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Characters for the TV show ''Series/{{Chuck}}''. ''Page is being redone.''

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!!'''Alex [=McHugh=]'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' None\\
'''Affiliation''': None]
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[[caption-width:177:"Whether you like it or not, dad, I'm not going anywhere."]]

''Portrayed by Mekenna Melvin''

The daughter of Alex Coburn [[spoiler:(alias John Casey)]] and Kathleen [=McHugh=]. Kathleen was told that Alex was killed in combat in 1989 (actually volunteered for a special unit) while she was pregnant with their daughter. [[spoiler:John first found out about his daughter twenty-one years later in "Chuck Versus the Tic Tac".]] After being targeted by Ring agents, she becomes aware of her father's true occupation. [[spoiler:She is currently dating Morgan Grimes with her father's reluctant approval.]]
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Tropes associated with Alex:
* ActionGirl: The potential is there, seeing as she managed to stun Casey with a five-hit combo. [[spoiler:Of course, she's his ''daughter''.]] [[FauxActionGirl Sadly, beyond that one scene, we never see her in physical action again.]]
-->'''Alex:''' I got an A in my self-defense class!
%%* DeadGuyJunior
* DisappearedDad: Alex Coburn died during an operation in Honduras in 1989 while Kathleen [=McHugh=] was pregnant. [[spoiler:His death was faked; he then joined a Black Ops team and takes on the name John Casey.]]
* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Extremely Dour Colonel's Beautiful Daughter]]

!!'''Generalissimo Alejandro Fulgencio Goya'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Dictator / General\\
'''Affiliation''': The Republic of Costa Gravas]
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[[caption-width:177:"Come...''to Costa Gravas!''"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/ArmandAssante''

Dictator of [[BananaRepublic fictional Latin American country]] Costa Gravas. Four presidents (Gerald Ford, UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush) issued a kill order on him but failed. Those orders were carried out by John Casey, who Goya calls the "Angel of Death." He gained many enemies, both inside and outside his country, when he decided to allow democratic elections. He is deeply fond of Captain Awesome, the man who saved his life, [[ChivalrousPervert and even fonder of his wife Ellie.]] He also respects Casey, who (unwillingly) gave donated blood to save him, and gives him a new nickname "Angel of Life."

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Tropes associated with Goya:
* AffablyEvil / FauxAffablyEvil
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer
* CaptainErsatz: He shares qualities with Fidel Castro but his larger than life persona and love of the good life (not to mention his middle name) is more reminiscent of Fulgencio Batista.
%%* ChewingTheScenery
%%* ChivalrousPervert
* FamousNamedForeigner: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista Fulgencio]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya Goya]].
%%* FriendlyEnemy: To Casey.
%%* LargeHam
%%* RasputinianDeath: Had a few of these
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite his [[BunnyEarsLawyer quirks]], the guy is a relatively efficient dictator.
* SpicyLatina: Married to one.
* [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Dictator?]]: Just as Casey and Beckman thought he may have truly sided with America - after the...who-knows-what attempt on his life, by ''[[spoiler:his own wife]]'' this time - they discover he purchased a [[NukeEm Nuclear ICBM]] from Volkoff. [[DudeNotFunny Directly calibrated to hit a major southern city in North America]].

!!'''Gertrude Verbanski'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' CEO\\
'''Affiliation''': Verbanski Corporation]
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[[caption-width:177:"Sorry, if I got too physical. Must be the uniform."]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/TheMatrix Carrie Anne Moss]]''

A (presumably) Russian or Slavic PMC soldier who had a moment with John Casey in the past. She has now returned and is helping the team as well as providing Casey with some romance.
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Tropes associated with Verbanski:
* ActionGirl: She once disarmed Casey! ''(And even encased the weapon she took from him!)''
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is an efficient operative and businesswoman in her own right. But, whenever Casey is involved, she either gets weak in the knees, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial flustered]], or just plain ''[[{{Tsundere}} weird]]''.
%%* DarkActionGirl: Depends on the job.
%%* OfficialCouple: With Casey.
%%* PrivateMilitaryContractor
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Is a "master" of these. When flustered enough, ''[[BunnyEarsLawyer she'll begin ranting for no reason - even as no one brought anything up!]]''
-->''(Both Sarah and Verbanski silence a couple of mooks during a mission...)''
-->'''Verbanski:''' "...Fine! I love Casey! Just stop grilling me!"
-->'''Sarah:''' "[[FlatWhat ...]]"
%%ZCE* {{Tsundere}}

!!'''Jack Burton'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Con Artist\\
'''Affiliation''': None]
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[[caption-width:177:"A thief has to run out of town as fast as he can, but a good con man can leave whenever he wants"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/GaryCole''

Sarah's somewhat estranged father. He is a two-bit ConMan who frequently involved Sarah when she was a kid in his schemes, and often rewarded her with ice cream or sometimes hard cash. Sarah claims that her experiences with him rubbed her the wrong way, but Jack ''(correctly)'' deduced that she had way more fun conning people than she would care to admit. That said, he always kept her well-being and happiness at heart, and in his own way, looked out for her.

When Sarah was in high school, Director Graham arrested him "for his own protection" after he conned a particularly dangerous man - this same incident was when she was recruited into the CIA. Jack however found out about her much later, and despite being on opposite sides of the law, he's proud of her. Using his skills as a confidence man, Jack helped out Chuck and his team on two seperate occassions: Freezing the funds of a powerful Sheikh, and obtaining Iranian nuclear missile plans.
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Tropes associated with Jack:
* AffablyEvil: Absolute bottom feeding scum of the Earth. But ''he's a hell of a dancer''.
* AffectionateNickname: Calls Chuck "schnuck" and Casey "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cop face.]]"
%%* ConMan
%%* CoolOldGuy
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A magnificent jerk with the biggest heart ever!
%%* TheNicknamer
* NoodleIncident: Exactly who Jack conned that prompted Graham to arrest him and enlist Sarah to protect them was never expanded on.
* WildCard: No matter how much he loves Sarah, he's still a ConMan to the core, and can never really be trusted.

!!'''Nicholas Quinn'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent (formerly)\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA (formerly)]
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[[caption-width:177:"Nice to meet you. I'm Nicholas Quinn. And I'm about to become the Intersect."]]

''Portrayed by Angus Macfadyen''

A rogue freelance spy who has something of a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vendetta against Chuck]], to put it very mellow. He was a top-grade CIA agent who was set to be the agency's first true Intersect Agent. However, Bryce Larkin happened. After that, his life and career began a downward spiral until he left the CIA and began to work freelance. ...[[LaserGuidedKarma For Fulcrum, The Ring, and Volkoff Industries]], all organizations which Chuck himself put out of commission, and Quinn out of business. Quinn snapped, and made it his life's mission to make Chuck's life a living hell even worse than his own, and get the Intersect while he's at it, which technically is ''rightfully his anyway.''
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Tropes associated with Quinn:
* ActionSurvivor: He has an incredible talent of escaping extremely dangerous situations. Practically an expy of [[Series/{{Alias}} Sark]].
** He survived being tortured for 378 days.
* ArchEnemy: While Chuck would more or less see Shaw as his greatest enemy, Quinn openly views Chuck as his.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Being tortured for over a year in a hole didn't do anything for his sanity, or [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge anger management]].
* BigBad: Of the second-half of the final season.
%%* TheChessmaster
* {{Determinator}}: To a practically hilarious degree - this is a man who will stop at nothing to get the Intersect. Case in point? Getting kicked out of a moving ''bullet train'', and ''[[RuleOfCool still somehow managing to get back inside]].''
* {{Knight Of Cerebus}}: His {{Mind Rape}} of Sarah made the final two episodes exceptionally dark for a normally light hearted show.
* LargeHam: Big time - although not quite as ''delicious'' as Volkoff.
--> "I'm former CIA too… The Intersect was supposed to be ''mine''… But then Larkin stole it for ''you''. So I went back at into the field, and then got captured… (laughs) Oooh, and tortured in a hole in the ground for 378 days - '''''IN A HOLE!'''''"
--> "'''''[[WickedCultured ENOUGH OF THE KABUKI!]]'''''"
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* SanitySlippage: Chuck has, for the lack of better words, completely ruined his life, even if unintentional. The constant repeats have driven the guy completely insane.
* UnknownRival: Chuck had no idea of what he did to this guy; no one knew him, or that he was working for all the baddies that Team Bartowski faced off against over the run of the show.

!!'''The Belgian'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Crime Lord\\
'''Affiliation''': Belgian Organized Crime]
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[[caption-width:177:"Pursue Agent Carmichael, and we will kill him - ''slowly.''"]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/TheThornBirds Richard Chamberlain]]''

Real name - '''Adelbert de Smet'''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just how it sounds]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The Belgian is a Belgian man who is in charge of Belgian Organized Crime]]. An extremely dangerous individual who specializes in smuggling highly sensitive intelligence, he had information on the identity of the Intersect. However, when Chuck practically fell into his lap, he got ambitious and decided to kidnap Chuck to extract the Intersect, or just sell off ''Chuck'' himself altogether. Even if he had to lobotomize him.

[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge He was knocked out and arrested by Chuck's very protective, and very pissed off girlfriend.]]
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Tropes associated with The Belgian:
%%* AffablyEvil
* AuctionOfEvil: Partakes in these quite regularly, and uses them as a cover to sell information.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Rescued Chuck from falling to his death. But only so he can perform brain surgery and sell off the Intersect.
%%* DevilInPlainSight
%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
%%* InformationBroker
* MindRape: Tries to lobotomize Chuck to extract the Intersect.
%%* ObviouslyEvil
* [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Ruthless Foreign Gangster]]
%%* SharpDressedMan

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[[folder:Volkoff Industries]]
!!'''Alexei Volkoff / [[spoiler:Hartley Winterbottom / Agent X]]'''

'''Rank/Job:''' CEO / Director\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"My name is Alexei Volkoff. I believe you were looking for me."]]

::''Portrayed by TimothyDalton''

[[spoiler:Born Hartley Winterbottom]], Alexei Volkoff is the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} batshit crazy]] CEO and founder of Volkoff Industries, an arms manufacturer. He is a recluse, described by Casey as the "Russian [[TheAviator Howard Hughes]]." He is first mentioned in "Chuck Versus the Anniversary" by [[Creator/DolphLundgren Marco]]. He makes his first onscreen appearance in "Chuck Versus the First Fight".

Tropes associated with Volkoff:
%%* AffablyEvil
* TheAtoner: In a rather hilarious manner, as he's trying to make amends to everyone he's hurt or rubbed the wrong way using his prison theraphy's 12-step-program, starting with his cutting in line of the prison cafeteria. Because he has "entitlement issues".
** [[spoiler: Played more seriously when the Hartley personality returns and he realizes he spent thirty years as a monster. He's especially disturbed and regretful of how he treated his daughter.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: As in the above example, this is a man who has done some awful, ''awful'' things in his life. As he puts it, "everyone hates him." But when he starts making amends to those he wronged...'' he starts with an apology of cutting in a cafeteria line''.
* AxCrazy: Well, more like full on armored assault armed to the teeth with assault weapons and a bomb crazy.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Turns out that Alexei Volkoff was originally just a cover identity. Also see GoneHorriblyWrong and TomatoInTheMirror below.]]
%%* BigBad: Of Season 4.
%%* BreakingSpeech: He gives one to Chuck after TheReveal.

* CartoonishSupervillainy: The Contessa has laser grid defenses, the entrance to the bunker with the last Norseman component can only be entered by beating the computer in chess and he hid the Hydra network in the glass eye of one of his mooks, among other things. Volkoff is undoubtedly the cartooniest villain in the show. [[spoiler:But only because it was the personality grafted onto him by the Intersect prototype]].
* CatchPhrase: '' "So much...[[ForTheEvulz fun!]]" ''
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass / ObfuscatingStupidity: He's introduced as Gregory Tuttle, a meek and milquetoast handler for Frost. [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler By the end of the episode]] he's revealed to be Alexei Volkoff, the whole "meek and milquetoast" bit being a front.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The scary, mentally unstable sort.
%%* ControlFreak: Self-confessed.
* CoolShip: The Contessa, which he bought from Craigs List Dubai. He calls it his Floating Fotress... of Fun.
* CrazyPrepared: Not only is his ship, ''The Contessa'', loaded with state-of-the-art stealth weaponry, and a back-up supercomputer, but it's also got a genuine ''ice cream parlor''.
** Not five minutes after the revelation, he's seen plotting while snacking on a double-scoop.
** Has a receptacle ready for whenever he uses a Q-tip to take a DNA sample from his mouth to get into secret lair.
%%* DiabolicalMastermind
* TheDreaded: Some of the most dangerous people of the world are downright ''terrified'' of him, and rightly so.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: He and Vivian so far are the only "villains" in the series to have received a HappilyEverAfter, made even more awesome with how in the ending he gives all of his Volkoff assets to Chuck and Sarah...a total of [[WealthyEverAfter 884 million dollars!]] ]]
* EvilBrit / RenegadeRussian: Plyed with; while he has a Russian name, acts like a typical RenegadeRussian, is stationed ''in'' Russia and was supposedly born there, and models his business after Stalin-era Soviet Russia, he speaks with a very distinctive British accent and uses mostly British slang, as does his daughter. [[spoiler: Probably forshadowing for the fact that he's not actually Russian]].
* EvilCounterpart: To Stephen Bartowski in that [[spoiler:he became evil testing an Intersect prototype on himself]].
%%* EvilGenius
* EvilGloating: He loves it so much that [[spoiler:Chuck's BatmanGambit against him was entirely based on getting him to gloat so he could harvest various words to reconstruct his voiceprint password]].
* GoKartingWithBowser: Spends part of an episode getting to meet the Bartowskis through a game of charades.
** This in the latter half of an episode where he stormed the Buy More, disabled the CIA defenses, held Jeff and Lester hostage, and nearly followed through on a threat to kill Chuck for "capturing/threatening" Frost.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:He was a test subject (Agent X) for a prototype Intersect, intended to imprint a cover personality. Then the cover personality started to take over...]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The first few episodes only; he gets his first real appearance in "Chuck Versus the First Fight".
* HeartbrokenBadass: Volkoff may be a crazy, psychotic arms dealer and international terrorist. But he's also a ''loveable'' psychotic arms dealer and terrorist, which makes you feel all the more sorry for him when [[spoiler: his daughter betrays him, and leaves him for dead.]]
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:One could argue that Alexei Volkoff's ''existence'' is what caused the series to happen, as it was what would tear the Bartowski family apart. Stephen Bartowski's guilt over the whole ordeal caused him to leave his family and spend almost his ''entire career'' trying to fix what happened to his friend. It was only compounded when his wife went undercover into Volkoff Industries and the cover identity implanted in Hartley fell in love with her, forcing her to abandon her family for a long term undercover assignment.]]
%%* JekyllAndHyde
%%* LargeHam: ''Delicious'' ham, too.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* MoralityChain: He sincerely regrets being a DisappearedDad, and now desperately wants any kind of connection he can get with his daughter.
%%* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Volkoff Industries
* OmniscientDatabase: [[spoiler:Has (had) access to: Alpha Intersect]].
%%* PsychopathicManchild
%%* PsychoPrototype: [[spoiler:For the Intersect program.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Mary Bartowski's [=MI6=] handler? He is actually Alexei Volkoff.]]
** [[spoiler:He is actually a deep-cover CIA agent; his Volkoff identity was created from whole cloth by Orion's original Intersect.]]
* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler:He is what Chuck could have become if he let the Intersect take over his life]].
* SweetTooth: If the fact that his ship has an ice cream parlor is anything to go by...
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Alexei Volkoff is actually a false identity created by an early Intersect program for a CIA agent. However, that identity ended up taking over completely.]]
%%* VillainousCrush: On Frost.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Has he reunited with his mother?
%%* {{Yandere}}: Over Frost.

!!'''Vivian [=McArthur=] [=/=] Vivian Volkoff'''

'''Rank/Job:''' CEO / Director\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"You don't know who I am. You have both lied to me, betrayed me, and shattered my life."]]

''Portrayed by Lauren Cohan''

A young woman targeted for assassination by one of Volkoff's old lieutenants. She is believed to have the key to Volkoff's Hydra database, which is needed to take over his association. [[spoiler: She is Volkoff's daughter and originally had no knowledge of what her father did, or that the reason he had been sending her to various schools was to groom her as his successor. While she originally seems willing to help, her father's lawyer is able to manipulate her into thinking Chuck, and by extension the CIA, were just using her, prompting her to turn against them and take over her father's company, becoming the BigBad for the last chunk of season 4.]]

Tropes associated with Vivian:
* ActionGirl / FauxActionGirl: Has a black belt but has yet to be shown doing any hand-to-hand combat. However, she's no DistressedDamsel either.
-->'''Boris:''' You were skeetshooting at age 7, had your black belt by 13, and by the time you graduated from the London School of Economics, you were fluent in 5 languages.
%%* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type II]]
%%* BadassNormal
* BreakTheCutie: You can't blame her for being pissed, her father and the CIA both lied to her, she had no other place to go for answers.
* CatchPhrase: "Nobody can/will be able to touch me, ever."
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After becoming a villain, she starts wearing more black clothes and leather.
%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: At the end of season four she's given a blank identity so that she can start afresh and faces no consequences for the numerous attempts she made on the lives of Team Bartowski, actual successful murders of several other people, and whatever other crimes were committed either by her or on her behalf while running her father's company.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Grew up as one.
* ParentalAbandonment: Though her father did pay for her schooling, Vivian says that he was never a part of her life.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: How she was defeated.

!!'''Heather Chandler'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"Thanks for that, movie dork. I bet you have like a Tron poster in your room."]]

''Portrayed by [[Creator/ParisHilton Nicole Richie]]''

Heather was a [[TheBully high school]] [[BlatantLies friend]] of Sarah Walker, who Heather knew under the alias Jenny Burton. She married Mark Ratner, a high school nerd who ended up as a wealthy engineer. She illegally sold several of his secrets on the black market and was eventually captured by Team Chuck. She later reveals that she was working for Volkoff Industries. She first appeared in "Chuck Versus the Cougars" and returned in "Chuck Versus the Cubic Z".

Tropes associated with Heather:
* AlphaBitch: Heather was this in high school and remains one into adulthood.
* BreakingSpeech: In her second appearance, Heather is able to figure out that Sarah and Chuck are together as well as prey on Sarah's insecurities about their relationship.
* {{Callback}}: Turns out that deal she made with with the [[TheMafiya Russian Mafia]] during Season 2 was for Volkoff from the start.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: She's this to Sarah. Even after severely kicking her ass in her first appearance, Sarah is visibly intimidated when she sees her again, while she clearly takes great delight in getting a chance to continue her bullying, even lampshading this trope in her second episode, referring to her as her 'High School Punching bag.


!!'''Marco'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"I must break you..."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/DolphLundgren''

A GiantMook under the employ of Mr. Volkoff, Marco was in the process of smuggling a powerful EMP device until he was thwarted by Chuck and his crew.

[[spoiler:He was shot and killed by Mary Elizabeth Bartowski.]]

Tropes associated with Marco:
* ActorAllusion: His role as [[Film/RockyIV Ivan Drago]] is referenced.
--> '''Marco''': I must ''break'' you.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
-->'''Marco''': Please, I have a family.
-->'''[[spoiler:Mary Bartowski/Frost]]''': So do I.
%%* GeniusBruiser
%%* GiantMook
* RedScare: Casey's attitude towards Marco.
* TortureTechnician: A pretty lousy one, though...

!!'''Mr. Riley'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Lawyer\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"Nobody ever said no to your father."]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/TwinPeaks Ray Wise]]''

Volkoff Industry's attorney who takes Vivian under his wing.

Tropes associated with Riley:
%%* AmoralAttorney
%%* TheDragon
%%* EvilMentor
* LargeHam: For the life of him, ''he tries''. ...At the insistence of [[BunnyEarsLawyer Alexei]], naturally.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:He knew Volkoff and Hartley were one and the same]]. He's also primarily responsible for Vivian turning evil, and does what he can to push her further to the dark side.

!!'''Yuri The Gobbler'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Operative / Bodyguard\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:''"Don't '''ever''' ask me why he's called "The Gobbler". It's because he... well...eats people."'' ~ Volkoff, on Yuri]]

''Portrayed by Matthew Willig''

Real name - '''Yuri Gobrienko'''. Volkoff's most trusted bodyguard and henchman. He had direct access to something Volkoff needed: His arms pipeline and network, "Hydra." After his escape from prison was arranged and pulled off by Team Bartowski, [[YouHaveFailedMe he was promptly disposed of by Volkoff]] for jeopardizing his entire network in the first place.
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Tropes associated with The Gobbler:
%%* TheBigGuy
* IAmAHumanitarian: He doesn't waste time trying to take bites out of Chuck when they fight. If not for the Intersect, Chuck would have likely been eaten by him.
* MadeOfIron: He was knocked out cold when Casey shot-put a toaster oven in his face, yet came out not too worse for wear afterwards.
* EyeScream: The data for accessing Hydra is found in his fake eye, which Volkoff messily pops out after killing him.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Volkoff was none too happy that he was caught and endagered the Hydra network if they CIA discovered what was in his eye.
** YouHaveFailedMe
* YouLookFamiliar: Willig previously appeared in "Chuck Versus the Tango" as La Ciudad's bodyguard, however WordOfGod confirms that Yuri is ''not'' the same character.
%%* WeHardlyKnewYou

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!!'''Alex [=McHugh=]'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' None\\
'''Affiliation''': None]
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[[caption-width:177:"Whether you like it or not, dad, I'm not going anywhere."]]

''Portrayed by Mekenna Melvin''

The daughter of Alex Coburn [[spoiler:(alias John Casey)]] and Kathleen [=McHugh=]. Kathleen was told that Alex was killed in combat in 1989 (actually volunteered for a special unit) while she was pregnant with their daughter. [[spoiler:John first found out about his daughter twenty-one years later in "Chuck Versus the Tic Tac".]] After being targeted by Ring agents, she becomes aware of her father's true occupation. [[spoiler:She is currently dating Morgan Grimes with her father's reluctant approval.]]
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Tropes associated with Alex:
* ActionGirl: The potential is there, seeing as she managed to stun Casey with a five-hit combo. [[spoiler:Of course, she's his ''daughter''.]] [[FauxActionGirl Sadly, beyond that one scene, we never see her in physical action again.]]
-->'''Alex:''' I got an A in my self-defense class!
%%* DeadGuyJunior
* DisappearedDad: Alex Coburn died during an operation in Honduras in 1989 while Kathleen [=McHugh=] was pregnant. [[spoiler:His death was faked; he then joined a Black Ops team and takes on the name John Casey.]]
* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Extremely Dour Colonel's Beautiful Daughter]]

!!'''Generalissimo Alejandro Fulgencio Goya'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Dictator / General\\
'''Affiliation''': The Republic of Costa Gravas]
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[[caption-width:177:"Come...''to Costa Gravas!''"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/ArmandAssante''

Dictator of [[BananaRepublic fictional Latin American country]] Costa Gravas. Four presidents (Gerald Ford, UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush) issued a kill order on him but failed. Those orders were carried out by John Casey, who Goya calls the "Angel of Death." He gained many enemies, both inside and outside his country, when he decided to allow democratic elections. He is deeply fond of Captain Awesome, the man who saved his life, [[ChivalrousPervert and even fonder of his wife Ellie.]] He also respects Casey, who (unwillingly) gave donated blood to save him, and gives him a new nickname "Angel of Life."

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Tropes associated with Goya:
* AffablyEvil / FauxAffablyEvil
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer
* CaptainErsatz: He shares qualities with Fidel Castro but his larger than life persona and love of the good life (not to mention his middle name) is more reminiscent of Fulgencio Batista.
%%* ChewingTheScenery
%%* ChivalrousPervert
* FamousNamedForeigner: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista Fulgencio]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya Goya]].
%%* FriendlyEnemy: To Casey.
%%* LargeHam
%%* RasputinianDeath: Had a few of these
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite his [[BunnyEarsLawyer quirks]], the guy is a relatively efficient dictator.
* SpicyLatina: Married to one.
* [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Dictator?]]: Just as Casey and Beckman thought he may have truly sided with America - after the...who-knows-what attempt on his life, by ''[[spoiler:his own wife]]'' this time - they discover he purchased a [[NukeEm Nuclear ICBM]] from Volkoff. [[DudeNotFunny Directly calibrated to hit a major southern city in North America]].

!!'''Gertrude Verbanski'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' CEO\\
'''Affiliation''': Verbanski Corporation]
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[[caption-width:177:"Sorry, if I got too physical. Must be the uniform."]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/TheMatrix Carrie Anne Moss]]''

A (presumably) Russian or Slavic PMC soldier who had a moment with John Casey in the past. She has now returned and is helping the team as well as providing Casey with some romance.
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Tropes associated with Verbanski:
* ActionGirl: She once disarmed Casey! ''(And even encased the weapon she took from him!)''
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is an efficient operative and businesswoman in her own right. But, whenever Casey is involved, she either gets weak in the knees, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial flustered]], or just plain ''[[{{Tsundere}} weird]]''.
%%* DarkActionGirl: Depends on the job.
%%* OfficialCouple: With Casey.
%%* PrivateMilitaryContractor
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Is a "master" of these. When flustered enough, ''[[BunnyEarsLawyer she'll begin ranting for no reason - even as no one brought anything up!]]''
-->''(Both Sarah and Verbanski silence a couple of mooks during a mission...)''
-->'''Verbanski:''' "...Fine! I love Casey! Just stop grilling me!"
-->'''Sarah:''' "[[FlatWhat ...]]"
%%ZCE* {{Tsundere}}

!!'''Jack Burton'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Con Artist\\
'''Affiliation''': None]
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[[caption-width:177:"A thief has to run out of town as fast as he can, but a good con man can leave whenever he wants"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/GaryCole''

Sarah's somewhat estranged father. He is a two-bit ConMan who frequently involved Sarah when she was a kid in his schemes, and often rewarded her with ice cream or sometimes hard cash. Sarah claims that her experiences with him rubbed her the wrong way, but Jack ''(correctly)'' deduced that she had way more fun conning people than she would care to admit. That said, he always kept her well-being and happiness at heart, and in his own way, looked out for her.

When Sarah was in high school, Director Graham arrested him "for his own protection" after he conned a particularly dangerous man - this same incident was when she was recruited into the CIA. Jack however found out about her much later, and despite being on opposite sides of the law, he's proud of her. Using his skills as a confidence man, Jack helped out Chuck and his team on two seperate occassions: Freezing the funds of a powerful Sheikh, and obtaining Iranian nuclear missile plans.
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Tropes associated with Jack:
* AffablyEvil: Absolute bottom feeding scum of the Earth. But ''he's a hell of a dancer''.
* AffectionateNickname: Calls Chuck "schnuck" and Casey "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cop face.]]"
%%* ConMan
%%* CoolOldGuy
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A magnificent jerk with the biggest heart ever!
%%* TheNicknamer
* NoodleIncident: Exactly who Jack conned that prompted Graham to arrest him and enlist Sarah to protect them was never expanded on.
* WildCard: No matter how much he loves Sarah, he's still a ConMan to the core, and can never really be trusted.

!!'''Nicholas Quinn'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent (formerly)\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA (formerly)]
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[[caption-width:177:"Nice to meet you. I'm Nicholas Quinn. And I'm about to become the Intersect."]]

''Portrayed by Angus Macfadyen''

A rogue freelance spy who has something of a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vendetta against Chuck]], to put it very mellow. He was a top-grade CIA agent who was set to be the agency's first true Intersect Agent. However, Bryce Larkin happened. After that, his life and career began a downward spiral until he left the CIA and began to work freelance. ...[[LaserGuidedKarma For Fulcrum, The Ring, and Volkoff Industries]], all organizations which Chuck himself put out of commission, and Quinn out of business. Quinn snapped, and made it his life's mission to make Chuck's life a living hell even worse than his own, and get the Intersect while he's at it, which technically is ''rightfully his anyway.''
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Tropes associated with Quinn:
* ActionSurvivor: He has an incredible talent of escaping extremely dangerous situations. Practically an expy of [[Series/{{Alias}} Sark]].
** He survived being tortured for 378 days.
* ArchEnemy: While Chuck would more or less see Shaw as his greatest enemy, Quinn openly views Chuck as his.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Being tortured for over a year in a hole didn't do anything for his sanity, or [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge anger management]].
* BigBad: Of the second-half of the final season.
%%* TheChessmaster
* {{Determinator}}: To a practically hilarious degree - this is a man who will stop at nothing to get the Intersect. Case in point? Getting kicked out of a moving ''bullet train'', and ''[[RuleOfCool still somehow managing to get back inside]].''
* {{Knight Of Cerebus}}: His {{Mind Rape}} of Sarah made the final two episodes exceptionally dark for a normally light hearted show.
* LargeHam: Big time - although not quite as ''delicious'' as Volkoff.
--> "I'm former CIA too… The Intersect was supposed to be ''mine''… But then Larkin stole it for ''you''. So I went back at into the field, and then got captured… (laughs) Oooh, and tortured in a hole in the ground for 378 days - '''''IN A HOLE!'''''"
--> "'''''[[WickedCultured ENOUGH OF THE KABUKI!]]'''''"
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* SanitySlippage: Chuck has, for the lack of better words, completely ruined his life, even if unintentional. The constant repeats have driven the guy completely insane.
* UnknownRival: Chuck had no idea of what he did to this guy; no one knew him, or that he was working for all the baddies that Team Bartowski faced off against over the run of the show.

!!'''The Belgian'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Crime Lord\\
'''Affiliation''': Belgian Organized Crime]
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[[caption-width:177:"Pursue Agent Carmichael, and we will kill him - ''slowly.''"]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/TheThornBirds Richard Chamberlain]]''

Real name - '''Adelbert de Smet'''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just how it sounds]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The Belgian is a Belgian man who is in charge of Belgian Organized Crime]]. An extremely dangerous individual who specializes in smuggling highly sensitive intelligence, he had information on the identity of the Intersect. However, when Chuck practically fell into his lap, he got ambitious and decided to kidnap Chuck to extract the Intersect, or just sell off ''Chuck'' himself altogether. Even if he had to lobotomize him.

[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge He was knocked out and arrested by Chuck's very protective, and very pissed off girlfriend.]]
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Tropes associated with The Belgian:
%%* AffablyEvil
* AuctionOfEvil: Partakes in these quite regularly, and uses them as a cover to sell information.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Rescued Chuck from falling to his death. But only so he can perform brain surgery and sell off the Intersect.
%%* DevilInPlainSight
%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
%%* InformationBroker
* MindRape: Tries to lobotomize Chuck to extract the Intersect.
%%* ObviouslyEvil
* [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Ruthless Foreign Gangster]]
%%* SharpDressedMan

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ring]]
!!'''The Elders'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Director\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM / The Ring]
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''Portrayed by... a bunch of old people?''

The five superiors who both command The Ring, as well as Fulcrum. Their motives are unknown, but they have been sticking their hands in many different cookie jars - from creating their own Intersect, to the assassination of global leaders.

They were captured at the end of Season 3 by Team Bartowski.
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Tropes Associated with the Elders:
* BigBad: For a good chunk of the show, they have been more or less the main bad guys.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: They seem to have several of these.
* EvilOldFolks: After TheReveal, most of them have been shown to be nothing but a bunch of helpless old farts.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bastards]]
%%* NebulousEvilOrganisation
* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen They Who Must Not Be Seen]]: A good deal of their screen time includes their faces being completely shadowed out.
%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

!!'''The Director'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Director\\
'''Affiliation''': The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"Now this is brazen."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/MarkSheppard''

The Director is the [[IncrediblyLamePun direct]] head of The Ring - of seemingly equal authority as The Elders, he is the driving force of many, if not all of their operations. He has somehow obtained surveillance footage of Sarah's red test, and was directly responsible for Shaw's FaceHeelTurn.

He was soon captured by the then civilian Casey, who traded him to earn back his rank, a new Crown Victoria, and making Morgan an official spy of Team Bartowski.
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Tropes Associated with The Director:
* AffablyEvil & FauxAffablyEvil
* BigBad: Of the first half of Season 3. He's the leader of the Ring, and the one responsible for [[spoiler: Daniel Shaw's StartOfDarkness.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Turns Shaw evil by revealing that Sarah killed his wife.]]
* NoNameGiven: He is only ever referred to as The Director.
* SchmuckBait: Easily pulls one on Chuck and Sarah.

!!'''Daniel Shaw'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA / The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"Sometimes he sounds like Bond, other times it's like a Jerry Lewis movie."]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/SupermanReturns Brandon Routh]]''

A special agent who worked for the CIA, Shaw specialized in Ring intelligence and was sent in as the supervisor of Operation Bartowski to make progress against The Ring. During his stay there, he developed a romance with Sarah, but was ultimately short-lived after it was [[TheReveal revealed]] that [[spoiler:she killed his wife on the CIA's orders]]. What followed suit was a prompt FaceHeelTurn with a subtle form of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

Mid-season, he was shot and [[DisneyDeath killed]] by Chuck, but ultimately survived - cementing his status as the season's BigBad. He was finally beaten and apprehended at the end of Season 3.

[[spoiler:He makes a return during the fifth season, and reveals himself to be the BigBad once again, having blackmailed Decker and Cunnings to be his [[{{Mook}} mooks]]. His plan was to use the Omen virus to pilfer then destroy every government database in the world, and use the information to update his own Intersect and become America's single most valuable asset. He was however OutGambitted by Chuck, and later knocked out by Ellie.]]
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Tropes Associated with Shaw:
%%* TheAce
* AntiHero: Starts off this way.
** AntiVillain: Type II, mid-way through.
*** Then into full blown ObviouslyEvil territory, clearly enjoying the damage he causes just because.
* ArchEnemy: To Chuck. They both come from a similar background, both have a profound dislike of guns, both love Sarah, and both end up with an Intersect. Following Shaw's defection, he kills [[spoiler:Stephen]] and attempts to kill Sarah several times as well. He also has one of his [[{{Mook}} mooks]] manipulate Ellie into making it easier for him to break up their team and take over the CIA.
** Also showcased in that Shaw is the only character in the whole series that Chuck willfully shot to kill.
** And, he's also the show's most recurring villain, playing the part of BigBad in the third season [[spoiler:as well as the fifth and final]].
* BackFromTheDead: DoubleSubversion. Morgan {{lampshades}} his NeverFoundTheBody death, and then Chuck and Sarah learn that the Ring was after his will-thing so they assume he is dead.
* BigBad: Shares this spot with the Ring Elders in Season 3. [[spoiler:And splits BigBad duties for the first half of the final season, with Quinn taking over the last couple of episodes]].
* ChekhovsGunman: He is first introduced as a silent figure whom Beckman talks to as he walks away, and appears as a CIA agent targeted by the Ring not long after.
%%* CrazyPrepared
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Shaw pulls off a rare non-fighting example in "Chuck Verses the Subway". [[spoiler: Chuck notices he has an Intersect and tries to prove this in front of the CIA by throwing a knife at him to prove the SuperReflexes that the Intersect gives him. Shaw manages to turn this around by ''letting himself be impaled by the knife'' and uses this incident to prove that Chuck is insane]].
* TheDeterminator: Not only does he survive a double-tap to the chest and [[NeverFoundTheBody falling into a river]], but he also brushes off a rocket explosion with little more than a mild KO.
* TheDragon
** DragonInChief: As of "Chuck Versus the Living Dead", he has an Intersect.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** Having seen Chuck in action several times, and having had access to his psychological profile, Shaw is convinced that Chuck will never use lethal force for any reason -- not even to protect someone he loves. When Shaw attempts to kill Sarah, he learns the hard way that Chuck's willing to make an exception just for him.
** Despite the fact that Shaw ''knows'' that both Devon and Morgan are in on Chuck's double life, and that they're very close, Shaw never seems to take either of them into account while planning his master stroke against Chuck, Sarah, Casey and Beckman. Shaw gloats prematurely, and the B squad of Team Bartowski launches a rescue effort that takes him entirely by surprise.
%%* EvilCounterpart: To Chuck, as of "Chuck Versus the Living Dead".
* FaceHeelTurn: After learning that [[IKnewIt Sarah's red test was to kill his wife]].
* GambitRoulette: Most of his plans; see OmniscientMoralityLicense below.
%%* GuileHero: Before his FaceHeelTurn.
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FVflGaU Kettering, by The Antlers]]'' - fitting song given his status as the show's TragicVillain.
** The whole song is played during the moment when Chuck [[NotQuiteDead kills]] him to save Sarah.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: He loved his wife. [[spoiler: When he finds out that his girlfriend Sarah, was the one who killed her, he snaps.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:In season five, it's revealed that he was the one giving orders to Clyde Decker in another attempt at taking over the CIA.]]
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* OmniscientDatabase: Has (had) access to: Ring Intersect.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: His plans tend to rely on an obscene amount of luck, and generally put Chuck in far more danger than someone with his lack of training is accustomed to.
%%* RivalTurnedEvil: A variant on the theme
* SanitySlippage: Upon finding out that [[spoiler:the girl he loved killed his wife]], he ''snapped'', and could only cope with it through revenge and one power grab after another.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Largely averted, although he did come in very conveniently after Bryce's death. His relationships with the other characters are quite different.
* TragicVillain: The show's ideal example. He was an excellent agent and an overall good man. But, like Chuck, he was far too emotional when doing his job. Unlike Chuck, however, Shaw let his emotions, and his inability to cope with the past, control and ultimate destroy him. By [[spoiler:season 5]], he crossed the line with his SanitySlippage.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Discrediting the Intersect project was his first step in taking over the CIA and destroying it from the inside.
%%* {{Yandere}}: Over his deceased wife.

!!'''Justin Sullivan'''
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'''Affiliation''': The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"Shaw, Bartowski's infiltrated the base."]]

''Portrayed by Scott Holroyd''

Justin was a CIA agent and security coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, who truly worked for The Ring. He poisoned Awesome, and got close to Ellie to manipulate her into giving away her father's location.

In the end, he was captured whilst escorting the Elders to safety.
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Tropes Associated with Justin:
%%* AffablyEvil
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
%%* TheDragon: To Shaw.
%%* JerkAss
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity

[[WMG:'''Hugo Panzer''']]

'''Affiliation''': The Ring / Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"''Grrr.''"]]

''Portrayed by [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve Austin]]''

A Ring operative who was transporting a lock-box key on a flight to Paris. He is an expert at close-range combat, and a master swordsman.

He was knocked out a total of three times by Chuck during the flight, and was apprehended in Paris. He returns in "Chuck Versus the Cubic Z", now allied with Alexei Volkoff.
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Tropes Associated with Hugo Panzer:
* TheAce: Implied to be the greatest swordsman in the world. And true enough, Chuck (with the Intersect) could only beat him by burying him in falling luggage. ...Twice.
* AffablyEvil: When not on the job, he's actually a generally nice guy, "saving" Chuck from [[BlatantLies from an annoying woman]] by giving him the seat next to his, and offering to fix his pen. That said...he ''really'' [[BloodKnight likes his job]].
* AwesomeMcCoolName [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast To Run Away From Really Fast]]: When a giant guy named "Hugo Panzer" walks in, you'd damn better run away...
* BadassNormal: Hugo is one of the few, if not the ''only'' guy to soundly beat Chuck (Whilst uploaded with the Intersect 2.0) in a fair one-on-one match.
%%* BaldOfAwesome
%%* BaldOfEvil
* BareFistedMonk: Implied to be a master of bare-hand combat.
* ButtMonkey: He's knocked out a total of three times during his flight: First time, he's tranq'd by Chuck. Second time he's knocked out by falling luggage. Third time he's... knocked out by more falling luggage.
%%* GiantMook
* MookFaceTurn: Following The Ring's destruction, he was more than happy to ally himself with [[BigBad Alexei Volkoff]].
* SayMyName
--> ''"CAAAARMICHAAAEEEL!!!"''
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Subverted. Introduced as an expert in "close quarters combat", it turns out he's actually an expert with ''a sword''. That said, Hannah guesses that he's a [[ShoutOut professional wrestler when boarding the plane.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Volkoff Industries]]
!!'''Alexei Volkoff / [[spoiler:Hartley Winterbottom / Agent X]]'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' CEO / Director\\

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[[caption-width:177:"My name is Alexei Volkoff. I believe you were looking for me."]]

::''Portrayed by TimothyDalton''

[[spoiler:Born Hartley Winterbottom]], Alexei Volkoff is the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} batshit crazy]] CEO and founder of Volkoff Industries, an arms manufacturer. He is a recluse, described by Casey as the "Russian [[TheAviator Howard Hughes]]." He is first mentioned in "Chuck Versus the Anniversary" by [[Creator/DolphLundgren Marco]]. He makes his first onscreen appearance in "Chuck Versus the First Fight".

Tropes associated with Volkoff:
%%* AffablyEvil
* TheAtoner: In a rather hilarious manner, as he's trying to make amends to everyone he's hurt or rubbed the wrong way using his prison theraphy's 12-step-program, starting with his cutting in line of the prison cafeteria. Because he has "entitlement issues".
** [[spoiler: Played more seriously when the Hartley personality returns and he realizes he spent thirty years as a monster. He's especially disturbed and regretful of how he treated his daughter.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: As in the above example, this is a man who has done some awful, ''awful'' things in his life. As he puts it, "everyone hates him." But when he starts making amends to those he wronged...'' he starts with an apology of cutting in a cafeteria line''.
* AxCrazy: Well, more like full on armored assault armed to the teeth with assault weapons and a bomb crazy.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Turns out that Alexei Volkoff was originally just a cover identity. Also see GoneHorriblyWrong and TomatoInTheMirror below.]]
%%* BigBad: Of Season 4.
%%* BreakingSpeech: He gives one to Chuck after TheReveal.
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer
* CartoonishSupervillainy: The Contessa has laser grid defenses, the entrance to the bunker with the last Norseman component can only be entered by beating the computer in chess and he hid the Hydra network in the glass eye of one of his mooks, among other things. Volkoff is undoubtedly the cartooniest villain in the show. [[spoiler:But only because it was the personality grafted onto him by the Intersect prototype]].
* CatchPhrase: '' "So much...[[ForTheEvulz fun!]]" ''
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass / ObfuscatingStupidity: He's introduced as Gregory Tuttle, a meek and milquetoast handler for Frost. [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler By the end of the episode]] he's revealed to be Alexei Volkoff, the whole "meek and milquetoast" bit being a front.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The scary, mentally unstable sort.
%%* ControlFreak: Self-confessed.
* CoolShip: The Contessa, which he bought from Craigs List Dubai. He calls it his Floating Fotress... of Fun.
* CrazyPrepared: Not only is his ship, ''The Contessa'', loaded with state-of-the-art stealth weaponry, and a back-up supercomputer, but it's also got a genuine ''ice cream parlor''.
** Not five minutes after the revelation, he's seen plotting while snacking on a double-scoop.
** Has a receptacle ready for whenever he uses a Q-tip to take a DNA sample from his mouth to get into secret lair.
%%* DiabolicalMastermind
* TheDreaded: Some of the most dangerous people of the world are downright ''terrified'' of him, and rightly so.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: He and Vivian so far are the only "villains" in the series to have received a HappilyEverAfter, made even more awesome with how in the ending he gives all of his Volkoff assets to Chuck and Sarah...a total of [[WealthyEverAfter 884 million dollars!]] ]]
* EvilBrit / RenegadeRussian: Plyed with; while he has a Russian name, acts like a typical RenegadeRussian, is stationed ''in'' Russia and was supposedly born there, and models his business after Stalin-era Soviet Russia, he speaks with a very distinctive British accent and uses mostly British slang, as does his daughter. [[spoiler: Probably forshadowing for the fact that he's not actually Russian]].
* EvilCounterpart: To Stephen Bartowski in that [[spoiler:he became evil testing an Intersect prototype on himself]].
%%* EvilGenius
* EvilGloating: He loves it so much that [[spoiler:Chuck's BatmanGambit against him was entirely based on getting him to gloat so he could harvest various words to reconstruct his voiceprint password]].
* GoKartingWithBowser: Spends part of an episode getting to meet the Bartowskis through a game of charades.
** This in the latter half of an episode where he stormed the Buy More, disabled the CIA defenses, held Jeff and Lester hostage, and nearly followed through on a threat to kill Chuck for "capturing/threatening" Frost.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:He was a test subject (Agent X) for a prototype Intersect, intended to imprint a cover personality. Then the cover personality started to take over...]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The first few episodes only; he gets his first real appearance in "Chuck Versus the First Fight".
* HeartbrokenBadass: Volkoff may be a crazy, psychotic arms dealer and international terrorist. But he's also a ''loveable'' psychotic arms dealer and terrorist, which makes you feel all the more sorry for him when [[spoiler: his daughter betrays him, and leaves him for dead.]]
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:One could argue that Alexei Volkoff's ''existence'' is what caused the series to happen, as it was what would tear the Bartowski family apart. Stephen Bartowski's guilt over the whole ordeal caused him to leave his family and spend almost his ''entire career'' trying to fix what happened to his friend. It was only compounded when his wife went undercover into Volkoff Industries and the cover identity implanted in Hartley fell in love with her, forcing her to abandon her family for a long term undercover assignment.]]
%%* JekyllAndHyde
%%* LargeHam: ''Delicious'' ham, too.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* MoralityChain: He sincerely regrets being a DisappearedDad, and now desperately wants any kind of connection he can get with his daughter.
%%* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Volkoff Industries
* OmniscientDatabase: [[spoiler:Has (had) access to: Alpha Intersect]].
%%* PsychopathicManchild
%%* PsychoPrototype: [[spoiler:For the Intersect program.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Mary Bartowski's [=MI6=] handler? He is actually Alexei Volkoff.]]
** [[spoiler:He is actually a deep-cover CIA agent; his Volkoff identity was created from whole cloth by Orion's original Intersect.]]
* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler:He is what Chuck could have become if he let the Intersect take over his life]].
* SweetTooth: If the fact that his ship has an ice cream parlor is anything to go by...
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Alexei Volkoff is actually a false identity created by an early Intersect program for a CIA agent. However, that identity ended up taking over completely.]]
%%* VillainousCrush: On Frost.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Has he reunited with his mother?
%%* {{Yandere}}: Over Frost.

!!'''Vivian [=McArthur=] [=/=] Vivian Volkoff'''

'''Rank/Job:''' CEO / Director\\

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[[caption-width:177:"You don't know who I am. You have both lied to me, betrayed me, and shattered my life."]]

''Portrayed by Lauren Cohan''

A young woman targeted for assassination by one of Volkoff's old lieutenants. She is believed to have the key to Volkoff's Hydra database, which is needed to take over his association. [[spoiler: She is Volkoff's daughter and originally had no knowledge of what her father did, or that the reason he had been sending her to various schools was to groom her as his successor. While she originally seems willing to help, her father's lawyer is able to manipulate her into thinking Chuck, and by extension the CIA, were just using her, prompting her to turn against them and take over her father's company, becoming the BigBad for the last chunk of season 4.]]

Tropes associated with Vivian:
* ActionGirl / FauxActionGirl: Has a black belt but has yet to be shown doing any hand-to-hand combat. However, she's no DistressedDamsel either.
-->'''Boris:''' You were skeetshooting at age 7, had your black belt by 13, and by the time you graduated from the London School of Economics, you were fluent in 5 languages.
%%* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type II]]
%%* BadassNormal
* BreakTheCutie: You can't blame her for being pissed, her father and the CIA both lied to her, she had no other place to go for answers.
* CatchPhrase: "Nobody can/will be able to touch me, ever."
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After becoming a villain, she starts wearing more black clothes and leather.
%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: At the end of season four she's given a blank identity so that she can start afresh and faces no consequences for the numerous attempts she made on the lives of Team Bartowski, actual successful murders of several other people, and whatever other crimes were committed either by her or on her behalf while running her father's company.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Grew up as one.
* ParentalAbandonment: Though her father did pay for her schooling, Vivian says that he was never a part of her life.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: How she was defeated.

!!'''Heather Chandler'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\

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[[caption-width:177:"Thanks for that, movie dork. I bet you have like a Tron poster in your room."]]

''Portrayed by [[Creator/ParisHilton Nicole Richie]]''

Heather was a [[TheBully high school]] [[BlatantLies friend]] of Sarah Walker, who Heather knew under the alias Jenny Burton. She married Mark Ratner, a high school nerd who ended up as a wealthy engineer. She illegally sold several of his secrets on the black market and was eventually captured by Team Chuck. She later reveals that she was working for Volkoff Industries. She first appeared in "Chuck Versus the Cougars" and returned in "Chuck Versus the Cubic Z".

Tropes associated with Heather:
* AlphaBitch: Heather was this in high school and remains one into adulthood.
* BreakingSpeech: In her second appearance, Heather is able to figure out that Sarah and Chuck are together as well as prey on Sarah's insecurities about their relationship.
* {{Callback}}: Turns out that deal she made with with the [[TheMafiya Russian Mafia]] during Season 2 was for Volkoff from the start.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: She's this to Sarah. Even after severely kicking her ass in her first appearance, Sarah is visibly intimidated when she sees her again, while she clearly takes great delight in getting a chance to continue her bullying, even lampshading this trope in her second episode, referring to her as her 'High School Punching bag.


!!'''Marco'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"I must break you..."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/DolphLundgren''

A GiantMook under the employ of Mr. Volkoff, Marco was in the process of smuggling a powerful EMP device until he was thwarted by Chuck and his crew.

[[spoiler:He was shot and killed by Mary Elizabeth Bartowski.]]

Tropes associated with Marco:
* ActorAllusion: His role as [[Film/RockyIV Ivan Drago]] is referenced.
--> '''Marco''': I must ''break'' you.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
-->'''Marco''': Please, I have a family.
-->'''[[spoiler:Mary Bartowski/Frost]]''': So do I.
%%* GeniusBruiser
%%* GiantMook
* RedScare: Casey's attitude towards Marco.
* TortureTechnician: A pretty lousy one, though...

!!'''Mr. Riley'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Lawyer\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"Nobody ever said no to your father."]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/TwinPeaks Ray Wise]]''

Volkoff Industry's attorney who takes Vivian under his wing.

Tropes associated with Riley:
%%* AmoralAttorney
%%* TheDragon
%%* EvilMentor
* LargeHam: For the life of him, ''he tries''. ...At the insistence of [[BunnyEarsLawyer Alexei]], naturally.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:He knew Volkoff and Hartley were one and the same]]. He's also primarily responsible for Vivian turning evil, and does what he can to push her further to the dark side.

!!'''Yuri The Gobbler'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative / Bodyguard\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:''"Don't '''ever''' ask me why he's called "The Gobbler". It's because he... well...eats people."'' ~ Volkoff, on Yuri]]

''Portrayed by Matthew Willig''

Real name - '''Yuri Gobrienko'''. Volkoff's most trusted bodyguard and henchman. He had direct access to something Volkoff needed: His arms pipeline and network, "Hydra." After his escape from prison was arranged and pulled off by Team Bartowski, [[YouHaveFailedMe he was promptly disposed of by Volkoff]] for jeopardizing his entire network in the first place.

Tropes associated with The Gobbler:
%%* TheBigGuy
* IAmAHumanitarian: He doesn't waste time trying to take bites out of Chuck when they fight. If not for the Intersect, Chuck would have likely been eaten by him.
* MadeOfIron: He was knocked out cold when Casey shot-put a toaster oven in his face, yet came out not too worse for wear afterwards.
* EyeScream: The data for accessing Hydra is found in his fake eye, which Volkoff messily pops out after killing him.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Volkoff was none too happy that he was caught and endagered the Hydra network if they CIA discovered what was in his eye.
** YouHaveFailedMe
* YouLookFamiliar: Willig previously appeared in "Chuck Versus the Tango" as La Ciudad's bodyguard, however WordOfGod confirms that Yuri is ''not'' the same character.
%%* WeHardlyKnewYou
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Everyone Else]]
!!'''Alex [=McHugh=]'''

'''Rank/Job:''' None\\

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[[caption-width:177:"Whether you like it or not, dad, I'm not going anywhere."]]

''Portrayed by Mekenna Melvin''

The daughter of Alex Coburn [[spoiler:(alias John Casey)]] and Kathleen [=McHugh=]. Kathleen was told that Alex was killed in combat in 1989 (actually volunteered for a special unit) while she was pregnant with their daughter. [[spoiler:John first found out about his daughter twenty-one years later in "Chuck Versus the Tic Tac".]] After being targeted by Ring agents, she becomes aware of her father's true occupation. [[spoiler:She is currently dating Morgan Grimes with her father's reluctant approval.]]

Tropes associated with Alex:
* ActionGirl: The potential is there, seeing as she managed to stun Casey with a five-hit combo. [[spoiler:Of course, she's his ''daughter''.]] [[FauxActionGirl Sadly, beyond that one scene, we never see her in physical action again.]]
-->'''Alex:''' I got an A in my self-defense class!
%%* DeadGuyJunior
* DisappearedDad: Alex Coburn died during an operation in Honduras in 1989 while Kathleen [=McHugh=] was pregnant. [[spoiler:His death was faked; he then joined a Black Ops team and takes on the name John Casey.]]
* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Extremely Dour Colonel's Beautiful Daughter]]

!!'''Generalissimo Alejandro Fulgencio Goya'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Dictator / General\\
'''Affiliation''': The Republic of Costa Gravas]
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[[caption-width:177:"Come...''to Costa Gravas!''"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/ArmandAssante''

Dictator of [[BananaRepublic fictional Latin American country]] Costa Gravas. Four presidents (Gerald Ford, UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush) issued a kill order on him but failed. Those orders were carried out by John Casey, who Goya calls the "Angel of Death." He gained many enemies, both inside and outside his country, when he decided to allow democratic elections. He is deeply fond of Captain Awesome, the man who saved his life, [[ChivalrousPervert and even fonder of his wife Ellie.]] He also respects Casey, who (unwillingly) gave donated blood to save him, and gives him a new nickname "Angel of Life."

Tropes associated with Goya:
* AffablyEvil / FauxAffablyEvil
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer
* CaptainErsatz: He shares qualities with Fidel Castro but his larger than life persona and love of the good life (not to mention his middle name) is more reminiscent of Fulgencio Batista.
%%* ChewingTheScenery
%%* ChivalrousPervert
* FamousNamedForeigner: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista Fulgencio]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya Goya]].
%%* FriendlyEnemy: To Casey.
%%* LargeHam
%%* RasputinianDeath: Had a few of these
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite his [[BunnyEarsLawyer quirks]], the guy is a relatively efficient dictator.
* SpicyLatina: Married to one.
* [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Dictator?]]: Just as Casey and Beckman thought he may have truly sided with America - after the...who-knows-what attempt on his life, by ''[[spoiler:his own wife]]'' this time - they discover he purchased a [[NukeEm Nuclear ICBM]] from Volkoff. [[DudeNotFunny Directly calibrated to hit a major southern city in North America]].

!!'''Gertrude Verbanski'''

'''Rank/Job:''' CEO\\
'''Affiliation''': Verbanski Corporation]
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[[caption-width:177:"Sorry, if I got too physical. Must be the uniform."]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/TheMatrix Carrie Anne Moss]]''

A (presumably) Russian or Slavic PMC soldier who had a moment with John Casey in the past. She has now returned and is helping the team as well as providing Casey with some romance.

Tropes associated with Verbanski:
* ActionGirl: She once disarmed Casey! ''(And even encased the weapon she took from him!)''
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is an efficient operative and businesswoman in her own right. But, whenever Casey is involved, she either gets weak in the knees, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial flustered]], or just plain ''[[{{Tsundere}} weird]]''.
%%* DarkActionGirl: Depends on the job.
%%* OfficialCouple: With Casey.
%%* PrivateMilitaryContractor
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Is a "master" of these. When flustered enough, ''[[BunnyEarsLawyer she'll begin ranting for no reason - even as no one brought anything up!]]''
-->''(Both Sarah and Verbanski silence a couple of mooks during a mission...)''
-->'''Verbanski:''' "...Fine! I love Casey! Just stop grilling me!"
-->'''Sarah:''' "[[FlatWhat ...]]"
%%ZCE* {{Tsundere}}

!!'''Jack Burton'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Con Artist\\
'''Affiliation''': None]
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[[caption-width:177:"A thief has to run out of town as fast as he can, but a good con man can leave whenever he wants"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/GaryCole''

Sarah's somewhat estranged father. He is a two-bit ConMan who frequently involved Sarah when she was a kid in his schemes, and often rewarded her with ice cream or sometimes hard cash. Sarah claims that her experiences with him rubbed her the wrong way, but Jack ''(correctly)'' deduced that she had way more fun conning people than she would care to admit. That said, he always kept her well-being and happiness at heart, and in his own way, looked out for her.

When Sarah was in high school, Director Graham arrested him "for his own protection" after he conned a particularly dangerous man - this same incident was when she was recruited into the CIA. Jack however found out about her much later, and despite being on opposite sides of the law, he's proud of her. Using his skills as a confidence man, Jack helped out Chuck and his team on two seperate occassions: Freezing the funds of a powerful Sheikh, and obtaining Iranian nuclear missile plans.
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Tropes associated with Jack:
* AffablyEvil: Absolute bottom feeding scum of the Earth. But ''he's a hell of a dancer''.
* AffectionateNickname: Calls Chuck "schnuck" and Casey "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cop face.]]"
%%* ConMan
%%* CoolOldGuy
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A magnificent jerk with the biggest heart ever!
%%* TheNicknamer
* NoodleIncident: Exactly who Jack conned that prompted Graham to arrest him and enlist Sarah to protect them was never expanded on.
* WildCard: No matter how much he loves Sarah, he's still a ConMan to the core, and can never really be trusted.

!!'''Nicholas Quinn'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent (formerly)\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA (formerly)]
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[[caption-width:177:"Nice to meet you. I'm Nicholas Quinn. And I'm about to become the Intersect."]]

''Portrayed by Angus Macfadyen''

A rogue freelance spy who has something of a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vendetta against Chuck]], to put it very mellow. He was a top-grade CIA agent who was set to be the agency's first true Intersect Agent. However, Bryce Larkin happened. After that, his life and career began a downward spiral until he left the CIA and began to work freelance. ...[[LaserGuidedKarma For Fulcrum, The Ring, and Volkoff Industries]], all organizations which Chuck himself put out of commission, and Quinn out of business. Quinn snapped, and made it his life's mission to make Chuck's life a living hell even worse than his own, and get the Intersect while he's at it, which technically is ''rightfully his anyway.''
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Tropes associated with Quinn:
* ActionSurvivor: He has an incredible talent of escaping extremely dangerous situations. Practically an expy of [[Series/{{Alias}} Sark]].
** He survived being tortured for 378 days.
* ArchEnemy: While Chuck would more or less see Shaw as his greatest enemy, Quinn openly views Chuck as his.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Being tortured for over a year in a hole didn't do anything for his sanity, or [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge anger management]].
* BigBad: Of the second-half of the final season.
%%* TheChessmaster
* {{Determinator}}: To a practically hilarious degree - this is a man who will stop at nothing to get the Intersect. Case in point? Getting kicked out of a moving ''bullet train'', and ''[[RuleOfCool still somehow managing to get back inside]].''
* {{Knight Of Cerebus}}: His {{Mind Rape}} of Sarah made the final two episodes exceptionally dark for a normally light hearted show.
* LargeHam: Big time - although not quite as ''delicious'' as Volkoff.
--> "I'm former CIA too… The Intersect was supposed to be ''mine''… But then Larkin stole it for ''you''. So I went back at into the field, and then got captured… (laughs) Oooh, and tortured in a hole in the ground for 378 days - '''''IN A HOLE!'''''"
--> "'''''[[WickedCultured ENOUGH OF THE KABUKI!]]'''''"
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* SanitySlippage: Chuck has, for the lack of better words, completely ruined his life, even if unintentional. The constant repeats have driven the guy completely insane.
* UnknownRival: Chuck had no idea of what he did to this guy; no one knew him, or that he was working for all the baddies that Team Bartowski faced off against over the run of the show.

!!'''The Belgian'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Crime Lord\\
'''Affiliation''': Belgian Organized Crime]
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[[caption-width:177:"Pursue Agent Carmichael, and we will kill him - ''slowly.''"]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/TheThornBirds Richard Chamberlain]]''

Real name - '''Adelbert de Smet'''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just how it sounds]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The Belgian is a Belgian man who is in charge of Belgian Organized Crime]]. An extremely dangerous individual who specializes in smuggling highly sensitive intelligence, he had information on the identity of the Intersect. However, when Chuck practically fell into his lap, he got ambitious and decided to kidnap Chuck to extract the Intersect, or just sell off ''Chuck'' himself altogether. Even if he had to lobotomize him.

[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge He was knocked out and arrested by Chuck's very protective, and very pissed off girlfriend.]]
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[[folder:FULCRUM]]
!!'''Theodore "Ted" Roark'''

'''Rank/Job:''' CEO / Engineer / Director\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM / Roark Instruments]
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[[caption-width:177:"I'm not a monster. ...[[CardCarryingVillain Maybe a little bit of a monster]]."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/ChevyChase''

The CEO and founder of Roark Instruments, Ted Roark is secretly the head of FULCRUM and is in charge of developing FULCRUM's own intersect. He also has quite a bit of history with Stephen Bartowski: The two were former college buddies, and supposedly, Ted stole all of his best ideas.

At the end of Season 2, he was apprehended and killed by Miles, after he had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]] to The Ring.

Tropes Associated with Ted:
* AffablyEvil & FauxAffablyEvil: The reigning champion of these tropes within the show.
* BigBad: Of Season 2, as the head of FULCRUM.
* CardCarryingVillain: More or less admits to the fact that he's an unrepentant monster.
* DeadpanSnarker: Yet another trope he's a king of.
%%* GoOutWithASmile
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed
* RivalTurnedEvil: It started as friendly rivalry with Stephen Bartowski. Now it's FULCRUM versus CIA.
* ShoutOut: He's the Creator/SteveJobs to Stephen's Steve Wozniak.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Ring assassinates him after he's captured.

!!'''Vincent Smith'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM / The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"I wish I could give you a proper reward. But, fortunately I have to shoot you."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/ArnoldVosloo''

Vincent heads FULCRUM's search for Orion, and is under direct command by the Ring Elders as well as Ted Roark. For three years, he's been looking for him to no avail - that is until Chuck finally made contact with him.

He was killed by an air strike in "Chuck Versus the Colonel".[[note]]Not that it's stopped fans believing he ''still' managed to survive.[[/note]]

Tropes Associated with Vincent:
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
* BlessedWithSuck: With his track record of getting hurt, ''no one'' wants to be in Vincent's shoes.
* BookEnds: He gets caught in an air strike in his first and last appearances.
* ButtMonkey: Should be the poster-boy for this trope. Vincent was, in direct order: Blown up, shot, poisoned, shot again, beaten up by Stephen, run over by Chuck, bludgeoned with a radiator by Casey, knocked out by Sarah, then finally blown up by Beckman's air strike. He is by no means incompetent, just extremely unlucky.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To both Ted Roark, and the Ring Elders.
%%* EnigmaticMinion
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vincent prides himself in a sense of professionalism.
%%* MIB
%%* RasputinianDeath
%%* SharpDressedMan
* TheyKilledKenny: To the point where some people are still debating whether he was truly killed during Beckman's air-strike...
* TrainingFromHell: Implied to have gone through one.
-->'''Vincent''': It's called Tetradotoxin. FULCRUM agents are trained to withstand it's death-like state.
-->'''Chuck''': Sounds like a fun class.
-->'''Vincent''': Not really.
* TheWorfEffect: He's undeniably a top-class operative, who regularly gets beaten and blown up.

!!'''Dr. Jill Roberts'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative / Biochemist\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:"I care about Chuck."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/JordanaBrewster''

Jill is Chuck's ex-girlfriend back from his Stanford days. Right after Chuck was kicked out for "cheating", she dumped Chuck and fell for Bryce - the very guy who got him kicked out. In truth, she was by then recruited by FULCRUM and was forced to dump Chuck. Since then, there's been some bad blood between them - but at the same time, lingering traces of their love.

She was freed by Chuck in "Chuck Versus the First Kill", and is now on the run.

Tropes Associated with Jill:
%%* BadassBookworm
%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
%%* TheDragon: To Leader.
%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* PutOnABus: Her family thinks she moved to Finland.
** According to WordOfGod, had budget and time allowed it Jill [[TheBusCameBack would have returned]] for [[BackForTheFinale the series finale]].

!!'''Tommy Delgado'''

'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:"Okay... I wouldn't want you kill some random person. I'd feel just... terrible."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/AnthonyRuivivar''

Tommy is a cold and ruthless operative who attempted to use Bryce to steal the Intersect. Tommy's appearance marks the first time the viewers become aware of FULCRUM.

After Bryce's supposed death, Tommy saved him and used the Demetrios crime family to smuggle his body back into the US. The plan failed, but he was later able to deduce that Bryce was just a decoy, and that Chuck was the real Intersect.

He was then captured and placed in a CIA prison, though he is still somehow involved with the tracking of the Intersect from his cell.

Tropes Associated with Tommy:
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
* BigBad: Arguably, for Season 1. Though he is captured only after appearing in two episodes, he remained the "face" of FULCRUM to many fans.
%%* ColdSniper
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* EnigmaticMinion
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
%%* GoodScarsEvilScars
%%* SharpDressedMan

!!'''Leader'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Senior Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:"Devious, aren't we?"]]

''Portrayed by Patrick Kilpatrick'''

Jill's FULCRUM handler, and the organization's senior operative. Together with Jill, he concocted a scheme to infiltrate Castle to gain access to their computers and the CIA's network.

After downloading a significant amount of data, and defeating Team Bartowski, he was nearly successful if it had not been for Big Mike knocking the living shit out of him - mistaking him for a thief.
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Tropes Associated with Leader:
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DiabolicalMastermind
%%* EvilMentor
* GeniusBruiser: He's extremely cunning and smart - yet tough enough to take down ''Casey''.
* NoNameGiven: His identity was kept extremely confidential.

!!'''Edgar Winterborne'''
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'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:"The Ring... What amateurs!"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/MarkPellegrino'''

An Operative who was tasked with tracking Guy [=LaFleur's=] FULCRUM blackmail roster through Chuck & Jill. He apparently had no knowledge of Jill being a FULCRUM agent, or that she was on that very blackmail file. After destroying the USB drive with the file (not knowing Chuck made a backup), he fled and was never found.

He later reappeared in Season 5 as a known associate of Nicholas Quinn, following FULCRUM's dissolution. He was in the middle of a transaction for the Intersect Key with Quinn when Sarah ambushed the deal aboard Edgar's private jet. After a short scuffle, he presumably escaped after Quinn stole a part of the Intersect key.

Tropes associated with Edgar:
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Invokes this towards The Ring. He merely scoffs at their mention and labels them as amateurs.
** [[FridgeLogic Maybe he didn't get the memo that FULCRUM was a PART of The Ring...]]
* ActionSurvivor: In both his appearances, he escaped relatively unharmed.
* CombatPragmatist: He's extremely efficient and subtle in his methods. And it's probably why he's the ''only'' known FULCRUM agent aside from Jill to survive.
* TheDreaded: Not ''him'' per say, but every time the viewers caught "[[Film/{{Brazil}} Tuttle Electric]]", they knew ''it was that guy''.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He's worked for FULCRUM since the day Ted Roark founded it, and all he's got to show for it was babysitting Roark's Intersect Key.


!!'''"Uncle" Bernie Ominsky'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:''"I don't know if he wants to kill me or eat me!"'' ~ Chuck, on Uncle Bernie]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/{{Borat}} Ken Davitian]]'''

A senior FULCRUM operative, he is a good friend of Jill's father, and is suspected to be the one to have recruited Jill into FULCRUM. Due to his seniority status and clearance, he was tricked into thinking Jill and Chuck were getting married to lure him to a family party (the only time he is without his men), all to ascertain the location of where Ted Roark was holding Stephen Bartowski. After Chuck's cover was blown, he attempted to kill both of them but ended up dying of a heart attack right before the act - which ''may or may not'' have been the result of an [[http://i50.tinypic.com/2en6suw.jpg extremely dangerous defensive pose known as "The Morgan."]]

In FULCRUM, his code-name is '''The Carnivore''' due to his rather impressive feat of eating a 96-ounce steak under an hour and gaining recognition for it.
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* AffablyEvil: Off-job, he's an extremely friendly and jovial "family-uncle." On the job, he's a typical murdering FULCRUM psycho.
%%* AmbiguouslyJewish
* BigEater: What earned him is code-name, "The Carnivore."
%%* BigFun

%%* EvilUncle
* InsistentTerminology: Insists everyone calls him "Uncle", even Chuck.
%%* KilledOffForReal
* {{Leitmotif}}: He's the only other character other than Roan Montogomery who has his own theme song uploaded in the Intersect - his being [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0 "Hungry Like The Wolf" by Duran Duran]].
* NoodleIncident: As Wally put it, each time Bernie meets one of Jill's boyfriends whom he didn't like, [[NeverFoundTheBody "they are never seen again."]]
* [[PapaWolf Uncle Wolf]]: He's seemingly very protective of Jill - at least as far as crappy boyfriends are concerned - but was still willing to kill her for betraying FULCRUM.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ring]]
!!'''The Elders'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Director\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM / The Ring]
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''Portrayed by... a bunch of old people?''

The five superiors who both command The Ring, as well as Fulcrum. Their motives are unknown, but they have been sticking their hands in many different cookie jars - from creating their own Intersect, to the assassination of global leaders.

They were captured at the end of Season 3 by Team Bartowski.
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Tropes Associated with the Elders:
* BigBad: For a good chunk of the show, they have been more or less the main bad guys.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: They seem to have several of these.
* EvilOldFolks: After TheReveal, most of them have been shown to be nothing but a bunch of helpless old farts.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bastards]]
%%* NebulousEvilOrganisation
* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen They Who Must Not Be Seen]]: A good deal of their screen time includes their faces being completely shadowed out.
%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

!!'''The Director'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Director\\
'''Affiliation''': The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"Now this is brazen."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/MarkSheppard''

The Director is the [[IncrediblyLamePun direct]] head of The Ring - of seemingly equal authority as The Elders, he is the driving force of many, if not all of their operations. He has somehow obtained surveillance footage of Sarah's red test, and was directly responsible for Shaw's FaceHeelTurn.

He was soon captured by the then civilian Casey, who traded him to earn back his rank, a new Crown Victoria, and making Morgan an official spy of Team Bartowski.
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Tropes Associated with The Director:
* AffablyEvil & FauxAffablyEvil
* BigBad: Of the first half of Season 3. He's the leader of the Ring, and the one responsible for [[spoiler: Daniel Shaw's StartOfDarkness.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Turns Shaw evil by revealing that Sarah killed his wife.]]
* NoNameGiven: He is only ever referred to as The Director.
* SchmuckBait: Easily pulls one on Chuck and Sarah.

!!'''Daniel Shaw'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA / The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"Sometimes he sounds like Bond, other times it's like a Jerry Lewis movie."]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/SupermanReturns Brandon Routh]]''

A special agent who worked for the CIA, Shaw specialized in Ring intelligence and was sent in as the supervisor of Operation Bartowski to make progress against The Ring. During his stay there, he developed a romance with Sarah, but was ultimately short-lived after it was [[TheReveal revealed]] that [[spoiler:she killed his wife on the CIA's orders]]. What followed suit was a prompt FaceHeelTurn with a subtle form of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

Mid-season, he was shot and [[DisneyDeath killed]] by Chuck, but ultimately survived - cementing his status as the season's BigBad. He was finally beaten and apprehended at the end of Season 3.

[[spoiler:He makes a return during the fifth season, and reveals himself to be the BigBad once again, having blackmailed Decker and Cunnings to be his [[{{Mook}} mooks]]. His plan was to use the Omen virus to pilfer then destroy every government database in the world, and use the information to update his own Intersect and become America's single most valuable asset. He was however OutGambitted by Chuck, and later knocked out by Ellie.]]
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Tropes Associated with Shaw:
%%* TheAce
* AntiHero: Starts off this way.
** AntiVillain: Type II, mid-way through.
*** Then into full blown ObviouslyEvil territory, clearly enjoying the damage he causes just because.
* ArchEnemy: To Chuck. They both come from a similar background, both have a profound dislike of guns, both love Sarah, and both end up with an Intersect. Following Shaw's defection, he kills [[spoiler:Stephen]] and attempts to kill Sarah several times as well. He also has one of his [[{{Mook}} mooks]] manipulate Ellie into making it easier for him to break up their team and take over the CIA.
** Also showcased in that Shaw is the only character in the whole series that Chuck willfully shot to kill.
** And, he's also the show's most recurring villain, playing the part of BigBad in the third season [[spoiler:as well as the fifth and final]].
* BackFromTheDead: DoubleSubversion. Morgan {{lampshades}} his NeverFoundTheBody death, and then Chuck and Sarah learn that the Ring was after his will-thing so they assume he is dead.
* BigBad: Shares this spot with the Ring Elders in Season 3. [[spoiler:And splits BigBad duties for the first half of the final season, with Quinn taking over the last couple of episodes]].
* ChekhovsGunman: He is first introduced as a silent figure whom Beckman talks to as he walks away, and appears as a CIA agent targeted by the Ring not long after.
%%* CrazyPrepared
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Shaw pulls off a rare non-fighting example in "Chuck Verses the Subway". [[spoiler: Chuck notices he has an Intersect and tries to prove this in front of the CIA by throwing a knife at him to prove the SuperReflexes that the Intersect gives him. Shaw manages to turn this around by ''letting himself be impaled by the knife'' and uses this incident to prove that Chuck is insane]].
* TheDeterminator: Not only does he survive a double-tap to the chest and [[NeverFoundTheBody falling into a river]], but he also brushes off a rocket explosion with little more than a mild KO.
* TheDragon
** DragonInChief: As of "Chuck Versus the Living Dead", he has an Intersect.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** Having seen Chuck in action several times, and having had access to his psychological profile, Shaw is convinced that Chuck will never use lethal force for any reason -- not even to protect someone he loves. When Shaw attempts to kill Sarah, he learns the hard way that Chuck's willing to make an exception just for him.
** Despite the fact that Shaw ''knows'' that both Devon and Morgan are in on Chuck's double life, and that they're very close, Shaw never seems to take either of them into account while planning his master stroke against Chuck, Sarah, Casey and Beckman. Shaw gloats prematurely, and the B squad of Team Bartowski launches a rescue effort that takes him entirely by surprise.
%%* EvilCounterpart: To Chuck, as of "Chuck Versus the Living Dead".
* FaceHeelTurn: After learning that [[IKnewIt Sarah's red test was to kill his wife]].
* GambitRoulette: Most of his plans; see OmniscientMoralityLicense below.
%%* GuileHero: Before his FaceHeelTurn.
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FVflGaU Kettering, by The Antlers]]'' - fitting song given his status as the show's TragicVillain.
** The whole song is played during the moment when Chuck [[NotQuiteDead kills]] him to save Sarah.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: He loved his wife. [[spoiler: When he finds out that his girlfriend Sarah, was the one who killed her, he snaps.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:In season five, it's revealed that he was the one giving orders to Clyde Decker in another attempt at taking over the CIA.]]
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* OmniscientDatabase: Has (had) access to: Ring Intersect.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: His plans tend to rely on an obscene amount of luck, and generally put Chuck in far more danger than someone with his lack of training is accustomed to.
%%* RivalTurnedEvil: A variant on the theme
* SanitySlippage: Upon finding out that [[spoiler:the girl he loved killed his wife]], he ''snapped'', and could only cope with it through revenge and one power grab after another.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Largely averted, although he did come in very conveniently after Bryce's death. His relationships with the other characters are quite different.
* TragicVillain: The show's ideal example. He was an excellent agent and an overall good man. But, like Chuck, he was far too emotional when doing his job. Unlike Chuck, however, Shaw let his emotions, and his inability to cope with the past, control and ultimate destroy him. By [[spoiler:season 5]], he crossed the line with his SanitySlippage.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Discrediting the Intersect project was his first step in taking over the CIA and destroying it from the inside.
%%* {{Yandere}}: Over his deceased wife.

!!'''Justin Sullivan'''
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'''Affiliation''': The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"Shaw, Bartowski's infiltrated the base."]]

''Portrayed by Scott Holroyd''

Justin was a CIA agent and security coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, who truly worked for The Ring. He poisoned Awesome, and got close to Ellie to manipulate her into giving away her father's location.

In the end, he was captured whilst escorting the Elders to safety.
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Tropes Associated with Justin:
%%* AffablyEvil
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
%%* TheDragon: To Shaw.
%%* JerkAss
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity

[[WMG:'''Hugo Panzer''']]

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': The Ring / Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"''Grrr.''"]]

''Portrayed by [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve Austin]]''

A Ring operative who was transporting a lock-box key on a flight to Paris. He is an expert at close-range combat, and a master swordsman.

He was knocked out a total of three times by Chuck during the flight, and was apprehended in Paris. He returns in "Chuck Versus the Cubic Z", now allied with Alexei Volkoff.
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Tropes Associated with Hugo Panzer:
* TheAce: Implied to be the greatest swordsman in the world. And true enough, Chuck (with the Intersect) could only beat him by burying him in falling luggage. ...Twice.
* AffablyEvil: When not on the job, he's actually a generally nice guy, "saving" Chuck from [[BlatantLies from an annoying woman]] by giving him the seat next to his, and offering to fix his pen. That said...he ''really'' [[BloodKnight likes his job]].
* AwesomeMcCoolName [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast To Run Away From Really Fast]]: When a giant guy named "Hugo Panzer" walks in, you'd damn better run away...
* BadassNormal: Hugo is one of the few, if not the ''only'' guy to soundly beat Chuck (Whilst uploaded with the Intersect 2.0) in a fair one-on-one match.
%%* BaldOfAwesome
%%* BaldOfEvil
* BareFistedMonk: Implied to be a master of bare-hand combat.
* ButtMonkey: He's knocked out a total of three times during his flight: First time, he's tranq'd by Chuck. Second time he's knocked out by falling luggage. Third time he's... knocked out by more falling luggage.
%%* GiantMook
* MookFaceTurn: Following The Ring's destruction, he was more than happy to ally himself with [[BigBad Alexei Volkoff]].
* SayMyName
--> ''"CAAAARMICHAAAEEEL!!!"''
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Subverted. Introduced as an expert in "close quarters combat", it turns out he's actually an expert with ''a sword''. That said, Hannah guesses that he's a [[ShoutOut professional wrestler when boarding the plane.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Volkoff Industries]]
!!'''Alexei Volkoff / [[spoiler:Hartley Winterbottom / Agent X]]'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' CEO / Director\\

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[[caption-width:177:"My name is Alexei Volkoff. I believe you were looking for me."]]

::''Portrayed by TimothyDalton''

[[spoiler:Born Hartley Winterbottom]], Alexei Volkoff is the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} batshit crazy]] CEO and founder of Volkoff Industries, an arms manufacturer. He is a recluse, described by Casey as the "Russian [[TheAviator Howard Hughes]]." He is first mentioned in "Chuck Versus the Anniversary" by [[Creator/DolphLundgren Marco]]. He makes his first onscreen appearance in "Chuck Versus the First Fight".

Tropes associated with Volkoff:
%%* AffablyEvil
* TheAtoner: In a rather hilarious manner, as he's trying to make amends to everyone he's hurt or rubbed the wrong way using his prison theraphy's 12-step-program, starting with his cutting in line of the prison cafeteria. Because he has "entitlement issues".
** [[spoiler: Played more seriously when the Hartley personality returns and he realizes he spent thirty years as a monster. He's especially disturbed and regretful of how he treated his daughter.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: As in the above example, this is a man who has done some awful, ''awful'' things in his life. As he puts it, "everyone hates him." But when he starts making amends to those he wronged...'' he starts with an apology of cutting in a cafeteria line''.
* AxCrazy: Well, more like full on armored assault armed to the teeth with assault weapons and a bomb crazy.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Turns out that Alexei Volkoff was originally just a cover identity. Also see GoneHorriblyWrong and TomatoInTheMirror below.]]
%%* BigBad: Of Season 4.
%%* BreakingSpeech: He gives one to Chuck after TheReveal.
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer
* CartoonishSupervillainy: The Contessa has laser grid defenses, the entrance to the bunker with the last Norseman component can only be entered by beating the computer in chess and he hid the Hydra network in the glass eye of one of his mooks, among other things. Volkoff is undoubtedly the cartooniest villain in the show. [[spoiler:But only because it was the personality grafted onto him by the Intersect prototype]].
* CatchPhrase: '' "So much...[[ForTheEvulz fun!]]" ''
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass / ObfuscatingStupidity: He's introduced as Gregory Tuttle, a meek and milquetoast handler for Frost. [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler By the end of the episode]] he's revealed to be Alexei Volkoff, the whole "meek and milquetoast" bit being a front.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The scary, mentally unstable sort.
%%* ControlFreak: Self-confessed.
* CoolShip: The Contessa, which he bought from Craigs List Dubai. He calls it his Floating Fotress... of Fun.
* CrazyPrepared: Not only is his ship, ''The Contessa'', loaded with state-of-the-art stealth weaponry, and a back-up supercomputer, but it's also got a genuine ''ice cream parlor''.
** Not five minutes after the revelation, he's seen plotting while snacking on a double-scoop.
** Has a receptacle ready for whenever he uses a Q-tip to take a DNA sample from his mouth to get into secret lair.
%%* DiabolicalMastermind
* TheDreaded: Some of the most dangerous people of the world are downright ''terrified'' of him, and rightly so.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: He and Vivian so far are the only "villains" in the series to have received a HappilyEverAfter, made even more awesome with how in the ending he gives all of his Volkoff assets to Chuck and Sarah...a total of [[WealthyEverAfter 884 million dollars!]] ]]
* EvilBrit / RenegadeRussian: Plyed with; while he has a Russian name, acts like a typical RenegadeRussian, is stationed ''in'' Russia and was supposedly born there, and models his business after Stalin-era Soviet Russia, he speaks with a very distinctive British accent and uses mostly British slang, as does his daughter. [[spoiler: Probably forshadowing for the fact that he's not actually Russian]].
* EvilCounterpart: To Stephen Bartowski in that [[spoiler:he became evil testing an Intersect prototype on himself]].
%%* EvilGenius
* EvilGloating: He loves it so much that [[spoiler:Chuck's BatmanGambit against him was entirely based on getting him to gloat so he could harvest various words to reconstruct his voiceprint password]].
* GoKartingWithBowser: Spends part of an episode getting to meet the Bartowskis through a game of charades.
** This in the latter half of an episode where he stormed the Buy More, disabled the CIA defenses, held Jeff and Lester hostage, and nearly followed through on a threat to kill Chuck for "capturing/threatening" Frost.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:He was a test subject (Agent X) for a prototype Intersect, intended to imprint a cover personality. Then the cover personality started to take over...]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The first few episodes only; he gets his first real appearance in "Chuck Versus the First Fight".
* HeartbrokenBadass: Volkoff may be a crazy, psychotic arms dealer and international terrorist. But he's also a ''loveable'' psychotic arms dealer and terrorist, which makes you feel all the more sorry for him when [[spoiler: his daughter betrays him, and leaves him for dead.]]
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:One could argue that Alexei Volkoff's ''existence'' is what caused the series to happen, as it was what would tear the Bartowski family apart. Stephen Bartowski's guilt over the whole ordeal caused him to leave his family and spend almost his ''entire career'' trying to fix what happened to his friend. It was only compounded when his wife went undercover into Volkoff Industries and the cover identity implanted in Hartley fell in love with her, forcing her to abandon her family for a long term undercover assignment.]]
%%* JekyllAndHyde
%%* LargeHam: ''Delicious'' ham, too.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* MoralityChain: He sincerely regrets being a DisappearedDad, and now desperately wants any kind of connection he can get with his daughter.
%%* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Volkoff Industries
* OmniscientDatabase: [[spoiler:Has (had) access to: Alpha Intersect]].
%%* PsychopathicManchild
%%* PsychoPrototype: [[spoiler:For the Intersect program.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Mary Bartowski's [=MI6=] handler? He is actually Alexei Volkoff.]]
** [[spoiler:He is actually a deep-cover CIA agent; his Volkoff identity was created from whole cloth by Orion's original Intersect.]]
* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler:He is what Chuck could have become if he let the Intersect take over his life]].
* SweetTooth: If the fact that his ship has an ice cream parlor is anything to go by...
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Alexei Volkoff is actually a false identity created by an early Intersect program for a CIA agent. However, that identity ended up taking over completely.]]
%%* VillainousCrush: On Frost.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Has he reunited with his mother?
%%* {{Yandere}}: Over Frost.

!!'''Vivian [=McArthur=] [=/=] Vivian Volkoff'''

'''Rank/Job:''' CEO / Director\\

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[[caption-width:177:"You don't know who I am. You have both lied to me, betrayed me, and shattered my life."]]

''Portrayed by Lauren Cohan''

A young woman targeted for assassination by one of Volkoff's old lieutenants. She is believed to have the key to Volkoff's Hydra database, which is needed to take over his association. [[spoiler: She is Volkoff's daughter and originally had no knowledge of what her father did, or that the reason he had been sending her to various schools was to groom her as his successor. While she originally seems willing to help, her father's lawyer is able to manipulate her into thinking Chuck, and by extension the CIA, were just using her, prompting her to turn against them and take over her father's company, becoming the BigBad for the last chunk of season 4.]]

Tropes associated with Vivian:
* ActionGirl / FauxActionGirl: Has a black belt but has yet to be shown doing any hand-to-hand combat. However, she's no DistressedDamsel either.
-->'''Boris:''' You were skeetshooting at age 7, had your black belt by 13, and by the time you graduated from the London School of Economics, you were fluent in 5 languages.
%%* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type II]]
%%* BadassNormal
* BreakTheCutie: You can't blame her for being pissed, her father and the CIA both lied to her, she had no other place to go for answers.
* CatchPhrase: "Nobody can/will be able to touch me, ever."
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After becoming a villain, she starts wearing more black clothes and leather.
%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: At the end of season four she's given a blank identity so that she can start afresh and faces no consequences for the numerous attempts she made on the lives of Team Bartowski, actual successful murders of several other people, and whatever other crimes were committed either by her or on her behalf while running her father's company.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Grew up as one.
* ParentalAbandonment: Though her father did pay for her schooling, Vivian says that he was never a part of her life.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: How she was defeated.

!!'''Heather Chandler'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"Thanks for that, movie dork. I bet you have like a Tron poster in your room."]]

''Portrayed by [[Creator/ParisHilton Nicole Richie]]''

Heather was a [[TheBully high school]] [[BlatantLies friend]] of Sarah Walker, who Heather knew under the alias Jenny Burton. She married Mark Ratner, a high school nerd who ended up as a wealthy engineer. She illegally sold several of his secrets on the black market and was eventually captured by Team Chuck. She later reveals that she was working for Volkoff Industries. She first appeared in "Chuck Versus the Cougars" and returned in "Chuck Versus the Cubic Z".

Tropes associated with Heather:
* AlphaBitch: Heather was this in high school and remains one into adulthood.
* BreakingSpeech: In her second appearance, Heather is able to figure out that Sarah and Chuck are together as well as prey on Sarah's insecurities about their relationship.
* {{Callback}}: Turns out that deal she made with with the [[TheMafiya Russian Mafia]] during Season 2 was for Volkoff from the start.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: She's this to Sarah. Even after severely kicking her ass in her first appearance, Sarah is visibly intimidated when she sees her again, while she clearly takes great delight in getting a chance to continue her bullying, even lampshading this trope in her second episode, referring to her as her 'High School Punching bag.


!!'''Marco'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"I must break you..."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/DolphLundgren''

A GiantMook under the employ of Mr. Volkoff, Marco was in the process of smuggling a powerful EMP device until he was thwarted by Chuck and his crew.

[[spoiler:He was shot and killed by Mary Elizabeth Bartowski.]]

Tropes associated with Marco:
* ActorAllusion: His role as [[Film/RockyIV Ivan Drago]] is referenced.
--> '''Marco''': I must ''break'' you.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
-->'''Marco''': Please, I have a family.
-->'''[[spoiler:Mary Bartowski/Frost]]''': So do I.
%%* GeniusBruiser
%%* GiantMook
* RedScare: Casey's attitude towards Marco.
* TortureTechnician: A pretty lousy one, though...

!!'''Mr. Riley'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Lawyer\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:"Nobody ever said no to your father."]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/TwinPeaks Ray Wise]]''

Volkoff Industry's attorney who takes Vivian under his wing.

Tropes associated with Riley:
%%* AmoralAttorney
%%* TheDragon
%%* EvilMentor
* LargeHam: For the life of him, ''he tries''. ...At the insistence of [[BunnyEarsLawyer Alexei]], naturally.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:He knew Volkoff and Hartley were one and the same]]. He's also primarily responsible for Vivian turning evil, and does what he can to push her further to the dark side.

!!'''Yuri The Gobbler'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative / Bodyguard\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries]
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[[caption-width:177:''"Don't '''ever''' ask me why he's called "The Gobbler". It's because he... well...eats people."'' ~ Volkoff, on Yuri]]

''Portrayed by Matthew Willig''

Real name - '''Yuri Gobrienko'''. Volkoff's most trusted bodyguard and henchman. He had direct access to something Volkoff needed: His arms pipeline and network, "Hydra." After his escape from prison was arranged and pulled off by Team Bartowski, [[YouHaveFailedMe he was promptly disposed of by Volkoff]] for jeopardizing his entire network in the first place.

Tropes associated with The Gobbler:
%%* TheBigGuy
* IAmAHumanitarian: He doesn't waste time trying to take bites out of Chuck when they fight. If not for the Intersect, Chuck would have likely been eaten by him.
* MadeOfIron: He was knocked out cold when Casey shot-put a toaster oven in his face, yet came out not too worse for wear afterwards.
* EyeScream: The data for accessing Hydra is found in his fake eye, which Volkoff messily pops out after killing him.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Volkoff was none too happy that he was caught and endagered the Hydra network if they CIA discovered what was in his eye.
** YouHaveFailedMe
* YouLookFamiliar: Willig previously appeared in "Chuck Versus the Tango" as La Ciudad's bodyguard, however WordOfGod confirms that Yuri is ''not'' the same character.
%%* WeHardlyKnewYou
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Everyone Else]]
!!'''Alex [=McHugh=]'''

'''Rank/Job:''' None\\
'''Affiliation''': None]
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[[caption-width:177:"Whether you like it or not, dad, I'm not going anywhere."]]

''Portrayed by Mekenna Melvin''

The daughter of Alex Coburn [[spoiler:(alias John Casey)]] and Kathleen [=McHugh=]. Kathleen was told that Alex was killed in combat in 1989 (actually volunteered for a special unit) while she was pregnant with their daughter. [[spoiler:John first found out about his daughter twenty-one years later in "Chuck Versus the Tic Tac".]] After being targeted by Ring agents, she becomes aware of her father's true occupation. [[spoiler:She is currently dating Morgan Grimes with her father's reluctant approval.]]

Tropes associated with Alex:
* ActionGirl: The potential is there, seeing as she managed to stun Casey with a five-hit combo. [[spoiler:Of course, she's his ''daughter''.]] [[FauxActionGirl Sadly, beyond that one scene, we never see her in physical action again.]]
-->'''Alex:''' I got an A in my self-defense class!
%%* DeadGuyJunior
* DisappearedDad: Alex Coburn died during an operation in Honduras in 1989 while Kathleen [=McHugh=] was pregnant. [[spoiler:His death was faked; he then joined a Black Ops team and takes on the name John Casey.]]
* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Extremely Dour Colonel's Beautiful Daughter]]

!!'''Generalissimo Alejandro Fulgencio Goya'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Dictator / General\\
'''Affiliation''': The Republic of Costa Gravas]
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[[caption-width:177:"Come...''to Costa Gravas!''"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/ArmandAssante''

Dictator of [[BananaRepublic fictional Latin American country]] Costa Gravas. Four presidents (Gerald Ford, UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush) issued a kill order on him but failed. Those orders were carried out by John Casey, who Goya calls the "Angel of Death." He gained many enemies, both inside and outside his country, when he decided to allow democratic elections. He is deeply fond of Captain Awesome, the man who saved his life, [[ChivalrousPervert and even fonder of his wife Ellie.]] He also respects Casey, who (unwillingly) gave donated blood to save him, and gives him a new nickname "Angel of Life."

Tropes associated with Goya:
* AffablyEvil / FauxAffablyEvil
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer
* CaptainErsatz: He shares qualities with Fidel Castro but his larger than life persona and love of the good life (not to mention his middle name) is more reminiscent of Fulgencio Batista.
%%* ChewingTheScenery
%%* ChivalrousPervert
* FamousNamedForeigner: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista Fulgencio]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya Goya]].
%%* FriendlyEnemy: To Casey.
%%* LargeHam
%%* RasputinianDeath: Had a few of these
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite his [[BunnyEarsLawyer quirks]], the guy is a relatively efficient dictator.
* SpicyLatina: Married to one.
* [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Dictator?]]: Just as Casey and Beckman thought he may have truly sided with America - after the...who-knows-what attempt on his life, by ''[[spoiler:his own wife]]'' this time - they discover he purchased a [[NukeEm Nuclear ICBM]] from Volkoff. [[DudeNotFunny Directly calibrated to hit a major southern city in North America]].

!!'''Gertrude Verbanski'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' CEO\\
'''Affiliation''': Verbanski Corporation]
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[[caption-width:177:"Sorry, if I got too physical. Must be the uniform."]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/TheMatrix Carrie Anne Moss]]''

A (presumably) Russian or Slavic PMC soldier who had a moment with John Casey in the past. She has now returned and is helping the team as well as providing Casey with some romance.
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Tropes associated with Verbanski:
* ActionGirl: She once disarmed Casey! ''(And even encased the weapon she took from him!)''
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is an efficient operative and businesswoman in her own right. But, whenever Casey is involved, she either gets weak in the knees, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial flustered]], or just plain ''[[{{Tsundere}} weird]]''.
%%* DarkActionGirl: Depends on the job.
%%* OfficialCouple: With Casey.
%%* PrivateMilitaryContractor
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Is a "master" of these. When flustered enough, ''[[BunnyEarsLawyer she'll begin ranting for no reason - even as no one brought anything up!]]''
-->''(Both Sarah and Verbanski silence a couple of mooks during a mission...)''
-->'''Verbanski:''' "...Fine! I love Casey! Just stop grilling me!"
-->'''Sarah:''' "[[FlatWhat ...]]"
%%ZCE* {{Tsundere}}

!!'''Jack Burton'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Con Artist\\
'''Affiliation''': None]
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[[caption-width:177:"A thief has to run out of town as fast as he can, but a good con man can leave whenever he wants"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/GaryCole''

Sarah's somewhat estranged father. He is a two-bit ConMan who frequently involved Sarah when she was a kid in his schemes, and often rewarded her with ice cream or sometimes hard cash. Sarah claims that her experiences with him rubbed her the wrong way, but Jack ''(correctly)'' deduced that she had way more fun conning people than she would care to admit. That said, he always kept her well-being and happiness at heart, and in his own way, looked out for her.

When Sarah was in high school, Director Graham arrested him "for his own protection" after he conned a particularly dangerous man - this same incident was when she was recruited into the CIA. Jack however found out about her much later, and despite being on opposite sides of the law, he's proud of her. Using his skills as a confidence man, Jack helped out Chuck and his team on two seperate occassions: Freezing the funds of a powerful Sheikh, and obtaining Iranian nuclear missile plans.
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Tropes associated with Jack:
* AffablyEvil: Absolute bottom feeding scum of the Earth. But ''he's a hell of a dancer''.
* AffectionateNickname: Calls Chuck "schnuck" and Casey "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cop face.]]"
%%* ConMan
%%* CoolOldGuy
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A magnificent jerk with the biggest heart ever!
%%* TheNicknamer
* NoodleIncident: Exactly who Jack conned that prompted Graham to arrest him and enlist Sarah to protect them was never expanded on.
* WildCard: No matter how much he loves Sarah, he's still a ConMan to the core, and can never really be trusted.

!!'''Nicholas Quinn'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent (formerly)\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA (formerly)]
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[[caption-width:177:"Nice to meet you. I'm Nicholas Quinn. And I'm about to become the Intersect."]]

''Portrayed by Angus Macfadyen''

A rogue freelance spy who has something of a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vendetta against Chuck]], to put it very mellow. He was a top-grade CIA agent who was set to be the agency's first true Intersect Agent. However, Bryce Larkin happened. After that, his life and career began a downward spiral until he left the CIA and began to work freelance. ...[[LaserGuidedKarma For Fulcrum, The Ring, and Volkoff Industries]], all organizations which Chuck himself put out of commission, and Quinn out of business. Quinn snapped, and made it his life's mission to make Chuck's life a living hell even worse than his own, and get the Intersect while he's at it, which technically is ''rightfully his anyway.''
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Tropes associated with Quinn:
* ActionSurvivor: He has an incredible talent of escaping extremely dangerous situations. Practically an expy of [[Series/{{Alias}} Sark]].
** He survived being tortured for 378 days.
* ArchEnemy: While Chuck would more or less see Shaw as his greatest enemy, Quinn openly views Chuck as his.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Being tortured for over a year in a hole didn't do anything for his sanity, or [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge anger management]].
* BigBad: Of the second-half of the final season.
%%* TheChessmaster
* {{Determinator}}: To a practically hilarious degree - this is a man who will stop at nothing to get the Intersect. Case in point? Getting kicked out of a moving ''bullet train'', and ''[[RuleOfCool still somehow managing to get back inside]].''
* {{Knight Of Cerebus}}: His {{Mind Rape}} of Sarah made the final two episodes exceptionally dark for a normally light hearted show.
* LargeHam: Big time - although not quite as ''delicious'' as Volkoff.
--> "I'm former CIA too… The Intersect was supposed to be ''mine''… But then Larkin stole it for ''you''. So I went back at into the field, and then got captured… (laughs) Oooh, and tortured in a hole in the ground for 378 days - '''''IN A HOLE!'''''"
--> "'''''[[WickedCultured ENOUGH OF THE KABUKI!]]'''''"
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* SanitySlippage: Chuck has, for the lack of better words, completely ruined his life, even if unintentional. The constant repeats have driven the guy completely insane.
* UnknownRival: Chuck had no idea of what he did to this guy; no one knew him, or that he was working for all the baddies that Team Bartowski faced off against over the run of the show.

!!'''The Belgian'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Crime Lord\\
'''Affiliation''': Belgian Organized Crime]
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[[caption-width:177:"Pursue Agent Carmichael, and we will kill him - ''slowly.''"]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/TheThornBirds Richard Chamberlain]]''

Real name - '''Adelbert de Smet'''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just how it sounds]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The Belgian is a Belgian man who is in charge of Belgian Organized Crime]]. An extremely dangerous individual who specializes in smuggling highly sensitive intelligence, he had information on the identity of the Intersect. However, when Chuck practically fell into his lap, he got ambitious and decided to kidnap Chuck to extract the Intersect, or just sell off ''Chuck'' himself altogether. Even if he had to lobotomize him.

[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge He was knocked out and arrested by Chuck's very protective, and very pissed off girlfriend.]]
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[[folder:CIA and other spies]]
!!'''Bryce Larkin'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA]
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[[caption-width:177:"Hello, Chuck."]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/WhiteCollar Matthew Bomer]]''

Chuck's old college buddy and roommate, Bryce is responsible for getting Chuck kicked out of college by framing him for cheating on a test - in truth, he was only saving Chuck from the spy life since he was already being scouted by the CIA. In the end, however, Bryce ended up sending the Intersect to Chuck and starting the whole chain of events as he only trusted Chuck with the Intersect.

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Tropes Associated with Bryce:
%%* TheAce
%%* BigDamnHeroes
* GuileHero: He plays Chuck like a harp.
* HollywoodNerd: He protected the Intersect images with a password inspired by ''Zork'', and it's this shared passion for geeky subjects that helped him and Chuck bond at Stanford.
%%* KilledOffForReal
* MomentKiller: Bryce is a walking, talking cockblock.
%%* MrFanservice
* RomanticFalseLead: He was Sarah's main love interest for the first two seasons, until he was [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal in the Season 2 finale.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Sacrificed his friendship with Chuck to give Chuck a chance at a normal life.
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!'''Stephen J. Bartowski / Orion'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Engineer\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA (formerly)]
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[[caption-width:177:"Maybe we should...wait until dark, they're...they're tracking my every move. Rat bastards..."]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/QuantumLeap Scott Bakula]]''

Chuck and Ellie's estranged father, he is later revealed to have been a CIA spy, engineer, and creator of the Intersect - codenamed Orion. After discovering what the Intersect was truly capable of, he abandoned Chuck and Ellie to protect them from Fulcrum and The Ring.

[[spoiler:He was later shot and killed by Daniel Shaw.]]

Tropes associated with Stephen:
* ActorAllusion: Done twice in Stephen's first appearance.
** A very familiar CatchPhrase shows up quite early in the episode.
---> '''Ellie''' (in shock at seeing her father): [[CallBack I want pancakes.]]
--->'''Stephen''' (equally shocked at her reaction): [[Series/QuantumLeap Oh boy!]]
** A meta example occurred in the network lead-in to the episode, done by Bakula in which he mentions feeling like he's "been here before." ''Series/QuantumLeap'' aired on NBC (though regrettably for the reference, never on the Mondays at 8pm Eastern Time slot Chuck occupied at the time).
* TheAtoner: He feels really bad about abandoning his kids.
** He also seems to have spent years trying to atone for [[spoiler:turning his best friend, Hartley Winterbottom into the ax crazy arms dealer Alexei Volkroff, and convincing his wife (a CIA agent) to go rogue to look after him.]]
* BadassBookworm: The man was on the run from the government and Fulcrum for ten years and regularly kicks the crap out of secret agents.
* CatchPhrase: "Aces, Charles".
%%* ChekhovMIA
%%* DisappearedDad
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: "This disk will self-destruct in 5 seconds".
* IronicNickname: Orion the Hunter yet he has spent most of his adult life being the hunted.
** Makes more sense with the backstory revealed in season four. [[spoiler:Seeing how he spent years keeping track of his best friend Hartley, (AKA Alexei Volkroff) who he accidentally turned into an ax crazy arms dealer, and his wife, who took it upon herself to look after Hartley.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Courtesy of Daniel Shaw.]]
* OmniscientDatabase: A beta version of the Intersect is in his head. When we see his flashes, the images move much more slowly than they do when Chuck flashes.
* ProperlyParanoid: He thinks that "the bastards are watching [his] every move". He says that in a room with [[TheMenInBlack Sarah]], and he's completely right.
** Of course he ''knew'' Sarah was CIA all along, and only allowed her to find him in the first place because he allowed her to.
%%* TechnoWizard

!!'''Langston Graham'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Director\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA]
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[[caption-width:177:"At least they ''(the intersect)'' weren't sent to his friend."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/TonyTodd''

Graham was the Director of the CIA, and the direct supervisor of the Intersect Project, along with Sarah's superior. He recruited Sarah when she was in high school after he apprehended her father for conning a dangerous individual - claiming he [[WellIntentionedExtremist saved]] them both. It is assumed he is the only other person to have known Sarah's real full name.

He was killed at the beginning of Season 2 after the rebuilt Intersect was sabotaged by Fulcrum.

Tropes associated with Graham:
%%* BaldBlackLeaderGuy
%%* DaChief
* Jerkass: He's essentially Beckman without any of the sympathetic qualities.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Dies in an explosion in the Season 2 premiere.]]
%%* MissionControl
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Graham was supposed to have survived longer than intended, but his death came about due to Tony Todd appearing on ''Series/TwentyFour'' that same year.
%%* TheStoic
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Seems to have this attitude even more than Beckman.

!!'''Cole Barker'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM (cover) / MI6]
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[[caption-width:177:"Well, who'd have thought it. Cole Barker loses the girl to Chuck Bartowski."]]

''Portrayed by Jonathan Cake''

Barker is a MI6 agent who infiltrated the ranks of Fulcrum as one of their top operatives - only to have his cover blown by Chuck & crew after a case of mistaken identity. Throughout his stay in Castle, some static was caused between him and Chuck, with Barker shamelessly hitting on Sarah at every chance he got. Regardless, he proved he was ultimately a good guy, and a dependable agent.
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Tropes associated with Barker:
%%* TheAce
%%* BigDamnHeroes
* ColdBloodedTorture: Was on the receiving end of so many of these, he's developed a case of TooKinkyToTorture.

%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* MI6
* OddFriendship: After a bit of initial static with Chuck regarding Sarah, the two have surprisingly learned to get along and work together rather well. Cole himself seems particularly fond of Chuck; both times he got shot he was more worried about Chuck's well being, even though Chuck's current injuries weren't ''nearly'' as serious.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: A lecherous, suave AntiHero variation.

!!'''Mary Elizabeth Bartowski / Frost'''

'''Rank/Job:''' ???\\
'''Affiliation''': Volkoff Industries/[[spoiler: CIA]]]
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[[caption-width:177:[[ActorAllusion "Come with me if you want to live."]]]]

''Portrayed by Creator/LindaHamilton''

Mary is Chuck and Ellie's mother. She disappeared when they were children, leaving Ellie to raise Chuck after Stephen left as well. She first appears in [[spoiler: "Chuck Versus the Anniversary" where she is a prisoner of Marco, an agent of Volkoff. She escapes, effortlessly killing her captors.]] Though at first its a mystery as to who she's working for and who she's loyal to, the one thing that's clear is that she doesnot want to hurt [[MoralityPet her family]].

[[spoiler: Eventually its revealed that her original mission of infiltrating Volkoff Industries is still her primary goal, due to her husband's Intersect project being responsible for turning the previously harmless Hartley Winterbottom into the AxeCrazy Alexei Volkoff.]]

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Tropes associated with Mary:
%%* ActionMom:
%%* BackForTheFinale

%%* MamaBear
%%* ParentalAbandonment
* [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]

!!'''Carina Miller'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent
'''Affiliation''': DEA]
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[[caption-width:177:"You idiot. The reason Sarah is being so cold is because she loves you. Now get your head out of your ass and be a spy."]]

''Portrayed by Mini Anden''

One of Sarah's old spy buddies (they were part of a four-woman team called the CAT Squad), Carina is a spy who is equally comfortable with either kicking ass or seducing unwitting marks.

Tropes Associated with Carina:
* ActionGirl: Carina is able to hold her own in a fight against Sarah.
* BigDamnHeroes: Pulls one in the Season 4 finale.
%%* ClassyCatBurglar
* DefrostingIceQueen: Towards Morgan. Originally she couldn't even remember his name, and shows very little respect for him. She warms up to him significantly after he stands up to her, [[spoiler: and even sleeps with him]].
* FemmeFatale: Her main modus operandi is seduction. She's so good at it that she's even able to get ''Casey'' to drop his guard, even when he's ''completely aware of her intentions''.
* MsFanservice: She spends a ''lot'' of her appearances in her underwear, swimsuits, and sexy cocktail dresses, and very much uses her appearance to advantage.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She had no qualms double-crossing Sarah to make herself look better to the CIA brass.

!!'''Greta'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent / Computer Technician / Green Shirt\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA / Buy More]
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[[caption-width:177:"I have a way with dealing with annoyances. It's very pleasant. But only to me."]]

''Portrayed by [[Series/AttackOfTheShow Olivia Munn]], [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Isaiah Mustafa]], Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Creator/SummerGlau (pictured left)''

An agent(s) under Beckman's direct orders who is stationed at the rebuilt, CIA-run Buy More. Many different individuals assume the identity of Greta, for mission ambiguity and other...unclear purposes.

[[spoiler:Eventually, it is revealed that the Gretas were candidates for a new NCS project in which they were candidates vying to be new Intersect Agents. Greta-2 and Greta-3 and became the first members of this program, before a nearly catastrophic disaster resulted in the program being taken under Chuck's lead, and the two Gretas are subsequently de-Intersected.]]

Tropes Associated with the Gretas:
%%* TheAce
* ActorAllusion: [[{{Series/Firefly}} A subtle one]] with Summer Glau's incarnation when Casey stands up for his operation after Greta criticizes it. Isaiah Mustafa also plays his version of Greta as very similar to Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike. Stacy Kiebler has a brief rematch with Stone Cold Steve Austin.
* EmotionlessGirl: Munn's portrayal of Greta.
* KnifeNut: Summer's Portrayal of Greta ''really'' likes her knife.
* LegacyCharacter: There are four of them.
%%* MissionControl
* MrFanservice: Mustafa's portrayal.
* MsFanservice: The ''other'' Gretas. Olivia Munn's Greta is even introduced with a [[MaleGaze slow pan]] up her [[ShesGotLegs rather nice stems]].
* NoNameGiven: Of the four Gretas, two are eventually named: [[spoiler:Isaiah Mustafa's Greta-2 (Richard Noble) and Stacey Keibler's Greta-3 (Victoria Dunwoody)]].
* NotSoStoic: The Creator/SummerGlau Greta is the only Greta that ever breaks the façade in the Buy More. It seems not even a spy trained to control their emotions can deal with the annoyance that is Jeff and Lester.
* OmniscientDatabase: [[spoiler:Agents Noble and Dunwoody had access to the Intersect 2.0]].
* StealthHiBye: The Creator/SummerGlau Greta is a master.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Olivia Munn's incarnation of Greta was intended to have been a recurring role, however other commitments forced her to reluctantly drop out after her first appearance. It was then decided to rotate different actors into the role each appearance rather than drop the character.

!!'''Roan Montgomery'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA (formerly)]
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[[caption-width:177:"The first rule of being a spy: never fall in love."]]

''Portrayed by John Laroquette''

Was one of the best spies in the US government and known for his legendary exploits with the ladies, but is now....past his expiration date. Has a historical relationship with Gen. Beckman.
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Tropes Associated with Roan:
* TheAlcoholic: Loves his martinis
* BrokenAce: Despite his reputation and abilities he's a JadedWashout.
%%* TheCasanova: For God and Country.
%%* CoolOldGuy
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSestZIAdZw "65 Bars And A Taste Of Soul" by Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band]].
** The theme ''perfectly'' fits him, AND the song ''actually accompanies Chuck's intersect flash of him''. Yes. His own personal theme song is ''inside the Intersect database''.
* TheMentor: Roan taught his own class in seduction when he was in the CIA.
* NonActionGuy: He has yet to display his spy skills aside from pointing his gun.
%%* SharpDressedMan

!!'''Jane Bentley'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Director\\
'''Affiliation''': NCS]
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[[caption-width:177:"You know what your problem is? You want people to like you too much. A true leader shouldn't care about that."]]

''Portrayed by Robin Givens''

NCS Director in charge of the GRETA project to find field agents to imprint with the Intersect. After the project was scrapped, she was demoted to work directly under Chuck himself, much, ''much'' to her displeasure.

Tropes associated with Bentley:
* DefrostingIceQueen: By the end.
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted in that Chuck saves her when she was prepared to die.
* JerkAss: Casey calls her "...our Beckman but without the sparkling personality".
* SmugSnake: Is she ever. Or was anyway.

!!'''Clyde Decker'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA]
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[[caption-width:177:"I'm not afraid to be the bad guy."]]

''Portrayed by Richard Burgi''

Described as the CIA's toughest and most ruthless agent, Decker was hell-bent on getting rid of Volkoff and foiling Chuck. In the final season, along with a team of corrupt CIA agents, he was once more determined to destroy Carmichael Industries and eliminate Chuck, for rather mysterious reasons. [[spoiler:Those reasons were blackmail: Daniel Shaw discovered traces of his corruption, and used it to blackmail him into acting as his lackey. He was killed by Verbanski]].

Tropes Associated with Decker:
* BigBad: Of the first half of the final season. [[spoiler: Subverted. He's TheDragon to Shaw.]]
%%* TheDragon: To [[spoiler:Shaw]].
%%* JerkAss
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* SmugSnake
[[/folder]]

[[folder:FULCRUM]]
!!'''Theodore "Ted" Roark'''

'''Rank/Job:''' CEO / Engineer / Director\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM / Roark Instruments]
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[[caption-width:177:"I'm not a monster. ...[[CardCarryingVillain Maybe a little bit of a monster]]."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/ChevyChase''

The CEO and founder of Roark Instruments, Ted Roark is secretly the head of FULCRUM and is in charge of developing FULCRUM's own intersect. He also has quite a bit of history with Stephen Bartowski: The two were former college buddies, and supposedly, Ted stole all of his best ideas.

At the end of Season 2, he was apprehended and killed by Miles, after he had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]] to The Ring.

Tropes Associated with Ted:
* AffablyEvil & FauxAffablyEvil: The reigning champion of these tropes within the show.
* BigBad: Of Season 2, as the head of FULCRUM.
* CardCarryingVillain: More or less admits to the fact that he's an unrepentant monster.
* DeadpanSnarker: Yet another trope he's a king of.
%%* GoOutWithASmile
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed
* RivalTurnedEvil: It started as friendly rivalry with Stephen Bartowski. Now it's FULCRUM versus CIA.
* ShoutOut: He's the Creator/SteveJobs to Stephen's Steve Wozniak.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Ring assassinates him after he's captured.

!!'''Vincent Smith'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM / The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"I wish I could give you a proper reward. But, fortunately I have to shoot you."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/ArnoldVosloo''

Vincent heads FULCRUM's search for Orion, and is under direct command by the Ring Elders as well as Ted Roark. For three years, he's been looking for him to no avail - that is until Chuck finally made contact with him.

He was killed by an air strike in "Chuck Versus the Colonel".[[note]]Not that it's stopped fans believing he ''still' managed to survive.[[/note]]

Tropes Associated with Vincent:
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
* BlessedWithSuck: With his track record of getting hurt, ''no one'' wants to be in Vincent's shoes.
* BookEnds: He gets caught in an air strike in his first and last appearances.
* ButtMonkey: Should be the poster-boy for this trope. Vincent was, in direct order: Blown up, shot, poisoned, shot again, beaten up by Stephen, run over by Chuck, bludgeoned with a radiator by Casey, knocked out by Sarah, then finally blown up by Beckman's air strike. He is by no means incompetent, just extremely unlucky.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To both Ted Roark, and the Ring Elders.
%%* EnigmaticMinion
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vincent prides himself in a sense of professionalism.
%%* MIB
%%* RasputinianDeath
%%* SharpDressedMan
* TheyKilledKenny: To the point where some people are still debating whether he was truly killed during Beckman's air-strike...
* TrainingFromHell: Implied to have gone through one.
-->'''Vincent''': It's called Tetradotoxin. FULCRUM agents are trained to withstand it's death-like state.
-->'''Chuck''': Sounds like a fun class.
-->'''Vincent''': Not really.
* TheWorfEffect: He's undeniably a top-class operative, who regularly gets beaten and blown up.

!!'''Dr. Jill Roberts'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Operative / Biochemist\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:"I care about Chuck."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/JordanaBrewster''

Jill is Chuck's ex-girlfriend back from his Stanford days. Right after Chuck was kicked out for "cheating", she dumped Chuck and fell for Bryce - the very guy who got him kicked out. In truth, she was by then recruited by FULCRUM and was forced to dump Chuck. Since then, there's been some bad blood between them - but at the same time, lingering traces of their love.

She was freed by Chuck in "Chuck Versus the First Kill", and is now on the run.

Tropes Associated with Jill:
%%* BadassBookworm
%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
%%* TheDragon: To Leader.
%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* PutOnABus: Her family thinks she moved to Finland.
** According to WordOfGod, had budget and time allowed it Jill [[TheBusCameBack would have returned]] for [[BackForTheFinale the series finale]].

!!'''Tommy Delgado'''

'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:"Okay... I wouldn't want you kill some random person. I'd feel just... terrible."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/AnthonyRuivivar''

Tommy is a cold and ruthless operative who attempted to use Bryce to steal the Intersect. Tommy's appearance marks the first time the viewers become aware of FULCRUM.

After Bryce's supposed death, Tommy saved him and used the Demetrios crime family to smuggle his body back into the US. The plan failed, but he was later able to deduce that Bryce was just a decoy, and that Chuck was the real Intersect.

He was then captured and placed in a CIA prison, though he is still somehow involved with the tracking of the Intersect from his cell.

Tropes Associated with Tommy:
%%* BadassInANiceSuit
* BigBad: Arguably, for Season 1. Though he is captured only after appearing in two episodes, he remained the "face" of FULCRUM to many fans.
%%* ColdSniper
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* EnigmaticMinion
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
%%* GoodScarsEvilScars
%%* SharpDressedMan

!!'''Leader'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Senior Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:"Devious, aren't we?"]]

''Portrayed by Patrick Kilpatrick'''

Jill's FULCRUM handler, and the organization's senior operative. Together with Jill, he concocted a scheme to infiltrate Castle to gain access to their computers and the CIA's network.

After downloading a significant amount of data, and defeating Team Bartowski, he was nearly successful if it had not been for Big Mike knocking the living shit out of him - mistaking him for a thief.
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Tropes Associated with Leader:
%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* DiabolicalMastermind
%%* EvilMentor
* GeniusBruiser: He's extremely cunning and smart - yet tough enough to take down ''Casey''.
* NoNameGiven: His identity was kept extremely confidential.

!!'''Edgar Winterborne'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:"The Ring... What amateurs!"]]

''Portrayed by Creator/MarkPellegrino'''

An Operative who was tasked with tracking Guy [=LaFleur's=] FULCRUM blackmail roster through Chuck & Jill. He apparently had no knowledge of Jill being a FULCRUM agent, or that she was on that very blackmail file. After destroying the USB drive with the file (not knowing Chuck made a backup), he fled and was never found.

He later reappeared in Season 5 as a known associate of Nicholas Quinn, following FULCRUM's dissolution. He was in the middle of a transaction for the Intersect Key with Quinn when Sarah ambushed the deal aboard Edgar's private jet. After a short scuffle, he presumably escaped after Quinn stole a part of the Intersect key.

Tropes associated with Edgar:
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Invokes this towards The Ring. He merely scoffs at their mention and labels them as amateurs.
** [[FridgeLogic Maybe he didn't get the memo that FULCRUM was a PART of The Ring...]]
* ActionSurvivor: In both his appearances, he escaped relatively unharmed.
* CombatPragmatist: He's extremely efficient and subtle in his methods. And it's probably why he's the ''only'' known FULCRUM agent aside from Jill to survive.
* TheDreaded: Not ''him'' per say, but every time the viewers caught "[[Film/{{Brazil}} Tuttle Electric]]", they knew ''it was that guy''.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He's worked for FULCRUM since the day Ted Roark founded it, and all he's got to show for it was babysitting Roark's Intersect Key.


!!'''"Uncle" Bernie Ominsky'''
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'''Rank/Job:''' Operative\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM]
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[[caption-width:177:''"I don't know if he wants to kill me or eat me!"'' ~ Chuck, on Uncle Bernie]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/{{Borat}} Ken Davitian]]'''

A senior FULCRUM operative, he is a good friend of Jill's father, and is suspected to be the one to have recruited Jill into FULCRUM. Due to his seniority status and clearance, he was tricked into thinking Jill and Chuck were getting married to lure him to a family party (the only time he is without his men), all to ascertain the location of where Ted Roark was holding Stephen Bartowski. After Chuck's cover was blown, he attempted to kill both of them but ended up dying of a heart attack right before the act - which ''may or may not'' have been the result of an [[http://i50.tinypic.com/2en6suw.jpg extremely dangerous defensive pose known as "The Morgan."]]

In FULCRUM, his code-name is '''The Carnivore''' due to his rather impressive feat of eating a 96-ounce steak under an hour and gaining recognition for it.
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* AffablyEvil: Off-job, he's an extremely friendly and jovial "family-uncle." On the job, he's a typical murdering FULCRUM psycho.
%%* AmbiguouslyJewish
* BigEater: What earned him is code-name, "The Carnivore."
%%* BigFun

%%* EvilUncle
* InsistentTerminology: Insists everyone calls him "Uncle", even Chuck.
%%* KilledOffForReal
* {{Leitmotif}}: He's the only other character other than Roan Montogomery who has his own theme song uploaded in the Intersect - his being [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0 "Hungry Like The Wolf" by Duran Duran]].
* NoodleIncident: As Wally put it, each time Bernie meets one of Jill's boyfriends whom he didn't like, [[NeverFoundTheBody "they are never seen again."]]
* [[PapaWolf Uncle Wolf]]: He's seemingly very protective of Jill - at least as far as crappy boyfriends are concerned - but was still willing to kill her for betraying FULCRUM.

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[[folder:The Ring]]
!!'''The Elders'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Director\\
'''Affiliation''': FULCRUM / The Ring]
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''Portrayed by... a bunch of old people?''

The five superiors who both command The Ring, as well as Fulcrum. Their motives are unknown, but they have been sticking their hands in many different cookie jars - from creating their own Intersect, to the assassination of global leaders.

They were captured at the end of Season 3 by Team Bartowski.
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Tropes Associated with the Elders:
* BigBad: For a good chunk of the show, they have been more or less the main bad guys.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: They seem to have several of these.
* EvilOldFolks: After TheReveal, most of them have been shown to be nothing but a bunch of helpless old farts.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bastards]]
%%* NebulousEvilOrganisation
* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen They Who Must Not Be Seen]]: A good deal of their screen time includes their faces being completely shadowed out.
%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

!!'''The Director'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Director\\
'''Affiliation''': The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"Now this is brazen."]]

''Portrayed by Creator/MarkSheppard''

The Director is the [[IncrediblyLamePun direct]] head of The Ring - of seemingly equal authority as The Elders, he is the driving force of many, if not all of their operations. He has somehow obtained surveillance footage of Sarah's red test, and was directly responsible for Shaw's FaceHeelTurn.

He was soon captured by the then civilian Casey, who traded him to earn back his rank, a new Crown Victoria, and making Morgan an official spy of Team Bartowski.
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Tropes Associated with The Director:
* AffablyEvil & FauxAffablyEvil
* BigBad: Of the first half of Season 3. He's the leader of the Ring, and the one responsible for [[spoiler: Daniel Shaw's StartOfDarkness.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Turns Shaw evil by revealing that Sarah killed his wife.]]
* NoNameGiven: He is only ever referred to as The Director.
* SchmuckBait: Easily pulls one on Chuck and Sarah.

!!'''Daniel Shaw'''

'''Rank/Job:''' Special Agent\\
'''Affiliation''': CIA / The Ring]
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[[caption-width:177:"Sometimes he sounds like Bond, other times it's like a Jerry Lewis movie."]]

''Portrayed by [[Film/SupermanReturns Brandon Routh]]''

A special agent who worked for the CIA, Shaw specialized in Ring intelligence and was sent in as the supervisor of Operation Bartowski to make progress against The Ring. During his stay there, he developed a romance with Sarah, but was ultimately short-lived after it was [[TheReveal revealed]] that [[spoiler:she killed his wife on the CIA's orders]]. What followed suit was a prompt FaceHeelTurn with a subtle form of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

Mid-season, he was shot and [[DisneyDeath killed]] by Chuck, but ultimately survived - cementing his status as the season's BigBad. He was finally beaten and apprehended at the end of Season 3.

[[spoiler:He makes a return during the fifth season, and reveals himself to be the BigBad once again, having blackmailed Decker and Cunnings to be his [[{{Mook}} mooks]]. His plan was to use the Omen virus to pilfer then destroy every government database in the world, and use the information to update his own Intersect and become America's single most valuable asset. He was however OutGambitted by Chuck, and later knocked out by Ellie.]]
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Tropes Associated with Shaw:
%%* TheAce
* AntiHero: Starts off this way.
** AntiVillain: Type II, mid-way through.
*** Then into full blown ObviouslyEvil territory, clearly enjoying the damage he causes just because.
* ArchEnemy: To Chuck. They both come from a similar background, both have a profound dislike of guns, both love Sarah, and both end up with an Intersect. Following Shaw's defection, he kills [[spoiler:Stephen]] and attempts to kill Sarah several times as well. He also has one of his [[{{Mook}} mooks]] manipulate Ellie into making it easier for him to break up their team and take over the CIA.
** Also showcased in that Shaw is the only character in the whole series that Chuck willfully shot to kill.
** And, he's also the show's most recurring villain, playing the part of BigBad in the third season [[spoiler:as well as the fifth and final]].
* BackFromTheDead: DoubleSubversion. Morgan {{lampshades}} his NeverFoundTheBody death, and then Chuck and Sarah learn that the Ring was after his will-thing so they assume he is dead.
* BigBad: Shares this spot with the Ring Elders in Season 3. [[spoiler:And splits BigBad duties for the first half of the final season, with Quinn taking over the last couple of episodes]].
* ChekhovsGunman: He is first introduced as a silent figure whom Beckman talks to as he walks away, and appears as a CIA agent targeted by the Ring not long after.
%%* CrazyPrepared
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Shaw pulls off a rare non-fighting example in "Chuck Verses the Subway". [[spoiler: Chuck notices he has an Intersect and tries to prove this in front of the CIA by throwing a knife at him to prove the SuperReflexes that the Intersect gives him. Shaw manages to turn this around by ''letting himself be impaled by the knife'' and uses this incident to prove that Chuck is insane]].
* TheDeterminator: Not only does he survive a double-tap to the chest and [[NeverFoundTheBody falling into a river]], but he also brushes off a rocket explosion with little more than a mild KO.
* TheDragon
** DragonInChief: As of "Chuck Versus the Living Dead", he has an Intersect.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** Having seen Chuck in action several times, and having had access to his psychological profile, Shaw is convinced that Chuck will never use lethal force for any reason -- not even to protect someone he loves. When Shaw attempts to kill Sarah, he learns the hard way that Chuck's willing to make an exception just for him.
** Despite the fact that Shaw ''knows'' that both Devon and Morgan are in on Chuck's double life, and that they're very close, Shaw never seems to take either of them into account while planning his master stroke against Chuck, Sarah, Casey and Beckman. Shaw gloats prematurely, and the B squad of Team Bartowski launches a rescue effort that takes him entirely by surprise.
%%* EvilCounterpart: To Chuck, as of "Chuck Versus the Living Dead".
* FaceHeelTurn: After learning that [[IKnewIt Sarah's red test was to kill his wife]].
* GambitRoulette: Most of his plans; see OmniscientMoralityLicense below.
%%* GuileHero: Before his FaceHeelTurn.
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FVflGaU Kettering, by The Antlers]]'' - fitting song given his status as the show's TragicVillain.
** The whole song is played during the moment when Chuck [[NotQuiteDead kills]] him to save Sarah.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: He loved his wife. [[spoiler: When he finds out that his girlfriend Sarah, was the one who killed her, he snaps.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:In season five, it's revealed that he was the one giving orders to Clyde Decker in another attempt at taking over the CIA.]]
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* OmniscientDatabase: Has (had) access to: Ring Intersect.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: His plans tend to rely on an obscene amount of luck, and generally put Chuck in far more danger than someone with his lack of training is accustomed to.
%%* RivalTurnedEvil: A variant on the theme
* SanitySlippage: Upon finding out that [[spoiler:the girl he loved killed his wife]], he ''snapped'', and could only cope with it through revenge and one power grab after another.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Largely averted, although he did come in very conveniently after Bryce's death. His relationships with the other characters are quite different.
* TragicVillain: The show's ideal example. He was an excellent agent and an overall good man. But, like Chuck, he was far too emotional when doing his job. Unlike Chuck, however, Shaw let his emotions, and his inability to cope with the past, control and ultimate destroy him. By [[spoiler:season 5]], he crossed the line with his SanitySlippage.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Discrediting the Intersect project was his first step in taking over the CIA and destroying it from the inside.
%%* {{Yandere}}: Over his deceased wife.

!!'''Justin Sullivan'''
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