History Characters / SleepyHollow

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* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: He's badly shaken after his confrontation with Brooks and he's beginning to question what happened.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Possibly. The last we see of him, he's being crushed under the rubble of an underground Masonic temple.]]

* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: She gets possessed in "Vessel" when Irving fails to deliver Washington's Bible to Ancitif. Thankfully, Ichabod and the Mills sisters stop Ancitif in time.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler: At least until "Vessel" after she sees Macey's possession first hand.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Unfortunately, it looks like his was one of the heads that the Horseman [[OffWithHisHead took]] and [[{{Squick}} hollowed out to create a lantern]].]]

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[[folder:The Horsemen]]

[[folder:Main Cast]]
!!Ichabod Crane

* [[spoiler:AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: His son Jeremy is physically an old man while Ichabod himself still appears young.]]

* [[spoiler:BuriedAlive: At the end of Season 1. For extra irony, it's his son's former grave.]]

* [[spoiler:DisappearedDad: His son Jeremy was born after the Battle of Lexington and, until "Sanctuary," he doesn't even know that he had one.]]

* [[spoiler:PapaWolf: When he learns Katrina had a son, he makes Moloch's minion regret ''ever'' screwing with them.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: He played right into Parrish's hands most of all.]]

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: She settles for one in "Bad Blood," but of a non-lethal variety.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: To Parrish.]]

* [[spoiler:SkepticNoLonger: He's now seen the Horseman with his own eyes, so he can no longer insist that the Horseman isn't real.]]

* [[spoiler:AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: See Ichabod's entry.]]

* [[spoiler:MissingMom: To her son Jeremy.]]
* [[spoiler:[[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You]]: Katrina's coven went after her for messing with Ichabod's fate and she left Jeremy with Grace Dixon (Abbie's ancestor), so that he didn't have to live life as a fugitive.]]

* [[spoiler:MySecretPregnancy: "Sanctuary" reveals that she hid the fact that she was pregnant and secretly gave birth to a son.]]

* [[spoiler:SomeoneToRememberHimBy: She has a son after Ichabod's fatal encounter with the Horseman.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: To Parrish.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: To Parrish.]]

!!Henry Parrish/[[spoiler:Jeremy Crane]]

->'''Played By:''' John Noble, [[spoiler:Braden Fitzgerald & Danny Rawley]]

* [[spoiler:AntagonisticOffspring: The Season 1 finale reveals him to be this to Ichabod and Katrina.]]

* [[spoiler:BitchInSheepsClothing: He's not the gentle old fuddy-duddy he appears to be; he's a ruthless and crafty enemy.]]

* [[spoiler:BloodMagic: His blood created the Golem and let him survive the witches' hex.]]

* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong: He's secretly Jeremy Crane, the Horseman of War.]]

* [[spoiler:ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: When Jeremy was resurrected, the church he stumbled upon (the church of Abbie's ancestors) was St. Henry's Parrish. He took his name from there. Jenny figures it out, but Headless shoots out her tires causing her to have an accident before she can tell Abbie.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Foreshadowing}}: That quote and a lot of other things make a lot more sense when you realize he was a man OnlyMostlyDead for a long time. The episode where he reveals himself also shows a couple of his deliberate hints.]]
* [[spoiler:FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears a pair of thick glasses.]]

* [[spoiler:LukeYouAreMyFather: To Ichabod and Katrina.]]
* [[spoiler:ManipulativeBastard: Plays Ichabod, Abbie, Jenny and Katrina like a Ukelele in Season 1.]]

* [[spoiler:TragicVillain: Jeremy truly has had a tragic life: raised in an abusive orphanage, tormented by powers he doesn't understand with only a living doll for company and eventually buried alive for two centuries. It's little wonder he's so angry and tortured.]]
* [[spoiler:TheUnfettered: He doesn't bat an eye at trading his mother away or burying his father alive.]]

* [[spoiler:WitchSpecies: A given considering who his mother is.]]
* [[spoiler:YoureNotMyFather: To Ichabod and Katrina during the reveal. He says that Moloch is his real daddy.]]

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!!Lt. Grace Abigail "Abbie" Mills[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mills_abigail_4018.jpg]]

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* PlayingAgainstType: Orlando Jones playing a rare serious role.

* FakeNationality: Katia Winter is from Sweden.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Ichabod managed to get from the desktop of Abbie's laptop to a female sex-chat video operator with just a little bit of keyboard flailing, which is only possible if Abbie already had the site bookmarked (and paid for the access) and/or it was the last site she had open when she shut down the browser, so it has fans wondering what Abbie was doing on the site in the first place...

-->Ichabod: "Sarcasm was not invented in your century, Miss Mills."

* DeadpanSnarker: Can be just as snarky as Abbie.

* [[spoiler:WalkingSpoiler:]] He becomes this in the first season finale.

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!!Henry Parrish/[[spoiler:Jeremy Crane]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"We never bury the dead, son. Not really. We take them with us. it's the price of living."'']]
->'''Played By:''' John Noble, [[spoiler:Braden Fitzgerald & Danny Rawley]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Coupled with BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil, he was left nearly dead, with his heart stopped, feeding on just the vines that crept into his pine box for two hundred years until Moloch found and resurrected him on the day Abbie and Jenny saw him (Moloch).]]
* [[spoiler:AntagonisticOffspring: The Season 1 finale reveals him to be this to Ichabod and Katrina.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Played like a pro on our heroes.]]
* [[spoiler:BitchInSheepsClothing: He's not the gentle old fuddy-duddy he appears to be; he's a ruthless and crafty enemy.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: He has the ability to see the sins of others, but it's taken a hefty psychological toll and led him to become a recluse.
* [[spoiler:BloodMagic: His blood created the Golem and let him survive the witches' hex.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He was the owner of the distorted hand that reached out of the earth when Abbie and Jenny saw Moloch for the first time, as they were witness to his resurrection as the Horseman of War.]]
* CoolOldGuy
* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong: He's secretly Jeremy Crane, the Horseman of War.]]
-->''"[[spoiler:War isn't coming to Sleepy Hollow. It's been here waiting all along.]]"''
* [[spoiler:ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: When Jeremy was resurrected, the church he stumbled upon (the church of Abbie's ancestors) was St. Henry's Parrish. He took his name from there. Jenny figures it out, but Headless shoots out her tires causing her to have an accident before she can tell Abbie.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Foreshadowing}}: That quote and a lot of other things make a lot more sense when you realize he was a man OnlyMostlyDead for a long time. The episode where he reveals himself also shows a couple of his deliberate hints.]]
* [[spoiler:FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears a pair of thick glasses.]]
* HatesBeingTouched: Only out of necessity, though. He's very sensitive to seeing sins and touch only makes it worse.
* TheHermit: He's largely become one as a result of his powers.
* [[spoiler:LukeYouAreMyFather: To Ichabod and Katrina.]]
* [[spoiler:ManipulativeBastard: Plays Ichabod, Abbie, Jenny and Katrina like a Ukelele in Season 1.]]
* MeaningfulName: Henry ''Parrish'', the ''Sin'' Eater. [[spoiler:Actually in-universe, as he picked this name after the orphanage in which he was raised, St. Henry's Parish.]]
* [[spoiler:TragicVillain: Jeremy truly has had a tragic life: raised in an abusive orphanage, tormented by powers he doesn't understand with only a living doll for company and eventually buried alive for two centuries. It's little wonder he's so angry and tortured.]]
* [[spoiler:TheUnfettered: He doesn't bat an eye at trading his mother away or burying his father alive.]]
* [[spoiler:WalkingSpoiler:]] He becomes this in the first season finale.
* [[spoiler:WitchSpecies: A given considering who his mother is.]]
* [[spoiler:YoureNotMyFather: To Ichabod and Katrina during the reveal. He says that Moloch is his real daddy.]]

* DisabledSnarker / LittleMissSnarker: To an extent. She's certainly not afraid to speak her mind.

* NoNameGiven / OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Subverted. Unlike in the original story, we do get an origin for the Horseman.

!!Pestilence / Conquest

** Except she wasn't; she was trapped in {{Purgatory}}.

* EnglishRose: She has a lot of the characteristics--kind, proper, loyal and has a strong moral sense.

** [[spoiler:And now she's out of Purgatory...and has been abducted by the Headless Horseman.]]

* NeverFoundTheBody: She wasn't in her grave, and it's likely that she was never [[BurnTheWitch burned]], which means Ichabod has no idea where his wife might lay.
** [[spoiler:Turns out she was in Purgatory, and is now in the real world with Ichabod. [[SarcasmMode Except for the fact that he's been buried alive and she's been taken by the Headless Horseman, everything's peachy!]]]]

->'''Played By:''' Lyndie Greenwood, Judd Lormand, Karen Beyer, Matthew Mercurio, Michael Roark, Nicholas Gonzalez, Creator/Amandla Stenberg, Nydia [=McFadden=]

* [[spoiler:[[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You]]: Katrina's coven went after her for messing with Ichabod's fate and she left Jeremy with Grace Dixon so that he didn't have to live life as a fugitive.]]

* SealedGoodInACan: Katrina was trapped in another world by Moloch.

* SpiritAdvisor: Katrina's soul was trapped in the MirrorWorld by Moloch, but she can occasionally contact Ichabod.

* [[spoiler:BitchInSheepsClothing]]

* [[spoiler:BloodMagic]]

* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong]]
* [[spoiler: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: When Jeremy was resurrected, the church he stumbled upon (the church of Abbie's ancestors) was St. Henry's Parrish. He took his name from there. Jenny figures it out, but Headless shoots out her tires causing her to have an accident before she can tell Abbie.]]
* [[spoiler:FourEyesZeroSoul]]

* [[spoiler:TragicVillain]]
* [[spoiler:TheUnfettered]]

->'''Played By:''' John Noble

* BloodMagic
* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]

* NoNameGiven / OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We are never told what the Hessian mercenary's name was before he became the Horseman (much like the original story).
** We have a name now: [[spoiler:[[ForgottenFriendNewFoe Abraham]]]].

* [[spoiler:[[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Katrina's coven went after her for messing with Ichabod's fate and she left Jeremy with Grace Dixon so that he didn't have to live life as a fugitive.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I was born more than two centuries ago and my wife is a prisoner in some other-worldly realm. I'm not stranger to complications."'']]

* [[spoiler: AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: His son Jeremy is physically an old man while Ichabod still appears young.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: To go with his handsome new looks, this Ichabod has gone from a superstitious coward, to a centuries old {{Badass}}. Even his credentials have been bumped up a bit - from simple country schoolteacher to an Oxford professor of History.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'' Ichabod is portrayed as a selfish GoldDigger who wanted to get the daughter and land of a wealthy farmer. This version is shown to have more honorable motivations.
* AgentMulder: It helps that, skeptic though he was in his own day, he has... well...

** BadassBookworm: Ichabod was a history professor before he was conscripted.

* BlueBlood: He was part of the English nobility. Didn't really like it though, and he doesn't miss the fox-hunting.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Inverted. Ichabod Crane is uncommonly open-minded and progressive for having been born in the eighteenth century, which is a very good thing when he wakes up in the twenty-first century and has to work with a black female police officer. He still has trouble adjusting, but he does fairly well for a man who slept through just about every civil rights movement. He was also friends with Native Americans.
* BrokenPedestal: PlayedForLaughs with Ichabod and Thomas Jefferson, after the former finds out that the latter not only fathered six children by one of his slaves, but also took a quote of Ichabod's and claimed it as his own. Ichabod initially tries to discount the former as "prurient gossip", until Irving gives him a Cliff Notes on DNA and how it proves Sally Hemmings' children were Jefferson's.
* TheChosenOne: Ichabod believes that he and Abbie are the two Witnesses foretold in the Book of Revelation.

* DefectorFromDecadence: In this interpretation, Ichabod started out as a British soldier, before coming to agree with the American revolutionaries and switching sides.
* [[spoiler: DisappearedDad: His son was born after the battle of Lexington and until "Sanctuary", he doesn't even know that he had one.]]

* TheFutureIsShocking: Averted, largely. He takes his time-displacement in stride and is more bemused rather than overwhelmed by the changes in American society/technology. However, the plastic packaging on his newly-purchased razor quickly frustrates him. He is unnerved by computers and the Internet though.

* TheGump: Name an American historical figure or event and chances are that Crane has met them or influenced their outcome in some way.

* HeroicBSOD: Has a noticeable one when he finds out [[spoiler: Abraham is the Horseman of Death.]]

* IconicOutfit: It's already impossible to imagine him without the long-coat.

* LimitedWardrobe: He's always wearing the same clothes he was buried in. In the fifth episode he asks Abbie if he looks out of place in this century, and while reassuring him he looks fine, she does say that a change of clothes wouldn't hurt, so this may change soon.
** Two words: skinny jeans. Ichabod is visibly uncomfortable with them, and ends up in a similar outfit to his initial one, but he keeps his coat.
* MrFanservice: Because there is a perfectly good reason to see Ichabod wet and wearing just a towel.
* MyGreatestFailure: Ichabod defected from the British after failing to save Arthur Bernard, the man who showed him the truth about the SecretWar, and he's carried that guilt ever since; in fact, that's what the Horseman's been using to keep the two of them linked. [[spoiler: Henry Parrish channels Bernard's spirit to help Ichabod let go of his guilt, severing the link.]]
* {{Omniglot}}: He speaks several languages including Greek and Middle English due to having eidetic memory.
* [[spoiler: PapaWolf: When he learns Katrina had a son, he makes Moloch's minion regret ''ever'' screwing with them.]]
* PhotographicMemory: Although being a physician and a gentleman, learning multiple ancient languages would have been par for the course. The memory just helps explain why he remembers all the myriad tiny details of the mystic stuffs happening during the Revolution that are still quite relevant today [[spoiler:and why he can draw a map from memory to the exact detail]].

* SesquipedalianSmith
* SherlockScan: This a talent of Ichabod's. In "The Sin Eater", from a quick study his able to determine the surname of his captor, his lineage, his occupation, and that he is a Freemason.

* ActionGirl: Facing a bad-ass, creepy-ass Mohawk demon? Gun that sucker down.
* AgentScully: It's explained as a decades old habit from childhood, learned in order to defend herself from the twin evils of psychiatry and the foster system.
* AloofBigSister: To Jenny.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Ichabod managed to get from the desktop of Abbie's laptop to a female sex-chat video operator with just a little bit of keyboard flailing, which is only possible if Abbie already had the site bookmarked (and paid for the access) and/or it was the last site she had open when she shut down the browser, so it has fans wondering what Abbie was doing on the site in the first place...
* BadassAdorable: She's a trained cop and handy with a gun, but she's also cute and tiny with big PuppyDogEyes.

* BrokenBird: Abbie is still very much affected by her encounter in the woods when she was a kid.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She saw the trees and the Demon in high school, was pretty much ostracized after the fact because of it, then turned to drugs and running with bad people to just try and forget, before she was arrested and managed to turn her life around.
* DeadpanSnarker: She tells Ghost Corbin to only haunt her if he's going to be helpful.
* DeadGuyJunior: "Sanctuary" reveals that she's named after her ancestor Grace Dixon.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Her first name is Grace, but she prefers to be called Abbie.
* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: She's strong willed, vulnerable, and is supernaturally touched.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Abbie and Jenny ''both'' saw the vision with the demon in the woods. They both went on to become troubled women. Thanks to Corbin, Abbie found a better path and became a cop.
* FormerTeenRebel
* FosterKid: Deconstructed. Abbie had a number of problems in her youth-drugs, alcohol, crime-stemming from a lack of a stable home or dependable guardians. [[spoiler: She turned her back on Jenny because she didn't want to be put back in the system.]]
* HeroicNeutral: She was going to leave Sleepy Hollow for Quantico and not deal with what was going on, but after the events of the pilot, she decides to stay.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: She settles for one in "Bad Blood", but of a nonlethal variety.]]

* ISeeDeadPeople: She sees and communicates with Corbin's spirit the end of "Blood Moon".
* MoralityPet: Possibly to Andy. In "Blood Moon" he appears behind her when she's looking for Serilda but does nothing to stop her.
* MyGreatestFailure: Abbie [[spoiler: pretended she saw nothing and let her sister Jenny get taken away and committed for insisting they saw a demon in the woods]]. It nigh-permanently damaged their relationship, to the point where they stopped speaking altogether after ending up on opposite sides of the law.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: She's only 5'1, but she proves to be more than capable in a shootout.
* RaisedCatholic: She mentions that her mom had her and Jenny attend Bible classes.
* ReformedCriminal: She was arrested after trying to rob a pharmacy when she was a teenager, but she's turned her life around since then.
* SiblingTeam: With Jenny in "The Sin Eater" and "Necromancer".
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Haunted Houses?]]: She ''really'' doesn't like them.

The chief of the Sleepy Hollow police department who is initially skeptical of Crane and Mills' assertions. [[spoiler:He later discovers the supernatural truth of them when the three of them confront, battle and trap the Horseman.]]

* AffectionateNickname: Macey is fond of calling him Popski.

* DaChief
* DeadpanSnarker
* FairCop
* MeaningfulName: He's presumably named after Washington Irving.
* PapaWolf: He doesn't take kindly to demons threatening Macey.
** [[spoiler: He also takes the fall for the actions of a possessed Macey in the Season 1 finale.]]
* PlayingAgainstType: Orlando Jone playing a rare serious role.

** [[spoiler:Once he sees the Horseman in action with his own eyes he's quick to help Abby and Icabod.]]
* [[spoiler: SkepticNoLonger: He's now seen the Horseman with his own eyes so he can no longer insist that the Horseman isn't real.]]
* TheSnarkKnight: A lot of the time he fills the role of cynical commentator.
* TallDarkAndSnarky

* [[spoiler: AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: See Ichabod's entry.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: The source material describes Katrina simply as the daughter of a wealthy farmer. This version is now a witch and the leader of the good coven in Sleepy Hollow.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: She claims to be a Quaker when she first meets Ichabod, but she's shown buried in a Jewish cemetery. Possibly justified in that her maiden name indicates that she is of Dutch ancestry, and Amsterdam had one of the largest, most prosperous, and most assimilated Jewish communities in Europe prior to WorldWarII.

* BurnTheWitch: Katrina was convicted of witchcraft, and though she is still able to contact Ichabod and [[spoiler: there's no body in her grave]], according to her headstone she was burned alive.
** Except she wasn't - she was trapped in Purgatory.
* EnglishRose: She has a lot of the characteristics: kind, proper, loyal, and has a strong moral sense.
* HospitalHottie: She was a nurse during the war.

* IHaveYourWife: Moloch is holding her hostage in the mirror world [[spoiler: as a reward for the Horseman]].
** [[spoiler:And now she's out of Purgatory... and has been abducted by the Headless Horseman.]]
* [[spoiler: MissingMom: To her son Jeremy.]]
* [[spoiler:[[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Katerina's coven went after her for messing with Ichabod's fate and she left Jeremy with Grace Dixon so that he didn't have to live life as a fugitive.]]

* [[spoiler: MySecretPregnancy: "Sanctuary" reveals that she hid the fact that she was pregnant and secretly gave birth to a son.]]
* MysteriousPast: We don't know much about her other than the fact that she was a Quaker, served as a nurse during the war, and [[spoiler: and used to be engaged to Ichabod's best friend.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero[=/=]UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: If she hadn't broken off her engagement with Abraham, he and Ichabod wouldn't have dueled and Abraham wouldn't have fallen in with the Hessians, sold his soul to Moloch, become Death, the works. In her defense, she wanted to MarryForLove.]]
* ProperLady: She does have hints of SpiritedYoungLady with the way she stood up to Ichabod the first time she met him and how she broke off her arranged engagement because she wanted to marry for love.
* NeverFoundTheBody: She wasn't in her grave, and it's likely that she was never burned, which means Ichabod has no idea where his wife might lay.

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead
* [[spoiler: SomeoneToRememberHimBy: She has a son after Ichabod's fatal encounter with the Horseman.]]

Mills' estranged and institutionalized sister. She and Mills both witnessed an unusual event as children, with Jenny remaining in psychiatric care even as she avoids taking her medication.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl
* {{Badass}}: She steadily trains in her hospital room, tricks a nurse into thinking she'd taken her meds, and then starts doing pullups on the window. She barely flinches when the demon interrupts her.
** She also holds her own in "Necromancer".
* BrainyBrunette: She's well versed on Sleepy Hollow artifacts.

* BrutalHonesty: She's not hesitant to say what she thinks.
* TheCassandra: She saw the demon in the woods and knows about the impending apocalypse, but no one believes her and she's institutionalized because of it.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Abbie and Jenny were burgeoning delinquents getting in and out of trouble until their episode in the woods, which separated them, and left scars on them both.

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: "Vessel" shows that a demon named Ancitif possessed Jenny on and off for years.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of [[{{Terminator 2}} Sarah Connor]]. Jenny is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first introduced]] locked in a mental institution, working out to prepare to fight her enemy. She's also been trained all over the world to prepare for the apocalypse.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Abbie and Jenny ''both'' saw the vision with the demon in the woods. They both went on to become troubled women. Abbie turned her life around while Jenny sank deeper into her "insanity", and stole survival gear in preparation for the End of Days.

* TheLadette: Jenny is a tough fighter and she certainly loves her guns, even quipping that she thinks the guns that Irving loaned her were a gift.
-->'''Irving:''' Cigars are a gift. Jewellery is a gift.\\
'''Jenny:''' Maybe I'm a different kind of girl.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Little Sister Instinct]]: [[spoiler: In "Vessel" Jenny reveals that she purposefully got herself institutionalized so that Ancitif wouldn't make her hurt Abbie.]]
* TheNicknamer: Ichabod seems to be her favourite target.
* TheOphelia: Averted. While she was institutionalized after she and Abbie saw the four trees in the woods, Abbie was the one to go into denial and delude herself, while Jenny had the entirely sane reaction of preparing for the upcoming apocalypse.
* QuirkyCurls
* RaisedCatholic: She can even recite passages by heart, specifically the Book of Revelation.
* SiblingTeam: With Abbie in "The Sin Eater" and "Necromancer".

Mills' co-worker and ex-boyfriend.

* [[spoiler: SanitySlippage: He's badly shaken after his confrontation with Brooks and he's beginning to question what happened.]]
** And now that [[spoiler:he was possessed and the demon inhabiting him killed a fellow cop and attacked Macey]], it's going to get even worse.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Abbie is his ex-girlfriend.

->'''Portrayed by:''' JohnCho

Mills' co-worker and friend. He was revealed to be affiliated with the coven that resurrected the Horseman, and, despite having his neck broken in the pilot for his failure, has since returned as an undead being to aid other spirits in their efforts to be reborn.

* AgentScully: Except [[SubvertedTrope not really]], since he ''works'' for a Demon after all.
* ApologeticAttacker: He's rather reluctant in following the Moloch's orders; so far he's apologized in one way or another to all his victims.
* BodyHorror: Moloch resurrects Brooks in the episode "Blood Moon". Problem is, he doesn't restore his completely snapped neck until ''after'' he's been resurrected. [[spoiler:In "The Indispensable Man", he is transformed into a more distorted form of himself with an "egg" like head.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: "[[SarcasmMode No, really. I don't need any help as long as you're comfortable.]]" Said to a 200-year-old homicidal witch.

* NobleDemon: Possibly. Doesn't seem to enjoy his job as a demon-gofer, and seems to genuinely want to help Abbie.

* TheRenfield: Essentially plays this role to the big bad, in a non-vampire example.

** Confirmed in "The Indispensable Man".

Mills's mentor and father figure. He was decapitated by the Horseman during the Horseman's return. He was apparently aware of the secrets of Sleepy Hollow and collected extensive records.

* AgentMulder: That said, [[WeNeedToGetProof he stockpiles data and as much proof as he can find.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: Abbie looked up to him as a father-figure.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: He appears as a ghost to Abbie -- and only Abbie, so far.

-->'''Abbie:''' I got more fathering in five minutes than I did my whole life.

* AffectionateNickname: Irving often calls her "little bean".
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Downplayed. She’s snarky when confronting Jenny, who she thinks is her dad’s new girlfriend, and she has some issues with Irving, but other than that she’s still a sweet girl who's usually easy to get along with.
* DaddysGirl: While she has her issues with Irving, she's quite close with him.
* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: She gets possessed in "Vessel" when Irving fails to deliver Washington's bible to Ancitif. Thankfully Ichabod and the Mills sisters stop Ancitif in time.]]
* DisabledSnarker[=/=]LittleMissSnarker: To an extent. She's certainly not afraid to speak her mind.
* NiceHat: She's seen wearing one in each appearance.
* PluckyGirl: She's very upbeat and is quick to tell Irving that she's going to come out strong.
-->"I mean, no matter how scary this gets, I’m not gonna let this thing beat me, right? I’m gonna keep fighting."
* QuirkyCurls

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Coupled with BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil, he was left nearly dead, with his heart stopped, feeding on just the vines that crept into his pine box for two hundred years until Moloch found and resurrected him on the day Abbie and Jenny saw him.]]
* [[spoiler: AntagonisticOffspring: The Season 1 finale reveals him to be this to Ichabod and Katrina.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Played like a pro on our heroes.]]

* HatesBeingTouched: Only out of necessity though. He's very sensitive to seeing sins and touch only makes it worse.
* [[spoiler: LukeYouAreMyFather: To Ichabod and Katrina.]]
* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: Plays Ichabod, Abbie, Jenny and Katrina like a Ukelele in Season One.]]

* [[spoiler: WalkingSpoiler:]] He becomes this in the first season finale.
* [[spoiler: WitchSpecies: A given considering who his mother is.]]
* [[spoiler: YoureNotMyFather: To Ichabod and Katrina during the reveal. He says that Moloch is his real daddy.]]

* BadBoss: Failure is a one way street with him.
* BlackSpeech: He speaks in a distorted, inhuman language, but also can speak in English.
* TheBlank: He's been described as faceless, but since he's only ever been seen blurred out the audience can't be sure.

* HornedHumanoid

* MeaningfulName: He gains a name in the fourth episode. Moloch means "king" and the Canaanite god is known for child sacrifice.
* MirrorWorld: Lives in one.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Lives in a MirrorWorld in Purgatory, but can interact with the mortal realm as well.

* {{Undercrank}}: Used to [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] effect for his movements, at some points.

* EyeScream: What he does to his victims, and once they've died their eyes will essentially deflate and show the sand that was inside them.

A vicious beast resembling a humanoid stitched doll. [[spoiler:He was the protector of Ichabod's son, Jeremy.]]

* [[spoiler:PapaWolf: With Ichabod gone, The Golem served as the closest thing Jeremy had to a father, acting as his tireless protector.]]

* [[spoiler: AdaptationalVillainy: In ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'' Abraham was the local hero who played a prank on Ichabod by pretending to be the Headless Horseman. This version of Abraham ''is'' the Headless Horseman.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: The Horseman's superheated broad axe.
** [[FlamingSword Flaming Axe]]: It goes to 500 degrees, as mentioned above.
* {{Badass}}: The Horseman is pretty much a force of nature, both in life and death.
** BadassLongcoat: A redcoat of the British army, to be specific.

** DragonInChief: He's technically a subordinate to Moloch, but he is the main threat [[spoiler:until the Season One finale]].
* CombatPragmatist: Expect him to open fire on a unarmed foe very often.

* [[spoiler:DealWithTheDevil: He made a deal with Moloch in order to get what he wanted most--Katrina.]]

* [[spoiler: EntitledToHaveYou: His attitude towards Katrina.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilFormerFriend]]

* [[spoiler:ForgottenFriendNewFoe[=/=]WeUsedToBeFriends]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: He's actually Ichabod's old best friend Abraham. He was left heartbroken by Katrina rejecting him after their relationship seemed so strong and lost his temper during a mission when Ichabod admitted that Katrina had rejected Abraham for him. Him losing it resulted in him being shot and captured by Moloch's Hessians, at which point he made a DealWithTheDevil and became the Horseman out of anger, jealousy, heartache, and a desire for vengeance.]]
* GeniusBruiser: Had to be one to learn how to wield modern weaponry expertly in less than a week after previously only being familiar with 18th century weaponry.
* HeadlessHorseman: Obviously.
* TheHeavy: The Horseman isn't ''technically'' the main villain, but he drives much of the plot and is the ArchEnemy for Ichabod and Abbie.
* HellBentForLeather: Wears leather in present day.
* HellishHorse: His "pale horse" has bright red eyes.

* ImplacableMan: Ichabod at one point says "''Nothing'' will stop the Horseman", which isn't a hyperbole at ''all''.

* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil: Katrina's rejection lead him to make a deal with Moloch and become the Horseman.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMan: In life, with a blackened skull mask.
* MenacingStroll: He never runs.

* NoNameGiven[=/=]OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We are never told what the Hessian mercenary's name was before he became the Horseman (much like the original story).

* OffWithHisHead: Crane himself relieves the Horseman of his head in this interpretation. The Horseman inflicts in on many other victims throughout.
* ProphetEyes: The Horseman had these when he had a head. [[spoiler: The head itself still has them]].
* SealedEvilInACan: The Horseman has been locked in a chained up coffin at the bottom of a river for the last 250 years, but now has been unleashed again by the Demon.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: His most recurring weapon (besides the axe) is a shotgun.
* TheVoiceless: Of course, not having a head might have something to do with it, but one should note he was also this in life. [[spoiler: As the Horseman, anyway; however, when he speaks through Andy Brooks, it's in a [[EvilSoundsDeep deep, not quite human voice]].]]
* WalkingArmory: He carries a rather preposterous amount of weapons on his back.
* WalkingSpoiler

!!Pestilence[=/=]Conquest

* DarkIsEvil: His armor and his Horse.

* MysticalPlague: Spreads what may or may not have been the Black Plague across the Roanoke Island. Said plague would allow him to manifest in the real world should it successfully spread.