Scream 2022's Big Death Was Perfectly Set Up By A Scream 2 Joke
Warning: SPOILERS for Scream (2022)!
Scream 2022 killed off Dewey Riley in a surprising twist after he survived so many other Ghostface killings, but the circumstances of his death were perfectly set up by a Scream 2 joke. One of the best-repeated gags in the Scream franchise is that the main characters refuse to die, with Sidney, Gale, and Dewey — before Scream 2022 — surviving countless stab wounds, gunshots, and brutal injuries that would have incapacitated anyone in the real world. Scream’s legacy characters’ ability to defy death has made them almost supernatural, so it was beginning to seem like none of the main characters could ever truly be killed by Ghostface.
While Randy Meeks, a returning legacy character from Scream, died in Scream 2 and Scream 4’s Judy Hicks died in Scream 2022, it’s been rare that multi-film characters are actually killed off in the franchise. Since it seems that iconic final girl Sidney Prescott will never die, Scream 2022 decided to kill off another beloved character: Dewey Riley. In a final stand against Ghostface, Dewey decided to go back into the hospital and take on Mikey Madison's Scream 2022 killer Amber Freeman himself, only for her to jump back to life and stab Dewey enough times to make it clear that he had finally died. Dewey’s death was surprising considering the sheer amount of times he has miraculously survived, but a Scream 2 joke actually set up why he could no longer spring back to life.
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At the end of Scream 2, Cotton Weary arrived just in time to save Sidney from Mrs. Loomis, with Gale Weathers also revealing herself to be alive after a gunshot wound. As Cotton saw Gale standing up with no indication of
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