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[[folder: The Mathison Family]]

!!Carrie Mathison
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CarrieMathison_2571.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Everyone's not me."'']]

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

* ActionSurvivor: Knows when to run and hide when the odds are against her.
* AllThereInTheManual: A tie-in prequel novel reveals her full name: Caroline Anne Mathison.
* TheAtoner
* BrokenBird
* BunnyEarsLawyer
* TheCassandra
* ClassicalAntiHero
* [[CowboyCop Cowgirl Case Officer]]: She breaks CIA regulations on a customary basis, what leads her superiors to [[DeconstructedTrope terminate her career]], although she hopes for a TenMinuteRetirement.
* CloudCuckooLander: Known as one in the CIA.
** DeconstructedTrope as well. Whether or not you're brilliant at your job, you still have to make sense to your boss. Her antics makes her career in the CIA as stable as an egg on a horn.
* [[CoolUncle Cool Aunt]]
* CrazyPrepared: "My mom taught me to save for a rainy day." [[spoiler: She has an "insurance policy" briefcase containing cash and fake identification stashed away, and a detailed escape route to go with it.]]
* DarkSecret
* DatingCatwoman
* DeadpanSnarker
* DefectiveDetective
* 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.]]
* {{Determinator}}: She has a reputation for not giving up.
* FearlessFool: Zigzagged. Sometimes her fearlessness bears fruit, sometimes it doesn't, but never does she escape reprimands from her boss.
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* JumpedAtTheCall: Presumably with Carrie when she became the CIA's point person on investigating Abu Nazir. She followed her intuition to the point where she was seen by other characters as a WellIntentionedExtremist.
* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother to Her Assets]]
* GibberingGenius: If she's off her meds *and* under stress, expect this.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Has very little self esteem to begin with, and the [[spoiler: TraumaCongaLine she goes through in the second half of season 1 destroys even that.]]
* HeroWithAnFInGood
* HeroWithBadPublicity: HauledBeforeASenateSubCommittee and then blamed for the attack on Langley.
* IdiotHero: Sure she is good at connecting the dots, but she is absolutely abysmal at following orders, which is the point of being a government employee. You can count with fingers the episodes in which she doesn't let her emotions cloud her judgment and does what her bosses tell her to. Her recklessness is such that in season 3 Quinn has to shoot her when she is about to burn an ongoing mission.
* ImmodestOrgasm
* KnightInSourArmor
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the season 1 finale.
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother Like Daughter]]: A very lousy and neglectful parent, just like her mommy.
* LimaSyndrome: Carrie falls in love with Brody over the course of her surveillance, despite the fact that she believes he's a terrorist.
* MarriedToTheJob: She's not happy about it, but is starting to become resigned. DoubleSubverted in the season 2 finale when [[spoiler: she puts her personal life before her career but the circumstances and events undo this choice]].
* MissingMom: Her mom left are Frank's refusal to deal with his condition became too much for her. Carrie understands why she left, but the lack of any reaching out since then is harder to deal with.
* MyGreatestFailure: Two, not seeing 9/11 coming and again with the attack on Langley.
* OnlySaneMan: Carrie thinks she is this, [[spoiler: and as of Season 1 she turns out to be right about Brody all along]], but the twist of it is that she's not psychologically a sane person either.
* TheOphelia
* PluckyGirl
* 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 a one night stand. In season three, [[spoiler: after Carrie figures out she might be made the patsy 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.]] This makes sense given her bipolar disorder and tendency towards mania - a heightened sex drive and promiscuity are often symptoms of an oncoming bout of mania for people with mood disorders, and promiscuity itself is sometimes a symptom of mental illness.
* TraumaCongaLine
* UnscrupulousHero: Her intent are to protect the country but her methods are controversial.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Her main intent is to protect the U.S. from terrorists. Her methods to accomplich it include blackmailing, OKing a drone strike that killed 40 people, and using illegal surveinance.
* WideEyedIdealist: In a way. She is perfectly aware of the rotten game she's been playing, and the stake of it, but in the end she still wants to trust in the goodness of her colleagues, ''and even'' Brody.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe

!!Maggie Mathison

-->'''Played By:''' Amy Hargreaves

* AlliterativeName
* TheCaretaker

!!Frank Mathison

-->'''Played By:''' James Rebhorn

* CharacterOutlivesActor: [[spoiler:Confirmed to be alive in the Season 4 premiere despite James Rebhorn's death.]]
** TheCharacterDiedWithHim: [[spoiler:Dies of a stroke during the penultimate episode.]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Like his daughter Carrie, he had bipolar disorder.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sandwiches (possibly a compulsion in the same way Carrie listens to nothing but jazz).

!!Frannie Mathison

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[[folder: The Brody Family]]

!!Sergeant Nicholas Brody
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Brody_2696.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"The fucking CIA thinks I'm working for Al-Qaeda!?"'']]

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

* {{Badass}}
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: To his family, friends and even the whole country, when his suicide video is released to the public]].
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Is hanged at the end of season 3.]]
* ConsummateLiar: He's able to beat a lie detector. Close to a deconstruction at several points in that the lies start to take a toll and he just wants everything to be over, even if it means jail.
* CoveredWithScars: He has an impressive collection across his chest and back, unsurprisingly given that he was tortured for years.
* CynicismCatalyst[=/=] DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The death of his pupil Issa in a drone attack sets Brody in the path of revenge against the Vice President.]]
** [[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.]]
* DatingCatwoman
* DeadpanSnarker
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: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.]]
* DeepCoverAgent: Carrie believes him to be one. [[spoiler:He is, but goes to a good version after his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* EvilRedhead
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Accepts his execution without any resistance, staying composed to the very end.]]
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: One possible interpretation.
* FaceHeelTurn: Carrie is convinced Brody has undergone one.
* FakeAmerican
* FakeUltimateHero
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After "The Choice".]]
* FallenHero
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After "Q&A."]]
* {{Jerkass}}
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: His role in Vice President Walden's Demise]]
* LastNameBasis: Even to his wife, who has the same surname.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Despite being a prominent and valued public face, he is tasked with an ill-conceived petty errand [[spoiler: by the Abu Nazir's organization; the relocation of a bomb-maker]].
** And despite mostly being OutOfFocus in Season 3, [[spoiler: Nicholas 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.]]
* NotQuiteDead
* OutOfFocus: In Season 3.
* RedHeadedHero
* ReformedButRejected: Has shades of this, [[spoiler: even after Abu Nazir falls thanks to him, he's still the guy who wore a vest of explosives]].
* SemperFi: Sergeant.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* TemptingFate: In Season 3 [[spoiler: he promises to comeback and repair the relationship with his daughter and be with Carrie permanently after the assassination mission in Iran. Though he completes the mission, Brody ends up getting captured and hung in the end.]]
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: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".]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Congressman Brody in Season 2, then ambiguously inverted in the finale when he's an AntiHero with an inescapable past.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Unlike Nazir, who essentially wants the demise of the West and cannot be considered well-intentioned, Brody, [[spoiler: before his HeelFaceTurn, wants to specifically punish Americans who he sees as culpable in unnecessarily killing civilians, including a child he came to care for. This does not make him justified, but makes him somewhat sympathetic and fitting this trope. He wants to purify the West, not destroy it.]]
* YourCheatingHeart
* YoureInsane: His standard deflection against Carrie.
* ZenSurvivor

!!Jessica Brody, née Lazaro
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I seem to have become one of those women who takes their kids to school in their pajamas."'']]

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

* 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 Nicholas Brody chose to be with Carrie after he found out she was pregnant with his baby. And Jessica moved on with her life believing that getting back with Nicholas was a mistake.]]
* {{Housewife}}
* ImportantHaircut
* MsFanservice
* ProperLady: Or at least appears like it in public. It's one of the consequences of being the wife of a possible Vice President candidate.
* StepfordSmiler: She's aware she has to be one in public.
* WhereWereYouLastNight
* YourCheatingHeart: Started to rebuild her life with Faber after mourning MIA Brody for several years.

!!Dana Brody, later Dana Lazaro
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Dana_130.jpg]]

->'''Played By:''' Morgan Saylor

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: She grows out of this during season 1. Completely averted in Season 2. She typically shows more maturity than her parents.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:It's clear that the drama surrounding her family took its toll on her.]]
* BungledSuicide: In the gap between seasons 2 and 3.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Called out her mother in season 1 for sleeping with her husband's best friend, then her father in season 2 for being such a poor father.
* CharacterDevelopment
* ComingOfAgeStory
* DeadpanSnarker
* EruditeStoner
* FieryRedhead
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: To Finn Walden and his vehicular manslaughter.
* HiddenDepths
* MeaningfulRename: Adopts her mother's maiden name because she doesn't want anything related to her father's legacy.
* TheMillstone: Starting season 3, as a result of her RomanticPlotTumor. She has nothing positive to contribute to the main spying plot. The one time her actions do get the CIA involved, that's when she almost blows Carrie and Saul's half-season worth of a long game.
* MoralityChain: To Brody. She's able to [[spoiler: talk him out of committing the suicide bombing in the Season 1 finale]], even though she doesn't realize that's what she's doing.
* MustMakeAmends: She tried to apologize to the family her boyfriend hit and run, and then admit fault to the police when that doesn't work out.
* SittingOnTheRoof
* StarCrossedLovers: With Finn Walden. Played with due to the fact that the families are not openly enemies, and only her father has any clue as to the kind of vile snake Finn's father really is.
* TookALevelInKindness: Or maybe maturity.
* WiseBeyondHerYears: [[spoiler: Not so much in Season 3, however.]]

!!Chris Brody
->'''Played By:''' Jackson Pace

* DemotedToExtra: In the beginning of Season 2.
* 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. Judging by his behavior towards the end of Season 3, even his own father seems to have forgotten he exists.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad

!!Grandma Lois

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[[folder: Central Intelligence Agency]]

!!Saul Berenson
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Saul_4843.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"What the fuck are you doing?"'']]

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

* {{Badass}}
** BadassBookworm: He's mostly an office analyst, but he is shown as very competent when he does field work.
* BeingGoodSucks: His service to the country puts a strain on his marriage, and he's given a very hard time when he clashes with Estes over a broken deal.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Throws Carrie under the bus in the aftermath of the attack on Langley. He doesn't become a BrokenPedestal because it's revealed to be a part of a complex scheme to lure the Iranians]].
** And then there's his followup plan: [[spoiler:Turn a war criminal into a puppet for the CIA, and then use the US's most sought after fugitive to assassinate a high-ranking Iranian official so that he could be replaced with said puppet.]]
* BigGood: During his stint as head of the CIA. A very balanced leader, unlike other radical and self-serving officials who hold the post throughout the series.
* BrutalHonesty
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: To Carrie.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Being the head of the agency at a critical time undermines his principles due to a tremendous responsability full of political obstacles.
-->We're not assassins, Mira. We're spies. We don't kill our targets if we don't have to. We trawl for 'em, we develop 'em, and then we redirect them against more important targets.
* CoolOldGuy
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheFettered: A principled spy who [[IGaveMyWord stands by his word]], defends that deals must be honored and advocates for smart-not-blunt approaches. Fellow spymaster Dar Adul even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gx7hV2e-Us chides Saul]] for being too sensitive for the profession, but this righteousness has doubled as a motivation for years.
* {{Foil}}: To David Estes. Both are senior officials at the CIA, but Saul is a principled hero who tries to do the right thing, even if ([[BeingGoodSucks and when]]) his career suffers for it.
* KnightInSourArmour: The War on Terror is a weary endeavour, but he keeps carrying on.
* MarriedToTheJob: "It's my weakness. My AchillesHeel. Whenever they call me, I go."
* OnlyFriend: To Carrie's. It works both ways, he is her OnlyFriend as much she is '''his'''. Estes explicitly tells Saul in "I'll Fly Away" that, except Carrie alone, Saul himself really has no allies in the CIA.
** Subverted in season 3: Despite appearances to the contrary (and assurances to Lockhart), Dar Adul seems to be very much an ally of Saul's.
* TheLastDJ: A veteran who didn't have a higher rank at the CIA because he's not a political animal.
* TheMentor
** MentorArchetype
* OnlySaneMan: He is the mediator between Carrie's antics and CIA's bureaucracy.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The most balanced official among the powerful characters.
** Double subverted in Season 3. In the season's first four episodes, it seemed that he was being extremely cruel to Carrie (whether it was somewhat deserved, fans can disagree on). He also had a KickTheDog scene with an Islamic analyst that looked very bad. But at the end of Episode 4, [[spoiler: TheReveal showed that he and Carrie had actually been working together, and Saul had not lost his morality. He then was shown as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure throughout the rest of the season, although some thought that he had become too much like TheSpock, willing to sacrifice individuals' safety for TheNeedsOfTheMany.]]
* TheStoic: rarely raises his voice or loses his cool, although if he's displeased with you, you will know it.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the third season he is more personally unpleasant and goes in the direction of being TheUnFettered in terms of his willingness to use as sacrifice assets and seek out shady assets for the [[TheNeedsOfTheMany greater good]]. Before [[spoiler: the reveal at the end of "Game On" (Season 3, Episode 4) he seemed to have taken several levels in Jerkass, but after that it seems at worst he's become more like TheSpock, focusing on TheNeedsOfTheMany, with a plan to make anti-American terrorism much harder and less likely, although willing to reluctantly break a few eggs if required for that omelet.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Dar
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Javadi, they were close associates when Iran was an American ally under the Shah.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: At the end of season two, the car bomb decapitates the CIA leadership and leaves him the ranking officer on the scene.]]

!!David Estes
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Estes_4475.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm making sure there are no loose cannons rolling around on my deck, because if there are, I need to tie them down."'']]

->'''Played By:''' David Harewood

* AmbitionIsEvil: A careerist who acts as a prolongation of Walden's agenda from time to time.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Not quite, but his hair is kept very short, bordering on this trope.
* DaChief
* TheDanza
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Albeit effectively.]]
* FakeAmerican
* InspectorJavert: Namechecked by Saul. Starts to fit the role by the end of Season 2.
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: During his PetTheDog moments.
** JerkassHasAPoint
* KickTheDog: After Saul learns that he and the vice president used drone strikes against terrorists while disregarding the possible civilian casualties of such an endeavor, he confronts Estes about it. Estes condescendingly points out to Saul that his threat to release this information is hollow as it will damage the nation at large by giving Middle-Eastern terrorist organizations "the best recruitment tool since Abu-Ghraib," essentially hiding behind Saul's patriotism to cover his own ass.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* PetTheDog[=/=]HonestAdvisor: He voices his concern to the Vice President about targeting civilians.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is a competent boss at his own right. It's just that, unlike Carrie, he is limited by CIA bureaucracy. Played with in that he shares Walden's agenda and this makes him an obstructive antagonist or worse when it fits him.
* YourCheatingHeart
* WorkingWithTheEx

!!Virgil
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Virgil_6043.jpg]]

->'''Played By:''' David Marciano

* BaldOfAwesome
* DeadpanSnarker
* AFriendInNeed: He is one of the terribly few characters who stick to Carrie in rain or shine.
* MetaGuy
* OnlySaneMan: Often seems like the sensible one when he's working with [[BunnyEarsLawyer Carrie]] and his brother [[NoSocialSkills Max]].
* PromotedToOpeningTitles: For season 2. He goes back to being a guest star in season 3.
* TheReliableOne: Carrie relies on him and his brother Max for surveillance work.
* ThoseTwoGuys: with his brother Max, who is TheQuietOne.

!!Max

* TheReliableOne
* ThoseTwoGuys: with his brother Virgil.

!!Peter Quinn
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/PeterQuinnHL_3349.jpg]]

->'''Played By:''' Rupert Friend

* {{Badass}}: The man can give Jack Bauer a run for his money. Give Quinn 10 minutes to StormTheCastle, and he'll storm it.
* CompassionateCritic
* CowboyCop
* 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.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Determinator}}: Rest? From a little gutshot? Do I look like a pussy?
* FakeAmerican: Rupert Friend, who plays him, is British.
* GenreSavvy: Invokes GoodCopBadCop, knows when to call for backup and [[spoiler:[[PlayingPossum play dead]]]] and consistently warns Carrie not to get emotionally involved again with Brody.
* GoodIsNotNice: Even characters in-universe notice it. This is probably the cause of most of his friction with people.
* GoodCopBadCop: The bad one.
* HairTriggerTemper
* HiddenDepths: His frat boy cockiness and short temper aside, he is Carrie's equal in insight, Saul's match in wisdom.
* 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.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold => NiceGuy: Bit of a jerk at first, but he slowly becomes one of the show's most empathetic characters.
** JerkassHasAPoint
* MadeOfIron: He took an assault rifle bullet in his guts and got back to work in less than a week.
* [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known by His Code Name:]] Peter Quinn isn't his legal name.
* OnlySaneMan: Certainly comes across as one, especially when put beside Carrie.
* PromotedToOpeningTitles: After guest starring in most of season 2's episodes, Friend is a promoted to regular for season 3.
* RabidCop: Subverted. He is brutal in interrogations, but does so on purpose to help a later good cop.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Although it has a tendency to backfire.
* SourSupporter: He states outright Carrie is good, but he's equally willing to snipe at her the rest of the time.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Subverted. Estes places him in charge of the Brody taskforce to keep Carrie and Saul in check and both are initially suspicious of him. It turns out that not only is he a competent manager, but is almost as much of a CowboyCop as Carrie in his own right. Played with a bit further as [[spoiler: he's not even an analyst but a black ops operative with his own agenda]].
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Subtle and mild examples here and there with Carrie, such as his no nudity taboo and several explicit and awkward remarks.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: In the season three premiere, [[spoiler: he takes a riskier and more personally dangerous approach to an assassination rather than blow up a child along with his mark. After he accidentally shoots the kid anyway, he tells Saul he plans to quit once their job is done.]]

!!Danny Gálvez

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: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.]]
* TheMole: WronglyAccused of being one for Al-Qaeda, due to racial {{profiling}}.
* TokenEnemyMinority: Muslim-American CIA analyst of Lebanese and Guatemalan descent.

!!Dar Adal

->Played By: F. Murray Abraham.

* AscendedExtra: Has a minor role in season 2 as Saul's fellow spymaster and cynical old friend. He's Saul's right hand in Season 3.
* TheChessMaster: He cooperates with [[spoiler: Haqqani in Season 4]] with the intention to destroy [[spoiler: Lockart's career]] and get Saul reinstated as the DCI.
* {{Foil}}: A pragmatic spy (Adal) vs a more principled one (Saul).
* GreenEyedMonster: Some scenes hinted that Adal was jealous of Saul's close friendship with Carrie, but seems to get over it by the end of Season 3.
* NumberTwo: Under Saul at the CIA in season 3.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite their disagreements, Dar and Saul maintain a friendly relationship.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He comes to an agreement with Haqqani, in Season 4 [[spoiler: halting efforts to reacquire the CIA's Network lists]] in order to destroy Lockhart's career and get a DCI he wants (Saul) to be appointed.

!!Fara Sherazi

* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie]]
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: Gets stabbed in the back by Haqqani during his assault on the US Embassy in Islamabad.]]
* NewMeat: Brought in as green replacement after the CIA is crippled.
* PromotedToOpeningTitles: In Season 4. Third billing no less. [[spoiler: Then gets killed off 10 episodes later.]]
* TheSmartGirl: Very good at [[ForensicAccounting following the money]] related to terrorism.
* TokenEnemyMinority: Muslim-American CIA analyst of Iranian descent.

!!Senator Andrew Lockhart

-> '''Played By:''' Tracy Letts

A subcommittee boss who grills the CIA for its failures and is appointed director of the CIA by the President in Season 3.

* JerkassHasAPoint
* MoleInCharge: Sort of, [[spoiler: Saul is able to catch him receiving intelligence from a Mossad agent, implying that he is an Israeli agent]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In his first scene, he's [[HauledBeforeASenateSubCommittee hauled prominent CIA officers before his Senate subcommittee]], apparently hindering their work. [[spoiler:Unwittingly, this is factored in by Saul in a scheme to lure the Iranians.]]
* StrawmanPolitical: He's spends much of Season 3 doing nothing but oppose Saul at every turn, and criticize the CIA without offering any tangible solution (other than using more drone strikes). [[spoiler: However, he does become more of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure after being blackmailed by Saul into allowing his operation to go through.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Set up as this, he's set up before he takes over hardass and is determined to undo Saul's policies, shifting the importance of field assets in favor of drones. This is at least somewhat subverted, although he's not shown as very competent: He takes great risks to save Saul's life and is protective of Carrie and other operatives. He turns out to be a rather poor CIA chief, but more out of incompetence than tyranny or ruthlessness. Compared to Saul, he looks bad; but compared to Estes of Seasons 1 and 2, he turns out to be less competent but probably more caring.

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[[folder: The Americans]]

!!Major Mike Faber
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CaptainFaber2_283.jpg]]

->'''Played By:''' Diego Klattenhoff

* FakeAmerican: Played by a Canadian actor.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Brody's children. Openly for Chris, it takes Dana some time to admit it.
* PromotedToOpeningTitles / DemotedToExtra: Klattenhoff is promoted to series regular for season 2, but goes back to being a guest star with greatly reduced screen time for season 3 after getting a starring role in NBC's TheBlacklist.
* PutOnABus: It is implied that between Seasons 2 and 3, he offers to move in with the Brodys, but Jessica turns him down.
* RankUp: Promoted from Captain to Major at some point.
* TheReliableOne: He's always there to help.
* RomancingTheWidow: After several years of mourning, turns out Jessica is not a widow.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Played straight after Brody returns from captivity. [[spoiler: A new situation, still untold, arises after Brody's marriage falls apart.]]
* SemperFi: As the one Marine without a deep trauma, he's the only straight and proud example among the main characters.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Brody.
* YourCheatingHeart

!!Vice President William Walden
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Walden_428.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"And fire someone. I don't care who."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jamey Sheridan

* AlliterativeName
* AmbitionIsEvil: The head of an [[TheUnfettered unfeterred family]] that engages in very reprehensible deeds, because the Presidency means everything.
-->Fuck your family [...] The highest office in this land. You don't walk away from that.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He's a jerk until the very end.]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Averted, he went to great lengths to conceal a life-changing drone attack on Iraq and years later the cover-up is still one of his concerns.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: He's responsible or at least has a role in [[spoiler: Brody turning terrorist]] due to a drone attack with civilian casualties.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: He's betrayed and metaphorically killed by Brody, who as far as Walden knows, is only his political son and protege]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Brody:''' You still don't get it, do you? '''I'm killing you''']]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* {{Jerkass}}
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A cross between George HW Bush (director of the CIA and Vice-President who succeeded his President) and [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade popular perceptions]] of Dick Cheney.
* NoPartyGiven: It's not explictly stated but it's suggested he is a Democrat, as the disgraced Congressman quickly replaced by [[spoiler: his protégé Brody]] is also one. There's nothing to rule out the InvisiblePresident is Obama.
** Waldon could just as easily be a Republican--House vacancies are filled in a special election, which [[spoiler: Brody]] presumably won between seasons. During season two, it is mentioned that there is a constituent event in Culpeper, VA. In real life, Culpepper is in the Virginia 7th District, which is fairly conservative and is currently represented by Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. All else being equal, that area of Virginia is more likely to elect a Republic than Democrat in a special election, though with [[spoiler: Brody's war-hero backstory and the support of the White House]], it probably wouldn't matter much.
* [[PresidentEvil Vice President Evil]]
* PromotedToOpeningTitles
* SmugSnake: He has the fewest redeeming features of anyone on this show, including Nazir. [[spoiler: His last scene consists of him telling Brody "Fuck your family, nothing's more important than a high office."]]
* SlasherSmile
* UpperClassTwit: Through his class and connections, he went to an IvyLeague University; Dana mocks him implying those qualities allowed him to get a "Gentleman's C".
* WellIntentionedExtremist: At best. His methods against the terrorists turn him into a HeWhoFightsMonsters character.
* WouldHurtAChild: A consequence of his lack of WouldNotShootACivilian policy.

!!Finn Walden

-->'''Played By:''' Timothee Chalamet

* ItsAllAboutMe
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] offering a blindly gung-ho opinion during a debate, later on he looks like a [[JerkassFacade pleasant kid]] to date, by his spoiled and selfish tendencies become clearer over time [[spoiler: and he is revealed to be exactly like his father's son when he refuses to own up a hit-and-run]].
* LikeFatherLikeSon

!!Lauder Wakefield

-->'''Played By:''' Marc Menchaca

* TheAlcoholic
* TheCassandra: Realizes immediately the falsity of Brodie's public-relations created image as gung ho war hero, and he correctly assesses Brodie's motives in the second season, unlike most other people who interact with Brodie [[spoiler: While the exact theory he reaches isn't accurate, he is completely correct that Brodie is up to no good and had something to do with Walker's terrorist plot/Walker's death]].
* ConspiracyTheorist
* DisabledSnarker
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkassHasAPoint: Obnoxious behavior aside, Captain Faber starts to give credit to Lauder's theories.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "You are so full of shit, Brody."
* SemperFi: Former PFC.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* WhatTheHellHero: Rebukes Brody for becoming a propaganda icon for a war they both grew to despise

!!Lynne Reed

-->'''Played By:''' Brianna Brown

* ButtMonkey
* HighClassCallGirl: Mostly fits the type, though technically not a call girl.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold
* MsFanservice
* SacrificialLion
* TheMole

!!Mira Berenson

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Abu Nazir Network]]

!!Abu Nazir
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Nazir_3148.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Why kill a man when you can kill an idea?"'']]

->'''Played By:''' Navid Negahban

* {{Badass}}
* BeardOfEvil: He shaves it off in Season 2, however.
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: Shaves his beard and takes off the glasses permanently. This makes him unrecognisable even to ''the viewer''.
* BigBad: The closest thing the show has to one.
* BurialAtSea: [[spoiler:[[DueToTheDead After all]], the Americans give him a ceremonial burial. Apparently, the same one given to]] OsamaBinLaden.
* TheChessmaster
* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler: Not even death hinders his plans]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity
* FakeNationality: The Iranian-born Navid Negahban plays the Palestinian Arab and Pakistan-born Abu Nazir.
* FirstNameBasis: About the only person to consistently call Brody "Nicholas".
* EvilerThanThou: He calls OsamaBinLaden a coward for hiding instead of working in the frontline like he does.
* ManipulativeBastard
* MeaningfulName: Abu Nazir means, roughly, "father of foreboding" in Arabic.
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: He's amused to realize that Carrie also came to love Brody while "breaking" him.]]
* OffstageVillainy: Most of his heinous acts are part of his backstory and not shown onscreen.
* PromotedToOpeningTitles
* StoicSpectacles
* SuicideByCop
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: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.]]
* VisionaryVillain: He believes that even if it takes 300 years, his cause will prevail.

!!Thomas Walker
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ChrisChalk

* {{Badass}}
* ColdSniper: And the best marksmanship of his unit.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Killed by Brody, his blood brother, under orders from Nazir]]
* FaceHeelTurn
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kills a hunter who witnesses his target practice in the woods. In turn, he knows too much about [[spoiler: Brody and Nazir]] and gets killed for it.
* NotQuiteDead
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The unlikeliness of Walker missing several consecutive shots doesn't go unnoticed by other characters.
* PetTheDog: Bounds and gags a woman during an assassination. This witness seems like a prime candidate for termination, but he leaves the scene without harming the woman, and even shows some sympathy towards her.
* ScaryBlackMan
* SemperFi: Corporal.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

!!Raquim Faisel
->'''Played By:''' Creator/OmidAbtahi

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain
* LoveMakesYouEvil: He is not really committed to the terrorist cause, he is mostly in it dragged by his wife.

!!Aileen Morgan
->'''Played By:''' Marin Ireland

* AntiVillain: Type III.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates
* DrivenToSuicide
* MalignedMixedMarriage
* WesternTerrorists: In a way; she comes from a WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant background but is part of a Middle East-based terrorist group.

!!Roya Hammad
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/ZuleikhaRobinson

* EvilBrit
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: She is aware that Brody has never really been committed to the cause, and therefore never takes Brody in her plans without isolating him first. Her savviness is best shown when Carrie tries to play her usual GoodCopBadCop routine.
-->'''Roya:''' Have you ever had someone who somehow takes over your life, pulls you in. Makes you do things ... that you know are wrong, but you can't help yourself? Do you have anyone like that?
-->'''Carrie:''' Yes.
-->'''Roya:''' [[DefiedTrope Well, I’ve never been that stupid, you idiot whore!]] You think you understand me? ''You think this is some [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] game?''
* TheHandler: [[spoiler: Brody's]] for Nazir.
* HotScoop
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The youngest of six siblings.
* {{Oxbridge}}: Oxford. Of Palestinian descent, she narrowly averts being MajoredInWesternHypocrisy by being a first/second-generation Londoner.
* ShutUpKirk: [[spoiler: After being captured, she seems to open up a NotSoDifferent angle during an interrogation, only to immediately deny any commonality and end the debrief with an enraged HannibalLecture directed at Carrie.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: She is reduced to a screaming wreck after she is captured.]]

!! M.M

->'''Played By:''' Mido Hamada

* TheDragon: Abu Nazir's.
* TheDreaded: Feared by the CIA for his ruthlessness.
* FakeNationality: German-Egyptian Mido Hada plays a Lebanese soldier of Hezbollah.
* [[BeardOfEvil Goatee Of Evil]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname

[[/folder]]

[[folder: The 12/12 Conspiracy]]

!!Majid Javadi

-> '''Played By:''' Shaun Toub

* DiscOneFinalBoss
* EvilCounterpart: Unlike Abu Nazir and his organization, who were driven by ideology, religion and revenge, Javadi is simply an enemy spymaster. Although he manages terrorist operations, it's just part of the job.
* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler: Makes a pit stop to brutally murder his ex-wife and daughter-in-law on the way to turn himself into the CIA.]]
* FaceHeelTurn[=/=]WeUsedToBeFriends: An ally of Saul under the Shah, he quickly betrayed several spies to ingraciate himself with the new regime of Khomeini.
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: He betrayed America's asset during the Iranian Revolution to get on the good graces of the Islamists. Later, after the CIA hit back at the 12/12 masterminds, and then confront him with the evidence that he has been embezzling state money, he agrees to be a mole without putting any fight.
* TheMole: He was this for the Iranian Revolutionaries inside Savak in the backstory and the CIA is trying to turn him into one for them inside the IRGC.
* 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.
* StealingFromTheTill: 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.
* StrawMisogynist: [[spoiler:Stabs his ex-wife to death years after she divorced him just because he can, and then boasts about how he should have stoned her.]]

!!Leland Bennett

* AmoralAttorney

!!Peter Franklin

!!Danesh Akbari

* BigBad

[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Pakistanis]]

!!Haissam Haqqani

* BadAss: Very audacious. He personally commands the group that storms the US embassy.
* BigBad: A highly sought taliban leader and the major threat of Season 4.
* TheChessmaster: Even though he [[spoiler: has a lot of help from the ISI]], Season 4 can pretty much be summed up as [[spoiler: "Watch Haissam Haqqani make the CIA his bitch."]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Can be very civil and polite, but he's very ruthless underneath the courtesy.
* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Dear Allah is he ''ever.'' Aside from taking a bullet from Quinn that forces him to flee the embassy before he can finish killing every last person there, pretty much nothing ever goes wrong for him throughout Season 4. His collaboration with the ISI is so successful that the US ends up outright cutting diplomatic ties with Pakistan.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Kills his nephew after the boy unwittingly plays into the CIA's hand. Later on he massacres the US Embassy in Islamabad, where he also kills Fara by knifing her in the back despite telling Lockhart he'd let her go and leave if he cooperated with him. He and his men would have then killed every last hostage there if Quinn didn't scare them off.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's basically the {{Expy}} of the founder of the Haqqani network, one of the most lethal terrorist organizations based in Northern Pakistan.

!!Aayan Ibrahim

->'''Played by''': Suraj Sharma

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: After the safehouse where he and Carrie are is attacked (actually staged by Carrie) and he flees to Haqqani, he is unceremoniously shot in the head by him after he finds out he (unknowingly) worked with the CIA.]]

!!Rahim

!!Kiran

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Inter-Services Intelligence]]

!!Tasneem Qureshi

* BiggerBad
* TheChessmaster

!!Aasar Khan

* TokenEnemyMinority

!!Farhad Ghazi

* TheBrute

!!Bunran Latif

[[/folder]]

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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Set up as this, he's very hardass and is determined to undo Saul's policies, shifting the importance of field assets in favor of drones.

* WellIntentionedExtreist: Her main intent is to protect the U.S. from terrorists. Her methods to accomplich it include blackmailing, OKing a drone strike that killed 40 people, and using illegal surveinance.

->'''Played By:''' Omid Abtahi

->'''Played By:''' Zuleikha Robinson

->'''Played By:''' Chris Chalk

* TheChessMaster: He cooperates with [[spoiler: Haquani in Season 4]] with the intention to destroy [[spoiler: Lockart's career]] and get Saul reinstated as the DCI.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He comes to an agreement with Haquani, in Season 4 [[spoiler: halting efforts to reacquire the CIA's Network lists]] in order to destroy Lockart's career and get a DCI he wants (Saul) to be appointed.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: Gets stabbed in the back by Hoqqani during his assault on the US Embassy in Islamabad.]]

!!Haissam Haqani

* TheChessmaster: Even though he [[spoiler: has a lot of help from the ISI]], Season 4 can pretty much be summed up as [[spoiler: "Watch Haissam Haqani make the CIA his bitch."]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's basically the {{Expy}} of the founder of the Haqquani network, one of the most lethal terrorist organizations based in Northern Pakistan.

!!Tasleem Qureshi

* AscendedExtra: Has a minor role in season 2 as Saul's fellow spymaster and cynical old friend. He's Saul's right hand in Season 3.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite their disagreements, Dar and Saul maintain a friendly relationship.

* Badass: Very audacious. He personally commands the group that storms the US embassy.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Kills his nephew after the boy unwittingly plays into the CIA's hand. Later on he massacres the US Embassy in Islamabad, where he also kills Fara by knifing her in the back despite telling Lockhart he'd let her go and leave if he cooperated with him. He and his men would have then killed every last hostage there if Quinn didn't scare them off.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Kills his nephew after the boy unwittingly plays into the CIA's hand.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: After the safehouse where he and Carrie are is attacked (actually staged by Carrie) and he flees to Haqqani, he is unceremoniously shot in the head.]]

* BigGood: During his stint as head of the CIA. A very balanced leader, unlike other radical and self-serving officials. who held the post during the series.

* NiceGuy: One of the most amiable and stable characters.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Like his daughter Carrie, he has bipolar disorder.

->'''Played By:''' Claire Danes

->'''Played By:''' Damien Lewis

->'''Played By:''' Morena Baccarin

[[folder: The Mathisons]]

[[folder: The Brodys]]

[[folder: The CIA]]

[[folder: The Nazir Network]]

[[folder: The Javadi Conspiracy]]

* [[Like Mother Like Daughter LikeFatherLikeSon]]: A very lousy and neglectful parent, just like her mommy.

!!Senator Andrew Lockhart

-> '''Played By:''' Tracy Letts

A subcommittee boss who grills the CIA for its failures and is appointed director of the CIA by the President in Season 3.

* JerkassHasAPoint
* MoleInCharge: Sort of, [[spoiler: Saul is able to catch him receiving intelligence from a Mossad agent, implying that he is an Israeli agent]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In his first scene, he's [[HauledBeforeASenateSubCommittee hauled prominent CIA officers before his Senate subcommittee]], apparently hindering their work. [[spoiler:Unwittingly, this is factored in by Saul in a scheme to lure the Iranians.]]
* StrawmanPolitical: He's spends much of Season 3 doing nothing but oppose Saul at every turn, and criticize the CIA without offering any tangible solution (other than using more drone strikes). [[spoiler: However, he does become more of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure after being blackmailed by Saul into allowing his operation to go through.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Set up as this, he's very hardass and is determined to undo Saul's policies, shifting the importance of field assets in favor of drones.

[[folder: The Javadi Network]]

* CoveredWithScars: He has an impressive collection across his chest and back by season three.

* ShutUpKirk: [[spoiler: After being captured, she seems to open up a NotSoDifferent angle during an interrogation, only to immediately deny any commonality and ending the debrief with an enraged but not enterily inaccurate HannibalLecture directed at Carrie.]]

* HotDad

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* 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 a one night stand. In season three, [[spoiler: after Carrie figures out she might be made the patsy 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.]]