History Characters / Homeland

The CharacterSheet for Showtime's ''{{Series/Homeland}}''. '''Beware of spoilers''', only spoilers from the third season are meant to be blacked out.

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Is hanged at the end of season 3.]]

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Is hanged at the end of season 3.]]

* TheSociopath[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: He appears to be relatively well adjusted and polite at first, but he is ultimately ruthless, capablie of killing in cold blood without hesitation.

* HotMom

* [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist: The series began with him being just as important to the main plot as Carrie Mathison. However, he's slowly DemotedToExtra in season 2, and OutOfFocus for majority of season 3--until the end where he's once again given a protagonist role, before he's KilledOffForReal during the final episode of season 3.]]

* FirstGirlWins: A bit of dialogue in Season Two states she and Nicholas have known each other since the latter was fourteen years old. [[spoiler: Completely subverted by Season 3 as Jason Brody chose to be with Carrie after he founds out she's pregnant with his baby. And Jessica moves on with her life believing that getting back with Jason was a mistake.]]

** And despite mostly being OutOfFocus in Season 3, [[spoiler: Jason Brody is forced by the CIA to complete an assassination mission in Iran to replace an Iranian leader with a compromised puppet for the US.]]

* FirstGirlWins: A bit of dialogue in Season Two states she and Nicholas have known each other since the latter was fourteen years old. [[spoiler: Completely subverted by Season 3 as Jason Brody chose to be with Carrie after he founds out she's pregnant with his baby. And Morena moves on with her life believing that getting back with Jason was a mistake.]]

* FirstGirlWins: A bit of dialogue in Season Two states she and Nicholas have known each other since the latter was fourteen years old. [[spoiler:However, by the end of Season Two, the trope is now played with and possibly subverted.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath:]] [[spoiler:Is hanged at the end of season 3.]]

** [[spoiler: Another DespairEventHorizon in "Tower of David," in which after the Imam is killed and he's brought back to his prison, he loses his will to fight.]]

* [[spoiler:FaceDeathWithDignity:]] [[spoiler:Accepts his execution without any resistance, staying composed to the very end.]]

* OutOfFocus: Considering he doesn't really have a plotline going on, he is generally just "the other guy in the scene" when he does show up.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Is hanged at the end of season 3.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Accepts his execution without any resistance, staying composed to the very end.]]

* [[spoiler:TheCassandra]]

* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon]]: [[spoiler: Two so far. The first is at the end of season 1 when she loses her job and believes herself insane causing her to resort to electroshock therapy. The second is in season 2 after the Beirut arc, when Estes makes clear that she can never get her job back and she attempts suicide.]]

* [[spoiler:ProperlyParanoid]]
* ReallyGetsAround: If stuff doesn't work her way one of her first cures is to fuck with it. On the pilot, when her illegal surveillance is discovered and about to be shut down, she tries to do it with ''Saul''. Later she puts on nice clothes and tries to look for one night stand. In season three, [[spoiler: after Carrie figures out she might be made the pasty for the terrorist attack, she's shown during a scene getting into a conversation with a guy about beer while shopping at a grocery store. The next scene shows them both having sex at her house on the stairs.]]
* [[spoiler:TraumaCongaLine]]

* [[spoiler: BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil]]

* [[spoiler: CharacterDeath: Is hanged at the end of season 3.]]

* [[spoiler:EvilRedhead]]
* [[spoiler:FaceDeathWithDignity: Accepts his execution without any resistance, staying composed to the very end.]]

* [[spoiler: FakeUltimateHero]]
* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead: After "The Choice".]]
* [[spoiler:FallenHero]]
* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn: After "Q&A."]]
** [[spoiler: FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: One possible interpretation.]]

* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist: Goes back and forth on this. He started out as one, then had a HeelFaceTurn in "Q & A". Then, he was forced to have a FaceHeelTurn at least for one mission by Nazir to keep Carrie alive in "Broken Hearts".]]
* [[spoiler:VillainWithGoodPublicity: Congressman Brody in Season 2, then ambiguosly inverted in the finale when he's an AntiHero with an inescapable past.]]

* [[spoiler:BrokenBird: It's clear that the drama surrounding her family took its toll on her.]]
* [[spoiler:BungledSuicide]]: In the gap between seasons 2 and 3.

* WiseBeyondHerYears
** [[spoiler: Not so much in Season 3, however.]]

* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: Albeit effectively.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]

* [[spoiler:CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass]]: He's introduced as a simple analyst with the Directorate of Intelligence. [[spoiler:"Two Hats" reveals him to actually be a black ops assassin with the Special Activities Division, sent to eliminate Brody once Abu Nazir's organization is destroyed.]]

* [[spoiler: HitmanWithAHeart
** Somewhat deconstructed in that he often finds himself at odds between what his job requires, and what he believes is the right thing to do.]]

* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: Brushed aside in the chaos of the season 2 finale's huge explosion to the point that the audience was uncertain of his fate until the producers confirmed his death.]]

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim: He's a jerk until the very end.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
** [[spoiler: SacrificialLion]]

* [[spoiler: BurialAtSea: [[DueToTheDead After all]], the Americans give him a ceremonial burial. Apparently, the same one given to]] OsamaBinLaden.

* [[spoiler: FaceDeathWithDignity]]

* [[spoiler: SuicideByCop]]
* [[spoiler: ThanatosGambit: He gives up his own life to convince the CIA his plans are no longer a threat. He kills Walden - the man he was specifically after - shortly beforehand to complete the illusion... and then the bomb goes off.]]

* KilledOffForReal: After being revealed to be…

* IdiotHero: Every so often her impulsive disorder gets the better of her.

* OnlySaneMan: Often seems like the sensible one when he's working with [[IdiotHero Carrie]] and his brother [[NoSocialSkills Max]].

* AntiHero

* [[spoiler: HitmanWithAHeart]]

* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold

* BiggerBad: Bigger than Nazir.

* SteallingFromTheTill: The CIA is able to coerce him because he embezzled more than $45 million from the Iranian state. He knows too well it's AnOfferYouCantRefuse.

* TheSociopath[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: He appears to be relatively well adjusted and polite at first, but he is ultimately ruthless, capable of killing in cold blood without hesitation.

* TokenEnemyMinority: Muslim-American CIA analyst of Lebanese and Guatemalan descent.