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7'''Beware of major spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.'''
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11[[folder:Blaire Lily]]
12!!Blaire Lily
13!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ShelleyHennig
14
15The main character of the story, presumably a close friend to the late Laura Barns who committed suicide a year ago.
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17* ActorAllusion: One of the pages on Blaire's search history is of ''Series/TeenWolf'', which Blaire's actress (Creator/ShelleyHennig) has a role on.
18* AintTooProudToBeg: Desperately tries to appeal to her and Laura's friendship in the past to try and save herself. It doesn't work.
19* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Blaire filmed the video of Laura, which led to her suicide, sat back and allowed her friends to be tormented and eventually killed by Laura instead of confessing, threw both her boyfriend and his best friend (whom she slept with twice behind her boyfriend's back) under the bus, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking crashed Jess's mother's car while drunk]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jess is genuinely shocked that Blaire would screw her boyfriend's best friend.]]]]
20* BreakTheHaughty: Watching all your friends [[spoiler: get murdered can do that to a girl. Although considering the fact that she [[TheSociopath gladly handed her so-called friends over for the slaughter]], it's more likely [[VillainousBreakdown that she knew]] [[DirtyCoward that the number of distractions she sent Laura's way were only going to last so long before her time ran out.]]]]
21* CompulsiveLiar: [[spoiler: Blaire lies near-constantly, even when she doesn't have to or there is obviously no benefit. This is most clear near the end, when everyone else has already been killed and she is alone with Laura, who Blaire is already aware already knows her darkest secrets. She continues denying that she did anything wrong only to have the proof that she was the worst of the lot immediately shown to her.]]
22* ConsummateLiar: [[spoiler: As befits TheSociopath, most everything Blaire says is either a lie, a half-truth, or an attempt to manipulate somebody else. Even when all her friends are dead and faced with an otherworldly entity, she still seems to think she can play on Laura’s emotional sympathies to save herself. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work.]]
23* CruelCheerleader: She has a cheerleading trophy in her bedroom, [[spoiler:and she lives up to the AlphaBitch stereotype of cheerleaders as well]].
24* DirtyCoward: When it boils down to it, [[spoiler: she would gladly sell out her own friends and send them to their deaths to give herself a few extra minutes of life. And when it's just her and Laura, she's a sniveling pathetic mess begging for mercy.]]
25* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The film begins with Blaire watching the suicide video of Laura Barns, [[spoiler: which doubles as {{Foreshadowing}}, and not long afterwards while flirting with Mitch, she gets turned on when he playfully threatens her with a knife over Skype. This makes it clear Blaire isn't the typical female protagonist in a horror movie, and is far from innocent enough to qualify as a FinalGirl.]]
26* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: [[spoiler: Blaire looks like an innocent, attractive young girl. Beneath, she's a selfish, cowardly person who is heavily implied to be an outright sociopath.]]
27* TheFakeCutie: Blaire puts on this persona to [[spoiler:hide her true nature.]]
28* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler: Whether she’s TheSociopath or not, her unwillingness to come clean with her sins ends up killing her and her friends. She only ever apologizes for the things she did until after Laura reveals them, and even then she tries to downplay them by making excuses.]]
29* FinalGirl: Subverted.[[spoiler: She's not the final survivor, she's the last victim, and the only reason she survives so long is because Laura hates her the most and wants to torture her by drawing it out. Also, she's not innocent and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking isn't a virgin]], having cheated on Mitch with Adam and filmed the deadly video in the first place.]]
30* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the point where Laura floods the screen with the video of her passed out, you can see the shadow of the filmer. [[spoiler: You can see that the person is clearly female, and thus can't be Mitch.]].
31* GirlNextDoor: Subverted: Blaire has the look, but [[spoiler: fakes the personality.]]
32* GoshDarnItToHeck: Downplayed. She still curses at times but she’s overall the least swear happy of her friends, never once dropping an F-Bomb.
33* HateSink: [[spoiler: Blaire is ultimately a selfish, cowardly and treacherous monster who turned on Laura and partially caused her suicide, gives up her friends to save herself and generally has almost no positive or redeeming traits.]]
34* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: She’s far from being a NiceGirl. She’s definitely a lying, cheating, and selfish bitch who refuses to admit her mistakes.]]
35* KilledOffscreen: Quite literally, as her laptop is [[spoiler:closed within the final moments of the movie, before [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Laura lunges at the viewers.]]]]
36* {{Irony}}: She’s the only one of her friends who actually says “[[TheUnapologetic I’m sorry]]” for her own misdeeds. [[spoiler: Noticeably, ''after'' Laura outs her misdeeds out to them. More so, Blaire stubbornly refuses to admit what she did to Laura even after everyone is dead until when Laura outright shows her face on the video.]]
37* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler:[[TheFakeCutie She hides it by putting up a cute facade]], but as the film shows she’s [[EvilIsPetty spitefully petty]], [[DirtyCoward extraordinarily craven to the point of selling out her friends just so she can keep sucking air a little longer]], cheats on her boyfriend twice behind his back and drove Laura, which to make it worse was an old friend of hers, to suicide ForTheEvulz.]]
38* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Because she gleefully humiliated and drove Laura to suicide without a flicker of remorse and nothing but twisted satisfaction for the deed, it’s extremely satisfying that she dies at the hands of her bullying victim an [[DirtyCoward undignified]], [[BreakTheHaughty humiliated, broken]] mess [[DyingAlone all alone]] and with only herself to blame for her plight.]]
39* KickTheDog:
40** Refused to admit responsibility for [[spoiler: bullying Laura]] even when doing so would've saved her and her friends lives.
41** Cheated on Mitch by sleeping with his best friend Adam behind his back. ''Twice''. She later throws both of them under the bus in an attempt to save herself which resulted in their deaths.
42** Betrayed her best friend in the worst way possible by being the one who filmed the video that led to said best friend killing herself. Her sinister SlasherSmile during said video makes it worse.
43%%* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: Arguably. She has no issue letting her friends die if she thinks it will save her and doesn't seem to have any remorse for playing a part in Laura's death to begin with.]]
44* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:All she had to do to save herself (and her friends) was confess to what she did and take responsibility for her actions. It is heavily implied that Laura would let them go unharmed if they do just that. ''She never does.'' Near the end, even after reading that the only way to survive is to confess her sins, and after all of her friends and her boyfriend die, Blaire still adamantly refuses to acknowledge her involvement as the cameraperson until Laura posts the unedited video on her Facebook, revealing it to the world and marking the end of Blaire's last chance for redemption. Death follows immediately after.]]
45* ShoutOutThemeNaming: The protagonist's name is [[Film/{{TheBlairWitchProject}} Blaire]].
46* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Displays a sinister one both in her photos with Laura and in the video that led to her death.]]
47* TheSociopath: Shows signs of being this throughout the film, especially since [[spoiler: literally all she'd have to do to save her friends and even save herself is confess to what she did and take responsibility for her actions. Instead, she avoids doing so like the plague, gets her friends killed, and desperately tries to weasel her way out of the consequences of what she's done and refuses to admit to doing.]]
48* TooDumbToLive: Blaire keeps making idiotic decision after idiotic decision as the movie goes by, which is especially apparent [[spoiler: when she tries to ask for help on, of all things, ''Chatroulette''.]]
49* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: By the time her head is up for the chop, she's a bawling, pathetic mess, futilely holding on to the delusional thought that Laura will spare her for some reason.]]
50* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:She betrayed her friend by gleefully humiliating her and driving her to suicide through rampant cyber-bullying, starting the whole mess in the first place. And then she allows Laura to kill her friends off rather than confess her sins, showing that she's a horrible person deep down.]]
51* WalkingSpoiler: It's pretty clear that she is not exactly who she says she is.
52* WeightWoe: According to Jess, Blaire starves herself and has an eating disorder.
53* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Played with, then subverted: [[spoiler: Blaire is possibly given a chance to save her friends and herself by confessing, but she reveals herself to be a ManipulativeBastard all the way until the end.]]
54[[/folder]]
55
56[[folder:Mitch Roussel]]
57!!Mitch Roussel
58!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Moses Jacob Storm
59
60Blaire's boyfriend and best friend to Adam.
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62* AffectionateNickname: Blaire sometimes calls him "Mitchie".
63* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Blaire has a cheerleader trophy in the background of her room, and while flirting with her on Skype, he does a cheerleader-like celebration with Blaire after she promises to have sex with him after prom.
64* DeathGlare: His final moments are spent giving one of these to [[spoiler:Blaire]], staring down at the screen in silence with a downright cold look on his face. It's ambiguous whether it's Mitch staring [[spoiler:Blaire down for selling him out to Laura, or Laura in his body knowing she still didn't tell the whole truth.]]
65* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Despite her and Adam's obvious terror, Mitch demanded that Blaire show him the printout she received or else he'd walk out, still enraged by the reveal of the two cheating behind his back. He's fully aware that Laura would kill him if he left, but he was too angry to care.]]
66* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Once he and Blaire are the only ones left, Mitch is noticeably less verbal and speaks with a quiet, tired tone of voice.]]
67* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: To his girlfriend ''and'' his best friend, who had sex twice behind his back. He did '''not''' take this well, to the point where he was willing to endanger his own life ''and'' theirs out of anger. (Though he immediately regrets it.) ]]
68* EveryoneHasStandards: He was horrified and repulsed by [[spoiler: Adam's willingness to trade Jess' life for theirs.]]
69* EyeScream: How he dies after [[spoiler: Blaire sells him out to Laura in the final game, forced to headbutt his knife through his right eye.]]
70* IdiotBall: He ''was'' understandably upset about [[spoiler: being cheated on]], and had little reason to trust Blaire or Adam at that point. ''However'', there was no reason possible for him to think that they would [[spoiler: send two secret messages to each other that ''neither'' wanted to show to anyone in the first place, and not the murderous internet ghost that was presently haunting them. Let alone ''print them out for everyone on the Skype call to see'' instead of just messaging each other online like he and Blaire were doing earlier. He should have been able to tell that something bad would happen considering they were both obviously terrified by what they saw on the papers. Justifed, as he was too angry to listen to reason.]]
71* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's arguably the least reprehensible of the cast, [[spoiler:especially if you believe that it was Blaire that had posted the video of Laura online, not Mitch.]]
72* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: His anger towards Blaire and Adam ends up causing the latter’s death. If his body language and silence is any indication, he clearly regrets it.]]
73* NiceGuysFinishLast: He's shown to really care about [[spoiler: Blaire and is willing to wait until she is ready to give him her virginity. Too bad his [[AllGirlsWantBadboys not so nice best friend Adam]] already had sex with her behind his back. Twice.]]
74* TheStoolPigeon: During the "Never-have-I-ever" segment, it's revealed that he sold Adam out to the police for selling weed/marijuana. Whether it was out of some moral obligation or jealousy of his wealth is unknown.
75* TroubledFetalPosition: He succumbs to this after [[spoiler: Laura kills Adam. Especially poignant because he was mainly responsible for it and couldn't properly read the situation until it was too late.]]
76* WhatYouAreInTheDark:
77** During the fallout of the reveal that [[spoiler:Adam made a deal with Laura to take Jess in exchange for sparing him, Mitch and Blaire]], Mitch reveals that Laura offered him a similar deal and he refused.
78** Conversely, his friendship with Adam doesn't always paint him in a good light. The worst things revealed about Adam during the Never-Have-I-Ever game are, tellingly, revealed by Mitch, who [[ToxicFriendInfluence apparently values his friendship with Adam over the safety of the women around him]]. Adam is also the only one who never gets exposed for direct harassment of Laura, while Mitch [[spoiler:was revealed to have posted the video that led to her suicide in the first place, assuming Blaire is to be believed.]]
79* YouMonster: Continuously calls [[spoiler: Adam]] a piece of shit as the game goes on.
80[[/folder]]
81
82[[folder:Jess Felton]]
83!!Jess Felton
84!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Renee Olstead
85
86Blaire's main female friend after her childhood friendship with Laura Barns went sour for unknown reasons.
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88* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Is hinted to be in love with [[spoiler: Adam, and was especially devastated by his death. You can also see her cringing and crying when Blaire is describing her ''second'' encounter with Adam, as she clearly is bothered by the notion of her crush having sex with a different girl. And that's ''after'' he confessed that he tried to trade her life for theirs.]]
89* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: [[spoiler: Implied; she has a crush on Adam, the hot-headed jerk.]]
90* AssholeVictim: Jess bullied Laura along with everyone else, even going as far to deface her grave. [[spoiler:Fittingly, she ends up getting cruelly killed via a hot hair straightener, a product used for beauty.]]
91* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Not only does she witness the death of several people, but it's also revealed that her crush willingly tried to sell her out just to save his own skin (and that's before she learned that he had two sexual encounters with her best friend).]]
92* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Her death is right up there with Ken's in nastiness, consisting of [[spoiler:getting a burning hair straightener shoved down her throat]].
93* FlatWhat: Her first reaction to learning that someone [[spoiler: tried to sacrifice her to Laura]] is a quiet, heartbroken "what?".
94* KickTheDog: Defacing the grave of a girl you bullied into suicide lands you here. [[spoiler:It's not too surprising that Laura gives her one of the most gruesome deaths]].
95* NeutralFemale: [[spoiler:Laura outing Adam's attempt to bargain her life for everyone else's , on top of other revelations in the “Never Have I Ever” game, breaks her to the point where she can only cry idly as her friends verbally tear at each other.]]
96* NeverMyFault: During the "Never Have I Ever" game, she doesn't apologize or even admit the things she did were wrong and instead tries to justify them.
97** When it's revealed that she started a rumor about Blaire having an eating disorder, Jess only implies that there's some truth to it.
98** When she reveals she stole money from Adam, she just points out that he's rich and has enough money.
99* PerpetualSmiler: She has a constant shit-eating grin throughout the entire film with the exception of [[spoiler: her death scene]]. Even during the film's tense moments, she manages to muster a nervous smile.
100* ReallyGetsAround: According to Adam, Val and Laura. She iterates that she only dated/slept with two members of the football team.
101* VolleyingInsults: She and Val get more and more hostile to each other and end up throwing insults at each other and their other buddies.
102* WeightWoe: Seemingly the reason she started a rumor about Blaire having an eating disorder; by her own words, Blaire often talked about not feeling hungry and denied food, [[DrivenByEnvy which hurt Jess' vanity]].
103[[/folder]]
104
105[[folder:Adam Sewell]]
106!!Adam Sewell
107!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Will Peltz
108
109Mitch's rich best friend and known bad boy around high school.
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111* AssholeVictim: Adam bullied Laura along with everyone else. It also doesn't help that he's an overall Jerkass to his friends and [[spoiler: slept with Blaire twice behind Mitch's back.]] And not only that he also [[spoiler: ''roofied a girl and forced her to get an abortion'']]. At least, according to [[UnreliableNarrator Mitch's accusations]] during Never Have I Ever.
112* TheAlcoholic: According to Blaire, he's frequently drunk. She theorizes that he’s this in the movie’s events as well.
113* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How he dies.]]
114* ButLiquorIsQuicker: [[spoiler: Roofies]] a girl at a party, as revealed by the "Never Have I Ever" game.
115* DateRape: As mentioned, he [[spoiler: roofied a girl named Ashley Dane at a party and had sex with her.]]
116* DeadpanSnarker: Even in comparison to the rest of the cast. He's still snarking even after Billie starts killing people. Though in this case it's less CasualDangerDialogue and more him trying to cover up a lot of fear, stress and anger.
117* EtTuBrute: During the game of “Never have I Ever”, Laura eventually starts revealing a string a slights against him by the rest of the group (Mitch selling him out to the cops, Jess stealing $800 from him). Eventually he gets so frustrated at them [[spoiler: and Blaire’s hypocritical NiceGirl persona]] that he uses the game to reveal that [[spoiler:Blaire lost his virginity to him just to spite her and Mitch.]]
118* HairTriggerTemper: Especially when he's drunk.
119* HiddenDepths: While still morally questionable, he shows times where he's trying to protect [[BestFriend Mitch]] and/or [[spoiler:[[LoveTriangle Blaire]]]]:
120** First off, during the "Never-have-I-ever" game, it's revealed that he [[spoiler:[[DealWithTheDevil bargained with Laura to take Jess in exchange for letting him, Mitch and Blaire go]].]] It crushes [[spoiler:Jess]], and his friends are [[YouMonster clearly appalled]], but he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo asserts that he was just trying to save them]].
121** Second, after revealing that [[spoiler:Blaire gave her virginity to him instead of Mitch]], he receives a printout from Laura, saying that he's not allowed to show it in a tired voice. When Blaire receives a similar print, Mitch demands that she show it, or he'll leave (which would mean his death). Despite Adam's protesting, she shows it, [[spoiler:a paper that says "If you reveal this note, Adam will die."]] After he dies and his body falls over he's revealed to have had the message, [[spoiler:[[WhatYouAreInTheDark "If you reveal this note, Blaire will die."]]]]
122* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His defense when confronted with [[spoiler:his false agreement with Laura to bargain Jess' life for theirs.]]
123* IllKillYou: His response to Laura when she wanted to start a "bonus round". [[spoiler:She sets up his death in response.]]
124* {{Jerkass}}: Possibly the biggest one in the group, especially when he deliberately leads the [[spoiler:"Never-have-I-ever" game]] at one point out of spite.
125* JerkassHasAPoint: While he was trying to avoid admitting that he [[spoiler:tried to sacrifice Jess]] at the time, he was right when pointing out that [[spoiler:Blaire is ''not'' someone you should trust to tell the truth.]]
126* KickTheDog: Mocks Jess’ reputation for ReallyGetsAround. [[spoiler:''Right after'' she learned about him agreeing to sell her out to Laura.]]
127* OhCrap: He gets a lot of these. [[spoiler: When Ken dies, when Laura intimidates him into staying on the call]], when he sees the letter Laura printed out for him [[spoiler: stating that Blaire would die if he revealed it, when Mitch tried to leave the chat in a fit of rage, and [[BoomHeadshot when he was starting to aim his own gun towards his face...]]]]
128* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Laura offered to spare him, Mitch, and Blaire in exchange for only killing Jess. She lied, calling him out for it to sow more distrust in the group and killed him before everyone else.]]
129* SincerityMode: He seemed to have been offended specifically by Mitch’s accusation that [[spoiler: he wanted to take Blaire for himself]], in contrast to his composure from [[spoiler: when he exposed his cheating with her.]]
130** Noticeably, you can tell whenever [[spoiler: Blaire is telling the truth]] based on his reaction to whatever she says.
131** Earlier, Adam appears genuinely upset about finding out Mitch sold him out to the police for selling weed.
132* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Yes Adam, threaten a ghost that you know can make people commit suicide with a gun. See how that goes.]]
133[[/folder]]
134
135[[folder:Ken Smith]]
136!!Ken Smith
137!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JacobWysocki
138
139Friend to Adam and Mitch, mainly because he can get them drugs through a connection with a dealer.
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141* AssholeVictim: Ken not only participates in the cyberbullying against Laura, but also verbally says that [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming Laura got what she deserved]].
142* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His hand is forcibly shoved into [[spoiler: a running blender, and during his attempt to break the glass he's forced to shove his throat into the blades.]]
143* TheCracker: He's the most computer savvy of the group, and they look to him to take care of what they "thought" was a glitch or a hacker. [[spoiler: It doesn't help them.]]
144* FatBastard: He's both overweight and a total dick.
145* {{Hypocrite}}: He makes a point of whining about how mean and unpleasant Val is when she threatens him, thinking he was cyber-harassing her. This is despite him calling her a "dumb bitch" and a "floozy" ''to her face'' minutes earlier completely unprovoked. This is an indicator that perhaps [[UnreliableNarrator his word on Laura's harassment and her status as a bully are probably not accurate]].
146* ImStandingRightHere: He talked smack about Laura even in light of her committing suicide, stating that she deserved to be cyber-bullied. Of course, he was unaware that Laura became a murderous and vengeful ghost that had been watching them all since the beginning of the movie. Suddenly it makes sense that [[spoiler: his death was one of the most painful and gruesome.]]
147* {{Jerkass}}: Prides himself on being this.
148* KnowNothingKnowItAll: His skill with software and hacking isn't bad, but the thought doesn't seem to occur to him that he could be dealing with a malicious hacker much better at the craft than him, which could've ended badly even had the supernatural aspect not been present.
149* MakeAnExampleOfThem: [[spoiler: Val's death was at least subtle enough to draw the group's attention. Ken's was apparent, brutal and unnatural enough to make it clear that something is after them and won’t tolerate resistance.]]
150* PayEvilUntoEvil: According to him at least, this was his reason for his lack of sympathy towards Laura. Stating that she was bad enough of a bully in life that she got a taste of her own medicine.
151* SmugSnake: Has this personality.
152* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He openly states that he has no sympathy for Laura, in spite of her suicide. And this was right after they learn about Val telling Laura to kill herself.
153* TemptingFate: Despite having bullied Laura himself, he says aloud that bullies deserve everything they get. Laura wholeheartedly agrees with this sentiment.
154[[/folder]]
155
156[[folder:Valerie "Val" Rommel]]
157!!Valerie "Val" Rommel
158!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Courtney Halverson
159
160An AlphaBitch and possible enemy of Laura Barns at their high school. She isn't well liked but tolerated by the others.
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162* AlphaBitch: Has this personality. It's hinted that she was competing with Laura Barns for Queen Bee status.
163* AssholeVictim: [[DysfunctionJunction You probably get the idea by now.]] Not only did Val also participate in the cyberbullying against Laura, but she also [[RejectedApology rejected an apology]] from Laura and ''explicitly told her to kill herself''. Ironically, [[spoiler: her death is the ''least'' horrific, since Laura has more of a grudge against the friends who betrayed her than she does on someone who was always her enemy.]]
164* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Despite the other members hanging out with Val (she is at least under the impression she is liked), they all can't stand her. However, when Val appeared to have [[spoiler: died on-camera and her video connection gets cut off]], no one hesitates to try and call her to check if she's okay and are frantic when they're unable to call her.
165* {{Jerkass}}: In part, because we don't see else much of her, she has less redeemable traits than the rest of the cast. And even ''they'' don't like her for her abrasive attitude overall.
166* KarmicDeath: When Laura tried to apologize to stop the cyberbullying, Val told her to kill herself in response. [[spoiler: She later kills Val in a way that looks the most like a suicide out of the teens' deaths and tops it off by sending this message to them.]]
167-->'''[=Billie227=]:''' VAL ROMMEL KILL URSELF.
168* KickTheDog: She told Laura to kill herself in response to her trying to apologize. ''Wow.''
169* PetTheDog: Oddly the only human character in the Skype call to have one of these moments. When everyone's trying to figure out who [[=Billie227=]] is, Jess suggests it might be Laura's younger brother. Val actually ''defends'' him, claiming that he might be weird but not weird enough to do this.
170* TheStoner: Is revealed to be this thanks to Ghost!Laura.
171* VolleyingInsults: With Jess.
172* WeHardlyKnewYe: Val enters the Skype chat late in the movie and only stays about ten minutes before Laura sends a threatening message to her. [[spoiler: She returns moments later-but has already been killed by Laura.]]
173* WhiteShirtOfDeath: She is wearing white throughout the movie, which becomes meaningful when [[spoiler:Laura has her drink bleach.]]
174
175[[/folder]]
176
177[[folder:Laura Barns]]
178!!Laura Barns / [=Billie227=]
179!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Heather Sossaman
180
181A high school student who committed suicide after a humiliating video of her degrading party incident went viral online. A year later, she presumably returns to enact vengeance on those directly responsible for her death.
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183* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The reason [[spoiler: Blaire]] was able to record the video in the first place.
184* AlphaBitch: Hinted to be the reason so many people were cyber-bullying her after the embarrassing video. But those indications are given by people who are [[UnreliableNarrator less than reliable]].
185* BatmanGambit: Personally harasses Blaire in a way that makes her suspect Val might be behind it. Blaire invites Val to skype, which is what Laura wanted because she hated Val most of all in life and wanted to kill her first. With that said, she currently hates her so-called "friends" even ''more''.
186** The entirety of the Never Have I Ever game, where she starts off asking the questions but ultimately manipulates the group to the point where they turn on one another and Adam and Mitch start willingly asking questions to spite each other. This culminates in her [[spoiler: sending a printed message to both Adam and Blaire that they cannot read aloud or show anyone or else one of them dies, and she fully expects one of them to crack and get the other killed, which turns out to be Blaire to Adam.]]
187* BigBad: Laura is the main threat [[spoiler: even though Blaire is the VillainProtagonist.]]
188* BreakThemByTalking: Laura's MO is to tear down her victims psychologically through the chat log of their shared call. It is only after their psyches have been sufficiently weakened that she moves in for the kill — and she often simply leads the conversation so the teens break ''themselves'' first by exposing each other's lies.
189* TheCracker: Vengeful ghost Laura has elite hacking skills with all electronic devices far beyond just laptop computers.
190* CreepyUncle: Implicated, Blaire fumbles in sending a message to Mitch telling him that Laura was abused, perhaps sexually, by her uncle. However, she couldn't bring herself to outright say it and just settles for saying that she had family problems in life.
191* DarknessEqualsDeath: From Adam onward, Laura's intent to kill is cemented when she turns off the lights in someone's house. When she turns the Never-Have-I-Ever game on Jess, the lights immediately go out and Jess correctly begins freaking out in response, and Mitch and [[spoiler:Blaire]] don't last too long once the lights go out, either.
192* DisproportionateRetribution: Both on the receiving and giving ends. She was an AlphaBitch who was bullied into suicide, and she subsequently tortured and murdered everyone who bullied her in horrific ways.
193* DrivenToSuicide: The premise of the film.
194* EtTuBrute: Her friend Blaire was the one responsible for [[spoiler:creating the video that would soon end up posted online.]]
195* EvilFormerFriend: To Blaire. [[spoiler: Though later revelations make Blaire this to her.]]
196* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Once or twice, when the group's in a particularly bad emotional place (for instance, when Blaire's infidelity was exposed) Laura feels it necessary to chime in with a comically apropos tune from Blaire's spotify.
197* FreudianExcuse: Blaire doesn't reveal it in full, but from what she was attempting to type, Laura may have been molested by her CreepyUncle as a child.
198* InformedAttribute: According to Ken, Laura was a bully herself, but the only evidence we see of that is a brief clip of her picking a fight with [[{{Jerkass}} Val]] at the party (which she tried to apologize for). In fact, [[FreezeFrameBonus the news article about her suicide]] quotes her as saying she was sick of ''being'' bullied years earlier for an eating disorder, which led to a suicide attempt. [[spoiler:[[{{Hypocrite}} Ken doesn't have the moral high ground either, since he and his friends viciously cyberbullied her in return]]]].
199* ILied: [[spoiler: She made a deal with Adam in secret to spare their lives in exchange for Jess. Instead, she makes a point to rat him out for it as part of her game, and kills him ''[[KarmicDeath before]]'' Jess.]]
200* IShallTauntYou: Repeatedly so. She still acts like an internet troll even after revealing how dangerous she really was, to the point where she starts playing soothing music while the teens are arguing with each other.
201* InvincibleVillain: The protagonists have no defense against her, and can’t even hurt her directly because she’s a ghost. She’ll intercept any attempt to call the police or outside help, makes it clear that she can and will kill anyone who tries to leave or resist her, has seeming control over all technology, is watching their every move, and she can possess them at will. She effectively has them at her mercy and they only last so long by playing along with her whims. [[spoiler: And they’re all dead by the end of the movie.]]
202* {{Jerkass}}: She was a [[TheBully bully]] in life, and a deadly {{Troll}} in death.
203* KarmicDeath: She inflicts these. Her "friends" drove her to suicide by uploading the video and bullying her online. Now as a ghost, she has the power to ''use'' the internet to torment them and possess them into killing themselves.
204* PayEvilUntoEvil: Undoubtably the mindset behind her methods of dealing with Blaire and her co-conspirators.
205* PetTheDog:
206** Her Facebook memorial reveals she once saved a young boy from drowning.
207** Before setting up her DeadlyGame she takes the time to like said memorial, showing that despite her vengeful attitude, she’s genuinely touched by the [[DueToTheDead respect]] that its creators have shown to her post-mortem.
208* PlayfulHacker: Despite being TheCracker variant, some of the things she does are simple pranks.
209* PottyFailure: The "Leaky Laura" moniker she earned was from the Youtube video of her black-out drunk and having soiled herself.
210* RealityWarper: Her spirit can hijack people's accounts to post private information, control their software, impersonate a cop when Adam tries to call for help, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking make memes of her friends' gruesome deaths]], and force people to kill themselves.
211* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Her actions throughout the movie are to get revenge on her former friends for ruining her life.
212* StringyHairedGhostGirl: At the end of the movie where a JumpScare of her ghost occurs, she slightly looks like this.
213* {{Technopath}}: She can manipulate things like blenders as well as computers.
214* {{Troll}}: Harasses the Skype users with basic internet hacks [[spoiler: before killing Val and showing that the situation is a lot more serious. Lampshaded by the Skype users calling Laura an internet troll beforehand.]]
215* TranquilFury: She is undoubtedly enraged [[spoiler: over her former friends driving her to her death]]. That said her messages, despite being filled with taunts and death threats, are very articulate and mockingly playful at times.
216** Noticeably, whenever she issues a question for "Never Have I Ever", she always types the question in caps lock. [[spoiler: The one time she doesn't is right before she kills Jess; when Laura accuses her of defiling her grave.]]
217* TheVoiceless: She primarily communicates by sending messages on Skype as [=Billie227=]. As revealed when Adam calls the cops, she ''can'' speak, either on her own or by possessing the caller.
218* WomanScorned: Implied. She kissed Mitch while he was drunk and he threw her off in response. On top of that, he may have [[spoiler: helped record and post the video.]]
219* WhamLine: "I wish I could forgive you, [[spoiler: Blaire]]."
220* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Laura may be a murderous spirit and claimed-to-be former bully, but she was viciously cyberbullied (even by her former best friend) to the point where she took her own life. And based on a brief comment Blaire wrote to Mitch, she may have been sexually abused by [[CreepyUncle her uncle]].

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