Billy Loomis

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Near Pure Evil

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Full Name

Billy Loomis

Alias

Ghostface

Leatherface (by Randy)

Origin

Scream (1996)

Allies

Roman Bridger † (mentor)

Stu Macher (best friend and accomplice)
Nancy Loomis † (mother)
Formerly:
Sidney Prescott (ex-girlfriend)
Tatum Riley †
Randy Meeks †
Casey Becker †

Powers / Skills

Strength
Speed
High intelligence
Hunting proficiency
Murder methodology
Combat prowess
Knifemanship
Marksmanship
Endurance
Charisma
Stealth
Manipulation
Planning

Goals

Murder Maureen Prescott for causing his parents to separate (succeeded).

Get away with the murder of Sidney Prescott and others in order to do a second killing spree (failed).

Moral Event Horizon

Killing Sidney's mother Maureen with Stu before framing Cotton Weary for it, which nearly caused Cotton to be executed.
Orchestrating a killing spree in Woodsboro that killed several innocent people, including Stu's ex-girlfriend Casey, Casey's new boyfriend Steve, and Sidney's best friend Tatum.
Trying to commit a new killing spree.

Kill Count

6+

Several (attempted)

Crimes

Serial murder
Breaking and entering
Psychological abuse
Conspiracy
Incrimination
Kidnapping
Assault and battery
Torture
Mutilation
Stalking
Vandalism
Burglary
Sabotage
Rape

Type of Villain

Vengeful Serial Killer

“	We all go a little mad sometimes…	„
	~ Billy Loomis revealing himself as one of the killers by quoting Norman Bates.

“	Why? WHY?! You hear that, Stu? I think she wants a motive. I don't really believe in motives, Sid. I mean, did Norman Bates have a motive? […] Did they ever really decide why Hannibal Lecter liked to eat people? Don't think so. See, it's a lot scarier when there's no motive, Sid. We did your mom a favor, Sid, that woman was a slut-bag whore who flashed her shit all over town like she was Sharon Stone or something. […] Is that motive enough for you? How about this? Your slut mother was fucking my father and she's the reason my mom moved out and abandoned me. How's that for motive?	„
	~ Billy with Sidney in the final showdown after revealing his true face.

“	Now, Sid, don't you blame the movies. Movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative!	„
	~ Billy Loomis to Sidney.

Billy Loomis is the secondary antagonist of the Scream franchise.

He is a horror film fanatic who, alongside his best friend Stu Macher, committed a killing spree in Woodsboro out of anger for his parents' separation. He is also the ex-boyfriend and second arch-nemesis of Sidney Prescott, whose promiscuous mother Maureen was the reason for the divorce of Billy's parents by getting in an affair with Billy's father Hank.

He was portrayed by Skeet Ulrich. While in-disguise, he was voiced by Roger L. Jackson. In-costume scenes as Ghostface were portrayed by Lee Waddell and Dane Farwell.

His Evil Ranking[]

What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]

In General/Background[]

He didn't care about Stu as he only asked him to help him kill Maureen to have a partner to sell out if he got caught, stabbed him multiple times to the point where Stu was bleeding out, and threatened to shoot him unless he tried to find Sidney after she reported them to the police.
While he was abandoned by his mother, he's not tragic as he already got his revenge on Maureen yet decided to kill more people.
- What makes this even more invalid is that Maureen couldn’t have predicted that Nancy would abandon Billy, and Billy didn’t hold any anger towards his own mother even though she was really the one to blame.
Despite the high heinous standards, Billy still stands out due to him and Stu being the original Ghostface killers who started the Ghostface killing sprees, having personal villainy for murdering Maureen and Tatum, gaslighting Sidney into having sex with him just to make her feel more terrible and attempting to go on a second killing spree alongside Stu, which is unique for the series.
- While Roman did influence him into killing Maureen, he still did it on his own volition, plus Roman never asked him to carry out the Woodsboro killing spree.
He frequently brought up Maureen's death to Sidney to torment her and make sure she would never forget about it.
Rather than simply stop after achieving his revenge against Maureen, he convinced Stu on the anniversary of her death that they should start a killing spree to target Sidney.
At the request of Roman Bridger, Billy and his best friend Stu Macher murdered Maureen Prescott, the mother of Billy's girlfriend Sidney, out of revenge for causing Billy's mother Nancy to leave him, even framing it on Maureen's lover Cotton Weary, resulting in him being falsely put on death row for rape-and-murder.
- Such action also left a massive impact on Sidney, as she was severely traumatized by her mother's death and felt guilty for causing the wrong person to be convicted.

The fact that Samantha Carpenter is his and Christina's daughter also shows that Billy never truly loved Sidney, as he secretly cheated on her either before the first film and his actions also make him indirectly responsible for Samantha hallucinating him during her battle with Richie.

Scream (1996)[]

He kidnapped Steve Orth and then sent tormenting calls to Steve's girlfriend Casey Becker, making her play a "game" for Steve's life where Steve would die if she answered a question incorrectly and when Casey incorrectly answered Jason Voorhees to the second question, he tells her that Pamela Voorhees is the killer in the first Friday the 13th film (even though, this is true) and forces her to watch Stu brutally kill Steve by gutting him.
- Furthermore, considering he said he would kill Casey regardless of if she got the question Billy and Stu ask her right or wrong, it's made clear Steve would have died even if Casey got the question right.
He helped Stu kill Casey by gutting her before they hung her corpse on a tree for her parents to see
He stabbed Principal Himbry to death before gutting him and hanging his corpse on the goal post of the school football field as a warning to others.
He murdered Tatum Riley, Sidney's best friend and Dewey Riley's sister, by crushing her head in the garage door after slashing her arm and tormenting her.
He took Sidney’s virginity in order to make her feel bad over having sex with her mother’s murderer, before having Stu pretend to kill him in front of Sidney just to make her feel bad about suspecting him as the killer.
He tried to kill Dewey Riley by stabbing him to death.
He revealed himself as Ghostface by shooting Randy Meeks in the chest.
Instead of just killing Sidney, he revealed that he and Stu were the ones that killed her mother and that it was so easy to frame Cotton for it just to add extra torment before killing her.
He and Stu revealed they kidnapped Sidney's father Neil, intending to kill him and Sidney before pinning their murders on him, allowing them to go on a second killing spree since Stu mentions him and Billy "planning the sequel", making him and Stu the only Ghostface killers to plan a second killing spree.
He knocked out Gale Weathers, only not killing her, due to Sidney escaping and calling the police.
He punched Randy hard in the face and once again to attempted directly kill Sidney by strangling her, telling her to "say hello to your mother" to torment her out of sadism.

What Prevents Him From Being Pure Evil?[]

He genuinely cares about his mother, as he became evil after his mother had abandoned him, due to Maureen and Hank's affair, with the killing spree being driven by a desire of revenge against Maureen and Sidney and got angry when Sidney coldly called him a "pansy-assed momma's boy".

Trivia[]

In an early script by Kevin Williamson known as Scary Movie, Billy's reason for killing people was that he got raped by Sidney’s mom Maureen Prescott. Had this been kept in, he would be too sympathetic to be NPE.
He is the first NPE villain to appear in Scream.