History Characters / TheMist

** [[spoiler: Behind the scenes, Greg Nicotero created a life size model of Norton with his back ripped open that was never used, which lends credence that his fate was sealed.]]

->'''Portrayed By:''' Dan Butler

* KarmaHoudini: As far as we know, he never gets any sort of comeuppance for his actions.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Assuming he didn't survive his journey outside the store, given was knowingly TemptingFate for the entire movie and closed everyone else (read: the "irrationals" off.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: And how!

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:David literally said "thank you" to Ollie for killing Mrs. Carmody.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Assuming he didn't survive his journey outside the store]]

* HateSink: She's just a shrill, [[AxCrazy obviously insane]], [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]] who looks down her nose at anyone who isn't [[HolierThanThou as "righteous" as she is]]. She eventually whips an angry mob into a religious frenzy [[spoiler:that results in the death of Private Jessup]]. [[spoiler:It's nothing less than CatharsisFactor when Ollie finally puts two bullets in her gut and head.]]

* CompositeCharacter: In the book, Dan and the man who ran into the store yelling that John Lee Forvin got taken by something in the Mist are two different characters.

* NonActionBigBad / NonActionGuy: The revelation that he raped Alex doesn't make him any better of a fighter - except when he has a gun and his opponents don't, he still crumbles like wet tissue paper and wouldn't have survived up to this point if it wasn't for Kevin protecting him.

* NonActionBigBad / NonActionGuy: The most physical action she ever gets into is breaking a window and running out of the room to escape (and doom) Link when he tries to convert or kill her.

!!! The 2007 film

!Main Characters

!!!The TV Series

!Main Characters

* DirtyCoward: Jim's response to the crisis is cowardice. He talks big, especially when threatening David, but does nothing [[spoiler: to help Norm,]] panics during the pharmacy run, and [[spoiler: turning to Mrs. Carmody's cult so completely that he participates in sacrificing Jessup, and is perfectly willing to sacrifice Billy.]] All this out of fear.

[[folder:Stephanie]]
!!Stephanie Drayton
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---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KellyCollinsLintz

[[folder:Billy]]
!!Billy Drayton
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---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NathanGamble

[[folder:Amanda]]
!!Amanda Dumfries
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurieHolden
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* BerserkButton: She is normally a harmless woman, but she can only put up with Mrs. Carmody's ravings for so long before she slaps her.
* MamaBear: She is just as protective of Billy as David is.
* NiceGirl: Amanda is the ultimate empath. She constantly checks up on the emotional states of the other members of the group, looks after Billy, and is even nice to Mrs. Carmody at first.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Becomes the receiving end of this, as she originally doesn't believe that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters people can become so barbaric]] in such a short amount of time.

[[folder:Ollie]]
!!Ollie Weeks
--->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TobyJones
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* AlmightyJanitor: He's just a somewhat menial grocery store employee but becomes a leader during the crisis and is one of the most capable survivors.
* DeadpanSnarker: And how!
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:One of the lobster creatures in the mist tears Ollie apart when he and his group try to escape the store.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:David literally said "thank you" to Ollie for killing Mrs. Carmody.]]
* TheLancer: Ollie quickly becomes David's number two, backing up and improving upon all his plans.
* LetsGetDangerous: He is normally rather meek and modest, but he proves to be very handy with a revolver.
* OnlySaneMan: Probably even more so than David.

[[folder:Jim]]
!!Jim Grondin
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-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WilliamSadler
* DirtyCoward: Jim's response to the crisis is cowardice. He talks big, especially when threatening David, but does nothing [[spoiler: to help Norm,]] panics during the pharmacy run, and [[spoiler: turning to Mrs. Carmody's cult so completely that he participates in sacrificing Jessup, and is perfectly willing to sacrifice Billy.]] All this out of fear.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: He joins Mrs. Carmody's cult after growing increasingly traumatized from the mist phenomena]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He is reduced to a gibbering mess upon seeing [[spoiler:the spiders hatch from the MP's body]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: He originally mocks David for being a coward when Norm volunteers to investigate the generator outside, yet he does nothing but gape in terror when Norm is slowly attacked by tentacles. This only [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes]] how weak-minded he is throughout the movie.
* JerkAss: Is originally rude and aggressive toward David, but soon grows much more cooperative toward him and others. However...
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: After he joins Mrs. Carmody's cult he grows very hostile toward David and his group, including his best friend Myron, and even turns Private Jessup in to Mrs. Carmody after he mentions the Arrowhead Project.]]
* KarmaHoudini: As far as we know, he never gets any sort of comeuppance for his actions.
* SanitySlippage: He grows more and more shell-shocked from the monsters and the deaths caused by them, before he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation finally snaps]] and [[spoiler: joins Mrs. Carmody's cult]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Myron.
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[[folder:Myron]]
!!Myron [=LaFleur=]
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--->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/DavidJensen
* AdaptationalHeroism: Due to switching roles with Jim, Myron winds up [[spoiler: on David's side]] instead of [[spoiler: joining Mrs. Carmody's cult]] as he does in the book.
* DeathByAdaptation: As a result of his AdaptationalHeroism, Myron [[spoiler: is killed by a Gray Widower when David's group tries to escape the grocery store.]] In the novel his fate is left ambiguous, [[spoiler: as is the case with the rest of Mrs. Carmody's cult.]]
* JerkAss: Starts off very rude and hostile to David, though not quite to the same extent as Jim.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Jim.
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--->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/AndreBraugher

---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarciaGayHarden

---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SamWitwer

---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JeffreyDeMunn

[[folder:Biker]]
!!Biker
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---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BrianLibby

[[folder:Unnamed Mother]]
!!Unnamed Mother
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---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MelissaMcBride

[[folder:Bud]]
!!Bud Brown
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---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RobertCTreveiler

[[folder:Sally]]
!!Sally
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---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AlexaDavalos

[[folder:Norm]]
!!Norm
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---> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChrisOwen

[[folder:M.P.]]
!!M.P. (Military Policeman)
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[[folder:Donaldson]]
!!Donaldson
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[[folder:Morales]]
!!Morales
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!!!The TV Series
The survivors [[AnyoneCanDie (for a time)]] of Bridgeville. Open the tabs at your own risk as [[WalkingSpoiler Walking Spoilers]] lurk in the mist.

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!Main Characters

[[folder:Kevin]]
!!Kevin Copeland
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MorganSpector

* BoundAndGagged: Happens to him in Episode 6.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kevin tries his best to be the hero. His efforts to not leave anyone behind and save everyone rather than [[ShootTheDog shooting the dog]] sometimes work out, but just as often leave everyone in a worse shape than they started.
** Him saving the prisoners leads to Connor abandoning them. If they hadn't found the second car, their quest would have been over then and there.
** At the gas station, he lies to the man with the car to spare him the pain rather than tell him they have found the body of his son, resulting in the man not being willing to drive them to the mall because he wants to continue looking for his son.
** In the hospital, he doesn't MercyKill his dying brother and instead tries to save him with a plan that is highly unlikely to work, endangering himself in the process and finally failing at the last second.
* DistressedDude: Gets tied up and gagged in Episode 6.
* PapaWolf: His motivation throughout the first season is to keep his family safe.
* ThouShaltNotKill: A source of major character development: At the beginning of the season, he absolutely cannot take a life and Bryan suffers for it when the guy at the gas station shoots him in a struggle after Kevin had a clear shot at him. He then can't bring himself to MercyKill his suffering brother, instead enacting a crazy plan to save him that fails at the last minute and forces him to mercy kill him to spare him an even more agonizing death. Afterwards, he becomes more and more comfortable with violence, first killing the serial killer in the psych ward after having beaten him down, then beating Adrian within an inch of his life and finally ramming the car into the mall entrance, dooming everyone within.

[[folder:Eve]]
!!Eve Copeland
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AlyssaSutherland

* GoodCopBadCop: As Eve puts it, Kevin allowing Alex everything has left her 16 years of playing Bad Cop, massively straining her relationship both to Kevin and to Alex.
* MamaBear: Her actions in the mall are mainly driven by the desire to keep her daughter safe. Ironically, some of the more extreme ones rather put her in danger.
* ReallyGetsAround: Before settling down with Kevin, she was known as the town slut. This reputation still haunts her at key points of the story.
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[[folder:Alex]]
!!Alex Copeland
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GusBirney

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: She's openly hostile to her mother since she considers her overprotectiveness merely projection from her own wilder days.
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[[folder:Mia]]
!!Mia Lambert
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DanicaCurcic

* ActionGirl: Together with Bryan, she provides the muscle for Kevin's group.
* CasualKink: When a bruised character mentions he had sex, she advises him to remember his SafeWord the next time. Hers is "dolphin".
* DeathSeeker: Despite being quite active when it comes to the survival of the group, she almost succumbs to an apparition of her mother wanting to "help her to die". She only survives because she realizes that now with Bryan, she has something to live for.
* FunctionalAddict: She abuses painkillers, but is one of the more effective members of the group, only going into severe withdrawal once.
* RecoveredAddict: In the hospital, she undergoes a painful rapid detox. Time will tell whether it works.
* TheMedic: While she doesn't do too much medicine herself beyond her painkiller abuse and a detox to combat it, she is valuable to the group for her knowledge about medicine and hospital procedures.
* {{Troll}}: Kevin asks if she can hotwire cars. She chews him out for assuming she could do it just because she was in jail and wonders if he'd like to ask the black guy next... before revealing that yes, of course she can hotwire cars.
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[[folder:Bryan / [[spoiler: Jonah]]]]
!!Bryan Hunt
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/OkezieMorro

* AmnesiacCostumeIdentity: Assumes his name is "Bryan Hunt" when he awakens in the woods in military fatigues, with no memory and a wallet of Hunt's in his pocket. He discovers the truth upon encountering the ''real'' Bryan Hunt at the hospital, being treated for injuries suffered when someone beat him up and stole his uniform.
* IdentityAmnesia: His main problem.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: When he stumbles into the police station, his rather rambling warnings about the mist lead to him being locked up first as a drunk and then as an AWOL soldier rather than listened to. Of course, the fact that he couldn't provide basic details about himself and wore a military uniform without being anywhere near anything military didn't help much.
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[[folder:Jay]]
!!Jay Heisel
->'''Portrayed By:''' Luke Cosgrove

* ClearMyName: He is in fact innocent and tries to prove it. Unfortunately, he can't leave the mall or get at the results of the DNA test, severely limiting his options to do so and leaving him only with trying to befriend and save Alex which further aggravates her mother.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the season finale, he pulls Alex from a mist vortex and gets swept up in the same.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: He is the most flawless major character in the season. His worst actions were inviting (and mildly pressuring) Alex to drink with him before putting her to bed without watching over her. Other than that, he was consistently friendly and levelheaded, trying to do good when possible and withdrawing from the main mall group as soon as it hinted at going downhill. Nope, he doesn't make it.
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[[folder:Connor]]
!!Connor Heisel
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DarrenPettie
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[[folder:Adrian]]
!!Adrian Garf
->'''Portrayed By:''' Russell Posner

* AbusiveParents: His father hates him for being gay, and for how he dresses.
* BigBad: Him raping Alex and blaming Jay is the catalyst for much of the social tension in the groups.
* DirtyCoward: Adrian has the tendency to use his "innocence" to manipulate others to save himself and be favored by Alex and whenever he is confronted or questioned for his actions he will beg or spill information to save his own skin.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts polite and helpful, but in reality he's a repulsive psychopath.
* {{Narcissist}}: Adrian only cares if his desires are satisfied and would even kill or lie about what he does to get what he wants even raping Alex just to do so.
* NonActionBigBad / NonActionGuy: The revelation that he raped Alex doesn't make him any better of a fighter - except when he has a gun and his opponents don't, he still crumbles like wet tissue paper and wouldn't have survived up to this point if it wasn't for Kevin protecting him.
* {{Patricide}}: Kills his dad when he states that Alex only loves him till "someone can f**k her" to which Adrian shoots him and states he did. Considering that his father abused him, it can be understandable in a way.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Rapes Alex to frame Jay and have her for himself.
* TheSociopath: All that matters to him is satisfying his own desires. He'll act nice when it suits him, but he'll dispense with the act when it no longer suits him.
* StalkerWithACrush: It turns out that he is obsessed with Alex to the point that he raped her, then set up Jay to be blamed, for fear of Jay "taking her away" from him. Despite the rape, it seems he mostly wants a platonical relationship with her to make up for his lack of family.
* WalkingSpoiler: With the revelations of episode 8, it becomes rather hard to talk about him without revealing that he raped Alex and left Kevin for dead.
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[[folder:Nathalie]]
!!Nathalie Raven
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FrancesConroy

* BigBad: Graduates into the role somewhen after winning her trial by ordeal - roughly at the point where she douses the church in gasoline and has it set on fire with some of her followers still inside because they wouldn't join her on her way to the mall.
* DecompositeCharacter: Takes over the cult part of Mrs. Carmody.
* NightmareFetishist: Starting with seeing a fellow survivor [[BodyHorror grow moth wings]] when exposed to the mist, she starts to revere the mist. When she puts her "death is beautiful" philosophy into practice, the bodycount starts going way up.
* NoSell: On both sides of it. First, she appears to be immune to the supernatural effect of the mists in her trial by ordeal. When she arrives in the mall, she tries to establish her cult once more. Since she has very little time to do so and can't use the events in the church to her advantage, she fails utterly and is disregarded as a babbling lunatic.
* NonActionBigBad / NonActionGuy: The most physical action she ever gets into is breaking a window and running out of the room to escape (and doom) Link when he tries to convert or kill her.
* ReligionOfEvil: Her cult begins innocently enough, until her research leads her to conclude the mist is GaiasVengeance, which she is happy to help along.
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[[folder:Romanov]]
!!Father Romanov
->'''Portrayed By:''' Dan Butler
* DirtyCoward: By his own admission he was too weak to stand up to Link when he suggests murdering Mrs. Raven to silence her and makes no attempt to stop him carrying it out.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Attempts this during his trial by ordeal (although he hoped God would protect him and Mrs. Raven would be taken instead.) It quickly fails when he's impaled in the chest by an arrow and dragged screaming into the mist.
* SinisterMinister: Averted. Although he believes the Mist is the Day of Judgement, he's open to the possibility that it might not be. He is a genuine man of faith who is very concerned for his flock, but doesn't resort to extremism to try and bully them into submission. His main flaw is being too meek to stand up against Mrs. Raven or his own disciple, Link.
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* {{Narcissist}}: Adiran only cares if his desires are satisfied and would even kill or lie about what he does to get what he wants even raping Alex just to do so.

* RapeISASpecialKindOfEvil: Rapes Alex to frame Jay and have her for himself.

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