History Characters / JeepersCreepers

* TheCheerleader: Minxie is one of the cheerleaders. Who unexpectedly gains psychic powers.

* AncientEvil: As revealed in ''3''. [[spoiler:After looking into the Creeper's mind through its severed hand, Tashtego discovers that the Creeper has been around feeding on humans and hibernating for millennia.]]

* ForTheEvulz: At first The Creeper seems like he kills to feed himself, thus attempting to survive. However seeing all the tortures he likes to inflict to his victims it's clear he does it for pure sadistic fun at the same time. Its Cathedral of Horrors is definitely not the result of a predator that just needs to survive.

* VillainsOutShopping: A rather twisted version. When awake, the Creeper uses some of the time it has on Earth for some casual time, making grotesque artwork from the bodies of his victims while listening to music.

* ITsAllAboutMe: His first speaking moment in the film is him having a subdued Hissy Fit about only being on the court for the basketball finals for 12 minutes, and arrogantly proclaiming that ''he'' was the only reason they got to the finals in the first place, then starts going on about how he was left out for a so long because he was "the wrong color" despite the team being multi-ethnic, it becomes clear throughout the movie that he only cares about himself, when he is clearly chosen by the Creeper, but tries to throw out the others, to the anger of the rest of the bus.

* BerserkButton: Apparently the one thing that can genuinely enrage the thing is [[spoiler: discovering what it ''really'' is.]]
** [[spoiler: And don't ever piss on his truck because if you did he will cases you, find you and kill you.]]

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Happens a few times despiter their constant arguing, most notably a very sad case at the end
* BigSisterInstinct: To Darry

->'''Played By:''' Eric Nenninger

->'''Played By:''' Patricia Belcher

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachother: Happens a few times despiter their constant arguing, most notably a very sad case at the end

* JerkJock: There are other jocks on the bus but Scotty is perhaps the biggest jerk jock if his implied homophobic and racist traits are anything to go by. And then he tries to convince everyone to throw three of the Creeper's intended victims off the bus, but as one of the kids, D points out, the Creeper picked him too. It's pretty clear that he only cares about his own survival. His girlfriend Rhonda and D call him out on this.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Well, he's more of a JerkJock than a villain, but he has very unlikable traits. He thinks the coach and the "token white boy" assistant coach have it out for him due to only giving him twelve minutes of play time, makes a comment on how he's the wrong skin color for being on the basketball team (despite there being black ''and'' white kids on the team), makes a rude "swinging" comment at Izzy and when he gets into an argument with D over whether they should stay or get off the bus, he calls D "bro". D knows that's not what he ''really'' wanted to say.

* TheSociopath: He's a literal monster but he's sentient like an human. Unfortunately he has all the traits of a cruel and merciless SerialKiller who loves not only to eat their victims, but also enjoying their pain and he doesn't seem to have problem with innocent casualities either.

** Might be a case of ShownTheirWork, as the chest and shoulder muscles required for [[spoiler:powered flight]] in most animals is waay denser than ours.

* VillainousBreakdown: Normally averted, but played straight in the third movie. When it [[spoiler:finds a sign telling it 'We know what you are', it gets actively enraged and to some degree seems ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror afraid]]'', to the point of doing something it ''never'' does: give up on its current target.]]

* WingedHumanoid: Sports an absolutely massive pair of bat like wings, that he usually only breaks out if his truck is out of commission.
* WouldHurtAChild: If the missing posters in the first movie are any indication, the Creepers is definitely willing to kill and torture children. He also kidnapped and murdered Billy in the second movie.

* FakeUltimateHero: Scotty, who [[DecoyProtagonist thinks he's the main protagonist of the sequel]], while he's nothing but an implied racist and homophobic JerkJock and an AssholeVictim.
* HateSink: If Scotty wasn't a DecoyProtagonist, he would be this.

* LeaderWannabe: Self-elects himself as de facto leader of the students despite a ZeroApprovalRating amongst his peers and is shunned once the others had enough of his selfish incompetence in leadership.

** Thus far, the only reliable weakness he has is that he ''can't'' heal if he's prevented from eating. As a result, continuing to damage it without letting it heal will cause the damage to mount and weaken it. The second film shows this during the climax: it's repeatedly damaged over and over again without a chance to find eat, allowing the humans to come the closest to killing it thus far seen in the franchise.

->'''Played By:''' Justin Long

* TheyReallyDoLoveEachother: Happens a few times despiter their constant arguing, most notably a very sad case at the end

* TheSociopath: He's a literal monster but he's sentient like an human. Unfortunately he has all the traits of a cruel and merciless SerialKiller who loves not only to eat their victims, but also relishing in their misery and he doesn't seem to have problem with innocent casualities either.

* ForTheEvulz: At first The Creeper seems like he kills to feed himself, thus attemping to survive. However seeing all the tortures he likes to inflict to his victims it's clear he does it for pure sadistic fun at the same time. Its Cathedral of Horrors is definitely not the result of a predator that just needs to survive.

* AxToGrind: One of his weapons is a battle axe that appears to have been from Viking times.

* AxeToGrind: One of his weapons is a battle axe that appears to have been from Viking times.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Well, he's more of a JerkJock than a villain, but he has very unlikable traits. He thinks the coach and the "token white boy" assisstant coach have it out for him due to only giving him twelve minutes of play time, makes a comment on how he's the wrong skin color for being on the basketball team (despite there being black ''and'' white kids on the team), assumes the bar fight where Izzy got his scars was at a gay bar and when he gets into an argument with D over whether they should stay or get off the bus, he calls D "bro". D knows that's not what he ''really'' wanted to say.

* DecoyProtagonist: Scotty thinks himself the hero being the basketball team's captain, but it's implied he might have racist and homophobic traits. And when he mentions the "two classes of people", he doesn't include himself among those who are doomed to get eaten by the Creeper. It's clear at this point that, racist and homophobic or not, he only cares about his own survival and is willing to sacrifice his three of his friends and teammates to live. Needless to say, he's the third student that ends up getting killed.

* DecoyProtagonist: Scotty thinks himself the hero being the basketball team's captain, but its implied he might have racist and homophobic traits. And when he mentions the "two classes of people", he doesn't include himself among those who are doomed to get eaten by the Creeper. It's clear at this point that, racist and homophobic or not, he only cares about his own survival and is willing to sacrifice his three of his friends and teammates to live. Needless to say, he's the third student that ends up getting killed.
* JerkJock: There are other jocks on the bus but Scotty is perhaps the biggest jerk jock if his implied homophobic and racist traits are anything to go by. And then he tries to convince everyone to throw three of the Creeper's intended victims off the bus, but as one of the kids, D points out, the Creeper picked him too. It's pretty clear that he only cares about his own survival. His girlfriend, Rhonda calls him out on this.