History Characters / Dollhouse

* WideEyedIdealist: at least her original personality.

* HannibalLecture

One of the newest additions to the Dollhouse. 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 when she is repeatedly raped by her original handler.

* HotMom

* OfficialCouple: With Victor.

* OfficialCouple: With Sierra.

** Eventually promoted to [[OneTruePairing OTP]].

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

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She's a "sleeper agent" possessing lethal martial arts abilities when triggered by a code phrase.
* CurbStompBattle: Against Sierra's first handler, Hearn. Almost literally.
* DrivenToSuicide: She shoots herself in the head when her Mellie imprint comes up against her sleeper imprint, saving Ballard's life.
* ManchurianAgent
* TheMole: As Mellie.

* HeelFaceTurn: Hinted at in ''Epitaph One'' when Caroline tells Claire that no one has been wiped at Safe Haven, thanks to Alpha.
** And confirmed in "Epitaph 2: The Return".

* ObfuscatingStupidity: While pretending to be Stephen Kepler.

--> Played by: AmyAcker

One of the most popular dolls before being attacked by Alpha and then implanted with a personality based partially off the previous (male) Dr. Saunders.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A minor one alongside Topher, when she realises what they inadvertently did to Priya.
-->"You have made me an accomplice in something vile... and it ends now."
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Always true but specifically demonstrated when she breaks with Rossum in "Epitaph One".

* BigBad
* BigBadFriend

* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs
* EvilAllAlong

* HoistByHisOwnPetard.
* KarmicDeath: Of the ActionBomb variety.

* TheManBehindTheMan
* ManipulativeBastard: You have no idea.
* MoralityChain: He serves as this to Adelle. Or at least he tries. Or so it seems.

* WellIntentionedExtremist

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Topher is horrified when he realises what really happened to Priya and refuses to allow Sierra to be given over to Nolan permanently.
* 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 Bennett's murder having clearly traumatized him.

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

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: By ''Epitaph One'', due to his role in creating the tech.
** He has a smaller-scale one earlier when he realises that, instead of helping Priya by curing her psychosis, he was complicit in her enslavement and rape.]

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. Revealed to be TheMole for the NSA, wiped and put in The Attic.

* {{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 [[Film/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.

* FateWorseThanDeath
* HeroAntagonist. Dang that pesky lack of SympatheticPOV.

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. 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 her discovery that she's a former doll.

* FaceHeelTurn
* FallenHero
* {{Foreshadowing}}: in 1x08, Caroline demands the release of all the dolls. Guess who's quite casually at the front of the crowd.

* TheMole: for Boyd.
* MomentKiller: ''Literally''. Bennett ;_;
* ReplacementGoldfish
* SanitySlippage

* TomatoInTheMirror

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. Ultimately revealed to be the [[ManBehindTheMan head of Rossum]].

* ChekhovsGunman: The mysterious founder of Rossum Corporation had been hanging out in the LA Dollhouse for two whole seasons, right in front of the viewers faces.

* LargeAndInCharge: He's the tallest of the cast at 6"4" and revealed as the head of Rossum.

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* MeLoveYouLongTime: Had an Asian girlfriend in the future.

--> Played by: ElizaDushku & DichenLachman

--> Played by: DichenLachman

* The Messiah

* 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 Bennett's murder having clearly traumatized him.

* BlessedWithSuck (or CursedWithAwesome, depending on the point of view): The emotional isolation Echo's ability to retain imprints and be anyone imposes on her, especially 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."

* BlessedWithSuck (or CursedWithAwesome, depending on point of view): The emotional isolation Echo's ability to retain imprints and be anyone imposes on her, especially 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."

* PsychopathicManchild: Type C, especially in series one. He's like a big very intelligent kid who does not care about right or wrong who performs MindRapes for a living. In some ways this makes him seem less threatening than some other type C's.

* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Wife]]

* PsychopathicManchild: Type C, especially in series one. He's like a big very intelligent kid who does care about right or wrong who performs MindRapes for a living. In some ways this makes him seem less threatening than some other type C's.

* EvillyAffable

* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Tahmoh Penniket]] has fallen in love with a sleeper agent. In fact, his work as Helo is what made Joss Whedon cast him here.

--> Played by: ElizaDushku

* SerialKiller