History Characters / Sense8OtherSensates

Other sensate characters not (yet) listed by cluster.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Naveen Andrews

[[folder:Whispers]]
!!Dr. Milton "Whispers" Brandt/Matheson/Friedman/Ellison/Gibbons

->'''Portrayed By:''' Terrence Mann
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A sensate who turned against his own kind. He leads a group of people who want to capture and experiment on or kill sensates.

* WrongContextMagic: [[spoiler:The sensate rules are not well-defined, true, but Whispers still shattered them over his knee through [[LogicalWeakness logical]] and [[CuttingTheKnot brutal]] means. The lobotomy procedure Dr. Metzger performs on sensates is essentially a surgical ''execution'' - the result is an EmptyShell a trained Sensate such as Whispers can use as a {{People Puppet|s}}. By Visiting a lobotomized Sensate, Whispers can exert total control over all their actions despite their not being part of his cluster and there being no possibility of positivity or consent, simply because there's nobody home to disagree with his commands - even if he chooses to have them ''shoot themselves in the head.'']]

[[folder:Yrsa]]
!!Yrsa
->'''Portrayed by''': Lilja Þórisdóttir
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A sensate of an unknown cluster. She is a middle-aged Icelandic woman who seems particularly invested in protecting the sensates.
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* BackForTheFinale: She reappears in the SeriesFinale, leading Riley to Ruth El-Saadawi.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Yrsa manipulated a confused child into thinking she was hexed (giving her lifelong guilt issues and self-loathing) for the greater good of not letting her be dissected by Whispers.
* JadeColoredGlasses: She doesn't have as glowing a view of sensate abilities as Jonas does. She also swore to never have children for fear they would inherit those abilities, and she also has extremely negative opinions regarding intra-cluster relationships, calling them narcissistic and pathological (whereas Jonas says Angel called it "love in its purest form").
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She tried to protect Riley and get her out of Iceland by telling her she was hexed, causing Riley to struggle with crippling survivor's guilt and other kinds of emotional damage when bad things ''did'' start happening to her.
* WhamLine: Delivers one by telling Riley that [[spoiler:Jonas and Angel worked for Mr. Whispers]].

[[folder:Angel]]
!!Angelica Turing

->'''Portrayed By:''' Daryl Hannah
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A sensate of another cluster whose suicide kickstarts the events of the series.

* HeroicSuicide: Angelica shot herself to prevent Whispers from getting other sensates through her.
* HotScientist: Angelica Turing was professionally an ecologist and Jonas and Whispers both found her beautiful.
* LoveTriangle: Whispers's overly affectionate language, declaration that Angelica was lying about loving Jonas (and that it was "[their] little secret"), and the way he referred to her returning with him as 'coming home' suggests that either Angelica had an affair with Whispers or Whispers was romantically obsessed with her. Season two confirms the former, but leaves it ambiguous as to how genuine it actually was on either side.
* MeaningfulName: A blond woman in white who appears in a vision? What else could she be called but Angel? Her last name of Turing could also qualify; the human brain is the greatest super-computer and she reprogrammed the main eights' brains by birthing them as sensates.
** Also, much like Alan Turing invented the first computer, Angelica used Whispers' research and technology to develop the neural graft, a machine intended to trace her psycellium connection to her sensate children, [[spoiler:then used by Whispers to control lobotomized sensates as drones.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Angelica expressed a fear that "anyone else" would die because of her and Whispers says that she threatened suicide many times before the beginning of the series. [[spoiler: This lends a fair bit of credibility to Yrsa's claim that she and Jonas were working for Whispers.]]
** Angelica seems especially horrified by the neural graft procedure that she helped develop, in particular when members of the first cluster she birthed were subjected to it.
* TheOphelia: At the end of her life, Angelica was fragile physically and emotionally, addicted to drugs to block Whispers, and dressed in flowing white.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Angelica was an ecologist but knew enough about robotics/bioengineering to develop the neural graft/drone procedure.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Her death creates the main cluster, empathetically linking them together. The first visions the eight share are of her death.
* PosthumousCharacter: She dies [[StartsWithASuicide in the opening]], but we see her numerous times in the echos she leaves on the cluster, and a lot of her actions in life have a huge impact on the cluster.
* SuperEmpowering: Through great emotional duress, Angel (and presumably other sensates) can (and did) awaken a new cluster. [[spoiler: Played rather darkly later on, as Yrsa claims Angel used her ability to birth new clusters so Whispers could hunt them down.]]
* WomanInWhite: She wears a white dress during her suicide and when the main 8 experience visions of her, emphasizing her mysterious nature.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Before fleeing from Whispers, Angelica was said to have seen the beauty in everything to the point of being an ecologist. [[BreakTheCutie Fleeing Whispers took a heavy toll on this]].

[[folder:Puck]]
!!Puck

->'''Portrayed by''': Kick Gurry
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A chemical engineer, possibly from Australia, and a hunter of clusters who are collaborating with BPO.

* GoodIsNotNice: He's fully on the main cluster's side, but is a complete jerk who no one wants to deal with.
* TheHedonist: His main use for his sensate abilities seems to be partying and/or sex.
* RescueSex: Discussed: he clearly expects this after getting Sun away from the police, but neither Sun nor Riley is remotely interested.
* StalkerWithACrush: Implied. By the time he meets Sun in Seoul, he seems to have dyed his hair to match Riley. When they meet him again in Naples, he's gotten a dark bob to match Sun.

[[folder:Lila]]
!!Lila Facchini

->'''Portrayed by''': Valeria Bilello
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A sensate from Naples, Italy who belongs to another cluster, first introduced to Wolfgang as Sebastian Fuchs's right-hand woman.

* AmbitionIsEvil: She might just be the most ambitious sensate we've met yet, [[spoiler:and certainly proves herself to be one of the most evil when she sells out Wolfgang to BPO]].
* BettyAndVeronica: Is hinted at as the Veronica to Kala's Betty for Wolfgang, as she continuously seduces him mentally while he pines for the more chaste and distant Kala. Subverted, however, because Wolfgang ultimately stays loyal to Kala, and [[spoiler:Lila was only trying to manipulate Wolfgang for her own aims.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She seduces and betrays multiple Berlin crimelords in her quest for power.
* DarkActionGirl: Appears to be a proficient assassin who expertly wields guns, and she racks up a high body count in the series. It is unknown, however, how much of this is her innate ability, and how much of this skill is borrowed from a cluster mate.
* FantasticRacist: Her ultimate goal is to [[spoiler:kill the other crime lords of Berlin, and make it a safe city for sensates. She turns on Wolfgang when he rejects her offer to rule the city with her.]]
* FemmeFatale: She is first introduced sprawled on Fuchs's couch in a short dress, and then proceeds to continuously flirt psychically with Wolfgang. Later, she is also shown to be a highly effective killer.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Whereas Jonas and Whispers both get their comeuppance by Season 2's end, Lila escapes punishment.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In the finale, [[spoiler: she is killed by Wolfgang via rocket launcher.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays people off of each other to get what she wants.
* MissFanservice: Appears primarily in outfits that reveal her cleavage and/or legs, and is even naked (in Wolfgang's head) at points.
* PlayingBothSides: She plays multiple Berlin crimelords against each other, and later [[spoiler:uses the BPO to take her revenge on Wolfgang]].
* SmugSnake: At no point does she actually display anything other than sheer arrogance to Wolfgang and the rest of the characters.
* StandardEvilOrganizationSquad: Lila's cluster seems to be ObviouslyEvil, concerned primarily with survival and expanding their influence.
* SuperSupremacist: She believes sensates can never coexist with sapiens, and wants to [[spoiler:turn Berlin into a sensate-ruled city]].
* TheUnapologetic: Shows zero qualms about screwing others over when they don't give her what she wants, such as [[spoiler:betraying Wolfgang's location to Whispers.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers this to [[spoiler:Wolfgang]].
* WildCard: Her only true loyalty is to herself and her cluster. Berlin crimelords, Wolfgang, even BPO, Lila doesn't care. [[spoiler:Though it doesn't stop her from cutting a deal with BPO when Wolfgang proves to be someone she can't control]].
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:After being rejected by Wolfgang]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Attempted on [[spoiler:Wolfgang]] after he turns down her WeCanRuleTogether offer.

[[folder: The Old Man of Hoy]]
!!The Old Man of Hoy

->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/SylvesterMcCoy
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A veteran sensate and the Speaker of the global sensate Archipelago.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In the finale, he considers shooting himself in the head a better option than getting captured by BPO, which would likely resort in torture, lobotomy, or death otherwise. [[spoiler:Kirsty manages to talk him out of it.]]
* CoolOldGuy: A quirky old man and experienced sensate who lives in a beautiful estate in the Scottish Highlands. He and Kirsty quickly prove two of the most likeable characters in the whole show.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: He was there when BPO was founded, but turned his back on it when it was corrupted after the death of its founder.]]
* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: He's spent decades staying under the radar and it's tiring him out.
* MrExposition: In "Isolated Above, Connected Below", he serves to give Riley a rundown on BPO's history.
* OhCrap: His reaction to realizing that Riley is a sensate... and that he has just linked himself to her. See PrecisionFStrike below.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He is only ever called the Old Man of Hoy, and his real name is never revealed.
* PrecisionFStrike: His first line "Holy shit!" doesn't stand out much on the show itself, but after [=McCoy=] had spent a half-century spanning career always being kid-friendly, it's a huge shock.
* ProperlyParanoid: After 30 years on the run from BPO, it takes a ''lot'' to convince him the August 8 cluster is trustworthy.
* PlatonicLifePartners: In his old age, he lives with the widow of one of his clustermates. According to him, they take care of each other.
* TiredOfRunning: He decides to help Riley because of this.
* TrillingRs: Goes hand in hand with being played by Creator/SylvesterMcCoy, naturally.

[[folder: Carol]]
!!Carol Cumberland
->'''Portrayed by''': Janet Ulrich Brooks
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A sensate who worked for BPO for multiple decades.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Carol helps Riley and Will find Whispers, but she also [[spoiler:assisted in a neural graft procedure on Raoul and kept him in her basement]].
* TheAtoner: The scars on her wrist imply she has been dealing with a lot of guilt over her involvement in the neural graft project.
* ProperlyParanoid: Insists on meeting Riley alone, without physical or sensate company. [[spoiler:It's implied Jonas drove her to suicide as retaliation for meeting with her at all]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Speaks in one episode (with a non-speaking cameo in another) before [[spoiler:Riley and Diego find her dead in her bathtub]].

[[folder: Bodhi]]
!!Bodhi
->'''Portrayed by''': Sarah Kants
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A monk who visits Riley on a plane. She has a distinctive tree tattoo on the back of her skull.

* JadeColoredGlasses: Seems like a kind person, but sees BPO as so evil that even trying to make a difference in the world will do harm.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is a Buddhist word meaning something along the lines of "enlightened". Fitting for a monk who is part of the Lacuna, a wise council of sensates.
* NeutralNoLonger: [[spoiler: In the finale, she decides that some evils are so monstrous that neutrality is tantamount to complicity, and brings her faction into that standpoint.]]
* WithholdingTheirName: Considers Riley to be too close to "their [way of] thinking," and refuses to share much information with her. In the credits, [[AllThereInTheScript they are named as]] [[SubvertedTrope Bodhi, a Buddhist concept]], and her name is spoken aloud in "Amor Vincit Omnia".
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[[folder: Maitake]]
!!Maitake
->'''Portrayed by''': Akira Koieyama
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A sensate from Japan who belongs to Lila's cluster.

* CoolShades: Wears his insanely cool sunglasses [[SunglassesAtNight whenever he appears]].
* SatelliteCharacter: He is the most prominent of Lila's clustermates but gets no characterization beyond that.

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* DirtyCoward[=/=]{{Hypocrite}}: His whole deal is that he is a sensate who killed off his whole cluster and now spends his time hunting down his own kind remorselessly, yet [[spoiler:when he finds himself locked alone in a room with Will he pleads for Jonas, the only sensate he has any connection with left, not to leave him alone with Will, and is left mewling and terrified when Jonas proceeds to do exactly that]].

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* LoveTriangle: Whispers's overly affectionate language, declaration that Angelica was lying about loving Jonas (and that it was "[their] little secret"), and the way he referred to her returning with him as 'coming home' suggests that either Angelica had an affair with Whispers or Whispers was romantically obsessed with her.
** Season Two confirms that Whispers and Angelica were romantically involved. It's unclear how genuine this was on either's part, however.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Angelica expressed a fear that "anyone else" would die because of her and Whispers says that she threatened suicide many times before the beginning of the series. [[spoiler: This lends a fair bit of credibility to Yrsa's claim that she and Jonas were working for Whispers.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Whereas Jonas and Whispers both get their comeuppance by Season 2's end, Lila to date has not]]...
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: ...until she is killed by Wolfgang via rocket launcher.]]

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* WithholdingTheirName: Considers Riley to be too close to "their [way of] thinking," and refuses to share much information with her. In the credits, [[AllThereInTheScript they are named as]] [[SubvertedTrope Bodhi, a Buddhist concept]].

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* ewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The main eight punish him for [[spoiler:betraying them to BPO by kidnapping him out of his flat]].

* DirtyCoward // {{Hypocrite}}: His whole deal is that he is a sensate who killed off his whole cluster and now spends his time hunting down his own kind remorselessly, yet [[spoiler:when he finds himself locked alone in a room with Will he pleads for Jonas, the only sensate he has any connection with left, not to leave him alone with Will, and is left mewling and terrified when Jonas proceeds to do exactly that]].

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Whereas Jonas and Whispers both get their comeuppance by Season 2's end, Lila to date has not]].

A chemical engineer, possibly from Australia.

* StalkerWithACrush: Implied. By the time he meets Sun in Seoul, he seems to have dyed his hair to match Riley.

* [[spoiler:HumiliationConga: Season 2 ends with him getting punched out by Sun and kidnapped along with Whispers]].

** BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:In Season 2 he makes a slow descent from TheMentor into this, to the point where the main eight give him a "with us or against us" ultimatum and then kidnap him when he seemingly [[TheQuisling makes his choice]].]]

* [[spoiler:TheQuisling: Becomes this in Season 2, if he didn't already qualify due to his shady past with the BPO and Whispers]].
* [[spoiler:RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The main eight punish him for betraying them to BPO by kidnapping him out of his flat]].

* [[spoiler:HumiliationConga: Season 2 ends with him getting the tar beaten out of him and kidnapped by Will. In the finale, we discover that his wife has filed for divorce.]]

* StepfordSmiler: Yrsa called losing a cluster-mate the worst pain she's ever known. [[spoiler: Whispers's entire cluster is dead and, according to Angelica, this troubles his sleep. However, given that he ''ate his own cluster to get stronger,'' that's sort of on him.]]

* CoolOldGuy: Him and his wife quickly prove two of the most likeable characters in the whole show.
* DefectorFromDecadence / ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: He was there when BPO was founded, but turned his back on it when it was corrupted after the death of its founder.]]

[[folder: Tree Tattoo Monk]]
!!Real Name Unknown

A monk who visits Riley on a plane.

* [[spoiler:HumiliationConga: Season 2 ends with him getting the tar beaten out of him and kidnapped by Will]].

* BritishAccents: [=McCoy=] greatly exaggerates his natural Scottish accent.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She seduces and betrays multiple Berlin crimelord in her quest for power.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Will basically stomps him into a mudpuddle at the end of Season 2. Of course, considering how he just finished promising to hunt down all the other sensates even if Will cooperated and kill Riley just for the pleasure of torturing Will with her pain, one feels no sympathy at all for him]].

* FatalFlaw: His {{Sadism}} and inability not to indulge in EvilGloating eventually get the better of him.

A sensate of another cluster who appears to each member of the main eight and guides them.

* BigBad: He's the man behind the organization hunting the eight mains.

* OhCrap: His expression when Will shows up during his meeting with Croome is priceless.

* ActionGirl: Appears to be a proficient assassin who expertly wields guns, and she racks up a high body count in the series. It is unknown, however, how much of this is her innate ability, and how much of this skill is borrowed from a cluster mate.

* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:After two seasons of never swearing once, he gives a quiet "Oh fuck" at seeing most of the main cluster at his door to kidnap him.]]

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->'''Portrayed by''': Akira Koieyama

** Season two confirms that Whispers and Angelica were romantically involved. It's unclear how genuine this was on either's part, however.
* MeaningfulName: A blonde woman in white who appears in a vision? What else could she be called but Angel? Her last name of Turing could also qualify; the human brain is the greatest super-computer and she reprogrammed the main eights' brains by birthing them as sensates.

* MeaningfulName: Possibly. [[spoiler: Jones can mean 'destroyer' or 'he who oppresses', which is fitting for a man who used his gift to hunt down other clusters for Whispers.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Yrsa describes losing a cluster-mate as the worst pain she's ever experienced. We see Jonas a day or two after Angelica's death, and he is perfectly functional.

* ProperlyParanoid: After 30 years on the run from BPO, it takes a ''lot'' to convince him the cluster is trustworthy.

[[folder: Carol Cumberland]]

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An in-universe case, as she would have been part of the cluster if Whispers hadn't gotten to her while she was still a child.