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!!Characters in ''Agent Carter'':

* [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve]]: '''Peggy Carter''', Daniel Sousa, Jack Thompson, Roger Dooley, Ray Krzeminski, Yauch, Mike Li, Rick Ramirez, Rose Roberts, Dr. Aloysius Samberly.

* Companies
** [[Characters/MCUCompaniesStarkIndustries Stark Industries]]: '''Edwin Jarvis''', Howard Stark, Ana Jarvis, Jason Wilkes, Anton Vanko.

* [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve]]: Peggy Carter, Daniel Sousa, Jack Thompson, Roger Dooley, Ray Krzeminski, Yauch, Mike Li, Rick Ramirez, Rose Roberts, Dr. Aloysius Samberly.
* [[Characters/MCUCompaniesStarkIndustries Stark Industries]]

!!Characters in ''Agents Carter'':

* [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve]]

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This page lists characters that appear in the ''Series/AgentCarter'' TV series. For characters primarily in the ''Captain America'' films, see Characters.CaptainAmericaFilms.

'''Warning: Only spoilers from the current season (2) are whited out.'''
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!Stark Industries & Household

[[folder:Edwin Jarvis]]
!!''Edwin Jarvis''
->'''Portrayed By:''' James D'Arcy
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"An ideal butler provides service without being asked."'']]

->'''Peggy''': You're new to espionage, aren't you?\\
'''Jarvis''': Far from it. Last summer, I caught the cook pocketing the good spoons.

Howard Stark's butler, lent to Peggy in order to aid her in clearing Stark's name. Posthumously ended up becoming the basis for [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]]'s A.I., [[Characters/IronManFilms J.A.R.V.I.S.]].
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He's younger and far more attractive than the balding, portly man from the comics.
* AdaptationalWimp: His comic counterpart was a veteran of the Royal Air Force and a former boxing champion. Here he's mostly a NonActionGuy, though he does have military experience, as well as some (non-combat) flight hours.
* {{Adorkable}}: Whenever he's uncomfortable.
* BadassDriver: He [[OutrunTheFireball outruns the explosion]] that reduces a Roxxon refinery into compressed rubble and only barely escapes.
* BattleButler: Averted in Season 1. Jarvis doesn't have any combat-related experience whatsoever, but helps out Peggy anyway. Season 2 shows that he's been ''trying'' to become this by taking up weightliftng, Judo, and Marquis of Queensbury rules Boxing, though he still has a long way to go.
* BeleagueredAssistant: To Howard Stark, who uses him for everything from breaking up with girlfriends to illegally spying on government organizations.
* CallForward: He provides the test message for Howard's verbal burglar alarm, and is quite nonplussed at the idea of his disembodied voice continuing in this role.
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:His talent as a forger.]]
* CombatPragmatist: After taking up fighting training, he decides to make a specialty out of a move that requires him to first be knocked on his back.
* TheComicallySerious: While he's an snark expert, Jarvis also causes many laughs by [[StiffUpperLip trying to retain his British coolness]] being stuck in embarrassing situations.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: During the war he was the batman[[note]]an enlisted soldier assigned to be an officer's servant[[/note]] to a general. He met his future wife Ana in Budapest, and begged the general to sign letters of transit to get her out to save her from the Nazis since she was Jewish. He refused, so Jarvis forged the signature himself. He got charged with treason which was dropped (due to Howard's intervention), but that didn't stop him from getting a dishonorable discharge.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[SnarkToSnarkCombat Matches Carter's snarkiness word for word]]. He's not just one to her, either. This is his response to being arrested by SSR:
-->'''Jarvis:''' Won't this be novel? I haven't been in the ''back'' of a car in years.
* DeathByAdaptation: The MCU version of Edwin Jarvis has already passed away even before ''Film/IronMan1''. In the comics, he's still very much alive and he is also the butler for ComicBook/TheAvengers.
* DecompositeCharacter: Largely similar to his comic-book counterpart, only removed to an earlier time, thereby disallowing association with the Avengers, which is instead fulfilled by the JARVIS AI.
* HappilyMarried: With his wife, Ana.
* HouseHusband: Appears to be this while his wife works, fittingly for a butler.
* TheJeeves: To Howard. In addition to being an excellent and reliable butler, he also has enough scientific knowledge to double as Howard's lab assistant when required.
* JumpedAtTheCall: He very much enjoys his adventures with Peggy.
* LastNameBasis: With everyone except his wife, as Howard's his boss, he's Peggy's assistant, and everyone else is a veritable stranger to him.
* TheMedic: Jarvis's medical knowledge often comes in handy such as stitching up Peggy's wounds.
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: He claims that, aside from "Danger", "Charm" is his middle name.
* NiceGuy: Jarvis is impeccably polite and respectful to everyone, occasional snarking aside.
* NonActionGuy: At least at first, he doesn't fight.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jarvis usually both excessively polite and comedic, so seeing him brought to tears by [[spoiler:Ana being shot by Whitney Frost in season 2]] is appropriately jarring. Even more drastic is how dark he becomes after this, being consumed by vengeance towards [[spoiler:Whitney]]. This culminates in him [[spoiler:straight up gunning down Whitney in cold blood, which, unfortunately, doesn't work]].
* ParentalSubstitute: He was this to Tony, since Howard was never around. There's a reason why Tony named his A.I. after him. [[spoiler:Also, his wife was rendered barren when Whitney shot her, so Tony was the closest thing to a son that Jarvis could ever have.]]
* PinocchioNose: While driving Peggy to the office to steal the Blitzkrieg Button, he compulsively rubs at his right ear when he's dissembling. Peggy notices it.
* PlatonicLifePartners: He and Peggy eventually become this as the series continues.
* PrecisionFStrike: When he's trying to convince Peggy that Dooley's death isn't her fault, his StiffUpperLip fractures just a bit, blaming it on "Mr. Stark's ''bloody'' inventions."
* TheReliableOne: Filling a similar role that Pepper would serve to Tony, Jarvis is Howard's most trusted confidant. He also ends up filling this role for Carter.
* RetiredBadass: Revealed to have been active during World War II and still have the combat training to back it up.
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Shooting Whitney Frost in a fit of rage did not help matters.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: What he did to help Ana, as well as assisting Peggy.
* SecretKeeper: For Peggy's non-SSR spywork but with Howard as well. [[spoiler:The both of them seem to share information of something that Peggy doesn't need to know about.]]
* ServileSnarker: Helpful sarcasm to Peggy and presumably to Howard, as well. When Peggy tells him that she doesn't want his help (after he helped her) he responds, "The ideal butler performs services without being asked."
* SharpDressedMan: Always sharply dressed.
* {{Sidekick}}: He's Peggy's right-hand-man.
* StiffUpperLip: See his calm and relaxed description to Carter regarding the effects of a weapon that could lay to waste an entire block.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Howard for what he did for him during the war. Not that it stops him from giving Howard a WhatTheHellHero [[spoiler: for lying to Peggy about Steve's blood.]]
** By "SNAFU" he [[spoiler: admits that Howard's inventions have only brought bad things.]]
** Breaks this a bit in the season one finale by [[spoiler:giving Peggy the vial of Steve's blood without informing Howard.]]
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[[folder:Jason Wilkes]]
!!''Jason Wilkes''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Reggie Austin
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Dr. Jason Wilkes is a SelfMadeMan and a genius scientist working for Isodyne Energy, who unwillingly becomes involved in a mysterious murder case that will change his life forever.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: He shares the same name as a villain in the comics. While he's [[spoiler: done some less than reputable things such as selling out to Whitney Frost and threatening to shoot Peggy so he can better understand Zero Matter and his presumed new abilities, he shows remorse to Peggy, doesn't want to hurt others, and seems to be more of a victim than a villain.]]
* {{Adorkable}}: The first thing he does when he finds an unknown woman wandering around his workplace? Take her to his lab to try out his moonshine and gush over the science of chemical manipulation. Then actually ask who she is and what she's doing there.
* AgeLift: His comic counterpart was an older man.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Is rendered invisible and intangible by the Zero Matter explosion. Howard Stark does devise a chemical that can make him visible in short bursts, but any time else he literally cannot even speak due to having intangible vocal chords.]]
* BadassBookworm: He served in the Navy during the war as an engineer, and can still handle himself.
* ContainmentField: [[spoiler:With Stark's lab, he's able to build chamber that lets him turn solid again inside of it. Another dose of Zero Matter from Whitney Frost makes it so he can step outside of it and yet remain tangible, though not permanently.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: InUniverse, this is the reason he's hesitant to betray Isodyne, since - even though they're run by the bad guys - they were the only scientific laboratory that was willing to hire a black man into R&D after the war.
* HotScientist: A male example.
* LoveInterest: For Peggy in Season 2.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:The explosion caused by Zero Matter appeared to have vaporized him into another plane of reality. However, in reality it just made him both [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]] and [[{{Intangibility}} intangible]].]]
* RaceLift: He's a white man in the comics, but is African-American here.
* SelfMadeMan: He was born into a family of agricultural workers in Southern California's orange groves, and was a physicist with a doctorate and history of military service by the time of his adulthood. Extra impressive, considering the prejudice he experiences as a black man in TheForties due to ValuesDissonance. However, Whitney Frost claims none of this mattered to Isodyne; they hired him only because they needed someone expendable to blame/kill should they had to coverup their stockpile of Zero Matter.
* SpiderSense: [[spoiler:His connection to Zero Matter allows him to sense where its locations, letting Peggy's team seek bodies laced with it, including Whitney Frost.]]
* TokenMinority: He's the only character with a black actor to be listed in the main cast.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Jason Wilkes was extremely minor in the comics with only one appearance ever. Even Leet Brannis appeared more than once.
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[[folder:Ana Jarvis]]
!!''Ana Jarvis''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Lotte Verbeek
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Edwin Jarvis' wife.
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* BreakTheCutie: {{Averted|Trope}}, Ana has a pretty traumatic time of it before and during the series, culminating in [[spoiler: her being shot in the stomach and losing any hope of having children someday]]. But, even though she's upset by the news, she continues to look on the bright side, and it seems that the bad things that happen to her never manage to change who she is.
* TheGhost: Does not appear on-screen in the first season.
* HappilyMarried: She and Jarvis are downright ''adorable'' together. [[spoiler: The strength of their marriage is shown when Ana is shot by Whitney. Jarvis is downright devestated and fears for his wife's life, even shoots Whitney in retaliation. During her recovery, he vows to protect her with his life and makes sure she is well taken care of even on the mission. When he tries to stay behind with Ana while Peggy and the others deal with Whitney, Ana shows her support of his adventures by insisting he go with Peggy to stop Whitney. She can also tell he's hiding something...that Ana had her womb punctured by the gunshot and now they can't have children.]]
* HiddenDepths: When we finally meet her, she seems to be a very typical, if not even air-headedly naive housewife. In reality, however, she's very smart, integrated with Edwin Jarvis's unusual line of work, and is pretty much poised to be Peggy's own version of [[Franchise/JamesBond Q]].
* InformedJudaism: She is Jewish, which is why she fled Hungary when the Nazis took over.
* LawOfInverseFertility: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that Jarvis and Ana aren't actively trying for a baby and apparently haven't even decided if they want kids yet, [[spoiler:but the news that she's now infertile is upsetting to them, though their relationship doesn't seem to suffer because of it.]]
* NiceGirl: Practically everyone, in-universe and in the fandom, is in agreement that Ana is ''just lovely''.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She's supposed to be Hungarian but the actress uses her natural Dutch accent.
* ThePollyanna: For someone who's survived Nazi-occupied Hungary, she's very bubbly and stable. In fact, she's very hands-on with her husband when they have intimate moments... [[TheComicallySerious and even when Peggy's watching]].
* SickeninglySweethearts: She and Jarvis have been married for at least a couple of years when the series starts, but it's obvious from the get-go that they're still very much in the honeymoon phase, with no intention of leaving it behind anytime soon. On Ana's side it's partly serious, partly PlayedForLaughs to gently mock the uptight sensibilities of any nearby Brits.
* TheVoice: In her first appearance, we hear her calling to Jarvis from offscreen but we never see her.
* {{Troll}}: She loves her husband... and loves ruffling his oh-so-British feathers by snogging him in front of guests. She also doesn't resist the opportunity to poke fun at Peggy and Edwin's "compromising" sparring position.
* WarRefugees: Escaped Hungary due to the Nazi occupation.
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[[folder:Anton Vanko]]
!!''Anton Vanko''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Yevgeni Lazarev, Costa Ronin
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' (portrayed by Lazarev), ''Agent Carter'' (portrayed by Ronin)

Howard Stark's Russian partner in inventions, until a falling-out led to Vanko being deported to Siberia. He is also the father of Ivan Vanko.
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* CallForward: To ''Film/IronMan2'' in which his death drives his son Ivan to seek revenge on Tony Stark.
* TheLabRat: For Stark and then for Peggy. Jarvis introduces her to him when she needs help tracking down the bad guys from the remains of the nitramine bomb.
* TokenEnemyMinority: A Russian-American character, on the protagonists' side, unconnected to the Russian Leviathan organization.
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Howard Stark's butler, lent to Peggy in order to aid her in clearing Stark's name. Posthumously ended up becoming the basis for [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]]'s [[Characters/IronManFilms J.A.R.V.I.S.]] A.I.

Howard Stark's Russian partner in inventions, until a falling-out led to Vanko being deported to Siberia.

!Nazis

[[folder:Ernst Mueller]]
!!''Colonel Ernst Mueller''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JackConley
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Ernst Mueller was a Nazi German officer during World War II who was captured in the aftermath of the War and hanged for his crimes against humanity.
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* AffablyEvil: For a Nazi officer who is sentenced to be hanged, he's quite polite while talking to Chief Dooley.
* BlackComedy: He's due for the death penalty, and lampshades his use of GallowsHumor.
-->'''Mueller:''' ''[as doctors measure him]'' They are measuring me for my new necktie.
* BreakThemByTalking: Dooley gets Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.
* ColonelBadass: His rank was Colonel and since he mentioned he killed many people during the war, it can be assumed he was pretty badass.
* CyanidePill: Subverted. Dooley offers him this if he gives info about what happens in the Battle of Finow. It turns out to be just a breath mint.
* MythologyGag: In the comics, Ernst Mueller was one of the members of Baron Strucker's Blitzkrieg Squad. The episode he appeared in the show is titled "The Blitzkrieg Button".
* NotMeThisTime: He ''was'' in Finow, but by the time he arrived there, his Russian enemies are already massacred by unknown attackers (actually themselves against each other, due to under influence of [[HatePlague Midnight Oil]]).
* ToiletHumor: When he offered water to Dooley, he pointed to his cell's toilet.
* VillainsNeverLie: When he tells Dooley all the Russians at Finow were already dead before his forces arrived, Dooley briefly wonders if he's lying to hide his crimes there. Mueller responds that he's killed men, women, and children, and there'd be no point in hiding a minor crime when he's already sentenced to die for his many worse ones.
* WouldHitAGirl: He mentioned that he killed women.
* WouldHurtAChild: He also mentioned that he killed children.
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!Civilians

[[folder:Angela "Angie" Martinelli]]
!!''Angie Martinelli''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LyndsyFonseca

An aspiring actress who works as a waitress at an automat Peggy frequents, who invites her to stay at the Griffith Hotel.

* TheBroCode: Gender-flipped. Her previous best friend abruptly left her after getting married, so Angie is distrustful of friends who appear to be dating. At times she raises suspicion about Jarvis, but Peggy reassures her that they're just business partners.
* DeadpanSnarker: She always has a sarcastic remark ready.
-->'''Dottie:''' ''[about the boarding house]'' This place is pretty swell, huh? Seems like one big happy family.\\
'''Angie:''' That wears off.
* DemotedToExtra: Her role had to be significantly reduced in Season 2 as Fonseca got a role on another show.
* DramaQueen: Peggy calls her this when she says she's "too consumed by ennui" to go to work.
* FakeGuestStar: Lyndsy Fonseca regularly appears and yet she's not included in the "regular cast" line-up.
* LargeHam: She '''''is''''' an actress after all. Her acting comes into play when she [[spoiler:helps Peggy in evading the SSR.]]
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She had no idea about Peggy’s double life until “A Sin To Err”, although she claims that she suspected something was off.
-->'''Angie:''' I knew you didn't work for the phone company!
* MuggleBestFriend: She quickly becomes Peggy's closest friend but she has no idea about the world of espionage she's involved in. After what happened to Colleen, though, Peggy is reluctant to let her any closer.
* NiceGirl: Very friendly, cheerful and helpful to Peggy.
* TheNicknamer: She calls Peggy "English," refers to Jarvis as "Mr Fancy," and calls Dottie "Iowa."
* TheNotLoveInterest: Fulfills several of the roles typical of love interests in action, spy, and superhero films. She gets annoyed when the hero's double-life keeps them from spending time together, provides Peggy with emotional support after [[spoiler:Ray is killed]], and helps Peggy [[spoiler:escape from the SSR agents hunting her without ever questioning her innocence]].
* PutOnABus: Inverted; The rest of the cast (and the show itself) hopped a bus to LA, leaving Angie behind.
* SheReallyCanAct: In-universe. We first see Angie practicing for an audition, but her line reading is fairly stiff. All her previous auditions went badly too, and Angie seriously considers quitting acting and going into secretary school. When she needs to distract the SSR, though, Angie wills herself to turn on the waterworks and burst into tears over a fake anecdote about her grandma, making the agents too uncomfortable to keep questioning her. Peggy overhears it, and encourages her to keep trying out for theater after that.
* WaitingForABreak: She works as a waitress in a restaurant while waiting for her big break in show business.

[[folder:Miriam Fry]]
!!''Miriam Fry''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Meagen Fay
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

The owner of the Griffith Hotel, a boarding house for women in which Peggy Carter lives.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first she seems like a strict but fair landlady, then we realize she's anything but.
* ControlFreak: Has a strict curfew for her residents and insists that no gentlemen callers are allowed above the first floor.
* CrankyLandlord: Strictly controls the schedules of the girls in her boarding house and forbids men higher than the first floor.
* FemaleMisogynist: She treats her tenants (all grown women with jobs) like particularly dim children, because she doesn't believe they're capable of knowing what's best for them. She also seems to believe that once a lady ''has'' compromised her virtue, she's unworthy of basic respect.
* GrandeDame: Not an aristocrat, but she's very concerned with respectability and a bit of a snob as well, and she has the overbearing attitude.
* HiddenDepths: She tries to bring up UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud to rationalize her oppressive rules.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite knowing who Sigmund Freud is, she claims its "unbecoming" of a lady to know about him.
* {{Jerkass}}: At breakfast she publicly humiliates a tenant who had a gentleman caller in her room and evicts her on the spot, to serve as an example to the others.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She forbids men above the first floor of the Griffith because she believes women cannot control their sexual urges until they are married or reach a certain age. She's pretty nasty about this, but when Peggy sneaks Howard into the building, he quickly becomes ''acquainted'' with many of the residents, and he implies that this is not his first time at the Griffith Hotel. She was also AccidentallyAccurate in keeping Mr. Mink from seeing Peggy, not that it stopped him from breaking in.
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: She treats the tenants like they were school girls in a dormitory rather than adults living on their own.
* SatelliteCharacter: Is only relevant to the story as Peggy's landlady. Once Peggy moves out, she ceases to be important and stops appearing.
* SingleIssueLandlord: Basically one rule and that rule is "no men above the first floor ever".
* SkewedPriorities: She's more affected by Peggy making a hole on her wall than about having a tenant who [[spoiler:is being pursued by federal agents]].
* SlutShaming: Public evictions for... ''daring'' to have a man in your room.
* SourPrude: She believes that AllWomenAreLustful so they are incapable of controlling their urges until they’re married or reach a certain age. Hence why they need someone like her to keep them in line.
* SpearCounterpart: As much a FemaleMisogynist as she is, she's also living proof that misogyny isn't the only brand of sexism to be featured in the series.
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[[folder: Violet]]
!!''Violet''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SarahBolger
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

A nurse in LA and Sousa's new girlfriend.
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* DisposableFiance: [[spoiler:She cheerily accepts Sousa's marriage proposal, but calls it off when she realizes his real feelings are for Peggy.]]
* HiddenDepths: One really doesn’t expect a 1940s nurse to be so into surfing.
* HospitalHottie: She’s a nurse who happens to be gorgeous.
* NiceGirl: Violet is cheerful and friendly to everyone she meets, to the point that she seems to be great pals with Rose. [[spoiler:She even aids in saving Peggy's life, right then and there, where the wounded agent is suddenly brought into her house.]]
* OnTheRebound: [[spoiler:After seeing Sousa refusing to leave Peggy's side when she's injured, Violet realizes that Sousa moved to LA and started dating her in an attempt to forget about Peggy.]]
* TerritorialSmurfette: Subverted. Sousa worries that she and Peggy won't get along, but they're perfectly friendly with each other.
* WomanInWhite: The first time we meet her she is in a spotless white nurse's uniform, which together with her very pale skin and light hair makes her stand out that much more in contrast with everything around her.
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[[folder:Colleen O'Brien]]
!!''Colleen O'Brien''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ashley Hinshaw
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Peggy's first roommate.
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* BoomHeadshot: How she was killed.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: At the beginning of the second episode, we see an obituary stating she "died suddenly in her bed". Well, she did die in her bed all right, and it was sudden - but it involved a bullet to the middle of her forehead.
* DiesWideOpen: Peggy finds her corpse with a shocked look in her face.
* IllGirl: Colleen was rather sick when the show starts, and worried she might have tuberculosis. It's implied to be because of substandard conditions at the factory she worked at.
* KillTheCutie: Colleen was one of the nicest people Peggy knew, and still optimistic despite their hardships. Because of her death Peggy is reluctant to let other friends of hers be put in danger.
* MuggleBestFriend: Deconstructed. Colleen had no idea Peggy was an SSR agent, believing she worked at the phone company. This lack of knowledge about her friend's dangerous job led to her death.
* NiceGirl: Colleen was friendly and compassionate to Peggy, and often suggested friend dates they could go on after work.
* OneShotCharacter: Due to dying in the same episode she is introduced in.
* SacrificialLamb: Colleen dies early to emphasize the danger of Leviathan, whose agent was ruthless enough to follow Peggy home and murder her sleeping friend.
* StuffedInTheFridge: Killed by an assassin after Peggy, which prompts her ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies attitude.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She is killed in the very episode she first appears, after having two scenes. Even Peggy admitted she had only known her for a few months.
* WrenchWench: Worked as a riveter during the war but was replaced by a man. By then she was much more experienced and had to teach him how to use it.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Downplayed. Colleen wanted to see Peggy get married, and viewed staying independent as the road to spinster-dom.
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!Nazis

[[folder:Ernst Mueller]]
!!''Colonel Ernst Mueller''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JackConley
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Ernst Mueller was a Nazi German officer during World War II who was captured in the aftermath of the War and hanged for his crimes against humanity.
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* AffablyEvil: For a Nazi officer who is sentenced to be hanged, he's quite polite while talking to Chief Dooley.
* BlackComedy: He's due for the death penalty, and lampshades his use of GallowsHumor.
-->'''Mueller:''' ''[as doctors measure him]'' They are measuring me for my new necktie.
* BreakThemByTalking: Dooley gets Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.
* ColonelBadass: His rank was Colonel and since he mentioned he killed many people during the war, it can be assumed he was pretty badass.
* CyanidePill: Subverted. Dooley offers him this if he gives info about what happens in the Battle of Finow. It turns out to be just a breath mint.
* MythologyGag: In the comics, Ernst Mueller was one of the members of Baron Strucker's Blitzkrieg Squad. The episode he appeared in the show is titled "The Blitzkrieg Button".
* NotMeThisTime: He ''was'' in Finow, but by the time he arrived there, his Russian enemies are already massacred by unknown attackers (actually themselves against each other, due to under influence of [[HatePlague Midnight Oil]]).
* ToiletHumor: When he offered water to Dooley, he pointed to his cell's toilet.
* VillainsNeverLie: When he tells Dooley all the Russians at Finow were already dead before his forces arrived, Dooley briefly wonders if he's lying to hide his crimes there. Mueller responds that he's killed men, women, and children, and there'd be no point in hiding a minor crime when he's already sentenced to die for his many worse ones.
* WouldHitAGirl: He mentioned that he killed women.
* WouldHurtAChild: He also mentioned that he killed children.
[[/folder]]

!Assorted Criminals

[[folder:Jerome Zandow]]
!!''Jerome Zandow''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Rob Mars
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Jerome Zandow was hired by Leet Brannis to guard The Heartbreak as it contained the inventions that Brannis stole from Howard Stark's mansion. He was killed alongside Ray by the Hidden Killer.
----
* DeathBySecretIdentity: Just after he started to reveal that Peggy was at The Heartbreak before the SSR, he and Kreminski were shot.
* GiantMook: He was the biggest and strongest crook Peggy had fought up till that point, and so strong he completely overpowered her. It took Jarvis distracting him and Peggy using the Constrictor afterwards to take him down.
* HisNameIs: Almost revealed who attacked him to Ray until the Hidden Killer showed up.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Was killed for this reason; can't let someone who guarded the Heartbreak live.
* MythologyGag: Jerome is based on [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Zandow_%28Earth-616%29 Zandow the Strong-Man]], a circus performer in 40s Marvel Comics who was hired by the Nazis. When arresting him, Thompson mentions that Jerome used to work as a strong-man performer at Coney Island.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Only known as "Zandow" in the comics.
* UnexpectedCharacter: In the comics, Zandow is a member of the WWII-era of the Circus of Crime. Again, just like Leet Brannis, not many people expect his appearance in this series.
* WouldHitAGirl: He boasts to Peggy that he's not afraid of fighting a woman.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He frantically claims to his would-be-killer that he didn't tell Ray anything. It doesn't save him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Otto Mink]]
!!''Mr. Otto Mink''
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/57b3dbe3dbb08e085bca7d39868e4cbe.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"The time for money has passed. No one crosses me."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Gregory Sporleder
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

->''"Well, Mr. Mink is a greedy, black-market smuggler, sure, but he got me back into the country, and he's predictable in his greed."''
-->-- '''Howard Stark'''

A smuggler hired to sneak Howard Stark back into the US. After Peggy and Jarvis defy his demand for a higher ransom, he goes hunting for them.
----
* BadBoss: Mink executes his own men for failing him.
* BigBadWannabe: He's a fairly intimidating criminal, but he's in way over his head when it comes to Carter's world of spies and subterfuge. In the end, he's killed off before Carter is even aware he's after her.
* BlondeGuysAreEvil: Sports a very creepy Aryan look.
* GatlingGood: Carries a weapon that resembles an old-fashioned [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper-box pepperbox revolver]] but functions like a miniature Gatling gun.
* {{Greed}}: It's what prompts him into MovingTheGoalPosts. Howard Stark comments on his greed.
* HonorBeforeReason: He's more concerned with the issue of personal pride than money.
* MovingTheGoalposts: Demands more money than what was agreed upon after getting Stark into the country.
* NeckSnap: How he's killed by Dottie.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills two of his own men for getting beaten by Howard and Carter.
[[/folder]]

!SSR

[[folder:Agent Peggy Carter]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Agent Daniel Sousa]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Jack Thompson]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Deputy Director Roger Dooley]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Ray Krzeminski]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Yauch]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Mike Li]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent Rick Ramirez]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Aloysius Samberly]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve Strategic Scientific Reserve page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Howard Stark]]
!!''Howard Stark''

See [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse his character tropes on the Marvel Cinematic Universe page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bernard Stark]]
-->See the [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse main page]]

!Howling Commandos

[[folder:Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader "Dum Dum" Dugan]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitaryHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos page.]]

[[folder:Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitaryHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos page.]]

[[folder:"Happy" Sam Sawyer]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitaryHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos page.]]

[[folder:Jonathan "Junior" Juniper]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitaryHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos page.]]

!United States Department of War

[[folder:Vernon Masters]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]

!British Armed Forces

[[folder:Michael Carter]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary British Armed Forces]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fred Wells]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary British Armed Forces]]
[[/folder]]

!Civilians

[[folder:Angela "Angie" Martinelli]]
!!''Angie Martinelli''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LyndsyFonseca

An aspiring actress who works as a waitress at an automat Peggy frequents, who invites her to stay at the Griffith Hotel.

* TheBroCode: Gender-flipped. Her previous best friend abruptly left her after getting married, so Angie is distrustful of friends who appear to be dating. At times she raises suspicion about Jarvis, but Peggy reassures her that they're just business partners.
* DeadpanSnarker: She always has a sarcastic remark ready.
-->'''Dottie:''' ''[about the boarding house]'' This place is pretty swell, huh? Seems like one big happy family.\\
'''Angie:''' That wears off.
* DemotedToExtra: Her role had to be significantly reduced in Season 2 as Fonseca got a role on another show.
* DramaQueen: Peggy calls her this when she says she's "too consumed by ennui" to go to work.
* FakeGuestStar: Lyndsy Fonseca regularly appears and yet she's not included in the "regular cast" line-up.
* LargeHam: She '''''is''''' an actress after all. Her acting comes into play when she [[spoiler:helps Peggy in evading the SSR.]]
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She had no idea about Peggy’s double life until “A Sin To Err”, although she claims that she suspected something was off.
-->'''Angie:''' I knew you didn't work for the phone company!
* MuggleBestFriend: She quickly becomes Peggy's closest friend but she has no idea about the world of espionage she's involved in. After what happened to Colleen, though, Peggy is reluctant to let her any closer.
* NiceGirl: Very friendly, cheerful and helpful to Peggy.
* TheNicknamer: She calls Peggy "English," refers to Jarvis as "Mr Fancy," and calls Dottie "Iowa."
* TheNotLoveInterest: Fulfills several of the roles typical of love interests in action, spy, and superhero films. She gets annoyed when the hero's double-life keeps them from spending time together, provides Peggy with emotional support after [[spoiler:Ray is killed]], and helps Peggy [[spoiler:escape from the SSR agents hunting her without ever questioning her innocence]].
* PutOnABus: Inverted; The rest of the cast (and the show itself) hopped a bus to LA, leaving Angie behind.
* SheReallyCanAct: In-universe. We first see Angie practicing for an audition, but her line reading is fairly stiff. All her previous auditions went badly too, and Angie seriously considers quitting acting and going into secretary school. When she needs to distract the SSR, though, Angie wills herself to turn on the waterworks and burst into tears over a fake anecdote about her grandma, making the agents too uncomfortable to keep questioning her. Peggy overhears it, and encourages her to keep trying out for theater after that.
* WaitingForABreak: She works as a waitress in a restaurant while waiting for her big break in show business.

[[folder:Miriam Fry]]
!!''Miriam Fry''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Meagen Fay
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

The owner of the Griffith Hotel, a boarding house for women in which Peggy Carter lives.
----
* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first she seems like a strict but fair landlady, then we realize she's anything but.
* ControlFreak: Has a strict curfew for her residents and insists that no gentlemen callers are allowed above the first floor.
* CrankyLandlord: Strictly controls the schedules of the girls in her boarding house and forbids men higher than the first floor.
* FemaleMisogynist: She treats her tenants (all grown women with jobs) like particularly dim children, because she doesn't believe they're capable of knowing what's best for them. She also seems to believe that once a lady ''has'' compromised her virtue, she's unworthy of basic respect.
* GrandeDame: Not an aristocrat, but she's very concerned with respectability and a bit of a snob as well, and she has the overbearing attitude.
* HiddenDepths: She tries to bring up UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud to rationalize her oppressive rules.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite knowing who Sigmund Freud is, she claims its "unbecoming" of a lady to know about him.
* {{Jerkass}}: At breakfast she publicly humiliates a tenant who had a gentleman caller in her room and evicts her on the spot, to serve as an example to the others.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She forbids men above the first floor of the Griffith because she believes women cannot control their sexual urges until they are married or reach a certain age. She's pretty nasty about this, but when Peggy sneaks Howard into the building, he quickly becomes ''acquainted'' with many of the residents, and he implies that this is not his first time at the Griffith Hotel. She was also AccidentallyAccurate in keeping Mr. Mink from seeing Peggy, not that it stopped him from breaking in.
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: She treats the tenants like they were school girls in a dormitory rather than adults living on their own.
* SatelliteCharacter: Is only relevant to the story as Peggy's landlady. Once Peggy moves out, she ceases to be important and stops appearing.
* SingleIssueLandlord: Basically one rule and that rule is "no men above the first floor ever".
* SkewedPriorities: She's more affected by Peggy making a hole on her wall than about having a tenant who [[spoiler:is being pursued by federal agents]].
* SlutShaming: Public evictions for... ''daring'' to have a man in your room.
* SourPrude: She believes that AllWomenAreLustful so they are incapable of controlling their urges until they’re married or reach a certain age. Hence why they need someone like her to keep them in line.
* SpearCounterpart: As much a FemaleMisogynist as she is, she's also living proof that misogyny isn't the only brand of sexism to be featured in the series.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Violet]]
!!''Violet''
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/violet7.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SarahBolger
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

A nurse in LA and Sousa's new girlfriend.
----
* DisposableFiance: [[spoiler:She cheerily accepts Sousa's marriage proposal, but calls it off when she realizes his real feelings are for Peggy.]]
* HiddenDepths: One really doesn’t expect a 1940s nurse to be so into surfing.
* HospitalHottie: She’s a nurse who happens to be gorgeous.
* NiceGirl: Violet is cheerful and friendly to everyone she meets, to the point that she seems to be great pals with Rose. [[spoiler:She even aids in saving Peggy's life, right then and there, where the wounded agent is suddenly brought into her house.]]
* OnTheRebound: [[spoiler:After seeing Sousa refusing to leave Peggy's side when she's injured, Violet realizes that Sousa moved to LA and started dating her in an attempt to forget about Peggy.]]
* TerritorialSmurfette: Subverted. Sousa worries that she and Peggy won't get along, but they're perfectly friendly with each other.
* WomanInWhite: The first time we meet her she is in a spotless white nurse's uniform, which together with her very pale skin and light hair makes her stand out that much more in contrast with everything around her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Colleen O'Brien]]
!!''Colleen O'Brien''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ashley Hinshaw
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Peggy's first roommate.
----
* BoomHeadshot: How she was killed.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: At the beginning of the second episode, we see an obituary stating she "died suddenly in her bed". Well, she did die in her bed all right, and it was sudden - but it involved a bullet to the middle of her forehead.
* DiesWideOpen: Peggy finds her corpse with a shocked look in her face.
* IllGirl: Colleen was rather sick when the show starts, and worried she might have tuberculosis. It's implied to be because of substandard conditions at the factory she worked at.
* KillTheCutie: Colleen was one of the nicest people Peggy knew, and still optimistic despite their hardships. Because of her death Peggy is reluctant to let other friends of hers be put in danger.
* MuggleBestFriend: Deconstructed. Colleen had no idea Peggy was an SSR agent, believing she worked at the phone company. This lack of knowledge about her friend's dangerous job led to her death.
* NiceGirl: Colleen was friendly and compassionate to Peggy, and often suggested friend dates they could go on after work.
* OneShotCharacter: Due to dying in the same episode she is introduced in.
* SacrificialLamb: Colleen dies early to emphasize the danger of Leviathan, whose agent was ruthless enough to follow Peggy home and murder her sleeping friend.
* StuffedInTheFridge: Killed by an assassin after Peggy, which prompts her ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies attitude.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She is killed in the very episode she first appears, after having two scenes. Even Peggy admitted she had only known her for a few months.
* WrenchWench: Worked as a riveter during the war but was replaced by a man. By then she was much more experienced and had to teach him how to use it.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Downplayed. Colleen wanted to see Peggy get married, and viewed staying independent as the road to spinster-dom.
[[/folder]]

!Leviathan

[[folder:Leviathan in general]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Johann Fennhoff]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dottie Underwood]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leet Brannis]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sasha Demidov]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

!Red Room

[[folder:Eva]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anya]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]
[[/folder]]

!Nazis

[[folder:Ernst Mueller]]
!!''Colonel Ernst Mueller''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JackConley
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Ernst Mueller was a Nazi German officer during World War II who was captured in the aftermath of the War and hanged for his crimes against humanity.
----
* AffablyEvil: For a Nazi officer who is sentenced to be hanged, he's quite polite while talking to Chief Dooley.
* BlackComedy: He's due for the death penalty, and lampshades his use of GallowsHumor.
-->'''Mueller:''' ''[as doctors measure him]'' They are measuring me for my new necktie.
* BreakThemByTalking: Dooley gets Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.
* ColonelBadass: His rank was Colonel and since he mentioned he killed many people during the war, it can be assumed he was pretty badass.
* CyanidePill: Subverted. Dooley offers him this if he gives info about what happens in the Battle of Finow. It turns out to be just a breath mint.
* MythologyGag: In the comics, Ernst Mueller was one of the members of Baron Strucker's Blitzkrieg Squad. The episode he appeared in the show is titled "The Blitzkrieg Button".
* NotMeThisTime: He ''was'' in Finow, but by the time he arrived there, his Russian enemies are already massacred by unknown attackers (actually themselves against each other, due to under influence of [[HatePlague Midnight Oil]]).
* ToiletHumor: When he offered water to Dooley, he pointed to his cell's toilet.
* VillainsNeverLie: When he tells Dooley all the Russians at Finow were already dead before his forces arrived, Dooley briefly wonders if he's lying to hide his crimes there. Mueller responds that he's killed men, women, and children, and there'd be no point in hiding a minor crime when he's already sentenced to die for his many worse ones.
* WouldHitAGirl: He mentioned that he killed women.
* WouldHurtAChild: He also mentioned that he killed children.
[[/folder]]

!The Council of Nine

[[folder:The Council in general]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Whitney Frost]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Calvin Chadwick]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hugh Jones]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tom Gloucester]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mortimer Hayes]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rufus Hunt]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

!Organized Crime

[[folder:Joseph Manfredi]]
!!''Joseph Manfredi''
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/manfredi_joseph.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Ken Marino
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

The leader of a crime syndicate that Whitney turns to for help.
----
* AffablyEvil: The guy is quite charming and polite... for a vicious mobster.
* AgeLift: He's a present-day character in the comics.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In his first scene, Manfredi demonstrates why none of his men dare turn against him, because he can easily smash their faces in himself.
* BadBoss: He beats one of his henchman almost to death for an imagined slight.
* BadassInCharge: You have to be a badass to rise to become the leader of a crime syndicate.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: His crime group is never called the Maggia.[[note]]This may be because there's not as a great a danger in depicting the Mafia as there was back in the 60s, either from UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode or the real life Mafia.[[/note]] Likewise, he is never referred to as Blackwing, and instead takes a few cues from [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Hammerhead]].
* TheDragon: After Whitney [[spoiler:takes over the Council]], Manfredi becomes her most trusted enforcer. On terms of authority he's [[spoiler: CoDragons with Vernon Masters, due to the latter's position in the U.S. government.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: He considers that delivering a [[CurbStompBattle vicious beatdown]] is an appropriate response for staring at his guests.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His appearance consists of him making Calvin Chadwick uncomfortable with a threat before claiming he was joking, and shortly after beating one of his own men to death for merely looking at the old girlfriend he is supposedly over.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Or at least his grandmother, whom he genuinely loves.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In Season 2 finale, he tells his grandmother that yes, he truly loves Whitney.
* FauxAffablyEvil: It's never clear when he's sincerely friendly, as he can flip from charming to monstrous in an instant.
* HairTriggerTemper: Flies into a volcanic rage and beats one of his own men to a pulp with his bare hands ''for looking at Whitney too long''.
* InNameOnly: In the comics, he is a bat trainer and thus has natural ability to control bats without superpowers. In the TV series, he hasn't shown any of them, not even any [[AnimalMotifs motifs]] about bats.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He beats the hell out of one of his underlings until his knuckles are bloody.
* OldFlame: He and Whitney used to date. He claims to have moved on, but a few minutes later he viciously beats a man because he looked at her for too long.
* SharpDressedMan: As is usual for a 40s gangster, he wears slick suits.
* UndyingLoyalty: He seems to be utterly devoted to Whitney despite her leaving him and marrying another man. As a 1940s macho Italian mobster, one would expect him to balk at taking orders from a woman but he accepts Whitney's authority without question. He is the only character not freaked out by Whitney's transformation, finding her perfect the way she is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Nonna" Manfredi]]
!!''"Nonna" Manfredi''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Tina D'Marco
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Joseph Manfredi's beloved grandmother and adviser.
----
* BilingualDialogue: Even though she speaks nothing but Italian, she understands English perfectly and often has bilingual conversations with her grandson.
* TheConsigliere: Joseph trusts her advice implicitly. [[spoiler:She's the one that recommends that he join forces with Peggy and her team to cure Whitney of the Zero Matter]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "Nonna" is the Italian word for "grandmother", and that's the only way she is ever referred to.
* NeverMessWithGranny: When Sousa threatens Manfredi, she grabs a knife and ''lunges'' at him, until her grandson holds her back.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: Even if you are an adversary, she will serve you food... but only if she likes you.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Ken Marino was 47 at the time of filming this; while Tina D'Marco's age isn't publicly known, she doesn't seem old enough to be his ''grand''mother.

[[/folder]]
!Assorted Criminals

[[folder:Jerome Zandow]]
!!''Jerome Zandow''
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e794bcafaf910084732baba9ac9a0000.png]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Rob Mars
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Jerome Zandow was hired by Leet Brannis to guard The Heartbreak as it contained the inventions that Brannis stole from Howard Stark's mansion. He was killed alongside Ray by the Hidden Killer.
----
* DeathBySecretIdentity: Just after he started to reveal that Peggy was at The Heartbreak before the SSR, he and Kreminski were shot.
* GiantMook: He was the biggest and strongest crook Peggy had fought up till that point, and so strong he completely overpowered her. It took Jarvis distracting him and Peggy using the Constrictor afterwards to take him down.
* HisNameIs: Almost revealed who attacked him to Ray until the Hidden Killer showed up.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Was killed for this reason; can't let someone who guarded the Heartbreak live.
* MythologyGag: Jerome is based on [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Zandow_%28Earth-616%29 Zandow the Strong-Man]], a circus performer in 40s Marvel Comics who was hired by the Nazis. When arresting him, Thompson mentions that Jerome used to work as a strong-man performer at Coney Island.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Only known as "Zandow" in the comics.
* UnexpectedCharacter: In the comics, Zandow is a member of the WWII-era of the Circus of Crime. Again, just like Leet Brannis, not many people expect his appearance in this series.
* WouldHitAGirl: He boasts to Peggy that he's not afraid of fighting a woman.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He frantically claims to his would-be-killer that he didn't tell Ray anything. It doesn't save him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Otto Mink]]
!!''Mr. Otto Mink''
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/57b3dbe3dbb08e085bca7d39868e4cbe.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"The time for money has passed. No one crosses me."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Gregory Sporleder
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

->''"Well, Mr. Mink is a greedy, black-market smuggler, sure, but he got me back into the country, and he's predictable in his greed."''
-->-- '''Howard Stark'''

A smuggler hired to sneak Howard Stark back into the US. After Peggy and Jarvis defy his demand for a higher ransom, he goes hunting for them.
----
* BadBoss: Mink executes his own men for failing him.
* BigBadWannabe: He's a fairly intimidating criminal, but he's in way over his head when it comes to Carter's world of spies and subterfuge. In the end, he's killed off before Carter is even aware he's after her.
* BlondeGuysAreEvil: Sports a very creepy Aryan look.
* GatlingGood: Carries a weapon that resembles an old-fashioned [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper-box pepperbox revolver]] but functions like a miniature Gatling gun.
* {{Greed}}: It's what prompts him into MovingTheGoalPosts. Howard Stark comments on his greed.
* HonorBeforeReason: He's more concerned with the issue of personal pride than money.
* MovingTheGoalposts: Demands more money than what was agreed upon after getting Stark into the country.
* NeckSnap: How he's killed by Dottie.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills two of his own men for getting beaten by Howard and Carter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arnim Zola]]
!!''Dr. Arnim Zola''

See [[Characters/CaptainAmericaFilms his character tropes on the Captain America films page]].
[[/folder]]

!!''Eva''
[[quoteright:299:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eva_jpg.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Chiara Aurelia

Eva is a girl trained as an assassin in the Red Room Academy.

* AllThereInTheScript: Her name is never mentioned in the episode she appeared, and is only listed in the credits.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Black Widow training program caused her to be rather unhinged. She wasn't entirely focused while Dum Dum Dugan was trying to talk to her until she suddenly attacked him with a knife.
* ChildSoldier: She's trained in Red Room Academy to be an assassin. She even helped adult Leviathan soldiers during the shootout with a sniper rifle that she used to kill Agent Mike Li and injure Happy Sam Sawyer.
* ColdSniper: She used [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosin-Nagant Mosin-Nagant M91/30 Sniper]], a Russian SniperRifle, to ambush on Peggy's team when they were engaged in a shootout against Leviathan soldiers. With precision, Eva shot two times before escaping, one to kill Mike Li and another one to injure Happy Sam Sawyer in the leg.
* CreepyChild: Even before she's revealed to be a child assassin, she's not entirely stable.
* DarkActionGirl: She's a child who's trained to be an assassin.
* EnfantTerrible: She looks like an adorable little girl, but she also doesn't hesitate to kill people due to the brainwashing.
* TheFakeCutie: SSR and Howling Commandos found her while she was seemingly crying. They thought she's a hostage and offer help. While they're distracted with her rather mentally-unbalanced attitude, she suddenly attacked them and killed one of them, Junior Juniper.
* HeroKiller: She killed one Howling Commando, Junior Juniper, and one SSR operative, Mike Li.
* KnifeNut: She hid a knife and used it to stab Dugan, who thankfully wore a bulletproof vest.
* LittleMissBadass: Not only managed to kill one of the Howling Commandos, but she also managed to escape their capture with swift movement.
* MindControlEyes: ''Very'' subtle, but her eyes looks rather empty in a few shots due to the brainwashing. Just look at her picture for an example.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. She shares her first name with another Russian antagonist from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Eva Belyakov.
* TheVoiceless: She doesn't speak any single word in her appearance.

[[folder:Anya]]
!!''Anya''
[[quoteright:299:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anya_7.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Caitlin Carmichael
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Anya was one of the girls trained as assassins in the Red Room Academy during [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]]. She befriended young Dottie Underwood.
----
* AllThereInTheScript: Just like Eva, her name is only listed in the credits.
* {{Brainwashed}}: She and other girls in Red Room are fed subliminal messages with their language training, and malnourished along with being chained to their beds.
* ChildSoldier: She was an assassin in-training in Red Room.
* FightingYourFriend: She sparred against her friend, Dottie, who was ordered to kill her after she lost the sparring match.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted, Dottie at least still has a dream involving her, although it's never explicitly shown whether Dottie still remembers her or not.
* OnlyFriend: She appeared to be one for young Dottie; or Dottie was this for her.
* MoralityPet: Possibly for Dottie, who shared bread with her. Killing her may also drove Dottie to lose innocence and sense of humanity, caused her to be a ruthless assassin she is in her adulthood.
* NeckSnap: During fighting class, Anya sparred against Dottie. The headmistress watched their battle. During the battle, Dottie got the upper hand and had Anya in a headlock. When the headmistress nodded her head, Dottie snapped her neck, killing Anya instantly.
* PosthumousCharacter: She already died in 1937, long before the main story.
* TheVoiceless: Also doesn't speak any single word in her appearance.

!Nazis

[[folder:Ernst Mueller]]
!!''Colonel Ernst Mueller''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JackConley
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Ernst Mueller was a Nazi German officer during World War II who was captured in the aftermath of the War and hanged for his crimes against humanity.
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* AffablyEvil: For a Nazi officer who is sentenced to be hanged, he's quite polite while talking to Chief Dooley.
* BlackComedy: He's due for the death penalty, and lampshades his use of GallowsHumor.
-->'''Mueller:''' ''[as doctors measure him]'' They are measuring me for my new necktie.
* BreakThemByTalking: Dooley gets Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.
* ColonelBadass: His rank was Colonel and since he mentioned he killed many people during the war, it can be assumed he was pretty badass.
* CyanidePill: Subverted. Dooley offers him this if he gives info about what happens in the Battle of Finow. It turns out to be just a breath mint.
* MythologyGag: In the comics, Ernst Mueller was one of the members of Baron Strucker's Blitzkrieg Squad. The episode he appeared in the show is titled "The Blitzkrieg Button".
* NotMeThisTime: He ''was'' in Finow, but by the time he arrived there, his Russian enemies are already massacred by unknown attackers (actually themselves against each other, due to under influence of [[HatePlague Midnight Oil]]).
* ToiletHumor: When he offered water to Dooley, he pointed to his cell's toilet.
* VillainsNeverLie: When he tells Dooley all the Russians at Finow were already dead before his forces arrived, Dooley briefly wonders if he's lying to hide his crimes there. Mueller responds that he's killed men, women, and children, and there'd be no point in hiding a minor crime when he's already sentenced to die for his many worse ones.
* WouldHitAGirl: He mentioned that he killed women.
* WouldHurtAChild: He also mentioned that he killed children.

!The Council of Nine

[[folder:The Council in general]]

[[folder:Whitney Frost]]

[[folder:Calvin Chadwick]]

[[folder:Hugh Jones]]

[[folder:Tom Gloucester]]

[[folder:Mortimer Hayes]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rufus Hunt]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

!!''Captain Michael Carter''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Max Brown, Webb Baker Hayes (young)
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

-->''"Don't worry about what other people think. You are meant to fight. Stop pretending to be someone that you're not."''

Peggy's older brother.
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* BigBrotherMentor: He understands his little sister and encourages her to pursue a life of adventure, as well as arranging for her to be trained as a spy by the SOE.
* CanonForeigner: In the comics, Peggy had only one brother, called Harrison.
* TheCaptain: Is a captain in the British army, and a good man to boot.
%%* DeadpanSnarker: It seems that a dry wit runs in the family.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Is killed in action early in WWII. His death spurs Peggy to take begin training as a spy.

!!''Fred Wells''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Kevin Changaris
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Fred Wells was Peggy Carter's fiancé until she left him to fight in World War II after her brother's death.
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* DisposableFiance: He was engaged to Peggy in 1940, but he was a coward who wouldn't join her in the war, so she broke off their engagement.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Fred doesn't seem to realize the fact that Michael Carter doesn't like him marrying Peggy because he's so against a life of adventure.
* NonActionGuy: During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he worked for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office Home Office]], avoiding combat as he felt he was more at home living a boring life rather than fighting on the front lines.
* StayInTheKitchen: To Peggy. When she was offered the chance to work for the Special Operations Executive, Wells convinced her to turn it down as he felt she should not go onto the front lines.

!!''Agent Margaret Elizabeth [[ComicBook/PeggyCarter "Peggy" Carter]]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"All we can do is our best. And sometimes, the best we can do is to start over."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HayleyAtwell, Gabriella Graves (young)
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger | [[Film/MarvelOneShots Marvel One-Shot]]: Film/AgentCarter | Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier | Series/AgentsOfSHIELD ("[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E1Shadows Shadows]]" & "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E8TheThingsWeBury The Things We Bury]]") | Series/AgentCarter | Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron | Film/AntMan''

-->''"I don't need a congressional honor. I don't need Agent Thompson's approval or the president's. I know my value. Anyone else's opinion doesn't really matter."''

A British Army Major and Operations Supervisor for the SSR. She oversaw the training of the recruits for the supersoldier program Project Rebirth, and took notice of the feeble yet determined candidate Steve Rogers. After Rebirth was cut short with only one successful result, Carter was the only SSR head who pushed for Rogers to remain involved in the war front, even personally aiding him in getting behind enemy lines when his superiors refused to let him get involved. Her efforts paid off, as Steve rescued hundreds of captured soldiers and became the war hero Captain America.

In between battle Rogers and Carter started to fall in love, but his final WWII mission resulted in Steve pulling a HeroicSacrifice against HYDRA's plan. He was presumed dead for the rest of the century, and Peggy was reassigned to a desk job preventing the full use of her talent. But after aiding Howard Stark with an undercover mission to reclaim his stolen weapons, Stark offered her a new job with him, as co-founder of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Nearly 70 years after World War II ended, Steve and Peggy reunited after his body was thawed from the Arctic. Carter was now much older than him and bedridden, but the two expressed contentment that she had lived a full life, despite being unable to continue their romance.

* TheAce: In every way; fighter, detective, secret agent, etc. but her co-workers are too stupid to realize it.
* ActionFashionista: Very rarely will you see her kicking ass while not dressed in the finest women's fashion of TheForties.
* ActionGirl: Does a pretty good job of DrillSergeantNasty to US Army recruits. She stands in front of a moving car to shoot down a Nazi spy and goes into battle with Captain America at a time in history when women were not typically allowed in front-line combat.
* ActionHeroine: Throwing punches and shooting guns are her preferred ways of beating her enemies. She's extremely dissatisfied with being stuck doing paperwork in the ''Agent Carter'' one-shot, so she [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] all the agents in the Zodiac hideout.
* AdaptationalBadass: Peggy Carter not only went into AscendedExtra territory when adapted from the [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse comics]] to the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse big screen]], but was also upgraded into a {{badass}} army officer and SSR agent.
* AdaptationalNationality: She was American in the comics, but is British in the MCU, like Hayley Atwell. It's even lampshaded by a rude recruit in her first appearance. She punches him out.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She's blonde in the comics and a brunette in the MCU. She [[MythologyGag disguised herself as a blonde]] in the pilot of her own series.
* AffectionateNickname: Colleen, Howard and Rose call Peggy "Peg." Angie calls her "English." Dum Dum suggests giving Peggy the nickname of "Miss Union Jack", but [[DefiedTrope she disagrees.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Indeed, she has demonstrated her "I won't take any of your crap" and "don't piss me off" persona several times and as elaborately as possible.
* AmnesiacLover: Inverted, in a sense. Peggy contracts Alzheimer's in her old days, and thus when Steve visits often thinks each meeting is their first since WWII.
* AscendedExtra: See BreakoutCharacter. In the comics, Peggy is, at best, an important footnote to Steve and his primary love interest, Sharon Carter. In the films, though, she's become one of the most prominent supporting characters, even after ''First Avenger'' seemingly concluded any more adventures in the 40s. The first issue of the 2011 ''Captain America'' series even uses her death from old age as a jumping-off point specifically because she'd now be familiar to audiences.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: In the ''[[Film/MarvelOneShots Agent Carter]]'' one-shot, fed up with the [[DudeWheresMyRespect lack of respect]] from her BadBoss, she decides to take an unsanctioned mission to find Zodiac. After finding a valuable clue, Peggy is promoted to running S.H.I.E.L.D. with Howard Stark.
* BadassInCharge: As she says in ''The First Avenger'', she supervises the operations of one of the divisions. As of the end of her one-shot, she's to co-run S.H.I.E.L.D.
* BadassNormal: She can definitely hold her own in a fight with black widow super soldiers, and, according to Howard Stark, can do 107 one-armed push-ups.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Peggy is quite friendly...and you would like it if she stays that way, as she is quite frightening when she's mad.
* BoobsOfSteel: She relies on brute force more than finesse and technique, unlike the other {{Action Girl}}s of the MCU. And she's... well, she's [[http://cdn.niketalk.com/1/1a/1a5f4860_tumblrlpq8oivaa01qaqikw.jpeg Hayley Atwell.]]
* BrainyBrunette: Peggy is one of the sharpest characters in the MCU. In "Smoke and Mirrors", we find out that Peggy was trained in and worked as a code-breaker at the legendary Bletchley Park.
* BreakoutCharacter: When Peggy Carter debuted in the comics, it was to be a TemporaryLoveInterest to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica during his time in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but she debuted in UsefulNotes/TheSixties, [[{{Retcon}} long after]] Cap's regular WWII war stories were over. At first she appeared only in {{Flashback}}s (in her first story she wasn't even named!). Under these circumstances, she's rarely been anything more than a SatelliteLoveInterest in the comics. But when ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' came out, since 99% of the film takes place during the War, she naturally had a [[AscendedExtra much bigger role]]. She took center stage in the [[Film/MarvelOneShots Marvel One-Shot]] ''Film/AgentCarter'', which was such a huge hit that it [[SpinOff spun off]] into [[Series/AgentCarter her own regular TV series]]. It's worth noting that the filmmakers have tried to use Peggy in every single (Earth-bound) MCU vehicle after ''The First Avenger'' [[spoiler: until ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', shere she died offscreen of old age]]. Creator/JossWhedon wrote a scene for her in ''The Avengers'', and she has cameos in ''The Winter Soldier'', ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', ''Age of Ultron'' and ''Ant-Man''.
* BrokenAce: Lost her FirstLove in the War, who was the first person to understand her and think of her as an equal. Forced to work in high position jobs where her male co-workers constantly barrage her with sexist quips. Then, the death of her roommate....Peggy has been put through the wringer.
* TheCameo:
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', she appears twice: once in footage and once in the present.
** In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', she shows up in a 1945 {{Flashback}} leading the Howling Commandos against HYDRA, and interrogating a HYDRA member.
** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', [[spoiler:she appears in a vision Steve has, telling him the war's over, they can go home, and all that's left is for them to have their dance]].
** In ''Film/AntMan'', she appears in a flashback with Howard Stark and Hank Pym.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: She dies of old age in her sleep in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', [[KilledOffscreen offscreen]]. Her funeral happens in her native England, and Steve is one of the pallbearers.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Peggy eventually learns to not care about what her colleagues think of her and only her opinion of herself matters.
* CombatPragmatist: Completely willing to use whatever is on hand during hand-to-hand combat, including a stapler.
* CompositeCharacter: She combines elements of Peggy Carter (ActionGirl-ness and the name and relationship to Sharon Carter) with Lt. Cynthia Glass from the Sentinel of Liberty Miniseries (who had the same look and was also Phillips' aide).
* CoolOldLady:
** As of ''The Winter Soldier''. She gives Steve advice (see the quote above) and teases him. She's implied to be this for her (as of yet unspecified) relative Sharon as well.
** In ''Ant-Man'' she appears in a flashback in 1989, as one of the leaders of SHIELD.
* CovertPervert: She seems to be in shock when seeing the [[MrFanservice shirtless post-serum Steve]]. She barely stopped herself from trying to get a feel of his abs! For extra points, [[ThrowItIn that wasn't scripted]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Heavily implied. In "SNAFU", she informs Jarvis she was [[NoodleIncident nearly hanged at some point.]] Not to mention that a redacted file about her shows in the last quarter of Season Two.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The ''Agent Carter'' one-shot, which was made so that the audience could see what Peggy was up to after the events of ''The First Avenger''. Which led to an ''Series/AgentCarter'' TV series.
* DeadpanSnarker: She snarks at Steve, Howard, and Jarvis a lot.
* DeskJockey: What she was reduced to after the events of ''The First Avenger''. She doesn't settle for it, though, and keeps going on missions.
* {{Determinator}}: She's stopping that car, no matter if she has to stand right in front of its way as it speeds towards her.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Introduced by insulting the trainees and punching out one who made a sexist comment.
* DudeMagnet: Attracts a lot of men, either in the movie or in her own show. The listed ones are just a few: [[NiceGuy Steve]], [[BelligerentSexualTension Thompson]], Jason Wilkes, and [[InsecureLoveInterest Sousa]]. She also claims [[ChivalrousPervert Howard]] tried to kiss her on V-E Day and she made their boundaries clear by throwing him into the River Thames. Jarvis even comments on this when she gets involved in a LoveTriangle between Wilkes and Sousa.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: In her own one-shot and series, her superiors (and some of her possible contemporaries) treats her more like a secretary than an agent. Howard even directly said that they're not utilizing her properly.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: She can hardly contain herself when Steve's operation finishes.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first scene where she greets all her recruits with a strict professionalism, followed by beating up a JerkJock private who made derogatory comments toward her.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In ''The First Avenger'', her hair is above the collar, as women in the armed forces had to keep it while on duty. In ''Agent Carter'', it reaches past her shoulders, showing that the war has ended and she is no longer being sent on missions.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: ''Agent Carter'' shows that Peggy, after a year, is still grieving over Steve's HeroicSacrifice.
* FirstLove: To Steve.
* {{Flanderization}}: In-universe, her status as Captain America's girlfriend is the only thing most people know about her, especially as the character of a radio drama.
* GameBreakingInjury: In Season 2 she gets skewered with rebar, putting a severe dent in her fighting abilities.
* GirlsNeedRoleModels: [[http://screenrant.com/hayley-atwell-captain-america-2-winter-soldier-agent-carter-tv-show/ Part of the reason why]] Creator/HayleyAtwell signed up to play Peggy.
--> '''Hayley Atwell:''' Where are the women? Where are the women who are leading and not just the hot sex symbol in the tight outfits, or the aggressive ones with their sexy action sequences? Where are the ones that are battling with their own identity like Iron Man is? Or trying to make a difference in the forefront?
* GirlyBruiser: She fights men twice her size with punches and anything around her, but she's not above a little make up and dancing.
%%* GuileHero: She uses whatever is available to her to take down the baddies.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Steve prefers to use only his shield when in combat while Peggy is quite the crack shot. Averted in the one-shot and ''Series/AgentCarter'' TV-series though, where's she arguably ''more'' dangerous in hand-to-hand than with firearms.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Oh, does she sound heartbroken when hearing Steve [[HeroicSacrifice go down with the Valkyrie]]. ''[[Film/MarvelOneShots Agent Carter]]'' One-Shot shows that she's still broken up about it a year later.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: In ''Agent Carter'', Peggy has to constantly remind everyone that she and Stark never had a relationship during the war.
* HelloNurse: She gets a lot of attention from the trainees.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: She married before 1953 and had a good life after losing Steve, but always kept him in her heart.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: Briefly, at the the end of "A Sin to Err" and the beginning of "SNAFU," when the SSR suspects her of being a fellow conspirator with Howard Stark and being TheMole in the SSR. Not only Peggy is suspected, but became so much of a BrokenPedestal that even Sousa expressed initial deep hatred of her upon learning the revelation when interrogating her. However, she sheds this once convincing her companions of her innocence.]]
* HiddenDepths: As it turns out, she speaks Russian and understands Russian figures of speech.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Gets a double-whammy of this in "A Sin to Err," courtesy of [[spoiler:Dottie not only stealing her knockout lipstick]], but also [[spoiler:using her defenseless girl image to surprise her]]. Peggy is used to being underestimated and using that to her advantage, so when [[spoiler:Dottie]] pulls the same trick, it's both heartbreaking and awesome.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She and Steve bond over facing prejudice; him for being a small, sickly guy, her for being a woman. When she finds him, post-enhancement, kissing a hot blonde, she refuses to listen to him telling her it's NotWhatItLooksLike (the blonde came onto him) and lumps him in with the other horndog soldiers.
** And then in the second season she gets angry at Sousa for [[spoiler: telling Wilkes the location of the uranium rods]] in order to save her life, when for the entire season she repeatedly takes huge risks to save the lives of her friends and allies. Sousa calls her out on it in the final episode (though that was at least partly to make her admit [[spoiler: she's fallen for him]]).
* ILetGwenStacyDie: She feels really guilty about [[spoiler: her roommate Colleen]] getting killed due to one of her enemies following her home. ''[=SNAFU=]'' confirms she feels this way about Steve's "death," and viewed protecting the last vial of his blood as a way to make up for it.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: After being captured thanks to [[spoiler:Dottie]] in "A Sin to Err", she gives Dooley, who had dared tell [[spoiler:her interrogators]] not to go easy on her [[KickTheDog just because she's a girl]], a dirty look, feeling that "don't go easy on her" was enough and "just because she's a girl" was pushing it, if not uncalled for.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Is ''extremely'' accurate with just a pistol, and not one with a particularly long barrel either.
* ImprovFu: Her fighting style mainly involves IndyPloy and [[CombatPragmatist combat pragmatism]].
* ImprovisedWeapon: She uses her suitcase to beat up Zodiac's agents in the ''Agent Carter'' one-shot. In the series proper, she uses a stapler, a briefcase, a metal pipe, and part of a crate to beat people up on several occasions.
* InSeriesNickname: Almost always referred to as "Peggy". Agent Thompson calls her "Marge."
* IntergenerationalFriendship: She's on friendly terms with Steve in the modern day, when she's an old lady and he's still young.
* IronLady: Is very professional, though that doesn't mean she can't feel sympathy for Steve.
* ItsAllMyFault: She has a tendency for this following close death. She feels responsible for Colleen's death, enough that she tries to disassociate from Jarvis and Angie. She also feels guilt for [[spoiler:Ray Krzeminski]]'s death, though reconciling with Angie helps her move past it. She also feels protectiveness toward [[spoiler:the capsule containing Steve Rogers's blood]], viewing it as a second chance to defend him. In Season 2, she starts taking the Isodyne case personally after she thinks that she got Jason Wilkes killed. Downplayed when she claims [[spoiler:Dooley]]'s death is her fault, as a brief insist from Jarvis that it wasn't is enough to put her back on her feet and set on avenging him.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: After the [[LegallyDead death of Steve Rogers]] and her roommate Colleen, Peggy turns down aid from friends like Angie or Jarvis, not wanting to put them in danger. Jarvis helps her out of it by pointing out Steve, the IdealHero she loved, relied on her and wasn't self-sufficient himself.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Quite literally. In the ''Agent Carter'' one-shot, she's eager to be sent on a mission again, but she's stuck with paperwork because she's a woman. So when a phone call comes up in the middle of the night about a dangerous 3-5 agents mission, she does not doubt for a second before taking it up.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Post-''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', this is one of her defining characteristics: drop-dead gorgeous 1940s fashion meets modern ActionGirl kickassery.
* LadyOfWar: Elegant and [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery stylish]], she maintains her impeccable grace as she [[ColdSniper calmly]] shoots at enemies and even when using [[CombatPragmatist brutal]] punches and kicks or [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weapons]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Turned in by the same {{Mook}} she had earlier roughed up in "A Sin to Err".]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Jarvis reminds Peggy of having served such a role for Steve when she insists on denying help.
-->'''Jarvis''': There is not a man or woman, no matter how fit he or she may be, who is capable of carrying the entire world on their shoulders.
-->'''Peggy''': Steve was.
-->'''Jarvis''': From what Mr. Stark has told me, Captain Rogers relied heavily on you. Your courage, strategy, and moral guidance. ''You'' were his support.
* LovingAShadow: By the time of her own series, she's till somewhat pining for Cap despite knowing herself that he's not coming back ([[HumanPopsicle for a long while anyway]]).
* MajorlyAwesome: This is her rank and she quickly proves her awesomeness.
* MasterOfDisguise: She pulls off some impressive ones on ''Agent Carter''.
* MilitaryMaverick: She went against Phillips' orders to save the soldiers who were captive in the HYDRA base in ''The First Avenger''. She also decides to go after a mission for 3-5 agents all by herself, even when she wasn't assigned to do so in the ''Agent Carter'' one-shot.
* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou: She taunts recruits in ''The First Avenger'' with this.
* NiceGirl: She's only no-nonsense and strict when on the job. Other than that, Peggy is a charming, friendly, and affable woman to hang out with.
* NiceHat: Sports a bright red Stetson Stratoliner during her ''Agent Carter'' days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Peggy loathes how her SSR coworkers ignore her because she's a woman, but uses their sexism to her advantage by using seemingly harmless femininity as a cover for covert actions. But as it turns out, she's just as susceptible to ignoring other women who use the same tricks [[spoiler:and so is taken completely off guard by Dottie.]]
* OneOfTheBoys: With the Howling Commandos. They tease her, she teases back, they don't doubt her abilities, and even offer to make her a full time member. Seeing them treat her with such respect surprises Thompson [[spoiler:but it must have rubbed off on him because by the end of the episode he too asks her to come along for drinks with the guys.]]
* OneWomanArmy:
** Best seen in the ''Agent Carter'' one-shot, in which she does excellently on a mission intended for 3-5 agents all by herself.
** In the series when cornered by [[spoiler:her fellow SSR agents at the automat]], she knocks them all out with just her fists and a smidge of help from Jarvis. Chief Dooley is astounded that she took out a whole team of trained operatives.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: When informally addressed, people refer to her as Peggy instead of Margaret. On occasion, though, Jack Thompson sometimes calls her "Marge", short for Margaret.
* OnlySaneWoman: In the opening scene of ''Ant-Man'', she's the only one in a room full of high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. agents just trying to keep the peace during Hank Pym's tirade over their use of his technology.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Peggy has this relationship with both Jarvis and Howard.
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} with Howard. He's a notorious playboy, but Peggy is one of the very few women he doesn't flirt with. Also, unlike most men in the time, he greatly respects her. However, because of his history as a player, many assume that she and him had a relationship during the war. This comes up in "SNAFU", when [[spoiler:Dooley,Thompson, and Sousa assume she helped Stark because she was in love with him.]]
** Played straight with Jarvis. He offers her emotional support and is one of the few men to respect her as a person. As the series continues, they grow closer as friends.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** "You still don't know a bloody thing about women."
** In "SNAFU", her use of the word "whore" when [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech she lashes out at her interrogators]].
-->'''Peggy''': To you, I'm... the girl on the pedestal, transformed into some daft whore.
** Peggy gets a little less precise as the show wears on, calling Howard a "wanker" twice and exclaiming "Bloody Nora!" and "Flipping hell!" when provoked.
* PrimaryColorChampion: Frequently wears red, white, and blue, not unlike Captain America himself.
* ProtagonistTitle: She's the main lead of her [[Series/AgentCarter eponymous show]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Peggy gives one it's brutal, true, and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome pretty awesome]]. And she remains [[TranquilFury totally calm.]]
* RunawayBride: [[spoiler: Before the war, she was engaged to a man named Fred and was trying on her wedding gown when she learned her brother Michael had been killed in action. She is next seen picking up her spy recruitment letter and leaving her engagement ring behind in its place.]]
* ScarsAreForever: Peggy has very visible bullethole scars on the back of her right shoulder. [[spoiler:They are also visible in the from-the-back photo taken of "the blonde" at the nightclub, and are what lead Sousa to discover that Peggy is "the blonde."]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight:
** She decides to help Steve to get into the HYDRA base, at the risk of her career.
** This then becomes a major theme in her own series. Helping out Howard Stark could get her prosecuted for treason, but she believes he's innocent and will go outside the law to prove it.
* ServileSnarker: Her post-war SSR colleagues severely underestimate her abilities, often having her do menial tasks and ignoring the contributions she could offer. Her response is to do both her work and theirs.
* SheFu: Averted. Peggy's fighting style is devoid of fancy acrobatics or thigh-crushing. Instead she relies on good old-fashioned punches, kicks, and [[ImprovFu anything around her environment]]. Consequently her battles with crooks looks extremely brutal.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She falls for Steve because he's the nicest guy she's ever met. When she sees him making out with Pvt. Lorraine, she's very... ''disappointed.'' Disappointed enough to shoot him four times at point-blank range. (Although he does have a shield.) This is best exemplified in ''Agent Carter'' One-Shot, where Peggy has a picture of pre-serum Steve in her desk drawer. She didn't fall in love with Captain America, the pinnacle of human perfection and the infallible personification of the American way; she fell in love with ''Steve'', the skinny kid from Brooklyn who was too dumb to run away from a fight he couldn't win.
* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Peggy is frequently put down by her coworkers because they view her only as a lucky secretary who got her job by sleeping around with Captain America and other men. Worth noting here that Peggy was in a position of authority with the [=SSR=] ''before'' Steve finally got himself enlisted (she was his instructor in Basic Training), and apart from her brother arranging for her initial recruitment into the SOE, there's absolutely no evidence she got there through any means other than her own merit. She spends much of the first season fighting to prove that she's every bit as competent as they are, but ultimately learns to ignore her lack of recognition and trust herself.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple:
** She's the only named female character with relevance to ''The First Avenger'' and the ''Agent Carter'' one-shot's plot.
** {{Averted|Trope}} in the ''Agent Carter'' series where she has a number of female cast companions.
* SniperPistol: She uses a ''[[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Walther PPK]]'' to [[ColdSniper calmly]] pull off some very accurate, long range shots.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: She tends to get unwanted sexual attention. Steve attracts her [[ChasteHero by his lack of it]].
* SpiritedYoungLady: Always dignified and elegant with a perfect sense of class and style. Always ready to get the job done--by kicking butt or firing a gun, if necessary.
* TheSquadette: She's the only female officer seen fighting and taking part in the military actions.
* StayInTheKitchen: Another reason why she bonds with Steve is because they're both underdogs; Steve is shunned for his feeble body, and Peggy is not taken seriously because of her gender.
-->'''Steve:''' Just thought I'd run and they [bullies] will never let you stop. You stand up, you push back, [they] can't say no forever, right?\\
'''Peggy:''' I know a little of what that's like, to have every door shut in your face.
* StiffUpperLip: Although to a lesser level than [[ServileSnarker Jarvis]], she can maintain a ridiculous level of politeness, such as when she's about to be blown up in "Now Is Not the End.". She will also maintain this while making it very clear (at least to Steve) how scorned she was when he kissed another woman. With a pistol at point-blank range.
* StraightMan: She may love Steve, but she'll also roll her eyes aplenty at many of his dumber moments.
* TerritorialSmurfette: The only other woman with speaking lines in the SSR just ''happens'' to cause conflict by putting the moves on Peggy's guy of choice.
* TimeShiftedActor: Averted. Hayley Atwell played older Peggy with the aid of CGI aging in ''The Winter Soldier'', and with some aging make-up in the intro to ''Ant-Man'' (which is set 25 years prior).
* TranquilFury: When angered Peggy tends to become colder and more brutal in fights. Such as when she's angry with Steve she shoots at him without hesitation and very little warning to test his new shield.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: {{Justified}}, unfortunately, given the time period (the late 1940s). Many sexist men tend to overlook her skills because she's a woman, the only exceptions being Steve, Howard, and Jarvis. She uses this to her advantage in the ''Agent Carter'' oneshot and in the series.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Her relationship with the Howling Commandos especially Dum Dum. She makes friendly jabs at their expense, yet they respect her, would follow her anywhere, and clearly are the best of friends.
* [[ManOfAThousandVoices Woman of a Thousand Voices]]: Peggy can flawlessly imitate different accents when undercover.
* WomanScorned: She's pretty angry when [[NotWhatItLooksLike she thinks she sees]] Steve kissing around with secretaries; angry enough to shoot him. (With his shield in front of him, of course.)
* WouldntHurtAChild: In ''The Iron Ceiling'' she prevents Dugan from killing a Russian girl who just killed one of his men and tried to stab him, claiming it's only a child. This later gets one of her fellow SSR agents killed when the girl reappears during a later gunfight to shoot the man in the back before disappearing again.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She tells Steve this to motivate him when he's dissatisfied with his propaganda work.
-->'''Steve:''' Phillips would have had me stuck in lab.\\
'''Peggy:''' And these are your only two options? A lab rat or a dancing monkey? You were meant for more than this, you know.
** Comes back around in the show when she unfavorably compares herself to Steve, leading Jarvis to tell her that the Steve she has put on a pedestal of perfection isn't the real Steve and that even he needed help.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Her cameo in ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' shows her leading the Howling Commandos after Cap's supposed death.

[[folder:Agent Daniel Sousa]]
!!''Chief Daniel Sousa''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You think because I'm wearing a suit and I got a clean shave, we're different? We're not. We're both people nobody cares about."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EnverGjokaj

An injured veteran working at the SSR, and probably Peggy's OnlyFriend in the department. Becomes Chief of the LA office in Season 2.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Thompson and Dooley are openly jerks, but their condescension toward Peggy causes them to often miss her covert actions. Sousa, however, is kind to her and believes she's competent, which means he doesn't underestimate her and [[spoiler:thus is the one to discover she's a double agent]]. While normally he's the "good cop" during interrogation, he turns out to be pretty aggressive if he believes you personally betrayed him.
* BrainyBrunette: Sousa is a lot more competent than his colleagues give him credit for.
* CaneFu: Can use his crutch as a weapon.
* DeadpanSnarker: At times, mostly about his sexist coworkers.
-->'''Sousa:''' ''[of Jack Thompson]'' Poor guy. I hear he got his personality shot off in Iwo Jima.
* DisabledSnarker: He was injured during WWII, and as established, he's a DeadpanSnarker.
* GoodCopBadCop:
** He's the Good Cop when interrogating a homeless bum in "Time and Tide". Sadly, he finds that being empathetic to the man's plight just gets him rebuffed over and over, while Thompson's bribery approach immediately gets the guy talking.
** In "SNAFU", he instead falls into the Bad Cop trope when [[spoiler:interrogating Peggy, as he feels personally wronged by her perceived betrayal.]]
* FairCop: Former Edition. Daniel was a police officer before WWII; it's the reason he's a better investigator than anyone else in the SSR New York Office (except for possibly Peggy). Might even be a ShoutOut to Enver Gjokaj's cameo role in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' (he's one of the NYPD cops that Steve co-ordinates with during the Chitauri invasion).
* HandicappedBadass: During WWII his leg was injured to the point where he's permanently crippled, getting around with the aid of a crutch. That doesn't stop him from easily taking out a homeless veteran with said crutch when the latter becomes aggressive. He even manages to hold his own and survive against [[spoiler:Dottie]], the first character to do so in a straight-up fight.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Thompson and Dooley are the ones in charge, but Sousa surpasses them both in terms of detective skill and cunning.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Sousa is hinted to have a crush on Peggy, but Krzeminski tells him to stuff it, claiming she'd never look at a cripple like him when she's dated ''Captain America''.
-->'''[[WordOfStPaul Gjokaj]]''': I think there’s definitely a situation where... if she hadn’t dated Captain America, he might ask her out for a drink. It's like if your new girlfriend dated Creator/RyanGosling. It's going to make you sweat a bit.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Deconstructed. Sousa tells a story of being applauded while entering a diner but another GI was not. That was when he realized they were applauding him out of pity for his disability.
-->'''Sousa:''' So, I walk into this diner. This isn't a joke. I walk into this diner, and everybody starts clapping. And I look around at first, confused, and then I realize, oh, they're clapping for me, in my dress uniform, 'cause I served and came back alive, like you...So, I pretended to curtsy. Played it off as a joke, and then I'm working on my meal. I look up. I see another G.I. walk in. So, I put down my fork, put down my knife, get ready to clap. And nobody else does a thing. Silence. That's when I realized they weren't clapping for me. They were clapping for this and this. (''gestures to leg and crutch'') Clapping because I make them feel guilty, and they want to feel good.
* {{Irony}}: His brightness and willingness to see Peggy as the competent agent that she is, rather than dismiss her as just a SexySecretary... leads him to be perhaps the biggest threat to her cover when she's working to clear Stark's name.
* ItsPersonal: When Peggy was accused as traitor in "SNAFU", he feels personally betrayed so he becomes the bad cop and is the most aggressive in interrogating her, while Thompson and Chief Dooley are more composed in doing so.
* JerkassBall: In "SNAFU", Sousa [[spoiler:accuses Peggy of sleeping with Howard, saying that he's "as good as they say" and that he "scrambled her brain"]]. This goes away again after Peggy comes clean about her own interrogation and [[spoiler:possessing a vial containing Steve's blood]], with him trying to convince Dooley to believe her.
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Peggy diagnoses him as having one regarding her; he idolizes her, [[spoiler:but turns against her when she's revealed to be a double agent and accuses her during the interrogation of having been been seduced by Howard.]]
-->'''Peggy''': [To you, I was] the girl on the pedestal, transformed into some daft whore.
* NiceGuy: Supportive to Peggy in contrast to his co-workers. This is initially [[JerkassBall averted]] in "SNAFU", however, with him being the most aggressive interrogator out of him, Thompson and Dooley.
-->'''Sousa''': You're an agent, but they treat you like a secretary.
* NotSoAboveItAll: A rather depressing reveal. Sousa took Peggy's part against the rest of the [=SSR=]'s sexism, but while his opinion of Peggy is more benevolent, it's just as sexist in a ''different'' way: by idolizing Peggy, he set himself up to be disappointed when it looked like she wasn't the perfect woman he envisioned, [[spoiler:and he turned on her pretty viciously. While he was initially reluctant to believe she was a traitor, the fact that he assumes she's only doing it because she's sleeping with Howard Stark is the nail in the coffin here]]. To his credit, though, the ''instant'' Peggy starts laying down all her cards, he believes her, so much so that Thompson says it's because of his crush on her.
* NWordPrivileges: Freely jokes about his lost leg, but is annoyed when others make jabs about it.
* OnlyFriend: He's the only one to accept Peggy as a SSR agent, mostly because of his feelings for her. [[spoiler: Because of this he feels particularly betrayed when he assumes her guilt in "SNAFU", leaving her with zero friends, until she was able to convince him and his colleagues of her innocence.]]
* RankUp: Gets promoted to being chief of a new branch of the SSR on the West Coast between seasons.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To Peggy in season two.
* ReturningWarVet: Lost the use of his leg during the Siege of Bastogne.
* UndyingLoyalty: Season 2 gives him this towards Peggy, even as powerful forces threaten both of them and Peggy herself tells him to save himself from the sure-to-come fallout.
-->'''Daniel:''' I'm in this with you 'til the end, Peggy.
* UtilityWeapon: He sometimes uses his crutch as a weapon. It even gave him an edge when throwing down with [[TheDragon Dottie]].
* WhiteKnighting: Although he tells off agents who insult her, Peggy tells Sousa he shouldn't, as she's plenty capable of dealing with petty taunts.

[[folder:Agent Jack Thompson]]
!!''Chief Jack Thompson''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChadMichaelMurray

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Something you learn in war: Not every battle you win is a notch on your belt."'']]

->''"Poor guy. I hear he got his personality shot off in Iwo Jima."''
-->--'''Daniel Sousa'''

One of Peggy's coworkers at the SSR. He's sexist, but competent. Becomes Chief of the New York City office in Season 2.

* TheAce: Thompson is a competent SSR worker, was awarded the Navy Medal during the war, and is also quite handsome.
* AmbitionIsEvil: In Season 2, he seems content to turn a blind eye to corruption in exchange for a high position in a new agency when the SSR is fully dissolved. Subverted, though, as he also thinks to be protecting his subordinates from accusations as communist spies, which in those days were career-killers regardless of innocence. [[spoiler:Not only that, but it turns out he was unaware Vernon Masters was even corrupt to begin with.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: A serious moment between him and Dooley has Dooley out right saying he has a crush on Peggy, which Thompson doesn't refute, implying he demeans and dismisses her to cover it up.
* BloodKnight: Subverted. While he takes pleasure out of his JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, and Sousa implies that he was quite the killer back in the war, when seen in an actual firefight Thompson gets overcome by fear rather than by bloodlust. Rather than look back fondly on his time in the war, he seems to hold it in shame.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:While she may not quite be Cthulhu, Dottie Underwood is certainly on another level from Thompson and he legitimately broke his hand punching her out, while she ultimately escaped.]]
* BrokenAce: Thompson secretly confided in Peggy that [[spoiler:he killed Japanese soldiers that he assumes were about to surrender and covered it up, and feels great remorse over his actions]].
* CannotSpitItOut:
** Covered up [[spoiler:that the soldiers he killed he thinks were trying to surrender and later just could not bring himself to admit it]].
** He can't admit his romantic feelings for Peggy, though this is more out of his arrogant and sexist attitude.
* CharacterDevelopment: Started out as a StrawMisogynist, but has gradually come to respect Peggy; his entire character arc by the end of the first season is described in detail by ''Agent Carter'' Executive Producer and Screenwriter, [[WordOfGod Michelle Fazekas]]:
-->“The interesting thing, for instance about Thompson, is Thompson has actually learned nothing. Which is an overstatement - He’s learned something. I know this is a different topic entirely but his theme at the end of the show… We always thought of as this is the moment you decide how the rest of your life is going to go. And he thinks about it and he knows what the right to do is and he chooses to do the thing that benefits him the most. I think I’m actually probably wrong when I say he hasn’t learned something. He’s learned something, but now it’s almost worse that he’s actually making the active choice, like, “I’m going to screw a bunch of people over because it benefits me.” I find that really interesting because it’s growth, in a way, because he’s taking charge. But it’s growth in the wrong direction.”
** In the second season, Thompson initially sides with the villainous Vernon Masters, but learns to set aside his own ambitions when it comes time to do the right thing. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, he's then shot, and his fate is unclear.]]
* CorruptCop: In Season Two, due to influence from Vernon Masters. [[spoiler: He knows everything that Peggy's saying about him and the Arena Club is true, but Thompson doesn't seem to care.]]
* DarkSecret: Thompson won a Navy Cross for rescuing his sleeping camp from a Japanese ambush. [[spoiler:Only after he killed them did he began to think the enemy troops had come to surrender, as they were carrying a white flag. He buried it before any of his fellow soldiers saw it, and has had to live with the guilt of his presumed mistake ever since the war]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: Thompson is a sexist jerk who is constantly being condescending towards Peggy, but even ''he'' doesn't approve of Krzmenski's attitude.
* FakeUltimateHero: Was given the credit for stopping Leviathan's plan by the government (apparently because he was the senior agent involved), when he probably was the person whose contributions were the least important to preventing [[spoiler:the gassing of Times Square]].
* GoodCopBadCop:
** The Bad Cop to Dooley's Good Cop. As we see when he interrogates Jarvis, he's very good at this even when he doesn't resort to physical force.
** However, it's flipped in "SNAFU" when he plays the Good Cop to Sousa's Bad Cop [[spoiler:while interrogating Peggy]]. It stands out even more because at the start of the series [[spoiler:he had no empathy for Peggy]] and no reluctance for using violence.
* HiddenDepths: When they finally interact in private, he surprisingly reveals to Peggy he's not blind to her abilities, and even appends the aforementioned observation about her perceived inequality by stating that it is unfair. The fact that he still does nothing to deter the sexism or help her, even when in a position to do so in Dooley's absence, implies he's quite defensive about maintaining his "image" as a "man's man". In ''The Iron Ceiling'', we find out he is [[spoiler:haunted both by killing enemy soldiers he thought were surrendering ''and'' lying about it to save face]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When Sousa implies that Thompson was rather bloodthirsty during the war, he plays it off like this.
-->'''Thompson:''' Something you learn in war: Not every battle you win is a notch on your belt.\\
'''Sousa:''' The way I hear you fought, I'm surprised there's any belt left to notch.\\
'''Thompson:''' Just doing what needed to be done.
* IOweYouMyLife: Peggy saves him in "The Iron Ceiling" when he freezes up during a firefight. After that he's much more respectful to her, and even tells her [[spoiler:after her arrest that it's why he doesn't believe she's a bad guy, as a Leviathan agent would have no reason to save someone she hates.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: Thompson starts to become more respectful of Peggy and recognizing of her abilities as the season goes on. But in the final episode [[spoiler:he's mistakenly credited for saving the city when Peggy and Sousa did most of the work. Rather than point the praise to them, he takes all the credit once again for something he didn't do.]]
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: He uses a liberal dose of it to extract information from the Roxxon Oil inside man.
* {{Jerkass}}: He is sexist and dismissive of Peggy, even more than the other SSR agents, and outright tells her that she is not going to be thought of as the equal of the men.
** Subverted in him actually respecting Peggy's abilities but not thinking they will be recognized by the present attitude towards women.
* JerkassFacade: In two parts.
** Towards Peggy, he's a condescending, sexist jerk. But as pointed out by Dooley, this may be just a way for him to hide his crush on her.
** In general, he's an arrogant, smug jerk to everyone in the SSR (sans Dooley). However, it's implicitly stated that it's how he deals with [[spoiler:him killing Japanese soldiers that he believes were about to surrender and then covering it up.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Thompson may be a complete jerk but he does make some good points once in a while.
** When Sousa interrogates a homeless man who was a witness to the events on the Heartbreak, he tries to appeal to his better nature by pointing out how they're both war veterans rejected by society. But the man refuses to care, so Thompson enters and tries a different tactic: bribing the man with a burger and bottle of scotch. Sure enough, the guy springs for it and starts talking, with Thompson telling Sousa, "Not everyone wants a hug."
** Thompson later makes an unfortunately accurate for the times speech to Peggy about her efforts to prove herself are doomed because of her gender - which still doesn't justify why neither he nor Dooley has ever allowed her an opportunity to ''try''.
** In Season 2, he clearly tries to weasel the SSR out of pursuing the Isodyne investigation, but he's right in calling Peggy out for not having any hard evidence and for taking the whole thing too personally after Jason Wilkes (supposedly) got killed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ''Very'' hard to see, but Thompson eventually proves he's not entirely a jerk. He does notice Peggy's skills, [[spoiler:has genuine remorse over accidentally killing Japanese soldiers who he believes were about to surrender]], and after a mission with the Howling Commandos, Thompson ''finally'' shows Peggy some respect. Continues in "SNAFU", where he's arguably the least aggressive towards [[spoiler:Peggy during the SSR's interrogation of her, and indicates he does not want to use his JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on her. And while he doesn't stick up for her as vocally afterwards as Sousa, he privately admits to Sousa that he too supports her]].
* MeaningfulName: "Jack" is a slang word meaning "man", perfectly embodying his "macho-y" nature.
* {{Nepotism}}: His rapid rise in the SSR is in part due to his father's political connections.
* NumberTwo: He is Roger Dooley's ''de facto'' second-in-command, being in charge of the office in Dooley's absence.
* PetTheDog: In Season Two, even though he's become corrupt he does his best to protect Sousa and Peggy from Masters's wrath by trying to get them to drop the Arena Club investigation, lest they become the victims of a smear campaign.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Genuinely traumatized by being [[spoiler:rewarded for killing enemy soldiers he thinks were attempting to surrender. The fact that he buried their white flag and didn't tell anyone the truth has messed him up quite a bit]], since everyone expects him to be this ultra-manly war hero.
* ReturningWarVet: Like much of the cast. He is implied to have served in Iwo Jima.
* ShellShockedVeteran: During the team's firefight in Russia he freezes up, leading Peggy to snap him out of it. He also dislikes talking about his wartime in the Pacific, despite having earned a medal there [[spoiler:since only he knows it was from a presumed surrender.]]
* SlutShaming: Asks if Peggy is used to serving ''under'' Captains. She says she's not used to serving with ''boys''.
* StepfordSnarker: Very snide, especially when it comes to his war record. In front of Dooley, he snarks that the reason Sousa is willing to believe Peggy is because he's carrying a torch for her, but when he and Sousa are alone, he admits he believes her, too.
* TookALevelInKindness: While he's not entirely "cured" of his sexism, Thompson gradually stops the sexist quips directed at Peggy and begins to respect her skills. He even is the more sympathetic to her when [[spoiler:interrogating her after she's arrested]]. But that doesn't stop him from [[spoiler:taking the credit for her accomplishments. He knew it was wrong, just like he knew it was wrong to hide the Japanese soldiers' white flag, and he may well be just as haunted by it in the future. But it didn't stop him from choosing to snub her.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: His coworkers don't think much of his leadership style while he is in charge.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Temporarily while Chief Dooley is away interrogating a Nazi war criminal, and then [[spoiler:for real after Dooley's death in "SNAFU"]].

[[folder:Deputy Director Roger Dooley]]
!!''Deputy Director Roger Dooley''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I buried myself deep in this job the day that I started."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SheaWhigham
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

The chief of the New York City SSR branch, where Peggy works.

* AdaptationDyeJob: He's blond in the comic.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The thing Dooley is known for is that he was a corrupt and depraved S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who had sexually harassed ComicBook/SheHulk. He's still a jerk in the show, but not anymore so than the typical male of the era.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Compared to his comic counterpart, Dooley is treated as a good guy, a mostly-competent chief of the SSR and dies heroically saving his employees from a bomb explosion.
* AgeLift: In as much as he was originally depicted in the comics' present-day, but the show shows him as the same age, or older, shortly after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* AndStarring: Shea Whigham gets this treatment in the OBB.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Dr. Fennhoff hypnotizes him in episode 7, causing Dooley to lock up Peggy and Jarvis, steal a Stark invention for the doctor, and put on an explosive vest threatening to blow up the whole office.
* DaChief: He's the classic hard-ass chief, though with a counter-intelligence organization rather than a police one.
* DeadStarWalking: Billed as a regular but suffers CharacterDeath in the penultimate episode.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a very dry wit and a tendency to snark at the more outlandish things his job meets.
-->'''Dooley:''' (''after finding [=McFee=] fleeing while tied to a chair'') Do I even need to ask?\\
'''[=McFee=]:''' Ask what?\\
'''Dooley:''' Yeah, I guess you're right. I used to strap a chair to my ass and take long walks around the neighborhood, too.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When Thompson makes a crack about Peggy after she leaves during a tense moment Dooley not so subtly tells him to shut it.
* FamousLastWords: "Atta girl." ''(to Peggy)''
* AFatherToHisMen: After Krzeminski's death, he vows to not lose another one of his agents and to get the man responsible. He gets a similar treatment from the rest of the SSR after his CharacterDeath.
* FightingFromTheInside: Downplayed. Dooley shows mild awareness he's doing something wrong while hypnotized and at one point is reluctant to hand Fennhoff the invention. When we see inside his mind, he admits he knows he let a criminal get away but he couldn't find the will in himself to snap out of the trance and arrest him.
* FreudianExcuse: Dooley's casual sexism towards Agent Carter apparently stems from his wife's infidelity.
* HappyPlace: Imagining he's with his family is how Fennhoff keeps him delusional and under his control.
* HeroicSacrifice: After being fitted with an explosive vest, Dooley shoots a window and jumps out of it to prevent the SSR from being destroyed with him.
* HiddenDepths: His sexism seem to have been the result of his wife's infidelity. As a result, he distrusts women.
* InspectorJavert: Dooley fully believes (incorrectly) that Howard is a traitor to his country and is hellbent on proving it, but he's just misguided rather than unsympathetic. Eventually, as he uncovers more on the Finow massacre, he even comes to question his views towards Stark.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dooley is rather sexist and dismissive of Peggy, but he's a dedicated lawman who cares about his agents and his country.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: He treats Carter with the same casual sexism as most of her colleagues and tends to dismiss her input if it's not convenient to him, but he's genuinely committed to serving and protecting his country, and according to Whigham, cares more deeply for his agents (including Peggy) than he feels capable of showing.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When evidence comes to light that implies Stark is being set up he immediately starts looking into discovering it. [[spoiler: He also recognizes Peggy's competence just before his death.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The local BigGood dies in "SNAFU".]]
* TrailersAlwaysLie: Press materials said he would be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who would be supportive of Peggy and appreciative of her accomplishments. In the series itself he appears to be just as sexist as the rest of the SSR.

[[folder:Rose Roberts]]
!!''Rose Roberts''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Lesley Boone
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

An SSR employee who operates phones and watches the front.
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* ActionGirl: Rose shows off her combat skills in season 2.
* AlliterativeName: '''R'''ose '''R'''oberts.
* AscendedExtra: She's a BitCharacter in the first season, but has an increased role in the second.
* BitCharacter: Initially; shows up a couple of times only in Season 1, prior to becoming an AscendedExtra.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Dr. Samberly and Howard seem to think so. Samberly not-so-subtly has crush on her, while [[TheCasanova Howard]] shamelessly flirts with her while [[GreenEyedMonster Samberly]] watch.
* HiddenBadass: She appears to be just a phone operator in her first few appearances but carries a gun and is ready to use it to protect the SSR headquarters. In addition to that, she is quite proficient in hand-to-hand combat.
* NumberTwo: Rose becomes Sousa's unofficial right-hand woman when he is appointed head of the LA office.

[[folder:Agent Ray Krzeminski]]
!!''Agent Ray Krzeminski''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Kyle Bornheimer
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

A dim but strong agent of the SSR.
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* AlasPoorScrappy: In-universe example. His coworkers are saddened by his death even if he wasn't the nicest to them. Even Peggy is confused at why she's unhappy about his death.
* AssholeVictim: A case where neither the "asshole" nor "victim" part is downplayed. While during his screentime he's constantly rude, dimwitted, and cheating on his wife, his coworkers are saddened by his death even if he wasn't the nicest to them. But he's still "one of [them]", and part of Peggy's unhappiness about his murder is that she suspects the assassin meant to take out her.
* ButtMonkey: Not particularly well-respected by his coworkers. While they investigate a explosion at a Roxxon refinery, he's assigned the menial task of prying apart the wreckage.
* DeathBySecretIdentity: The arrested thug tells him a female agent with a British accent beat him up. If he wasn't killed, chances are he would have figured out he was talking about Peggy.
* DumbMuscle: Not the smartest agent, but very strong. When looking over the compacted Roxxon remains, he wonders out loud if the bomb had a magnetic effect. When Thompson corrects him and points out that magnets don't pull wood and concrete, Ray gets miffed and chides him for being "Isaac Newton".
* FatBastard: Alongside Thompson, he's one of the most abrasive of the agency.
* FatSlob: Heavier than his fellow agents and, in his first scene, has a mustard stain on his shirt. [[spoiler:After his death, his desk is strewn with roses but nobody bothered to wipe up his breadcrumbs.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No one at the SSR seems to like him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Mocks Peggy for supposedly [[ReallyGetsAround getting around]] during the war but cheats on his wife with a girlfriend and at least one prostitute.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mocks Carter for being a woman and Sousa for being a cripple. Even [[{{Jerkass}} Thompson]] [[EveryoneHasStandards doesn't like him.]]
* KavorkaMan: The rudest, most misogynistic ([[DeliberateValuesDissonance which is really saying something]]), least intelligent, least attractive man in the SSR...and he still managed to get both a wife [[YourCheatingHeart and a girlfriend]]. Even the hooker was oddly enthusiastic about seeing him around.
* KickTheDog: When he notices Sousa has feelings for Carter, he cruelly tells him she'd never love a cripple after being with Captain America.
* MauveShirt: He has a name and a basic personality but that's about it.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He is the first SSR agent to be killed on the show. And Dooley doesn't want to lose anyone else.]]
* SlutShaming: Implies Peggy [[ReallyGetsAround really got around during the War]] (for which the audience nor the SSR has no evidence that this was true).
* StoutStrength: Pries apart the fused wreckage of the refinery.
* YourCheatingHeart: Was cheating on his wife with another woman. And on top of that he was implied to frequent prostitutes.

[[folder:Agent Yauch]]
!!Agent Yauch
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Alexander Carroll
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

An agent of the SSR assigned to protect Dr. Ivchenko.
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* FightingFromTheInside: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Though seemingly a faithful puppet of Ivchenko/Fennhoff, he refuses to take him to the lab with Stark's confiscated weapons, because Dooley ordered all agents to stay out of there.]]
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Dr. Ivchenko pegs him as a middle child as he's eager to please while competing with his siblings for the attention of his parents. Ivchenko notices a similar dynamic between Yauch, [[TheAce Thompson]], and [[TeamDad Chief Dooley]].
* OneLastSmoke: [[spoiler:Ivchenko]] uses hypnosis to send him to his favorite bar and get one last drink before walking into traffic.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Dr. Fennhoff]] hypnotizes him into helping Leviathan and then walking in front of a car.
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:He's killed to show just how dangerous Dr. Fennhoff can be.]]
* SpottingTheThread:
** Early on he notices that Dooley's been taking a ''really'' long time talking with Ivchenko, until Thompson urges him not to bother.
** [[spoiler:When Fennhoff starts hypnotizing him, Yauch looks suspiciously at his hypno-ring, but ultimately his attention drifts back to the doctor.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After telling the doctor everything he can about the SSR headquarters, he's ordered to kill himself so that the SSR doesn't learn about his hypnotizing.

[[folder:Agent Mike Li]]
!!''Agent Mike Li''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Eddie Shin
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

An SSR agent who accompanies Carter and Thompson to Russia.
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* CharacterDeath: He's killed by Black Widow in-training Eva in "The Iron Ceiling".
* DeathNotification: He had a wife, who Dooley had to notify after his death.
* KilledMidSentence: During a firefight with Leviathan guards.
%%* RedShirt
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never been seen or mentioned before "The Iron Ceiling" but has apparently been an agent of the SSR the whole time.
* TokenMinority: The only Asian-American agent seen in the SSR. Actually, he's the only named Asian man to appear at all in the first two seasons.

[[folder:Agent Rick Ramirez]]
!!''Agent Rick Ramirez''
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-> '''Portrayed By:''' Greg Serano
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

An SSR agent who accompanies Carter and Thompson to Russia.
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* AlliterativeName: '''R'''ick '''R'''amirez.
* AscendedFanboy: An admirer of the Howling Commandos who gets to work with them in "The Iron Ceiling."
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never been seen or mentioned before "The Iron Ceiling" but has apparently been an agent of the SSR the whole time.
* TokenMinority: The only Latino seen in the SSR. Or in the first two seasons.

[[folder:Dr. Aloysius Samberly]]
!!''Dr. Aloysius Herbert Samberly''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Matt Braunger

A scientist working in the SSR's LA office.
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* BizarreTasteInFood: Orders a pickled herring salad sandwich for lunch. When placing the order on the phone, Thompson finds the mere idea of it so disgusting he can barely even say it.
* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: He feels like because he is not a field agent, his work isn't given the appropriate recognition. He isn't entirely wrong.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: ''Nobody'' at the SSR can stand Samberly, and that includes Sousa. This is actually why Sousa feels he can trust him. He figures that there's no way Samberly could be secretly working for the bad guys because ''they'' wouldn't want him around either.
* GadgeteerGenius: He is the one who comes up with the gadgets the SSR agents use in the field.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: He joined the SSR because Sousa promised him that he would get training and become a field agent, but he ended up in a lab.
* InsufferableGenius: He may be a genius on par with Wilkes or Howard Stark, but his pettiness and resentment make him act like a jerk towards the agents, even in urgent situations.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Samberly is bitter, petty and irritable but he's far from a bad person.
* MadScientist: He has a very cavalier attitude regarding the testing of his gadgets on his coworkers.
* NonActionGuy: He is completely useless in a fight, a fact that he blames on Sousa for not keeping his promise of getting him training.

!Stark Industries & Household

[[folder:Howard Stark]]
!!''Howard Stark''

See [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse his character tropes on the Marvel Cinematic Universe page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Edwin Jarvis]]
!!''Edwin Jarvis''
->'''Portrayed By:''' James D'Arcy

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"An ideal butler provides service without being asked."'']]

->'''Peggy''': You're new to espionage, aren't you?\\
'''Jarvis''': Far from it. Last summer, I caught the cook pocketing the good spoons.

Howard Stark's butler, lent to Peggy in order to aid her in clearing Stark's name. Posthumously ended up becoming the basis for [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]]'s [[Characters/IronManFilms J.A.R.V.I.S.]] A.I.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He's younger and far more attractive than the balding, portly man from the comics.
* AdaptationalWimp: His comic counterpart was a veteran of the Royal Air Force and a former boxing champion. Here he's mostly a NonActionGuy, though he does have military experience, as well as some (non-combat) flight hours.
* {{Adorkable}}: Whenever he's uncomfortable.
* BadassDriver: He [[OutrunTheFireball outruns the explosion]] that reduces a Roxxon refinery into compressed rubble and only barely escapes.
* BattleButler: Averted in Season 1. Jarvis doesn't have any combat-related experience whatsoever, but helps out Peggy anyway. Season 2 shows that he's been ''trying'' to become this by taking up weightliftng, Judo, and Marquis of Queensbury rules Boxing, though he still has a long way to go.
* BeleagueredAssistant: To Howard Stark, who uses him for everything from breaking up with girlfriends to illegally spying on government organizations.
* CallForward: He provides the test message for Howard's verbal burglar alarm, and is quite nonplussed at the idea of his disembodied voice continuing in this role.
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:His talent as a forger.]]
* CombatPragmatist: After taking up fighting training, he decides to make a specialty out of a move that requires him to first be knocked on his back.
* TheComicallySerious: While he's an snark expert, Jarvis also causes many laughs by [[StiffUpperLip trying to retain his British coolness]] being stuck in embarrassing situations.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: During the war he was the batman[[note]]an enlisted soldier assigned to be an officer's servant[[/note]] to a general. He met his future wife Ana in Budapest, and begged the general to sign letters of transit to get her out to save her from the Nazis since she was Jewish. He refused, so Jarvis forged the signature himself. He got charged with treason which was dropped (due to Howard's intervention), but that didn't stop him from getting a dishonorable discharge.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[SnarkToSnarkCombat Matches Carter's snarkiness word for word]]. He's not just one to her, either. This is his response to being arrested by SSR:
-->'''Jarvis:''' Won't this be novel? I haven't been in the ''back'' of a car in years.
* DeathByAdaptation: The MCU version of Edwin Jarvis has already passed away even before ''Film/IronMan1''. In the comics, he's still very much alive and he is also the butler for ComicBook/TheAvengers.
* DecompositeCharacter: Largely similar to his comic-book counterpart, only removed to an earlier time, thereby disallowing association with the Avengers, which is instead fulfilled by the JARVIS AI.
* HappilyMarried: With his wife, Ana.
* HouseHusband: Appears to be this while his wife works, fittingly for a butler.
* TheJeeves: To Howard. In addition to being an excellent and reliable butler, he also has enough scientific knowledge to double as Howard's lab assistant when required.
* JumpedAtTheCall: He very much enjoys his adventures with Peggy.
* LastNameBasis: With everyone except his wife, as Howard's his boss, he's Peggy's assistant, and everyone else is a veritable stranger to him.
* TheMedic: Jarvis's medical knowledge often comes in handy such as stitching up Peggy's wounds.
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: He claims that, aside from "Danger", "Charm" is his middle name.
* NiceGuy: Jarvis is impeccably polite and respectful to everyone, occasional snarking aside.
* NonActionGuy: At least at first, he doesn't fight.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jarvis usually both excessively polite and comedic, so seeing him brought to tears by [[spoiler:Ana being shot by Whitney Frost in season 2]] is appropriately jarring. Even more drastic is how dark he becomes after this, being consumed by vengeance towards [[spoiler:Whitney]]. This culminates in him [[spoiler:straight up gunning down Whitney in cold blood, which, unfortunately, doesn't work]].
* ParentalSubstitute: He was this to Tony, since Howard was never around. There's a reason why Tony named his A.I. after him. [[spoiler:Also, his wife was rendered barren when Whitney shot her, so Tony was the closest thing to a son that Jarvis could ever have.]]
* PinocchioNose: While driving Peggy to the office to steal the Blitzkrieg Button, he compulsively rubs at his right ear when he's dissembling. Peggy notices it.
* PlatonicLifePartners: He and Peggy eventually become this as the series continues.
* PrecisionFStrike: When he's trying to convince Peggy that Dooley's death isn't her fault, his StiffUpperLip fractures just a bit, blaming it on "Mr. Stark's ''bloody'' inventions."
* TheReliableOne: Filling a similar role that Pepper would serve to Tony, Jarvis is Howard's most trusted confidant. He also ends up filling this role for Carter.
* RetiredBadass: Revealed to have been active during World War II and still have the combat training to back it up.
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Shooting Whitney Frost in a fit of rage did not help matters.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: What he did to help Ana, as well as assisting Peggy.
* SecretKeeper: For Peggy's non-SSR spywork but with Howard as well. [[spoiler:The both of them seem to share information of something that Peggy doesn't need to know about.]]
* ServileSnarker: Helpful sarcasm to Peggy and presumably to Howard, as well. When Peggy tells him that she doesn't want his help (after he helped her) he responds, "The ideal butler performs services without being asked."
* SharpDressedMan: Always sharply dressed.
* {{Sidekick}}: He's Peggy's right-hand-man.
* StiffUpperLip: See his calm and relaxed description to Carter regarding the effects of a weapon that could lay to waste an entire block.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Howard for what he did for him during the war. Not that it stops him from giving Howard a WhatTheHellHero [[spoiler: for lying to Peggy about Steve's blood.]]
** By "SNAFU" he [[spoiler: admits that Howard's inventions have only brought bad things.]]
** Breaks this a bit in the season one finale by [[spoiler:giving Peggy the vial of Steve's blood without informing Howard.]]

[[folder:Jason Wilkes]]
!!''Jason Wilkes''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Reggie Austin

Dr. Jason Wilkes is a SelfMadeMan and a genius scientist working for Isodyne Energy, who unwillingly becomes involved in a mysterious murder case that will change his life forever.

* AdaptationalHeroism: He shares the same name as a villain in the comics. While he's [[spoiler: done some less than reputable things such as selling out to Whitney Frost and threatening to shoot Peggy so he can better understand Zero Matter and his presumed new abilities, he shows remorse to Peggy, doesn't want to hurt others, and seems to be more of a victim than a villain.]]
* {{Adorkable}}: The first thing he does when he finds an unknown woman wandering around his workplace? Take her to his lab to try out his moonshine and gush over the science of chemical manipulation. Then actually ask who she is and what she's doing there.
* AgeLift: His comic counterpart was an older man.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Is rendered invisible and intangible by the Zero Matter explosion. Howard Stark does devise a chemical that can make him visible in short bursts, but any time else he literally cannot even speak due to having intangible vocal chords.]]
* BadassBookworm: He served in the Navy during the war as an engineer, and can still handle himself.
* ContainmentField: [[spoiler:With Stark's lab, he's able to build chamber that lets him turn solid again inside of it. Another dose of Zero Matter from Whitney Frost makes it so he can step outside of it and yet remain tangible, though not permanently.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: InUniverse, this is the reason he's hesitant to betray Isodyne, since - even though they're run by the bad guys - they were the only scientific laboratory that was willing to hire a black man into R&D after the war.
* HotScientist: A male example.
* LoveInterest: For Peggy in Season 2.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:The explosion caused by Zero Matter appeared to have vaporized him into another plane of reality. However, in reality it just made him both [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]] and [[{{Intangibility}} intangible]].]]
* RaceLift: He's a white man in the comics, but is African-American here.
* SelfMadeMan: He was born into a family of agricultural workers in Southern California's orange groves, and was a physicist with a doctorate and history of military service by the time of his adulthood. Extra impressive, considering the prejudice he experiences as a black man in TheForties due to ValuesDissonance. However, Whitney Frost claims none of this mattered to Isodyne; they hired him only because they needed someone expendable to blame/kill should they had to coverup their stockpile of Zero Matter.
* SpiderSense: [[spoiler:His connection to Zero Matter allows him to sense where its locations, letting Peggy's team seek bodies laced with it, including Whitney Frost.]]
* TokenMinority: He's the only character with a black actor to be listed in the main cast.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Jason Wilkes was extremely minor in the comics with only one appearance ever. Even Leet Brannis appeared more than once.

[[folder:Ana Jarvis]]
!!''Ana Jarvis''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Lotte Verbeek

Edwin Jarvis' wife.

* BreakTheCutie: {{Averted|Trope}}, Ana has a pretty traumatic time of it before and during the series, culminating in [[spoiler: her being shot in the stomach and losing any hope of having children someday]]. But, even though she's upset by the news, she continues to look on the bright side, and it seems that the bad things that happen to her never manage to change who she is.
* TheGhost: Does not appear on-screen in the first season.
* HappilyMarried: She and Jarvis are downright ''adorable'' together. [[spoiler: The strength of their marriage is shown when Ana is shot by Whitney. Jarvis is downright devestated and fears for his wife's life, even shoots Whitney in retaliation. During her recovery, he vows to protect her with his life and makes sure she is well taken care of even on the mission. When he tries to stay behind with Ana while Peggy and the others deal with Whitney, Ana shows her support of his adventures by insisting he go with Peggy to stop Whitney. She can also tell he's hiding something...that Ana had her womb punctured by the gunshot and now they can't have children.]]
* HiddenDepths: When we finally meet her, she seems to be a very typical, if not even air-headedly naive housewife. In reality, however, she's very smart, integrated with Edwin Jarvis's unusual line of work, and is pretty much poised to be Peggy's own version of [[Franchise/JamesBond Q]].
* InformedJudaism: She is Jewish, which is why she fled Hungary when the Nazis took over.
* LawOfInverseFertility: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that Jarvis and Ana aren't actively trying for a baby and apparently haven't even decided if they want kids yet, [[spoiler:but the news that she's now infertile is upsetting to them, though their relationship doesn't seem to suffer because of it.]]
* NiceGirl: Practically everyone, in-universe and in the fandom, is in agreement that Ana is ''just lovely''.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: She's supposed to be Hungarian but the actress uses her natural Dutch accent.
* ThePollyanna: For someone who's survived Nazi-occupied Hungary, she's very bubbly and stable. In fact, she's very hands-on with her husband when they have intimate moments... [[TheComicallySerious and even when Peggy's watching]].
* SickeninglySweethearts: She and Jarvis have been married for at least a couple of years when the series starts, but it's obvious from the get-go that they're still very much in the honeymoon phase, with no intention of leaving it behind anytime soon. On Ana's side it's partly serious, partly PlayedForLaughs to gently mock the uptight sensibilities of any nearby Brits.
* TheVoice: In her first appearance, we hear her calling to Jarvis from offscreen but we never see her.
* {{Troll}}: She loves her husband... and loves ruffling his oh-so-British feathers by snogging him in front of guests. She also doesn't resist the opportunity to poke fun at Peggy and Edwin's "compromising" sparring position.
* WarRefugees: Escaped Hungary due to the Nazi occupation.

[[folder:Anton Vanko]]
!!''Anton Vanko''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Yevgeni Lazarev, Costa Ronin
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' (portrayed by Lazarev), ''Agent Carter'' (portrayed by Ronin)

Howard Stark's Russian partner in inventions, until a falling-out led to Vanko being deported to Siberia.

* CallForward: To ''Film/IronMan2'' in which his death drives his son Ivan to seek revenge on Tony Stark.
* TheLabRat: For Stark and then for Peggy. Jarvis introduces her to him when she needs help tracking down the bad guys from the remains of the nitramine bomb.
* TokenEnemyMinority: A Russian-American character, on the protagonists' side, unconnected to the Russian Leviathan organization.

[[folder:Bernard Stark]]
-->See the [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse main page]]

!Howling Commandos

[[folder:Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader "Dum Dum" Dugan]]
!!''Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader "Dum Dum" Dugan''

See [[Characters/CaptainAmericaFilms his character tropes on the Captain America films sub-page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton]]
!!''Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Richard Short

A Howling Commando who accompanies Peggy and her SSR team on their mission to Russia.

* AlliterativeName: '''P'''ercival "'''P'''inky" '''P'''inkerton.
* {{Expy}} / SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He shares many traits with James Falsworth, a Commando from ''The First Avenger'', in that they both are English, wear maroon berets, and have Received Pronunciation accents. It's a circular case, though, as the MCU Falsworth was a CompositeCharacter of his 616-identity "Union Jack" and of Pinkerton.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Apparently fought with the Howling Commandos during the war though he was never seen or mentioned onscreen.

[[folder:"Happy" Sam Sawyer]]
!!''"Happy" Sam Sawyer''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Leonard Roberts
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

A Howling Commando who accompanies Peggy and her SSR team on their mission to Russia.
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* AlliterativeName: '''S'''am '''S'''awyer.
* BadassInDistress: After getting shot in the leg, [[spoiler:he's held as a human shield by the scientist they're rescued, Nikolai, as he tries to surrender to Leviathan.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. He's not the first Commando to die, and the worst he gets is [[OnlyAFleshWound a bullet in the leg]].
* EmbarrassingNickname: Views the "Howling Commandos" as this.
* IronicNickname: He isn't very happy.
* PerpetualFrowner: About the one thing he has in common with his comic book counterpart.
* RaceLift: The comics Sawyer was a white company commander. Here's he's a black Howling Commando.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Apparently fought with the Howling Commandos during the war though he was never seen or mentioned onscreen.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Downplayed; while he replaces Gabe Jones as the TokenMinority, he doesn't share many other traits with him.

[[folder:Jonathan "Junior" Juniper]]
!!''Jonathan "Junior" Juniper''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' James Austin Kerr
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

A Howling Commando who accompanies Peggy and her SSR team on their mission to Russia.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''onathan '''J'''uniper. For AddedAlliterativeAppeal, his nickname is '''J'''unior.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Claims to have seen a yeti. According to him, the difference between it and the Abominable Snowman is one is real and the other isn't.
* MauveShirt: Gets a name, lines, and a basic personality [[spoiler:and then is killed by one of the Black Widows.]]
* MythologyGag: In the comics, he's best known for [[spoiler:being the first Marvel hero to ever be KilledOffForReal. Sure enough, Junior's dead before the end of the episode.]]
* TheNicknamer: Came up with the name "Howling Commandos."

!United States Department of War

[[folder:Vernon Masters]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]

!British Armed Forces

[[folder:Michael Carter]]
!!''Captain Michael Carter''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Max Brown, Webb Baker Hayes (young)
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

-->''"Don't worry about what other people think. You are meant to fight. Stop pretending to be someone that you're not."''

Peggy's older brother.
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* BigBrotherMentor: He understands his little sister and encourages her to pursue a life of adventure, as well as arranging for her to be trained as a spy by the SOE.
* CanonForeigner: In the comics, Peggy had only one brother, called Harrison.
* TheCaptain: Is a captain in the British army, and a good man to boot.
%%* DeadpanSnarker: It seems that a dry wit runs in the family.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Is killed in action early in WWII. His death spurs Peggy to take begin training as a spy.

[[folder:Fred Wells]]
!!''Fred Wells''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Kevin Changaris
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Fred Wells was Peggy Carter's fiancé until she left him to fight in World War II after her brother's death.
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* DisposableFiance: He was engaged to Peggy in 1940, but he was a coward who wouldn't join her in the war, so she broke off their engagement.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Fred doesn't seem to realize the fact that Michael Carter doesn't like him marrying Peggy because he's so against a life of adventure.
* NonActionGuy: During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he worked for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office Home Office]], avoiding combat as he felt he was more at home living a boring life rather than fighting on the front lines.
* StayInTheKitchen: To Peggy. When she was offered the chance to work for the Special Operations Executive, Wells convinced her to turn it down as he felt she should not go onto the front lines.

!Civilians

[[folder:Angela "Angie" Martinelli]]
!!''Angie Martinelli''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LyndsyFonseca

An aspiring actress who works as a waitress at an automat Peggy frequents, who invites her to stay at the Griffith Hotel.

* TheBroCode: Gender-flipped. Her previous best friend abruptly left her after getting married, so Angie is distrustful of friends who appear to be dating. At times she raises suspicion about Jarvis, but Peggy reassures her that they're just business partners.
* DeadpanSnarker: She always has a sarcastic remark ready.
-->'''Dottie:''' ''[about the boarding house]'' This place is pretty swell, huh? Seems like one big happy family.\\
'''Angie:''' That wears off.
* DemotedToExtra: Her role had to be significantly reduced in Season 2 as Fonseca got a role on another show.
* DramaQueen: Peggy calls her this when she says she's "too consumed by ennui" to go to work.
* FakeGuestStar: Lyndsy Fonseca regularly appears and yet she's not included in the "regular cast" line-up.
* LargeHam: She '''''is''''' an actress after all. Her acting comes into play when she [[spoiler:helps Peggy in evading the SSR.]]
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She had no idea about Peggy’s double life until “A Sin To Err”, although she claims that she suspected something was off.
-->'''Angie:''' I knew you didn't work for the phone company!
* MuggleBestFriend: She quickly becomes Peggy's closest friend but she has no idea about the world of espionage she's involved in. After what happened to Colleen, though, Peggy is reluctant to let her any closer.
* NiceGirl: Very friendly, cheerful and helpful to Peggy.
* TheNicknamer: She calls Peggy "English," refers to Jarvis as "Mr Fancy," and calls Dottie "Iowa."
* TheNotLoveInterest: Fulfills several of the roles typical of love interests in action, spy, and superhero films. She gets annoyed when the hero's double-life keeps them from spending time together, provides Peggy with emotional support after [[spoiler:Ray is killed]], and helps Peggy [[spoiler:escape from the SSR agents hunting her without ever questioning her innocence]].
* PutOnABus: Inverted; The rest of the cast (and the show itself) hopped a bus to LA, leaving Angie behind.
* SheReallyCanAct: In-universe. We first see Angie practicing for an audition, but her line reading is fairly stiff. All her previous auditions went badly too, and Angie seriously considers quitting acting and going into secretary school. When she needs to distract the SSR, though, Angie wills herself to turn on the waterworks and burst into tears over a fake anecdote about her grandma, making the agents too uncomfortable to keep questioning her. Peggy overhears it, and encourages her to keep trying out for theater after that.
* WaitingForABreak: She works as a waitress in a restaurant while waiting for her big break in show business.

[[folder:Miriam Fry]]
!!''Miriam Fry''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Meagen Fay

The owner of the Griffith Hotel, a boarding house for women in which Peggy Carter lives.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first she seems like a strict but fair landlady, then we realize she's anything but.
* ControlFreak: Has a strict curfew for her residents and insists that no gentlemen callers are allowed above the first floor.
* CrankyLandlord: Strictly controls the schedules of the girls in her boarding house and forbids men higher than the first floor.
* FemaleMisogynist: She treats her tenants (all grown women with jobs) like particularly dim children, because she doesn't believe they're capable of knowing what's best for them. She also seems to believe that once a lady ''has'' compromised her virtue, she's unworthy of basic respect.
* GrandeDame: Not an aristocrat, but she's very concerned with respectability and a bit of a snob as well, and she has the overbearing attitude.
* HiddenDepths: She tries to bring up UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud to rationalize her oppressive rules.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite knowing who Sigmund Freud is, she claims its "unbecoming" of a lady to know about him.
* {{Jerkass}}: At breakfast she publicly humiliates a tenant who had a gentleman caller in her room and evicts her on the spot, to serve as an example to the others.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She forbids men above the first floor of the Griffith because she believes women cannot control their sexual urges until they are married or reach a certain age. She's pretty nasty about this, but when Peggy sneaks Howard into the building, he quickly becomes ''acquainted'' with many of the residents, and he implies that this is not his first time at the Griffith Hotel. She was also AccidentallyAccurate in keeping Mr. Mink from seeing Peggy, not that it stopped him from breaking in.
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: She treats the tenants like they were school girls in a dormitory rather than adults living on their own.
* SatelliteCharacter: Is only relevant to the story as Peggy's landlady. Once Peggy moves out, she ceases to be important and stops appearing.
* SingleIssueLandlord: Basically one rule and that rule is "no men above the first floor ever".
* SkewedPriorities: She's more affected by Peggy making a hole on her wall than about having a tenant who [[spoiler:is being pursued by federal agents]].
* SlutShaming: Public evictions for... ''daring'' to have a man in your room.
* SourPrude: She believes that AllWomenAreLustful so they are incapable of controlling their urges until they’re married or reach a certain age. Hence why they need someone like her to keep them in line.
* SpearCounterpart: As much a FemaleMisogynist as she is, she's also living proof that misogyny isn't the only brand of sexism to be featured in the series.

[[folder: Violet]]
!!''Violet''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SarahBolger

A nurse in LA and Sousa's new girlfriend.

* DisposableFiance: [[spoiler:She cheerily accepts Sousa's marriage proposal, but calls it off when she realizes his real feelings are for Peggy.]]
* HiddenDepths: One really doesn’t expect a 1940s nurse to be so into surfing.
* HospitalHottie: She’s a nurse who happens to be gorgeous.
* NiceGirl: Violet is cheerful and friendly to everyone she meets, to the point that she seems to be great pals with Rose. [[spoiler:She even aids in saving Peggy's life, right then and there, where the wounded agent is suddenly brought into her house.]]
* OnTheRebound: [[spoiler:After seeing Sousa refusing to leave Peggy's side when she's injured, Violet realizes that Sousa moved to LA and started dating her in an attempt to forget about Peggy.]]
* TerritorialSmurfette: Subverted. Sousa worries that she and Peggy won't get along, but they're perfectly friendly with each other.
* WomanInWhite: The first time we meet her she is in a spotless white nurse's uniform, which together with her very pale skin and light hair makes her stand out that much more in contrast with everything around her.

[[folder:Colleen O'Brien]]
!!''Colleen O'Brien''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ashley Hinshaw
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Peggy's first roommate.
----
* BoomHeadshot: How she was killed.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: At the beginning of the second episode, we see an obituary stating she "died suddenly in her bed". Well, she did die in her bed all right, and it was sudden - but it involved a bullet to the middle of her forehead.
* DiesWideOpen: Peggy finds her corpse with a shocked look in her face.
* IllGirl: Colleen was rather sick when the show starts, and worried she might have tuberculosis. It's implied to be because of substandard conditions at the factory she worked at.
* KillTheCutie: Colleen was one of the nicest people Peggy knew, and still optimistic despite their hardships. Because of her death Peggy is reluctant to let other friends of hers be put in danger.
* MuggleBestFriend: Deconstructed. Colleen had no idea Peggy was an SSR agent, believing she worked at the phone company. This lack of knowledge about her friend's dangerous job led to her death.
* NiceGirl: Colleen was friendly and compassionate to Peggy, and often suggested friend dates they could go on after work.
* OneShotCharacter: Due to dying in the same episode she is introduced in.
* SacrificialLamb: Colleen dies early to emphasize the danger of Leviathan, whose agent was ruthless enough to follow Peggy home and murder her sleeping friend.
* StuffedInTheFridge: Killed by an assassin after Peggy, which prompts her ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies attitude.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She is killed in the very episode she first appears, after having two scenes. Even Peggy admitted she had only known her for a few months.
* WrenchWench: Worked as a riveter during the war but was replaced by a man. By then she was much more experienced and had to teach him how to use it.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Downplayed. Colleen wanted to see Peggy get married, and viewed staying independent as the road to spinster-dom.

!Leviathan

[[folder:Leviathan in general]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]

[[folder:Johann Fennhoff]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]

[[folder:Dottie Underwood]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]

[[folder:Leet Brannis]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]

[[folder:Sasha Demidov]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUGovernmentMilitary MCU Government and Military page]]

!Red Room

[[folder:Eva]]
!!''Eva''
[[quoteright:299:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eva_jpg.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Chiara Aurelia

Eva is a girl trained as an assassin in the Red Room Academy.

* AllThereInTheScript: Her name is never mentioned in the episode she appeared, and is only listed in the credits.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Black Widow training program caused her to be rather unhinged. She wasn't entirely focused while Dum Dum Dugan was trying to talk to her until she suddenly attacked him with a knife.
* ChildSoldier: She's trained in Red Room Academy to be an assassin. She even helped adult Leviathan soldiers during the shootout with a sniper rifle that she used to kill Agent Mike Li and injure Happy Sam Sawyer.
* ColdSniper: She used [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosin-Nagant Mosin-Nagant M91/30 Sniper]], a Russian SniperRifle, to ambush on Peggy's team when they were engaged in a shootout against Leviathan soldiers. With precision, Eva shot two times before escaping, one to kill Mike Li and another one to injure Happy Sam Sawyer in the leg.
* CreepyChild: Even before she's revealed to be a child assassin, she's not entirely stable.
* DarkActionGirl: She's a child who's trained to be an assassin.
* EnfantTerrible: She looks like an adorable little girl, but she also doesn't hesitate to kill people due to the brainwashing.
* TheFakeCutie: SSR and Howling Commandos found her while she was seemingly crying. They thought she's a hostage and offer help. While they're distracted with her rather mentally-unbalanced attitude, she suddenly attacked them and killed one of them, Junior Juniper.
* HeroKiller: She killed one Howling Commando, Junior Juniper, and one SSR operative, Mike Li.
* KnifeNut: She hid a knife and used it to stab Dugan, who thankfully wore a bulletproof vest.
* LittleMissBadass: Not only managed to kill one of the Howling Commandos, but she also managed to escape their capture with swift movement.
* MindControlEyes: ''Very'' subtle, but her eyes looks rather empty in a few shots due to the brainwashing. Just look at her picture for an example.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. She shares her first name with another Russian antagonist from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Eva Belyakov.
* TheVoiceless: She doesn't speak any single word in her appearance.

[[folder:Anya]]
!!''Anya''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Caitlin Carmichael

Anya was one of the girls trained as assassins in the Red Room Academy during [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]]. She befriended young Dottie Underwood.

* AllThereInTheScript: Just like Eva, her name is only listed in the credits.
* {{Brainwashed}}: She and other girls in Red Room are fed subliminal messages with their language training, and malnourished along with being chained to their beds.
* ChildSoldier: She was an assassin in-training in Red Room.
* FightingYourFriend: She sparred against her friend, Dottie, who was ordered to kill her after she lost the sparring match.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted, Dottie at least still has a dream involving her, although it's never explicitly shown whether Dottie still remembers her or not.
* OnlyFriend: She appeared to be one for young Dottie; or Dottie was this for her.
* MoralityPet: Possibly for Dottie, who shared bread with her. Killing her may also drove Dottie to lose innocence and sense of humanity, caused her to be a ruthless assassin she is in her adulthood.
* NeckSnap: During fighting class, Anya sparred against Dottie. The headmistress watched their battle. During the battle, Dottie got the upper hand and had Anya in a headlock. When the headmistress nodded her head, Dottie snapped her neck, killing Anya instantly.
* PosthumousCharacter: She already died in 1937, long before the main story.
* TheVoiceless: Also doesn't speak any single word in her appearance.

!Nazis

[[folder:Ernst Mueller]]
!!''Colonel Ernst Mueller''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JackConley

Ernst Mueller was a Nazi German officer during World War II who was captured in the aftermath of the War and hanged for his crimes against humanity.

* AffablyEvil: For a Nazi officer who is sentenced to be hanged, he's quite polite while talking to Chief Dooley.
* BlackComedy: He's due for the death penalty, and lampshades his use of GallowsHumor.
-->'''Mueller:''' ''[as doctors measure him]'' They are measuring me for my new necktie.
* BreakThemByTalking: Dooley gets Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.
* ColonelBadass: His rank was Colonel and since he mentioned he killed many people during the war, it can be assumed he was pretty badass.
* CyanidePill: Subverted. Dooley offers him this if he gives info about what happens in the Battle of Finow. It turns out to be just a breath mint.
* MythologyGag: In the comics, Ernst Mueller was one of the members of Baron Strucker's Blitzkrieg Squad. The episode he appeared in the show is titled "The Blitzkrieg Button".
* NotMeThisTime: He ''was'' in Finow, but by the time he arrived there, his Russian enemies are already massacred by unknown attackers (actually themselves against each other, due to under influence of [[HatePlague Midnight Oil]]).
* ToiletHumor: When he offered water to Dooley, he pointed to his cell's toilet.
* VillainsNeverLie: When he tells Dooley all the Russians at Finow were already dead before his forces arrived, Dooley briefly wonders if he's lying to hide his crimes there. Mueller responds that he's killed men, women, and children, and there'd be no point in hiding a minor crime when he's already sentenced to die for his many worse ones.
* WouldHitAGirl: He mentioned that he killed women.
* WouldHurtAChild: He also mentioned that he killed children.

!The Council of Nine

[[folder:The Council in general]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]

[[folder:Whitney Frost]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]

[[folder:Calvin Chadwick]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hugh Jones]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tom Gloucester]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mortimer Hayes]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rufus Hunt]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminals Council of Nine]]
[[/folder]]

!Organized Crime

[[folder:Joseph Manfredi]]
!!''Joseph Manfredi''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ken Marino
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

The leader of a crime syndicate that Whitney turns to for help.
----
* AffablyEvil: The guy is quite charming and polite... for a vicious mobster.
* AgeLift: He's a present-day character in the comics.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In his first scene, Manfredi demonstrates why none of his men dare turn against him, because he can easily smash their faces in himself.
* BadBoss: He beats one of his henchman almost to death for an imagined slight.
* BadassInCharge: You have to be a badass to rise to become the leader of a crime syndicate.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: His crime group is never called the Maggia.[[note]]This may be because there's not as a great a danger in depicting the Mafia as there was back in the 60s, either from UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode or the real life Mafia.[[/note]] Likewise, he is never referred to as Blackwing, and instead takes a few cues from [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Hammerhead]].
* TheDragon: After Whitney [[spoiler:takes over the Council]], Manfredi becomes her most trusted enforcer. On terms of authority he's [[spoiler: CoDragons with Vernon Masters, due to the latter's position in the U.S. government.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: He considers that delivering a [[CurbStompBattle vicious beatdown]] is an appropriate response for staring at his guests.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His appearance consists of him making Calvin Chadwick uncomfortable with a threat before claiming he was joking, and shortly after beating one of his own men to death for merely looking at the old girlfriend he is supposedly over.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Or at least his grandmother, whom he genuinely loves.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In Season 2 finale, he tells his grandmother that yes, he truly loves Whitney.
* FauxAffablyEvil: It's never clear when he's sincerely friendly, as he can flip from charming to monstrous in an instant.
* HairTriggerTemper: Flies into a volcanic rage and beats one of his own men to a pulp with his bare hands ''for looking at Whitney too long''.
* InNameOnly: In the comics, he is a bat trainer and thus has natural ability to control bats without superpowers. In the TV series, he hasn't shown any of them, not even any [[AnimalMotifs motifs]] about bats.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He beats the hell out of one of his underlings until his knuckles are bloody.
* OldFlame: He and Whitney used to date. He claims to have moved on, but a few minutes later he viciously beats a man because he looked at her for too long.
* SharpDressedMan: As is usual for a 40s gangster, he wears slick suits.
* UndyingLoyalty: He seems to be utterly devoted to Whitney despite her leaving him and marrying another man. As a 1940s macho Italian mobster, one would expect him to balk at taking orders from a woman but he accepts Whitney's authority without question. He is the only character not freaked out by Whitney's transformation, finding her perfect the way she is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Nonna" Manfredi]]
!!''"Nonna" Manfredi''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Tina D'Marco
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Joseph Manfredi's beloved grandmother and adviser.
----
* BilingualDialogue: Even though she speaks nothing but Italian, she understands English perfectly and often has bilingual conversations with her grandson.
* TheConsigliere: Joseph trusts her advice implicitly. [[spoiler:She's the one that recommends that he join forces with Peggy and her team to cure Whitney of the Zero Matter]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "Nonna" is the Italian word for "grandmother", and that's the only way she is ever referred to.
* NeverMessWithGranny: When Sousa threatens Manfredi, she grabs a knife and ''lunges'' at him, until her grandson holds her back.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: Even if you are an adversary, she will serve you food... but only if she likes you.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Ken Marino was 47 at the time of filming this; while Tina D'Marco's age isn't publicly known, she doesn't seem old enough to be his ''grand''mother.

[[/folder]]
!Assorted Criminals

[[folder:Jerome Zandow]]
!!''Jerome Zandow''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Rob Mars
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Jerome Zandow was hired by Leet Brannis to guard The Heartbreak as it contained the inventions that Brannis stole from Howard Stark's mansion. He was killed alongside Ray by the Hidden Killer.
----
* DeathBySecretIdentity: Just after he started to reveal that Peggy was at The Heartbreak before the SSR, he and Kreminski were shot.
* GiantMook: He was the biggest and strongest crook Peggy had fought up till that point, and so strong he completely overpowered her. It took Jarvis distracting him and Peggy using the Constrictor afterwards to take him down.
* HisNameIs: Almost revealed who attacked him to Ray until the Hidden Killer showed up.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Was killed for this reason; can't let someone who guarded the Heartbreak live.
* MythologyGag: Jerome is based on [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Zandow_%28Earth-616%29 Zandow the Strong-Man]], a circus performer in 40s Marvel Comics who was hired by the Nazis. When arresting him, Thompson mentions that Jerome used to work as a strong-man performer at Coney Island.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Only known as "Zandow" in the comics.
* UnexpectedCharacter: In the comics, Zandow is a member of the WWII-era of the Circus of Crime. Again, just like Leet Brannis, not many people expect his appearance in this series.
* WouldHitAGirl: He boasts to Peggy that he's not afraid of fighting a woman.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He frantically claims to his would-be-killer that he didn't tell Ray anything. It doesn't save him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Otto Mink]]
!!''Mr. Otto Mink''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The time for money has passed. No one crosses me."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Gregory Sporleder
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

->''"Well, Mr. Mink is a greedy, black-market smuggler, sure, but he got me back into the country, and he's predictable in his greed."''
-->-- '''Howard Stark'''

A smuggler hired to sneak Howard Stark back into the US. After Peggy and Jarvis defy his demand for a higher ransom, he goes hunting for them.
----
* BadBoss: Mink executes his own men for failing him.
* BigBadWannabe: He's a fairly intimidating criminal, but he's in way over his head when it comes to Carter's world of spies and subterfuge. In the end, he's killed off before Carter is even aware he's after her.
* BlondeGuysAreEvil: Sports a very creepy Aryan look.
* GatlingGood: Carries a weapon that resembles an old-fashioned [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper-box pepperbox revolver]] but functions like a miniature Gatling gun.
* {{Greed}}: It's what prompts him into MovingTheGoalPosts. Howard Stark comments on his greed.
* HonorBeforeReason: He's more concerned with the issue of personal pride than money.
* MovingTheGoalposts: Demands more money than what was agreed upon after getting Stark into the country.
* NeckSnap: How he's killed by Dottie.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills two of his own men for getting beaten by Howard and Carter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arnim Zola]]
!!''Dr. Arnim Zola''

See [[Characters/CaptainAmericaFilms his character tropes on the Captain America films page]].
[[/folder]]

!!''Vernon Masters''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KurtwoodSmith

Vernon Masters is a veteran of the War Department with a keen understanding of how to work the system.
----
* AssholeVictim: Nobody feels sorry for him when [[spoiler:Jack lets Whitney subject him to a protracted end]].
* BaldOfEvil: As bald as he is corrupt.
* BigBadEnsemble: Masters is one of the main antagonists of Season 2 along with fellow BigBad Whitney Frost. They're connected via Calvin Chadwick, but they both have their own agendas and methods.
* DirtyCop: He has the FBI take custody of Dottie Underwood on behalf of "some powerful people"
* TheDragon: He acts as the main political enforcer of [[spoiler:the Council of Nine]] within the U.S. intelligence and security organizations.[[spoiler: After Whitney takes over the Council he becomes one of her CoDragons along with Joseph Manfredi.]]
** He quickly seizes the chance to become TheStarscream [[spoiler:towards Whitney in order to liberate the Council from her.]]
* EvilMentor: To Thompson in Season Two, as he encourages him to focus on moving up on his career, even if it involves corrupt behavior. [[spoiler:The fact that he's an active agent of the Council of Nine only piles up on this.]]
* MoleInCharge: His position in the Department of War allows him to further the agenda of [[spoiler:the Council]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vernon can be fairly likable in a buddy-buddy, free-with-the-compliments way. While Jack Thompson might be fooled by his mentorship, Peggy isn't tricked by his claim to respect her.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: He's caught in Wilkes' Zero Matter explosion. Possibly justified as we've seen Zero Matter kill people ''without'' leaving behind a body.]]
* SmugSmiler: He really seems to love smiling at people as he undercuts and betrays them.
* TortureTechnician: He used intense torture techniques to [[KickTheSonOfABitch get information out of a Nazi within 24 hours]]. He later applies his knowledge on [[spoiler:Dottie Underwood.]]

[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/council_of_nine_1.jpg]]

A cabal of powerful businessmen that seek to take control of the United States government through political and economic influence. They already hold influence in media as well as the intelligence community and the justice system.
----
* AdaptationNameChange: WordOfGod states they are the MCU version of the Secret Empire. In the comics, the Council members are members of a Secret Empire faction known as the Elite.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: They had President UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley assassinated and engineered the Great Depression.
* EvilOldFolks: All of them are, at the very least, well over their middle age and whatever and whoever they can't buy into serving their interests they destroy.
* NonIndicativeName: As of "Life of the Party" [[spoiler:the Council no longer has 9 members, as 5 of them are killed by Whitney Frost]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: As Howard Stark points, all the members of the Arena Club have to be "male and pale", which is, of course, [[ValuesDissonance normal for the time period]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For HYDRA, given that they are a secret conspiracy of powerful figures who manipulate world events and plot [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]], similar to how HYDRA was revealed to have operated in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. [[spoiler: Their emblem is also extremely similar to the ancient HYDRA symbol revealed in season 3 of ''Series/AgentsOfShield'']]; however, despite this, WordOfGod says the Council of Nine is not connected to HYDRA.

!!''Whitney Frost née Agnes Cully''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Wynn Everett, Ivy George (young), Olivia Welch (teen)

Hollywood starlet and wife of senate hopeful Calvin Chadwick, Whitney Frost is more than just a pretty face, she's also one of the smartest scientists in the world. But as a woman in 1947, she hides behind a mask that holds her back from doing what she was born to achieve.

* AbusiveParents: Well, there's no evidence her mother physically mistreated her, but she did tell her that her brains wouldn't get her anywhere, only her face, blamed her for driving away her cheating boyfriend by not being friendly to him, and was generally unpleasant.
* AgeLift: She's an enemy of Iron Man ans a present-day character in the comics.
* BehindEveryGreatMan: She's the brains of the marriage and the one who truly grasps the implications of the Zero Matter.
* BigBadEnsemble: Whitney is one of the main antagonists of Season 2 along with fellow BigBad Vernon Masters. They're connected via Calvin Chadwick, but they both have their own agendas and methods. [[spoiler:Becomes the sole BigBad after she takes over the Council, making Vernon Masters subservient to her.]]
* BlondesAreEvil: Appropriately for an actress of the time, Whitney is a blonde bombshell with a Veronica Lake hairdo. She's also ruthlessly manipulative and willing to kill for her ambitions.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Being infected with Zero Matter first simply causes a small mark on her forehead, which alone is enough to terrify her. Then it turns out it can liquefy people and suck them into her body, causing the mark to grow.]]
* BrokenAce: [[spoiler: Her mind is left in ruins from the influence of Zero Matter after it is removed from her body. Manfredi has her taken to a mental asylum where she hallucinates being a starlet again with her husband that she killed.]]
* ChildProdigy: A flashback shows her as a budding scientific genius when she was able to fix a broken radio.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: She is never referred to as "Madame Masque", and in fact she never even ''wears'' a mask, although the motif is subtly presented throughout the season.
* DateRapeAverted: [[spoiler:The studio executive who tried to coerce her into repaying his "kindness" ended up devoured by her Zero Matter affliction.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: Having been pushed around by men her entire life, Whitney ''relishes'' the power the Zero Matter gave her.
--> '''Whitney:''' Why would I want to be fixed? I've never felt more powerful in my entire life.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: She's probably the greatest scientist in the MCU in any era... but because she's a woman in the 1940's, her scientific talents get zero recognition, which causes her to have a very bitter outlook on life. Even being a famous movie star doesn't get her that much respect because of Hollywood's attitudes about looks, and aging, etc.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: This seems to be her philosophy, since she tells Dr. Wilkes that she wants to use her power to make the world a better place for marginalized people like women and people of color. [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans She just doesn't mind being an evil supervillain to do it]].
* TheDreaded: ''Dottie Underwood'', the Red Room trained assassin who was eternally confident throughout the first season, is completely terrified of her.
* EvilGenius: She possesses a great scientific mind and a greater understanding of the potential applications of Zero Matter than her husband or any of the members of the Council.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: The more she uses her powers, the more the Zero Matter scar on her face grows.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite Chadwick's cheating on her, his ignorance of her intellect, and reluctance to follow her schemes, Whitney genuinely loves him. [[spoiler:Doesn't stop her from killing him, though, when realizing he betrayed her to the Council.]]
* {{Expy}}: WordOfGod is that she's inspired by Creator/HedyLamarr, in that she is both a gorgeous actress and a brilliant inventor. Interestingly enough, "Smoke & Mirrors" reveals Hedy Lamarr herself still exists in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* FauxAffablyEvil: As the Zero Matter's effect over her grows, she seems to develop a liking for sweet talking her enemies and luring them into false safety before torturing or killing them.
* ForScience: She's thrilled by the power and applications of Zero Matter, even if it's wreaking havoc on her own body and sanity.
* GodzillaThreshold: Whitney is so dangerous and powerful (and has spies/allies within the SSR) that Peggy resorts to [[spoiler: springing ''Dottie Underwood'' from federal lock-up]] in order to bring her to justice.
* HiddenInPlainSight: She's wildly intelligent, such that a man who managed to impress Howard Stark calls her "something else", the brains behind her husband and the one who has designed most of the equipment and research at Isodyne... and she's a famous actress who no one suspects of anything.
* ImmuneToBullets: Thanks to her Zero Matter HealingFactor.
* InNameOnly: She bears little resemblance to her comic book counterpart, beyond the fact that they both go by the fake name Whitney Frost (her comic counterpart's real name is Giuletta Nefaria), have connections to the Maggia, both are socialites, and both are engaged to a powerful politician (Calvin Chadwick and Roger Vane respectively). Notably, those latter two are only elements in Whitney's origin, and since then they've rarely come up or defined her, while here they're important aspects of her character.
* ItsAllAboutMe: To a psychotic degree. [[spoiler:When the Dark Matter explosion in New Mexico appears to be taking Jason instead of her, she absolutely loses it.]]
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:With the aid of her powers, Whitney takes over the Council of Nine, killing half of its members and bullying the other half into becoming her pawns.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Trying to reclaim the Zero Matter so that the SSR and the Council couldn't get their hands on it led to her getting infected by it and having it turn her into a super-powered potential time bomb.
* ManipulativeBastard: Within minutes, she convinces her husband to send an assassin after Peggy and have him think it was his idea with just a few fake sobs.
* MythologyGag: Most of the movies where she starred are references to the comics version of the character:
** ''"The Woman with the Golden Mask"'' is a reference to her signature mask in the comics.
** ''"Tales of Suspense"'' is a reference to the comic book series where she first appeared.
** ''"The Nefarious Daughter"'' is a reference to her birth name, Giuletta Nefaria, and being the daughter of Count Nefaria.
* NotSoDifferent: From Peggy; both are intelligent women who are underestimated by men who aren't as smart as they are and dismiss them as a pretty face. Frost herself points this out - she knows Peggy wouldn't give up on hunting her just because official channels barred her because she "knows" women like her, as in she ''is'' women like her.
* RaceLift: In the comics Whitney is Italian. Here she's a born and raised American.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Whitney is traditionally an Iron Man villain. Of course, since the series takes place in the 40s, he isn't even born yet.
* SanitySlippage: As her 'illness' grows more severe, her grip on sanity becomes more tenuous.
* StageNames: She was born Agnes Cully, from Oklahoma. Whitney Frost is a stage name she uses to distance herself from her scientific work.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Naively she could be a professional scientist when she was younger, only to be turned down by a college for being a woman.
* WellIntentionedExtremist[=/=]UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: She tells Wilkes that she wants to use her powers to make the world a better place for marginalized people. She may be telling the truth, but there's no doubt she's also gone mad with power by this point.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: She can feel herself starting to slip in this direction and it clearly terrifies her. [[spoiler: The moment she throws herself into the pursuit of developing Zero Matter openly and taking over the Council of Nine, she nonchalantly says she's moved on from it.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Whitney is a ruthless, evil woman but it's hard not to feel some sympathy for her; she struggles against both a world and an industry that values her based on her appearance and gender, not her contributions or intelligence. She's had to learn to live with the casual sexism of her day.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:After realizing her husband told the Council to capture her, she kills him and half the Council.]]

[[folder:Calvin Chadwick]]
!!''Calvin Chadwick''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Currie Graham

A wealthy and important businessman and owner of Isodyne Energy. He is Whitney Frost's husband and is running for the US Senate.

* BigBadWannabe: He fancies himself as someone destined for power and respect, but it's painfully obvious that he lacks the guile to make his ambitions a reality. He relies on his wealth, his wife and the Council.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: As the owner of Isodyne Energy.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted; while at first he's shown being mildly emotionally abusive towards Whitney, after she reveals her Zero Matter affliction and starts to go mad with power, she terrifies him with her abilities and begins bullying him with force and fear into following her. He's shown terrified of her, and its not played any differently than it would be if he was one with the power.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sleazy, self-absorbed, power-hungry, corrupt and insensitive...but he does seem to care about his wife.
* HenpeckedHusband: His wife is the brains of the family, and in private it is clear she's the one who "has the pants in the family".
* PuppetKing: Chadwick is a powerful man, but he seems to have difficulty making his own decisions; it's painfully obvious that Whitney is the brains of the operation. The rest of the council don't seem to respect him, and his world-changing plans are really Whitney's.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Tries this after he and Whitney fail to get the atomic bombs from Roxxon. Whitney threatens him with her powers so he can back down.
* SleazyPolitician: He is running for the Senate but he is a member of a secret cabal and sleeping around with his employees.
* YourCheatingHeart: He is cheating on his wife with one of his employees.

[[folder:Hugh Jones]]
!!''Hugh Jones''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ray Wise

The head of the Roxxon Oil Corporation.

* TheBusCameBack: After being absent since his one appearance in Season 1, he returns in Season 2 as a member of The Council.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He gleefully recalls the great profits he made from helping to engineer the [[TheGreatDepression Wall Street Crash of 1929]].
* DirtyOldMan: Hugh tries flirting with Peggy, a woman a few decades his junior. In addition, it's implied that workplace liasons are so frequent with him that Jones finds nothing unusual about waking up on the floor of his office with his pants unbuckled ([[spoiler:really because Peggy wiped his memory of searching him for a key.]])
* FauxAffablyEvil: He wears a wide grin most of the time and acts rather buddy-buddy with his associates, but there's no disguising his true villainy.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:When raiding his office for the key to a Roxxon vault, Peggy (while disguised) distracts him by zapping him with a device that wipes out the past two minutes of memory. She has to use it on him six times because he keeps remembering who she really is.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: Despite his sexism, he wastes no time proclaiming his loyalty to [[spoiler:Whitney when she demonstrates her powers and takes over the council.]]
* TheRival: To Howard Stark. They both conduct industrial espionage against each others companies on a regular basis.
* {{Slimeball}}: Jones quickly tries his hand flirting with Peggy in his horribly sexist way, in addition to being a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* SycophanticServant: After [[spoiler:Whitney takes over the Council he wastes no time in becoming this to save his ass.]]

[[folder:Tom Gloucester]]
!!''Thomas 'Tom' Gloucester''
->'''Portrayed By:''' Casey Sander

A senior member of the Council.

* BaldOfEvil: A bald man who engineered the Great Depression to make himself and his cronies richer and doesn't give a damn about the lives ruined by his actions.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He was in a position to engineer the [[TheGreatDepression Wall Street Crash of 1929]]. According to Masters, every dollar in the US economy has flowed through his company.

[[folder:Mortimer Hayes]]
!!''Mortimer Hayes''
->'''Portrayed By:''' John Kerry
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

A media mogul and member of the Council.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He has no qualms about manipulating the news on every newspaper west of the Mississippi.
* OldMediaAreEvil: The basis of his power is his control and manipulation of the newspapers in half the country.

[[folder:Rufus Hunt]]
!!''Rufus Hunt''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Chris Browning
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Head of security of the Arena Club and main enforcer for the Council of Nine.
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* BadassBoast: He brags about surviving torture by the Japanese.
* TheBrute: For the Council of Nine; he's seemingly their most trusted henchman who takes care of their dirty work.
** Hunt is incredibly formidable; he's experienced, tough and almost fearless. The amount of people who can go toe-to-toe with Peggy Carter is low indeed. He also shrugs off enough tranquilizer to put down a rhino, and springs back within seconds after Peggy finally knocks him out.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: [[spoiler:Rufus is in dire need of a stiff drink after a day of pain and humiliation at Peggy's hands.]]
* MuggingTheMonster: [[spoiler:He attempts to blackmail the Chadwicks with his knowledge of their extra-curricular activities in exchange for protection from the rest of the Council; unfortunately for him, Whitney's recent mutation means that she can easily dispatch him.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He's an enforcer named Mr. ''Hunt''.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Being as tough as he is, he tends to forget that other people can meet what he throws, much less overpower him. Carter and [[spoiler: Whitney Frost]] disabuse him of this idea.
* WouldHitAGirl: To be fair, the girl is Peggy Carter, who you don't mess around with.
[[/folder]]

!Organized Crime

[[folder:Joseph Manfredi]]
!!''Joseph Manfredi''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ken Marino
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

The leader of a crime syndicate that Whitney turns to for help.
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* AffablyEvil: The guy is quite charming and polite... for a vicious mobster.
* AgeLift: He's a present-day character in the comics.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In his first scene, Manfredi demonstrates why none of his men dare turn against him, because he can easily smash their faces in himself.
* BadBoss: He beats one of his henchman almost to death for an imagined slight.
* BadassInCharge: You have to be a badass to rise to become the leader of a crime syndicate.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: His crime group is never called the Maggia.[[note]]This may be because there's not as a great a danger in depicting the Mafia as there was back in the 60s, either from UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode or the real life Mafia.[[/note]] Likewise, he is never referred to as Blackwing, and instead takes a few cues from [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Hammerhead]].
* TheDragon: After Whitney [[spoiler:takes over the Council]], Manfredi becomes her most trusted enforcer. On terms of authority he's [[spoiler: CoDragons with Vernon Masters, due to the latter's position in the U.S. government.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: He considers that delivering a [[CurbStompBattle vicious beatdown]] is an appropriate response for staring at his guests.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His appearance consists of him making Calvin Chadwick uncomfortable with a threat before claiming he was joking, and shortly after beating one of his own men to death for merely looking at the old girlfriend he is supposedly over.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Or at least his grandmother, whom he genuinely loves.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In Season 2 finale, he tells his grandmother that yes, he truly loves Whitney.
* FauxAffablyEvil: It's never clear when he's sincerely friendly, as he can flip from charming to monstrous in an instant.
* HairTriggerTemper: Flies into a volcanic rage and beats one of his own men to a pulp with his bare hands ''for looking at Whitney too long''.
* InNameOnly: In the comics, he is a bat trainer and thus has natural ability to control bats without superpowers. In the TV series, he hasn't shown any of them, not even any [[AnimalMotifs motifs]] about bats.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He beats the hell out of one of his underlings until his knuckles are bloody.
* OldFlame: He and Whitney used to date. He claims to have moved on, but a few minutes later he viciously beats a man because he looked at her for too long.
* SharpDressedMan: As is usual for a 40s gangster, he wears slick suits.
* UndyingLoyalty: He seems to be utterly devoted to Whitney despite her leaving him and marrying another man. As a 1940s macho Italian mobster, one would expect him to balk at taking orders from a woman but he accepts Whitney's authority without question. He is the only character not freaked out by Whitney's transformation, finding her perfect the way she is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Nonna" Manfredi]]
!!''"Nonna" Manfredi''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Tina D'Marco
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Joseph Manfredi's beloved grandmother and adviser.
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* BilingualDialogue: Even though she speaks nothing but Italian, she understands English perfectly and often has bilingual conversations with her grandson.
* TheConsigliere: Joseph trusts her advice implicitly. [[spoiler:She's the one that recommends that he join forces with Peggy and her team to cure Whitney of the Zero Matter]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "Nonna" is the Italian word for "grandmother", and that's the only way she is ever referred to.
* NeverMessWithGranny: When Sousa threatens Manfredi, she grabs a knife and ''lunges'' at him, until her grandson holds her back.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: Even if you are an adversary, she will serve you food... but only if she likes you.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Ken Marino was 47 at the time of filming this; while Tina D'Marco's age isn't publicly known, she doesn't seem old enough to be his ''grand''mother.

[[/folder]]
!Assorted Criminals

[[folder:Jerome Zandow]]
!!''Jerome Zandow''
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Rob Mars
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

Jerome Zandow was hired by Leet Brannis to guard The Heartbreak as it contained the inventions that Brannis stole from Howard Stark's mansion. He was killed alongside Ray by the Hidden Killer.
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* DeathBySecretIdentity: Just after he started to reveal that Peggy was at The Heartbreak before the SSR, he and Kreminski were shot.
* GiantMook: He was the biggest and strongest crook Peggy had fought up till that point, and so strong he completely overpowered her. It took Jarvis distracting him and Peggy using the Constrictor afterwards to take him down.
* HisNameIs: Almost revealed who attacked him to Ray until the Hidden Killer showed up.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Was killed for this reason; can't let someone who guarded the Heartbreak live.
* MythologyGag: Jerome is based on [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Zandow_%28Earth-616%29 Zandow the Strong-Man]], a circus performer in 40s Marvel Comics who was hired by the Nazis. When arresting him, Thompson mentions that Jerome used to work as a strong-man performer at Coney Island.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Only known as "Zandow" in the comics.
* UnexpectedCharacter: In the comics, Zandow is a member of the WWII-era of the Circus of Crime. Again, just like Leet Brannis, not many people expect his appearance in this series.
* WouldHitAGirl: He boasts to Peggy that he's not afraid of fighting a woman.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He frantically claims to his would-be-killer that he didn't tell Ray anything. It doesn't save him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Otto Mink]]
!!''Mr. Otto Mink''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The time for money has passed. No one crosses me."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Gregory Sporleder
->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

->''"Well, Mr. Mink is a greedy, black-market smuggler, sure, but he got me back into the country, and he's predictable in his greed."''
-->-- '''Howard Stark'''

A smuggler hired to sneak Howard Stark back into the US. After Peggy and Jarvis defy his demand for a higher ransom, he goes hunting for them.
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* BadBoss: Mink executes his own men for failing him.
* BigBadWannabe: He's a fairly intimidating criminal, but he's in way over his head when it comes to Carter's world of spies and subterfuge. In the end, he's killed off before Carter is even aware he's after her.
* BlondeGuysAreEvil: Sports a very creepy Aryan look.
* GatlingGood: Carries a weapon that resembles an old-fashioned [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper-box pepperbox revolver]] but functions like a miniature Gatling gun.
* {{Greed}}: It's what prompts him into MovingTheGoalPosts. Howard Stark comments on his greed.
* HonorBeforeReason: He's more concerned with the issue of personal pride than money.
* MovingTheGoalposts: Demands more money than what was agreed upon after getting Stark into the country.
* NeckSnap: How he's killed by Dottie.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills two of his own men for getting beaten by Howard and Carter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arnim Zola]]
!!''Dr. Arnim Zola''

See [[Characters/CaptainAmericaFilms his character tropes on the Captain America films page]].
[[/folder]]

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->''"Monsters are real and there are none more terrifying than Leviathan."''
-->--'''Johann Fennhoff'''

A top secret Soviet science and intelligence agency.
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* DirtyCommunists: Their goal is to ensure the dominance of the Soviet Union.
* EvilCounterpart: To the SSR.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Named after a [[KrakenAndLeviathan mythological monster]].

!!''Dr. Johann Fennhoff''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I need you to focus."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Ralph Brown

A medical officer in the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II with the ability of hypnotize people. In 1944, he was one of the few survivors of the incident that became known as the Battle of Finow, and was recruited as a scientist to work for Leviathan. Calling himself Ivchenko, he pretended to be a Leviathan prisoner to Peggy and the Howling Commandos, who then defected him to the US, and orchestrated a campaign against Howard Stark, whom he blamed for the death of his brother at Finow. The first season's BigBad, he is the MCU's version of ''Captain America'' villain Dr. Faustus.

* AdaptationDyeJob: He's an EvilRedhead in the comics. Here, he is BaldOfEvil.
* AdaptationalNationality: He's Austrian in the comics, but Russian here. Though for some reason, he still keeps the same Germanic name.
* AffablyEvil: Although Fennhoff mind-controls people and makes them do terrible things in the pursuit of revenge, he treats them kindly and often lets them have one last pleasure before they die. His admiration of the New York metropolis also turns out to be genuine, even if he's planning a massacre to happen there the very next day. Lastly, it turns out that his evil scheme is being done because he believes Howard Stark to be a mass murderer, and wants him to suffer as Fennhoff has.
* BaldOfEvil: Is bald, unlike his comic incarnation's full head of hair and flowing red beard.
* BigBad: The mastermind behind the theft of Stark's inventions and the infiltration of the SSR.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: So friendly, so jovial, so eager to help you out with your personal problems...so willing to hypnotize you into doing terrible things and getting killed.
* CatchPhrase: "I need you to focus", and other variations with the word "focus" in them, said when hypnotizing someone.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: His stated job with Leviathan is to keep functional a mentally unstable but brilliant scientist. His actual status as Leviathan's mole makes this role far more sinister than initially portrayed.
* CompellingVoice: As Dooley puts it, "if you let him talk to you, he got you." Once he enters [[BuffySpeak hypno-speak-mode]], anyone who focuses on his voice becomes a puppet to his bidding. Sousa finally nabs him by wearing earplugs while pretending to be entranced. Then when Fennhoff is imprisoned he's made to wear a special skin-tight helmet-cage to keep him from speaking.
* ConsummateLiar: He’s so good that he even had the audience fooled until he started communicating with Dottie.
* DeadlyEuphemism: When ordering a subject to kill themselves, he usually tells them there's "one more thing" they need to do.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Season 1 implies, and season 2 confirms, that he isn't acting on orders from Leviathan; he is on a personal mission of revenge that he orchestrated himself. In season 2 Vernon Masters tells Dottie Underwood that she, and presumably Fernhoff by extension, are considered dead to the Russians and Leviathan for Fernhoff effectively betraying them.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Although it takes place after ''Agent Carter'', [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E3MakingFriendsAndInfluencingPeople early in Season 2]] of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Daniel Whitehall makes reference to a Faustus technique while Agent 33 is subjected to her "reprogramming." Given Zola's recruitment of Fennhoff in the season finale's stinger, HYDRA likely learned the technique from Fennhoff (possibly operating under the assumed identity of Faustus).
* {{Expy}}: His being the caretaker of an inventor forced by an enemy organization to work with stolen Stark technology easily hearkens back to [[Film/IronMan1 Ho Yinsen]], Tony's fellow prisoner by the Ten Rings. The only difference is that he was willingly working for Leviathan, unlike Yinsen who was under duress.
* FeelsNoPain: His hypnotism is so strong that an entranced soldier having his leg amputated doesn't feel a thing.
* HypnoPendulum: His ring seems to serve as one, as he rubs it and tells him subjects to focus on it. While doing so the soundtrack plays a odd background whine, so it's not clear if the ring is what hypnotizes people or if it's only something to draw their attention to.
* IHaveYourWife: According to him, this is how Leviathan originally convinced him and other recruits to cooperate back in 1944. However, given that he is a ConsummateLiar, this may be a ruse, at least for his own personal account.
* ItsPersonal: Fennhoff wants revenge on Howard Stark because of the ill-advised release of Item 17's gas in Finow, which caused everyone in the town, including Fennhoff's brother, to slaughter each other.
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Inverted. Whenever the SSR asks him about the technology Leviathan stole, he answers that he is a psychologist not an engineer.
* KnightOfCerebus: His ability to bend people to his will, his status as a ConsummateLiar, his utter lack of empathy and the fact that the SSR fully trusts him all make him an absolutely terrifying villain.
* LotusEaterMachine: His hypnotic abilities allow him to place his victims in a psychological state of their greatest desires. [[PetTheDog This can be used for good]], such as a psychological replacement for anesthetic during surgery.
* ManInWhite: Is often seen wearing a light-coloured suit. It's likely because he is a benevolent doctor and using that role as a ruse.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: The good doctor works for an evil Soviet organization.
* ManipulativeBastard: He is extremely good at manipulating people without them even noticing.
* MisplacedRetribution: He blames Howard for the Massacre at Finow because he accidentally created the Midnight Oil gas, instead of the true culprit, General [=McGinnis=], the man who ordered it used over Howard’s objections and without his consent.
* TheMole: He pretends to be the SSR's information source on Leviathan while secretly working for Leviathan and with Dottie.
* MythologyGag: In an episode 7 flashback, he's shown reading ''Theatre/DoctorFaustus'' by Creator/ChristopherMarlowe, hinting toward his comic counterpart's codename and that he will develop the "Faustus method" later used by Hydra in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''.
* NonActionGuy: He doesn't inflict much violence directly himself, that's what Dottie is for.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Ivchenko is not his real name, but only the audience gets to know that.
* PetTheDog: In 1943, he saves a soldier's life by providing a "psychological replacement for anaesthetic" during surgery when their real anaesthetic had run out.
* PsychoPsychologist: He uses his great skills as a psychologist to mind control people and make them do terrible things.
* SherlockScan: Shows an ability to immediately deduce details about people, including personal issues, simply from observing them and their surroundings for a short time. He then uses that knowledge as a entry point to manipulating and bending them to his will. With only one visit to Dooley's office, he can deduce that the SSR chief is having marital problems due to having [[ExiledToTheCouch a bed, toothbrush, and shaving tools in his office]] and the presence of a downturned photo frame while another with two kids in it is still standing. When later kept in a room with Agent Yauch, he figures out that the agent suffers from MiddleChildSyndrome in less than half a minute. Yauch is amazed, to say the least.
* TheShrink: He is a psychologist, and from what is seen in the show a '''damn good one'''.
* ShootTheDog: He is forced to kill his only friend (and patient) Nikolai when the latter offers to surrender the SSR to Leviathan in order to ensure their well-being. Subverted when he is revealed to be EvilAllAlong.
* RevengeBeforeReason: When he learns Howard was in the city he decided to put their plans on hold until they catch him.
* SignificantAnagram: The "Ivchenko" alias is an anagram (in the Roman alphabet, anyway) of "Ovechkin", the private he helped to "anesthetize" three years back (whose name, according to the writers, is a ShoutOut to hockey player Alexander Ovechkin).
* SoleSurvivor: Fennhoff was at Finow when the Midnight Oil massacre happened and was the only one to survive unscathed because he had a gas mask. A few other future Leviathan agents also survived, but had to get laryngectomies due to the side effects.
* TreacherousAdvisor: He becomes one to Dooley, feeding him advice on dealing with his collapsing marriage that's really all just to open holes for him to sneak into the SSR chief's mind.
* TrojanPrisoner: He poses as a hostage of Leviathan at the Red Room Academy, so the SSR can "rescue" him and bring him to the States.
* VillainousLegacy: Being the MCU's version of Dr. Faustus, he is likely the inventor of the "Faustus Method" of brainwashing that HYDRA continues to use in the present day.
* VillainTeamUp:
** His partner in crime is "Dottie" / Black Widow.
** After being arrested, he meets Arnim Zola, future founder of the new HYDRA, and the two start to collaborate.
* WeaksauceWeakness: His hypnosis turns out to be useless against someone wearing earplugs.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Even worse than most cases. He doesn't do this to underlings who voluntarily work for him, but to his innocent, brainwashed victims.
* YouKilledMyFather: Everything he did in the series, he did to get back at Howard Stark for causing the untimely death of his brother.

[[folder:Dottie Underwood]]
!!Dorothy "Dottie" Underwood/''ComicBook/BlackWidow''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I used to be so jealous of girls like you. I would have done anything to walk like you, to talk like you. But now I can be anybody I want."'']]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BridgetRegan, Veronika Bonell (young)

Orphaned at a young age in Russia, "Dottie" was enlisted by Leviathan and trained as part of the secret Black Widow program. The smartest, strongest and most resilient in her class, she's a trained assassin, ballerina and sleeper agent stationed in New York. She becomes Dr. Ivchenko's most trusted weapon and Agent Carter's most deadly adversary.

* {{Adorkable}}: In her Dottie persona, she comes across as a sweet, bubbly and over-enthusiastic ditz. Even after her real identity is revealed, she has the air of an excited child about her, albeit in a terrifying way.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While she doesn't have an explicit romance with anyone, she does get flirty with her enemies at times, including Howard Stark, Jack Thompson, [[spoiler: Jason Wilkes]], Jarvis, and Peggy Carter. She has a romantic night with Howard, but that was probably more for her mission than any romance. Also, she is an assassin with various methods on how to kill or knock a person out without much if any evidence, yet she chooses to kiss Peggy with her knockout lipstick. The way she sneaks around Peggy's room could be described as StalkerWithoutACrush or even StalkerWithACrush depending on how you look at it. [[spoiler: Vernon even points out she clings to Peggy being her only ally at this point when she is captured.]]
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Dottie has inadvertently rescued Peggy from unfortunate ends twice. The first time she murdered Krzeminski and Zandow just as they were piecing together that Peggy was a double agent. The second time Dottie killed Mr. Mink before he broke into Peggy's room.
* TheBaroness: For Leviathan, especially in flashbacks to World War II, where she's seen in leather gear and happily executing men for her commanding officer.
* BlondesAreEvil: Unlike the future Black Widow Natasha Romanoff, Dottie has blond hair instead of red. It also serves as an aversion of the EvilRedhead trope; Bridget Regan has red hair, but she dyed it blonde because the show's creators were afraid having the same hair color as Natasha would spoil the twist too soon, as well as making it seem like all Black Widows are redheads.
* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:Her role in the second half of Season 2, when Peggy requires her services to get her hands on some Zero Matter.]]
* BraidsOfAction: She sported two when she was a child, during her Black Widow training.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Black Widow training program evidently left her '''highly''' unstable.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: The show's creators have stated that, while Dottie is technically a Black Widow, she's never explicitly referred to as such in the show. However, a commercial for the fifth episode calls the organization that created her "the Black Widow program."
* CountryMouse: As part of her cover, she claims to be a small-town girl from Iowa and acts like it when around the other girls.
* CreepyBlueEyes: She tends to stare straight forward, unblinking and intense. Her eyes get even creepier when she's not putting up an act, frequently staring in ways that don't suggest much sanity behind them.
* DarkActionGirl: She's revealed to be one when she kills Mr. Mink; she wall-jumps right onto Mink, killing him and taking his gun with great ease. From there on, she frequently proves herself to be a formidable physical threat.
* DeepCoverAgent: She's so effective SSR takes a while to discover her. Given how the training methods worked, shades of ManchurianAgent might be included.
* TheDragon: She serves as Doctor Fennhoff's right-hand woman, doing most of the dirty work for Leviathan while the good doctor works behind the scenes.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She dyed her hair into brunette to imitate Peggy's in Season 2, and her skin looks slightly paler than usual.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After she ditches the Dottie persona once and for all by making an attempt on Peggy's life, she switches to pinning up her hair and wearing a nice-looking suit. She even gets [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7d5939d3bc3db84fac1b7180e193d5bc.jpg her own]] NiceHat to further emphasize her status as Peggy's villainous {{Foil}}.
* EvilCounterpart: For Peggy, with the both of them being secret agents, as well as skilled fighters. They use other people's underestimations of their skill to their advantage; Peggy does this by using her coworkers' sexist assumptions about her abilities while Dottie does this by ObfuscatingStupidity and acting like a ditzy CountryMouse. They are capable of imitating UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents when undercover and are OnlyKnownByTheirNickname. However, their fighting styles are radically different, with Dottie relying on SheFu acrobatics, whereas Peggy relies on her fists, [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]], and brute force. Additionally, Peggy chose to become a secret agent, while Dottie was {{Brainwashed}} into becoming a ChildSoldier at a young age by her Russian trainers.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Overlapped with EvilCostumeSwitch, she has changed hairstyle once she ditched "Dottie" persona, from feminine-looking long curly hair to pinned up hair.
* FakeAmerican: In-universe - she's actually Russian. More specifically, a Soviet agent.
* FakeGuestStar: Debuts in the third episode and is in every episode from then on (six total, the same number as Angie).
* FakePregnancy: At one point, she pretends to be expecting so she can buy a baby carriage to gas a theater with.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dottie's friendliness might have you fooled initially, but the more you see of her, the clearer it becomes that it's really just an act.
* FemmeFatale: Invoked. Black Widows are designed to slip past a target's defenses by appearing to be a harmless child or a sexy lady. Before the show's begun, "Dottie's" already done the act on Howard Stark and does so again later on a perverted dentist.
* HiddenVillain: When she kills Kreminski and Zandow in "Time and Tide", the dark night and shadows keep her identity from being revealed.
* HoneyTrap: Served as one to lure Howard Stark into revealing his secrets.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Dottie is a psychopathic assassin and spy trained since childhood, who murders on a whim and is one of the most dangerous people in the series, if not the world. [[spoiler: And she is ''terrified'' of Whitney Frost and what she can do with Zero Matter. All it takes is Whitney using her powers on her, and Dottie breaks.]]
* IHaveManyNames: Has two identities that we know of - the one she used as Howard's fling ("Ida Emkey"), and the one she used as Peggy's neighbor ("Dottie Underwood"). Since it's doubtful that either of these is her real name, she probably has at least one more.
* IJustWantToBeYou: Dottie displays a disturbing obsession towards Peggy's personal life and appearance, even pretending to be her in front of a mirror.
** In Season 2, she even dyes her hair and dresses exactly like Peggy.
* KickTheMoralityPet: In the flashback, young Dottie shares some bread with a girl bunking next to her. In the next scene, they're forced to fight, and when Dottie wins she's ''ordered'' to snap the poor girl's neck.
* KnifeNut: Is shown to wield a small knife both during WWII to slice the throat of a man refusing to cooperate with Leviathan, and when she attempts to kill Peggy after having knocked her out.
* LegacyCharacter: She's the 40s' Black Widow, and the flashback to her training reveals she's not the first. There may well have been hundreds of undercover Black Widows through the 20th century.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Dotty" is an older slang term for someone who's mentally unbalanced. Dottie Underwood's definitely not playing with a full deck of cards.
** "Underwood" is likely a reference to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwood_Typewriter_Company Underwood Typewriter Company]]. Her associates are seen communicating using special typewriters with transmitters.
* MurderousThighs: How she kills [[BigBadWannabe Otto Mink]] while he's trying to break into Peggy's apartment.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Knocked through a window onto the wing of a plane, but apparently survived the fall in good enough condition to get up and escape within a matter of minutes.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Whenever she's in the company of the other residents of The Griffith, she acts like TheDitz, but underneath it all, she’s a lethal assassin.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: To date, she's only known by her alias "Dottie" and her true name has yet to be revealed.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whitney Frost's danger level is conveyed quite effectively by how Dottie is completely terrified of her.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Dottie’s behavior when she drops her adorable and wide-eyed CountryMouse persona screams of this.
** When she sees a toy she likes, she'll murder you for it and then play with it like a little kid… while your body rots under her bed. Just ask Mr. Mink.
-->'''Dottie''': Is that pistol an automatic? ''I want that.''
** After successfully acquiring the intel she was looking for in Peggy’s room, she sits in front of Peggy’s mirror and starts playing make-believe.
--->'''Dottie:''' ''[in front of the mirror, in an English accent]'' Hello, [[IJustWantToBeYou I'm Peggy Carter.]]
** She can only sleep at night if she ''handcuffs'' herself to her bed, having been conditioned to do it ever since her handlers would chain her to sleep as a kid.
** What she says right before she kills a dentist by [[EyeScream putting his own drill through his eye]]:
--->'''Dottie:''' I've never used one of ''these'' before. ''Open wide.''
* SamusIsAGirl: Her first onscreen assassination hides her appearance. It's not until the 6th episode that Peggy deduces the "Hidden Killer" was a woman.
* ScarsAreForever: Dottie has scars on her right wrist from being handcuffed to a bed since she was 9. Justified, though, as it's something she keeps doing each night.
* SheFu: Her fighting style is quite acrobatic, in contrast to Peggy's, which sticks to solid punches and kicks.
* ShoutOut: Her name, her country background, and naivety are homages to Dorothy from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
* StatuesqueStunner: In addition to being very beautiful, she's the tallest woman on the show.
* SweepsWeekLesbianKiss: She kissed Peggy, though without any romantic feeling whatsoever. Instead, it's just a way to [[KissOfDeath knock her unconscious]].
* TearsOfFear: [[spoiler:Even she can't keep herself from this when Whitney sends Zero Matter through her body]].
* TooKinkyToTorture:
** Her usual response to someone threatening her with torture is a condescending smile and mockery. She even tells [[spoiler: Vernon Masters]] that she's pulled out her own teeth and burned herself with a ''blowtorch''.
** [[spoiler: Subverted with Whitney. Dottie is in so much pain that she ''cries.'']]
* TragicVillain: Despite her deceit and bloodthirstiness, Dottie's been brainwashed since childhood to think that way, and was even forced to kill the only person she showed genuine kindness to.
* TrainingFromHell: Courtesy of her Russian trainers. At the age of maybe nine, she killed a fellow trainee the same age and with whom she shared stolen bread, probably her only friend. It's the same training that Natasha Romanoff, the future Black Widow, received.
* {{Tykebomb}}: She's a grown-up child assassin from a program designed to produce child assassins.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: According to Bridget Regan, this is what Dottie was thinking when she saw a photograph of scrawny Steve Rogers in Peggy's room.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: The last we hear of her in Season 2 is when she escapes the back of the car Peggy and Jarvis had put her in while transporting Ana to the hospital. At the end of the series, she's still at large.]]
* WomanInBlack: Much like Natasha Romanoff in ''Iron Man 2'', once her identity as a Black Widow is fully revealed she appears dressed in dark clothes.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: She does one against Carter in "A Sin to Err", pretending to be an innocent bystander while nearly caught by the SSR when she attempted to kill Peggy.
* YouFightLikeACow: Towards the end of her fight with Carter, Dottie taunts her in this manner.
-->'''Dottie:''' I thought you'd be better.