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| “ | My suggestion is termination. Death is the only solution for Michael. There is 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! | „ |
| ~ Samuel Loomis on Michael Myers |
Michael Myers is the main antagonist of the "2018" timeline of John Carpenter's Halloween franchise.
In this timeline, his wounds have not regenerated but he remained alive regardless, and is not Laurie Strode's brother. After being locked up 40 years ago in an asylum, Michael escapes on Halloween night and continues on his killing spree in Haddonfield, massacring anyone who gets in his way.
For some scenes of the trilogy, while masked and for his breathing sound effects, he was portrayed by Nick Castle, who also played the character while masked in the original film. For all three films, while masked, he was mainly portrayed by James Jude Courtney.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- While it's implied he may have cared for Corey given how he treats him better than most people in town and even closed his eyes after killing him, it's far too twisted since he eventually killed Corey over a petty reason of stealing his mask.
- It's heavily implied that his corrupting influence affected the entire town to become wicked like him which is why the citizens did bad things like driving mental patient to take his own life or bulling Corey.
- He's arguably more brutal than his original counterpart.
- Micheal is overall the definition of being evil for the sake of it, lacking any motive behind his villainy and kills because he can.
Background[]
- All of the crimes he commits in the original 1978 movie, which include:
- Killing his teenage sister Judith at the age of six for no reason.
- Stealing his sister's gravestone and later placing it over Annie's body.
- Going on a killing spree across Haddonfield.
- Killing Laurie Strode's friends, Annie and Lynda.
- Killing two dogs and eats on one of them.
- In a 1978 flashback, he caused the death of a police officer by using him as a human shield, which led his friend to accidentally shoot him.
Halloween (2018)[]
- He turned Laurie into an extremely paranoid mother, causing her family members to distance themselves from her, and coming back to kill everyone she loves after Laurie tries to resume a normal life.
- He kills a father and his preteen son by breaking their necks. This is also noticeably the first time Michael is shown killing an underage person onscreen.
- He uses Aaron as a battering ram and slams his head onto the bathroom door to get to Dana, who is implied to be his romantic partner and leaving him to bleed to death as he strangled her in front of him.
- He kills and disfigures 3 other people at a gas station to get his mask back.
- He once again goes on a rampage around Haddonfield, killing people in their houses.
- While he does spare an infant after killing his mother, it isn’t out of sympathy or remorse. He only spares it because killing it wouldn’t amuse him, or he doesn't kill what he can't scare or he just simply doesn't feel like/care to kill it. Also, he still leaves it on its own, meaning it could have died anyway unless it was retrieved by any neighbors or relatives.
- He kills the friends of Laurie's granddaughter, Allyson.
- He kills his psychiatrist, Dr. Ranbir Sartain. While Sartain had it coming for unleashing him despite fully knowing the danger he posed, this wasn't why Myers killed him. Additionally, this act is totally ungrateful as he would have been executed long ago if it hadn't been for Dr. Samuel Loomis' passing and Sartain setting him free for his research.
- He murders two police officers and turns one of their heads into a Jack-o-lantern.
- He kills Allyson’s father, Ray, and shortly after his death, he grabs Ray's corpse from outside and stuffs it into a nearby wardrobe, shocking Laurie, who happens to discover it while searching for him.
- He tries to kill Laurie's granddaughter Allyson.
Halloween Kills[]
- He murders eleven firefighters even though they saved his life from being burned alive in Laurie's house.
- He broke a couple's drone for no reason.
- He kills Phil and stabbed Phil's wife, Sondra, in the throat, which left her mute, and he sadistically continues to stab her husband's corpse with other knives while she watches.
- He kills a 12-year-old kid named Dennis and takes his mask. He then holds his blood-drenched mask in his hand to scare his friends.
- He kills multiple people in the park and attempts to kill Lindsey Wallace, and later he poses their bodies in the park with masks on them.
- He brutally kills the new residents of his old house, Big John and his husband Little John, and after that he places the couple's corpses together next to a photo, morbidly mirroring their happier times together.
- He indirectly causes an angry mob to chase a harmless mental patient until the patient committed suicide.
- He kills the now-adult Lonnie, and kills Cameron in front of Allyson, his girlfriend, while she begs him to stop.
- He brutally kills a mob of Haddonfield residents.
- He kills Laurie's daughter, Karen Nelson, at the end of Halloween Kills.
Halloween Ends[]
- He allows Nelson Christopher to become his servant who helps him lure and kill a young woman.
- Brutally murders two garbage men.
- Murders a girl and her boyfriend.
- Although he allows Nelson Christopher to serve him without Michael killing him, he doesn't truely care for Nelson who shown genuinely loyalty to him as Michael never got rid of his body once Corey accidentally killed him only letting Nelson live due to him being able to bring him victims and food.
- He probably took and killed a few people who came by the sewer after living in there as it shown several people has been missing.
- It was mentioned and implied by Nelson Christopher he took people into the sewer and ate them due to skinned skeletons being found by Corey.
- Despite letting Corey go, it is not out of sympathy or and humanity in Michael, as he only let him go after seeing the “evil” in him.
- He causes paranoia and fear to spread among the residents, resulting in many acts of violence, with some residents even committing suicide as a result.
- He corrupts Corey Cunningham with his influence, causing him to become a serial killer just like him - thus making Michael indirectly responsible for all the murders Corey did as the new "Boogeyman."
- He and Corey go to the home of a doctor and a nurse, and while Corey is murdering the doctor, he ambushes the nurse and kills her by pinning her to the wall.
- He murders Corey just for stealing his mask.
- He attempts to kill Laurie one last time in a climatic vicious fight between them, and would've succeeded were it not for Allyson intervening on her grandmother's behalf - which ultimately leads to Laurie finally killing Michael once and for all.
- His death is not played for sympathy, as all the residents watch his corpse's disposal just so they will feel relief from his death given how dangerous and destructive he was. In fact, Sheriff Barker assured his friend who questioned Laurie and Allyson's idea of doing so with an industrial shredder for the job that it's the only way to be certain.
- Though leaned to Fridge Horror, final blows Laurie and Allyson inflicted upon him were merely rendered him unconscious taking into account of him resilient enough to shrug off everything thrown at him, even if his healing factor no longer as strong as it used to be. If anything, the two were fortunate to have properly wear him down more than enough to buy them time to bring his unconscious form inyo aforementioned shredder.
- Even though he is now dead, there's a implication that his evil may return in a new shape.
Trivia[]
- When asked by Cinemablend on why did Michael Myers spare an infant in the 2018 Halloween film, director David Gordon Green disclosed the crew's feelings that in spite of Michael's status as Pure Evil, him sparing the infant was an inexplicably moment of doing the right thing, though Gordon Green admitted himself that he can't justify why Michael took that decision, yet found fascinating that humane moment. If it were confirmed that Michael spared the infant out of pity or because he couldn't bring himself to kill such a defenseless creature, it would strip him of his Pure Evil status.
- Though this is highly unlikely, because he is shown to be very sadistic throughout the trilogy and even in the original film, as he likes to scare both his victims and those he kills or doesn't kill, thus he may have spared the infant because it cannot be scared, be afraid or even comprehend him, which is why he is referred to as The Boogeyman because he lives off of other people's fear.
- Before Halloween Kills came out, people believed the reason Michael was going back to his old childhood home was because he was waiting for his parents. However, this was not true as he only wanted to return to the place where he committed his first crime.
External Links[]
- Michael Myers on the Villains Wiki
- Michael Myers on the Halloween Wiki
- Michael Myers on the Halloween Trilogy Wiki
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