Tara Carpenter is the deuteragonist of Scream (2022 film) and its sequel (2023). While home alone, the "elevated horror" fan becomes the first target of the 2022 Legacy Killings. Despite this, she survives, an inverse to the tradition of the previous four film openings.
Her survival is intentional, however. She is lured as live bait for her estranged, elder sister Sam Carpenter. Sam returns and reveals she is actually her half-sister (maternally), as Sam is original Ghostface, Billy's daughter. The revelation caused Tara's biological father to abandon them both (when Tara was around 8). The estranged sisters put the past behind them to survive the 25th anniversary killings, where Tara's Woodsboro High friendship group are suspects.
Tara's life is also saved by original legacy survivor, Dewey Riley, who sacrifices his life to save her. Her asthma condition and required inhaler become a key element to the film's climax. Her best friend, Amber Freeman, and Sam's boyfriend, both a secret romantic couple, worked together to plan the honorary requel murders. Tara kills Amber in revenge.
One year after the 2022 murders, Tara moves to New York City for college where she is followed by Sam shortly after. Tara has since cut off her mother after she cut off Sam and Sam is now overprotective of Tara, must to her dismay. Tara wants nothing than to just go back to a normal life and even starts a relationship with Chad. However, a new Ghostface killer soon begins targeting them. They are eventually unmasked to be Wayne Bailey, father of Richie and his kids, and Richie's siblings, Quinn Bailey and Ethan Landry, who all want revenge against Sam for killing Richie.
She is portrayed by Jenna Ortega, who played Harley Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, Brooklynn in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and Wednesday Addams and her ancestor, Goody Addams, in Wednesday and Phoebe Atwell in The Babysitter: The Killer Queen.
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