10 Horror Movie Characters Who Totally NOPED OUT
6. Joel Jones - Scream 2
As self-aware a franchise as Scream might be, the characters themselves generally avoid doing the smart thing and just dipping the hell out of there - save, of course, for Scream 2's quick-thinking Joel Jones (Duane Martin).
Gale's (Courteney Cox) new cameraman - who only got the job after her previous cameraman, Kenny (W. Earl Brown), was killed in the first movie - is pretty squirrelly from the jump. Once poor Randy (Jamie Kennedy) is slaughtered in the news van, that's all the prompt he needs to take his leave.
Joel exits the movie at the end of the second act, literally taking a cab from Windsor College to get away from Ghostface, Gale, and basically everyone associated with the slayings.
Joel does return for a 15-second cameo at the very end of the movie once the killers have been dealt with, though hasn't been seen in any of the subsequent sequels.
Considering his sharp survival instincts, he's probably kept himself at least a few hundred miles away from Gale, Sidney (Neve Campbell), and Dewey (David Arquette) at all times.