Nina Patterson

**Nina Patterson** is a recurring character in ***Scream***, serving as a minor antagonist of Season 1. She was Lakewood's stereotypical mean girl, ultimately before her death. She has the most influence over the plot, the setting of the story. She was portrayed by Bella Thorne.

Although Nina was the Queen Bee before Brooke Maddox, she was considered a self-centered, vain, cruel, and promiscuous troublemaker in George Washington High School. She was heir to the pink Prada throne, ultimately before her demise. She also lived in a gorgeous modern house, complete with a hotel-worthy swimming pool, a chic square hot tub and a voice-activated speaker system.

Nina, otherwise known as Lakewood's notorious “Mean Queen” is considered; the *cruelest* mean girl George Washington High School’s ever seen. She’s blackmailed her peers, her teachers, her advisors and really anyone who has a lot of money or secrets to hide. Her accomplices in her schemes have included jocks like; her ex-boyfriend Tyler O'Neill, Jake Fitzgerald, and Will Belmont. Nina’s not in favor of collecting a wide group of friends. She prefers loyal followers or those less fortunate to act as her minions.

Many recognize Nina as the strawberry blonde spitfire who won’t hesitate to out people the first chance she gets. Girls like Nina are rich and spoiled and expected to marry billionaires without ever suffering the consequences of their actions. While, that may be true to some extent, Nina’s ability to act as the queen puppet master comes from her near to flawless ability to manipulate people.

With Tyler's assistance, Nina was able to bug everyone, including teachers and town officials. She had an entire private room set up in her mansion with monitors on everyone.

Even Brooke described Nina as a "spoiled sociopath with no impulse control”.

For years, Nina relentlessly bullied Audrey Jensen, Noah Foster, and a score of other underlings at GWHS.

On the night a viral video was uploaded, she was murdered by a killer in a mask, and it’s likely her death kicks off the entire series. Even though she may be the first one on the chopping block, that doesn’t necessarily mean we've seen the last of her.

In September 2015, Nina and her friend Emma Duval filmed Audrey having a lesbian make-out session with a girl from another school named Rachel Murray in her car.

Nina posted the video on social media, and as a result, Audrey immediately became the target of cruel jokes and lewd comments. Everything Nina does seems carefully calibrated for the viewer to not miss her when she bites it eight minutes into the Pilot episode.

Nina is the second character to die in the series, as well as the first on-screen character to start off the series.

## Death

After seeing Tyler's head, Nina screams and scrambles out of the hot tub. She hides behind a tree, trying desperately to swipe her passcode, but to no avail with wet fingers. She commands Siri to call 911. After Siri accidentally calls Pottery Barn, Nina drops her phone and bolts for the back doors. She shouts for help and sobs in fear.

In the reflection of one of the glass doors, Nina gets slashed horizontally across the back with a hunting knife. Nina screams in pain as she lies on the cement patio bleeding. Nina attempts to escape, but falls and starts crawling towards the swimming pool. After her pleas are no use, Nina gets her throat sliced open with the hunting knife.

The attacker throws the limp Nina into the swimming pool. After her body splashes in the water, she floats upward, having already succumbed to her wounds.

## Personality

Rich and arrogant, Nina is a typical snob who boasts about her expensive designer clothing and state-of-the-art wealthiness for her style. Nina seems the stereotypical bitchy Queen Bee figure at George Washington High School. She picks on Audrey Jensen and other students and is known to be quite dramatic. Nina only picks on Audrey out of envy and due to her image at Lakewood -- even when outing Audrey.

Being a cyber-bully, Nina records acts of evil, or willingly let herself carry out evil actions. Her actions can range from simple bullying to torturing and killing people. Reasons for filming her cynical schemes might be so Nina can relive the moment later for her own personal pleasure, or maybe she can make money from selling them to Lakewood's government officials, and blackmailing them.

## Trivia

* **Nina Patterson** was created by Jill E. Blotevogel, Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie as well as director Jamie Travis.
* Since she was 17 at the time of her death, it would make her the oldest student along side with Will and Tyler as the three were seniors when they during the events of the first season.
* Nina is the TV counterpart to Casey Becker, who was the first Ghostface murder victim played by Drew Barrymore in the 1996 film, *Scream*.
* Nina is the first character to appear in *Scream: The TV Series*, and as such, she is also the first female character. She is the second character killed on the show, after Tyler O'Neill, but is the first on-screen death. She is the first female character on the series to die.
* One of the directors of the show, Brian Dannelly, confirmed to a fan via Instagram DM that Piper was her killer.
	+ Piper decided to murder Nina in jealousy because Kieran, Piper's lover, witnessed Kieran leaving a bar with Nina prior to the night before Nina's murder.
* Nina died on September 28, 2015 at 11:02 PM. If you look closely, the date on Nina's phone says *September 15,* which is on a Tuesday.
* Nina's phone code is *1-4-0-9*.
* It is unknown if Tyler ever found out or was aware of Nina cheating on him before his death.
* *The Dance* is the second and final appearance of Nina. Nina appears on Rachel's video camera footage, and a flashback. The scene with Nina takes place on the night prior to the Pilot episode of the series, which is Nina's only appearance.
* Nina would die first because she was popular and had a lot of influence where she came from. She might also have known too much. Her death shook the entire town of Lakewood and left everyone wondering who's next.