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| “ | Do you know what it was like growing up in this family? Related to you? I mean, all I ever heard was Sidney this, Sidney that! Sidney, Sidney, Sidney! You were always so F@#KING SPECIAL!!!!! Well, now I'm the special one. | „ |
| ~ Jill Roberts to her cousin Sidney Prescott talking about her jealousy to her. |
| “ | My friends? What world are you living in? I don’t need friends; I need fans. DON'T YOU GET IT!!!? This has never been about killing you. It's about becoming you. I mean, for f@#k's sake, my own mother had to die, no great loss there, so that I could stay true to the original. It's sick, right? Well sick is the new sane. You had your 15 minutes, now I WANT MINE! I mean, what am I supposed to do? Go to college, grad school, work? Look around, we all live in public now, we're all on the Internet. How do you think people become famous anymore? You don't have to achieve anything. You just gotta have f@#ked up s#!t happen to you. So, you do have to die, Sid. Those are the rules. New movie, new franchise. There's only room for one lead and, let's face it, your ingenue days, they're over. | „ |
| ~ Jill after killing her accomplice, selfishly reminding Sidney that she will not share her fame to her so-called "friends". |
Jillian "Jill" Roberts is the main antagonist of the 2011 slasher film Scream 4, the fourth installment of the Scream film series.
She is Sidney Prescott's egotistical and jealous cousin, who wants to become as famous as her and tries to accomplish this by becoming the next Ghostface. To do so, more than a decade after the Ghostface killing spree orchestrated by Stu Macher and Billy Loomis, Jill recruits Charlie Walker, one of her high school's outcasts, to assist her in killing some of their classmates so she can pretend to be a surviving victim of the ongoing massacre she is organizing.
She was portrayed by Emma Roberts. While disguising her voice, she was voiced by Roger L. Jackson, who also voiced Stu, Roman Bridger and Beth in the same franchise and Sel-Makor in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Her in-costume scenes as Ghostface were portrayed by Dane Farwell.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
- Her overall reason for conspiring serial murder is much pettier than Roman Bridger's, since while they both involve envy towards Sidney, Jill's is a more vapid one, as she's only jealous at her cousin for being famous as a sole survivor, and also grew up with a mother who actually did care for her, in contrast to Roman being rejected by his birthmother.
- She and Charlie orchestrated a killing spree where she killed almost everyone who ever loved her, including her own mother Kate, even stating that it was necessary in order to "stay true to the original" due to her cousin Sidney Prescott's mother and Jill's aunt Maureen being murdered.
- This killing spree has the highest body count for any Ghostface killing spree with 10 victims, including one of the killers.
- She in fact only wanted to kill people for clout so she could be the only survivor and get all the fame she wanted.
- She filmed her kills to show the world what happened rather than them just reading about it.
- She tried to kill Gale on tape, stabbing her in the shoulder and leaving her hospitalized.
- Even though Sydney was kind to her and took care of her, she didn't share the same feelings towards her, thus making her hatred of her feel less believable.
- Although she says she liked her high school friends, this was false as she killed them with no remorse to get famous which proves she only saw them as pawns and not people.
- She desires fans more than friends, but she views fans as nothing more than objects of desire rather than real people, as she would selfishly take all the fame for herself than to share with her so-called friends after betraying her accomplice.
- By orchestrating murders solely for personal gain and fame, she demonstrates a callous disregard for the rights and well-being of others.
- Such selfish and morally bankrupt behavior undermines the very fabric of society, betraying the principles of empathy, justice, and respect for human dignity that form the foundation of a civilized community.
- While she may have been in love with Trevor Sheldon in the past, it is clear she no longer feels anything genuine for him anymore.
- She stabbed Sidney's former publicist Rebecca Walters and then threw her off a building to her death just to hurt Sidney.
- Even though Walters was a jerk, she didn't do anything bad to deserve to die.
- She stabbed two police officers (Deputy Hoss and Detective Anthony Perkins) to death as they goofed around, stabbing Hoss on the back and then cleaving her knife into Anthony's head.
- She had Charlie go after her best friend Kirby Reed and their friend Robbie Mercer, leading to Robbie dying brutally and Kirby almost dying from her injuries (actually being clinically dead for four minutes) before being discovered and saved.
- She shot Trevor's groin and proceeded to finish him off with a headshot so that she could punish him for cheating on her.
- She betrayed Charlie, her loyal henchman and lover, by stabbing him in the heart and revealing she planned on framing him all along despite everything Charlie did for her, making her the first killer in the franchise to successfully betray and murder their partner.
- She forced Sidney to watch Trevor and Charlie get killed just to torment her.
- She tried to kill Sidney, her own cousin whom she was jealous of, just for fame.
- She attempted to frame Trevor as one of the killers, even mutilating herself to make it seem like Trevor injured her before she shot him.
- While Sidney was being hospitalized, she wanted to kill her to get away with her crimes.
- She threatened Dewey's wife Gale Weathers and Deputy Sheriff Judy Hicks to surrender or she would shoot an unconscious Dewey, even shooting at Hicks (fortunately, not fatally) when she asked her to drop the gun.
- While she was motivated by her feeling that her mother loved Sidney better, it does not justify her actions.
Trivia[]
- The casting call for Jill Roberts states: "Pretty in an ingenue way. Smart, strong. A little goofy, but she makes it sexy. Full of contradictions, but instantly likeable. Not a mean bone in her body. They’re not close, but Jill is Sidney [Prescott]’s cousin". However, this description was given only to hide her Pure Evil status.
- In an interview with Bloody Disgusting, Scream writer Kevin Williamson stated that his original pitch for a fifth Scream film before Wes Craven's death and the franchise's revival in 2022 would have involved Jill escaping with no consequences for her actions due to Sidney getting amnesia and entering into a college, but her studies would be interrupted by a new Ghostface killer who knew that she was the previous Ghostface, leading Jill and this Ghostface to kill many people to cover up their tracks and so on. Had this version of Scream (2022) had been made, it's unknown if this would have affected Jill's Pure Evil status or not.
External Links[]
- Jill Roberts on the Villains Wiki
- Jill Roberts on the Scream Wiki
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