History Characters / Severance2022

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: She's actually Mark's "late" wife Gemma.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Relatively speaking. [[spoiler:Having showed a previous adoring devotion for Lumon, Burt's "retirement" turns Irving against Lumon and leaves him vowing revenge.]]

* CultOfPersonality: She worships Kier Eagan, invoking his name like God's, and [[spoiler:praying to a shrine of him that she keeps at home]].
* IronLady: She's stern, no-nonsense, competent and ruthless.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:She's not actually severed and keeps tabs on her employees outside of office hours]].

* BreadAndCircuses: He's the one who distributes treats among the severed staff to motivate them to focus on their work and not rock the boat.

Part of the Macrodata Refinement division on Lumon's severed floor. He's promoted to lead MDR at the beginning of the series.

* TheAlcoholic: He seems to spend most of his time lounging around the house, almost always with a drink in his hand.
* StepfordSnarker: One of these both inside the Severed floor and outside of it, though for different reasons. 'Outie' Mark's is driven both by his chronic depression and the death of his wife two years prior to the start of the series, while 'innie' Mark's seems to be driven more by a desire to not have to face the true misery of his work and his circumstances.
* TheUnSmile: 'Innie' Mark isn't particularly great at expressing his emotions towards other people, or even really empathizing with them on a deeper than surface level, which means that his attempts to express specific emotions when prompted to do so is rather... ''lacking,'' to say the least. [[spoiler:Even Mr. Milchick is rather unnerved by his various attempts at 'kind eyes' in the aftermath of Helly's hanging, though Helly herself doesn't seem to be particularly fazed.]]
* WentCrazyWhenTheyLeft: Mark still hasn't recovered from his wife's death [[spoiler:or at least her apparent death.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:His innie self is a passionate believer in Lumon and Kier while his outie self is working to bring it all down]].
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Relatively speaking. [[spoiler:Having showed a previous adoring devotion for Lumon, Burt's "retirement" pushes Irving against Lumon and leaves him vowing revenge.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:His outie self is an anti-severance activist and has been compiling a list of severed employee's full names and their outies' locations]].

* WentCrazyWhenTheyLeft: Irving's threatened loss of [[spoiler:Burt]] leaves him determined to rebel.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He is shown taking comfort in what his "outie" might be doing or who he might be, but he doesn't take well to finding out anything about it in real life.

* BreadAndCircuses: Of the MDR team, Dylan is the most focused on the incentives employees receive. He's intent on earning a waffle party and proud of his collection of Chinese finger traps because they symbolize how many files he's been able to complete.

* RageBreakingPoint: After being exposed to his outie self's life, innie Dylan starts seething with anger over Milchick's refusal to provide any details which results in Dylan brutally assaulting Milchik.

!!Helly "R"/[[spoiler:Helena Egan]]

A new employee hired to replace Petey. She struggles to adjust to life on thee severed floor.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Her outie is Lumon CEO Jame Eagan's daughter Helena. Helena's callousness towards Helly is due to the fact that she severed herself as a PR movie to "prove" severance is "safe"]]
* SplashOfColor: She wears fairly brightly colored clothing in contrast to the drab colors of her colleagues and the severed floor itself. Plus she's a redhead in a workplace filled with dark-haired colleagues.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He was reintegrated so he's aware of his innie and outie lives, and knowing the bizarre nature of his innie existence drives him mad because he still can't understand what goes on in Lumon's severed areas.

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Petey has not taken well to being able to experience both his innie and outie lives, which have left him with both emotional and physical problems.

* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Subverted. Burt's outie self recorded a farewell message to his innie self for his retirement and playfully tries to interact with himself. However, innie Burt is standing on the wrong side of the screen, which causes some pleasant laughter among those gathered.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: The reveal that Ms. Casey is in fact Mark's supposedly dead wife raises alot of questions about what is going on with her. Is she the real Gemma? Is she a clone or a robot? Why did Lumon (which almost certainly had something to do with her dissapearance) take her?]]

* TheBrute: He presents the most immediate physical threat to any Severed workers who might try to escape, at the behest of Cobel and Lumon.

* OppositesAttract: It's not entirely clear what grounded, deadpan Devon is doing with pretentious, new-age super-moron Ricken, but they're married with a child on the way.

* HiddenDepths: There are a few hints here and there that Ricken is perfectly aware of how others - and Mark in particular - view him.

* OppositesAttract: Somehow, new agey dumbass Ricken has ended up with down-to-earth snark machine Devon.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Giving Mark a copy of his own pretentious self-help book to help him through the grief of losing his wife is a tremendously dumb idea considering what we know about Mark, but the book finds its way to Lumon and it actually ''does'' end up having a positive effect on Mark...or the Innie Mark, anyway.

* SplashOfColor: She wears fairly brightly colored clothing in contrast to the drab colors of her colleagues and the severed floor itself.

!!Irving B.

!!Dylan G.

!!Helly B.

->'''Portrayed:'''' Creator/AdamScott

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* RulesLawyer: He knows the handbook by heart, and is always the first to voice his objections when someone so much as scuffs at the rules.

A new employee hired to replace Petey.

The supervisor on the Severed floor.

A worker for Lumon Industries in the Macrodata Refinement division who is part of the "severance" program.

* TheUnSmile: 'Innie' Mark isn't particularly great at expressing his emotions towards other people, or even really empathizing with them on a deeper than surface level, which means that his attempts to express specific emotions when prompted to do so is rather... ''lacking,'' to say the least. Even Mr. Milchick is rather unnerved by his various attempts at 'kind eyes' in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Helly's hanging]], though Helly herself doesn't seem to be particularly fazed.

!!Irving

!!Dylan

!!Helly

!!Burt

->'''Portrayed By:''' Yul Vazquez

* StepfordSnarker: One of these both inside the Severed floor and outside of it, though for different reasons. 'Outie' Mark's is driven both by his chronic depression and the death of his wife two years prior to the start of the series, while 'innie' Mark's seems to be driven more by a desire to not have to face the true misery of his work and his circumstances as an 'innie.'

!!!Macrodata Refinement division (M.D.R.)

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He was reintegrated so he's aware of his innie and outie lives, which drives him mad because it's done nothing to help him understand what goes on in Lumon's severed areas.