Halloween Horror Nights Icons

A lineup of several of the icons from HHN Icons: Captured (Left to right: Chance, the Director, the Caretaker, Jack the Clown, the Usher, the Storyteller and Lady Luck. Face of Fear present in background)

## Group information

### Headquarters

Fear's Lantern (several; while imprisoned)

### Affiliation

Fear
Legions of Horror
Lord of Darkness

### Members

Betelgeuse
Bloody Mary
Bone
Caretaker
Chance
Crypt-Keeper
Director
Doctor Oddfellow
Freddy Krueger
Ghostface
Imhotep
Jack the Clown
Jigsaw
Lady Luck
Pumpkin Lord
Storyteller
The Usher

**Icons** also known as **Event Icons**, **Halloween Horror Nights Icons** or **HHN Icons** are the central characters and masters-of-ceremony of the annual *Halloween Horror Nights* events in Universal Studios. While originally licences characters, starting in *Halloween Horror Nights X* (2000), it became tradition for the icons in Florida to be characters original to the Universal theme-parks, often tied to the backstories of the HHN attractions. Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood uses icons much more infrequently, and will often use characters from Orlando, as well as licensed properties.

The term "Icon" has also been used within Halloween Horror Nights continuity to describe these characters.

## Lore

"Icons" have been described as beings worshiped during the annual festivities of "Halloween Horror Nights". Many of them have been identified as members of the *Legions of Horror*.

At some point (possibly 2004), Ravinski was hired to work on a Universal Studios film inspired by the Halloween Horror Nights incidents called "Horror Nights Nightmares" produced by L. Surphlis and R. West, co-produced by W. Robinson, while written by K. Babel and M. Aiello. For this horror film, Universal actually hired four "Icon" characters: Jack the Clown (whose box was a prop), the Director (who shot some scenes), with the Caretaker and Eddie as performers. Many rules were made for crew-members to avoid being harmed by these monsters, thought disappearances and attacks still occurred. For some reason, a VIP tour group was allowed onto the closed set and were attacked by the Director and the other Halloween Horror Nights icons at the event.

In 2006, four of the icons (The Storyteller, The Director, the Caretaker and Jack the Clown) were summoned by the demonic Lord of Darkness to celebrate the "Sweet Sixteen" of Halloween Horror Nights.

Many of the icons are associated with the god of fear, Adaru AKA "Fear" (himself an icon) with five of them even acting as his heralds (Jack the Clown/Carnage, the Caretaker/Death, the Director/Sacrifice, the Storyteller/Lore/Mythos, and the Usher/Vengeance). These heralds were then imprisoned in Fear's Lantern along with Fear, kept as a prop by Universal Studios from which Fear influenced the events of Halloween Horror Nights for decades.

## Members

#### Universal Studios Singapore

Universal Studios in Singapore is known to use multiple icons for a single Halloween Horror Nights event.

## Icon Group appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

Various Halloween Horror Nights events utilize an icon.

#### Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store

In 2020, the Jack the Clown themed area of the Tribute Store featured the likenesses of various Icons. One piece of artwork depicted icons: Jack, the Caretaker, the Storyteller, the Usher, the Director, Eddie and Fear together.

In the 2021 Tribute Store, there were busts, portraits, photographs and other busts depicting and tributing the Icons. In the final letter from the house's asylum-patient inhabitant, he had the message " *And all icons will emerge as one*" in reference to the haunted house *HHN Icons: Captured*. The icons were also mentioned in this patient's case-file from Shadybrook, mentioning the worship of Icons as one of his followers' halloween practices tied to the lore of Halloween Horror Nights.

In the 2023 Tribute Store, the silhouettes of various icons appeared on the cover of the fictional "Halloween Horror Nights Mystery Game" board game.

#### Horror Nights Nightmares

This haunted house revolved around a film made by Universal Studios with Jack the Clown, the Director, the Caretaker and Eddie.

## Trivia

* The icons will often reference one-another and have some varying relationships:
	+ Jack the Clown has frequently mentioned not liking Betelgeuse. He also has obvious bad-blood with Doctor Oddfellow. Jack and Eddie will frequently assist one-another but Eddie also feels envious of the attention which Jack gets, while Jack has expressed finding Eddie's suffering and failings to be funny.
	+ Doctor Oddfellow frequently mocked and nicknamed past icons and major HHN characters including Jack the Clown (who he has bad blood with), the Terra Queen, the Director, and the Cryptkeeper.
* There has yet to be an official Halloween Horror Nights icon identified as belonging to the Cerebins Legion. The unofficial icon of HHN VII, Eyegore, has been identified as a Cerebin, however.
* At a 2022 panel, notable Universal Studios creative, Michael Aiello, described recurring HHN hero Boris Shuster as being considered an Icon.

## External links

* *Event Icon on the Halloween Horror Nights wiki.*

## References

1. ↑ Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store
2. ↑ *Dialogue "For years, I've seen you shaking in fear, yet begging for more! You've practically worshiped those who stood here before me: Doctors, Directors, even Clowns. But I don't want your worship, I want what you want. So, what is that? Fear? Horror? I promise these can unhinge your soul and prepare you for something more: Power! Immortality!"*
3. ↑ *Dialogue "You've practically worshiped those who stood here before me, Matriarchs, Visionaries, Fossils, Jesters, but I don't want your worship...I want what you want right? You wanted Fear! I can offer that, for a price of course"*
4. ↑ Dialogue " *My dear, all I care about are souls. I do not have time for silly creatures that would call themselves Icons..."*