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(ℑ𝔫 𝔉𝔦𝔩𝔪)
There are unconventional protagonists, villain's sidekicks + accessories that turned over to be on the protagonists' side, and other ambiguous characters we sort of grew fond of in film once we recognized the things they experienced and their motives to retaliate against whatever force on them was some sort of poetic justice.
Here are 7 main and minor creepy characters from both horror and family friendly films that we might not have expected to win us over.
Carrie from Carrie (1976)
If you live under the roof of a religious nut job of a mother and go to a school where the gym teachers slaps your face like nobody's business, you'd only wish to have powers like Carrie's telekinesis. And what's with the mother shaming Carrie for having a periodT?
Looking at the circumstances, was what she did all that different from when Matilda took vengeance on Ms. Trunchbull? These are the female icons of survival and anti-bullying/abuse, now who do I call for a cross over movie?
Billy from Hocus Pocus (1993)
We might be getting a reprise role from Billy Butcherson who came to the kids' aide against the Sanderson Sisters. It might not have been feminism-like to kill him off because he cheated on Winnie with Sarah, but they were literally witches of their time. At least in the turn of events in the movie, Billy turned out to be a harmless zombie and got #closure after a few hundred years.
Big Baby from Toy Story 3 (2010)
You can't go wrong with a dingy doll to be the ultimate creepy figure, especially when Big Baby was part of Lotso's evil regime. Big Baby decided to take a stand against grudges of abandonment in the middle of the film, and all was well when the system of the daycare toys was less totalitarian.
Marley from Home Alone (1990)
Like the same misunderstood figure of the pigeon lady continued in Home Alone 2, we did not know how relevant the serial killer down the street Marley would be, until he came in and rescued Kevin. This was NOT the case of a Christmas gone wrong, but just a sweet old man who needed to make amends with his family.
Miss Irvine from The Witches (1990)
The Witches is a heavily underrated movie but I have to admit the film overall was a little too creepy to be a children's movie. Lil girl being kidnapped and stuck in a painting? And the scene revealing how the witches really looked would scar a lot of children.
Apparently the movie had an alternative ending where the boy stayed a mouse, but Miss Irvine - the assistant to Angelica Houston's character of the Grand High Witch - came to the rescue at the end to undo the spell in the final version of the movie. She was not the most prominent character, but the movie did a nice job of showing humanity among the witches through her.
Sloth from The Goonies (1985)
Even after the first few times of watching Goonies I was STILL disturbed looking at Sloth's deformed face. It took a few moments in and a Baby Ruth bar later that we realized Sloth did not mean harm like his family members, despite looking like he did and being as big as he was (Frankenstein's monster teas?). The overwhelming support to the Goonies gang and eccentric enthusiasm left a spot for Sloth in all our hearts.
Angela from Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Sleepaway Camp had [debatable] transphobic/homophobic undertones with the *spoiler* fact Angela was revealed to be born male and had a sex change on her aunt's term. The ending is regarded as 'shocking' but it's moreso bizzare to me because of the odd choice of her having a frozen expression (we know it's irl a mask). Those that were killed under her hands felt justified - a pedophile, three bullies, an irresponsible camp owner, and a boy pressuring her into moving things fast. She was mostly quiet throughout the film but hey, can we really blame her for all the things she went through?