10 Movie Characters Who Became Total Caricatures In Sequels

The original Halloween is up there in the top 5 of director John Carpenter's all time best films. And a lot of that has to do with its titular villain, Michael Myers. Not since Norman Bates had audiences been exposed to such a chillingly realistic depiction of a psychotic killer.

Myers had the realism and menace of a real life psychopath and serial killer, while also having this air of mystery and existential terror that more supernatural horror villains possess. On one hand he was a normal guy who could be shot and killed (and blown up, as seen in 2) but on the other hand he's this unknowable force of evil. The film literally opens with him murdering his sister as a child and no explanation is given for why he does this. And in that lack of knowledge, lies true terror.

Then Halloween 4 onwards happened and he just became another unstoppable murder machine. To the point where there's a scene in one of the sequels where the police and an armed militia have him cornered, shoot him continuously for almost 5 minutes, he falls down a hole, and is followed by a stick of dynamite someone throws in after him just to be safe.

And he still survives. Are we in a damn Looney Tunes cartoon now?