History Characters / Snowpiercer2020Tail

* FireForgedFriends: Melanie has been the Tail's enemy for a long time but they talk while prisoners together. Melanie confirms there's an ocean uptrain to comfort him, and he in turn offers to say a prayer for her as she's taken to be executed. [[spoiler:It doesnt stop her knowingly having Layton sacrifice them to get rid of the Folgers and Grey]].

* FireForgedFriends: Melanie has been the Tail's enemy for a long time but they talk while prisoners together. Melanie confirms there's an ocean uptrain to comfort him, and he in turn offers to say a prayer for her as she's taken to be executed.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: He shows interest in seeing an ocean.

* PutOnABus: At some point between seasons 1 and 2 he's promoted from Engineering to Life Systems, working on getting the first colonists back outside. As such, he's only seen when [[spoiler:Josie is moved to Big Alice to heal her frostbite wounds]].

A tail section passenger sometimes drafted to perform harsh labor up train.

A tail section young man living with his mother and sister.

* SlaveLiberation: They are all sick and tired of being treated nothing more than laborers and being on the constant brink of extinction, so it's no surprise that they want to free themselves of their shitty situation. However every revolt they've led all end in failure, death, and the aforementioned AnArmAndALeg above. Even after [[spoiler:leads them in successful revolution, it's all too easy for Wilford to turn Third and other disaffected sections of the train against them]].

* FireForgedFriends: Melanie has been an enemy of him and the tail for a long time but they talk while prisoners together. Melanie confirms there's an ocean uptrain to comfort him, and he in turn offers to say a prayer for her as she's taken to be executed.

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's one of the youngest Tail Section characters.

* ReducedToRatburgers: Aside from the protein bars (which the film shown to us that, are just insects grinded up into paste) that they're given for food they've kept a surplus of rats in a metal cage for consumption.

[[caption-width-right:350:One Tail]]
The Tail is located on the furthest end of Snowpiercer. The residents here are the stowaways, more commonly referred to as Tailies, who boarded the Snowpiercer illegally. Due to not being considered passengers, they do not have any rights or have permission to visit other cars except on rare occasions. They live in near-constant darkness save for the electrical lamps, and it has been stated that the people have not seen the sun since first boarding the train seven years before. The Tailies are packed like cattle, fed the bare minimum to avoid starvation, and treated as subhuman work slaves. Even though there's enough room and food to provide for them decently if it were distributed more evenly. So it's no surprise the Tailies want to change that; they've led numerous rebellions over the years, all of which have ended in failure and catastrophic deaths so far.

* PopulationControl: The women are forcibly sterilized, and it's been stated that there hasn't been a child born in the Tail in five years.
* ReducedToRatburgers: Aside from the protein bars that they're given for food they've kept a surplus of rats in a metal cage for consumption.

The Tail is located on the furthest end of Snowpiercer. The residents here are the stowaways, more commonly referred to as Tailies, who boarded Snowpiercer illegally. Due to not being considered passengers, they do not have any rights or have permission to visit other cars except on rare occasions. They live in the dark, and it has been stated that the people have not seen the sun since first boarding the train seven years before. The Tailies are packed like cattle, fed the bare minimum to avoid starvation, and treated as subhuman slaves. Even though there's enough room and food to provide for them decently if it were distributed more evenly. So it's no surprise the Tailies want to change that; they've led numerous rebellions over the years, all of which have ended in failure and body counts so far.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Two to three years after Snowpiercer left Chicago, there was a killing cult; the cult killed and ate anyone regardless of their age or gender to survive. Before the cult could kill everyone else, Layton took it upon himself to take out the leader and his followers. After the deed was done, he took the leader's heart, split it, and ate the pieces alongside everyone else as a way to show that none of them was innocent. There hasn't been an act of cannibalism ever since.]]

* SlaveLiberation: The Tailies are sick and tired of being treated nothing more than slaves and being on the constant brink of extinction, so it's no surprise that they want to free themselves of their shitty situation. However every revolt they've led all end in failure, death, and the aforementioned AnArmAndALeg above. Even after [[spoiler:leads them in successful revolution, it's all too easy for Wilford to turn Third and other disaffected sections of the train against them]].

The leader of the Tail and main protagonist. Thoughtful and intelligent, Layton has managed to lead the Tail through Snowpiercer's journey. But it's his former life as a homicide detective that sees him exposed to the outside Train for the first time - a journey that has serious consequences for Snowpiercer.

* CoolOldGuy: Ivan is one of the oldest, if not the oldest people in the Tail. He lost an arm for taking part in a prior rebellion and is one of the more insightful members of the faction.

* OrphansOrdeal: His dad and sibling were unable to make onto the train in time and his mother was thrown off. [[spoiler:Loses his surrogate mother Josie as well before the series is out]].

* BadassInCharge: A fierce fighter, he leads the Tail and Third against the Jackboots, and personally kills numerous opponents during the Night Car battle.

** His plan to distract Melanie and First [[spoiler:by outing her as Wilford]] end with the Folgers starting their own revolution. While he's able to defeat Nolan in the Night Car, he didn't expect Nolan to be ruthless enough to resort to gassing the rest of the train, and ends up [[spoiler:reluctantly teaming with Melanie to get rid of him and the Folgers for good]].

* OutOfFocus: [[spoiler:Aside from Layton and Josie they're surprisngly absent from the finale]].

[[folder:Andre]]

* SlaveLiberation: The Tailies are sick and tired of being treated nothing more than slaves and being on the constant brink of extinction, so it's no surprise that they want to free themselves of their shitty situation, however every revolt they've led all end in failure, death, and the aforementioned AnArmAndALeg above.

[[folder:Fergus]]
!!Fergus [=McConnell=]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Benjamin Haigh

A passenger who lives in the back of the train amongst poverty. He helps his mother care for his sick father, and does his best to contribute to the daily struggles of life in this part of the train.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: [[spoiler:He's in charge of the train following the defeat of Grey and the Folgers - and judging by episode 10, isn't finding it any easier than Melanie did]]. The start of season 2 has him [[spoiler:reluctantly declaring martial law until the threat of Big Alice and Wilford is over, something that makes him very unpopular with some of the Third Class fighters that supported him, while his Tail-first policies rebound on him hugely later in the series]].

* MustMakeAmends: Despite his selfish actions,[[spoiler: such as selling out Layton's Rebellion in exchange for a better life]], Pike attempting to be a better person as penance for a past event. [[spoiler:Years ago, Pike was one of the cannibals that plagued the Tail. Everyone wanted to kill him, but Layton vouched for him; he's been trying to be better ever since]].

* TheChainsOfCommanding: [[spoiler:He's in charge of the train following the defeat of Grey and the Folgers - and judging by episode 10, isn't finding it any easier than Melanie did]]. The start of season 2 has him [[spoiler:reluctantly declaring martial law until the threat of Big Alice and Wilford is over, something that makes him very unpopular with some of the Third Class fighters that supported him, while his Tail-first policies rebound on his hugely later in the series]].

* TheChainsOfCommanding: [[spoiler:He's in charge of the train following the defeat of Grey and the Folgers - and judging by episode 10, isn't finding it any easier than Melanie did]]. The start of season 2 has him [[spoiler:reluctantly declaring martial law until the threat of Big Alice and Wilford is over, something that makes him very unpopular with some of the Third Class fighters that supported him]].