| NOTE: This only talks about her original and H20 timeline, not her 4-6 timeline since they're separate. |
Hello and Happy Halloween! Now I know it's been a few years since I made this proposal, but I've made a mistake on it before. I meant to put her whole appearances, which include Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection, but I was afraid that her corrupting factors might be too severe, so I proposed her on the NPG wiki, but I've looked back on it a few times and it seems that her corrupting factors aren't that corrupting or justified due to Michael being a serious threat to her and the people of Haddonfield and she doesn't drive herself crazy trying to kill him, unlike Dr. Loomis who was extremely lethal and anti-heroic in his methods to stop Michael, and since it's October, I'm going to get started.
Permission granted by User:Emeraldblade95, thanks.
What's The Work?
Halloween is a horror movie franchise that centers on a serial killer named Michael Myers who was put in a sanitarium for murdering his older sister, Judith Myers, now he's escaped and is now on a killing spree in Haddonfield and kills several people in his way.
Who Is She?
Laurie Strode is a young teenage girl and the main protagonist of the Halloween franchise. She is stalked by Michael Myers who kills several people while trying to kill her and she gets traumatized by the experience where she is attacked by him and has been waiting for him to return to finish him off.
What Has She Done?
P.S. This was my work on the NPG proposal I did on her on the other wiki: https://near-pure-good-hero.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Renhoek3092/NPG_Proposal:_Laurie_Strode_(Original)
Halloween (1978)
Laurie Strode is shown in school and coming from school while getting stalked by Michael Myers who escaped the sanitarium. She promises to babysit Tommy Doyle and heads to his house to bond. She dismisses Tommy's exclamations of "the boogeyman". She later gets attacked by Michael while heading to Lindsey Wallace's house, and she attacks him a few times, such as attacking him with a needle, a coat hanger and his knife. She then tells the kids to call the police at the Mackenzie's house. When Michael wakes up, he strangles her and soon Dr. Loomis rushes in the house and saves Laurie by shooting at Michael six times.
Halloween II (1981)
When Michael gets shot outside, he doesn't die and Laurie is soon taken to the hospital for her injuries. Michael finds out she's in the Haddonfield hospital and follows her to kill her. But Laurie gets out of bed and Michael walks around the hospital, killing many staff to get to Laurie. He soon chases Laurie throughout the hospital until she reaches outside. When Dr. Loomis arrives at the hospital, he lets Laurie in and shoots at him a few times. They go into a room where Dr. Loomis gives Laurie a gun to use against him, and she shoots him in the face, blinding him. Dr. Loomis then releases gas valves and Laurie does the same and Loomis tells Laurie to get out and Laurie leaves as Dr. Loomis sacrifices himself by igniting the room with a lighter, blowing up the room with him and Michael in it. Laurie is then taken to another hospital in the ending.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Laurie Strode moved to California and changed her name to Keri Tate and has a son named John Tate. She refuses to let him go to Yosemite out of paranoia that Michael might attack and kill him. She later catches him sneaking out of school and chides him for wandering around town on Halloween day, but John had enough of her paranoia. She later grants him permission to go to Yosemite, but he already planned for a Halloween party. She later discovers Michael's return and arms herself with a gun. When Michael kills Charlie and Sarah, he targets John and Molly and chases them all the way to the gate, where Laurie lets them in and hides them in a closet and later has them drive to the Becker house to call the police while she stays behind to fight Michael.
She grabs a fire axe and fights him in the school and throws knives at him and grabs two and stabs him repeatedly, making him fall off a balcony and onto the ground. She attempts to finally kill him by stabbing his chest, but Ronnie Jones stops her and tells her he's already dead. When the ambulance arrives, she steals it to watch Michael and he rockets out of the ambulance and Laurie pins him to a tree by driving into him. Michael reaches out his hand and Laurie doesn't fall for it and chops his head off, thinking she finally killed him.
Halloween: Resurrection
It was revealed that the man Laurie killed was not Michael, but was instead a doctor who Michael swapped clothes with, crushing his larynx, making Laurie get sent to a sanitarium. She has been hiding the pills the doctors gave her in a rag doll, proving she's not crazy. When Michael reaches the sanitarium, she attacks him and she leads him to a trap to finally kill him. Before she finishes the job, she tries to take his mask to make sure she's not murdering the wrong person again, still feeling remorse for killing the wrong person, but Michael takes advantage of this and kills her instead, finally killing Laurie, making her fall into the trees.
Admirable Standards
While the admirable standard is high, Laurie passes it since she went out of her way to kill Michael and end his terror once and for all. While Dr. Loomis has tried to kill Michael many times, Laurie has tried to do so herself as she defended Tommy and Lindsey from him, helped Dr. Loomis defeat Michael by shooting him in the face and releasing gas valves to blow him up, saved his son John and his girlfriend Molly from being killed by him (even sending him far away from California so Michael wouldn't find him), and chose to stay behind in the school to kill Michael to save everyone and fought him until he fell off the balcony and prepared to stab him in the chest to kill him. She also tried to kill him one final time in the beginning of Resurrection.
Corrupting Factors
Now, let's talk about the mitigating factors of Laurie.
- Although, she did smoke marijuana in the first movie, she didn't want to at first, but was only goaded into doing it by Annie, but was repulsed by it and didn't smoke it again.
- While she did leave Jimmy in the car when he was passed out in the second film, before she tried to call for help when she saw Dr. Loomis and tried to go in the hospital to get help, but as soon as she saw Michael, she begged to be let in and was too scared to go back because Michael would kill her and Jimmy, but Jimmy was later shown to be okay and Laurie was relieved.
- Because of her trauma of Michael, she has become overprotective of John and forbade him from leaving her sight and when she caught him and his best friend, Charlie off-campus, she got mad at him and cursed at him saying "What the f*ck do you think you're doing?", but it was all justified because Michael is literally a homicidal serial killer and she was afraid that Michael will kill John next and she is suffering from PTSD from her experience with Michael and no normal parent would allow their children to go anywhere when there's a serial killer on the loose and John was sneaking off-campus and convinced the security guard, Ronald Jones to let him go without Laurie's consent. She later decides to let John go to Yosemite after thinking about what he said and that he's been cooped up for too long.
- Laurie was shown drinking in H20, but she was only dealing with her trauma from Michael and she did not let it affect her behavior as she was not shown drunk and is not abusive towards anyone since most adults drink.
- In the end of H20: 20 Years Later, she accidentally kills the wrong man when she thought it was Michael in his suit as she steals the van and drives off with it to protect the people. But she truly did not know that Michael swapped outfits with the person and crushed his larynx so he couldn't speak and thought it was still him, and after she finds out it was an innocent man, she feels great remorse for unintentionally killing him by the next movie Resurrection. She also checks Michael's mask again to make sure it wasn't another person, still feeling remorse for killing the innocent man. And while she stole the van, she was only protecting the people from getting attacked by what she thought was Michael inside. Also, when Michael seemingly reached out his hand when she crashed the van, she beheaded him, but only because she thought he was trying to trick her, and besides, he has no love for his sister. But she isn't lethal as she only kills when necessary.
- While she does curse a few times in the movies, they are only when she's angry for a good reason or when she's scared, and she said to Michael "she'll see him in hell" after she got stabbed because Michael is a pure evil killer and he has tried to kill her in the past.
- Also, she wasn't shown to be insane and wasn't trying to kill herself as she hid the pills the doctor gave her in a rag doll, though she was suffering from a disorder and she was mentally-ill because of her accidental murder but was still her own self and she was aware of Michael's presence in the sanitarium and wasn't shown doing anything crazy and only did what she did to stop Michael and was completely remorseful for what she did in the previous film.
- And finally, let's talk about how she revealed she faked her death, she reveals to Will Brennan that she faked her death, but Laurie never had Jamie Lloyd as her daughter in this timeline and she was said to have been dead in the 4-6 timeline, but alive in the H20 timeline and since the timelines are split up, Jamie was erased out of the timeline, so in this timeline, she never had Jamie Lloyd, only John Tate, and the reason she faked her death and changed her name to Keri Tate was to live a normal life and get away from the trauma.
Overall, Laurie never means to hurt anyone or act unhinged in any way and only does what's right for her and others and some of her acts are justified or unintentional.
Final Verdict?
I'd give her a strong yes, but I'll leave it up to you.