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Friday the 13th[]
Brenda was one of seven camp counselors hired by Steve Christy to oversee renovation and repairs at Camp Crystal Lake in 1979. Brenda earned the attention of fellow counselor Ned Rubinstein who enjoyed playing pranks on her. One such prank involved nearly hitting her with an arrow while she was setting up the archery range. On the group's first day at the camp site, they spent their break time swimming in Crystal Lake. Ned faked a drowning episode and Brenda dove into the water to save him. She dragged him back to shore and began administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, at which point, Ned began kissing her.
Brenda was also present when her co-worker Alice Hardy spotted a snake inside one of the cabins. Alice screamed and Brenda and the others came running into the cabin. The group began tripping over one another as they tried to ferret the snake out of hiding, but it was a counselor named Bill who finally got the drop on the creature, cutting it in half with a machete.
Savage Streets[]
Brenda was a tough teenage street kid from Los Angeles, who had a younger deaf-mute sister named Heather, whom she was very protective of. A drug gang known as the Scars nearly run the girls down, causing Heather to fall. In retaliation, Brenda and her friends stole the gang's convertible and filled it with garbage then abandoned it on the street. Jake - the leader of the Scars, did not take kindly to this effrontery, so they exacted revenge against Brenda's gang the Satins and stalked them at their high school where they brutally beat and gang raped Heather, putting her into a coma. They later murdered another member of Brenda's group, Francine. Pushed to her limits, Brenda engaged in a crusade of vengeance, arming herself with a crossbow, a knife and several bear traps. One by one, she hunted down each member of the Scars and exacted justice. (Savage Streets)
Saw[]
Brenda was a young blonde-haired woman with a criminal past. She was abducted by Art Blank - a henchman for John Kramer and brought to Daniel Rigg's apartment at 23 Park Place. When she awakened in the living room, she was strapped to a chair with her braided hair being fed through a device designed to scalp her. She was provided with a recording of Jigsaw's voice, who told her that a police officer would attempt to rescue her. If he succeeded, she would be provided with a knife, which she could then use to kill him. The alternative being, that she would be arrested and imprisoned for her past crimes. As predicted, Daniel Rigg found her strapped to the hair-scalping chair device wearing a pig mask covering her face. Rigg succeeded in finding the combination that would free her from the device, but then Brenda took up the knife, which had been hidden underneath a TV set and turned against him. Rigg fought back, causing her even more bodily harm. He left her in the apartment where she ultimately bled to death. (Saw IV)