Jill Roberts

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## Entertainingly Detestable

* Unmasked
* Masked

### Alias

Jill Roberts
The Ghostface Killer
Ghostface

### Powers / Skills

High intelligence
Knifemanship
Cunning
Gunmanship
Ruthlessness
Manipulation

### Goals

Become the new Sidney Prescott(failed; she became infamous after that)

### Most Entertaining Features

Emma Roberts' excellent acting.
Her charisma, intelligence and ability to manipulate.
She was the Ghostface who came closest to achieving her goal and getting away with it.
Her motif is an excellent denunciation of the obsession among the younger generation with wanting to become famous.

### Most Detestable Traits

Her very petty motive.
She killed her own friends and her mother just to become famous.
Her very arrogant personality after her reveal.

### Type of ED

Envious Serial Killer

Jillian "Jill" Roberts is the main antagonist of the 2011 slasher film *Scream 4*, the fourth installment

of the *Scream* film series.

She is the cousin of the main heroine of the franchise, Sidney Prescott. Presented at the start of the film as the new final girl of the franchise, she will reveal herself as the instigator behind the events of the fourth film, motivated by her jealousy towards her cousin.

She was portrayed by Emma Roberts and while in-disguise, she is voiced by Roger L. Jackson.

## Her Qualities

### What Makes Her Entertaining?

* Her actress, Emma Roberts, does an excellent job playing her, making her character very convincing.
* While this does not justify her actions, she appears to have a minor sympathetic background with a seemingly absent father, a mother implied to be emotionally neglectful and an ex-boyfriend who cheated on her.
* She proves to be a very intelligent person because despite her young age, she manages to perfectly mastermind a killing spree and was the Ghostface closest to succeeding, being the only one to advance to Act 4.
* She's a great deconstruction of the final girl trope, being introduced as one at the beginning of the film before being revealed as the main villain at the end.
* For that her reveal was considered one of the most shocking in the franchise since the first film starring Billy Loomis and Stu Marcher.
* Her character denounces very well how people, especially those from younger generations, can do anything to be famous.
* Her monologue after her reveal, including her line "I don't need friends; I need fans", has become iconic.
* It should be noted that unlike a large majority of the other Ghostfaces, she did not suffer a villainous breakdown, remaining rather calm and arrogant until the end.

### What Makes Her Detestable?

* She is considered as one of the most evil Ghostface killers for several reasons:

1. She is behind the killing spree with almost the highest body count for any Ghostface killing spree with 10 victims, including one of the killers. This kill count is only beaten by Roman Bridger's which consists of 17 victims.
2. She was one of two Ghostfaces, alongside Roman Bridger, to kill her own mother. To make matters worse, she was going to kill her own cousin, potentially killing her only remaining family.
3. Many of her victims were her friends. Although it is common for Ghostfaces to kill their friends, most of them fake their friendships with their victims unlike Jill whose there are several indications that her friendship with the victims was sincere. Additionally, her friends tried to protect her from Ghostface (without knowing it was her) which made her worse.
4. She killed her sidekick and lover Charlie who was the second Ghostface. This makes her the second Ghostface after Nancy Loomis to betray her accomplice, and she is the first, and for the moment, the only one to succeed in killing him. Although Charlie was one of the most brutal killers and probably deserved his death, the betrayal he suffered was still very brutal and was treated with some sympathy.

* Her motive is very petty because what she wanted was to receive attention by presenting herself as the only survivor of another Ghostface killing spree. This comes from her jealousy towards her cousin Sidney who was famous as the survivor of several Ghostface killings, without knowing that Sidney suffered from this fame. This shows her lack of empathy.
* After her reveal, she comes across as very smug and arrogant, making her rather annoying.

## External links

* Jill Roberts on the Villains Wiki.
* Jill Roberts on the Pure Evil Wiki.
* Jill Roberts on the Scream Wiki.