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* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry and Harry's Household]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
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* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
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* IKnowYourTrueName: Actually [[spoiler:we ''don't''. In his narration of ''Even Hand'', he mentions the fact John Marcone is ''not'' his real name.]] [[color:white: We'll learn more about this in ''Mirror Mirror'', which involves alternate universes.]]
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: He is the only human so far who not only is completely unmoved by White Court glamour, but he managed to pierce through the veils of [[HornyDevils Lara]] at their first encounter, finding her shadow government "amusing."
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: He is the only human so far who not only is completely unmoved by White Court glamour, but he managed to pierce through the veils of [[HornyDevils Lara]] at their first encounter, finding her shadow government "amusing." [[spoiler: In Cold Days, Thomas tells Harry that Marcone has become the second man to turn Lara down in a century (Harry being the first).]]
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* AntiVillain: He's more often help than hindrance to Harry; while his empire of crime is vast and increasing, he maintains order and reduces violence. [[spoiler: We ultimately learn from his StartOfDarkness in ''White Night'' that the motivation that drives him is to prevent {{Innocent Bystander}}s from harm, and he is desperate to heal a young girl in a coma from a bullet meant for him.]] In ''Small Favor'', he [[spoiler: refuses to be freed first until the Archive is rescued, and during the subsequent escape, shelters her and makes sure she is the first person on the rescue helicopter.]]
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* AffablyEvilAffablyEvil: Can be very charming when he wants to be, is almost uniformly polite in the face of Harry's deliberate provocation, and has assisted the heroes even in situations where it doesn't materially benefit himself. Harry continuously reminds himself that, no matter how often Marcone assists him or even saves his life, he is still a ''bad person''.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: For the ridiculously accomplished, PhysicalGod-backed first vanilla human Signatory of the Unseelie Accords who has tangoed with wizards, Denarians, ghouls, and vampires, he is still looked upon as an average mortal by some.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: For the ridiculously accomplished, PhysicalGod-backed first vanilla human Signatory of the Unseelie Accords who has tangoedTheDon: Runs basically all organized crime in Chicago. The cops are actually fairly willing to put up with wizards, Denarians, ghouls, this, as organized crime's gotten a lot less violent since he took over, and vampires, he is still looked upon as his control of things prevents turf wars.
* EnemyMine: Has probably teamed up with Harry more times than he's been anaverage mortal by some.
* EnemyMineantagonist.
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!'''Susan Rodriguez'''
A reporter for the ''Midwestern Arcane'', a trashy tabloid that doesn't deserve a journalist as good as she is. She will put herself at an extraordinary amount of risk to get the scoop on some genuine weirdness, and constantly pesters Harry for leads. [[spoiler:Harry's girlfriend until the Red Court got their hands on her.]].
* ActionGirl: In the later books.
* [[spoiler: ActionMom]]: In ''Changes''.
* BrokenBird
* TheChick: Harry had to rescue her an inordinate number of times early on.
* DamselInDistress: Repeatedly, in the earlier books.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: Just about literally. [[spoiler: She lets Harry sacrifice her on the altar that is being used to empower the bloodline curse, to target the Red Court.]]
* HotScoop
* IntrepidReporter
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* [[spoiler:Missing Mom: To Maggie.]]
* [[spoiler:MarkedChange: The Fellowship's normally invisible tattoos allow her to use the junior league version of the Red Court's abilities without letting her bloodthirst get out of control.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: How Harry views what happened to her.
* [[spoiler:ShootTheDog: After she attacks Martin and starts to turn into a full vampire, Harry has to cut her throat to turn a bloodline curse intended for him on the Red Court.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With Harry
* TookALevelInBadass
* [[spoiler: VampireRefugee]]
!'''Gentleman Johnny Marcone'''
->''"One day, probably soon, you'll get yourself killed thanks to that irrational set of compulsions you call a conscience, long before my name tops your list. I needn't lift a finger. Giving you information seems an excellent way to accelerate that process. It will also tax the resources of my enemies. And . . . I believe I have no objection to contributing against any organization that would victimize children so."''
The boss of the Chicago criminal underground, he's not quite as unpopular with the cops as one might expect since he runs his operation with the minimum of bloodshed and the maximum of profit. He's smart enough that he generally tries to keep Harry on his side, but isn't averse to working against him when necessary. Harry hates his guts, but has still probably done him more good than harm overall.
* [[spoiler:AbnormalAmmo: Uses an anti-ward musket ball in Even Hand]]
* AffablyEvil
* AntiVillain: Sometimes it's hard to tell if he's an AntiVillain or a particularly [[HeroicSociopath hard-core]] AntiHero.
* ArchEnemy: He believes himself to be this for Harry Dresden. He had stated in his monologue of "Even Hand" that someday he and Harry ''will'' face each other for one final time and has been preparing armament to ensure his victory. It's difficult to decide which is more impressive: that Harry can destroy the strongest mob boss in the nation or that Marcone can kill one of the deadliest wizards on the planet.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Even when he's not surrounded by God knows how many bodyguards this is seriously one guy you ''do not'' want to mess with.
* BadassNormal: He once managed to keep a knife hidden from FBI agents, then pull it out and throw it through a rope while hanging upside down in the dark, and another time ripped a FallenAngel in half with a machine gun.
--->''Say what you want about Marcone, but he has balls that drag on the ground when he walks.''
* BadassNickname: ''Gentleman'' Johnny Marcone. It says something about the man that he makes the nickname "Gentleman" BadAss.
* BerserkButton: It's hard to find something that will set Marcone off, but if he even ''thinks'' you're threatening children, and especially [[spoiler:Amanda Beckit, a.k.a. "Persephone",]] he will ''murder'' you until you ''die''. He outright says in ''Changes'' that part of the reason why he is helping Harry against the Red Court is because they are hurting children.
* BigDamnHeroes: He's needed to be rescued a couple of times now. On the flip side, he's also been one to show up at the last second with a rescue squad (usually Hendricks and Gard) a couple of times as well.
* ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive: He does the finger-steepling thing quite a bit, as his character design is based on David Xanatos.
* CrazyPrepared: This is the man who puts extra light and thin doors at dramatic entry points to reduce shrapnel. Not to mention having both technological and magical defenses installed in multiple safe houses.
* [[spoiler:DeadLittleSister: He will do ''anything'' to try to make up for the fact that a little girl took a bullet meant for him and has been in a coma ever since.]]
* DiabolicalMastermind
* DeadpanSnarker: his narration of ''Even Hand''.
---> Mag entered in the manner so many of these self-absorbed supernatural cretins seem to adore. He blasted the door into a cloud of flying splinters with what I presumed was magic.
---> For God’s sake.
---> At least the vampires would call for an appointment.
* TheDon
* DudeWheresMyRespect: For the ridiculously accomplished, PhysicalGod-backed first vanilla human Signatory of the Unseelie Accords who has tangoed with wizards, Denarians, ghouls, and vampires, he is still looked upon as an average mortal by some.
* EnemyMine
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Marcone is willing to take a profit from any single vice you can name... except those which involve the exploitation of children. The defining moment of this trope may have been the opening scene of ''Even Hand'', where he personally sees to the execution of a pimp who sold children and a drug dealer who sold to minors.
* TheFettered
* FriendlyEnemy
* FriendToAllChildren: His first rule. To Harry's annoyance, since it means he can't just dismiss the guy as a mustache-twirling villain.
* GenreSavvy: After the first time failed, Marcone never threatened Harry again and had accepted with saintly tolerance Harry's insults and property destruction. This seems bizarre for TheDon at first sight, until one realizes that he ''must'' have recognized that Harry always came out not only alive, but victorious over and over again against enemies several magnitudes stronger than him (and Marcone). As per "Even Hand," Marcone has been implementing precautions into all his buildings specifically to destroy Harry.
* GreenEyes: Harry's usual description is "money-colored." Murphy calls them the color of "dead grass." Noticeably, in a flashback, his eyes are a more healthy-looking "bright, grass-green."
* IKnowYourTrueName: Actually [[spoiler:we ''don't''. In his narration of ''Even Hand'', he mentions the fact John Marcone is ''not'' his real name.]] [[color:white: We'll learn more about this in ''Mirror Mirror'', which involves alternate universes.]]
* JohnnyMcCoolname: [[spoiler:But see above]].
* KnifeNut: He always seems to have several lying around.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: It's frequently pointed out that, yes, he's a leader of organized crime, but [[EvenEvilHasStandards his standards]] keep the levels of collateral damage much lower than they would be without him.
* TheMafia
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: "Even Hand" ended with his arm broken, several ribs bruised or cracked, and lacerations all over his body. He barely reacted, killed the dark wizard, and went out to a nice restaurant after a quick check-in with his private doctor.
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: "Persephone," the girl who was put into a coma by a drive-by hit on Marcone when he was younger.]] Harry outright says that this is the entire reason why Marcone tightly controls the streets and doesn't hesitate to kill criminals who hurt innocents. To a certain extent this applies to all children (for instance, [[spoiler:his protectiveness towards The Archive]]), as does his BerserkButton.
* MysteriousBacker: Mostly since, as the name itself implies, he's a pragmatic, but ruthless gangster.
* NobleDemon
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: He is the only human so far who not only is completely unmoved by White Court glamour, but he managed to pierce through the veils of [[HornyDevils Lara]] at their first encounter, finding her shadow government "amusing."
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: His modus operandi reduces the amount of collateral damage and civilian casualties in Chicago's criminal underworld.
* PapaWolf: summed up when Harry [[spoiler: makes a probing threat against Persephone]]:
--->''I'll kill you. If you so much as breathe in her direction, I'll kill you, Dresden. Myself.''
* PragmaticVillainy.
* TheStoic: In ''Death Masks'', the fact that he ''blinks once'' is implied by Harry to be a massive tell for him.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: For Dresden. He is sure that one day he and Dresden would face each other one last time. And he is not certain that he would be the one left standing.
* VetinariJobSecurity: He's a crime lord who makes a profit off any vice trade you care to name, but he's infinitely better than any of the alternatives. Harry at one point tells him someday he won't be the lesser evil, but until then, it seems everyone is relieved Marcone's running the Outfit and keeping the collateral damage down.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: He has GreenEyes, which suggest extreme materialism (being the color of worn dollar bills).
!'''Hendricks'''
Marcone's chief bodyguard/enforcer.
* BadassNormal: Joins Thomas in charging a line of [[spoiler: undead uberghouls]] at the end of ''White Night.'' And survives.
* TheBrute
* DumbMuscle: Harry assumes he is this, as he doesn't talk much. But he's actually a...
** GeniusBruiser, with a degree in Philosophy. In ''Even Hand'', he is seen working on his thesis.
* EvilRedhead: Morally ambiguous redhead, at least. With a crew cut.
* MartialPacifist
* TheQuietOne: Rarely speaks in complete sentences. At least, as far as Harry knows.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Marcone
* WarriorPoet: In ''Even Hand'', it's revealed Hendricks has a habit of quoting classic literature at Marcone when he disagrees with Marcone's decisions.
* WeaponOfChoice: Hendricks rarely goes into battle without toting some kind of heavy machinegun. Harry comments that riot guns look like toys in his hands.
! '''Helen Beckitt'''
* BrokenBird
* DespairEventHorizon
* EnemyMine
* MeaningfulName: Ms. Demeter.
* MissKitty: Runs Executive Priority for Marcone.
* PutOnABus / TheBusCameBack: Arrested and sent to prison in ''Storm Front,'' she came back nine books later.
* RevengeBeforeReason
* StockholmSyndrome: Her feelings for Marcone, and vice versa are...complicated.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Daughter]]
!'''Justine'''
Thomas Raith's long-time girlfriend and primary food source. After he almost killed her in ''Blood Rites'', she was in a wheelchair for a while, got out of it, her previously dark hair turned white, and, ironically, she and Thomas could no longer touch since love burns White Court vampires. Largely due to this last characteristic, she is now Lara Raith's personal assistant, since Lara prefers to have an assistant that none of her family members can turn into a thrall.
* BiTheWay: It turns out in ''Ghost Story'', [[spoiler: that she goes both ways. Thomas is deeply appreciative.]]
* TheChick: With a twist, namely the insanity mentioned below.
* DistressedDamsel: In ''Grave Peril'', although it's mostly because she's too crazy to think straight. She is quite resourceful otherwise.
* CloudCuckooLander: Justine's mind is...off, especially when separated from Thomas.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: By the time ''Turn Coat'' rolls around....
* LockedIntoStrangeness
* MoralityPet: to Thomas.
* ObfuscatingInsanity
* TheOphelia: When she's separated from Thomas in ''Grave Peril''.
---> She brayed out a sharp laugh. 'There is no out of here. This is the larder. The Christmas turkey doesn't get up and walk away.'
* ThePowerOfLove: protects her from the White Court vampires. Lara being Lara, she realized that this was a very helpful trait in someone who would need to work around them. In ''Ghost Story'', she figures out a way to avoid this: [[spoiler: sleep with others to remove the protection, then lay with Thomas. Rinse and repeat.]]
* SilkHidingSteel:Definitely becomes this in Even Hand,even getting Marcone to underestimate her.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Thomas Raith.
* SickeninglySweethearts: WordOfGod reveals that she and post-''Turn Coat'' Thomas are like this in private.
* TalkativeLoon: Justine is certifiably insane, but Thomas' routine "feeding" helps her keep her sanity. When separated from him in ''Grave Peril'', she ''rapidly'' slips into madness.
** Subverted in ''White Night'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's just faking so the rest of the White Court will leave her alone, and is actually stable now.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Volunteered to work as Lara's assistant to feed Thomas (and thus Harry, and thus the White Council) information on the Court's activities. However, she ''really'' takes on in Even Hand, where she [[spoiler: infiltrates the stronghold of Mag, a powerful Fomor sorcerer, frees his slaves, and steals his bank account information]], and then [[spoiler: manages to get Marcone to kill Mag.]]
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl
!'''Waldo Butters'''
->''"Polka will never die!"''
Chicago medical examiner, polka enthusiast and geek extraordinaire. He was assigned to autopsy the corpses found after a fire, but since said fire was in fact the result of a wizardly [[KillItWithFire temper tantrum]], he got a vampire corpse, called it "humanlike, but definitely nonhuman" and consequently got stuck in a mental institution for observation for three months. This gave him a cheery disrespect for authority that helps him get along quite well with Harry.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He may be a bit overfond of polka, but he's very good at remembering bits of random information and thinking about them logically, even when faced with a ZombieApocalypse.
* ChekhovsGun: His one-man polka suit.
* ChekhovsSkill: Harry taught him how to make a magic circle so Harry's magic wouldn't interfere with his technology. Later [[spoiler: he draws a magic circle to prevent the undead armies from killing him and his drum.]]
* TheCoroner: The reason why he's a coroner despite being an excellent medic, is that he doesn't have the professional detachment needed to be one.
-> ''Butters hated seeing people in pain.''
* CowardlyLion
* CrazyPrepared[=/=]ProperlyParanoid. [[spoiler: In ''Changes'', he is shot in the back. A few minutes later it is revealed that he put on a kevlar vest the minute he [[AFriendInNeed got the call]], and brought [[OurVampiresAreDifferent garlic]] and [[GeometricMagic chalk]] too.]]
* [[spoiler:DiagnosisFromDrBadass:Does this to Aristides in Ghost Story]]
* FutureBadass: Well, ''Ghost Story'' is six months in the future.
* JewishAndNerdy - Self-described as such in-universe.
* JewishMother - Mama Butters, from [[spoiler: Bob's description]], is capable of whipping up a massive FancyDinner for JewishHolidays [[spoiler: as Harry sees in Bob's 'apartment'.]] Also nags Butters about finding himself a Nice Jewish Girl if only he'd clean up. [[spoiler: Bob fills in for her at times, complete with Yiddish accent, to Butters' dismay.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: He saved Harry's life by [[spoiler:attacking Cassius.]]. And later, subdued a gunman with an improvised taser. [[spoiler: Later on in Ghost Story he cripples Aristides by knowing exactly which bones to break]]
* LovableCoward: Deconstructed, then subverted.
* {{Magitek}}: Rigs up a two-way radio for [[spoiler: Harry to converse with the others.]] Bob the Skull observes that while Butters doesn't really have any talent for magic himself, he probably understands magical theory better than Harry.
* TheMedic: Although he says he finds it weird to operate on people who are still alive, Harry's acquaintance with him comes in handy when he, say, needs a bullet wound treated and doesn't want to intrude on the police's busy schedule.
* NerdGlasses
* NonActionGuy
* ShorterMeansSmarter: He's very smart, and he's ''tiny'', apparently -- when he curls up into a fetal position, Harry thinks he could probably fit in a grocery bag.
* SurvivalMantra: "POLKA WILL NEVER DIE!!"
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: With Bob's help.
* TookALevelInBadass: As of ''Ghost Story''.
* UnfazedEveryman
!'''Malcolm Dresden'''
Harry's deceased father. Formerly a stage magician, he died when Harry was around six years old. Officially, he died because of a brain aneurism; some have hinted otherwise. We'll know sooner or later. His ghost made a brief, cryptic appearance in ''Dead Beat''.
* DeadPersonConversation
* MayDecemberRomance: WordOfGod reveals Margaret was around a century old when she met him.
* MoralityChain: It's hinted he became this for Margaret.
* PosthumousCharacter
* PungeonMaster: Where Harry gets it from.
* ThePowerOfLove
* SoProudOfYou
* StageMagician
* TellMeAboutMyFather
* VaguenessIsComing: "Beware the Jabberwock, my son." However, this ''may'' just be part of the lead-up to a pun. [[spoiler: "No, I don't have a vorpal sword to lend you. You'll have to make do with a Snickers snack."]]
** His remarks about how "Death" and "Terrible waters" lie in Harry's future play this straight, when events in ''Changes'' [[spoiler: (Harry shot dead by Kincaid)]] and ''Aftermath'' [[spoiler: (rise of the aquatic Fomor)]] are taken into account.
! '''Daniel Carpenter'''
The second oldest of Michael and Charity's children, now a member of the Chicago Alliance.
* BadassNormal: Has no powers, but he has been very well trained.
* TheBigGuy
* GrayEyes
* HotBlooded
* KnifeNut
* LightningBruiser
* YoungGun
! '''Margaret "Maggie" Angelica [[spoiler: Dresden]]'''
[[spoiler: Harry]]'s daughter by [[spoiler: Susan]], concieved during ''Death Masks''. Kidnapped by Arianna to be used in a sacrificial ritual, but saved by Harry.
* TheCutie: was this until Arianna kidnapped her.
* BreakTheCutie: Compare the smiling photo to the broken-down wreck she is when Harry meets her (after narrowly securing her a reprieve)
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: Harry]]
* [[spoiler:Happily Adopted]]: [[spoiler: As of Ghost Story is now living with the Carpenters]]
* HumanSacrifice: Arianna planned this for her, and after Arianna's plans fell through thanks to her death at Harry's hands, the Red King tried to do the same. She was saved, but it's pretty safe to say that she'll have scars for years to come.
* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Susan.]]
