Many of the original characters in the latest Halloween trilogy were ruined, but Tommy Doyle may have been hurt the most because he isn't even in Ends.
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Many of the original characters from the Halloween movies were ruined by David Gordon Green's Halloween Ends. Tommy Doyle is a great example.
Tommy was a key character in Halloween Kills, but he was completely ignored in Ends. This continues the recent trend of original characters from 1978's Halloween having disappointing endings in the H40 trilogy.
Doyle isn't the only character to have this problem, but he had a great plot that seemed to be forgotten by the next movie.
In Halloween Kills, Tommy Doyle put together a gang to kill Michael Myers for good.
Even though it wasn't the best choice, it was a good one.
But soon after the mob attacks the killer violently, the killer gets back up and attacks them. He stabs Tommy several times, which seems to kill him.
The mob mentality story in Kills wasn't well done, but Doyle was important to that movie's plot, and he gave his life in the end.
Yet, he wasn't even mentioned in Halloween Ends.
It was like the person had never been there.
Ends wasted people like Lindsey and kept pushing Laurie Strode out of the way by ignoring his death and what it should have meant for the series.
Even though it was annoying that Tommy Doyle was never mentioned in Halloween Ends, there was also a four-year gap between what happened in Halloween Kills and what happened in Halloween Ends.
Michael Myers had been gone for a long time, so most people in Haddonfield thought he was gone for good. They probably just wanted to move on with their lives.
With Corey Cunningham, Ends also wanted to change the focus to a random new character.
Mentioning Doyle could have worked, but the moviemakers probably wanted to change things up so much that they didn't focus on a story from before.
How Halloween's ending threw away the characters from the first movies.
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Because the story changed in Halloween Ends, the characters who came back were completely wasted.
In the same way that Laurie didn't get much screen time in Halloween Kills, Michael Myers didn't get his due until the third act.
Focusing on a new character like Corey instead of the older ones, like Michael and Laurie, is disrespectful to the legacy of the franchise, since Ends was supposed to wrap up their story.
When a character like Lindsey, who had a bigger role in Kills, is pushed to the side, it tells the audience that they didn't know what to do with her and only kept her in the movie because she was in Kills.
It was touching to see Lindsey play a more helpful role, but the last Halloween movie was a great chance to make her character more interesting instead of wasting her.
Halloween Ends doesn't ruin the legacy characters just by putting them in the background.
Many of these characters do things that aren't like them.
Michael Myers' most embarrassing moment was when a young man in his 20s beat him easily.
Myers is supposed to be almost impossible to stop, and it didn't look like he was even trying to protect himself from Corey.
On top of that, some of Michael's most brutal deaths are shown in Halloween Kills, and Corey gets the best ones in Michael's last appearance in a Halloween movie.
The Halloween legacy characters, including Tommy Doyle, deserved a better ending.
