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Jack was the icon for 2000 and the first original icon of the event, his face based on former Art & Design member J. Michael Roddy. Due to scrapped plans regarding Edgar Sawyer (later changed to his brother, Eddie Schmidt, and finally scrapped completely), he would return in 2001 to host the event. In 2007, Jack returned once more, having killed Oddfellow and recruited [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy]], [[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason]], and [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre|Leatherface]] to open his new Carnival of Carnage. With appearances in houses and scarezones in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2010, Jack has the most appearances of any icon with 7.
'''The Caretaker''': Dr. Albert Caine was once a respected surgeon who worked as the caretaker of the Shady Oaks Cemetery in Willamette Valley, Ohio. Converting his Victorian-style mansion into a funeral parlor and mortuary, Caine became obsessed with the concept of the soul, digging up bodies to experiment on. He began tricking homeless people into staying at his mansion so that he could perform live autopsies. He grew more and more insane, performing experiments on fear, pain, and the limits of the human mind. His family held grisly dinner parties with the corpses and his psychotic assistants stole body parts to make into dinner ingredients. One night, some teenagers walking through the graveyard saw the Caines dancing with bodies in their parlor, and they were placed under house arrest. An angry mob of local families burned down the house with the family in it, but the bodies were not recovered.
Initially the icon for 2002 was Cindy Bearer, daughter of the mortician Paul Bearer (who made extra money selling human flesh from butcher shops), and the event was based around her demented mind and playthings. A rash of child kidnappings in the area led to Cindy being scrapped (though she would reappear in 2006 as a corpse and later as a full character in 2010), and her father was given the reins to become Dr. Caine. He would appear again in 2003 with a sequel to his famous house, Screamhouse, and again in 2004, 2006, and 2010.
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The Storyteller would reappear in 2006 and 2010.
'''Bloody Mary''': Originally Dr. Mary Agana, Mary was a phobia therapist denied funding for her extreme method of immersive therapy: exposing patients to the extreme of their fear to cure them of it. She continued on with her own money in a small office in or near New York City in 1958, but only succeeded in sending two patients to the hospital and causing one to commit suicide. As her own fear of death was subdued by seeing death, she began purposely killing her patients while becoming obsessed with her reflection and mirrors. A private investigator, Boris Shuster, began investigating the disappearing patients and made an appointment with her. On the night of the appointment, Mary was murdered by a patient and ex-con who escaped the electric chair he had been placed in; no body was recovered. Schuster founded the Legendary Truth paranormal research team to investigate various paranormal activity, especially the legend of Bloody Mary, and during an investigation into the destroyed office in 2008 the team disappeared.
Bloody Mary was the icon of 2008 and the first icon since the Cryptkeeper in 1995 to be based on an existing character. Due to legal issues regarding the usage of Bloody Mary in entertainment, she has not been seen since.
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'''The Usher''': Julian Browning was an usher at the Universal Palace Theater who was obsessed with film, becoming something of an expert; he was also very strict on following the rules of the theater. During a 1940 re-release of his favorite movie, ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', he engaged in a scuffle with a rude patron and his flashlight was thrown through the screen. Going backstage to retrieve it, he became tangled in ropes left over from the theater's stage days and was strangled to death. During the rest of the theater's run, Julian's spirit became the physical image of the theater and its methods of killing patrons who violated various rules.
The Usher was the icon in 2009, though he was overshadowed in advertising by [[The Wolf Man]], [[
'''Fear''': The very embodiment of Fear itself, Fear is Adaru, the Sumerian God of Fear. All prior icons were his puppets: Chaos (Jack), Death (The Caretaker), Sacrifice (The Director), Legend (The Storyteller), and Vengeance (The Usher). Fear was unleashed in 2010 when 20 photographs detailing previous event years were found to have strange burn marks, and when combined accidentally (maybe) unleashed the demon into the world.
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* 2007: [[A Nightmare on Elm Street]], [[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]], [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]], [[The Thing (film)|The Thing]], [[Dead Silence]]
* 2008: [[Doomsday]], [[Event Horizon]] (in the form of a house heavily inspired by the property), [[The Wizard of Oz]], [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|The Gentlemen]] (adapted into the Body Collectors)
* 2009: [[Saw]], [[
* 2010: [[Hell House|TheLegendOfHellHouse]] (in the form of a house heavily inspired by the property), [[Classical Mythology]]
* 2011: [[The Thing (film)|The Thing (2011)]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
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