Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4037231-20190620163239

People have pointed out many recurring themes in Goosbumps and Stine's books in general. One of them is red-heads. These could certainly be a coincidence but red-heads seem to pop up all the time, and not just in Goosebumps, Fear Street may have this even worse. But we're here for Goosebumps, someone else can see how that series fares in totals.

Recently I was thinking about this trend and wanted to see once and for all how many there are. At first it was to see the balance between good guys, bad guys, and losers who are red-heads but eventually this was just to total them overall and eh, the characters of all hair colors can swap between positive and negative portrayals.

For this, I'm mostly sticking to named characters, even somewhat minor ones, provided they are at least important and the scenes they are in. Unnamed ones will only be listed if they are important enough in their scenes, or I felt like it.

I spent way too long on this, but there's a chance I missed some for any reasons. I wasn't sure if i wanted to counted ones where he only says they have "Coppery" hair cuz sometimes that can count, and some redheads in here are described as "Coppery" later on, but i general wanted to stick to ones where they are full on described as having red hair. Sometimes Stine gets cheeky though.

Anyway, here are my findings:

ORIGINAL 62:

Diane (Stay Out of the Basement)

Evan Ross

Micheal (Say cheese and Die/Again)

Mr. Wood

Aaron (The Girl Who Cried Monster)

Jay (Welcome to Camp Nightmare)

Danny Anderson

Judith Bellwood

Dr. Frye (Piano Lessons Can Be Murder)

Cassie O' Rourke

Eddie

Girl Gary Lutz hooks up with (Why I'm Afraid of Bees)

Grandma Miriam (Scarecrow Walks at Midnight)

Danny Fletcher (Go Eat Worm)

Mrs. Walker (Phantom of the Auditorium)

Libby (Attack of the Mutant)

Kristina (My Hairiest Adventure)

The woman who gives Sue away to High Lord Executioner (A Night in Terror Tower)

Jed Kramer

Fergie Ferguson

Alicia

Linda (A Shocker on Shock Street)

Marnie (Haunted Mask 2)

Kyle and Kara (Snowman of Pasedena)

Trina O'Dell

Jessica Rowe (How I got my Shrunken Head)

Anne (Egg Monsters from Mars)

Chris (Ghost Camp)

Marisa Clarke (Legend)

Tasha McClaine (Calling All Creeps)

Crystal

Emmy and Annie (Blob that Everyone)

SERIES 2000:

This is incomplete as I don't have a couple, so thus I can't check Be Afraid, for example. But from what I could check...

Mary (Creature Teacher)

Marsha (Invasion of the Body Squeezers)

Monty Adams (and Nan, plus his clones. This may have the most if ya wanna be technical)

Jack Harding (Fright Camp)

David (Are you Terrified yet?)

Lindy (Brain Juice)

Margo Strange (Return to HorrorLand) (Also, Evan’s cameo)

Aaron Freidus

Beth Welch

Stella (Slappy’s Nightmare)

Mr. Kray (Earth Geeks Must Go) HORRORLAND:

Livy (Monster blood for breakfast)

Angela (Scream of the Haunted Mask)

Red Martinson (Fitting) & Scarlet Starlet (Dr. Maniac Vs Robby Schrwatz)

Daisy (My Friends Call Me Monster)

David (Say Cheese and Die Screaming)

Meg (Weirdo Halloween)

Sammy (The Wizard of Ooze)

HALL OF HORRORS:

Aaron (Claws)

Mr. Pinker (Night of the Giant Everything)

Laura (Birthday Party of No Return)

MOST WANTED:

Devin (Wanted: The haunted mask)

Jay Gardner (Planet of the Lawn Gnomes)

Froggy (Son of Slappy)

Richard Dreezer (Dr. Maniac Will You Now) (And apparently Dr. Maniac himself now has red hair in this one? He didn’t before, trust me, I feel like that bit was a typo)

Alec (Zombie Halloween)

Shawn (12 Screams of Christmas)

Freddy (A Nightmare on Clown Street)

Adele (Lizard of oz)

SLAPPYWORLD:

Molly (Slappy birthday to you)

Smitty (Attack of the Jack)

Karla (Please Do Not feed the weirdo)

Scarlet (Escape from shudder mansion)

Annalee (The Ghost of Slappy)

Chaz (It’s Alive! It’s Alive!)

Was gonna tally them up but eh, you get an idea of how many. And how almost every Slappyworld so far has one, dang. It seems like less appeared around HorrorLand but Most Wanted and especially Slappyworld made up for it.

Don't have too much add here, just more proof I have no life if I'm deep into something this small and dumb. But either way, it was fun to look into.

Oh and if you wanna know why Stine has such a red-head fixation: His wife has red hair.

Mystery solved. 