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* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted. [[spoiler:In ''Ends'', we see a picture of Karen in Laurie's house as well as another photo as the latter's screensaver. Allyson mentions Karen saving her from Michael in the previous film when Corey asks about how she survived.]]
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* MamaBear: When he has Allyson corned, Michael finds this out the hard way via Karen sticking a pitchfork in his back.
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* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:Comparing herself to Judith, Michael's sister and first victim, before later going into the room where he killed her.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from a remorseful accidental murder just trying to work a regular job to a willful killer that takes revenge on his tormentors over the course of the film.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Zig-zagged. He gets along with his uncle but despises his mother enough to kill her.
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* FatalFlaw: His temper. Corey's unintentional killing of Jeremy was caused by him beating down the door in the house in a fit of rage (unawake that Jeremy was right by it), his breaking of his glass milk is trigged by him being insulted and thereby getting angry enough to snap it, and his killings (which are all directed at people he feels slighted by) are extensions of him expressing his anger.
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* NearVillainVictory: Before being defeated by Laurie, Corey had successfully killed every single person that he had targeted, tricked Allyson into thinking he was a good person, and succeeded Michael as Haddonfield's new killer.
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He's on the receiving end of this when Allyson admits she was wrong about him to Laurie.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Believing Laurie to just be Allyson's grandmother who is past her prime and can be just as easily killed as the rest of his victims comes back to bite him.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Dialogue between himself and Laurie in ''Halloween Kills'' seems to suggest that Hawkins is Karen's father.
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* ButtMonkey: For his role in Jeremy's death, Corey is a pariah in the town and either shunned or outright mocked by most.
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* CopKiller: He aids Michael in murdering officer Doug Mulaney.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Despite laying bleeding and virtually helpless, Corey tries with all his remaining strength to stop Michael from taking the knife he used to stab himself just before the latter snaps his neck.
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* DisappearedDad: Corey's father is never mentioned in the film.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: At the beginning of the film, Corey is a well-meaning, misunderstood young man who unintentionally caused the death of the child he was babysitting and generally keeps to himself when he isn't going to work.
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* MadeOfIron: Though nowhere near as sturdy as Michael, Corey withstands falls, gun shots, a cut to his hand, and other injuries as the film progresses.
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* OfficialCouple: With Allyson after he confesses to his first (purposeful) murder.
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* RevengeIsSweet: He smiles right before double-teaming Doug with Michael. Realizing that Allyson is pulling up in the driveway, he smiles at Laurie before stabbing himself to trick his girlfriend into thinking her grandmother murdered him.
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* HatedHometown: By ''Halloween Ends'', Haddonfield has become this for her, and understandably so, given the losses and trauma she suffered there at Michael's hands in the previous two films. [[spoiler:The movie ends with Allyson, now that Michael is finally dead and her relationship with Laurie is repaired, leaving Haddonfield behind to move on with her life.]]
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: When they were younger, Hawkins had a crush on Laurie, but he never acted on it, as she only had eyes for Ben Tramer at the time. [[spoiler:''Halloween Ends'' strongly implies that the feeling eventually did become mutual, though the movie ends without confirming it one way or another.]]
* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:''Halloween Ends'' concludes with Laurie, now free of Michael forever, agreeing to join Hawkins on a trip to Japan; it certainly has a [[ShipTease romantic tone]], but the movie ends without confirming if their relationship went from friendship to romance.]]
* ShipTease: Throughout the 2018 film, Hawkins and Laurie are shown to be close friends, and ''Halloween Kills'' has him all but admit that he did (and possibly still does) have romantic feelings for her. ''Halloween Ends'' plays up the teasing, with Hawkins inviting Laurie to join him on a trip to Japan he'd been planning, [[spoiler:an offer she accepts at the end of the film.]]
* TookALevelInCynic: Downplayed, as he remains a NiceGuy well into the present day, but in 1978, Hawkins couldn't bring himself to allow Loomis to execute Michael, even with the Shape's horrific crimes. By 2018, the older and wiser Hawkins has no qualms about the idea of Michael being put down, repeatedly insisting that he ''needs'' to die.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:In ''Halloween Ends'', after seeing that Michael is finally dead, Barker allows for normal police procedure to be violated in the name of giving the town a sense of closure, allowing Laurie to mulch Michael's corpse in full view of the townspeople to drive home that the Shape is finally gone once and for all.]]
* AllLovingHero: Unlike many of the other residents of Haddonfield, Lindsey doesn't have a mean bone in her body, treating everyone, including local pariahs like Laurie and Corey, with compassion and decency. The only character to get any hostility from Lindsey at all is Michael, but the exception is more than justified in that case.
* DemotedToExtra: After being part of the action in ''Halloween Kills'', Lindsey has a much smaller role in ''Halloween Ends'', mostly serving as moral support for Laurie and Allyson. [[spoiler:She never even shares a scene with Michael before the Shape is killed.]]
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* WhatWereYouThinking: Lonnie's decision to sneak into Myers house alone armed only with a handgun doesn't seems to be the brightiest idea for obvious reasons.
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* WhatWereYouThinking: Lonnie's decision to sneak into Myers house alone armed only with a handgun doesn't seems to be the brightiest brightest idea for obvious reasons.
* AlasPoorVillain: Despite everything Corey did, after he's dead, Laurie continues to feel some sympathy for him, seeing Corey as a victim of the town's harassment and Michael's evil influence.
* BullyingADragon:
** While Michael may have been [[DentedIron diminished]] by age and injury, Corey beating him up, [[BerserkButton stealing his mask]], and smugly calling him "just a man" was a ''phenomenally'' short-sighted thing to do, especially as Corey had already seen firsthand what Michael is capable of.
** Corey is well aware that Laurie has ''twice'' survived and even outfought Michael while the Shape was at his strongest; going after her, no matter how good he thought his chances were, proved to be exactly as bad of an idea as it sounds.
* BungledSuicide: Corey's attempt at a SpitefulSuicide fails to end his life as quickly as he thought it would; he ends up lingering, slowly and painfully bleeding out, long enough for Michael to catch up to him and [[NeckSnap finish the job]].
** While Michael may have been [[DentedIron diminished]] by age and injury, Corey beating him up, [[BerserkButton stealing his mask]], and smugly calling him "just a man" was a ''phenomenally'' short-sighted thing to do, especially as Corey had already seen firsthand what Michael is capable of.
** Corey is well aware that Laurie has ''twice'' survived and even outfought Michael while the Shape was at his strongest; going after her, no matter how good he thought his chances were, proved to be exactly as bad of an idea as it sounds.
* BungledSuicide: Corey's attempt at a SpitefulSuicide fails to end his life as quickly as he thought it would; he ends up lingering, slowly and painfully bleeding out, long enough for Michael to catch up to him and [[NeckSnap finish the job]].
* CreateYourOwnVillain: With Michael absent, the people of Haddonfield needed a new "boogeyman" at whom to direct their anger. When Corey accidentally killed Jeremy, they got one, turning the young man into a hated pariah who endured endless abuse. While it hardly excuses his actions, it's unsurprising that Corey finally does snap and [[ThenLetMeBeEvil become the monster everyone accuses him of being]].
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* DisproportionateRetribution: While the majority of Corey's victims were [[AssholeVictim less than admirable people]] who wronged either he or Allyson in some way, none of their transgressions warranted violent murder. This is particularly egregious when it comes to Terry (who Corey burned alive with a blowtorch), Margo (whose skull Corey stomped despite her not taking part in the bullying), Willy the Kid (whose insults earned him a lethal beating and TongueTrauma), and Laurie (who he tried to murder for rightfully telling him to stay away from Allyson).
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* DisproportionateRetribution: While the majority of Corey's victims were [[AssholeVictim less than admirable people]] who wronged either he or Allyson in some way, none of their transgressions warranted violent murder. This is particularly egregious when it comes to Terry (who Corey burned alive with a blowtorch), blowtorch; although the worst of the bullies, nothing that Terry did to Corey was nearly so brutal), Margo (whose skull Corey stomped despite her not taking part in the bullying), Willy the Kid (whose insults earned him a lethal beating and TongueTrauma), and Laurie (who he tried to murder for rightfully telling him to stay away from Allyson).
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** Corey's uncle Ronald is one of the very few people in Haddonfield who treats him well, giving him a job and an old motorcycle, as well as sincerely hoping the embattled young man finds love. Corey doesn't kill Ronald himself, but he shows no emotion when Ronald is caught in the crossfire of Corey's rampage and dies accidentally taking a bullet for Corey.
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** Corey's uncle Ronald is one of the very few people in Haddonfield who treats him well, giving him a job and an old motorcycle, as well as sincerely hoping the embattled young man finds love. Corey doesn't kill Ronald himself, but he shows no emotion when Ronald is caught in the crossfire of Corey's rampage and dies accidentally taking a bullet for Corey.Corey (and given that Ronald had seen Corey with Michael's mask, it's doubtful that Corey would have let him live anyway).
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** In a conversation with Laurie, Corey assumes that she experienced something like he did when she looked into Michael's eyes, telling her that she should [[EvilFeelsGood give in to that feeling]]; unlike Corey, Laurie has never shown any sign that she enjoys violence or feels any need to take her own suffering out on others (Michael, the cause of said suffering, being the sole exception).
** Corey assumed that Allyson would completely believe that Laurie murdered him in cold blood, hence his ThanatosGambit; while, in the heat of the moment, Allyson did initially buy into it, all it took was a single clue to Corey's true nature for Allyson to realize the truth, showing that she wasn't quite as gullible as Corey believed.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** In a conversation with Laurie, Corey assumes that she experienced something like he did when she looked into Michael's eyes, telling her that she should [[EvilFeelsGood give in to that feeling]]; unlike Corey, Laurie has never shown any sign that she enjoys violence or feels any need to take her own suffering out on others (Michael, the cause of said suffering, being the sole exception).
** Corey assumed that Allyson would completely believe that Laurie murdered him in cold blood, hence his ThanatosGambit; while, in the heat of the moment, Allyson did initially buy into it, all it took was a single clue to Corey's true nature for Allyson to realize the truth, showing that she wasn't quite as gullible as Corey believed.
* EvilFeelsGood: Before embracing evil, Corey was neurotic, jumpy, and [[HatedByAll understandably]] miserable. Once he's jumped headlong into sociopathy, however, he's much more confident and content, clearly enjoying his newfound murderous attitude.
** The first death that Corey ''deliberately'' causes is that of Doug, a former flame of Allyson's with whom Corey had an argument. While it's implied that Doug followed Corey to physically assault him, Corey gleefully leads the man to be murdered by Michael just to learn how to commit murder for himself.
** Corey doesn't just attack Michael and steal his mask prior to the third act, but he takes a moment to mock the Shape as well, deeming him "just a man".
** During his attack on the teen bullies, Corey takes a moment to remove Michael's mask so that they can see that it's him attacking them, not Michael. As he intends to kill them all regardless, it's implied that the only reason he bothered was for the sake of his own ego.
** Corey doesn't just attack Michael and steal his mask prior to the third act, but he takes a moment to mock the Shape as well, deeming him "just a man".
** During his attack on the teen bullies, Corey takes a moment to remove Michael's mask so that they can see that it's him attacking them, not Michael. As he intends to kill them all regardless, it's implied that the only reason he bothered was for the sake of his own ego.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from a dorky, shy man to the protégé and copycat killer of Michael Myers.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Much like Michael himself in his younger days, Corey is a good-looking, clean-cut young man whose looks attract him some positive female attention despite his bad reputation. Beneath that handsome exterior, however, Corey ultimately proves to be a deeply troubled person who, while a victim of abuse, becomes a vicious, [[EvilIsPetty petty]], and self-centered murderer.
* FrameUp:
** {{Implied|Trope}}; before setting out on his killing spree, after which he intends to leave town along with Allyson, Corey attacks Michael, stealing his mask and dressing up in the Shape's signature attire, presumably intending for his murders to be attributed to the local boogeyman.
** After Laurie gets the better of him and Allyson is nearly at her door, Corey, in an attempt to spite Laurie for telling him to stay away from Allyson, stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him with the intent of ruining her and Allyson's relationship once and for all.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from a dorky, shy man to the protégé and copycat killer of Michael Myers.
* FrameUp:
** {{Implied|Trope}}; before setting out on his killing spree, after which he intends to leave town along with Allyson, Corey attacks Michael, stealing his mask and dressing up in the Shape's signature attire, presumably intending for his murders to be attributed to the local boogeyman.
** After Laurie gets the better of him and Allyson is nearly at her door, Corey, in an attempt to spite Laurie for telling him to stay away from Allyson, stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him with the intent of ruining her and Allyson's relationship once and for all.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from a dorky, shy man to the protégé and copycat killer of Michael Myers.
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* HatedByAll: After Jeremy's death, Corey is a pariah; only his uncle, Allyson, and Laurie are willing to give him a chance.
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* HatedByAll: After Jeremy's death, Corey is a pariah; only his uncle, Lindsey, Allyson, and Laurie are willing to give him a chance.chance.
* HatedHometown: After the populace turns on him, Corey grows to deeply resent and despise Haddonfield, hoping to leave it behind even before his run-in with Michael. By the third act of ''Halloween Ends'', he's taken this to an extreme, murdering the people who have given him the most grief and acting on Allyson's metaphorical desire to burn the place down by literally setting fire to Willy the Kid's radio station, all with the intention of skipping town for good once he'd finished his killing spree.
* HatedHometown: After the populace turns on him, Corey grows to deeply resent and despise Haddonfield, hoping to leave it behind even before his run-in with Michael. By the third act of ''Halloween Ends'', he's taken this to an extreme, murdering the people who have given him the most grief and acting on Allyson's metaphorical desire to burn the place down by literally setting fire to Willy the Kid's radio station, all with the intention of skipping town for good once he'd finished his killing spree.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Post-StartOfDarkness, Corey does his best to isolate Allyson from Laurie, even telling her that Laurie threatened his life, in order to have Allyson all to himself. After Laurie defeats his attempt to murder her, Corey even stabs himself in the throat
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* ManipulativeBastard: Post-StartOfDarkness, Corey does his best to isolate Allyson from Laurie, even telling her that Laurie threatened his life, in order to have Allyson all to himself. After Laurie defeats his attempt to murder her, Corey even stabs himself in the throatthroat to make it look like Laurie murdered him, intending to exploit the fears he planted in Allyson's mind to permanently ruin her and Laurie's relationship.
* MistakenForPedophile: Terry accuses Corey of being a pedophile while taunting him, though whether he actually believes that or is just trying to wind him up is unclear.
* NeverMyFault: After being confronted by Jeremy's mother at a party Allyson invited him to, Corey angrily blames Allyson for "making" him go, despite the fact that he's the one who decided to accept the invitation.
* NotQuiteDead: After stabbing himself in the throat, Corey appears dead, but when Michael arrives to reclaim his mask, Corey proves to be hanging on by a thread, albeit a thread that Michael [[NeckSnap swiftly cuts]].
* OhCrap: The already immobile and dying Corey gets one last moment of shock and fear when Michael finds him and retrieves the mask that Corey stole.
* OhCrap: The already immobile and dying Corey gets one last moment of shock and fear when Michael finds him and retrieves the mask that Corey stole.
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: Corey would have been a formidable slasher villain in almost any other movie, but he made the fatal mistake of going after Laurie Strode, who put even Michael Myers through his paces at his prime.
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: Corey would have been a formidable slasher villain in almost any other movie, but he made the fatal mistake of going after Laurie Strode, who put even Michael Myers through his paces even at his prime.
* PsychoticSmirk: As a sign of Corey [[ThenLetMeBeEvil fully embracing his dark side]], he smiles creepily at Doug while leading him to his death at Michael's hands, gives a similar smile to Michael himself after watching him kill Nurse Deb, and taunts Terry with one more smile before murdering both him and Margo.
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* TheScapegoat: Although Jeremy's death was caused by the boy being by the locked door that Corey kicked hard, had Jeremy would not have died had he not trapped Corey in the room with his prank, but because Jeremy's parents heard Corey's threats before the death, he's blamed for the death.
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* TheScapegoat: Although Jeremy's death was caused by the boy being by the locked door that Corey kicked hard, had Jeremy would not have died had he not trapped Corey in the room with his prank, but because Jeremy's parents heard Corey's threats before the death, he's blamed for the death. Jeremy's father, long after the event, theorizes that people holding Corey responsible for Jeremy's death was less because of the act itself, and more because, in the absence of Michael, the town wanted ''someone'' to direct anger at for the collective trauma they experienced because of the Shape.
* SlasherSmile: While he previously restricted himself to {{Psychotic Smirk}}s, just before he stabs himself in the throat, Corey flashes a blood-stained grin at Laurie, [[SmugSnake assuming that his final effort will succeed]].
* SmugSnake: After JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, Corey is brimming with newfound confidence, and by the end of the film, arrogantly assumes that he can get the better of both Michael and Laurie, even leaving the former alive after stealing his mask, [[BullyingADragon smugly rubbing in to Michael that he's "just a man"]]. Needless to say, both [[CurbStompBattle Laurie]] and [[NeckSnap Michael]] prove him wrong in short order. Even his final ThanatosGambit, framing Laurie for murdering him, is done with a confident SlasherSmile as he assumes that Allyson would have no trouble believing it. It did work for a short time, but it only took a single sign of Corey's prior rampage for Allyson to realize the truth, quickly turning Corey's last act of villainy into a total failure. Corey may have thought of himself as an equal to Michael, but the movie ultimately shows him to be a petty, short-sighted, and nowhere near as smart or capable as he assumed himself to be.
* SlasherSmile: While he previously restricted himself to {{Psychotic Smirk}}s, just before he stabs himself in the throat, Corey flashes a blood-stained grin at Laurie, [[SmugSnake assuming that his final effort will succeed]].
* SmugSnake: After JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, Corey is brimming with newfound confidence, and by the end of the film, arrogantly assumes that he can get the better of both Michael and Laurie, even leaving the former alive after stealing his mask, [[BullyingADragon smugly rubbing in to Michael that he's "just a man"]]. Needless to say, both [[CurbStompBattle Laurie]] and [[NeckSnap Michael]] prove him wrong in short order. Even his final ThanatosGambit, framing Laurie for murdering him, is done with a confident SlasherSmile as he assumes that Allyson would have no trouble believing it. It did work for a short time, but it only took a single sign of Corey's prior rampage for Allyson to realize the truth, quickly turning Corey's last act of villainy into a total failure. Corey may have thought of himself as an equal to Michael, but the movie ultimately shows him to be a petty, short-sighted, and nowhere near as smart or capable as he assumed himself to be.
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* SuicideAttack: Stabs himself in the neck in an attempt to convince Allyson that Laurie killed him. [[NotQuiteDead He turns out to still be alive.]]
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* HeroicWannabe: Tommy clearly sees himself as the hero, but his efforts to defeat Michael not only make the situation in Haddonfield even more chaotic, [[spoiler: but he still fails despite his best efforts.]]
* HeroWithAnFInGood: It's obvious that Tommy means well. He wants to stop Michael's rampage and help Haddonfield heal from his shadow. But his approach of doing so, whipping the town into a mob frenzy, winds up [[spoiler: far more people killed, including by his own mob, than if he had simply done nothing.]]
* HeroWithAnFInGood: It's obvious that Tommy means well. He wants to stop Michael's rampage and help Haddonfield heal from his shadow. But his approach of doing so, whipping the town into a mob frenzy, winds up [[spoiler: far more people killed, including by his own mob, than if he had simply done nothing.]]
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* TragicHero: Tommy is shown at the start of the film to be a beloved pillar of his community, with clear influence, public speaking, and leadership skills. Unfortunately, as he becomes increasingly desperate to defeat Michael, he makes his posse to achieve that task larger and larger, not only losing control, but getting swept up in the mob mentality himself. Even as he realizes his mistakes, he continues to double down, [[spoiler: and his efforts ultimately get him and most of his supporters killed.]]
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* DirtyCoward: Even though he wants to see Michael in the wild, he's clearly unwilling to put his own life on the line.
* NightmareFetishist: His interest in Michael has less to do with scientific curiousity and more with a morbid fascination with his crimes, to the point where he seemingly wants to put himself in Michael's headspace.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He looks a lot like [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Albert Einstein]].
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He looks a lot like [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Albert Einstein]].
* {{Sadist}}: He derives intense pleasure from stabbing Hawkins, apparently believing himself to reenact the sensation Michael feels when he kills.
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* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: Sartain's obsession with Michael led him to commit murder in order to fully understand his patient. He even put on Michael's mask in an attempt to see the world through his eyes. Yeah, this guy definitely had a few screws loose.
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* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: Sartain's obsession with Michael led him to nearly commit murder in order to fully understand his patient. He even put on Michael's mask in an attempt to see the world through his eyes. Yeah, this guy definitely had a few screws loose.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from a dorky, shy man to the protégé and copycat killer of Michael Myers.
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* HiddenDepths: She comes across as a typical borderline AdultsAreUseless suburban mom with some emotional baggage, but she's more than willing to fight to the death for her family. Laurie raised her TheSpartanWay, and Karen uses her skills to lure Michael into a trap ''twice'' in the same night. Either trap would have killed Michael if he were anything less than [[MadeOfIron what he is]].
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* EvilCounterpart: Corey is one to Karen since Karen is Laurie's protégé while Corey becomes Michael's successor. Corey and Karen also die in a similar fashion to the other's predecessor: Michael kills Karen after Karen believes Michael is dead while Laurie mortally wounds Corey after Corey presumes that she committed suicide.
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* MadDoctor: His studying Michael for years [[spoiler:has led him to decide to set him frr for his own curiosity of what will happen]].
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* HateSink: [[MadDoctor Dr. Ranbir Sartain]] is the PsychoPsychologist who for years was Dr. Sam Loomis's protégé and studied and [[PsychoSupporter became obsessed with Michael Myers]]. Wanting to get a sense of what's in Michael's head and get him to share his thoughts on all he's done, Sartain causes a bus crash so that Michael will escape from custody and just like Sartain had hoped, Michael commits another vicious killing spree in the process. Wanting to protect Michael for nothing but his own twisted fixation and obsession, Sartain viciously attacks and leaves Deputy Frank Hawkins for dead while then locking Laurie Strode's granddaughter Allyson Nelson in the back of a police car with Michael, intent on forcing a confrontation with Laurie just to see what happens. Even with his death here meaning Sartain doesn't appear in either ''[[Film/HalloweenKills Kills]]'' or ''[[Film/HalloweenEnds Ends]]'', the events of everything that happens in those movies were [[SmallRoleBigImpact still indirectly made possible ''because'' of him]].
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: The fact that [[spoiler:Sartain sets Michael free]] means he's the linchpin for the whole trilogy being possible--even with [[spoiler:his death in the one movie]].
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* DeathBySex: Was about to have sex with Dave but [[spoiler:Michael killed them both.]]
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* DeathBySex: He was planning on having sex with Vicky [[spoiler:before Michael showed up to kill them.]]
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* WidowWoman: [[spoiler:She survives the events of this film, but unfortunately her husband does not]]. [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal She doesn't live much longer than him, though]].]]
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: It's clear having been raised by a PTSD-afflicted CrazySurvivalist has taken a serious psychological toll on Karen, and she desperately just wants to forget all about it and have a perfect suburban nuclear family. Needless to say, a visit from Michael Myers destroys all that.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: It's clear having been raised by a PTSD-afflicted CrazySurvivalist has taken a serious psychological toll on Karen, and she desperately just wants to forget all about it and have a perfect suburban nuclear family. Needless to say, a A visit from Michael Myers destroys all that.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The audience sees three of Allyson's boyfriends across the the films: Cameron, who seems nice, but shows a nasty side when drunk (although he does redeem himself later on); Doug, a cop who proves clingy and jealous even after she's moved on; and Corey, who is hated by the entire town [[spoiler:and later becomes a spree killer in the vein of Michael Myers]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The audience sees three of Allyson's boyfriends across the the films: Cameron, who seems nice, but shows a nasty side when drunk (although he does redeem himself later on); Doug, a cop who proves clingy and jealous even after she's moved on; and Corey, who is hated by the entire town [[spoiler:and later becomes a spree killer in the vein of Michael Myers]].
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* BreakTheCutie: Initially a nice, if naïve youth like her grandmother who doesn't understand her grandmother's paranoia and wants Karen and Laurie to get along again. But seeing Oscar and [[spoiler: seemingly Hawkins]] be brutally murdered, losing her father, and getting attacked and attacking Michael deeply traumatize her. It gets worse in ''Halloween Kills'', as [[spoiler: her boyfriend is brutally and sadistically killed right in front of her. And even worse, unbeknownst to Allyson, her mother has been killed as well by the end of the movie.]] By ''Halloween Ends'', she finds her life ruined and [[BrokenPedestal its caused by her grandmother that she once looked up to]].
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* BreakTheCutie: Initially a nice, if naïve youth like her grandmother who doesn't understand her grandmother's paranoia and wants Karen and Laurie to get along again. But seeing Oscar and [[spoiler: seemingly Hawkins]] be brutally murdered, losing her father, and getting attacked and attacking Michael deeply traumatize her. It gets worse in ''Halloween Kills'', as [[spoiler: her boyfriend is brutally and sadistically killed right in front of her. And even Even worse, unbeknownst to Allyson, her mother has been killed as well by the end of the movie.]] By ''Halloween Ends'', she finds her life ruined and [[BrokenPedestal its caused by her grandmother that she once looked up to]].
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* TooDumbToLive: In ''Halloween Ends'', Allyson cannot take a hint that Corey is a murderer to save her life. You know you have a dumb as shit character when she does not get the message when she wouldn't see the warning signs for [[spoiler:Corey going down a "dark path," to the point that she believes him (a guy she just met) instead of Laurie (who she's basically known all her life)]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed in ''Halloween Kills''; while she's a lot more proactive and even confronts Michael directly, she's still nowhere near a match for the Shape in a straight fight.
* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed in ''Halloween Kills''; while she's a lot more proactive and even confronts Michael directly, she's still nowhere near a match for the Shape in a straight fight.
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* TooDumbToLive: In ''Halloween Ends'', Allyson cannot take a hint that Corey is a murderer to save her life. You know you have a dumb as shit character when she does not get the message when she wouldn't see the warning signs for [[spoiler:Corey going down a "dark path," to the point that she believes him (a guy she just met) instead of Laurie (who she's basically known all her life)]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed in ''Halloween Kills''; while she's a lot more proactive andeven confronts Michael directly, she's still nowhere near a match for the Shape in a straight fight.
* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed in ''Halloween Kills''; while she's a lot more proactive and
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In a deleted scene, despite appearing to be a bastard boyfriend who broke Allyson's cell phone at the dance, he does felt bad for his action after having a JerkassRealization and tries to apologize to her and even make up for it by offering to buy her another one. Then when he is arrested, it is revealed he is the one who asked his friend Oscar to escort Allyson back home rather than Oscar escorting her at his own accord that the theatrical cut's impression it gave out. Then in ''Film/HalloweenKills'', he assists his father and Allyson in hunting down Michael, revealed to be the one who found and rescued an injured Hawkins and is shown deeply regretting what he did earlier.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In a deleted scene, despite appearing to be a bastard boyfriend who broke Allyson's cell phone at the dance, he does felt bad for his action after having a JerkassRealization and tries to apologize to her and even make up for it by offering to buy her another one. Then when he is arrested, it is revealed he is the one who asked his friend Oscar to escort Allyson back home rather than Oscar escorting her at his own accord that the theatrical cut's impression it gave out. Then in ''Film/HalloweenKills'', he assists his father and Allyson in hunting down Michael, revealed to be the one who found and rescued an injured Hawkins and is shown deeply regretting what he did earlier.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: He's more than a little drunk when he makes a move on Allyson - he's carrying a six-pack of beer during their entire walk home. Even worse, it leads him to not only still be in Mr. Elrod's yard when [[spoiler:Michael arrives, but mistake Michael for Elrod and actually try to have a conversation about girls with the masked killer]].
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: He's more than a little drunk when he makes a move on Allyson - he's carrying a six-pack of beer during their entire walk home. Even worse, it leads him to not only still be in Mr. Elrod's yard when [[spoiler:Michael arrives, but mistake Michael for Elrod and actually try to have a conversation about girls with the masked killer]].
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* PluckyComicRelief: Their back-and-forth about their eating habits, with Richards knocking Francis for bringing a brownie as his dinner, would make them qualify. The exchange is totally inconsistent with a slasher film and is more reminiscent of something from the 2018 film's writers' usual comedies.
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* PluckyComicRelief: Their back-and-forth about their eating habits, with Richards knocking Francis for bringing a brownie as his dinner, would make them qualify. The exchange is totally inconsistent with a slasher film and is more reminiscent of something from the 2018 film's writers' usual comedies.
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* LeaveHimToMe: When Tommy hears that Michael is literally outside the bar where he and his friends have been drinking, he doesn't hesitate to grab a baseball bat and be the first one to approach the danger.
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* LeaveHimToMe: When Tommy hears that Michael is literally outside the bar where he and his friends have been drinking, he doesn't hesitate to grab a baseball bat and be the first one to approach the danger.
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* OhCrap: Tommy reaction as [[spoiler:Michael brutally kills the entire mob, one-by-one.]]
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* OhCrap: Tommy reaction as [[spoiler:Michael brutally kills the entire mob, one-by-one.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Tie in material for the pre-2018 continuity showed that Lonnie was still involved in delinquent activities with his friends right into adulthood, and that they would still torment Tommy Doyle about the Boogeyman. In this film he has shown to have moved on from his troublesome ways and even become a good friend to Tommy.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Tie in material for the pre-2018 continuity showed that Lonnie was still involved in delinquent activities with his friends right into adulthood, and that they would still torment Tommy Doyle about the Boogeyman. In this film he has shown to have moved on from his troublesome ways and even become a good friend to Tommy.
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* RetiredBadass: He retired from the Sheriff's department sometime in the 40 years between films, and is now a hospital security guard. However, this doesn't stop him from joining the mob to kill Michael, and even gets in a PreAssKickingOneLiner toward the end.
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* RetiredBadass: He retired from the Sheriff's department sometime in the 40 years between films, and is now a hospital security guard. However, this doesn't stop him from joining the mob to kill Michael, and even gets in a PreAssKickingOneLiner toward the end.
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* CurbStompBattle: His attempt to kill Laurie fails before Corey can so much as lay a finger on her; Laurie fakes him out with an apparent suicide and shoots Corey twice in the chest, critically wounding him. The only damage he actually manages to do is temporarily ruining Laurie and Allyson's relationship, and even that doesn't last long.
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* CurbStompBattle: His attempt to kill Laurie fails before Corey can so much as lay a finger on her; Laurie fakes him out with an apparent suicide and shoots Corey twice in the chest, critically wounding him. The only damage he actually manages to do is temporarily ruining Laurie and Allyson's relationship, and even that doesn't last long.
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** Before killing Willy the Kid, Corey murders his receptionist, who is totally innocent.
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* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: His entire arc is him GainingTheWillToKill and becoming a murderer in the same vein as Michael.
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* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: His entire arc is him GainingTheWillToKill and becoming a murderer in the same vein as Michael.
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* TheScapegoat: Although Jeremy's death was caused by the boy being by the locked door that Corey kicked hard, had Jeremy would not have died had he not trapped Corey in the room with his prank, but because Jeremy's parents heard Corey's threats before the death, he's blamed entirely for the death.
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* TheScapegoat: Although Jeremy's death was caused by the boy being by the locked door that Corey kicked hard, had Jeremy would not have died had he not trapped Corey in the room with his prank, but because Jeremy's parents heard Corey's threats before the death, he's blamed entirely for the death.
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* UndignifiedDeath: After stabbing himself in the throat in an ultimately futile attempt at a ThanatosGambit, Corey lingers long enough to be finished off by Michael with a simple NeckSnap while totally helpless to defend himself.
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* UndignifiedDeath: After stabbing himself in the throat in an ultimately futile attempt at a ThanatosGambit, Corey lingers long enough to be finished off by Michael with a simple NeckSnap while totally helpless to defend himself.
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* FacialHorror: Michael uses [[spoiler: Sartain's]] pen-knife to [[spoiler: carve out Francis' eyes, a chunk of his nose, his lips, and parts of his cheeks in order to create a ''jack-o-lantern'']]; here's the [[https://makeupmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Halloween2018_IMG_8751.jpg final result]] (NSFW WARNING: contains an image depicting graphic mutilation).
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* FacialHorror: Michael uses [[spoiler: Sartain's]] pen-knife to [[spoiler: carve out Francis' eyes, a chunk of his nose, his lips, and parts of his cheeks in order to create a ''jack-o-lantern'']]; here's the [[https://makeupmag.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20190422055503im_/https://makeupmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Halloween2018_IMG_8751.jpg final result]] (NSFW WARNING: contains an image depicting graphic mutilation).
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Per TRS
Horny Devils has been renamed. Moving tropes to either Succubi And Incubi or Hot As Hell depending on the context.
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* HornyDevil: Somewhat, but he is dressed as a devil for Halloween and he is horny for most of the night.
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* HornyDevil: Somewhat, but he is HotAsHell: He gets dressed as a devil for Halloween and he is horny for most of Halloween, clearly wanting to invoke the night.idea of a sexy devil, to little effect.
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* WeaponOfChoice: A Sig-Sauer [=P226=] pistol.
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* WeaponOfChoice: A baseball bat called "Old Huckleberry".
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* DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest: In ''Ends'', she dates Corey Cunningham, and almost every single word she speaks or thing she says is to him or about him.
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[[caption-width-right:325:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as the Shape II]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cfbhpxj36jewdo5p4jcllrqojy.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:325:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as the Shape II]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cfbhpxj36jewdo5p4jcllrqojy.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
jpg[softreturn]"You should give in. You should surrender to that feeling you had the first time you ever looked into his eyes."[[/labelnote]]]]
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Corey makes a genuine attempt to appeal to Jeremy while babysitting him, and his concern for the boy leads him into the prank that unintentionally causes Jeremy's death.
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* TheScapegoat: Although Jeremy's death was caused by the boy being by the locked door that Corey kicked hard, had Jeremy would not have died had he not trapped Corey in the room with his prank, but because Jeremy's parents heard Corey's threats before the death, he's blamed entirely for the death.
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* SuicideAttack: Stabs himself in the neck in an attempt to convince Allyson that Laurie killed him. [[NotQuiteDead He turns out to still be alive.]]
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More specific trope.
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* AccidentalMurder: Angry over being locked in a room, and unaware Jeremy is standing behind the door, Corey kicks in the door and unintentionally sends the boy plummeting to his death.
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* AccidentalMurder: AccidentalChildKillerBackstory: Angry over being locked in a room, and unaware Jeremy is standing behind the door, Corey kicks in the door and unintentionally sends the boy plummeting to his death.
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* ImplacableMan: Though nowhere near as strong as Michael, he's still this. Even before his killing spree, during a date with Allyson, he falls off a building and sits up, eeriely like Michael does. When Laurie shoots him twice in the chest, he sits up again. When he tries to kill himself by stabbing himself in the throat, he ''still'' doesn't die and tries to grab Michael to stop him before Michael breaks his neck.
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* MalevolentMaskedMen: In his murder of Dr. Mathis, Corey wears scarecrow mask that Allyson gave him, and during his rampage later in the film, he steals and wears Michael's own mask.
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* MalevolentMaskedMen: In his murder of Dr. Mathis, Corey wears a scarecrow mask that Allyson gave him, and during his rampage later in the film, he steals and wears Michael's own mask.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Halloween Ends'', Allyson [[BrokenPedestal goes from caring and loving her grandmother in the previous installments to outright blaming her for ruining her life with the deaths of her friends and family and how she's been facing bad luck ever since then]]. At first she kept it repressed and appeared to have a good relationship with Laurie, but once Allyson finds out Laurie's been interfering with his life by trying to keep her away from Corey and in amidst of packing up to leave Haddonfield, she outright vents out her true bitter and hostile feelings towards Laurie and [[YoureNotMyMother disowns her as her grandmother on the spot]] before [[TheDoorSlamsYou slamming the door to her face]]. The friction worsens when she [[spoiler:[[NotWhatItLooksLike finds Corey seemingly dead with Laurie standing over him]], seemingly cementing the rift between them and Allyson's IrrationalHatred of Laurie. But after seeing the radio station burning down, Allyson has a JerkassRealization and pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment just to save Laurie from being held in a ChokeHold by Michael after [[RebulitPedestal renewing her faith in her]]]].
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* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Halloween Ends'', Allyson [[BrokenPedestal goes from caring and loving her grandmother in the previous installments to outright blaming her for ruining her life with the deaths of her friends and family and how she's been facing bad luck ever since then]]. At first she kept it repressed and appeared to have a good relationship with Laurie, but once Allyson finds out Laurie's been interfering with his life by trying to keep her away from Corey and in amidst of packing up to leave Haddonfield, she outright vents out her true bitter and hostile feelings towards Laurie and [[YoureNotMyMother disowns her as her grandmother on the spot]] before [[TheDoorSlamsYou slamming the door to her face]]. The friction worsens when she [[spoiler:[[NotWhatItLooksLike finds Corey seemingly dead with Laurie standing over him]], seemingly cementing the rift between them and Allyson's IrrationalHatred of Laurie. But after seeing the radio station burning down, Allyson has a JerkassRealization and pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment just to save Laurie from being held in a ChokeHold by Michael after [[RebulitPedestal [[RebuiltPedestal renewing her faith in her]]]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The audience sees three of Allyson's boyfriends across the the films: Cameron, who seems nice, but shows a nasty side when drunk (although he does redeem himself later on); Doug, a cop who proves clingy and jealous even after she's moved on; and Corey, who is hated by the entire town [[spoiler:and later becomes a spree killer in the vein of Michael Myers]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:As a pinned and dying Michael tries to strangle Laurie in ''Halloween Ends'', Allyson arrives in the nick of time to break Michael's arm and render him helpless as Laurie finishes him off.]]
* JerkassRealization: [[spoiler:When she sees Willy the Kid's radio station in flames, Allyson realizes that, despite him making it appear otherwise, Corey was not an innocent victim murdered by Laurie. After Michael is dead, Allyson reconciles with her grandmother and later leaves town on good terms with her.]]
* NiceGirl: Lindsey has grown up into a sweet and good-natured woman who is among the few people to remain on good terms with Laurie. In ''Halloween Ends'', she's become a friend of Allyson's as well and proves herself compassionate towards even the otherwise hated Corey Cunningham.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Leaving Michael alive after stealing his mask was ''dramatically'' short-sighted; sure enough, Michael tracks Corey down within a few hours and takes back what's his, finishing a wounded Corey off for good measure.
** Trying to kill Laurie, despite her reputation as a CrazySurvivalist and survivor of Michael in his prime; Corey severely underestimates her and is quickly shot for his trouble.
** Corey's attempt to frame Laurie for murdering him fails because he left Willy the Kid's radio tower in flames, cluing Allyson in to the fact that Corey was no innocent victim.
** Leaving Michael alive after stealing his mask was ''dramatically'' short-sighted; sure enough, Michael tracks Corey down within a few hours and takes back what's his, finishing a wounded Corey off for good measure.
** Trying to kill Laurie, despite her reputation as a CrazySurvivalist and survivor of Michael in his prime; Corey severely underestimates her and is quickly shot for his trouble.
** Corey's attempt to frame Laurie for murdering him fails because he left Willy the Kid's radio tower in flames, cluing Allyson in to the fact that Corey was no innocent victim.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While the majority of Corey's victims were [[AssholeVictim less than admirable people]] who wronged either he or Allyson in some way, none of their transgressions warranted violent murder. This is particularly egregious when it comes to Terry (who Corey burned alive with a blowtorch), Margo (whose skull Corey stomped despite her not taking part in the bullying), Willy the Kid (whose insults earned him a lethal beating and TongueTrauma), and Laurie (who he tried to murder for rightfully telling him to stay away from Allyson).
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted; Corey becomes very attached to Allyson, and he never targets her after becoming a killer, but his actions where she's concerned are violent and murderous; he leads a romantic rival to Michael to be killed, and murders her boss for a slight towards Allyson (he promoted another nurse, whom he was sleeping with, over her). In the end, however, his affection for her is portrayed as more of an obsession and desire to possess her; he sabotages her only other positive relationship, and when trying to kill Laurie doesn't work, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, happy to die rather than allow Allyson to have a positive relationship with someone other than him.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted; Subverted:
** Corey becomes very attached to Allyson, and he never targets her after becoming a killer, but his actions where she's concerned are violent and murderous; he leads a romantic rival to Michael to be killed, and murders her boss for a slight towards Allyson (he promoted another nurse, whom he was sleeping with, over her). In the end, however, his affection for her is portrayed as more of an obsession and desire to possess her; he sabotages her only other positive relationship, and when trying to kill Laurie doesn't work, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, happy to die rather than allow Allyson to have a positive relationship with someone other thanhim.him.
** Corey's mother is extremely possessive of her adult son, as well as emotionally and at one point, physically abusive. During his murder spree, Corey lumps her in with everyone else who's wronged him and murders her.
** Corey's uncle Ronald is one of the very few people in Haddonfield who treats him well, giving him a job and an old motorcycle, as well as sincerely hoping the embattled young man finds love. Corey doesn't kill Ronald himself, but he shows no emotion when Ronald is caught in the crossfire of Corey's rampage and dies accidentally taking a bullet for Corey.
** Corey becomes very attached to Allyson, and he never targets her after becoming a killer, but his actions where she's concerned are violent and murderous; he leads a romantic rival to Michael to be killed, and murders her boss for a slight towards Allyson (he promoted another nurse, whom he was sleeping with, over her). In the end, however, his affection for her is portrayed as more of an obsession and desire to possess her; he sabotages her only other positive relationship, and when trying to kill Laurie doesn't work, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, happy to die rather than allow Allyson to have a positive relationship with someone other than
** Corey's mother is extremely possessive of her adult son, as well as emotionally and at one point, physically abusive. During his murder spree, Corey lumps her in with everyone else who's wronged him and murders her.
** Corey's uncle Ronald is one of the very few people in Haddonfield who treats him well, giving him a job and an old motorcycle, as well as sincerely hoping the embattled young man finds love. Corey doesn't kill Ronald himself, but he shows no emotion when Ronald is caught in the crossfire of Corey's rampage and dies accidentally taking a bullet for Corey.
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** After savagely beating Kid Willy, Corey takes a moment to cut off the DJ's tongue with a pair of scissors before leaving him for dead.
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** His attack on Willy the Kid was provoked by the shock jock insulting Corey, a particularly petty motive compared to his killing of the teen bullies (one of whom threw him off an overpass) and his mother (who abused him). He also goes the extra mile of setting fire to Willy's radio station after murdering him.
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* IfICantHaveYou: Develops this attitude toward Allyson, though he doesn't say it to her directly, but to Laurie.
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* IfICantHaveYou: Develops this attitude toward Allyson, though he doesn't say it to her directly, but to Laurie. In a variation on the trope, he never tries to kill Allyson. Rather, his intention is that if she doesn't have a relationship with him, he won't let her have a relationship with ''anyone'', doing his best to destroy her relationship with Laurie once he's been bested and set to be exposed as a murderer.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Once Corey has [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped headlong into darkness]], he stops caring about anyone or anything except himself and the wrongs he feels were committed against him, brutally murdering people for such minor offences as insulting him and stabbing himself in the throat when he realizes that he can't have Allyson to spite Laurie and completely ruin her and Allyson's relationship.
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** Before killing Kid Willy, Willy the Kid, Corey murders his receptionist, who is totally innocent.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Attacking Michael and stealing his mask, implicitly to frame him for Corey's own murders.
** Downplayed in his murder spree; while many of his victims were awful people, Corey's brutality is excessive, especially given that he murders two innocent women along the way.
** Attacking Michael and stealing his mask, implicitly to frame him for Corey's own murders.
** Downplayed in his murder spree; while many of his victims were awful people, Corey's brutality is excessive, especially given that he murders two innocent women along the way.
* ManipulativeBastard: Post-StartOfDarkness, Corey does his best to isolate Allyson from Laurie, even telling her that Laurie threatened his life, in order to have Allyson all to himself. After Laurie defeats his attempt to murder her, Corey even stabs himself in the throat
* MoralMyopia: Corey is angry and later tries to kill Laurie for telling him to stay away from Allyson, despite the fact that Corey has either deliberately committed or been an accessory to three murders by that point.
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* SpitefulSuicide: When he hears Allyson's car pull up after being defeated by Laurie, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, preferring to leave Allyson all alone in the world rather than not have her himself. The attempt turns out to be a complete failure; not only does Allyson quickly learn the truth, but Corey himself leaves long enough for Michael to [[NeckSnap finish him off]].
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* TheSociopath: Whether this was always the case is ambiguous, but by the time he lures Doug to Michael, Corey has become a vicious, spiteful murderer who reacts violently to slights ranging from physical assault to simple insults, murdering people in savagely brutal ways and wanting to be Allyson's only positive relationship.
* SpitefulSuicide: When he hears Allyson's car pull up after being defeated by Laurie, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, preferring to leave Allyson all alone in the world rather than not have her himself. The attempt turns out to be a complete failure; not only does Allyson quickly learn the truth, but Corey himselfleaves lingers long enough for Michael to [[NeckSnap finish him off]].
* SpitefulSuicide: When he hears Allyson's car pull up after being defeated by Laurie, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, preferring to leave Allyson all alone in the world rather than not have her himself. The attempt turns out to be a complete failure; not only does Allyson quickly learn the truth, but Corey himself
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* UndignifiedDeath: After stabbing himself in the throat in an ultimately futile attempt at a ThanatosGambit, Corey lingers long enough to be finished off by Michael with a simple NeckSnap while totally helpless to defend himself.
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Michael from the last two films. During those movies, Michael was getting old, which resulted in him copping a lot more injuries and sometimes opting for a CombatPragmatist route. Corey, on the other hand, is in his twenties and is way more able-bodied, and experienced with engineering equipment which comes in handy during the massacre at the junk yard. He also only targets people who he feels wronged him personally, though he will kill others who are in his way. Contrast with Michael, who kills randomly for no apparent reason.
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Michael from the last two films. During those movies, Michael was getting old, which resulted in him copping a lot more injuries and sometimes opting for a CombatPragmatist route. Corey, on the other hand, is in his twenties and is way more able-bodied, and experienced with engineering equipment which comes in handy during the massacre at the junk yard. He also only targets people who he feels wronged him personally, though he will kill others who are in his way. Contrast with Michael, who kills randomly for no apparent reason. Corey also lacks Michael's borderline superhuman abilities; as soon as he's up against someone he can't sneak attack, he goes down in no time.
* CurbStompBattle: His attempt to kill Laurie fails before Corey can so much as lay a finger on her; Laurie fakes him out with an apparent suicide and shoots Corey twice in the chest, critically wounding him. The only damage he actually manages to do is temporarily ruining Laurie and Allyson's relationship, and even that doesn't last long.
* CurbStompBattle: His attempt to kill Laurie fails before Corey can so much as lay a finger on her; Laurie fakes him out with an apparent suicide and shoots Corey twice in the chest, critically wounding him. The only damage he actually manages to do is temporarily ruining Laurie and Allyson's relationship, and even that doesn't last long.
* EvilIsPetty:
** After savagely beating Kid Willy, Corey takes a moment to cut off the DJ's tongue with a pair of scissors before leaving him for dead.
** After being defeated by Laurie, Corey stages a SpitefulSuicide to spoil any chance she has of reconciling with Allyson.
** After savagely beating Kid Willy, Corey takes a moment to cut off the DJ's tongue with a pair of scissors before leaving him for dead.
** After being defeated by Laurie, Corey stages a SpitefulSuicide to spoil any chance she has of reconciling with Allyson.
* {{Foil}}: To Michael himself; Michael's defining moment was deliberately murdering his sister while he was a child, whereas Corey's is accidentally murdering a child as a young adult. While they both became killers (with Corey even wearing Michael's mask), Michael was a spree killer who attacked at random, while Corey targets those who he feels wronged him. Michael is void of human attachments, while Corey becomes attached (albeit in a far from healthy way) to Allyson. Michael is an old man who, despite his [[DentedIron weakened state]], is still deadly, while Corey is a young man who relies on sneak attacks. In their confrontations with Laurie, Corey is quickly defeated without touching Laurie, whereas Michael, despite losing and dying himself, puts up a solid fight.
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* HatedByAll: After Jeremy's death, Corey is a pariah; only his stepfather, Allyson, and Laurie are willing to give him a chance.
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* HatedByAll: After Jeremy's death, Corey is a pariah; only his stepfather, uncle, Allyson, and Laurie are willing to give him a chance.
** Before killing Kid Willy, Corey murders his receptionist, who is totally innocent.
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* LikeParentLikeChild: Corey's mother is overly attached to him and hates the idea of him growing close to someone else; Corey himself proves to be no different where Allyson is concerned,
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* LikeParentLikeChild: Corey's mother is overly attached to him and hates the idea of him growing close to someone else; Corey himself proves to be no different where Allyson is concerned, telling that Laurie that if ''he'' can't have her, ''no one'' will, which he tries to see through by sabotaging Allyson and Laurie's relationship.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: In his murder of Dr. Mathis, Corey wears scarecrow mask that Allyson gave him, and during his rampage later in the film, he steals and wears Michael's own mask.
* {{Matricide}}: Before leaving to attack Laurie, Corey murders his own emotionally abusive mother.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: In his murder of Dr. Mathis, Corey wears scarecrow mask that Allyson gave him, and during his rampage later in the film, he steals and wears Michael's own mask.
* {{Matricide}}: Before leaving to attack Laurie, Corey murders his own emotionally abusive mother.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After donning the Shape's mask, Corey goes after people he feels personally wronged by, murdering the teens who harassed him, the shock jock who insulted him, his abusive mother, and tries to finish with Laurie, whom he sees as an obstacle to his relationship with Allyson.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted; Corey becomes very attached to Allyson, and he never targets her after becoming a killer, but his actions where she's concerned are violent and murderous; he leads a romantic rival to Michael to be killed, and murders her boss for a slight towards Allyson (he promoted another nurse, whom he was sleeping with, over her). In the end, however, his affection for her is portrayed as more of an obsession and desire to possess her; he sabotages her only other positive relationship, and when trying to kill Laurie doesn't work, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, happy to die rather than allow Allyson to have a positive relationship with someone other than him.
* HatedByAll: After Jeremy's death, Corey is a pariah; only his stepfather, Allyson, and Laurie are willing to give him a chance.
* ItGetsEasier: The first time Corey killed someone, it was an accident and he was shocked and traumatized. The second time, he was acting in self-defense and was shocked enough to throw away the weapon. The third time, he deliberately lures someone to Michael, fully intending for them to die, so that he can learn how to murder for himself; every other death Corey causes is 100% deliberate and done without hesitation, mercy, or remorse.
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* MeaningfulName: His surname is a reference to Arnie Cunningham from John Carpenter's ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', who gets obsessed with and corrupted by a malevolent supernatural force. Corey ends up going down a similar road.
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** While the teens who tormented him arguably [[AssholeVictim brought their fates on themselves]], Corey also murders Margo, who argued for leaving him alone and apologized for her friends' actions.
** Beaten by Laurie, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame her for murdering him so as to ruin Laurie and Allyson's relationship.
* LikeParentLikeChild: Corey's mother is overly attached to him and hates the idea of him growing close to someone else; Corey himself proves to be no different where Allyson is concerned,
* MeaningfulName:
** His surname is a reference to Arnie Cunningham from John Carpenter's ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', who gets obsessed with and corrupted by a malevolent supernatural force. Corey ends up going down a similarroad.road.
** Like the series' original boogeyman, Michael Myers, Corey Cunningham has an AlliterativeName.
* NeckSnap: Despite his attempt at a SpitefulSuicide, Corey lingers long enough for Michael to come along and repay Corey for beating him and stealing his mask.
** While the teens who tormented him arguably [[AssholeVictim brought their fates on themselves]], Corey also murders Margo, who argued for leaving him alone and apologized for her friends' actions.
** Beaten by Laurie, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame her for murdering him so as to ruin Laurie and Allyson's relationship.
* LikeParentLikeChild: Corey's mother is overly attached to him and hates the idea of him growing close to someone else; Corey himself proves to be no different where Allyson is concerned,
* MeaningfulName:
** His surname is a reference to Arnie Cunningham from John Carpenter's ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', who gets obsessed with and corrupted by a malevolent supernatural force. Corey ends up going down a similar
** Like the series' original boogeyman, Michael Myers, Corey Cunningham has an AlliterativeName.
* NeckSnap: Despite his attempt at a SpitefulSuicide, Corey lingers long enough for Michael to come along and repay Corey for beating him and stealing his mask.
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* SpitefulSuicide: When he hears Allyson's car pull up after being defeated by Laurie, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, preferring to leave Allyson all alone in the world rather than not have her himself. The attempt turns out to be a complete failure; not only does Allyson quickly learn the truth, but Corey himself leaves long enough for Michael to [[NeckSnap finish him off]].
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* HateSink: Despite [[BitchInSheepsClothing acting]] otherwise, he's quite a jerk and a terrible boyfriend who doesn't respect Allyson. [[spoiler:Contrary to slasher movie tradition, he's not seen to be killed by Michael Subverted In the 2021 sequel where he gets a RasputinianDeath from Michael it was quite horrific.]] Subverted in a beginning of a deleted scene when a guilt-ridden Cameron does apologizes for trashing her phone and attempts to make up for it by either advising Allyson to put in a bag of rice to repair it or buy her a new one.
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* HateSink: Despite [[BitchInSheepsClothing acting]] otherwise, he's quite a jerk and a terrible boyfriend who doesn't respect Allyson. [[spoiler:Contrary to slasher movie tradition, he's not seen to be killed by Michael Michael. Subverted In the 2021 sequel in ''Halloween Kills'' where he gets a RasputinianDeath from Michael it was quite horrific.]] Subverted in a beginning of a deleted scene when a guilt-ridden Cameron does apologizes for trashing her phone and attempts to make up for it by either advising Allyson to put in a bag of rice to repair it or buy her a new one.
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** TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:...even to the end]].
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* GoodParents: He seems to be one. Despite his impulsiveness and bully tendencies, he cleary loves and cares for his son.
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* GoodParents: He seems to be one. Despite his impulsiveness and bully tendencies, he cleary clearly loves and cares for his son.
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* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: During the flashback sequence in ''Halloween Kills'', Lonnie is shown being hassled by other three kids from the Mullaney family, who proceeds to antagonize him (in a very similar way he bullied Tommy in the school) for apparently stealing their candy. This double as CallBack to the original movie when they even mocked Lonnie with the exact same sentence he used against Tommy, "[[TheDreaded He]]'s gonna get you!", refering the Boogeyman.
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* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: During the flashback sequence in ''Halloween Kills'', Lonnie is shown being hassled harrassed by other three kids from the Mullaney family, who proceeds to antagonize him (in a very similar way he bullied Tommy in the school) for apparently stealing their candy. This double doubles as CallBack to the original movie when they even mocked Lonnie with the exact same sentence he used against Tommy, "[[TheDreaded He]]'s gonna get you!", refering referring the Boogeyman.
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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Their bodies are posed together on the playground's merry-go-round, wearing the murdered kids' skull and pumpkin masks.]]
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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Their bodies are posed together on the playground's merry-go-round, wearing the murdered kids' trick-or-treaters' skull and pumpkin masks.]]
