Assemble! - Horror Victim Archetypes - The Southerner

 

Welcome to Assemble!

 

Here, we'll look at several different characters across multiple series to see who would form a perfect team for a certain genre. From fighting game rosters to RPG adventuring parties, different types of characters tend to show up frequently. What we'll do here is look at those archetypes to see what character is the best fit for that slot, and in the end, we’ll have the best team for the job. These articles will also be shorter entries, compared to some of the more long-form articles here, focusing on one or two characters at a time.

 
When talking about horror, the villains, monsters, and killers are often the first things that come to people’s minds. The people they hunt are often an afterthought, but these characters show that not all survivors are that easy to kill. The right group with the right people can make things very difficult for the killer. Here, we’ll be looking at that can represent different archetypes of horror movie characters, to build a strong squad of survivors.

THE SOUTHERNER

Cowboys, rednecks, hillbillies; people from the American South are infrequent but notable inclusions in horror media. When they aren’t shown as the killers themselves or the killer’s helpers, instead being one of the survivors chased by them, they are often shown as hard-headed and stubborn, which can be fatal faults in a horror story. They don’t tend to be too bright, but some can rival the Athlete for strength and they likely have a gun somewhere nearby, which will definitely come in handy.

Our pick for the Southerner is…

Tallahassee from Zombieland

Even considering the facts that there are not many still-living characters in Zombieland and most of the ones that are don’t even go by their real names anymore, this zombie-killing cowboy is easily the most memorable character in this movie.

(Heads up: not counting Double Tap yet since it only just came out. Great that it finally came out though.)

He has a penchant for mayhem and chaotic fun, an implied love of NASCAR (hinted at the Dale Earnhardt #3 he likes keeping on the vehicles he drives), a strong appetite for Twinkies that motivates him to move across a zombie-infested America, and an arsenal of weapons that he uses with style. Whether he’s engaging in melee combat with walkers in a grocery store or run-and-gun action in an amusement park, he knows how to kill hordes of the undead and have a good time doing it.

For not just surviving but thriving in a zombie apocalypse situation, we now add Tallahassee to the roster.

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