History Characters / LostInSpace2018

* ParentsAsPeople: She loves her children and wants them to be happy. But she believes (not without cause) that she is the smartest person around and that her judgement in all situations, including family matters, is superior. This leads to a very "my way or the highway" style of parenting, and both John and the children sometimes chafe at this. At one point, she tells John that the children should hear them speak with one voice. He agrees. Then she specifies that that voice should be ''hers''.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Inverted -- she's not really Dr. Smith]].

* ParentalFavouritism: It’s implied that John is closest with Judy

* TragicKeepsake: The [[spoiler: St. Christopher Medal. Subverted in that June let Don think it was in remembrance of a dearly beloved brother. This was a lie to manipulate him into helping her and eventually using it to divert him long enough to steal the flare gun and leave Don and Angela for dead.]]

* HappyTears: "Touched" might be more on point, but after John pours his heart out about how much he loves his kids, Don tears up a bit, saying that he wishes he'd had a father like John.

The matriarch of the Robinson family, she’s a brilliant aerospace engineer and astrophysicist.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He puts on the pragmatic smuggler persona most of the time, but when it comes down to it he can be relied on to do the right thing. Season 2 drops the "jerk" part almost completely.

* LawfulStupid: Victor demands unquestioning obedience from his wife and son and expects the colonists to follow the rules as he interprets them without question. He does not take anyone questioning his authority very well.
* {{Jerkass}}: The man is a dick. One has to wonder how he ever got elected to represent the 24th group in the Colony. Especially when [[RunningGag everyone voted for the other guy]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: He's certainly mellowed out by the second season, willing to give Judy a chance to rescue her father despite the risks present on the alien world.]]

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: When John gets trapped in a well and injured, he allows Penny to risk herself and a Chariot to get to him faster so she can save his life.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: Becomes more and more friendly to the Robinsons in later seasons, and is remorseful about his actions in Season 1. By Season 4, [[spoiler: he voluntarily joins John to hunt the robots on Alpha Centauri]].

->'''Played By: JJ Feild'''

* InvincibleVillain: Maybe "villain" is arguable at times, but it's clear that she's very highly morally grey at best and she has the luck of a devil. The victories the Robinsons get when she starts to manipulate everybody are minor and short-lived and [[spoiler:the damned woman manages to apparently survive a truly unsurvivable situation involving an open airlock, a smashed open faceplate, and being surrounded by a hundred killer robots and being weighted down by a tremendous amount of magnetism, in the second season finale.]]

* KarmaHoudini: For most of the series until the end. "Smith" gets out of [[spoiler:the Robinsons confronting her with her lie of being alone when rescued, confronted by Don whom she left for dead, and even being confronted with evidence that she is not Dr. Smith near the end.]] [[spoiler: Then it's back in play when she manages to change her identity on the ''Resolute's'' mainframe, delete all evidence about her forged identity, and convince the rest of the crew that she's a respected therapist. The third season ends with her finally accepting responsibility for her actions and being placed in jail. She very nearly kills Captain Radic, but is convinced by the Robot not to go through with something that there would be no going back from.]]

* HotScientist: She may very well be the most brilliant scientist in the expedition and she is attractive.

* AdultFear: The danger to his family motivates his {{Jerkass}} actions in Season 1. He (and everyone else) get it even worse with [[spoiler: the destruction of the ''Resolute'']], when [[spoiler: they have to lead [=SAR's=] robots away from the kids, and end up being separated from them ''in a different solar system'' with no way to contact them for almost a year]].

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Smith sacrifices her life to give the colonists precious minutes to evacuate before the hostile robots break free and kill them all. Or so it seems - it's revealed right at the beginning of the third season that the managed to survive and is on the ''Jupiter'' with the children.]]

* LoveInterest: He is Penny's love interest for most of the first season, [[spoiler: until the events of his family's attempted betrayal cause them to split.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: When it appears they have no fuel with which to leave, he betrays Penny’s trust and reveals to his father the fact that the planet is doomed. Then he goes along with his father’s plan to ditch everyone else on the planet.]]

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The main reason he serves aboard the ''Resolute'' seems to be the tidy profit he makes running contraband to Alpha Centauri (he and Tag imply in the pilot that the crew of the ''Resolute'' aren't exactly getting rich from their wages, hence the choice to smuggle). When that's no longer an option, he still continues to try and make money off of everyone and everything.

->'''Played By: Sakina Jaffrey'''

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: When she helps delay the invading robots but realizes she has no time to get back, she accepts her fate with grace, [[CharacterDevelopment which is a far-cry from how she started out]]. That said, she may have figured a way out of it.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: She throws herself into harms way to ensure the crew on the ''Resolute'' can survive the oncoming wave of hostile alien robots, and though she succeeds buying a few minutes, it seemingly costs her her life. That said, the Robot finds a ball she had picked up on the transport the children evacuated on, hinting that Smith managed to sneak aboard somehow while making everyone think she died.]]

* KarmaHoudini: For most of the series until the end. "Smith" gets out of [[spoiler:the Robinsons confronting her with her lie of being alone when rescued, confronted by Don whom she left for dead, and even being confronted with evidence that she is not Dr. Smith near the end.]] [[spoiler: Then it's back in play when she manages to change her identity on the ''Resolute's'' mainframe, delete all evidence about her forged identity, and convince the rest of the crew that she's a respected therapist.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Smith sacrifices her life to give the colonists precious minutes to evacuate before the hostile robots break free and kill them all.]]

* EvilCounterpart: To the Robot, [[DownplayedTrope sort of]]. It has the same mission as the Robot did, but lacks the character development of the latter, so it remains hellbent on recovering the alien engine, and will kill anyone who gets in its way.

* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler: It seems to hate organics.]]

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Adler is forced to crush it with his EMF device when it nearly kills Maureen to get to Will.]]
** [[spoiler: In thee series finale, it's KilledOffForReal when Robot took over its body.]]

* SilentAntagonist: Never speaks, but still communicates its hostility quite clearly.