History Characters / OrphanBlackTheProletheans

A group of religious fanatics have divided in several factions, two of whom have different intentions toward the clones.

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!!! Old Order
[[folder: Maggie Chen]]

-->'''Played by''': Uni Park

[[folder: Tomas]]

-->'''Played by''': Creator/DanielKash

-> see the Characters/OrphanBlackProjectLeda page

!!! New Order
[[folder: Hank Johanssen]]

-->'''Played by''': Creator/PeterOuterbridge

[[folder: Bonnie Johanssen]]

-->'''Played by''': Creator/KristinBooth

[[folder: Gracie Johanssen]]

-->'''Played by''': Zoé De Grand Maison

[[folder: Alexis]]

-> see the Characters/OrphanBlackProjectCastor page
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: His son Abel died in infancy many years ago.]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: She came home to find her home burned down, her husband dead, and her daughter missing. Also, her son Abel died in infancy many years ago.]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: She learns that her husband lied about his past; suffers a miscarriage; gets disowned by her mother and exiled from her community; gets infected with a pathogen that leaves her infertile; and is killed after inadvertently getting her pregnant friend kidnapped]].

* {{Foil}}: In a case of "science vs. religion", they're the "religion" to the Neolutionists' "science". However, they're NotSoDifferent in their shared view of the clones as objects to exploit and control rather than real people.

-->'''Played by''': Peter Outerbridge

* EvilVsEvil: Against the Neolutionists.

* EvilLuddite: Tie-in guidebooks reveal this as the the core of their doctrine. Henrik is considered an outlier because he is willing to use technology. Henrik's branch is the exception.

-->'''Played by''': Kristin Booth

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: She ends up having a miscarriage in 3.04 and is exiled as a result.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: She starts off a rapid fanatic who hates the very idea of clones, [[spoiler: but now she's breaking away from her cult's twisted teachings, becoming more independently minded, and learning to be more accepting of other lifestyles. She is also now friendly with Helena and respectful toward Cosima.]]

* VillainousCheekbones: She has a more pronounced cheekbones than her husband, and has a much more aggressive approach than him.

* EvilLuddite: Tie-in guidebooks reval this as the the core of their doctrine. Henrik is considered an outlier because he is willing to use technology. Henrik's branch is the exception.

* MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: [[spoiler: A large portion of the Johanssen arc in season 2. Hank extracts Helena's eggs and fertilizes them with his sperm. Them he artificially inseminates Helena and Gracie, with the plan to do so to more women. All the children on his farm were conceived this way albeit with different genetic mothers. It's also likely that they planned to involve Sarah and Kira in this plot.]]

* ReligionOfEvil: They are a fanatic {{Cult}}, and they are not really portrayed sympathetically. [[spoiler:Those who did are either TheMole or members who defected who later pulls a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:After cruelly locking Helena inside a small cage, Sarah finds her and, rather than kill him outright, decides to imprison him in the very same cage]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:{Accidentally killed by a woman who is part of the people Maggie and her kin are trying to eradicate.]]

* EvilLudite: Tie-in guidebooks reval this as the the core of their doctrine. Henrik is considered an outlier because he is willing to use technology. Henrik's branch is the exception.

* ExtremeLudite: Tie-in guidebooks reval this as the the core of their doctrine. Henrik is considered an outlier because he is willing to use technology.

* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:And holy shit how! Helena ''literally'' sticks him in either his rectum or his perineum using his embryo-implanting rod.]]

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Gracie is killed near the end of the series while WordOfGod says that Bonnie is still alive.]]

Hank's wife, the mother of Gracie and the matriarch of the Johanssen ranch.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non-fatal version. [[spoiler: Once Gracie miscarries, the Proletheans exile her. They only wanted her for the baby.]]

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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Guardian]]: Shakes and yells at a little girl for touching [[spoiler: Helena]]'s hair.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It might have been assumed that she perished in [[spoiler:Helena's arson of the Prolethean compound in season 2]], but she shows up alive in season 3. She hasn't been seen since episode 3x04.[[note]](Since Kathryn Alexandre is heavily involved with the show's production as Creator/TatianaMaslany's main body double, she can presumably be brought any time the creators want her to be. To be fair, though, she's not a particularly major character.)[[/note]]

* AffablyEvil: He's generally quite polite, even when he's torturing his daughter.

-->'''Played by''': Katherine Alexandre

* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler: When Helena shoves her against the wall, she says that Alexis reminds her of a nun who had treated her poorly as a child.]]

* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade

* PosthumousCharacter: She was killed by Beth [[spoiler: to protect the clones]].

* AffablyEvil

* EvilMatriarch

* PutOnTheBus: Hank sent her to [[spoiler: lure young women to the farm so he could use them as surrogates for Helena's children]]. She returns in season 3.

* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler: Gets impregnated at the end of season 2, but loses the baby early in season 3.]]

* DarkChick: Starts off crazy and fanatical, eventually breaks away from the cult, sometimes used for Fanservice.
* EvilRedhead

* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: She elopes with Mark in the season two finale]].

* DarkChick

Hank's young daughter.

* AbusiveParents: Even her husband thinks she's over the top! And she makes no pretense of being AffablyEvil with it, either... [[spoiler: she stitches Gracie's mouth shut for lying, and tells her directly that if Helena is not recovered, [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate Gracie will bear the child]].]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Impregnating his own daughter with his and Helena's embryos was a ''baaaad'' idea and led to Gracie, Helena, and Mark betraying him, with fatal results.]]

* GenreBlindness: She has Mark crippled in a cornfield and has a rifle trained on him at close range. Yet she shoots him in the gut and not his head. Naturally, Mark survives the episode.

[[folder: Mark Rollins]]

!!Mark Rollins
-->'''Played by''': Ari Millen
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[[caption-width-right:300:''They only ever gave me a mission, but you gave me a purpose.'']]

-->''"She's a miracle, I'm told."''

A former military man who was working for the Proletheans, [[spoiler: although he betrays them in the end of Season 2 and runs off with Gracie. He had been sent by Project CASTOR to spy on Hank Johanssen]].

* TheBrute: He does the field work for the Proletheans, [[spoiler: though he's really working for the military]].
* ChekhovsGunman: At first, it seems like he's just another goon going after the clones, [[spoiler: but it turns out he's a clone from Project Castor]]. He gets a large role in season 3.
* FauxAffablyEvil: In his first appearance, he tries to be polite to Sarah in his own creepy way, before quickly [[spoiler: killing a BadassBystander cook and violently trying to kidnap Sarah]].
* TheFundamentalist: [[spoiler: Subverted. He was faking his belief.]]
* TheGunslinger
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: He elopes with Gracie in the season 2 finale. Defied in season 3, as Gracie rejects him and tries to return to the Prolethians when she discovers he's a clone, then played straight once more in the last episodes of the season.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: He was sent to infiltrate the Proletheans to get biological samples that Henrik stole.]]
* TheResenter: And for good reason too. [[spoiler: Gracie's father inseminated her with children made from his own sperm rather than let her and Mark have children of their own]].
* ShellShockedVeteran: He joined the military at 19 but later went AWOL. His experiences still give him nightmares. [[spoiler: Well, he lied about going AWOL, but it's hinted that he wants to leave the military behind anyway]].
* StepfordSmiler: He tries to act like everything's okay when [[spoiler: Hank informs him that he plans to make Gracie a surrogate for Helena's children]], but it doesn't last long.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Was part of one of these pairs until his partner is [[spoiler: killed less than a minute after his introduction]].
* VillainousFriendship: With Gracie, though [[spoiler: there might be more than friendship on their minds...]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: He is a clone, which was not revealed until the last few minutes of the season 2 finale. Even before the reveal that he was a clone, he was involved with the Proletheans.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Towards Hank, who "loves him like a son." [[spoiler: Subverted in 2.09 when Mark decides that being with Gracie and keeping her safe means more to him than pleasing Hank.]]
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* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: He elopes with Gracie in the season 2 finale. Defied in season 3, as Gracie rejects him and tries to return to the Prolethians when she discovers he's a clone]].