As the narrative of our thriller production consists of both a teenage victim and antagonist, I decided to do some research into teenage/young adult antagonists in thriller texts.
Kazuo Kiriyama
In the film 'Battle Royale', Kazuo Kiriyama is an exchange student who joined the Battle Royale programme (a game designed to have students kill each other) for his own entertainment instead of being taken forcefully. As the game begins he rapidly becomes the most dangerous and feared player.
Lola Stone
In the film 'The Loved Ones', Lola Stone is a high school student who kidnapped her classmate Brent Mitchell, who happened to be her latest victim with the help of her father, also her lover. It began when Lola asked Brent to prom but he rejected her because he already had a date with his girlfriend Holly. Lola and her father then proceed to torture Brent, as well as threatening to kill his mum and Holly.
Seth and Jonah
In the film 'Seconds Apart', Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telepathy; their powers of which being much stronger when they work together, where they can tap into people's worst fears and cause them to hallucinate. Between them they devise a sinister film project in which they manipulate their victims into killing themselves in all sorts of ghastly ways and film it, then review the footage asking one another if he "feels it" yet. What "it" may be is never really said, but it appears that the brothers are using their telekinetic abilities to experiment with the minds of people around them in order to understand or "feel" something that they can't grasp.
Gogo Yubari
In the film 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1', Gogo Yubari is a young associate of O-Ren Ishii and a severely disturbed 17-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who takes a sadistic delight in killing. She was O-Ren's top assassin and personal bodyguard. Although The Bride gives her the opportunity to walk away, Gogo takes her on with a large meteor hammer with sharp blades hidden within it, almost overcoming the Bride by strangling her savagely with the chain. Out of all the enemies that the Bride comes up against, Gogo is the only one that almost kills The Bride in 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1'.
Doubt
Yoshiki Tonogai's manga series 'Doubt' revolves around a fictional mobile phone game called "Rabbit Doubt".The players must find the wolf, or killer, amongst their group of rabbits as they are picked off one-by-one. Six players of this game find themselves trapped in a building with one of the group already dead; to avoid the same fate, the remaining five must play a real-life game of "Rabbit Doubt" and find the wolf (liar) hiding among them.
In 'Conflicted' - episode 20 of the 4th series of 'Criminal Minds'- Adam's mother, Rosemary, died when he was five, causing Adam's stepfather, Mark Harrison, who had been abusive towards Rosemary, to begin channelling his aggression towards Adam. Mark would beat Adam, force him to wear girl's clothes, and possibly molested him. To cope with the abuse, Adam developed an alternate female personality that referred to itself as Amanda, and took the abuse for Adam. Years later, Adam -as his alternate personality 'Amanda'-begins killing and raping males who he sees as substitutes for his step-dad.
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