4. Wendy Torrance
Despite the timid appearance of Wendy Torrance and her clearly quite gentle soul, she doesn’t hesitate to rise to the occasion when her husband goes insane and tries to kill both her and her young son. Despite his intimidating presence and considerably larger size, Wendy still manages to get the best of Jack on multiple occasions, knocking him down the stairs with a baseball bat, stabbing him in the hand, and ultimately leaving him to freeze to death.
Stephen King had a lot of well publicised issues with Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, but regardless of what side you fall on, there’s no denying he did Wendy justice.
