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The CharacterSheet for Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}. '''MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW'''

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[[folder:Main Human Characters]]

!!William 'Bill' Adama (callsign: Husker)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's not enough to survive. One must be worthy of survival."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos

An almost-retired Commander whose assignment to the ''Galactica'' was a going-away present. As a veteran of the first Cylon war, Bill Adama is actually one of the better choices for command in the second war, not to mention a CoolOldGuy.

* AFatherToHisMen: His troops look up to him, and he cares deeply for them. Ironically, he was probably more distant with his son than the rest of the troops under his command at the beginning of the series.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's a skilled Viper pilot, despite his age and rank.
* BadassBaritone: He has a deep, authoritative voice.
* BadassMustache: For a while.
%% * BeardOfSorrow
* BigGood: Leader of the human military, though he shares this role with Laura Roslin who is leader of humanity as a whole.
* TheCaptain, later promoted to FourStarBadass
* CatchPhrase: "Sometimes you gotta roll the hard six."
** ("...What does that mean, sir?" "[[LampshadeHanging I dunno, it's, it's something my dad says]].")
* ChekhovsGun: When shown shaving with his straight razor, Adama will always cut himself with it, symbolizing whatever turmoil he's feeling that episode.
* CommandingCoolness: To the awesome power.
* CombatPragmatist: "The Adama Manuever".
* CoolOldGuy: He gets along quite well with his younger crew.
* DeathGlare: A true master of this, also known as "The Adama Glare".
* FisherKing: His deterioration in Season 4.5 eerily mirrors Galactica's own.
* FourStarBadass: Gets promoted over the course of the series.
%%* GuileHero
* GutturalGrowler: His callsign was "Husker" for a very good reason.
* [[LikeASonToMe Like A Daughter To Me]]: He repeatedly says this to Starbuck. He has the same feeling, to a somewhat lesser extent, for Boomer, which explains a lot of his interaction (good and bad) with her and Athena.
* MachineEmpathy: He seems to be able to feel when Galactica is hurting.
* MightyGlacier: On the few times he's seen in action, he's generally capable of felling an opponent with a slow deliberate punch.
* PapaWolf: Very protective of his crew.
* ParentalSubstitute: For Starbuck.
%%* ScaryShinyGlasses
%%* SpecsOfAwesome
* TeamDad: As you'd expect from a PapaWolf and AFatherToHisMen.

!!Laura Roslin
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"One of the interesting things about being president is that you don't have to explain yourself to anyone."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MaryMcDonnell

The Secretary of Education under President Richard Adar (sometimes literally under), Laura Roslin was attending the de-commissioning ceremony on ''Galactica'' when the Cylons attacked (as the ship was to be turned into a museum). [[UnexpectedSuccessor 43rd in the line of succession]], she was sworn in as the lawful replacement President of the Twelve Colonies. Immediately other characters began to snark about having a kindergarten teacher for a president, but Roslin handled the office with more aplomb than even her supporters could have expected.

* BigGood: As President of the Colonies, she shares this role with Adama who leads the military.
* DeathByOriginStory: [[spoiler: Her father and two younger sisters died in a car accident. After grieving for several months, she agreed to become part of Adar's campaign for President as a way to move on. It set everything in motion for her eventual arrival on Galactica.]]
* FieryRedhead: She is fierce and more than willing to talk back to anyone who questions her.
%%* GlassesGirl
* HangingJudge: She really likes doing this. It is the reason she's called "[[FanNickname Madame]] [[ThrownOutTheAirlock Airlock]]", after all.
* HeroesWantRedheads: She's Adama's LoveInterest.
* IllGirl: She's an older example though.
* IronLady: She's far more stern than her opposition expects from a "kindergarten teacher."
%%* MessianicArchetype
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: She is definitely President Iron. When pushed too far, she becomes President Action. Her belief in the Pythian prophecies causes some to think of her as President Lunatic. [[spoiler: She crosses the line into President Scheming once by allowing her cabinet to fix an election. The plan falls through, however.]]
%%* TeamMom
%%* TookALevelInBadass
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Forty-''third'' in line, even.

!!Kara Thrace (callsign: Starbuck)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Pilots call me Starbuck, you may refer to me as God."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/KateeSackhoff

An excellent pilot with a rebellious streak a mile wide. This makes her CrazyAwesome, both in and out of the cockpit... though the show also deconstructs just what happens when you have a genuine MilitaryMaverick on your hands. [[spoiler:The Cylons, particularly Twos, claim that she has a "special destiny," and ultimately she uses MagicMusic to lead the fleet to Earth. ...After dying and being returned as some sort of AngelUnaware.]]

* AbusiveParents: She was raised by her mother, a Colonial Marines NCO repeatedly rejected from officer training, who took out her frustrations on Kara by doing things like slamming the door on her fingers.
* AcePilot: One of the best on the show.
* ActionGirl: Since TheMainCharactersDoEverything, even though she's an AcePilot, she's also skilled as infantry/SWAT.
* TheAce: Even before the vast majority of the fleet was killed, she was one of their best pilots.
** BrokenAce: She's haunted by her past, and is just a bit unhinged.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Her ultimate fate.
* AxCrazy: just a bit.
* {{Badass}}: An excellent all-around soldier, and unstoppable in the cockpit.
* BloodKnight: As evidenced by this quote:
-->You know, everyone I know is fighting to get back what they had. I'm fighting because I don't know how to do anything else.
* BoomHeadshot: Shot the raider she hijacked in Season 1 right in its bio-mechanical eye. [[ImprobableAimingSkills While both of them were flying in space.]]
%%* BrokenBird
* CartwrightCurse : Zak ends up dead as a result of her passing him through a test he failed, while [[spoiler: Sam is first left behind on an irradiated Caprica]], then [[spoiler: later rendered brain-dead by a bullet to the head]]. At the very end, when it looks like she ''finally'' has the chance [[spoiler: to be with Lee, she disappears into thin air, leaving him behind]].
* CigarChomper: A rare female version.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Appears barefoot quite regularly.
* GoodBadGirl: Due to being a DistaffCounterpart to her womanizing namesake from the original series.
* {{Jerkass}}:At times.
* TheLadette: Drinks, chomps cigars, and generally acts like one of the guys.
%%* MilitaryBrat
* MyGreatestFailure: She blames herself for Zak's death.
* NotAfraidToDie: Part of why she's so crazy awesome. She's not a DeathSeeker, but she doesn't seem to fear death.
%%* PluckyGirl
* ReallyGetsAround: Sleeps with anyone she fancies, even after she's married.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Invoked by name, in fact.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Apollo.
* WrenchWench: Has a few moments. Most notably when she got a Cylon Raider in working condition after she crashed.

!!Lee Adama (callsign: Apollo)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm the coward. I'm the traitor. I'm forgiven."'']]
->'''Played By''': JamieBamber

The son of Bill Adama, from whom he is estranged due to the death of his younger brother Zak. Apollo's opinion is that Adama pressured Zak into becoming a pilot, which Zak was not ready for; he blames his dad for his brother's death. He also takes after his grandfather ([[Series/{{Caprica}} lawyer Joseph Adama]]) in being rather more loyal to laws, rights and civil liberties than the uniform or any group of people. [[spoiler:Eventually promoted to Commander, put in charge of the ''Pegasus'', and wed to Dee.]]

* TheAce: Lampshaded by his callsign, as Apollo is TheAce in this universe's pantheon.
* {{Badass}}: Like most of the military cast. Dangerous both in and out of the cockpit.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Does this many times to his father Bill.
* CartwrightCurse: His pregnant girlfriend gets killed in the Cylon attacks, Starbuck gets married to Anders [[spoiler: right after finally admitting she loves him, and before eventually dying]], he has a rocky relationship with Dee before separating from her [[spoiler:and she commits suicide]]. Lee is not lucky in love.
%%* CommandingCoolness
* KnightInSourArmor: Lee has a pretty low opinion of many people, constantly calling them out for falling short of their ideals. He is hardest about this on himself. Still, he is probably one of the people in the series who will most reliably choose to do the right thing, no matter how many people he pisses off and no matter how badly he believes it will backfire on him.
* MilitaryBrat: Comes with being Adama's son.
* MrFanservice: He's got a lot of shirtless scenes showing off his abs.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Starbuck, [[JustFriends or so]] [[UnresolvedSexualTension they claim]].
* SharpDressedMan: When he gets into politics.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Starbuck.
* StraightMan: Something of a straight man for the entire crew.
* WellDoneSonGuy: A major part of his interactions with his father.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: A solid three-and-a-bit season's worth with Starbuck, putting them at the center of a mad-crazy LoveDodecahedron (Starbuck loves both Lee and Anders; Lee loves both Starbuck and Dee; Dee loves both Lee and Billy).
* WouldHitAGirl: Is perfectly willing to strike back when Starbuck decks him.

!!Gaius Baltar
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You have not heard the last! No more Mr. Nice Gaius!"'']]
->'''Played By''': James Callis

A genius scientist working on a new navicomputer program for the Colonial military, Baltar was unwittingly instrumental in the Cylon massacre: he was seduced by a Number Six who he believed worked for a competing defense contractor, and gave her access to the program, into which she inserted a virus which managed to disable most of the fleet. Surviving via luck and reputation, Baltar now has to negotiate the fleet while keeping his betrayal secret. There's also the fact that he now holds conversations with his version of a [[GoodAngelBadAngel Shoulder Angel]], another Six copy. Becomes President on the platform of insisting that the fleet colonize a semi-habitable planet called New Caprica, which turns out to be a ''huge'' mistake.

* AGodAmI: Has his moments.
* AntiHero: At his best of days.
* TheAtoner: He is trying to undo the damage he caused by letting Caprica Six seduce him, though it's more out of self-preservation.
* BeardOfEvil: Doubles as BeardOfSorrow, and Beard Of Ineffectual Cowardice - to cut it short, whenever Baltar [[ImportantHaircut changes his facial hair style]], major charter development is inbound.
* BrilliantButLazy: He's one of the smartest men alive but would much rather spend his time sleeping around and smoking cigars.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's awkward, cowardly and talks to himself but is probably the smartest man left in the universe.
* ButtMonkey: Quite often.
%%* ByronicHero
* TheCaligula: During his Presidency of New Caprica he indulged in alcoholism, womanising and wallowed in the incompetence of his subordinates while his people suffered and died.
* TheCasanova: It would be easier to count the women he ''hasn't'' slept with.
%%* TheChessmaster
* DeadpanSnarker: You couldn't go through everything he does without developing a sense of humour about it.
* DirtyCoward: Though he [[CharacterDevelopment did get better]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It would be a real stretch to call him evil (Though Cowardly and narcissistic are very much fair descriptions). Still, he was absolutely horrified at Admiral Cain's appalling treatment of a Cylon prisoner.
* HandsomeLech: He attracts women fairly easily, but he's quite the perv.
* HookersAndBlow: The Baltar administration was marked by its groundbreaking lap dance & pill-popping initiatives.
* HotScientist: It's easy to forget he's a brilliant scientist.
* IndyPloy: The first couple of seasons have him making things up off the cuff, like his Cylon screening technique. Later on, he bullshits an entire ''religion'' as he goes.
** Only, [[spoiler: he was actually spot on with his religion.]]
* InsufferableGenius: At times. He's a genius and doesn't mind reminding others.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Six is so impressed by his self-centeredness that she thinks it would be worth taking a copy of his brain for further study. He becomes less selfish as the series goes on however.
--> '''Six''': Even as the fate of your entire species hangs in the balance, all you can think about is how this affects you.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is quite compassionate and emotional, believing firmly that War is not an excuse for inhumanity.
* TheMcCoy: He's probably the most emotional person in the series.
* MessianicArchetype: As of Season 4
* MortonsFork: Lee Adama was right. Given the circumstances of the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, just what was Baltar supposed to have done?
* {{Narcissist}}: He remains pretty self-absorbed throughout the series.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Since TheMainCharactersDoEverything, he's basically in charge of "science" on the Galactica, including both computer science and biology.
* PetTheDog: Praying to God to take his life instead of that of a kid and ''actually meaning'' it.
* PluckyComicRelief: His interactions with "Head Six" (aforementioned Shoulder Angel) are often in public and frequently PlayedForLaughs.
%%* RageAgainstTheHeavens
* ReligiousRobot: Inverted; he's a missionary spreading Cylon monotheism to the humans.
* TheSmartGuy: Initially, he's pretty much the source of science advancement on Galactica.
* TookALevelInBadass: He steps up in later seasons until he's part of the Galactica defense team in the finale, repelling the Cylons with an assault gun.
* VillainProtagonist, deconstructed: Baltar isn't malicious, just a selfish coward (ie. not a hero like most of the other cast) with the occasional flash of incredible GenreBlindness.

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[[folder:Battlestar Galactica Military]]

!!Saul Tigh
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."'']]
->'''Played By''': Michael Hogan

After Bill Adama was mustered out from the first Cylon war and began serving on a commercial freighter, he met a fellow veteran named Saul Tigh, and the two formed a deep friendship. When reinstated, Adama pulled strings to have Tigh brought in as his second-in-command. Tigh is an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who is often OffTheWagon, and is probably the series' biggest bearer of FantasticRacism against the Cylons (with Starbuck as a close second). [[spoiler:How amusing, then, that he's one himself.]]

* AchillesInHisTent: After New Caprica, he becomes a drunk wreck for a while. Notably, one script that was written before this was decided had to hastily replace his role with Lee, resulting in Lee looking quite out of character as a hardline anti-Cylon bigot.
* TheAlcoholic: He puts the "fun" in "functional alcoholic." And his wife just makes him worse.
* BaldOfAwesome: He's bald, he's awesome.
* TheCaligula: During his brief stint as commander of the fleet, he is extremely harsh, violent, and unstable, partially because he has ''no idea'' how to handle the responsibility, partially because he's [[TheAlcoholic constantly drunk]], and partially because of [[EvilChancellor his scheming, psychotic wife]].
* ColonelBadass: He's certainly competent, and he serves his role well.
* TheCreon: Takes command of the Galactica [[spoiler: only when Adama is shot]], and gives it back immediately as soon as possible. He never plots against Bill Adama for a second, even when he has serious issues with his commander's behavior. He even outright says that it was always supposed to be them leading together, not him leading alone.
* EyepatchOfPower: After he loses his eye on New Caprica.
* DeadpanSnarker: "The President, Gods bless her sunny optimistic soul, thinks you might want to share how your buddies have been tracking us. So I'm here to ask the question and listen to your lies."
* FakeGuestStar: Tigh is in all but four episodes of the show. The ''only'' characters to appear more frequently were Madam President and The Old Man himself.
* [[spoiler:FakeMemories]]: His recollections of the First Cylon War most significantly.
* GoodIsNotNice: Led a vigilante group that executed Cylon Collaborators.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: If he and Bill Adama don't embody this trope, I don't know who does.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The New Caprica arc.
* {{Jerkass}}: At times it can be really hard to sympathise with Saul.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But he's still a good man at heart.
* TheLancer: To Bill, but is a deconstruction. He is awesome as a second in command, but almost no one (most of all him,) ever wants him to be the number one of the fleet's command. He excels at being Bill's number two, but is completely useless in any other capacity. This is inverted though, when he redeems himself by effectively leading the New Caprican resistance, even if his tactics are... [[GreyandGrayMorality somewhat suspect.]]
* ManlyTears: Most notably, when he [[spoiler: killed his wife]].
* NumberTwo: To Adama.
* PoisonousFriend: He's kind of hell on Bill's sanity, though he really doesn't ''mean'' most of it.
* ReincarnationRomance: He and Ellen [[spoiler: were married originally too, and somehow found each other again after Cavil wiped their memories]].

!!Galen Tyrol
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"All I know is if there is a God, he's laughing his ass off."'']]
->'''Played By''': Aaron Douglas

Senior Chief Petty Officer Tyrol is in charge of keeping ''Galactica'''s birds flying. He's very much an everyman in his approach to things, and often finds himself in positions of being the OnlySaneMan. He was carrying on with Boomer for a while.

* AFatherToHisMen: He cares about his deckhands, and when some had to be sacrificed to put out a fire, he carried bitterness about it for a few episodes.
* AscendedExtra: Tyrol was originally intended as a FlatCharacter, expanding primarily due to Aaron Douglas' ability to [[ThrowItIn throw in]] dialogue, character names and other useful touches.
* ButtMonkey: Things go poorly for him, starting with his girlfriend being a Cylon.
* CartwrightCurse: He is just not lucky in love...
%%* DespairEventHorizon
* FakeGuestStar: Like Tigh and Helo, he's there from beginning to end, and missed only 7 episodes over the show's run.
* HotBlooded: Especially on New Caprica, where his speech to the people was modeled after real life labor speeches.
* HumiliationConga: In a very short amount of time, he finds out [[spoiler: he's a Cylon, his wife apparently commits suicide over it, he finds out she cheated on him and that his baby isn't even his, and then he learns a former lover actually killed his wife. And then he ruins the Cylon-Human alliance by reacting to that information]].
* NumberTwo: As the highest-ranking NCO in the fleet, Tyrol has aspects of this.
* MrFixit: Chief mechanic.
%%* SanitySlippage
* StoicSpectacles: In his original life.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Not surprising, given the HumiliationConga he went through.

!!Karl Agathon (callsign: Helo)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Symbols matter. Uniforms, flags, banners - even mascots. They're like pieces of your heart that you can see."'']]
->'''Played By''': Tahmoh Penikett

A GuyInBack in a Colonial Raptor, flying under Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, whom he [[AllLoveIsUnrequited kind of has a thing for]]. During the pilot/miniseries, their ship lands on Caprica and Helo abandons his copilot seat to save Gaius Baltar. That was meant to be the end of this MauveShirt, but fan reaction to him was so positive that [[WordOfGod RDM and David Eick]] decided to keep following his adventures, which involve being rescued by another Sharon copy. [[spoiler:With her, he becomes the father of "Hera," the first human-Cylon hybrid; he also serves as Adama's NumberTwo while Tigh is stuck on New Caprica.]]

* AscendedExtra: He was supposed to be written out at the end of the miniseries.
* {{Badass}}: Like most of the cast.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He does kill a man for trying to rape his wife.[[note]]He didn't intend to actually kill the man in question, just beat seven shades out of him[[/note]]
* FakeGuestStar: appears in the PilotEpisode, the GrandFinale, and all but eight episodes in between. For the record, starring-actress Grace Park missed the same.
* TheFettered: He has issues, but they make him among the most normal in the cast.
* HappilyMarried: to Athena
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Has shades of this with Lee.
%%* HonorBeforeReason
* KnightInShiningArmor: The closest you can get to on this show.
* MeaningfulName: His last name means "good", "noble", and various other meanings of one's better nature. He's one of the least morally corrupted people in the entire cast of characters.
* NiceGuy: One of very, very few in the show.
%%* MrFanservice
* PapaWolf: Especially to Hera, but also Athena.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Since his primary role is pretty much "The guy who married a Cylon," he's free to take whatever position is needed to be filled for the sake of the episode. He goes from ECM officer on a Raptor, to XO, to "mayor of Dogsville", to XO...

!!Felix Gaeta
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I started this, and I'll see it through! Now get on that frakking ship!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Alessandro Juliani

First appearing as a CIC watch officer, he eventually gets assigned to Dr. Baltar as a personal aide. He's an idealist—which is a bad thing to be in ''Galactica'''s WorldHalfEmpty; losing his leg in Season 4 is only one link in a "BreakTheCutie" chain. [[spoiler:Eventually leads a mutiny with Tom Zarek, which they lose.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Idolizes Baltar, only to be disillusioned when the latter becomes an ineffectual, hedonistic President. Secretly provides information to LaResistance, only to be ostracized for his role in Baltar's administration and almost executed by a secret vigilante court. Later discovers his Cylon girlfriend on New Caprica was using him to identify members of LaResistance so they could be executed. Loses his leg due to an infected wound caused by a gunshot (not fired by the enemy, either). Loses all faith in Commander Adama after his alliance with the Cylons.
* BiTheWay: Just sort of turns out to be bisexual with no fanfare.
* TheCastShowOff: After the producers discovered that Alessandro Juliani is a fully-trained and highly-regarded operatic baritone, they found a reason for him to sing. Shame it was Gaeta having his leg shot half off and then amputated, rather than, say, a morale concert - but still...
* DeadpanSnarker: Particularly after losing his leg in Season 4.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: His stoicism in the face of [[spoiler: his own impending execution is inspiring and heart breaking in equal measure]].
* GameChanger: Zarek was never able to take power (despite being legitimately elected) because he never had the support of the military. Gaeta provides that support.
* HollywoodAtheist: Averted.
* HypercompetentSidekick: During President Baltar's reign, which unfortunately makes him the fall guy for the later Cylon occupation.
%%* MrFixit
* NiceGuy: Until he loses his leg, which serves as a bit of a DespairEventHorizon.
%%* TheStoic
* StraightGay: Well, straight-ish.
%%* TragicHero
* WellIntentionedExtremist: When he [[spoiler: leads a mutiny, he's doing it for the greater good]].
* WhatTheHellHero: His KangarooCourt of his commander is basically Gaeta trying to force Adama to acknowledge [[BreakTheCutie what he put Gaeta through]]. Adama contemptuously refuses to play along, while Zarek is [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim unable to convince Gaeta]] they need to concentrate on more pragmatic issues.

!!Anastasia 'Dee' Dualla
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->'''Played By''': Kandyse [=McClure=]

A TwoferTokenMinority first appearing as a Petty Officer manning to communications panel in ''Galactica'''s CIC in the miniseries, where she basically played the role of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Uhura]]. Gets an officer's commission sometime between Seasons 2 and 3. Provides possibly the biggest ShockingSwerve in the series when, after a happy and successful date with her ex-husband Lee, and with ''absolutely no prior indicators'', she [[spoiler: blows her brains out]].

* AscendedExtra: Gets more and more screentime.
%%* ButtMonkey
* CommunicationsOfficer:
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: Seriously, who saw ''that'' coming? The signs were apparently there, but were very subtle and overshadowed by other things at the time. Makes the entire episode HarsherInHindsight.
* HeroicBSOD: When she's [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]].
* MissionControl: Along with CommunicationsOfficer, part of her job.
* RomanticRunnerUp: She got Lee after he didn't get Starbuck. Some fans felt she had it coming after what she did to Billy.
%%* WrenchWench

!!Cally Henderson Tyrol
->'''Played By''': Nicki Clyne

->''"I just joined to pay for dental school."''

An enlisted deckhand serving ''Galactica'''s flight wing, Cally is known for a few things: having [[NoNameGiven only one name for two seasons (her full name wasn't given until her funeral!);]] being a PluckyGirl (sometimes [[TheScrappy too much so]]), and [[AllLoveIsUnrequited having a thing for Chief Galen Tyrol]]. [[spoiler:Marries the Chief during the New Caprica year and becomes pregnant with a son, Nicholas; is then executed by Tory Foster after she (Cally) stumbles upon the secret of the Final Five.]]

* AscendedExtra: Just a member of the crew in the flight wing, but becomes a fairly major character.
%%* AttemptedRape
* BreakTheCutie: Bad things happen to her over the course of the series.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: After learning [[spoiler: Tyrol is a Cylon, she sort of... snaps]].
* InterruptedSuicide: After learning [[spoiler: Tyrol is a Cylon, she considers suicide (taking her baby with her). Tory talks her out of it... just to make sure that the baby is safe, then kills her anyway]].
%%* LoveMartyr
* PluckyGirl: Her early characterization.
* RedHerring: Little Nicky was believed for quite a while to be another supposedly-impossible human-Cylon hybrid. Then it was revealed that, sometime before her wedding, Cally slept with Hot Dog.
* SanitySlippage: Upon finding out the truth about Tyrol.
* WrenchWench: Her role on the Galactica.
* YourCheatingHeart: With Hot Dog, apparantly.

!!’Doc’ [[spoiler: Sherman]] Cottle
->'''Played By''': Donnelly Rhodes

A grumpy Major and the fleet's leading medic, he serves on ''Galactica'' and lectures his patients [[HypocriticalHumor in between drags from a cigarette]]. His first name, [[spoiler: Sherman]], was [[NoNameGiven only revealed during the series finale.]]

* AscendedExtra: Was just a medic, but wound up playing a significant role in a few episodes.
* DeadpanSnarker:
-->'''''Cally:''' What if you gave me a sedative and I just slept here?''
-->'''''Cottle:''' Oh, sure. We'll just turn my sickbay in an opium den so you can have a little snooze.''

-->'''''Roslin:''' Doctor, I need your help, but it's illegal, dangerous, and a violation of your oath as an officer.''
-->'''''Cottle:''' ({{Beat}}) You're a lousy salesman.''
* DrJerk: He's not nice to his patients...
** JerkassFacade: ... even though he does care about them.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* HypocriticalHumor
%%* TheMedic
* NoNameGiven: His first name is only given in the finale.

!!Brendan Costanza (callsign: Hot Dog)
->'''Played By''': Bodie Olmos

From the same class as Kat, Hot Dog evidently flunked out of naval academy before the Destruction. He survives the entire series, eventually maturing into one of ''Galactica'''s best and most mature pilots. He's also the RealLife Apollo, as he is played by BodieOlmos, EJO's son.

* AscendedExtra: Originally just "new meat" but he winds up an important part of the Galactica's defense.
* EmbarrassingNickname: He was explicitly given his callsign as a punishment.
%%* HiddenDepths
* InstantExpert: Presumably from offscreen training, we don't really see his skills develop.
* NewMeat: How he's introduced.
* TookALevelInBadass: Went from NewMeat to a skilled pilot.
** In-Universe, Apollo acknowledges him taking a level when he takes his own wings and presents them to Hot Dog, telling him "I think you earned these today" because Hot Dog was still a "nugget" trainee and refused to leave Starbuck by herself when Raiders showed up during a training session.

!!Samuel Anders
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeAnders_4232.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Lighten up a little bit. It's only the end of the world."'']]
->'''Played By''': Michael Trucco

An athlete on pre-massacre Caprica, the star of the "Pyramid" team Caprica Buccaneers, Anders turned his team into a resistance unit after the fall of the colonies. He was stumbled upon by Kara Thrace and Karl Agathon while the two were trying to get off-planet, and eventually rescued late in Season 2. [[spoiler:Becomes a major figure in the resistance on New Caprica, not to mention Starbuck's husband.]]

* AscendedExtra: Joins the main cast after being rescued.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:"See you on the other side". Although this may simply refer to the afterlife -- he's heading to his stellar grave, ''and'' addressing a dead woman...]]
* {{Badass}}: His first appearance is as part of a resistance cell on Caprica. Does a similar thing on New Caprica.
%%** HandicappedBadass
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%** DisabledSnarker
* GameOfNerds: Or its in-universe equivalent, Pyramid. In the final episode, Anders -- arguably the least cerebral of the Cylons -- is revealed in flashback to have a passion for the geometry and mathematics involved in sports.
* GenreSavvy: He manages to survive several months on Caprica along with his Pyramid team by [[IKnowMortalKombat copying guerilla tactics he saw in movies]]. He's also smart enough to realise that [[ThisIsReality the movies aren't real life]] and that movie tactics can only carry him and his team so far, so he seeks out professional advice from Starbuck at the first opportunity.
%%* MrFanservice
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Trucco suffered a similar spinal injury to Christopher Reeve's in a car crash, resulting in Anders' bullet to the head. He went on to make a near-miraculous full recovery and was able to be an action hero again in "The Plan."
* [[SpaceShipGirl Space Ship]] [[GenderFlip Boy]]: In order to [[spoiler: save his life, he gets linked up to a Cylon Basestar]].

!!Louanne 'Kat' Katraine
->'''Played By''': Luciana Carro

A "[[NewMeat nugget]]" introduced early in the first season, she soon starts competing with Starbuck for the title of TheAce and even achieves the position of Commander Air Group (previously held by such luminaries as Apollo, Starbuck and Helo) before a HeroicSacrifice in season 3.

* AscendedExtra: Starts out as just another nugget. Grows into CAG before dying.
* TheAtoner: She dies to make up for her DarkAndTroubledPast.
* BetterThanSex: She considers a successful operation to be better than sex.
%%*DarkAndTroubledPast
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Has been masquerading as a dead girl, as her own identity wouldn't have gotten her into the military.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: Gets more characterization and focus in her final episode.
* HeroicSacrifice: She continues on a mission well after she's exposed herself to a fatal amount of radiation.
* NewMeat: How she's introduced.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Civilian Fleet]]

!!Tory Foster
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->'''Played By''': Rekha Sharma

Special Aide to the President, replacing the deceased Billy Keikaya. WordOfGod is that Tory was [[spoiler:chosen as one of the Final Five]] precisely ''because'' she hadn't yet had much character development. It also created the interesting situation that all three {{Number Two}}s in the show are (arguably) {{Double Agent}}s.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:her reaction to finding out her true nature is roughly along these lines, coupled with a dose of "AscendedFanon?"]]
* AscendedExtra: Started out just as an aide, wound up being [[spoiler: one of the Final Five]].
* ReincarnationRomance: Averted. The [[spoiler: original Tory and Galen were madly in love, but their Colonial versions are both too distracted by other people and concerns to even notice each other. When they find out, they just snicker.]] Ultimately averted in the [[{{Revenge}} hardest way]] [[ItsPersonal possible]].
%%* SexySecretary
%%* TheSnarkKnight

!!Billy Keikeya
->'''Played By''': Paul Campbell

Personal aide to Secretary of Education Laura Roslin, he spends one and a half seasons flirting with Dualla before being killed in a stand-off and, eventually, replaced by Tory Foster.

* DoggedNiceGuy: To Dee.
* HeroicSacrifice: Gets shot dead pushing people out of the way of gunfire when a hostage situation turns into a BlastOut. Crosses over into SuicideByCop, as he was despondent over Dee rejecting him.
* KillTheCutie: One of the few cuties on the show.
* RecklessGunUsage: The man doesn't know how to handle a gun, and it shows.

!!Ellen Tigh
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->'''Played By''': Kate Vernon

Tigh's wife, who miraculously survived the Destruction of the Colonies. She's manipulative, vain and kind of a bitch, a LadyMacbeth with her husband as object-of-control, and Adama notes that she and Saul just tend to make each other worse. During the New Caprica occupation, she seduces a One to free her husband from imprisonment, and then is forced to betray a crucial meeting. In response, Saul poisons her. This makes it even freakier that [[spoiler:she turns out to be one of the Final Five.]]

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Saul and Ellen.
* [[DirtyOldMan Dirty Old Woman]]: The point of pretty much all of her introductory episode, "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down". Lee's face when she pinches his ass is ''priceless''.
* LadyDrunk: She also brings out the worst in Saul.
* LadyMacbeth: Oh my god, yes. There's a reason fandom calls her [[FanNickname "Lady McTigh"]].
%%* LoveMartyr
* TheMillstone: She's very, very good at making bad situations worse.
* PoisonousFriend: As Adama commented once, she tends to bring out Saul's worst and most self-destructive instincts.
** It seems to work both ways: Ellen seems to be a lot more ambitious and manipulative around Saul, even after becoming the TeamMom.
* ReallyGetsAround: To the point of groping Lee when she's at dinner with Tigh.
* TeamMom: Post-resurrection.
* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler:Amazingly, she still loves John even after every horrible thing he did because he's her son and offers him redemption, which he refuses out of spite.]]

!!Tom Zarek
->'''Played By''': Richard Hatch

->''[[MightMakesRight "The man with the guns makes the rules."]]''

Introduced as an inmate on the prison ship ''Astral Queen'', Zarek was jailed for acts of terrorism. He sees himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist working for the common man; whether that's true or not, he's definitely good at politics. [[spoiler:After inhabiting the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor for several seasons, he settles on the bad-guy side, leading a mutiny against Roslin and Adama.]]

* AffablyEvil: Usually polite even to his enemies.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: For all the bad things he's done, he's often not... ''necessarily'' wrong in what he says or wants.
* TheCharmer: He's undeniably charming and charismatic. He has no need to rule his men with fear, they genuinely adore him.
* DeathSeeker: It's suggested by Lee that he's one.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though the 'evil' part is kind of tenuous, [[GreyAndGrayMorality especially in this series.]] Zarek immediately cuts off all contact with [[TheDon Phelen]] after he learns of the latter's child prostitution ring.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: During the search for the Tomb of Athena. His right-hand wants to keep pressing on with their plan to arrange an "accident" for Apollo, but he's smart enough to realise his window of opportunity has closed and abandons that plan. For now.
** Averted during his disastrous coup later in the show.
* MythologyGag: Zarek is played by Richard Hatch, who played Apollo in the original series. Zarek spends much of his time antagonizing the present Apollo.
** In the first episode, he lectures Apollo on the meaning of his callsign.
* NotSoDifferent: From Roslin.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When President Roslin tells him she is going to [[spoiler: give Baltar a fair and public trial,]] Zarek's initial reaction is to [[OhCrap completely freak out]] and advise that, against all precedent and his own personal convictions, martial law be declared for the duration. Roslin seems genuinely perturbed by just how out of character this is for him.
* PrinciplesZealot: Truly believes that he is working to improve the lot of the common man, and genuinely believes in the principles of freedom and democracy...and is willing to do absolutely, positively ''anything'' in pursuit of those beliefs, no matter how underhanded, morally questionable, dishonest, or actively detrimental to the survival of humanity it might be.
* TheStarscream: When he was Vice-President.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: At first, anyway.

!!Romo Lampkin
->'''Played By''': MarkSheppard

An eccentric, self-absorbed and attention-hungry lawyer who takes up the unwanted job of being Gaius Baltar's attorney during his (Baltar's) farcical trial. Trained as a lawyer by Joseph Adama, William Adama's father.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Literally a lawyer, and tremendously skilled. The man got Gaius off in what was supposed to be a show trial. He's also very quirky.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's played by MarkSheppard, of course he's snarky.
%%* HonorBeforeReason
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* SunglassesAtNight: a character quirk.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Battlestar Pegasus]]

!!Helena Cain
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sometimes terrible things have to be done."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichelleForbes

Captain of the only other (known) battlestar to survive the massacre of the Twelve Colonies, Cain adopted a much more ruthless attitude towards survival.

* AxCrazy: When it comes to Cylons.
* BadBoss: Knowing humanity is on its last legs, she'll do whatever she has to, including killing civilians or crew members that disagree with her.
* DefiantToTheEnd: She curses her killer right before she's executed.
* FourStarBadass: She's earned her title, no doubt.
* FreudianExcuse: She witnessed her younger sister and father being abducted by the Cylons in the last days of the First War, adding to her hatred of them.
* GeneralRipper: To contrast Adama's AFatherToHisMen persona.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Some of the things done by her or on her orders are arguably more monstrous than things the Cylons have done.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Has no remorse over the awful things she's done.
* InsaneAdmiral: Not fully insane, just... devoted.
%%* IronLady
%%* KarmicDeath
* KnightTemplar: Even Athena, a valued member of the crew who has probably done as much as any one person other than Adama is just another Cylon to her.
%%* LadyOfWar
* NameOfCain: The first tipoff she's not all sunshine and rainbows.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: See NameOfCain.
* NotSoDifferent: Adama points out that he might have made the same decisions as Cain had Roslin, Lee, and the civilians not been there to keep him in check. Also, like Cain, Adama initially wanted to go after the Cylons for revenge.
* OmnicidalManiac: She's obsessed with revenge. Anybody who doesn't toe the line or serve an immediately-valuable purpose gets a bullet through the head.
* PsychoLesbian: According to ''Blood And Chrome.'' That her lover was a Cylon is part of her fierce stance.
* SanitySlippage: Her XO notes she's gone through this, becoming more ruthless and cruel.
* SmugSnake: She firmly believes she's right and will let anyone know.
* TheUnfettered: Won't let anything stop her quest, not pesky morals or human lives.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She does want humanity's survival... but at any cost.

!!Louis Hoshi
->'''Played By''': Brad Dryborough

Frst appearing as a ''Pegasus'' CIC officer, Hoshi continues to serve in the background throughout the rest of the series, eventually being promoted to Admiral as the ranking officer left with the civilian fleet when ''Galactica'' jumps away to fight the show's FinalBattle. Was [[RelationshipReveal revealed]] to be [[IncrediblyLamePun gay for Gaeta]] late in the series.

* AscendedExtra: Don't expect to remember his face in the show itself, but in the show's webisodes he was featured as Gaeta's love interest.
* CommunicationsOfficer: His initial role.
* FieldPromotion: To ''Admiral'' of all things.
* StraightGay: As seems to be standard in the Colonies. We get no hint of his sexuality before the [[RelationshipReveal reveal]] of his relationship with Gaeta.

!!Jack Fisk
->'''Played By''': Graham Beckel

* DirtyCop: It takes him all of five seconds to start working with [[TheDon Phelan]].
%%* DirtyCoward
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* JustFollowingOrders: Takes no responsibility for the awful things the Pegasus' crew has done.
* PetTheDog: Saves Helo and Chief Tyrol from a beat down at the hands of some Pegasus crewmembers after the two of them [[spoiler: inadvertently end up killing Lieutenant Thorne.]] He says he does it more for "the sake of the uniform" and that he still does not like them since [[spoiler: Thorne apparently saved his life along with at least one other Pegasus crewmember.]]
%%* PunchClockVillain

!!Kendra Shaw
->'''Played By''': Stephanie Jacobsen

%%* {{Badass}}
* TheAtoner: No matter how she tries to rationalize it, she knows she's damned for [[spoiler: executing Laird's wife and kids]].
* BreakTheCutie: Some of it is self-inflicted, but still...''Jesus H. Christ''.
* EvilCounterpart: Well, maybe not quite 'evil', but she's a counterpart to Starbuck.
* HeroicBSOD: Immediately after [[spoiler: shooting Mrs. Laird]], she stares at the residual smoke drifting from her sidearm's muzzle. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone The look on her face]], like she's praying that it's all just a bad dream but knows better, is gut-wrenching.
* NewMeat: The Cylon attack kicked off within half an hour of her reporting to the ''Pegasus''.
%%* HeroOfAnotherStory
%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath

!!Alastair Thorne
->'''Played By''': Fulvio Cecere

* FantasticRacism: Cylons aren't people to him.
* PetTheDog: Apparently saved Fisk and one other Pegasus crew member's lives.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: His job description apparently includes raping as a form of torture.

!!Barry Garner
->'''Played By''': John Heard

Originally the chief engineer of the Pegasus, he was promoted commander after the deaths of Cain and Fisk.

* ClosestThingWeGot : Admiral Adama reasoning for the nomination: "he's the best they got".
* HeroicSacrifice: Dies in space vacuum repairing the FTL drive to save the ship.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Originally the chief engineer of the Pegasus, it is suggested that he was one of the only high-ranking officers left.



%%* HeroicSacrifice
%%* {{Jerkass}}
%%** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath

!!Jurgen Belzen
->'''Played By''': Steve Bacic
* BoomHeadshot: Turns out Admiral Cain doesn't care for alternatives.
* DeathByOriginStory: Fisk wasn't kidding about that NoodleIncident...
* NiceGuy
* NumberTwo
* OnlySaneMan: Tries to stop Admiral Cain from pointlessly sacrificing the lives of her crew and air wing. He failed to recognize that she wasn't suffering a HeroicBSOD, she had gone straight AxCrazy. See above for the result.
%%* PosthumousCharacter
%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cylons]]

The result of collaboration between the Centurions and the Final Five, each of these models has many copies, some of which have received more character development than others. The last five humanoid Cylons to be revealed turned out to be major players in the human fleet, and the only survivors of a previous Cylon generation pre-dating the Colonies' Centurions.

* ArtificialHuman: Until the massacre, no one knew humanoid Cylons existed.
* CloningBlues / ClonesArePeopleToo: Mostly the Final Five.
* MesACrowd: While they don't share memories, each model does share a personality.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The humanoid Cylons are more or less impossible to identify.
* YouAreNumberSix: Mostly referred to by their model number.

!!Brother John Cavil/Number One
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Delusional machines! What's the universe gonna come up with next?"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DeanStockwell

Initially introduced as a priest from whom Tyrol seeks spiritual guidance, Cavil is revealed (practically on the same day) to be a Cylon. While the Cylons had previously run on a direct democracy, Cavil begins to take over as the series progresses, and his [[OmnicidalManiac slight personality flaws]] go center-stage....

* AffablyEvil / FauxAffablyEvil: Mostly the latter, but since there are more than one of him, it gets a little tricky.
* AncientKeeper (in Season 3)
* BadHabits: they tend to adopt priestly identities when infiltrating Colonial society.
* BeingHumanSucks: Or at least that's what Cavil believes. Much of what he does is him lashing out because he believes himself afflicted with human weaknesses. See his Motive Rant below.
* BigBad: Revealed in Season 4 and "[[MadeForTVMovie The Plan]]" to be more or less [[ManBehindTheMan behind everything]] in the plot since the series began: The Cylon attack on the colonies, the [[spoiler: concealment of the Final Five, the lobotomy of the raiders (prompting the Cylon civil war)]], ''everything''.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the movie "The Plan".
** Especially the hat-wearing copy on Caprica, which is the only one of his line in the entire series to show mercy and realize that what the Cylons did was ''wrong''. It's a shame that he was likely 'boxed' by the other Cavil, as he's never seen again.
* TheChessmaster: They've been controlling and setting everything up.
* CoolOldGuy: If You can ignore the genocide and sadism.
* DeadpanSnarker: As good as Baltar.
-->'''Cavil''': (presents Doral with a vest strapped with C4) ''They call this a "suicide vest." But I think that undersells all the homicide that goes along with it... Don't you?''
* ForTheEvulz: His primary motive is jealousy and revenge, but he notes several times that he's doing it for no other reason than cruelty. His mother calls him out as a sadist.
* KavorkaMan: Manages to get in with Ellen, Boomer, and Tough Six. Boomer even goes back to him after having had sex with Helo. This is despite being well into his sixties and completely homicidal.
* ManipulativeBastard: Not just the humans, but they manipulate other Cylons as well.
* MoralityPet: The parentless boy in ''The Plan''. Subverted in that [[spoiler:Cavil kills him when he realizes this trope is in effect]].
** This also qualifies for an ActorAllusion: The boy's costume is an exact copy of Stockwell's costume in "The Boy with Green Hair".
* MotiveRant: "I don't want to be human!"
-->"In all your travels, have you ever seen a star supernova? ... No? Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the universe; other stars, other planets, and, eventually, other life. A ''supernova'': creation itself. I was there, I wanted to see it, and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? ...With these ''ridiculous'' gelatinous orbs in my skull! ... I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I, I wanna smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am?—I can't even express these things properly, because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this ''stupid'' limiting spoken language! But I know I wanna reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova ''flowing'' over me. I'm a machine, and I can know much more. I could experience so much more, but I'm trapped in this absurd body!"
** And this is not a motive to sneer at, either. All Cavil wants is what every living thing, everywhere, wants: to be greater tomorrow than it is today. In fact, one could even call it a [[{{Irony}} deeply human]] motive. Despite this though a great deal of resentment towards his "parents" (his "mother" in particular) colors this. He usurps control of the Cylons, ironically lobotomizes the mechanical ones (who are, in theory, closer to what he wants to be) and even seizes control of [[BrainUploading Resurrection]]. Maybe if he could tear himself away from his spiteful efforts to commit genocide against his creators and humanity, he ''could'' have worked out a technological means to become what he claimed he wanted to be.
%%* NiceHat
* OedipusComplex: He rapes his mother after gouging his father's eye out.
* OmnicidalManiac: Still, it's all in how he chose to express that desire for greatness.
* ParentalIncest: He knowingly has sex with [[spoiler:Ellen Tigh]], his "mother" for all intents and purposes (his creator, certainly). Oh, and he apparently resembles her father. {{Squick}} indeed. At least she spent their time as an amnesiac...
* PinocchioSyndrome: as you can tell from the MotiveRant, Cavil has this in reverse.
* RedemptionRejection: He rejects an offer at redemption from his mother in "No Exit".
* RageQuit: In the finale, he [[spoiler: just says "Frak this" and eats a gun]].
* TheSociopath: He doesn't care about other people.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: to [[spoiler: his own mother]].
* StrawHypocrite: Shamelessly exploits the religious fervor of the other Cylons, but is an Atheist himself. His actions become progressively more self-centered and lose even the thin veneer of any idealism as the series progresses.
* VillainProtagonist: In "The Plan" movie.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Like all the new humanoid Cylons, he's only 30-40 years old, but was made in the image of Ellen's father. Y'know, being born old might have something to do with why he's so cranky.

!!Leoben Conoy/Number Two
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I see the universe. I see the patterns. I see the foreshadowing that proceeds every moment, of every day."'']]
->'''Played By''': Callum Keith Rennie

One of the first Cylons introduced (in the Pilot miniseries) and one of the first Cylons whom the Fleet finds a copy of in hiding, Leoben has something of a fixation on Starbuck, whom he is sure has a large role to play in the fates of both humans and Cylons. He's right. He goes straight back into creepy territory with his StalkerWithACrush tendencies, though in all fairness he does seem to genuinely love her.

* AffablyEvil: At first. He genuinely loves and cares for Starbuck in his own twisted way and he can be pretty pleasant company if You can ignore the psychosis.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's right about a fair amount, and that may be for the best.
%%* BlondeGuysAreEvil
%%* TheChessmaster
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Baltar's line "I may be mad. It doesn't mean I'm not right" applies just as much to him.
%%* FaceDeathWithDignity
* GeniusBruiser: He's possibly the strongest of the cylons and incredibly crafty and cunning to boot.
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Was murdered every night by Starbuck only to come back the next day with a new download. He never seems especially angry with Starbuck over it either.
* MagnificentBastard
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* NotAfraidToDie: He doesn't fear Death in the slightest due to his faith.
%%* StrawNihilist
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His number isn't revealed for a few seasons.
%%* ThePhilosopher
%%* PropheticFallacy
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He simply walks away in [[HeroicBSOD barely concealed terror]] when he stumbles across the crashed Viper on Earth and realises who it's pilot was. He never interacts with Starbuck after that point.
* SlasherSmile: Any time he smiles no matter how jovial, it inevitably ends up as this.
* StalkerWithACrush: On Starbuck, though he got a bit better.
* SuperStrength: Is shown snapping cuffs with ease and turning over metal tables with one hand. The otherwise unflappable Starbuck looked ready to jump out of her skin when he showed just how strong he is.
%%* TooKinkyToTorture
%%* TricksterMentor

!!D'Anna Biers/Number Three
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[BlatantLies Humans don't respect life the way we do.]]"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/LucyLawless

Introduced as a rather pushy reporter doing an exposé on the Fleet (the fate of that copy is never revealed), D'Anna ends up taking center stage by becoming obsessed with discovering the identities of the "Final Five" Cylons, which (according to [[SmallNameBigEgo Cavil]]) are ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow (or Cylons either, for that matter).

* AGodAmI: Sees herself as the Messiah.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She acts polite but can be just as ruthless and cold-hearted as other cylons.
* DespairEventHorizon: After finding [[spoiler: the nuked-out original Earth]], she gives up and decides to stay behind and die. [[spoiler: And as the Resurrection technology was gone, and that's the last we see of her, that's apparently what happened.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Not suicide so much as letting herself die by being stranded on a barren planet.
* EvilMatriarch: Not literally, but Lucy Lawless says she based her performance on this archetype.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Her friendly persona as a journalist counts as this.
* ForbiddenFruit: Her hunger for knowledge on the Final Five, which ends with [[spoiler:her getting "boxed" by Cavil]].
* HotScoop: Her cover identity.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* MoralMyopia: Even by Cylon standards, she's pretty bad. She constantly preaches about God and condemns humans for Their brutality, conveniently forgetting that Cylons wiped out six billion humans.
%%* {{Narcissist}}
* StrawHypocrite: Of the religious variety. She preaches about God and respect for life while ordering mass executions of innocent civilians.
%%* WomanInWhite
%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Simon O'Neill/Number Four
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeSimon_5930.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Rick Worthy

Introduced as a doctor running what turns out to be a "Farm"—a giant lab where Cylons experiment with biological reproduction—Simon is polite and well-spoken, the opposite of the ScaryBlackMan (Cylonism notwithstanding).

* ADayInTheLimelight: He gets more character development in "The Plan" than he ever did during the series.
* AffablyEvil: He's perfectly nice to Starbuck when he's in the farm.
* BaldOfEvil: Bald, Cylon.
* BecomingTheMask: One of the copies in "The Plan".
* DeadlyDoctor: Considering he's performing research in order to figure out how to get Cylons to be able to reproduce like humans.
%%* PunchClockVillain
%%* OmnidisciplinaryScientist
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The copy in "The Plan".
%%* TheStoic
%%** NotSoStoic

!!Aaron Doral/Number Five
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeDoral_2610.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"...parents have to die. It's the only way children can come into their own."'']]
->'''Played By''': Matthew Bennett

Introduced as a public-relations guy leading a flock of reporters through the halls of the ''Galactica'' museum, Doral was described as "Poor Man's Creator/KevinSpacey" by TelevisionWithoutPity. He lived up to this name by proving he can totally go AxCrazy when he needs to.

%%* AxCrazy
%%* DumbMuscle
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He is blown up with the bomb he'd planned to destroy a ship with.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Condemns human suicide bombers, yet one of his defining moments in season 1 has him be a suicide bomber himself.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Insult his intelligence to your heart's content, but ''don't'' trash his fashion sense. What makes this difficult is that it's not really that good. In ''The Plan'', Cavil tells the lone Doral still on the fleet that he's too recognizable since they dumped one in Ragnar on suspicion of being a Cylon. The fleet!Doral defensively says that he'd go unrecognized because his (identical style but differently colored) jacket is ''completely'' different.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even for a Cylon, he's not a nice guy.
%%* KilledOffForReal
* MisanthropeSupreme: He believes humanity got what it deserved.
* MoralMyopia: Humans being slaughtered at random? Completely fine. Cylons being killed? Absolutely intolerable.
%%* OmnicidalManiac
%%* SmugSnake
%%* TheSociopath: Good lord is he one!
* TheStoic: He's much quieter and less opinionated than other Cylons.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: His quiet personality and low-key appearance makes him ideal for infiltration missions.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's a PR guy for gods sakes!
* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: The model who along with a Six tracked Helo on Caprica was prone to some unusually empathetic and insightful thoughts concerning humans, their genocide, love, and the Cylon condition (of inability to love). At one point, he even gets his partner Six to ''cry'' while he's not looking by pointing out that Athena is getting to experience human emotion to a degree she (Six) can't even ''fathom.'' This in contrast to the model's more commonplace sociopathy and hypocrisy.

!!Caprica-Six/Number Six
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->'''Played By''': Creator/TriciaHelfer

The FemmeFatale Cylon who seduces Baltar, she is later embraced as a hero by her people, and her voice given extra weight in their democracy—even when she suggests that the Cylons attempt peaceful co-existence with humanity. [[spoiler:Eventually travels to Galactica along with Athena and Hera, where she spends a lot of time in the brig frakking Saul Tigh, eventually conceiving a (short-lived) child with him. She also joins Baltar in the final battle, and it's implied that the two of them, at least, get a HappilyEverAfter.]] Other significant Sixes include [[HotLibrarian Shelly Godfrey]], [[BrokenBird Gina Inviere]], Natalie Faust, Lida and Sonja.

* TheAtoner: Begins to feel regret for her role in killing most of the humans.
* BlondesAreEvil: at first.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Usually played straight with Head Six, averted in a number of cases with corporal Sixes such as Gina and Caprica Six in the episode ''Downloaded''
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Convenient's not the right word, but [[spoiler: a pure Cylon baby would have been a game-changer]].
* FemmeFatale: Her role for Gaius.
* HoneyTrap: Given the model's attractiveness, it's not surprising they're used for this.
* LadyInRed: Her MemeticOutfit.
* MamaBear: She becomes very protective of Hera, even going so far as to snap Boomer's neck after she tried the same on the child.
* MsFanservice: A slinky red dress is among the least provocative of her outfits.
%%* PregnantHostage


!!Daniel/Number Seven
->'''Played By''': N/A

Basically a plot device introduced late in the series to explain why the numbering on the Significant Seven jumped from Six (given to Helfer) to Eight (chosen by Park). The Daniels were artist-types and much loved by Ellen, which caused a lot of jealousy in the Ones. Eventually, Cavil took efforts to poison the entire Seven line, not only killing all extant Sevens but preventing any others of the type from ever being born.

* CainAndAbel: Killed by their "brother" Cavil.
* OnlyOneName: Daniel.
* PosthumousCharacter: No sevens are ever actually seen.
* RedHerring: Not intentionally, but it took [[WordOfGod personal reassurances from the producers]] to convince fans that no, Daniel's sudden existance was ''not'' indicative of any other plot twist around the corner.

!!Sharon Valerii/Number Eight (callsign: Boomer)
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->'''Played By''': Grace Park

Introduced as a Raptor pilot on ''Galactica'', the TwistEnding of the pilot/miniseries was that she was a Cylon. Later episodes made it clear that she didn't ''know'' she was a Cylon, and that there were programs (psychological, not software) hidden in her subconscious which caused her to be a ManchurianAgent. This culminated in her putting two rounds through Commander Adama's chest, after which she was offed by a vengeful Cally. Of course, Cylons respawn, and Boomer still had a bigger role to play....

%%* {{Badass}}
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrays Galactica, betrays the Cylons, Boomer even betrays the other Eights.
* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: The former TropeNamer.
* DrivenToSuicide: More than once. Late in Season 1, she begins to realize that she's a Cylon, and tries to [[AteHisGun suck-start her sidearm]] as a result. Thanks to her badly-crippled emotional state, she botches it, managing only to blow a hole through her cheek. When ordered by Cavil (during one of her "activated" periods) to assassinate Adama, she tries to turn it into SuicideByCop. And finally, she decides that RedemptionEqualsDeath in how she saves Hera Agathon in the finale.
* FakeMemories: Since Sharon had to have a past, she had these.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She has severe ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
* KilledOffForReal: In the end.
* ManchurianAgent: She had no control over herself when she shot Adama. Even worse, since she was never "activated" again after Cavil visited her in the brig, she never remembers how the vicious asshole emotionally tormented her. So when she turns up as Cavil's squeeze in Season 4, the son of a bitch is still manipulating her. If that doesn't make you want to empty a magazine into Cavil's face and dump him out the airlock, you must not have a soul.
* TheMole: For the Cylons.
* MsFanservice: Plenty of nude scenes of Eights.
* SuicideByCop: Boomer's ManchurianAgent psychological conditioning compelled her to shoot Commander Adama point-blank. However, in ''The Plan'', it's revealed that even when she's "activated" and aware of what she really is, she hates what she's being compelled to do and wishes that her cover story was true, and still loves The Old Man like a surrogate father. Turns out, she intentionally gutshoots him (nonfatally) both to subvert her ManchurianAgent programming and to get the Marines stationed in the CIC to kill her (since her suicide attempt had failed).
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Dies trying to save Hera.
* TraumaCongaLine
* TomatoInTheMirror: Boomer had no idea she was a Cylon.
* TheWoobie: Her ChronicBackstabbingDisorder is understandable, as her life is utter hell. She's forced to betray the people she loves, is DrivenToSuicide but fails, everyone she cares about hates her guts, her attempt to make peace between humans and cylons backfires catastrophically, and she ends up in a self-destructive relationship with the lecherous evil old bastard Cavill, who manipulates her into doing even worse things. Sometimes flirts with WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

!!Sharon Agathon/Number Eight (callsign: Athena)
->'''Played By''': Grace Park

After the producers decided to keep Helo on as a character, their first question was what to do with him. The logical answer would be to pair him up with another Eight, whom he would ''think'' was Boomer but was actually a separate instance. This Cylon, who eventually chose the call sign "Athena" (and before then had to be called [[FanNickname Caprica-Boomer]] to differentiate) had a very specific mission: the humanoid Cylons had thus far been unable to conceive biological offspring, and their theory was that ThePowerOfLove was what was missing. Athena's job, then, was to get Helo to fall for her ([[CoitusEnsues and then frak her]], of course). A HighHeelFaceTurn was almost inevitable. She then became the first Cylon character to openly side with the humans.

* ActionMom: Having Hera doesn't slow her down.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Adama commissions her as a Lieutenant just before he sends her to infiltrate New Caprica.
* BattleCouple: With Helo.
* BecomingTheMask: She was supposed to pretend to love Helo. She wound up doing just that.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Sides with the humans due to love for Helo.
* MamaBear: She'll do anything to protect Hera.
* UndyingLoyalty: Lacks the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor of her counterpart Boomer; in fact Athena's fanatical devotion to the Colonial cause may be an attempt to compensate for this weakness in the Eight model. That and the fact that the slightest indication of treachery would get her thrown out an airlock.

!!Baseship Hybrid
->'''Played By''': Tiffany Lyndall-Knight

Not to be confused with little Hera, the Hybrid is a model between Centurions and humanoids, which serves as the CPU of a Cylon Basestar.

%%* DehydratedOracle
* LivingShip: She is the CPU of a Basestar.
* MadOracle: Her words are half gibberish, half prophecy.
%%* SpaceShipGirl:
%%* WetWareCPU

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!!Head-Six
->'''Played By''': Creator/TriciaHelfer

Introduced early in the series, "Head-Six" (as she's known in the writer's room) seemed to be a reincarnation of Caprica-Six (one never shows up when the other is around) that only Baltar could see, and essentially served as Baltar's conscience. She tends to goad him onward into taking actions he would rather not, sometimes even using [[{{Slapstick}} physical violence]] to get the job done; she also seems to enjoy seducing him in plain sight.

%%* AngelUnaware
%%* BastardGirlfriend
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Doesn't see things the way everyone else does.
%%* DevilInPlainSight
* GuardianAngel: [[spoiler:is revealed to be this, in her own word "an angel of God sent here to protect you, to guide you and to love you".]]
* MindScrew: The details of what exactly she is are inconsistent and confusing. At first she claims to be a projection created by a Cylon microchip that Caprica-Six may have implanted in his brain (fans said that he was letting the bitch live rent-free in his head--''literally''). Then she conveniently disappeared to put him in the awkward position of mistaking Shelley Godfrey for her. Then she declared herself to be a schizophrenic hallucination caused by Baltar's weak-minded inability to accept that he was responsible for the genocide of 11 billion people. Then she revealed that she was an angel sent by God.
* MsFanservice: Even more than the rest of the Sixes.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: At one time she ''actually picks Baltar up'' to face the guard at his cult's quarters, and we (and the rest of the people) see him being lifted by an invisible being.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While normally unflappable, she is absolutely horrified to discover what has [[ColdBloodedTorture been]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil done to]] Gina Inviere.
* SpiritAdvisor: her main role, beside being an awful tease, is to guide Gaius, give him advice, or simply tell him what to say.
%%* OurAngelsAreDifferent
%%* SexyMentor

!!Head-Baltar
->'''Played By''': James Callis

With Tricia Helfer on-set as Head-Six most of the time, it took a while for episodes to come out that focused on Caprica-Six. When they aired, audiences were startled to discover that she had a corresponding Head-Baltar walking around with her. He tends to be more observant as opposed to coercive, often coming up with answers that [[SherlockScan shouldn't be possible]].

%%* AngelUnaware
%%* BastardBoyfriend
%%* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of his advice and insight comes across this way.
%%* DevilInPlainSight
%%* NotSoImaginaryFriend
%%* OurAngelsAreDifferent

!!Hera Agathon
->'''Played By''': Lily Duong-Walton, Alexandra Thomas, Iliana Gomez-Martinez

The first-ever human-cylon hybrid. President Roslin orders her death faked and the actual infant assigned to a foster mother, who is killed on New Caprica, causing the child to fall into the hands of the Cylons...

* CreepyChild: She tends to draw worrisome coloring books.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The first human-cylon hybrid.
* LivingMacGuffin: Being a hybrid, the cylons (desperate to figure out how to reproduce) are keenly interested in her.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Averted. The creators stated that they wouldn't "hyper-age" her and they didn't.
%%* WaifProphet

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%%* BoomHeadshot
%%* DeathByOriginStory
%%* NiceGuy
%%* NumberTwo

* TheAtoner: No matter how she tries to rationalize it, she knows she's damned for [[spoiler executing Laird's wife and kids]].

* HeroicBSOD: Immediately after [[spoiler shooting Mrs. Laird]], she stares at the residual smoke drifting from her sidearm's muzzle. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone The look on her face]], like she's praying that it's all just a bad dream but knows better, is gut-wrenching.

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]

* AFatherToHisMen: He cares about his flight crew, and when some had to be sacrificed to put out a fire, he carried bitterness about it for a few episodes.

First appearing as a CIC crewmember, he eventually gets assigned to Dr. Baltar as a personal aide. He's an idealist—which is a bad thing to be in ''Galactica'''s WorldHalfEmpty; losing his leg in Season 4 is only one link in a "BreakTheCutie" chain. [[spoiler:Eventually leads a mutiny with Tom Zarek, which they lose.]]

A TwoferTokenMinority first appearing as a ''Galactica'' CIC officer in the miniseries, where she basically played the role of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Uhura]]. Provides possibly the biggest ShockingSwerve in the series when, after a happy and successful date with her ex-husband Lee, and with ''absolutely no prior indicators'', she [[spoiler: blows her brains out]].

* RomanticRunnerUp: She got Lee after he didn't get Starbuck.

* TheAlcoholic: And his wife just makes him worse.

* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of his advice and insight comes across this way.

* MindScrew: The details of what exactly she is are inconsistent and confusing.

* DrvenToSuicide: More than once. Late in Season 1, she begins to realize that she's a Cylon, and tries to [[AteHisGun suck-start her sidearm]] as a result. Thanks to her badly-crippled emotional state, she botches it, managing only to blow a hole through her cheek. When ordered by Cavil (during one of her "activated" periods) to assassinate Adama, she tries to turn it into SuicideByCop. And finally, she decides that RedemptionEqualsDeath in how she saves Hera Agathon in the finale.

* ManchurianAgent: She had no control over herself when she shot Adama.

Introduced as a Raptor pilot on ''Galactica'', the TwistEnding of the pilot/miniseries was that she was a Cylon. Later episodes made it clear that she didn't ''know'' she was a Cylon, and that there were programs hidden in her subconscious which caused her to be a ManchurianAgent. This culminated in her putting two rounds through Commander Adama's chest, after which she was offed by a vengeful Cally. Of course, Cylons respawn, and Boomer still had a bigger role to play....

* [[LikeASonToMe Like A Daughter To Me]]: He repeatedly says this to Starbuck.

* Hypocrite: Condemns human suicide bombers, yet one of his defining moments in season 1 has him be a suicide bomber himself.

-->---'''Cavil''': (presents Doral with a vest strapped with C4) ''They call this a "suicide vest." But I think that undersells all the homicide that goes along with it... Don't you?''

->'''Played By''': Tricia Helfer

->'''Played By''': Tricia Helfer

->'''Played By''': Edward James Olmos

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: she was originally slated to be killed off in an early episode. There seems to be a lot of fans who would have rejoiced in this. Or not, since the things that incur those fans' enmity hadn't happened yet.
** Nicki Clyne also tried out for the role of Six.

->'''Played By''': Dean Stockwell

->'''Played By''': LucyLawless

* DyeingForYourArt: Tricia Helfer's hair is dark blonde. She initially dyed it for the role, but then turned to wigs when the dye started causing damage. In season four we meet a new Six who has her natural hair.

* ActingForTwo: As both Boomer and Athena.

* FakeMixedRace: Is not, in fact, half-cylon. But in seriousness, the last actress to play her (through various ages she was played by many child actors) was white as the driven snow, while some of the earlier ones were in fact mixed-race.

The first-ever human-Cylon hybrid. President Roslin orders her death faked and the actual infant assigned to a foster mother, who is killed on New Caprica, causing the child to fall into the hands of the Cylons...

* FakeMixedRace: Is not, in fact, half-Cylon. But in seriousness, the last actress to play her (through various ages she was played by many child actors) was white as the driven snow, while some of the earlier ones were in fact mixed-race.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The first human-Cylong hybrid.
* LivingMacGuffin: Being a hybrid, the Cylons (desperate to figure out how to reproduce) are keenly interested in her.

The result of collaboration between the Centurions and the Final Five, each of these models has many copies, some of which have received more character development than others. The last five humanoid Cylons to be revealed. All turned out to be major players in the human fleet, and the only survivors of a previous Cylon generation pre-dating the Colonies' Centurions.

Introduced as a public-relations guy leading a flock of reporters through the halls of the ''Galactica'' museum, Doral was described as "Poor Man's KevinSpacey" by TelevisionWithoutPity. He lived up to this name by proving he can totally go AxCrazy when he needs to.

The son of Bill Adama, from whom he is estranged due to the death of his younger brother Zak. Apollo's opinion is that Adama pressured Zak into becoming a pilot, which Zak was not ready for; he blames his dad for his brother's death. He also takes after his grandfather ([[Series/{{Caprica}} lawyer Joseph Adama]]) in being rather more loyal to laws, rights and civil liberties than the uniform. [[spoiler:Eventually promoted to Commander, put in charge of the ''Pegasus'', and wed to Dee.]]

The Secretary of Education under President Richard Adar (sometimes literally under), Laura Roslin was attending the de-commissioning ceremony on ''Galactica'' when the Cylons attacked. [[UnexpectedSuccessor 43rd in the line of succession]], she was sworn in as the lawful replacement President of the Twelve Colonies. Immediately other characters began to snark about having a kindergarten teacher for a president, but Roslin handled the office with more aplomb than even her supporters could have expected.