History Characters / MCUCitizensNewYorkCity

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!!City Government
!!!New York City Council
[[folder:Councilwoman Mariah Dillard]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristStokesDillardRing Stokes-Dillard Crime Ring]] page

[[folder:Councilman Damon Boone]]
!!''Councilman Damon Boone''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ClarkJackson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

-->''"You can't stay on top forever, Mariah. You're gonna fall. And I'll enjoy every second when you do."''

A city councilman from Harlem and a political rival of Mariah Dillard.

* CategoryTraitor: Mariah considers him as such because of his Stanford education and the fact that he's not a Harlem native. She keeps referring to him as "carpetbagger".
* CorruptPolitician: Inverted. He has nothing but contempt for Mariah Dillard and her family's connection to organized crime.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Diamondback tells his whole backstory directly to Boone, as well as his true relationship with Luke. Damon realizes this and asks why he is doing this, [[spoiler:and then Diamondback kills him with one hit]].
* MegatonPunch: [[spoiler:Diamondback kills him with his armored glove with such strength his entire chest gets caved in, both to incriminate Luke as well as cover up his own role in the hostage crisis.]]
* TheRival: Even though they're from the same party, Boone and Mariah are political enemies and can't stand each other.

!!!New York County District Attorney's Office
[[folder:Samantha Reyes]]
!!''Manhattan District Attorney Samantha Reyes''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichelleHurd
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

The District Attorney for Manhattan.

* AmoralAttorney: In contrast with Matt and Foggy, Reyes is ready to go through anything, including illegal measures, to get by. Matt says she wouldn't even buy a pack of gum if it didn't further her career.
* AscendedExtra: Has one scene in the last episode of ''Jessica Jones'' (Season 1) but is a supporting character in the second season of ''Daredevil''.
* AssholeVictim: She's been nothing but a lying, manipulative careerist who pulled way too many strings to get what she wanted, threatened to tear down Nelson & Murdock, and initiated multiple scandals in the course of boosting her own career, the worst of which being [[spoiler:getting Frank Castle's family killed after neglecting to clear out the park during the sting operation. After admitting her involvement in that, she gets riddled with bullets in her own office, and no one mourns at all.]]
* BigBadWannabe: She is an AmoralAttorney in position of power who wishes to promote a struggle against vigilantes like Daredevil, the Punisher or Jessica Jones, making it seem like she will be a major player in the show, and the 2017 mayoral cycle. However, in the end, she is completely overshadowed by other, bigger villains, and [[spoiler:ends up gunned down by the Blacksmith's assassins before she can fully accomplish her ambitions]].
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:After Frank's escape from prison, Reyes is understandably terrified out of her wits.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: As Matt puts it, Reyes "wouldn't buy a pack of a gum if it didn't further her career" when Karen fills him in on Grotto's plea deal. Karen and Foggy are furious when they realize that Reyes tricked them into letting the NYPD use Grotto as bait for the Punisher rather than rat out a fellow dealer, especially as she acts all smug to them. Karen goes on the Internet, and does some basic digging, then goes straight to Blake Tower.
-->'''Karen Page:''' Your boss said she could take down a firm like ours pretty quickly?
-->'''Blake Tower:''' She wasn't lying.
-->'''Karen Page:''' Huh. So... she could also take down someone like you? ''[takes some file folders out of her purse]'' ADA Elliott James. Took the fall after Reyes mishandled informants in the, uh, Teller case about a year ago. ''[passes another folder]'' Nicole Kent. Got booted from your office after she failed to quiet the Ensent scandal. ''[passes another folder]'' And Chris Davidson. Did you meet him? ''[beat]'' Fired after the State Supreme Court disqualified her ''entire office'' from the Pell case due to "widespread misconduct". Widespread! But not everyone got fired. See, Reyes walked out in one piece. She's good at throwing people to the wolves. So sure. She can take down Nelson & Murdock this month. But how long before ''you'' are getting pulled into the shit with the rest of us?
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:She admits that the Central Park massacre that took Frank Castle's family was in fact a sting operation that went awry. An operation that she let happen, despite the presence of civilians. Since then, she's been trying to have Frank killed so that the truth would die with him, and playing into Rawlins' and Russo's hands.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: She appeared in the season finale for ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' before her proper introduction in Season 2 of ''Daredevil''.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her ''one'' redeeming quality seems to be that she genuinely cares about her family. [[spoiler:When Castle escapes jail, one of her last actions before being killed is to have her daughter moved outside New York to protect her.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Having ''standards'' is just downright pushing it. Though despite being genuinely obnoxious and more concerned with her career, she does genuinely regret that Frank's family died in the crossfire of her sting. Subverted in that she only regrets it once what she did results in her losing total control of the situation.
* FirstNameBasis: Reyes and Jeri Hogarth are implied to have some history, given that they refer to one another by their first names. However, Marci hints in "Kinbaku" that Jeri and Reyes have had a falling out in the aftermath of Kilgrave's death, given Reyes' anti-vigilante platform and efforts at persecuting Jessica.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Karen discusses with Tower that Reyes has a long track record of throwing her co-workers under the bus whenever she mishandles a case and pins the blame on her own employees while walking away scot-free. Even when her scheme to have Grotto killed to get to the Punisher not only fails, she goes against the Grotto deal to put him in witness protection. [[spoiler:Not very surprising that she gets so many people killed at Central Park along with Castle's family when she botches the entire sting operation on the Blacksmith case and tries to have Frank killed to cover her own mistake.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:From a certain point of view, her sting operation did eventually (and indirectly) lead to the downfall of the Blacksmith. Just not remotely in the way she would have wanted and at cost of her own life. To wit: the disastrous operation caused the death of Frank Castle's family, pushing him to become the Punisher and hunt down all those responsible for their deaths. For added irony, while Reyes is murdered by the Blacksmith to silence her, Castle ends up unwittingly avenging her death by killing the Blacksmith at the end, and then dismantles the other plotters in Operation Cerberus.]]
* HateSink: Smug, vindictive, frequently abusing her power, ready to do anything (including endangering other people's lives) to preserve her career, and trying to create a mayoral campaign platform for 2017 by promoting a struggle against vigilantes (including people like Daredevil and Jessica Jones), she comes out as designed to be as unlikable as possible.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: She wears a Fordham Law (one of the "Catholic Ivies") sweatshirt in her death scene, implying she graduated from there.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:What goes around comes around. Even if she managed to get Frank killed or sent to prison, it wouldn't really matter for her anyways because she's the only loose end left for Operation Cerberus to tie up, since Schoonover and Rawlins knew about the sting operation Reyes began before everything became a slaughterhouse, though she tries to cover her tracks by falsifying the evidence. Tower mentions that the trail just keeps on getting bigger and wider, which lead to him slipping the files to Karen since he really doesn't want to be dragged down along with Reyes considering that she has a habit of throwing her own employees to the wolves. See LaserGuidedKarma right down below.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:She indirectly was responsible for the death of Frank's family because of her carelessness, and spends most of the season trying to get Frank executed, or at least sentenced to life in prison, just to cover up her own mistake. In the end, all of her actions just allow Schoonover and Rawlins (the very drug lord she was trying to catch by putting the Castle family at risk) to have her gunned down by killers, while putting the blame on Frank after he escaped from jail.]]
** Somewhat subverted when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Schoonover and Rawlins set up the sting to kill Frank and make it look like collateral damage in a sting gone bad.]] Even so, her being threatened by someone completely beyond her ability to control or threaten was long overdue karma.
* {{Jerkass}}: Hoo, boy. Reyes is a smug, self-satisfied and politically-motivated corrupt hell-beast. She is very easy to dislike and even her own subordinate Blake Tower doesn't have any flattering things to say about her.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:After finding a copy of Frank Castle's skull x-ray in her daughter's backpack, an indication that he's coming for her, she sends the daughter to a safe location "surrounded by men with guns" to keep her safe.]]
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Technically, she ''does'' succeed at getting Castle sent to jail and covering up the DarkSecret threatening her career... however, Castle escapes barely a few days later, and she's gunned down soon after, making the salvation of her job pointless.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She's usually seen wearing a power suit and a smug, self-satisfied bitchy smirk. [[spoiler:She's wearing a Fordham Law hoodie and jeans in her last appearance, as well as being scared out of her life.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Played with. [[spoiler:As soon as she learns that Frank has escaped, she barricades herself in her office, believing that he's going to come after her. Though she does get gunned down, it's not Frank that pulls the trigger.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Reyes is killed by the Blacksmith assassins when she confesses she was partly responsible for the deaths of Frank Castle's family in a undercover operation gone wrong. Though it's not all that redemptive, since she's not really remorseful about her crimes, just afraid of their consequences.]]
* RevealingCoverup: By episode 10 of the second season, we learn that she orchestrated a cover up of the fact that [[spoiler:the shoot out at the carousel where the Castle family was murdered was instigated by police in a sting operation.]] It's a classic political fiasco, in that it was terrible politically, but not a crime... until she instigated the coverup. And then the cover up for the cover up. And then... etc..
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: To an absurd degree. She can eliminate files held not just at her own office, but at the courts and the U.S. Attorney's office. She can get a high-profile case with more than a hundred felony charges pushed up in the crowded courts to a ''week'' after the filing of the charges (rather than the months or years that should have been needed). She can even somehow get the poor and indigent clients crowding Nelson & Murdock to stay away. It's like she's a mutant whose superpower is manipulating the system.

[[folder:Blake Tower]]
!!''District Attorney Blake Tower''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/StephenRider
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

Reyes' assistant district attorney, who later steps up to become District Attorney following her death.

* AscendedExtra: He has a larger part in Season 3 when Foggy is encouraged by Marci to run against him in a special election, although he only appears in the same number of episodes as he did in Season 2.
* AdvertisedExtra: Stephen Rider is in the opening credits for every episode that Tower is in, but Tower himself doesn't do much other than share scenes with Reyes and act as a FriendOnTheForce for Nelson & Murdock. He leaves town after Reyes' death and has a much smaller role than Royce Johnson's Brett Mahoney, even though Brett has never been in the opening credits. Blake does, however, come back during ''Luke Cage'' during Diamondback's hostage situation. He has a somewhat bigger role in Season 3, although his episode count stays the same.
* FriendOnTheForce: The lawyer equivalent, he acts as an insider at the District Attorney's for Karen, Foggy and Matt, albeit more reluctantly than most examples.
* GoodIsNotNice:[[spoiler:Even though he agrees to help Foggy and Matt to help bring down Fisk, he is never gonna go easy on Ray Nadeem no matter how hard Matt and Foggy push for his immunity. The best he can do is offer him a five-year sentence where Ray accepts the deal and go through with it. Justified, given how Nadeem is solely and unwittingly responsible for Fisk being out of prison in the first place and has proven to be an accessory to multiple murders. Earlier, when Nadeem and Hatley are giving him a heads up about their plans to move Fisk out of prison to protect him, Tower bluntly tries warning Nadeem that cutting a deal with Fisk isn't going to end well, but Nadeem's {{pride}} keeps him from listening to Tower's advice.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Tower's attitude towards Nadeem's situation gets hypocritical whenone remembers that he stood idly by and let Reyes repeatedly abuse the office of District Attorney for her own gain without ever bothering to take her to the Bar Association. Matt's defense for Nadeem's complacency in Fisk's activities is just as applicable against Tower for his own complacency in Reyes' activities. Tower's cowardice is his most defining character trait, after all. Matt knows full well that Tower was in the same position as Nadeem and made the opposite choice, and he even tries to call Tower out on it without revealing it to Nadeem:
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' He didn't say a damn thing because he was afraid for his family! Fisk tried to kill them all last night, and Agent Nadeem is here telling you everything. Can you say you'd do the same thing, Mr. Tower?
* JerkAssHasAPoint: Not really a JerkAss per se. But in spite of Matt and Foggy's lawyering skills, truth be told Tower does have a point that people cannot walk away from murder after Nadeem confesses to be an accessory to several murders that Fisk has ordered other agents to commit for him. Full-immunity only works if it is a corruption or larceny case,[[note]]True an argument could be made that this is a corruption case, given what Fisk did with other agents.[[/note]] but there's no way Tower can overlook Nadeem acting as Dex's getaway driver in the church attack, an attack that ended with three people dead and several more injured. The best thing Tower can do is offer him a five year jail sentence, which Nadeem reluctantly agrees to, even if it means sacrificing his freedom for his family's safety.
* OnlySaneMan: In season 3, the FBI come to him and the police commissioner to discuss the terms of Wilson Fisk's release, by having him put on house arrest and getting him back on the street if he continues on giving valuable information on other criminal organizations. Tower and the police commissioner begrudgingly agree to the FBI's request, although Tower attempts to warn Nadeem that it's incredibly foolish to think that anything good will come out of [[DealWithTheDevil brokering a deal with]] [[ManipulativeBastard Wilson Fisk]] given just what the crime boss is truly capable of when he's let out of his cage.
* RaceLift: He's white in the comics, but played by African-American Stephen Rider here.
* RankUp: He becomes District Attorney after Reyes dies.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** He spends most of Diamondback's hostage situation warning about the consequences of Judas bullets getting out to the street, saying that if Frank Castle was capable of wiping dozens of people with regular bullets, exploding bullets would just make things worse.
** After a heated moment with Foggy in Season 3, he decides to hear him out on what he has to say when it comes to taking down Fisk and listen to what Nadeem has to testify about. After Fisk is put away again, he also happily agrees to Foggy's request to not pursue any charges against Foggy's family for the book-cooking that Fisk tricked them into committing.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Blake leaves town briefly after Reyes' death. But ''Luke Cage'' suggests he was only out for a week or so tops, returning right before Diamondback's hostage situation.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Subverted, even though when Fisk is out on the street and being called out by Foggy just for doing nothing and only concerned about gathering voters and being re-elected. Tower fires back at Foggy that the feds have Fisk under their thumb, and his hands are somewhat tied as a result. He does admit that it's a ridiculous idea for Nadeem to make a deal or give Fisk preferential treatment, which given what Fisk ultimately does, is a pretty reasonable opinion.

!![[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops New York City Police Department]]
[[folder:New York Police Department]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCitizensNYPD New York City Police Department]] page

!!New York City Fire Department
[[folder:Grills]]
!!''Grills''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ClaytonEnglish
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Hawkeye|2021}}''

A firefighter and a member of the New York City Live Action Role Players who stole the Ronin suit from Kate Bishop's apartment.

* AbledInTheAdaptation: He needed glasses in the comics. Here, he doesn't.
* AdaptationalBadass: Comic Grills' occupation was unknown, and he was overweight and wore thick glasses, indicating poor eyesight. Here, Grills is a physically fit firefighter with no glasses.
* AdaptationalCurves: Grills in the comics is fat while MCU Grills is lanky.
* AgeLift: In the Fraction comics, Grills is middle-aged, while here he appears to be in his 20s.
* AscendedExtra: In the comics, he was Clint's chummy neighbor who never got involved with his superhero business (until he was [[SacrificialLamb murdered by the Clown]], that is). In the show, he actively supports Clint and Kate in their fight against the Tracksuit Mafia, and even joins them during the final mission.
* AscendedFanboy: He got to meet an actual Avenger, beat him in a fight and (pretend to) kill him. As far as he's concerned, it was the best day of his life. Later, he and a few of his friends actually help the Hawkeyes on a mission during the finale, where they use their [=LARPing=] skills to evacuate civilians and knock out a few Tracksuit Mafia members. When they are seen speaking to the police at the scene afterwards, they explain that they are with Hawkeye, which means they are "basically Avengers".
* BavarianFireDrill: With their attempts to guide the panicked crowd fleeing the Christmas party to safety not having much success, Grills and his fellow [=LARPers=] change from their maître d' outfits to their [=LARPing=] costumes. The switch apparently succeeds in making them appear to be superheroes to the crowd, who then listen to their instructions.
* BlackAndNerdy: A black firefighter who enjoys [=LARPing=], geeks out over a cool ninja costume he found (read: stole), and is ecstatic to meet a real-life Avenger.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: His name, or at least nickname, is only revealed when he and Clint bid farewell to each other. Although eagle-eared viewers can hear him say his nickname earlier in the scene where Clint sees he has the Ronin suit.
* CompositeCharacter: He's a combination of two of Clint's neighbors from the comics; he has the same name and role as Grills, but is an African-American man like [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Deke_(Clint_Barton%27s_neighbor)_(Earth-616) Deke]].
* EmergencyServices: While their preferred pastime renders them kind of goofy looking at first glance, Grills' [=LARPing=] guild consists exclusively of off-duty firefighters, police officers, and [=EMTs=], and they quickly adapt to working with the Hawkeyes in a life or death situation.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He remarks that [=LARPing=] is the closest he'll ever come to being a real superhero like Clint and asks to kill him in a roleplay.
* InNameOnly: Ultimately, Grills shares absolutely nothing with his comics counterpart apart from his name and association with Clint.
* NiceGuy: When Clint demands him to return the Ronin suit, Grills only asks for a small favor in exchange. Later episodes have him aiding Clint and Kate in their quest, even helping them to watch over Lucky.
* RaceLift: Grills is a black man here, while he was a white man in the Fraction comics.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the Fraction series, Grills was infamously killed by Kazi halfway through the story. Not only does Grills survive in the show, he actually gets to assist the Hawkeyes even during the final battle.

!!New York City Department of Correction
!!!Northeastern Correctional Facility
[[folder:Dale Holiday]]
!!''Dale Holiday''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Eat your protein, 46592!"'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BrianHutchison
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

-->''"But one word from me, and visitation with that daughter of yours, it's over. Forever. So you gonna eat your protein or not?"''

A sadistic corrections officer at the Northeastern Correctional Facility, assigned to guard Alisa Jones.

* AccidentalMurder: Jessica accidentally kills him in self-defense with his own baton.
* AssholeVictim: He's an abusive murderer who enjoys torturing his victims. He doesn't treat his fellow guards well, either. None of them even try pretending to be sad when they learn of his death. It's also implied that the police aren't treating his investigation too seriously either.
* CanonForeigner: There's no Dale Holiday in the comics.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: After accidentally killing him, Jessica covers up her presence at the scene by staging his death to look like a suicide. This involves wiping all traces of herself from the apartment, typing a "suicide note" on his computer, and throwing his body off the roof.
* CreepySouvenir: He keeps a piece of the prison uniform (specifically the part with the number on it) of the people he's killed.
* HatedByAll: He evidently didn't treat his co-workers much nicer than he treated the inmates, since none of the other prison guards even pretend to feel sad over his death.
* ItIsDehumanizing: He only ever addresses Alisa by her inmate number, to dehumanize her, as he later plans to kill her.
-->"You're gonna learn ''my'' rules, 46592."
* KickTheDog: After Alisa defends herself against him, he has her strapped in superpower-proof restraints, tortures her with electric shocks and destroys several of her personal items, including a picture of her and Jessica.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He brutally murdered his prisoners and made all their deaths look like suicide. His fate is exactly the same as his victims after Jessica killed him out of self defense.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: As Holiday beats Jessica, he says he'll tell everyone she broke into her house to kill him.
* SerialKiller: He's killed four inmates in other prisons and staged their deaths to look like suicide. Then he collects their inmate numbers for trophies.
* TortureTechnician: He really likes the shock torture on Alisa.
* WardensAreEvil: He's in charge of guarding Jessica's mother and is a horribly sadistic piece of work. Later it turns out he has murdered several other inmates and kept their numbers as trophies!
* YouAreNumberSix: Alisa is nothing more than #46592 to him.

[[folder:Marilyn Toussaint]]
!!''Marilyn Toussaint''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jennifer Fouché
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Holiday's replacement after his death.

* ReplacementGoldfish: After Holiday's death, she takes his place in watching over Alisa Jones.

!!!Rikers Island
[[folder:Riggle]]
!!''Riggle''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SteveSanpietro
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

The Warden at Rikers Island Correctional Facility at the time of Wilson Fisk's incarceration.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear how involved he's with Fisk or the reasons for turning a blind eye to Jasper Evans' release. After Nadeem reveals to Riggle he has evidence of Fisk's arranging Jasper Evans' shanking on him and his release, Riggle simply lawyers up.
* DirtyCop: He's corrupt, though whether he's in Fisk's or anyone else's pockets is unclear.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His whereabouts after calling for a lawyer are unknown, meaning he may have cut a deal or had been quietly disposed of.

[[folder:Roy Olsky]]
!!''Roy Olsky''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SteveSanpietro
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A corrupt corrections officer at Rikers Island Correctional Facility on Fisk's payroll.

* DirtyCop: He's one of the many guards at Rikers that has been bought out by Fisk. He has become another of Fisk's goons, just in uniform.
* MouthOfSauron: Fisk has him deliver a message to Frank prior to his testimony at trial in order to ensure Frank's conviction.

!!New York State Division of Parole
[[folder:Betsy Beatty]]
!!''Elizabeth "Betsy" Beatty''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KarinaCasiano
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

Melvin Potter's parole officer and secret girlfriend.

* AdaptationalJobChange: In the comics, she's a therapist and social worker.
* AlliterativeName: Two [=Bs=]
* ForbiddenLove: As a parole officer she risks her career by being involved with Melvin.
* IHaveYourWife: While she's not being held captive, the threat of her death is how Fisk keeps Melvin in line.
* LoveInterest: To Melvin Potter.
* WhatTheHellHero: After Melvin is arrested by the FBI, she chews out Matt for not sticking up for Melvin and accuses him of using him the same way Fisk did.

!!New York State Department of Health
!!!Birch Psychiatric Hospital
[[folder:Dr. Paul Edmonds]]
!!''Dr. Paul Edmonds''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MurrayBartlett
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

A psychiatrist working at Birch Psychiatric Hospital.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Subverted. He's aware of the existence of superpowers, aliens and the like. Yet, ever since the [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Incident]] there's also more mental patients claiming to possess superhuman abilities. This is why he doesn't believe Danny when he talks of having spent the last 15 years in AnotherDimension being trained by warrior monks.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Once he confirms Danny is who he's claiming and not delusional, Edmonds says he'll release him. However, Danny makes him think he's got other delusions talking about being in Kun'Lun, which he says is a part of Heaven.

[[folder:Simon]]
!!''Simon''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesHindman
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

A patient at Birch Psychiatric Hospital.

* MrExposition: Gives Danny the lay of the land.

[[folder:Dink]]
!!''Dink''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelMaize
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

A patient at Birch.

* CurbStompBattle: Danny defeats him in their first fight with one move. Despite Danny being in a straitjacket in the second fight, the end result is the same.
* PsychoForHire: He's a literal psycho who tries to murder Danny at Ward Meachum's behest.

[[folder:David Kawecki]]
!!''David Kawecki''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DanielEveridge

A former janitor at IGH.

* TheFallGuy: He took the fall for Luanne [=McClure=]'s death, which was actually the work of Jessica's mother.
* IdiotSavant: Despite his reduced IQ, he was very close with Dr. Karl Malus, and has encyclopedic knowledge of octopuses.

!!!Metro-General Hospital
[[folder:Claire Temple]]

[[folder:Shirley Benson]]
!!''Shirley Benson''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SuzanneHSmart
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

An administrator at Metro-General Hospital

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Played with. She sympathizes with Ben Urich's pushes to get Doris hands-on care, but points out all the bureaucratic red tape that has to be cut through.
* ThickerThanWater: When Claire and Colleen show up at the hospital with a crippled Radovan, Shirley has Radovan fast-tracked for surgery in spite of the less-than-amicable circumstances of Claire's departure from Metro-General.

[[folder:Louisa Delgado]]
!!''Louisa Delgado''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarilynTorres
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

An nurse at Metro-General Hospital and a friend of Claire Temple

* FourIsDeath: Appears in four episodes. Enough said.
* SacrificialLamb: After being established as a friend and of colleague of Claire's and appearing in four episodes, she's killed during the Hand attack on the hospital.

[[folder:Dr. Christine Palmer]]
!!''Dr. Christine Palmer''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RachelMcAdams
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Edurne Keel (Latin-American Spanish dub), Isabel Valls (European Spanish dub), Élisabeth Ventura (European French dub), Geneviève Désilets (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' | ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness''

A fellow surgeon ([[AmicableExes and ex-girlfriend]]) to Stephen Strange who tethers him to his old life, even after he turns to mysticism.

* AmicableExes: She's Stephen Strange's ex and they still maintain an amicable friendship. She even does her best to help him adjust to his life-altering injury, but a bitter Stephen rejects her help and insults her, something he comes to deeply regret. After some time in Kamar-Taj, he apologizes and they manage to resume their friendship, though Christine makes it clear that their romance won't resume. Strange reasserts that they're amicable exes when he attends her wedding in ''Multiverse of Madness''.
* AlternateSelf: Has a variant on [[Characters/MCUEarth838 Earth-838]].
* AnywhereButTheirLips: When Stephen attempts to kiss her on the lips, she pointedly avoids it and kisses him on the cheek, instead, before he decides to leave for good.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Extremely guilty, as her first reaction to Strange explaining what he's been up to in his absence has her jump to "cultist" despite coming after Strange was explaining to her ''via an AstralProjection'' that he's dying and what she needs to do to save him being the last thing they were doing together, along with some poltergeist-like happenings in the spirit realm between Strange and one of Kaecilius' zealots. Luckily, she gets over it rather quickly and the next time they see each other (which is maybe an hour later when Strange rushes the dying Ancient One into her operating room) she elevates to SeenItAll when passing by the Cloak of Levitation idly floating nearby and only pays it the briefest of minds.
* CompositeCharacter: It was another of the Night Nurses, Linda Carter, who had a relationship with Strange.
** She may have also taken the role of Dr. Gina Atwater, who was Steven's love interest in the [[WesternAnimation/DoctorStrangeTheSorcererSupreme 2007 animated movie]].
* DecompositeCharacter: She's one of the Night Nurses in the comics, but that role has more or less gone to Claire Temple in the MCU. Here, she's simply a surgeon.
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Multiverse of Madness'' she only appears briefly when Strange attends her wedding, with her variant from Earth-838 playing a bigger role in the story.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: While she's a little startled when Strange teleports into the hospital after having been stabbed and uses his astral form to talk her through removing the blood that's compressing his heart, and is clearly shaken when Strange's astral form gets in a ghost battle with one of Kaecilius' goons, she quickly gets over that. When she spots the Cloak of Levitation floating behind Strange a short while later, she doesn't even blink; her expression says she's 100% ''done'' with being shocked by anything connected to this man.
* HospitalHottie: You're gonna get this when Rachel [=McAdams=] is playing a doctor.
* LastKiss: At the end of ''Doctor Strange'', she kisses him on the cheek after Strange decides to leave for good.
* OneSteveLimit: The MCU's second Christine, after Christine Everhart.
* TheOneThatGotAway: She and Strange used to date, but broke up, though it's heavily implied that Strange stills holds a torch for her, keeping a watch she'd gifted him even after it breaks and being left with tears in his eyes after Christine declines to rekindle their romance. She marries another man in ''Multiverse of Madness'' and Strange attends her wedding, telling her he only wants her to be happy.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Only really exists story-wise in relation to Stephen.
* WeddingEpisode: She marries another man at the beginning of ''Multiverse of Madness'' and Strange attends the wedding.

[[folder:Dr. Nicodemus West]]
!!''Dr. Nicodemus West''
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%%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelStuhlbarg
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' | ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness''

A surgeon who had a rivalry with Dr. Stephen Strange.

* AdaptationDyeJob: He has blond hair in the comics, but brown hair in the movie.
* AdaptationalHeroism: He was a villain in the comics he appeared in, but here, he's just another well-intentioned doctor.
* AdaptationalWimp: The comics' version of West was another student of the Ancient One who also could hold his own in a fight. He's a normal civilian in the film.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In the sequel, he demands to know if there was any other way to stop Thanos than what happened with the Blip. Strange, still deeply shaken by his orchestration of Thanos' demise, is slow to respond in the positive.
* BeardOfSorrow: In ''Multiverse of Madness'', he has a noticeable stubble and longer hair in contrast to having short hair and being clean-shaven in the first film. This is to reflect how bitter and depressed he's become after getting dusted out of existence and losing his brother and cats in the five years he was gone.
* CynicismCatalyst: Implied, as he's still extremely bitter about having lost his brother and cats while he was snapped out of existence.
* DemotedToExtra: Compared to the source material: In the miniseries ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange: The Oath'' he is the main antagonist, in the movies he just has a couple of scenes where he isn't a villain but a rival chirurg of Strange.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Even though we know Strange made the right call given the astronomical odds against the heroes during their war with Thanos, West still subtly points out how cold it was that victory came at the cost of five years of the Blip and untold numbers of people who still perished or suffered during that time. And though he doesn't know it, we know that victory also came at the cost of Tony Stark's life.
* KickTheDog: When Strange insists that things in the war with Thanos unfolded how they had to, West rubs it in that despite him saving the world, he still DidNotGetTheGirl. He also blames him for the deaths of his cats and brother. The former could've been because they starved to death without him to care for them or simply because five years is long enough for an adult cat to [[MayflyDecemberFriendship grow old and die]], but the latter's circumstances of death are not elaborated. Neither of which are Strange's fault.
* NoBodyLeftBehind. He was a victim of the Snap.
* TheResenter: To Stephen Strange. While Nic had to deal with losing his brother and cats after getting blipped back to existence, Stephen became a renowned surgeon ''and'' superhero when he was blipped back, which he bitterly remarks.
* TheRival: So much so that Strange believes West is also the RomanticFalseLead, which Christine says otherwise. The sequel shows both of them attending Christine's wedding, reaffirming he never was on the table romantically for her.
* TookALevelInJerkass: By the sequel he's much more spiteful towards Strange, holding him responsible for the death of his brother and cats during the Blip.
* YouKilledMyFather: He blames Strange for the deaths of his brother and cats.

[[folder:Jack Denton]]
!!''Jack Denton''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BenKahre
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A former ambulance driver at Metro-General Hospital.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: Kilgrave makes him give up both his kidneys. He's only alive thanks to a dialysis machine procured for him by Dr. Kurata but still suffered a stroke that has left him unable to speak and barely able to move his hands.
* AndIMustScream: Not only must he live permanently hooked to a dialysis machine, the stroke he suffered has left him unable to speak and barely able to move.
* DeathSeeker: He really wants to die, asking Jessica to kill him when she shows up asking about Kilgrave.
* MindRape: Kilgrave made him donate both of his kidneys.

[[folder:David Kurata]]
!!''David Kurata''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ThomSesma
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A former transplant surgeon at Metro-General Hospital.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: After Kilgrave made him do the kidney transplants, he spiraled downhill, and went from being one of the best transplant surgeons in the Tri-State Area to dissecting frogs with undergrad college students.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once he sees Jessica enter his classroom, he books it out of there before Jessica can give chase. He's also so afraid of Kilgrave finding him that upon giving Jessica information about the surgery Kilgrave made him perform, he immediately flees to India, where Kilgrave will be unable to find him.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only has one scene, but he gives Jessica the idea of using surgical anesthesia to knock out Kilgrave's powers.

[[folder:Dr. Krista Dumont]]
!!''Dr. Krista Dumont''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FlorianaLima
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

A therapist at Metro-General assigned to treat the amnesiac Billy Russo.

* AbusiveParents: They cause some long-lasting trauma.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Slips into this by the end of Season 2.]]
* CanonForeigner: She has no counterpart in the mainstream Marvel comics.
* DesignatedGirlFight: With Madani at the end of Season 2.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:Courtesy of her father and later Madani.]]
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: In a very dark version of this trope.
* FreudianExcuse: Her earlier childhood traumas deeply harm her mental state, although they're hardly a true excuse.
* InsaneTrollLogic: If you're not her or Billy Russo, you're in the wrong. Why? Because reasons.
* LadyMacbeth: [[spoiler:Disturbingly encourages Russo in his ruthless behavior.]]
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Inverted, she's already insane, but [[spoiler:it's her feelings for Billy that cause her to eventually shed the MaskOfSanity.]]
* MadeOfIron: Survives a long fall, [[spoiler:twice.]]
* MaskOfSanity: Beneath her professional, empathetic persona, lies a traumatized woman whose early experiences have left her devoid of actual empathy except for those she regards as a kindred spirit.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:She survives being thrown off a window by Madani.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: Her father is [[spoiler:a traumatized Vietnam veteran, who tried to kill her as part of his suicide in order to punish Krista's mother for trying to divorce him]].
* PsychoPsychologist: [[spoiler:Gradually revealed to be this.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:She undergoes it throughout Season 2 as she falls deeper for Russo.]]
* SelfHarm: [[spoiler:Has prominent self-harm scars on her forearms.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Let's just say she's well matched with Billy Russo. Krista has no empathy for the women murdered by Russo to trick Frank Castle into believing he's murdered them, dismissing them simply because she didn't know them.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:With Billy Russo.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: All these tropes listed spoil her actions throughout Season 2.

!!Private Organizations
!!!Chikara Dojo
[[folder:Colleen Wing]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUDefenders Defenders]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caleb]]
!!''Caleb''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Donté Grey
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

A pupil of Colleen Wing.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He's very arrogant about his fighting abilities and defies Danny. This leads to him receiving some ''harsh discipline.''
* CurbStompBattle: Not even that. Danny sweeps his leg out from under him after he starts acting immaturely.

%%[[folder:Jenny]]
%%!!''Jenny''
%%->'''Portrayed By:'''
%%->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

%%A pupil of Colleen Wing.
%%----
%%[[/folder]]

!!!Clinton Church
[[folder:Father Paul Lantom]]
!!''Father Paul Lantom''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/470e39e6273eaee335c63b1f7ee08200.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Another man's evil does not make you good."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PeterMcRobbie
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

-->''"Few things are absolute, Matthew. Even Lucifer was once an angel. It's why justice and vengeance are best left to God."''

Matt's priest, who Matt comes to in times of personal and spiritual crisis.

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Inverted. When Father Lantom was in seminary, he was among the more skeptical candidates, and questioned the existence of Satan. His doubts were dispelled during his time in Rwanda during the 1994 genocides, when he witnessed a particularly horrific murder.
* ConfessInConfidence: He's Matt's first and best outlet for his mixed feelings over his vigilantism, and takes the confessional seal very, very seriously.
* {{Confessional}}: The first shot of the series is of Matt and Father Lantom in the confessional, with Matt attempting to rationalize the vigilante quest he's about to embark upon.
* CoolOldGuy: He's very understanding of Matt's actions, if not entirely accepting, and constantly challenges Matt to question his assumptions, which ends up making him a better Daredevil. He's also something of a father surrogate, representing the moral, Catholic side of Jack Murdock.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Dex impales him with a blunt baton thrown with enough force to break through his rib cage.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments, though they're uncommon. For instance, when presiding over Ben's funeral:
-->'''Father Lantom:''' How are you holding up?\\
'''Matt Murdock:''' Like a good Catholic boy.\\
'''Father Lantom:''' That bad, huh?
* DemotedToExtra: In Season 1, he's a supporting character. In Season 2, he only appears for Grotto's funeral. In Season 3, he gets a lot more scenes focusing on his past with Matt, [[spoiler:[[DeathInTheLimelight only to be killed by Dex while shielding Karen]].]]
* {{Determinator}}: He ''will'' get that cup of coffee with Matt. That is, he knew Matt was planning on doing something dangerous, and he was determined to guide him through it.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:He gets impaled by one of Dex's batons trying to stop Dex from killing Karen.]]
* GiveMeASign: Unintentionally, but when he worked in Rwanda around the time of the genocide in 1994, he knew a very respected local elder, whom no one would harm. Eventually, the commander of the Hutu militia met with the elder, and they talked for hours. Then the commander hacked the elder ''and his family'' to death in front of the whole village, which Lantom witnessed. He took this as a sign from God that his doubts about the existence and nature of Satan (and, therefore, ultimate evil) were wrong, and that he saw the face of evil in that commander.
* GodIsFlawed: Father Lantom is fairly critical of some of God's actions, especially allowing for the existence of evil, which he concludes must have been part of God's plan (since God is omnipotent). He decides that God's reason for allowing evil to exist is to terrify humanity into following "the Path of the Righteous" i.e. become better people. Lantom isn't happy about this, but realizes that God is equally responsible for the good as the bad.
* GodIsGood: Lantom believes that God is a fan of ToughLove. Everyone is created for a purpose, a reason for being, and He provides guidance to those seeking it. This purpose may be difficult (just ask the martyrs who died "bloody and alone") and the guidance might be graphic but it's there.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: He once doubted true evil to exist, that there couldn't be people that dark and dangerous. Then he saw the brutal murder of a good man by a very evil person.
* GoodShepherd: Invites many of his parishioners in for a talk over coffee, including blind vigilantes. He also agrees to shelter Karen in the church after she makes herself a target of Fisk's, which gets him killed when Dex tracks her down.
* MoralityChain: Helps convince Matt of his better nature, and prevent him from crossing the line into killing.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: He was only known as Lantom in the comics, but is given the first name Paul in the MCU.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:It's mostly because of the seal of confession, but he's one of the few that know of Matt's vigilantism. He and Maggie also keep Matt's living status quiet while he's recovering from Midland Circle. Finally it turns out that he is one of the few people in the world who knows that Maggie is actually Matt's mother but kept that information to himself in the hopes she would reach out to her son herself.]]
* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:He easily figured out that Matt was "the Devil of Hell's Kitchen" from their confessionals, but didn't say anything until Matt was about to reveal the secret.]]
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:He is killed by Dex, who threw his baton at Karen.]]

[[folder:Sister Maggie]]
!!''Sister Margaret "Maggie" Grace''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm impervious to bad attitude."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JoanneWhalley, Creator/IsabellaPisacane (young)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

-->''"When someone in need tries to push you away, you have to find the strength to hold on tighter."''

Matt Murdock's mother, a nun who helped raise and care for him after he was orphaned and blinded. She cares for him again after he's gravely injured in Midland Circle.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Not exactly a name change, since her name in the comics is also Maggie Grace, [[spoiler:but she never married Jack Murdock in this adaptation, and thus has a different last name than her son, Matt]].
* ChekhovsGunman: She gets teased a few times prior to being introduced in Season 3:
** In Season 1, Jack leaves an answering machine message to her prior to his match with Creel, asking her to take care of Matt.
** In the last shot of ''The Defenders'', a nun can be heard saying "Get Maggie, tell her he's awake" as Matt regains consciousness in the convent. This shot is repeated for ''Daredevil'' season 3 [[OnceMoreWithClarity but with more context]].
* DeadpanSnarker: She tends to snark at Matt when he is high on his pity parade.
-->'''Maggie:''' I just want you to know I think you're a real hero, sitting down here feeling sorry for yourself.
* UsefulNotes/{{Depression}}: [[spoiler:Maggie suffered from postpartum depression shortly after giving birth to Matt, sadly it was during a time when such things weren't well known so she left Matt and Jack believing that she would hurt her son.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: She chides Matt for wallowing in self-pity, after he had lost Elektra and got seriously injured, even though she [[spoiler:abandoned him as a child, and retreated into the church when she was suffering from postpartum depression]].
* ItsAllMyFault: Maggie believes that all of the pain that Matt suffers is because [[spoiler:she abandoned him as a child and her failure to reach out to him at any point since then led to him nearly killing himself as a vigilante]].
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Comic book readers know she would [[spoiler:be [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed as Matt Murdock's mother]] at some point.]]
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Matt finds out she is his mother midway through Season 3. He doesn't take it too well.]]
* TheLostLenore: She teaches Matt his loss isn't unusual by relating how she loved Jack so much that she nearly gave up on becoming a nun after giving birth to Matt. Her decision to take vows meant the two could never be together, and worse, he died shortly after Maggie left him.
* TheMedic: She is in charge of caring for Matt in the weeks he spends recovering from having a building drop on him. It doesn't take long until he goes out on the streets to fight goons and from there, she's almost always sewing new wounds shut in her scenes with Matt. Her medical care gives her the in she needs to try and help Matt spiritually when he insists cosplaying Satan is the best way to live.
* MetaCasting: She's a nun played by an actress who attended convent school.
* MissingMom: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:She left Jack when Matt was a baby. When Stick asks about her to the nuns when first approaching Matt, the nuns tell him that "it's a long story". But it turns out, she did raise Matt, albeit in secret and as a nun, when he grew up at the orphanage.]]
* MoralityPet: Maggie helps Matt with his questionable activities as the Devil at the cost of insisting he get back in touch with his friends and keep his faith in God. Matt spends most of the season ignoring her and the few times he agrees to reach out tend to go badly. [[spoiler:Her most successful call to morality is actually towards Ray Nadeem, getting him to turn against Dex and Fisk after Maggie pins Father Lantom's murder on him.]]
* NaughtyNuns: [[spoiler:As a novitiate she talks her friends into going to a boxing match, where [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys she meets and later falls for Battlin' Jack Murdock.]] However she interprets her postpartum depression as a sign from God that she made a mistake and should return to the Church.]]
* SecretKeeper: Father Lantom tells her about Matt's secret identity so she knows why he showed up to the church half-dead. After cursing Father Lantom out, she swears all the sisters to secrecy and maintains her own even as Matt slowly kills himself by picking fights in Hell's Kitchen.

!!!Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz LLP
[[folder:In General]]
The former law firm of Jeri Hogarth.

* TheGhost: Due to the name Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz, it's clear that Hogarth has partners in her firm, even though they remain unseen throughout the first season of ''Jessica Jones'', the second season of ''Daredevil'', and the first season of ''Iron Fist''. They finally show up in the second season of ''Jessica Jones''.

[[folder:Linda Chao]]
!!''Linda Chao''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AngelDesai
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

The second name partner at Hogarth Chao & Benowitz.

* AmoralAttorney: She's laundering drug money for international cartels.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's not above taunting Jeri over Wendy's death.

[[folder:Steven Benowitz]]
!!''Steven Benowitz''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MauryGinsberg
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

The third name partner at Hogarth Chao & Benowitz.

* AmoralAttorney: He's been funneling drug money into offshore accounts with the help of Linda Chao. Though he's not as enthused about it given how easily he gives up information on her to Malcolm.
* ArmoredClosetGay: He's deeply closeted and cheats on his wife with men, which Jeri uses as blackmail against him. But since she's gay herself, she has a tiny shred of sympathy for him and outright tells him he'd be saving a lot of trouble and would be less vulnerable to blackmail if he just came out rather than keeping it a secret. Even Malcolm says this when approaching Benowitz at Whisker's.
** Season 3 reveals that he has come out of the closet, much to his wife's relief. He even attributes his courage to come out to the advice Jeri gave him.
* TheBeard: He's married to a woman but is actually gay.
* HasAType: He loves black men and often hangs out at a gay bar that caters to them.

[[folder:Pam]]
!!''Pam''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pam.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Yes, why be polite to the lowly secretary?"'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SusieAbromeit
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Jeri's secretary ''and'' mistress.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Wendy starts dragging her feet on the divorce, she demands that Jeri use the ruthlessness that first made Pam attracted to her. Jeri's actions as a consequence of this [[spoiler:end up getting a whole lot of people killed and Pam herself prosecuted for murder.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She has no problem dating Jeri while Jeri's still married to Wendy, but even she thinks Jeri taking her on a date to the restaurant where she proposed to Wendy is insensitive.
** Taken up to eleven after she discovers that Jeri [[spoiler:takes Kilgrave to Wendy's house in order to get her to sign the divorce papers, knowing how dangerous he was. She's disgusted and cuts all ties with Jeri.]]
* IconicOutfit: Pam is almost always seen wearing very loud wraparound, patterned dresses. Jessica even mocks her for it.
-->'''Pam:''' She won't wait. She wouldn't listen.
-->'''Jessica:''' I couldn't hear you over that print.
* LipstickLesbian: She's a lesbian and ''very'' feminine.
* MoralityPet: Plays this role to Jeri. Subverted in that while she does have standards, she does encourage Jeri's more ruthless side.
* TheMistress: Wendy isn't too happy to discover their affair.
* MsFanservice: Tends to wear low-cut dresses at work.
* SexySecretary: Hard to blame Jeri for being tempted.
* SleepingWithTheBoss: She's in a relationship with Jeri, her boss.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She encourages Jeri to be a bit more cutthroat in dealing with her divorce, having no idea that [[spoiler:Jeri has access to an imprisoned Kilgrave]], let alone that she would [[spoiler:help him escape just so he can expedite her divorce.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's arrested for [[spoiler:Wendy's]] murder and her fate isn't elaborated on in the season finale, and while she does kinda have a credible self-defense justification, the fact she doesn't have a bunch of witnesses like Jessica and wants absolutely nothing to do with the one witness that could defend her certainly don't help. The second season mentions that she apparently got away more or less clean after a three day stay in jail[[note]]The maximum amount of time the police could hold her without her getting charged.[[/note]], and is suing Jeri for workplace harassment.
* YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: She can tell when Jeri's being dishonest. [[spoiler:This comes back to bite Jeri ''hard'' when Pam is arrested for Wendy's death.]]

[[folder:Desmond Tobey]]
!!''Desmond Tobey''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarkLotito
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A divorce attorney at Hogarth Chao & Benowitz.

* DivorceAssetsConflict: This is the field of expertise that Tobey is involved in, helping Jeri with her divorce from Wendy, while also referring Audrey Eastman to Jessica.

!!![[AC:Former employees]]
[[folder:Foggy Nelson]]
-->See Nelson, Murdock, and Page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marci Stahl]]
!!''Marci Stahl''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_o1fah5su9j1utb0bgo9_1280.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You would've killed it here, Foggy Bear! You never should have left."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AmyRutberg
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

-->''"Where is your sidekick? Didn't break it off with him already, did you? Fog has commitment issues..."''

Foggy Nelson's girlfriend, a young attorney in Manhattan cutting her own path through white collar law.

* AmoralAttorney: Invoked by Foggy when he and Karen meet Marci for Elena's case. "You used to have a soul." But it turns out Marci has standards, and is easily persuaded to turn against her partners who are in Wilson Fisk's pocket.
* AscendedExtra: Marci spends the first two seasons as a recurring character and OneSceneWonder, with four episodes in Season 1 and two in Season 2. In Season 3, Marci has a somewhat larger presence at five episodes, and actively plays a part in Foggy's storyline, being the one to suggest that he run against Blake Tower as a write-in for District Attorney, while a case she's working on ends up being the key that allows Foggy to figure out that Fisk is planning to make himself the man that all criminals will have to turn to to get protection from prosecution.
* BetaCouple: With Foggy, as their relationship is much more steady than the rocky WillTheyOrWontThey that [[OfficialCouple Matt and Karen]].
* CanonForeigner: Marci has no comics equivalent. Although her role in Foggy's campaign for District Attorney in Season 3 does give her some traits of Deborah Harris, Foggy's first wife from the comics.
* DemotedToExtra: After playing a somewhat major part in the resolution of Season 1, Marci only gets two scenes in Season 2: having drinks with Foggy at Josie's to give him some information about Reyes, and later visiting him at the hospital after he gets shot. In ''Defenders'' she just gets mentioned by Foggy, confirming the two are still dating, and a two second scene of talking to Foggy in the background that's interrupted with Jeri taking Foggy aside to ask him to babysit Jessica. Season 3 reverses the trend and gives Marci five episodes.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Marci stops mispronouncing Elena Cardenas' name after she is murdered, since she thinks it's cruel to make jokes about people who have been murdered. Given Fisk's smear campaign against Matt's alter ego, she's also initially hesitant to trust the information that Matt manages to obtain from Owlsley. In the season 3 finale, she accepts Foggy's invitation to come to Father Lantom's funeral.
** Marci has disdain for Reyes. The fact that Reyes has a serious shot at the Mayor's chair in the 2017 elections off an anti-vigilante platform is enough to make her [[INeedAFreakingDrink desire a very bitter drink]].
* {{Foil}}: To Jeri Hogarth. Both are women in a very male-dominated profession who have to put up a front of ruthlessness to be taken seriously by male lawyers. Where they differ is that Jeri [[BecomingTheMask ended up becoming a ruthless shark willing to do outright illegal things for her own selfish reasons]], while Marci has managed to avoid that.
* HelloAttorney: She's a stunning blonde who rocks powersuits, which doesn't escape Foggy's notice.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Marci doesn't make any appearances in ''Jessica Jones'' despite the fact that she joined Hogarth Chao & Benowitz right after Fisk was arrested and thus was around while the saga with Kilgrave was going on in ''Jessica Jones'' season 1, plus Jeri's involvement in the IGH case in ''Jessica Jones'' season 2. And her and Foggy's employment status following the dissolution of Hogarth Chao & Benowitz is unknown.[[note]]In the former case, it's because no one expected ''Daredevil'' Season 2 at the time ''Jessica Jones'' Season 1 was written, so Marci being hired in is a simple retcon. In the latter case, considering how Jeri rejected Foggy's efforts to help her with her legal battle against Chao and Benowitz, Marci also probably decided to keep out of the drama.[[/note]]
* HighHeelFaceTurn: The only female attorney we've seen at Landman & Zack, and she's the one who sells out the ones doing Fisk's dirty work.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Downplayed. When Foggy demolishes her legal arguments on the tenement case, and, for good measure, mixes in a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Marci's reaction demonstrates both [[{{Touche}} respect]] ''and'' attraction.
-->'''Marci Stahl:''' You would've killed it here, Foggy Bear! You never should've left.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She tends to push Foggy to do things that she thinks will be great for his career, like recommending him to Jeri Hogarth, or suggesting he run against Blake Tower for the office of D.A. to get Tower's inaction against Fisk out in the spotlight.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In her time working for Landman & Zack, she seems to have become the same sort of apathetic asshole as her partners. However, Foggy's appeals to the fact that she used to "have a soul" get the better of her and she begins to question her superiors and collaborate with Foggy and Matt to expose Fisk. Really, she's the only white collar lawyer in the Netflix shows who is a genuinely nice person and is not driven by greed or selfish motivations. In Season 3, she even motivates Foggy into running for District Attorney.
** [[https://seat42f.com/daredevil-and-taken-scoop-shining-the-spotlight-on-amy-rutberg.html In the words of Amy Rutberg]]:
-->'''Amy Rutberg:''' "Marci is always straight and brutally honest with Foggy, more so than Matt or Karen in a way. She has his best interest at heart because she loves him and knows him. She may not always be right about what he needs, but it comes from the right place -- protection and love."
* LovableAlphaBitch: She certainly looks the part, and makes no secret of being selfish and mostly interested in her own career, but she has moral standards and her open bitchiness can be strangely endearing.
* MealTicket: While she genuinely loves Foggy, her push for him to run for District Attorney has some degree of being motivated by the logic that if Foggy wins, then her being the DA's girlfriend could provide her with new career opportunities. After Foggy officially drops out of the race at the end of Season 3, she admits she was just starting to get adjusted to the idea of being married to the district attorney.
* MookFaceTurn[=/=]HighHeelFaceTurn: After Foggy convinces her that her bosses are corrupt, she gets Matt and Foggy information of Wilson Fisk's dealings with Landman & Zack.
* OfficeRomance: Marci and Foggy begin dating seriously while they're working for Jeri Hogarth.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Or re-upgrade, as Marci rekindles her flame with Foggy between Seasons 1 and 2, and they've moved in together at the start of ''Daredevil'' Season 3.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When her bosses and other people of Landman & Zack are indicted she resigns, disgusted at having worked at such a corrupt place. She later takes on a job at Jeri Hogarth's firm.
* SheepInWolfsClothing: Marci is the only white collar New York attorney we've seen across the Netflix shows who displays compassion and selflessness towards others and isn't willingly engaging in criminal activity (unlike Joy Meachum, Jeri Hogarth, Ben Donovan, or Chao and Benowitz).
* SleekHighRiseApartment: She lives in an Upper East Side high-rise in Season 1. By Season 3, she and Foggy are living in a condo in Williamsburg.
* TookALevelInKindness: Foggy's appealing to Marci having "used to have a soul" really gets to her. In both of her appearances in Season 2, we can see that since joining HC&B, Marci has become considerably nicer and has a more amicable relationship with Foggy. They also go back into a committed relationship once Foggy joins her at HC&B.

!!!Donovan & Partners
[[folder:Big Ben Donovan]]
!!''Benjamin "Big Ben" Donovan''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Rules are what separate us from the animals inside, Mr. Murdock."'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Donovan in the 1980s]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2020_07_22_16h06m39s654.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DannyJohnson, Creator/ChaundreHallBroomfield (1980s)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

-->''"Next time, it would behoove you to have actual evidence. Y'know, something besides the dogged harassment of a misguided beat cop."''

The Stokes family lawyer, as well as the senior counsel on Wilson Fisk's legal team.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Donovan in the comics had Luke Cage for a client. This version has only ever provided legal services for crime lords. Though by the end of ''Luke Cage'' Season 2, he is working for Luke as Luke acquires Harlem's Paradise.
* AdaptationalWimp: Donovan has none of the physical prowess of his comic book counterpart. He also easily spills the beans when Matt garrotes him in his car.
* AmoralAttorney: Mama Mabel put him through law school and groomed him to be the family lawyer and fixer for the Stokes family. Misty Knight calls him a "snake" and a "flunky" when he shows up during Candace's interrogation, indicating that his reputation is pretty well known to the NYPD. In time, his reputation as a crooked lawyer becomes known enough that Fisk hires him to handle his defense.
* BrutalHonesty: He is always willing to tell Fisk things as they are, cautioning him about his limited funds and the fact that his efforts to get Fisk out of jail are going to take a while due to the strength of the state's case against him.
* CompensatingForSomething: Mariah insinuates that [[TeenyWeenie he used to be called "Big Ben" for this]].
* TheConsigliere: He definitely is serving Fisk in this capacity, and is one for Mariah to a lesser extent.
* DangerTakesABackseat: He's on the receiving end of this when Matt, who's learned about Fisk's snitching on the Albanians, hides in the backseat of his car and strangles him from behind when he gets in. Matt chokes Donovan until he admits the truth about why Fisk snitched (to get Vanessa's legal issues resolved), and is then forced to abandon his interrogation when an FBI unit monitoring Donovan show up to rescue him.
* DontAnswerThat: His go-to remark when getting Stokes associates out of interrogations.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** He almost shits himself when Mariah orders the elimination of any and all witnesses who could testify against her, until Mariah tells him that he's exempt, owing to attorney-client privilege as well as the other criminals he has connections with.
** He's uneasy about Fisk's plan to use Frank Castle to dispose of Dutton, as evident in the tone when Fisk is discussing arranging payments to the guards to get Frank to blow his trial.
--->'''Benjamin Donovan:''' This guard you've spoken to... do I ''want'' to know what he will be asking him to do?
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour:
** Before letting Matt see Fisk, he gives Matt a lengthy spiel about how he is to not to discuss this meeting with Fisk to anyone in any official capacity, and when Matt points out that that's a lot of rules, quips, [[EvilLawyerJoke "Rules are what separate us from the animals, Mr. Murdock."]]
** Joins in with the other cops in making several ill jokes towards Misty's missing arm.
--->'''Big Ben Donovan:''' Detective! As always, I find your charm ''disarming''.
* FamilyBusiness: Mama Mabel put him through law school, and he's been the Stokes family lawyer for 25 years.
* {{Foil}}: He's a lot like Fisk, just more in control. And he's filling Wesley's old role, but not with the overconfidence or cruelty that cost Wesley his life.
* GroinAttack: Mariah at one point squeezes his family jewels in order to intimidate him, while saying, "I thought they called you [[TeenyWeenie Big Ben]]."
* PlayingBothSides: He temporarily drops Mariah as a client after Bushmaster steals all of her money, and signs on with Bushmaster. Then it turns out he was simply looking for a way to reverse the theft. [[IFightForTheStrongestSide Or so he claims.]]
* SmugSnake: He ''oozes'' smugness in near-every scene he's in, with all the satisfaction of a man who knows damn well he's pissing off everyone in the room and that they can't do a damn thing about it.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Fisk, he's taken over some of James Wesley's former duties, including the arrangement of payments to his underlings. Most of Wesley's other duties, though, are now handled by Felix Manning.

[[folder:Nicholas Lee]]
!!''Nicholas Lee''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/StephenRowe
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A colleague of Donovan's at Donovan & Partners.

* AmoralAttorney: He's as involved in Fisk's affairs as Donovan is.
* TheDragon: He's Donovan's NumberTwo.

!!!Zoye Lyonne Foundation
[[folder:Kith Lyonne]]
!!''Kith Lyonne''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SaritaChoudhury
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A cellist and music teacher and ex-girlfriend of Jeri Hogarth.

* TheOneThatGotAway: How Jeri regards her.
* {{Polyamory}}: She has an open marriage with her husband Peter, which explains her relationship with Jeri.

[[folder:Peter Lyonne]]
!!''Peter Lyonne''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnBenjaminHickey
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Kith's husband, a lawyer and professor.

* DirtyOldMan: He's in his late fifties/early sixties and gets involved with students less than half his age.
* DrivenToSuicide: After [[spoiler:Jeri ruins his reputation by revealing he was embezzling money from the foundation named after his late daughter and Kith leaves him, he ends up committing suicide.]]
* {{Polyamory}}: He has an open marriage with his wife Kith, which explains his relationships with his students.
* SugarDaddy: He uses the money he [[spoiler:embezzles from the foundation]] to buy gifts for his girlfriends and pay their rents.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Thanks to his open marriage with Kith, he gets involved with his female students.

[[folder:Laurent Lyonne]]
!!''Laurent Lyonne''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelHsuRosen
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Peter and Kith's son.

* TheWoobie: He's pretty shaken up first by his parents' divorce and later by his father's [[spoiler:suicide.]]

!!!Hogarth and Associates
[[folder:Jeri Hogarth]]
->See [[Characters/MCUDefenders her folder]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zaya Okonjo]]
!!''Zaya Okonjo''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TiffanyMack
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

A partner at Hogarth and Associates.

[[folder:Malcolm Ducasse]]
-->See Alias Investigations
[[/folder]]

!!!New York Bulletin
[[folder:Mitchell Ellison]]
!!''Mitchell Ellison''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Stories don't disappear, they... they change. They become different stories."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GeoffreyCantor
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

-->''"We're hanging on by our fingertips, Ben. Do you really want to be greasing that ledge?"''

The editor-in-chief at the ''New York Bulletin''.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: He greets Karen a Happy Hanukkah when giving her a present.
* AscendedExtra: He gets much more presence in ''Daredevil'' seasons 2 and 3 and ''The Punisher'' season 1, once Karen gets hired on at the ''Bulletin''.
* CanonForeigner: He was created because during production of ''Daredevil'' Season 1, Marvel Studios didn't have the rights to ComicBook/SpiderMan yet and hence, neither J. Jonah Jameson nor the ''Daily Bugle'' could be used. The ''New York Bulletin'' itself, however, isn't a CanonForeigner and has been around in the mainstream comic since 2009.
* CanonImmigrant: Downplayed, he's mentioned in the mainstream comic ''Kingpin'' in 2017, [[TheGhost but has yet to make a proper onscreen appearance]].
* CharacterDevelopment: In Season 2, he's far more helpful towards Karen's investigation and willing to investigate the truth, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute filling in]] for Urich.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: By Ellison's own admission, he can remember the dates of important news stories off the top of his head, but has a hard time remembering his own kids' birthdays.
* CynicalMentor: For all he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and a grouch, he's also driven by the needs of the market and the reality that the newspaper's archives are all kept ''on paper''. He has to ride herd on the bitter old extreme Ben Urich and the young and driven Karen Page... but he manages them both.
* DaEditor: To Urich's (and later Karen's) IntrepidReporter.
* DeadpanSnarker: It's more pronounced in Season 2, but he's always been a snarker.
* DecompositeCharacter: With Jameson making his proper debut as conspiracy-driven news host, it becomes evident that Ellison inherited all of Jameson's good attributes, such as caring for his employees and belief in honest press.
* DistressedDude: He's left in such a position when Fisk sends Dex to his newsroom to eliminate Jasper Evans. He ends up being stabbed with a pencil, but survives, while Foggy and Karen are overpowered, and Jasper is killed.
* EtTuBrute: Urich accuses Ellison of being paid off by Fisk and ensuring that his remaining career is limited to fluff pieces. After Urich's death, Karen angrily confides in Matt that Ellison shouldn't have even been at Urich's funeral pretending to be his friend. The arrests, however, prove that he's not complicit. Fisk's mole was ''his secretary''. Leading to a blink-and-you'll-miss-it MyGodWhatHaveIDone durin the last episode of the first season of Daredevil.
* ExpyCoexistence: He was created to replace J. Jonah Jameson, as Marvel Studios had not yet aquired the rights to Spider-Man and most of his supporting cast. Jameson would end up making a cameo in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', albeit [[ReimaginingTheArtifact reimagined]] as an Alex Jones style PompousPoliticalPundit. This character is ''far'' more reasonable and supportive and a kind mentor than any JJJ we've seen in any spiderverse movie.
* AFatherToHisMen: It's made pretty clear he cares for his employees. He takes it ''especially hard'' in Season 3, after he is wounded and several of his employees are killed by Dex.
* HappilyMarried: To his wife Lily, who runs a magazine.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first, Ellison comes off as a moronic jerk who cares only about readership; in reality he's a sharply intelligent journalist who cares deeply about the reporters who work for him and believes in the value of the press. This becomes much more apparent once Karen begins working for him.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** He's correct to call Ben out on his attempts to run stories about Fisk's mother without reliable sources.
** While he refuses to let Karen participate in stories pertaining to Fisk, he's right to say that her past association with Fisk means that it's a conflict of interest for her to be writing stories about him.
* LastNameBasis: Everyone only addresses Ellison by his last name. His first name of Mitchell is only brought up in credits during ''Daredevil'' Season 2, and only spoken out loud in Season 3 when Karen is having dinner with his wife and nephew.
* LikeASonToMe: He never says it out loud, but Ellison clearly sees Karen as a surrogate daughter.
* TheMatchmaker: Ellison and his wife, a magazine publisher, were set up by their college newspaper editor. He tries to use a dinner to set up Karen with his nephew, but it goes nowhere due to Karen still grieving Matt and the dinner being cut short by the news of Fisk's release. The fact that Lily spills the beans during dinner, making everything ''super awkward'', doesn't help.
* TheMentor: Becomes this for Karen Page, filling in the void left by Urich's death.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon learning Ben was right about Fisk when Ellison's secretary is outed as TheMole; Ellison can only lower his head in absolute shame, realizing his inaction played a part in Ben's death.
* NotSoStoic: The normally reserved Ellison is livid about Fisk sending Dex to kill several of his employees, especially when he realizes Karen knows Daredevil's real identity and is refusing to tell him it.
* ThePenIsMightier: Dex stabs him with a pencil during his attack on the ''Bulletin''.
* PetTheDog: For all his griping over keeping the paper lucrative in wake of the rise of social media, he's also concerned with Urich's wellbeing and that of his wife. Though it is soured by the fact that it sometimes comes across as CondescendingCompassion. His mentoring Karen in Season 2, however, further emphasizes this status, as is his anger over Fisk attacking the paper.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's trying his best to keep the ''Bulletin'' in business in the face of social media and the growing disinterest in important stories. This brings him into conflict with Ben. In Season 3, even after Karen quits because she refuses to sell out Matt, Ellison is still willing to listen to Karen when she comes to him to tip him off about Ray Nadeem testifying before the grand jury and agrees to call a press conference for her to denounce Fisk. He also assists Karen with ensuring Nadeem's death confession gets posted on the Internet.
* RedHerring: After it is hinted he may be Fisk's mole in the newspaper, it turns out it was not him but Caldwell.
* ShipperOnDeck: At the start of Season 3, he invites Karen to dinner with his wife and nephew. An accidental slip of the tongue from Lily, though, causes Karen to realize Mitchell is trying to set her up with Jason, which she takes issue with as she's still hung up on her grief from losing Matt.
* TookALevelInKindness: Season 1 depicted him as rather unsympathetic as a way to set him as a RedHerring for Fisk's mole inside the Bulletin. When Karen approaches him in Season 2, he is much more helpful, genuinely shows concern for her and expresses regret about Urich's death. A freeze-frame of an assignment board in one episode will show that he also has revamped the editorial priorities to focus on important events instead of fluff pieces.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He orders sauerkrauts from a particular food cart every day at around 11:40 am, making it easy for Karen to track him down when she needs to tip him off about Ray Nadeem's impending grand jury hearing as well as arrange a press conference for Karen to publicly denounce Fisk for trying to have her killed.
* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out Ben for trying to push an uncorroborated story about Fisk. In ''The Punisher'', he also puts Karen on notice when he realizes she secretly has been helping Frank. It gets much, ''much'' worse in ''Daredevil'' Season 3, after Fisk sends Dex to attack the ''Bulletin'', during which several employees are killed and Ellison is put in the hospital. While recovering, he realizes that Karen knows the real Daredevil's identity, and fires her when she refuses to give up Matt.

[[folder:Ben Urich]]
!!''Ben Urich''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"People seek the truth no matter where they find it."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/VondieCurtisHall

->'''Karen:''' I feel like it's falling apart, Ben. All of it.\\
'''Ben:''' That's usually right around the time you know the story's getting interesting.

A veteran reporter for the ''New York Bulletin'' who mentors Karen as she throws herself into cleaning up corruption in Hell's Kitchen.

* CelebrityParadox: The ''Franchise/DieHard'' films exists in the MCU, due to being referenced by Ant-Man in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. Curtis-Hall played one of Colonel Stuart's soldiers in ''Film/DieHard2''.
* CoolOldGuy: He's in his mid-60s and has quite the reputation in Hell's Kitchen, with good reason.
* DecompositeCharacter: Because of Ben's early death, his role as Matt's newspaper ally and confidant is instead given to Karen.
* DeathByAdaptation: His comics counterpart is alive and well.
* DeathByIrony: In Ben's first scene, he meets with an old mafia contact, Silvio, who says he's grateful to Ben for not dragging his family through the mud when he got out of prison. He ultimately meets his death due to speaking to Fisk's mother.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: He's on the receiving end when Fisk asks him if anyone else was with him when he spoke to Marlene. Ben lies and says he was alone, to ensure that Fisk won't know about Karen snooping around.
* IntrepidReporter: He's chummy with old crime lords to get the scoop. He used to be more intrepid in his younger years. He's a bit slower with age, but no less determined to cover ''important'' stories.
* KnightInSourArmor: In his prime, Ben was a crusading reporter who single handedly brought down corrupt institutions whenever he saw them. He still is, but he deeply regrets the mistakes he's made along the way, is a lot more jaded about the way the world works and isn't the idealist he once was, to the point where he actively tries to keep Karen from making the mistakes he did and worries about her safety.
* TheLastDJ: Still believes in reporting the news that people need to hear, instead of the news they want to hear, unlike seemingly everyone else at the ''New York Bulletin''.
* MarriedToTheJob: Says as much himself in one of his conversations with Karen. His wife encourages him to go after the stories.
* MentorArchetype: For Karen, in ferreting out corruption without getting killed.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Wilson Fisk ultimately kills him. Fisk does not know he was mentoring Karen but said mentoring indirectly lead to the situation where Fisk killed him.
* ProperlyParanoid: Ben is well aware that the man in the mask could be playing him and doesn't take anything he says at face value, he knows this is just another source of potentially tainted information and he needs to pursue and verify.
** When Fisk confronts him in his home, he knows he's speaking to a very dangerous man, so plays his cards close to the chest and doesn't let Fisk know he has a partner. As a result, even though he only thought he was being threatened and not moments from death, he kept Karen safe from Fisk's rage.
* RaceLift: Normally depicted as a white man, here he's played by African-American Vondie Curtis-Hall.
* SacrificialLion: Wilson Fisk chokes him to death as he becomes increasingly desperate to keep his secrets hidden.

[[folder:Karen Page]]
->See her [[Characters/MCUKarenPage own page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caldwell]]
!!''M. Caldwell''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KassiaMiller

A reporter in the New York Bulletin.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Not only does she has a wholesome and professional look, she's never shown doing anything suspicious, asking questions or much of anything.
* ChekhovsGunman: She's... [[LivingProp just sort of there]] for most of the New York Bulletin scenes. [[spoiler:Who would've thought she would be TheMole?]]
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:She shows up at Ben's funeral, but it turns out she's TheMole planted by Fisk to report on Ben's actions.]]

[[folder:Jennifer Many]]
!!''Jennifer Many''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RussellArdenKoplin
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

A reporter at the ''Bulletin'' and a colleague of Karen Page and Mitchell Ellison.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Has been working at the ''Bulletin'' since Urich worked there, but never showed up in any of the ''Bulletin'' scenes of ''Daredevil''.
* TheRival: Appears to have some sort of workplace rivalry with Karen, since they both are in contention for the front page.

!!!Nelson, Murdock and Page
[[folder:The Team]]
* [[Characters/MCUMattMurdock Matt Murdock/Daredevil]]
* [[Characters/MCUDefenders Foggy Nelson]]
* [[Characters/MCUKarenPage Karen Page]]
[[/folder]]

!!!Alias Investigations
[[folder:Jessica Jones]]
->See [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones her page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Malcolm Ducasse]]
->See [[Characters/MCUDefenders his folder]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gillian]]
!!''Gillian''

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Alias Investigations
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Aneesh Sheth
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Jessica's new assistant.

* Running Gag: The orange couch that Jessica's assistant brought in gets called ugly by several people.

!!Civilians
!!!'''[[AC:Brooklyn]]'''
[[folder:Leah]]
!!''Leah''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' Japanese-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MikiIshikawa
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''

An Asian-American waitress/bartender at a restaurant called ''Izzy''.
----
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Her thanking Bucky for taking care of Yori after the death of his son and her continued speech about how hard it must be for him to cope with it is noble, but unbeknownst to her, she's saying all this to Yori's son's killer, who already feels immensely guilty over what he did.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Friends with Yori to the point that she is comfortable with him setting her up on a date with Bucky.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Unique]]
!!''Unique''
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IanGregg
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''

Yori's neighbor who gets into an argument with him over trash.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yori Nakajima]]
!!''Yori Nakajima''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Japanese-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KenTakemoto
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''

A neighbor of Bucky Barnes.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Yori is an elderly man who forms a friendship with a physically younger man. He's also good friends with Leah.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son RJ was killed after, unbeknownst to Yori, being a witness to one of the Winter Soldier's assassinations.
* ShipperOnDeck: He arranges a date between Bucky and Leah.

!!!!'''[[AC:Manhattan]]'''
!!!Chelsea
[[folder:Trish Walker]]
->See [[Characters/MCUDefenders her folder]]
[[/folder]]

!!!Greenwich Village
[[folder:Jonathan Pangborn]]
!!''Jonathan Pangborn''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BenjaminBratt
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''

A paraplegic who learned how to use sorcery to heal himself from the Ancient One.

* {{Expy}}: He is mainly based on Doctor Druid, a fellow medical acquaintance of Strange who went to Kamar-Taj and learnt magic.
* DisabilityNegatingSuperpower: He managed to throw off his full body paralysis through magic energy channeling. [[spoiler:Mordo reverses this and leaves him helpless.]]
* MundaneUtility: Gifted with borderline-RealityWarper powers, he simply uses them to make his damaged limbs work again.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His helping of Strange and his hands that leads him to Kamar-Taj where he becomes the superhero we all know [[spoiler:eventually results in having his paralysis to come back after Mordo, likely not just because of "too many sorcerers," but also blaming Pangborn for leading a rule-breaker like Strange into Kamar-Taj where he changed everything including the reveal that the Ancient One also broke natural law, removes his DisabilityNegatingSuperpower.]]
* OhCrap: Has an understated but definite one when he encounters Mordo in ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'''s stinger. He's on guard as soon as he sees Mordo, quickly deduces that Mordo is not here for a friendly visit, and gets ready to defend himself. All for nothing, as Mordo easily takes away his magic...
* TheResenter: He's not pleased to see Strange when they meet at first, since he declined to treat or even ''see'' him when he came to him for help because Strange didn't want to lose his perfect record. However, he is mollified when Strange reveals that what happened to his hands has left him in in a similar predicament to the one Jonathan faced, so he tells him where to find Kamar-Taj.

[[folder:Griffin Sinclair]]
!!Griffin Sinclair
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HalOzsan

Trish Walker's new boyfriend in Season 2, a journalist at ZCN.

* IntrepidReporter: He's a noted war correspondent, who has reported from several warzones, including the Syrian Civil War.
* NiceGuy: Griffin is genuinely nice and supportive of Trish, even if he's worried that she may be in way over her head with the IGH investigation. Jessica, who's always had to protect Trish from her own vagina, admits she can't find anything bad about Griffin no matter how hard she tries.
* SheepInSheepsClothing: He's very suspicious early in the season when he uses her computer behind her back or has a shaddy conversation on the phone. [[spoiler:It turns out he was planning a public proposal and wanted to invite Trish's family.]]

!!!Chinatown
[[folder:Sam Chung]]
!![[ComicBook/DaredevilCharlesSoule Samuel "Sam" Chung]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesChen
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

The operator of the Bayard Community Center who becomes an ally of Danny and Colleen.

* AdaptationDistillation: In the comics, he's an [[TheIllegal undocumented immigrant]] from China. That aspect of his character has yet to come up in the shows.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Sam is introduced as Blindspot, a martial artist (and Daredevil's new apprentice) with the ability to make himself near-invisible to the eye. Here, he's a mere civilian with no powers or training, and has (presumably) never met Matt Murdock.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: A rare, non-villainous example, as Sam Chung is a ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' character and not an ''ComicBook/IronFist'' one.

[[folder:Henry Yip]]
!!Henry Yip

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesChen
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

The owner of the Silver Lotus.

* ButtMonkey: Gets constantly threatened by criminals, and dies at the hands of Davos.
* CanonForeigner: While the Silver Lotus has appeared in a single issue of ''Uncanny X-Men: First Class'', Yip is yet to make an appearance in the mainstream comics.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After refusing his "protection", an angry Davos murders him by punching through his chest with the Iron Fist.

[[folder:Albert]]
!!Albert

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesHiroyukiLiao
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''

The owner of Royal Al Moving, and the employer of Danny Rand.

* BenevolentBoss: Is a pretty easy-going NiceGuy who has a good work relationship with Danny.
* CasanovaWannabe: Played for laughs, as he jokes to Danny that Colleen will be ''his'' future wife and then later chides him for his luck with women when Mary is obviously much more interested in talking to him instead of Albert.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: When he was 12 years old, he almost got recruited into a Triad war. His best friend did, and was killed shortly afterwards. The sight of his dead body in a casket was what kept him straight and narrow.

!!!Harlem
[[folder:D.W. Griffith]]
!!''Dave "D.W." Griffith''
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[[caption-width-right:230:"Money IS the message, or should be!"]]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JeremiahRichardCraft
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A Harlem street vendor who sells bootleg recordings of "The Incident", and later Luke Cage merchandise.

* AscendedExtra: After a few sporadic appearances throughout Season 1, he becomes a prominent character in Season 2, wherein he's now Luke's videographer, and also sells Luke Cage merchandise out of Pop's Barbershop.
* FairWeatherFriend: He is pretty self-serving in his relationship with Luke, as best seen when he immediately sells the footage of Bushmaster ambushing him on the street.
* GetOut: While he isn't malicious about it D.W. tells Luke that, if he is going to go ahead with taking over Harlem's Paradise, then he can't talk shop in Pop's Barbershop anymore.
* RaceLift: African-American here, Caucasian in the comics.
* SecretKeeper: Promises to not tell on Luke when Luke returns after being framed for killing a police officer. He also keeps his mouth shut about Danny Rand being the Immortal Iron Fist.
* WhatTheHellHero: Luke is not happy with DW selling his footage of Luke being defeated by Bushmaster to the media. He also gives Luke one when Luke's idea of maintaining peace in Harlem is to take over Harlem's Paradise.

[[folder:Bobby Fish]]
!!''Bobby Fish''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RonCephasJones
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A old friend of Pop's, who hangs out at the barber shop stomping anyone foolish enough to play him in chess.

* CanonForeigner: Like Pop, he has no comic counterpart.
* CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler:Takes over this role after Pop dies.]]
* TheDandy: A sharp dresser and is good friends with one of Harlem's most famous tailors.
* DisappearedDad: Bobby has a daughter that he never saw after she was born. He eventually leaves Harlem and moves to San Diego to be with her when she is in need of surgery.
* OddFriendship: He's a good friend of Turk Barrett, [[ButtMonkey New York's unluckiest criminal and resident superhero punching bag]].
* PutOnABus: Leaves Harlem and Luke in episode 4 of Season 2 in order to reconnect with his daughter and provide her with a kidney for surgery with Luke's pleasing.
* TheSmartGuy: He was taking care of Pop's taxes and is really savvy about how to deal with Stokes and and Diamondback.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Most of his screen time shows him playing chess with other characters and he beats everyone in at. He does [[MeaningfulName share a name]] with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer Bobby Fischer]], a RealLife World Chess Champion, as Turk points out.

[[folder:Connie "Genghis Connie" Lin]]
!!''Connie "Genghis Connie" Lin''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JadeWu
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

Luke's first landlady.

* CrankyLandlord: Don't ever be late with rent, because she will hunt you down and berate you the whole time.
* DamselInDistress: Mostly averted. Sure, Cottonmouth's thugs terrify her when they try to shake her and her husband down. But she does not beg or grovel. More importantly, she does not give in.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She eventually warms up to Luke Cage.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She disappears from the narrative of Season 1, after Luke pulls her out of the remains of her building. Subverted as she does ultimately return in Season 2, which reveals she re-opened elsewhere as Genghis Connie's Too.

[[folder:Pop's Barber Shop]]
!!''Henry "Pop" Hunter''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Never backwards. Always forward."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FrankieFaison
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''[[note]]Mentioned only[[/note]] | ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A reformed gangster who owns a barber shop that Cage works at, and is considered Harlem's father figure.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:He's killed when hit in the neck by a stray round from one of Tone's twin submachine guns during a botched assassination attempt on Chico.]]
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''enry '''H'''unter.
* CanonForeigner: He has no counterpart in the comics.
* CoolOldGuy: He's a well-respected former gangster who looks after the wayward kids in Harlem. He's so cool that [[spoiler:even [[DiscOneFinalBoss Cottonmouth]] loved him, and cries after his death.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: [[spoiler:He's killed toward the end of the second episode, and his death helps inspire Luke Cage to be a hero for Harlem, based on advice he doled out while alive.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:After being gunned down by Tone in his own barbershop, Pop expires in Luke's arms.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''Jessica Jones'', Pop was mentioned by Luke during a conversion with Jessica at the bar he was bartending, referring to an idiom of his.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He was beloved by many of the criminals in the area.
* TheHeart: Of Harlem, everyone born in the neighborhood knows him and considered his barber shop neutral ground out of respect for the man. [[spoiler:He's so beloved that when Cottonmouth learns Tone killed him, Cottonmouth throws Tone right off the roof, and later cries about Pop's death.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: He used to be an infamous gangbanger, but a stint in prison changed his ways.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The senior Pop forms a strong friendship with the younger Luke Cage.
* IronicName: Ironic on multiple levels, thanks to time. His nickname is "Pop," which sounds like a reference to the fact that's the CoolOldGuy and a father figure to the youth of Harlem. It's actually a reference to his particularly brutal way of punching people back when he was younger and a gangster. The only person who knows it's true meaning in the present is Cottonmouth, and the fact that he still thinks of Pop that way is shown to bother Luke.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: For the first two episodes he's Luke's closest friend, confidant, and adviser. And then Tone kills him.
* TheNicknamer: He's fond of giving people nicknames, including calling Luke "[[MythologyGag Power Man]]" at one point.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In his younger days, Pop was known as a street brawler, who delivered vicious smackdowns on enemies. It's even where he got his nickname, because of the noise of his fists crashing into someone: snap, crackle, '''pop'''.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He dies relatively early on, but his death has a huge impact on the cast.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: He is considered a father figure to the youth of Harlem, many of whom do not have fathers in their lives.
* TeamSwitzerland: He explicitly refers to his barber shop as such, specifically set up as a place off limits from the city's various gang wars.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Everyone was devastated when he got killed.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only lives for two episodes before he is killed off, and his death is the catalyst for Luke to go to war against Cottonmouth and later, against Diamondback.

!!''Wilfredo "Chico" Díaz''
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsNewYork New York Criminals]] page

[[folder:Dolores Miller]]
!!''Dolores Miller''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DebbiMorgan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

Mother to Candace and Cole Miller.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She lets out a gutwrenching wail after Cole is killed in jail, as he was her last child and all three of them - Cole, Candace and Sean - died as victims of criminal violence.

[[folder:Candace Miller]]
!!''Candace Miller''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DeborahAyorinde
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A Harlem's Paradise employee who is forced to play along in the schemes of Harlem's top players.

* BoomHeadshot: Shades shoots her in the back of the head.
* DamselInDistress: During a hostage situation where Diamondback takes over the club, in which she is among the many people trapped inside it, Diamondback threatens to drop her from the balcony in front of Luke.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Just a poor young woman in the wrong place and the wrong time, she ends up being killed by Shades in the final episode.]]
* MustMakeAmends: She decides to testify against Mariah for [[spoiler:Cottonmouth's death]] in gratitude to Luke for saving her life, after she was paid to implicate him in Cottonmouth's murder.
* PaidHarem: Subverted. Misty thinks Candace is one of Cottonmouth's girls, but she only works in the establishment and she is most definitely not with him (she being afraid of him enough that she needs to ask Luke to accompany her when delivering some expensive champagne to Cottonmouth's private table, and spends the exchange being leered at by Tone). She laments that she will be labelled a whore because of her false testimony that says she was with Cottonmouth when he was killed.

[[folder:Cole Miller]]
!!''Cole Miller''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JMalloryMcCree
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

A brother of Candace Miller. He joins a CleanUpCrew in Harlem, and does muscle work for "White Hat", one of the leaders of the Hand.

* CleanUpCrew: He's part of a crew that cleans up the sites of the Hand's massacres in New York.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The Hand have him killed after he gets arrested cleaning up the bodies of Chaste soldiers killed by the Hand.
* KilledOffScreen: Cole is killed in jail for speaking to Luke.
* SuspiciousSpending: Luke comments on the flashiness of the things he buys even though he's between gigs, which is an indicator that he's taken up his brother's former job.
* PunchClockVillain: He knows he's committing a crime, but isn't actually evil. He's just motivated by money and lack of opportunities.

[[folder:Joel Spurlock]]
!!''Joel Spurlock''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SedlyBloomfield
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

An undertaker working in Harlem.

* CreepyMortician: Averted. Spurlock is a just professional mortician.
* CleanUpCrew: However, he's also employed by Cottonmouth to disappear the bodies of some of his victims.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: A small business version, as he's in Cottonmouth payroll whenever he needs to make a corpse disappear without leaving a trace.

!!!Hell's Kitchen
[[folder:Bess Mahoney]]
!!'' Bess Mahoney''
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SharonHope
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

Brett Mahoney's mother.

* AlliterativeFamily: With her son '''B'''rett.
* CoolOldLady: Foggy speaks very fondly of her.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: She seems to be close to both Foggy and Matt, the former more so.
* SmokingIsCool: She loves smoking cigars and Foggy loves giving here these, much to the dismay of both her son and Matt.
* UnseenNoMore: She's [[TheGhost mentioned multiple times]] in Season 1 but she doesn't appear until late in Season 3, when Matt and Foggy get her and Brett to shelter Nadeem's family after Fisk makes an attempt on their lives.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Heavily implied through character dialogues. Foggy thinks she's a CoolOldLady while her son is presented as [[OnlySaneMan a straightforward person]].

[[folder:Elena Cardenas]]
!!''Elena Cardenas''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JudithDelgado
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

An old woman living in a rent-controlled tenement and friend of Bess Mahoney, she seeks help from Nelson & Murdock when Wilson Fisk tries to force her out of her apartment.

* GrannyClassic: She is an old religious woman who rewards people with dinner.
* InSeriesNickname: Referred to as "Carnitas" by Marci Stahl, though Marci later drops the act after Elena's death.
* LanguageBarrier: She has a rather flimsy grasp on English and mostly speaks Spanish, peppered with the occasional English word. Nelson & Murdock is still able to get around this, as Matt is fully fluent in Spanish and Karen at least can speak it at high-school level. The trope is however fully in effect with Foggy, who is only capable of stammering broken Spanish at her every time he tries to talk with her.
* SacrificialLamb: Fisk has her killed shortly after Foggy convinces her to stand firm and refuse another buyout offer, purely as bait to lure Matt into an ambush.
* ShipperOnDeck: Briefly tries to get Karen and Foggy together, up to cooking them dinner for an impromptu "date" that is interrupted by Fisk's bombs.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Elena only appears in a couple episodes, but with her death, the Hand are able to go through with their plans to build Midland Circle. Moreover, Matt nearly dies trying to kill Fisk to avenge her death, resulting in Foggy learning that he's Daredevil.

[[folder:Theo Nelson]]
!!''Theodore "Theo" Nelson''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PeterHalpin
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

Foggy's older brother, who runs a butcher shop in Hell's Kitchen.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems nice, but Fisk gets him to knowingly commit fraud and trick his parents into signing the papers. Then has the gall to blame his brother for doing the right thing and helping to take down a dangerous criminal.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Is to some degree the foolish one to Foggy's responsible one.
* ThemeNaming: He and Foggy are named after [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDelanoRoosevelt the]] [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt Roosevelts]] who served as presidents.
* UnwittingPawn: Fisk manipulates Theo into near-bankruptcy by coercing the suppliers to Nelson's Meats to stop doing business with him, driving the shop to near-bankruptcy. At this point, Fisk then has his contacts at Red Lion Bank reach out to Theo, and trick him into cooking his books to make the shop's finances look healthier than they really are before granting them a loan. Now that Fisk has ironclad evidence of him committing a crime, he lets the old suppliers return, and has something to blackmail Foggy with.

[[folder:Bill Fisk]]
!!''Bill Fisk''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You want something out of life, you gotta put yourself out there."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DomenickLombardozzi
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

-->''"It's people like this that wanna keep you down. Keep you afraid. You have to show 'em that that can never happen. You gotta show 'em that you're a man."''

Wilson Fisk's abusive father, who beats his wife and son -- both physically and verbally -- for every minor perceived weakness.

* AbusiveParent: Bill's idea of "making a man" out of Wilson involves demeaning him, teaching him to blame others for his problems (including blaming Wilson himself for his own problems) and playing cruel jokes on him.
* AdaptationalHeroism: While he's definitely no hero, Bill never becomes a part of the mafia like his ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' counterpart.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Is this compared to his ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' counterpart. While his counterpart was hardly father of the year material, this version's abuse of Wilson is more horrible. And with his animated counterpart having his son take the fall for his crime, that's saying something.
* AssholeVictim: When he goes missing, everyone who knows him assumes that he left the city to get away from the gangsters he was indebted to, or that they killed him for it. Either way, no one loses sleep over it and there didn't seem to be much investigation into his disappearance.
* BaldOfEvil: Well, balding. He is certainly a {{Jerkass}} {{Domestic Abuse}}r, however.
* CorruptPolitician: He has aspirations to be one, which is why he runs in the local elections. He funds his campaign by borrowing money from Rigoletto with the understanding that if elected he will repay the money through kickbacks. However, he loses and Rigoletto wants his money back.
* DomesticAbuse: He beats his wife savagely, in addition to being verbally abusive to her and their son.
* EvilCounterpart: He and Jack Murdock were complete opposites when it came to certain things they did with their kids. When Jack offers Matt a sip of alcohol, it looks like father and son bonding. When Bill does it to Wilson, it looks more like peer pressure. While both try to teach values to their kid despite hard living conditions, Jack wanted Matt to be an educated man who wouldn't have to take beating for a living like him, while Bill wanted Wilson to be just like him.
* HatedByAll: His campaign ratings aren't exactly clear, but if his general community opinions are anything to go by, he's not well liked and for good reason.
* HateSink: Bill is nothing more than a petty, hateful, cowardly abusive loser who makes his crime lord of a son look better in comparison. Not a single person in Hell's Kitchen misses him after he dies.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He lectures Wilson about giving respect to get it, but shows nobody respect while expecting it from others.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: For every time he gives a nugget of advice to his son or shows affection, there's an imminent swing in the opposite direction, or it's given at the expense of his wife.
* KarmicDeath: You wanted to toughen your son up, Bill? [[SarcasmMode Congratulations!]] You did exactly that, [[GoneHorriblyRight and he has your blood on his hands to prove it]]! Oh, and your biggest wish about being known and respected? Well, [[{{Unperson}} Wilson's had all public records of you erased, making sure no one remembers you]], and those who do remember you only remember you for your bad traits.
* NeverMyFault: Bill believes that the reason he lost the election is because his wife and son don't show him enough respect at home. Not because he's a vile, vicious, petty loser.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Invoked. When he goes missing, everyone assumes that he did this to get away from the mobsters to whom he owed money or, alternatively, that the mobsters caught him attempting to do this and killed him. His wife and son do nothing to dissuade people from this assumption since Wilson killed him to protect his mother and they both disposed of the body. It helps that everyone knew Bill was just the type of DirtyCoward to abandon his family in order to save himself.
* TooDumbToLive: Using money he borrowed from an infamous mob boss to fund his political campaign was a lose-lose situation. If he had won, he would've been in Rigoletto's pocket for life, in addition to living with the possible scandal that could have arisen if Bill had been exposed. There was no guarantee he would win, especially given the community's opinion on him. Naturally he loses, and given what his wife said, Bill likely would have ended up dead [[TheDogBitesBack even without his son's involvement]].
* {{Unperson}}: Wilson has all public records of Bill erased. Ben Urich has trouble finding any records or photos of him.
* WouldHurtAChild: In addition to the verbal and psychological abuse he levels at Wilson, he beats up a teenager for knocking down his signs. After the election is over. And he forces Wilson to participate.

[[folder:Marlene Fisk]]
!!''Marlene Fisk Vistain''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AngelaReed (1960s); Creator/PhyllisSomerville (2014)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

Wilson Fisk's beloved mother.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: After young Wilson beats his father to death, Marlene holds him as he sobs and says it'll be all right... then calmly tells him to get a saw so they can dispose of Bill's corpse. No one found out the truth of Bill's death, assuming he'd moved to escape the mob.
* BrokenBird: Due to the abuse suffered at Bill Fisk's hands. She tries to raise their son with gentleness and compassion, but Bill thinks it makes him too soft and less of a man.
* DomesticAbuse: On the receiving end of this from her husband, Bill, both verbally and physically.
* KilledOffscreen: Fisk reveals that sometime during his stay in prison, she passed away in exile.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite being pretty old, she is able to remember enough of Karen and Ben to be able to describe them aptly to Wesley.
* PutOnABus: Wilson has her moved to Italy right before he gets arrested, promising her that they have good ''zuppa inglese'' there. Unfortunately, she [[BusCrash dies there]] before Wilson can get out of jail.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She inadvertently plays a small role in the demise of her son's empire, as her tipping off Wesley to the visit Karen and Ben made to her ends up getting Wesley killed, and that greatly destabilizes Wilson's ability to work on his criminal ventures.
* SupremeChef: Wilson loved the pastries she made as a child, particularly her ''zuppa inglese''.

[[folder:Jack Murdock]]
!!''Battlin' Jack Murdock''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Just once I want Matty to hear people cheer for his old man. Just once."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnPatrickHayden
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

->''"Never got knocked out, my dad. Knocked down, sure, but he, uh, always got back up. He was always on his feet when he lost."''
-->-- '''Matt Murdock'''

Matt's father, who was a boxer. He died before the start of the series, not long after Matt lost his sight.

* AlternateSelf: Has a variant on [[Characters/SpiderManTrilogyOthers Earth-96283]].
* BadassNormal: He was tough as nails in the boxing ring, noted to specialise in soaking up punches until his opponent tires. In his last fight he beat Creel, a superhuman at least half his age.
* BookDumb: Acknowledges himself as only good for his fists, and thus pushes Matt to try hard in school so he doesn't end up like him.
* DeathByOriginStory: His death is a major part of Matt's backstory.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: Is heavily featured in flashbacks in the second episode, and dies at the end of it.
* TheDeterminator: Matt got the trait from him. He never was knocked out in the ring. Even when he took dives.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He faces his impending demise with no fear, knowing that his son had got to hear the crowd cheer for him one last time.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. He knew fully well that not throwing the match would have fatal results, but he wanted his son to be proud of him, at least once.
* HeroicSacrifice: He decides not to lose in the fifth round as ordered to so that his son can hear the crowd cheering for him one more time, and also to set up his son with a trust fund by betting everything on himself. He is predictably killed for it.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Stick suggests that Jack was at least partly motivated in his sacrifice to earn respect and glory for the first time in his life. The fact that Jack stops in his escape from the gym changing room to soak in the crowd's cheering suggests it played a part.
* {{Jobber}}: Took falls for a living. Even when he didn't he was more of a journeyman.
* MythologyGag: His yellow boxing shorts and red boxing gloves match the color scheme of the Daredevil costume as it first appeared in the comics.
* NiceGuy: A devoted father and all-around nice guy.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He defeated Carl "The Crusher" Creel, a boxer known for cheating by turning his hands under his gloves into fists of steel.
* OrderedToCheat: It was his turn to take a dive. However, he decided to win instead and was killed for it.
* PosthumousCharacter: He died long before the start of the series and is only shown in flashbacks.
* ThrowingTheFight: Roscoe Sweeney wanted Jack to go down in the fifth to Creel. Jack instead TKO'd Creel.

[[folder:Jerry]]
!!''Jerry''

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Ray Iannicelli
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A former [[TheVietnamVet Vietnam War veteran]] in Hell's Kitchen.

* SacrificialLamb: He's killed by the Hand during their kidnapping of people with ties to Daredevil.
* SemperFi: He's a former fighter from UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Frank Castle even has a very cordial conversation with him, recognizing a fellow soldier.

[[folder:Oscar Arocho]]
!!''Oscar Arocho''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JRRamirez
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Jessica's new superintendent.

* BelligerentSexualTension: He starts wary of Jessica after discovering she is a gifted and constantly antagonizes her in the building, to the point he almost made her evicted for running a business in a residential building. They later develop a mutual attraction to each other after setting their differences aside.
* {{Expy}}: Shares some characteristics with Scott Lang, Jessica's love interest other than Luke in the comics. Both are divorced dads with criminal pasts, but since [[Film/AntMan1 Scott's attentions are elsewhere]] in the MCU, Oscar was created in his place.
* IOweYouMyLife: He changes his opinion of Jessica after she saves Vido from falling from the window, and promises to help her in everything she needs because of this.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: His son is enamoured by Jessica and her abilities, while Oscar himself exercises caution being near Jessica, given the disasters that tend to follow her. He eventually changes his opinion of her.
* LoveInterest: After resolving his differences with Jessica, he becomes her romantic interest.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted within ''Jessica Jones'', where he shares a first name with Oscar Clemons.
* ParentsAsPeople: He is a good father completely devoted to raising his son Vido, despite having his baggage as an ex-convict and document forgery. He only starts trusting Jessica after she saves his son's life.
* StarvingArtist: He is a very talented artist, having done plenty of beatiful paintings, but to make ends meet, he does document forgery under the table, which allowed him to land the superintendent job at Jessica's building.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Played by the 6'1" Creator/JRRamirez and is definitely a looker.
* TakingTheKids: He is in a huge feud with his ex-wife over Vido's custody, which escalates when she descides to kidnap Vido to avoid sharing the custody with Oscar. Jessica has to locate her and stop them from leaving the country.

[[folder:Vido Arocho]]
!!''Estevido "Vido" Arocho''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KevinChacon
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Oscar's son.

* HeroWorshipper: He gets impressed by Jessica's powers and asks her if she knows Captain America. He also has an action figure of Cap he never leaves home without it.
* TagAlongKid: He gets attached to Jessica pretty quick, despite his father against it.

[[folder:Robyn]]
!!''Robyn''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"At best, they're assholes. At worst, they're... zombie assassins."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ColbyMinifie

Jessica's upstairs neighbor in Season 1, and the twin sister of Ruben.

* BigSisterInstinct: Robyn is very protective of Ruben, stating that she only guards him so fiercely because he is incapable of taking care of himself. Of course, her protectiveness also has quite a bit of IncestSubtext to it.
* CanonForeigner: Neither of the twins seem to be based on anybody from the comics.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She's prone to bizarre non-sequiturs that she seems to think are common sayings.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted; Robyn's emotional, financial, and verbal abuse towards Ruben are treated as ''very'' wrong and she's called out on them, with Jessica physically threatening her to shut up (though, mostly because she's finding the noise annoying), while Ruben is viewed with sympathy. She's still treated sympathetically when [[spoiler:he dies]] and she's left struggling to deal without him in her life.
* FieryRedhead: A HotBlooded and ill-tempered woman with red hair.
* HappilyFailedSuicide: [[spoiler:Well, given how bitter Robyn is, not that "happy", but surviving a forced self-hanging does make her value her own life.]]
* HumansAreBastards: As she tells Malcolm in "AKA I've Got the Blues," Robyn's life philosophy boils down to "humankind is made of selfish assholes."
* IncestSubtext: With her brother; on top of their rather odd behavior, they act a lot like a couple, which causes many a raised eyebrow when they mention they are twins.
* {{Jerkass}}: Robyn is a rude, self-centered and judgmental misanthrope to anyone within earshot, and even when she's otherwise sympathetic she's still horrible to everyone around her. [[spoiler:This backfires when she starts rallying Kilgrave's victims against Jessica. She ultimately reveals to Malcolm that she resents herself for being the way she is and believes that Ruben would be disappointed in her.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: For all her egocentrism, [[spoiler:hearing how her missing brother is casually revealed to be dead and his body dumped by Malcolm during the Kilgrave victim support meeting gives her reason to demand answers from Jessica.]] Jessica herself acknowledges that Robyn is "a very perceptive asshole."
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Robyn's a ''bit'' too protective of her brother, which Malcolm points out as being ridiculous, given his age.
* TheNicknamer: Robyn constantly nicknames people (mostly in an insulting way).
* RedOniBlueOni: Robyn is the quick-tempered Red to Ruben's more even-tempered Blue.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Once she decides to exact revenge on Jessica, [[spoiler:she releases Kilgrave mistaking him for just another guy Jessica was abusing. This backfires on Robyn's face as Kilgrave makes her nearly hang herself if not for Jessica's intervention. It also leads to Hope's suicide and Kilgrave's father being recaptured.]]
* ThemeTwinNaming: With Ruben.
* WomanScorned: Robyn's reaction to Ruben's disappearance. Odd, [[IncestSubtext since this trope usually applies to romantic pairings...]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her whereabouts are unknown as she doesn't appear or is even mentioned or referenced to in any way throughout Season 2. Her absence has allowed Oscar to take over her old apartment.

[[folder:Ruben]]
!!''Ruben''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Everyone's a little racist. Like, if you see someone like Malcolm, you make a snap judgement, you know? It's something to overcome."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KieranMulcare
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

Jones' upstairs neighbor and the twin brother of Robyn.

* BrutalHonesty: Ruben appears a little too ''out there'' to properly filter what comes out of his mouth, so he will often say just whatever is on his mind, often resulting in RhetoricalQuestionBlunder and TooMuchInformation.
* CanonForeigner: Neither of the twins seem to be based on anybody from the comics.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Due to his ManChild tendencies.
* DecapitationPresentation: Jessica shows [[spoiler:Ruben's severed head to Clemons to get herself arrested.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Malcolm's crush on Jessica seems to have been transferred onto Ruben.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Ruben admits to being in love with Jessica, who doesn't return the affection. [[spoiler:And revealing this to Kilgrave proves fatal.]]
* HopelessSuitor: to Jessica.
* IncestSubtext: With his sister; on top of their rather odd behavior, they act a lot like a couple, which causes many a raised eyebrow when they mention they are twins.
* ManChild: Kilgrave outright calls Ruben a "milquetoast man-boy".
* NiceGuy: For all of his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentricities]], Ruben is far easier to be around than his sister. Robyn even says as much [[spoiler:after his death.]]
* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:His death affects Jessica, who tries to get herself arrested to evade Kilgrave. Once that fails, it all escalates to the plot where Kilgrave is kept captive. And Ruben's death comes into play again as a vengeful Robyn accidentally sets Kilgrave free.]]
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Kilgrave makes him cut his own throat in Jessica's bed.
* SupremeChef: Malcolm says that Ruben's banana bread tastes so good he thought there was crack in it. It's actually nutmeg.
* ThemeTwinNaming: With Robyn.

[[folder:Julie Barnes]]
!!''Julie Barnes''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HollyCinnamon

A girl that Dex is obsessed with.

* BoomHeadshot: How she's shot by Fisk's assassins.
* CareerEndingInjury: She wanted to be a dancer but tore her ACL which forced her to abandon her dream.
* MoralityChain: Dex considers her to be his one, even though he's stalking her rather than dating her.
* NiceGirl: She's very friendly and even remembered Dex from when they worked together at the Suicide Hotline. Despite being freaked out by his stalking she agrees to try and help him get better once he explains his situation to her.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears a few times before her death, but her death ultimately proves key to Matt taking down Fisk, as Matt is able to use Felix Manning's information about the murder to get Dex to turn against Fisk.

[[folder:Josie]]
!!''Josie''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SusanVaron
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

The proprietor of Josie's Bar, a local watering hole in Hell's Kitchen.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While Josie isn't a villain in the Marvel Universe, she is extremely apathetic to the amounts of drugs, weapons, and even worse stuff that her patrons tend to sell or trade at her bar. Here, there is no shady business being conducted (at least, not that we see) and Foggy even takes the time to point out the good people in the bar.
* GoodGuyBar: Josie's Bar is regularly frequented by Matt, Foggy, and Karen. Foggy also points out other patrons such as the guy who arranges the community Thanksgiving meal every year.
* PetTheDog: She's less caustic to Foggy, Matt and Karen when they go out drinking after [[spoiler:Mrs. Cardenas' death]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: She's caustic to both Matt and Foggy, but they helped her out a few times when the city has tried to shut down the bar, so Foggy claims they get to drink there for free (According to Josie they ''definitely'' do not get this privilege.) [[spoiler:Season 2 has Foggy closing the firm's tab when they go their separate ways, giving that the sign clearly says no tab in the back and Josie's reaction she never expected it to be paid.]]

[[folder:Melvin Potter]]
!!''Melvin Potter''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm good at making things."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MattGerald
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A somewhat mentally challenged craftsman, with a talent for making light-weight armor, in the forced employ of Wilson Fisk.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Where as in the comics Melvin started out as a supervillain, here he's an innocent soul who's forced to work for Fisk and gladly helps out Matt when given an alternative.
* BaldOfEvil: Subverted; initially he seems to be another bad bald guy, but he's really a vulnerable, mentally ill fellow being forced to work for Fisk due to Fisk keeping his girlfriend Betsy Beatty under his thumb.
* TheBlacksmith: A modern day equivalent; He's incredibly good at making custom armor. [[spoiler:He even ends up creating Matt's billy clubs.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Melvin is far more in control of his faculties in Season 2, certainly because he no longer is being pressured by Fisk or withheld his medication. He also has a better understanding of how dangerous associating himself with Daredevil is and doesn't trust him blindly.
* DumbMuscle: Melvin is looked down upon for his mental challenges by people other than Fisk and Matt and proves to be a very physical threat when he attacks Matt for breaking into his workshop, being strong enough to throw him around like a ragdoll. He also demonstrates decent aim and a killer throwing arm when he hurls a buzz-saw with deadly force at Matt's head.
* DumbassNoMore: Since he no longer has the burden of Wilson Fisk's threats on him, Melvin is not as fragile mentally in Season 2, compared to Season 1 where he started sobbing when Daredevil defeated him. He even guessed right that the Punisher did not try to kill Matt on purpose and can even snark at him.
-->'''Matt:''' I'm not a criminal, Melvin.\\
'''Potter:''' You don't have a badge, either.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Wilson Fisk has forced him to make armored suits for him by threatening someone he deeply cares for. He dislikes working for Fisk and otherwise wouldn't be involved with him.
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' So you do work for Fisk.\\
'''Melvin Potter:''' I said no, when he asked. Said no, Betsy wouldn't like it. She wants me to be good. I gotta be good. So I, I make things. I'm good at making things.
** In Season 3 he's once again coerced by Fisk, via Felix Manning, to make a Daredevil suit for Dex and to set up a trap for Matt.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Is wearing the Gladiator suit underneath his shirt in "Penny and Dime" and offers to show Matt the whole thing. Matt respectfully declines. Also keeps posters of Roman gladiators on his wall.
* IdiotSavant: He's a genius in his field, but otherwise has a rather child-like mind.
-->'''Owlsley:''' Kid's half an idiot.\\
'''Fisk:''' It's the other half that counts.
* TheMentallyIll: Apparently, he "gets confused" when off his medication.
* MythologyGag: He throws a buzzsaw blade at Matt, which was part of his weaponry in his comic Gladiator supervillain identity. He also has a tendency to go for one when agitated.
* SarcasmBlind: He nervously tries to answer Owlsley and Elektra's rhetorical questions.
* SuperCostumeClothier: He is a talented tailor who was being forced by Fisk to make special cloth-like body armor for him. When Daredevil discovers this, he promises to protect Melvin from Fisk. In exchange, Melvin makes Daredevil's iconic red suit and billy club for him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His fate after being arrested in Season 3 is left unclear. With the show's cancellation it is unlikely it will ever be answered, but the fact that [[spoiler: [[Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw Luke Jacobson]] designed the new Daredevil suit with seemingly no involvement from Melvin]], it's likely that nothing good happened.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Where do Wilson Fisk and Matt get their armored clothes and costume from? Melvin.