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Blackmore University
Ethan Landry
Ethan Landry
"Why did everyone just freak out when her phone rang?"
Played By: Jack Champion
"Am I in the friend group? Am I, like, one of the targets? Am I gonna die a virgin?'
Chad’s friend and roommate.
- The Alibi: Insists that he was in an economics class when Quinn and Anika were murdered, though no one is sure to believe him.
- Butt-Monkey: Because of his genial nature, everyone automatically assumes he is the killer despite Ethan’s protests.
- Contrasting Replacement Character: To Liv from the previous movie. Both are unassuming characters connected to Chad who are often treated poorly by the other members of their friend group for being Genre Blind. However, while Liv's unassuming nature made her, in Mindy's words, "too boring to be the killer", everyone suspects Ethan precisely because he is so shy and unassuming.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Due to his shyness and awkward personality, he is turned down by a girl at a Halloween frat party. Then, he’s accused of being the killer because of his absence when the Core Four and Anika are attacked at the apartment.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Not at first, though after the bodega shooting, Mindy suggests that Ethan is the likeliest person to be killer - a theory which the rest of the group seems to adopt more and more as the body count rises. Even Chad, his roommate and closest friend, turns on Ethan after Quinn and Anika are killed, holding him at a distance.
- Genre Blind: He doesn't understand why a phone ringing when Ghostface is at large is a bad thing. Anika sharply tells him to "keep up."
- Nice Guy: Ethan is a kind, unassuming guy. Unfortunately, this results in people thinking of him as the killer because he’s seemingly too unassuming. He even saves Mindy’s life after she is attacked on the subway even after they suspected him of being Ghostface.
- Odd Friendship: A socially awkward virginal nerdy-type is friends and roommates with an extroverted, popular jock.
- Red Herring: Mindy is confident he's the killer and not at all pleased to be stuck with him on the subway on their way to the theater. Then she gets stabbed by the real Ghostface and Ethan comes to her aid after the fact, forcing Mindy to admit she "got it wrong again."
- Ship Tease: Seems to have a thing for Tara.
- Too Much Information: He asks if he's gonna die a virgin, which Mindy calls a weird overshare and earns him odd looks from the rest of the group.
- You Need to Get Laid: Chad tries to get him to loosen up and meet some girls. Ethan even mentions he’s a virgin.
Anika Kayoko
Anika Kayoko
Played By: Devyn Nekoda
Mindy’s girlfriend, a student at Blackmore University.
- Agonizing Stomach Wound: Anika is stabbed in the stomach and nearly gutted by Ghostface. Her injury ultimately slows her down and indirectly results in her death.
- Bury Your Gays: Anika, introduced as Mindy's girlfriend, ends up falling to her death, becoming another victim of Ghostface. Mindy survives, though mourns her demise.
- Deadpan Snarker: Much like her girlfriend Mindy, Anika can be pretty sarcastic. For example, when the group gets tense after a phone rings in the apartment, Ethan asks why everyone acted weird about it, to which Anika responds that he needs to get with the program if he wants to hang with the Core Four.
- Disney Villain Death: She’s not a villain, but she is shaken off the ladder while trying to get across the alley into Danny’s apartment, resulting in her falling to her death.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Downplayed. Though she's Mindy's girlfriend, Mindy doesn't seem overly shaken by her death and is still able to move on in a matter of days. Maybe justified by the fact that the massacre isn't over, and Mindy has other things to worry about. Additionally, Mindy seems even more on edge after witnessing Anika’s death, still using meta terminology though with a grain of snark.
- Genre Savvy: Anika, being Mindy's girlfriend, understands why a phone call in the Carpenter apartment during a murder spree might be a bad thing and admonishes Ethan for being Genre Blind.
- Kill the Cutie: A kind and lovely girl, she still tragically ends up as one of Ghostface's victims.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Anika is more feminine in presentation than her girlfriend Mindy.
- Neck Snap: Anika strikes her head on a garbage can when she falls off the leader, resulting in her death.
- Nice Girl: She's a sweet, kindhearted soul, going out of her way to try and stop a drunk Tara from a date-rapist and later encouraging everyone else to go before her during the ladder scene.
- Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: She seems close to death when she gets attacked by Ghostface in the apartment, but she manages to survive that (albeit badly injured) and start crawling across the ladder, only to get tipped over by Ghostface and fall to her death.
- Twofer Token Minority: She's gay and Asian.
- Two First Names: Anika and Kayoko are both first names.
Jason Carvey
Jason Carvey
- See Ghostface
Greg Brockner
Greg Brockner
- See Ghostface
Laura Crane
Laura Crane
"Try teaching a class on 20th century slashers to a bunch of hungover nineteen year olds."
Played By: Samara Weaving
"I think it's interesting. You can really examine the culture of the moment by looking at the tropes of the time."
A film professor at Blackmore University, teacher of Mindy and Jason.
- Dead Star Walking: As is franchise tradition, Laura (played by Samara Weaving, star of Radio Silence's Ready or Not) ends up being the only victim of Jason, the Ghostface in the prologue of Scream VI. Humorously enough, Tony Revolori, who plays her killer, ends up becoming this too when he's murdered by the actual Ghostface of the film by the opening scene's end.
- Dies Wide Open: Her eyes are wide open as she dies.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Laura is killed by her student Jason specifically because she gave him a C- on an essay.
- Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. Laura is blonde and a film professor. However, Ghostface calls her out for following one of the oldest horror movie tricks in the book: "Never go down a spooky alleyway".
- Genre Blind: Ironically despite being a film professor with a specific focus on slasher flicks, Laura fails to realize until it’s too late that she is being led into an empty alley to get killed.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She appears to be an understanding woman during her brief screentime.
- Hot Teacher: She's an assistant professor and very attractive.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: She's a friendly person with Samara Weaving's striking blue eyes.
- Land Down Under: She speaks with Samara Weaving's natural Aussie accent.
- The Movie Buff: She teaches a film class focused on horror movies, especially slasher films.
- Nice Girl: What little screen time she has shows her as friendly, sweet-natured and very charming.
- Shout-Out: Laura shares her surname with Marion Crane. Fittingly, she is the first person to die in the film.
- The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): Laura is a film professor who researches slasher films who is murdered by her own student a few days before Halloween.
Frankie
Frankie
Played By: Andre Anthony
A student at Blackmore University who attempts to take advantage of Tara.
- In-Series Nickname: Chad gives him the unflattering (but appropriate) nickname "Date Rape Frankie".
- Laser-Guided Karma: After trying to take advantage of Tara, he gets tased in the balls by her big sister Sam.
Bailey Family
Quinn Bailey
Quinn Bailey
"Life, I have found, is about variety."
Played By: Liana Liberato
"After we lost my brother, my dad... wouldn't leave me alone. He even transferred to the NYPD when I got into college, so... stalker much?"
Sam and Tara’s roommate, a student at Blackmore University and Detective Bailey’s daughter.
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: Her father is a major character in the film, though her mother is never mentioned.
- Brutal Honesty: Quinn is quick to say what’s on her mind.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Quinn’s brother died a while back and her police detective father has become a helicopter parent as a result.
- Expy: Of Hallie from the second movie, both being the outgoing and snarky roommate of the main character.
- Fiery Redhead: Quinn is spirited though not necessarily hot-tempered. In fact, she seems more concerned with Sam’s anger when the latter learns that Tara went to a party.
- Killed Offscreen: Quinn is attacked and killed by Ghostface, though the Core Four (and the audience) are only aware of this after a video is sent to them of the murder.
- Moment Killer: Quinn accidentally interrupts Tara and Chad when they try to kiss.
- Nice Girl: A very friendly and easygoing roommate to Sam and Tara.
- Really Gets Around: She’s sex-positive and has had numerous partners, with it not being an uncommon occurrence to hear noises of sex pleasure coming from her room.
- Sex Equals Death: A very literal example. Quinn is attacked and murdered by Ghostface, and nobody in the apartment realizes it because they're used to her having loud sex with multiple guys.
Wayne Bailey
Wayne Bailey
"You fuck with my family, you die!"
Played By: Dermot Mulroney
An NYPD police detective, the father of Quinn Bailey.
- By-the-Book Cop: Bailey is a dedicated detective who wants the case solved.
- Expy: Of Dewey. Both are police officers assigned to investigate the Ghostface killings who lose a family member (sister for Dewey, daughter for Bailey) after they're murdered.
- Helicopter Parents: He has developed this trait around Quinn after the death of his son, having transferred to New York after Quinn got into Blackmore.
- Informed Flaw: Though he transferred to New York because of Quinn, he doesn't go too overboard in his protectiveness over her.
- It's Personal: He's out for the killer's blood after the death of his daughter Quinn.
- Jurisdiction Friction: He doesn’t really enjoy working with Kirby Reed, an FBI agent, but tolerates it to make further headway with the case.
- Knight Templar Parent: When Quinn dies, Bailey does his best to help the group when he is put on leave through some less than legal means.
- Outliving One's Offspring: His son died in a car accident prior to the start of the film, and his daughter becomes a victim of the new Ghostface killings.
- Papa Wolf: He took the new Ghostface case from another detective specifically because of its proximity to his daughter Quinn — the roommate of Sam and Tara.
- Standard Cop Backstory: Bailey lost his son in an accident, resulting in him moving to NYC after his daughter got into college in the city.
- Two First Names: "Wayne" and "Bailey" are commonly used as first names.
Friends
Danny Brackett
Danny Brackett
"Don't trust anyone. Not me, not your friends... not anyone."
Played By: Josh Segarra
Sam and Tara’s neighbor, who has a secret romance with Sam.
- Badass Bystander: Danny is innocent, and barely involved in the main course of events, never even having an encounter with Ghostface. However, he quickly showed himself to be willing to get involved when he saw the killer in Sam's apartment. He also instinctively put himself between Sam and a subway patron dressed as Ghostface who they thought was the real deal.
- Carpet of Virility: As his shirtless scenes show, he has an impressive amount of chest hair to reaffirm his manliness.
- Expy: Of Sidney’s boyfriend Derek in the second film. Both are kindhearted guys who love their girlfriends whose unassuming nature makes them seem suspicious to their love interests. This leads to trust issues between the couples and eventually both Derek and Danny are told to leave the relationship before it’s too late. Both are also innocent, genuinely caring about their loves regardless of their issues. However, their fates are different: Derek dies while Danny lives.
- Good Counterpart: To Sam’s previous boyfriend Richie. Both appear as kind, good-intentioned boyfriends to Sam, though where Sam is upfront about her relationship with Richie, she initially hides Danny from her family. Both Richie and Danny get involved in trying to solve the murders to protect Sam despite the greater risk to their lives, though where Richie was doing this as a front and was one of the killers, Danny was genuine in his intentions. Both are eventually added to the list of suspects because of their close proximity to Sam. Finally, Richie turned out to be one of the Ghostfaces and gets killed by Sam when she learns this. Danny, meanwhile, is sent away by Sam because she cannot trust him completely, though he manages to gain her trust by getting the police to the theatre.
- Mirror Character: To Derek Feldman from Scream 2. While both are Understanding Boyfriends who do what they can to help Sam and Sid respectively, Danny accepts that Sam and the Core Four can't trust him (especially after he told her not to, for her own safety) and tries to help from a distance by getting the cops to the theater. Derek, on the other hand, pushed to have Sid trust him, and tried to actively help her in the plot, at first getting hurt, then later killed.
- Mr. Fanservice: He is introduced shirtless with Sam and Quinn ogling him from their apartment window and sports an impressively muscular build. The girls of the friend group collectively call him "the cute guy" until Sam admits to their supposedly Secret Relationship.
- Nice Guy: Danny is a kindhearted guy who cares about Sam and goes along with the Core Four in their investigation.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone just calls him "Cute Boy” including his girlfriend Sam when she’s referring to him to other people. However, Sam does call Danny by his name several times.
- Secret Relationship: Sam and Danny have been dating secretly for several months, though when Sam reveals this, it turns out that Tara and the twins were completely aware.
- Shout-Out: His surname “Brackett” echoes Annie Brackett, one of the victims of the original Halloween. Unlike Annie though, Danny survives his film.
- Sole Survivor: The only new major character in VI to survive to the end.
- The Unfought: He never has a direct encounter with Ghostface.
- Understanding Boyfriend: After the killer attacks the Core Four at Sam's apartment, Sam confesses that she's frustrated that she doesn't know who to trust. Danny tells her that her best bet is not to trust anyone, including himself. Following this, he doesn't hold it against Sam or the others when they mistrust him.
Abe's Snake Bodega
Bodega Clerk
Bodega Clerk
Played By: Jason Cavellier
An employee at the bodega that Ghostface chases the Carpenter sisters into.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He repeatedly screams "No!" right before Ghostface executes him with a shotgun blast to the chest.
- Badass Bystander: Upon being confronted with a murderous Ghostface killer, he pulls a gun on the villain and directs the sisters toward the exit.
- Dangerous Key Fumble: A variant, as he is fumbling with his keys to help a third party unlock his back door while he stays to fight, and having his hands busy makes him vulnerable against his opponent.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His attempt to step in and protect the Carpenter sisters gets him shot when Ghostface manages to steal his gun in the struggle.
- No Name Given: One of the victims at the bodega is named Morgan Smith according to an evidence bag, but it is unclear if it is the clerk.
Bodega Customer # 1
Bodega Customer #1
Played By:
"You got a problem here, guy?"
A customer at the bodega that Ghostface chases the Carpenter sisters into.
- Badass Bystander: He squares up to Ghostface who is chasing Sam and Tara only to get violently stabbed to death by the killer for his trouble.
- Brooklyn Rage: A confrontational New Yorker.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He curses at Sam and Tara when they rush into the bodega and cut in front of him while he's standing in line. However, as he points out, there is a line, and he quickly changes his tune when he realizes the girls are genuinely frightened when Ghostface enters the store a few seconds later.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He steps in front of Ghostface to defend the Carpenter sisters when they run into the store. It gets him stabbed for his troubles.
- No Name Given: One of the victims at the bodega is named Morgan Smith according to an evidence bag, but it is unclear if it is this customer.
- Red Shirt: He gets a few lines only to be violently murdered by Ghostface less than fifteen seconds after his introduction.
Bodega Customer # 2
Bodega Customer #2
Played By:
A customer at the bodega that Ghostface chases the Carpenter sisters into.
- Badass Bystander: He attempts to fight Ghostface only to get a quick knife stab to the neck for his trouble.
- No Name Given: One of the victims at the bodega is named Morgan Smith according to an evidence bag, but it is unclear if it is this customer.
- Red Shirt: Unlike the first customer, he doesn't get any lines, and exists solely to add another casualty to Ghostface's kill count as he hunts after Sam and Tara.
Other
Dr. Christopher Stone
Dr. Christopher Stone
Played By: Henry Czerny
Sam’s therapist.
- Asshole Victim: Downplayed. While he didn't deserve to be murdered, his casual neglect of his patient's mental health makes it hard to feel bad for him all the same.
- Blatant Lies: He justifies violating confidentiality and reporting Sam's dark feelings to the police by claiming that he is obligated to do so (which would only be the case if Sam explicitly admitted to a crime) and when he made said report, he claimed that Sam made threats (which was not what happened).
- Dirty Coward: As soon as Sam reveals the gory details of her trauma and her violent feelings (which she does not want to act on; she came to Stone in the first place for help with them), Stone immediately cuts her off as a patient out of fear and reports her to the police for "making threats".
- Dr. Jerk: Stone only has two scenes in the film, but in one of them, he dismisses Sam's pleas for help and violates her confidentiality by reporting her darker feelings to the police under the false claim that she uttered threats.
- Nasal Trauma: He gets stabbed through the nose by Ghostface.
- The Shrink: He is a very useless version, making no attempt to help Sam and simply telling her that he has to report her for her violent feelings (which is not the case).
- There Are No Therapists: Averted. Sam is in therapy at the start of the film but initially avoids specifically talking about her trauma. However, when Sam does reveal her trauma, Stone states he has to report her to the authorities because of her dark feelings despite Sam not wanting to act on them. Subsequently, Sam cuts off contact with Stone afterwards.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: He appears to be a big horror fan if the figurines around his office and him watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers is any indication. Yet when faced with helping the daughter of a real-life Serial Killer, he chickens out of any further sessions and reports her to the police.
- Tuckerization: Has the same name as one of the film’s co-producers, Chris Stone.
Paul 2. 0
"Paul 2.0"
Played By: Matthew Giuffrida, Tim Robinson (voice)
"Who the fuck is Paul?"
Quinn's lover.
- Full-Frontal Assault: He is killed while taking a shower, and thus is fully nude when Mindy finds his corpse a short while later.
- Killed Offscreen: Ghostface offs him while Quinn is on the phone.
- No Name Given: His real name goes unmentioned.
Brooks
Brooks
"He says he's the killer."
Played By: Thomas Cadrot
Gale’s boyfriend in New York.
- Age-Gap Romance: He appears to be quite a bit younger than Gale.
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: He doesn't survive long when Ghostface breaks into his and Gale's apartment.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: He's a large man who's dragged off and taken out by Ghostface, who even lampshades this.
- Satellite Character: He's Gale's boyfriend she rebounded with after Dewey's death. That's it.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets only a few lines and barely any screen time before Ghostface kills him.
