Halloween (2018) / Characters

Characters from the Blumhouse trilogy of Halloween films.

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The Shape

Michael Myers

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The Strodes

Laurie Strode

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Karen Nelson

Karen Nelson née Strode

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Played By: Judy Greer

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills

The daughter of Laurie Strode, wife of Ray Nelson and mother of Allyson.

Action Mom: As Allyson's mother, she manages to handle on her own at the climax when she relies on her shooting skills to take down Michael from causing any more harm.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite their bickering and Karen telling Laurie that she needs help, the former is very devoted to her mother, which is especially apart during the hospital scenes in Kills where she remains by her side until going to confront Michael and find Allyson.
Awesomeness by Analysis: After one encounter with Michael, Karen seemingly understands Michael's mysterious psyche and is able to manipulate him. In 2018, she pretends to panic to lure Michael into her sightline and in Kills, she steals Michael's mask to lead him into a trap.
Blatant Lies: She pulls this on her mother after discovering that Michael is still alive, not wanting to startle the heavily injured Laurie into trying to get involved again.
Broken Bird: Is deeply traumatized by Laurie giving her The Spartan Way childhood, with her having nightmares of Laurie's weapons bunker.
Chekhov's Skill: Laurie trained her in handling rifles from childhood, allowing her to Boom, Headshot! Michael with any hesitation or emotional distress just being a feint.
Composite Character: Being the daughter of Laurie, Karen is this film's take on Jamie Lloyd and John Tate. Like Jamie from the Thorn timeline, she was put into foster care at an early age, though for different reasons for each (Laurie suffered a Bus Crash in the original timeline between the second film and the fourth, while Karen was removed from Laurie's care here) and like John Tate from the H20 timeline, is skeptical of Laurie's overprotective behavior.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: At first, she appeared as a typical Adults Are Useless parent character in horror films who is Genre Blind to Michael being on the loose. But at the climax, she proves herself anything but helpless when she manages to shoot Michael advancing towards her.
Death by Irony: To taunt and lure Michael, Karen compares herself to Michael's sister Judith. Halloween Kills ends with Michael killing Karen in the very same room and very same manner as he killed Judith.
Disappeared Dad: Though Laurie is mentioned to have been married twice, Karen's father does not appear to have any role in her life. Word of God states that Karen's father was "some guy Laurie met in a bar", whose name she doesn't even remember. It's implied in Halloween Kills that Hawkins is her father.
Dying Alone: Karen is killed in the Myers house after her daughter has been taken to safety and dies a bloody death on the floor.
Dysfunctional Family: Karen and her mother are strained at best and being targeted and attacked by Michael Myers is what it takes to bring them back together again. Additionally, her mother seems to favor her granddaughter over Karen.
Failure Hero: Seems to see herself as this in Kills, telling Laurie that they failed to stop Michael, her husband has died, and there's a system in place to deal with threats such as him.
Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter: Inverted. Her mother is a badass old woman and Tank-Top Tomboy who spends her free time target practicing while she’s more motherly, demure and soft-spoken.
Five-Second Foreshadowing: The hunting rifle featuring the initials "KS" and a heart carved into is seen less than a minute before Karen pulls her Wounded Gazelle Gambit, proving that she's much more proficient than she initially let on.
Flaw Exploitation: Karen exploits Michael's sadism by pretending to have a breakdown, lulling him into a false sense of confidence as he approaches expecting an easy victim. Instead, he finds himself an easy target and just narrowly avoids getting his head blown off.
Forgotten Fallen Friend: Subverted. In Ends, we see a picture of Karen in Laurie's house as well as another photo as the latter's screensaver. Allyson mentions Karen saving her from Michael in the previous film when Corey asks about how she survived.
Foster Kid: Was removed from her mother's custody at age twelve and put into foster care.
Genre Blindness: Still believes her mother needs professional help, forgetting the fact that Michael just got loose surviving the bus crash.
Hallucinations: Seems to have one of Michael as a child before she makes the decision to go into the room where she saw his image.
Heroic Sacrifice: She invokes this in Kills when trying to lure Michael into a trap, taking his mask and telling him that he can kill her if he wants to kill someone. She ends up dying a short time later when the plan fails.
Hidden Depths: She comes across as a typical borderline Adults Are Useless suburban mom with some emotional baggage, but she's more than willing to fight to the death for her family. Laurie raised her The Spartan Way, and Karen uses her skills to lure Michael into a trap twice in the same night. Either trap would have killed Michael if he were anything less than what he is.
I Just Want to Be Normal: It's clear having been raised by a PTSD-afflicted Crazy Survivalist has taken a serious psychological toll on Karen, and she desperately just wants to forget all about it and have a perfect suburban nuclear family. A visit from Michael Myers destroys all that.
Mama Bear: When he has Allyson corned, Michael finds this out the hard way via Karen sticking a pitchfork in his back.
Morality Chain: Despite the strained relationship with her mother Laurie, in her presence, Allyson is more sympathetic, charitable and kind to her grandmother, but after her and her husbands's deaths, the orphaned Allyson becomes resentful and selfish and turns against Laurie to a point of disowning her as her grandmother in Halloween Ends.
Nice Girl: Downplayed, but Karen is a compassionate woman who wants what's best for her family. She also does everything she can to save Lance Tivoli from the angry mob that mistook him for Michael.
Only Sane Man: She is certainly the more intelligent and fight-capable between her husband and herself, given that she's been trained to defend herself while Ray was not. This plays into her husband dying in the 2018 film while Karen survives until the end of the sequel.
The Plan: Her plot to kill Michael in Kills involves luring him to a trap where armed and disgruntled Haddonfield citizens can take turns picking him apart.
Present Absence: Although she doesn't appear in Ends, the effects of her death are what cause Allyson and Laurie to live together, her photos and elements of her life such as her wedding ring are in her mother and daughter's new home, and she's the only deceased character mentioned by name.
Refusal of the Call: In the 2018 film, Karen continuously tries to downplay the seriousness of Michael coming back to terrorize Haddonfield, noting it as her mother's paranoia.
Silk Hiding Steel: Much similar to her mother in the 1978 movie, she's normally a calm and soft-spoken mother/wife but when it comes to facing Michael, she knows how to get dangerous and is skilled at using a gun.
Tempting Fate: Comparing herself to Judith, Michael's sister and first victim, before later going into the room where he killed her.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: In the same film where she tries taking care of her mother and helping a mental patient who's been mistaken for Michael escape from an angry mob, she is killed at the very end of the film after trying to save her daughter and help the same angry mob actually succeed in their goal.
Training from Hell: Laurie trained her in both armed and unarmed combat from a young age, predicting that Michael would return. Despite how borderline-abusive being raised by a paranoid Crazy Survivalist was, her firearm training proves to be Chekhov's Skill.
Undignified Death: Karen dies screaming and resisting as she is stabbed repeatedly by Michael in his older sister's bedroom.
Unknown Rival: She is this to Michael as although the latter never met her before the 2018 film, Karen has spent her life being trained and prepared for him by her mother.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: When Michael rips away the counter concealing Laurie's bunker, Karen begins sobbing and crying for her mom. She was just acting so he'd step into range.
Wrong Genre Savvy: In the real world or a more idealistic film, Karen would be right to suggest that Laurie undergo therapy for her trauma and to insist that the world isn't as awful as Laurie thinks. Unfortunately, she lives in a horror movie, which she is forced to come to terms with when Michael comes calling.

Ray Nelson

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Played By: Toby Huss

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

The husband of Karen, father of Allyson and Laurie's son-in-law.

Adults Are Useless: Unlike his wife and mother-in-law, he couldn't hold on his own when Michael ambushed him and killed him.
Age-Gap Romance: He is considerably older than Karen, as shown by the fact that he is a contemporary of Lonnie Elam, and thus would have been a child during the events of the first movie, before Karen was even born. Downplayed somewhat in that in real life Toby Huss is only 9 years older than Judy Greer, so whilst there is a gap it is not that big. It is left ambiguous whether the gap is the same in-universe.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Takes any chance to tell stories about his "former teen rebel" days, even in front of his daughter and her boyfriend. Going so far as to admit he bought and did drugs with the latter's father.
Bumbling Dad: Downplayed, but he is kind of quirky and goofy as Allyson's dad.
Choke Holds: Michael uses a chain from some bell chimes to choke him from behind, eventually killing him.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Ray may be a doofus, but he has the logical sense to bring one of Laurie's revolvers with him when he sees a lone police car outside. Though sadly, he wasn't formidable enough to use the pistol to defend himself from Michael when he attacks him from the back.
Dumbass Has a Point: Seems to be a typical overprotective dad when he's warning Allyson about Cameron, but it later turns out he was right on the money about Cameron being an asshole, especially since Ray knew his father Lonnie and the assumption about if Cameron inherited his dad's negative qualities were eventually proven to be founded.
Morality Chain: Despite viewing Laurie as one those Obnoxious In-Laws, in his presence, Allyson is more sympathetic, charitable and kind to her grandmother, but after his and his wife's deaths, the orphaned Allyson becomes resentful and selfish and turns against Laurie to a point of disowning her as her grandmother in Halloween Ends.
Neck Snap: Michael strangles him with a set of bell chimes, then finishes him off by breaking his neck.
Nice Guy: Ray's a sweetheart, though his patience wears thin when it comes to Laurie.
No Body Left Behind: His body was likely incinerated when Laurie set fire to the house.
Plucky Comic Relief: He is a laid back father who can be goofy and quirky.
Shoo Out the Clowns: He is a Plucky Comic Relief character who is killed by Michael.
Sound-Only Death: Technically speaking, his gunshot brings alerts Laurie that Michael is around.
Too Dumb to Live: Played With. When everyone is sheltered in Laurie's house with Michael nearby, he goes outside to ask the cops who've just pulled up if they have any word on Allyson (though to his credit, he did bring a gun). Unfortunately for him, it's one of Michael's sadistic traps, Ray wasn't quick-witted enough to use his gun to defend himself and The Shape kills him not long after.
Unreliable Expositor: Ray claims that he used to buy peyote from Lonnie Elam. In Halloween Kills, Lonnie claims to have bought peyote from him.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He's Out of Focus compared to the female Strodes, and is killed by Michael before the climax of the film.

Allyson Nelson

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Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

The granddaughter of Laurie Strode and daughter of Karen and Ray Nelson, and Michael Myers' new target.

Action Survivor: Allyson has had seemingly no training in preparing for Michael's return, while Laurie survived her first encounter with Michael decades ago, and has prepared for this confrontation since, and has also trained Karen to survive his rampage as well. However, Allyson manages to trick Sartain, survive Michael's massacre of her friends, and rescue her mother from Michael. She keeps up the trend in Halloween Kills; although she doesn't make the leap to a full-on Action Girl, Allyson manages to be one of only two characters in Halloween Kills to survive a direct encounter with Michael Myers, holding out against him until the cavalry arrives.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: The audience sees three of Allyson's boyfriends across the the films: Cameron, who seems nice, but shows a nasty side when drunk (although he does redeem himself later on); Doug, a cop who proves clingy and jealous even after she's moved on; and Corey, who is hated by the town and later becomes a spree killer in the vein of Michael Myers.
Alone with the Psycho: More like psychos, as she gets stuck with both an unconscious Michael and Doctor Sartain after the latter stabs Hawkins. Luckily for her, Michael opted to attack Sartain first when he woke up.
Batman Gambit: How she escapes Doctor Sartain and Michael Myers when she is in the police car with them. She tells Sartain that Michael spoke to her, and Sartain immediately demands to know what he said. Michael promptly wakes up and attacks Sartain first, which gives her enough time to flee the car and get away.
Big Damn Heroes: As a pinned and dying Michael tries to strangle Laurie in Halloween Ends, Allyson arrives in the nick of time to break Michael's arm and render him helpless as Laurie finishes him off.
Big "WHAT?!": Let's out a furious one in Halloween Kills upon hearing that Michael is still alive.
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Well not exactly teenage anymore as Allyson is 21 in contrast to her being seventeen in the previous films, but she fits the bill in Halloween Ends after having Took a Level in Jerkass by blaming Laurie for ruining her life with her actions as a Failure Heroine and have Took a Level in Dumbass by making stupid decisions after another with her being short-sighted and ignorant of any warning signs, especially in regards to the increasingly unstable Corey.
Break the Cutie: Initially a nice, if naïve youth like her grandmother who doesn't understand her grandmother's paranoia and wants Karen and Laurie to get along again. But seeing Oscar and seemingly Hawkins be brutally murdered, losing her father, and getting attacked and attacking Michael deeply traumatize her. It gets worse in Halloween Kills, as her boyfriend is brutally and sadistically killed right in front of her. Even worse, unbeknownst to Allyson, her mother has been killed as well by the end of the movie. By Halloween Ends, she finds her life ruined and its caused by her grandmother that she once looked up to.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Like father, like daughter. For much of the movie, she is clearly psychologically overwhelmed due to Oscar's death and the realization her grandmother's warnings about Michael were justified. But she manages to escape the killer multiple times and in the finale stabs him to prevent him from escaping.
Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: In Ends, she dates Corey Cunningham, and almost every single word she speaks or thing she says is to him or about him.
Final Girl: Seems to take on the role from Laurie, as she outlives all of her friends.
Gender Flip: In-Universe. She and her boyfriend went as Bonnie and Clyde, with Allyson going as Clyde while her boyfriend went as Bonnie.
Generation Xerox: Allyson is one for Laurie, being the studious and kindhearted Girl Next Door of her group of friends, who are all picked off by Michael Myers on Halloween. Allyson is also the same age as Laurie (seventeen) when Michael murdered her friends.
Guile Hero: She immediately picks up on Sartain's obsession with understanding Michael and uses it to her advantage by claiming that Michael spoke to her and promising to reveal the word he said if Sartain lets her go.
Hated Hometown: By Halloween Ends, Haddonfield has become this for her, and understandably so, given the losses and trauma she suffered there at Michael's hands in the previous two films. The movie ends with Allyson, now that Michael is finally dead and her relationship with Laurie is repaired, leaving Haddonfield behind to move on with her life.
Irony: She commands her grandmother to get over Michael early in the film. After her own encounter with him, she begins to realize why Laurie was so paranoid.
It's All About Me: In Halloween Ends, so much so that she seems more overly obnoxious and selfish compared her in her prior appearances in the 2018 trilogy. Her grandmother she once had a good relationship with try to point out the oddities in her new boyfriend Corey's behavior, but she refuses to hear anything bad about the man, always countering the arguments with how good he is to her, how he's much a tragic victim of circumstance as she was and how happy he makes her for the first time since her life took a nosedive for the past four years in the aftermath of Michael's bloodshed, while bitterly blaming Laurie for ruining her life by causing her friends' and family's deaths.
Jerkass Realization: When she sees Willy the Kid's radio station in flames, Allyson realizes that, despite him making it appear otherwise, Corey was not an innocent victim murdered by Laurie. After Michael is dead, Allyson reconciles with her grandmother and later leaves town on good terms with her.
Nice Girl: Is a nice, friendly person. But in Halloween Ends, she Took a Level in Jerkass (at first not apparent in the first act) caused by her deep-seated and initially repressed Irrational Hatred of Laurie for being a Broken Pedestal who ruined her life until her Jerkass Realization at the end.
Revenge: Her motive in Halloween Kills. Allyson joins the mob hunting for Michael to avenge the murders of her friends and father, as well as to finally put an end to the Shape's impact on her family. Michael easily overpowers her when they finally meet, however, torturing Allyson physically and emotionally and coming close to killing her.
Too Dumb to Live: In Halloween Ends, Allyson cannot take a hint that Corey is a murderer to save her life. You know you have a dumb as shit character when she does not get the message when she wouldn't see the warning signs for Corey going down a "dark path," to the point that she believes him (a guy she just met) instead of Laurie (who she's known all her life).
Took a Level in Badass: Downplayed in Halloween Kills; while she's a lot more proactive and confronts Michael directly, she's still nowhere near a match for the Shape in a straight fight.
Took a Level in Dumbass: In Halloween Ends, she has became more short-sighted than in the past films.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In Halloween Ends, Allyson goes from caring and loving her grandmother in the previous installments to outright blaming her for ruining her life with the deaths of her friends and family and how she's been facing bad luck ever since then. At first she kept it repressed and appeared to have a good relationship with Laurie, but once Allyson finds out Laurie's been interfering with his life by trying to keep her away from Corey and in amidst of packing up to leave Haddonfield, she outright vents out her true bitter and hostile feelings towards Laurie and disowns her as her grandmother on the spot before slamming the door to her face. The friction worsens when she finds Corey seemingly dead with Laurie standing over him, seemingly cementing the rift between them and Allyson's Irrational Hatred of Laurie. But after seeing the radio station burning down, Allyson has a Jerkass Realization and pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment just to save Laurie from being held in a Choke Hold by Michael after renewing her faith in her.
You Killed My Father: Michael's murder of Ray in the 2018 film drives Allyson's decision to join the mob in hunting the Shape down in Halloween Kills.
You're Not My Mother: Or more like "You're Not My Grandmother," as in Halloween Ends, Allyson blames Laurie for ruining her life that never really recovered and trying to keep Corey away from her was the final straw that prompts her to disown Laurie as her grandmother and leave town.

Residents of Haddonfield

Law Enforcement

Frank Hawkins

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Played By: Will Patton and Thomas Mann (flashback scenes)

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

The Sheriff's Deputy of Haddonfield Police Department who prevented Dr. Loomis from executing Michael years ago. Now that the killer has returned for another rampage, he regrets that decision.

Accidental Murder: In 1978, Michael was strangling Hawkins' partner and Hawkins took a shot at the Shape to try and save him, only to accidentally hit his partner in the neck, killing him.
All Love Is Unrequited: When they were younger, Hawkins had a crush on Laurie, but he never acted on it, as she only had eyes for Ben Tramer at the time. Halloween Ends strongly implies that the feeling eventually did become mutual, though the movie ends without confirming it one way or another.
The Atoner: Was the first deputy on the scene after Loomis shot Michael off the balcony in the original, and stopped the doctor finishing Michael off. Now that Michael's come home and the bodycount is rising, he's come to view this as a mistake and is willing to finish Michael off by any means necessary.
Blatant Lies: In the Kills flashback, Hawkins lies to his dying partner by telling him they had successfully stopped Michael when they didn't. To be fair, their backup had just arrived to surround him.
Combat Pragmatist:
- His response on seeing Michael is to immediately run him down with his police car. He would have followed that up by shooting him point-blank, too.
- When he first sees Michael in Julian's house, he doesn't immediately sprint after him as he walks down the stairs, but carefully checks every corner knowing Michael could be lying in ambush and jump him.
Composite Character: He is combination of Reasonable Authority Figure policeman allies Leigh Brackett from the first and second films, Deputy Gary Hunt from the second film and Ben Meeker in the fourth and fifth films, especially sharing traits with the latter, right down to being a badass Combat Pragmatist determined to kill Michael Myers once and for all and seemingly getting killed by a Psycho Psychologist accomplice of Michael's with Wynn for Meeker, while Sartain is one for Hawkins, though that part becomes subverted in the 2021 film where Hawkins is revealed to be Not Quite Dead.
Cool Old Guy: He's a law enforcement equivalent of an Old Soldier since he's been on active duty for at least 40 years at this point, and a Reasonable Authority Figure who comes closest to taking out Michael than anyone else beside the Strodes.
Disney Death: He was thought to be killed by Sartain, but Kills reveals him to be Not Quite Dead and was just put out of commission by his injuries.
Friend on the Force: Hawkins serves as being Laurie's help, once it becomes clear that Michael Myers has returned back to Haddonfield.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Blames himself for Michael being alive to commit further murders in 2018 (see My Greatest Failure), and it only gets worse when he fails to take Michael down due to Dr. Sartain's interference. Laurie helps him work through some crushing self-doubt.
The Lancer: For Laurie, to assist her in tracking Michael down to stop him from killing.
Made of Iron: He actually survived from both being stabbed in the neck and ran over by Sartain as Halloween Kills reveals.
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Dialogue between himself and Laurie in Halloween Kills seems to suggest that Hawkins is Karen's father.
Maybe Ever After: Halloween Ends concludes with Laurie, now free of Michael forever, agreeing to join Hawkins on a trip to Japan; it certainly has a romantic tone, but the movie ends without confirming if their relationship went from friendship to romance.
My God, What Have I Done?: After accidentally killing his partner, Hawkins is beside himself with guilt and grief. This guilt drives his decision to prevent Loomis from executing Michael; Hawkins didn't want anyone else to die that night, not even Michael.
My Greatest Failure: Boy did Hawkins have a rough evening when he first ran into Michael. First, he accidentally shoots his own partner while Michael is strangling him, which would have been heavy enough for any one man's conscience, but Hawkins then goes on to stop Loomis from executing Michael after he's tracked down by Brackett and the rest of the police. Hawkins recalls that in the moment, he didn't see Michael as a murderous monster, but a mother's child who was about to be executed like a rabid animal, and he stops Loomis from finishing Michael off. Years later, when Michael escapes and resumes his killing spree, Hawkins' regret resurfaces and he admits that Loomis was right and it would be preferable to put a monster like Michael down rather than arrest him. He nearly gets the chance to make up for his mistake, only for Dr. Sartain to quickly put an end to that.
Nice Guy: Hawkins is a kind and decent man, one of the only people in Haddonfield to treat Laurie as a friend (and is genuinely liked by her in turn). As a young man, he even had a moment of empathy for Michael, of all people.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: A young and naive Hawkins, seeing Michael as somebody's son rather than a soulless monster, prevented Dr. Loomis from executing him in 1978. Michael has since repaid Hawkins' mercy by proving how wrong he was.
Not Quite Dead: Thought to have been killed in the 2018 film, but in the 2021 film, he actually survived.
Only Friend: Hawkins is one of only two people in the 2018 film (the other being Allyson) to be at all on friendly terms with Laurie. Their scenes together in Halloween Kills show that the two are genuinely close, with them even having some romantic history.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike most cops in horror movies, he works his damnedest to stop Michael's rampage, and was smart enough to post guards around the Strode's house. He even manages to run over Michael and nearly shoot him at point blank range until Dr. Sartain stabs him in the throat so he can use Michael as his personal attack dog.
Remember the New Guy?: He was one of the cops patrolling for Michael in the original movie, though he's only properly introduced here. Granted, we didn't see any other cops in the original other than Brackett — and Kills begins with a flashback explaining that he only encountered Michael a while after Laurie Strode was rescued.
Ship Tease: Throughout the 2018 film, Hawkins and Laurie are shown to be close friends, and Halloween Kills has him all but admit that he did (and possibly still does) have romantic feelings for her. Halloween Ends plays up the teasing, with Hawkins inviting Laurie to join him on a trip to Japan he'd been planning, an offer she accepts at the end of the film.
Shoot the Hostage: He tried to shoot Michael, but ended up shooting his partner in the neck instead.
Sympathy for the Devil: Hawkins prevented Loomis from executing Michael upon the Shape's capture in 1978. As he tells Laurie, in the moment, he didn't see Michael as a monster, just as someone's child.
Time-Shifted Actor: Hawkins is normally played by Will Patton but is portrayed by Thomas Mann in the Halloween Kills flashbacks.
Took a Level in Cynic: Downplayed, as he remains a Nice Guy well into the present day, but in 1978, Hawkins couldn't bring himself to allow Loomis to execute Michael, even with the Shape's horrific crimes. By 2018, the older and wiser Hawkins has no qualms about the idea of Michael being put down, repeatedly insisting that he needs to die.
The Unfought: A heroic variation. Unlike Laurie, Karen, or Allyson, Hawkins never has a direct encounter with Michael where the two fight each other or exchange attacks. The closest they come to a confrontation is in the 2018 film when Hawkins runs Michael over, but the latter is subdued by Sartain rather than Michael.

Sheriff Barker

Played By: Omar Dorsey

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

The sheriff of Haddonfield.

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He doesn't take the threat of an escaped mental patient, who had murdered five people several years ago, just recently escaped from a prison bus, killing four more people including a child in the process, serious enough to cancel Halloween, which probably would have lowered the death toll Michael caused.
- He also makes Hawkins take Dr. Sartain with him while looking for Michael. To be fair, he couldn't possibly have known that Sartain was a budding psychopath obsessed with Michael, but Hawkins points out that he's an unarmed civilian, who Barker wants Hawkins to take along with him. Sartain also has no idea how Michael operates, outside of unproven theories, despite being his pyschologist for forty years.
- This eventually leads to a My God, What Have I Done? moment for him in the following film, where his actions lead to a full-out anger mob forcing a man they mistook for Michael to kill himself.
Police Are Useless: He doesn't do any sort of law enforcement, leaving the job to Deputy Hawkins. After his failure to prevent the mob in Halloween Kills from hounding an innocent man to his death, Barker seems to realize and deeply lament his own uselessness.
Reasonable Authority Figure: In Halloween Ends, after seeing that Michael is finally dead, Barker allows for normal police procedure to be violated in the name of giving the town a sense of closure, allowing Laurie to mulch Michael's corpse in full view of the townspeople to drive home that the Shape is finally gone once and for all.

Officers Francis and Richards

Officer Francis and Richards

Played By: Christopher Allen Nelson and Charlie Benton

Two police officers who were assigned to protect The Strode-Nelson family as they waited for Allyson to be brought to Laurie's house in order to wait out Michael's rampage. Thanks to Dr. Sartain killing Hawkins, then kidnapping Allyson and Michael, with the intent to drive Michael to Laurie's house as part of a sick experiment to view pure evil in a "controlled environment", Michael escaped, killed him, and ended up following the road Sartain was driving down to Laurie's house, but not before brutally killing the two policemen as part of a distraction to lure Ray out of the house, so he could kill him and gain entry to home in order to murder the one person who got away from him so long ago...

Cast the Expert: Officer Richards is portrayed by Charlie Benton, a real life detective who specializes in homicide and human trafficking investigation, along with being a part time actor.
Creator Cameo: Officer Francis is played by the guy who created all the awesome special effects for the movie, including the prop head for his death scene.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Michael slits open Richards' throat, kills Francis, then proceeds cut off his freaking head using only the little knife he got off the good doctor, cuts out his eyes and bits of his face so it would resemble a jack-o-lantern, hollows out the head taking out neck bones, brains, and other viscera, shoves a lit flashlight through the throat to make the head glow, then finally places Richards' corpse in their patrol car, with Francis' head in his lap and the pen-knife through his temple, and drives towards Laurie's house.
Decapitation Presentation: Michael really wanted Ray to see his jack-o-lantern.
Enemy Rising Behind: The last scene of them alive shows the two cops with guns drawn, next to Hawkins' car and Sartain's body— with Michael's right behind them...
Facial Horror: Michael uses Sartain's pen-knife to carve out Francis' eyes, a chunk of his nose, his lips, and parts of his cheeks in order to create a jack-o-lantern; here's the final result◊ (NSFW WARNING: contains an image depicting graphic mutilation).
Human Jack-O-Lantern: Francis is currently the trope image.
Human Resources: Seriously, what sick fuck makes a jack-o-lantern out of somebody's head?!
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After cutting Richards' throat, Michael stabs the knife into his head.
Intergenerational Friendship: Richards is in his 30s while Francis is in his late 50s or 60s.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed; Richards insults Hawkins by calling him a "burnout", but for the most part he's a Nice Guy who tries to give his partner an exotic sandwich, protects the Strode-Nelson family, and he goes with Francis to check on Hawkins after seeing his abandoned patrol car with no response coming from it.
Killed Offscreen: It's probably for the best that we didn't see how Michael used Francis' head to try out his pumpkin carving skills.
Off with His Head!: Michael decapitates Francis and does bad things with the head...
Plucky Comic Relief: Their back-and-forth about their eating habits, with Richards knocking Francis for bringing a brownie as his dinner, would make them qualify. The exchange is inconsistent with a slasher film and is more reminiscent of something from the 2018 film's writers' usual comedies.
Police Are Useless: They tried, they really did. But to be fair, they were just two cops with guns versus Michael fucking Myers, so yeah.
Shoo Out the Clowns: They are killed after their humorous conversation over their meals.
Slashed Throat: How Michael kills Richards.
Sweet Tooth: Both had sweets as snacks, but at least Richards tried to be healthy with his PB and J version of a Vietnamese sandwich, while Francis had a brownie and pudding.
Those Two Guys: Are never seen apart...
Together in Death: ...even to the end.

Youth

Cameron Elam

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Played By: Dylan Arnold

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills

Allyson's boyfriend and the son of Lonnie Elam, Tommy's bully from the original Halloween.

Asshole Victim: Averted in Kills, despite his actions as The Millstone in the previous film, he did not deserve to be killed so gruesomely.
The Atoner: In Kills he tried to reconcile with Allyson for his actions in the last film.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: On the outside, he's likable when he has to be. Then he kisses another girl and trashes Allyson's phone. Subverted in a beginning of a deleted scene when Cameron does really care for Allyson, apologizes for trashing her phone and attempts to make up for it by either advising Allyson to put in a bag of rice to repair it or buy her a new one. The subversion is confirmed in the sequel, with Cameron regretting his actions, and genuinely trying to mend things with Allyson.
Broken Pedestal: After his tiff with Allyson including wrecking her phone, he becomes this to the latter that leads to their break-up. In a deleted scene, Cameron tries to become a Rebuilt Pedestal to her by apologizing for breaking her phone and offering to purchase a new one.
The Charmer: He's quite charismatic and charming, and quickly wins over Allyson's parents.
Crazy Jealous Guy: He becomes this after drinking at the dance, getting angry and jealous that Allyson left for a few minutes to take a personal phone call, yet accepts a kiss from another girl while she's gone before trashing her phone when it rings again as she's confronting him.
Gender Flip: In-Universe. He and his girlfriend went as Bonnie and Clyde, with Allyson going as Clyde while Cameron went as Bonnie.
Hate Sink: Despite acting otherwise, he's quite a jerk and a terrible boyfriend who doesn't respect Allyson. Contrary to slasher movie tradition, he's not seen to be killed by Michael. Subverted in Halloween Kills where he gets a Rasputinian Death from Michael it was quite horrific. Subverted in a beginning of a deleted scene when a guilt-ridden Cameron does apologizes for trashing her phone and attempts to make up for it by either advising Allyson to put in a bag of rice to repair it or buy her a new one.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: A non-fatal example as in a deleted scene, Cameron does apologizes for trashing her phone and his behavior and attempts to make up for it by either advising Allyson to put in a bag of rice to repair it or buy her a new one. Then after sassy-mouthing a couple of cops, he gets arrested. Played straight in Kills upon being given a Rasputinian Death.
In the Blood: He is much of a bully as his father Lonnie was towards Tommy back in 1978. Subverted and Played Straight again in the sequel. The subversion is that Lonnie is no longer the bully he was as a child, and straight version is that Cameron sheds his own asshole nature as well.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In a deleted scene, despite appearing to be a bastard boyfriend who broke Allyson's cell phone at the dance, he does felt bad for his action after having a Jerkass Realization and tries to apologize to her and make up for it by offering to buy her another one. Then when he is arrested, it is revealed he is the one who asked his friend Oscar to escort Allyson back home rather than Oscar escorting her at his own accord that the theatrical cut's impression it gave out. Then in Halloween Kills, he assists his father and Allyson in hunting down Michael, revealed to be the one who found and rescued an injured Hawkins and is shown deeply regretting what he did earlier.
Like Father, Like Son: He takes his bullying tendencies after his father Lonnie. A double reversion in the sequel, with father and son being considerably nicer than they were in their previous film appearance.
Lower-Class Lout: He and his family led by his father Lonnie gained notoriety in Haddonfield due to being this because of their bad manners and run-ins with the law.
Manipulative Bastard: He pretends to be likable to get the approval of Allyson and her parents, then he shows his true colors at the school dance. Subverted in a deleted scene when it shows he does actually care for Allyson when she attempts to apologize to her for his bad behavior. The sequel canonizes the subversion where Cameron's first scene is him calling Oscar because he wants to try and mend things with Allyson.
The Millstone: His trashing of Allyson's phone while Laurie tried to warn her is what puts her in danger later in the movie.
Neck Snap: After an extended, torturous beating, Michael finally ends Cameron's suffering by breaking his neck, twisting it a full 180 degrees around.
Rasputinian Death: Michael draws out his death and makes it especially violent and savage, if only to torment Allyson.
Schrödinger's Cast: Had the aforementioned deleted scene been kept in the film, it would give out a different depiction outcome then the Hate Sink the theatrical cut make him out as. The sequel fully places Cameron in the Jerk with a Heart of Gold pile, maintaining the character's original subversion of being a Hate Sink.
Took a Level in Badass: In Halloween Kills, he joins the hunt for Michael along with his father Lonnie, arming himself with a Beretta 92.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Cameron's drunken fit when Allyson catches him kissing another girl has repercussions for the rest of the film — he trashes her phone, which leads her to abandon him at the dance (which is evacuated shortly after she leaves), walk home, and eventually encounter Michael with no way to summon help or get in touch with her family. Getting picked up by Deputy Hawkins and Dr. Sartain results in the final sequence of events falling into place. This sequence of events also inadvertently gets Oscar killed, as he wouldn't have crossed paths with Michael otherwise.

Vicky

Played By: Virginia Gardner

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Allyson's best friend who is babysitting on Halloween night.

Cool Big Sis: Towards Julian, the kid she's babysitting on Halloween. She clearly cares about him, and before Michael kills her, she tells him to run and save himself.
Defiant to the End: Throws a chair at Michael after he stabs her but he murders her after she slips.
Dramatic Slip: Her socks cause her to slip on the floor when she's escaping from Michael which leads to her death.
Expy: Subverted. At first she shares similarities with Annie, being a babysitter uninterested in her charge who wants to use the empty house to host her boyfriend and friends. However, unlike Annie, Vicky genuinely cares about Julian and screams for him to run when Michael attacks her.
Nice Girl: She jokingly teases Julian and tells him he's the worst kid she babysits, but later tells him he's actually her favorite kid and immediately checks on him after hearing a noise. When she's being attacked and he comes back to help her, she screams for him to run.
Slashers Prefer Blondes: Much like Lynda in the original movie, Vicky is murdered by Michael.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Her relationship with Julian, the little kid she babysits. They trade barbs and insult each other, but it's obviously all in fun, and she tells him he's her favorite kid she babysits when putting him to bed.

Dave

Played By: Miles Robbins

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Vicky's boyfriend and Allyson's friend.

Audience Surrogate: For viewers unimpressed by the original Halloween as one of the first slasher movies. His first scene has him saying that Michael killing five people in 1978 isn't a big deal anymore given the horrors people have seen as of 2018. Ironically, his death ends up being a replica of Bob's from the original.
Expy: From what little we see of him, he bears a few of Bob's personality quirks. He's killed the same way, too.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Michael doesn't just stab him, he impales him so badly through the neck that he leaves his body pinned to the wall.
Impromptu Tracheotomy: Michael stabs him through the throat and pins him to the wall.
Innocently Insensitive: While stoned, he comments that Michael killing five people no longer seems "impressive" in light of all the other horrific things that have happened in the world since then. Then he apologizes when his girlfriend reminds him that he just said that to their friend, whose grandmother was one of the few survivors of Michael's rampage.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. He's a spacy idiot and a bit insensitive about the horrors Laurie experienced, but he's a decent enough kid who dies fighting Michael in a failed attempt to save his girlfriend.
Killed Offscreen: He's seen grabbing a kitchen knife to confront Michael. He's next seen pinned to a nearby wall with the same kitchen knife.
Senseless Sacrifice: Grabs a kitchen knife to try to save Vicky from Michael. Unfortunately, not only is she already dead, but Michael kills him offscreen.
The Stoner: He smokes a lot and plans on getting high with his girlfriend while she's babysitting.
Stoners Are Funny: Has some comedic moments while high.
Tattoo Sharpie: Dave says he got a tattoo of the date because he expects it to be a night they'll remember the rest of their lives. He dies trying to help Vicky and ends up pinned to the wall with the tattoo showing.

Oscar

Played By: Drew Scheid

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Cameron's best friend who has a secret crush on Allyson.

Adaptational Jerkass: He's a hapless loser who keeps making the wrong moves in the film. The novelization, on the other hand, has Allyson creeped out by his lack of personal space and uncomfortable with him from the off, casting his later behavior in a different light, thus making him more of an Asshole Victim when Michael kills him.
Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: He's more than a little drunk when he makes a move on Allyson - he's carrying a six-pack of beer during their walk home. Even worse, it leads him to not only still be in Mr. Elrod's yard when Michael arrives, but mistake Michael for Elrod and actually try to have a conversation about girls with the masked killer.
Cape Snag: His cape gets caught on the fence, preventing him from running away before Michael gets close enough to finish him off.
Dogged Nice Guy: He has a crush on Allyson, his best friend's girlfriend. Unfortunately, he thinks drunkenly trying to kiss her after her fight with Cameron is a good idea. Afterwards, he asks Michael, whom he mistakes for his neighbor, if he's really wanted a girl he couldn't have.
Hot as Hell: He gets dressed as a devil for Halloween, clearly wanting to invoke the idea of a sexy devil, to little effect.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Michael impales his body on a fence, with the fencing going through his chin into his mouth.
Plucky Comic Relief: Everything out of his mouth after he tries to kiss Allyson is quite humorous, though he gets killed shortly after that.
Shoo Out the Clowns: He is a Plucky Comic Relief character who is killed by Michael.

Julian

Julian Morrisey

Played By: Jibrail Nantambu

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

The child Vicky was babysitting on the night she died.

Action Survivor: He manages to escape Michael Myers by taking Vicky's demand to run away seriously.
Cassandra Truth: He pleads with Vicky that there's "a boogeyman" in his room, begging Vicky to send Dave up first. She doesn't believe it, until she tries to close his closet door...
Dirty Kid: Implied. There are things on his browser history he doesn't want his parents to know.
Kid Hero: He runs to get help... but they arrive too late.
Know When to Fold 'Em: There's no way a child, who is maybe 10-years-old, can handle a full-grown, armed and dangerous man, determined and eager to kill somebody, even if it wasn't Michael.
What Happened to the Mouse?: While his fate is never revealed after fleeing his home into the night, somebody clearly notified the police about the murders of Vicky and Dave. The following film, however, reveals that he survived as he is interviewed by a local news station over the events of that night. He appears briefly in Halloween Ends as part of Michael's "funeral procession".

Corey Cunningham (SPOILERS FOR HALLOWEEN ENDS!)

Corey Cunningham/The Shape II

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"It's Halloween. We're gonna have a good time."

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Played By: Rohan Campbell

Appearances: Halloween Ends

A young man accused of killing the boy he was babysitting prior to the main events of Halloween Ends. Later takes on the role of the main antagonist, becoming a copycat killer with Michael's approval.

Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: Angry over being locked in a room, and unaware Jeremy is standing behind the door, Corey kicks in the door and unintentionally sends the boy plummeting to his death.
Alas, Poor Villain: Despite everything Corey did, after he's dead, Laurie continues to feel some sympathy for him, seeing Corey as a victim of the town's harassment and Michael's evil influence.
Ambiguous Situation: Was his Start of Darkness prompted by years of abuse, or by something else, like a supernatural encounter with Michael Myers. Jeremy's father more or less posits this to Laurie.
Bastard Understudy: After helping Michael kill Doug, Corey becomes his protégé and follows in his footsteps. After embarking on double kill together, Corey decides he doesn't need Michael anymore and steals his mask to "succeed" him as the Shape. Michael doesn't appreciate this, to say the least.
Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Being mistreated as a pariah caused him to go off the deep end.
Beware the Quiet Ones: Most of the time in public, Corey hardly speaks. Once he goes down his villainous path, he becomes a straightforward example of this as he silently preys on his victims like Michael before him.
Big Bad: Once he starts going off the deep end, Corey effectively becomes the main villain of Ends, with Michael being more of a corruptive influence than an active threat until the very end.
Big Bad Slippage: His character arc chronicles his transformation from a nerdy teenager, to bullied pariah, to Michael Myers copycat.
Big Bad Wannabe: Although he successfully usurps the Big Bad title from Michael and is plenty dangerous toward the average Haddonfield citizen, Corey is easily dispatched by Laurie the moment he tries gunning for her, and later finished off by Michael in time for the film's real climax.
Boring, but Practical: Lacking Michael's inhuman abilities, his first murder is very much this, ambushing and suffocating Allyson's asshole boss with a plastic bag while repeatedly stabbing him. It's only after he steals Michael's mask that he starts to take on some of the Shape's brutality.
Bullying a Dragon:
- While Michael may have been diminished by age and injury, Corey beating him up, stealing his mask, and smugly calling him "just a man" was a phenomenally short-sighted thing to do, especially as Corey had already seen firsthand what Michael is capable of.
- Corey is well aware that Laurie has twice survived and even outfought Michael while the Shape was at his strongest; going after her, no matter how good he thought his chances were, proved to be exactly as bad of an idea as it sounds.
Bungled Suicide: Corey's attempt at a Spiteful Suicide fails to end his life as quickly as he thought it would; he ends up lingering, slowly and painfully bleeding out, long enough for Michael to catch up to him and finish the job.
Butt-Monkey: For his role in Jeremy's death, Corey is a pariah in the town and either shunned or outright mocked by most.
Character Development: Goes from a remorseful accidental murder just trying to work a regular job to a willful killer that takes revenge on his tormentors over the course of the film.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Michael from the last two films. During those movies, Michael was getting old, which resulted in him copping a lot more injuries and sometimes opting for a Combat Pragmatist route. Corey, on the other hand, is in his twenties and is way more able-bodied, and experienced with engineering equipment which comes in handy during the massacre at the junk yard. He also only targets people who he feels wronged him personally, though he will kill others who are in his way. Contrast with Michael, who kills randomly for no apparent reason. Corey also lacks Michael's borderline superhuman abilities; as soon as he's up against someone he can't sneak attack, he goes down in no time. Michael's face is also almost always covered with little clear idea of what he even looks like underneath while Corey's appearance is known before he ever wears a mask. And while Michael was simply born evil, has no catalyst for his actions and never expresses any conflict or remorse, Corey was a flawed but well-meaning and sincerely kind young man whose guilt over accidentally getting a child killed and his isolation cause him to snap and eventually comes back from the brink enough to try and stop Michael. They also have radically different origins as Michael committed his first murder intentionally as a child while Corey's first death was an accident for which he felt genuinely remorseful and occured in adulthood.
Cop Killer: He aids Michael in murdering officer Doug Mulaney.
Create Your Own Villain: With Michael absent, the people of Haddonfield needed a new "boogeyman" at whom to direct their anger. When Corey accidentally killed Jeremy, they got one, turning the young man into a hated pariah who endured endless abuse. While it hardly excuses his actions, it's unsurprising that Corey finally does snap and become the monster everyone accuses him of being.
Curb-Stomp Battle: His attempt to kill Laurie fails before Corey can so much as lay a finger on her; Laurie fakes him out with an apparent suicide and shoots Corey twice in the chest, critically wounding him. The only damage he actually manages to do is temporarily ruining Laurie and Allyson's relationship, and that doesn't last long.
Death Equals Redemption: After fatally wounding himself, when Michael goes to pick the knife up to go after Laurie, Corey grabs his hand to try and stop him, likely breaking free of the evil inside him at the last moment.
Defiant to the End: Despite laying bleeding and virtually helpless, Corey tries with all his remaining strength to stop Michael from taking the knife he used to stab himself just before the latter snaps his neck.
Didn't Think This Through:
- Leaving Michael alive after stealing his mask was dramatically short-sighted; sure enough, Michael tracks Corey down within a few hours and takes back what's his, finishing a wounded Corey off for good measure.
- Trying to kill Laurie, despite her reputation as a Crazy Survivalist and survivor of Michael in his prime; Corey severely underestimates her and is quickly shot for his trouble.
- Corey's attempt to frame Laurie for murdering him fails because he left Willy the Kid's radio tower in flames, cluing Allyson in to the fact that Corey was no innocent victim.
Disappeared Dad: Corey's father is never mentioned in the film.
Disc-One Final Boss: He spends much of the runtime committing the murders instead of Michael and the film appeared to be setting him up as his successor, but he's killed the moment he tries his luck with Laurie, and Michael returns as the Final Boss.
Disproportionate Retribution: While the majority of Corey's victims were less than admirable people who wronged either he or Allyson in some way, none of their transgressions warranted violent murder. This is particularly egregious when it comes to Terry (who Corey burned alive with a blowtorch; although the worst of the bullies, nothing that Terry did to Corey was nearly so brutal), Margo (whose skull Corey stomped despite her not taking part in the bullying), Willy the Kid (whose insults earned him a lethal beating and Tongue Trauma), and Laurie (who he tried to murder for rightfully telling him to stay away from Allyson).
Driven to Suicide: After Laurie shoots him, he realizes his plan is hopeless, and he stabs himself in the neck. He doesn't die immediately, though, and is finished off by an angry Michael.
Dysfunctional Family: Zig-zagged. He gets along with his uncle but despises his mother enough to kill her.
Establishing Character Moment: Corey is first seen going to Jeremy's house and meeting the latter and his parents, speaking with them about his intention to show Corey a good time and his longterm school goals. This cements Corey as a normal teenager who just wants to competently do his job, and makes the events of the night all the more tragic.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted:
- Corey becomes very attached to Allyson, and he never targets her after becoming a killer, but his actions where she's concerned are violent and murderous; he leads a romantic rival to Michael to be killed, and murders her boss for a slight towards Allyson (he promoted another nurse, whom he was sleeping with, over her). In the end, however, his affection for her is portrayed as more of an obsession and desire to possess her; he sabotages her only other positive relationship, and when trying to kill Laurie doesn't work, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, happy to die rather than allow Allyson to have a positive relationship with someone other than him.
- Corey's mother is extremely possessive of her adult son, as well as emotionally and at one point, physically abusive. During his murder spree, Corey lumps her in with everyone else who's wronged him and murders her.
- Corey's uncle Ronald is one of the very few people in Haddonfield who treats him well, giving him a job and an old motorcycle, as well as sincerely hoping the embattled young man finds love. Corey doesn't kill Ronald himself, but he shows no emotion when Ronald is caught in the crossfire of Corey's rampage and dies accidentally taking a bullet for Corey (and given that Ronald had seen Corey with Michael's mask, it's doubtful that Corey would have let him live anyway).
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
- In a conversation with Laurie, Corey assumes that she experienced something like he did when she looked into Michael's eyes, telling her that she should give in to that feeling; unlike Corey, Laurie has never shown any sign that she enjoys violence or feels any need to take her own suffering out on others (Michael, the cause of said suffering, being the sole exception).
- Corey assumed that Allyson would completely believe that Laurie murdered him in cold blood, hence his Thanatos Gambit; while, in the heat of the moment, Allyson did initially buy into it, all it took was a single clue to Corey's true nature for Allyson to realize the truth, showing that she wasn't quite as gullible as Corey believed.
Evil Counterpart: Corey is one to Karen since Karen is Laurie's protégé while Corey becomes Michael's successor. Corey and Karen also die in a similar fashion to the other's predecessor: Michael kills Karen after Karen believes Michael is dead while Laurie mortally wounds Corey after Corey presumes that she committed suicide.
Evil Feels Good: Before embracing evil, Corey was neurotic, jumpy, and understandably miserable. Once he's jumped headlong into sociopathy, however, he's much more confident and content, clearly enjoying his newfound murderous attitude.
Evil Is Petty:
- The first death that Corey deliberately causes is that of Doug, a former flame of Allyson's with whom Corey had an argument. While it's implied that Doug followed Corey to physically assault him, Corey gleefully leads the man to be murdered by Michael just to learn how to commit murder for himself.
- Corey doesn't just attack Michael and steal his mask prior to the third act, but he takes a moment to mock the Shape as well, deeming him "just a man".
- During his attack on the teen bullies, Corey takes a moment to remove Michael's mask so that they can see that it's him attacking them, not Michael. As he intends to kill them all regardless, it's implied that the only reason he bothered was for the sake of his own ego.
- His attack on Willy the Kid was provoked by the shock jock insulting Corey, a particularly petty motive compared to his killing of the teen bullies (one of whom threw him off an overpass) and his mother (who abused him). He also goes the extra mile of setting fire to Willy's radio station after murdering him.
- After savagely beating Willy the Kid, Corey takes a moment to cut off the shock jock's tongue with a pair of scissors before leaving him for dead.
- After being defeated by Laurie, Corey stages a Spiteful Suicide to spoil any chance she has of reconciling with Allyson.
Expy:
- He's one to the original concept of Jamie Lloyd, who was meant to go down the same murderous path as her uncle before the sequel kiboshed the idea.
- He's also one of Roy Burns, being a copycat killer who takes on the likeness of an infamous mass murderer to commit his own revenge-driven killing spree.
Fatal Flaw: His temper. Corey's unintentional killing of Jeremy was caused by him beating down the door in the house in a fit of rage (unawake that Jeremy was right by it), his breaking of his glass milk is trigged by him being insulted and thereby getting angry enough to snap it, and his killings (which are all directed at people he feels slighted by) are extensions of him expressing his anger.
The Friends Who Never Hang: Seems to have this dynamic with Frank Hawkins, who despite having met Corey and viewing him as a good kid, never interacts with him throughout the film.
Foil: To Michael himself; Michael's defining moment was deliberately murdering his sister while he was a child, whereas Corey's is accidentally murdering a child as a young adult. While they both became killers (with Corey even wearing Michael's mask), Michael was a spree killer who attacked at random, while Corey targets those who he feels wronged him. Michael is void of human attachments, while Corey becomes attached (albeit in a far from healthy way) to Allyson. Michael is an old man who, despite his weakened state, is still deadly, while Corey is a young man who relies on sneak attacks. In their confrontations with Laurie, Corey is quickly defeated without touching Laurie, whereas Michael, despite losing and dying himself, puts up a solid fight.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Much like Michael himself in his younger days, Corey is a good-looking, clean-cut young man whose looks attract him some positive female attention despite his bad reputation. Beneath that handsome exterior, however, Corey ultimately proves to be a deeply troubled person who, while a victim of abuse, becomes a vicious, petty, and self-centered murderer.
Frame-Up:
- Implied; before setting out on his killing spree, after which he intends to leave town along with Allyson, Corey attacks Michael, stealing his mask and dressing up in the Shape's signature attire, presumably intending for his murders to be attributed to the local boogeyman.
- After Laurie gets the better of him and Allyson is nearly at her door, Corey, in an attempt to spite Laurie for telling him to stay away from Allyson, stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him with the intent of ruining her and Allyson's relationship once and for all.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Goes from a dorky, shy man to the protégé and copycat killer of Michael Myers.
Generation Xerox: A rare mentor as opposed to parental variant; he bears a striking resemblance to Michael when he was young.
Hated by All: After Jeremy's death, Corey is a pariah; only his uncle, Lindsey, Allyson, and Laurie are willing to give him a chance.
Hated Hometown: After the populace turns on him, Corey grows to deeply resent and despise Haddonfield, hoping to leave it behind even before his run-in with Michael. By the third act of Halloween Ends, he's taken this to an extreme, murdering the people who have given him the most grief and acting on Allyson's metaphorical desire to burn the place down by literally setting fire to Willy the Kid's radio station, all with the intention of skipping town for good once he'd finished his killing spree.
The Heavy: Since Michael's age and injuries have left him heavily debilitated, Corey picks up the slack in moving the plot with his villainous arc before making a grab for the Big Bad role in the last third of the film.
Hero with Bad Publicity: At the beginning of the film, Corey is a well-meaning, misunderstood young man who unintentionally caused the death of the child he was babysitting and generally keeps to himself when he isn't going to work.
If I Can't Have You…: Develops this attitude toward Allyson, though he doesn't say it to her directly, but to Laurie. In a variation on the trope, he never tries to kill Allyson. Rather, his intention is that if she doesn't have a relationship with him, he won't let her have a relationship with anyone, doing his best to destroy her relationship with Laurie once he's been bested and set to be exposed as a murderer.
Implacable Man: Though nowhere near as strong as Michael, he's still this. Even before his killing spree, during a date with Allyson, he falls off a building and sits up, eeriely like Michael does. When Laurie shoots him twice in the chest, he sits up again. When he tries to kill himself by stabbing himself in the throat, he still doesn't die and tries to grab Michael to stop him before Michael breaks his neck.
It Gets Easier: The first time Corey killed someone, it was an accident and he was shocked and traumatized. The second time, he was acting in self-defense and was shocked enough to throw away the weapon. The third time, he deliberately lures someone to Michael, fully intending for them to die, so that he can learn how to murder for himself; every other death Corey causes is 100% deliberate and done without hesitation, mercy, or remorse.
It's All About Me: Once Corey has jumped headlong into darkness, he stops caring about anyone or anything except himself and the wrongs he feels were committed against him, brutally murdering people for such minor offences as insulting him and stabbing himself in the throat when he realizes that he can't have Allyson to spite Laurie and completely ruin her and Allyson's relationship.
Jack the Ripoff: Becomes "The Shape II" and commits most of the kills for Ends.
Jerkass Has a Point: He isn't wrong when he points out that Laurie is the one who introduced him to Allyson and thereby served as the catalyst for them starting a relationship after Laurie tries to warn him to stay away from her granddaughter.
Kick the Dog:
- While the teens who tormented him arguably brought their fates on themselves, Corey also murders Margo, who argued for leaving him alone and apologized for her friends' actions.
- Before killing Willy the Kid, Corey murders his receptionist, who is innocent.
- Beaten by Laurie, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame her for murdering him so as to ruin Laurie and Allyson's relationship.
Like Parent, Like Child: Corey's mother is overly attached to him and hates the idea of him growing close to someone else; Corey himself proves to be no different where Allyson is concerned, telling that Laurie that if he can't have her, no one will, which he tries to see through by sabotaging Allyson and Laurie's relationship.
Made of Iron: Though nowhere near as sturdy as Michael, Corey withstands falls, gun shots, a cut to his hand, and other injuries as the film progresses.
Malevolent Masked Men: In his murder of Dr. Mathis, Corey wears a scarecrow mask that Allyson gave him, and during his rampage later in the film, he steals and wears Michael's own mask.
Manipulative Bastard: Post-Start of Darkness, Corey does his best to isolate Allyson from Laurie, even telling her that Laurie threatened his life, in order to have Allyson all to himself. After Laurie defeats his attempt to murder her, Corey even stabs himself in the throat to make it look like Laurie murdered him, intending to exploit the fears he planted in Allyson's mind to permanently ruin her and Laurie's relationship.
Matricide: Before leaving to attack Laurie, Corey murders his own emotionally abusive mother.
Meaningful Appearance: When first introduced and before his initial encounter with Michael, Corey wears glasses. Once they're broken and he returns from looking into Michael's eyes, he no longer wears them or tries to get another pair, signifying a change that alludes to the impact of the encounter.
Meaningful Name:
- His surname is a reference to Arnie Cunningham from John Carpenter's Christine, who gets obsessed with and corrupted by a malevolent supernatural force. Corey ends up going down a similar road.
- Like the series' original boogeyman, Michael Myers, Corey Cunningham has an Alliterative Name.
Misplaced Retribution: His killing of Susan, Willy the Kid's receptionist who he encounters before going after the latter, can come off as this considering most of his other victims were people that directly mocked or harmed him in the past and he had no prior transgressions with her.
Mistaken for Pedophile: Terry accuses Corey of being a pedophile while taunting him, though whether he actually believes that or is just trying to wind him up is unclear.
Moral Myopia: Corey is angry and later tries to kill Laurie for telling him to stay away from Allyson, despite the fact that Corey has either deliberately committed or been an accessory to three murders by that point.
Near-Villain Victory: Before being defeated by Laurie, Corey had successfully killed every single person that he had targeted, tricked Allyson into thinking he was a good person, and succeeded Michael as Haddonfield's new killer.
Neck Snap: Despite his attempt at a Spiteful Suicide, Corey lingers long enough for Michael to come along and repay Corey for beating him and stealing his mask.
Never My Fault: After being confronted by Jeremy's mother at a party Allyson invited him to, Corey angrily blames Allyson for "making" him go, despite the fact that he's the one who decided to accept the invitation.
Nice Guy: In the beginning, he seemed like a decent guy before he started killing people.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Corey makes a genuine attempt to appeal to Jeremy while babysitting him, and his concern for the boy leads him into the prank that unintentionally causes Jeremy's death.
Not Quite Dead: After stabbing himself in the throat, Corey appears dead, but when Michael arrives to reclaim his mask, Corey proves to be hanging on by a thread, albeit a thread that Michael swiftly cuts.
Official Couple: With Allyson after he confesses to his first (purposeful) murder.
Oh, Crap!: The already immobile and dying Corey gets one last moment of shock and fear when Michael finds him and retrieves the mask that Corey stole.
Once Done, Never Forgotten: Though Jeremy's death was ultimately an accident, the people of Haddonfield have long-since decided his guilt and relentlessly bully and abuse him for it, even three years later. Unsurprisingly, Corey ends up snapping under the pressure and really does become the murderer the town treated him as.
Overshadowed by Awesome: Corey would have been a formidable slasher villain in almost any other movie, but he made the fatal mistake of going after Laurie Strode, who put Michael Myers through his paces even at his prime.
Pay Evil unto Evil: The biggest difference between him and Michael is that while the latter kills indiscriminately, virtually every victim (or attempted victim) of Corey is someone who he feels has either mistreated or wronged him or Allyson. He targets the school band bullies after multiple instances of harassment from them, his mother after she tries controlling him and assaults him, Willy the Kid and by extension his assistant after Willy mocks and threatens him, and Laurie after she tells him to end his relationship with Allyson.
Protagonist Journey to Villain: His arc is him Gaining the Will to Kill and becoming a murderer in the same vein as Michael.
Psychotic Smirk: As a sign of Corey fully embracing his dark side, he smiles creepily at Doug while leading him to his death at Michael's hands, gives a similar smile to Michael himself after watching him kill Nurse Deb, and taunts Terry with one more smile before murdering both him and Margo.
Reformed, but Rejected: Whatever anger that Corey has that can sometimes cause him to act out physically never manifests itself in the years after Jeremy's death yet the town continues to treat him poorly.
Revenge is Sweet: He smiles right before double-teaming Doug with Michael. Realizing that Allyson is pulling up in the driveway, he smiles at Laurie before stabbing himself to trick his girlfriend into thinking her grandmother murdered him.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After donning the Shape's mask, Corey goes after people he feels personally wronged by, murdering the teens who harassed him, the shock jock who insulted him, his abusive mother, and tries to finish with Laurie, whom he sees as an obstacle to his relationship with Allyson.
The Scapegoat: Although Jeremy's death was caused by the boy being by the locked door that Corey kicked hard, had Jeremy would not have died had he not trapped Corey in the room with his prank, but because Jeremy's parents heard Corey's threats before the death, he's blamed for the death. Jeremy's father, long after the event, theorizes that people holding Corey responsible for Jeremy's death was less because of the act itself, and more because, in the absence of Michael, the town wanted someone to direct anger at for the collective trauma they experienced because of the Shape.
Self-Disposing Villain: Corey goes after the one heroic person who can stop him and although she doesn't kill him, his injuries and subsequent attempt to take his own life renders him weaker when trying to stop Michael.
Slasher Smile: While he previously restricted himself to Psychotic Smirks, just before he stabs himself in the throat, Corey flashes a blood-stained grin at Laurie, assuming that his final effort will succeed.
Smug Snake: After Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, Corey is brimming with newfound confidence, and by the end of the film, arrogantly assumes that he can get the better of both Michael and Laurie, even leaving the former alive after stealing his mask, smugly rubbing in to Michael that he's "just a man". Needless to say, both Laurie and Michael prove him wrong in short order. Even his final Thanatos Gambit, framing Laurie for murdering him, is done with a confident Slasher Smile as he assumes that Allyson would have no trouble believing it. It did work for a short time, but it only took a single sign of Corey's prior rampage for Allyson to realize the truth, quickly turning Corey's last act of villainy into a total failure. Corey may have thought of himself as an equal to Michael, but the movie ultimately shows him to be a petty, short-sighted, and nowhere near as smart or capable as he assumed himself to be.
The Sociopath: Whether this was always the case is ambiguous, but by the time he lures Doug to Michael, Corey has become a vicious, spiteful murderer who reacts violently to slights ranging from physical assault to simple insults, murdering people in savagely brutal ways and wanting to be Allyson's only positive relationship.
Speak Ill of the Dead: He's on the receiving end of this when Allyson admits she was wrong about him to Laurie.
Spiteful Suicide: When he hears Allyson's car pull up after being defeated by Laurie, Corey stabs himself in the throat to frame Laurie for murdering him, preferring to leave Allyson all alone in the world rather than not have her himself. The attempt turns out to be a complete failure; not only does Allyson quickly learn the truth, but Corey himself lingers long enough for Michael to finish him off.
Suicide Attack: Stabs himself in the neck in an attempt to convince Allyson that Laurie killed him. He turns out to still be alive.
Then Let Me Be Evil: After committing the accidental murder of the boy he was babysitting, Corey tries to move on with his life despite the guilt and trauma of the incident. Unfortunately, nobody in Haddonfield believes it was an accident and torments him over it, especially Terry and his gang. After said gang attacks him and throw him off a bridge, he slowly begins to snap, deciding to become the monster everyone treated him as.
Tragic Villain: Corey was a nice, well-meaning young man with a temper who, upon accidentally killing the child he was babysitting the first Halloween after Michael's second killing spree, became the town pariah and put up with their poor treatment of him for years until snapping.
Tranquil Fury: His reaction to the marching band members insulting him is to stand and show disdain through his facial expression with the situation only escalating because the angered Corey broke his glass milk and its contents spilled on Terry. He adopts a similar reaction to Jeremy's mother confronting him while he's out with Allyson and his plan to kill Laurie failing.
Underestimating Badassery: Believing Laurie to just be Allyson's grandmother who is past her prime and can be just as easily killed as the rest of his victims comes back to bite him.
Undignified Death: After stabbing himself in the throat in an ultimately futile attempt at a Thanatos Gambit, Corey lingers long enough to be finished off by Michael with a simple Neck Snap while helpless to defend himself.
Ungrateful Bastard:
- Laurie was one of the few who gave him a chance after the town turned on him, introduced him to Allyson, and was generally accepting of him until correctly noticing that he was changing into a more dangerous person. Regardless of her past willingness to treat him well, he doesn't take the news of her wanting him to stay away from Allyson well and even wants her dead for this.
- Despite Margo protesting the bullying the rest of her high school band gave Corey, the latter has no problem killing her.
Villain Protagonist: Corey is, for all intents and purposes, the true protagonist of Ends, as he receives more screentime and focus than either Laurie or Michael, and the story is explored through his eyes.
Walking Spoiler: Trying to talk about his character without adding that he's the main antagonist of Ends is damn near impossible.
Would Hurt a Child: Unintentionally. A kid he was babysitting, Jeremy, locked him in a room and taunted him from behind the door, situated on a high floor. When Corey kicks the door open, it sends Jeremy falling back behind the banister and plummeting to his death. He feels appropriately guilty and traumatized about it.
Wrestler in All of Us: He wrestles with Michael for the latter's mask and after a prolonged struggle, successfully takes it from him.
Yandere: One of the main factors that drives Corey to kill. His plan is to leave Haddonfield with Allyson, but not before stealing Michael's mask and going on a killing spree against everyone who wronged him, and attempting to kill Laurie, all while framing Michael for the murders.

Legacy Characters

Tommy Doyle

Played By: Anthony Michael Hall

Appearances: Halloween Kills

A survivor of the first killing spree in 1978, alongside his baby-sitter Laurie Strode and his friend Lindsey Wallace.

Batter Up!: Once Tommy Doyle hears Michael is back, he grabs a trusted baseball bat of his to hunt him down.
Catchphrase: "Evil Dies Tonight", which is repeated by the mob so many times that it becomes the Arc Words.
Death by Adaptation: After surviving the events of the first movie and managing to defeat Michael in the 4-6 Timeline, Tommy finally meets his end at the hands of Michael Myers in Halloween Kills, much like most of the returning characters from the original film.
Expy: Tommy shares a lot of similarities with Earl from Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Both are older, slightly overweight men who get an inkling about Michael's return while in a bar, form a Vigilante Militia, cause the death of an innocent man while thinking he's Michael, and then die in a way that involves head injuries.
Heroic Wannabe: Tommy clearly sees himself as the hero, but his efforts to defeat Michael not only make the situation in Haddonfield even more chaotic, but he still fails despite his best efforts.
Hero with an F in Good: It's obvious that Tommy means well. He wants to stop Michael's rampage and help Haddonfield heal from his shadow. But his approach of doing so, whipping the town into a mob frenzy, winds up far more people killed, including by his own mob, than if he had simply done nothing.
Failed a Spot Check: When news first comes in of the killings, Tommy's in the bar when the TV shows Michael's face (blurred out in the background, as ever), but he's lost in his inner thoughts. Later, one of the reasons things escalate so badly in the hospital is because Tommy doesn't know what Michael looks like under the mask, leading to the death of the other mental patient when Tommy doesn't listen to Laurie and Karen telling him it's not Michael.
Fatal Flaw: Wrath. Tommy is still traumatized by his fateful encounter with Michael, and at least part of his motivation for starting the mob to hunt Michael is to take personal revenge for the trauma he endured at Michael's hands.
Fire-Forged Friends: Implied: in the original film, Lonnie's most prominent scene was being a bullying dick to Tommy. This film shows he had his own encounter with Michael in 1978, and by the present the two have bonded over their experiences that night.
Foreshadowing: When the mob starts to organise in response to Michael, an emotional Tommy grabs the baseball bat at Kelly's and vows to go down swinging when they find him. Come the end of the movie, that's exactly what happens.
Gory Discretion Shot: Tommy's death is not entirely shown as the camera focus on Michael swinging his bat to crush his head, splattering a massive amount of blood and brains.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Tommy spends most of the film with a baseball bat as his weapon of choice, vowing to kill Michael with it. Michael kills him with it near the end.
Leave Him to Me!: When Tommy hears that Michael is outside the bar where he and his friends have been drinking, he doesn't hesitate to grab a baseball bat and be the first one to approach the danger.
My God, What Have I Done?: Tommy has that reaction when he realizes him and the mob lead a innocent mental patient to kill himself. The mob itself collectively have this too once they calm down.
Oh, Crap!: Tommy reaction as Michael brutally kills the mob, one-by-one.
Tragic Hero: Tommy is shown at the start of the film to be a beloved pillar of his community, with clear influence, public speaking, and leadership skills. Unfortunately, as he becomes increasingly desperate to defeat Michael, he makes his posse to achieve that task larger and larger, not only losing control, but getting swept up in the mob mentality himself. Even as he realizes his mistakes, he continues to double down, and his efforts ultimately get him and most of his supporters killed.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Tommy Doyle and the mob of people he gathers; for all the chaos they cause, they're just trying to stop Michael Myers once and for all.
What the Hell, Hero?: Karen berates Tommy for inciting the mob which led to the other mental patient's death when he was mistaken for Michael.
Your Head A-Splode: Michael kills Tommy with a single blow of his own baseball bat, reducing his head to a bloody pulp.

Lindsey Wallace

Played By: Kyle Richards

Appearances: Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

Another survivor of Michael Myers, Lindsey was a little girl when her baby-sitter Annie Brackett was murdered by the killer in 1978.

Action Survivor: Lindsey's clearly not an experienced fighter, but she accomplishes the rare and remarkable feat of surviving an up close and personal encounter with Michael Myers, stunning him with a bag of bricks to the face and managing to flee from him by grabbing his mask and shifting it around to blind him.
All-Loving Hero: Unlike many of the other residents of Haddonfield, Lindsey doesn't have a mean bone in her body, treating everyone, including local pariahs like Laurie and Corey, with compassion and decency. The only character to get any hostility from Lindsey at all is Michael, but the exception is more than justified in that case.
The Bus Came Back: On a meta level, actress Kyle Richards reprises the role of Lindsey Wallace four decades after her appearance in the original movie.
Combat Pragmatist: When Michael appears in the park, Lindsey grabs an empty candy bag left behind by the trick'r treaters and proceeds to fill it with bricks she collected from the ground, using it to attack Michael.
Demoted to Extra: After being part of the action in Halloween Kills, Lindsey has a much smaller role in Halloween Ends, mostly serving as moral support for Laurie and Allyson. She never even shares a scene with Michael before the Shape is killed.
Nice Girl: Lindsey has grown up into a sweet and good-natured woman who is among the few people to remain on good terms with Laurie. In Halloween Ends, she's become a friend of Allyson's as well and proves herself compassionate towards even the otherwise hated Corey Cunningham.
Sole Survivor: Aside from Laurie Strode, who did not directly confront Michael Myers, Lindsey is the only returning character from the original movie to survive the events of Halloween Kills. In fact she is the only character in the entire film franchise who survives every appearance, different versions featured in Halloween, Halloween 2 (in flashback), Halloween 4, the 2007 Halloween remake, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends and living every time.

Lonnie Elam

Played By: Tristian Eggerling (flashback scenes) and Robert Longstreet

Appearances: Halloween Kills

Tommy's bully during his childhood time who also survived a face-to-face encounter with Michael Myers in 1978. He is the father of Cameron Elam.

Adaptational Heroism: Tie in material for the pre-2018 continuity showed that Lonnie was still involved in delinquent activities with his friends right into adulthood, and that they would still torment Tommy Doyle about the Boogeyman. In this film he has shown to have moved on from his troublesome ways and become a good friend to Tommy.
Ascended Extra: Halloween Kills marks Lonnie's return after forty years since his debut appearance in the original movie.
Back for the Dead: Despite being one of the survivors of the first killing spree in Halloween, Lonnie did not make it to the end of Halloween Kills, much like Marion Chambers, Leigh Brackett and Tommy Doyle.
Bully Turned Buddy: To Tommy Doyle. In the first scene, his most notable moment was bullying Tommy about the Boogeyman. In the new continuity, he and Tommy bonded over their shared Myers encounters and became close friends.
The Chain of Harm: At the same time that he was bullying Tommy in 1978, it's shown that Lonnie was a frequent victim of bullying himself.
Continuity Nod: Lonnie's past experiences as a troublemaker in Haddonfield is mentioned by his friend Ray Nelson in the previous movie.
Dead Guy on Display: Lonnie's body is found by Cameron hanged from the pull down attic stairs in Myers house.
Deadpan Snarker: Lonnie is the most sarcastic out of the all survivors as, even in the middle of all the terror caused by Michael Myers, he doesn't get a hold on himself in throwing ironic remarks whenever he gets a chance to.
Drugs Are Good: In high school, Lonnie befriended with Ray Nelson and occasionally sold him Peyote and the two used to get high together, which most of the times granted them funny stories to be remembered.
Foreshadowing: Before Lonnie goes into the Myers house to confront Michael, he says to Cameron, "I'll see you at the finish line". Both end up being killed by Michael not too long after.
Good Parents: He seems to be one. Despite his impulsiveness and bully tendencies, he clearly loves and cares for his son.
Gun Nut: As the survivors prepares to hunt down Michael Myers, Lonnie is the one who provides guns to his fellow allies since he has a large arsenal in the back of his car.
Hell-Bent for Leather: Lonnie is seen wearing a black leather jacket towards the second half of the movie.
Heroic Wannabe: Lindsey Wallace believed Lonnie to be the only kid bold enough to venture into the Myers house, though this was later revealed to be a lie all along by Lonnie himself. Forty years later, however, Lonnie indeed managed to enter the house alone to face Michael, ending up being killed by the later.
Honor Before Reason: Lonnie leaves Cameron and Allyson in the car while he investigates the Myers house alone, hoping to keep the teens safe. Going in alone just leaves him vulnerable to Michael, and hearing the one gunshot he managed to get off brings Allyson and Cameron into the house to try and help him anyway.
Jerkass: Lonnie gained a bad reputation for being a very troubled person who is constantly in and out struggle with the law, a trait that was inherited by his son Cameron. One such incident involving his arrest for punching a police officer. Downplayed in Halloween Kills, where Lonnie seems to be much more easy-going than his former self.
Jerkass Realization: After his encounter with Michael in 1978, a young Lonnie Elam, visibly disturbed by the encounter, immediately apologizes for being a jerkass bully to Tommy Doyle, as the later Knew It All Along the Boogeyman is real and among them.
Killed Offscreen: During the climax of Halloween Kills, Lonnie decides to sneak into Myers house alone to face Michael while Cameron and Allyson hold positions outside. As Lonnie slowly steps inside and disappears into the shadows, a gunshot is heard, forcing his son and Allyson to investigate. His mangled body is later found by Cameron, who is also ambushed by Michael.
One Last Smoke: With whatever he was drinking in his mug before entering the Myers house.
Out-Gambitted: Lonnie uses a map of Haddonfield to track Michael's rampage, discovering that the killer is making new victims as he goes directly to his former family house. Lonnie, alongside Allyson and Cameron, drives to the location in order to stop Michael once and for all. Turns out Michael was already prepared for any incoming intruder, killing Lonnie as soon as he enters the house.
Sour Supporter: He is the first one to join Tommy Doyle in a mob to take down Michael Myers.
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: During the flashback sequence in Halloween Kills, Lonnie is shown being harrassed by other three kids from the Mullaney family, who proceeds to antagonize him (in a very similar way he bullied Tommy in school) for apparently stealing their candy. This doubles as Call-Back to the original movie when they even mocked Lonnie with the exact same sentence he used against Tommy, "He's gonna get you!", referring the Boogeyman.
Together in Death: With his own son Cameron, as the two where killed by Michael on the exact same spot in Myers house.
Took a Level in Kindness: Lonnie has mellowed considerably since the original, having grown from a Jerkass bully to being friends with Tommy, Lindsey and Marion due to their shared history with Michael. He later reminisces with Allyson about her father, clearly trying to soften the blow a little for her.
What Were You Thinking?: Lonnie's decision to sneak into Myers house alone armed only with a handgun doesn't seems to be the brightest idea for obvious reasons.

Marion Chambers

Played By: Nancy Stephens

Appearances: Halloween Kills

Marion Chambers was a nurse and the first person Michael Myers attacked in his way back to Haddonfield by the time of 1978.

And This Is for...: Says "This is for Doctor Loomis" when Michael attacks, but horribly backfires due to having spent all her ammo shooting at him, leading him to stab her to death.
Back for the Dead: Is the first of the original film's returning characters to be offed by Michael in Halloween Kills.
Book Ends: Marion's first and last encounters with Michael happen in a car. The first time, Michael was more interested in stealing a car than in hurting her. The last time, she's not so lucky.
The Bus Came Back: After being Adapted Out from the Rob Zombie duology and being killed in the H20 timeline, Marion Chambers returns to the series.
Dead Guy on Display: Michael hangs her from a swing set with a witch mask from Halloween III: Season of the Witch after stabbing her multiple times.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: The novelisation of Kills gives her a Heroic Sacrifice ending after being stabbed, popping back to life to distract Michael as he's about to kill Lindsay, allowing her to escape. Michael then kills her by crushing her skull against the car steering wheel.
Failed Attempt at Drama: Marion tries to shoot Michael in the head, uttering a dramatic "this is for Doctor Loomis" as she does. Unfortunately for Marion, she's out of bullets.
Fire-Forged Friends: Is shown to be bar buddies with the other returning characters from the first film, all of them having bonded over their shared encounters with Michael Myers.
Sacrificial Lion: In a sense, as her death is what indicates the returning characters from the first film aren't safe from being killed by Michael.
Spared by the Adaptation: A rather downplayed case, but she outlives her H20 counterpart by another twenty years before getting killed by Michael again.

Leigh Brackett

Played By: Charles Cyphers

Appearances: Halloween Kills

Leigh Brackett was the local sheriff of Haddonfield in 1978. His daughter, Annie Brackett, was murdered by Michael Myers.

Death by Adaptation: Gets slashed in the throat by Michael in the climax of Halloween Kills, marking this the first time Brackett has been killed in the franchise.
Retired Badass: He retired from the Sheriff's department sometime in the 40 years between films, and is now a hospital security guard. However, this doesn't stop him from joining the mob to kill Michael, and gets in a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner toward the end.
Slashed Throat: A seemingly unconscious Michael suddenly springs to life as Brackett prepares to execute him, slashing the old man's throat before Brackett knows what's hit him.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: Michael springs to life and kills Brackett so quickly that the rest of the mob barely has a chance to register the event before Michael moves on to the rest of them.

Medical

Vanessa and Marcus

Played By: Carmela McNeal and Michael Smallwood

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills

A married couple out for Halloween night. At the bar, Vanessa finds who she assumes to be Michael in the backseat of their car, and the two subsequently join with the mob going after him.

Accidental Suicide: Vanessa accidentally shoots herself in the face when Michael swings a car door open on her, hitting the gun and causing it to discharge into her own face.
Ascended Extra: They first appear among the crowd of Halloween revelers in 2018, barely avoiding Michael as he starts his rampage. Vanessa notices Michael and is visibly put off. They reappear in Halloween Kills and get significantly more screentime and dialogue.
Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. Michael gets close to them in the first film, but he leaves them alone. They die in the second film, but they aren't the first ones to go, with the firefighters, Sondra and her husband, and a trick-or-treater getting killed beforehand.
Defiant to the End: Both go out trying to kill Michael.
Eye Scream: Marcus dies from a knife to the eye after trying to get the drop on Michael.
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Vanessa claims to know how to handle a gun. See Accidental Suicide above.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksman Ship Academy: Vanessa shoots at Michael several times while he's in the car, missing every shot, but several of them do get quite close to him. It's not easy to shoot a gun accurately in the dark as it may seem, especially when you're not very well-trained in shooting. And Michael makes sure that she doesn't get off a killing shot.
Improvised Weapon: Marcus attempts to strangle Michael with his prop stethoscope. It goes as well as one would expect.
Naughty Nurse Outfit: Contrasting with Marcus' hospital scrubs, Vanessa wears a skimpy nurse costume—though she describes herself as the doctor and him as the nurse.
Together in Death: Their bodies are posed together on the playground's merry-go-round, wearing the trick-or-treaters' skull and pumpkin masks.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Vanessa runs outside when she sees Michael in the backseat of her car. Moments later, it's revealed not to be Michael, but one of the other mental hospital escapees. This is the first link in the chain of disaster that ends in the poor man's death.

Dr. Mathis

Dr Mathis

Played By: Michael O'Leary

Appearances: Halloween Ends

A piggish, pervy doctor whom Marcus and Vanessa work for. In Ends, he also becomes Allyson's new boss.

Asshole Victim: Is killed by getting a bag over his head and stabbed repeatedly by Corey. He almost definitely deserves every second of it.
Dirty Old Man: He makes gross comments about Allyson while treating Corey's hand and later passes her up for a promotion in favor of Nurse Deb, whom he sleeps with. It was previously implied in Kills that he also harassed Vanessa.

Other

Little John and Big John

Played By: Michael McDonald and Scott MacArthur

Appearances: Halloween Kills

A gay couple that currently resides the Myers family house.

Bury Your Gays: The only explicitly gay characters in Halloween Kills, and two of Michael's many, many victims.
Death by Irony: They use Michael's story to scare some trick-or-treaters. Then Michael comes home.
Eye Scream: Michael gouges Big John's eyes out with his thumbs.
Straight Gay: Neither of them are remotely stereotypical.
Together in Death: Invoked in a particularly twisted way; after killing them, Michael poses their bodies to mimic a romantic photo and plays an Anne Murray record over the morbid scene.

Willy the Kid

Played By: Keraun Harris

Appearances: Halloween Ends

The loudmouthed DJ for Haddonfield's late-night radio station, WURG 97.4, who rose in prominence in the four years following the 2018 massacre.

Bullying a Dragon: Thinks it's a grand idea to taunt a suspected murderer to his face. Corey shows him exactly how bad an idea this is the very next night.
Dumbass DJ: For a certain level of Dumbass. On the one hand, he fits all the usual aspects of the trope, in particular his loudmouthed broadcasting style and his editing-heavy intro that plays over the opening titles. On the other, he's cultured enough to quip a more obscure Nietzche quote back at a caller who tries lecturing him with the far more well-known "Stare into the Abyss" line.
Jerkass: Is one of the many residents of Haddonfield to mock Corey and Allyson for their connections to murders and carnage.
Karmic Death: Corey finally shuts him up by breaking his jaw on his record turntable, before cutting out his tongue.
Large Ham Radio: Allyson mentions hearing his voice constantly, all over Haddonfield. He gleefully owns this, comparing himself to getting a song stuck in your head.
Shock Jock: Makes repeated references and jokes about the 2018 Halloween massacre, despite living in the town where it happened less than five years ago.

Smith's Grove Sanitarium

Dr. Ranbir Sartain

Played By: Haluk Bilginer

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Michael's psychiatrist, who has taken over the role of Samuel Loomis.

Abhorrent Admirer: A non-romantic example. Sartain admires Michael for his pure ruthlessness and wants to watch him in the field. Michael is not amused.
Admiring the Abomination: In his own madness, Sartain is entranced by Michael, desperate for any understanding he can glean from the killer.
Ambiguous Situation: Did he orchestrate Michael's escape or merely take advantage of it?
A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: He was mentored by Loomis to watch Michael, but sadly unbeknownst to Loomis, Sartain had his own nefarious plans.
Asshole Victim: Given his corruption, no one would mourn his death.
Ax-Crazy: It's clear from his actions in the film that Sartain may have more than a few screws loose in his head.
Big Bad Wannabe: Despite the implications that he sabotaged Michael's transfer, Sartain is ultimately way in over his head in thinking he can control him. Michael himself makes it very clear that he doesn't play The Dragon to anyone by offing him before the climax.
Cop Killer: Subverted. He stabs Hawkins with his pen knife and runs him over. However, the following film reveals that Hawkins didn't die.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Different continiuity but in comparison to Terrence Wynn, Sartain comes off as much a Foil as an Expy. Wynn was also an Evil Former Friend of Loomis but while Wynn was in charge of the Sanitarium and Loomis' superior, Sartain was simply Loomis' pupil. Wynn had a degree of power over Michael (depending on the cut) and was his mentor; it is made abundantly clear that Sartain is in way over his head with Michael. Wynn was a fairly effective Big Bad who aided Michael for years before Michael turns against him, Sartain had little to no direct involvement in Michael's rampage, and doesn't even last the night.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets his head smashed into the windshield multiple times, dragged out of Hawkins' police car, and finally, Michael stomps his head in, graphically.
Decomposite Character: Although Dr. Wynn still exists in this timeline, Sartain takes his role as a psychiatric worker who tries to control Michael.
Didn't Think This Through: Sticks Michael's body in the back of a police car with Allyson, hedging his bets that if Michael woke up before he could bring him to the Strode Compound, Michael would kill the helpless teenager before attacking him. He was wrong.
Dirty Coward: Even though he wants to see Michael in the wild, he's clearly unwilling to put his own life on the line.
Evil Counterpart: To Samuel Loomis, who is the Big Good, while Sartain is a Big Bad Wannabe. Loomis believed that there's no point in keeping Michael alive or trying to understand him, while Sartain becomes obsessed with protecting Michael and understanding his psychology.
Evil Feels Good: Remarks "So that's how it feels" after frenziedly knifing Hawkins (seemingly) to death. Actually steals and briefly wears Michael's mask to boot.
Evil Is Hammy: He's already quite quite eccentric sounding, but it kicks into overdrive after he reveals just how crazy he really is.
Evil Is Not a Toy: What he should have done is kept Michael locked away until the day he died, like his mentor. What he did was instead think that it was a good idea to try and conduct an experiment by turning him loose again, eventually ending up as another notch on his kill tally.
Evil Is Petty: He runs over Hawkins after stabbing the man, though surprisingly this doesn’t kill him.
Expy: He has more in common with Dr. Terrence Wynn, another acquaintance of Loomis who is a Psycho Psychologist wanting to control Michael to do his evil bidding.
For Science!: He's become obsessed with understanding his patient, to the point that he murders a man so he can observe Michael "in the field." He then takes him to see Laurie largely to see what effect it'll have on him.
Hate Sink: Dr. Ranbir Sartain is the Psycho Psychologist who for years was Dr. Sam Loomis's protégé and studied and became obsessed with Michael Myers. Wanting to get a sense of what's in Michael's head and get him to share his thoughts on all he's done, Sartain causes a bus crash so that Michael will escape from custody and just like Sartain had hoped, Michael commits another vicious killing spree in the process. Wanting to protect Michael for nothing but his own twisted fixation and obsession, Sartain viciously attacks and leaves Deputy Frank Hawkins for dead while then locking Laurie Strode's granddaughter Allyson Nelson in the back of a police car with Michael, intent on forcing a confrontation with Laurie just to see what happens. Even with his death here meaning Sartain doesn't appear in either Kills or Ends, the events of everything that happens in those movies were still indirectly made possible ''because'' of him.
Infectious Insanity: It's implied that studying Michael over the years has contributed greatly to his own mental decline.
Karmic Death: After assisting Michael in his rampage to try and see if his actions can be understood, the thing that gets him killed at Michael's hands in the end is this obsession to understand him along with his refusal to believe that Michael is both completely incomprehensible, and absolutely uncontrollable.
Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Even after decades of being Michael's psychologist, Sartain still doesn't know what makes him tick and has only his wild speculations about what drives him to do what he does. Michael's actions and Sartain's death make it clear that he was too wrapped up in his own fantasies of Michael's motivations to see him for what he was.
Lack of Empathy: He's much more interested in understanding Michael than in the human cost of the Shape's rampages. He even stabs Hawkins and leaves Allyson with Michael with the hope that watching him kill her will help him understand why Michael does what he does.
Mad Doctor: His studying Michael for years has led him to decide to set him free for his own curiosity of what will happen.
Meaningful Name: Just two letters away from Satan.
Nightmare Fetishist: His interest in Michael has less to do with scientific curiousity and more with a morbid fascination with his crimes, to the point where he seemingly wants to put himself in Michael's headspace.
No Historical Figures Were Harmed: He looks a lot like Albert Einstein.
Psycho Psychologist: He stabs Hawkins and kidnaps Allyson hostage as he loads Michael onto his vehicle, all so he can finally understand his patient, whom he's become obsessed with. He even has a moment of awe after he seemingly kills Hawkins where he thinks he finally understands what Michael feels when he kills. Played for Laughs however, in a deleted scene when Sartain bizarrely asked Hawkins about wearing ladies' underwear then picks his nose while sitting next to him, though it was likely to foreshadow how seriously unhinged he could be.
Sadist: He derives intense pleasure from stabbing Hawkins, apparently believing himself to reenact the sensation Michael feels when he kills.
Sanity Slippage: It's implied that trying to understand Michael has driven Sartain insane; by the time of the film, he may have released Michael, almost murders Hawkins to save him, and is prepared to have Michael slaughter Allyson, all for the sake of understanding Michael's evil.
Sinister Switchblade: He's revealed to have a retractable knife blade inside his pen.
Small Role, Big Impact: The fact that Sartain sets Michael free means he's the linchpin for the whole trilogy being possible—even with his death in the one movie.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Sartain is noted to have been a former protege of Sam Loomis, to the point that you'd swear Bilginer is giving an impression of Donald Pleasance (and the character is even called out on this In-Universe, when Laurie refers to him as "the new Loomis"). Once it becomes clear that Sartain is manipulating Michael (and possibly instigated his escape) in order to see what he'll do, he becomes a far different person. In that sense, he becomes one to Dr. Terrence Wynn.
This Is Your Brain on Evil: Sartain's obsession with Michael led him to nearly commit murder in order to fully understand his patient. He even put on Michael's mask in an attempt to see the world through his eyes. Yeah, this guy definitely had a few screws loose.
Too Dumb to Live: Whether or not he intentionally sabotaged Michael's transfer, he apparently forgot (or disregarded) the memo that Michael cannot be controlled, reasoned with, or understood on the same level as normal human beings. Loomis came to understand that Michael was a being of pure evil and had to be put down. Any attempts to control Michael were usually a one way street.
Villainous Breakdown: Loses his cool and self-preservation instincts on some level when Allyson tells him Michael spoke to her, something he had been wanting to hear or know about for quite some time. Being distracted in this manner leads directly to his death. His final words are pleading with Michael to say something to him, which Michael responds to by stomping his head into gooey chunks.
Walking Spoiler: Just look at this entry!
Your Head A-Splode: In a spectacular fashion, similar to Howard's death only done as a One-Hit Kill.

Dr. Samuel Loomis

See his page.

Lance Tivoli

Played By: Ross Bacon

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills

A mental hospital patient that escaped Smith's Grove alongside Michael Myers.

Better to Die than Be Killed: When cornered by the mob who mistook him for Michael, he jumps out of a window to his very messy death several stories down.
Chekhov's Gunman: He can be briefly seen in the 2018 film's opening, with Dr. Sartain even mentioning him by name when warning Aaron to tie his shoes, as it's Lance's Berserk Button. He doesn't play an important part until the sequel, however.
Foil: To Michael. Both are mental patients at Smith's Grove who aren't very talkative, but while Michael is a Made of Iron monster who's incredibly murderous, Tivoli is a meek and harmless man who ends up being a magnet for the violence of so-called "sane" people.
Insane Equals Violent: Soundly averted. While he does impulsively steal a car and nearly runs over Tommy while doing so, it's clear he would never hurt a fly. Which, unfortunately, doesn't protect him from the angry mob who want his blood when they mistake him for Michael.
Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: Some very poor wording on Cameron's part gets the scared and angry mob in the hospital to think he's Michael. The predictable happens.

Other Characters

Aaron Korey

Played By: Jefferson Hall

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

A true-crime British podcaster and Dana's partner.

Agent Scully: Asked by Laurie, Aaron says that he doesn't believe in the Boogeyman, seeing Michael as nothing but a crazed killer. Michael is happy to show him how wrong he is.
Decoy Protagonist: Somewhat. The first act of the film focuses largely on the podcasters (who are also both of British nationality much like the franchise's original protagonist Dr. Loomis and his actor Donald Pleasance which further gives off this vibe) before they're brutally killed off and the Strode women become front and centre.
The Door Slams You: The inverse happens, Michael kills him by smashing his head repeatedly into the door of the gas station.
Gone Horribly Right: He shows Michael his old mask in order to get some sort of reaction out of him, speculating aloud that the mask is part of him. It takes a while, but it gets a reaction all right: after escaping, Michael comes after him and Dana to get the mask back, killing them both.
Honor Before Reason: He's put off by Dana's suggestion to bribe Laurie to talk, as real journalists don't pay for interviews. Her tactic works anyways.
Killed Offscreen: Is thrown into a corner all bloodied before Michael kills Dana. Michael finishes him off offscreen.
Oh, Crap!: Upon seeing Michael at the gas station bathroom, he briefly panics.
Paparazzi: Fancies himself an Intrepid Reporter, but his overly-detailed description of Michael's murders combined with an obvious desire for sensationalism when he shows Michael his old mask betrays his true nature as this.
Sacrificial Lamb: Much like Dana, he serves this role to show just how evil and brutal Michael Myers is.
Senseless Sacrifice: Tries to save Dana and at least buy time for her to escape from Michael Myers in the gas station bathroom, but is killed and Dana is murdered not too long after.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His own. While it's up for debate whether Michael had always planned to escape during the prison transfer or was broken out by Sartain, Aaron's attempts to get Michael to say something during the opening scene only succeed in showing Michael who has his old mask, leading Michael to track down him and Dana after he gets loose and brutally murder them both.

Dana Haines

Played By: Rhian Rees

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

A true-crime British podcaster and Aaron's partner.

Choke Holds: Strangled by Michael after he's finished killing Aaron. Ultimately, her neck is broken.
Decoy Protagonist: Somewhat. The first act focuses largely on the podcasters (who are also both of British nationality much like the franchise's original protagonist Dr. Loomis and his actor Donald Pleasance which further gives off this vibe) before they're brutally killed off and the Strode women become front and centre for the rest of the film.
Neck Lift: Michael raises her off the ground with ease...
- Neck Snap: ...then her neck is snapped
Nice Girl: She makes an effort to be kind and approachable to their contacts, though Laurie remains unmoved.
Paparazzi: Is more subtle about it than her partner, but still shows shades of this, such as when she deliberately digs up painful memories of Laurie's daughter to provoke a reaction.
Sacrificial Lamb: The podcasters in general, but Dana in particular as she's written to be a bit more likeable than Aaron.

Kevin

Played By: Vince Mattis

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

A young boy coming back from a hunting trip with his father who happens on the crash of the prison bus transporting Michael Myers.

Danger Takes a Backseat: Attacked from behind the driver's seat of his car by Michael.
Death of a Child: Of the films that trace their continuity back to the original film, he is the first child killed by Michael.
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: He accidentally shoots Dr. Sartain when the latter surprises him.
Jock Dad, Nerd Son: His dad likes to hunt, he prefers to dance.
Neck Snap: How Michael kills him.

Characters / Halloween (2018)

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The Shape

The Strodes

Karen Nelson née Strode

Played By: Judy Greer

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills

Ray Nelson

Played By: Toby Huss

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Allyson Nelson

Played By: Andi Matichak

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

Residents of Haddonfield

Frank Hawkins

Played By: Will Patton and Thomas Mann (flashback scenes)

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

Sheriff Barker

Played By: Omar Dorsey

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

Officer Francis and Richards

Played By: Christopher Allen Nelson and Charlie Benton

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Cameron Elam

Played By: Dylan Arnold

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills

Vicky

Played By: Virginia Gardner

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Dave

Played By: Miles Robbins

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Oscar

Played By: Drew Scheid

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Julian Morrisey

Played By: Jibrail Nantambu

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

Corey Cunningham/The Shape II

Played By: Rohan Campbell

Appearances: Halloween Ends

Tommy Doyle

Played By: Anthony Michael Hall

Appearances: Halloween Kills

Lindsey Wallace

Played By: Kyle Richards

Appearances: Halloween Kills | Halloween Ends

Lonnie Elam

Played By: Tristian Eggerling (flashback scenes) and Robert Longstreet

Appearances: Halloween Kills

Marion Chambers

Played By: Nancy Stephens

Appearances: Halloween Kills

Leigh Brackett

Played By: Charles Cyphers

Appearances: Halloween Kills

Vanessa and Marcus

Played By: Carmela McNeal and Michael Smallwood

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills

Dr Mathis

Played By: Michael O'Leary

Appearances: Halloween Ends

Little John and Big John

Played By: Michael McDonald and Scott MacArthur

Appearances: Halloween Kills

Willy the Kid

Played By: Keraun Harris

Appearances: Halloween Ends

Smith's Grove Sanitarium

Dr. Ranbir Sartain

Played By: Haluk Bilginer

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Lance Tivoli

Played By: Ross Bacon

Appearances: Halloween (2018) | Halloween Kills

Other Characters

Aaron Korey

Played By: Jefferson Hall

Appearances: Halloween (2018)

Dana Haines