Halloween: Everything You Need To Know About Michael Myers

10. He Exists Across Multiple Timelines

While the Michael Myers and Halloween franchise mythos may have seemed relatively straightforward from the start, things have gotten decidedly more complicated over the years. Canonically speaking, Michael Myers now actually exists across a selection of different universes, all set within the Halloween multiverse.

The first of these is the first two films, both of which tell the story of October 31, 1978, the night Michael returned to Haddonfield, killed a host of folks in the name of slaughtering his long-lost sister Laurie, and was then killed in an explosion alongside Dr. Loomis.

The second of these begins with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, and while it is essentially the same universe as the first, Loomis and Michael both survived the explosion at the end of Halloween II and Laurie Strode died off-screen in a car accident, leaving her daughter Jamie behind to fend for herself. This timeline carries through to the sixth film, before it is completely cast aside.

The third is started by Halloween: H20 which completely disregards the events of 4-6, with Laurie Strode still alive, no mention of a daughter, and with the film treating Michael's appearance as if its the first time he's been spotted since 1978.

Then there's Rob Zombie's remake universe, which is a whole other version of the events, and now there's the Halloween 2018 universe, which ignores the events of every film except the original. And lastly, there's Halloween III, which has Michael cameo in the form of a television broadcast of the original film.