History Characters / PromNight1980

* ManipulativeBastard: Talks his father into imposing a harsher sentence on Lou simply by telling him that Lou was harassing Kim. Also counts as KickTheSonOfABitch.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Doesn't even pretend to be fair when suspending Lou, but given that Lou is a bully who was sexually harassing Kim, you can't help but cheer.

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The killer cuts off his head and it rolls out onto the stage in front of the other promgoers, causing everyone to panic]].

* RedHerring: Wendy mistakes the voice over the phone as his

* DirtyCoward: Only gets involved in fights when his opponents are distracted with his cronies or if they're pinned down and can't defend themselves.

* TheQuietOne: Says very little during his time onscreen, not speaking until the final act and whatever he says is rather slurred.

* ExactWords: :Mr. Hammond mentions that Alex doesn't remember the accident. Well he didn't ''see'' the accident, but that didn't stop him from knowing what happened.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Struck down with his own axe.

* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of her dialogue is embittered quips.

!!!Played By: Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Debbie Greenfield (Young)

!!!Played By: Michael Tough, Dean Bosacki (Young)

!!!Played By: Creator/LeslieNielsen

!!!Played By: Tammy Bourne

!!!Played By: Casey Stevens, Brock Sampson (Young)

!!!Played By: Eddie Benton, Leslie Scott (Young)

!!!Played By: Mary Beth Rubens, Joyce Kite (Young)

!!!Played By: Joy Thompson, Karen Forbes (Young)

!!!Played By: Sheldon Rybowski

%%* NiceGuy: Shown to be a kind enough person whose only vices are weed and [[spoiler:unknowingly dating a girl with a target on her back.]]

!!!Played By: David Mucci

!!!Played By: Jeff Wincott

!!!Played By: Pita Oliver

!!!Played By: Robert A. Silverman

!!!Played By: George Touliatos

!!!Played By: Unknown

[[folder:The Killer]]
!!The Killer
!!!Played By: [[spoiler:Michael Tough]]

A mysterious figure who appears at the beginning of the film calling those who were involved in Robin Hammond's death before showing up at the prom to kill those responsible.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Spends the last moments of his life screaming for the sister he lost long ago, cradled in the arms of his other sister]].

* BestServedCold: [[spoiler:He's waited six years to take his revenge on his sister's killers.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Who would have thought that the kindhearted Alex was a vengeful multiple murderer?]]

* ClassicVillain: [[spoiler:'''Wrath'''. Alex's anger against the teens who killed his sister is the driving force of the plot, he wears an all-black ensemble as the killer, deceives the characters and the audience as his identity is not revealed until the last shots of the film, goes down in a fight with his sister Kim and his last target Nick on a dance floor, and [[AlasPoorVillain spends his last moments mourning Robin]] as Kim cradles him in her arms.]]

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Passes away in the arms of his sister Kim.]]
* DrivenToVillainy: [[spoiler:Alex was a normal kid whose grief for the death of his sister drove him to avenge her by killing the perpetrators.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Alex committed all these murders to avenge his sister. He would also never harm his other sister Kim, refusing to take a blow at her when she gets in his way and shoving her aside several times to take a blow at Nick]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Alex won't kill anyone he doesn't have to, isolating his kills to the perpetrators and any witnesses he can't wait on to leave. This counts for double in the climax when it's his sister Kim he's fighting, since he knocks her aside rather than cutting through her.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:To Kim. Neither sibling really got over their sister's death but Alex takes his grief, pain, and anger to murderous levels.]]

* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Mr. Hammond mentions that Alex doesn't remember the accident. Well he didn't ''see'' the accident, but that didn't stop him from knowing what happened.]]
* FatalFlaw: Has a bad habit for tunnel vision. [[spoiler:He gets laid low when fighting Lou's cronies because Lou catches him in the back. Later on during the final fight, he focuses all his attention on Nick and subsequently receives mortal injuries because he doesn't watch for Kim coming down on his head with the axe.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Struck down with his own axe.]]

* ImprovisedWeapon: Breaks a mirror at the school and uses its shards to kill [[spoiler:Kelly and Jude]].

* KnightTemplarBigBrother: [[spoiler:More like [[InvertedTrope Knight Templar Younger Brother]] for Kim and twin brother for Robin, but if you mess with either of Alex's sisters, you're a dead man.]]

* LightningBruiser: As far as slasher villains go (contrast with the slow-moving [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] and [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] who almost [[MightyGlacier never move faster]] than a MenacingStroll). The killer is shown to be light on their feet, gets up from [[{{Determinator}} repeated blows and electrocution]], and every hit packs a wallop if it connects. When [[spoiler:he does receive a fatal injury, it takes him a few minutes to die.]]

* MundaneHorror: [[spoiler:Compared to the other villains in the film series. Alex isn't a VengefulGhost like [[Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII Mary Lou]], or a SinisterMinister ImplacableMan like [[Film/PromNightIVDeliverUsFromEvil Father Jonas]], or someone with sexual interest in young girls like [[Film/PromNight2008 Richard Fenton]]. He's just a young man who has discernible, even sympathetic, motivations, above-average strength and a razor-sharp focus.]]
* MusclesAreMeaningless: [[spoiler:Alex may be built [[LeanAndMean more slight]] than the average slasher villain, but he can throw a slightly larger boy (one of Lou's cronies) a few yards and decapitate Lou, who is much bigger than him, with a single stroke of an axe.]]
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:He's in the process of strangling Nick, his last target, to death when he receives his death blow.]]
* NobleDemon: [[spoiler:Alex is unique among Slasher villains in that he makes a concerted effort to attack as few bystanders as possible, sticking as much as he can to target those who he has a grudge against (except for Slick so as to LeaveNoWitnesses). For example, he waits until Drew leaves Kelly before killing the latter, doesn't go anywhere near Lieutenant [=McBride=], and does his best to knock Kim out of the way when he comes for Nick.]]
* {{Revenge}}: The killer's motivation, but whose? The ending of the film reveals that [[spoiler:it's Alex who's taking revenge]].

* SayMyName: [[spoiler:Screams the name of the sister he lost as he dies of his wounds.]]
* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Alex's motivation is to avenge his sister's death by murdering the teenagers who caused it.]]
* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler:He's not going to kill his sister Kim even if she gets in his way.]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Alex is motivated by the death of his sister to seek revenge against her killers]].

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: [[spoiler:During his final moments, Alex replays finding Robin dead and watching her killers leaving.]]

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Those kids killed his sister. He'll make them pay]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Disappears from the film almost completely shortly before Kelly's death.]]

* OralFixation: Constantly seen chewing gum.

* BandagedFace: He's briefly seen in a prison hospital with the back of his head bandaged.

* BoringButPractical: His costume lacks the iconic status of people like Michael Myers or Ghostface, but the killer's outfit is more for function: a face-concealing ski mask and black clothes to hide him in shadow and allow him graceful movement; contrast with Ghostface whose cloak constantly causes him to trip and whose mask's darkened lenses impair his ability to see.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Alex's death is treated tragically in light of why he committed all these murders (to avenge his sister) and who killed him (his other sister)]].

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:She and Slick are killed not long after their first time]].

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:He and Jude are killed after their first time]].

* {{Determinator}}: The killer is a regular old human, but shows a certain doggedness in his movements, keeping up with his prey with speed and getting up after getting punched, hit with poles, and electrocuted

* AnAxeToGrind: When he goes back to the school after [[spoiler:killing Jude and Slick]], he picks up an axe and uses that as his main weapon for the second half of the climax.

* {{Foil}}: To Slick. Slick is a kindhearted nerd, Lou is a BarbaricBully. However, they're similar in that they wind up going to the prom as last-minute dates to people who killed Robin Hammond and [[spoiler:wind up dead because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time.]]