History Characters / ParanormalActivity

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Shows up in the prologue footage of PA 3, and shows up at the end of PA: The Marked Ones.]]

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: In PA 2 after Dan drives the demon out of her body.]]

* NiceGirl: In PA 2 Kristi does her best to not let the hauntings change her temperament. She also does her very best to shield and protect her baby from it all by keeping a strong face.

* DecoyProtagonist: With Kristi being Katie's younger sister the audience was lead to believe that she would be the protagonist, but Kristi spends much of the movie trying to ignore the hauntings in the hope it will go away. It's Ali who notices all the paranormal activity and is the one doing the investigating, and then when Kristi gets possessed Dan has to save her and Hunter.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Kristi is able to fight off the demon's dragging power, for a little bit, and after she does she rushes into Hunter's room to check on his well-being.]]

* NiceGirl: Kristi does her best to not let the hauntings change her temperament. She also does her very best to shield and protect her baby from it all by keeping a strong face.

* Blackmail: In Paranormal Activity 3 [[spoiler: The demon threatens to hurt Katie unless Kristi does what he wants.]]
* Brainwashed: [[spoiler: Katie and Kristi were both brainwashed into forgetting specific paranormal events from their childhood. They still remember them vaguely enough to know they've been haunted their whole lives, however.]]
* BrattyHalf-Pint: How she acts when she's a child in Paranormal Activity 3.

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The female protagonist of the first film. Throughout Katie Featherston's entire life she, and her sister Kristi, have felt the presence of a malevolent invisible demon haunting her. The demon's hostility in it's hauntings have varied over the course of her life. She has now been living with her boyfriend, Micah, for about a year now when the hauntings take a sudden violent turn. Katie is friendly individual who is easily scared. In times of hardship she becomes short-tempered and emotional.

The male protagonist of the first film. He's been living with Katie for about a year before he starts noticing that strange weird things happening around the house. Micah is the one who decides to film everything in order to catch the paranormal activity. He's fascinated by the phenomenon, and doesn't take the situation seriously until it's too late. He is childish and stubborn, and only gets worse as the plot thickens.

* TookDumbToLive: The psychic and Katie repeatedly warn Micah against communicating with/antagonising whatever is in the house. Micah decides to spread talcum powder around, buy a Ouija board, and yells at the demon to do its worst. And to top it all off, he takes Katie's crucifix, the one thing remaining that could've given her any protection from the demon, and throws it in the fireplace. By the time he realises that antagonising the demon is a bad idea, it's already too late.

* Hypocrite: Micah is embarrassed when Katie starts filming him working out even though he's been filming her every minute he can.

** TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: After Katie has a complete breakdown.]]
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Completely subverted.

* Jerkass: Constantly puts his need to capture the hauntings on tape before the well-being of his girlfriend.

* FreakOut: The last verbal fight Katie and Micah have [[leaves her an emotional wreck and sobbing uncontrollably.]]

* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler: Murders Micah in a white shirt, murders her sister and her husband in the same bloody white shirt, and then presumably murders Alex in a cleaner white shirt.]]

* EmotionsVs.Stoicism: Katie is the emotional sister who screams and cries whenever the hauntings occur, and Kristi is the stoic sister who is scared, but remains relatively calm. [[spoiler: As a result the demon has a much easier time possessing Katie.]]

* EmotionVs.Stoicism: Katie is the emotional sister who screams and cries whenever the hauntings occur, and Kristi is the stoic sister who is scared, but remains relatively calm. [[spoiler: As a result the demon has a much easier time possessing Katie.]]

* {{BeserkButton}}: Making light of her demon situation. Also [[spoiler: Micah going against what she wants through loopholes in her requests.]]
* {{DemonPossession}}: [[spoiler: Katie becomes possessed and stabs Micah to death. She then goes to Kristi's house and kills her, her husband, and then kidnaps their baby. She is possessed, and indoctrinated into the evil witch coven for the rest of the movie series.]]

* {{HeroicBOSD}}: [[spoiler: Katie is a tearful breakdown after Micah angrily yells at her that she should've told him about the demon before they moved in together. Her emotionally wrecked state makes it easy for the demon to possess her on the final night.]]

* {BeserkButton}: Making light of her demon situation. Also [[spoiler: Micah going against what she wants through loopholes in her requests.]]
* {DemonPossession}: [[spoiler: Katie becomes possessed and stabs Micah to death. She then goes to Kristi's house and kills her, her husband, and then kidnaps their baby. She is possessed, and indoctrinated into the evil witch coven for the rest of the movie series.]]

* {HeroicBOSD}: [[spoiler: Katie is a tearful breakdown after Micah angrily yells at her that she should've told him about the demon before they moved in together. Her emotionally wrecked state makes it easy for the demon to possess her on the final night.]]

* BeserkButton: Making light of her demon situation. Also [[spoiler: Micah going against what she wants through loopholes in her requests.]]
* DemonPossession: [[spoiler: Katie becomes possessed and stabs Micah to death. She then goes to Kristi's house and kills her, her husband, and then kidnaps their baby. She is possessed, and indoctrinated into the evil witch coven for the rest of the movie series.]]

* HeroicBOSD: [[spoiler: Katie is a tearful breakdown after Micah angrily yells at her that she should've told him about the demon before they moved in together. Her emotionally wrecked state makes it easy for the demon to possess her on the final night.]]

* HeroicBOSD: [[Katie is a tearful breakdown after Micah angrily yells at her that she should've told him about the demon before they moved in together. Her emotionally wrecked state makes it easy for the demon to possess her on the final night.]]

The female protagonist of the first film. Throughout Katie Featherston's entire life she, and her sister Kristy, have felt the presence of a malevolent invisible demon haunting her. The demon's hostility in it's hauntings have varied over the course of her life. She has now been living with her boyfriend, Micah, for about a year now when the hauntings take a sudden violent turn. Katie is friendly individual who is easily scared. In times of hardship she becomes short-tempered and emotional.

** DestructiveRomance: The relationship Katie has with Micah turns into this once the hauntings start becoming intense. The entire movie is just as much about the hauntings as it is about their failing relationship.

The female protagonist of the first film. Throughout Katie Featherston's entire life she, and her sister Kristy, have felt the presence of a malevolent invisible demon haunting her. The demon's hostility in it's hauntings have varied over the course of her life.

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