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* MamaBear: Is this to the Luss children. She kidnaps them and takes the, back to her house after it becomes apparent that Joan is [[BodyHorror turning into]] [[HumanoidAbomination something else]] and is beginning to act ominously threatening to her kids. It was a good move on her part, as Joan would fully turn that night and kill her husband.

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* MamaBear: Is this to the Luss children. She kidnaps them and takes the, them back to her house after it becomes apparent that Joan is [[BodyHorror turning into]] [[HumanoidAbomination something else]] and is beginning to act ominously threatening to her kids. It was a good move on her part, as Joan would fully turn that night and kill her husband.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Kills her own father when she starts to fully turn.

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* AssholeVictim

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* AssholeVictimAssholeVictim: Yeah no one shed a tear when [[BigBad The Master]] bashed his brains against a wall


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* HateSink: If you're still wondering Sanjay was never meant to be liked at any point.
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* AlmightyJanitor: She is Joan's maid/nanny to her children, but is one of the few normal people on the show to realize that something terrible is going on and react to it.
* MamaBear: Is this to the Luss children. She kidnaps them and sends them away to her house after it becomes apparent that Joan is [[BodyHorror turning into]] [[HumanoidAbomination something else]] and is beginning to act ominously threatening to her kids. It was a good move on her part as she would fully turn that night and kill her husband.

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* AlmightyJanitor: She is Joan's maid/nanny to her children, but is one of the few normal people on the show to realize that something terrible is going on and react appropriatly to it.
* MamaBear: Is this to the Luss children. She kidnaps them and sends them away takes the, back to her house after it becomes apparent that Joan is [[BodyHorror turning into]] [[HumanoidAbomination something else]] and is beginning to act ominously threatening to her kids. It was a good move on her part part, as she Joan would fully turn that night and kill her husband.

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!!Roman

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!!Roman!!Captain Daniel Roman



An Army Captain, formerly in charge of a nuclear silo, who joins Fet and Quinlan in their quest to destroy the Master.

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An Army Captain, formerly in charge of a nuclear silo, who joins Fet and Quinlan in their quest to destroy the Master. Introduced in Season 4.


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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Subverted. He makes it to the end.


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[[folder: Abby]]
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[[folder: Louisa]]
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* CharacterDeath: He's fatally drained by his recently-turned daughter and reanimates as a Vampire, upon which Setrakian cuts his head off to kill him for good.


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* OffWithHisHead: How his infected state is dispatched by Setrakian


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* OffWithHerHead: After fully turning and killing her dad, she's beheaded by Setrakian.
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* MamaBear: Is this to the Luss children. She kidnaps them and sends them away to her house after it becomes apparent that Joan is [[BodyHorror turning into]] [[HumanoidAbomination something else]] and is beginning to act ominously threatening to her kids.

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* MamaBear: Is this to the Luss children. She kidnaps them and sends them away to her house after it becomes apparent that Joan is [[BodyHorror turning into]] [[HumanoidAbomination something else]] and is beginning to act ominously threatening to her kids. It was a good move on her part as she would fully turn that night and kill her husband.
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* MamaBear: Is this to the Luss children.

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* MamaBear: Is this to the Luss children. She kidnaps them and sends them away to her house after it becomes apparent that Joan is [[BodyHorror turning into]] [[HumanoidAbomination something else]] and is beginning to act ominously threatening to her kids.

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* FightingFromTheInside: He chains himself up to avoid harming people.

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* FightingFromTheInside: He chains himself up to avoid harming people. In the tv show he also warns his wife when she comes across him to leave him and never return.


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* PapaWolf: It's implied that he encourages the kids to go to their aunt's with Anne-Marie because he's starting to lose control of himself.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Ansel turning into a monster, killing and eating her dogs, which she had to bury, as well as the revelation that her neighbour had hit her dog pushes her over the edge and she hangs herself after tossing said neighbour to her infected husband.


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* TranquilFury: After Anne-Marie Barbour is struck with the revelation that the neighbour hurt her dog after he comes around to complain about her infected husband growling, thinking that it was her dog, she snaps and lies that her dog is in the shed, before opening the shed door, pushing him inside and feeding him to Ansel.
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* AssholeVictim

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The Master kills him by repeatedly slamming his head against a concrete wall.]]



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His wife is the one person he shows any amount of care for. [[spoiler:The only way Quinlan manages to break Desai into revealing the Master's location is by threatening to murder her.]]

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* DirtyCoward: Begs for his life when he thinks he's about to be killed by Quinlan, [[spoiler:lets the Master murder his wife to save his own life, then dies feebly begging the Master to spare him because the Master "needs" him. Even the Master claims he's a creature beneath contempt.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His wife is the one person he shows any amount of care for. [[spoiler:The only way Quinlan manages to break Desai into revealing the Master's location is by threatening to murder her. Then subverted when it's a choice between his life and hers, and he tries to save himself from the Master's wrath by lying that his wife betrayed the Master, not him. The Master knows he's lying and kills them both.]]


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* ItsAllAboutMe: The real reason why he aligned with the Master was purely self-interest.
* KickTheMoralityPet: His wife seems to be the one person he cares about. [[spoiler:Then, when his own life is threatened, he lets the Master murder her by lying that she betrayed him.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He tries to paint himself as someone only doing what's necessary for a "better world." His wife, of all people, calls him out on it, saying everything he did, he did for himself.


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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:The Master murders him for telling the heroes where his lair is.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: His wife accuses him of banging other women on the side, though Desai denies it.
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* EvilCripple: After he's in a car accident caused by the [[spoiler:nuclear explosion]], he walks with a noticeable limp from them on.

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* EvilCripple: After He was evil beforehand, but after he's in a car accident caused by the [[spoiler:nuclear explosion]], he walks with a noticeable limp from them on.then on and relies on a cane.

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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He truly seems to have deluded himself into thinking the Partnership run by the Master is a better world than the one that existed [[spoiler:prior to the nuke's detonation.]] He claims there's no gangs, no terrorism, and that overpopulation was a problem no one wanted to deal with except for the Master. He even refuses to believe a video showing [[spoiler:the Master's communal farms are concentration camps]], claiming it's a fake.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: An immoral businessman who the Master brings in to fill Palmer's role after his fall from grace in Season 3.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His wife is the one person he shows any amount of care for. [[spoiler:The only way Quinlan manages to break Desai into revealing the Master's location is by threatening to murder her.]]
* EvilCripple: After he's in a car accident caused by the [[spoiler:nuclear explosion]], he walks with a noticeable limp from them on.



* ShootTheHostage: Tries to pull this off when [[spoiler: cornered by Dutch and Fet in 4x08.]] However, [[spoiler: his subordinate refuses to carry out his order]].

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* ShootTheHostage: Tries to pull this off when [[spoiler: cornered by Dutch and Fet in 4x08.]] However, [[spoiler: [[EvenEvilHasStandards his subordinate refuses to carry out his order]]. order]].]]


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* WouldHurtAChild: His entire role in the Partnership is essentially "farming" babies of a specific bloodtype for the Master to eat. He justifies it by saying "the cold hard truth of the matter" is that an adult life is worth more than infant which is not even aware of what's happening to it. Dutch's response is to punch him repeatedly in the face until she's restrained.
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* WouldHitAGirl: When confronted by Dutch and Fet in 4x08, he threatens to kill three B-Positive mothers if they don't back off.
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* InfantImmortality: Brutally averted, twice. First she's infected, then killed by Setrakian.

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* InfantImmortality: Brutally averted, Averted, twice. First she's infected, then killed by Setrakian.
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!'''BEWARE OF SPOILERS. Only Season 2 spoilers are whited out.'''

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!'''BEWARE OF SPOILERS. Only Season 2 3-4 spoilers are whited out.'''
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* [[spoiler: DoNotGoGently]]

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* [[spoiler: DoNotGoGently]]DoNotGoGentle: Continues fighting even after being infected in 3x09.]]
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* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Meets his final end at the hands of Gus this way.]]


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* ShootTheHostage: Tries to pull this off when [[spoiler: cornered by Dutch and Fet in 4x08.]] However, [[spoiler: his subordinate refuses to carry out his order]].
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Six ancient vampire masters who are at war with the seventh and youngest of their kind (the Master). Three have been seen on screen so far.

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Six ancient vampire masters who are at war with the seventh and youngest of their kind (the Master). Three have been - the New World Ancients - are seen on screen so far. screen.



* TheVoiceless: So far, they haven't said a word on screen, even after [[spoiler: the death of Vaun, who always spoke for them.]]

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* KilledOffScreen: It's implied that the three Old World Ancients (who never make any appearance on the show) were destroyed by the Master before he came to New York.
* TheVoiceless: So far, they haven't said They don't say a word on screen, even after [[spoiler: the death of Vaun, who always spoke for them.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the books, the Ancients are also plotting to take over the world, albeit through a more gradual process of letting Humanity destroy itself. In the series, the Ancients aren't shown to have any other motives beyond defeating the Master and seem content with staying hidden in the shadows. The Master even taunts them for their refusal to take, in his mind, their rightful places as rulers of the world.

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!Stoneheart

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!Stoneheart!Stoneheart/The Partnership



!The Partnership
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List of recurring characters in order of Season introduced.

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List of recurring characters in order of Season introduced.
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* TheSniper

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* TheSniperSniperRifle: Her primary weapon.
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* TheSniper
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** TookALevelInKidness: Opens up to Eph more as the season goes on.

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** TookALevelInKidness: TookALevelInKindness: Opens up to Eph more as the season goes on.

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A female member of a local resistance movement based in Philadelphia. Introduced in Season 4.

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A female member of a local resistance movement based in Philadelphia.Philadelphia who eventually joins forces with Eph. Introduced in Season 4.


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* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHer: She is rather unceremoniously killed off by a turned Creem when Eichhorst and his minions invade Setrakian's hideout.]]


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** TookALevelInKidness: Opens up to Eph more as the season goes on.
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* [[spoiler:NeckSnap: The strigoi-fied Alonso Creem does this to her]]

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* [[spoiler:NeckSnap: The strigoi-fied Alonso Creem does this to her]]her in episode 4x07.]]
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A crime boss who heads the black market in New York City.
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* [[spoiler:RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: In 4x07, he attempts to sell information on Setrakian's whereabouts to the Master. The Master opts to just turn him instead.]]


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** TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 4, after losing much of his property and wealth in the wake of the nuclear explosion, he goes right back to being an opportunistic bastard who is willing to play both sides.


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* [[spoiler:NeckSnap: The strigoi-fied Alonso Creem does this to her]]
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it was Rhona Mitra, NOT Radha Mitchell


->'''Played By''': Radha Mitchell

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->'''Played By''': Radha Mitchell
Rhona Mitra

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