WhenHigh School Musicalpremiered on the Disney Channel in 2006 , it make a pop culture godsend . Kids and adults likewise enjoyed it   — until kids sangtheHigh School Musicalsoundtrackfrom top to bottom for the millionth time , of course . The news report , about a book voguish daughter and her jock boyfriend touch base through the school musical , spawned two sequels ( one in dramatic art ) , a concert turn , and more recently , a Disney+ series .

The first movie presses the importance of seeing beyond high shoal ingroup and following what stool you glad . Throughout the trilogy , all of the theatrical role get their version of a well-chosen ending . If the movies were n’t melodious romantic comedies for the tween hardening , but horror movies instead , not everyone would get that happy ending . In fact , it ’s unlikely that the character who appear in all three parts of the trilogy would even pull through through a slasher movie .

Jason

Jason is n’t one of the core six characters who gets a strong arc across that movies . He primarily hold up as a background fibre , is friends with Troy and Chad , is on the hoops squad , and he ’s there for a few musical number . Jason is , unfortunately for him , spendable .

He ’s also an easy persona to mark for an early death because , while everyone knows him , they are n’t all near to him . Jason would make for a surprise death that would shock the other East High students and put them on border without disrupting their stories too much to set out , fillingthe slasher picture tropeof an opening demise to put the consultation on edge .

Chad

Thanks to pic likeScream , the upright friend of the virile Pb tend to be an easy target as a red herring for the villain . With Chad ’s ire at the existence of musicals ,   displeasure with   his best friend dating a girl who is n’t an athlete , and drop so much sentence chasten Troy alternatively of helping him , he would be a smart character for the audience to suspect .

Those suspicions would be put to rest early , however , as the killer would likely target him for getting in the way . Chad in all probability would n’t even believe there was a killer until it was too tardy .

Sharpay

Sharpay Evans would utterly retrieve she would be the last one standing in an East High slasher situation . She ’d ensure to take plenty of pictures of herself to get her best angle while she was in subsister mode . Unfortunately , Sharpay Evanswould also likely be a primary object of the killer .

As queen bee of the school , despite most of her classmates not particularly like her , she ’s already the character a slasher motion-picture show killer would go after . She ’s also driven , does n’t take other people ’s advice in earnest , and retrieve she ’s immune to getting in worry . Sharpay would either think the killer was after her all along , or she would cogitate she was too good for the sea wolf to go after , and that would be her fall .

Ryan

Ryan takes a long prison term to step out of his sister ’s apparition . Raised on dancing , singing , and the limelight , Ryan expend most of his timeplaying back up to his sister and not getting the chance to glow . He get that prospect in the second movie of the trilogy , regain himself right at home as a choreographer and director instead of on the stage himself .

He would likely retrieve himself a little lost after the slayer takes out Sharpay , but would also start to find out just who he could be without her . It would n’t last long for him . He ’d make it through the first film in a slasher trilogy with a possibly mortal wound , only to bite the dust in the second movie . It ’s leisurely to imagine him try on to tap dance his way out of the killer ’s grip .

Zeke

Zeke does n’t get a lot of screen time in theHigh School Musicalmovies . What the audience know about him boils down to three things : he plays basketball , he wish Sharpay , and he loves to broil . Zeke would be a theatrical role the audience would n’t get to know well in the first picture show . He ’d stay out of the killer ’s way by focus bake and would become nearer to the subsister during the events of the second pic . That ’s where he ’d find himself in trouble .

His by-line would bring itself to a really tense standoff in the kitchen with the killer where he tried to apply every baking tool at his disposal to defend himself , only to lose the fight . His cookies would be ruin too .

Martha

Like Zeke , Martha only has a few defining characteristics in the movie . She plays the violoncello , is a terrific dancer , and is a mo of a nerd since she ’s run across hang out with Taylor , who does n’t colligate with anyone who ca n’t keep up with her academically .

Martha is just enough of a background knowledge character to fly the coop the Orcinus orca ’s notice in the initial bloodbath . She ’s also well - liked enough that her demise would break the hearts of plenty of East High ’s pupil , make her a certain bang for the killer in either the second or third chapter of the trilogy , just as the audience gets to sleep with her easily .

Troy

For a multiplication of movie watchers , Zac Efron playstheromantic lead inTroy Bolton . He ’s a charmer , but he ’s also one ofthe bad decision - makersof all time . It takes him eternally to make a viewpoint and estimate out what he need   — and then he has to figure it out all over again in every single one of his movies .

Because he ’s the amatory trail and the king of via media in the first movie , he makes it to the sequel . He might even make it to the final chapter of the trilogy , but there ’s no elbow room he ’s outlive . In order for Gabriella to move on beyond the trauma of her slasher mellow shoal days , the beau who could n’t figure out if he lie with basketball , the stage , or her more would have to go .

Gabriella

With Gabriella and Troy as the romanticist leads of High School Musical , it might be strange not to see them as the fictitious character most likely to survive   — especially since Troy already met his end . Gabriella Montezwould definitely make it through the first two movies of a slasher trilogy as the star with her intelligence and resource . It ’s the third moving-picture show that would give her the big challenge .

Just as the audience would trust she finally outsmarted the killer and gets to live a life of peace , Gabriella would be the one to live up to that final jump scare . She ’d be the last body in the trilogy , leaving way for characters just as fresh as her , but who did n’t get the limelight as often , to hold up .

Taylor

Taylor becomes Gabriella ’s best ally early on . She talks the new girl into joining the academic decathlon , and though she ’s not sold on musicals , she always does whatever she can to help her friend fulfill her dream .

Taylor is the woman with a programme . She ’s the one who help Gabriella plan a way to pull off her audition in the first flick when there are multiple programing conflict . Taylor know what she wants in life , and , much like Sharpay , she does n’t get anything fend in her way . She just does n’t jump at the spotlight in any of her activities , allowing her to fly under the Orcinus orca ’s radar a little fleck longer than everyone else .

Kelsi

Most often in the High School melodious trilogy , Kelsi can be found at the pianissimo . She spends her metre in the movies make Sharpay , Troy , and Gabriella count good , bolstering everyone else with her bent for publish them the perfect song to become their spokesperson .

Everyone like Kelsi   — except for maybe Sharpay since she write her best music for Gabriella . Kelsi tries her good not to cause conflict . Just as voguish as Gabriella and Taylor , she also manages to survive all of gamey school with Sharpay constantly on her back . Kelsi has all themakings of a final girlfriend .

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