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122-604: Laurie Strode is a character from the Halloween series . She first appeared in Halloween (1978) as a high school student who becomes targeted by serial killer Michael Myers , in which she was portrayed by Jamie Lee Curtis . Created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill , Laurie appeared in nine of thirteen films in the series (and is seen briefly in photographs and video footage in at least two others). The character has subsequently been represented in various other media, including novels, video games, and comic books. Most entries in

244-409: A jack-o'-lantern mask. Harry is killed that night by an unidentified man who then goes to his car and immolates himself. The next day, Dan is confronted in a bar by Harry's daughter, Ellie. He tells her about the strange events of the night before and shows her the mask her father was holding when he was admitted to the hospital. Along with Ellie, Dan traces the mask back to Silver Shamrock Novelties,

366-566: A " bastard ". Danny sleeps in Michael Myers ' old bedroom and is being taunted by the "Man in Black", who is the leader of a druid cult, saying "Kill for him". As a result, he draws violent pictures including the Mark of Thorn , symbolizing an ancient druid curse that was inflicted on Michael by this cult. On Halloween, he is befriended by Tommy Doyle , who lives across the street from him. Tommy warns Kara of

488-460: A 20-year-old murder case. Aaron, having followed Michael's case for many years, goes to Smith's Grove with Dana to interview Michael. Despite showing Michael his mask, Michael refuses to speak. Aaron and Dana then go to interview Laurie, only managing to get the interview by bribing Laurie. The podcasters stop at a gas station, where Dana goes to the bathroom. Aaron discovers a dead mechanic and attempts to rescue Dana from Michael, attacking Michael with

610-507: A Laurie Strode storyline entitled "Visiting Hours". Set between H20 and Resurrection , it shows Laurie in the Grace Anderson Sanitarium, where she wonders how her life could have been if Michael hadn't found her in 1978. In this alternate universe, she lives a happy life in which her friends are still alive, but the memory of Michael invades her fantasy world and leaves her with nothing. Laurie concludes that "I can't even dream of

732-538: A blackout in Haddonfield, Illinois. Budd Scarlotti works in Haddonfield Memorial Hospital as an ambulance driver. He is murdered when he gets out of the therapeutic hot tub he and nurse Karen are using to fool around in to check on the temperature at her request but is strangled to death by Michael Myers . Cameron Elam is the son of Lonnie Elam. Best friends with Oscar, and dates Allyson Nelson,

854-401: A blade in his hand, as what Deirdre said to him earlier broke his heart so much that his madness became an affliction and he now vowed to murder them. As they danced right next to him, he slit Cullain's Jugular while Deirdre had her head turned, then stabbed her in the chest and breasts , killing her. Immediately after their deaths, Enda was chased down and torn apart limb from limb by a crowd of

976-454: A character requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work. The individual status of a character is defined through the network of oppositions (proairetic, pragmatic , linguistic , proxemic ) that it forms with the other characters. The relation between characters and the action of the story shifts historically, often miming shifts in society and its ideas about human individuality, self-determination , and

1098-438: A character using the basic character archetypes which are common to many cultural traditions: the father figure , mother figure, hero , and so on. Some writers make use of archetypes as presented by Carl Jung as the basis for character traits. Generally, when an archetype from some system (such as Jung's) is used, elements of the story also follow the system's expectations in terms of storyline . An author can also create

1220-546: A company based in the town of Santa Mira. While in Santa Mira, Ellie mysteriously disappears and Dan is captured by Conal Cochran 's android henchmen. Dan discovers Cochran's plan to kill millions of children on Halloween night using his masks. He finds out that the Silver Shamrock trademarks on every mask contain a computer chip and a small fragment of Stonehenge . On Halloween night, a television commercial will air activating

1342-475: A crowbar, but Michael bashes Aaron against a wall repeatedly and then Dana's stall, breaking the door. He dies just as Michael kills Dana. Alan "Big Al" Gateway lost his son, who was killed by Michael Myers , on October 31, 1978. When he hears on a news station that Michael Myers has returned, he attempts to kill him for revenge. He, his brother Orrin, his friend Earl and other local men band together and try to locate Michael so that they can kill him. However, he

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1464-455: A distinction between the individuals represented in tragedy and in comedy arose: tragedy, along with epic poetry , is "a representation of serious people" (1449b9—10), while comedy is "a representation of people who are rather inferior" (1449a32—33). In the Tractatus coislinianus (which may or may not be by Aristotle), Ancient Greek comedy is defined as involving three types of characters:

1586-429: A fictional character using generic stock characters , which are generally flat. They tend to be used for supporting or minor characters. However, some authors have used stock characters as the starting point for building richly detailed characters, such as William Shakespeare 's use of the boastful soldier character as the basis for John Falstaff . Some authors create charactonyms for their characters. A charactonym

1708-483: A figure of Strode alongside Samuel Loomis based on their appearance in Halloween II (1981). The same year, Super7 released a reaction figure of her Halloween II appearance. Curtis's manager submitted a photograph of her to the filmmakers who initially didn't want to cast her as they didn't believe her to embody the looks of Laurie, Annie, or Lynda (the virgin , the smart aleck , and the cheerleader ). Her manager

1830-593: A flashback in the following film that she survives the attack. Dawn Thompson is the secretary of Dr. Terence Wynn and a member of the Cult of Thorn. Her role in the theatrical cut is minor, however she appears at the Thorn ceremony in the Producer's Cut of the film. Deborah Myers , is the mother of Judith and Michael Myers , as well as the biological mother of Laurie Strode ( née Angel Myers). Deborah does not know that her son

1952-429: A foot-long blade used for slaughtering livestock and waited by a bonfire for his opportunity to strike. Enda killed Cullain first by swiftly walking up behind him with the blade and stabbing him through the jugular several times, then subsequently killed Deirdre by brutally hacking and stabbing her torso. Enraged, the villagers who witnessed the horrible act almost immediately began to chase Enda and convened upon him, where

2074-445: A gun, ready to shoot Michael, but he is attacked by Michael's psychologist, Dr. Ranbir Sartain. He survives, and is placed in the same hospital room as Laurie Strode, who is recovering from her encounter with Michael. Dr. Frederick Mixter is the doctor who examines Laurie Strode when she arrives at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. He is later found dead in his office with a needle sticking out of his eye by nurse Janet . Mr. Garrett

2196-480: A more traditional grandmother, bought a home, and even celebrates Halloween. Allyson's new boyfriend, Corey, becomes a kind of apprentice to Michael after they meet in the sewers and helps him in his kills, eventually taking on the Shape persona. He also goes after Laurie for interfering in his romance and attempts suicide to make Allyson think Laurie killed him. Michael appears, kills Corey, and attacks Laurie, who pins him to

2318-444: A mortally wounded Michael that she loves him, before stabbing him to death and putting on his mask. In the film's final scene, she sits in isolation in a psychiatric ward, grinning at a vision of her mother. In the director's cut of the film, Laurie picks up Michael's knife after Michael is killed and walks over to an injured and unconscious Loomis, and the police open fire on Laurie, apparently killing her too. Jamie Lee Curtis reprised

2440-445: A normal life without [Michael] killing it", and can do nothing but wait for her brother's inevitable "visit" to set her free. Laurie appears prominently in the comic book limited series Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode ; set after Halloween II , it depicts the events which led to her faking her death. In the novelization of Halloween Kills , the Shape views her as "She Who Will Not Die". Strode made her video game debut with

2562-557: A person dressed as Michael. They unmask the figure to reveal Laurie Strode, who has taken on her brother's mantle. At the conclusion of the book, Laurie kills Tommy (losing an eye in the process) and is subsequently incarcerated in Smith's Grove, where Dr. Terence Wynn takes an interest in her. This story follows on from Halloween H20 , but is set in a non- canon timeline contradicted by the release of Halloween: Resurrection . The anthology one-shot comic Halloween: 30 Years of Terror includes

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2684-556: A plan to kill children using his popular Halloween masks . At the end of the film, he is vaporized by the Stonehenge rune he was using to create his masks. Professor Nicholas Rogers describes Conal Cochran as "the ultimate Halloween sadist, the malevolent predator on the lives of innocent children, transforming their masks into deadly weapons of destruction". Corey Cunningham was originally an aspiring engineer, but his life changed forever when he accidentally killed young Jeremy Allen

2806-433: A resident of the nearby town Russellville. The groundskeeper said that Charlie had excused himself from dinner and went out to the garage. He then returned with a hacksaw and kissed his wife and two children goodbye. However, the groundskeeper's story ends abruptly when Dr. Loomis interrupts him and reminds him that he needs to find Judith Myers' gravesite. Conal Cochran is the owner of Silver Shamrock Novelties and devises

2928-567: A robotic version who attempted to kill Challis until destroyed. Enda is a cursed ghost that is behind Michael Myers affliction. Originally, he was a 15-year-old boy who lived in northern Ireland , thousands of years ago, during the time of the ancient Druids. He was apparently somewhat disfigured, as he had one skinnier arm and a twitching mouth due to the midwives botching his birth. He was also passionately in love with Princess Deirdre (Chief Gwynwyll's daughter). His father, brother, other kinsman, and uncle all cruelly mocked him for this, but when

3050-472: A son possibly fathered by her Uncle Michael and named Stephen . She is ultimately murdered by Michael, and her son Stephen is protected by Tommy Doyle . Jamie Lloyd and her son, Stephen, are never mentioned in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later since this film is set in alternate continuity, following from the first two films. Jamie Lloyd is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Myers. Janet Marshall works as

3172-499: A strange sound and thinks it is either Lynda, Annie , or Paul playing a joke on him. However, when he opens a closet door, Michael Myers jumps out and pins Bob to another door by stabbing him in the stomach. His scenes in the reboot are similar to the original's, although they happen in the old Myers house. In the uncut version of the 2007 film, Bob is stabbed to death by Michael as he attempts to get beer from his car. The boyfriend of Judith Myers (portrayed by David Kyle). His name

3294-579: A table and cuts his throat. Michael attempts to strangle her before a forgiving Allyson returns and breaks his arm. Laurie slits Michael's wrist and he bleeds to death. All of Haddonfield watches as Laurie destroys Michael's body in an industrial shredder. She subsequently completes a memoir and renews her relationship with Hawkins. Laurie Strode's first literary appearance was in October 1979, in Curtis Richards' novelization of Halloween , which largely follows

3416-470: A therapist to deal with the trauma. Loomis, who has become a greedy and arrogant mercenary profiting from the murders of the previous film, reveals in his book “The Devil Walks Among Us” that she is Michael's sister and that she also suffers from his "illness". Laurie reads the book and discovers the truth, leading her to an hysterical outburst and storming out of the Brackett house. In the film's climax, she tells

3538-470: A white mask and a foot-long kitchen knife. Frank Hawkins is a Sheriff's Deputy who teams up with Laurie in an effort to kill Michael once and for all. It is revealed that he arrested Michael following his killing spree in 1978, and prevented Samuel Loomis from killing Michael and instead had him brought into custody. He comes to view this as a mistake and is willing to finish Michael off by any means necessary. After impacting Michael with his car, he pulls out

3660-480: A year after Michael Myers rampaged through the town. The incident's aftermath saw Corey being subjected to hostile behavior from the citizens of Haddonfield, until saved by Laurie from bullies where he befriends Allyson, forming a strong bond. Consequently, he embarked on a dark and sinister path that ended up escalating when he encountered Michael Myers; this encounter would fully unleash the evil and hate inside of Corey, who ends up taking up Michael's murderous mantle in

3782-425: A young boy like Michael Myers could commit such a horrible crime. Annie Brackett first appears is in the original Halloween film. She is one of Laurie Strode 's best friends, and the daughter of Haddonfield's sheriff , Leigh Brackett . She is portrayed as having a very rebellious and sardonic personality. On Halloween night, she is babysitting Lindsey Wallace near Laurie, and the two friends gossip over

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3904-407: Is Michael Myers ( Nick Castle ), an escaped mental patient who murdered his sister, Judith Myers ( Sandy Johnson ), 15 years before and has begun stalking her. Laurie notices Michael watching her and becomes increasingly worried, though her best friends Annie ( Nancy Loomis ) and Lynda ( P. J. Soles ) brush off her concerns. As Laurie babysits Tommy, Myers kills Annie and Lynda in the house across

4026-412: Is Michael's baby sister, nicknamed "Boo", with whom young Michael ( Daeg Faerch ) shares a close bond. When Michael is institutionalized for killing their older sister Judith ( Hanna R. Hall ), their mother Deborah ( Sheri Moon Zombie ) is unable to cope and commits suicide . The infant Laurie is discovered by Sheriff Brackett ( Brad Dourif ), who omits her from the records for her own protection, and she

4148-458: Is a "walk-on", a term used by Seymour Chatman for characters that are not fully delineated and individualized; rather they are part of the background or the setting of the narrative. Dynamic characters are those that change over the course of the story, while static characters remain the same throughout. An example of a popular dynamic character in literature is Ebenezer Scrooge , the protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. At

4270-587: Is a name that implies the psychological makeup of the person, makes an allegorical allusion, or makes reference to their appearance. For example, Shakespeare has an emotional young male character named Mercutio , John Steinbeck has a kind, sweet character named Candy in Of Mice and Men , and Mervyn Peake has a Machiavellian, manipulative, and murderous villain in Gormenghast named Steerpike . The charactonym can also indicate appearance. For example, François Rabelais gave

4392-467: Is attacked and murdered by Michael, who stabs him in the central area of his stomach when he fights against him on the back of a pick up truck. Alice Martin is a teenager from Haddonfield, Illinois who is at home alone on Halloween night of 1978 and hears her neighbor, Mrs. Elrod, scream. She goes outside and calls out in the direction of her neighbors' house asking if they were alright but gets no response, and returns to her house. She resumes talking on

4514-459: Is being taken out of the house in a stretcher. The character's more recent onscreen appearances occur in Rob Zombie's Halloween reboot and its sequel . As with the original, in the reboot, Annie is Laurie's sassy friend from high school and Lindsey's babysitter. However, her encounters with Michael Myers are different: walking home from school, she sees and cursingly threatens him from across

4636-529: Is eventually adopted by the Strode family. The adult Michael ( Tyler Mane ) escapes and comes home in search of his sister, killing her adoptive parents and her friend Lynda ( Kristina Klebe ) before kidnapping Laurie. Michael tries to make Laurie remember him by showing her a picture of them as children. This fails, and Laurie proceeds to stab Michael with his own knife. Laurie hides as Michael hunts her down in their old childhood home; when he finds her, she shoots him in

4758-505: Is hiding from behind a wall and peeking around the corner waiting to see when the boyfriend will leave. Once he does, Michael walks up the stairs and murders Judith. The boyfriend is never seen or mentioned again in the film. In the novelization of the original film, his name is Danny. It is also revealed that he 'came within an ace of being accused' of Judith's murder but there was no evidence, resulting in Michael rightfully being charged. Brady

4880-524: Is instantly killed, the frightened Annie makes a run for the front door, almost escaping, but is caught. Michael pulls her back inside, however, she manages to slip away and get a kitchen knife, attempting to face the towering killer. Her resistance quickly ends with Annie captured alive, exposed to Michael's crueler attacks; she is left lying on the floor brutally tortured and bleeding when Laurie brings Lindsey home, although her father finds her still alive some time later due to Laurie having called 9-1-1 . In

5002-406: Is killed by Michael, but is manipulated by her new boyfriend Corey until she learns that Corey was essentially Michael's apprentice. Angus Taylor is the groundskeeper in the cemetery where Judith Myers is buried and leads Dr. Loomis to her grave , only to find the headstone stolen. In the novel, he briefly talks about Judith and mentions how he was shocked at the news of her murder and how

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5124-472: Is known as a type. Types include both stock characters and those that are more fully individualized . The characters in Henrik Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler (1891) and August Strindberg 's Miss Julie (1888), for example, are representative of specific positions in the social relations of class and gender , such that the conflicts between the characters reveal ideological conflicts. The study of

5246-537: Is mentally unstable, nor that he kills animals as a habit. While working at a strip club , Michael kills her abusive boyfriend, Ronnie , Judith, and Judith's boyfriend, Steve . After this, Michael is put into custody and Deborah later witnesses him attacking and killing a nurse . When she returns home, Deborah becomes severely depressed due to Michael's behavior and commits suicide by shooting herself while watching old home movies of Michael, resulting in Laurie's adoption by

5368-533: Is never revealed and he only appears in the opening scene at Judith's house on Halloween (October 31, 1963). During this time, he makes out with Judith in the entry way and in her family's living room after she says "My parents won't be home until ten". At some point he gets the feeling that they're not alone. However, both are unaware that six-year-old Michael Myers is watching them through a window. He asks Judith if they are alone and she replies "Umm... Michael's around here some place". While Judith briefly looks around

5490-588: Is not attested in OED until mC18: 'Whatever characters any... have for the jestsake personated... are now thrown off' (1749, Fielding, Tom Jones ). List of characters in the Halloween film series#Kara Strode This is a list of characters that appear in the Halloween horror film franchise. Aaron Korey is a British true crime podcaster and partner of Dana Haines. Aaron and Dana have created numerous critically acclaimed podcasts, including one that shed new light on

5612-609: Is now living under the name Keri Tate , and works as the headmistress of a California private school, where her teenage son John ( Josh Hartnett ) is a student. Laurie, who by now has become an alcoholic , is still haunted by memories of her brother's rampage, and lives in fear that he will return. Although John dismisses her as paranoid, her fears become reality when Michael (Chris Durand) resurfaces on Halloween and murders two of John's classmates. After getting her son and his girlfriend to safety, Laurie decides to stop running and face her brother. She stops Michael, but, unconvinced that he

5734-491: Is possible, therefore, to have stories that do not contain "characters" in Aristotle's sense of the word, since character necessarily involves making the ethical dispositions of those performing the action clear. If, in speeches, the speaker "decides or avoids nothing at all", then those speeches "do not have character" (1450b9—11). Aristotle argues for the primacy of plot ( mythos ) over character ( ethos ). He writes: But

5856-399: Is really after her adopted daughter, and she exclaims, "No, not my baby!" Cynthia Strode dies soon after Michael breaks her neck. Dr. Daniel "Dan" Challis is a hardworking doctor struggling with the relationships between him and his ex-wife, as well as his children. On October 23, a man named Harry Grimbridge is brought into the hospital where Dan works, trembling with fear and clutching

5978-643: Is revealed to have died prior to the film's events, with the role of protagonist taken up by her young daughter, Jamie Lloyd ( Danielle Harris ). A photograph of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie appears in a scene where Jamie remembers her mother. The character of Jamie would go on to reappear in two more Halloween sequels, while Laurie's adoptive cousin Kara ( Marianne Hagan ) and her family appear in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995). Curtis returned as Laurie Strode in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998),

6100-679: Is strongly implied to be Karen's father. Meanwhile, Karen and Allyson join a mob of Haddonfield residents to hunt down Michael and kill him for good. The mob surrounds and attacks Michael, but he arises from seeming defeat and slaughters them all while Karen and Allyson receive medical treatment at the Myers house. Michael returns to his childhood home and murders Karen as well. Four years later in Halloween Ends , Michael has been in hiding since his last rampage. Laurie, blamed for provoking his attacks, refuses to let fear rule her life anymore. She has become

6222-457: Is taken to Laurie's home by his deranged psychologist and engages in a showdown with Laurie, who traps him in the basement with the help of her daughter, Karen ( Judy Greer ), and granddaughter, Allyson ( Andi Matichak ). They set the house ablaze and escape in the back of a passing pickup truck. Halloween Kills picks up where the previous film left off. It shows people at a bar, but mainly focuses on three people, Lindsey (whose babysitter Annie

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6344-434: Is the security guard that works at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. As he checks the hospital's storage room for possible breaking and entering, he is killed by Michael Myers with a hammer claw to his skull. Deputy Gary Hunt works with Dr. Loomis after Sheriff Leigh Brackett goes off duty upon hearing the news of his daughter's death. It is revealed that he grew up in Haddonfield when he and Dr. Loomis are in front of

6466-653: Is the boyfriend of Rachel Carruthers . When he was told by Rachel that their date was off because she had to babysit Jamie Lloyd , he decided to spend the evening with Kelly Meeker . During a scene when Rachel takes Jamie trick or treating, they stop at the Meeker family home and Rachel finds out that Brady is cheating on her with Kelly. Later in the film, Rachel tells Brady that Jamie is the niece of Michael Myers . Brady eventually becomes one of Michael Myers' murder victims when Michael lifts him up and crushes his skull with bare hands while he tries to protect Rachel and Jamie. Bucky

6588-403: Is the father of Kelly Meeker , who becomes a victim at the hands of Michael Myers . Sheriff Ben Meeker is an integral part of Halloween 4 , as he attempts to help Dr. Loomis find and destroy Michael. In the next installment, Ben Meeker returns but has less screen time than in the previous film, and once again attempts to help destroy Michael in order to protect Jamie Lloyd . Towards the end of

6710-490: Is the name of Michael Myers and Judith Myers ' mother according to the Halloween novelization from 1979 by Curtis Richards (a pseudonym used by author Richard Curtis). In the novelization it does not say that she is the biological mother of Laurie Strode since this was not revealed until the film's sequel premiered in 1981. It also mentions that sometime after Judith's death, she and her husband moved away to Indiana due to

6832-492: Is truly dead, goes on to steal his body and decapitate him. In Halloween: Resurrection (2002), it is revealed that the man Laurie killed was a paramedic with whom Michael ( Brad Loree ) had swapped clothes. The guilt-ridden Laurie is now an inmate at the Grace Andersen Sanitarium, where the nurses believe her to be catatonic . Instead, she is preparing for Michael to return, and when he does, she lures him on to

6954-540: Is unknown since her surname was never explained or elaborated in films where it came from when she appeared. She is put in the care of a foster family, the Carruthers, and later adopted after Laurie apparently dies in a car crash. In Halloween 5 , she has a psychic link with her Uncle Michael, cannot speak in the beginning but eventually regains the ability to speak, and has seizures whenever her uncle kills someone. In Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers , she gives birth to

7076-476: The Illinois State Police en route to Haddonfield, who direct them to a highway patrol substation up the road where they will be safe, they think it is over, but Michael ambushes Earl and the other lynch mob members with him. Michael murders Earl by ripping out his throat, leaving Rachel to try and save herself and Jamie by driving Earl's truck after throwing his corpse from the driver's seat. Edith Myers

7198-463: The buffoon ( bômolochus ), the ironist ( eirōn ), and the imposter or boaster ( alazṓn ). All three are central to Aristophanes ' Old Comedy . By the time the Roman comic playwright Plautus wrote his plays two centuries later, the use of characters to define dramatic genres was well established. His Amphitryon begins with a prologue in which Mercury claims that since

7320-446: The social order . In fiction writing , authors create dynamic characters using various methods. Sometimes characters are conjured up from imagination; in other instances, they are created by amplifying the character trait of a real person into a new fictional creation. An author or creator basing a character on a real person can use a person they know, a historical figure, a current figure whom they have not met, or themselves, with

7442-402: The telephone with her friend and tells her that her parents left to go visit a relative and is happy to have the house to herself. Then her friend informs her of what is happening in Haddonfield. Alice turns on the radio while still on the phone with her friend, and grows concerned when she hears that the killer is still on the loose. Then she hears a strange noise which makes her jump and drop

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7564-610: The 1983 Atari video game Halloween . The game is rare to find, often being played on emulators . No characters from the films are specifically named, with the goal of the game focusing on the player, who is a babysitter, protecting children from a "homicidal maniac [who] has escaped from a mental institution". Laurie Strode was added as a playable character, alongside Michael Myers , in downloadable content for Dead by Daylight released in October 2016. Her biography states: In 2019, NECA released an action figure based on her appearance in Halloween (2018). In 2020, NECA released

7686-600: The 23-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis was the undisputed " scream queen " of American horror in 1978. He compared Curtis' performance as Laurie to the performances of Sandra Peabody as Mari Collingwood in The Last House on the Left (1972) and Marilyn Burns as Sally in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Character (arts) A character who stands as a representative of a particular class or group of people

7808-453: The Chieftain announced that his daughter became available for marriage, Enda took this opportunity to profess his love for Deirdre (believing he had a chance with her because his intentions were pure). However, a few days before Samhain, Enda attempted to tell her while she was collecting water from the small stream near their village. When he approached her, he startled her and she almost fell in

7930-456: The Halloween mask-wearing Ben Tramer as being drunk and missing in action. This leads Dr. Loomis to believe the teenager was indeed the victim, and to suggest that the dentist should confirm this. Robert David "Bob" Simms is the boyfriend of Lynda Van Der Klok . After having sex with Lynda in the Wallace house, she asks him to go get her a beer and he does so. When he is in the kitchen, he hears

8052-469: The Myers house, where the three of them tracked Michael to, Lonnie and Cameron are killed by Michael. Charlie Bowles is an unseen character in the franchise. He was mentioned by the groundskeeper who worked at the cemetery where Judith Myers was buried. After the groundskeeper expressed how shocked he was fifteen years ago when Michael Myers murdered Judith, he began telling Dr. Samuel Loomis an equally shocking story about Charlie Bowles, who had been

8174-582: The Strodes. Her role in Halloween II is slightly larger than her previous one. In the film, she appears as an apparition with a white horse, and is only seen through Laurie and Michael's visions. Deirdre was a 15-year-old Druid princess who lived in northern Ireland during the time of the ancient Celtic race. She was the third and youngest daughter of the Druid Chief Gwynwyll and an unnamed queen. She

8296-448: The balcony; when Loomis goes to check Michael's body, he finds it missing. An unsurprised Loomis stares off into the night, while Laurie begins sobbing in terror. Halloween II (1981) picks up directly after the first film, with Laurie Strode being taken to a hospital. She learns who was trying to kill her and has dreams of her mother telling her she was adopted and visiting Michael when they were children. Waking up, she begins to roam

8418-453: The characters, but they include the characters for the sake of their actions" (1450a15-23). Aristotle suggests that works were distinguished in the first instance according to the nature of the person who created them: "the grander people represented fine actions, i.e. those of fine persons" by producing "hymns and praise-poems", while "ordinary people represented those of inferior ones" by "composing invectives" (1448b20—1449a5). On this basis,

8540-469: The computer chip causing the mask wearer's heads to dissolve and erupt with insects and snakes. Cochran shows this to Dan in a demonstration, in which he kills a family. Dan eventually escapes captivity in Cochran's factory and rescues someone he believes to be Ellie. He destroys Cochran and the factory by dumping the Silver Shamrock trademarks throughout the building and airing the commercial which will activate

8662-402: The computer chips inside. However, when he is returning home, he is attacked by the android which he thought was Ellie. After an intense fight, he kills the android with a tire iron and runs to a nearby gas station where he tries to convince the station managers not to air the Silver Shamrock commercial. He persuades them to take it off channels one and two, but not channel three. At the end of

8784-417: The danger she and her family are in if they remain in the Myers house, and is proven right when Michael massacres the other Strodes. Danny was to be the next child inflicted with the curse of Thorn, but is seated away in the meantime while the man in black Dr. Terence Wynn and a team of surgeons perform a medical procedure in the operating room. This is interrupted when Michael bursts into the operating room at

8906-412: The day (before Halloween). She and her husband Mason Strode are longtime inhabitants of Haddonfield and know much about the town's affairs. Both Cynthia and Mason become two of Michael Myers ' murder victims early on that evening. After Michael outright kills Mason, he pursues Cynthia further into the residence and locates a picture of Laurie in the family study. Cynthia figures that the man attacking her

9028-579: The earliest surviving work of dramatic theory , Poetics ( c.  335 BCE ), the Classical Greek philosopher Aristotle states that character ( ethos ) is one of six qualitative parts of Athenian tragedy and one of the three objects that it represents (1450a12). He understands character not to denote a fictional person, but the quality of the person acting in the story and reacting to its situations (1450a5). He defines character as "that which reveals decision , of whatever sort" (1450b8). It

9150-420: The early and more influential examples of the " final girl " slasher film archetype. Laurie Strode first appears in the original Halloween (1978). The 17-year-old Laurie (Curtis) is a high school student who has plans to babysit Tommy Doyle ( Brian Andrews ) on Halloween night, 1978. However, throughout the day, she keeps seeing a mysterious masked man watching her wherever she goes; unbeknownst to her, he

9272-542: The enraged villagers. The next day, Enda's eternal soul was cursed by the Chieftain's shaman as punishment for his evil actions. Earl works as a bartender in Haddonfield, Illinois and becomes angry when he hears on a news station that Michael Myers has returned and that all businesses should close for the night. Earl and other local men band together and try to locate Michael so that they can kill him. However, they never find Michael, but they do find Jamie and Rachel and attempt to get them out of Haddonfield. Meeting up with

9394-490: The events of the film. She also appeared in the 1981 adaptation of Halloween II written by Jack Martin; it was published alongside the first film sequel, with the novel following the film events, with an additional victim, a reporter, added to the novel. Laurie appears in the twist ending of the comic book Halloween III: The Devil's Eyes . While examining Loomis' diaries in the hopes of finding out more about Michael Myers, an adult Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace are attacked by

9516-453: The film, Michael is locked in a cell, however, a shoot out begins, which allows him to escape and kills Ben in the process. Bennette Samuel "Ben" Tramer attends Haddonfield High School with Laurie Strode . It is revealed by Laurie in the original Halloween film that she has a crush on Ben when she tells Annie that she would like to go to the dance with him. Later in the film, Annie tells Laurie that she called Ben and told him, and that he

9638-403: The film, he is seen yelling, "Turn it off! Stop it! Stop it!", although it is seemingly too late for him to prevent the computer chips being activated. His ultimate fate is left unknown. Danny Strode is the six-year-old son of Kara Strode , and lives in the Myers house with his mother, uncle, and grandparents. Danny's grandfather John is abusive towards him and his mother, referring to Danny as

9760-407: The following day has a heated discussion with Dr. Loomis . Later on, Dr. Hoffman is with Dr. Loomis at the crash site where Michael escaped from the ambulance. During that scene, Dr. Loomis tells Dr. Hoffman, "If you don't find him in four hours, I'm sure I will". Jamie Lloyd is Laurie Strode 's daughter, as well as the niece of Michael Myers and Judith Myers , of which she is aware. Her father

9882-486: The following sequel, Annie, although slightly disfigured with the scars from her near-fatal attack, is shown to be much more stable than Laurie, who is living with Annie and her father. On a Halloween night when she is at home alone, Michael breaks into the Brackett house, seizes the fleeing Annie then stabs her repeatedly off-screen. When she arrives home, Laurie finds Annie on the bathroom floor, naked and severely wounded by Michael. Annie then tries to persuade Laurie to leave

10004-460: The franchise depict Laurie as Michael's younger sister, although this detail is not present in the first film and was also disregarded by the most recent entries - the 2018 film and its two sequels. The character is primarily portrayed by Jamie Lee Curtis , who appears as Laurie in the original film and six of its sequels. In the two films directed by Rob Zombie , she is played by Scout Taylor-Compton . Academic materials widely cite Laurie as one of

10126-461: The granddaughter of Laurie Strode. She finds him cheating on her at a school-sponsored Halloween party, and trashing her phone when it rings again as she is confronting him. After leaving the dance, he finds the wounded Frank Hawkins, and saves his life. He makes up with Allyson shortly afterwards, and they, along with Cameron's father, Lonnie, join Tommy Doyle in hunting Michael Myers. After going into

10248-410: The hallways of the hospital until coming face to face with The Shape, who has been killing the hospital staff in search of her. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis discovers that Laurie is Michael and Judith's sister; she was put up for adoption after the death of their parents, with the records sealed to protect the family. Realizing that Michael has killed one sister and now wants to kill the other, Loomis rushes to

10370-402: The head with a gun she took from Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis ( Malcolm McDowell ), after which she begins screaming hysterically as the scene fades to an old home video of young Michael and baby Laurie. In the sequel (2009), Laurie has moved in with Sheriff Brackett and his daughter Annie (Danielle Harris). She suffers recurring nightmares about Michael and their mother, and is seeing

10492-457: The hospital to find them. Laurie shoots Michael in the eyes, blinding him, and Loomis causes an explosion in the operating theater , allowing Laurie to escape. Michael, engulfed in flames, stumbles out of the room before finally collapsing. The traumatized Laurie is last seen being transferred to another hospital, along with another survivor, Jimmy (as seen in the television version). In Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Laurie

10614-444: The house, without success, until she dies. Barry Simms , is the host of the radio show Back Talk . Barry was often rude to his callers, even ignoring Jamie Lloyd's call for help. Barry was killed by Michael, who stabbed Barry in the chest and hung his corpse from a tree. Simms was originally intended to be portrayed by and modeled after Howard Stern , who declined in order to appear in his own film Private Parts . Ben Meeker ,

10736-457: The institution's rooftop. Although he falls into her trap, Laurie's fears of again killing the wrong person get the better of her; when she tries to remove his mask, Michael stabs her and throws her off the roof, to her death. A new version of Laurie Strode ( Scout Taylor-Compton ) appears in the Rob Zombie remake (2007). This film establishes from the beginning that Laurie (born Angel Myers )

10858-663: The land until the end of time, becoming a ghost-like entity and inhabiting the bodies of different individuals throughout history, doomed to forever repeat the same brutal actions from that night upon scores of innocent souls for eternity. Over time, his ghost would wreak havoc throughout the ages, responsible for massacres abroad. Finally, on Halloween night of 1963, in Haddonfield Illinois, 6 year-old Michael Myers became afflicted with Enda's vengeful spirit, then murdered his sister and her lover. 15 years later, in 1978, he would escape incarceration and brutally slay 5 people, donning

10980-427: The last minute slaughtering Dr. Wynn's staff and possibly Wynn as well. Danny later helps his mother and Tommy protect Jamie Lloyd 's newborn son Stephen from Michael and Dr. Wynn and his staff at Smith's Grove Sanitarium. The four survive the night, and leave Smith's Grove at the end of the film. Danny Strode is also the adoptive first cousin once removed of Laurie Strode, the maternal second cousin of Jamie Lloyd, and

11102-546: The latter being either an author-surrogate or an example of self-insertion . The use of a famous person easily identifiable with certain character traits as the base for a principal character is a feature of allegorical works, such as Animal Farm by George Orwell, which portrays Soviet revolutionaries as pigs. Other authors, especially for historical fiction , make use of real people and create fictional stories revolving around their lives, as with The Paris Wife which revolves around Ernest Hemingway . An author can create

11224-547: The latter only in H20 and Resurrection. She is also the great-grandmother of Stephen . In the sequel, Halloween II , Michael broke into the elementary school and drew a picture of his parents together with his sister, Judith. He left the drawing behind after he used a butcher knife to stab his drawing of Judith. It was discovered by the police and brought to the attention of his psychiatrist, Samuel Loomis , who briefly examined it. This occurred before Dr. Loomis learned that Laurie Strode

11346-427: The living room for Michael, her boyfriend picks up Michael's clown mask and starts goofing around which distracts Judith from her babysitting duty. Eventually he and Judith go upstairs to have sex. After they have sex, he tells Judith that it is getting late and that he has to go. At the last minute Judith asks him to call her the next day and he promises to do so. While all of this takes place, unbeknownst to him, Michael

11468-466: The media frenzy and rude stares they received from other townspeople. It goes on to mention that they continue to make payments on the house which has not been sold after the death of their eldest daughter. Michael's mother could be seen briefly in the original Halloween after Judith's murder. She is seen with her husband after they find Michael holding the knife outside the family home. The mother stares at Michael, apparently in shock. After this scene in

11590-400: The mob tore his body apart limb from limb, leaving only his heart and skull. On the next day, the 2nd day of Samhain, Chief Gwynwyll buried his daughter and her lover, then had a shaman take Enda's remains to the top of a mountain to perform a curse on his eternal soul before burying the remains in the “Field of Fiends”. The shaman placed a curse on Enda's soul , in which he was forced to wander

11712-406: The most important of these is the structure of the incidents. For (i) tragedy is a representation not of human beings but of action and life. Happiness and unhappiness lie in action, and the end [of life] is a sort of action, not a quality; people are of a certain sort according to their characters, but happy or the opposite according to their actions. So [the actors] do not act in order to represent

11834-633: The name Gargantua to a giant and the huge whale in Pinocchio (1940) is named Monstro . In his book Aspects of the Novel , E. M. Forster defined two basic types of characters, their qualities, functions, and importance for the development of the novel: flat characters and round characters. Flat characters are two-dimensional, in that they are relatively uncomplicated. By contrast, round characters are complex figures with many different characteristics, that undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise

11956-406: The narrative structure, unlike core characters, for which any significant conflict must be traced during a considerable time, which is often seen as an unjustified waste of resources. There may also be a continuing or recurring guest character. Sometimes a guest or minor character may gain unanticipated popularity and turn into a regular or main one; this is known as a breakout character . In

12078-502: The old Myers house. During that scene, Dr. Loomis mentions the murder of Judith Myers and Deputy Gary Hunt says "I remember. I was sixteen years old". Harold Grimbridge is a mask owner turned victim of Conal Cochran's androids. His daughter Ellie seeks answers after his death leading to Silver Shamrock. Dr. Hoffman works at the asylum where Michael had been a patient after the events that took place on Halloween 1978. He oversees Michael's transfer back to Smith's Grove Sanitarium and

12200-414: The original, the parents are never seen again. It is not until the release of Halloween II (1981) that the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Myers is explained. In the sequel, nurse Marion Chambers tells Dr. Loomis that two years after Judith's death (1963), Mr. and Mrs. Myers died (1965) and Laurie Strode was eventually adopted by the Strodes. Mrs. Myers is also the grandmother of Jamie Lloyd and John Tate ,

12322-422: The phone. She then notices the front door is open and walks into the living room asking if anyone is there. Once she is halfway across the living room, Michael Myers suddenly appears and stabs her, killing her. Allyson Nelson is the daughter of Ray and Karen Nelson. She is the granddaughter of Karen's mother and Ray's mother-in-law, Laurie Strode . She spends some time resenting her grandmother after her mother

12444-454: The play contains kings and gods, it cannot be a comedy and must be a tragicomedy . [...] is first used in English to denote 'a personality in a novel or a play' in 1749 ( The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary , s.v.). Its use as 'the sum of the qualities which constitute an individual' is a mC17 development. The modern literary and theatrical sense of 'an individual created in a fictitious work'

12566-450: The process on Halloween. He ends up taking revenge against his tormentors and later stabs himself with his knife after a failed assassination of Laurie in her home. His surviving moments was wrestling a knife away from Michael who snaps his neck, killing him. Cynthia Strode is the adoptive mother of Laurie Strode in the remake. Mrs. Strode appears to be a loving mother and is sincerely disappointed with Laurie's crude humor from earlier in

12688-476: The reader. In psychological terms, round or complex characters may be considered to have five personality dimensions under the Big Five model of personality. The five factors are: Stock characters are usually one-dimensional and thin. Mary Sues are characters that usually appear in fan fiction which are virtually devoid of flaws, and are therefore considered flat characters. Another type of flat character

12810-637: The role in Halloween (2018), which in this continuity ignores the previous sequels in the franchise and serves as a direct sequel to the 1978 film. Consequently, Michael and Laurie are not related in this continuity since that revelation does not exist without the 1981 sequel. The film establishes that Michael ( James Jude Courtney ) was arrested following his killing spree in 1978, and institutionalized for 40 years in Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Laurie suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder , has been divorced twice, and become an alcoholic. Michael escapes again and returns to Haddonfield for another killing spree. He

12932-401: The second cousin twice removed or third cousin of Laurie Strode's grandson and Jamie Lloyd's son, Steven Lloyd. Darlene Carruthers is the foster mother of Jamie Lloyd and biological mother of Rachel Carruthers . At the end of the film, she is stabbed with scissors by Jamie Lloyd in an eerily similar manner to the night when Michael Myers murdered his sister Judith . It is revealed in

13054-400: The series' run. Recurring characters often play major roles in more than one episode, sometimes being the main focus. A guest or minor character is one who acts only in a few episodes or scenes. Unlike regular characters, the guest ones do not need to be carefully incorporated into the storyline with all its ramifications: they create a piece of drama and then disappear without consequences to

13176-487: The seventh film in the series. The screenplay was based on a story by Kevin Williamson . The story was conceived as a sequel to the sixth film, thereby keeping the timeline's continuity, but producers ultimately decided to go with a reboot and ignore the previous three films. In this timeline, Laurie faked her death in a car accident as a way of escaping her murderous brother, whose body was not found after Halloween II . She

13298-450: The start of the story, he is a bitter miser, but by the end of the tale, he transforms into a kindhearted, generous man. In television, a regular, main or ongoing character is a character who appears in all or a majority of episodes, or in a significant chain of episodes of the series. Regular characters may be both core and secondary ones. A recurring character or supporting character often and frequently appears from time to time during

13420-440: The stream, Enda lunged forward amid trying to save her, but she cowered and screamed believing he was trying to rape her before running back to the village. This broke his heart so much that his love for her was replaced by hatred. On the night of Samhain, Deirdre was betrothed to a young warrior named Cullain and this fact only intensified the primal feeling of now afflicting Enda. During the mass celebration, in silence, he picked up

13542-449: The stream. Enda attempted to save her, lunging forward to grab her, but she misread his attempt and cowered down in fear before screaming that he was trying to rape her, before finally fleeing back to the village. Later, the Chieftain announced his daughter was betrothed to a young warrior named Cullain. On the night of Samhain, Deirdre and her husband to be were dancing around the bonfire at the joy of their betrothal. Enda watched them with

13664-400: The street without looking and gets hit by a squad car which pins him to another vehicle that bursts into flames, leading to his death. At the morgue, a dentist is unable to match the burnt victim's teeth to Michael's due to the body's state and a lack of resources. Later on, two teenage boys run up to Deputy Gary Hunt , who is standing in front of the old Myers house with Dr. Loomis , to report

13786-612: The street, remarking that her 'daddy is the sheriff'. A few hours later, that Halloween night, she goes to leave Lindsey and her babysitting duties to Laurie in order to have a secret date with Paul, an older schoolmate (who did not make an onscreen appearance in the original film but is present in the remake), that soon arrives in his car and takes Annie back to Lindsey's house. There, Annie is kissing Paul while stopping his attempts to pull her sweater off, until she agrees and leaves herself topless. Preparing to have sex with Paul, Annie fails to see Michael nearing them until he attacks. While Paul

13908-468: The street. Growing concerned when they fail to call her, Laurie goes to investigate and sees their corpses laid out for her to find, before being attacked by Michael. Barely escaping, Laurie races back to the Doyle house. Michael follows, but Laurie manages to fend him off long enough for Tommy and Lindsey to escape. Laurie is saved by Dr. Sam Loomis ( Donald Pleasence ), Michael's psychiatrist, who shoots him off

14030-514: The telephone throughout the evening. After leaving Lindsey with Laurie in order to go and meet her boyfriend Paul , Annie is murdered by Michael Myers , who strangles her in her car and slits her throat. Michael then sets up her corpse for Laurie to find, leaving her in the Wallaces' bed with Judith Myers ' tombstone placed behind her body. Annie makes a cameo appearance in Halloween II as her father, Sheriff Brackett, closes her eyes as her corpse

14152-423: Was Michael and Judith's younger sister. The comic "The First Death of Laurie Strode" also uses this name - Edith appears pregnant in a flashback scene in which a young Michael fantasises about killing his unborn sibling. Ellie is the love interest of Dan Challis who assisted him in visiting Santa Mira, the homeplace of Silver Shamrock in search of her missing father. In the climax, she is killed and replaced by

14274-406: Was a worker who encountered Michael Myers as he wandered around an electrical power plant. Bucky told Michael that he was not permitted on the grounds. Seeing that Michael would not leave, the technician told him to stay where he was and not move while he walked towards the building. However, Michael did not listen and picked Bucky up and threw him into one of the electrical towers. The murder caused

14396-472: Was interested. However, Laurie is embarrassed by this and asks Annie to call him back and tell him that she was only kidding. But Annie tells Laurie that she would only consider doing so if she babysits Lindsey while she goes to pick up her boyfriend, to which Laurie agrees. In the sequel, someone in a very similar but varied mask (the variation being that the hair attached to Ben's mask is blond and not brunette as Michael's mask is) as Michael Myers runs into

14518-437: Was killed by Michael Myers in the original film), Tommy Doyle (Laurie babysat and protected him & Lindsey also in the original film) and Marion Chambers (survived an attack from Michael in the original film). Tommy tells a story in honor of Laurie, then the scene changes to where firefighters responding to the burning house inadvertently free Michael. Laurie is hospitalized, where she meets an old friend named Frank Hawkins, who

14640-562: Was persistent on the filmmakers meeting her. After a few meetings, she got cast in the role of the chaste Laurie. Curtis describes Laurie as a fulfilling character due to them being opposites — allowing her to act. In an interview, Carpenter admits that Curtis wasn't the first choice as he didn't know who she was at the time. He originally wanted to cast Anne Lockhart , the daughter of June Lockhart from Lassie , as Laurie. Lockhart, however, had commitments to several other film and television projects. Debra Hill stated upon learning that Curtis

14762-439: Was said to have been very beautiful as she had sand colored hair, sea green eyes, white cream skin and lips as red as wild rose. She was also said to have been taller than her older sisters. It was also revealed that she was the love of a disfigured boy her age named Enda , who once tried to profess his love to her while she was collecting water from a small stream near their village; Startled by Enda's approach, she almost fell into

14884-503: Was the daughter of Psycho star Janet Leigh , "I knew casting Jamie Lee would be great publicity for the film because her mother was in Psycho ." Laurie has been compared to the character of Sally Hardesty from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by a variety of scholars. James Rose notes the parallels between Laurie and Sally, stating: Italian magazine editor Stefano Lo Verme, wrote that

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