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[[folder:Sam Merlotte]]
!!Sam Merlotte
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I spent my whole life either running away from people or pinning my hopes on somebody I can't have. I'm done with that."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Sam Trammell

->''"I need a live animal in order to shift. You know, as a model. Kinda like an imprint."''

The owner of Merlotte's, where Sookie works.
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* AbusiveParents: His biological parents.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: His love for affections for Sookie.
* AllMenArePerverts
* {{Animorphism}}: His shapeshifting abilities are limited to animals, because humans are too complex.
* TheAtoner: For his earliest criminal lifestyle which resulted in the death of his con-woman girlfriend.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: His last name Merlotte is really interesting and unique.
* {{Badass}}: Very much so, especially in later seasons when he's infiltrating dog-fighting rings and grappling with Marcus Bozeman.
* BadassBeard
* BenevolentBoss: He's very understanding of his employees' frequent need to take days off to deal with supernatural crises, possibly because he encounters his own share of them.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's generally a nice guy to the people he cares about, but when he's angry, you do ''not'' want to be on his bad side.
* BigBrotherInstinct
* BoundandGagged: Twice, first when he's prepared as a sacrifice in Maryann's wedding circa Season 2, and again in Season 5 when he's captured by the Authority.
* ButtMonkey
* CallingTheOldManOut: Does this to his birth parents after discovering that they force his brother who's also a shapeshifter into dog fights.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome
* TheChewToy
* TheDanza: Albeit coincidentally.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[IncrediblyLamePun Yes you may make the pun...]]
* FantasticRacism: Doesn't like vampires and werewolves. More because of his attraction to Sookie than anything else.
** As for his dislike of werewolves, we know he had some interactions with them during his time as a runaway, and considering that werewolves themselves seem to have a cultural FantasticRacism for shifters, it's likely what contact he had with them was unpleasant.
* FullFrontalAssault: Against Bud Dearborne and his flunkies.
* HeroicBSOD: The stress of dealing with his birth family's drama led him to drinking and lashing out at his friends and customers.
* HomoeroticDream: He had a quite steamy one with Bill.
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* MrFanservice: His shifting means that he's often naked.
* NiceGuy
* ParentalAbandonment: His father was in prison, so his mother gave him up.
* PermaStubble
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: His plotlines in seasons three and four did not connect with the main story at all.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting
[[/folder]]



[[folder:Alcide Herveaux]]
!!Alcide Herveaux
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It ain't a wolf/shifter thing. It's right and wrong."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Joe Manganiello

->''"What if our hearts can't be trusted and it's our brains we should be listening to?"''

A werewolf who helps Sookie in finding Bill while Bill is held captive by Russell Edgington. He does this to relieve the debt his family owed to Eric Northman. Alcide is one of the few good werewolves introduced thus far.

* {{Badass}}: He's killed two packmasters in a row, and they were not pushovers.
** BadassBeard: He's always seen with a thick beard.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Alcide is a helpful, decent guy...but if you cross him, you'll meet a bad end as JD learned.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Toward almost everyone; he has a desire to protect others.
* TheBigGuy
-->'''Marcus''': You're about 6'6 and you're wider than a door.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: With Sookie (more than once), with Debbie, with Tommy...
* CompositeCharacter: Come season 6, he's showing definite shades of both Book!Alcide and Quinn, a weretiger with which Sookie had a very happy relationship in the books. [[spoiler:In the finale, it's shown he's taken Quinn's place at Sookie's side as her boyfriend.]]
* HonorBeforeReason
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: To both Debbie and Sookie. Rikki is his tallest beau so far, but he still towers over her like he does most people.
* [[spoiler:ImAHumanitarian: After refusing in season 5, he adheres to Pack rule in season 6 and eats the corpse of the previous Packmaster, JD. He doesn't even shift to do so.]]
* JustFriends: With Sookie, receiving end.
* MrFanservice: To truly ''ridiculous'' levels.
* NiceGuy
** [[IncrediblyLamePun Wolfed]] [[DoggedNiceGuy Nice Guy]]
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: With Sookie at the end of Season 6.]]
* OurWereWolvesAreDifferent
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:With Sookie at the end of season 6.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He doesn't adhere to the usual rules of the pack, which is a big no-no considering how insular and tradition-based werewolves are. He follows his own moral compass, which has resulted in him being shunned by his own kind.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A few times.
** He finally gives up on Sookie when it became clear she wasn't about to stop chasing vampires, having pulled her out of a firefight after she accidentally got shot--saving her life--and didn't so much as get a "thank you" out of her because she was too busy having {{UST}} with Bill.
** Again, when he sees Tommy getting beaten by his pack.
** When Martha and JD eat Marcus.
** When Rikki goes murderously insane and challenges him to a packmaster fight.
* [[spoiler:TookALevelInJerkass: After becoming packmaster, he becomes very aggressive and hot-tempered, mostly due to still having very pure V blood running through him.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:After renouncing his position of packmaster.]]
* [[YouAreInCommandNow You Are Packmaster Now]]: After killing JD.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bill Compton]]
!!William "Bill" Compton
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sookie, most of us, vampire, human or otherwise are capable of both good and evil. Often simultaneously."'']]
->Played By: Stephen Moyer

->''"Vampires have often found it advantageous to maintain a hidden presence in humanity's most powerful institutions and in the 1600's, that was the Catholic Church and today, as you all know, it's Google and Fox News."''

A vampire romantically involved with Sookie. Turned during the American Civil War against his will, Bill shows more compassion for human life than many other vampires. He is outwardly expressive of his emotions and holds onto memories of his past human life, behaviors that are unique amongst his vampire peers.

* AffablyEvil: Season 5 onwards.
* AllMenArePerverts
* TheAmericanCivilWar: Bills is a veteran and a former soldier from the Civil War.
* AnchoredShip: With Sookie from season's one to three.
* AntiHero: Either [[PragmaticHero Type III]] or [[UnscrupulousHero Type IV]].
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Until Season 5]].
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: After drinking the real vial of Lilith's blood. After being drained in Season 6 he looses his Lilith powers.]]
* AxCrazy:[[spoiler:Drinking the blood of Lilith is just making him a tad bit crazy. He gets better in Season 6]].
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBoast
** HeartbrokenBadass
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Defeating Salome by giving her silver-tainted blood contained in Lilith's original vial, tricking her into thinking it was Lilith's. He correctly predicted her narcissism and eagerness overran her cautiousness, but if 2,000 year old Salome hadn't, he had been in big trouble.]]
* BerserkButton: SOOKEH. "If Sookeh is hurt in any way because of you... I will not stop until I drive a stake through whatever semblance of of a heart you have left!" Jeez, Bill.
** Also threaten any vampire in his kingdom. Then heaven help you as not even [[TheManbehindtheMan the Authority,]] will stop him coming after you and yours with an assortment [[CombatPragmatist of firepower and a RPG for good measure.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: Bill is the Betty to Eric's Veronica for Sookie's Archie.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Originally seemed like a quiet vampire who wanted to mainstream. Later revealed to be an agent of the Queen of Louisiana sent to seduce Sookie. Not only that, he was actually a DoubleAgent working for the Authority the whole time.
* [[spoiler: BigBad]]: Season 5. [[spoiler: In Season 6 he's a DiscOneFinalBoss at best and a RedHerring at worst, since he outgrows it.]].
* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted in season one. Bill wakes up to discover Sookie is very near death. Despite it being midday, he decides to try and save her, but ends up a smoking pile of charcoal instead. [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better]], though.
* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy: In late season five.]]
* ByronicHero
* CharacterDevelopment: Spent first three seasons with Sookie as his top priority. In season four, he ends up a King, spends more time focusing on protecting his people and bonding with his vampire daughter Jessica. His home also got an upgrade.
* TheChosenOne: Believes himself this [[spoiler: after seeing Lilith while having sex with Salome]].
** [[spoiler: DarkMessiah]]
* CombatPragmatist
* TheComicallySerious: While he has something of a sense of humor, he's just so dour looking that he is just hilarious when ever he has to do anything mundane.
* [[spoiler:DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Once he's aware of Warlow's existence (on account of becoming one with Lilith), the first thing he does is to command him to resist the urge to kill him.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Is this after becoming vampire king of Louisiana. "Spellbound" is a good example:
-->'''Bill''': Ms Fortenberry.
-->'''Mrs. Fortenberry''': Vampire Bill. Did you know that Beulah Carter was a vampire?
-->'''Bill''': Because all of us vampires know each other?
* TheDeterminator: Bill NEVER gives up.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Bill is the second most important character after the protagonist Sookie.
* DisappearedDad: Was one himself, having to abandon his wife and children upon being turned.
** DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Becoming a vampire is a legitimate reason to leave your human family behind, for their own safety, and he did return to bury his son and see his daughter on her deathbed.
* DoubleAgent
* [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Eerie Pale Skinned Brunet]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: In Season Five. Pulls a HeelFaceTurn in Season 6]]
* FakeAmerican: Moyer is British.
* FallenHero: Too much of Praise Lilith and too little of Sookeh tends to do that to Beehl.
* [[spoiler: FanDisservice: After drinking Lilith's blood, he rises naked from the puddle he dissolved into, completely covered in blood.]]
* FanNickname: "Beehl" is popular, due to the hokey accents on the show.
** And now there's [[spoiler: "Billith"]], which is also his InUniverse nickname.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Subverted. He may look like one in the beginning, but in truth, he isn't that different from many other vampires.
** His friendly status was confirmed somewhat in Season four when it is revealed that Bill was part of a movement in the Eighties to promote mainstreaming. Joining the Authority as he believed that it was not necessary to kill humans when feeding and sought a better way. Of course being a vampire he still can be quite ruthless when he has a goal and still [[GreyandGrayMorality manages to kill humans if he thinks they are a threat or hurt those he loves.]]
* [[spoiler:TheFundamentalist after getting a taste of Lilith's blood and drinking from Salome and hallucinating he's having sex with Lilith herself.]]
** [[spoiler: KnightTemplarParent. In relation with Jessica]]
* GoodIsNotNice:[[spoiler: Until Season 5. He returns to it in Season 6, though on the side of vampires]]
* GuileHero
* HellBentForLeather: Sometimes Bill is seen wearing leather, mostly leather jackets.
* HoneyTrap
* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Vampire Mom]]: To Lorena, as well as playing the role for a short while to Jessica, until they get better.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In season four he allows Eric to return back to Sookie even if it means she will take him as her lover. He even brings silver to chain him down to prevent Eric from walking into the sun.
* InSeriesNickname: Hoyt Fortenberry refers to Bill as '''Vampire Bill'''.
* [[spoiler: InvincibleVillain]]: Pretty much from Season 6. After drinking [[spoiler: Warlow's blood]], he can [[spoiler: walk in sunlight. As if drinking Lilith's blood didn't give him enough powers such as complete immunity from stakes and telepathy. He looses all of these powers in the two final episodes.]]
* KryptoniteProofSuit: After gorging on Sookie's blood, he temporarily gains the ability to tolerate sunlight.
* LargeHam:
* LoveMakesYouDumb
* [[PapaWolf Maker Wolf]]
* ManipulativeBastard
* MistakenForGay: When he goes shopping for clothes for Jessica and Eric shows up, the store clerk who has been hitting on him the whole time backs off in an "Oh, ''I'' see," way.
** Of course this was because of [[HoYay a conversation]] he was having [[FoeYay with Eric]].
* MoralityPet: Sookie [[spoiler: till Season 5.]]
** Now he wants Jessica to be this.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: Revealed to be an agent of Queen Sophie-Anne sent to determine if Sookie is a fairy.
** And in Season 4 we learn he was TheMole for Nan Flanagan and the American Vampire League.
* MrFanservice
* [[spoiler:MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Drinking all of Lilith's blood apparently kills him. Then he's reborn as Lilith's apparent avatar.]]
* NotSoDifferent: It turns out he really isn't that different from Eric as he'd like to be.
* OfficialCouple: With Sookie until season 3 finale.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Jessica, as her maker.
* PetTheDog: He does it fairly often, but especially notable is when Terry ambushes Bill with a hug at the Descendants of the Glorious Dead meeting and Bill hugs him back.
* [[spoiler: PeoplePuppets: one of his new powers after drinking Lilith's blood seems to be the ability to [[NightmareFuel grotesquely manipulate]] the limbs of others.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As the new King in Town he really does seem quite reasonable in comparison to more flighty Sophie-Anne and unbalanced Russell. That being said he takes his duties seriously and [[AllCrimesAreEqual will enforce the rules firmly..]]
* TheReveal: In season 4 he's now the vampire king of Louisiana.
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage: In season 5]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Bill was a First Lieutenant of the 28th Louisiana Infantry before he was turned during the AmericanCivilWar.
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic
* TookALevelInJerkass: Got a AGodAmI / TheChosenOne complex [[spoiler:from drinking way too much of Lilith's blood]] in Season 5.
* VampireMonarch: Bill became the Vampire King of Louisiana.
* VegetarianVampire: Only snacks on Series/TrueBlood or Sookie. Or the occassional human if the need arises. [[spoiler: Completely averted in second half of season 5 where he went on a killing spree high on Lilith's blood.]]
* [[FireForgedFriends Fire Forged]] VitriolicBestBuds: He and Eric are starting to come off as this. [[spoiler: Comes to a screeching halt in Season 5]]. [[spoiler:Though it returns in the midst of Season 6.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His status as vampire king makes him this he have to protect all vampires against any threat against their kind and eleminate it with [[IDidWhatIHadToDo any means necessary.]]
** He is even worse in [[spoiler:season 5. Salome gets him straight into KnightTemplar territory.]]
** In Season 6, [[spoiler: he is hellbent on ensuring survival of vampire race by '''ANY''' means necessary]].

[[folder:Tara Thornton]]
!!Tara Thornton
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Race may not be the hot-button issue it once was, but it's still a button you can push on people."'']]
->Played By: Rutina Wesley

->''"Everyone who's ever been with me has ended up dead. It ain't a long list, but it's a bad one to be on."''

Sookie Stackhouse's best friend since they were children. Tara grew up in a very abusive home with an alcoholic mother, and consequently finds it difficult to fit in with normal society or to trust people. She is very adept at reading people and constantly distances herself from others by speaking her observations candidly and plainly. As a result, she has difficulty holding down a job until she becomes a bartender at Merlotte's.
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* AbusiveParents: Her mother is an alcoholic who brutally beat her as a child.
* AloneWithThePsycho: With Franklin in season 3.
* AmazonianBeauty: She is rather broad-shouldered and muscular, and quite attractive.
* [[AngryBlackMan Angry Black Woman]] and SassyBlackWoman.
* AscendedExtra: In the novels she was rather OutOfFocus a lot but in the TV show she has a rather prominent role in most of the storylines.
* BackFromTheDead
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal: Before she was turned into a vampire.
** [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Tara Was A Vampire]]
** EmpoweredBadassNormal: After she was turned.
* BadBadActing: Averted. Tara is easily able to convince [[spoiler: Elijah that she accidentally failed on turning Ginger. He believes her and ultimately ends up getting his head chopped off as a result of believing her.]]
* TheBartender: When she actually shows up to work.
* BetterAsFriends: Sam and Tara.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Tara has this with quite a few characters. She has it with Sookie for about the first 4 seasons, develops it with Jessica around season 5 and also is quite protective of Willa in season 6.
* BiTheWay: In season 4 and decidedly in the finale of season 5.
* BlackBestFriend
* [[BloodBrothers Blood Sisters]]: Tara and Sookie, due to their family troubles, consider each other to be like sisters.
* BrokenBird: Especially after Eggs is killed.
* ButtMonkey
* ByronicHero
* CameBackWrong: Subverted. Sookie, Lafayette, and Pam were worried that Tara would come back brain damaged due to getting shot in the head, but it seems she was simply adjusting to her first night as a vampire.
* EverythingIsRacist: Hoo boy.
* FatalAttractor: Everyone she hooks up with has their own issues, but whether they hold a candle to hers is up to you.
* FateWorseThanDeath: She sees continuing life as a vampire as one of these, and told the people who did it to her that she'll never forgive them for it.
* HeroicWillpower: The only vampire shown in the show to have never killed a single innocent person. She almost attacks one girl but fights off the urge after seeing her own reflection, and she proceeds to satisfy her bloodlust by downing what appeared to be half a dozen cases of tru blood in one sitting. Keep in mind that Tru Blood is a drink that every single other vampire shown drinking it so far has considered revolting.
* HollywoodExorcism: She and her mom both had one. Hers didn't quite stick.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: After she tries to kill herself to get out of living as a vampire, Pam orders her not to do it again, which due to their sire bond makes her physically incapable of harming herself.
* ImportantHaircut: In season 3 finale.
* InterruptedSuicide: Several times. Once Lafayette saved her when she tried to OD herself, another time when Pam went all "as your maker I command you" on her when she tried to fry herself.
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Unfortunately for her, this is how Jason sees her.
* LoveHurts
* MindControlEyes: When Maryann mind controls her, of course.
* OddFriendship: With Jessica.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Let's say Tara definitely gets Franklin back for all the crap he did to her. She freaking clubbed him and caved his head in. You might almost call it ExtremeMeleeRevenge.
* TooDumbToLive: Definitely has moments of this.
* TookALevelInBadass: More like took an entire prestige class progression in it.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Described as being one by somebody she went to high school with, following her transformation into a vampire.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Again, to Jason.
* UnrequitedLove: For Jason in season 1, but then she met Eggs.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Sam Merlotte]]
!!Sam Merlotte
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I spent my whole life either running away from people or pinning my hopes on somebody I can't have. I'm done with that."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Sam Trammell

->''"I need a live animal in order to shift. You know, as a model. Kinda like an imprint."''

The owner of Merlotte's, where Sookie works.
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* AbusiveParents: His biological parents.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: His love for affections for Sookie.
* AllMenArePerverts
* {{Animorphism}}: His shapeshifting abilities are limited to animals, because humans are too complex.
* TheAtoner: For his earliest criminal lifestyle which resulted in the death of his con-woman girlfriend.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: His last name Merlotte is really interesting and unique.
* {{Badass}}: Very much so, especially in later seasons when he's infiltrating dog-fighting rings and grappling with Marcus Bozeman.
* BadassBeard
* BenevolentBoss: He's very understanding of his employees' frequent need to take days off to deal with supernatural crises, possibly because he encounters his own share of them.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's generally a nice guy to the people he cares about, but when he's angry, you do ''not'' want to be on his bad side.
* BigBrotherInstinct
* BoundandGagged: Twice, first when he's prepared as a sacrifice in Maryann's wedding circa Season 2, and again in Season 5 when he's captured by the Authority.
* ButtMonkey
* CallingTheOldManOut: Does this to his birth parents after discovering that they force his brother who's also a shapeshifter into dog fights.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome
* TheChewToy
* TheDanza: Albeit coincidentally.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[IncrediblyLamePun Yes you may make the pun...]]
* FantasticRacism: Doesn't like vampires and werewolves. More because of his attraction to Sookie than anything else.
** As for his dislike of werewolves, we know he had some interactions with them during his time as a runaway, and considering that werewolves themselves seem to have a cultural FantasticRacism for shifters, it's likely what contact he had with them was unpleasant.
* FullFrontalAssault: Against Bud Dearborne and his flunkies.
* HeroicBSOD: The stress of dealing with his birth family's drama led him to drinking and lashing out at his friends and customers.
* HomoeroticDream: He had a quite steamy one with Bill.
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* MrFanservice: His shifting means that he's often naked.

* ParentalAbandonment: His father was in prison, so his mother gave him up.
* PermaStubble
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: His plotlines in seasons three and four did not connect with the main story at all.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting
[[/folder]]



[[folder:Eric Northman]]
!!Eric Northman
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Tru Blood...it keeps you alive, but it will bore you to death."'']]
->Played By: Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard

->''"Humans... honestly, Bill. I don't know what you see in them."''

The Sheriff of Area 5, a vampire district in Louisiana. A Swedish Viking warrior in life, he is over 1,100 years old and is a powerful and wealthy member of the vampire community. He runs the vampire bar, Fangtasia, in Shreveport, and develops an interest in Sookie Stackhouse after discovering her unique ability to read minds.
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* {{Adorkable}}: It's almost impossible to not fall for the cheesy grin of a man who's just eaten your fairy godmother.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent.
* AntiVillain: Either [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I or Type III]].
* AntiHero: Type IV.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBoast: He has plenty of moments of bragging.
** BadassFamily: His "family" includes Godric, Pamela, Nora ''and'' Tara.
** BadassInCharge: Eric was the Sheriff of Area 5.
** CulturedBadass
** HeartbrokenBadass
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Played straight.
* BatmanGambit: In season three.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Bill. Even Sophie-Anne admits to Bill, "You two really should just fuck each other and get it over with. I could watch." Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* BerserkButton: Hurting anyone he loves and cares about, especially his "family". Also, you better not criticize Godric in Eric's presence. Or compare him to Bill Compton. In fact, when it comes to Eric, do not mess with his maker, his two progeny, or his vampire sister unless you have a death wish.
* BestServedCold: It took over 1,000 years, but he finally killed Russell and avenged the death of his family.
* TheBigGuy: At 6'4", he is the second tallest of the cast after 6'5" Alcide Herveaux.
* BilingualBonus: He speaks Swedish from time to time with Pam. Amnesiac!Eric takes it UpToEleven. He also speaks Russian with Estonian stripper Yvetta.
* BiTheWay
* BlondesAreEvil: Sort of.
* BrotherSisterIncest: His relationship with his sister Nora is...interesting, to say the least.
** NotBloodSiblings: It lessens the {{Squick}} factor. Kind of.
* TheBrute
* ChekhovsGunman: Didn't have that many scenes in season 1. Fast forward to Season 3...
* TheChessmaster: Is usually four or five moves ahead of everyone else.
* TheComicallySerious
* CunningLinguist
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Sheriff]]: After his amnesia is cured. Good God he could out-brood Series/{{Angel}}.
* DespairEventHorizon: Averted. He sees the spirit of Lilith destroy the spirit of Godric and pretends to and joins Salome and Russell. The next episode he's plotting his escape with Nora.
* TheDragon: To Russell - actually DragonWithAnAgenda. Becomes one to Antonia, though under mind control.
* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim: Possibly, in the season 6 finale, where he bursts into flame sunbathing in Sweden as the effects of Warlow's blood wear off.]]
* FakeDefector: In season 3 with Russell Edgington, and in season 5 with the Authority.
* GoodIsNotNice
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: It's very hard to tell who's side, if any, he's on. As of Season 5, he is a face. Not that it really is helping him.
* HellBentForLeather
* HiddenDepths: Sookie finds this out during the "Save Godric" arc.
* [[HornyVikings Horny Viking]]
* {{Hunk}}
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: At the end of "You Smell Like Dinner". Until "Burning Down the House".
* ManipulativeBastard
* [[spoiler:ManOnFire: In the season 6 finale. His final fate is left ambiguous.]]
* MeanCharacterNiceActor
* MoralityPet: Godric even after he is dead. Doubles up as his conscience.
* MrFanservice
* NobleDemon: Till Season 3, now he is pretty much a good guy if a little rude.
* NotSoDifferent: Him and Bill.
* PermaStubble: See the picture. Interestingly, disappears when he loses his memory.
* PetTheDog: His interactions with Pam, especially during season three. Also, taking Jessica under his wing and getting her on her feet when she was first turned and Bill was too busy angsting.
* PsychopathicManchild: After his memory is erased.
* PunchClockVillain: Till Season 3, he was not a hugely nice guy, but the majority of his worst moments are a result of his responsibilities as Sheriff.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After his "sister" death.]]
* TheSheriff: Of Louisiana Area 5
* SophisticatedAsHell: "My apologies, but we will not be fucking on this occasion."
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic: Watch as he breaks down when he begs Godric to live.
* [[TallDarkAndHandsome Tall, Dark and Blond]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Has attempted this on Russell Edgington. It doesn't work.
* ThickerThanWater: Is very protective of his vampire family: dad Godric, sister Nora, daughter Pam and now granddaughter Tara.
* VampiresOwnNightClubs: He co-owns Fangtasia with his progeny, Pam.
* VillainsOutShopping: In season 2, with Bill.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With his child, Pam. "You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless."
* YouKilledMyFather: Well, Russell did.
** Also displays this trope toward Dr. Overlark and Steve Newlin [[spoiler:after Nora dies from Hep-V. He kills both in retaliation.]]
[[/folder]]



[[folder:Jessica Hamby]]
!!Jessica Hamby
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"No more rules... I'm a vampire!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Deborah Ann Woll

->''"So, who's good to eat around here?"''

A young vampire "made" by Bill as a part of his punishment for murdering a fellow vampire. Having been raised in an overly strict Christian family, she relishes the freedom that comes with being a vampire, but her petulant attitude often tries Bill's patience.

* AbusiveParents: [[CallingTheOldManOut calls her old man out]] on this after becoming a vampire.
* AccidentalMurder: Kills a redneck in the end of season 2, which causes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone quite a bit of angst]].
** And then in Season 6, [[spoiler:kills three of Andy Bellefleur's faerie daughters]], leading to a twitchy variation of a HeroicBSOD.
* AdaptationExpansion: See CanonForeigner.
* {{Badass}}: Comes with being a vampire, but Jessica does take it to new levels, firing rocket launchers and kicking Steve Newlin out.
** BadassAdorable: She's still a 17-year-old, very confused girl who just happens to have supernatural powers.
* BetaCouple: With Hoyt until season 4.
* BlackBraAndPanties: She rocks them in Jason's V induced fantasy of her.
* BlessedWithSuck: Because she was a virgin when turned, her hymen keeps regenerating no matter how many times she has sex, meaning every time she does it hurts like the first time.
* BloodKnight: Shows shades of this, particularly in season 4.
* [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Bratty Vampire Daughter]]: At first. Even Eric and Pam regard her as 'extremely annoying', but she gets better and becomes one of the most good-hearted and sensitive characters.
* CanonForeigner: Didn't exist in the books, but [=Book!Pam=] and her share quite a few traits[[note]]having been turned around 18 years old, being friendly, being Sookie's only vampire friend[[/note]]
* DawsonCasting: Her actress is about nine years older than Jessica was when turned into a vampire. Made worse by the fact she is stuck at 17.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: She may have difficulty controlling her vampiric impulses at times, especially within her first few months of being turned, but the descriptor of "friendly" definitely fits, and Jess is easily worlds more well-intentioned than most of the other vampires on the show. Even as she grows more comfortable with her vampirism, she avoids killing humans.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster
* HeroesWantRedheads: Hoyt, Jason and now [[spoiler:James.]]
* HeroicBSOD: She's twitchier than usual for this trope, but after [[spoiler:killing three of Andy Bellefleur's daughters]], she's clearly tormented by guilt.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Her initial relationship with Bill, but it has since improved greatly despite some bumps in the road.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Fits this trope wonderfully when she hooks up with [[UnluckyEverydude Hoyt.]]
* MsFanservice: While she's one of the few characters to not do full frontal nude scenes on the show, she has plenty of lingerie moments and dons a fantastic Little Red Riding Hood outfit for Halloween.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the beginning of season 2.
** And again in season six [[spoiler: after she goes insane with bloodlust and kills Andy Bellefleur's half-faerie daughters.]]
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: She tries to be good, but occasionally her vampire nature gets the better of her, [[spoiler: like when she kills three of Andy's half-fae daughters]]
* OddFriendship: With Tara.
* ShipperOnDeck: To Pam and Tara, gleefully declaring, 'I knew it!' when they kiss.
* [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Vampire Seeks Good Man]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With Hoyt.
* TookALevelInBadass: In season 3, when Bill begins to train her more seriously. She kills a werewolf that was after her, and from then on she begins kicking ass with more frequency.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pam de Beaufort]]
!!Pam Swynford de Beaufort
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"My mad face and my happy face are the same."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Kristen Bauer van Straten

->''"I am wearing a Wal-Mart sweatsuit for y'all. That's not demonstration of team spirit, I don't know what is."''

A vampire made by Eric about a century ago. She is his loyal (albeit lazy) assistant and the bouncer at Fangtasia. Cynical and apparently devoid of feelings for anyone except Eric, she is often by his side.

* AdaptationDistillation: She is very different from her book counterpart, who has been turned at a somewhat younger age and is considerably nicer to humans. In the books, Sookie considers Pam her only real friend among the vampires.
* {{Badass}}: Witness her snark while being tortured by the Magister.
* BiTheWay: In the present day she's only seen having sex with women, but a flashback reveals she slept with Eric.
* BrilliantButLazy: Eric describes her as loyal, but extremely lazy.
* ChildHater: She showed great disdain to Arlene's kids. Thankfully her job doesn't involve children.
* DeadpanSnarker: Part of the reason she's so beloved by the fandom is her utterly deadpan sense of very dark humour which she exhibits at almost every turn.
* DefrostingIceQueen: After turning Tara, she slowly learns to be a good mother figure.
* TheFashionista: She's quite concerned with what she's wearing, growing angry at having to wear a Wal-Mart sweater and ruining her new pumps.
* GoodIsNotNice: Despite being a total bitch, she's relatively benign.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: More with a heart of snark, but for Eric, that counts.
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Acts like a bitch and is snarky as hell, but often surprises people by doing the right thing.
* LesbianVampire: She may be [[BiTheWay Bi]], but she's way more interested in women than men.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Pam loves being a vampire, and dislikes thinking about her human life.
* MoralityPet: Eric for her, she for him. Later Tara, after Pam becomes her maker.
* TheStoic: ''"My mad face and my happy face are the same."''
** NotSoStoic: The only time she shows a soft side is when something happens to Eric.
* RescueRomance: Her love for Eric stems from when he saved her from being murdered back when she was human.
* SociopathicHero
* TwoFaced: Thanks to Marnie's spell.
* VampiresOwnNightclubs: She's co-owner of Fangtasia with Eric.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eric.
* WomanInBlack: Most of her outfits.
[[/folder]]



[[folder:Alcide Herveaux]]
!!Alcide Herveaux
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It ain't a wolf/shifter thing. It's right and wrong."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Joe Manganiello

->''"What if our hearts can't be trusted and it's our brains we should be listening to?"''

A werewolf who helps Sookie in finding Bill while Bill is held captive by Russell Edgington. He does this to relieve the debt his family owed to Eric Northman. Alcide is one of the few good werewolves introduced thus far.

* {{Badass}}: He's killed two packmasters in a row, and they were not pushovers.
** BadassBeard: He's always seen with a thick beard.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Alcide is a helpful, decent guy...but if you cross him, you'll meet a bad end as JD learned.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Toward almost everyone; he has a desire to protect others.
* TheBigGuy
-->'''Marcus''': You're about 6'6 and you're wider than a door.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: With Sookie (more than once), with Debbie, with Tommy...
* CompositeCharacter: Come season 6, he's showing definite shades of both Book!Alcide and Quinn, a weretiger with which Sookie had a very happy relationship in the books. [[spoiler:In the finale, it's shown he's taken Quinn's place at Sookie's side as her boyfriend.]]
* HonorBeforeReason
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: To both Debbie and Sookie. Rikki is his tallest beau so far, but he still towers over her like he does most people.
* [[spoiler:ImAHumanitarian: After refusing in season 5, he adheres to Pack rule in season 6 and eats the corpse of the previous Packmaster, JD. He doesn't even shift to do so.]]
* JustFriends: With Sookie, receiving end.
* MrFanservice: To truly ''ridiculous'' levels.
* NiceGuy

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:Sookie Stackhouse]]
!!Sookie Stackhouse
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I didn't have any say about being normal. We're born the way were are."'']]
->Played By: Creator/AnnaPaquin

->''"I'm a fairy? How fucking lame!"''

A telepathic waitress in a small-town restaurant and the protagonist of the series. Because of her ability, she has difficulty forming lasting human relationships. She becomes involved in a romantic relationship with a vampire, Bill, upon discovering that she can't read his mind. This relationship with a supernatural being causes controversy amongst the residents of her small town. Through Bill, she finds herself entering a world of creatures and supernatural conflict that surpasses even her worst nightmares.

* ActionGirl[=/=]{{Action Hero}}ine: For all the trouble she gets into, she's still managed to:
** Stake Lorena.
** Decapitate a SerialKiller with a shovel.
** Shoot a werewolf with a shotgun. ''Twice''. [[spoiler:Only the second time, it was Debbie and she shot her head clean off.]]
** Stake a vampire with chopsticks.
** Stake [[spoiler: ''Bill'' when he's about to kill Eric. It doesn't work, due to him being possessed by the progenitor of the vampire race, but still.]]
* AlienBlood: Sookie's blood might fit due to her being part-fairy.
* TheAllegedCar: Sookie has a spectacularly hideous yellow Honda Civic that's older than she is.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Her love interests are [[ManipulativeBastard Bill]] and [[PunchClockVillain Eric]]. [[DoggedNiceGuy Sam]] never was, [[spoiler: even before his anger issues]], neither is Alcide.
** [[spoiler: Alcide isn't, at least not until a drunken Sookie starts coming onto him in "We'll Meet Again".]]
** [[spoiler: In season six, she finally admits to Warlow (and herself) that she's a 'danger whore' when it comes to men, right before they drink each other's blood and have sex.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
* AlliterativeName
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove:vWith both Bill and Eric.
* ApologisesALot
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: See OffingTheOffspring below]]

** TookALevelInBadass
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Eric oh so much.
* BerserkButton: Hurt anyone of Sookie's loved ones, especially her brother Jason, and watch Sookie explode.
** Sookie doesn't like people talking trash about her to her brother. Just… ''[[GroinAttack don't.]]''
* BettyAndVeronica: Sookie is the Archie for Bill's Betty and Eric's Veronica.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Piss her off, and she puts on her {{Badass}} gloves.
* BlessedWithSuck: Due to being part fairy, one of her abilities is the ability to read minds or hear what others are thinking, even when she doesn't want to.
* BrainlessBeauty: Only appeared to be this in the beginning (she was practising ObfuscatingStupidity to mask her mind-reading powers).
* BreakTheCutie: It's easy to forget Sookie started out as a cheerful, open minded virgin who lived happily with her grandmother and her cat.
* BrokenBird
* BrownEyes
* TheChick
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sookie has her moments of jealousy in regards to Bill and Eric.
* CovertPervert
* DamselInDistress
* ADateWithRosiePalms
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments. Many more in season 5.
* DestructiveRomance: With both Bill and Eric at different points in each relationship.
* DeusAngstMachina: Sookie always has something to angst about, whether it directly concerns her or not.
* DrowningMySorrows
* DudeMagnet: [[spoiler: At least of a supernatural kind. It's one of her powers.]]
* DumbBlonde: Averted. Sookie is not particularly dumb but she did come off as this way in the beginning.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Judging by Pam's words.
* EvilLaugh: Gives a pretty terrifying one when she flushes Talbot's remains down Fangtasia's garbage disposal.
* TheFairFolk: Taken to a strange level, Sookie is [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Fae]] and thus only has half their powers. In a sense she also has their mood-swings, connection to nature, and the fae-realms.
** She also seems to have some of their legendary LackOfEmpathy. Notably, she is extremely indifferent to the things her supernatural friends and boyfriends have done and continue to do except to the extent that they affect her, her family or people she is close to.
* FakeAmerican: Anna Paquin is Canadian/Kiwi in real life.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Sookie is the Responsible Sibling to Jason's Foolish Sibling.
* GenreSavvy: Seems to have hit this in season 5.
-->'''Sookie''': "It's not gonna change. You say goodbye and the next thing, you guys are back in my house and a three thousand year old vampire wants to suck my blood. Must be Thursday!"
--> and
-->'''Sookie''': "[[LetsSplitUpGang First of all, I've seen enough horror movies to know you don't split up when you're in a big, scary asylum and there's a crazed killer on the loose.]] Second, I think it's fair to say my [[HalfHumanHybrid microwave fingers]] and the sun are about the only things around here that seem to have any effect on [[BigBad Russell]]. So the way I see it, it's *me* protecting *you* from *him*, instead of the other way around. Third, I got a headache, I gotta pee something fierce, so I'd just as soon get this over with."
* GirlNextDoor
* GoodIsNotSoft: Sookie is generally a kind and caring person towards others, but DO NOT get on her bad side in any way.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's part fairy.
* TheHeroine: Sookie is the protagonist and main character of the show.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tara. They have been best friends since childhood.
* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Girl]]: It's [[Film/{{X-Men}} Rogue!]]
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: In regards to both Bill and Eric.
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* InterspeciesRomance: With both Bill and Eric. Sookie is a human/fairy and Bill and Eric are both vampires.
* LoveHurts
* MamaBear: Towards her brother Jason. She's protective of him.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: With both Eric and Bill. Bill is over a century older than Sookie and Eric is 900+ years older than Sookie.
** [[spoiler: And now with Warlow, who is canonically the oldest vampire on the show, having been turned in ''3500 BC.'']]
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:Eric tries to use her on Bill this way in the season 5 finale. It doesn't work out, and it's actually looking like [[KickTheMoralityPet Bill is going to try and attack Sookie]].]]
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Poor Sookie often views her unique attribute as a curse.
* MainCharacter: True Blood centres on Sookie and her relationships with the other characters.
* MindOverManners
* MsFanservice
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The aforementioned force-field powers.
* NiceGirl
* OfficialCouple: With Bill until season three finale.
** [[spoiler: Then with Alcide at the end of Season 6 after he comes back to his senses.]]
* [[spoiler: OffingTheOffspring: Halfway through season six, she discovers that her parents were going to ''kill her'' on the night they were murdered by Warlow. The reason they did this was so he wouldn't turn her into a vampire once she came of age, but ''still''...]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Both of Sookie's parents died when she was younger.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Lafayette.
* PluckyGirl
* ThePollyanna
* TheProtagonist: Sookie is the main character of True Blood.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Tara.
* SeenItAll: By season 5, she has.
* StarcrossedLovers: With Bill.
* TraumaCongaLine: After four years the pattern is proven: Sookie gets beaten to a pulp, mauled by a bullmonster with giant claws, almost drained to the last drop and shot in the stomach. No season can pass without Sookie almost getting killed off in some horrible way.
* VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle: In the beginning, with Bill and Sam (not werewolf, but close enough). More recently it's developed to...
** UnwantedHarem: Two vampires, a shapeshifter, and a werewolf.
*** And as of season six, [[spoiler: a faerie vampire that wants to turn her.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bill Compton]]
!!William "Bill" Compton
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/compton_bill_3703.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sookie, most of us, vampire, human or otherwise are capable of both good and evil. Often simultaneously."'']]
->Played By: Stephen Moyer

->''"Vampires have often found it advantageous to maintain a hidden presence in humanity's most powerful institutions and in the 1600's, that was the Catholic Church and today, as you all know, it's Google and Fox News."''

A vampire romantically involved with Sookie. Turned during the American Civil War against his will, Bill shows more compassion for human life than many other vampires. He is outwardly expressive of his emotions and holds onto memories of his past human life, behaviors that are unique amongst his vampire peers.
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* AffablyEvil: Season 5 onwards.
* AllMenArePerverts
* TheAmericanCivilWar: Bills is a veteran and a former soldier from the Civil War.
* AnchoredShip: With Sookie from season's one to three.
* AntiHero: Either [[PragmaticHero Type III]] or [[UnscrupulousHero Type IV]].
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Until Season 5]].
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: After drinking the real vial of Lilith's blood. After being drained in Season 6 he looses his Lilith powers.]]
* AxCrazy:[[spoiler:Drinking the blood of Lilith is just making him a tad bit crazy. He gets better in Season 6]].
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBoast
** HeartbrokenBadass

[[folder:Jason Stackhouse]]
!!Jason Stackhouse
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stackhouse_jason_4513.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Never really thought I was smart enough to get depressed."'']]
->'''Played By:''' [[HomeAndAway Ryan Kwanten]]

->''"We gotta fix things, Andy. I ain't lettin' weird shit take over my town!"''

Sookie's not-too-bright, self-involved brother, who is vigilant in defending and protecting Sookie. He supervises a road crew during the day, and is known for bedding the women of Bon Temps at night.

* TheAce: He's not really one, but to The Fellowship of the Sun he definitely is.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To [[{{Jerkass}} Luke]], the fanatical Soldier of the Sun.
* AntiHero: [[KnightInSourArmor Type II]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Type III]].
* {{Badass}}: He kills about a dozen vampires when breaking into the Authority, and prior to that he'd taken out Franklin Mott.
** BadassBoast
** BadassNormal: Niall points out that he has not inherited any special fae powers, and the royal fae bloodline skipped him.
* BashBrothers: Became this with Andy.
* BerserkButton: DO NOT mess with his sister Sookie. He will fuck you up without hesitation.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Sookie, but also really to any woman, one of his better points.
* BigDamnHeroes: Jason rescuing Sookie and Eric in 2.08, then again in 2.10, plays it straight.
** Then subverted again when Jason and Andy try to go and kill Maryann only to make it barely through the crowd where both are almost immediately turned into zombies.
** Jason arrives just in time to save Tara from Franklin. And it was awesome.
** Jason and Niall successfully jump in at the last moment to save Sookie from Warlow.
* BoundAndGagged: By Crystal Norris and later Steve Newlin.
* BrainlessBeauty: Jason is build a regular Adonis, and his main traits is that he is kind of dimwitted and easy to manipulate.
* BloodKnight: After getting zapped by fairy powers, takes sadistic delight in killing vampires. Just bad ones mind ya.
* CartwrightCurse: Every woman he had slept with onscreen in the first season died.
* TheCasanova
* ChewToy
* ChickMagnet
* ClearMyName: MistakenForMurderer in season one.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: When he admitted to Hoyt that he slept with Jessica (albeit after Jess and Hoyt broke up), Hoyt heartbreakingly asks, "How?" Jason, being Jason, responded by listing all the positions they had sex in. Hoyt promptly punches him in the face before clarifying what he meant.
* DuctTapeForEverything: When glamored by Steve Newlin.
* DumbBlonde
* FairCop
* FantasticRacism: After getting mistakenly zapped by fairy power, he shows noticable hatred towards vampires killing them out of absolute delight.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Like Sookie, he has faerie ancestry, although it's not as strong in him. It does explain his ability to attract women with very little effort.
* TheHedonist
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Has been this with Hoyt for almost their whole lives. Until near the end of season 4, when Jason hooks up with Jessica, which makes Hoyt end their friendship. Near the end of season 5, Hoyt has Jessica glamour his memories of Jason and Jessica out of his mind permanently before going to Alaska, throwing away any chance of reconciliation.
* HomoeroticDream: A rather tame (and short) one with Eddie in the second season.
** Another one in season 4 when he began to fantasize about Jessica after drinking her blood; sometime during the dream, though, Jessica becomes Hoyt.
** And another one in season six, this time with [[spoiler: Ben/Warlow. Jason's prior experiences with vampire blood lead him and Niall to the realization that Ben is not only Warlow, but a faerie-vampire hybrid.]]
* {{Hunk}}
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He's actually disappointed when it turned out that he wouldn't turn into a werepanther after all, following his ordeal in Hotshot.
* ImprobableAimingSkills
* {{Jerkass}}: In the early episodes mainly.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Steve Newlin makes him forget they ever had their brief meeting in the first episode of season five.
* MrFanservice
* MuggleBornOfMages: His sex appeal is pretty much the only thing he inherited from his faerie ancestors, while Sookie and pretty much all other Stackhouses had faerie powers. He's later outright told that the faerie genes skipped him.
* PluckyComicRelief: Probably one of the funniest characters on the show.
* ReallyGetsAround
* RunningGag: The third season had one where he claimed to be a cop, only to be forced to admit he wasn't one ''yet''
* SanitySlippage: As of the Season 5 finale, he is hallucinating the ghosts of his parents which are rapidly goading him into becoming harsher and more racist against vampires, including Jessica, who he clearly had feelings for before the appearence of the "ghosts". Whether or not this is due to the bump on the head, the faerie Elder's energy blast, or something else entirely is currently unknown.
* ShirtlessScene: Has plenty of these. Nobody is complaining.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Andy after he became cop.
* TooDumbToLive: It runs in the family. Although with Jason, it's played for laughs.
* TookALevelInBadass: After being trained by the Fellowship of the Sun and becoming a cop. He's still often too stupid to really put it to good use, though.
* UnknownRival: Luke. Not that Jason wasn't really aware with it he just didn't play along.
* WalkingShirtlessScene
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tara Thornton]]
!!Tara Thornton
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thornton_tara_4322.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Race may not be the hot-button issue it once was, but it's still a button you can push on people."'']]
->Played By: Rutina Wesley

->''"Everyone who's ever been with me has ended up dead. It ain't a long list, but it's a bad one to be on."''

Sookie Stackhouse's best friend since they were children. Tara grew up in a very abusive home with an alcoholic mother, and consequently finds it difficult to fit in with normal society or to trust people. She is very adept at reading people and constantly distances herself from others by speaking her observations candidly and plainly. As a result, she has difficulty holding down a job until she becomes a bartender at Merlotte's.
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[[folder:Lafayette Reynolds]]
!!Lafayette Reynolds
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It ain't possible to live unless you crossin' somebody's line."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Nelsan Ellis

->''"Well, hey there sweetness. You ready to party?"''

A short order cook at Merlotte's, a drug dealer, a member of Jason Stackhouse's road crew, and Tara's cousin.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: He's not really that aggressive, but just don't get on his bad side.
* AscendedExtra: In the first season, he had a much smaller role, and by the third his is one of the main stories.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBoast
** BadassGay
** BadassNormal
* BetaCouple: In season 4 with Jesus.
* BlessedWithSuck: Congratulations Lafayette! [[PowerSource You have just discovered that your body has more supernatural energy than a whole Witch circle combined]] and you can see and channel spirits. Of course this also means [[BodySurf that said spirits can also take over your body without as much as a pretty-please .]] And go on wacky fun adventures like kidnapping and engaging in tense hostage situations...

* DeadpanSnarker
* DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: Done to him by angry spirits who got some unfinished business, ''thrice''.
* FanNickname: "Lala" (his mom calls him this as well) and "Laffy".
** AscendedFanon: From season three on, other characters call him Lala as well.
* HomoeroticDream: Allegedly with Eric. It wouldn't be a problem if he didn't [[FoeYay hate/fear Eric]].
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkassFacade
** JerkassHasAPoint
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MagicalNegro: One of the wisest and kindest characters on the show and hinted to have some kind of [[TheEmpath supernatural sense]], [[SubvertedTrope but also]] self-centered and, of course, a drug dealer.
* MagicalQueer
* MrFanservice
* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Gay]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the novels he died early on.
* StereotypeGay
** CampGay: In the novels definitely, in the TV series he seems to be a mixture of this and...
** MachoCamp: All those muscles ain't just for picking up guys, though they're certainly a plus.
* TraumaCongaLine
* TwoferTokenMinority: Gay man of color.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Despite his talk of getting around, he's one of the very few characters never seen having sex on the show, not even with Jesus. [[ButNotTooGay As for why...]]

[[folder:Arlene Bellefleur]]
!!Arlene Bellefleur (nee Fowler)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm sorry you fell in love with a serial killer, alright, but honestly, who here hasn't?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Carrie Preston

->''"Vamp club not all it was made out to be, huh?"''

* ActionMom
* ActionSurvivor
* ArbitrarySkepticism: In season 5, she dismisses Terry's talk of the [[spoiler: fire demon]] as nonsense. Holly, a witch, calls her on it.

** BadassNormal
** TookALevelInBadass: Against Patrick.
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* ButtMonkey: She simply can't catch a break, though this might be because she's hilarious when she's high-strung.
* TheChewToy: See ButtMonkey
* DeadpanSnarker: Just look at her caption.
* EyeScream: She bursts a vessel in her eye due to stress, but thinks baby Mikey did it when he looked at her.
* FatalAttractor: Her last Love interest was a SerialKiller and we don't know about her ex-husbands but they must be exes for a reason.
* FetusTerrible: She believed this while pregnant with Rene's baby, thinking Rene's evil is InTheBlood.
* FieryRedHead: Although she only dyes her hair.
* HappilyMarried: Arlene and Terry, in the fourth season.
* HeroesWantRedheads: She dyes her hair red, claiming some study that redheaded waitresses get bigger tips.
* HystericalWoman: Lapses into this at times.
* IHaveYourWife: Patrick kidnaps her to force Terry's hand.
* MistakenForRacist: Frequently.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She's a divorced mom with two kids who just can't seem to catch a break.
* SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer: Almost. She was engaged to Rene before TheReveal.

[[folder:Sam Merlotte]]
!!Sam Merlotte
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/merlotte_sam_2406.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I spent my whole life either running away from people or pinning my hopes on somebody I can't have. I'm done with that."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Sam Trammell

->''"I need a live animal in order to shift. You know, as a model. Kinda like an imprint."''

The owner of Merlotte's, where Sookie works.
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* AbusiveParents: His biological parents.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: His love for affections for Sookie.
* AllMenArePerverts
* {{Animorphism}}: His shapeshifting abilities are limited to animals, because humans are too complex.
* TheAtoner: For his earliest criminal lifestyle which resulted in the death of his con-woman girlfriend.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: His last name Merlotte is really interesting and unique.
* {{Badass}}: Very much so, especially in later seasons when he's infiltrating dog-fighting rings and grappling with Marcus Bozeman.
* BadassBeard
* BenevolentBoss: He's very understanding of his employees' frequent need to take days off to deal with supernatural crises, possibly because he encounters his own share of them.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's generally a nice guy to the people he cares about, but when he's angry, you do ''not'' want to be on his bad side.
* BigBrotherInstinct
* BoundandGagged: Twice, first when he's prepared as a sacrifice in Maryann's wedding circa Season 2, and again in Season 5 when he's captured by the Authority.
* ButtMonkey
* CallingTheOldManOut: Does this to his birth parents after discovering that they force his brother who's also a shapeshifter into dog fights.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome
* TheChewToy
* TheDanza: Albeit coincidentally.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[IncrediblyLamePun Yes you may make the pun...]]
* FantasticRacism: Doesn't like vampires and werewolves. More because of his attraction to Sookie than anything else.
** As for his dislike of werewolves, we know he had some interactions with them during his time as a runaway, and considering that werewolves themselves seem to have a cultural FantasticRacism for shifters, it's likely what contact he had with them was unpleasant.
* FullFrontalAssault: Against Bud Dearborne and his flunkies.
* HeroicBSOD: The stress of dealing with his birth family's drama led him to drinking and lashing out at his friends and customers.
* HomoeroticDream: He had a quite steamy one with Bill.
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* MrFanservice: His shifting means that he's often naked.
* NiceGuy
* ParentalAbandonment: His father was in prison, so his mother gave him up.
* PermaStubble
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: His plotlines in seasons three and four did not connect with the main story at all.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting

[[folder:Andy Bellefleur]]
!!Sheriff Andy Bellefleur
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I just want to say that I’m sober, and I’m lonely, and I can be good to someone if they let me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Chris Bauer
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: When his faerie daughters first go missing. Turns up to eleven when Jason brings up the fact that faeries are like 'catnip' to vampires. Becomes awfully realized as he storms into Bill's mansion and finds three of his daughters dead and one barely alive.]]
* TheAlcoholic: His drinking becomes more and more prevalent as the series progresses and he feels increasingly out of his depth.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInCharge
** BadassNormal: One of the non-powered human characters.
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may be a blustery fool, but he can be pretty awesome when he has to be.
** TookALevelInBadass: He helps fight Maryann's forces with a broken arm and goes through absolute hell.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Though it seems to fluctuate by varying degrees.
* BigDamnHeroes: He and the other cops save Sookie and Hoyt from Bud Dearborne and Sweetie DesArts.
* ButtMonkey: In season 2 and 4 especially.
* ByTheBookCop
* TheCassandra: in Season 2, mostly because what he's trying to convince his fellow police officers of sounds ridiculous, and partially because he's almost continually drunk throughout the season.
* TheChewToy
* CluelessDetective: Though sometimes (surprisingly) not.
* CowboyCop: Has grown into this.
* CynicalMentor: To Jason. He really doesn't want to take Jason under his wing, but he sees the advantage to having a young, really athletic guy to run down all the crazies showing up in Bon Temps lately. That and he just [[PetTheDog feels bad for him.]]
* FanDisservice: You get a nice big shot of him lying naked on his stomach in the first episode of Season 5, and yes, you see his ass and everything.
* FantasticDrug: He becomes addicted to V in season 4, but by season 5 has successfully kicked it.
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He really is just trying to do his job and help people despite all the crap he put Jason through.
* MyBelovedSmother: Well, Grandsmother.
* NotNowKiddo: Tries to do this with Jason but it never seems to work. Jason just annoys him anyways.
* OnlySaneMan: In the whole freaking town!
* PapaWolf
* ProperlyParanoid: Often looks insane just because he's one of the few people who actually know what's going on.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: From time to time though not at all so far in season 4.
* ThoseTwoGuys : With Jason.
* TooManyBabies
* TookALevelInKindness
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eric Northman]]
!!Eric Northman
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/northman_eric_230.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Tru Blood...it keeps you alive, but it will bore you to death."'']]
->Played By: Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard

->''"Humans... honestly, Bill. I don't know what you see in them."''

The Sheriff of Area 5, a vampire district in Louisiana. A Swedish Viking warrior in life, he is over 1,100 years old and is a powerful and wealthy member of the vampire community. He runs the vampire bar, Fangtasia, in Shreveport, and develops an interest in Sookie Stackhouse after discovering her unique ability to read minds.
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* {{Adorkable}}: It's almost impossible to not fall for the cheesy grin of a man who's just eaten your fairy godmother.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent.
* AntiVillain: Either [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I or Type III]].
* AntiHero: Type IV.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBoast: He has plenty of moments of bragging.
** BadassFamily: His "family" includes Godric, Pamela, Nora ''and'' Tara.
** BadassInCharge: Eric was the Sheriff of Area 5.
** CulturedBadass
** HeartbrokenBadass
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Played straight.
* BatmanGambit: In season three.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Bill. Even Sophie-Anne admits to Bill, "You two really should just fuck each other and get it over with. I could watch." Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* BerserkButton: Hurting anyone he loves and cares about, especially his "family". Also, you better not criticize Godric in Eric's presence. Or compare him to Bill Compton. In fact, when it comes to Eric, do not mess with his maker, his two progeny, or his vampire sister unless you have a death wish.
* BestServedCold: It took over 1,000 years, but he finally killed Russell and avenged the death of his family.
* TheBigGuy: At 6'4", he is the second tallest of the cast after 6'5" Alcide Herveaux.
* BilingualBonus: He speaks Swedish from time to time with Pam. Amnesiac!Eric takes it UpToEleven. He also speaks Russian with Estonian stripper Yvetta.
* BiTheWay
* BlondesAreEvil: Sort of.
* BrotherSisterIncest: His relationship with his sister Nora is...interesting, to say the least.
** NotBloodSiblings: It lessens the {{Squick}} factor. Kind of.
* TheBrute
* ChekhovsGunman: Didn't have that many scenes in season 1. Fast forward to Season 3...
* TheChessmaster: Is usually four or five moves ahead of everyone else.
* TheComicallySerious
* CunningLinguist
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Sheriff]]: After his amnesia is cured. Good God he could out-brood Series/{{Angel}}.
* DespairEventHorizon: Averted. He sees the spirit of Lilith destroy the spirit of Godric and pretends to and joins Salome and Russell. The next episode he's plotting his escape with Nora.
* TheDragon: To Russell - actually DragonWithAnAgenda. Becomes one to Antonia, though under mind control.
* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim: Possibly, in the season 6 finale, where he bursts into flame sunbathing in Sweden as the effects of Warlow's blood wear off.]]
* FakeDefector: In season 3 with Russell Edgington, and in season 5 with the Authority.
* GoodIsNotNice
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: It's very hard to tell who's side, if any, he's on. As of Season 5, he is a face. Not that it really is helping him.
* HellBentForLeather
* HiddenDepths: Sookie finds this out during the "Save Godric" arc.
* [[HornyVikings Horny Viking]]
* {{Hunk}}
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: At the end of "You Smell Like Dinner". Until "Burning Down the House".
* ManipulativeBastard
* [[spoiler:ManOnFire: In the season 6 finale. His final fate is left ambiguous.]]
* MeanCharacterNiceActor
* MoralityPet: Godric even after he is dead. Doubles up as his conscience.
* MrFanservice
* NobleDemon: Till Season 3, now he is pretty much a good guy if a little rude.
* NotSoDifferent: Him and Bill.
* PermaStubble: See the picture. Interestingly, disappears when he loses his memory.
* PetTheDog: His interactions with Pam, especially during season three. Also, taking Jessica under his wing and getting her on her feet when she was first turned and Bill was too busy angsting.
* PsychopathicManchild: After his memory is erased.
* PunchClockVillain: Till Season 3, he was not a hugely nice guy, but the majority of his worst moments are a result of his responsibilities as Sheriff.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After his "sister" death.]]
* TheSheriff: Of Louisiana Area 5
* SophisticatedAsHell: "My apologies, but we will not be fucking on this occasion."
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic: Watch as he breaks down when he begs Godric to live.
* [[TallDarkAndHandsome Tall, Dark and Blond]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Has attempted this on Russell Edgington. It doesn't work.
* ThickerThanWater: Is very protective of his vampire family: dad Godric, sister Nora, daughter Pam and now granddaughter Tara.
* VampiresOwnNightClubs: He co-owns Fangtasia with his progeny, Pam.
* VillainsOutShopping: In season 2, with Bill.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With his child, Pam. "You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless."
* YouKilledMyFather: Well, Russell did.
** Also displays this trope toward Dr. Overlark and Steve Newlin [[spoiler:after Nora dies from Hep-V. He kills both in retaliation.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Terry Bellefleur]]
!!Terry Bellefleur
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like feeling the pressure."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Todd Lowe

->''"Your Mama just gets a little crazy sometimes, which means we just have to love her that much harder."''

* {{Badass}}
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Usually seems to have difficulty just functioning but, when the situation calls for it, shows that he is one of the most competent characters in the supporting cast.
* BerserkButton: Endangering Arlene's kids is not a good idea around him.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: In season 6, Arlene tries to stop him from committing suicide by having a vampire erase all his Marine memories.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Calling Sam out, actually, for transforming into a {{Jerkass}}. He does it again to Andy to help him with his V addiction.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A rather laid-back but definite example, seen by others as such due to being a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* [[spoiler:DiesWideOpen: With Arlene at his side.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: He asks another marine buddy to kill him in a way he won't see coming.]]
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile: He's just had his old demons from the war glamored away, and as he slips away Arlene tells him to think of all the good things in his life.]]
* [[KickTheDog The Dog]]: Often, when the writers want to get the point across that a character is being a complete {{Jerkass}}, they do so by having that character be mean to Terry.
* HenpeckedHusband
* [[spoiler:InstantDeathBullet: After he paid another marine to kill him in a way he wouldn't see coming.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In Season 5.
* '''NiceGuy''': Even with his dark past, he is still the most consistently good member of the cast - he never puts his own feelings first, always protects others, feels obligated to stay with Arlene, happily raises a baby whose father was a psychotic serial killer.. where does he stop?
* PapaWolf: Threatening Arlene's kids, who he thinks of as his own, triggers a pretty serious BerserkButton in him.
* ProperlyParanoid: He often has a vague suspicion that something is wrong when something really is wrong, only to be falsely reasured that everything is ok by someone who knows for a fact that there's a problem but wishes conceal said problem.
** On more than one occasion he's been the first person to notice a problem.
* SanitySlippage: Since coming back from Iraq, and then kicks into overdrive after Patrick's death.
* ShellShockedVeteran: He's odd and always a little worried, due to PTSD from his time at war.
* TokenGoodTeammate: What he seemed to be in Iraq.
-->'''Terry''': (''on a dying woman'') We can still save her!
-->'''Patrick''': I said DEAD CHECK HER!
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jessica Hamby]]
!!Jessica Hamby
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"No more rules... I'm a vampire!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Deborah Ann Woll

->''"So, who's good to eat around here?"''

A young vampire "made" by Bill as a part of his punishment for murdering a fellow vampire. Having been raised in an overly strict Christian family, she relishes the freedom that comes with being a vampire, but her petulant attitude often tries Bill's patience.

* AbusiveParents: [[CallingTheOldManOut calls her old man out]] on this after becoming a vampire.
* AccidentalMurder: Kills a redneck in the end of season 2, which causes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone quite a bit of angst]].
** And then in Season 6, [[spoiler:kills three of Andy Bellefleur's faerie daughters]], leading to a twitchy variation of a HeroicBSOD.
* AdaptationExpansion: See CanonForeigner.
* {{Badass}}: Comes with being a vampire, but Jessica does take it to new levels, firing rocket launchers and kicking Steve Newlin out.
** BadassAdorable: She's still a 17-year-old, very confused girl who just happens to have supernatural powers.
* BetaCouple: With Hoyt until season 4.
* BlackBraAndPanties: She rocks them in Jason's V induced fantasy of her.
* BlessedWithSuck: Because she was a virgin when turned, her hymen keeps regenerating no matter how many times she has sex, meaning every time she does it hurts like the first time.
* BloodKnight: Shows shades of this, particularly in season 4.
* [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Bratty Vampire Daughter]]: At first. Even Eric and Pam regard her as 'extremely annoying', but she gets better and becomes one of the most good-hearted and sensitive characters.
* CanonForeigner: Didn't exist in the books, but [=Book!Pam=] and her share quite a few traits[[note]]having been turned around 18 years old, being friendly, being Sookie's only vampire friend[[/note]]
* DawsonCasting: Her actress is about nine years older than Jessica was when turned into a vampire. Made worse by the fact she is stuck at 17.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: She may have difficulty controlling her vampiric impulses at times, especially within her first few months of being turned, but the descriptor of "friendly" definitely fits, and Jess is easily worlds more well-intentioned than most of the other vampires on the show. Even as she grows more comfortable with her vampirism, she avoids killing humans.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster
* HeroesWantRedheads: Hoyt, Jason and now [[spoiler:James.]]
* HeroicBSOD: She's twitchier than usual for this trope, but after [[spoiler:killing three of Andy Bellefleur's daughters]], she's clearly tormented by guilt.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Her initial relationship with Bill, but it has since improved greatly despite some bumps in the road.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Fits this trope wonderfully when she hooks up with [[UnluckyEverydude Hoyt.]]
* MsFanservice: While she's one of the few characters to not do full frontal nude scenes on the show, she has plenty of lingerie moments and dons a fantastic Little Red Riding Hood outfit for Halloween.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the beginning of season 2.
** And again in season six [[spoiler: after she goes insane with bloodlust and kills Andy Bellefleur's half-faerie daughters.]]
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: She tries to be good, but occasionally her vampire nature gets the better of her, [[spoiler: like when she kills three of Andy's half-fae daughters]]
* OddFriendship: With Tara.
* ShipperOnDeck: To Pam and Tara, gleefully declaring, 'I knew it!' when they kiss.
* [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Vampire Seeks Good Man]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With Hoyt.
* TookALevelInBadass: In season 3, when Bill begins to train her more seriously. She kills a werewolf that was after her, and from then on she begins kicking ass with more frequency.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pam de Beaufort]]
!!Pam Swynford de Beaufort
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"My mad face and my happy face are the same."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Kristen Bauer van Straten

->''"I am wearing a Wal-Mart sweatsuit for y'all. That's not demonstration of team spirit, I don't know what is."''

A vampire made by Eric about a century ago. She is his loyal (albeit lazy) assistant and the bouncer at Fangtasia. Cynical and apparently devoid of feelings for anyone except Eric, she is often by his side.

* AdaptationDistillation: She is very different from her book counterpart, who has been turned at a somewhat younger age and is considerably nicer to humans. In the books, Sookie considers Pam her only real friend among the vampires.
* {{Badass}}: Witness her snark while being tortured by the Magister.
* BiTheWay: In the present day she's only seen having sex with women, but a flashback reveals she slept with Eric.
* BrilliantButLazy: Eric describes her as loyal, but extremely lazy.
* ChildHater: She showed great disdain to Arlene's kids. Thankfully her job doesn't involve children.
* DeadpanSnarker: Part of the reason she's so beloved by the fandom is her utterly deadpan sense of very dark humour which she exhibits at almost every turn.
* DefrostingIceQueen: After turning Tara, she slowly learns to be a good mother figure.
* TheFashionista: She's quite concerned with what she's wearing, growing angry at having to wear a Wal-Mart sweater and ruining her new pumps.
* GoodIsNotNice: Despite being a total bitch, she's relatively benign.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: More with a heart of snark, but for Eric, that counts.
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Acts like a bitch and is snarky as hell, but often surprises people by doing the right thing.
* LesbianVampire: She may be [[BiTheWay Bi]], but she's way more interested in women than men.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Pam loves being a vampire, and dislikes thinking about her human life.
* MoralityPet: Eric for her, she for him. Later Tara, after Pam becomes her maker.
* TheStoic: ''"My mad face and my happy face are the same."''
** NotSoStoic: The only time she shows a soft side is when something happens to Eric.
* RescueRomance: Her love for Eric stems from when he saved her from being murdered back when she was human.
* SociopathicHero
* TwoFaced: Thanks to Marnie's spell.
* VampiresOwnNightclubs: She's co-owner of Fangtasia with Eric.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eric.
* WomanInBlack: Most of her outfits.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hoyt Fortenberry]]
!!Hoyt Fortenberry
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You can tell a lot about someone by the way they smile."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jim Parrack

* AbusiveParents: His smothering, controlling mother who often borders on emotional abuse.
* AscendedExtra
* TheBigGuy: One of the tallest of the cast. This is deconstructed a little bit; he had a massive growth spurt in middle school that left him so unbalanced, he had to walk with a cane for months.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: He dated baby-vampire Jessica for a while.
* ButtMonkey: Becomes one by season 5, living in a near-constant state of depression and anger after losing Jessica and his best friend.
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: When he told his mother off for disapproving of his relationship with Jessica, after Maxine cancelled his cell phone service and made it look like he dumped Jess.
* EvilMatriarch: His mother. [[ControlFreak No,]] [[AbusiveParents seriously.]]
* FaceHeelTurn]]: Season 5 has him briefly joining an anti-supernatural hate group, but he quits when [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten they try to make him kill Jessica]].]]
* HeroesWantRedheads
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Has been this with Jason for almost their whole lives. Until near the end of season 4, when Jason hooks up with Jessica, which makes Hoyt end their friendship. Near the end of season 5, Hoyt has Jessica glamour his memories of Jason and Jessica out of his mind permanently before going to Alaska, throwing away any chance of reconciliation.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The 6"5" Hoyt briefly dates 5"0" Summer, nearly a foot and a half shorter.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He specifically requested Jessica to erase every memory of her or Jason from his mind before he moved to Alaska.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: But not to the point where he could actually kill Jessica.
* LoveMartyr
* LoveTriangle: With Summer and Jessica. Except he actually hates Summer. And now with Jessica and Jason.
* ManChild: At least up until he moves out of his mothers house to live with Jessica.
* MyBelovedSmother
* NiceGuy: He really is nice.
** Until he TookALevelInJerkass after Jessica and Jason hooked up.
* PutOnABus: He puts himself on a bus, moving to Alaska in season 5 after realizing he's tired of dealing with everyone he knows and their issues.
* OnlySaneMan
* SingleTargetSexuality: for Jessica "Other women don't even EXIST to me!"
[[/folder]]

* BrainlessBeauty

** BadassDamsel

* DistressedDamsel

** BadassDamsel

* BrainlessBeauty: Only appeared to be this in the beginning.

* AdaptationDistillation: She is very different from her book counterpart, who has been turned younger and is described as the friendlier vampire Sookie knows.

* BadBadActing: Averted. Tara is easily able to convince [[spoiler: Elijah that she accidentally failed on turning Ginger. He believes her and ultimately ends up getting his head chopped off as a result of believing her.]]

* HotMom

* BadassLonghair: Relatively.

* BerserkButton: SOOKEH.

* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy: In late season 5]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: with Andy after he became cop.