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[[Characters/HalloweenMichaelMyers Michael Myers]] | '''Laurie Strode''' | [[Characters/HalloweenSamuelLoomis Samuel Loomis]] | [[Characters/HalloweenJamieLloyd Jamie Lloyd]] | [[Characters/HalloweenRachelCarruthers Rachel Carruthers]] | [[Characters/HalloweenTinaWilliams Tina Williams]] | ''[[Characters/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch Season of the Witch]]'' | ''[[Characters/Halloween2007 Halloween (2007)]]'' | ''[[Characters/Halloween2018 Halloween (2018)]]''-]]]]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Due to Laurie and Michael being UnrelatedInTheAdaptation, the nature of their antagonism differs in this continuity. While in the previous continuities, Michael spent his various incarcerations obsessed with finding Laurie and/or her children, in this timeline, she spends most of the 2018 film and ''Halloween Kills'' believing that Michael is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and is ultimately after her, even believing that, in the latter film, he'll seek her out in the hospital. The reality, as Hawkins informs her, is that Michael has barely spared Laurie a thought in the past forty years and was brought to her by circumstances beyond his control. Even when he's clearly more aware of Laurie, Michael doesn't go out of his way to find her. [[spoiler:Their final showdown in ''Halloween Ends'' only takes place because Michael wants his mask back from Corey, who stole it for his own murder spree; that Corey was at Laurie's house when Michael finally caught up with him was a total coincidence.]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Due to Laurie and Michael being UnrelatedInTheAdaptation, the nature of their antagonism differs. While in the previous continuities, Michael spent his various incarcerations obsessed with finding Laurie and/or her children, in this timeline, she spends most of the 2018 film and ''Halloween Kills'' believing that Michael is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and is ultimately after her, even believing that, in the latter film, he'll seek her out in the hospital. The reality, as Hawkins informs her, is that Michael has barely spared Laurie a thought in the past forty years and was brought to her by circumstances beyond his control. Even when he's clearly more aware of Laurie, Michael doesn't go out of his way to find her. [[spoiler:Their final showdown in ''Halloween Ends'' only takes place because Michael wants his mask back from Corey, who stole it for his own murder spree; that Corey was at Laurie's house when Michael finally caught up with him was a total coincidence.]]

--->'''Corey:''' You started this! You brought me in! You invited me! But you're the one to blame.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Downplayed; Laurie is certainly aware that she's in a horror movie, but she spends most of the 2018 film and ''Halloween Kills'' believing that Michael is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and is ultimately after her, even believing that, in the latter film, he'll seek her out in the hospital. The reality, as Hawkins informs her, is that Michael has barely spared Laurie a thought in the past forty years and was brought to her by circumstances beyond his control. Even when he's clearly more aware of Laurie, Michael doesn't go out of his way to find her. [[spoiler:Their final showdown in ''Halloween Ends'' only takes place because Michael wants his mask back from Corey, who stole it for his own murder spree; that Corey was at Laurie's house when Michael finally caught up with him was a total coincidence.]]

* ActionGirl: Downplayed in the first movie, where she is a normal teenage girl with no known combat experience and would rather hide than fight. However, if she’s cornered, she will lash out and has attacked Michael three times in self defense. It’s played more straight in ''H20'' where she actually [[spoiler:kills Michael]]. [[spoiler: [[{{Retcon}} Except not really]]]], but she gets points for trying.

* ActionGirl: In ''H20'', where she actually [[spoiler:kills Michael]]. [[spoiler: [[{{Retcon}} Except not really]]]], but she gets points for trying.

* {{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.

* {{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.]]

* DistaffCounterpart: By the time of this movie, Laurie has followed in the footsteps of her rescuer, Dr. Samuel Loomis. Both characters at their senior ages prepped to take on Michael to stop him from killing anyone else. However, Dr. Loomis had seven years while Laurie had ''forty'' years to plan for Michael's return. Also, like Loomis in the 1981 sequel and 2009 remake sequel, she is {{Misblamed}} for Michael's escape and killing spree in ''Halloween Ends''.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Laurie is an embittered and antisocial woman with few friends, but she still values human life; while hunting for Michael, her first instinct is to order people to get to safety, she avoids shooting at anyone or anything other than Michael, and [[spoiler:she tries, ultimately in vain, to prevent the mob in ''Halloween Kills'' from hounding an innocent man to his death.]]

* {{Expy}}: Her characterization in ''Ends'' resembles that of Dr. Loomis in ''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers''. Like Loomis in that film, she has moved on from Michael after not seeing him for years, has become calmer than she previously was, is writing a book about her experiences with him, [[spoiler:and faces some new adversary who is helpful to Michael (Dr. Wynn for Loomis, and Corey for Laurie.)]]

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* AdaptationNameChange: Of a sort, as since she and Michael are not related in this timeline, Laurie Strode is her actual name and she does not have the name of Cynthia or Angel Myers.

* SeeYouInHell: [[spoiler:Laurie says this to Michael after he fatally stabs her.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"You don't believe in the boogeyman? You should."]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'' | ''Film/{{Halloween II|1981}}'' | ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'' | ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater''

-> ''"Well, kiddo, I thought you outgrew superstition"''

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

[-Played By: Creator/ScoutTaylorCompton-]

->'''Played by: Creator/JamieLeeCurtis'''

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Cutting a man's throat and wrist while he's pinned to a table, helpless to defend himself, then tossing his body into a junk shredder, would normally be an utterly reprehensible thing to do; as Laurie did it to Michael Myers himself, however, it's justice well-served.]]

* ShellShockedVeteran: It is clear that Michael killing Laurie's friends and nearly killing her as well has understandably left her with some long lasting trauma, leading her to become a gun-toting survivalist. [[WordOfGod Jamie Lee Curtis]] even stated Laurie's life was rough after that Halloween.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: The film uses makeup effects to make Laurie look haggard and worn down, but in a scene where she wears a tank top, it's clear that Laurie is in very good shape.

* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Despite being terrified, she vehemently protects Tommy and Lindsey from Michael in the first movie.

* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: In the non-canon CHAOS! Comics storyline that reconciles the timelines of ''Halloween 4-6'' (the "Thorn" trilogy) and ''H20'', [[spoiler:Laurie Strode follows in her brother's footsteps (and her daughter's [[AbortedArc initial footsteps]] in the finale of the fourth film) by succumbing to madness after she [[KilledForReal seemingly kills Michael for real]] by beheading him at the end of ''H20'', assuming his identity as the "Shape" complete with his mask and outfit, and killing more victims while being groomed by the Thorn Cult to become his successor]].