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=== Carrie White ===
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Sissy Spacek (1976 version)
[[Angela Bettis]] (2002 version)
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Carietta "Carrie" N. White is a [[Shrinking Violet|shy]], [[Loners Are Freaks|lonely]] teenage girl who is [[The Woobie|frequently bullied and abused]] by both her classmates and by her [[The Fundamentalist|fundamentalist Christian]] [[My Beloved Smother|mother]] Margaret. Her life seems to be getting better once the attractive, kind-hearted athlete Tommy asks her to the prom, but then [[It Got Worse|it goes right back into hell]], [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|and then some]]. She possesses the ability to [[Mind Over Matter|manipulate objects with only her thoughts]], which makes angering her... [[Too Dumb to Live|not advisable]].
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* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: In the book, she is portrayed as being rather pudgy and covered in acne. In the film, she is played by Sissy Spacek. [[Subverted Trope|However]], the book's description is given as she is looking in a mirror at her own face, so the written portrayal could be interpreted as how she sees ''herself'' at that moment, in which case her flaws are being exaggerated (as teenagers in [[Real Life]] are fairly prone to doing), whereas most might actually see her as rather pretty. Tommy actually thinks she's beautiful when he picks her up for the prom.
** Averted with [[Angela Bettis]] in the '02 version; see below.
** Played completely straight in 2013 remake, [[Chloë Grace Moretz|Chloe]] is a clearly pretty girl who plays Carrie as more socially awkward than strange. It's even implied to be the reason [[Green-Eyed Monster|Chris bullies her so bad]] in that film.
* [[Anti
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Near the end, famously.
* [[Ballroom Blitz]]
* [[Beautiful All Along]] / [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: At the prom.
* [[Beauty Inversion]]: In the
* [[Berserk Button]]: She can't stand blood... or getting laughed at... or people [[My Name Is Not Durwood|thinking her name is Cassie]].
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]
* [[Blessed
* [[Blood Is the New Black]]
▲* [[Blood Splattered Wedding Dress|Blood-Splattered Prom Dress]]
* [[Coming of Age Story]]: One that [[It Got Worse|goes horribly, horribly wrong]].
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: After a lifetime of being made feel worthless by everybody around her -- ''especially'' her own mother -- the three people to finally reach out to her also (at least in her mind) betray her. Tommy, Sue, and the gym teacher were all completely innocent (the real villains were Chris and Billy), but she didn't know that. Understandably, this would dash any last shred of hope for humanity she might have had. The utter shame of it all is that Tommy had genuinely fallen in love with her, and (in the movie) was visibly angry when the prank was pulled.
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: Not only does she have to contend with an abusive mother, but she's also a complete social outcast in school.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: A teen outcast, subject to heavy bullying by peers, [[
** A retroactive example, given that ''Carrie'' was published 25 years before Columbine.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]
* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}: In the remake, {{spoiler|she does this with Sue's help in order to start a new life for herself}}.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Having Margaret White as a mother can excuse practically anything.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: In the first movie, though Sissy
** It's called "strawberry blonde."
* [[Heroic RROD]]: In the book, {{spoiler|her overuse of her powers, combined with blood loss from being stabbed by her mother, cause her to have a heart attack after killing Billy and Chris}}.
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* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: This trope is a large part of her problem with getting accepted by her classmates.
* [[Memetic Outfit]]: Her blood-drenched pink prom dress.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In the movie, she does this after {{spoiler|killing her mother}}.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]:
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'''Carrie:''' IT'S ''CARRIE!''
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted in the first five minutes. She gets her first period at age 17 -- and she is under the impression that she is bleeding to death.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: She burns down her high school and kills scores of people during her rampage. In the book and the remake, she also destroys most of the town.
* [[Pre
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* [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]]: She does this subtly -- usually, all she does is look at her target, as evidenced when she throws the asshole kid off his bike, or locks down the school gym. However, when she slams shut all the windows and doors in her house, she doesn't even do this.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Of the [[Mind Over Matter]] variety. In the book, she's also [[Telepathy|telepathic]].
* [[Puberty Superpower]]: Semi-averted. She had latent powers since birth, but only managed to gain control over them at adolescence.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]
* {{spoiler|[[Self
* [[Shrinking Violet]]
* {{spoiler|[[Spared
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=== Margaret White ===
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Piper Laurie (1976 version)
[[Patricia Clarkson]] (2002 version)
[[Julianne Moore]] (2013 version)
Margaret White (maiden name Brigham) is the mother of Carrie. She is a [[The Fundamentalist|hardcore fundamentalist Christian]] who feels that all sex, even within marriage, is sinful, and regularly [[Abusive Parents|abuses her daughter]] in the name of God.
* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Mother]]
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: While not as extreme an example as Carrie, in both movies she was played by actresses far more attractive than the white-haired, heavyset woman she was described as in the book (Piper Laurie in '76, Patricia Clarkson in '02, Julianne Moore in '13).
*
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: In the '76 film, a lot of the religious iconography that shows up in her house is Catholic, even though it's strongly implied in the book that her beliefs are rooted in fundamentalist Protestantism of the old-time Puritan variety, which has... issues with the Catholic Church.
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* [[Hollywood Heart Attack]]: In the book and in the '02 version, {{spoiler|Carrie kills her by psychically squeezing her heart until it stops beating}}.
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Knocking
* [[Large Ham]]: Piper Laurie's performance in the '76 version. Laurie felt that her performance was so over-the-top that the film ''had'' to be a comedy... before she saw the finished product, of course.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]
* [[Religious Stereotype]]: She is every stereotype of Christian fundamentalists rolled into one and mixed liberally with raving insanity.
* [[Well
* [[
** In the '76 film she not only wears black, ''she wears a cape.''
▲* [[Well Intentioned Extremist]]: Everything she does in the story, from [[Knocking On Heathens Door|visiting people's doors]] to {{spoiler|attempting murder}}, is because she believes she's helping people in desperate need of saving. Her intentions are good, but her actions are reprehensible.
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=== Sue Snell ===
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Amy Irving (1976 version, and [[The Rage: Carrie 2
Kandyse McClure (2002 version)<br />
Gabriella Wilde (2013 version)
Susan "Sue" Snell is a popular high school student who [[The Atoner|feels guilty]] about taking part in the humiliation of Carrie in the showers. To make up for it, she asks her athlete boyfriend Tommy to take Carrie to the prom instead of her, choosing to stay home on prom night.
* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: In the 2002 film, compared to the 1976 and 2013 film, she resuscitates Carrie and helps her escape to Florida.
* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[The Atoner]]
* [[Forced to Watch|Forced To Watch]]: In the 2013 remake, she sees the bucket kill Tommy. This is averted in the 1976 film, where she's doesn't seem to notice anything wrong until she sees the doors holding back promgoers and screams for help. Also averted in the 2002 film, where she wasn't there to begin with and only was made aware by hearing the commotion Carrie and her chaos was causing outside.
* [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]]: A case can be made for her and Carrie in the 2002 remake, where she helps Carrie look good for the prom and {{spoiler|gives her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation}}. She even jokes with Carrie about being a lesbian.
* [[Mind Rape]]: At the end of the book, {{spoiler|a dying}} Carrie does this to her, angry about the prank that she thought Sue had pulled on her... only to find that she had meant her no harm, and that she hadn't planned to humiliate her at the prom. She even lets her into her mind intentionally to prove this to her.
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Girl]].
* [[Race Lift]]: She was played by black South African-Canadian actress Kandyse McClure in the '02 version.
* {{spoiler|[[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]}}
* [[Teen Pregnancy]]: Suggested in the book. During the climax, it's strongly implied that {{spoiler|Carrie uses her powers to cause her to have a miscarriage}}.
** Played straight in the 2013 film.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Averted in the sequel, where she ''is'' the therapist.
* [[Zen Survivor]]: She's become this in the sequel.
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=== Tommy Ross ===
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William Katt (1976 version)
Tobias Mehler (2002 version)
Ansel Elgort (2013 version)}}
Thomas "Tommy" Everett Ross is one of the stars of the school's baseball team and the boyfriend of Sue, and their relationship has recently become more intimate. After taking part in Carrie's humiliation in the shower, Sue, feeling sorry for what she did, asks Tommy to take Carrie to the prom in order to make up for it, to which Tommy reluctantly agrees.
* [[Ambiguous Situation]]: Whether or not he felt something for Carrie. In the 1976 film and in a deleted scene in the 2013 remake, he and Carrie share a kiss.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: In the novel, he's [[The Smart Guy|a straight-A student]] and a talented amateur writer who has had his poems published in several journals, and wants to get a university degree before pursuing a career in professional baseball. Both film adaptations retain his niceness, but turn him into a [[Brainless Beauty]] for no readily apparent reason.
* [[Lovable Jock]]: In addition to being a star athlete, he's also a very good-hearted, likable person, and one of the few people who stands up for Carrie, though he is reluctant to take her to the prom.
** [[Jerk Jock]]: However, as shown by the book's [[Scrapbook Story]], he's treated like this afterwards (along with Sue) so that the people investigating the incident can have an easy scapegoat.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: He seems to be this at the prom. Too bad he's
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=== Rita Desjardin / Miss Collins / Miss Gardiner ===
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Betty Buckley (1976 version)
Rena Sofer (2002 version)
Judy Greer (2013 version)}}
Rita L. Desjardin is the gym teacher at the high school, who feels a mix of pity and annoyance at Carrie for her social awkwardness. After Carrie is humiliated in the showers, Rita is quick to punish those responsible with a week's detention, with her, after school, with failure to show up leading to one being barred from the prom.
In the 1976 film, her name was changed to Miss Collins, while in [[Screen to Stage Adaptation|the Broadway adaptation]], she became Miss Gardiner. The 2002 remake kept the name she had in the books, but [[Spell My Name
* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: In the book, she, at best, pities Carrie and finds her social awkwardness annoying. In all the movies, she genuinely does care for Carrie.
** In the 2002 remake, she saves some students by using a vent and even yells to get off floor when she senses the wet floor could be electrified.
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: [[Death by Adaptation|She dies]] in the '76 version and is spared by Carrie in the 2013 version. In the '02 remake, she helps some students escape, she holds on for dear life and we see her later in the present, so she must have pulled herself into the vents.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: She and some students use this in the '02 version to escape the burning gym.
* [[The Atoner]]: In the book, this is why she retires from teaching after the prom.
* [[Because You Were Nice to Me]]: In the 2013 remake. [[Cruel Mercy]] aside, Carrie does spare her from the massacre and she is later seen outside, her arm in a sling.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: Is spared by Carrie in the 2013 remake, while she electrocutes everyone else.
* [[Composite Character]]: The musical combined her with the principal.
* {{spoiler|[[Death
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: In the book and the '02 version, she says that the reason why the administration made her tone down her punishment was because all of them were men, and that none of them would understand what Carrie had gone through.
* [[Hot Teacher]]: Particularly in the '02 version.
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=== Chris Hargensen ===
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Nancy Allen (1976 version)
Emilie de Ravin (2002 version)
Portia Doubleday (2013 version)}}
Christine "Chris" Hargensen is the [[Alpha Bitch]] of the school, and Billy's girlfriend. She leads the class as they humiliate Carrie in the shower. Feeling that Carrie is responsible for her misfortune, she sets out to get revenge on her after finding that she is going to the prom with Tommy, enlisting her [[Girl Posse]], her boyfriend Billy, and his friends in the plan.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: She was a brunette in the book, but blonde in both film adaptations. Then a brunette again in the 2013 remake.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: To a sociopathic degree. Lampshaded in the parody ''Scarrie!'':▼
{{quote| '''Chris:''' "The Carrie Whites of the world aren't meant to go out with the Tommy Rosses of the world! For if God had wanted that, he would have given her a kick-ass bod, and long hair that ''layers easily'' and '''DANCES IN THE WIND!!'''"}}▼
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
▲* [[Alpha Bitch]]: To a sociopathic degree. Lampshaded in the parody ''Scarrie!'':
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* {{spoiler|[[Asshole Victim]]}}
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: She has a very high IQ, but only a C average.
* [[Delinquents]]: Her characterization in the book. It's stated that she's been sent to detention 73 times in four years, twenty of them for bullying, and that she skipped most of them. In addition, during [[Junior High]], she had once put a firecracker into a girl's shoe and nearly blew off two of her toes. The film adaptations largely downplay this to focus on her [[Alpha Bitch]] tendencies.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Implied in the 2013 remake.
* [[
* [[Spoiled Brat]], [[Screw the Rules I Have Money]]: Her father, a rich lawyer, got her into Oberlin despite her poor grades, and threatens to sue the school if they punish Chris for what she did to Carrie in the shower. He backs off when he sees her record of violations. Later, after getting kicked out of the prom, she plans to humiliate Carrie as payback for it, feeling that she is entitled to go to the prom. She's so annoying you just want to squash her. {{spoiler|Thanks, Carrie!}}▼
* [[The Sociopath]]: Or something close to it because her father does not bother to get her any help and spoils her instead.
▲* [[Spoiled Brat]], [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Her father, a rich lawyer, got her into Oberlin despite her poor grades, and threatens to sue the school if they punish Chris for what she did to Carrie in the shower. He backs off when he sees her record of violations. Later, after getting kicked out of the prom, she plans to humiliate Carrie as payback for it, feeling that she is entitled to go to the prom. She's so annoying you just want to squash her. {{spoiler|Thanks, Carrie!}}
* [[Tomboyish Name]]
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=== Billy Nolan ===
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[[John Travolta]] (1976 version)
Jesse Cadotte (2002 version)
Alex Russell (2013 version)}}
William "Billy" Nolan is Chris' boyfriend. He is one of the school's [[Delinquents]], and his characterization ranges from merely a [[Jerkass]] (in the 1976 film) to outright thuggish (in the book). He frequently hits Chris, and in the book he forces himself on her. He breaks into a local farm in order to kill the pigs and drain their blood into the buckets.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]▼
* [[The Alleged Car]]: The original book has him driving a rusty, beat-up, jacked-in-the-back '61 Chevy Biscayne with a broken headlight. The film, fortunately, upgrades him to [[Cool Car|something much cooler]].
▲* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
* {{spoiler|[[Asshole Victim]]}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: The only character who has absolutely ''zero'' excuse for being utterly loathsome.
* [[Cool Car]]: In the '76 film, he drives a '67 Chevelle. {{spoiler|Shame that Carrie blows it up.}}
** He gets a Cool Truck in the remake. {{spoiler|It suffers a similar fate -- Carrie slams it against a tree, roof first.}}
* [[Delinquents]]: Both him and his friends.
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: He is frequently shown hitting Chris, and in one scene in the book, he forces her to have sex with him.
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: He barely knows who Carrie White is, he just wants to destroy her life. In the book, it's stated that he does the prom prank only [[For the Evulz]], and that he would find it just as funny if Chris was the target of the pig blood.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Big time.
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