History Characters / Dollhouse

* ChekhovsGunman

* ScarsAreForever

* SplitPersonality: At least 48 of them. Two of which have multiple personality disorder itself.

* SplitPersonality: At least 48 of them. One of which has multiple personality disorder itself.

* CurbStompBattle: Against Sierra's first handler, Hearn.

* LittleMissBadass: In this case, a JustifiedTrope: The body is just a vessel with an adult imprint.

One of the Los Angeles Dollhouse's most popular dolls. Echo has begun to develop self-awareness independent of her original personality.

* MeaningfulName: She's one of the few Dolls who remembers fragments of her previous personality- perhaps we could call them [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} echoes?]]

* ActionGirl: As with Echo, this is a frequent imprint.

* MakingUseOfTheTwin: Done with Enver Gjokaj's non-actor twin, Demir Gjokaj, in "The Attic."

A former Active, he had 48 personalities downloaded into his brain during a "composite event." He proceeded to get slash-happy and killed his handler, Echo's handler and a dozen other people before escaping. He has an obsession with Echo. He remains a looming presence throughout the first season, and has been known to contact Paul Ballard with information concerning the Dollhouse.

The Dollhouse's 'madam,' in charge of the Los Angeles branch. Outwardly cool, stoic and very British, in her private moments she has revealed a melancholy and loneliness she would die rather than show to her employees.

* KarmicDeath: Of the [[ActionBomb Action Bomb]] variety.

* AffablyEvil

* {{Badass}}: Conquers his nightmares to become self-aware within the attic, sets himself to hunt down the attic's resident serial killer, remains behind when the others escape to [[TheMatrix free the minds]] of the attic's prisoners, manages to kill and revive himself to escape the attic and was probably the one who sent Ballard those mole messages. Mr. Dominic is a total offscreen badass.
* DeadpanSnarker: 90 percent of his dialogue post Spy In The House of Love counts as this.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Shoots eight rounds at his target from point-blank range and doesn't hit her once.

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: easily the most stable programmer we meet.
* PunchClockVillain: To the point were you forget she's moaning about not being allowed to Strip people of different identities and create SexSlaves.

Adelle's direct superior in the Dollhouse.

->''"You won't give up this body. That's fine, I won't resist. Right now I'm having this same conversation in ten other bodies in ten other Dollhouses around the country."''

Face of the Rossum Corporation.

FBI agent striving to investigate the truth about The Dollhouse, a job described as "the nicest version of fired the bureau has." Like Alpha, he has developed an unhealthy obsession with Echo/Caroline, but you know, a less [[KnifeNut slashy]] one.

[[folder: Imprints]]

* {{Jerkass}}

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* LaughablyEvil: Some of his lines would sound appropriate coming from [[TheDarkKnightTrilogy The Joker]].

Highly skilled neuro-chemist working for the Rossum Corporation. Knew Priya before she became a doll; when she refused his advances, he drugged her to make her appear psychotic and manipulated the Dollhouse into taking her on as a "humanitarian" case.]

* VictimFallsForRapist: The fact that he relishes Sierra saying she loves him (via brainwashing) makes his lust for her even ''creepier.''

* KnightTemplar. In the Attic, original Clyde is killing people (a) to put them out of their misery, and (b) to help take down the computer mainframe their brains comprise.

* BadassNormal

* HeroAntagonist: In the first season

->''It's a good thing I'm relatively sure you're not crazy.''

* HeyItsThatGuy: What TV show has Mark Sheppard NOT been in at this point?

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

* TheMole: As Mellie.

* HappilyMarried

* TookALevelInBadass

* HiveMind: Operation Mindwhisper
* MakingUseOfTheTwin: done with Enver Gjokaj's non-actor twin, Demir Gjokaj, in "The Attic."

-> ''When someone's free they get to make mistakes. Am I free?''

-> ''It's easy to be attached to your assigned active. In fact it's necessary, but don't think of them as children; think of them as pets. When your child starts talking for the first time, you feel proud. When your dog does, you freak the hell out.''

-> ''My talents go beyond asking if he wants chocolate chip or oatmeal.''

->''You won't give up this body. That's fine, I won't resist. Right now I'm having this same conversation in ten other bodies in ten other Dollhouses around the country.''

* HollywoodPudgy: Somewhat subverted. She on occasion makes reference to her weight. Others (particularly Ballard) do not treat her as anything other than the attractive woman that she is.

* ShallowLoveInterest

* ThatManIsGone

* HollywoodPudgy: Somewhat subverted. She on occasion makes reference to her weight. Others (particularly Ballard) do not treat her as anything other than the attractive woman that she is.

* {{Badass}}

* HotChickInABadassSuit: In "The Hollow Men", when Clyde has taken over her body.

* AxeCrazy: Just a bit.

* FoeYay: With Topher.

* LesYay: A whole lot of it with Caroline.

* BigBad, well, at least the second or third copy is. The original is locked in the Attic and very bitter.

* FoeYay: With Adelle.

-> ''I have 38 brains, and not one of them thinks you can sign a contract to be a slave.''

-> ''I love him so much more than I hate you.''

-> ''I'm not kidding. He's not fooling. We're not bluffing. (I'm bluffing.) But the'' rest ''of us, we mean business.''

->''Illusions aren't worthless. They're at the heart of most relationships.''

->''We're pimps and killers, but in a philanthropic way.''

-> ''If I think I can figure things out, is that curiosity or arrogance?''

-> ''My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater vest; what do you suggest I do?''

->''Everyone likes to take a little something home from the office once in a while.''

->''Now's not the time for 'why.' I like this void. This evil, simple world. Just pain. Over and over again. No reason, no end, no in-between. You can't even pass out. We shut down everything that stands between you and blinding, searing pain.''

-> ''The Dollhouse is real!''

* SpoiledBrat: Even Eliza Dushku agrees Caroline is this.

* HotScientist: Three important imprints.

* MrFanservice

* AGodAmI

The character sheet for {{Dollhouse}}. There are major spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen the series.

!The Dolls

-> [[ArcWords ''Did I fall asleep?'']]
-> "For a little while."
-> "Shall I go now?"
-> "If you like."

Dolls are people who have effectively sold themselves to the Rossum Corporation for a period of five years. During this time their memories and personalities are wiped clean and then rewritten in order to cater to the needs of Rossum's megarich customers. All Dolls qualify as [[BlankSlate Blank Slates]] in their unimprinted modes.

'''Echo/Caroline Farrell'''

One of the Los Angeles Dollhouse's most popular dolls. Echo has begun to develop a self-awareness independent of her original personality.

* BlessedWithSuck (or CursedWithAwesome, depending on point of view): The emotional isolation Echo's ability to retain imprints and be anyone imposes on her, especially [[spoiler: how it prevents her from opening her heart fully to Paul Ballard until after he dies in battle. Near the end of his life, Paul tells her, "A hundred personalities, and you're the loneliest person I know."]]

* MagneticHero: [[DiscussedTrope Specifically cited]] by Bennett for her ability to get people to obsess over her or do what she wants even after her mindwiping.

'''Sierra/Priya Tsetsang'''

One of the newest additions to the Dollhouse. [[spoiler: Formerly an Australian artist named Priya. The Dollhouse believes they helped her; five years of service in return for curing her severe paranoid schizophrenia. In reality, a high ranking Rossum employee drugged her into psychosis after she rejected his advances, sent her to the House, and rented out her services regularly. She eventually gets her payback.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Broken before the Dollhouse, and then ''again'' as a Doll [[spoiler:when she is repeatedly raped by her original handler.]]

* TheChick

'''Victor'''/Anthony Ceccoli

* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: A FaceHeelTurn was hinted at at some point before Epitaph 2, and he was full of battle ready imprints at the time]].
* [[spoiler:HiveMind: Operation Mindwhisper]]

* [[spoiler: SuperSoldier: Rossum has a mind-linked band of these as their independent contractors. Tony is recruited to be one.]]

'''November/Madeline Costley'''

November is another female doll in the LA Dollhouse. [[spoiler: She spends much of the first season as a sleeper agent, imprinted with the personality of Paul Ballard's lovable neighbor Mellie.]]

* [[spoiler:CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She's a "sleeper agent" possessing lethal martial arts abilities when triggered by a code phrase.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: she shoots herself in the head when her Mellie imprint comes up against her sleeper imprint, saving Ballard's life]]

* [[spoiler:ManchurianAgent]]
* [[spoiler:TheMole: As Mellie]]
* [[spoiler:ShallowLoveInterest: Her imprinted personality as Mellie.]]

!The Dollhouse staff

'''Adelle [=DeWitt=]'''

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Pretty much her whole role in "The Attic."]]

* MamaBear: Toward the Actives in general and, eventually, [[spoiler: toward Topher.]]

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Always true but specifically demonstrated [[spoiler: when she breaks with Rossum in "Epitaph One"]].

* TheStoic: She took a bullet [[spoiler:during Dominic's mindwiping]] and refused treatment until it was over.

'''Boyd Langton'''

Echo's gruff but kind handler. An ex-cop, he has serious reservations about the work the Dollhouse does, yet constantly shows unswerving loyalty to Echo. Acts as the moral lodestone of the Dollhouse. Later promoted to head of security. [[spoiler:Ultimately revealed to be the [[ManBehindTheMan head of Rossum]]]]

* BadassNormal
* [[spoiler: BaitTheDog]]
* [[spoiler: BigBad]]
* [[spoiler: CorruptCorporateExecutive]]
* [[spoiler: DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs]]
* [[spoiler: EvilAllAlong]]

* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard.]]
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: Of the [[ActionBomb Action Bomb]] variety.]]

* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]
* MoralityChain: He serves as this to Adelle. Or at least he tries. [[spoiler: Or so it seems.]]

* PositiveDiscrimination: [[spoiler: Until TheReveal]]

* TrueCompanions: [[spoiler: "You're my family. I love you guys."]]
* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist]]

'''Topher Brink'''

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Topher is horrified when he realises what really happened to Priya [[spoiler:and refuses to allow Sierra to be given over to Nolan permanently.]]
* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation: In "Epitaph One," he's gone mad from the realization he might be responsible for the end of the world.]] Might have been helped by [[spoiler: Bennett's murder having clearly traumatized him.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: As of [[spoiler:"Meet Jane Doe"]].
* HeroicBSOD: After [[spoiler: Bennett]] is killed right in front of him. He has a milder one earlier after [[spoiler: helping kill and dismember the doctor who made Priya into a Doll.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: In "Epitaph Two: Return," he restores the minds of everyone that has been imprinted with a pulse that kills him when activated.]]

* HoYay: With Boyd.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As of the second season.

** He has a smaller-scale one earlier when he realises that, instead of helping Priya by curing her psychosis, he was [[spoiler:complicit in her enslavement and rape.]]

* ShipTease: Mostly with Ivy, but also with Claire, Echo and even Adelle in "''Echoes''."
** And [[HoYay with Boyd]].

'''Laurence Dominic'''

The Dollhouse's original head of security and [=DeWitt=]'s number two. He takes his job very seriously but is contemptuous of the dolls themselves. Saves a special dislike for Echo, whose autonomy he considers a security risk. [[spoiler: Revealed to be TheMole, wiped and put in The Attic.]]

* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler: Conquers his nightmares to become self-aware within the attic, sets himself to hunt down the attic's resident serial killer, remains behind when the others escape to [[TheMatrix free the minds]] of the attic's prisoners, manages to kill and revive himself to escape the attic and was probably the one who sent Ballard those mole messages.]] Mr. Dominic is a total offscreen badass.
* BadassNormal:

* [[spoiler: FateWorseThanDeath]]
* [[spoiler: HeroAntagonist. Dang that pesky lack of SympatheticPOV.]]
* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]] [[spoiler: His motivations don't really change between the first season and the second, but the torture and wet works aspects of his personality are downplayed and he stops trying to kill Echo, making him more of a straight-up heroic character.]]

'''Dr. Claire Saunders/[[spoiler:Whiskey]]'''

Chief medical officer at the Dollhouse, she was attacked by Alpha during his composite event and left with bad facial scarring. She is the Dollhouse employee with the most concern for the emotional well-being of the actives. [[spoiler:Revealed to be Whiskey, a doll, implanted with a personality based partially off the previous (male) Dr. Saunders, who was killed by Alpha.]]

* BrokenBird: As of [[spoiler: her discovery that she's a former doll.]]
* [[spoiler: CorruptTheCutie]]
* [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn]]
* [[spoiler: FallenHero]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:in 1x08, Caroline demands the release of all the dolls. Guess who's quite casually at the front of the crowd.]]

* HotChickInABadassSuit: In "The Hollow Men", when [[spoiler:Clyde has taken over her body]].
* [[spoiler: LockedOutOfTheLoop]]

* [[spoiler: TheMole: for Boyd]]
* MomentKiller: [[spoiler: ''Literally'']]. [[spoiler: Bennett ;_;]]
* [[spoiler:ReplacementGoldfish]]
* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler: Averted in "Epitaph One." Her face has been healed.]]
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror]]

'''Ivy'''

Topher's assistant in the imprint room. She thinks she's here to use her knowledge and technical skills to work the cutting-edge imprinting technology. Topher thinks she is here to bring him snacks. The male fans of Dollhouse think she's here because who doesn't love a cute Asian techie. [[spoiler:Joss Whedon thinks she's here so she can become a suspect for the spy in "A Spy in the House of Love."]]

* MesACrowd: [[spoiler: In the comic series, as shown by this cover: [http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/Previews/18-758]]]

'''Bennett Halverson'''

** Whether Bennett was sexually attracted to Caroline or not, it's very evident that Caroline is probably Bennett's only friend and that Bennett is very emotionlly invested in the relationship. As for the depraved part: [[spoiler:if you look at it strictly from Bennett's POV it does look an awful lot like Caroline exploited her loneliness to lie and seduce her, when that was revealed used her to break into Rossum, and then when things went wrong left her behind (maimed to boot). Echo herself wonders if she had it coming.]]

* [[spoiler: HeelFaceDoorSlam]]

* PetTheDog: Advising her assistant not to question Rossum's motives, and attempts to comfort [[spoiler: Madeline Costly]].
* [[spoiler:PrettyLittleHeadshots: Oh so averted. When Dr. Saunders kills her, the exit wound splatters both Topher (who was standing behind her) and a computer screen across the room.]]

* {{Revenge}}: On [[spoiler: Caroline.]]

! Other Rossum Employees

'''Matthew Harding'''

->''Everyone likes to take a little something home from the office once in a while.''

--> Played by: Keith Carradine

Adelle's direct superior in the Dollhouse.

* [[spoiler:BodySurf: As of "Epitaph Two: The Return", he and Clive Ambrose have apparently been switching bodies repeatedly.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DirtyOldMan
* FoeYay: With Adelle.
* JabbaTableManners [[spoiler: In the dystopian future, Harding completely lets his appetites run amok once he gains the ability to shed old bodies and inject his mind into new ones. He even jokes about "blowing up" his latest "suit" (to the tune of 300 pounds or so) in "Epitaph Two: Return."]]
* MeLoveYouLongTime: Had an Asian girlfriend in the future.
* VillainousGlutton

'''Clive Ambrose'''

->''You won't give up this body. That's fine, I won't resist. Right now I'm having this same conversation in ten other bodies in ten other Dollhouses around the country.''

--> Played by: Philip Casnoff, and also others ? see below

Face of the Rossum Corporation.

* BodySurf: As of "Epitaph One," he's in at least eleven separate human bodies. [[spoiler: Later he joins Harding in constantly jumping from body to body to maintain his power over the ruined world of "Epitaph Two: Return."]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: His original body was allergic to shellfish, so after that's no longer a concern, he develops a real sweet tooth for them.

'''Nolan Kinnard'''

Highly skilled neuro-chemist working for the Rossum Corporation. [[spoiler: Knew Priya before she became a doll; when she refused his advances, he drugged her to make her appear psychotic and manipulated the Dollhouse into taking her on as a "humanitarian" case.]]

'''Clyde Randolph'''

The inventor of the imprinting process and co-founder of Rossum. [[spoiler: OriginalRecipe Clyde was betrayed by his business partner and became the attic's first occupant-victim. An imprint of him, modified to be unambitious and obedient, now runs things at Rossum.]]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: [[spoiler:"Arcane."]] Lampshaded: "I thought it sounded badass."
* [[spoiler: BigBad, well, at least the second or third copy is. The original is locked in the Attic and very bitter.]]
* [[spoiler: BodySurf: There have been at least five versions of the modified Clyde, plus the original in the Attic.]]
* [[spoiler: KnightTemplar. In the Attic, original Clyde is killing people (a) to put them out of their misery, and (b) to help take down the computer mainframe their brains comprise.]]

!Others

'''Alpha/Carl William Craft'''

-> ''I'm not kidding. He's not fooling. We're not bluffing. (I'm bluffing.) But the'' rest ''of us, we mean business.''

--> Played by: [[spoiler:(Alan Tudyk)]]

A former Active, he had 48 personalities downloaded into his brain during a "composite event." He proceeded to get slash-happy and killed his handler, Echo's handler and a dozen other people before escaping. He has an obsession with Echo. He remains a looming presence throughout the first season, and has been known to contact Paul Ballard with information concerning the Dollhouse.

* AxeCrazy: Knife-crazy.
* BatmanGambit: : His whole plot in ''Briar Rose''? Oh.''My''.'''God'''!
* BigBad : For the first season he is this, even if he only appears in two episodes.
* AGodAmI
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's highly entertaining, despite being one of the few completely evil characters [[BlackAndGreyMorality on the show]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Hinted at in ''Epitaph One'' when [[spoiler:Caroline]] tells Claire [[spoiler:that no one has been wiped at Safe Haven, thanks to Alpha]].
** And confirmed in "Epitaph 2: The Return".
* HeyItsThatGuy: It's [[spoiler: Wash from Firefly]]!
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler:Averted; he was already psychopathic before the composite event drove him insane.]]
* KnifeNut: He likes cutting things.
* LaughablyEvil: Some of his lines would sound appropriate coming from [[TheDarkKnightTrilogy The Joker]].
* MadScientist: Has built his own versions of Dollhouse tech.
* ManipulativeBastard
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:While pretending to be Stephen Kepler.]]
** And earlier, when he was still pretending to be an ordinary active.
* PhlebotinumRebel
* PsychoPrototype
* SplitPersonality: At least 48 of them. One of which has multiple personality disorder itself.
* StalkerWithACrush
* TalkingToThemself
* {{Ubermensch}}: He refers to himself as this.

'''Paul Ballard'''

* HeroAntagonist - In the first season

* KnightInSourArmor: [[spoiler: Especially after he starts working for the Dollhouse in season two.]]

'''Senator Daniel Perrin'''

* HeroAntagonist
* [[spoiler:ManchurianAgent]]

'''Loomis'''

'''Graham Tanaka'''

! The Future

These are characters we first meet in "Epitaph One" and any other future-set episodes. Any characters met in the present day who later appear in these episodes go up top.

'''Iris'''

* CreepyChild: The actress has the same adult-in-a-childs-body vibe Dakota Fanning had. Hearing her say "she loves it when your corny" is just weird.
* LittleMissBadass: In this case, a JustifiedTrope: [[spoiler: the body is just a vessel with an adult imprint.]]
* [[spoiler: The Messiah]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: At least mentally.]]

'''Mag'''

'''Zone'''

----

* RapeIsLove: The fact that he relishes Sierra saying she loves him (via brainwashing) makes his lust for her even ''creepier.''

* EstrogenBrigadeBait

* IdiotHero: For an FBI agent, he seems hopelessly ignorant of proper procedure and constantly goes into situations without preparation or backup. Of course, it's more that no one in the FBI would ''be'' his backup.

* IdiotHero: For an FBI agent, he seems hopelessly ignorant of proper procedure and constantly goes into situations without preparation or backup.

Echo's gruff but kind handler. An ex-cop, he has serious reservations about the work the Dollhouse does, yet constantly shows unswerving loyalty to Echo. Acts as the moral lodestone of the Dollhouse. [[spoiler:Later promoted to head of security. Ultimately revealed to be the [[ManBehindTheMan head of Rossum]]]]

The Dollhouse's 'madam,' in charge of the Los Angeles branch. Outwardly cool, stoic and very British, in her private moments she has revealed a melancholy and loneliness she would die rather than reveal to her employees.