History Characters / ThePassage

!!Dunk Withers

!!!'''''Characters in The Passage'''''

* BigBad

!!Tim Fanning AKA "The Zero"

!!Giles J Babcock (Patient 1)

!!Julio Martinez (Patient 10)

!!Anthony Lloyd Carter (Patient 12)

[[folder: Before Virus]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Project Noah]]

!!Mark Cole

A government official who lays the initial groundwork for Project Noah.

* {{Jerkass}}

A man posting youtube videos of himself killing Virals, becoming known as 'Last Stand in Denver'.

!!Horace Guilder

* BigBad
* {{Determinator}}
* EvilIsPetty
* FauxAffablyEvil
* FreudianExcuse
* [[spoiler: HoistByHisOwnPetard]]
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* SanitySlippage
* VillainousBreakdown
* WellDoneSonGuy
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Before Virus]]

[[folder:Project Noah]]

!![[spoiler: Ex-agent]] Bradford J Wolgast

A recently divorced and highly efficient FBI agent, Wolgast is recruited by Colonel Sykes for Project Noah. He is charged with procuring Death Row criminals as test subjects, but things change when he's instructed to retrieve Amy for the Project.

** BadassInANiceSuit

** [[spoiler: BadassAbnormal]]
** HeartbrokenBadass
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Daughter]]
* TheDeterminator
* GuileHero
* KnightTemplarParent
* PapaWolf
* PromotionToParent: He's not related to Amy at all, but ends up being a father to her.
* HeelFaceTurn: He was never really an outright bad guy, but he was doing some very immoral things before [[spoiler: running away with Amy.]]
* HeroicBSOD: After his [[spoiler: daughter's death.]]
* HurtingHero
* NobleFugitive
* [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead]]

* TheMenInBlack
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic
* PapaWolf
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Doyle's Red.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* WouldntHurtAChild

!!Agent Phillip Doyle
->''"Look, I'm not made of stone. You think I don't know how fucked up this is?"''

A young FBI agent partnered with Wolgast. He's younger and much more gung-ho than his partner.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal
** BadassInANiceSuit
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
** TookALevelInBadass
* TheCasanova
* ChickMagnet
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]
* JustFollowingOrders
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Wolgast's Blue.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight

!!Lawrence Grey
->''"I said to myself, Grey, you are having the worst dream in the world."''

A convicted paedophile who works as a 'sweep' in the Colorado facility, he slowly becomes subject to manipulations by Subject Zero.

* TheAtoner: Kind of. It doesn’t work.
* ButtMonkey
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* FatSlob
* PunchClockVillain: Literally.
* MindRape
* RapeAsBackstory
* UnwittingPawn
* TraumaCongaLine: His entire backstory.

!!Richards
->''"This is very touching, but if we don't leave now, I'm going to be shooting a lot more people, and I feel like I've had a very full morning already."''

One of the Project Noah overseers, Richards is technically a subordinate to Colonel Sykes. In reality, he's the one in charge.

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]

* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To Sykes, but only on the surface.
** DragonInChief: Sykes runs the Noah Project, but everyone is aware that Richards is the one with the real power.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Very, very, very, very low standards. The extent of which is to briefly hesitate and feel almost-but-not-quite remorse following his murder of freakin' nuns.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* [[spoiler: HalfTheManHeUsedToBe]]
* [[spoiler: LastStand]]
* PsychoForHire

* TheRival: to Babcock. Averted in that they don't get their final battle. Instead, [[spoiler: he's ripped in two by Anthony Carter.]]
* {{Omniglot}}
* VillainousValour: When [[spoiler: the virals get loose, he doesn't even try to escape. He just wants 'a clean exit, with a good showing at the last.' In other words, he wants to kill as many virals as he can before being taken down.]]
* SmugSnake

!!Colonel Sykes
->''"Everybody's on the side of the angels here."''

A military colonel who oversees Project Noah (at first) and initially recruits Wolgast.

* AuthorityInNameOnly
* ButtMonkey
* GeneralRipper: Implied than averted.
* HiddenDepths

* MotiveRant: Gives an impressive one to Wolgast when recruiting him.
* MrExposition
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Horace Guilder

* SanitySlippage
* WellDoneSonGuy
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]

!!Dr James B Fortes

A member of Dr Lear's original expedition, he ends up working for Project Noah.

* ForScience

* MadScientist
* [[spoiler: MauveShirt]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* [[spoiler: HalfTheManHeUsedToBe]]

!!Mark Cole

A government official who lays the initial groundwork for Project Noah.

* {{Jerkass}}
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* [[spoiler: PosthumousCharacter]]
* SmugSnake: At least, how Richards viewed him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Started off as a referenced-once 'sweep', one of Project Noah's resident lowest-level [[{{ButtMonkey}} butt monkeys.]] A few hundred years later, he's a CompleteMonster [[{{TheDragon}} Dragon]] to [[{{BigBad}} Babcock]] who's extremely [[{{NighInvulnerability}} difficult to kill.]]

[[folder:First Colony]]

!!Sanjay Patel

The overseer of the Colony and father of Mausami, Sanjay is mostly an efficient leader but strongly dislikes the Jaxon family due to their perceived responsibility in his brother's death. He's one of the first to be manipulated by Babcock, having had dreams of him since he was a child.

* HearingVoices
* HiddenDepths
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* NotSoImaginaryFriend
* OverprotectiveDad: Although considering Mausami got pregnant with another man's child while married, maybe he should've been a little better at being overprotective.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* UnwittingPawn
* SanitySlippage
* {{Sleepwalking}}
* WastelandElder

[[folder:The Twelve]]

!!Major Lucius Greer

An efficient and good-hearted major within the Army of the Republic of Texas. He's close friends with General Vorhees.

** BadassNormal
* BaldOfAwesome
* CommandingCoolness
* AFatherToHisMen
* [[spoiler: FieldPromotion]]
* NumberTwo: to Vorhees.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

!!Muncey

The cocky, jokey radio technician for the Army of the Republic of Texas.

* {{Badass}}

!!Anthony Lloyd Carter
->''"Man…said I got a job. Said it was important. Said…I special."''

The twelfth and final Death Row convict to be subjected to human tests at the Colorado facility. Unlike the other convicts, he's innocent of his crime and merely lacks the ability to make a coherent defense. Of course, people stop pushing him around when he becomes the twelfth viral...

* AntiVillain
* BewareTheNiceOnes: It isn't the batshit insane Babcock or manipulative Fanning who [[spoiler: kills Richards.]]
* BookDumb
* ButtMonkey
* ChewToy
* TheDogBitesBack
* IAmLegion
* FromNobodyToNightmare

* ScaryBlackMan: Somewhat subverted. He’s kind, gentle and the only innocent in the death row inmates. However, he can't [[{{HorrorHunger}} control himself.]]
* TragicMonster
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

!!Giles J Babcock

!!Tim Fanning/Subject Zero
->''"I was called Fanning."''

One of the original scientists on Dr Lear's expedition, he's infected and becomes Subject Zero.

* ChickMagnet In his human life.
* HiddenVillain: After he and the other virals break out, he isn't seen again for the rest of the book.
* HorrorHunger
* MadnessMantra: "I was called Fanning."
* ManipulativeBastard
* MindRape
* MonsterProgenitor

!!Major Greer

** DisabledBadass

!!Sister Lacey Antoinette Kudoto

Originally from Sierra Leone, Lacey Antoinette Kudoto is a nun in the United States who finds herself suddenly having to take care of the freshly abandoned Amy. They form a strong bond which pulls Lacey into extraordinary circumstances.

* ActionSurvivor: At first, before taking a level in it.
* BrokenBird
* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]
* HermitGuru
* MamaBear: Towards Amy.
* RapeAsBackstory
* [[spoiler: Really700YearsOld]]
* [[spoiler: VegetarianVampire]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* TookALevelInBadass

* HeartbrokenBadass

* DragonInChief: Sykes runs the Noah Project, but everyone is aware that Richards is the one with the real power.

* VillainousValour: When [[spoiler:the virals get loose, he doesn't even try to escape. He just wants 'a clean exit, with a good showing at the last.' In other words, he wants to kill as many virals as he can before being taken down.]]

->''"I am dreaming some crazy shit."''

Sara and Michael's uncle and member of the Household.

Sanjay's wife.

The Captain of the Watch.

[[folder:Haven]]

* FilleFatale

* AFatherToHisMen

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass

[[/folder]]

* NotSoStoic

* TookALevelInBadass

* [[spoiler: TooCoolToLive]]

!!!'''''Characters'''''

* ClassClown

* BadassNormal

* JerkAss

* BadassNormal

* BadassNormal

* HeartbrokenBadass

* BadassNormal
** Later becomes [[spoiler: BadassAbnormal]]

* BadassNormal
* BadassBeard

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

* BadassGrandpa: The man had a necklace of vampire teeth.

* BadassBeard

* BadassNormal

* BadassNormal

* ColonelBadass

* BadassNormal