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Aren't you curious about who I am going to kill? Or do you only care about yourself?

–Ghostface to Marcus Elliot, The Deadfast Club

Ghostface is the main antagonist of the television series Scream: Resurrection, the third season and reboot of the Scream television series. The killer uses a slightly updated version of the mask that was used by the previous killers in the Scream movies. It is completely different to the Brandon James Mask that was worn by the killers in the first and second seasons. The M.O used in the season by Ghostface is almost congruent to the entity of the same name of the films.

Like in the film series, his identity is voiced by Roger L. Jackson in all appearances, making Jackson the only honorable cast member from the films to appear in the third season of the TV series, appearing in all of the franchise.

Seasons[]

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Scream: Resurrection (2019)[]

A then teenager Becky receives a phone call, by someone (unclear and unknown to this date; whether or not Jamal) who resorts momentarily to use the Ghostface voice and ask the traditional question of "What's your favorite scary movie" before she then hangs up, being startled by a figure moving outside like a ghost moments beforehand. She resumes to her cutting what she was making before her phone call on the cutting board, likely to make a smoothie, before the doorbell rings and she slices her finger via the kitchen knife she's using to slice her fruit, which annoys her, as she then tends to the door. She opens it to find a young 8-year old Marcus Elliot dressed as Ghostface, unbeknownst to her, as she asks him what he's supposed to be dressed as and who tells him her outfit, as the child in the iconic costume looks at her, head tilting, and confusingly and who nods his head after she asks him if he's supposed to trick her or something, in line with it being revealed that it was a flashback to Halloween 2010. He nods before lifting his fake Bowie toy knife and diving into her breast area, which pops off a button off Becky's shirt, much to her amusement.

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She gives him a TWINS candy bar (parody of TWIX) before running off, and speaking in his normal voice and saying the trick 'r' treat line after Becky had asked him, who closes the door, much to her dismay of the events. What transpires after is Marcus's costume being mocked after leaving Becky's house in an empty hallway chucked over a fence by a then child Tommy Jenkins after taking it from him. Just then, Marcus's twin brother, Deion Elliot, whose dressed in his football attire from a helmet to outfit, finds Marcus, still in costume afterwards in the same empty alleyway, looking at the fence where Marcus was confronted as the young twin brother's discuss what happened and before changing and swapping costumes. However, Deion is then attacked after trying to alert Marcus of his candy, who couldn't warn his brother beforehand of what he saw, as Marcus had hid, and who raised himself after Deion announced he found the candy, before a Vietnam War veteran/urban legend Hook Man arrives to ambush Deion, who's still in the Ghostface costume and thus unaware of his surroundings before then being stabbed in the forehead by the veteran's titular hook replacing his hand. This causes for a young Marcus to leave and assume Deion's identity afterwards due to the costume change, and leaving his twin brother to die, which he unfortunately and eventually did, who had hid in the back of a car trunk within Hook Man's salvage yard, whose decomposing body was found 6 months later by Hook Man in April-May 2011.

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Now, 8 years later and approaching the 8 year anniversary of Halloween 2010, a 16 year old Marcus Elliot is going under "Deion" and who's living in Atlanta, GA, when he and his friends (which they become after detention at Weaver High School), who after the speculated confrontations which include Marcus being taunted by Ghostface in the school parking lot after school and during detention, alone as well, in the locker rooms where Ghostface tases him and knocks him out, before playing with him by digging a fake toy knife into his chest (reference to when he fake stabbed Becky as a child), later for new girl Liv Reynolds's speculation to be put at ease of "Deion" who after meeting with her father, Officer Reynolds, who lectures her, is about to get into the shower, before she looks outside at her window to see Ghostface there, before leaving. This occurs as well in between the separate murders of both Tommy Jenkins (isolated, inside his car) and Avery Collins (public, fell upon spike/impaled at a night party), as seniors/classmates Marcus, Liv, Kym, Amir Ayoub, Manny, and Beth come to be known collectively as the Deadfast Club.

As Marcus and the group reel from the now triple homicide the next day and talk strategy after last night Kym was almost attacked by Ghostface outside her apartment building after arriving home following meeting up after Avery's death, who is called while watching the 2007 remake of Halloween( based off John Carpenter's 1978 film of the same name) alone at her apartment, when she was called and who killed a local drug dealer and Kym's unrequited crush, Latavious, by slitting his throat who heads outside, before narrowly missing her attack and who screams and shouts to alert before Ghostface disappeared. The Atlanta P.D have now classified this as, per Kym's statement of them to her the night prior, unfazed and much to her dismay, as "drug dealers like masks just as much as psychopaths do", which she reveals to the club the next day. hey are then brought back in as a suspect interrogation at their high school after hours for dropout Shane goes wrong when Ghostface traps the Club inside, without Marcus or Liv.

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Ghostface then appears and solely targets Kym as she ventures off alone to the office and chases her in the hallway. After being freed, Shane wanders and finds Ghostface, who has trapped Kym after having trapped her before she escaped when she headed into the office, and who can't bring himself to shoot the killer, who resuscitates silently and slashes Kym in her arm before escaping. Shane would be taunted for this by the group, and who consequently, would then be murdered alone, outside his apartment building (inverse of Kym's failed attack) by Ghostface via his own role and priority: drugs, which the killer injects into his eye via a syringe, causing Shane to OD and convulse, foaming before violently dying a drug induced death.

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Ghostface then calls Marcus the morning the next day, which they have done since the first day, on the anniversary of Deion's death, to taunt him of his secret, which is the main reason for the murder spree; who also tells Marcus about Shane's death and lures him into finding out about his origin and targeting his friend group, by going back to the salvage yard on the street of his old neighborhood far from Atlanta and closer to the rural sticks, to find meaning into what happened. The night of Halloween 2018 sees Ghostface unseen and presumably staying low before attacking following the Deadfast Club having followed Marcus and the group splitting; with Marcus, Liv, and Amir at the old neighborhood and salvage yard, while Kym, Manny, and Beth were "ditched" back at a gas station were they arrived after Marcus borrowed Liv's car and which earlier she had turned the remote ignition control off.

Identities and Motives[]

Scream: Resurrection (2019)[]

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  • Jamal Elliot: Jamal was the firstborn son of Earl Elliot and his unnamed mother, as well as illegitimate, due to having been conceived and born from an affair during Earl's job as a trucker. He was the only stepson of Sherry Elliot as well as the eldest half brother to both twin brothers Marcus and Deion Elliot. Growing up from the projects, Jamal was tough but easygoing. He would grow up to have contempt for both his biological father and Marcus, whom he despised the most. This was in part due to the fact that, prior to Deion's death by Hook Man in Halloween 2010, Earl had sent Deion out to football camp in the summer to Kentucky where he wanted to introduce Jamal to, so they could get to know about their brotherhood which was unbeknownst to Marcus, whose father never told him. Following Deion's death, Jamal was relocated to Atlanta, due to the fact that after his unknown mother learned of Earl's side family which he chose over her and Jamal, drove her to suicide by locking herself in a garage and leaving the car engine running. Upon arrival, Jamal immediately recognized that Marcus had assumed Deion's identity and who had treated him like a stranger, thus turning Jamal against him and brewing a growing anger pent up against Marcus. He hid his anger well, and who was revengeful towards Marcus, for stealing and having to keep up with his stupid lie, claiming how he had abandoned Deion before stealing his whole life and identity, all the late-twin had tried to do was watch out for Marcus, and how he's the reason it all went bad. He also states how exposing Marcus wouldn't work and killing him would be quick, rather he wanted to take everything away from Marcus after he had taken everything from him, which he claims he didn't know how until the right opportunity came along, referring to his accomplice, Beth, prior to her betrayal due to her ulterior motives. Jamal claims that once he proved to himself he could kill and that he could go through with it, it wasn't nearly as hard for him to keep going, making him for the most part and the first of a part vigilante and part Ghostface killer, who's motive was due to resentment due to deception, wrongdoing, and neglect as well as overall jealousy which indicted Jamal with hatred towards his father and half-brother, who perhaps never intended to listen to the reasons as to why Marcus or their father both did what they did.
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  • Beth: Beth was a sociopathic horror movie fanatic and despite her cliché of being the goth girl stereotype, followed accordingly to how she dressed as well as being the expert of all things horror. This was overlooked by many as just another stereotypical gag, but more so due to the fact that Beth managed to hide her violent tendencies well enough. She claims that she knows that her evil, bad being in her since being born and already acknowledging her sociopathy as a reflection of herself and how despite hiding behind the mask, doesn't change for her and neither does she lie to herself about who she actually is, calling out and citing the hypocrisy of the Deadfast Club as a motive. She claims to have watched every horror movie she could get in order to disprove them, stating how watching them was better enough and how she could be a better monster then the killers on-screen, who she states as being actors behind masks, to which she's not and states that's who she really was on the inside. This can be interpreted as exposition on Beth's background growing up, whose family home is also a funeral home with a morgue within the funeral home, thus explaining the reason with Beth's fascination with horror and the macabre, perhaps back when she was younger. Beth states how she wanted to always be a killer in search of her origin story, until one night it walked through the door of her job at the tattoo parlor in the form of Jay, which she claims how the moment Jay sat inside she could tell they were kindred spirits. Beth points out how Jay asked her to do his demons justice as she tattooed him and how each time he came in, her needle would go in deeper and so would Jamal's darkness. Jamal would then reveal one night to Beth about Marcus and how much he hated him for abandoning Deion and stealing his life and identity and the lie Marcus had lived with ever since. Jay wanted revenge and Beth realized that it was fate, claiming how it was perfect from the plot to the Ghostface mask (costume) and how all she had to do was give Jay the tiniest push and to commit murder and how it was on, claiming how getting detention with the Deadfast Club was purely coincidental and how she got to exorcise her demons as well. Beth points out anytime she'd have to cover herself around the club, Jay would be Ghostface, and how she got to be what she was born to be. Beth also states how killing Amir was everything, claiming he had broken the rules and how she warned him and states how if she knew she could kill him, she could kill anybody. Beth also reveals how betraying and killing Jay was always part of her plan, due to him having the cops, and regardless, claims how she had to pin the murders on him and how she believed she'd get away with it due to their different backgrounds. Beth then finally claims how horror isn't about victims and how, despite the body count changing, but how the killer always comes back for more and is the real hero at the end.

Quotes[]

Ghostface has made a phone call and has had dialogue in every episode except for "Ports in the Storm".

Episodes[]

The Deadfast Club[]

"You don't recognize my voice? I thought we were blood." -To Marcus Elliot; Ghostface (The Voice) on the TV series for the first time.

"The only thing we know is that you have no idea what's under my mask."- Still to Marcus, continued phone call

"Aren't you curious about who I'm going to kill? Or do you only care about yourself? That's your rep these days isn't it, D-Day?"

"Then I'm going to make you care. I'm gonna carve away at Deion Elliot, the man, the myth, the legend, bit by bit. Find what lies beneath."

"No, I'm wearing armor. That's the only way to survive high school these days, isn't it? But I'm gonna find the seams, stick my knife through your bone and meat until it scrapes against what matters most. (...) The truth. Who you are, who your friends are, on the inside, the only question is, who dies first? Kym, Amir, Manny, Beth? Liv? (...) Too late, she just got to the party. But will she make it out? (...) Then come to the Old Metro Station. Better hurry, or there's gonna be blood on your hands and mine".

"You look scared (...). I'm right beside you, and I brought a real knife with me time. Told you I was here. So here's the game. I want you to confess your deepest, darkest secret to your new friends. (...) Good, that will make bearing your soul to them all the more humiliating. Let them be the judge of that when they see who you really are on the inside. If you don't, you'll be the insides of someone else, or your own."- To Marcus after arriving to the party.

Devil's Night[]

"Do you like scary movies? (....) Then do you like to play games?"- To Kym, homage to the original Scream.

"But I wanna know who you are, Kym. On the inside. (...) See, you're good at games. Too bad we're not playing 20 Questions"- Continued phone call to Kym

"Yes, we are. The game started the second Avery's body hit the ground. The only question is, which one of you hypocrites dies next? (...) We'll see, because I'm not here to scare you. I'm here to kill you. (...) You look alone to me, in your pink, fuzzy slippers."

"You mean the drug dealers that exploit the community they live in? They're the biggest hypocrites of all".

"Attention, Weaver High students. Slash is now in session, and it's time for one of you to die."- Prerecorded message by Ghostface on school intercom after hours.

"Just someone looking to score. (...) I'm looking for something a little harder than that. But don't worry, you have it. Running through your veins."

"Yes, you are. You just don't know the game. We're playing chicken, Shane. And you already blinked."

"We'll see about that. New game, hide and seek. Come and find me."

The Man Behind the Mask[]

"If I told you know, it will spoil the big twist. Where's the fun in that?"

"Look at you showing some spine. Too bad Shane didn't last night. (...) After Mr. Fade showed everyone who he really was, I pumped him full of drugs. Now he's dead. Like all your friends will be when I'm done".

"What I WANT, is to find out who Deion Elliot really is, about what happened on that Halloween night. (...) Then go back to the scene of the crime, the place where you abandoned your brother, tonight. Trick or treat, Deion. Your choice"

Blindspots[]

"Hello, Jay. (...) You made a big mess tonight. Maybe I can help you clean it up"- To Jamal Elliot, first call

"You've taken some undeserved credit. I can't have that. Charade comes to an end, tonight".

Endgame[]

"You already know. The same thing I've always wanted."

"Ironic, isn't it? That you're so sure you figured out who I am when all I've ever asked of you is to do the same, to own up to who you really are on the inside."

"No, you're gonna have to go deeper than that, or I will."

"It's too late for that! If you treated me like blood, we wouldn't (even) be having this conversation. But we are, and you can't change the past".

"Then focus on the present. You have a big game to play. The only question is, will you be playing football tomorrow night, or MY game? Because, I promise you, you can only win ONE."

Behind the Mask[]

Like in the films, there is also much debate and speculation as to who and which one of the revealed killers was the Ghostface killer during particular deaths and timings, seen throughout the overall franchise. As such, some instances can/are obvious but some aren't, causing it to become an endless debate. For the iteration of Ghostface in this (or future) TV series (set apart from the Lakewood Slasher), speculations and assignments are derived from the films around Kevin Williamson's design from the films (See Ghostface; like the films, if any can be verified, please link the source).

Scream: Resurrection (2019)[]

Becky's phone call: To date, it is unclear as neither producer or directors of the show have commented. It couldn't have been neither Beth or Jamal due to the timeline and both being children during this time, so this, alongside the Third Killer (TV show and theory) are the only known individuals in the franchise of whose traced identity/origins thereof are unknown. Most likely a prank call and reference/homage to Cory Gillis from Scream 2, in an inverse, as well as Emma's phone call in Season 1 (Becky, like Emma, was first called normally before then being cranked by Ghostface, while Sidney was called first by Ghostface before Cory's normal voice was revealed).

Tommy Jenkins' murder: Jamal had carried out the murder, and lured Tommy out to the abandoned warehouse in Atlanta and who snuck in after Tommy got out of the car, who was driving for work and to supposedly pick up "Marcus" (unaware of this being in relation/retaliation for what he did in the past) via the Uber-like company Thumbs Up, whose car he drove, and who communicated to Jamal via text. Used old homeless man as a distraction for Tommy. Confirmed via flashback in "Endgame".

Marcus's text/first phone call: Earlier in the day at the library at Weaver High School, unstated, but most likely Jamal as Beth is shown off-screen supposedly reading to blend in with the Deadfast Club (soon to be) after school in detention, but perhaps plausible. Later after Marcus's scare attack, it's most likely Beth who called Marcus, as Jamal was at home during this time tending to Liv, at night while Marcus was working out alone at the high school weight room after hours, after having talked to his mom Sherry as he sat out his football practice due to his detention earlier, out in the field in the bleachers.

Marcus's first attack: After the text and leaving the library, Jamal had snuck in (seemingly after everyone cleared after school; questionable since it's unknown if anyone saw him, more likely school has weak security) and put on the costume and who turned on the showers in the male locker room to make it look used and who had lured Marcus via a text on a phone he set up in a locker which he texted bang as Marcus read in real time before stunning Marcus with a taser, and as he falls down, proceeded to fake stab him with a toy knife, a clue to Marcus's past, before stunning him again and knocking him out and leaving before Beth (subliminal Ghostface, unrevealed) as part of their plan after Jamal left, led the detention crew to find him and toy with Marcus's credibility of what transpired.

Liv's scare "attack": Either Beth or Jamal as Ghostface taunted Liv at her bathroom window and watched her undress as she was getting ready to shower, although likely the latter, given Jamal's discreet yet obvious infatuation with Liv (although similarly applies for Beth and her sociopathic plan later on during her reveal).

Marcus's second attack: Jamal had sliced Marcus in his arm, quickly and unseen, at a night party which he, using Shane as his body double to hide his identity, organized to bring the crew.

Avery Collins's murder: Jamal, via flashback in "Endgame", as Beth talked down to Avery on the phone via the plan and who acted dumbfounded after Jamal pushed Avery down from the balcony above where Avery looked down and who had called Beth just moments prior, as Jamal put back on with his mask, as Avery fell and was impaled and slowly yet surely died. to which Beth acted taken aback and silent, to hide her identity.

Latavious's murder: Jamal, off-screen, before Jamal as Ghostface called Kym.

Kym's phone call: Most likely Jamal, talking after he slit LT's throat outside.

Kym's first attack: Either Beth or Jamal, most likely Beth, at her apartment in Jamal's command, upon finding Latavious, reaches over to Kym to sneak up behind her as Ghostface and attack her which Kym narrowly misses and who leaves as Kym begins to yell to alert her apartment building and to not be seen by Manny, who she perhaps saw incoming from a corner.

Amir and Beth's hiding/close "call": As the duo hide in a storage closet at the school, Jamal is obviously Ghostface shown walking outside, since Beth is seen hiding with Amir in a lure to hide her identity.

Marcus's window scare at school: Jamal, which he can't identify, seeing as he's taunting Marcus from the outside in, since last time, he tackled Amir Ayoub down, who isn't the killer when called by Ghostface at the school in the weight room the day prior. This is also due to how Amir was following Beth around, until being briefly separated, but more so the former, due to the signal being congruent more to Marcus's family.

Kym's second attack: Jamal, who returns silently from being unconscious whilst Shane holds his Smith and Wesson pistol at him after seemingly knocked Jamal as Ghostface out after chasing Kym from the school's main office and cornering her in a locked gated hallway at school. Kym tries to take the gun from Shane, which lets Jamal slash Kym's arm swiftly and who runs away after opening the locked door from the keys, as Shane fails to shoot.

Shane's murder: Beth, in a flashback reveal, was the Ghostface calling and taunting Shane alone outside about his failure to kill them (Jamal) and who stays above Shane's apartment building late at night and aims and throws a brick on his head, injuring him and further incapacitates him after Shane tries heading towards his apartment's roof via a fire ladder. Which Beth as Ghostface pushes down from above on him and traps him from the neck down as Shane lays down unable to move before Beth descends down the ladder and kneels to Shane and takes out a syringe full of liquid drugs and injects it into Shane's eye, bleeding and piercing his retina, killing him in a drug induced death

Marcus's second phone call: Most likely Beth, since Jamal is shown having talked to Marcus right before driving away after an argument in "The Man Behind the Mask" on Halloween morning, 2018. Marcus saw Jamal drive off and would've known if Jamal had called due to him being on the road, so this places Beth as most likely the caller to divert Marcus's attention off Jamal, as per their plans.

Hook Man's murder: Jamal, who would off-screen slash Hook Man's stomach and hide after Marcus comes to Hook Man's screams and who tells him to get out before it's revealed in a flashback that Jamal as Ghostface fought off Luther Thompson before incapacitating him further and trapping him in a trap that involves Luther being chained and unable to escape a car crusher from Hook Man's shedyard, which Marcus unknowingly sets off and who leaves it to Marcus to activate it and watch.

Manny's murder: Beth, in a flashback via "Endgame", who after seemingly staying back and splitting up from Manny on their way to find and help Kym in the rural sticks and cornfield due to not being able to run in her boots and seemingly straining her foot, changed into the Ghostface costume and boots, before going after an isolated Manny alone who stumbles onto Kym's empty car and who hits him with a car wrench on his leg, injuring him but whose kicked down by Manny who stumbles away into Kym's car. Beth anticipating this, would then appear at the car and who would seemingly disappear and then trap Manny by disabling most of the car door's locks and placing the wrench onto the driver's door where Manny tried to get out, and who would with her lighter and light a crop due to the gasoline trail from the car and drop it towards Manny's car watching as the car is engulfed in flames before leaving just as it exploded, killing him indirectly.

Officer Reynolds attack/Marcus's third attack: Jamal, who via "Endgame", was spying on Marcus and claims how Reynolds was simply at the wrong place and time, seemingly implying Marcus as the intended victim and original target, who after leaving the Reynolds house and into the desolate Bear Park late at night, would park his car off-screen and don the Ghostface costume before heading to approach Marcus, who felt his presence, which distracted Officer Reynolds to investigate as Marcus was unable to leave from the back of Reynolds' patrol car, who sees Reynolds return to assure Marcus it wasn't anything as Jamal as Ghostface then appears and strikes an unsuspecting Reynolds from the back, stabbing him and puncturing holes into his lungs from the attack, before proceeding to seemingly attack Marcus, but who would knock him unconscious yet again and leaves before he awakes by planting the officer's blood on Marcus's shirt and reporting the crime.

Amir/Beth's close "attack": Obviously Jamal because Beth is seen, who in "Ports in the Storm", as part of her and Jamal's ploy as Beth tells Amir how Ghostface is outside despite him not seeing him, who then breaks through by running and jumping through a mirror as Beth feigns distress in the back of her house/foyer, startling them as both Amir and Beth run away and seemingly lure Ghostface outside to the backyard before heading to lock him as Jamal as Ghostface tries to break through as Amir tells Beth to run and get help, much to her "dismay", as Beth leaves and Jamal then stops as Amir then opens to check and locks the door and chases after Beth. However, it is unclear whether the Ghostface at the front of the house as Amir heads to the front door and opens it is also Jamal, as Beth would via flashback be the Ghostface killer that kills Amir, or whether this is Beth as Ghostface now chasing Amir alone through her house. Either Jamal as Ghostface chases Amir until he gets to the elevator and then Beth as Ghostface is the one shown arriving downstairs.

Amir Ayoub's murder: Beth, via flasback in "Endgame", is Amir's killer, who would most likely be the Ghostface at the front of her own house chasing Amir down to her basement who, after being closed out of the elevator heading downstairs, runs downstairs and tries to find a hidden Amir, who would almost wouldn't until hearing the commotion from Amir knocking down equipment in the morgue, prompting Beth as Ghostface to look inside and who opens the cabinets and stabs the corpses, before Amir then opens his in the one he was hidden in the upper cabinets and briefly knock Beth down and her buck knife away and runs toward the elevator, which makes Beth quickly take a bone saw and just as Amir closes the door and leans back on it, stabs him through in the back of the wooden door, which she pushes deeper until the elevator begins to rise before it begins to bisect Amir, gutting him and who cries in pain, and who stumbles out the elevator, falling on his back and sees Ghostface which he unmasks just before dying to see Beth.

Marcus's fourth attack: Either Beth or Jamal, most likely the former after running away following Amir's death. Although likely Jamal given he is slashed in his arm yet again seemingly how Jamal as Ghostface slashed his arm prior in "The Deadfast Club".

B. Westbrook's murder: Beth, in "Blindspots", would be most likely be the killer despite the contradiction in the same episode of Jamal seemingly prematurely revealing himself to Marcus at the rooftop party as he reveals himself to be "Mr. Fade", despite Shane claiming it as his alias before his death. Seeing as Beth was at the downtown hospital "comforting" Liv due to her dad's attack by Jamal and being paired up in a ploy with Kym after Amir's death and feigning devastation for her crush's loss, she would be the one closest to strike and who would at night alone and unseen (perhaps evading security and cameras, as well as due to the hospital possibly being short-staffed) change into the Ghostface costume and who would wait in an unattended hospital room, which Officer B. Westbrook, who was in charge of overseeing the recovering Reynolds, sneaks into with a cart of drugs which he begins to take after helping a nurse take them away, which allows for Beth to walk up behind him due to Westbrook dropping the pills and stabbing him in the back of his head which fatally injures him and leads to his death, before Beth would then douse his body in rubbing alcohol and set it on fire in order to create a diversion from Jay (due to Kym and Marcus now suspecting him) and the hospital and police, in order to go towards her next target.

Officer Reynolds's near death: Beth, who would taunt Marcus who was brought to the hospital per Jamal's threat (perhaps as part of Jamal's ploy and threat to Beth, seeing as he was suspected already, and per Beth's reveal in "Endgame" about how she had to kill Jamal due to him possibly revealing her involvement to cops and everyone), as she entered Officer Reynold's vacant room in the empty ICU floor and begin to disconnect and cut his life support and take away his breathing tubes. Albeit having a knife and the opportunity to kill Reynolds, Beth decides not to and evades the floor via the window and an escape ladder as Marcus breaks into the room to resuscitate Reynolds, who probably did so due to the approaching police and hospital staff.

Jamal's attack/betrayal/slow death: Beth, who via flashback in "Endgame", after following having nearly attacked Marcus and almost killing Officer Reynolds, would out of costume meet and "share" a moment with Liv outside, who wasn't present during the hospital showdown, and hearing of her dad's near death when she was gone, unaware that Beth was the cause of it. After leaving Liv, who would reunite with Marcus, she would re-don the Ghostface costume and taunt Jamal, who's shown to have returned to clean up the now deserted rooftop party in an unspecified (possibly apartment complex) building in Atlanta, by calling him and sneaking by, which Jamal suspects, despite not calling her by name (due to the audience), before she attacks him with a nearby trash picker and quickly and roughly stabs him 4 times in his chest and upper body area, possibly puncturing some major vessels and or organs, which despite Jamal being heavily injured and incapacitated, survives. Beth would then take him hostage and tie him up in Earl Elliot's trailer in an unspecified truck lane out in Atlanta, and use him as ransom for Marcus by recording him saying a message for Marcus to meet him up (which was set up for Jamal's own reveal to Marcus alone), as well as taking his gun.

Marcus's third/final phone call: Most likely Beth off-screen coercing Jamal, seeing as her own motivation and murder spree is an extension of executing Jamal's, whom she's since betrayed and kidnapped, in order to make Marcus confess.

Marcus's fifth attack/shot: Beth, in her reveal, would shoot Marcus through the door window with Jamal's gun she was locked in on the other side, after sneaking into their school library, where they each first met in detention, with Liv Reynolds alongside her following Marcus winning the football game at night and leaving after revealing his true identity to Liv and going to save Jamal before his reveal, of which he texted to Liv about their being accomplice, which Liv correctly suspected was Beth after asking Beth some off-topic questions in regards to her expertise, due to Liv having checked the police notes, with Beth letting slip of Amir's death via a bone saw which Beth played off until Marcus was about to call the police. She then reveals how it hasn't been about Marcus (which was Jamal's motive) but how in her delusional spree, it's been about Liv being the "final girl" in Beth's own real-life horror movie which she was executing in her sociopathy, and how she was using Jamal's own revenge spree as a ploy to cover for her own.

Liv's first attack: Beth, as she dons the costume, before taking off only the mask after being hit in the face by a locker by Liv after running away from Marcus following Beth's threat to kill him by shooting him again, who ensues a chase with Liv throughout the empty high school, after Liv pulls the fire alarm to send help. Liv throws a punch, before Beth tries to stab and manages to slash her arm, before Liv pushes Beth back which causes Beth to aim and throe her knife onto Liv's leg, which lodges into her which Beth twists once she reaches a kneeling Liv, much to Liv's agony, as Beth then pushes her into a glass display of which Liv takes a wooden plague and strikes Beth on the side taking her aback as Liv stumbles away into the gymnasium of which she tries to barricade before Beth arms herself with an emergency axe and pursues Liv, who gives her monologue whilst being blinded by Liv with a projector who follows Liv into the roof after heading into a storage room who would give her motive and background on meeting Jamal and how she set up her murder spree up on the roof .

Beth's attack/murder: Knocked down by Marcus at first before being knocked down completely by Liv. Shot point blank three times in the chest during her final one last scare moment by Kym, much to her surprise.

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Weapons and Equipment[]

Buck 119 Hunting Knife: A shorter version of the known iconic weapon of the Ghostface killer, the Buck 120. Usually used to stab (or slash) victims, slit their throats or gut them.

Gun: Usually used when Ghostface finally reveals his/her identity to their last victim. In this case, used solely by Beth when she revealed herself, making her the only Ghostface in this season to do so per tradition.

Father Death costume/Ghost mask: Used to hide his/her identity. The iconic wardrobe of the killer of the Scream franchise. Second instance where the costume was used by an innocent character (after Sidney), but the first in that it was used by two child twin brothers as a traditional Halloween costume, who unfortunately one died in it after being attacked in it, the victim being Marcus's Deion, whom had switched it seeing as Marcus was the original twin wearing it before swapping it with his twin.

Voice-changer: An electronic device used to mask the killer's real voice and change it to a deep, grunting voice.

Plastic bag: First time and only used once when Ghostface was suffocating a victim, breaking from rather choking the victim, which was done so after stabbing and slitting victims throat, used to choke and gag victim in order to fasten the kill of their victim.

Taser: Used temporarily by Jamal as Ghostface, to inhibit Marcus from reacting further when having lured him and taunt with attacking him by stabbing Marcus with a fake toy knife before using it again to fully knock him out.

Spike: More of a coincidental, yet not unintentional, and only method (after Rebecca Walters' death falling down a news van after being killed; homage to Kenny Brown) of Ghostface killing a victim in a traditional way by lifting and shoving victim down below from a high level but then having the victim land and impale them not by the knife, but a spike, albeit more of a rather unplanned kill, regardless if Ghostface did this by intention.

Drug filled syringe: Only known instance of a medical device used as a weapon in the franchise, used only this season, when Ghostface breaks tradition and uses a syringe full of liquid drugs to inject into victim Shane's eye whilst having trapped him in a ladder shaft, trapping his head after having ladder fall down on them.

Bone saw: Like the syringe, was only used due to knife being hindered and misplaced, as Beth by Ghostface was knocked down by Amir Ayoub while trying to find his hiding spot, and used it to bisect him through a door, which was the elevator shaft, which impaled him and was kept as the elevator rose to the floor, slowly killing the victim (homage to Phil Stevens death after being stabbed in the head after placing head through stall wall in Scream 2).

Abilities and Attributes[]

See Ghostface/Abilities and Attributes

Appearances[]

Resurrection (6/6)

Trivia[]

  • In the Season 3 episode Endgame, Jamal is revealed to be an accomplice of Ghostface, confirming that he killed Tommy Jenkins, Avery Collins and Hook Man while also attacking Officer Reynolds. His motivation was Marcus stealing Deion's life and his father abandoning his mother for Marcus' family.
    • Within the same episode, Beth is revealed to be Ghostface. Her motivation is to prove herself she's the ultimate serial killer and to get revenge on all of the hypocrites that encompass Marcus' friend group.
  • Ghostface was named after a rubber Halloween mask inspired by the Edvard Munch painting The Scream.
  • Both Jamal Elliot and Beth as Ghostface killers pay homage to various other male to female killers in the Scream franchise, among other references.
    • Beth and Jamal Elliot remain thus far, the first and only Ghostface duo, to have appeared throughout the entire TV series.
    • Officially, they are the first biracial Ghostface couple and duo of the franchise and TV series, with both Beth and Jamal Elliot (first African American killer of the franchise) succeeded by Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman (first Asian American killer) in the fifth film, the latter being the first in the film series, respectively.
    • Jamal and Beth are overall, the fourth out of fifth overall Ghostface duos, the third male to female duo, and the second out of three couples in the franchise.
      • They are also the first pair of Ghostface killers to be in an inappropriate relationship as a couple, due to Beth and Jamal's age difference, seeing as Jamal is an adult while Beth is a teenager, who are then succeeded by Amber and Richie's relationship, with each adult (male) dating a teenager (female).
    • Beth and Jay are technically the eighth and ninth Ghostface killers (including Billy and Stu, despite them being the only same sex duo) in the franchise. However, due to the fact that their murders are not correlated or associated to any of the events of the film series (due to neither of them targeting Sidney Prescott or any film characters), and are separate in connection to only the events of the TV series, and are thus excluded, respectfully.
      • Technically, if one were to believe the theory of Angelina Tyler being Roman's accomplice, both Jay and Beth would be (in chronological order): the ninth and tenth Ghostface killers, the fifth out of six Ghostface duos, the fourth of fifth male to female killer duos, as well as the third out of four couples.
    • Jay's role as the revengeful half brother and illegitimate son pays homage to Roman Bridger in Scream 3.
      • Furthermore, his role in general as a relative avenging a former relative is a reference to both Billy and Nancy Loomis in Scream and Scream 2, and to Wayne Bailey, Quinn Bailey, and Ethan Landry in Scream VI ;albeit more so Billy due to the fact that each are seeking revenge on the death of their relative (Nancy, due to Billy's death) and motivated to kill and murder because of it (Jamal, due to Deion's death). Same applies for Wayne.
    • Beth's role as a cliche and horror movie fanatic, albeit sociopathic, pays homage to that of male killers Stu Macher and Mickey Altieri, as well as both female killers Jill Roberts and Amber Freeman.
      • However, Beth's references are more strongly directed towards and who, despite preceding her character, shares many similarities and aspects to Amber, seeing as both females avert suspicion and are revealed unmasked before shortly re-donning the Ghostface costume (Beth dies in hers while Amber didn't);
      • Beth, like Amber also directly reference horror movie icons/killers (both Michael Meyers and Jason Voorhees, to be specific) and how each specify how each killer returns; moreso Beth than Amber, who wants to outdo them and makes a point out of it by trying to become one.
      • Beth is also the first Ghostface killer to be a blonde, and of a different hair color as both male and female killers, succeeded by Quinn Bailey as the first redhead in Scream VI.
    • Jay's laid back persona prior to being revealed as a killer pays homage to both Charlie Walker from Scream 4 and Richie Kirsch from Scream (2022).
      • All 3 male killers are supposedly attacked prior to each of their reveals.
      • All 3 killers are revealed out of costume.
      • Excluding Richie, both Charlie and Jamal (as well as Mickey) are the only male killers to be betrayed by their female partners due to the women’s ulterior motives, in the franchise.
        • If one were to believe Angelina Tyler was Roman’s accomplice in Scream 3, Jay’s betrayal by Beth would be an inverse to Roman’s supposedly by Angelina, as well as the genders and roles in each (like Angelina, both were stabbed in the chest by Ghostface and who were startled moments before, as each one’s respective killer had loomed around, although Jamal most likely knew; since it’s not exactly clear whether or not Angelina did, since she was informed by Gale (also due to this being only a theory).
          • Jay had managed to survive his ordeal long enough to reveal himself, before dying; this is perhaps a nod to Angelina’s fate, which in the franchise, was never explicitly stated and who wasn’t included in the list of victims from the third movie).
        • Jay’s attack, shown tied up in a chair almost dead due to his injuries, is an homage to Steven Orth in the original Scream, and an inverse to both Roman’s “fake” death and Gale and Dewey tied up in Scream 3.
          • However, since Jamal’s attack is half façade (to lure Marcus) and half betrayal, Jay’s attack resembles that of Charlie’s, yet unlike him, Charlie was betrayed later on and only hurt for a ploy, just like Richie.
    • Beth and Jamal's killing spree taking place in Atlanta, Georgia is the only and second instance in the franchise in where a Ghostface killing spree actually took place in a real world location, the first having been Roman Bridger's killing spree in Hollywood, California.
    • Jay and Beth's killing spree is officially the only non-Ghostface related murder spree in the franchise to take place due to having no crossover or correlation to the events of the film series, factually rendering it unknown in the film franchise, thus far.
      • It only establishes the existence of the Ghostface identity and cements it outside of the film series, in which that the Father Death costume is still used as Halloween costume, respectively.
  • Beth and Jamal are the only Ghostface duo and couple in the franchise to not be seen neither working together on screen or reveal themselves before their targets or one another, breaking the tradition of each Ghostface in each of the Scream films.
    • However, they are the first and only Ghostface duo, thus far, to have their betrayal occur privately and with one of the killers out of costume attacked and betrayed by the other in the costume.
  • Both Jamal and Beth's Ghostface killing spree is, overall, the fifth Ghostface killing spree out of seven to take place in the franchise, with each similarly using and donning the Ghostface costume (identity and MO).
    • It is also the second other killing spree to have taken place in the last decade, preceded by the Second Woodsboro Murders (2011) taking place 7 years before them and only 3 years before being succeeded by the Third Woodsboro Murders (2021).
  • Among the new Ghostface killers and couples, Beth and Jamal Elliot were the second among the most violent, preceded by Jill and Charlie and succeeded by Amber and Richie.
  • The Ghostface mask itself was originally created by Fun World Div. Easter Unlimited, Inc. employee Brigitte Sleiertin for a series of masks titled "Fantastic Faces" released as Halloween masks in the early 1990s by Fun World. The mask was given the trademarked name of "GhostFace" by Fun World licensing director R.J. Torbert in 1999–2000. The Ghostface mask also returned in The Face of Fear, a novel written by Torbert himself. Ghostface was also given the trademarked name "The Icon of Halloween" in 2010-2011 by Torbert as well for the Scream 4 marketing campaign.
  • The third season is the first time Ghostface appears in the television series. Furthermore, it marks the first time its' made an appearance again, since Scream 4, back in 2011.
    • The name, mask and the father death costume were abandoned during the first two seasons. This was originally thought to be due to licensing rights. However, that is considered to be false.
    • In an article from Hollywood Reporter, it was highlighted that there were preliminary discussions about incorporating the mask in the series. However, the show later discarded the idea of using the mask for "creative reasons".[1] R.J. Torbert later corroborated that fact in a public tweet in July 2019.[2]
    • Sometime after the announcement of the reboot, MTV made a deal with Fun World, in order to license the rights for the mask in the third season of Scream.

Behind the Scenes[]

  • In regards to the comment made by director Wes Craven in the original film (who is credited posthumously as part of the third season crew, as a director), this season is the second project, after Scream 4, to refer to the Father Death costume in the franchise as it's known entity name, Ghostface, extensively (an homage, perhaps alluding to a connection or shared universe).
  • Just like in the original Scream 2 draft, there are technically 3 killers in this season, the latter duo being more directly tied, while the former indirectly: Luther Thompson (Hook Man), Jamal Elliot, and Beth. This trio is an inverse of the original proposed killers in the Scream 2 , in gender/roles, of Mrs. Loomis (Hook Man, due to being older), Derek (Beth, gender and stereotype reversed), and Hallie McDaniel (Jamal, due to their race and gender reversed).
    • This would be first accomplished in Scream VI.
  • The only character throughout the films to wear the Ghostface costume (excluding the movie crowd who wore the costume in the opening of Scream 2 for the sneak preview of the film within the film, Stab; as well as the crowd of partygoers dressed in the costume for a night party in the premiere episode, and the crowd of New Yorkers wearing it in Scream VI during Halloween week, 2023), without the voice changer and who wasn't a killer, and as well as the only child, was Deion Elliot. He would be the second if counting Sidney in the original Scream (as well as if one counts the faux-shadowing scene of Sidney "catching" Angelina Tyler dropping or changing into a Ghostface costume in a bathroom in Scream 3). However, the difference being that this costume was actually worn by Marcus Elliot before having been swapped by Deion to boost Marcus's confidence up.
    • It can be debated that technically, while before switching the costume with his twin Deion, that Marcus was a killer due to how his own costume being the iconic Ghostface (albeit supposedly, unbeknownst to him) and switching it with his twin brother, and also due to his alleged troubles as a kid, were directly the reason for Deion's murder by Hook Man as well as Marcus stealing his brother's identity and leaving him to die after he was attacked. Although he only did this in self-defense, and thus the victims of the murder spree aimed at him are therefore indirectly based upon a tragedy on his life, the death of his twin is similar to that of the murder of Sidney's mother, Maureen Prescott, and the subsequent killing sprees (up until Scream 5) she had to endure because of it.
  • In the overall franchise, nine men (excluding Jason and Greg, as well as the theory of Angelina) have been Ghostface, and only five have been women, with Jamal becoming the first African American male to become a Ghostface killer.
  • The first 2 victims (3 technically, due to the second episode opening on the same night of the premiere) pay homage to that of the original Scream trilogy (regardless of order) such as:
  1. Tommy Jenkins (resembling Steven Orth, Phil Stevens, and Christine Hamilton)
  2. Avery Collins (resembling Casey Becker, Maureen Evans, Cotton Weary, and Sarah Darling)
  3. Latavious (resembling Kenny Brown, Randy Meeks, and John Milton)
  • The anniversary murders in Season 3 are the only known Ghostface murders, after the original Woodsboro Murders in 1996, in which there's no coherent sequence or structure to follow, thus making these attacks and victims reminiscent to that of the original. Traditionally, since this Ghostface spree has taken place almost 22 years since the first, as well as 20 after the copycat Windsor College Murders, and is the third after the second modern ones in the new century since Hollywood 18 years prior, and the Second Woodsboro Murders just 7 years, their targets may or may not be coincidentally based off victims on the past murder sprees before it.
  • This is shown following the deaths of Tommy and Avery as victim 1-2 (excluding Latavious, and Shane), and stopping at Hook Man who was victim 5 as the only targets with connections to the past. This is perhaps a red herring or if its an intentional to unintentional course altered in the course remains to be seen by the killers in each.
  • However, it follows more in line with the 1998 and 2011 murders accordingly in that from a story perspective, the Ghostface killers of Jamal and Beth in Season 3 each had different motives which led to the betrayal of each male killer in each duo, much like the predecessors, despite the difference being that the men (Mickey and Charlie) betrayed were only accomplices while Jamal wasn't (Beth was the accomplice, but her own-entitled, like Nancy and Jill), making them the second couple to do so.
  • Beth and Jamal however, are the first Ghostface killers in that ones betrayal happen separately, with one out of costume and the other in, with the betrayed (out-of) left for dead by the other (in).
    • This was reversed and used metaphorically, with twin brothers Marcus and Deion in Halloween 2010, when the out of costume Marcus, who switched with Deion to his football costume (and identity/image), betrayed his twin brother who was in the Ghostface costume which he had worn previously by abandoning him and thus leaving him for dead and stealing his identity, with the role and positions of betrayer and betrayéé of in/out-of costume reversed.
      • However, Marcus didn't attack his twin directly, but leaving him to escape and left to die after Hook Man (directly) did, made him indirectly so.
    • This is perhaps thus a subliminal nod, as per Scream director Wes Craven's notes in Scream 3, to the theory of Angelina Tyler being Roman Bridger's accomplice in the events of the 2000 murders and disputing her death as perhaps having been a betrayal or ploy, which is much speculated, due to evidence in the original script (and filming) indeed confirming her role as the accomplice; but was later retconned and rendered faux-shadowing with what was revised and left of her appearance.
      • This is unconfirmed, but if canon or retconned, albeit unstated, would make Jamal and Beth the second Ghostface duo/couple to do so after Roman and Angelina.
    • But since this is only a theory, it's disregarded and makes Beth and Jamal, thus far, the only Ghostface killers/couple in the franchise to betray one another and attacked by their other, in costume, and leave the other for dead, who was out of costume.
  • Accordingly with the films, each Ghostface (excluding Stu, Nancy, Charlie, Jamal, and Richie) came back to life for "One last scare" only to be killed immediately afterwards:
  1. Billy Loomis (shot in the head by Sidney)- Scream (1996)
  2. Mickey Altieri (shot in the chest by Sidney and Gale)- Scream 2
  3. Roman Bridger (shot in the head by Dewey)- Scream 3
  4. Jill Roberts (shot in the heart by Sidney)- Scream 4
  5. Beth (shot in the chest by Kym)- Season 3
  6. Amber Freeman (shot in the head by Tara)- Scream (2022)
  7. Ethan Landry (skull crushed by TV that killed Stu, by Kirby)- Scream VI

Like Nancy, it could've been possible for Jamal to have come back for one last scare. However, due to his more direct approach on revealing himself and having been betrayed and killed slowly by Beth, left him unable to do so and thus led his death at Marcus's hands is more resembling to that of Kate Roberts's death at Sidney's hands in Scream 4.

Alongside the films and TV show, Season 3 is among Season 2 and Scream (2022), in regards to the opening, the only to NOT feature a pair of 2 victims:

  1. Steven Orth & Casey Becker (Scream)
  2. Phil Stevens & Maureen Evans (Scream 2)
  3. Christine Hamilton & Cotton Weary (Scream 3)
  4. Marnie Cooper & Jenny Randall (Scream 4)
  5. Tyler O'Neill and Nina Patterson (Season 1)
  6. Jason Carvey and Greg Bruckner (Scream VI)
  • Following an exception in Scream 2 and the majority of the TV series (excluding Season 1-2, due to it being the Lakewood Slasher), there's always one victim in each cycle of murders that Ghostface doesn't kill or stab with the knife:
  1. Tatum Riley (garage door) - Scream (1996)
  2. Officer Richards (metal pole) - Scream 2
  3. Derek Feldman (shot) - Scream 2
  4. Tom Prinze (blown up) - Scream 3
  5. Trevor Sheldon (shot) - Scream 4
  6. Avery Collins (dropped/impaled on spike)- Season 3
  7. Shane (injected with syringe/drugs in eye, OD'd)- Season 3
  8. Manny (set on fire in car/blown up)- Season 3
  9. Amir Ayoub (stabbed with bone saw/bisected)- Season 3
  10. Liv McKenzie (shot) - Scream (2022)
  11. Bodega Clerk (shot)- Scream VI
  12. Anika Kayoko (falling)-Scream VI
  • Roman Bridger, Deion Elliot, Avery Collins, Beth, Quinn Bailey, and Ethan Landry are the only characters (Roman, Beth, Quinn, and Ethan being Ghostface killers, while Deion and Avery were not) to have died in their Father Death costumes, with a higher male (4) to female ratio (2).
  • Beth is the only Ghostface killer who was an accomplice that successfully betrayed her mastermind, and the only female accomplice to do so and became her own, self-entitled mastermind, as well as the only Ghostface to have wanted to become a masked killer from horror films.
  • In Season 3, both Ghostface killers, like in the films, had a chance to kill the 3 main characters: Marcus, Kym and Liv (who are an homage to the Legacy Trio of the first four films: Sidney, Gale and Dewey, which the Ghostface killers in each four films also had a chance to kill):
  1. Jamal as Ghostface lured Marcus into the bathroom and tased him with a taser before proceeding to stab him with a fake toy knife on his chest and knock Marcus out now officially by tasing him a second time when he could've killed him instantly (The Deadfast Club)
  2. Liv at her house alone, seeing Ghostface, either Beth or Jamal, at her bathroom window before disappearing, whom could've then targeted her and even killed her by breaking in after her police officer father, Officer Reynolds, left for work had it not been for her being bait and Marcus's love interest (The Deadfast Club)
  3. At the night party at the silent disco, Jamal as Ghostface had sneaked up and slashed Marcus's arm when he could've taken Marcus and lured him out of the party like he did earlier or attacked him, albeit more so attack him within the crowd, which he didn't (The Deadfast Club)
  4. Beth as Ghostface had snuck up on Kym to attack after slitting Latavious's throat outside her apartment, which Kym manages to miss (Devil's Night)
  5. Manny and Amir hiding through the empty high school, although Amir with Beth out of the Ghostface costume, seeing as Jamal could've found Amir or Beth hiding in the storage closet and killed either Amir or Beth, albeit unlikely, in a ploy as well as Manny hiding had it not been for him perhaps not knowing the school layout or being on track of their whereabouts (Devil's Night)
  6. Kym manages to be chased by Jamal as Ghostface and misses his attempts of his knife slashing at her, and who only slashed her arm when in a distraction and after supposedly being knocked out by Shane in an empty hallway, who failed to shoot or kill him with the gun he had as he was laid down, when he could've gone and killed each had it not been for the gun pondering him of whether Shane would use it (Devil's Night)
  7. During the Halloween night separation, Jamal as Ghostface after fighting and defeating, as well as trapping Hook Man to the car crusher for his ultimate demise, could have attacked Marcus after closely brushing by him and Marcus having seen him, and killed him by sneak attacking as Marcus tried to free Luther. Same applies to Liv had he seen her leaving and before she got into her car to drive off due to looking for Amir who had disappeared via Beth's text (The Man Behind the Mask).
  8. Beth as Ghostface after being separated from Manny as they headed to find Kym, could've killed Kym as she made her way through the corn fields but didn't perhaps due to not being able to find her, opting for Manny instead (The Man Behind the Mask).
  9. During the break in at Beth's house by Jamal as Ghostface, and after the death of Amir, Marcus is confronted by a fleeing Ghostface (either Jamal or Beth) who could've easily killed and attacked Marcus as he held the empty gun at them which he tried to fire, before leaving and again slashing his arm. Same applies to Kym who arrived and found Marcus's arm slashed, and who could've been killed and attacked, alongside Liv, had their whereabouts been tracked by either Ghostface and attacked when each where alone, and when Liv was separated and left home alone briefly after Marcus was arrested by Liv's father due to her trying to protect him, instead of Jamal as Ghostface going to attack Liv's father and Marcus instead (Ports in the Storm)
  10. Jamal as Ghostface after having attacked Officer Reynold's and before Amir's murder, alone at night at a park in Atlanta and inside the back of the police car could've easily yet again killed Marcus and attacked him but didn't, knocking him out yet again (Ports in the Storm)
  11. During Jamal's slow subsequent reveal as Ghostface, Beth as Ghostface (or Jamal, since he threatened to visit the hospital to check up on Liv's dad to Marcus) during the night at the hospital and after pulling the fire alarms after killing the Reynolds's security detail and Officer B. Westbrook alone and having set him on fire, could've easily attacked and killed both Liv and her father, especially since Officer Reynolds was in the ICU and thus disabled, had it perhaps not been for Liv's disappearance as she headed outside during this time or Marcus's arrival per Jamal's warning, who only taunted Marcus by pulling the cord of Reynold's power before fleeing due to the hospital staff and incoming police, as well as Marcus breaking into the hospital room where Reynolds was in. Same applied to Kym had she not left the hospital to go key down the whodunit alongside Marcus, that led both of them to Jamal's party, where Jamal revealed he used the alias Mr. Fade, and further conspiring him of being Ghostface due to Shane also having used the alias and been killed. Before Jamal's betrayal (Blindspots)
  12. Beth as Ghostface, during her offer and exchange for Kym to leave Marcus and Liv behind after the football game, could've donned the costume and killed Kym inside her car (like Jamal did with Tommy) as Kym headed into her car but didn't, who would end up killing her in her one last scare moment, where had she been silent enough, could've killed or attacked but unlikely due to Kym having found the gun and looking behind Marcus and Liv, which she dropped after shooting Marcus and pursuing Liv (Endgame)
  13. During her reveal and after having shot Marcus, Beth could've easily killed both him and Liv by shooting had it not been for Beth's monologue and Marcus's seemingly fake death as he pleaded for Liv to run, which Beth agreed on. Regardless, like Beth did at her house morgue when looking for Amir, she could've easily stabbed or shot Marcus again to make sure he was dead or check his pulse, but was distracted in heading to attack Liv and thus failed, as well as dropping her gun (Endgame)
  14. When Beth had thrown her knife and landed it into Liv's leg, as she was twisting the knife, she could've easily incapacitated Liv further and held her down and killed her even as Liv put up a fight, had it not been for Beth's failure to keep up and trying to become herself a killer or her monologues as she pursued a wounded Liv, thus leading for Marcus to sneak up on and being thrown down by him and Liv off from the roof to the gym floor from a skylight and wasting her one scare moment due to Kym having the last laugh and having suspected her even before (Endgame).
  • Beth being a Ghostface killer is ironic, due to her character falling into all of the cliche goth stereotypes and mainly horror buff qualities that check out. This is shared with her character being an homage of film characters Randy Meeks (as well as his successor, Mindy Meeks-Martin), Robbie Mercer, and Kirby Reed, despite each not being goth. This also applies for Beth's predecessors in the first two seasons, such as Noah Foster, Audrey Jensen (originally was a killer before being retconned; also likes but isn't as obsessed or trivial of horror like Noah), and Gustavo Acosta.
    1. This goes on to become a reference on the fact in the franchise that these characters are mainly overlooked yet suspected during the suspect of the killer whodunit, making Beth the first character (female) to actually be the correctly suspected and who fits these stereotypes (despite never being called out as a suspect throughout, although never trusted by Kym; much like Randy to Billy, due to each's rivalry).
    2. This also makes Beth, thus far, the only Ghostface (female) killer to have been blonde, due to most of the Ghostface of either gender having brown or black hair.
    3. Regardless, Beth's appearance in her makeup looks that are heavy yet sleek (as innocent, light) as well as her fashion (although goth, was outspoken) are clues and whose traits are reminiscent to that of various female characters (non-killers) Gale Weathers, Hallie, Jennifer Jolie, Sarah Darling, Angelina Tyler, Olivia Morris, and Liv McKenzie from the films; resembling the latter and also reminiscent to that of Brooke Maddox, Zoe Vaughn, and Haley Meyers from the TV series.
  • Jamal and Beth are arguably, the second male to female Ghostface duo and couple out of three, following Jill and Charlie and succeeded by Richie and Amber, to pay homage and model themselves after the original and first male Ghostface duo (perhaps plausible, unstated if the universe is connected, only referenced), despite their individual motives being more in line with the copycat murders following theirs, yet are reversed. However, they also pay homage to the killers in the third and fourth Ghostface sprees in order, as well.
  • Some of the aspects and murders are reminiscent to the original trilogy, (in-universe, from September 1996 to February 2000) but more so, some of their kills can also be argued to be a direct reference to the 2011 murders committed by the first Ghostface couple, in the now former film quadrilogy (who were actually trying to remake the "franchise", which would apply similarly in differing context a decade later by the third couple, albeit second known in the films, in the fifth film):
    • Jamal as the solo avenging revealed Ghostface, but actual half brother of Marcus and Deion Elliot (avenging the latter and plotting revenge on the former due to his secret, which was stealing his twin's identity), who's role in his killing spree as a family member (albeit not secret/long-lost) and mastermind are an homage to the fifth Ghostface killer, Roman Bridger, who was behind the third Ghostface killing spree situated in Hollywood, which was first to be set in a real-world location, which Jamal succeeds by situating his in Atlanta, making him the second to do so (although originally, Jamal would be 3rd and Roman 2nd, following Nancy Loomis setting her murder spree in Windsor College, despite being a fictional college town, was in the real U.S state of Ohio).
      • Wayne Bailey as another vengeful-Ghostface setting his murder spree with his son and daughter also avenging killers in New York City, would be the third to do so.
      • However, only Nancy, Jamal, and Wayne are the only Ghostface killers to commit their murder sprees to avenge a family member (unlike Nancy to Billy or Wayne to Richie, Deion wasn't a Ghostface killer, despite dying in the costume as a child which originally was
  1. Tommy Jenkins and Avery Collins as the first two victims also perhaps homage to Steven Orth (Tommy, like Steven, was killed while sitting down: albeit Tommy was lured, not trapped/staged) and Casey Becker. However, in retrospect, both Tommy and Avery being the same sex pay homage to victims Marnie Cooper and Jenny Randall, respectfully; they would be reversed as a "red herring" by the Elliot twin brothers, Marcus and Deion, formerly, despite Marcus having survived (thus disregarding the death methods of each female and young male, differently; due to the fact that Tommy or Avery weren't with each other or knew another at the time of each's death, breaking from the opening duo tradition).
    • Avery, like Casey was killed without any last words and whose seemingly 'mask reveal' like Casey was reversed yet evident in that Avery died while talking to Beth, who died with shock in his face, despite him being in the mask as she unmasked him who saw her in his final moments and thus suspected her due to him being on the phone with her prior to being dropped and looking her on, and each died brutally and somewhat hanging down.
    • Each were also the second victims and each blonde.
    • Despite Avery having been dropped and impaled by a spike instead of the knife; however, unlike Avery's public death, Casey's was remote and was gutted but similar to Avery that she died and was kept in an upright position like Avery dying but being held on by the spike, similar to Casey being hanged after she was killed.
  2. Arguably, Deion Elliot, despite being innocent, whose death is that loosely origin traced of having started the Ghostface murder spree similar to Maureen Prescott and her death (who Deion reverses the tradition of and pays homage to her, inversely, as the first death), with Deion being the twin brother and family of both the main "protagonist" and "antagonist", which also tie in with Maureen as both the mother of Sidney and the sister of Kate (late aunt of Jill), whose events tied in between the 1996 and 2011 murders, similarly.
    • It can be argued differentially, that while Deion's death is alike in Maureen's that each caused the murders to be set out against the protagonists (Marcus and Sidney), it's a reverse of Billy's motive, similarly, seeing as Jamal as the main mastermind wanted to get revenge and avenge the late Deion due to Marcus indirectly and supposedly causing his death by abandoning him, which is similar to Billy taunting Sidney for knowing of her mother's infidelities and indirectly, due to remaining silent, was what killed Maureen and led for Billy's mom to abandon him, despite not being dead.
    • However, Jamal's motive would correspond to the latter's mother, as Nancy would actually avenge her dead son (reverse of Billy avenging his mother, despite her being alive) in the copycat spree, much like Jamal.
    • Jamal's motive as a illegitimate child (yet not secret) turned adult killer is a reverse and homage to Roman Bridger and his Hollywood murder spree in 2000 against his half-sister Sidney, and whose motives are similar in that each held contempt and hatred towards their half-siblings for their past actions, as well as jealousy for their status (Marcus to Jamal for being an athlete and having taken his late twins identity and hidden his; similar to Roman towards Sidney for being a celebrity and Ghostface survivor and going into hiding with a secret identity, albeit a name, not a person).
    • Unlike Roman, however, Jamal did not directly nor indirectly cause the death of his family member; unlike Roman who wanted to use his and Sidney's mother to get revenge on the latter, Jamal wanted to use his and Marcus's brother (latter being twin) to avenge the former and revenge on the latter for having taken the former's identity.
  3. Shane being tied in the chair and later Jamal are a nod to Steven Orth being trapped in the original which Charlie also falls in but only for a ploy.
  4. Hook Man's death, non traditional via being car crushed although having been injured with Ghostface's knife before (stabbed) is an homage to Tatum Riley's death in the first, which would loosely be homaged as well by Jenny Randall whose back was temporarily being crushed by the garage door in reference to the first.
  5. Ghostface at the party and appearing throughout the chase scenes between Marcus and the Deadfast Club, mainly at the school, especially with Kym's encounter alone at the office room, is a nod to both Sidney's run in with Ghostface in the bathroom and Principal Arthur Himbry's death, similarly,
  6. Jamal Elliot would, despite being a Ghostface killer, represent Neil Prescott in that each were trapped and would-be-framed for the killing spree, although ironically Jamal reverses this due to being a killer, whose betrayal and ploy use before actually being betrayed and already having been intended to be framed, would be used on Charlie before him by Jill.
  7. Neither Beth or Jamal planned on getting hurt or betrayed (albeit Beth was always going to betray Jamal, just matter of circumstance) although regardless, each seeming hurt before their reveals, although technically reversed by Billy and Stu due to each stabbing themselves to present themselves as victims after their reveals, ties in nonetheless.
  8. Beth stabbing Jamal, while in costume although regardless, and betraying him before her reveal but which she revealed subsequently, is a direct homage to both Nancy betraying her accomplice Mickey in Scream 2 and Jill betraying Charlie in Scream 4, more so the latter.
  • However, in regards to the diversity and setting, it's perhaps more accurately parallel that Jamal and Beth were paying homage, whose victims and their deaths, were in reference to that of the Windsor College Murders victims, which also the 2011 duo tried to reference:
  1. Perhaps both Beth and Jamal being injured prior to their reveals as Ghostface, one by a betrayal (Beth to Jamal) and the other as a confrontation (Liv to Beth), in a reverse, is an homage to Ghostface slashing Derek's arm which is more apparent with Beth's injury to make Marcus doubt whether Liv was an accomplice of Ghostface, like Sidney being made doubtful of Derek by Mickey, pre-reveal; which is reversed as Beth is the killer who injured Jamal which Marcus had found met before dying to come over and track down who could be the accomplice, which was made to look like Liv due to her inversely and stated to have attacked Beth only because the latter was Ghostface, which was correct. Regardless, each carry similar plot elements. Similar to when Jill was slashed by Ghostface (Charlie) in order to make Sidney believes she doubts Jill, which doesn't occur until the finale, as well as Charlie in a ploy for Sidney to look on, which occurs as a betrayal also in secret between him and Kirby like with Beth and Jay, with the differences in each pairing.
  2. Avery was thrown and then killed when impaled, similar to Cici's death in that aspect (and both blondes), as well as each being in balcony like figures, which would be used similarly for Rebecca Walter's death in reference to it. It is more of a reference to Maureen Evans due to his death being public (thus making Latavious, in order, as the third victim, despite the difference in events leading up to their kills, to pay homage to Cici's, due to each having occurred isolated).
  3. Avery's death via impalement is a nod to Officer Richard's death also by impalement via a pole in Scream 2.
  4. Officer Reynolds's attack (survived) and the latter B. Westbrook's death is an homage to the attacks and death of both Officer Andrews and Richards in Scream 2 and to both Deputy Hoss and Perkins as well, with Westbrook's death via stab to the forehead is an homage to Phil Stevens death being stabbed on the side of the head in 2 as well.
  5. Marcus being shot by a revealed Ghostface, despite entering a room without knowing, is a nod to Gale Weathers' entrance similarly and being shot by Mickey when he was betrayed by Nancy in Scream 2. Applied similarly to when Judy was shot by Jill when Dewey and Gale headed to Sidney's hospital room, although already being known of the identity of Jill as Ghostface, in Scream 4, as well as Gale being shot after by Amber after correctly suspecting her as Ghostface due to her screaming in order to lure her and Sidney inside in Scream (2022).
  • Regardless of the theory and killers/spree, (See Angelina Tyler), Jamal as his own solo killer (alongside Beth, reversely) in the 2018 Atlanta murder spree, also in terms of more diversity and cast, both killers and their victims similarly (regardless of method or order) are also a reference to the lesser known and the third Ghostface killing spree aka the 2000 Hollywood murders which occurred within the failed production of a fictional story, known as Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro.
    • Despite being separate events (preceded in the TV series), the 2015-2016 Lakewood Murders was predominantly only white people having been attacked/followed in story, much like the 1996 and 2011 Woodsboro Murders, with the only minimal Black representation in the 2015-2016 spree being Clifton in Season 1 to Zoë, Laverne and Dwayne in Season 2; the latter trio a nod to Maureen, Phil, Hallie in Scream 2; Clifton to Tyson in Scream 3.
    • The elements of the trilogy rules in horror (as explained by Randy Meeks in the only interquel timeline scene, in the beginning of Scream 2 and the start and middle of Scream 3, the latter taking place two years after; as well as in re-quel terms in the future fifth Ghostface spree by his niece, Mindy) and theme, nonetheless, of events tying back to the origins of where it all began and the antagonist watching the scene play out and going against the protagonist when all else fails is a direct reference to what transpires in both sprees, as narrated by Beth (whose notes on this would take reference and homage in the fifth film, respectively, only slightly differing).
      • Albeit Roman instigated, to a degree, for subsequent Ghostface murder sprees (minus the fourth or fifth/future, but somewhat credited), out of his control, to be aimed at Sidney and who would be made a celebrity and whose tragedies would be made a film franchise of, while Jamal didn't and only watched and grew more hostile, and didn't derive or do anything while Marcus grew up from his tragedy and who adapted/adopted his late twin brother's identity without any regard, as like Sidney, Marcus would become popular at school due to Deion's image despite nobody knowing of the tragedy, much like Sidney nor anybody for that matter knowing that Sidney's infamy status as a survivor was due to Roman, like Marcus having to carry Deion's name/legacy, somewhat, and being taunted due to Jamal having met Deion and the deceased never informing him of it or his mother, similar to Maureen shutting out Roman and never informing her own family or daughter of it, despite the consequences it would bring, similarly.
        • Albeit somewhat similar in that Roman had control as well as Jamal, in that Roman could've revealed himself even after Maureen's death (which wouldn't make sense for obvious/trilogy reasons) in the same sense that Jamal could've told and revealed himself to Marcus as knowing his secret, each opting not to in order to abide to the trilogy rules, thus dismissed in that aspect, although both apply.
      • However, both killers grew jealous due to the status and attention their half-siblings received, although unbeknownst to the younger ones that it was due to their older half-siblings (Marcus having known Jamal, while Sidney didn't with Roman) who were just standing around and being unhelpful and were directly to indirectly behind the causes for their stresses and not being happy with the status that they've received, indirectly, because of them and who would fight them off and confront them during their reveals in the end (however, unlike Roman, Jamal never got a one-last scare moment and thus his reveal as Ghostface and death at Marcus's hands is a reverse of Sidney after stabbing Roman and holding his hand as he "dies"; although both carry similar plot elements; which would make Jamal the only Ghostface to die as a part murderer and vigilante, due to his motive. Both male killers use the death of their family members, with Roman and Sidney's mother and Jamal to his half-brother and Marcus's twin, to their advantage as motives for targeting their younger half-siblings and those near them).
        • Marcus, who used to be introverted before taking his late twin's outgoing traits for the identity swap as a kid and, being taunted of it and tested as a teenager when convening with the Deadfast Club and having people around him be killed for his isolating secret by Jamal.
        • This is reversed similarly for Sidney as her mother's death and reputation was no secret but who had to endure since perhaps a young age and years prior to Maureen's death, and who throughout her teenage years in high school and college, during and after, was always the target whenever Ghostface killed and attacked anyone near her, who was pretty outgoing prior to this, but had to grow tough/thick skin and isolate herself to protect herself (trust issues) and others such as her friends aka the duo of Gale and Dewey, which was indirectly all started by Roman.
      • The only difference being Jamal was not involved or even caused the death of his younger half-brother, aka Marcus's twin Deion, and thus was out of his control, while reversed for Marcus for who it was in his, but who was only child, similar to Sidney finding her (and Roman's) dead mother and seeing and incorrectly believing and framing Cotton Weary due to Billy walking out with his coat; unlike Roman, who it can be debated did have control and thus indirectly played indirectly role in the first two Ghostface murder sprees (perhaps as they were being made into films within) against Sidney up until his own, somewhat like Jamal, yet different.
  • If possible yet unstated if canon/in-universe, the mentioned underlying themes in the 2018 spree would make Jamal pay direct homage to Roman's killing spree and his events (adapted in-universe into the final based on true story sequel in Stab trilogy, Stab 3: Hollywood Horror, based on Gale Weathers's book, with her previous 2 also based on past two Ghostface sprees also being adapted into films as well;)
    • Due to Jamal taunting Liv alone as Ghostface in her bathroom as she heads to shower alone in the first day of his spree would suggest in fact, that the third season is perhaps the only season, due to Ghostface, that is linked to the original film's continuity/universe, would be a reference to Roman watching Christine Hamilton showering before attacking and killing her in the opening of his murder spree, alongside other references (such as the cast of Stab 3 and those who knew of them attacked, being similar to the Weaver High School Class of 2019 in that the attacks happened on groups or individuals who knew members from the groups, which were regardless closely tied to the protagonists):
  1. Tommy Jenkins being surprise attacked from behind, and texting with Ghostface (albeit used an alias, "Marcus", in connection to Tommy's past, unbeknownst to him) is similar to Christine Hamilton being killed by Ghostface in the opening, both attacked from behind and taunted just moments as well (although Christine was cut off from using any phone or technology, unlike Tommy and who was attacked more directly and taunted as well) and each are attacked isolated (despite no one witnessing Tommy's death, similarly to Cotton's after Christine's).
  2. Avery Collins being killed after landing and being impaled in public via a spike after falling while alone at the balcony-like figure above the warehouse where a night party was held, despite being in the Ghostface costume and who was on the phone with Beth (unrevealed to him, a Ghostface killer) before being attacked by Jamal as Ghostface and who dies with no words as Beth unmasks him, is similar to Cotton being attacked by Roman, who like Avery, was called by Ghostface and who put up a fight before being pushed down to the ground (Avery from the balcony down below the spike, Cotton to the floor) and taken out, although in an inverse (seeing as Roman used the voice changer and had called Cotton before killing Christine in front of him and then attacking, while Avery was called, in Beth's normal voice and out of costume in a ploy before being attacked moments afterward by Jamal in costume). However, his death happening via falling (albeit not stabbed before) is more so an homage to Tyson Fox's death.
    1. However, Avery's death can perhaps be argued to be reminiscent to that of the first Stab 3 actress and member to die, Sarah Darling, due to each being snobby blondes, putting up a fight, and were on the phone with a killer prior to their deaths and died with their phones after dropping them (albeit Avery was with one killer, Beth, who had used her normal-voice, as well as Sarah talking with Roman before Roman switched to Ghostface's voice; reversed but an homage) and died after being ultimately trapped and who died in a hanging position and each with no words (Avery from the spike down below, Sarah as she hung from the glass window on the door which she was pushed on in the empty office studio; difference again that each Cotton, Sarah, and Tyson died isolated and Avery did not).
  3. Latavious being killed by a slit throat and having been outside is more-so a nod to Steven Stone's death (each being a male and dying outside of the main characters view, outside of a housing building at night) but more so to John Milton's in the method, but similar in that each's death was attested to and witnessed thereof (Dewey, Gale, Tom, Jennifer, and Angelina to Steven, like Sidney to John; Kym to Latavious)
  4. Shane's death (albeit different method) via having been trapped would pay homage to that of both Sarah Darling and Steven Stone, but more so to Jennifer Jolie, similar in that each pleaded for their lives to their respective killers, who unbeknownst to them, were their flings such as Shane to Beth, amd Roman to Jennifer (each actor despite not being related, share the same last name, with each also being well known for other projects and their outgoing personalities such as Tyler Posey to Shane and Parker Posey to Jennifer)
  5. Manny's death would be an homage to Tom Prinze's death in that each are trapped in an inside location (Tom in Jennifer's house, Manny in Kym's car) which is set on fire and thus how each died (albeit Tom was blown up due to a gas leak via his cigarette lighter and was a smoker, that blew up Jennifer's house and caused a subsequent fire due to the explosion; while Manny died slowly, more so due to his asthma and inverse of Tom being a smoker, later was blown up in the locked car as a match was dropped by Beth as Ghostface, also a smoker, and the fire slowly built up in the car before being blown up; each occurring from inside and causing commotion after on the outside, from Jennifer's house in the Hollywood Hills to Kym's car in the cornfields). Each subsequent explosion was similarly witnessed by individuals in each (Gale, Dewey, and Jennifer to Tom's, Kym and Amir to Manny's).
    1. This is the second death via a fire, albeit Manny and Tom weren't stabbed by Ghostface prior (albeit Manny was attacked) in the 2018 murders, if one were to indict Officer B. Westbrook's death, albeit he is stabbed in the head which is primarily his mortal wound and who is afterwards set on fire via alcohol and killed at an empty hospital room, similarly to Tom and Manny, albeit his death is not attested nor really witnessed (his death via stab to the head, is reminiscent to Tyson's "fake" death in the cancelled movie within the movie, via pair of prop scissors stuck to the side of his head, similarly).
  6. Officer Reynolds being attacked by Jamal as Ghostface outside in the empty night at a park near the cop's car before heading to attack Marcus, who was with Reynolds, is similar to Mark Kincaid being attacked by Roman as Ghostface before heading to attack Sidney, as well as the gun use in each (since in Roman's spree, Roman made Sidney, before entering the house after the "party" had started to commence, to metal detect herself and turn away any guns; which was reversed for Marcus whose gun was confiscated and reported by his girlfriend, Liv, in a red-herring, to her cop father and thus left him gunless with his first encounter and even when he did have it, was unlike Sidney's, unloaded due to Marcus having gotten it from Jamal prior to his reveal to him as the killer).
    1. The confrontation and surprise attack by Ghostface near a vehicle and in the presence of a police figure (Reynolds and Riley), is also reminiscent to when Roman as Ghostface, after the fire explosion/death of Tom Prinze at Jennifer Jolie's house, tried to attack Gale as Dewey was just mere a few yards away and who shot at the killer before escaping down and disappearing underneath the car, similarly.
  7. (Speculation/theory only; Not intentional): Jamal's attack (before being revealed as a Ghostface killer) is similar not only to Roman Bridger's "fake death" after being found by Gale as the members were spread around the Milton mansion (subsequent chase scenes parallel that of the chase scenes in the showdown at Weaver High, differences in each) but more so by being attacked by Ghostface after talking to Gale and Jennifer (in Jamal's case, Marcus and Kym) as he stayed up on the roof after the night party he organized in an unstated apartment building in the city of Atlanta finished (in this case parallel to Roman's birthday party, each at night; different locations IRL), is an inverse to Angelina Tyler being attacked by Ghostface as she headed downstairs after talking to Gale and Jennifer and how each were stabbed (Jamal with a trash picker stick) in similar regions by their attackers and seemingly left for dead (difference being Angelina was attacked inside, while Jamal was outside; however it applies similarly due to prior to his death, Jamal being trapped and tied down in a trailer as a clue for Marcus to find).
  8. The showdown between Marcus and Jamal's slow paced, as well as later Beth and Liv's (after Beth revealed and shot Marcus; inverse to Roman shooting Sidney) fast paced fight is an homage to the showdown between Sidney and Roman; as well as with Jamal dying in Marcus's hands and trying to choke him similar to when after Sidney ambushed and hid from Roman in the empty screening room within the mansion after the lights went off after he seemingly shot her down, before the reveal of a bulletproof vest, and Sidney stabbing Roman with an ice-picker and holding his hand as he seemingly dies.
    1. However, for Roman's one last scare moment, and the trio of Sidney, Gale, and Dewey being present and seeing who the killer was, it is Beth who stands and tries to attack and dies in an inverse (as Marcus, Liv and Kym now also see who the killer was, despite having suspected, moreso Marcus) seeing as Roman is shot by Dewey multiple times in a bulletproof vest on his chest before getting a head shot, while Beth didn't have one (head shot or vest) and is shot three times in the chest by Kym.
    2. Kym shooting down the killer instead of Marcus or Liv is reminiscent of neither Sidney or Gale shooting down the killer, in that all the characters prior (more so Marcus and Liv like Sidney and Gale) have been confronted to a degree by Ghostface (unlike Marcus or Liv, Gale and Sidney do help each other in shooting Mickey in Scream 2 and later fighting Amber in Scream (2022), similar to when Gale talked down on Jill before being defibrillated by Sidney in Scream 4, as Sidney snuck up on Jill like Marcus does to Beth as Liv talks her down; who fight the killer similar to when Sidney handed Gale the gun to shoot Amber and set her on fire, like Marcus handing his helmet he used to bash Beth's head with to Liv, due to Gale like Liv being affected by their respective attempted female killers; albeit Kym, unlike either character in each trio wasn't attacked harshly rather surviving a slash wound, while the others endured some serious wounds and gunshots, and the only from the Atlanta spree being Marcus, reversed for Sidney and Dewey who weren't shot throughout the films, while Gale was during the second and fifth)
      1. The ending is also a direct homage to the ending of Scream 3, more so being all the characters (Marcus and Liv; Sidney, Dewey, Gale, and Mark) being in California and the protagonists ignoring seemingly warning omens of their futures (Sidney with her door in her hidden house in the woods being open in the day, Marcus getting a phone call as he watches the sun set, but hanging up on it).
  • Kym managed to suspect both murderers, especially the one who went without being known despite having been public, in Season 3, similar to Sidney murdering Billy and Stu in Scream. Like Sidney, Kym managed to survive the attacks against her by each prior to their reveals. However, despite being the one who shot and took down by killing Beth, she technically did get help by Marcus and Liv before, just like Sidney being helped by Cotton and Gale in shooting Mrs. Loomis (Cotton) and Mickey (Gale) similarly. The takedown of Beth is ultimately more of an homage of Scream 3 due to how Marcus but mostly Liv, like Sidney, managed to incapacitate and mortally wound both of their attempted killers, but in the end it was Kym who killed Beth, like Dewey did with Roman. In Scream 4, the talkdown between Sidney and Jill is similar to that of Beth and Liv before each killer was snuck up on and taken down temporarily by the protagonist in this case Sidney to Jill and Marcus to Beth. Despite Marcus not being the one to kill her, Beth is shot and killed by Kym much like Jill is by Sidney, all occurring in the killer's one last scare moments.
  • Kym being a fan of cop movies is a reference and homage to the character of Dewey Riley.
  • Each female killer Nancy, Jill, and Beth betrayed their accomplices in the end (reversed for Beth who was the actual accomplice).
  • Beth and Jamal pay homage and share some similarities to the previous 5 killers (as well as them as a duo perhaps being referenced by the third duo of Amber and Richie in the fifth film; See Trivia)
  • Neither Beth or Jamal revealed themselves in the Ghostface costume or revealed themselves to their last victims with each other, making them the only duo and individual killers in the franchise (excluding Piper and Kieran as the Lakewood Slasher in Season 1-2; as well as the theory of Angelina being Roman's accomplice/lover in the third film) to do so.
  • Beth would re-don her Ghostface costume, despite revealing herself out of it, and shortly die once redonning it. This almost applied to Amber in Scream (2022) although she was spared in that she took off the robes of her costume (whose mask she had taken once she fought Sidney and Richie revealed himself to Samantha was taken) off when she was being fought back by Sidney and Gale (similar to Liv fighting Beth off, both only wore the robes but both also ditched the mask although Beth had taken it off herself due to Liv fighting her) but whose logic applies similarly.
  • Each of the Ghostface killers, excluding Mickey, Jamal, Richie, or Ethan, get themselves hit by a glass object:
    1. Billy Loomis: beer bottle thrown into the face. (whilst attacking Tatum Riley)
    2. Stu Macher: vase smashed into his head, Television screen smashes into his face. (getting killed by Sidney Prescott)
    3. Nancy Loomis: a prop jar is smashed to her head. (after Sidney distracted her)
    4. Roman Bridger: a beer bottle is smashed into his face. (whilst having a physical fight with Sidney)
    5. Charlie Walker: a glass picture frame is smashed into his shoulder. (whilst trying to attack Sidney)
    6. Jill Roberts: runs into a glass picture frame and jumps onto a glass coffee table. (Self Inflicted)
    7. Beth; pushed and falls into a glass skylight, falling down to the bottom gymnasium floor (pushed whilst hit in the head by Liv)
    8. Amber Freeman; thrown and smashed glass hand sanitizer bottle on her head and face, causing her to become spread with the flammable substance before set on fire (whilst having a physical fight with Sidney and Gale, bottle thrown by Sidney)
    9. Quinn Bailey: thrown down onto a glass table. (whilst attacking Gale Weathers)
    10. Wayne Bailey: falls onto a glass display case. (after charging at Sam and falling over a ledge with her)

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