Roman Bridger

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## Evil-doer

* Unmasked
* Masked

### Alias

The Ghostface Killer
Ghostface

### Allies

Stu Macher
Billy Loomis

### Occupation

Film director
Serial killer

### Resources

Tactics
High intelligence
Hunting capabilities
Great mobility
Weapons mastery
Stealth
Strength
Manipulation
Speed

### Hobby

Going on killing sprees.
Playing cruel mind games with Sidney Prescott.

### Goals

Get revenge on his mother for cruelly rejecting him (succeeded).Frame his half-sister for the murders he committed (failed)
Kill his father.
Go on with his killing sprees unstopped.
Kill all those who wronged him (all succeeded).

### Moral Event Horizon

Masterminding the murder of his birth mother, Maureen Prescott.
Murdering the entire Stab 3 cast and crew in order to torment and frame Sidney for the massacre.

### Kill Count

9 (directly)
8 (indirectly)
3 (attempted)

### Crimes

Serial murder (inc. familicide)
Home invasion
Terrorism
Stalking
Patricide
Vandalism
Kidnapping
Assault
Arson
Incrimination
Psychological torture
Matricide by proxy
Attempted sororicide
Conspiracy
Pseudocide

### Type of Villain

Vengeful Mastermind

**Roman Bridger**, formerly known as **Roman Roberts**, is the main antagonist of the *Scream* franchise, serving as the unseen overarching antagonist of *Scream* (1996) and *Scream 2* (1997), the main antagonist of *Scream* *3* (2000) and a posthumous character in *Scream 4* (2011).

He is a young music video director who landed the *Stab 3* job, where he enacted his revenge against Sidney Prescott. After he revealed that he was the architect behind the Ghostface murder sprees and thus indirectly responsible for the events of the series, he fought Sidney to the death, got outsmarted by her and lost. He was then killed by Dewey. He is also the arch-nemesis as well as the secret maternal half-brother of Sidney Prescott.

He was portrayed by Scott Foley. In the Japanese dubbed version, he was voiced by Ryōtarō Okiayu.

While disguising his voice, he is voiced by Roger L. Jackson. In-costume scenes as Ghostface were portrayed by Brian Avery.

## Personality

Presenting himself as the artistic director in an almost bumbling, Woody Allen way, Roman deluded himself to be a tragic hero.

However, after the reveal, Roman showed his true nature as a sadistic, entitled, vengeful, heartless, spiteful, egotistical, jealous and anti-social man. He took pride at executing his own mother, showing no empathy for her suffering, and even hated Sidney because she was born, willing to kill 9 people just to frame her at his killing spree.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* He manipulated Billy Loomis and Stu Macher into murdering his birth mother, and took pride at doing so.
* He is responsible for the Woodsboro killing spree by manipulating Billy and Stu into killing Maureen as well as being indirectly responsible for the crimes occurring in the second film, and Roman is aware of what all happened and boasts that "he is a director and he directs".
* He turned Cotton Weary's girlfriend against him by using his voice manipulator to make her think he was the one trying to kill her, then succeeded in murdering both of them.
* He killed the entire *Stab 3* crew just to frame Sidney Prescott, his own half-sister, at his killing spree, for the sole purpose to break her physically and psychologically.
* He kills his ex-lover Jennifer in a sadistic way, and never expresses any care for her.
* He loves playing cruel mind games with his half-sister, Sidney Prescott, bringing her to the brink of insanity.
* He killed his birth father John Milton, not out of revenge for his mother's rape or any kind of justice, but to frame Sidney for his murder as well as the rest.
* After he was wounded by her, he taunted Sidney that her mother was dead and that there was nothing she could do about it.
* He tried to kill Sidney, Dewey, and Gale after he was stabbed and their backs were turned, when at first it looked like he was trying to connect with Sidney.
* He ended up hating his own half-sister because she was born.
* While he does have somewhat reasonable motivations to get pissed off at his mother for rejecting him, they do little to excuse the murders he commits. As Sidney rightfully points out, Roman has no one else to blame for how he turned out and only kills because he chooses to out of petty envy against his sister.
* He is indirectly responsible for the events of *Scream 4*, considering his cousin, Jill Roberts, wanted to kill Sidney out of jealousy for the fame she was given because of Roman's actions.
* He easily sets the heinous standards of the series as his father did not force him to become the way he was, and he chose to commit his most vile actions without anyone's influence.

## Role in *Scream 3*

When the actors begin to get killed off in the ways of the new film, everyone realizes there is yet another copycat Ghostface. Instead of just using the past killers' tactics of just calling and killing, Roman used new approaches. These include filling the room with gas in the dark, making Tom Prinze have to use a lighter to read, causing the entire house to explode. He also uses a new voice masker that sounds like people someone knows (including Sidney's, Gale's, and Dewey's) making them easy to manipulate, trick and confuse. This was used on Cotton and his girlfriend's death and allowed him to set a trap for Gale and Dewey using Sidney's voice which was to lure Sidney to him.

Roman was found dead in a trunk by Gale but he was revealed later to have faked his death. After killing Angelica Tyler, Tyson Fox and Jennifer Jolie, he kidnapped Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley in order to draw Sidney over. When Sidney arrives, Roman makes her use a metal detector in order to see if she brought a gun. The metal detector detects the gun and Sidney is forced to throw it in the pool. After going inside and finding Gale and Dewey tied up, she is attacked by Roman. It is then revealed that she brought a spare gun and shoots Roman repeatedly in the chest, seemingly killing him. When Sidney begins to untie Gale and Dewey, Roman's body is gone.

Detective Mark Kincaid then arrives on the scene having heard the gunshots and she accuses him of being the killer. Mark denies it and is proven right when a very alive Roman attacks and injures Mark. Sidney tries to shoot him again, but he dodges. She tries to do it again, but she is out of bullets, and she runs with Roman in pursuit. After being cornered, Roman finally reveals himself as the killer and that the bullets failed to kill him because of a bulletproof vest. Roman reveals his motives and we learn he staged his own death to eliminate himself as the suspect. Roman reveals to Sidney that he is her half-brother.

Maureen Prescott was raped by the producer John Milton and his gang while acting as a B movie actress and she gave birth to Roman. She abandoned him causing him to fend for himself in Hollywood. Roman wanted revenge and believed that he should have all the fame that Sidney had. His next step was to kill John Milton and intends to frame Sidney for it with a recording of his confession that was altered with his voice changer to sound like Sidney's. While Gale and Dewey get free of their binds, Sidney furiously tells Roman how she doesn't care about his tragic backstory since the other Ghostfaces told her the same thing and corrects him telling him everything he's done is no excuse for killing innocent people and how he foolishly blames other people when it was own choice saying there's no revenge and no one else to blame for his murders, because he chose to do it all by himself, making Roman finally lose his temper and hurt his feelings with her smart words provokes Roman into a fight, Roman manages to knock Sidney down and desperately knocks her down which he is begins strangling Sidney to death as Sidney continues to resist as Dewey cuts the power and Mark returns.

Roman hides and knocks him out with a chair. During this, Sidney gets back up and gets Roman's knife, but Roman also gets Mark's gun and seemingly shoots Sidney dead. After looking away and then looking back, he sees that her body is gone. Desperately trying to find her to win and keep her friends out, Sidney soon pops up in a fit of rage and stabs Roman in the back twice with an icepick as he screams in pain. She reveals she had a bulletproof vest on too, showing that she came to know how psychopaths like Roman thinks, having him completely outsmarted. She then stabs him in the heart, holding her half-brother's hand as he apparently dies. When Dewey and Gale arrived, Roman suddenly jumped up to foolishly attack the group in a desperate fit of rage, when they laid their defenses. He was shot several times in the chest by a furious Dewey, seemingly hurting Roman but not killing him, because he's still wearing the bulletproof vest, until Sidney reminded him that he should shoot him in his unprotected head, a piece of advice Dewey uses to kill the psychopath, finally putting an end to his pathetic life.