Super 8/Characters

Super8

The Alien/Cooper

Played By: Bruce Greenwood

• Badass
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil
• Big Eater
• Bizarre Alien Biology
• Captured Super Entity
• Fluffy the Terrible
• Heel Face Turn
• I'm a Humanitarian
• Immune to Bullets
• Not So Different
• Psychic Link
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

The Kids

Joseph ‘Joe’ Lamb

Played By: Joel Courtney

• Adorkable
• Bad Bad Acting
• Calling the Old Man Out
• The Danza: One letter difference, close enough.
• Dogged Nice Guy
• The Hero
• Hurting Hero
• Missing Mom
• Took a Level in Badass: How many kids would enter a flesh-eating alien's lair?

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Alice Dainard

Played By: Elle Fanning

• Abusive Parents: Of the neglectful, alcoholic kind.
• The Chick
• Defrosting Ice Queen
• Damsel in Distress
• Jerkass Facade
• Hair of Gold
• Missing Mom
• Sixth Ranger
• The Smurfette Principle

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Charles Kaznyk

Played By: Riley Griffiths

• Big Eater
• The Big Guy
• Deadpan Snarker
• Insufferable Genius
• The Lancer
• Prima Donna Director
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With everyone, but especially Cary.

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Cary

Played By: Ryan Lee

• Ax Crazy: A heroic example.
• Braces of Orthodontic Overkill
• Everything Is Better With Explosions
• Pyromaniac
• Mad Bomber
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Charles, but also with Martin and Preston.

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Martin

Played By: Gabriel Basso

• Butt Monkey
• Cowardly Lion
• Dirty Coward
• Nervous Wreck

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Preston

Played By: Zach Mills

• Deadpan Snarker
• The Smart Guy

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The Adults

Jackson ‘Jack’ Lamb

Played By: Kyle Chandler

• Badass
• Despair Event Horizon
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father
• His Heart Will Go On
• Hot Dad
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Papa Bear
• Overprotective Dad
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic

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Louis Dainard

Played By: Ron Eldard

• Abusive Parent
• Alcoholic Parent
• The Atoner
• Despair Event Horizon
• Jerkass Facade
• Overprotective Dad

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Colonel Nelec

Played By: Noah Emmerich

• Big Bad
• Colonel Badass
• Dirty Coward
• Karmic Death
• Sociopathic Soldier
• The Stoic
• Torture Technician: Was responsible for torturing the alien, and also tortured Woodward for info.

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Dr Thomas Woodward

Played By: Glynn Thurman

• The Atoner
• Badass Teacher
• Butt Monkey
• Not Quite Dead
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness

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Overmeyer

Played By: Richard Jones

• Killed Mid-Sentence
• Mook Lieutenant
• Oh Crap: When Nelec orders him to tag the creature.

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Sheriff Pruitt

Played By: Brett Rice

• Back for the Dead
• It Will Never Catch On: He thinks portable music is a 'slippery slope'.
• Killed Mid-Sentence
• Mauve Shirt
• Reasonable Authority Figure

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Donny

Played By: Kyle Gallagher

• Chekhov's Gunman
• Deadpan Snarker
• Precision F-Strike
• The Stoner

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Jen Kaznyk

Played By: Amanda Michalka

• Bare Your Midriff
• Bratty Teenage Daughter
• Ms. Fanservice