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* InSeriesNickname: Like Londo he earned a nickname within their duelling society; "Skal Tura", which translates to [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Silent Beast"]].
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* FanNickname: "Flounder InSpace," a reference to the character Stephen Furst played in ''AnimalHouse'', and general fan derision to his role as ComicRelief. At least, until CharacterDevelopment kicked in, and he became much more popular among fans.
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* FanNickname: "Flounder InSpace," a reference to the character Stephen Furst played in ''AnimalHouse'', and general fan derision to his role as ComicRelief.PluckyComicRelief. At least, until CharacterDevelopment kicked in, and he became much more popular among fans.
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Jaddo (Carmen Argenziano)]]
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* WeHardlyKnewYe
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The actor copied Londo's made-up accent
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Polygamy, at least among nobles looking to secure alliances with other important families. Also, they consider sobriety to be a ''vice''.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: The reason why the Narn (G'Kar in particular) hate him. He never did anything to harm the Narn, and in fact had done more in the way of appeasement than any of his predecessors, and yet the bloodshed and suffering caused by his ancestors were apparently enough to stain the entire family line.
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* ModestRoyalty: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him refusing to hide his baldness with a massive wig (as befits his station), because he's too old to worry about vanity.
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* FanNickname: "Flounder InSpace," a reference to the character Stephen Furst played in ''AnimalHouse'', and general fan derision to his role as ComicRelief. At least, until CharacterDevelopment kicked in, and he became much more popular with his among fans.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Peter Jurasik described the accent as being vaguely Eurotrash (the actor's natural accent is generic American). JMS originally forbade Jurasik from giving Londo an accent. Londo went ahead and did it anyway, and when JMS called him on it, he responded "What accent?" and kept going.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Peter Jurasik described the accent as being vaguely Eurotrash (the actor's natural accent is generic American). JMS originally forbade Jurasik from giving Londo an accent. Londo He went ahead and did it anyway, and when JMS called him on it, he responded "What accent?" and kept going.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccentWhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Peter Jurasik described the accent as being vaguely Eurotrash (the actor's natural accent is generic American). JMS originally forbade Jurasik from giving Londo an accent. Londo went ahead and did it anyway, and when JMS called him on it, he responded "What accent?" and kept going.
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* FantasticRacism: They justify their enslavement of the Narn as them attempting to ennoble a savage, inferior race.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: To the RomanEmpire.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: To the RomanEmpire.
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* InNameOnly: The Centauri ''Republic'', which is ruled by an Emperor.
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** Their relationship with the Narn is made of this trope.
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* SueDonym: [[AbrahamLincoln Abrahamo Lincolni]], a made-up bureaucrat who saves thousands of Narns. Only, he used the name deliberately.
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* SueDonym: [[AbrahamLincoln [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Abrahamo Lincolni]], a made-up bureaucrat who saves thousands of Narns. Only, he used the name deliberately.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's an happy-go-lucky drunkard who got the job at Babylon 5 because [[ReassignedToAntarctica nobody wanted it (not even him)]]. He's also a MagnificentBastard, an AcePilot, and a capable swordsman whose nickname translates as [[TheBerserker "Fights Like a Madman]]".
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's an a happy-go-lucky drunkard who got the job at Babylon 5 because [[ReassignedToAntarctica nobody wanted it (not even him)]]. He's also a MagnificentBastard, an AcePilot, AcePilot and a capable swordsman whose nickname translates as [[TheBerserker "Fights Like a Madman]]".
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* EnemyMine (G'Kar, on two separate occasions)
* TheEmperor
* TheEmperor
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* EnemyMine (G'Kar, G'Kar, on two separate occasions)
* TheEmperoroccasions.
* TheEmperor
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* GoneHorriblyRight: In Season 1, Londo has been KickedUpstairs, and he knows it, lamenting how little power he and his people have to his friends and drinking buddies. By the end of the series, he is arguably the single most politically powerful figure on the show, but has no friends, [[spoiler: no free will]], and is lost to his misery.
* GuileHero and/or MagnificentBastard: Not in every episode but it comes out some times. In the last few episodes of the Shadow Wars arc he actually pulled ThePlan on the Shadows (which is for all practical purposes the same as doing that to {{Satan}}).
* GuileHero and/or MagnificentBastard: Not in every episode but it comes out some times. In the last few episodes of the Shadow Wars arc he actually pulled ThePlan on the Shadows (which is for all practical purposes the same as doing that to {{Satan}}).
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* GoneHorriblyRight: In Season 1, Londo has been KickedUpstairs, and he knows it, lamenting how little power he and his people have to his friends and drinking buddies. By the end of the series, he is he's arguably the single most politically powerful figure on the show, but has no friends, [[spoiler: no free will]], and is lost to his misery.
*GuileHero and/or MagnificentBastard: GuileHero: Not in every episode but it comes out some times. In the last few episodes of the Shadow Wars arc he actually pulled ThePlan on the Shadows (which is for all practical purposes the same as doing that to {{Satan}}).
*
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* OddFriendship (G'Kar)OddFriendship: With G'Kar.
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* NeverMyFault: Though it's clear throughout the series that Londo is privately ashamed of his involvement in the war against Narn, because of his pride he refuses to even admit that he has reason to be sorry. Instead, he overcompensates by acting even more anti-Narn in public. He apparently excuses his actions by telling himself that, because he never personally did anything against the Narn, he wasn't really to blame. However, this conveniently ignores the fact that he did personally make the deals that allowed the genocide against the Narn to take place, even if that wasn't his intended result. In ''The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari'', he finally admits, "I've never apologized for anything in my life."
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* NeverMyFault: Though it's clear throughout the series that Londo is privately ashamed of his involvement in the war against Narn, because of his pride he refuses to even admit that he has reason to be sorry. Instead, he overcompensates by acting even more anti-Narn in public. He apparently excuses his actions by telling himself that, because he never personally did anything against the Narn, he wasn't really to blame. However, this conveniently ignores the fact that he did personally make the deals that allowed the genocide against the Narn to take place, even if that wasn't his intended result. In ''The "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari'', Mollari", he finally admits, "I've never apologized for anything in my life."
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* NeverMyFault: Though it's clear throughout the series that Londo is privately ashamed of his involvement in the war against Narn, because of his pride he refuses to even admit that he has reason to be sorry. Instead, he overcompensates by acting even more anti-Narn in public. He apparently excuses his actions by telling himself that, because he never personally did anything against the Narn, he wasn't really to blame. However, this conveniently ignores the fact that he did personally make the deals that allowed the genocide against the Narn to take place, even if that wasn't his intended result. In ''The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari'', he finally admits, "I've never apologized for anything in my life."
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* [[TheGoodKing The Good Emperor]]: Quite possibly the only Centauri interested in a lasting peace with the Narns.
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* [[TheWisePrince The Wise Emperor]]
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->''It has occurred to me recently that I have never chosen anything. I was born into a role that had been prepared for me. I did everything I was asked to do because it never occurred to me to choose otherwise. And now, at the end of my life, I wonder what might have been.''
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->'''Elric''': Your victims.''
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->'''Elric''': Your ''Your victims.''
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** Also {{Subverted}} with their encounter with the Shroggen, servants of the Shadows who came from space and attacked for no apparent reason (they actually had one: they were pursuing a group of Technomages who had just taken refuge on Centauri Prime after their faction rebelled to the Shadows): after repelling them with the help of the Technomages, the Centauri reverse-engineered Shroggen technology and built a fleet to chase them and finish the job, but failed to find them.[[note]] [[YouHaveFailedMe The Shroggen had been exterminated by the Shadows for too many failures, of which their defeat at the hands of the Centauri was the straw that broke the camel's back]][[/note]]
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** Also {{Subverted}} with their encounter with the Shroggen, servants of the Shadows who came from space and attacked for no apparent reason (they actually had one: they were pursuing a group of Technomages who had just taken refuge on Centauri Prime after their faction rebelled to against the Shadows): after repelling them with the help of the Technomages, the Centauri reverse-engineered Shroggen technology and built a fleet to chase them and finish the job, but failed to find them.[[note]] [[YouHaveFailedMe The Shroggen had been exterminated by the Shadows for too many failures, of which their defeat at the hands of the Centauri was the straw that broke the camel's back]][[/note]]
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* FantasticRacism: Towards the Narn, of course.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He's the one who masterminds the Narn death camps and genetic cleansing programs
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He's the one who masterminds the Narn death camps and genetic cleansing programs
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[[folder:Na'Far (Stephen Macht)]]
* LesCollaborateurs: He's a Narn collaborator to the Centauri Republic
* MouthOfSauron: To the Centauri-controlled [[TheQuisling Provisional Government]] of Narn
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He considers the efforts of the Narn Resistance to be counterproductive, leading to greater loss of life.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Sent by the Provisional Government to replace G'Kar - the last free member of the Kha'Ri - as the head of the Narn community on Babylon 5.
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[[folder:Na'Far (Stephen Macht)]]
* LesCollaborateurs: He's a Narn collaborator to the Centauri Republic
* MouthOfSauron: To the Centauri-controlled [[TheQuisling Provisional Government]] of Narn
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He considers the efforts of the Narn Resistance to be counterproductive, leading to greater loss of life.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Sent by the Provisional Government to replace G'Kar - the last free member of the Kha'Ri - as the head of the Narn community on Babylon 5.
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[[folder:Lord Antono Refa (William Forward)]]
->''It is a small price to pay for immortality.''
* AmbitionIsEvil
* AristocratsAreEvil
* AssholeVictim: [[NotMeThisTime As it turns out]], he was actually innocent of the crime that he was assassinated in retaliation for. That's not nearly the same as saying he didn't ''deserve'' the death he got. He did do everything else on the list, though.
* EvilChancellor: He orchestrates the deaths of the Emperor and Prime Minister to install Cartagia.
* KarmicDeath: Beaten to death by a mob of angry Narn.
* NotMeThisTime: Londo arranges Refa's death because he assumes Refa had his lover Adira murdered. [[spoiler: It was actually Morden doing a BatmanGambit.]]
* TheStrategist: Whatever his faults, Refa is excellent being this, correctly interpreting intelligence on the Narn's fleet's major strike and planning a trap of his own.
* UnwittingPawn: When he went to Narn.
* UpperClassTwit
->''It is a small price to pay for immortality.''
* AmbitionIsEvil
* AristocratsAreEvil
* AssholeVictim: [[NotMeThisTime As it turns out]], he was actually innocent of the crime that he was assassinated in retaliation for. That's not nearly the same as saying he didn't ''deserve'' the death he got. He did do everything else on the list, though.
* EvilChancellor: He orchestrates the deaths of the Emperor and Prime Minister to install Cartagia.
* KarmicDeath: Beaten to death by a mob of angry Narn.
* NotMeThisTime: Londo arranges Refa's death because he assumes Refa had his lover Adira murdered. [[spoiler: It was actually Morden doing a BatmanGambit.]]
* TheStrategist: Whatever his faults, Refa is excellent being this, correctly interpreting intelligence on the Narn's fleet's major strike and planning a trap of his own.
* UnwittingPawn: When he went to Narn.
* UpperClassTwit
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* BaldOfAwesome
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Though his name is
*
* AristocratsAreEvil
* AssholeVictim: [[NotMeThisTime As it turns out]], he was actually innocent
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's quite aware of backstabbing, power hungry nature of his courtiers. He even wanted to formally apologize to the
* EvilChancellor: He orchestrates the deaths
* KarmicDeath: Beaten to death by a mob of angry
*
* [[TheWisePrince The Wise Emperor]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies in his
* TheStrategist: Whatever his faults, Refa is excellent being this, correctly interpreting intelligence on the Narn's fleet's major strike and planning a trap of his own.
* UnwittingPawn: When he went to Narn.
* UpperClassTwit
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[[folder: Urza Jaddo]]
Nobleman and old friend of Londo. When his family is disgraced in Centauri politics he provokes a duel with Mollari to ensure that after his death Londo will care for his family according to the customs of Centauri duels.
* BatmanGambit: Challenges Londo to a duel with weapons that favor his skills only to throw the match and let Londo kill him as honor dictates that his family would be brought under the protection of House Mollari and be protected from Refa.
* BlueBlood
* BadassGrandpa: Even Londo can not match his skill with a blade.
* CulturedBadass
* DuelToTheDeath
* FriendlyEnemy
* HeroicSacrifice: Allows Londo to kill him in a duel to save his family.
* ILikeSwords
* PapaWolf: Lord Refa was doing his best to ruin his family, so he does what he has to to ensure their safety and well being.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Londo]]
Nobleman and old friend of Londo. When his family is disgraced in Centauri politics he provokes a duel with Mollari to ensure that after his death Londo will care for his family according to the customs of Centauri duels.
* BatmanGambit: Challenges Londo to a duel with weapons that favor his skills only to throw the match and let Londo kill him as honor dictates that his family would be brought under the protection of House Mollari and be protected from Refa.
* BlueBlood
* BadassGrandpa: Even Londo can not match his skill with a blade.
* CulturedBadass
* DuelToTheDeath
* FriendlyEnemy
* HeroicSacrifice: Allows Londo to kill him in a duel to save his family.
* ILikeSwords
* PapaWolf: Lord Refa was doing his best to ruin his family, so he does what he has to to ensure their safety and well being.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Londo]]
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Nobleman and old friend of Londo. When
* BigOlEyebrows
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Like Emperor Turhan, his
* GenreSavvy
* TheGoodChancellor
* NeverSuicide: Refa and his
* BatmanGambit: Challenges Londo to a duel with weapons
* BlueBlood
* BadassGrandpa: Even Londo can not match his skill with a blade.
* CulturedBadass
* DuelToTheDeath
* FriendlyEnemy
* HeroicSacrifice: Allows Londo to kill him in a duel to save his family.
* ILikeSwords
* PapaWolf: Lord
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[[folder:Adira Tyree (Fabiana Udenio)]]
A slave, and Londo's one true love.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold
* InLoveWithTheMark
* SexSlave
* StuffedIntoTheFridge
A slave, and Londo's one true love.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold
* InLoveWithTheMark
* SexSlave
* StuffedIntoTheFridge
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A slave, and Londo's one true love.
Regent of the Centauri Republic after the death of Cartagia.
*AFateWorseThanDeath: Being made into a thrall of the Drakh via a [[PuppeteerParasite Keeper]]
*CharacterDeath: Dies when his Keeper leaves him.
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[[folder:Timov Mollari (Jane Carr)]]
One of Londpo's three wives.
* ArrangedMarriage
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[SubvertedTrope Well, no they don't]]. But they tolerate each other, and at least they're honest about their lack of affection or romantic interest. More importantly, [[spoiler:they know that they won't try to kill each other.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Her default mode. [[spoiler:Londo seems to prefer this over the insincerity of the his other two wives.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She tells others what she thinks of them (rarely anything good), and doesn't care what they think about that.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She definitely has standards, though; see WhatYouAreInTheDark.
* PlatonicLifePartners: They're not friends or lovers in any possible sense of the word. Nevertheless, it's rather telling that Londo never attempted to divorce her or marry someone else, even after becoming Emperor.
** Centauri practice polygamy and explicitly marry for political reasons. The marriage to Timov may ultimately reflect a family alliance Londo still finds advantageous (not to mention a possible need for an heir). Londo may have been leading up to marriage, or at least a ''very'' public affair, with Adira [[spoiler: before Morden had her killed]]. Londo ''could'' have kept her as a slave and concubine, and gotten what he wanted, but chose to free her. ''That's'' love.
* SdrawkcabName: Timov is vomit spelled backwards.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She didn't have to donate blood to save Londo, she could have easily kept it a secret and gotten the inheritance. She openly admits that part of her wouldn't mind seeing Londo die, but tells Dr. Franklin that she won't win her battles like this.
One of Londpo's three wives.
* ArrangedMarriage
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[SubvertedTrope Well, no they don't]]. But they tolerate each other, and at least they're honest about their lack of affection or romantic interest. More importantly, [[spoiler:they know that they won't try to kill each other.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Her default mode. [[spoiler:Londo seems to prefer this over the insincerity of the his other two wives.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She tells others what she thinks of them (rarely anything good), and doesn't care what they think about that.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She definitely has standards, though; see WhatYouAreInTheDark.
* PlatonicLifePartners: They're not friends or lovers in any possible sense of the word. Nevertheless, it's rather telling that Londo never attempted to divorce her or marry someone else, even after becoming Emperor.
** Centauri practice polygamy and explicitly marry for political reasons. The marriage to Timov may ultimately reflect a family alliance Londo still finds advantageous (not to mention a possible need for an heir). Londo may have been leading up to marriage, or at least a ''very'' public affair, with Adira [[spoiler: before Morden had her killed]]. Londo ''could'' have kept her as a slave and concubine, and gotten what he wanted, but chose to free her. ''That's'' love.
* SdrawkcabName: Timov is vomit spelled backwards.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She didn't have to donate blood to save Londo, she could have easily kept it a secret and gotten the inheritance. She openly admits that part of her wouldn't mind seeing Londo die, but tells Dr. Franklin that she won't win her battles like this.
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->''It is a small price to pay for immortality.''
* AmbitionIsEvil
* AristocratsAreEvil
* AssholeVictim: [[NotMeThisTime As it turns out]], he was actually innocent of
* ArrangedMarriage
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[SubvertedTrope Well, no they don't]]. But they tolerate each other, and at least they're honest about their lack of affection or romantic interest. More importantly, [[spoiler:they know
* EvilChancellor: He orchestrates the deaths of the Emperor and Prime Minister to
* KarmicDeath: Beaten to death by a mob of angry Narn.
* NotMeThisTime: Londo arranges Refa's death because he assumes Refa had his lover Adira murdered. [[spoiler: It was actually Morden doing a BatmanGambit.]]
*
*
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She definitely has standards, though; see WhatYouAreInTheDark.
* PlatonicLifePartners: They're not friends or lovers in any possible sense of the word. Nevertheless, it's rather telling that Londo never attempted
** Centauri practice polygamy and explicitly marry for political reasons. The marriage to Timov may ultimately reflect a family alliance Londo still finds advantageous (not to mention a possible need for an heir). Londo may have been leading up to marriage, or at least a ''very'' public affair, with Adira [[spoiler: before Morden had her killed]]. Londo ''could'' have kept her as a slave and concubine, and gotten what he wanted, but chose to free her. ''That's'' love.
*
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She didn't have to donate blood to save Londo, she could have easily kept it a secret and gotten the inheritance. She openly admits that part of her wouldn't mind seeing Londo die, but tells Dr. Franklin that she won't win her battles like this.
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[[folder:Lyndisty Drusella (Carmen Thomas)]]
The daughter of a powerful Centauri noble, Lord Drusella
* ArrangedMarriage - to [[spoiler:Vir. It doesn't last long, and you can be thankful for that.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain
* FantasticRacism: Against the Narn, to the point of extreme sadism.
* ProperLady
* StepfordSmiler
The daughter of a powerful Centauri noble, Lord Drusella
* ArrangedMarriage - to [[spoiler:Vir. It doesn't last long, and you can be thankful for that.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain
* FantasticRacism: Against the Narn, to the point of extreme sadism.
* ProperLady
* StepfordSmiler
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The daughter
Nobleman and old friend of
* ArrangedMarriage -
* DaddysLittleVillain
* FantasticRacism: Against the Narn,
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*
* BadassGrandpa: Even Londo can not match his skill with a blade.
* CulturedBadass
* DuelToTheDeath
* FriendlyEnemy
* HeroicSacrifice: Allows Londo to kill him in a duel to save his family.
* ILikeSwords
* PapaWolf: Lord Refa was doing his best to ruin his family, so he does what he has to to ensure their safety and well being.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Londo]]
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[[folder:Emperor Turhan (Turhan Bey)]]
* BaldOfAwesome
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Though his name is mentioned after his death
* TheGhost: For much of the series.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's quite aware of backstabbing, power hungry nature of his courtiers. He even wanted to formally apologize to the Narn for the atrocities commited during the First Occupation of Narn.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* [[TheWisePrince The Wise Emperor]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies in his only appearance
* BaldOfAwesome
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Though his name is mentioned after his death
* TheGhost: For much of the series.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's quite aware of backstabbing, power hungry nature of his courtiers. He even wanted to formally apologize to the Narn for the atrocities commited during the First Occupation of Narn.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* [[TheWisePrince The Wise Emperor]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies in his only appearance
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*
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* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's quite aware of backstabbing, power hungry nature of his courtiers. He even wanted to formally apologize to the Narn for the atrocities commited during the First Occupation of Narn.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* [[TheWisePrince The Wise Emperor]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies in his only appearance
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* BigOlEyebrows
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Like Emperor Turhan, his name is also mentioned after his death.
* GenreSavvy
* TheGoodChancellor
* NeverSuicide: Refa and his cohorts inform he had commited suicide. Several GenreSavvy nobles, like Urza Jaddo suspect that Refa had him murdered.
* NumberTwo
* BigOlEyebrows
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Like Emperor Turhan, his name is also mentioned after his death.
* GenreSavvy
* TheGoodChancellor
* NeverSuicide: Refa and his cohorts inform he had commited suicide. Several GenreSavvy nobles, like Urza Jaddo suspect that Refa had him murdered.
* NumberTwo
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One of Londpo's three wives.
*
*
*
* {{Jerkass}}: She tells others what she thinks of them (rarely anything good), and doesn't care what they think about that.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She definitely has standards, though; see WhatYouAreInTheDark.
* PlatonicLifePartners: They're not friends or lovers in any possible sense of the word. Nevertheless, it's rather telling that Londo never attempted to divorce her or marry someone else, even after
* GenreSavvy
* TheGoodChancellor
* NeverSuicide: Refa
** Centauri practice polygamy and
* SdrawkcabName: Timov is vomit spelled backwards.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She didn't have to donate blood to save Londo, she could have easily kept it a secret and gotten the inheritance. She openly admits that part of her wouldn't mind seeing Londo die, but tells Dr. Franklin that she won't win her battles like
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[[folder:Lyndisty Drusella (Carmen Thomas)]]
The daughter of a powerful Centauri noble, Lord Drusella
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* DaddysLittleVillain
* FantasticRacism: Against the Narn, to the point of extreme sadism.
* ProperLady
* StepfordSmiler
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!!The Centauri Republic
[[folder:Centauri in general]]
->''I want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want to see the Centauri stretch their hand and command the stars. I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power.''
* {{Ambadassador}}: If Londo is to be believed, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8MjQ5Z7ZNo being capable to become a sword-wielding berserker at the drop of a hat is a requirement to be an ambassador for the Centauri Republic]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Centauri women love this trope. They often have very [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine]] manners and appearance, but are also prone to stab you in the back when you least expect it. There are some exceptions, however:
** Adira Tyree subverts this. [[spoiler:She is originally tasked by an alien spy to get incriminating evidence from Londo by seducing him, and fulfills her mission. However, just before delivering the files to her owner, she runs away, and after she is freed from slavery she seems to genuinely care for Londo]].
** The Centauri girl in ''The War Prayer'' averts this as she seems to really love her boyfriend. This may be because she is still young and has not yet learned the ways of her society.
** Also averted by Timov, one of Londo's wives, and [[spoiler:the only one he keeps]], in that she does not put on sheep's clothing and prefers to stay a bitch in plain sight.
* BizarreAlienBiology: They have no major arteries in their wrists, two hearts, and as for their reproductive organs...well, see ExoticEquipment.
* TheClan: The noble houses, such as House Mollari, or House Refa.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Apparently inoffensive Centauri who are actually {{Ambadassador}}s aside, a single Centauri battlecruiser once overwhelmed Babylon 5's [[ShootTheBullet interceptors]] while firing on a Narn vessel at the same time, and Earthforce, that according to WordOfGod could have defeated the Minbari if it wasn't for that pesky [[StealthInSpace stealth technology]], considers war against the Centauri as a hopeless conflict that would be over in a matter of weeks. This is the same Centauri Republic that is a VestigialEmpire and is most famous for the great number of drunkards among their nobles.
** Centauri small arms can kill [[spoiler: the Shadows]], and two palace guards ''did just that'' [[TheStoic without losing their serious expressions]].
* CycleOfRevenge: Their backstory: they were once a peaceful race dedicated to arts and science, until the Xon, the other race from their homeworld, showed up from nowhere and started enslaving and exterminating them for no apparent reason, at which point the Centauri used their superior technology to repel them, chase them back to the other continent of Centauri Prime, and hunt them down into extinction.
** Also {{Subverted}} with their encounter with the Shroggen, servants of the Shadows who came from space and attacked for no apparent reason (they actually had one: they were pursuing a group of Technomages who had just taken refuge on Centauri Prime after their faction rebelled to the Shadows): after repelling them with the help of the Technomages, the Centauri reverse-engineered Shroggen technology and built a fleet to chase them and finish the job, but failed to find them.[[note]] [[YouHaveFailedMe The Shroggen had been exterminated by the Shadows for too many failures, of which their defeat at the hands of the Centauri was the straw that broke the camel's back]][[/note]]
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The Royal Court, as well as the Centaurum
* ExoticEquipment: Men have six huge prehensile sexual tentacles, usually hidden beneath their clothing. Women apparently have six slots, three on each side of the spine. The more used, the more pleasure; using all six tentacles and all six slots is needed for conception.[[note]]One imagines that combines with their notorious decadence for truly fantastic orgies.[[/note]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The Centauri were once a peaceful race, who was attacked for no apparent reason by ''two'' different races seeking to enslave them (the Xon, developed on their same homeworld, and the Shroggen, low-ranked servants of the Shadows). After exterminating the Xon and repelling the Shroggen, the Centauri took the stars to build a force that would capable of defending them... And started enslaving any race too weak to fight them.
** {{Irony}}: This is pretty much the same backstory of the Narn.
* HigherTechSpecies: Outclassed only by the Minbari among the younger races.
* HumanAliens - To the point where (if clothed) there's no way to [[HumanOutsideAlienInside distinguish them from a human]] apart from their haircuts and canines
** They attempted to use this to their advantage: when they first met Humans, they claimed that Humans were a lost colony of the Centauri. It almost worked, until the humans learned more about [[BizarreAlienBiology Centauri physiology]].
** According to the first novel in the [[ExpandedUniverse Psi Corps Trilogy]], the humans were [[GenreSavvy wary of the claim]] from the very beginning, but decided to be polite and see what they could get from the Centauri until they were able to get some genetic samples.
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit and BlingOfWar
* ImprobableHairstyle: Male Centauri wear their hair shaped like a male peacock's open tail. The bigger the "fan", the higher the social status. Women shave their heads bald.
** This turns out to be a RealLife example of PoorCommunicationKills. JMS originally intended Centauri hair to be worn more like human hair, with the length signifying rank. When Peter Jurasik was being fitted with the prosthetic, it was put on him sticking up like a peacock's tail. As a joke, he had it left that way and went to JMS, saying "what do you think?" JMS, thinking Peter really wanted it that way, and worried he was a touchy actor, said it looked fine like that. And thus the Centauri got their iconic hairstyle.
* MilesGloriosus: While they're still more than a match for most of the younger races, the Centauri Republic is a [[StealthPun shadow of its former self]] and the Centauri are seen as braggarts who are all talk and no action:
--> How many Centauri does it take to change a light bulb?
--> These days, just one. But, in the glorious days of the great Centauri Republic, hundreds of servants would change thousands of light bulbs at the clap of a hand!
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Their original motivation to take the stars was to build a force capable of defending them from aggressions like those of the Xon and the Shroggen. While they still remember these events, they forgot their original purpose and became conquerors.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Centauri ''love'' this colour (restricting it to the clothing of nobles and military hardware), and their warships can match Minbari ships in firepower (meaning that nothing built by the Younger Races will survive for more than five seconds against their sustained fire).
* {{Realpolitik}}: The stated philosophy of most prominent Centauri (with heaping doses of FantasticRacism when it comes to the Narns).
* SinsOfOurFathers: Though they commit plenty of sins of their own to be sure.
* VestigialEmpire
* WaistcoatOfStyle
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[[folder:Ambassador Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik)]]
->'''Elric''': ''As I look at you Ambassador, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand, and I hear the sound of millions of people calling your name.''
->'''Londo''': ''My followers?''
->''Elric: Your victims.''
* AcePilot: In his younger days; he still has his old touch (see RetiredBadass below)
* TheAlcoholic: High-functioning, but still. In the first season he spends much of his time DrowningMySorrows over the state of the Republic and you almost never see him without a drink.
-->'''Londo:''' ''*Commenting on Garibaldi's choice of drink*'' Water. Fascinating. I never touch the stuff, myself...
** It becomes much less funny later, [[spoiler:when he is infected by a Keeper. Londo's only advantage is that he has a higher alcohol tolerance than it and thus he can remain himself if he drinks himself *almost* to a stupor. Unfortunately he can't do it too much or it gets suspicious.]]
* {{Ambadassador}}: Ever wondered how he gained the [[InSeriesNickName nickname]] "[[TheBerserker Fights like a Madman]]"?
* AmbitionIsEvil
* AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain (depending on the episode)
* AssInAmbassador
* TheAtoner: toward the end anyway.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: If only he hadn't [[DealWithTheDevil answered Morden's question.]] He got everything he asked for, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretted it for the rest of his life.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Londo convinces the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to send a combined fleet to assist Sheridan in his fight against the Clark regime, explaining to Delenn that he took the initiative because Sheridan would not ask for help and Delenn could not ask without being perceived as having personal motivation. It's noteworthy that this takes place ''after'' the Centauri Republic generally and Londo specifically has antagonized most of the participants.
* BlingOfWar
* CassandraTruth: Attempted to warn [=EarthGov=] about provoking the Minbari, telling them that even the Centauri at the height of their power were out of their weight with them, but is dismissed by an [[MilesGloriosus overly confident EarthForce general]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* ClassicalMovieVampire: Not actually undead, but his dress sense, accent, fangs and elements of his personality are heavily influenced by this trope.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's an happy-go-lucky drunkard who got the job at Babylon 5 because [[ReassignedToAntarctica nobody wanted it (not even him)]]. He's also a MagnificentBastard, an AcePilot, and a capable swordsman whose nickname translates as [[TheBerserker "Fights Like a Madman]]".
* DeadpanSnarker
* DealWithTheDevil
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: When he blows up the island containing the Shadow vessels.]]
* [[spoiler:TheEmperor]]
* EnemyMine (G'Kar, on two separate occasions)
* TheEmperor
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Following his first contact by the Shadows, Londo's wardrobe purposely gets darker as the series goes on.
** And in the episode where [[spoiler: The Shadows arrive on Centauri Prime]], he gets a brief switch back to his original, brighter wardrobe as he begins to realize the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone full consequences of his actions.]]
** Fully inverted when Londo [[spoiler: becomes Emperor]] and wears the completely white uniform of that position, while arguably in the darkest moment of his life.
* FallenHero
* GoneHorriblyRight: In Season 1, Londo has been KickedUpstairs, and he knows it, lamenting how little power he and his people have to his friends and drinking buddies. By the end of the series, he is arguably the single most politically powerful figure on the show, but has no friends, [[spoiler: no free will]], and is lost to his misery.
* GuileHero and/or MagnificentBastard: Not in every episode but it comes out some times. In the last few episodes of the Shadow Wars arc he actually pulled ThePlan on the Shadows (which is for all practical purposes the same as doing that to {{Satan}}).
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* HenpeckedHusband: Implied to have been one to the dancer he married (and was later forced by his family to divorce). "She had a voice that could curdle fresh milk. 'Londooo?' 'Coming, my darling!'"
** His third wife, Mariel, is SilkHidingSteel and described by Timov as a 'Iron claw in a velvet glove'. And Timov, of course, has a ''very'' sharp tongue. [[spoiler:When Londo has to choose one wife to keep so he can divorce the other two, he chooses to keep Timov because, he claims, at least with her he always knew where he stood.]] Maybe he likes being henpecked....
* HeroicSacrifice
* IgnoredEpiphany: There's more than one occasion during the war with and occupation of Narn where he seems to realize that what he's doing is horrible...and then he keeps right on going.
* ImGoingToHellForThis: "And when I die, there will be a reckoning." Except he seems to have meant that ''seriously''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Passo Liati", a nicknamed earned via his swordfighting abilities. It translates roughly to "[[TheBerserker Fights Like a Madman]]".
* ItsAllAboutMe: In "The Very Long Night Of Londo Mollari" - a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Journey To The Center of Londo's Mind]] - a part of his mind (represented by G'Kar) points out that, "You're not sorry for what you did! You're just sorry you got caught!" - this trope in a nutshell. [[spoiler:As he recovers from his heart attack in that episode, he gives an unexpected apology to G'Kar--one that confirms that, yes, he ''can'' actually be sorry for what he's done.]]
** At the end of the episode, Londo talks about a Centauri legend about reincarnated souls in unworthy lives - a suitably good soul can attempt to end an appropriatly evil existence - literally ''will'' the body to die - in order to escape from it. Vir reminisces that he heard that this was about the souls of card-carrying messiahs trapped in the bodies of monsters - and eats his foot when he realizes that Londo is referencing '''himself'''.
* LargeHam
* MagnificentBastard: And ''how''! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYKloZRwLu4 This]] is what happens when Londo wants you dead.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* TheMentor[=/=]ParentalSubstitute: To Vir, in varying degrees. Vir's own family has rejected him, so Londo is his default source of guidance. Londo's TragicVillain status is all that more disturbing to Vir because of this.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone - ''beautifully'' captured when he's observing [[spoiler: the [[MagneticWeapons mass-driver]] [[ColonyDrop bombardment]] of Narn]]. There isn't a ''single word'' of dialogue in the entire scene...Londo's face [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GImJdrCSOFA says it all]].
** And again, when the Centauri Intelligence officer tells him that [[spoiler:it was Morden, not Lord Refa, who ordered Adira's death]]. Being Londo, there is some scenery-chewing once the officer is dismissed, but Jurasik demonstrates his range before then purely in the facial expression. Not only "What Have I Done", but "I did it because of a lie".
* NoHeroToHisValet: Vir once he [[GrowingTheBeard gains more confidence]] routinely calls Londo out on some of his more questionable decisions. Londo, to his credit, actually starts listening.
* NumberTwo: As Prime Minister
* NotSoDifferent
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He really does like his booze and his gambling, but he's not nearly as dumb as he lets on.
* OddFriendship (G'Kar)
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: After Vir begs Londo to help him learn to live with the guilt of misdeeds, Londo refuses, telling Vir to embrace the guilt. Londo doesn't want Vir to be like him.]]
** Londo does this all the time, whether it's looking after his young and idealistic atache Vir, or pulling strings to help two young Centauri avoid arranged marraiges, or giving Garibaldi some cash when he was [[ClearMyName on the run]] from the law. It's a major reason he remains a sympathetic character in spite of all he's done.
* PluckyComicRelief
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Unwillingly assigned to Babylon 5 before the series begins. Londo's superior tells him in no uncertain terms that it's a dead-end job.
** ReassignmentBackfire: Even before getting help from [[spoiler: the Shadows]] he had already made the job important, and with their help became one of the most powerful men of Centauri Prime.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* RetiredBadass: Londo was at the head of the Centauri assault on a world in his backstory, and on the one incident he piloted a shuttle he weaved, effortlessly and laughing, through incoming anti-air fire.
** Incoming anti-air fire that had already foiled three out of four previous attempts to reach the planet's surface, one of which ''six'' ships launched from an Earth Force cruiser.
---> Susan Ivanova: My god, whoever's piloting that shuttle's a madman!
* SkunkStripe
* SleazyPolitician
* StartOfDarkness
* TragicHero[=/=]TragicVillain
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent
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[[folder:Vir Cotto (Stephen Furst)]]
->'' '''Londo:''' There is still hope for you...and for that I find I still envy you. ''
* {{Adorkable}}: His quiet, generally bumbling manner slips him into this territory.
* {{Ambadassador}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8MjQ5Z7ZNo Here's how he earned the promotion to ambassador]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't even assume Vir's kindness and {{Adorkable}} mannerisms mean he's weak or helpless.
* ButtMonkey
* TheConscience: Londo's conscience, though often a rather ineffective one. He's not ''entirely'' ignored, though; as early as "The War Prayer", Vir manages to get Londo to listen to him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu -- by flipping off their proxy: Mr. Morden.
--> '''Vir''': I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your ''lifeless'' eyes, and wave... like this.
--> ''[Vir does a mocking little cutesy wave.]''
--> '''Vir''': Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
** [[spoiler:Like every other request to Morden, his wish is granted. He's happier with ''his'' wish than Londo, G'Kar, and Lennier were with ''theirs'', though.]]
* [[spoiler:TheEmperor]]
* HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath: [[spoiler: When he kills Cartagia. Though the assassination was the only way to save billions of lives, the guilt overwhelms him.]]
* HiddenDepths
* HypercompetentSidekick: Vir can carry out complex negotiations with other alien ambassadors with little to no guidance from Londo; generally has needed research ready before Londo even requests it; and often fills in for Londo when Londo is otherwise occupied/hung over/not on speaking terms with G'Kar. Diplomatic personnel who refuse to deal with Londo will go to Vir instead if they ''really'' have to deal with the Centauri. Eventually Vir [[spoiler: receives appointment as ambassador to Minbar--partly on merit and partly because Londo wants to keep him away from [[DeadlyDecadentCourt the Centaurum while Cartagia is Emperor]]. Vir becomes a highly-placed official when Londo takes the throne, and eventually becomes Emperor himself.]]
* OnlySaneMan
* PluckyComicRelief
* RankUp: [[spoiler: happens twice on-screen; first when Vir is appointed ambassador to the Minbari and again when he succeeds Londo as [[TheEmperor Emperor]]. As the Centauri believe their emperors become gods after they die, Vir will eventually become a Centauri deity as well]].
* SecretKeeper: To Londo. This leads him to a small HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath in season 2.
* SueDonym: [[AbrahamLincoln Abrahamo Lincolni]], a made-up bureaucrat who saves thousands of Narns. Only, he used the name deliberately.
** While this proves to be a PaperThinDisguise to the humans when they come across the name and recognize it immediately for what it is, the ''Centauri'' have no familiarity with the Earther historical figure, and would have no reason to.
* TokenGoodTeammate
* TheUnFavorite
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[[folder:Emperor Cartagia (Wortham Krimmer)]]
->''One of our very best torturers. I felt certain he would break him. Two hours he worked. Not a sound! I said, 'Give me a cry, give me a shout, a whimper, a scream'. Silence! So, I got into it myself. You can't leave these things to others, they never get it right.''
* AristocratsAreEvil: He's Emperor and one of the most evil forces in the show.
* TheCaligula: Lampshaded by Londo in the novelization of ''In The Beginning''.
* DepravedBisexual: [[WordOfGay According to Krimmer, anyway]].
* EvilIsHammy: And don't you ''dare'' tell him to tone it down, because he will backhand you for your insolence in telling "the stars to darken on a whim".
* AGodAmI: He hopes to achieve this with the aid of the show's resident cosmic menace.
** To be precise, according to the Centauri religion all emperors become gods upon their deaths. Cartagia wants to be one while he's still alive to enjoy it...
* KickTheDog: Notices a court jester mocking him, but decides to play along much to the relief of the courtiers and servants who were in fear for the jester's life...[[MoodWhiplash then has the man executed once the fun is over]].
* ModestRoyalty: Well, by Centauri standards anyway. In particular, his insistence on a very short hair crest. A Centauri male of his rank should have a ''huge'' crest to reflect his status, but he prefers the shorter crest because it allows him to [[KingIncognito go slumming outside the palace]].
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: He keeps the severed heads of executed courtiers on his desk, and occasionally stops by to chat with them.
* OffWithHisHead: Courtiers who displease him get this treatment. Then he uses them as his Council (or "Shadow Cabinet" as he calls them).
* OmnicidalManiac: When you plan to turn your homeworld into a giant funeral pyre, you qualify.
* [[PuppetKing Puppet Emperor]]: Averted, Refa and his cronies wanted to rule through Cartagia, but he's too mad to be properly controlled.
* [[spoiler:ShootTheDog]]: [[spoiler:His ultimate fate.]]
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[[folder:Lord Antono Refa (William Forward)]]
->''It is a small price to pay for immortality.''
* AmbitionIsEvil
* AristocratsAreEvil
* AssholeVictim: [[NotMeThisTime As it turns out]], he was actually innocent of the crime that he was assassinated in retaliation for. That's not nearly the same as saying he didn't ''deserve'' the death he got. He did do everything else on the list, though.
* EvilChancellor: He orchestrates the deaths of the Emperor and Prime Minister to install Cartagia.
* KarmicDeath: Beaten to death by a mob of angry Narn.
* NotMeThisTime: Londo arranges Refa's death because he assumes Refa had his lover Adira murdered. [[spoiler: It was actually Morden doing a BatmanGambit.]]
* TheStrategist: Whatever his faults, Refa is excellent being this, correctly interpreting intelligence on the Narn's fleet's major strike and planning a trap of his own.
* UnwittingPawn: When he went to Narn.
* UpperClassTwit
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[[folder: Urza Jaddo]]
Nobleman and old friend of Londo. When his family is disgraced in Centauri politics he provokes a duel with Mollari to ensure that after his death Londo will care for his family according to the customs of Centauri duels.
* BatmanGambit: Challenges Londo to a duel with weapons that favor his skills only to throw the match and let Londo kill him as honor dictates that his family would be brought under the protection of House Mollari and be protected from Refa.
* BlueBlood
* BadassGrandpa: Even Londo can not match his skill with a blade.
* CulturedBadass
* DuelToTheDeath
* FriendlyEnemy
* HeroicSacrifice: Allows Londo to kill him in a duel to save his family.
* ILikeSwords
* PapaWolf: Lord Refa was doing his best to ruin his family, so he does what he has to to ensure their safety and well being.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Londo]]
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[[folder:Adira Tyree (Fabiana Udenio)]]
A slave, and Londo's one true love.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold
* InLoveWithTheMark
* SexSlave
* StuffedIntoTheFridge
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[[WMG:Timov Mollari (Jane Carr)]]
One of Londpo's three wives.
* ArrangedMarriage
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[SubvertedTrope Well, no they don't]]. But they tolerate each other, and at least they're honest about their lack of affection or romantic interest. More importantly, [[spoiler:they know that they won't try to kill each other.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Her default mode. [[spoiler:Londo seems to prefer this over the insincerity of the his other two wives.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She tells others what she thinks of them (rarely anything good), and doesn't care what they think about that.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She definitely has standards, though; see WhatYouAreInTheDark.
* PlatonicLifePartners: They're not friends or lovers in any possible sense of the word. Nevertheless, it's rather telling that Londo never attempted to divorce her or marry someone else, even after becoming Emperor.
** Centauri practice polygamy and explicitly marry for political reasons. The marriage to Timov may ultimately reflect a family alliance Londo still finds advantageous (not to mention a possible need for an heir). Londo may have been leading up to marriage, or at least a ''very'' public affair, with Adira [[spoiler: before Morden had her killed]]. Londo ''could'' have kept her as a slave and concubine, and gotten what he wanted, but chose to free her. ''That's'' love.
* SdrawkcabName: Timov is vomit spelled backwards.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She didn't have to donate blood to save Londo, she could have easily kept it a secret and gotten the inheritance. She openly admits that part of her wouldn't mind seeing Londo die, but tells Dr. Franklin that she won't win her battles like this.
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[[WMG:Lyndisty Drusella (Carmen Thomas)]]
The daughter of a powerful Centauri noble, Lord Drusella
* ArrangedMarriage - to [[spoiler:Vir. It doesn't last long, and you can be thankful for that.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain
* FantasticRacism: Against the Narn, to the point of extreme sadism.
* ProperLady
* StepfordSmiler
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[[folder:Emperor Turhan (Turhan Bey)]]
* BaldOfAwesome
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Though his name is mentioned after his death
* TheGhost: For much of the series.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's quite aware of backstabbing, power hungry nature of his courtiers. He even wanted to formally apologize to the Narn for the atrocities commited during the First Occupation of Narn.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* [[TheWisePrince The Wise Emperor]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies in his only appearance
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[[folder:Prime Minister Malachi (Malachi Thorne)]]
* BigOlEyebrows
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Like Emperor Turhan, his name is also mentioned after his death.
* GenreSavvy
* TheGoodChancellor
* NeverSuicide: Refa and his cohorts inform he had commited suicide. Several GenreSavvy nobles, like Urza Jaddo suspect that Refa had him murdered.
* NumberTwo
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[[folder:Centauri in general]]
->''I want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want to see the Centauri stretch their hand and command the stars. I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power.''
* {{Ambadassador}}: If Londo is to be believed, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8MjQ5Z7ZNo being capable to become a sword-wielding berserker at the drop of a hat is a requirement to be an ambassador for the Centauri Republic]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Centauri women love this trope. They often have very [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine]] manners and appearance, but are also prone to stab you in the back when you least expect it. There are some exceptions, however:
** Adira Tyree subverts this. [[spoiler:She is originally tasked by an alien spy to get incriminating evidence from Londo by seducing him, and fulfills her mission. However, just before delivering the files to her owner, she runs away, and after she is freed from slavery she seems to genuinely care for Londo]].
** The Centauri girl in ''The War Prayer'' averts this as she seems to really love her boyfriend. This may be because she is still young and has not yet learned the ways of her society.
** Also averted by Timov, one of Londo's wives, and [[spoiler:the only one he keeps]], in that she does not put on sheep's clothing and prefers to stay a bitch in plain sight.
* BizarreAlienBiology: They have no major arteries in their wrists, two hearts, and as for their reproductive organs...well, see ExoticEquipment.
* TheClan: The noble houses, such as House Mollari, or House Refa.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Apparently inoffensive Centauri who are actually {{Ambadassador}}s aside, a single Centauri battlecruiser once overwhelmed Babylon 5's [[ShootTheBullet interceptors]] while firing on a Narn vessel at the same time, and Earthforce, that according to WordOfGod could have defeated the Minbari if it wasn't for that pesky [[StealthInSpace stealth technology]], considers war against the Centauri as a hopeless conflict that would be over in a matter of weeks. This is the same Centauri Republic that is a VestigialEmpire and is most famous for the great number of drunkards among their nobles.
** Centauri small arms can kill [[spoiler: the Shadows]], and two palace guards ''did just that'' [[TheStoic without losing their serious expressions]].
* CycleOfRevenge: Their backstory: they were once a peaceful race dedicated to arts and science, until the Xon, the other race from their homeworld, showed up from nowhere and started enslaving and exterminating them for no apparent reason, at which point the Centauri used their superior technology to repel them, chase them back to the other continent of Centauri Prime, and hunt them down into extinction.
** Also {{Subverted}} with their encounter with the Shroggen, servants of the Shadows who came from space and attacked for no apparent reason (they actually had one: they were pursuing a group of Technomages who had just taken refuge on Centauri Prime after their faction rebelled to the Shadows): after repelling them with the help of the Technomages, the Centauri reverse-engineered Shroggen technology and built a fleet to chase them and finish the job, but failed to find them.[[note]] [[YouHaveFailedMe The Shroggen had been exterminated by the Shadows for too many failures, of which their defeat at the hands of the Centauri was the straw that broke the camel's back]][[/note]]
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The Royal Court, as well as the Centaurum
* ExoticEquipment: Men have six huge prehensile sexual tentacles, usually hidden beneath their clothing. Women apparently have six slots, three on each side of the spine. The more used, the more pleasure; using all six tentacles and all six slots is needed for conception.[[note]]One imagines that combines with their notorious decadence for truly fantastic orgies.[[/note]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The Centauri were once a peaceful race, who was attacked for no apparent reason by ''two'' different races seeking to enslave them (the Xon, developed on their same homeworld, and the Shroggen, low-ranked servants of the Shadows). After exterminating the Xon and repelling the Shroggen, the Centauri took the stars to build a force that would capable of defending them... And started enslaving any race too weak to fight them.
** {{Irony}}: This is pretty much the same backstory of the Narn.
* HigherTechSpecies: Outclassed only by the Minbari among the younger races.
* HumanAliens - To the point where (if clothed) there's no way to [[HumanOutsideAlienInside distinguish them from a human]] apart from their haircuts and canines
** They attempted to use this to their advantage: when they first met Humans, they claimed that Humans were a lost colony of the Centauri. It almost worked, until the humans learned more about [[BizarreAlienBiology Centauri physiology]].
** According to the first novel in the [[ExpandedUniverse Psi Corps Trilogy]], the humans were [[GenreSavvy wary of the claim]] from the very beginning, but decided to be polite and see what they could get from the Centauri until they were able to get some genetic samples.
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit and BlingOfWar
* ImprobableHairstyle: Male Centauri wear their hair shaped like a male peacock's open tail. The bigger the "fan", the higher the social status. Women shave their heads bald.
** This turns out to be a RealLife example of PoorCommunicationKills. JMS originally intended Centauri hair to be worn more like human hair, with the length signifying rank. When Peter Jurasik was being fitted with the prosthetic, it was put on him sticking up like a peacock's tail. As a joke, he had it left that way and went to JMS, saying "what do you think?" JMS, thinking Peter really wanted it that way, and worried he was a touchy actor, said it looked fine like that. And thus the Centauri got their iconic hairstyle.
* MilesGloriosus: While they're still more than a match for most of the younger races, the Centauri Republic is a [[StealthPun shadow of its former self]] and the Centauri are seen as braggarts who are all talk and no action:
--> How many Centauri does it take to change a light bulb?
--> These days, just one. But, in the glorious days of the great Centauri Republic, hundreds of servants would change thousands of light bulbs at the clap of a hand!
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Their original motivation to take the stars was to build a force capable of defending them from aggressions like those of the Xon and the Shroggen. While they still remember these events, they forgot their original purpose and became conquerors.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Centauri ''love'' this colour (restricting it to the clothing of nobles and military hardware), and their warships can match Minbari ships in firepower (meaning that nothing built by the Younger Races will survive for more than five seconds against their sustained fire).
* {{Realpolitik}}: The stated philosophy of most prominent Centauri (with heaping doses of FantasticRacism when it comes to the Narns).
* SinsOfOurFathers: Though they commit plenty of sins of their own to be sure.
* VestigialEmpire
* WaistcoatOfStyle
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[[folder:Ambassador Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik)]]
->'''Elric''': ''As I look at you Ambassador, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand, and I hear the sound of millions of people calling your name.''
->'''Londo''': ''My followers?''
->''Elric: Your victims.''
* AcePilot: In his younger days; he still has his old touch (see RetiredBadass below)
* TheAlcoholic: High-functioning, but still. In the first season he spends much of his time DrowningMySorrows over the state of the Republic and you almost never see him without a drink.
-->'''Londo:''' ''*Commenting on Garibaldi's choice of drink*'' Water. Fascinating. I never touch the stuff, myself...
** It becomes much less funny later, [[spoiler:when he is infected by a Keeper. Londo's only advantage is that he has a higher alcohol tolerance than it and thus he can remain himself if he drinks himself *almost* to a stupor. Unfortunately he can't do it too much or it gets suspicious.]]
* {{Ambadassador}}: Ever wondered how he gained the [[InSeriesNickName nickname]] "[[TheBerserker Fights like a Madman]]"?
* AmbitionIsEvil
* AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain (depending on the episode)
* AssInAmbassador
* TheAtoner: toward the end anyway.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: If only he hadn't [[DealWithTheDevil answered Morden's question.]] He got everything he asked for, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretted it for the rest of his life.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Londo convinces the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to send a combined fleet to assist Sheridan in his fight against the Clark regime, explaining to Delenn that he took the initiative because Sheridan would not ask for help and Delenn could not ask without being perceived as having personal motivation. It's noteworthy that this takes place ''after'' the Centauri Republic generally and Londo specifically has antagonized most of the participants.
* BlingOfWar
* CassandraTruth: Attempted to warn [=EarthGov=] about provoking the Minbari, telling them that even the Centauri at the height of their power were out of their weight with them, but is dismissed by an [[MilesGloriosus overly confident EarthForce general]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* ClassicalMovieVampire: Not actually undead, but his dress sense, accent, fangs and elements of his personality are heavily influenced by this trope.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's an happy-go-lucky drunkard who got the job at Babylon 5 because [[ReassignedToAntarctica nobody wanted it (not even him)]]. He's also a MagnificentBastard, an AcePilot, and a capable swordsman whose nickname translates as [[TheBerserker "Fights Like a Madman]]".
* DeadpanSnarker
* DealWithTheDevil
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: When he blows up the island containing the Shadow vessels.]]
* [[spoiler:TheEmperor]]
* EnemyMine (G'Kar, on two separate occasions)
* TheEmperor
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Following his first contact by the Shadows, Londo's wardrobe purposely gets darker as the series goes on.
** And in the episode where [[spoiler: The Shadows arrive on Centauri Prime]], he gets a brief switch back to his original, brighter wardrobe as he begins to realize the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone full consequences of his actions.]]
** Fully inverted when Londo [[spoiler: becomes Emperor]] and wears the completely white uniform of that position, while arguably in the darkest moment of his life.
* FallenHero
* GoneHorriblyRight: In Season 1, Londo has been KickedUpstairs, and he knows it, lamenting how little power he and his people have to his friends and drinking buddies. By the end of the series, he is arguably the single most politically powerful figure on the show, but has no friends, [[spoiler: no free will]], and is lost to his misery.
* GuileHero and/or MagnificentBastard: Not in every episode but it comes out some times. In the last few episodes of the Shadow Wars arc he actually pulled ThePlan on the Shadows (which is for all practical purposes the same as doing that to {{Satan}}).
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* HenpeckedHusband: Implied to have been one to the dancer he married (and was later forced by his family to divorce). "She had a voice that could curdle fresh milk. 'Londooo?' 'Coming, my darling!'"
** His third wife, Mariel, is SilkHidingSteel and described by Timov as a 'Iron claw in a velvet glove'. And Timov, of course, has a ''very'' sharp tongue. [[spoiler:When Londo has to choose one wife to keep so he can divorce the other two, he chooses to keep Timov because, he claims, at least with her he always knew where he stood.]] Maybe he likes being henpecked....
* HeroicSacrifice
* IgnoredEpiphany: There's more than one occasion during the war with and occupation of Narn where he seems to realize that what he's doing is horrible...and then he keeps right on going.
* ImGoingToHellForThis: "And when I die, there will be a reckoning." Except he seems to have meant that ''seriously''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Passo Liati", a nicknamed earned via his swordfighting abilities. It translates roughly to "[[TheBerserker Fights Like a Madman]]".
* ItsAllAboutMe: In "The Very Long Night Of Londo Mollari" - a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Journey To The Center of Londo's Mind]] - a part of his mind (represented by G'Kar) points out that, "You're not sorry for what you did! You're just sorry you got caught!" - this trope in a nutshell. [[spoiler:As he recovers from his heart attack in that episode, he gives an unexpected apology to G'Kar--one that confirms that, yes, he ''can'' actually be sorry for what he's done.]]
** At the end of the episode, Londo talks about a Centauri legend about reincarnated souls in unworthy lives - a suitably good soul can attempt to end an appropriatly evil existence - literally ''will'' the body to die - in order to escape from it. Vir reminisces that he heard that this was about the souls of card-carrying messiahs trapped in the bodies of monsters - and eats his foot when he realizes that Londo is referencing '''himself'''.
* LargeHam
* MagnificentBastard: And ''how''! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYKloZRwLu4 This]] is what happens when Londo wants you dead.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* TheMentor[=/=]ParentalSubstitute: To Vir, in varying degrees. Vir's own family has rejected him, so Londo is his default source of guidance. Londo's TragicVillain status is all that more disturbing to Vir because of this.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone - ''beautifully'' captured when he's observing [[spoiler: the [[MagneticWeapons mass-driver]] [[ColonyDrop bombardment]] of Narn]]. There isn't a ''single word'' of dialogue in the entire scene...Londo's face [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GImJdrCSOFA says it all]].
** And again, when the Centauri Intelligence officer tells him that [[spoiler:it was Morden, not Lord Refa, who ordered Adira's death]]. Being Londo, there is some scenery-chewing once the officer is dismissed, but Jurasik demonstrates his range before then purely in the facial expression. Not only "What Have I Done", but "I did it because of a lie".
* NoHeroToHisValet: Vir once he [[GrowingTheBeard gains more confidence]] routinely calls Londo out on some of his more questionable decisions. Londo, to his credit, actually starts listening.
* NumberTwo: As Prime Minister
* NotSoDifferent
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He really does like his booze and his gambling, but he's not nearly as dumb as he lets on.
* OddFriendship (G'Kar)
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: After Vir begs Londo to help him learn to live with the guilt of misdeeds, Londo refuses, telling Vir to embrace the guilt. Londo doesn't want Vir to be like him.]]
** Londo does this all the time, whether it's looking after his young and idealistic atache Vir, or pulling strings to help two young Centauri avoid arranged marraiges, or giving Garibaldi some cash when he was [[ClearMyName on the run]] from the law. It's a major reason he remains a sympathetic character in spite of all he's done.
* PluckyComicRelief
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Unwillingly assigned to Babylon 5 before the series begins. Londo's superior tells him in no uncertain terms that it's a dead-end job.
** ReassignmentBackfire: Even before getting help from [[spoiler: the Shadows]] he had already made the job important, and with their help became one of the most powerful men of Centauri Prime.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* RetiredBadass: Londo was at the head of the Centauri assault on a world in his backstory, and on the one incident he piloted a shuttle he weaved, effortlessly and laughing, through incoming anti-air fire.
** Incoming anti-air fire that had already foiled three out of four previous attempts to reach the planet's surface, one of which ''six'' ships launched from an Earth Force cruiser.
---> Susan Ivanova: My god, whoever's piloting that shuttle's a madman!
* SkunkStripe
* SleazyPolitician
* StartOfDarkness
* TragicHero[=/=]TragicVillain
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent
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[[folder:Vir Cotto (Stephen Furst)]]
->'' '''Londo:''' There is still hope for you...and for that I find I still envy you. ''
* {{Adorkable}}: His quiet, generally bumbling manner slips him into this territory.
* {{Ambadassador}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8MjQ5Z7ZNo Here's how he earned the promotion to ambassador]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't even assume Vir's kindness and {{Adorkable}} mannerisms mean he's weak or helpless.
* ButtMonkey
* TheConscience: Londo's conscience, though often a rather ineffective one. He's not ''entirely'' ignored, though; as early as "The War Prayer", Vir manages to get Londo to listen to him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu -- by flipping off their proxy: Mr. Morden.
--> '''Vir''': I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your ''lifeless'' eyes, and wave... like this.
--> ''[Vir does a mocking little cutesy wave.]''
--> '''Vir''': Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
** [[spoiler:Like every other request to Morden, his wish is granted. He's happier with ''his'' wish than Londo, G'Kar, and Lennier were with ''theirs'', though.]]
* [[spoiler:TheEmperor]]
* HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath: [[spoiler: When he kills Cartagia. Though the assassination was the only way to save billions of lives, the guilt overwhelms him.]]
* HiddenDepths
* HypercompetentSidekick: Vir can carry out complex negotiations with other alien ambassadors with little to no guidance from Londo; generally has needed research ready before Londo even requests it; and often fills in for Londo when Londo is otherwise occupied/hung over/not on speaking terms with G'Kar. Diplomatic personnel who refuse to deal with Londo will go to Vir instead if they ''really'' have to deal with the Centauri. Eventually Vir [[spoiler: receives appointment as ambassador to Minbar--partly on merit and partly because Londo wants to keep him away from [[DeadlyDecadentCourt the Centaurum while Cartagia is Emperor]]. Vir becomes a highly-placed official when Londo takes the throne, and eventually becomes Emperor himself.]]
* OnlySaneMan
* PluckyComicRelief
* RankUp: [[spoiler: happens twice on-screen; first when Vir is appointed ambassador to the Minbari and again when he succeeds Londo as [[TheEmperor Emperor]]. As the Centauri believe their emperors become gods after they die, Vir will eventually become a Centauri deity as well]].
* SecretKeeper: To Londo. This leads him to a small HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath in season 2.
* SueDonym: [[AbrahamLincoln Abrahamo Lincolni]], a made-up bureaucrat who saves thousands of Narns. Only, he used the name deliberately.
** While this proves to be a PaperThinDisguise to the humans when they come across the name and recognize it immediately for what it is, the ''Centauri'' have no familiarity with the Earther historical figure, and would have no reason to.
* TokenGoodTeammate
* TheUnFavorite
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[[folder:Emperor Cartagia (Wortham Krimmer)]]
->''One of our very best torturers. I felt certain he would break him. Two hours he worked. Not a sound! I said, 'Give me a cry, give me a shout, a whimper, a scream'. Silence! So, I got into it myself. You can't leave these things to others, they never get it right.''
* AristocratsAreEvil: He's Emperor and one of the most evil forces in the show.
* TheCaligula: Lampshaded by Londo in the novelization of ''In The Beginning''.
* DepravedBisexual: [[WordOfGay According to Krimmer, anyway]].
* EvilIsHammy: And don't you ''dare'' tell him to tone it down, because he will backhand you for your insolence in telling "the stars to darken on a whim".
* AGodAmI: He hopes to achieve this with the aid of the show's resident cosmic menace.
** To be precise, according to the Centauri religion all emperors become gods upon their deaths. Cartagia wants to be one while he's still alive to enjoy it...
* KickTheDog: Notices a court jester mocking him, but decides to play along much to the relief of the courtiers and servants who were in fear for the jester's life...[[MoodWhiplash then has the man executed once the fun is over]].
* ModestRoyalty: Well, by Centauri standards anyway. In particular, his insistence on a very short hair crest. A Centauri male of his rank should have a ''huge'' crest to reflect his status, but he prefers the shorter crest because it allows him to [[KingIncognito go slumming outside the palace]].
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: He keeps the severed heads of executed courtiers on his desk, and occasionally stops by to chat with them.
* OffWithHisHead: Courtiers who displease him get this treatment. Then he uses them as his Council (or "Shadow Cabinet" as he calls them).
* OmnicidalManiac: When you plan to turn your homeworld into a giant funeral pyre, you qualify.
* [[PuppetKing Puppet Emperor]]: Averted, Refa and his cronies wanted to rule through Cartagia, but he's too mad to be properly controlled.
* [[spoiler:ShootTheDog]]: [[spoiler:His ultimate fate.]]
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[[folder:Lord Antono Refa (William Forward)]]
->''It is a small price to pay for immortality.''
* AmbitionIsEvil
* AristocratsAreEvil
* AssholeVictim: [[NotMeThisTime As it turns out]], he was actually innocent of the crime that he was assassinated in retaliation for. That's not nearly the same as saying he didn't ''deserve'' the death he got. He did do everything else on the list, though.
* EvilChancellor: He orchestrates the deaths of the Emperor and Prime Minister to install Cartagia.
* KarmicDeath: Beaten to death by a mob of angry Narn.
* NotMeThisTime: Londo arranges Refa's death because he assumes Refa had his lover Adira murdered. [[spoiler: It was actually Morden doing a BatmanGambit.]]
* TheStrategist: Whatever his faults, Refa is excellent being this, correctly interpreting intelligence on the Narn's fleet's major strike and planning a trap of his own.
* UnwittingPawn: When he went to Narn.
* UpperClassTwit
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[[folder: Urza Jaddo]]
Nobleman and old friend of Londo. When his family is disgraced in Centauri politics he provokes a duel with Mollari to ensure that after his death Londo will care for his family according to the customs of Centauri duels.
* BatmanGambit: Challenges Londo to a duel with weapons that favor his skills only to throw the match and let Londo kill him as honor dictates that his family would be brought under the protection of House Mollari and be protected from Refa.
* BlueBlood
* BadassGrandpa: Even Londo can not match his skill with a blade.
* CulturedBadass
* DuelToTheDeath
* FriendlyEnemy
* HeroicSacrifice: Allows Londo to kill him in a duel to save his family.
* ILikeSwords
* PapaWolf: Lord Refa was doing his best to ruin his family, so he does what he has to to ensure their safety and well being.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Londo]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Adira Tyree (Fabiana Udenio)]]
A slave, and Londo's one true love.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold
* InLoveWithTheMark
* SexSlave
* StuffedIntoTheFridge
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[[WMG:Timov Mollari (Jane Carr)]]
One of Londpo's three wives.
* ArrangedMarriage
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[SubvertedTrope Well, no they don't]]. But they tolerate each other, and at least they're honest about their lack of affection or romantic interest. More importantly, [[spoiler:they know that they won't try to kill each other.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Her default mode. [[spoiler:Londo seems to prefer this over the insincerity of the his other two wives.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She tells others what she thinks of them (rarely anything good), and doesn't care what they think about that.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She definitely has standards, though; see WhatYouAreInTheDark.
* PlatonicLifePartners: They're not friends or lovers in any possible sense of the word. Nevertheless, it's rather telling that Londo never attempted to divorce her or marry someone else, even after becoming Emperor.
** Centauri practice polygamy and explicitly marry for political reasons. The marriage to Timov may ultimately reflect a family alliance Londo still finds advantageous (not to mention a possible need for an heir). Londo may have been leading up to marriage, or at least a ''very'' public affair, with Adira [[spoiler: before Morden had her killed]]. Londo ''could'' have kept her as a slave and concubine, and gotten what he wanted, but chose to free her. ''That's'' love.
* SdrawkcabName: Timov is vomit spelled backwards.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She didn't have to donate blood to save Londo, she could have easily kept it a secret and gotten the inheritance. She openly admits that part of her wouldn't mind seeing Londo die, but tells Dr. Franklin that she won't win her battles like this.
[[/folder]]
[[WMG:Lyndisty Drusella (Carmen Thomas)]]
The daughter of a powerful Centauri noble, Lord Drusella
* ArrangedMarriage - to [[spoiler:Vir. It doesn't last long, and you can be thankful for that.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain
* FantasticRacism: Against the Narn, to the point of extreme sadism.
* ProperLady
* StepfordSmiler
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[[folder:Emperor Turhan (Turhan Bey)]]
* BaldOfAwesome
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Though his name is mentioned after his death
* TheGhost: For much of the series.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's quite aware of backstabbing, power hungry nature of his courtiers. He even wanted to formally apologize to the Narn for the atrocities commited during the First Occupation of Narn.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* [[TheWisePrince The Wise Emperor]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies in his only appearance
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Prime Minister Malachi (Malachi Thorne)]]
* BigOlEyebrows
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDanza: Like Emperor Turhan, his name is also mentioned after his death.
* GenreSavvy
* TheGoodChancellor
* NeverSuicide: Refa and his cohorts inform he had commited suicide. Several GenreSavvy nobles, like Urza Jaddo suspect that Refa had him murdered.
* NumberTwo
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