Samantha Loomis

Samantha "Sam" Carpenter?was the main protagonist of?Scream?(2022 film) and?Scream VI?(2023 film), the fifth and sixth installments of the?franchise. Having run from a troubled past, the former?Woodsboro?resident returns to her haunted small California hometown to aid her younger half-sister,Tara Carpenter?against a new?Ghostface?entity. Later, she and the?Core Four?(consisting of herself, her younger half-sister and the Meeks-Martin twins;?Chad?and?Mindy) are confronted with a series of?Ghostface?entities in?New York City. At age 13, she discovered the secret of her birth origin — she is the biological daughter of original?Ghostface?serial killer,?Billy Loomis?who derives from the original?Scream?(1996). Correspondingly, this also makes her the paternal granddaughter of the first copycat Ghostface killer,?Nancy Loomis, who appeared in?Scream 2?(1997). After?her legal father's abandonment due to her birth origin revelation, she spiraled into a life of drugs and crime. This dismayed soon-Sheriff?Judy Hicks, whose son,?Wes, Sam would babysit (one of these duties was during the?second Woodsboro Murders). At age 19 (likely almost 20) — with Woodsboro no longer serving her any good — she abandoned it in favor of another California town,?Modesto. In her departure, Sam did not say goodbye to her mother,?Christina, or baby sister (then age 13). Over 5 years later, Sam is confronted with both her troubled teen past and birth origin. Now a 25-year-old bowling alley attendant, she joins forces with original?legacy?franchise survivors,?Dewey Riley,?Gale Weathers?and?Sidney Prescott, to stop the new killer. She finds herself to be Ghostface's primary target. In the end, Sam proves to embody the rules of a real-life horror movie legacy "requel" (reboot and sequel); she is both the descendant of a legacy character, and the new Ghostface entity is her own boyfriend,?Richie Kirsch?whom she is able to kill (staying true to the original?Sidney-Billy dynamic), as well as his a.