History Characters / TheWhiteLotus

*** Furthermore, he's right that their honeymoon is not the time to write another vapid clickbait piece.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Kitty actually points out there's a lot that Rachel can do with her money that's genuinely important like charity work as well as running her own foundation. It's not the kind of lesson she wants to hear but Rachel's job is a very minor one at the paper she works and mostly gossip taken from other reporters.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Paula mentions to Kai that she frequently has to have what she has, [[spoiler:even going so far as to try and win over Kai after she finds out about their fling, and holding her knowledge of the robbery over Paula's head in order to have the upper hand in their relationship.]]

* SecretKeeper: Played with. [[spoiler:She learns of Paula's complicity in her parents' robbery and seems to be willing to keep it a secret.]]

* StupidCrooks: [[spoiler:Goes along with Paula's improvised plan to steal Nicole's $75,000 bracelets, despite the fact that the plan puts all the risk on him and is liable to blow up in his face if any of the Mossbachers decided to return to the room...which is exactly what happens.]]

* MrFanservice: He's a young, attractive man who, we see in various states of undress.

* BadBoss: By the time she visits the White Lotus Sicily, she has picked up a personal assistant, whom she expects to spend the whole week locked up in her room just in case she need her. Greg mentions that Portia is the latest in a line of assistants and doesn't expect her to last long.

* TheOneThatGotAway: Quentin muses to Tanya that he once travelled America as a young man, and fell deeply in love with a heterosexual cowboy, who was the only time he's ever loved anyone truly, but whom he could never truly have. [[spoiler: This turns out to be Greg, who he's still working with to murder.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Has some very outdated views on gender roles, expecting Rachel to give up her career and simply be a housewife.

* TokenMinorityCouple: She's a hispanic woman in a relationship with an Asian man, and they're the only major non-white characters featured in the second season. Harper mockingly notes this herself in the first episode, questioning if the Sullivans were motivated to invite them on the trip due to them being the only non-white couple they knew.

* ThreeFacesOfAdam: The Prophet. The eldest of the three De Grasso men, he has no greater ambitions during his trip to Sicily beyond enjoying the beautiful scenery and getting in touch with his Italian roots. While we eventually learn that he had his own struggles with balancing his sex drive with his personal relationships, he is unable to reconcile them due to his wife already being dead

* AlliterativeName: '''D'''ominic '''D'''i Grasso. Curiously, he shares this trait with Mark, his season 1 [[ContrastingSequelMainCharacter counterpart]].

* BewareTheQuietOnes: He's far more soft-spoken than his loud {{Fratbro}} friend Cameron, but Ethan clearly has harbored resentment over the years [[spoiler: and even attempts to kill him in a jealous rage towards the end of the series.]]

* CorruptingPornography: Ethan prefers watching pornography and masturbating to having sex with his wife, Harper. This drives them apart and also seriously lowers Harper's self-esteem.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Genuinely does not seem to understand that there's a problem with repeatedly cheating on his wife so long as he continues loving her, and similarly sees no problem with attempting to financially exploit Ethan and steal his wife despite sincerely considering him to be a good friend. [[spoiler: He's also shown to not be hypocritical in this thinking in the finale, as he holds absolutely no ill will toward Ethan despite the latter trying to kill him.]]

* AimlesslySeekingHappiness: She talks to Albie about yearning to have an adventure and to find something new,

* LipstickLesbian: Valentina, who's always impeccably madeup in elegant pantsuits with her hair down, turns out to be a closeted lesbian attracted to her female employee Isabella ([[IncompatibleOrientation who's straight]]). She later has sex with Mia.

** Shane attempts to make up his behavior to his wife and book a romantic cruise that turned out to be a ''funeral'' trip. At this point, he's ProperlyParanoid the now-drugged up Armond is trying to ruin his vacation.

* StressVomit: [[spoiler: Spends the duration of Mark and Quinn's scuba trip vomiting into the sea out of anguish over Kai's arrest.]]
* StupidCrooks: [[spoiler:Her plan to have Kai steal the $75k bracelets is riddled with so many holes it is a wonder Kai made it as far as he did. As Olivia points out later, if Kai chooses to tell on her, Paula is doomed and there will be a trail of evidence to back up Kai's story. Not to mention that even if the plan ''had'' succeeded... anyone Kai tried to sell the jewelry to may have questioned how he came by it]].

** Despite his open sexism, he figures out what's up with Dom, Lucia, and Mia quickly. He is also right to suspect that [[spoiler: Lucia's relationship with Albie is an act and women can be as manipulative as men.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: Like many characters in this series, Dominic is a flawed person who still makes some valid points. He gives his father a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and points out how Bert's attitudes towards women affected him. And he's also right that Albie is benefitting from Dom's money, making it easy for Albie to [[spoiler: ask for $50,000 Euros for Lucia,]] since it's no skin off of Albie's back.

* TokenMinorityCouple: He's an Asian man in a relationship with a hispanic woman, and they're the only major non-white characters featured in the second season. Harper mockingly notes this herself in the first episode, questioning if the Sullivans were motivated to invite them on the trip due to them being the only non-white couple they knew.

* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:Ultimately to Jack. Though he threatens her, he lets her return to the USA and go unscathed after Tanya's death.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Played with. He zigzags between being a "jerk" (being rude to Shane, ruining Shane's honeymoon), and "heart of gold" (his obvious care for his employees). He also has moments of self awareness and opens up to Belinda about his struggle with addiction.

--> '''Mark:''' I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that's what screwed me up, Quinn.
-->'''Quinn:''' ...you think that's what did it?

** Shane attempted to make up his behavior to his wife and book a romantic cruise that turned out to be a ''funeral'' trip. At this point, he's ProperlyParanoid the now-drugged up Armond is trying to ruin his vacation.

* ButNotTooBlack: Though she's clearly black, her lighter skin than the other people of color at the resort suggests that she's also more welcomed by the (white) Mossbachers.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Her ill-conceived plan for Kai to rob the Mossbacher safe doesn't just land Kai in hot water, it also leads to Shane having a knife by his bedstand for protection, with which he accidentally kills Armond, who was in the room because he was high on the drugs she brought to the resort.]]

** [[spoiler:While the subordinate who was the object of Armond's sexual attention was receptive to his advances, Isabella is not, and is actually engaged to Rocco.]]

* LipstickLesbian: Valentina, who's always impeccably madeup in elegant pansuits with her hair down, turns out to be a closeted lesbian attracted to her female employee Isabella ([[IncompatibleOrientation who's straight]]). She later has sex with Mia.

* DeadSparks: At the beginning of the season, enough distance has been built up between Harper and Ethan in their marriage that he would rather masturbate than have sex with her when propositioned. Harper's ensuing depression serves as her primary conflict for the rest of her stay at the White Lotus. [[spoiler: Resolved by the end of the season when the two have passionate with each other and are shown acting very affectionate at the airport.]]

* DeadSparks: At the beginning of the season, enough distance has been built up between Harper and Ethan in their marriage that he would rather masturbate than have sex with her when propositioned. Harper's ensuing depression serves as her primary conflict for the rest of her stay at the White Lotus. [[spoiler: Resolved by the end of the season when the two have passionate with each other and are shown acting very affectionate at the airport.]]

* ThreeFacesOfAdam: The Hunter. A young man eager to break away from the womanizing legacy left to him by his father and grandfather in pursuit of true love. Over the course of the season, his idealism is repeatedly tested and he's forced to come to the realization that he's ultimately no diff

* CasanovaWannabe: Hits on every young woman who crosses his path, yet never has success with any onscreen.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: During an argument in episode 5 Ethan accuses him of being jealous of Ethan's greater intelligence, with his arrogant personality and chasing after women Ethan had a connection with being an attempt to reassert his superiority.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: [[spoiler: Has ''some'' kind of encounter with Cameron in her hotel room, though the exact nature of it is left unclear. While she insists that they didn't go past kissing, [[WordOfSaintPaul Aubrety Plaza]] believes that it went farther.]]

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: [[spoiler: Has ''some'' kind of encounter with Harper in her hotel room, though the exact nature of it is left unclear. While she insists that they didn't go past kissing, [[WordOfSaintPaul Aubrety Plaza]] believes that it went farther.]]

* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The In-between. He's a DirtyOldMan who cheated on his wife countless times throughout their marriage, yet is also a cheerful CoolOldGuy prone to espousing grandfatherly wisdom.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Mean. He spends virtually all of his screentime being quietly miserable. Justified in that his marriage is in jeopardy and he's going through an existential crisis as a result of it.

* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The Nice. He's a

* GloomyGray: Dom has gray hair and spends most of his vacation either displeased, uncomfortable, or embrassed.

* IgnoredAesop: Dominic saw the effect that Bert's cruelty and cheating had on his mother, who died a "bitter, broken woman" by his own words. Even so, he cheated on his wife to the extent that she only screams at him over the phone.

!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/{{Simona Tabasco}}

* {{Gasshole}}: He farts a lot. He likes to blame it on the prosseco.

* {{Gasshole}}: He keeps farting and blaming it on the prosseco.

--> '''Mark:''' I mean, you know, we wanna be, like…superheroes and respectable fathers and pillars in our communities, whatever, but- but in fact, we’re just monkeys…living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other.