Zoë Vaughn

"The only ones who aren't afraid are the monsters."

- Zoë Vaughn to Noah Foster

Zoë Vaughn was a main character on Season 2 of the television series Scream.

She was portrayed by Kiana Ledé.

Description
Quick-witted, armed with both brains and beauty, Zoë is a known overachiever in her academics.

Popular in her own right, Zoë is also known to lend a shoulder to a friend in need, and as a new member and ally of the Lakewood Six clique, she comes in handy. Prim, and proper appearing, with a unique sense of style on the surface, she does harbor a secret. She Was The girlfriend of Noah until her death She Is a Fan Of The Morgue also When Zoe Returned To Lakewood Her and Noah Became Close and they both fell deeply In love But When The Killer Discovered Her and Noah Where Having sex The killer kidnapped Zoe Put Her In a Crate and Brought her to Wren Lake where she died in her Lady Lake Padgett Jersey

Death
After Emma and Audrey rescued Noah, they hear screaming from under where Noah was buried in. As they removed the casket, they see a box that contains a phone which shows footage of Zoë screaming for help as water fills her casket. When they get to Wren Lake, they discover a cord that is connected to her casket and they begin to pull it out of the lake. When they opened the coffin, they find Zoë dead and they realise that the footage isn’t live but a recording and she has already drowned to death.

Quotes

 * Zoë: "Scary, but necessary" (I Know What You Did Last Summer)


 * Zoë: "I used to think you were smarter" to Emma (Psycho)


 * Zoë: "Your energy, it's glowing" to Noah and Audrey after seeing them kiss (Happy Birthday to Me)


 * Zoë: "I just don't see it adding up to happiness, for any of us. I'm sorry" to Noah (Happy Birthday to Me)

Zoë: "Or the hero" (Dawn of the Dead)
 * Noah: "Well, yeah, that's the job for the final girl"


 * Zoë: "The only ones who aren't afraid are the monsters" (The Vanishing)

Trivia

 * Although she was mentioned by Riley in the Pilot episode, she marked her first appearance in the series in the second season premiere, I Know What You Did Last Summer.
 * Zoë’s last name is a reference to actor Vince Vaughn, who within the franchise, in the Stab franchise, specifically in the first Stab played the role of Stu Macher.
 * She would be succeeded more directly by Vince Schneider, a victim in Scream (2022), whose first name is a nod to the actor and whose the actual nephew of the killer (Stu) said actor portrays.
 * She was a student at George Washington High School. 
 * She was a romantic interest of Noah Foster.
 * She was possibly bisexual since she kissed both Audrey and Noah in Happy Birthday to Me.
 * Similar to Hallie McDaniel in Scream 2, she is the first African-American female character of the Lakewood Six group, and TV series respectively (excluding Maureen Evans) and excels in her academics involving Psychology.
 * Also similar to Hallie's need for acceptance (her being a Delta Lamda Zeta sorority pledge), Zoë participates in extra circulars, like being a finalist alongside Brooke in the Lady of the Lake pageant.
 * Her character in terms of academics as well as her battles with her mental health would later be succeeded by both Kym (academics) and Liv Reynolds (mental health).
 * In Dawn of the Dead, she admits to Noah that she is a fan of his podcast, "The Morgue".
 * Jeepers Creepers is the first episode Zoë does not appear in.
 * In Let The Right One In, Zoë confessed that the reason she was absent from Season 1 is because her mom bought her a therapist, although she does not state why.
 * She emailed Audrey's recording about Piper to an unknown person in Let The Right One In.
 * She later confessed that she emailed the tape to herself in The Orphanage due to being caught by Audrey and Noah.
 * She won the Lady of the Lake contest in Village of the Damned.
 * In The Orphanage, she took Noah's virginity.
 * In The Vanishing, she was kidnapped and buried alive at Wren Lake only later to be found dead by Emma, Audrey and Noah.
 * She is the second female victim of the second season.
 * She is also the third main character to die in the series.
 * Will Belmont and Clark Hudson were the first two main characters to die.
 * Zoë is the first female main character to die in the series.
 * She drowned in her Lady of the Lake dress and sash.
 * Zoë is Noah's second love interest to get murdered. The first was Riley Marra.