prematurely from unnatural causes. In the ''H20'' timeline, where Michael successfully kills Laurie, this gives her another direct parallel to her sister.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: In ''Resurrection'', it is stated that Laurie went mad when she killed the person she thought was Michael Myers, and was locked up in asylum because of it. [[ThePlan Turns out this was a plan of hers to get Michael once and for all]].
* GuestFighter: Appears alongside Michael in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight''.
* GuiltComplex: [[spoiler:In ''Resurrection'', after accidentally killing an innocent man who Michael changed clothes with, Laurie is shown to be worried about repeating this mistake and taking another life, as she never would have considered anyone but Michael wearing his ensemble in the past. This need to make sure it's really him also indirectly leads to her death, as it causes her to get close enough to Michael for him to stab her.]]
* HandicappedBadass: In ''Halloween II'', she's able to shoot Michael to the point of blinding him even after sustaining injuries to her legs that lessen her running speed.
* TheHero: She is pretty much the main character in the films she appears in as she tries to stop Michael's terror.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Twice. Off-screen before the events of ''4'' and during the first act of ''Resurrection''.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Annie, who she even calls the best friend she ever had in an ''H20'' timeline comic.
* HoldingYourShoulderMeansInjury: She does this in ''H20'' after Michael falls to his seeming death and she walks down stairs to get closer to the body.
* IconicOutfit: Laurie's light blue shirt and dark blue pants from the original film is one of the most iconic ensembles associated with the ''Halloween'' franchise.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Laurie, despite never being indicated to have any training with firing guns, manages to shoot Michael in both of his eyes and blinds him.
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Laurie has this in both her physical encounters with Michael in the original and ''H20'', using hangars and axes she doesn't own to fight back.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Laurie has blue eyes that match her purity in the original film.
* Irony: [[spoiler:Her fate as revealed in ''Resurrection''. In trying to kill a serial killer that had been tormenting her for years and killed multiple innocent people, she accidentally murders an innocent person herself who had done anything to her or harmed anyone else.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: John calls Laurie out on this after she tries to get him to stay around her on Halloween, saying that he is not responsible for her and that he refuses to be complicit with her worrying over Michael's return any longer.
* ItsPersonal: Her agenda for wanting Michael gone in ''H20'' comes from him targeting her and killing her friends years ago and wanting to ensure he doesn't harm her or her son this time around.
* JumpedAtTheCall: After realizing that Michael is on the campus in ''H20'', Laurie prepares to confront him and even locks herself inside the school with him to make sure that their twenty-year rivalry ends that night.
* KilledOffScreen: Her death in the original timeline happens off-screen, 11 months before ''4'' takes place.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: In the original film, her response to encountering Michael in the Wallace house is this as she successfully flees before Michael can get to her. She only stops trying to get away from him when he follows her to the Doyle house and corners her there.
* LastOfHisKind: In the original series, she is the last living relative of Michael until the birth of her daughter in between ''II'' and ''4''. The same applies for the ''H20'' timeline with her son's birth.
* {{Leitmotif}}: She had her theme tune throughout the films where she appeared.
* MamaBear: Though she has no qualms against attacking Myers in the first movie, she really makes him suffer in ''H20'' after he attacks her son. This will likely apply to her daughter and granddaughter in the 2018 film.
* NeatFreak: It's subtle but we see most of her home in ''H20'' and it is well-kept together.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: [[spoiler:Seems to be this with Dr. Loomis and Marion Chambers in the ''H20'' timeline. They were the only two people who knew she faked her death at the time it occurred and kept her secret until their deaths, which apparently happened years after they had last heard from her.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: In the 2018 movie, Laurie is pushing 60 years old and her daughter, Karen, has a daughter of her own, Allyson, making Laurie a grandmother. Laurie is also show to have become a gun-toting survivalist who has been anticipating Michael's return since 1978, saying she's prayed every night he'd escape so she could kill him. Laurie has truly become a force to be reckoned with.
* NiceGirl: Laurie is a pretty kind and friendly girl, especially in the 1978 version.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Delivers one to Michael in ''H20'' that causes him to fall into a state of unconsciousness.
* OddFriendship: With Lynda. Besides the fact that they're both teenage girls who go to the same school, they seem to have nothing in common.
* OlderAndWiser: In ''H20'', Laurie is now an adult woman with her own child who is the most experienced as dealing with Michael when he eventually finds his way to them.
* OutOfFocus: After being the lead of the original film, Laurie's screentime is greatly reduced in ''II'' as she recovers from her injuries in a hospital.
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: A subtle example but Laurie is strongly implied to be the only virgin out of her friends and shows discomfort towards sexuality. However, she does clearly pine for guys in her class, namely Ben Tramer, showing she does have an interest in the opposite sex, but is too repressed to express it. WordOfGod states that Laurie's sexual repression was intended to make her comparable to Michael who is also sexually repressed, and that the end of the first movie where she [[spoiler:stabs Michael several times]] is her taking out her sexual frustrations.
* ParentalNeglect: Implied to have this in ''II'', as Nurse Alves mentions that hospital staff is having trouble locating Laurie's parents, who seemingly would rather be out partying when their daughter is being hospitalized from injures sustained from ''fighting off a serial killer''.
* ParentsAsPeople: In ''H20'', Laurie is shown to love her son John, but also be very controlling and protective in regards to him as a result of her past with Michael. She's also depicted as being open to changing her mind, as she lets John go to Yosemite after first refusing.
* ParentsInDistress: ''H20'' opens wit her waking from a nightmare and screaming until John comes to calm her down and retrieves her medication.
* PlayingSick: [[spoiler:In ''Resurrection'', Laurie plays the role of catatonic while an inmate at a sanatorium as she lays in wait for Michael to try killing her again.]]
* PluckyGirl: Probably the most relatable part of her character is that she can stand up against pure evil despite being scared to tears.
* PrecisionFStrike: She delivers one to John after she catches Charlie and him ''off-campus'' on ''Halloween''.
--> '''Laurie:''' What the ''fuck'' do you think you're doing?
* ProperlyParanoid: She's extremely tense and paranoid about the possibility of Michael's return in ''H20''. She's right to be worried. In the 2018 movie, she has a house surrounded by booby-traps and cameras, the inside has secret passage ways, and enough guns to start a small war with which she practices shooting frequently. With Michael's transport bus crashing, Laurie has been right to prepare for his return.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler:Laurie's death before the events of ''4'' and at the start of ''Resurrection'' are due to her actress not wanting to continue playing the character.]]
* {{Retcon}}: [[spoiler:Her killing of Michael at the end of ''H20'' was revealed to have been a paramedic that Michael switched places with in ''Resurrection''.]]
* SanitySlippage: In ''H20'', she's clearly been adversely affected by her experiences as a teenager, and in ''Resurrection'', she's left barely responsive in a mental institution. ''Halloween (2018)'' has her a little more unhinged than in ''H20''.
* SaveTheVillain: Subverted. [[spoiler:At the end of ''H20'', it first appears that Laurie is going to take Michael's hand and help him, with the former even giving him a look of sadness. This is followed by her chopping his head off.]]
* ScarsAreForever: In the 2018 movie, a close up shot of Laurie's left shoulder is seen with a prominent scar where Michael slashed her with his knife 40 years prior.
* ScreamingWoman: This ''is'' the role that made Jamie Lee Curtis an iconic scream queen.
* SecretIdentity: Before the events of ''H20'', after faking her death, Laurie assumes the identity of "Keri Tate" and very few people know who she really is.
* SecretLegacy: While unknown to everyone at the time except Michael, by being the foremr's last living sibling, Laurie has inherited Judith's position as the sister he wants to kill.
* SecretRelationship: Has one with fellow teacher Will Brennan in ''H20''.
* SeeYouInHell: [[spoiler:Laurie says this to Michael after he fatally stabs her.]]
* SilkHidingSteel: A responsible, put-together and bookish high school student who is willing to face and fight off Michael Myers in order to protect herself, Tommy and Lindsay.
* SlainInTheirSleep: Subverted. Laurie initially rejects being put to sleep at the hospital in ''Halloween II'' because she knows it will leave her defenseless against Michael. The latter does track her down to the hospital and strike her bed, only to pull the blankets back and see that she has already woken up and left.
* SoleSurvivor: Laurie is the only teenager to survive an encounter with Michael in the original film and one of the few he is unable to kill in either ''II'' or ''H20''. [[spoiler:She ends up as one of his first victims in ''Resurrection''.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Survives for even longer with each new timeline. ''H20'' ignoring 4 through 6, and the 2018 film ignoring all the sequels.
* StaircaseTumble: Has one after Michael cuts her shoulder and she goes down a flight of stairs. The injury slows her running from him.
* TheStoner: A little known fact about innocent Laurie here is that in the original film, she smoked a blunt with Annie in her car, nearly getting caught by Sheriff Brackett, Annie's father. A comic set after the events of the first and second film features Laurie befriending a girl named Sally Winters, who she starts dabbling in drugs with to cope with the stress from the killings, smoking a blunt in one scene, taking "allergy pills" before graduation, and getting drunk in a party, the last of which nearly gets her shanked by Michael incognito in a clown costume. Thankfully, she's seen mostly sober (save for alcoholism) in ''Halloween: 20 Years Later'' (The comic is in the H20 continuity).
* StrugglingSingleMother: Although she is seemingly financially stable, [[spoiler:her trauma over her encounter with Michael in 1978 plague her relationship with her son John, especially when Halloween comes around.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Offscreen before the events of ''4'', and again at the beginning of ''Resurrection''.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:The ending of ''H20'' subverts this. After Laurie has ran over Michael in a clear attempt to kill him, she watches him struggle and extend his hand to her. The look on her face is one of anguish and even a seeming regret over how things have turned out, though this is followed up by her cutting his head off.]]
* TakeUpMySword:
** [[spoiler:After her death in the original series, her daughter Jamie becomes Michael's next target.]]
** [[spoiler:Following her passing in the ''H20'' timeline, Sara Moyer fulfills her role as the FinalGirl who survives Michael's spree while those around her do not.]]
* TakeThatKiss: [[spoiler:Laurie gives one to Michael's mask after he stabs her in the back.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: She attempts this with Michael in ''Resurrection''. [[spoiler:It fails.]]
* TearsOfFear: Laurie cries at the end of the original, once Loomis finds that Michael has vanished into the night.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In ''H20'', as Michael lays unconscious from a fall, Laurie tries to finish him off with a stabbing but is stopped by Ronny since the latter believes him to already be deceased.
--> '''Ronny:''' He's dead! He's dead! He's dead!
* TimeShiftedActor: Though normally portrayed by Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Laurie is played by Nichole Drucker in the ''Halloween II'' flashback.
* TiredOfRunning: In ''H20'', after twenty years of avoiding Myers, Laurie sends her son away in a car while she goes back inside to fight him.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Laurie incapacitates Michael with a trap and can kill him, but wants to make sure its really him by checking under his mask, in spite of the unlikelihood of her assailant being anyone else. This allows Michael to stab and kill her.]]
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In ''H20''. She goes from a shell-shocked survivor to a determined fighter who tries her damned hardest to put Michael down.
** In ''Halloween (2018)'', while just as, if not more paranoid and fearful than in ''H20'', she's been preparing herself for 40 years to finish off Michael once and for all.
* TraumaCongaLine: The first film serves as this for Laurie. She realizes that she is being stalked by a man, then finds the corpses of her friends shortly before realizing the same man was responsible for their deaths, and narrowly avoids being killed by him thanks to the intervention of his psychiatrist. The second film only adds to the disparity by revealing that her would-be murderer and the killer of her friends is her older brother. If you add in events from the ''H20'' timeline, [[spoiler:she witnesses the murder of her secret boyfriend, one of the few people she felt comfortable telling about her past. And just as it seems that she has finally killed Michael and thereby alleviated herself of the worry that he will ever come after her again, she discovers it was the wrong person.]]
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: By the end of ''Halloween II'', after Michael murders the state trooper, Laurie is this with Marion Chambers and Dr. Loomis. In the ''H20'' timeline, the pair are also the only ones who know she faked her death.
* UndyingLoyalty: Laurie demonstrates this toward Tommy and Lindsay in the original. Even though she's not related to them and could leave to save herself at any time, she values their lives over her own, to the point of staying with an unconscious Michael to ensure he doesn't follow them when they run for help.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: [[spoiler:With Ben Tramer, who is killed by a police officer in ''Halloween II'' before Laurie can speak to him again and develop a possible romance.]]
* UnstoppableRage: Laurie stabs repeatedly after she sneaks up on Michael and is only stopped when he falls.
* VillainKiller: Subverted. [[spoiler:Although it appears that she has finally killed Michael at the end of ''H20'', the next film reveals it was a paramedic.]]

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[[folder: Michael's relatives]]
!!Judith Myers

Michael's deceased older sister and his very first victim.

[-Played by: Sandy Johnson ([[Film/Halloween1978 the original film]])-]
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* DignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:Her death in ''Resurrection'' features her accepting her fate and delivering a promise to see Michael in the afterlife before being thrown to the ground.]]

* BigGood: In the 2018 movie, Laurie has appeared to taken this role over from Dr. Loomis due to her experience and being ready this time.

* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:After her death in the original series, her daughter Jamie becomes Michael's next target.]]