Roman Bridger

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## Complete Nightmare

* Unmasked
* Masked

### Alias

The Ghostface Killer
Ghostface

### Allies

Billy Loomis
Stu Macher

### Resources

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

### 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).

### What Makes Them Ridiculous

Letting Billy Loomis and Stu Macher murder his mother, Maureen Prescott.
Killing his father.
Murdering everyone in the Stab 3 cast and crew just so he can torment and frame Sidney, which could have caused her to get arrested.

### Cool/Complex/Good Qualities

Scott Foley's superb performance.
He is rather intelligent because he managed to properly connect all the movies to each other.

### Kill Count

16 (9 directly and 7 indirectly)
3 (attempted)

### Most Evil Crimes

Serial murder (inc. double familicide)
Home invasion
Patricide
Kidnapping
Assault
Arson
Incrimination
Psychological torture
Attempted sororicide

### Type of CN

Vengeful Mastermind

**Roman Bridger** (formerly known as **Roman Roberts**) is the main antagonist of the *Scream* franchise, serving as one of the two unseen overarching antagonists of *Scream* (1996), the main antagonist of *Scream 3* and the posthumous overarching antagonist of *Scream 4*.

He is a movie and music video director who was responsible for the original killings down in Woodsburoo. After he got rejected by his mother for no reason (but it was likely out of cruelty), Roman decided to have his friends Billy Loomis and Stu Macher kill his mother and Roman would later go on to murder his own father, John Milton, who was apparently accused of turning Roman into the psychopathic serial killer he is today. Roman Bridger is also the half-brother and arch-nemesis of Sidney Prescott, who is the main protagonist of the *Scream* franchise.

He was portrayed by Scott Foley. While disguising his voice, he is voiced by Roger L. Jackson. His in-costume scenes as Ghostface were portrayed by Brian Avery.

## What Makes Him a Complete Nightmare?

* He had Billy Loomis and Stu Macher murder his birth mother Maureen, and he took pride in doing so.
* He is fully aware of everything he does despite his anger and psychopathy, and he even boasts that "he is a director and he directs" in a remorseless and rude manner.
* He tricked Cotton Weary's girlfriend into betraying him by using his voice manipulator to make her think he was the one trying to kill her, and eventually, Roman murdered both of them.
* He planned to break Sidney physically and psychologically by killing the Stab 3 cast and crew so he could blame her for all the murders.
* He never expresses any care for his ex-girlfriend Jennifer and he later murdered her.
* He plays cruel mind games with his half-sister, Sidney Prescott, and he always brags about it.
* He killed his father, John Milton.
* 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 also feigned a reconciliation before faking his own death, which manipulated Sidney big time.
* After Sidney, Dewey and Gale turned around and tried to leave, Roman attempted to kill all 3 of them, but he was defeated by Dewey thanks to Sidney's prompt to defeat Roman and save the public from his murderous motivations.
* He hated his own half-sister all because she was born.
* He doesn't care about anyone at all. If anything, he only cares about himself, which disgusts Sidney due to his selfish and sadistic nature.
* Despite his sympathetic past, Sidney points out that it doesn't excuse his actions, and Roman himself proves that he doesn't have any justifiable excuse for everything he has done in the movie. Also, Roman does have a few cool and entertaining qualities (such as his intelligence), but Sidney herself makes it clear that Roman is a Smug Snake and a petty and sadistic hypocrite who is pretty much criticised by everyone in-universe, especially since he thought that his father gave him the influence to kill people and get pissed off at his mother for rejecting him.

## Trivia

* Roman Bridger is one of the 7 *Scream* villains to be a Complete Nightmare. The other 6 villains are John Milton, Mickey Altieri, Stu Macher, Billy Loomis, Kieran Wilcox and Jill Roberts.
* Because he has killed a total of 16 people (9 direct kills and 7 indirect kills), Roman has the highest kill count in the *Scream* franchise.
	+ Even though Kieran Wilcox murdered 11 innocent people, Roman has less resources than Kieran yet Roman killed 16 people.
* Roman Bridger is a pretty weak qualifier for this Wiki, because while it is common for a Complete Nightmare to have at least 1 cool/complex/good excuse, Roman has a tragedy and a good performance by his actor. However, his past is wholly debased due to his cruelty and he is still a psychopath who suffers from a breakdown all because Sidney called him out on being the person he is today. Thus, he still qualifies.

## External Links

* Roman Bridger on the Villains Wiki
* Roman Bridger on the *Scream* Wiki
* Roman Bridger on the Pure Evil Wiki