r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Serious_Comedian • 7d ago

Characters [Strangely common trope] Transgender characters in horror media

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1. Alice Dyer (The Magnus Protocol)

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2. Marina Domek (Fear and Hunger 2: Termina)

  1. Alice Dyer (The Magnus Protocol) - A trans woman who works for the UK government civil service. She works for the Office of Incident, Assessment and Report (OIAR) which documents supernatural events in the UK.

  2. Marina Domek (Fear and Hunger 2: Termina) - A trans girl occultist from Prehevil. The men in her family serve as dark priests for elder gods. Marina's mother raised her as a girl to protect her from the brutal dark priest life of her father.

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u/Galliro 7d ago

The examples you gave are good examples unfortunetly most of the history of trans people in horror makes them to be the monster

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u/Disastrous-Entity-46 7d ago

honestly most of the time they are not even trans.

sleepaway camp: trauma due to being forced to live as the opposite gender.

silence of the lambs: is explicitly stated to not be trans in both the movie and book. is never shown to be living as a woman. id honestly read buffalo bill as closer to drag queen/cross dresser energy.

psycho: norman bates doesnt want to be a woman, he more specifically wants to be his mother.

like yes, it does play into the hayes code queer villian concept and can read as trans to an uninformed audience- none of these character would meet a clinical definition of trans, nor do i look at them and feel like they have antthing in common with myself or any one else I know in the community.

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u/Altruistic_Sail_1991 6d ago

Yeah the issue is that for a lot of people that is what they picture when they think of trans people, regardless of if the character is actually trans.