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Samuel Loomis

One of the main protagonists of the Halloween film series. Loomis met a six-year-old Michael Myers after he killed his older sister and became his psychiatrist. After Michael escapes to resume his killing spree, Loomis selflessly sets out to stop him.

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Pre- 2018 timelines

Dr. Samuel Loomis

Played By: Donald Pleasence (I to II and 4 to The Curse), Tom Kane (H20) (Voice Only)

Appearances: Halloween | Halloween II | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers | Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later^note Voice only

Michael's psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis is forced multiple times to track Michael down in an attempt to stop him from killing people. And he's pretty badass at doing it.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: Loomis retires during the six-year Time Skip in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, but comes out of it once he hears Jamie calling for his help over the radio.
• A Day in the Limelight: Halloween: Sam, taking place in the H20 timeline, expands on the doctor's past in a way the films never did.
• Aborted Arc: The Producer's Cut of Curse ends with Wynn touching Loomis and passing the Thorn symbol onto him, seemingly indicating that the latter must now act as the cult's leader. Possibly because of Pleasence's death, this plot was dropped in favor of the next film ignoring the last three movies of the series.
• Actor Allusion: Loomis being a WWII veteran who had been a POW of the Luftwaffe in the H20 canon comic series is possibly a nod to his actor's previous role in The Great Escape, where he had also played a British POW in a Luftwaffe POW camp (though unlike Colin Blythe, Loomis survives the film).
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In 5, Loomis pleads with Tina to stay at the clinic as he shares Jamie's belief that she is in danger.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Loomis has this reaction at the end of the Producer's Cut of Curse as he stands over what appears to be Michael's body and tells him that it's all over, proceeding to remove his mask and discover it was a dying Wynn instead.
• All for Nothing:
  • Loomis spends the fourth film trying to stop Michael from killing people. After he hitches a ride with Reverend Sayer, the latter warns him that damnation cannot be killed like a man can. Although Michael is eventually stopped thanks to Meeker, Jamie stabs her stepmother and seemingly inherits the damnation that Sayer warned Loomis about, the latter being the first person to discover her attack. Since the core reason for Loomis wanting Michael is to prevent him from hurting others, he failed to achieve that goal per Jamie following in her uncle's footsteps.
  • The fifth film has Loomis trying to get Jamie to use her telepathic powers to help him find Michael. She eventually agrees to his plan and Michael chases after Jamie. Loomis uses her to lure Michael into a trap and he beats Michael while shouting for him to die. While this technically stops Michael's killing spree for the night, as he is taken to the police department in his weakened state, Loomis suffers a stroke in the process and is incapacitated, and thus absent and incapable of preventing Wynn from busting Michael out of jail and abducting Jamie, with Loomis failing to stop him permanently (as he had intended) and being unable to protect Jamie.
• Alone with the Psycho: A scene in Halloween 5 has Loomis confronting Michael by himself and making a plea for him to have a positive relationship with Jamie.
• Ambiguous Situation: Michael never tries to kill Loomis. At worst, he will attack him in a non-fatal way, and this only happens when he gets in the way of his going after Laurie or Jamie. Some have speculated that this is due to Michael having some respect for Loomis as the only person who was able to understand how evil he was. Others theorize Michael has come to, in his own twisted way, care about Loomis because of how long they have known each other and consistently sparing him from his killing spree is the closest thing to kindness he can show another person.
• And Then What?: In 5, Loomis asks Michael what he thinks will happen if he succeeds in murdering his entire family and gives him an answer.
  Dr. Loomis: You think if you kill them all it will go away. It won't.
• Anti-Hero: Loomis is this on his worst days, such as in Revenge of Michael Myers where he was more than willing to use little Jamie Lloyd as bait to capture Michael Myers.
• Arch-Enemy: No matter where Michael goes, Loomis will be there to stop him.
• Authority in Name Only: As Dr. Hoffman explains, Loomis's role as Michael's psychiatrist is more "ceremonial than medical".
• Ax-Crazy: Dealing with Michael has caused a significant amount of Sanity Slippage, and Loomis himself as shown to have fits ranting and raving, shooting wildly at Michael in attempts to kill him. At the end of Return of Michael Myers, he even attempts to shoot Jamie (granted, she had stabbed her adoptive mother, but still).
• Back in the Saddle: At the start of 6, Loomis has been retired for years due to a stroke and Michael being gone. All that changes when he hears Jamie calling over the radio for his aid, and he becomes one of the few trying to protect the Strodes and Jamie's baby from Michael.
• Bad Liar: Loomis lies to Jamie when he affirms that they’ll be safe after pulling the alarm at her school. She sees through his claim instantly.
• Badass Bookworm: Michael's arch-enemy and a professional psychologist.
• Badass Longcoat: An impressively stylish beige one.
• Bald Head of Toughness: The series' leading badass has not a hair upon his head. He's bald and keeps going despite all the beatings and injuries he endures.
• Being Watched: In 5, Loomis enters the Myers house and talks to Michael as he walks around under the assumption that his former patient is there and observing him from the shadows. While Michael isn't, the Man in Black is.
• Berserk Button: Whenever someone doubts that Michael is as dangerous as Loomis says he is, expect him to respond in a shouting tone.
• Beyond Redemption: He tried for years to help Michael overcome his violent urges. However by the main events of the first film, Loomis eventually admits that it was all in vain, and that Michael has to be stopped by any means necessary.
• Big Damn Heroes: In the original film, just as Laurie is struggling against Michael and she falls to the floor after ripping off Michael's mask, Loomis runs up the staircase of the Doyle house and sees Michael donning his mask again. Loomis shoots him away from her and then enough times for him to fall off a balcony.
• Big Good: He is the face of the force of good in the franchise, for being Michael's Arch-Enemy.
• Big "NO!": He gives one out in the ending of Halloween 4 after realizing that Jamie has stabbed her stepmother.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: He has blood on his head and face in 4 and 5 after physical confrontations with Michael.
• Book Ends: When first introduced in the original film, Loomis is seen at Smith's Grove. His last scene in the first timeline (during Curse) features him at Smith's Grove, with both instances having to do with containing Michael.
• Both Sides Have a Point: In 4, Loomis goes against Meeker's wishes and confirms to a bunch of Haddonfield men that it was Michael Myers who murdered the police force. While Meeker is upset because the group may hurt innocent people unintentionally while trying to get Myers, Loomis points out that Meeker has no police force and they need all the help they can get. Considering that the men both kill the wrong person and help to keep Jamie safe from Michael, the two both had justification for their beliefs.
• Brutal Honesty: While trying to convince Jamie to use her powers to help him find Michael in 5, Loomis bluntly tells her that her tears won't stop Michael from killing her.
• Bus Crash: Due to the death of Donald Pleasence, Dr. Loomis is stated to have died in between films in H20 and the 2018 installment.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers begins with Loomis living alone when Terrence Wynn comes to visit him and request that he come back to Smith's Grove. Loomis declines and states his content with being retired. Then he learns via radio that Jamie Lloyd is seeking his help to come and save her again.
• The Cameo: His speech to Brackett about his past with Michael from the original can be heard in the opening credits of H20.
• Career-Ending Injury: The stroke he has while beating Michael causes him to retire from Smith's Grove.
• Can't Stay Normal: Although retired at the start of the sixth film, Loomis is convinced that his aid is needed to defeat Michael once more.
• The Cavalry Arrives Late:
  • Loomis, after warning Tina not to leave the clinic for the Tower Farm party, arrives there with officers and paramedics and is able to save Jamie and Billy from Michael, but only after the latter has already killed Tina.
  • In the sixth film, Loomis arrives at the scene of Jamie's murder after being spurred into action by her pleading for his help over the radio. This is notably averted in the Producer's Cut where Jamie survives her encounter with Michael and is unconscious at the hospital when Loomis visits her.
• Cavalry Betrayal: Invokes, but then subverts this when he appears to betray Jamie by offering her to Michael when he's really holding her to lure him into a trap.
• Cassandra Truth: His career in regards to Michael is this. No one ever listens to his warnings about the danger Michael poses to society until it's too late. Though this is actually not as bad as in most cases; in both the first two movies and the fourth movie, the cops at least heed his warnings and take some action. Unfortunately, it isn't enough.
• Celibate Hero: Throughout the original film series, Loomis is never shown having any interest in a love life. The comic Halloween: Sam details his romantic interest in Elizabeth Worthington, who he meets during WWII and last sees five years before Michael stabs Judith.
• Character Narrator: Loomis narrates the opening of the Producer's Cut of the sixth film.
• The Chosen One: In the Producer's Cut of 6, Wynn asserts that it has always been Loomis's destiny to join the Cult of Thorn and that he needs him.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Loomis cannot bring himself to stay out of the hunt for Michael. If he even so much as suspects Michael is in Haddonfield, he will travel to find and stop him, no matter his affliction.
• Cool Old Guy: As he got older, he didn't get any weaker. He wailed on Michael with a two-by-four... while in the middle of having a stroke!
• Combat Pragmatist: Loomis knows Michael cannot be either seriously harmed or killed without weaponry and will use anything that can help accomplish this. He sets off the explosion in Halloween 2 with the estimation that Michael has never been caught in fire and despite it not killing him as Loomis intended, the gambit succeeds in ending his rampage for the night.
• The Confidant: In the fifth film, as Jamie is having psychic visions of where Michael is, Loomis tries to convince her to use them to help him find Michael and attempts to be her confidant by being more attentive to her pleas than others, but she shuts him out.
• Conspicuous Gloves: In 4 and 5, Loomis wears a pair of black gloves as to hide the scarring on his hands from being exposed.
• Covered with Scars: After trying to kill Michael in a fire in the second film, he shows up in 4 and 5 with a limp and burn scars on one cheek and his hands, which he hides with Conspicuous Gloves. His scars disappear in the sixth film as a result of getting plastic surgery and skin grafts.
• Crazy-Prepared: In the fifth film, he set a trap involving a heavy, metal chain net attached to a rope to drop on Michael. Then he shoots him 3-4 times with a tranquilizer gun, before it's snatched away. Then he grabs a 2x4 and beats Michael with it. It works.
• Creepy Good: In 4, 5, and 6, he's still the Big Good, but now he is covered in burn marks (less so in 6), walks with a limp and is undergoing Sanity Slippage.
• Crutch Character: Loomis, due to knowing Michael better than anyone else, is more adept at defeating him than other characters and has to be written in a way that does not allow him to encounter Michael before the film's conclusion. This is usually accomplished by having Loomis travel around in search of him and only finally find Michael as he is close to killing either Laurie or Jamie. 4 subverts this twice by having Loomis and Michael meet multiple times before the movie ends and having Michael's final defeat come from Meeker and other officers.
• Curse: At the end of the Producer's Cut of Curse, a dying Dr. Wynn passes on his Thorn mark to Loomis.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Loomis was once a normal psychiatrist, but dealing with Michael’s evil for fifteen years has left a lasting impact on his psyche before the first film begins.
• Death by Adaptation: After surviving the original series (or, as is implied by the ending of Curse, at least until the end of it), Loomis dies a few years before the events of H20, the first film to ignore the continuity of previous movies in the series.
• Defensive Failure: Loomis tries to shoot Michael in the head in Halloween II, but is out of bullets from shooting him earlier and is instead stabbed by the latter.
• Demoted to Extra: In the sixth film.
• Determinator: He'd have to be to keep up a conflict with Michael.
• Disobeyed Orders, Not Punished: A recurring theme through the original series is that whenever Loomis does something against police orders, he tends to not get in trouble for it. In Halloween II, he disobeys the governor's order for him to leave Haddonfield and no consequence is known to have come from this. In 4, the most he gets for going against Meeker's order to not reveal Michael is in Haddonfield to kill again is having the sheriff grab him and insult him. In 5, he defeats Michael after keeping Jamie at the Myers house when Meeker ordered her to be taken to the station and there is no reprisal against him for this slight either.
• Dramatic Irony: In 4, Loomis leaves the Meeker house to guard the Carruthers house on the premise that Michael may search for Jamie there. After he leaves, Michael appears in the house and murders almost everyone, leaving Loomis unable to protect Jamie until he catches her outside alone.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Subverted. In Hallloween II, he tried to blow both himself and Michael to bits. Fortunately, Loomis lived. Unfortunately, so did Michael.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: While Loomis never outright kills Michael due to the ongoing nature of the Halloween franchise not allowing its antagonist to die, Loomis is either directly or heavily involved with Michael's defeat in each film of the original series.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite pointing a gun at a possessed Jamie with the clear intent of shooting her in 4, no one seems to have a problem with him becoming her psychiatrist prior to the events of the fifth film.
• Excellent Judge of Character: In the original, Loomis describes trying to reach Michael before realizing he was pure evil and resorting to trying to keep him imprisoned forever. Once Myers escapes, he proves just how right his doctor was about him.
• Experienced Protagonist: By the events of the first film, Loomis has known Michael for fifteen years and is the character with the most understanding of him.
• Exploring the Evil Lair: Anytime Loomis goes back to the Myers house can be seen as this, as he's one of the few people that knows Michael likes going back there from time to time. In the fifth film, as Loomis is looking around and talking to Michael, who isn't there, he is unknowingly being watched by the Man in Black.
• The Extremist Was Right: The questionable methods of Loomis tend to get the job done when it comes to stopping Michael for the time being. In Halloween II, after threatening to shoot an officer taking him out of town if he did not drive to Laurie's hospital, he's able to save her and render Michael in a comatose state for ten years. In Halloween 5, after disobeying the orders of Sheriff Meeker and holding another officer at gunpoint, he's able to successfully lure Michael into his trap and beat him into unconsciousness, allowing the arriving officers to arrest him easily.
• Face Death with Dignity: In Halloween II, as he prepares to blow himself up with Michael, Loomis stands calmly and merely tells Michael that it's time as he sets off his lighter.
• Flaw Exploitation: Loomis uses Michael's obsession with killing Jamie and slow walking to lure him into a trap he set up in the Myers house.
• Foil:
  • Halloween (1978):
    • To Leigh Brackett. Both are middle-aged men who are trying to stop Michael from killing people in Haddonfield, but whereas Brackett is skeptical of Michael returning after such a long time, Loomis is confident that he is going to strike that night. Despite being the one who is a member of law enforcement and whose job it is to protect people, Brackett ends up not encountering Michael at all that night while Loomis not only saves Laurie twice but ends Michael's killing spree altogether for the time being.
    • Loomis and Laurie are juxtaposed in their dynamics with Michael. Loomis pursues Michael to Haddonfield while Michael pursues Laurie. Laurie has never met Michael and is doubtful of the existence of a "boogeyman" while Loomis has known him for years and very much believes he is the embodiment of evil. In the final act of the film, while Laurie has a drawn out encounter with Michael and is injured in the process, Loomis simply shoots him and ends the film completely unharmed.
  • Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers:
    • Loomis and Jamie are connected by being associated with Michael, but Loomis is not related to Michael and has years of experience with him while Jamie is related to Michael and had never met him before the events of the film. Loomis is able to fight back against Michael, albeit with weaponry, while Jamie has to be protected due to her age. Loomis is unquestionably on the side of good while Jamie seems to be this way as well, only for her to stab her stepmother in a first act of villainy.
    • To Ben Meeker. Both are older men who want to stop Michael, but Meeker wants the matter to be dealt with by the police while Loomis has no problem informing the public of Michael's return. They both leave the Meeker house before Michael starts killing, but Meeker leaves to stop disgruntled vigilantes in town from hurting someone while Loomis leaves to stand guard over the Carruthers house in the event that Michael returns. Loomis plays no role in Michael's final defeat in the film's conclusion while Meeker is at the center of it.
  • Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers: Loomis and Tina share an affection for Jamie and an interest in being there for her. But while Loomis takes Jamie's convulsions, and the warnings that come with them very seriously, Tina does not and writes them off on account of Jamie's age. Although both leave Jamie's side at various points in the film, Loomis leaves to investigate where Michael is for the purpose of protecting her while Tina leaves for selfish reasons such as wanting to go to a party or hang out with her friends. Michael never targets Loomis, but stalks Tina as a means of getting closer to Jamie. Both also share a similar fate by the end of the film of being seemingly deceased after encountering Michael.
  • Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers: To Kara Strode. Both are interested in protecting Jamie's baby Steven from Michael and are the few adults that Tommy trusts with the baby. While Loomis lives by himself, Kara resides with her son, parents, and brother. The Cult of Thorn kidnaps Kara, but voluntarily leaves Loomis instead of imprisoning him as well. In the Producer's Cut, Loomis never encounters Michael while Kara does multiple times.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: He is this to Laurie in the H20 timeline, as despite saving her life repeatedly in 1978, she is never shown to speak of him whatsoever.
• Freak Out: Screams hysterically at the sight of a possessed Jamie in 4, and after being marked with the Thorn symbol in the Producer's Cut of the sixth film.
• Friend to All Children: He tries to protect any and all children from Michael.
  • In the first film, he scares Lonnie away from going into the Myers house when his friends are daring him to go inside.
  • In the fourth and fifth films, he protects Jamie from Michael by any means necessary. Though he loses a bit of this when he tries to use her as bait.
• Friendly Enemy: Loomis is this toward Michael in 4 and 5, as he tries to talk with him and reason with his former patient before taking aggressive actions. Even after setting a trap for him in the fifth film, when approached by Michael, Loomis comes up to him with no weapon and encourages him to pursue a positive relationship with Jamie.
• Foreshadowing: Loomis is with Meeker when he learns of a coffin being removed from the cemetery and Loomis relays this to Jamie, asking her what she thinks Michael is going to use it for. The coffin is seen in the final act of the film in the Myers house as Jamie tries to evade Michael and lays in it as she asks to see his face.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: In the original film, Loomis says that he spent eight years trying to reach Michael and another seven trying to keep him locked up, indicating that he at one point believed all that was needed to keep Michael from doing more evil acts would be to simply have him imprisoned for the rest of his life. Loomis shooting Michael over a balcony when stumbling across his assault of Laurie and attempting a Heroic Sacrifice to kill his former patient in Halloween II show that he has changed his position and now just wants Michael dead.
• Go Back to the Source: Much of Loomis's understanding of Michael is based around his perception that the latter has an attachment to his home. This is why Loomis leads Brackett to the house in the original film, and it serves as the setting for the trap Loomis sets in order to kill Michael in 5.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: This seems to happen to him at the end of 4, as he screams horrifically when seeing Jamie after she stabbed her stepmother in a seeming realization that evil will live on even if Michael is finally killed permanently.
• Good Is Not Nice: Loomis is definitely on the side of good, but his Sanity Slippage caused by dealing with Michael has left him a borderline psychotic man who isn’t afraid to scream at and manhandle children.
• Good Is Not Soft: Loomis is a major example of this trope, given his willingness to kill Michael and threaten those that get in his way of putting him down.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: He is this in the films made after his actor Donald Pleasance's death, as he was the Big Good of the films and references to him were made in his absence following the character's Bus Crash.
• Gun Nut: His weapon for the first two films is a Smith and Wesson Model 15, but switches over to a Smith and Wesson 639 pistol with pearl grips for his next two appearances.
• Handicapped Badass: In the Thorn trilogy, he has a limp thanks to injuries he took in the explosion in the second film.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Implied to be disliked by Haddonfield citizens and cops in Halloween 4 due to his association with Michael's killing spree in the first two films, despite Loomis doing his best to stop him.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Tries to pull this off in Halloween 2 to kill himself and Michael, but it fails and they both survive.
• Heroic Second Wind: Falls to the ground and appears dead after being stabbed by Michael in Halloween 2, but recovers to get up and help Laurie.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Dangerously comes close in becoming this as he starts to use unethical tactics to fight Michael in the later films.
• History Repeats:
  • Seems to be what goes through Loomis's mind at the end of Halloween 4. He knows that Michael first killed as a child on Halloween night and Loomis sees the sight of the bloodstained Jamie after she has stabbed her stepmother twenty-five years later, reacting by screaming in horror after believing Michael was finally gone.
  • In the events leading up to the first film, Loomis was assigned to the mute Michael after the latter stabbed his sister and by his own admission was the only one who recognized what he truly was. In Halloween 5, Loomis is assigned to the mute Jamie after she stabbed her stepmother and has other staff unable to recognize her true disability, such as when a doctor incorrectly concludes that Jamie is dying during one of her convulsions.
• Holding Hands: A hallmark of Loomis helping someone is that he holds their hand while they are together.
  • In the second film, after Michael gets back up, Laurie grabs onto Loomis in fear and leads him away by taking his hand.
  • In the fourth film, when Loomis finds Jamie alone and requests she lead them to the schoolhouse for safety from Michael, Loomis holds her hand the entire time they walk there and while they go inside.
• Home Field Advantage: Zigzagged in 5. While the Myers house is Michael's home and he visits there often enough to store bodies and things he has stolen such as coffins, Loomis and the police use the house to their advantage by installing a net that is later used to trap Michael in place long enough for Loomis to shoot him with tranquilizer darts and beat him into a state of unconsciousness.
• Hope Bringer: After getting Steven, Tommy is so relieved to see Loomis that he thanks God.
• Humble Hero: In the sixth film, Loomis makes a self-deprecating joke about his previously-scarred appearance frightening children.
• I Can't Do This by Myself: In the Producer's Cut of Curse, Loomis admits that he cannot go through trying to stop Michael again by himself and tells Wynn that he needs his help.
• Ignored Expert: Nobody takes his warnings about Michael seriously until it's too late. To be fair, asserting that a patient is or has "pure evil" isn't likely to convince too many people.
• I Knew It!: In-Universe example. After shooting Michael off a balcony at the end of the original film, Loomis looks surprised for a moment before adopting a look that shows he knew Myers was supernatural.
• I Shall Taunt You: His strategy for defeating Michael in the final battle of 5 is to goad him into following him as he holds the screaming Jamie, imploring him to catch "the little girl."
• Improvised Weapon: Usually when his gun is unavailable.
  • Out of ammo and wounded, Loomis uses the gas valves in the hospital and a lighter to put Michael's murder spree to an end for the night in Halloween 2.
  • When Michael grabs his tranquilizer gun, and shows that it hasn't fully-weakened him, Loomis rips a plank of wood off the walls of the Myers house and begins beating Michael with it.
• In-Series Nickname: The few times when his first name is used, its shortened to "Sam".
• Informed Attribute: At the start of 4, Dr. Hoffman states that Loomis would be present for Micheal's transfer from Smith's Grove to Ridgemont if he bothered to read the memos that were given to him, but Loomis is never shown at any point to neglect reading important information pertaining to Michael.
• Intergenerational Friendship: In the sixth film, Loomis refers to the young adult Tommy as an "old friend" when Wynn asks him who he is.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: As per his not-unjustified belief that Michael is evil incarnate, he calls Michael "it" on more than one occasion.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He has his moments (loudly and more rudely telling Nurse Marion to stay quiet when she was not so loud in voicing a concern in the second movie - him causing the accidental death of Ben Tramer, though out of desperation - or him going off the deep end and cornering a traumatized Jamie Lloyd in Revenge), but he's definitely on the side of good.
• Jump Scare:
  • On the receiving end of one in the original film when Brackett comes behind him and grabs him.
  • Gives one to Jamie when he comes up from behind her after she has run away from Michael in the fourth film. He gives her another one in 5 when she and Billy are fleeing Michael after his unsuccessful attempts to kill them with his car.
• Jumped at the Call: The second Loomis finds out Michael is free and out on a killing spree, Haddonfield is where he will be!
• Just in Time: Comes to Laurie's aid just as she is being attacked by Michael in the original.
• Killed Offscreen: In the H20 timeline, he dies off-screen a few years before the events of the film.
• The Leader: Loomis is able to coerce multiple sheriffs and policemen to follow along with his plans. Brackett looks for Michael with him during the first two films, Meeker abides by his plan of finding Jamie in the fourth film and a plot involving using Jamie as bait in the fifth film.
• Legendary in the Sequel: He goes from having to introduce himself to the Haddonfield sheriff in the original to being instantly recognized by the new sheriff ten years later in the fourth film.
• Light Is Good: In contrast to Michael's dark coveralls, he wears a biege trenchcoat.
• Limited Wardrobe: In the original film series, Loomis is always seen wearing a variation of a biege trenchcoat and a suit until his retirement.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Especially when it comes to important information about Michael.
  • Because the records were sealed until after the events of the first film, Loomis never knew that Michael had a younger, still-living sister until Marion Chambers brought him up to speed on the governor unsealing them.
  • Loomis confronts Hoffman for not notifying him that Michael was being transferred.
• Made of Iron: Survived a large explosion, has been tossed around, slashed and stabbed by Michael, and beat Michael Myers down while in his 70's and having a stroke (which he survived).
• Make Sure He's Dead: In the second film, after Ben Tramer (dressed up similar to Michael) is killed by an officer, Loomis goes with Deputy Gary Hunt to inspect the corpse. Given that dental records will take hours to confirm, Loomis tells Hunt that they have to assume Michael is still alive and continue looking for him.
• Mirror Character: Loomis and Terrence Wynn are both doctors who have an interest in Michael and have known him since his days at Smith's Groove. They clash over their key difference of Loomis wanting to stop Michael's evil and Wynn wanting to continue it.
• Misblamed: In-universe, Loomis is blamed by Sheriff Brackett for Michael's rampage, despite the fact that Loomis did all he could to make sure Michael never saw the light of day again.
  • On top of that, he's a lowly psychiatrist. If Brackett wants to blame anyone it should be Loomis' bosses, because they refused to listen to how dangerous Michael was.
• Most Writers Are Writers: In the sixth film, he is seen writing a manuscript about his past with Michael.
• My Greatest Failure: In the Producer's Cut of the sixth film, Loomis admits trying to understand Michael was this for him.
  Loomis: For fifteen years, I've been obsessed to find out what was going on inside of him. It's been my life work, and my ultimate failure.
• Mysterious Past: In the original films, not much is known about Loomis' background other than his relationship with Michael.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: To Jamie, and presumably Laurie as well.
  • Jamie tries contacting Loomis through a radio station while she is fleeing Michael. Loomis hears her but cannot respond, and never gets to speak to her directly due to her being killed by Michael in the theatrical cut and shot in the head by Wynn in the Producer's Cut.
  • Laurie is killed offscreen in a car accident before the events of Halloween 4, meaning that Loomis never got to say goodbye to the young woman he protected from Michael 10 years ago before her actual death.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Loomis, through no fault of his own, encounters a homicidal boy who he tries for years to reach. After Michael breaks out, Loomis goes out of his way to stop him from killing more people and his reward is being written off as hysterical when he warns people, being wounded by Michael almost every time they see each other, and sometimes even being blamed for what Michael does.
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: Although Laurie is the one the audience spends the most time with in Halloween, Loomis resolves the conflict of the film by shooting Michael as he tries to finish her off.
• Not Afraid to Die: Shows this consistently throughout the series.
  • Loomis, without backup from Brackett, charges into the Doyle house and shoots Michael as he sees the latter attacking Laurie. He then confronts Michael in another room, alone, before shooting him.
  • When Loomis lights the fire at the hospital that blows himself and Michael up in the second film, he does so without any sign of second-thought or hesitation, just calmly telling Michael that it's time.
  • In the fourth film, when he discovers Michael at the filling station, he comes over to him and makes a plead for him to leave the people of his hometown alone, even offering his own life.
  • Loomis dismisses the orders of officers so that he can confront Michael alone. When they meet, Loomis comes close to Michael, who is holding a knife, and while he himself is unarmed with any immediate way to defend himself.
• Not Quite Dead: Along with Michael, Loomis is severely burned and nearly killed in the explosion he set at the end of the second film.
• Not So Stoic: While Loomis in the original film is generally calm when pursuing Michael, he panics when the latter first escapes. He also is rattled when he and Brackett travel to the Myers house, and later when Brackett touches his shoulder from behind.
• Not Too Dead to Save the Day: The suspense of the second film's climax is Loomis being stabbed by Michael and seemingly being deceased as Laurie has to fend for herself. Instead, he recovers and allows her to safely leave while he blows Michael and himself up, ultimately ending the 1978 killing spree.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Being thrown through a glass door at Jamie's school is where Loomis is last seen in 4 before Michael's defeat. The opening of 5 reveals that he was holding Jamie while Michael was being shot by Meeker, despite seemingly having no way of getting there as his car had been destroyed earlier in the movie.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Loomis is shocked when Michael kills the Marshall in Halloween II as this is seemingly the first time he's ever actually seen Michael kill someone.
  • He screams horrifically when discovering that Jamie has stabbed her stepmother in the final scene of Halloween 4.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Loomis is old enough to be Michael's father.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Based on comments by both Meeker in 4 and an officer in the Producer's Cut of Curse, Haddonfield law enforcement has never forgotten Loomis's role in raising awareness of Michael being on the loose, with his rhetoric even being dismissed as "ghost stories".
• Once per Episode: Loomis will often encounter Michael and after trying to speak to or attack him, be assaulted. This includes Loomis being stabbed with a scalpel after a failed attempt to shoot Michael in Halloween II, being thrown through a glass door by Michael in Halloween 4, and being slashed across the chest and thrown to the ground in Halloween 5.
• Only Friend: He seems to be this to Terrence Wynn, the only character in the original timeline to call him by his first name, as Wynn is not shown spending time with others in his free time. Even after Wynn is revealed as the Man in Black, and Loomis displays a willingness to both denounce him as a monster and shoot him, Wynn never speaks ill of him and wants him to join his cult.
• Only One Name: Most films omit his first name. The only exceptions in the original series are when Loomis introduces himself to Brackett in the first film and when Terrence Wynn calls Loomis "Sam" in the sixth film.
• Papa Wolf: Though he never has children of his own he was willing to protect 17 year old Laurie at the cost of his own life and young Jamie afterwards.
• Parental Substitute: Loomis serves as one to Jamie in 5 due to the Carruthers being away and Rachel dying early into the film. He constantly comes to see her and tries to fulfill her requests, such as begging Tina not to leave her side.
• Passing the Torch: Halloween 6 writer Daniel Farrands stated his intent for Loomis to pass the torch of hunting Michael to Tommy in the film.
• Perpetual Frowner: Considering how often he has to contend with stopping a serial killer, Loomis is seldom seen smiling. One of the few instances is during the sixth film when he's visited by Wynn.
• The Plan: After Michael kills Tina in 5, Loomis constructs a plan at the Myers house that entails luring Michael there with the promise of Jamie being present and brutalizing him to the point of death after Myers is tranquilized and caged. Though he is not able to kill him, Loomis does singlehandedly bring a permanent end to his killing spree for the night.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Marion Chambers in the H20 timeline, to such an extent that almost every scene that Marion appears in (within the first two films) is with Loomis. It is established in H20 that Loomis was living with her at the time of his passing.
• Properly Paranoid: Others viewed a young Michael as a disturbed boy who could not get too far in a minimum-security prison. Loomis viewed him as a monster carrying pure evil, just waiting to strike. Guess who was right.
• The Protagonist: Of the original timeline of films, but one of two main contenders for this of the Halloween franchise as a whole, the other being Laurie Strode. Even when he does not personally appear, Loomis is still mentioned or given some homage that exceeds most other characters.
• Post-Victory Collapse: After beating Michael unconscious in the climax of 5, Loomis succumbs to his stroke and falls on top of him.
• Punished for Sympathy: In 5, Loomis expresses interest in having Jamie get rid of Michael's rage so that he can return to his past, better self. He offers to take him to her and even approaching him without a weapon, and is rewarded with a stab to the stomach and being flung across the room.
• Pyrrhic Victory:
  • In 4, Loomis rallies officers and townspeople to stop Michael's new killing spree. Although they are eventually successful in incapacitating him, this comes after the townspeople have accidentally murdered innocent people that they mistake for Michael, and the night ends with Jamie Lloyd stabbing her stepmother, the young girl's Heel–Face Turn suggesting that Loomis killed one evil just for it to be replaced with another.
  • In the fifth film, Loomis devises a strategy to use the Myers house and the promise of Jamie being there to lure Michael into a trap. He succeeds in stopping him from the night, but fails to kill him before Michael has already killed multiple officers that were there, and Michael is later broken out that night by the Man in Black who also captures Jamie Lloyd, which ran directly against Loomis's intention to keep her safe.
  • In Curse, a retired Loomis is active in trying to stop Michael and is also fine with killing Terrence Wynn once discovering his aid of Michael. In the Producer's Cut, although Michael is defeated and Wynn is killed by the former, Wynn passes the Thorn symbol to Loomis before dying and Michael escapes into the night, making the latter's return and Loomis having to be involved again seem inevitable.
• Refused by the Call: Meeker initially refuses to believe Loomis when he warns him of Michael's return. It's only after Loomis notes the murders that have recently taken place that Meeker changes his mind.
• Retired Badass: According to the original canon comic series (or in the H20 canon), Loomis was a war veteran.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: This is his dynamic with Marion Chambers in the first two films. Marion is respectful of patients and law enforcement while Loomis openly dehumanizes Michael and will go against orders of higher figures of authority if he sees fit.
• Rule of Symbolism: Loomis relies on this during his plan to trap Michael in the Myers house in 5. He has Jamie sit in her aunt's room (where Michael committed his first killing) and do her hair as Judith used to so he can replicate the beginning of Michael's murderous tendancies.
• Sanity Slippage: Starts pretty quickly when he raves about how "the evil has gone" at the beginning of the first movie and eventually slips right down into full-blown bat shit fanatical madness' peak in The Revenge of Michael Myers, where he uses Jamie as bait before beating Michael unconscious with a 2x4, screaming for him to die.
• Saved to Enslave: Implied. In the Producer's Cut of Curse, Wynn tells his men to leave Loomis after they knock him unconscious from behind. Later, after a dying Wynn is found by Loomis, the former grabs his hand and transfers the Thorn symbol to his wrist with the intention of him being the new person in charge of guarding Michael. Wynn could have had his men kill Loomis, but possibly wanted to keep him alive in case he needed another person to care for Michael, even if it was against Loomis's will.
• Say My Name: In 4, Loomis screams out Michael's name after he comes outside and is looking for him.
• Scars Are Forever: Subverted. Unlike 4 and 5, Loomis is not depicted with scars in the sixth film, the Producer's Cut explaining that he had surgery to get rid of them.
• The Scream: The normally stoic Loomis shouts when something extremely unexpected and awful has happened. At the end of 4, we get a closeup of his face as he screams, and its revealed he was looking at a knife-wielding, blood-stained Jamie after she stabbed her stepmother. At the end of Curse, Loomis screams off-screen as we see Michael's mask laying on the floor. The Producer's Cut retains the same scream, but reveals its his reaction to being given the Curse of Thorn by a dying Dr. Wynn and now being in charge of protecting Michael.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In the second film, Loomis is ordered out of Haddonfield but chooses to ignore this to come to Laurie's rescue.
• Secret-Keeper: Loomis and Marion are the only ones to know Laurie is still alive after she fakes her death in the H20 timeline.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Averted. Although in both the original series and the H20 timeline, Loomis's attempt to blow Michael and himself up fails to kill either of them, it does succeed in stopping Myers from killing people for the time being.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Unlike the past four films, Loomis does not wear his trench coat while hunting Michael in 6. This is to illustrate that he has retired and moved on in the years since Michael and Jamie were last seen.
• Sixth Ranger: To the Haddonfield police.
• The Smart Guy: Loomis is this compared to most other people, as he constructs plans to defeat Michael and is the most intoned with what the latter's motives are. He warned state trooper Terrence Gummell to stay away from a seemingly dead Michael in II, just before the latter slashed Gummell's throat, and knew that Michael was going back to Haddonfield as soon as he learned he was out of his coma in 4.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He is seen wearing glasses at the start of the sixth film.
• Sole Survivor: Tends to be one of the few people that survives Michael's killing sprees, as the latter never targets him and only attacks him when he's getting in his way.
• The Strategist: Loomis is often the only one who can come up with effective ways to stop Michael and the Haddonfield police sheriffs and officers tend to heed his plans.
• Supporting Leader: He spends most of the original hunting Michael down and gets top billing, but he isn't the lead character.
• Sympathy for the Devil: In the Producer's Cut of the sixth film, Loomis approaches Michael as he lays on the ground and with a mournful tone tells him that it's all over before he pulls off his mask and realizes it's Wynn.
• Take Me Instead: In the fourth movie, after encountering Michael at the diner, Loomis is perfectly willing to try this. Unsurprisingly, Michael doesn't take this offer.
  "Don't go to Haddonfield. If you want another victim, take me. But leave those people in peace. Please, Michael? [silence] God damn you. [starts shooting]"
• Talking to the Dead: In the Producer's Cut of the sixth film, Loomis speaks to Jamie's corpse and admits he let her down.
• Talking to Themself: In his first on-screen appearance in the sixth film, Loomis responds to a person over the radio inquiring if he is deceased.
• Taught by Experience: After eight years of trying to reach him, Loomis realized that Michael was pure evil, and the main reason Loomis is such a threat to Michael is because of how long he's been around him.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Overtime, this becomes his dynamic with both Sheriffs Brackett and Meeker. With Brackett, the latter becomes progressively frustrated with Loomis giving him orders and still not finding Michael and Loomis earns Meeker's ire after he reveals that Michael has returned to Haddonfield against the former's orders.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In II, Loomis realizes that bullets will not be enough to permanently put down Michael and resorts to blowing them both up in an explosion to end his killing spree.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: He is viewed this way by Hoffman, who tells those transporting Michael's body that he hopes Loomis will either transfer, retire, or die after Michael is gone.
• Third-Person Person: He replies this way to Marion in 2 after she recounts his encounter with Michael and he reminds her that he had previously told her that Myers was inhuman.
  "Someone should have listened to me earlier."
• This Cannot Be!: His initial reaction to seeing that Michael has disappeared after being shot off the balcony in the original film.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Loomis will choose to disobey the law if he knows listening to officers will impede his plots to stop Michael. In the second film, he points a gun to an officer's face as he drives him out of Haddonfield and fires a warning shot to get him to take him to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital.
• Together in Death: The Halloween: Sam comic sees Loomis die of a heart attack next to the corpse of his recently-deceased old friend Elizabeth Worthington.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Is more calm in the sixth film than the prior installment.
• Tough Love: His treatment of Jamie in 5. He shouts at Jamie when she does not comply with his orders to reveal where Michael is by using her psychic link with him. Though this is harsh, he does it because he believes she is the only one who can truly help find where Michael is and he wants to find him to prevent Michael from killing others, including her. He also does take her feelings into account, as he specifically telephones Rachel after she senses Michael is around her and has officers to follow Tina when she refuses to stay at the clinic with Jamie.
• Tragic Hero: Loomis was just a normal psychiatrist who happened to encounter a child who murdered his sister for no reason besides him being pure evil and tries to stop him from continuing his killing sprees as an adult. For his troubles, Loomis has burn scars, a bad reputation among law enforcement, and walks with a limp.
• Tragic Keepsake: The scars on his body remind him of the hospital explosion at the end of the second film.
• True Companions: He is this with Laurie and Jamie, as he puts his life in danger to save them. In Curse, all it took was hearing Jamie's voice call his name over the radio for the retired Loomis to rush back into action.
• Two-Faced: Loomis has half of his face scarred in both 4 and 5 and it is implied that most of his body has scarring from the hospital fire.
• Two Girls and a Guy: By the end of Halloween II, after Michael murders the state trooper, Loomis is this with Marion Chambers and Laurie Strode. In the H20 timeline, Marion and Loomis are also the only ones who know she faked her death.
• Uncertain Doom: In The Curse of Michael Myers, both cuts give uncertain fates for him as he reenters the abandoned Smith's Grove to finish Michael. The Theatrical Cut ends with his screaming with the implication Michael finally killed him, while the Producer's Cut has him find Dr. Wynn on the floor in Michael's place, who passes the Curse of Thorn onto him as Michael escapes, much to Loomis' horror.
• The Unfought: In the Producer's Cut of Curse, Loomis never encounters Michael in any capacity, with it being the only film in the original series where they have no confrontation.
• Unintentional Backup Plan: In the second film, Loomis tries to kill Michael by shooting him in the head. Out of bullets and subsequently stabbed, he ignites an explosion that succeeds in ending Michael's killing spree for the time being.
• Victory by Endurance: Loomis's win over Michael in 5 has him beating the latter until he loses consciousness, and he himself collapses a short time later.
• Villain Killer: Had Halloween II been the ending of the Michael Myers plot, as originally intended, Loomis would have been successful in killing Michael with the hospital explosion, albeit at the cost of his own life.
• Vindicated by History: In-Universe example. Loomis in the H20 timeline never stopped believing that Michael was still out there, and although he didn't live to see it, was proven right when Myers resurfaced to face Laurie.
• Vocal Evolution: In 5 and Curse, Loomis's voice is noticeably more hoarse than it was in the previous movies.
• Weak, but Skilled: Because of his age and Michael's superhuman strength, Loomis can never defeat him in a fair fight, but uses his intelligence, strategy, and weaponry to combat his arch-nemesis. His victories are a triumph of brains over brawn.
• Weapon for Intimidation: As the pair step out of their car to a crowd of protestors at the Myers house, Loomis tells Hunt that this is his reason for carrying a gun.
  "Heightens my sense of security."
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Although some of the things he does earn him repudiation, it's all meant to stop Michael from killing innocent people.
• Wild Card: Loomis is on the side of good, but expect him to do anything to stop Michael.
  • His holding an officer and Marion at gunpoint in the second film. He only does this after finding out Laurie and Michael are siblings and to get to the former before Michael can kill her.
  • After Meeker orders Jamie be taken to a police station for her own safety, and officer Charlie Bloch agrees to comply with this order, Loomis locks Bloch and Jamie in the room while he confronts Michael alone.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Loomis seems to get this at least once a movie - usually because of what Michael has done. Not fair in those cases, though, cause Loomis did everything possible to keep Michael locked up. However, Nurse Patsey rightfully calls him out when he is downright scaring Jamie in Halloween 5.
• What You Are in the Dark: Whether it was when he signaled for Laurie to leave before he tried to kill Michael and himself in II, offering his life to Michael in exchange for him leaving Haddonfield alone in 4, or when he was spurred to come to Jamie's aid even after retirement in Curse, Loomis constantly shows his selflessness without the need for public acknowledgement or adulation.
• Why Won't You Die?: Shouts for Michael to die as he beats him with wood in the fifth film.
• The Worf Effect: In the sixth film, Loomis is easily rendered unconscious by a hit to the back from Wynn's men.
• Would Hurt a Child: During the ending of Halloween 4, a terrified Loomis raises his gun to shoot Jamie after he realizes she has stabbed her stepmother. If Meeker had not wrestled the gun out of his hand, it is highly likely he would have shot Jamie.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: The selfless doctor can't seem to catch a break for his troubles.
  • In the fourth film, after being assaulted by Michael, an injured Loomis gets to watch him seemingly be killed by Meeker and the state troopers, and later voices his satisfaction to know that he is in "hell". For the first time, it appears that he has killed him and with little personal cost. That makes the reveal that Jamie has stabbed her stepmother all the more tragic, as Loomis has lived to see the Start of Darkness begin again.
  • Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers gives Loomis much closure after what he's been through in previous installments. Michael has been gone for the longest period since the series started, allowing Loomis to retire. After he has "buried the ghosts", his physical scars are gone, and he has a new desire to write a manuscript, he gets involved in trying to stop Michael's latest spree and is possibly killed by him in the Theatrical Cut.
• You Are What You Hate: Dr. Hoffman invokes this in Loomis's first scene in 4 when the latter warns him about Michael.
  Dr. Hoffman: I've said this before. I think you're the one who needs mental help.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Tells a crying Jamie she cannot return to her house since Michael would come there for her.
• You Shall Not Pass!: Declares this to Bloch when the latter and Jamie try to leave the Myers house so he can insure Michael comes.

Remake Duology

Doctor Samuel Loomis

Played By: Malcolm McDowell

Appearances: Halloween (2007) | Halloween II (2009)

A noted psychologist who treated Michael during his incarceration at Smith's Grove Sanitarium.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: While dedicated to stopping Michael from his killing spree, this version of Dr. Loomis is a lot more abrasive, gruff, and temperamental in comparison to his more soft-spoken, almost grandfatherly demeanor in previous iterations. And this is just the first movie, as he slips into Adaptational Villainy by the sequel.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the remake, he at least starts off a relatively decent man, however, it's shown that he profits off of writing about Michael's murders; something the original had virtually no interest in. By the second installment, he's devolved into a cold-hearted and greedy writer, who can qualify as the sequel's secondary antagonist, until the end.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the sequel, he chooses to confront Michael to save Laurie, but unlike in the last film and the original sequels, he does so unarmed, it goes well as one would expect.
• Asshole Victim: Subverted. After exploiting people with his novel, he is killed by Michael in the sequel, but by then, realizes what he has done and tries to save Laurie at the end.
• Berserk Button: In the sequel, asking about Michael being alive greatly annoys him.
• Big Bad Ensemble: In the sequel, he acts as the secondary antagonist, but more of a downplayed Villainy-Free Villain considering the low he stooped down to is emotionally hurting the relatives of Michael's victims by profiting off their deaths with his latest book.
• Big Bad Wannabe: In the sequel, unlike Michael however, he never was able to stoop to such lows as taking an innocent life.
• Fallen Hero: By the sequel, he became heartless, greedy, snooty and temperamental then before. At least until his Jerkass Realization.
• Hate Sink: Loomis in the sequel is a despicable, heartless, borderline sociopathic and greedy Slimeball. His death at the hands of Michael is quite cathartic.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Loomis in the sequel let the pride of surviving his brush with death and fame of his writing to go to his head.
• Jerkass Realization: In the sequel, Loomis realizes what a bastard he has become and decides to make up for it by saving Laurie from Michael.
• My Greatest Failure: Somewhat feels his inability to help or understand Michael during his time at Smith's Grove was this at first, before being highly subverted in the sequel as he capitalizes off of Michael's notoriety.
• Redemption Equals Death: In the sequel, Loomis, after having a Jerkass Realization, goes to save Laurie from Michael. Unfortunately, he does so unarmed.
• Slimeball: In the second film, he degrades to a greedy and heartless writer who profits off the deaths of Michael's victims.
• Sociopathic Hero: In the sequel (though "hero" could be stretch), even though he pursued Michael in the 2007 film, he shows Lack of Empathy towards the tragedies caused by Michael's murder spree and shamelessly tries to profit the murders through his books in the next film.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: In the second film, he becomes a greedy and cold-hearted Jerkass author nearly bordering on sociopathy in contrast to a point of being unrecognizable to his portrayal in the 2007 film until his Jerkass Realization at the climax.
• Too Dumb to Live: Loomis, what were you thinking when you choose to confront Michael in the sequel without bringing a gun this time?
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the second film, he becomes a much more arrogant, cold-hearted and greedy person over his experience with Michael.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gets a number of these in the second film for having Took a Level in Jerkass.

2018 and after continuity

Dr. Samuel Loomis

Played By: Colin Mahan (Voice), Tom Jones, Jr. (Body)

Appearances: Halloween (2018)^note Voice only | Halloween Kills^note Flashback

Michael Myers' old psychiatrist.

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• Boom, Headshot!: Tries to shoot Michael in the head, but is stopped.
• Captain Obvious: Comes off as this when he asks Hawkins if Michael, his murderous patient, has killed again.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In this continuity, Loomis played a key role in getting his patient recaptured, advocated for his death, and died peacefully with Michael still institutionalized. Even though Michael later gets out, Loomis remains one of the few characters from the original film to not get murdered in a sequel.
• Final Speech: Effectively gives one via audio recording.
  Loomis: My suggestion is termination. Death is the only solution for Michael. There's nothing to be gained from keeping evil alive. One shot of sodium thiopental would render him unconscious. I'll be with him to make sure his life is extinguished, my ear on his chest to hear for myself that his vitals no longer function and immediately incinerate the body. It needs to die, it needs to die! It needs to die!
• Foreshadowing: His last words are a repeated screaming that Michael Myers needs to be cremated. Which Laurie Strode does her best to fulfill.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: He was the original Big Good in the original film, but his role has been taken over by Laurie in her senior age.
• Ignored Expert: Loomis, who had studied Michael for fifteen years and played a key role in his recapture, recommended that Michael's life be terminated. The authorities disregarded Loomis and kept Michael institutionalized, leaving the possibility that he could escape again (which he does) and go on another rampage (which he did). Justified since he was a psychiatrist with no legal authority to sentence someone to death, even Michael Myers.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: When Loomis and the Haddonfield police catch up to Michael, Loomis asks Hawkins if Michael killed again. Michael did attack Hawkins' partner, but it was Hawkins who accidentally killed him while shooting at Michael.
• Present Absence: The 2018 film and Kills both take place on the first night of Michael being free from his incarceration since the events of the first film. Between both installments, Loomis is mentioned by Laurie, Sartain, Hawkins, and Marion, who all knew him and cite his knowledge or actions in reference to Michael.
• Posthumous Character: Dr. Loomis appears in the 2018 movie as a voice on an old recording, and in a flashback sequence at the beginning of Kills.
• Vindicated by History: In-Universe example. In the 40 years since the first film, Hawkins has come to believe Loomis was right and Michael should have died.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Downplayed; he really wanted to kill Michael right then and there, but Hawkins stopped him.

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