History Characters / Dollhouse

!Imprints

[[folder:Mellie]]
!!Mellie
->'''Played By''': Miracle Laurie

* BrokenBird
* ButtMonkey
* DrivenToSuicide: She shoots herself in the head when her Mellie imprint comes up against her sleeper imprint, saving Ballard's life.
* GirlNextDoor
* ManchurianAgent
* TheMole
* UnwittingPawn
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eleanor Penn]]
!!Eleanor Penn
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->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* DefrostingIceQueen
* HotChickInABadassSuit
* HotLibrarian
* PrimAndProperBun
* RapeAsBackstory
* TookALevelInBadass
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anton Lubov]]
!!Anton Lubov
->'''Played By''': Enver Gjokaj

* TheHedonist
* TheInformant
* LovableCoward
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Taffy]]
!!Taffy
->'''Played By''': ElizaDushku & Creator/DichenLachman

* CatchPhrase: "Blue skies!"
* ClassyCatBurglar

* HellBentForLeather

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bobby]]
!!Bobby
->'''Played By''': Alan Tudyk

* AxCrazy
* HairTriggerTemper
* LargeHam
* ProperlyParanoid
* OutlawCouple: with Crystal.
* SerialKiller
* SuddenlyShouting: "ARE YOU HAVING FUN, LARS??"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crystal]]
!!Crystal
->'''Played By''': Creator/AmyAcker & Creator/ElizaDushku

* AxCrazy
* TheDitz
* MsFanservice
* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]
* OutlawCouple: With Bobby.
* SerialKiller
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kiki Turner]]
!!Kiki Turner
->'''Played By''': ElizaDushku & Enver Gjokaj

* TheDitz: Calls Chaucer 'Chaucey'.
* GirlishPigtails
* HotForTeacher
* MsFanservice
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Terry Karrens]]
!!Terry Karrens
->'''Played By''': Joe Sikora, Creator/ElizaDushku & Enver Gjokaj

* AxCrazy
* FauxAffablyEvil
* LivingDollCollector
* SerialKiller
* [[GunmanWithThreeNames Serial Killer With Three Names]]
* SoftSpokenSadist
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Senator Daniel Perrin]]
!!Senator Daniel Perrin
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->'''Played By''': Alexis Denisof

* ButtMonkey
* HappilyMarried: To Cindy Perrin, or so he thinks.
* HeroAntagonist
* ManchurianAgent
* TraumaCongaLine
* WideEyedIdealist
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clyde 2.0]]
!!Clyde 2.0
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->'''Played By''': Creator/AmyAcker

An imprinted personality which was created from altering the original personality of Clyde Randolph, one of the co-founders of the Rossum Corporation. Docile in nature, Clyde 2.0 lacked many of the original's traits, thereby working with Boyd Langton without question, being the one to put Clyde Randolph into the Attic. Clyde frequently switched bodies to the point that as of 2007, it was noted that "Clyde Randolph V" was a more appropriate name for him.

* BigBad: Well, at least the second or third copy is. The original is locked in the Attic and very bitter.
* BodySurf: There have been at least five versions of the modified Clyde, plus the original in the Attic.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HotChickInABadassSuit: (S)he dresses in a male suit while in Whiskey's body.
* SmugSnake: S(he) is very sure of him/herself, freely taunting Adelle and others.
* SlasherSmile
* UndyingLoyalty: To Boyd, as (s)he is programmed to.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Margaret Bashford]]
!!Margaret Bashford
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* ShowingOffTheNewBody
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jenny]]
!!Jenny
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jordan]]
!!Jordan
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* MsFanservice: She's usually dressed in skimpy outfits, as befitting her role as a back-up dancer for a sexy singer.
* {{Southies}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Esther Carpenter]]
!!Esther Carpenter
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* BlindSeer
* TheParagon
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rebecca Mynor]]
!!Rebecca Mynor
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

A nurse who supported her husband Joel before he became an internet mogul. She did not live long enough to see the house that he would have surprised her with, as she was killed in a car crash on the way, three blocks from the house that Joel wanted her to see. Every year, Joel rents out an Active from the Dollhouse to be Rebecca so that they can have the perfect day they never got to.

* HospitalHottie: Was a nurse.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: According to Joel, and from what we saw of her.
* UglyGuyHotWife: How Joel described her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roma Klar]]
!!Roma Klar
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* HoneyTrap: For Martin Klar.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Future]]

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

!!Mag
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mag_8371.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/FeliciaDay

* ActionSurvivor
* {{Badass}}
* DeadpanSnarker
* LipstickLesbian: More like chapstick.

!!Zone
->'''Played By''': Zack Ward

* ActionSurvivor: He was an architect before the thought-pocalypse, and was forced to become this.
* {{Badass}}
* DeadpanSnarker
* FieryRedhead
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnightInSourArmour
* ProperlyParanoid: The reason he's still alive.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Tech?]]: He seems to turn the justifiable paranoia towards broadcast tech of the others UpToEleven. In the Epitaphs prequel comic we find out why he hates tech so much. [[spoiler:It turns out that before the thought-pocalpse hes girlfriend was pregnant with his child and he just found out he was going to be a father... right before she became a mindless tech zombie, meaning he most likely had to kill her.]]

!!Iris
->'''Played By:''' Adair Tishler

* {{Badass}}
** LittleMissBadass: In this case, a JustifiedTrope: The body is just a vessel with an adult imprint.
* TheMessiah
* OlderThanTheyLook: At least mentally.

!!Lyn
->'''Played By:''' Janina Gavankar

* MsFanservice

[[foldercontrol]]

!Main Characters

[[folder:Echo]]
!!Echo (Caroline Farrell)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I have 38 brains, and not one of them thinks you can sign a contract to be a slave."'']]
->'''Played By''': ElizaDushku

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

* ActionGirl: A frequent imprint, and a defining trait of her integrated personality.
* ActionSurvivor: When not imprinted with combat skills she's still dangerous.
* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass
** HeartbrokenBadass: After Paul is killed.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Caroline wanted to do 'everything'. Well, it happened for her.
* BigSisterInstinct
* BlessedWithSuck (or CursedWithAwesome, depending on the point of view): The emotional isolation of Echo's ability to retain imprints and to be anyone imposed 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."
* ChronicHeroSyndrome
* CoolBigSis: Acts like one to Sierra, and used to be one for Bennett.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: At some points in the series.
* DoesNotLikeShoes
* GranolaGirl: her original personality as Caroline.
* HoneyTrap
* HeroicSacrifice: The one Caroline made for Bennett Halverson led to her becoming a Doll.
* MagneticHero: [[DiscussedTrope Specifically cited]] by Bennett for her ability to get people to obsess over her or do what she wants even after her mind-wiping.
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne
* MeaningfulName: She's one of the few Dolls who remembers fragments of her previous personality- perhaps we could call them [[IncrediblyLamePun echoes?]]
* MsFanservice: Her other most common imprint.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Once she becomes self-aware.
* SpoiledBrat: Even ElizaDushku agrees Caroline is this.
* WaifFu
* WellIntentionedExtremist
* WideEyedIdealist: Her original personality.

[[folder:Sierra]]
!!Sierra (Priya Tsetsang)
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sierra_3906.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I love him so much more than I hate you."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/DichenLachman

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. [[spoiler: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.]]

* ActionGirl: As with Echo, this is a frequent imprint.
* ActionSurvivor: As Priya.
* AmnesiacLover
* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass
* BreakTheCutie: Broken before the Dollhouse, and then ''again'' as a Doll when [[spoiler:she is repeatedly raped by her original handler]].
* {{Determinator}}
* MsFanservice: In her unimprinted state.
* LoveAtFirstSight
* [[spoiler:OfficialCouple: With Victor.]]
* ShipTease: Between her and Victor.
* TraumaCongaLine
* WaifFu

[[folder:Victor]]
!!Victor (Anthony Ceccoli)
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->'''Played By''': Enver Gjokaj

One of the most popular male dolls of the Dollhouse. His love for Sierra survives even in his unimprinted state. [[spoiler: Formerly Tony, an Iraq war veteran who was recruited after The Dollhouse promised to cure his PTSD.]]

* {{Badass}}

* HiveMind: Operation Mindwhisper.
* MakingUseOfTheTwin: Done with Enver Gjokaj's non-actor twin, Demir Gjokaj, in "The Attic."
* MrFanservice
* LoveAtFirstSight
* [[spoiler:OfficialCouple: With Sierra.]]
* ScarsAreForever: Averted. They're [[LampshadeHanging notably]] gone by "Vows" (2x01).
* ShellShockedVeteran: He originally entered the Dollhouse to be cured of his post-traumatic stress disorder.
* ShipTease: Between him and Sierra.
** [[spoiler:Eventually promoted to [[OneTruePairing OTP]].]]
* ShirtlessScene
* SuperSoldier: Rossum has a mind-linked band of these as their independent contractors. Tony is recruited to be one.

[[folder:Adelle DeWitt]]
!!Adelle [=DeWitt=]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Illusions aren't worthless. They're at the heart of most relationships."'']]
->'''Played By''': Olivia Williams

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.

* AntiVillain
* {{Badass}}
* BatmanGambit: Pretty much her whole role in "The Attic."
* BrokenBird
* TheChessmaster
* DrowningMySorrows: She seems to do this a lot.
* [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing]] [[DarkSecret Secret]]: [[spoiler:She is in fact the infamous Victor repeat-customer, Ms. Lonelyhearts. When a character discovers it, the reactions range anywhere from contempt, to confusion, to even [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarity]] - especially considering that everyone is under the impression that Ms. Lonelyhearts is a creaky old woman in a walker.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* IAmVeryBritish: TropeNamer
* KickTheDog: In both "Meet Jane Doe" and "A Love Supreme" .
* LadyDrunk
* MamaBear: Toward the Actives in general and, eventually, toward Topher.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale
* [[spoiler:MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A minor one alongside Topher, when she realises what they inadvertently did to Priya.]]
-->[[spoiler:"You have made me an accomplice in something vile... and it ends now."]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Always true but specifically demonstrated when [[spoiler:she breaks with Rossum in "Epitaph One".]]
* SpotOfTea: She tends towards green tea, though.
* TheStoic: She took a bullet during Dominic's mind-wiping and refused treatment until it was over.
* SugarAndIcePersonality
* XanatosSpeedChess: To quote the woman herself, any good battle plan must be fluid.
-->'''Dominic:''' You played a good hand, ma'am.
-->'''Adelle:''' I played a bad hand very well. There is a distinction.

[[folder:Boyd Langton]]
!!Boyd Langton
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"We're pimps and killers, but in a philanthropic way."'']]
->'''Played By''': Harry Lennix

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 [[spoiler: the [[ManBehindTheMan head of Rossum]]]].

* AffablyEvil: He's genuinely polite, kind and charming even while manipulating people to his own ends. He genuinely cares about all of the team and considers them "His family". Even when his cover is blown, he never loses his manners.
* {{Badass}}
* BaitTheDog
* [[spoiler:BigBad]]
* [[spoiler:BigBadFriend]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: 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.]]
* [[spoiler:CorruptCorporateExecutive]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Topher, but definitely has his moments - his quips make him come across as the OnlySaneMan. [[spoiler:Funny in that he's ''far'' from it - even lampshaded by Topher.]]
* [[spoiler:DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs]]
* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong]]
* TheHandler
* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard]]
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: Of the ActionBomb variety.]]
* KnightInSourArmor
* LargeAndInCharge: He's the tallest of the cast at 6"4" and revealed as [[spoiler:the head of Rossum]].
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]
* [[spoiler:ManipulativeBastard]]
* MoralityChain: He serves as this to Adelle. Or at least he tries. [[spoiler:Or so it seems.]]
* NiceGuy
* PapaWolf: In regards to Echo.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Until TheReveal.
* RevolversAreJustBetter
* TrueCompanions: "You're my family. I love you guys."
* WalkingSpoiler
* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist]]

[[folder:Topher Brink]]
!!Topher Brink
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"If I think I can figure things out, is that curiosity or arrogance?"'']]
->'''Played By''': Fran Kranz

The Los Angeles Dollhouse's genius head programmer. He creates and implants the personalities used by the actives, but has little regard for the morality of what he is doing... at first.

* {{Adorkable}}: So very much.
* AffablyEvil
* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: After realizing he unintentionally caused the Apocalypse.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer
* DatingCatwoman: With Bennett.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Topher is horrified when he realizes what really happened to Priya and refuses to allow Sierra to be given over to Nolan permanently.]]
** He also had serious reservations about imprinting a batshit insane serial killer onto an active simply because his Uncle was a favored repeat customer.
--->'''Topher''': Certain enough that I have serious ethical problems trying to wake him up.
--->'''Boyd''': ''Topher'' has ethical problems. ({{Beat}}) '''''Topher'''''.
--->'''Topher''': Heh. ...Way to land it.
* [[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 Bennett's murder having clearly traumatized him.]]
* ForScience: This appears to be his primary motivation.
* [[spoiler:HeelRealization]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]
* [[spoiler: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.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: In "Epitaph Two: Return," he restores the minds of everyone that has been imprinted with a pulse that kills him when activated.]]
* HollywoodNerd
* InsufferableGenius
* {{Jerkass}}: In first season, gradually evolving into ...
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As of the second season.
* LackOfEmpathy: His defining trait, that is until CharacterDevelopment sets in.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Due to the nature of his work (and possibly because of a general lack of morality), Topher is an incredibly lonely guy. Adelle realizes this, and to make sure he doesn't go crazy from it lets him imprint an active into a friend once a year (on his birthday). Later in season 2, this trope is largely averted as he grows closer to Echo, Boyd and Ballard.
* MadScientist
* [[spoiler:MyGodWhatHaveIDone: By ''Epitaph One'', due to his role in creating the tech.]]
** [[spoiler: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.]]
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: A computer expert ''and'' neuroscientist. Though both are essential for his job.
* 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 [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] for a living. In some ways this makes him seem less threatening than some other type C's.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Rats?]]

[[folder:Paul Ballard]]
!!Paul Ballard
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The Dollhouse is real!"'']]
--> Played by: Tahmoh Penikett

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.

* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time [[Series/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.
* AgentMulder
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
* BoomHeadshot
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts in 1x06, when he begins to realize the BlackAndWhiteMorality lens he's been viewing the Dollhouse through is [[GreyAndGrayMorality somewhat inappropriate]].
* CowboyCop
* {{Determinator}}
* {{Deuteragonist}}
* TheDulcineaEffect
* HeroAntagonist: In the first season.
* 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 or follow the leads he does.
* InspectorJavert
* KnightInSourArmor: Especially after he starts working for the Dollhouse in season two.
* MrFanservice
* NiceGuy
* OnlySaneMan
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath
* WrongGenreSavvy: He gets over it.
[[/folder]]

!Dolls/Actives

[[folder:November]]
!!November (Madeline Costley)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"When someone's free they get to make mistakes. Am I free?"'']]

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 neighbour Mellie.]]

* BreakTheCutie

* ChewToy
* [[spoiler:CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She's a "sleeper agent" possessing lethal martial arts abilities when triggered by a code phrase.]]
* [[spoiler:CurbStompBattle: Against Sierra's first handler, Hearn. Almost literally.]]
* [[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.]]
* LetsGetDangerous
* TraumaCongaLine

[[folder:Alpha]]
!!Alpha (Carl William Craft)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"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''': Creator/AlanTudyk

A former Active, he had 48 personalities downloaded into his brain during a "composite event." He proceeded to get stab-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.

* AGodAmI
* AxCrazy
* BadassBookworm
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BatmanGambit: : His whole plot in ''Briar Rose''.
* BigBad : For the first season, even if he only appears in two episodes.
* DeadPersonImpersonation
* EvilRedhead
* FauxAffablyEvil
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Hinted at in ''Epitaph One'' when Caroline tells Claire that no one has been wiped at Safe Haven, thanks to Alpha.]]
** [[spoiler:And confirmed in "Epitaph 2: The Return".]]
* InsaneEqualsViolent: 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 SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* MadScientist: Has built his own versions of Dollhouse tech.
* ManipulativeBastard
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne
* ObfuscatingStupidity: While pretending to be [[spoiler:Stephen Kepler]].
* PhlebotinumRebel
* PsychoPrototype
* SerialKiller: And that was ''before'' he became an AxCrazy doll.
* SplitPersonality: At least 48 of them. Two of which have multiple personality disorder themselves.
* StalkerWithACrush
* TalkingToThemself
* {{Ubermensch}}: He refers to himself as this.

[[folder:Whiskey]]
!!Whiskey
->'''Played By''': Creator/AmyAcker

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

* BreakTheCutie
* BrokenBird
* TheCaretaker: Of the Dollhouse in the future, it seems.
* CreepyMonotone: In the future.
* ScarsAreForever: ...or almost.
* TookALevelInBadass
* WaifFu
* WomanInWhite

[[folder:Kilo]]
!!Kilo
->'''Played By''': Maurissa Tancharoen

* ActionGirl
* DescendedCreator
* FutureBadass
* LipstickLesbian
* TookALevelInBadass

[[folder:Mike]]
!!Mike
->'''Played By:''' Teddy Sears

!LA Dollhouse Staff

[[folder:Laurence Dominic]]
!!Laurence Dominic
-> ''"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."''
->'''Played By''': Reed Diamond

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 for the NSA, 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 [[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.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: 90 percent of his dialogue post Spy In The House of Love counts as this.
* DevilInPlainSight
* [[spoiler:FateWorseThanDeath]]
* [[spoiler:HeroAntagonist. Dang that pesky lack of SympatheticPOV.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: 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.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Shoots eight rounds at his target from point-blank range and doesn't hit her once.
* {{Jerkass}}
* KnightTemplar
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse

[[folder:Dr. Claire Saunders]]
!!Dr. Claire Saunders
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saunders_claire_3778.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater vest; what do you suggest I do?"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AmyAcker

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 her discovery that [[spoiler:she's a former doll]].
* ButtMonkey
* ChewToy
* CorruptTheCutie
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]
* [[spoiler:FallenHero]]
* [[spoiler:{{Foreshadowing}}: in 1x08, Caroline demands the release of all the dolls. Guess who's quite casually at the front of the crowd.]]
* HospitalHottie: Despite the facial scarring.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop
* TheMedic
* [[spoiler:TheMole: for Boyd.]]
* [[spoiler:MomentKiller: ''Literally''. Poor Bennett...]]
* [[spoiler:ReplacementGoldfish]]
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage]]
* ScarsAreForever: Averted in "Epitaph One." Her face has been healed.
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror]]

[[folder:Ivy]]
!!Ivy
-> ''"My talents go beyond asking if he wants chocolate chip or oatmeal."''
->'''Played By''': Liza Lapira

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. Joss Whedon thinks she's here so she can become a suspect for the spy in "A Spy in the House of Love."

* BeautifulAllAlong: It's notable that by the second season, her character both gets more screen time and starts to get better attention from wardrobe and makeup and playing up her attractiveness a lot more. Particularly notable in "A Love Supreme" when she's wearing eye shadow and lipstick as well as sporting a perm/hairstyle.
* GirlishPigtails
* HollywoodNerd
* HotScientist: Even if Topher won't let her play.
* MesACrowd: In the comic series, as shown by this cover: [http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/Previews/18-758]
** ScrewYourself
* TheIgor: Played with in that even though she's Topher's assistant, she's [[HotScientist very attractive]] and far from subservient.
* [[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 {{Sex Slave}}s.
* ShipTease: Between her and Topher.
* YouGetMeCoffee

[[folder:Dr. Saunders]]
!!Dr. Saunders
->'''Played By''': Joe Howard

* NiceGuy
* PosthumousCharacter

[[folder:Blevins]]
!!Blevins
->'''Played By''': Marco Sanchez

* EyeScream
* TheHandler
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He thought Whiskey was a bad influence on Alpha.
* PosthumousCharacter

[[folder:Sophie Alvarez]]
!!Sophie Alvarez
->'''Played By''': Angel Desai

* TheHandler

[[folder:Joe Hearn]]
!!Joe Hearn
->'''Played By''': Kevin Kilner

* TheHandler
* {{Jerkass}}

[[folder:Selena Ramirez]]
!!Selena Ramirez
->'''Played By''': Valerie Cruz

!DC Dollhouse Staff

[[folder:Stewart Lipman]]
!!Stewart Lipman
->'''Played By:''' Ray Wise

* GroinAttack: Courtesy of Adelle.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's dismissive and condescending to Adelle.
* {{Slimeball}}: He shifts fully into this mode when Adelle briefly flirts with him.

[[folder:Bennett Halverson]]
!!Bennett Halverson
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/halverson_bennet_7019.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"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."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SummerGlau

Topher's counterpart at the Dollhouse located in Washington, D.C. A former friend of Caroline, who was left to die by her in the past[[note]]okay, not really; Caroline had Bennett's best interests in mind--it's complicated[[/note]], which has made her bitter - understandable since Caroline's abandonment left Bennett with a paralyzed left arm. Extremely shy and awkward, and has a ''huge'' geek-crush on Topher.

* {{Adorkable}}: When she's not being...
* AxCrazy: Just a bit.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Poor social skills, obsessive control issues, emotionally closed off.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She has her ... quirks, but it's obvious everyone puts up with her because of her genius.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Subjects Echo to this, as revenge for leaving her to die.
* DisabledLoveInterest: To Topher.
* FakeMemories: Well, kind of. The memory of the night Caroline left her behind in the Rossum lab isn't ''entirely'' fake, but it is distorted by Bennet's unstable mind. [[spoiler: Caroline ''did'' leave her behind, but she pinned her Rossum Corp badge on her and told her to tell security that she was working late when Caroline broke in, sparing her from being outed as an accomplice. When Caroline told Bennett that only one of them had to get caught, she was referring to ''herself.'']]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam
* HotLibrarian: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Topher.
* MadScientist
* {{Meganekko}}: Again, lampshaded by Topher.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale
* PetTheDog: Advising her assistant not to question Rossum's motives, and attempts to comfort Madeline Costly.
* 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.
* RedRightHand: Or, in this case, Black Left Hand.
* {{Revenge}}: On Caroline.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Caroline. They even wash each other's hair.
* ShrinkingViolet
* SlapSlapKiss: With Topher, though kind of delayed. He punched her, she returned the favor with a ''hell'' of a right hook, and cue the kissing.
* TortureTechnician

!Rossum Corporation

[[folder:Matthew Harding]]
!!Matthew Harding
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harding_matthew_8017.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Everyone likes to take a little something home from the office once in a while."'']]
->'''Played By''': Keith Carradine & Noah Harpster

Adelle's direct superior in the Dollhouse.

* BodySurf: As of "Epitaph Two: The Return", he and Clive Ambrose have apparently been switching bodies repeatedly.
* CigarChomper: See the picture.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DeadpanSnarker
* DirtyOldMan
* FatBastard: In the future.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking
* TheHedonist: After the apocalypse, he throws himself into this role. He stuffs his face and quickly 'ruins' bodies.
* 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."]]
* VillainousGlutton: In the future, since he can get away with overeating when he has another body-suit waiting for him.
* SharpDressedMan
* SmugSnake

[[folder:Clive Ambrose]]
!!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, Enver Gjokaj & Nate Dushku

Face of the Rossum Corporation.

* BodySurf: As of "Epitaph One," he's in at least eleven separate human bodies. Later he joins Harding in constantly jumping from body to body to maintain his power over the ruined world of "Epitaph Two: Return."
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In a way. He disapproves of Harding destroying his 'bodysuits' through excess.

* PragmaticVillainy
* SmugSnake
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: His original body was allergic to shellfish, so after that's no longer a concern, he develops a real sweet tooth for them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nolan Kinnard]]
!!Nolan Kinnard
->'''Played By''': Vincent Ventresca

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.

* DefiantToTheEnd
* EvilGenius
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* NotGoodWithRejection: Rejected by a girl you like? Better destroy her entire life, drug her to the point of appearing insane, erase her entire personality and use her as a sex toy to rape and brutalize.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[VillainProtagonist Adelle and Topher]] are both horrified by his actions.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections
* SmugSnake
* StalkerWithACrush
* TemptingFate
* {{Yandere}}: For Sierra.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clyde Randolph]]
!!Clyde Randolph
->'''Played By''': Adam Godley

The inventor of the imprinting process and co-founder of Rossum. 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: "Arcane." Lampshaded: "I thought it sounded badass."
* {{Badass}}: In the Attic.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He's killed off-screen in the Attic.
* FateWorseThanDeath: What he considers the Attic to be, and let's face it, he's right.
* 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.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His realization after being placed in the Attic.
[[/folder]]

!Clients

[[folder:Matt Cargill]]
!!Matt Cargill
->'''Played By''':

* TheHedonist
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gabriel Crestejo]]
!!Gabriel Crestejo
->'''Played By''': Kurt Carceres

* PapaWolf: For his daughter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Richard Connell]]
!!Richard Connell
->'''Played By''': Matt Keesler

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: His plan for Echo.
* MeaningfulName
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joel Mynor]]
!!Joel Mynor
->'''Played By''': Creator/PattonOswalt

* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Jerkass}}

* TheMourningAfter: Still grieving for his dead wife.
* UglyGuyHotWife: How he viewed himself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bradley Karrens]]
!!Bradley Karrens
->'''Played By''': Michael Hogan

* BaldOfEvil
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* TooDumbToLive
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
[[/folder]]

!Other Characters

[[folder:Loomis]]
!!Loomis
->'''Played By''': Aisha Hinds

* BaldWoman
* DeadpanSnarker
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* SassyBlackWoman
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Graham Tanaka]]
!!Graham Tanaka
->'''Played By''': Creator/MarkSheppard

* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Jerkass}}
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
[[/folder]]

!Imprints

[[folder:Mellie]]
!!Mellie
->'''Played By''': Miracle Laurie

* BrokenBird
* ButtMonkey
* DrivenToSuicide: She shoots herself in the head when her Mellie imprint comes up against her sleeper imprint, saving Ballard's life.
* GirlNextDoor
* ManchurianAgent
* TheMole
* UnwittingPawn
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eleanor Penn]]
!!Eleanor Penn
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/penn_eleanor_1886.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* DefrostingIceQueen
* HotChickInABadassSuit
* HotLibrarian
* PrimAndProperBun
* RapeAsBackstory
* TookALevelInBadass
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anton Lubov]]
!!Anton Lubov
->'''Played By''': Enver Gjokaj

* TheHedonist
* TheInformant
* LovableCoward
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Taffy]]
!!Taffy
->'''Played By''': ElizaDushku & Creator/DichenLachman

* CatchPhrase: "Blue skies!"
* ClassyCatBurglar
* DeadpanSnarker
* HellBentForLeather

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bobby]]
!!Bobby
->'''Played By''': Alan Tudyk

* AxCrazy
* HairTriggerTemper
* LargeHam
* ProperlyParanoid
* OutlawCouple: with Crystal.
* SerialKiller
* SuddenlyShouting: "ARE YOU HAVING FUN, LARS??"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crystal]]
!!Crystal
->'''Played By''': Creator/AmyAcker & Creator/ElizaDushku

* AxCrazy
* TheDitz
* MsFanservice
* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]
* OutlawCouple: With Bobby.
* SerialKiller
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kiki Turner]]
!!Kiki Turner
->'''Played By''': ElizaDushku & Enver Gjokaj

* TheDitz: Calls Chaucer 'Chaucey'.
* GirlishPigtails
* HotForTeacher
* MsFanservice
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Terry Karrens]]
!!Terry Karrens
->'''Played By''': Joe Sikora, Creator/ElizaDushku & Enver Gjokaj

* AxCrazy
* FauxAffablyEvil
* LivingDollCollector
* SerialKiller
* [[GunmanWithThreeNames Serial Killer With Three Names]]
* SoftSpokenSadist
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Senator Daniel Perrin]]
!!Senator Daniel Perrin
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/perrin_daniel_1792.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Alexis Denisof

* ButtMonkey
* HappilyMarried: To Cindy Perrin, or so he thinks.
* HeroAntagonist
* ManchurianAgent
* TraumaCongaLine
* WideEyedIdealist
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clyde 2.0]]
!!Clyde 2.0
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/randolph_clyde_6131.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AmyAcker

An imprinted personality which was created from altering the original personality of Clyde Randolph, one of the co-founders of the Rossum Corporation. Docile in nature, Clyde 2.0 lacked many of the original's traits, thereby working with Boyd Langton without question, being the one to put Clyde Randolph into the Attic. Clyde frequently switched bodies to the point that as of 2007, it was noted that "Clyde Randolph V" was a more appropriate name for him.

* BigBad: Well, at least the second or third copy is. The original is locked in the Attic and very bitter.
* BodySurf: There have been at least five versions of the modified Clyde, plus the original in the Attic.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HotChickInABadassSuit: (S)he dresses in a male suit while in Whiskey's body.
* SmugSnake: S(he) is very sure of him/herself, freely taunting Adelle and others.
* SlasherSmile
* UndyingLoyalty: To Boyd, as (s)he is programmed to.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Margaret Bashford]]
!!Margaret Bashford
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* ShowingOffTheNewBody
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jenny]]
!!Jenny
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jordan]]
!!Jordan
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* MsFanservice: She's usually dressed in skimpy outfits, as befitting her role as a back-up dancer for a sexy singer.
* {{Southies}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Esther Carpenter]]
!!Esther Carpenter
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* BlindSeer
* TheParagon
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rebecca Mynor]]
!!Rebecca Mynor
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

A nurse who supported her husband Joel before he became an internet mogul. She did not live long enough to see the house that he would have surprised her with, as she was killed in a car crash on the way, three blocks from the house that Joel wanted her to see. Every year, Joel rents out an Active from the Dollhouse to be Rebecca so that they can have the perfect day they never got to.

* HospitalHottie: Was a nurse.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: According to Joel, and from what we saw of her.
* UglyGuyHotWife: How Joel described her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roma Klar]]
!!Roma Klar
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

* HoneyTrap: For Martin Klar.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Future]]

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

!!Mag
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mag_8371.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/FeliciaDay

* ActionSurvivor
* {{Badass}}
* DeadpanSnarker
* LipstickLesbian: More like chapstick.

!!Zone
->'''Played By''': Zack Ward

* ActionSurvivor: He was an architect before the thought-pocalypse, and was forced to become this.
* {{Badass}}
* DeadpanSnarker
* FieryRedhead
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnightInSourArmour
* ProperlyParanoid: The reason he's still alive.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Tech?]]: He seems to turn the justifiable paranoia towards broadcast tech of the others UpToEleven. In the Epitaphs prequel comic we find out why he hates tech so much. [[spoiler:It turns out that before the thought-pocalpse hes girlfriend was pregnant with his child and he just found out he was going to be a father... right before she became a mindless tech zombie, meaning he most likely had to kill her.]]

!!Iris
->'''Played By:''' Adair Tishler

* {{Badass}}
** LittleMissBadass: In this case, a JustifiedTrope: The body is just a vessel with an adult imprint.
* TheMessiah
* OlderThanTheyLook: At least mentally.

!!Lyn
->'''Played By:''' Janina Gavankar

* MsFanservice

->'''Played By''': Alan Tudyk

->'''Played By''': AmyAcker & ElizaDushku

* HeyItsThatGuy: It's [[BruceWillis Dr. Malcolm Crowe's]] [[TheSixthSense wife!]]

* AffablyEvil: He's genuinely polite, kind and charming even while manipulating people to his own ends. He genuinely cares about all of the team and considers Them "His family". Even when his cover is blown, he never loses his manners.

* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Topher, but definitely has his moments - his quips make him come across as the OnlySaneMan. [[spoiler:Funny in that he's FAR from it - even lampshaded by Topher.]]

* [[spoiler:ManipulativeBastard: You have no idea.]]

* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: After realising he unintentionally caused the Apocalypse.]]

* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[Series/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.

* CharacterDevelopment: starts in 1x06, when he begins to realize the "BlackAndWhiteMorality" lens he's been viewing the Dollhouse through is [[GreyAndGrayMorality somewhat inappropriate]].

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.

* AxCrazy: 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.

* HeyItsThatGuy: It's Wash from Firefly!

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

* BiTheWay / DepravedBisexual: ''Maybe''. There are some strong indicators that Bennett may actually have loved Caroline, not to mention her relationship with Topher. 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 emotionally invested in the relationship. As for the depraved part: 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.

* MadScientist: And how!

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

* OutlawCouple: with Bobby.

* SmugSnake: S(he) is very sure of his/herself, freely taunting Adelle and others.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Tech]]: He seems to turn the justifiable paranoia towards broadcast tech of the others UpToEleven. In the Epitaphs prequel comic we find out why he hates tech so much. [[spoiler:It turns out that before the thought-pocalpse hes girlfriend was pregnant with his child and he just found out he was going to be a father... right before she became a mindless tech zombie, meaning he most likely had to kill her.]]

* [[spoiler:HotMom]]

* PunchClockVillain: To the point were you forget she's moaning about not being allowed to Strip people of different identities and create SexSlaves.

* {{Slimeball}}

->'''Played By''': Creator/SummerGlau

* ColdBloodedTorture
* BiTheWay / DepravedBisexual: ''Maybe''. There are some strong indicators that Bennett may actually have loved Caroline, not to mention her relationship with Topher.
** 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 emotionally invested in the relationship. As for the depraved part: 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.
* DisabledLoveInterest

* InsufferableGenius

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Caroline.

* TheHedonist

* VillainousGlutton

* NotGoodWithRejection

* {{Yandere}}

* DroppedABridgeOnHim

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone

Gabriel Crestejo

* PapaWolf

* AxCrazy
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame

* TheMourningAfter

!!Iris
->'''Played By''': Adair Tishler

* {{Badass}}
** LittleMissBadass: In this case, a JustifiedTrope: The body is just a vessel with an adult imprint.
* TheMessiah
* OlderThanTheyLook: At least mentally.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Tech]]: He seems to turn the justifiable paranoia towards broadcast tech of the others UpToEleven. In the Epitaphs prequel comic we find out why he hates tech so much. [[spoiler: It turns out that before the thought-pocalpse hes girlfriend was pregnant with his child and he just found out he was going to be a father... right before she became a mindless tech zombie, meaning he most likely had to kill her.]]

* TheDitz

* HappilyMarried: Or so he thinks.

* HotChickInABadassSuit
* SmugSnake

* MsFanservice

* HospitalHottie
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]
* UglyGuyHotWife

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Tech]]: He seems to turn the justifiable paranoia towards broadcast tech of the others UpToEleven.
** In the Epitaphs prequel comic we find out why he hates tech so much. [[spoiler: It turns out that before the thought-pocalpse hes girlfriend was pregnant with his child and he just found out he was going to be a father... right before she became a mindless tech zombie, meaning he most likely had to kill her.]] Ouch

[[folder: Other Characters]]

[[folder:Imprints]]

!!Roma Klar
->'''Played By''': Creator/ElizaDushku

[[folder:LA Dollhouse Staff]]

!!Selena Ramirez
->'''Played By''': Valerie Cruz

[[folder:DC Dollhouse Staff]]

[[folder: Other Rossum Corporation Employees]]

[[folder:Clients]]

!!Bradley Karrens
->'''Played By''': Michael Hogan

[[folder:Dolls/Actives]]

[[folder:Main Characters]]

!!Echo

!!November/Madeline Costley

!!Alpha/Carl William Craft

->'''Played By''':

->'''Played By''': [[spoiler:AmyAcker]]

* ActionGirl

[[folder: Other Characters]]
!!Loomis
->'''Played By''': Aisha Hinds

* BaldWoman

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* SassyBlackWoman

!!Graham Tanaka
->'''Played By''': Creator/MarkSheppard

* DeadpanSnarker
* HeyItsThatGuy: What TV show has MarkSheppard NOT been in at this point?

* ObstructiveBureaucrat

!!Joel Mynor
->'''Played By''': Creator/PattonOswalt

* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Jerkass}}

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeSierra_6130.jpg]]

--> Played by: Miracle Laurie

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeAlpha_6592.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"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: Alan Tudyk

--> Played by: [[spoiler:AmyAcker]]

--> Played by: Maurissa Tancharoen

--> Played by: Reed Diamond

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeSaunders_8774.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater vest; what do you suggest I do?"'']]
--> Played by: AmyAcker

--> Played by: Liza Lapira

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeBennett_5287.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"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."'']]
--> Played by: SummerGlau

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeHarding_4663.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Everyone likes to take a little something home from the office once in a while."'']]
--> Played by: Keith Carradine & Noah Harpster

--> Played by: Philip Casnoff, Enver Gjokaj & Nate Dushku

--> Played by: Vincent Ventresca

--> Played by: Adam Godley

->''"It's a good thing I'm relatively sure you're not crazy."''
--> Played by: Aisha Hinds

--> Played by: MarkSheppard

--> Played by: PattonOswalt

--> Played by: Miracle Laurie

--> Played by: ElizaDushku

--> Played by: EnverGjokaj

--> Played by: ElizaDushku & Creator/DichenLachman

--> Played by: Alan Tudyk

--> Played by: AmyAcker & ElizaDushku

--> Played by: ElizaDushku & EnverGjokaj

--> Played by: Alexis Denisof

--> Played by: AmyAcker

--> Played by: Adair Tishler

--> Played by: FeliciaDay

--> Played by: Zack Ward

!!Echo (Caroline Farrell)
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeEcho_2316.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"I have 38 brains, and not one of them thinks you can sign a contract to be a slave."'']]
--> Played by: ElizaDushku

[[caption-width-right:250:''"I love him so much more than I hate you."'']]
--> Played by: Creator/DichenLachman

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeVictor_6098.jpg]]
--> Played by: Enver Gjokaj

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeAdele_6896.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Illusions aren't worthless. They're at the heart of most relationships."'']]
--> Played by: Olivia Williams

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeBoyd_3237.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"We're pimps and killers, but in a philanthropic way."'']]
--> Played by: Harry Lennix

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[[caption-width-right:250:''"If I think I can figure things out, is that curiosity or arrogance?"'']]
--> Played by: Fran Kranz

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[[caption-width-right:250:''"The Dollhouse is real!"'']]

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeMellie_8074.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"When someone's free they get to make mistakes. Am I free?"'']]

[[folder: The Dolls]]

!!November/Madeline Costley
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"When someone's free they get to make mistakes. Am I free?"'']]
--> Played by: Miracle Laurie

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 neighbour Mellie.]]

* BreakTheCutie

* ChewToy
* [[spoiler:CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She's a "sleeper agent" possessing lethal martial arts abilities when triggered by a code phrase.]]
* [[spoiler:CurbStompBattle: Against Sierra's first handler, Hearn. Almost literally.]]
* [[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.]]
* LetsGetDangerous
* TraumaCongaLine

!!Alpha/Carl William Craft
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeAlpha_6592.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"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: 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.

* AGodAmI
* AxCrazy: Knife-crazy.
* BadassInANiceSuit
* 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.
* DeadPersonImpersonation
* EvilRedhead
* FauxAffablyEvil
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Hinted at in ''Epitaph One'' when Caroline tells Claire that no one has been wiped at Safe Haven, thanks to Alpha.]]
** [[spoiler:And confirmed in "Epitaph 2: The Return".]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: It's Wash from Firefly!
* InsaneEqualsViolent: 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 [[Film/TheDarkKnight The Joker]].
* MadScientist: Has built his own versions of Dollhouse tech.
* ManipulativeBastard
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne
* ObfuscatingStupidity: While pretending to be [[spoiler:Stephen Kepler]].
* PhlebotinumRebel
* PsychoPrototype
* SerialKiller: And that was ''before'' he became an AxCrazy doll.
* SplitPersonality: At least 48 of them. Two of which have multiple personality disorder themselves.
* StalkerWithACrush
* TalkingToThemself
* {{Ubermensch}}: He refers to himself as this.

!!Whiskey
--> Played by: [[spoiler:AmyAcker]]

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

* BreakTheCutie
* BrokenBird
* TheCaretaker: Of the Dollhouse in the future, it seems.
* CreepyMonotone: In the future.
* ScarsAreForever: ...or almost.
* TookALevelInBadass
* WaifFu
* WomanInWhite

!!Kilo
--> Played by: Maurissa Tancharoen

* ActionGirl
* FutureBadass
* LipstickLesbian
* TookALevelInBadass

[[/folder]]

[[folder: The LA Dollhouse Staff]]

!!Adelle [=DeWitt=]
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"Illusions aren't worthless. They're at the heart of most relationships."'']]
--> Played by: Olivia Williams

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.

* AntiVillain
* {{Badass}}
* BatmanGambit: Pretty much her whole role in "The Attic."
* BrokenBird

!!Laurence Dominic
-> ''"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."''
--> Played by: Reed Diamond

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 for the NSA, 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 [[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.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: 90 percent of his dialogue post Spy In The House of Love counts as this.
* DevilInPlainSight
* [[spoiler:FateWorseThanDeath]]
* [[spoiler:HeroAntagonist. Dang that pesky lack of SympatheticPOV.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: 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.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Shoots eight rounds at his target from point-blank range and doesn't hit her once.
* {{Jerkass}}
* KnightTemplar
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse

!!Dr. Claire Saunders
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeSaunders_8774.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater vest; what do you suggest I do?"'']]
--> Played by: AmyAcker

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 her discovery that [[spoiler:she's a former doll]].
* ButtMonkey

!!Bennett Halverson
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"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."'']]
--> Played by: SummerGlau

Topher's counterpart at the Dollhouse located in Washington, D.C. A former friend of Caroline, who was left to die by her in the past[[note]]okay, not really; Caroline had Bennett's best interests in mind--it's complicated[[/note]], which has made her bitter - understandable since Caroline's abandonment left Bennett with a paralyzed left arm. Extremely shy and awkward, and has a ''huge'' geek-crush on Topher.

* {{Adorkable}}: When she's not being...
* AxCrazy: Just a bit.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Poor social skills, obsessive control issues, emotionally closed off.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She has her ... quirks, but it's obvious everyone puts up with her because of her genius.
* ColdBloodedTorture
* BiTheWay / DepravedBisexual: ''Maybe''. There are some strong indicators that Bennett may actually have loved Caroline, not to mention her relationship with Topher.
** 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 emotionally invested in the relationship. As for the depraved part: 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.
* DisabledLoveInterest
* FakeMemories: Well, kind of. The memory of the night Caroline left her behind in the Rossum lab isn't ''entirely'' fake, but it is distorted by Bennet's unstable mind. [[spoiler: Caroline ''did'' leave her behind, but she pinned her Rossum Corp badge on her and told her to tell security that she was working late when Caroline broke in, sparing her from being outed as an accomplice. When Caroline told Bennett that only one of them had to get caught, she was referring to ''herself.'']]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam
* HotLibrarian: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Topher.
* InsufferableGenius
* MadScientist: And how!
* {{Meganekko}}: Again, lampshaded by Topher.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale
* PetTheDog: Advising her assistant not to question Rossum's motives, and attempts to comfort Madeline Costly.
* 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.
* RedRightHand: Or, in this case, Black Left Hand.
* {{Revenge}}: On Caroline.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Caroline.
* ShrinkingViolet
* SlapSlapKiss: With Topher, though kind of delayed. He punched her, she returned the favor with a ''hell'' of a right hook, and cue the kissing.
* TortureTechnician

!!Paul Ballard
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropePaul_1843.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"The Dollhouse is real!"'']]
--> Played by: Tahmoh Penikett

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.

* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[Series/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.
* AgentMulder
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
* BoomHeadshot
* CharacterDevelopment: starts in 1x06, when he begins to realize the "BlackAndWhiteMorality" lens he's been viewing the Dollhouse through is [[GreyAndGrayMorality somewhat inappropriate]].
* CowboyCop
* {{Determinator}}
* {{Deuteragonist}}
* TheDulcineaEffect
* HeroAntagonist: In the first season.
* 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 or follow the leads he does.
* InspectorJavert
* KnightInSourArmor: Especially after he starts working for the Dollhouse in season two.
* MrFanservice
* NiceGuy
* OnlySaneMan
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath
* WrongGenreSavvy: He gets over it.

* [[spoiler:MomentKiller: ''Literally''. Bennett ;_;]]

* FootFocus: She certainly likes her foot massages.

Topher's counterpart at the Dollhouse located in Washington, D.C. A former friend of Caroline, who was left to die by her in the past[[hottip:*:okay, not really; Caroline had Bennett's best interests in mind--it's complicated]], which has made her bitter - understandable since Caroline's abandonment left Bennett with a paralyzed left arm. Extremely shy and awkward, and has a ''huge'' geek-crush on Topher.

* BigBeautifulWoman: She isn't really 'big'. It's just discussed that she isn't a WaifFu, and everyone knows that she's beautiful and of average weight.

* [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasStandards: Topher is horrified when he realises what really happened to Priya and refuses to allow Sierra to be given over to Nolan permanently.]]