History Characters / TwentyFour

* [[Characters/TwentyFourCIA The CIA]]

* [[Characters/TwentyFourAntagonists Independent Antagonists]]

* [[Characters/TwentyFourCIA]]

* [[Characters/TwentyFourStarkwood Starkwood Group]]

* [[Characters/TwentyFourPresidents Presidents]]

* [[Characters/TwentyFourBauerFamily The Bauer Family]]

* [[Characters/TwentyFourAntagonists Independent Antagonists]]

As a CharacterSheet, this page contains ''many unmarked spoilers''. Also proceed with caution due to the high number of character deaths the series is known for!








!!Cara Bowden
->'''Played By''': Amy Price-Francis

The intermediary for the members of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness in season 7; was also in a relationship with Tony Almeida.

* AssholeVictim
* TheDragon: To Alan Wilson.
* IHaveYourWife: Threatens Jonas Hodges's family to get him to take a suicide pill.
* UnwittingPawn: Was being used by Tony all along so he could get to Alan Wilson.
* SmugSnake
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: WordOfGod was she was originally going to be Mandy, but was created when the actress was unavailable.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Blackmails Jonas Hodges into attempting suicide by threatening his family to keep the suspicion off of the rest of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness. Later on the receiving end of this by Tony.

!!Alan Wilson
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->'''Played By''': Will Patton

The mysterious head of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness that appears in season 7. He wanted to use the pathogen in order to frame Muslims in order to try and get the US government to back off on their crackdown of private military companies. He was also revealed to have been in cahoots with Charles Logan and was responsible for having David Palmer and Michelle killed, the latter being the motivation for Tony's actions. Served as the BigBad of season 7, though arguably he was more of a BiggerBad, since Tony Almeida was the actual antagonist.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
** BiggerBad
** [[BigBadDuumvirate BigBad Overload]]: Arguably, the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness was a group of multiple BigBads, with Wilson merely being the most influential, so he would be this with Jonas Hodges and the others shown in season 7. He was also in a Triumvirate with Charles Logan and Phillip Bauer.
* TheChessMaster
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DullSurprise: How Will Patton played him.
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's described in almost exactly these terms by Tony in relation to Charles Logan, and considering who Logan's behind... he's also this to Hodges.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: He is the leader of an unnamed cabal of private military contractors who manipulate world politics.
* SerialEscalation: When you have a non-supernatural villain who's TheManBehindTheMan to a CorruptCorporateExecutive running the largest and most powerful private military company on the planet..
** Also ManBehindTheMan to even more absurd lengths when it was revealed he was in cahoots with [[PresidentEvil Charles Logan]] and Jack's evil father and brother, who plotted an already massive as it is conspiracy.
* SaveTheVillain: Jack and Renee had to prevent Tony from killing him.
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath


!!Jason Pillar
->'''Played By''': Reed Diamond

Logan's right-hand man placed at CTU to find Jack and take him out before he exposes the conspiracy.

* AssholeVictim: Logan executes him when their plans are ruined.
* CharacterDeath: Notable for being the last character to die onscreen in the show.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* TheDragon: To Logan.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He knows well enough when to quit and sees no point in senselessly murdering Jack. Logan [[TakingYouWithMe doesn't agree.]]
* HannibalHasAPoint: Tells Jack that all he's doing is filling out his own little quest for revenge. Jack, despite attempting to justify his actions, doesn't bother disagreeing with him about his goal by this point.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam
* {{Jerkass}}
* MoleInCharge: Has command of CTU transferred to him so he can personally lead the manhunt for Jack.
* PragmaticVillainy
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* VillainousBreakdown: When Jack holds him at gunpoint he turns into a blubbering wreck. Jack ultimately spares him after a NotSoDifferent moment.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

* [[Characters/TwentyFourJumaRegime The Juma Regime]]

* [[Characters/TwentyFourMarwanGroup Marwan Terrorist Group]]

* [[Characters/TwentyFourRedSquare Red Square]]

!!Audrey Raines
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Raines_Audrey_5219.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Kim Raver

Jack's girlfriend during Day 4 and the daughter of Secretary of Defense James Heller. After Day 5, she ends up being tortured and brainwashed by the Chinese so they could force Jack to give them a Russian nuclear circuitboard.

* ActionSurvivor
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten
* BreakTheCutie
* BrokenBird
* CassandraTruth: Heller sums it up to Jack, "Everything you touch ends up dead or ruined." Jack later [[CallingTheOldManOut calls Heller out on his betrayal of him.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Endures this.
* FateWorseThanDeath
* IHaveYourWife: Again, girlfriend. Jack gets her back, but the torture has made her detached, though WordOfGod states that she got better.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone
* TookALevelInBadass: Starts out as a defense department worker with only minimal combat skills, and ends up actually being pretty capable in her own right by late Season 5. Unfortunately for her, this gets horrifically inverted between Seasons 5 and 6.
* TraumaCongaLine






!!Reed Pollock
->'''Played By''': Chad Lowe

The treasonous Chief of Staff during Day 6.

* AmbitionIsEvil
* SmugSnake
* [[StrawCharacter Strawman Conservative]]

!!Kevin Wade
->'''Played By''': Clayne Crawford

The criminal ex-boyfriend of Dana Walsh.

* {{Blackmail}}
* DomesticAbuser
* {{Jerkass}}
* {{Slimeball}}

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

!!Adrion Bishop
->'''Played By''': Michael Irby

A soldier following General Brucker.

* TheDragon: To General Brucker.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Abu Fayed
->'''Played By''': Adoni Maropis

A terrorist ringleader who wanted to use suitcase nukes against the US and who wanted to kill Jack Bauer for accidentally torturing his brother, also a terrorist, to death. Was the intended pawn of Dmitri Gredenko, but that didn't work out too well.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Dmitri Gredenko.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Though it's also ''awesome.''
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Played with; he actually is the ultimate boss of his terrorist group and acts as the primary threat for most of the season. He gets killed off about two-thirds of the way through the season though, and Phillip Bauer and Cheng Zhi -- who are working independently of Fayed -- take over as the antagonists.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* RevengeBeforeReason: Averted surprisingly.
* YouLookFamiliar: Averted. Adoni Maropis previously played a minor character in the middle of Day 4... but his scenes were ultimately deleted.

!!Ahmed Amar
->'''Played By''': KalPenn

An agent of Abu Fayed who was charged with delivering the nuclear bomb triggers to him. After he was injured killing a racist that attacked him he took a neighboring family hostage and forced the father to carry out his task for him.

* IHaveYourWife: And son too, as he holds both hostage to make Ray Wallace deliver the bomb trigger to Fayed.
* UngratefulBastard: Despite the sympathy Ray and his family showed him he has no problem threatening them.

!!Karen Hayes
->'''Played By''': Jayne Atkinson

Member of Homeland Security who eventually takes over command of CTU alongside Miles Papazian after the nerve gas attacks in Day 5. Eventually serves as the National Security Adviser to President Wayne Palmer during Day 6.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Has worked with Miles long enough that she believes he can ultimately be brought into the loop to take down Charles Logan. Big mistake.
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Sacrifices her career to save Jack's nephew.
* TheyDo: With Bill Buchanan.

!!Tim Woods
->'''Played By''': Frank John Hughes

The Secretary of Homeland Security for the Taylor Administration.

* BaldOfAwesome
* NiceGuy
* UndyingLoyalty

!!Miles Papazian
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->'''Played By''': Stephen Spinella

Member of Homeland Security who eventually takes over command of CTU alongside Karen Hayes after the nerve gas attacks in Day 5.

* TheBadGuyWins: The recording that Jack spent a quarter of a season trying to recover is destroyed thanks to this guy, and Jack actually stopped himself from beating the crap out of him. [[SubvertedTrope On the bright, Karen did slap him around a bit.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe[=/=]OnlyInItForTheMoney
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* KarmaHoudini
* ManipulativeBastard
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* SmugSnake: Yet in spite of this we never get to see him get his ultimate comeuppance.

!!Nina Myers
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->'''Played By''': Sarah Clarke

A former CTU agent and colleague of Jack's who turned out to be [[TheMole a traitor who worked for]] Victor Drazen as well as other Big Bads, and was one of the early recurring antagonists. While trying to escape, she winds up killing Jack's wife Teri, making [[ItsPersonal it personal]].

* ArchEnemy: To Jack Bauer. She shares the role with [[BigBad Charles]] [[PresidentEvil Logan]] for the series, though she's killed off early on in the series and always appeared as a hired Mook for the season's BigBad while never reaching that status herself.
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* DarkActionGirl
* TheDragon: Often fulfils this role.
* DragonTheirFeet: In Day 1. While she was never actually TheDragon in the series, Jack only discovers she's TheMole and captures her after he had coldly executed BigBad Victor Drazen. Subverted in Season 2, in which, although she outlives the season's BigBad, she is just a KarmaHoudini who was released from prison as part of a deal, which happened offscreen. We last see her midway through the season still in custody, and she doesn't appear at all in the final act. And finally subverted in Season 3, when Jack finally kills her in the middle of the season after she tries to kill Kim.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She doesn't care about ''anyone'' other than herself.
* KarmaHoudini: Ultimately averted. It was originally considered that Nina would escape CTU in the third season, but ultimately it was decided that Jack had to kill her.
* KarmicDeath: Dies in the exact same room where she murdered Teri Bauer.
* TheMole: A DoubleSubversion. She is first suspected at the end of the second episode, but this proves false, then it's confirmed at the end of the penultimate episode of the first season.
* NumberTwo: She was Jack's right-hand, which made her betrayal even worse.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: As Jack says "You don't even have a cause; you don't believe in anything. You would sell anyone and anything out to the highest bidder."
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath
* UndyingLoyalty: She ''apparently'' had it to Jack in Season 1, but it was all an act.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: How she dies.

!!Marcus, Rouse, and Cole
->'''Played By''': Nick Offerman, Raymond Cruz, and Maurice Compte

Three crooks who took Kate hostage and threatened to destroy the Cyprus recording Jack needed to prove that the Middle Eastern government was not behind the nuclear bomb threat.

* AssholeVictim: Rouse
* DisproportionateRetribution: Yes Marcus, destroy the one bit of evidence Jack needs and thus doom a lot of innocent lives all because he killed one of your pals in an incident that resulted from you trying to kill an innocent person.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Cole, who's against Marcus trying to kill Kate and eventually attacks him when he attempts to resist Jack.
* HeroKiller: They murder one of Jack's allies because he's of Arab descent
* {{Jerkass}}: ''Especially'' Marcus
* TooDumbToLive: Marcus. Sure, don't believe that Jack is a federal agent and won't kill you if he has to. It's amazing he doesn't die.

* [[Characters/TwentyFourSentox Sentox Nerve Gas Conspiracy]]

!!Kate Warner
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->'''Played By''': Sarah Wynter

A young woman who gets caught up in the events of Day 2 after her sister is revealed as an ally of Syed Ali.

* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass
* ButtMonkey
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Marie's Cain.
* PutOnABus
** LongBusTrip
* ProperlyParanoid

!!Bob Warner
->'''Played By''': John Terry

Kate and Marie's father, a businessman whose assets are supposedly being used to fund terrorists.

* CoolOldGuy
* NiceGuy
* RedHerring: His (would-be) son-in-law suspects him, but neither of them knows that his daughter Marie is responsible.
* WhereDidWeGoWrong

!!Audrey Raines
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Raines_Audrey_5219.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Kim Raver

Jack's girlfriend during Day 4 and the daughter of Secretary of Defense James Heller. After Day 5, she ends up being tortured and brainwashed by the Chinese so they could force Jack to give them a Russian nuclear circuitboard.

* ActionSurvivor

!!Paul Raines
->'''Played By''': James Frain

Audrey's ex-husband, a British businessman.

* HeroicSacrifice
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* TookALevelInBadass
* WorkingWithTheEx

!!Richard Heller
->'''Played By''': Logan Marshall-Green

The very liberal son of James Heller.

* ButtMonkey
* ColdBloodedTorture
* [[StrawCharacter Straw Liberal]]: He's a shaggy-haired gay hippie who goes on marches and doesn't listen to his father.
* WellDoneSonGuy

!!Cheng Zhi
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You surely must be aware, Mr. Bauer, that China has a long memory."'']]
->'''Played By''': Tzi Ma

A Chinese agent who was a reoccuring enemy of Jack Bauer. He originally wanted justice for the Chinese consul, who was accidentally killed during a raid led by Jack Bauer, but after he failed to break Jack, he decided to use Jack for something else...

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Phillip Bauer.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
* MotiveDecay: He originally starts off as a WellIntentionedExtremist who goes to extreme lengths to get justice for the Chinese consul accidentally killed in a raid led by Jack Bauer, but in season 6 turns into a terrorist wanting to start a war, kidnaps and tortures the daughter of a former Secretary of Defense to insanity, and helps Jack's evil father kidnap his grandson.
* RevengeBeforeReason
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What he started off as.
* YellowPeril

!!Gary Matheson
->'''Played By''': Billy Burke

Kim's employer and the abusive husband of Carla Matheson.

* CharacterDeath
* DomesticAbuser
* {{Jerkass}}

!!Christopher Henderson
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't want to know what I know. You get me to talk, I promise you you'll just be opening Pandora's box."'']]
->'''Played By''': PeterWeller

->''"What I did was in the interests for the destiny of this country, and I'm not talking about the version you read on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, I'm talking about the politics of survival. The way the world really works."''

Jack Bauer's former mentor whom Jack had reported for taking bribes. In later years he was TheDragon for [[BigBad Charles Logan]].

* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa
* BrokenPedestal: Was Jack's mentor, but who got fired when Jack learned he was taking bribes.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To Logan.
** TheHeavy: Most of the conflict in Season 5 is against him.
* EnemyMine: He eventually teams up with Jack to stop Bierko.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Which is why Jack uses his wife as leverage.
* EvilCounterpart: He even has a friendship with a US president.
* FaceHeelTurn
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GoOutWithASmile: He seems genuinely proud that Jack has gotten the better of him, and grins and congratulates him for it.
* HeroKiller: As Jack puts it, "You are responsible for the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeida, and Michelle Dessler.
* IHaveYourWife: Played straight with the informant's daughter. ''Inverted'' earlier on with his wife.
* KnightTemplar

* VillainyDiscretionShot: His (possible) killing of an informant's young daughter and the EMT's trying to rescue her is never brought up.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers initially considered Henderson being NotQuiteDead and coming back as an antagonist again later on sometime after Day 6. Ultimately they went with Tony instead.

!!Vladimir Bierko
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"What we are about to accomplish will be remembered by our countrymen forever."'']]
->'''Played By''': Julian Sands

The leader of a terrorist organization of an unnamed Russian colony seeking independence. He was the intended pawn of a group of American conspirators, however his Dragon saw through their ruse.

* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BlondeGuysAreEvil
* DeadpanSnarker
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* KnightTemplar
* NeckSnap
* SharpDressedMan
* WesternTerrorists
* WhiteHairBlackHeart
* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Ivan Erwich for trusting the Americans and wasting one of the nerve gas canisters on America... Which he then did himself a few episodes later.

!!Ivan Erwich
->'''Played By''': MarkSheppard

A member of a Russian terrorist organization. He was the intended pawn of a group of American conspirators, however he saw through their ruse.

* CharacterDeath
* TheDragon: to Bierko.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* KnightTemplar
* PersonWithTheClothing: He's referred to mostly as the man with the yellow tie until CTU learns his name.
* YouHaveFailedMe

!!James Nathanson
->'''Played By''': Geraint Wyn Davies

An ex-CIA officer responsible for manipulating both Walt Cummings and the Russian terroist organisation, Dawn Brigade.

* HeKnowsTooMuch
* ManipulativeBastard
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere

* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Colette Stenger
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Stenger_Colette_9373.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Stana Katic

A Russian information broker hired by Vladimir Bierko.

* AffablyEvil
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* FemmeFatale
* KnowledgeBroker
* MsFanservice
* PutOnABus
* TheVamp

!!Abu Fayed
->'''Played By''': Adoni Maropis

A terrorist ringleader who wanted to use suitcase nukes against the US and who wanted to kill Jack Bauer for accidentally torturing his brother, also a terrorist, to death. Was the intended pawn of Dmitri Gredenko, but that didn't work out too well.

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Dmitri Gredenko.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Though it's also ''awesome.''
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Played with; he actually is the ultimate boss of his terrorist group and acts as the primary threat for most of the season. He gets killed off about two-thirds of the way through the season though, and Phillip Bauer and Cheng Zhi -- who are working independently of Fayed -- take over as the antagonists.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* RevengeBeforeReason: Averted surprisingly.
* YouLookFamiliar: Averted. Adoni Maropis previously played a minor character in the middle of Day 4... but his scenes were ultimately deleted.

!!Reed Pollock
->'''Played By''': Chad Lowe

The treasonous Chief of Staff during Day 6.

* AmbitionIsEvil

* [[StrawCharacter Strawman Conservative]]

!!Zhou Yong
->'''Played By''': Ian Anthony Dale

A Chinese paramilitary operative working for Cheng Zhi.

* {{Badass}}
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* GeniusBruiser
* PsychoForHire

!!Ahmed Amar
->'''Played By''': KalPenn

An agent of Abu Fayed who was charged with delivering the nuclear bomb triggers to him. After he was injured killing a racist that attacked him he took a neighboring family hostage and forced the father to carry out his task for him.

* IHaveYourWife: And son too, as he holds both hostage to make Ray Wallace deliver the bomb trigger to Fayed.
* UngratefulBastard: Despite the sympathy Ray and his family showed him he has no problem threatening them.

!!Cara Bowden
->'''Played By''': Amy Price-Francis

The intermediary for the members of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness in season 7; was also in a relationship with Tony Almeida.

* AssholeVictim
* TheDragon: To Alan Wilson.
* IHaveYourWife: Threatens Jonas Hodges's family to get him to take a suicide pill.
* UnwittingPawn: Was being used by Tony all along so he could get to Alan Wilson.
* SmugSnake
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: WordOfGod was she was originally going to be Mandy, but was created when the actress was unavailable.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Blackmails Jonas Hodges into attempting suicide by threatening his family to keep the suspicion off of the rest of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness. Later on the receiving end of this by Tony.

!!Alan Wilson
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->'''Played By''': Will Patton

The mysterious head of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness that appears in season 7. He wanted to use the pathogen in order to frame Muslims in order to try and get the US government to back off on their crackdown of private military companies. He was also revealed to have been in cahoots with Charles Logan and was responsible for having David Palmer and Michelle killed, the latter being the motivation for Tony's actions. Served as the BigBad of season 7, though arguably he was more of a BiggerBad, since Tony Almeida was the actual antagonist.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
** BiggerBad
** [[BigBadDuumvirate BigBad Overload]]: Arguably, the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness was a group of multiple BigBads, with Wilson merely being the most influential, so he would be this with Jonas Hodges and the others shown in season 7. He was also in a Triumvirate with Charles Logan and Phillip Bauer.
* TheChessMaster
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DullSurprise: How Will Patton played him.
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's described in almost exactly these terms by Tony in relation to Charles Logan, and considering who Logan's behind... he's also this to Hodges.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: He is the leader of an unnamed cabal of private military contractors who manipulate world politics.
* SerialEscalation: When you have a non-supernatural villain who's TheManBehindTheMan to a CorruptCorporateExecutive running the largest and most powerful private military company on the planet..
** Also ManBehindTheMan to even more absurd lengths when it was revealed he was in cahoots with [[PresidentEvil Charles Logan]] and Jack's evil father and brother, who plotted an already massive as it is conspiracy.
* SaveTheVillain: Jack and Renee had to prevent Tony from killing him.
* SmugSnake

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!!Jonas Hodges
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Now we're having some fun."'']]
->'''Played By''': Jon Voight

->''"Mr. Seaton, I get no pleasure from the knowledge that people will die at our hands. One single soul, the loss of one soul is tragic to me, let alone the numbers we're talking about. But do not forget that every war worth fighting involves collateral damage. And what we're doing is fundamentally and absolutely necessary."''

The CorruptCorporateExecutive in charge of Starkwood, a mercenary company. He suffered one big VillainousBreakdown after the government began cracking down on private military companies. He aided Juma in taking over Sangala in exchange for a deadly pathogen which he intended to use to hold the US hostage.

* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa

** BigBadDuumvirate: With Benjamin Juma. Was also a part of Wilson's OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord

* DeadpanSnarker
* DiscOneFinalBoss

* EvenEvilHasStandards
* KnightTemplar: Thinks he's helping his country.
* LargeHam
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: His business.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: He's a member of Wilson's cabal.
* VillainousBreakdown: He was going through one the entire time and it just got worse over time.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Ike Dubaku
->'''Played By''': Hakeem Kae-Kazim

Juma's [[TheDragon right hand man]] who Juma sent to the US to try and force the US government to withdraw troops from Sangala. However his loyalty to Juma is questionable as he has his sights on an American girl.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
* ChildSoldiers: He appeared to be in charge of one sect of them.
* TheDragon: to Juma.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Very, very confusingly done with the black American woman with the wheelchair-bound sister. He initially claims he's going to kill her, but doesn't go through with it.
* HeKnowsTooMuch / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Killed by one of Juma's men after his escape attempt fails to stop him from revealing Juma's planned raid on the White House.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain / VillainBall: One major criticism against Dubaku's effectiveness as an antagonist was immediately after the device he was using to hack into the government's firewall was destroyed during a gun fight with Jack, the first thing he did to distract him and escape was kill the ''one man'' who could potentially build him another so he could continue holding the country hostage.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Survives being right at the front of a land mine explosion in ''Redemption'' with little more than a few scratches.
* ScaryBlackMan

!!Greg Seaton
->'''Played By''': Rory Cochrane

Jonas Hodges' right-hand man at Starkwood.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* TheDragon
* FakeDefector
* PerpetualFrowner
* UndyingLoyalty

!!Cara Bowden
->'''Played By''': Amy Price-Francis

The intermediary for the members of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness in season 7; was also in a relationship with Tony Almeida.

* AssholeVictim
* TheDragon: To Alan Wilson.
* IHaveYourWife: Threatens Jonas Hodges's family to get him to take a suicide pill.
* UnwittingPawn: Was being used by Tony all along so he could get to Alan Wilson.
* SmugSnake
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: WordOfGod was she was originally going to be Mandy, but was created when the actress was unavailable.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Blackmails Jonas Hodges into attempting suicide by threatening his family to keep the suspicion off of the rest of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness. Later on the receiving end of this by Tony.

!!Alan Wilson
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->'''Played By''': Will Patton

The mysterious head of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness that appears in season 7. He wanted to use the pathogen in order to frame Muslims in order to try and get the US government to back off on their crackdown of private military companies. He was also revealed to have been in cahoots with Charles Logan and was responsible for having David Palmer and Michelle killed, the latter being the motivation for Tony's actions. Served as the BigBad of season 7, though arguably he was more of a BiggerBad, since Tony Almeida was the actual antagonist.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
** BiggerBad
** [[BigBadDuumvirate BigBad Overload]]: Arguably, the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness was a group of multiple BigBads, with Wilson merely being the most influential, so he would be this with Jonas Hodges and the others shown in season 7. He was also in a Triumvirate with Charles Logan and Phillip Bauer.
* TheChessMaster
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DullSurprise: How Will Patton played him.
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's described in almost exactly these terms by Tony in relation to Charles Logan, and considering who Logan's behind... he's also this to Hodges.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: He is the leader of an unnamed cabal of private military contractors who manipulate world politics.
* SerialEscalation: When you have a non-supernatural villain who's TheManBehindTheMan to a CorruptCorporateExecutive running the largest and most powerful private military company on the planet..
** Also ManBehindTheMan to even more absurd lengths when it was revealed he was in cahoots with [[PresidentEvil Charles Logan]] and Jack's evil father and brother, who plotted an already massive as it is conspiracy.
* SaveTheVillain: Jack and Renee had to prevent Tony from killing him.
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath

!!David Emerson
->'''Played By''': Peter Wingfield

A mercenary leader who recruited Tony.

* {{Badass}}
* DefiantToTheEnd
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's big on loyalty.
* EvilBrit
* HonorBeforeReason
* PrivateMilitaryContractors


!!Benjamin Juma
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Juma_Benjamin_9682.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/TonyTodd

The genocidal dictator of Sangala after taking over the country in Redemption, he attempts to force the US to give up their attempts to remove him from power. When this fails, he attacks the White House.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Threatens to torture and disfigure Olivia Taylor if Allison doesn't come out of the panic room.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* {{Badass}}
** FourStarBadass
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Inverted.
* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
** BigBadDuumvirate: With Jonas Hodges.
* ChildSoldiers: Not above using these in his army.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* EvilOverlord
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GeneralRipper
* GutteralGrowler
* KickTheDog: Killing hostages just as a result of President Taylor asking for their release.
* LargeAndInCharge
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: His army is called the "People's Freedom Army" and is used to overthrow a parliamentary democracy in favor of a military dictatorship.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Kills a hostage when President Taylor asks him to release the others now that she's surrendered and then asks her if she would like him to "release" any others.
* ScaryBlackMan: And '''[[VisualPun how]]'''.
* SuicideMission: His invasion of the White House. Ultimately unsuccessful since the President and most of the hostages were saved.
* YouLookFamiliar: Tony Todd appeared in season 3 as a detective investigating Alan Milliken's death.

!!John Quinn
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Quinn_John_8778.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Sebastien Roche

A mercenary and assassin working for Jonas Hodges.

* {{Badass}}
* BlondeGuysAreEvil
* EvilCounterpart
* ProfessionalKiller
* PsychoForHire
* TheStoic
* TheQuietOne

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 8 Antagonists]]


!!Kevin Wade
->'''Played By''': Clayne Crawford

The criminal ex-boyfriend of Dana Walsh.

* {{Blackmail}}
* DomesticAbuser

* {{Slimeball}}

!!Jason Pillar
->'''Played By''': Reed Diamond

Logan's right-hand man placed at CTU to find Jack and take him out before he exposes the conspiracy.

* AssholeVictim: Logan executes him when their plans are ruined.
* CharacterDeath: Notable for being the last character to die onscreen in the show.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* TheDragon: To Logan.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He knows well enough when to quit and sees no point in senselessly murdering Jack. Logan [[TakingYouWithMe doesn't agree.]]
* HannibalHasAPoint: Tells Jack that all he's doing is filling out his own little quest for revenge. Jack, despite attempting to justify his actions, doesn't bother disagreeing with him about his goal by this point.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam
* {{Jerkass}}

* WellIntentionedExtremist

[[/folder]]

!!Sherry Palmer
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Palmer_Sherry_4908.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"When I say I can make something happen, you better believe I can."'']]
->'''Played By''': Penny Johnson Jerald

->''"I will do anything to protect my family, David. Anything. Does that make me a bad person?"''

David Palmer's [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]] ex, who constantly gets involved in shady schemes in order to try and either become First Lady or blackmail President Palmer.

* CatchPhrase: "Let me ''help'' you..."
* EvilMatriarch
* FauxAffablyEvil
* ManipulativeBitch
* LadyMacbeth
* NecessaryEvil: She claims to be this. Her husband thinks she's just a bitch, and he's probably right.
* PetTheDog: Helping Jack stop Peter Kingsley.
* PsychoSupporter
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Verbally reams a man so hard that he ''has a heart attack and '''dies'''''. It's possibly her Evil [=CMoA=].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: See above entry.
* TreacherousAdvisor
* TokenEvilTeammate: Her ex-husband keeps calling her back into service for pretty much exactly this reason, and they both know it.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Until season 3 when she sold David out for discarding her again.
* XanatosSpeedChess

!!Marie Warner
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Warner_Marie_8819.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Laura Harris

The sister of Kate Warner who is really helping Ali detonate a nuke in LA.

* BlondesAreEvil
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Kate's Abel.
* TheDragon: To Ali.
* EmotionlessGirl: By the end of the season, she's become one.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted.
-->'''Marie''': I killed Reza... and I loved him. What makes you think I would care about you and Dad?
* TheFundamentalist
* TheMole
* SmugSnake

!!Mandy
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mandy_3574.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Well, they're heading back in. Looks like my neighbors died for nothing."'']]
->'''Played By''': Mia Kirshner

A female assassin-for-hire with the distinction of being a DepravedBisexual, and, unusually for most bisexuals on TV and certainly anyone on this show, not only survives the entire series, but [[KarmaHoudini is given a pardon for it too]].

* {{Badass}}
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Particularly on Day 4.
* DarkActionGirl
* DepravedBisexual: To an extent. She is a bisexual assassin, but there is nothing to indicate they are particularly linked.
* EnigmaticMinion
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While she kills both of her male lovers, the woman she's with on Day 1 is implied to be her actual girlfriend. She genuinely seems to care for her, and even cries after she is killed.
* GenreSavvy
* KarmaHoudini: She's last seen after bargaining for her freedom like so many antagonists do.
* ManipulativeBitch
* PsychoForHire
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath

!!Ramon Salazar
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Salazar_Ramon_9276.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is your fault, Jack! And what happens next is on you, too!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Joaquim de Almeida

A Mexican drug lord whom Jack Bauer had put in prison. Jack later has to help break him out of prison to prevent him and his brother Hector from releasing a deadly virus.

* AffablyEvil: He's very charismatic.

* TheCartel

* DiscOneFinalBoss: In a hilariously cruel twist on the trope, not only is he not the BigBad of the season, he turns out to have been the victim of a scam by a low-ranking flunky of the ''actual'' Big Bad.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he manages to cheerfully kill his own lawyer because HeKnowsTooMuch, with a pen while in prison before happily blaming Jack.
* HannibalLecture: Lots, if you think about it.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why he kills his lawyer.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter
* SiblingsInCrime

* UnwittingPawn: By Michael Amador.

!!Hector Salazar
->'''Played By''': Vincent Laresca

The younger, more inept brother of Hector Salazar. He was left in charge of the drug business when Ramon was arrested.

* TheCartel
* CharacterDeath

* DomesticAbuser
* {{Jerkass}}
* [[BeardOfEvil Mustache Of Evil]]
* PragmaticVillainy
* SiblingsInCrime
* TooDumbToLive




[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 5 Antagonists]]

!!Christopher Henderson
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Henderson_Christopher_4396.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't want to know what I know. You get me to talk, I promise you you'll just be opening Pandora's box."'']]
->'''Played By''': PeterWeller

->''"What I did was in the interests for the destiny of this country, and I'm not talking about the version you read on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, I'm talking about the politics of survival. The way the world really works."''

Jack Bauer's former mentor whom Jack had reported for taking bribes. In later years he was TheDragon for [[BigBad Charles Logan]].

* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa
* BrokenPedestal: Was Jack's mentor, but who got fired when Jack learned he was taking bribes.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To Logan.
** TheHeavy: Most of the conflict in Season 5 is against him.
* EnemyMine: He eventually teams up with Jack to stop Bierko.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Which is why Jack uses his wife as leverage.
* EvilCounterpart: He even has a friendship with a US president.
* FaceHeelTurn
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GoOutWithASmile: He seems genuinely proud that Jack has gotten the better of him, and grins and congratulates him for it.
* HeroKiller: As Jack puts it, "You are responsible for the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeida, and Michelle Dessler.
* IHaveYourWife: Played straight with the informant's daughter. ''Inverted'' earlier on with his wife.

* SmugSnake
* VillainyDiscretionShot: His (possible) killing of an informant's young daughter and the EMT's trying to rescue her is never brought up.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers initially considered Henderson being NotQuiteDead and coming back as an antagonist again later on sometime after Day 6. Ultimately they went with Tony instead.

!!Vladimir Bierko
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bierko_Vladimir_6415.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"What we are about to accomplish will be remembered by our countrymen forever."'']]
->'''Played By''': Julian Sands

The leader of a terrorist organization of an unnamed Russian colony seeking independence. He was the intended pawn of a group of American conspirators, however his Dragon saw through their ruse.

* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BlondeGuysAreEvil
* DeadpanSnarker
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* KnightTemplar

[[folder:Araz Family]]

!!Dina Araz
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Araz_Dina_4469.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I believe in our cause, and if you can't save my son I will be happy to see the reactors melt down."'']]
->'''Played By''': Shohreh Aghdashloo

An Islamic terrorist, ally to Habib Marwan and wife of Navi Araz.

* AbusiveParent
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her son is perhaps the only thing she cares about more than her cause.
* EvilMatriarch
* TheFundamentalist
* HeelFaceDoorSlam
* KnightTemplar
* MamaBear

!!Behrooz Araz
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Araz_Behrooz_7345.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"He tried to kill me. And then he did this to you. He's not my father anymore."'']]
->'''Played By''': Jonathan Ahdout

->''"I hate you. I've always hated you! The only reason I never said so was because I was afraid of you. But I'm not afraid of you anymore!"''

The son of Navi and Dina Araz, who doesn't share his parents' beliefs or ruthlessness.

* AbusiveParents

* CallingTheOldManOut
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He disappears completely after being handed over to Marwan's men. We never see him again, but his fate was explained in deleted scenes with two different outcomes. In both scenarios, however, he survives. His sudden disappearance gave rise to the term, 'Behroozed' within the fandom to refer to any character that disappears without explanation or closure.
* GrewASpine
* HeelFaceTurn
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore
* TokenGoodTeammate
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
* WhiteSheep

!!Navi Araz
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Araz_Navi_7365.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"What we will accomplish today will change the world. We’re fortunate that our family has been chosen to do this."'']]
->'''Played By''': Nestor Serrano

An Islamic terrorist ally of Habib Marwan.

* AbusiveParent: to his son Behrooz.
* ArchnemesisDad
* BaldOfEvil
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* DomesticAbuser

* HairTriggerTemper
* {{Jerkass}}
* KarmicDeath
* KnightTemplar

[[folder: Warner Family]]

!!Kate Warner
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Warner_Katherine_288.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Sarah Wynter

A young woman who gets caught up in the events of Day 2 after her sister is revealed as an ally of Syed Ali.

* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass

* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Marie's Cain.
* PutOnABus
** LongBusTrip
* ProperlyParanoid

!!Marie Warner
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Warner_Marie_8819.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Laura Harris

The sister of Kate Warner who is really helping Ali detonate a nuke in LA.

* BlondesAreEvil
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Kate's Abel.
* TheDragon: To Ali.
* EmotionlessGirl: By the end of the season, she's become one.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted.
-->'''Marie''': I killed Reza... and I loved him. What makes you think I would care about you and Dad?
* TheFundamentalist
* TheMole
* SmugSnake

!!Bob Warner
->'''Played By''': John Terry

Kate and Marie's father, a businessman whose assets are supposedly being used to fund terrorists.

* CoolOldGuy
* NiceGuy
* RedHerring: His (would-be) son-in-law suspects him, but neither of them knows that his daughter Marie is responsible.
* WhereDidWeGoWrong

[[folder: Heller-Raines Family]]

!!Audrey Raines
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Raines_Audrey_5219.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Kim Raver

Jack's girlfriend during Day 4 and the daughter of Secretary of Defense James Heller. After Day 5, she ends up being tortured and brainwashed by the Chinese so they could force Jack to give them a Russian nuclear circuitboard.

* ActionSurvivor
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten
* BreakTheCutie
* BrokenBird
* CassandraTruth: Heller sums it up to Jack, "Everything you touch ends up dead or ruined." Jack later [[CallingTheOldManOut calls Heller out on his betrayal of him.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Endures this.
* FateWorseThanDeath
* IHaveYourWife: Again, girlfriend. Jack gets her back, but the torture has made her detached, though WordOfGod states that she got better.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone
* TookALevelInBadass: Starts out as a defense department worker with only minimal combat skills, and ends up actually being pretty capable in her own right by late Season 5. Unfortunately for her, this gets horrifically inverted between Seasons 5 and 6.
* TraumaCongaLine


!!Paul Raines
->'''Played By''': James Frain

Audrey's ex-husband, a British businessman.

* HeroicSacrifice
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* TookALevelInBadass
* WorkingWithTheEx

!!Richard Heller
->'''Played By''': Logan Marshall-Green

The very liberal son of James Heller.

* ButtMonkey
* ColdBloodedTorture
* [[StrawCharacter Straw Liberal]]: He's a shaggy-haired gay hippie who goes on marches and doesn't listen to his father.
* WellDoneSonGuy

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 4 Antagonists]]

!!Habib Marwan
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HabibMarwan_4007.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Arnold Vosloo

Islamic terrorist mastermind and BigBad of the fourth season.[[TheChessmaster he planned a series of attacks against the US and had several backup plans as well]].

* AffablyEvil

* BaldOfEvil
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled
* BigBad
* DisneyVillainDeath
* TheDreaded
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A deleted scene shows he has a family.
* GambitRoulette: One major criticism of the character, and Season 4 in general, is how utterly ridiculous his plot (and constant escaping) was. TelevisionWithoutPity gave him the FanNickname "Imhoterror", in reference to Arnold Vosloo's role in ''Film/TheMummy1999'' and his nigh-magical escapes. This was in part because he was supposed to be a DiscOneFinalBoss, but the writers were having trouble coming up with a BiggerBad to replace him, so they just decided to make Marwan the villain throughout the whole season, necessitating his constant escapes.
* GoOutWithASmile: Gives a SlasherSmile that would make SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker proud as he commits suicide by forcing Jack to [[DisneyVillainDeath drop him to his death]].

* TheManBehindTheMan
* OffscreenVillainDarkmatter: As a result of the writers stretching him across more than half the season as the villain, he appears to have nigh-unlimited resources.
* SayMyName: Other characters on the show drop his name so incessantly that it quickly descends into {{Narm}}. Some viewers even made [[DrinkingGame Drinking Games]] based around it.
* TakingYouWithMe: Attempts to do this to Jack, CTU, and the rest of LA by forcing Jack to drop him off a building to his death, believing it would stop CTU from finding his missile, which was heading for LA and would have killed everyone there, including Jack and CTU. This fails as the missile is found and destroyed shortly after Marwan dies, foiling his plan.
* VillainExitStageLeft: One of the masters of this trope in any form of fiction, and the master of it in 24.

!!Robert Morrison
->'''Played By''': KeithSzarabajka

A technician and mercenary working for Habib Marwan.

* TheEvilGenius
* KarmaHoudini
* PrivateMilitaryContractors
* PsychoForHire
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse

!!Nicole
->'''Played By''': Dagmara Dominczyk

* CharacterDeath
* DarkActionGirl
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Mandy

!!Mitch Anderson
->'''Played By''': Ned Vaughn

* FallenHero
* IHaveYourWife
* KickTheDog: Not only does he kill the man who he forced to help him, but he tells him that his family is dead immedaitely before doing so.
* LastSecondChance: Jack pleas with Anderson not to go through with attacking Air Force One and that he hasn't done anything yet that can't be walked away from. His plea fails. Miserably.
* NeverFoundTheBody
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Is never seen again after he shoots Air Force One down. It's handwaved with a comment that the jet he commandeered has been shot down, but there's nothing confirming whether Anderson was actually killed in the process or managed to survive, especially since one of the last times he's talking with Marwan and Nicole they mention there's an escape prepared him after he carries out his assignment, suggesting that the "being shot down" bit may have been part of the escape and he was really faking his death.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kills the Air Force officer he is replacing.

[[folder: Day 5 Antagonists]]

!!Christopher Henderson
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Henderson_Christopher_4396.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't want to know what I know. You get me to talk, I promise you you'll just be opening Pandora's box."'']]
->'''Played By''': PeterWeller

->''"What I did was in the interests for the destiny of this country, and I'm not talking about the version you read on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, I'm talking about the politics of survival. The way the world really works."''

Jack Bauer's former mentor whom Jack had reported for taking bribes. In later years he was TheDragon for [[BigBad Charles Logan]].

** BadassGrandpa
* BrokenPedestal: Was Jack's mentor, but who got fired when Jack learned he was taking bribes.

* TheDragon: To Logan.
** TheHeavy: Most of the conflict in Season 5 is against him.
* EnemyMine: He eventually teams up with Jack to stop Bierko.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Which is why Jack uses his wife as leverage.
* EvilCounterpart: He even has a friendship with a US president.
* FaceHeelTurn
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GoOutWithASmile: He seems genuinely proud that Jack has gotten the better of him, and grins and congratulates him for it.
* HeroKiller: As Jack puts it, "You are responsible for the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeida, and Michelle Dessler.
* IHaveYourWife: Played straight with the informant's daughter. ''Inverted'' earlier on with his wife.
* KnightTemplar
* SmugSnake
* VillainyDiscretionShot: His (possible) killing of an informant's young daughter and the EMT's trying to rescue her is never brought up.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers initially considered Henderson being NotQuiteDead and coming back as an antagonist again later on sometime after Day 6. Ultimately they went with Tony instead.

!!Vladimir Bierko
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bierko_Vladimir_6415.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"What we are about to accomplish will be remembered by our countrymen forever."'']]
->'''Played By''': Julian Sands

The leader of a terrorist organization of an unnamed Russian colony seeking independence. He was the intended pawn of a group of American conspirators, however his Dragon saw through their ruse.

* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BlondeGuysAreEvil
* DeadpanSnarker

* KnightTemplar
* NeckSnap
* SharpDressedMan
* WesternTerrorists
* WhiteHairBlackHeart
* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Ivan Erwich for trusting the Americans and wasting one of the nerve gas canisters on America... Which he then did himself a few episodes later.

!!Ivan Erwich
->'''Played By''': MarkSheppard

A member of a Russian terrorist organization. He was the intended pawn of a group of American conspirators, however he saw through their ruse.

* CharacterDeath
* TheDragon: to Bierko.

* KnightTemplar
* PersonWithTheClothing: He's referred to mostly as the man with the yellow tie until CTU learns his name.
* YouHaveFailedMe

!!James Nathanson
->'''Played By''': Geraint Wyn Davies

An ex-CIA officer responsible for manipulating both Walt Cummings and the Russian terroist organisation, Dawn Brigade.

* HeKnowsTooMuch
* ManipulativeBastard
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* SmugSnake

!!Colette Stenger
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Stenger_Colette_9373.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Stana Katic

A Russian information broker hired by Vladimir Bierko.

* AffablyEvil
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* FemmeFatale
* KnowledgeBroker
* MsFanservice
* PutOnABus
* TheVamp

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 6 Antagonists]]

!!Abu Fayed
->'''Played By''': Adoni Maropis

A terrorist ringleader who wanted to use suitcase nukes against the US and who wanted to kill Jack Bauer for accidentally torturing his brother, also a terrorist, to death. Was the intended pawn of Dmitri Gredenko, but that didn't work out too well.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Dmitri Gredenko.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Though it's also ''awesome.''
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Played with; he actually is the ultimate boss of his terrorist group and acts as the primary threat for most of the season. He gets killed off about two-thirds of the way through the season though, and Phillip Bauer and Cheng Zhi -- who are working independently of Fayed -- take over as the antagonists.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* RevengeBeforeReason: Averted surprisingly.
* YouLookFamiliar: Averted. Adoni Maropis previously played a minor character in the middle of Day 4... but his scenes were ultimately deleted.


!!Reed Pollock
->'''Played By''': Chad Lowe

The treasonous Chief of Staff during Day 6.

* AmbitionIsEvil
* SmugSnake
* [[StrawCharacter Strawman Conservative]]


!!Zhou Yong
->'''Played By''': Ian Anthony Dale

A Chinese paramilitary operative working for Cheng Zhi.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* GeniusBruiser
* PsychoForHire

!!Ahmed Amar
->'''Played By''': KalPenn

An agent of Abu Fayed who was charged with delivering the nuclear bomb triggers to him. After he was injured killing a racist that attacked him he took a neighboring family hostage and forced the father to carry out his task for him.

* IHaveYourWife: And son too, as he holds both hostage to make Ray Wallace deliver the bomb trigger to Fayed.
* UngratefulBastard: Despite the sympathy Ray and his family showed him he has no problem threatening them.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 7 Antagonists]]

!!Jonas Hodges
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hodges_Jonas_6487.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Now we're having some fun."'']]
->'''Played By''': Jon Voight

->''"Mr. Seaton, I get no pleasure from the knowledge that people will die at our hands. One single soul, the loss of one soul is tragic to me, let alone the numbers we're talking about. But do not forget that every war worth fighting involves collateral damage. And what we're doing is fundamentally and absolutely necessary."''

The CorruptCorporateExecutive in charge of Starkwood, a mercenary company. He suffered one big VillainousBreakdown after the government began cracking down on private military companies. He aided Juma in taking over Sangala in exchange for a deadly pathogen which he intended to use to hold the US hostage.

* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa
* BigBad
** BigBadDuumvirate: With Benjamin Juma. Was also a part of Wilson's OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord

* DeadpanSnarker
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* KnightTemplar: Thinks he's helping his country.
* LargeHam
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: His business.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: He's a member of Wilson's cabal.
* VillainousBreakdown: He was going through one the entire time and it just got worse over time.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Ike Dubaku
->'''Played By''': Hakeem Kae-Kazim

Juma's [[TheDragon right hand man]] who Juma sent to the US to try and force the US government to withdraw troops from Sangala. However his loyalty to Juma is questionable as he has his sights on an American girl.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
* ChildSoldiers: He appeared to be in charge of one sect of them.
* TheDragon: to Juma.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Very, very confusingly done with the black American woman with the wheelchair-bound sister. He initially claims he's going to kill her, but doesn't go through with it.
* HeKnowsTooMuch / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Killed by one of Juma's men after his escape attempt fails to stop him from revealing Juma's planned raid on the White House.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain / VillainBall: One major criticism against Dubaku's effectiveness as an antagonist was immediately after the device he was using to hack into the government's firewall was destroyed during a gun fight with Jack, the first thing he did to distract him and escape was kill the ''one man'' who could potentially build him another so he could continue holding the country hostage.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Survives being right at the front of a land mine explosion in ''Redemption'' with little more than a few scratches.
* ScaryBlackMan

!!Greg Seaton
->'''Played By''': Rory Cochrane

Jonas Hodges' right-hand man at Starkwood.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive

!!Keith Palmer
->'''Played By''': Vicellous Shannon

The son of David and Sherry Palmer, who killed his sister's rapist by accident prior to the series and covered it up.

* AccidentalMurder
* WellDoneSonGuy

!!Nicole Palmer
->'''Played By''': Megalyn Echikunwoke

The daughter of David and Sherry Palmer. She was raped prior to the series, and was involved in a cover-up after her brother accidentally killed her attacker.

* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]
* RapeAsDrama

[[folder: Taylor Family]]


!!Olivia Taylor
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Taylor_Olivia_5408.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Sprague Grayden

The daughter of Allison and Henry Taylor and First Daughter of the President.

* BitchInSheepsClothing
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Tries to call off the hit on Jonas Hodges, but is too late.
* ManipulativeBitch
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* OutGambitted: Manages to outwit a reporter who tries to blackmail her by recording their affair and threatening to go public with it.
* RevengeBeforeReason
* SmugSnake
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Much like how her mother represented being the new BigGood ala David Palmer, Olivia seems remarkably similar to Sherry.

!!Henry Taylor
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Taylor_Henry_484.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Colm Feore

The First Gentleman of the United States and husband to Alison Taylor.

* BackForTheFinale: Returns in the final episode of season 7 after missing most of the latter half thanks to his injuries.
* BaldOfAwesome
* BodyguardBetrayal: Nearly killed by his traitorous Secret Service agent.
* ButtMonkey
* ChewToy
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason behind the BodyguardBetrayal.
* NiceGuy
* PapaWolf: Divorces his wife over
* TookALevelInJerkass: Between Season 7 and 8, as it's pointed out that he made underhanded and cruel remarks during the divorce procedure.

!!Roger Taylor
->'''Played By''': Eric Lively

* TheDutifulSon
* HeKnowsTooMuch

[[/folder]]

!!Mike Novick
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Novick_Michael_446.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm your Chief of staff, David. I shouldn't be kept out of anything."'']]
->'''Played By''': Jude Ciccolella

The Chief of Staff for David Palmer in seasons 1-2 and later for Charles Logan.

* DeadpanSnarker
* EtTuBrute: His betrayal of David Palmer.
* HonorBeforeReason
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His attitude by the end of the second season. He ultimately winds up coming through by the end, but it's not enough for Palmer to forgive him.
* PutOnABus: Being fired by Palmer in the season 2 finale.
** TheBusCameBack: Returned as Logan's adviser midway through season 4.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Informing David Palmer about Walt Cummings' plan to have Jack assassinated when he would be turned in to the Chinese... and of course working with Jack to expose Logan.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With David Palmer (though they are at least later able to patch things up, especially when cooperating to help Jack escape)
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In season 2.

!!Aaron Pierce
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Pierce_Aaron_1270.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sir, I apologize for appearing to overstep my bounds, but it's my job to protect you."'']]
->'''Played By''': GlennMorshower

A loyal and dedicated Secret Service agent who is notable as being the only character besides Jack to have appeared in all 8 seasons.

* AscendedExtra
* '''{{Badass}}'''
* BaldOfAwesome
* BodyguardCrush
* FirstNameUltimatum: He ends his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Charles Logan by calling him "Charles," rather than "Mr. President" or "Sir".
* HonorBeforeReason
* ImplacableMan
* OnlySaneMan
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to Charles Logan when he tries to get him to go along with his plans
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* ServileSnarker
* UndyingLoyalty: To Palmer.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Calling President Logan "Charles" at the end of his "Reason You Suck" Speech. Now knowing how much of a lowlife he is, he ''refuses'' to acknowledge the man as President anymore. It's enough to get even Logan to flinch.

!!Ethan Kanin
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kanin_Ethan_6711.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Bob Gunton

* AscendedExtra
* CoolOldGuy
* HonestAdvisor
* HonorBeforeReason
* MoralityPet
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It was his idea in the first place to call Charles Logan in during Day 8. Of course, he also admitted then and there it wasn't the best idea.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* WhatTheHellHero

!!Karen Hayes
->'''Played By''': Jayne Atkinson

Member of Homeland Security who eventually takes over command of CTU alongside Miles Papazian after the nerve gas attacks in Day 5. Eventually serves as the National Security Adviser to President Wayne Palmer during Day 6.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Has worked with Miles long enough that she believes he can ultimately be brought into the loop to take down Charles Logan. Big mistake.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Sacrifices her career to save Jack's nephew.
* TheyDo: With Bill Buchanan.

!!Martha Logan
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Logan_Martha_5207.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I've forgiven you many things, Charles. But not this. You've broken my heart."'']]
->'''Played By''': Jean Smart

The former First Lady and wife of Charles Logan.

* ActionSurvivor
* AmbiguousDisorder

** TookALevelInBadass
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten
* BodyguardCrush: With Aaron Pierce.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Charles was that he ''did'' want to redeem himself for his actions in season 5, and when Martha nearly killed him it caused him to see that BeingGoodSucks and stick to being a villain exclusively in the eighth season. If that was truly the case, than this would certainly apply.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Interestingly, since she's clinically unstable, but she's still the most moral and determined person near Logan with the possible exception of Aaron Pierce.
* SanitySlippage
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Never seen again after stabbing Charles in Season 6, although Aaron says they divorced.

!!Tom Lennox
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TomLennox_5165.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Peter [=MacNicol=]

White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Wayne Palmer and Noah Daniels.

* {{Blackmail}}
* FakeDefector

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MoralityPet: Amazingly enough manages to be this for Daniels.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Tim Woods
->'''Played By''': Frank John Hughes

The Secretary of Homeland Security for the Taylor Administration.

* BaldOfAwesome
* NiceGuy
* UndyingLoyalty

!!Rob Weiss
->'''Played By''': Chris Diamantopoulos

The second White House Chief of Staff for the Taylor Administration after Ethan Kanin became the Secretary of State.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Although he was willing to go along with Bruckner's plan, even he had to admit letting Ethan potentially die from a heart attack just to keep him from alerting President Taylor was a bit extreme.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo

* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Lynne Kresge
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kresge_Lynn_1227.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Michelle Forbes

A crisis-management advisor for David Palmer.

* AbortedArc
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome
* HyperCompetentSidekick
* UndyingLoyalty
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Sherry.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse

!!Walt Cummings
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cummings_Walter_9852.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"No, Mr President, I am a patriot!"'']]
->'''Played By''': John Allen Nelson

The White House Chief-Of-Staff under Charles Logan during Day 4 and 5.

* FauxAffablyEvil
* HeKnowsTooMuch
* KarmicDeath

* NeverSuicide
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Cummings had decided not to orchestrate the assassination attempt on Jack's life and had just let him willingly be taken in by the Chinese at the end of Day 4, then very likely when the events of Day 5 happened Jack would have still been imprisoned in China which would have left him unable to expose its conspiracy.
* SmugSnake
* UnwittingPawn: He thought he was a major member of the Day 5 conspiracy. He was actually the ''lowest'' member, and was just there to be a scapegoat.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Miles Papazian
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Papazian_Miles_6233.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Stephen Spinella

Member of Homeland Security who eventually takes over command of CTU alongside Karen Hayes after the nerve gas attacks in Day 5.

* TheBadGuyWins: The recording that Jack spent a quarter of a season trying to recover is destroyed thanks to this guy, and Jack actually stopped himself from beating the crap out of him. [[SubvertedTrope On the bright, Karen did slap him around a bit.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe[=/=]OnlyInItForTheMoney
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk

* ManipulativeBastard
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* SmugSnake: Yet in spite of this we never get to see him get his ultimate comeuppance.

!!Roger Stanton
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Stanton_Roger_6503.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Harris Yulin

The NSA Director in Day 2.

* EvilOldFolks
* TheManBehindTheMan: to the Coral Snake Unit
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheMole: To Peter Kingsley, allowing Second Wave to smuggle their nuclear bomb into the United States.
* [[StrawCharacter Straw Conservative]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Implied to be the one responsible for the deaths of Ambassador Shareef and Farhad Salim. were to give the Palmer administration "balls" and toughen up the President's agenda by going to war.

!!Blaine Mayer
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mayer_Blaine_6068.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Pardon Jack Bauer, and you're telling every interrogator in the field that it's open season again"'']]
->'''Played By''': KurtwoodSmith

A United States Senator investigating Jack for human rights violations.

* BaldOfAwesome
* TheHeart
* HeroAntagonist
* {{Jerkass}}
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: At first, but really he's a...
** ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* PlayingAgainstType: For KurtwoodSmith.

!!Dale Spalding
->'''Played By''': Patrick Kilpatrick

A Secret Service agent ordered to kill Jack.

* TheBrute
* {{Jerkass}}
* JustFollowingOrders
* KarmaHoudini

!!Frank Tramell
->'''Played By''': Gil Bellows

The Chief Political Officer of the US Embassy in Sangala.

* {{Jerkass}}
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Subverted. For a second it looks he's going to screw Jack over regarding their deal (that Jack returns to the US to stand trial in return for evacuating the children that Jack and Benton were protecting from Juma), but he ultimately proves himself to be a man of his word.


[[folder:Recurring Antagonists]]

!!Nina Myers
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Myers_Nina_2571.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Sarah Clarke

A former CTU agent and colleague of Jack's who turned out to be [[TheMole a traitor who worked for]] Victor Drazen as well as other Big Bads, and was one of the early recurring antagonists. While trying to escape, she winds up killing Jack's wife Teri, making [[ItsPersonal it personal]].

* ArchEnemy: To Jack Bauer. She shares the role with [[BigBad Charles]] [[PresidentEvil Logan]] for the series, though she's killed off early on in the series and always appeared as a hired Mook for the season's BigBad while never reaching that status herself.
* BitchInSheepsClothing

* TheDragon: Often fulfils this role.
* DragonTheirFeet: In Day 1. While she was never actually TheDragon in the series, Jack only discovers she's TheMole and captures her after he had coldly executed BigBad Victor Drazen. Subverted in Season 2, in which, although she outlives the season's BigBad, she is just a KarmaHoudini who was released from prison as part of a deal, which happened offscreen. We last see her midway through the season still in custody, and she doesn't appear at all in the final act. And finally subverted in Season 3, when Jack finally kills her in the middle of the season after she tries to kill Kim.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She doesn't care about ''anyone'' other than herself.
* KarmaHoudini: Ultimately averted. It was originally considered that Nina would escape CTU in the third season, but ultimately it was decided that Jack had to kill her.
* KarmicDeath: Dies in the exact same room where she murdered Teri Bauer.
* TheMole: A DoubleSubversion. She is first suspected at the end of the second episode, but this proves false, then it's confirmed at the end of the penultimate episode of the first season.
* NumberTwo: She was Jack's right-hand, which made her betrayal even worse.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: As Jack says "You don't even have a cause; you don't believe in anything. You would sell anyone and anything out to the highest bidder."

* TheSociopath
* UndyingLoyalty: She ''apparently'' had it to Jack in Season 1, but it was all an act.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: How she dies.

!!Cheng Zhi
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cheng_Zhi_9371.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You surely must be aware, Mr. Bauer, that China has a long memory."'']]
->'''Played By''': Tzi Ma

A Chinese agent who was a reoccuring enemy of Jack Bauer. He originally wanted justice for the Chinese consul, who was accidentally killed during a raid led by Jack Bauer, but after he failed to break Jack, he decided to use Jack for something else...

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Phillip Bauer.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
* MotiveDecay: He originally starts off as a WellIntentionedExtremist who goes to extreme lengths to get justice for the Chinese consul accidentally killed in a raid led by Jack Bauer, but in season 6 turns into a terrorist wanting to start a war, kidnaps and tortures the daughter of a former Secretary of Defense to insanity, and helps Jack's evil father kidnap his grandson.
* RevengeBeforeReason
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What he started off as.
* YellowPeril

!!Mandy
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mandy_3574.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Well, they're heading back in. Looks like my neighbors died for nothing."'']]
->'''Played By''': Mia Kirshner

A female assassin-for-hire with the distinction of being a DepravedBisexual, and, unusually for most bisexuals on TV and certainly anyone on this show, not only survives the entire series, but [[KarmaHoudini is given a pardon for it too]].

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Particularly on Day 4.
* DarkActionGirl
* DepravedBisexual: To an extent. She is a bisexual assassin, but there is nothing to indicate they are particularly linked.
* EnigmaticMinion
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While she kills both of her male lovers, the woman she's with on Day 1 is implied to be her actual girlfriend. She genuinely seems to care for her, and even cries after she is killed.
* GenreSavvy
* KarmaHoudini: She's last seen after bargaining for her freedom like so many antagonists do.
* ManipulativeBitch
* PsychoForHire
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath

[[folder: Day 2 Antagonists]]

!!Gary Matheson
->'''Played By''': Billy Burke

Kim's employer and the abusive husband of Carla Matheson.

* DomesticAbuser
* {{Jerkass}}


!!Marcus, Rouse, and Cole
->'''Played By''': Nick Offerman, Raymond Cruz, and Maurice Compte

Three crooks who took Kate hostage and threatened to destroy the Cyprus recording Jack needed to prove that the Middle Eastern government was not behind the nuclear bomb threat.

* AssholeVictim: Rouse
* DisproportionateRetribution: Yes Marcus, destroy the one bit of evidence Jack needs and thus doom a lot of innocent lives all because he killed one of your pals in an incident that resulted from you trying to kill an innocent person.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Cole, who's against Marcus trying to kill Kate and eventually attacks him when he attempts to resist Jack.
* HeroKiller: They murder one of Jack's allies because he's of Arab descent
* {{Jerkass}}: ''Especially'' Marcus
* TooDumbToLive: Marcus. Sure, don't believe that Jack is a federal agent and won't kill you if he has to. It's amazing he doesn't die.

[[folder: Day 3 Antagonists]]

!!Ramon Salazar
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Salazar_Ramon_9276.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is your fault, Jack! And what happens next is on you, too!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Joaquim de Almeida

A Mexican drug lord whom Jack Bauer had put in prison. Jack later has to help break him out of prison to prevent him and his brother Hector from releasing a deadly virus.

* AffablyEvil: He's very charismatic.

* TheCartel

* DiscOneFinalBoss: In a hilariously cruel twist on the trope, not only is he not the BigBad of the season, he turns out to have been the victim of a scam by a low-ranking flunky of the ''actual'' Big Bad.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he manages to cheerfully kill his own lawyer because HeKnowsTooMuch, with a pen while in prison before happily blaming Jack.
* HannibalLecture: Lots, if you think about it.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why he kills his lawyer.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter
* SiblingsInCrime
* SmugSnake
* UnwittingPawn: By Michael Amador.

!!Hector Salazar
->'''Played By''': Vincent Laresca

The younger, more inept brother of Hector Salazar. He was left in charge of the drug business when Ramon was arrested.

* TheCartel
* CharacterDeath

* DomesticAbuser
* {{Jerkass}}
* [[BeardOfEvil Mustache Of Evil]]
* PragmaticVillainy
* SiblingsInCrime
* TooDumbToLive


[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 4 Antagonists]]

!!Habib Marwan
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HabibMarwan_4007.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Arnold Vosloo

Islamic terrorist mastermind and BigBad of the fourth season.[[TheChessmaster he planned a series of attacks against the US and had several backup plans as well]].

* AffablyEvil

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled

* DisneyVillainDeath
* TheDreaded
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A deleted scene shows he has a family.
* GambitRoulette: One major criticism of the character, and Season 4 in general, is how utterly ridiculous his plot (and constant escaping) was. TelevisionWithoutPity gave him the FanNickname "Imhoterror", in reference to Arnold Vosloo's role in ''Film/TheMummy1999'' and his nigh-magical escapes. This was in part because he was supposed to be a DiscOneFinalBoss, but the writers were having trouble coming up with a BiggerBad to replace him, so they just decided to make Marwan the villain throughout the whole season, necessitating his constant escapes.
* GoOutWithASmile: Gives a SlasherSmile that would make SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker proud as he commits suicide by forcing Jack to [[DisneyVillainDeath drop him to his death]].
* KnightTemplar

* TheManBehindTheMan
* OffscreenVillainDarkmatter: As a result of the writers stretching him across more than half the season as the villain, he appears to have nigh-unlimited resources.
* SayMyName: Other characters on the show drop his name so incessantly that it quickly descends into {{Narm}}. Some viewers even made [[DrinkingGame Drinking Games]] based around it.
* TakingYouWithMe: Attempts to do this to Jack, CTU, and the rest of LA by forcing Jack to drop him off a building to his death, believing it would stop CTU from finding his missile, which was heading for LA and would have killed everyone there, including Jack and CTU. This fails as the missile is found and destroyed shortly after Marwan dies, foiling his plan.
* VillainExitStageLeft: One of the masters of this trope in any form of fiction, and the master of it in 24.

!!Robert Morrison
->'''Played By''': KeithSzarabajka

A technician and mercenary working for Habib Marwan.

* TheEvilGenius
* KarmaHoudini

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse

!!Nicole
->'''Played By''': Dagmara Dominczyk

* CharacterDeath
* DarkActionGirl
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Mandy

!!Mitch Anderson
->'''Played By''': Ned Vaughn

* FallenHero
* IHaveYourWife
* KickTheDog: Not only does he kill the man who he forced to help him, but he tells him that his family is dead immedaitely before doing so.
* LastSecondChance: Jack pleas with Anderson not to go through with attacking Air Force One and that he hasn't done anything yet that can't be walked away from. His plea fails. Miserably.
* NeverFoundTheBody
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Is never seen again after he shoots Air Force One down. It's handwaved with a comment that the jet he commandeered has been shot down, but there's nothing confirming whether Anderson was actually killed in the process or managed to survive, especially since one of the last times he's talking with Marwan and Nicole they mention there's an escape prepared him after he carries out his assignment, suggesting that the "being shot down" bit may have been part of the escape and he was really faking his death.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kills the Air Force officer he is replacing.

[[folder: Day 5 Antagonists]]

!!Christopher Henderson
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Henderson_Christopher_4396.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't want to know what I know. You get me to talk, I promise you you'll just be opening Pandora's box."'']]
->'''Played By''': PeterWeller

->''"What I did was in the interests for the destiny of this country, and I'm not talking about the version you read on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, I'm talking about the politics of survival. The way the world really works."''

Jack Bauer's former mentor whom Jack had reported for taking bribes. In later years he was TheDragon for [[BigBad Charles Logan]].

* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa
* BrokenPedestal: Was Jack's mentor, but who got fired when Jack learned he was taking bribes.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* DeadpanSnarker

** TheHeavy: Most of the conflict in Season 5 is against him.
* EnemyMine: He eventually teams up with Jack to stop Bierko.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Which is why Jack uses his wife as leverage.
* EvilCounterpart: He even has a friendship with a US president.
* FaceHeelTurn
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GoOutWithASmile: He seems genuinely proud that Jack has gotten the better of him, and grins and congratulates him for it.
* HeroKiller: As Jack puts it, "You are responsible for the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeida, and Michelle Dessler.
* IHaveYourWife: Played straight with the informant's daughter. ''Inverted'' earlier on with his wife.
* KnightTemplar
* SmugSnake
* VillainyDiscretionShot: His (possible) killing of an informant's young daughter and the EMT's trying to rescue her is never brought up.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers initially considered Henderson being NotQuiteDead and coming back as an antagonist again later on sometime after Day 6. Ultimately they went with Tony instead.

!!Vladimir Bierko
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bierko_Vladimir_6415.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"What we are about to accomplish will be remembered by our countrymen forever."'']]
->'''Played By''': Julian Sands

The leader of a terrorist organization of an unnamed Russian colony seeking independence. He was the intended pawn of a group of American conspirators, however his Dragon saw through their ruse.

* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
* BadassInANiceSuit
* BlondeGuysAreEvil
* DeadpanSnarker
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* KnightTemplar
* NeckSnap
* SharpDressedMan
* WesternTerrorists
* WhiteHairBlackHeart
* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Ivan Erwich for trusting the Americans and wasting one of the nerve gas canisters on America... Which he then did himself a few episodes later.

!!Ivan Erwich
->'''Played By''': MarkSheppard

A member of a Russian terrorist organization. He was the intended pawn of a group of American conspirators, however he saw through their ruse.

* CharacterDeath
* TheDragon: to Bierko.

* KnightTemplar
* PersonWithTheClothing: He's referred to mostly as the man with the yellow tie until CTU learns his name.
* YouHaveFailedMe

!!James Nathanson
->'''Played By''': Geraint Wyn Davies

An ex-CIA officer responsible for manipulating both Walt Cummings and the Russian terroist organisation, Dawn Brigade.

* HeKnowsTooMuch
* ManipulativeBastard
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* SmugSnake

!!Colette Stenger
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Stenger_Colette_9373.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Stana Katic

A Russian information broker hired by Vladimir Bierko.

* AffablyEvil
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* FemmeFatale
* KnowledgeBroker
* MsFanservice
* PutOnABus
* TheVamp

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 6 Antagonists]]

!!Abu Fayed
->'''Played By''': Adoni Maropis

A terrorist ringleader who wanted to use suitcase nukes against the US and who wanted to kill Jack Bauer for accidentally torturing his brother, also a terrorist, to death. Was the intended pawn of Dmitri Gredenko, but that didn't work out too well.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Dmitri Gredenko.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Though it's also ''awesome.''
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Played with; he actually is the ultimate boss of his terrorist group and acts as the primary threat for most of the season. He gets killed off about two-thirds of the way through the season though, and Phillip Bauer and Cheng Zhi -- who are working independently of Fayed -- take over as the antagonists.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* RevengeBeforeReason: Averted surprisingly.
* YouLookFamiliar: Averted. Adoni Maropis previously played a minor character in the middle of Day 4... but his scenes were ultimately deleted.


!!Reed Pollock
->'''Played By''': Chad Lowe

The treasonous Chief of Staff during Day 6.

* AmbitionIsEvil
* SmugSnake
* [[StrawCharacter Strawman Conservative]]


!!Zhou Yong
->'''Played By''': Ian Anthony Dale

A Chinese paramilitary operative working for Cheng Zhi.

* {{Badass}}
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* GeniusBruiser
* PsychoForHire

!!Ahmed Amar
->'''Played By''': KalPenn

An agent of Abu Fayed who was charged with delivering the nuclear bomb triggers to him. After he was injured killing a racist that attacked him he took a neighboring family hostage and forced the father to carry out his task for him.

* IHaveYourWife: And son too, as he holds both hostage to make Ray Wallace deliver the bomb trigger to Fayed.
* UngratefulBastard: Despite the sympathy Ray and his family showed him he has no problem threatening them.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 7 Antagonists]]

!!Jonas Hodges
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hodges_Jonas_6487.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Now we're having some fun."'']]
->'''Played By''': Jon Voight

->''"Mr. Seaton, I get no pleasure from the knowledge that people will die at our hands. One single soul, the loss of one soul is tragic to me, let alone the numbers we're talking about. But do not forget that every war worth fighting involves collateral damage. And what we're doing is fundamentally and absolutely necessary."''

The CorruptCorporateExecutive in charge of Starkwood, a mercenary company. He suffered one big VillainousBreakdown after the government began cracking down on private military companies. He aided Juma in taking over Sangala in exchange for a deadly pathogen which he intended to use to hold the US hostage.

* AffablyEvil
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa
* BigBad
** BigBadDuumvirate: With Benjamin Juma. Was also a part of Wilson's OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DeadpanSnarker
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* KnightTemplar: Thinks he's helping his country.
* LargeHam
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: His business.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: He's a member of Wilson's cabal.
* VillainousBreakdown: He was going through one the entire time and it just got worse over time.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Ike Dubaku
->'''Played By''': Hakeem Kae-Kazim

Juma's [[TheDragon right hand man]] who Juma sent to the US to try and force the US government to withdraw troops from Sangala. However his loyalty to Juma is questionable as he has his sights on an American girl.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
* ChildSoldiers: He appeared to be in charge of one sect of them.
* TheDragon: to Juma.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Very, very confusingly done with the black American woman with the wheelchair-bound sister. He initially claims he's going to kill her, but doesn't go through with it.
* HeKnowsTooMuch / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Killed by one of Juma's men after his escape attempt fails to stop him from revealing Juma's planned raid on the White House.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain / VillainBall: One major criticism against Dubaku's effectiveness as an antagonist was immediately after the device he was using to hack into the government's firewall was destroyed during a gun fight with Jack, the first thing he did to distract him and escape was kill the ''one man'' who could potentially build him another so he could continue holding the country hostage.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Survives being right at the front of a land mine explosion in ''Redemption'' with little more than a few scratches.
* ScaryBlackMan

!!Greg Seaton
->'''Played By''': Rory Cochrane

Jonas Hodges' right-hand man at Starkwood.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* TheDragon
* FakeDefector
* PerpetualFrowner
* UndyingLoyalty

!!Cara Bowden
->'''Played By''': Amy Price-Francis

The intermediary for the members of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness in season 7; was also in a relationship with Tony Almeida.

* AssholeVictim
* TheDragon: To Alan Wilson.
* IHaveYourWife: Threatens Jonas Hodges's family to get him to take a suicide pill.
* UnwittingPawn: Was being used by Tony all along so he could get to Alan Wilson.
* SmugSnake
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: WordOfGod was she was originally going to be Mandy, but was created when the actress was unavailable.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Blackmails Jonas Hodges into attempting suicide by threatening his family to keep the suspicion off of the rest of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness. Later on the receiving end of this by Tony.

!!Alan Wilson
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->'''Played By''': Will Patton

The mysterious head of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness that appears in season 7. He wanted to use the pathogen in order to frame Muslims in order to try and get the US government to back off on their crackdown of private military companies. He was also revealed to have been in cahoots with Charles Logan and was responsible for having David Palmer and Michelle killed, the latter being the motivation for Tony's actions. Served as the BigBad of season 7, though arguably he was more of a BiggerBad, since Tony Almeida was the actual antagonist.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
** BiggerBad
** [[BigBadDuumvirate BigBad Overload]]: Arguably, the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness was a group of multiple BigBads, with Wilson merely being the most influential, so he would be this with Jonas Hodges and the others shown in season 7. He was also in a Triumvirate with Charles Logan and Phillip Bauer.
* TheChessMaster
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DullSurprise: How Will Patton played him.
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's described in almost exactly these terms by Tony in relation to Charles Logan, and considering who Logan's behind... he's also this to Hodges.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: He is the leader of an unnamed cabal of private military contractors who manipulate world politics.
* SerialEscalation: When you have a non-supernatural villain who's TheManBehindTheMan to a CorruptCorporateExecutive running the largest and most powerful private military company on the planet..
** Also ManBehindTheMan to even more absurd lengths when it was revealed he was in cahoots with [[PresidentEvil Charles Logan]] and Jack's evil father and brother, who plotted an already massive as it is conspiracy.
* SaveTheVillain: Jack and Renee had to prevent Tony from killing him.
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath

!!David Emerson
->'''Played By''': Peter Wingfield

A mercenary leader who recruited Tony.

* {{Badass}}
* DefiantToTheEnd
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's big on loyalty.
* EvilBrit
* HonorBeforeReason
* PrivateMilitaryContractors

!!Ryan Burnett
->'''Played By''': Eyall Podell

Senator Mayer's Chief of Staff and TheMole for Benjamin Juma.

* HeKnowsTooMuch
* TheMole
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

!!Benjamin Juma
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->'''Played By''': Creator/TonyTodd

The genocidal dictator of Sangala after taking over the country in Redemption, he attempts to force the US to give up their attempts to remove him from power. When this fails, he attacks the White House.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Threatens to torture and disfigure Olivia Taylor if Allison doesn't come out of the panic room.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* {{Badass}}
** FourStarBadass
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Inverted.
* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad
** BigBadDuumvirate: With Jonas Hodges.
* ChildSoldiers: Not above using these in his army.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* EvilOverlord
* FauxAffablyEvil
* GeneralRipper
* GutteralGrowler
* KickTheDog: Killing hostages just as a result of President Taylor asking for their release.
* LargeAndInCharge
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: His army is called the "People's Freedom Army" and is used to overthrow a parliamentary democracy in favor of a military dictatorship.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: Kills a hostage when President Taylor asks him to release the others now that she's surrendered and then asks her if she would like him to "release" any others.
* ScaryBlackMan: And '''[[VisualPun how]]'''.
* SuicideMission: His invasion of the White House. Ultimately unsuccessful since the President and most of the hostages were saved.
* YouLookFamiliar: Tony Todd appeared in season 3 as a detective investigating Alan Milliken's death.

!!John Quinn
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->'''Played By''': Sebastien Roche

A mercenary and assassin working for Jonas Hodges.

* {{Badass}}
* BlondeGuysAreEvil
* EvilCounterpart
* ProfessionalKiller
* PsychoForHire
* TheStoic
* TheQuietOne

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Day 8 Antagonists]]


!!Kevin Wade
->'''Played By''': Clayne Crawford

The criminal ex-boyfriend of Dana Walsh.

* {{Blackmail}}
* DomesticAbuser
* {{Jerkass}}
* {{Slimeball}}

!!Jason Pillar
->'''Played By''': Reed Diamond

Logan's right-hand man placed at CTU to find Jack and take him out before he exposes the conspiracy.

* AssholeVictim: Logan executes him when their plans are ruined.
* CharacterDeath: Notable for being the last character to die onscreen in the show.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* TheDragon: To Logan.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He knows well enough when to quit and sees no point in senselessly murdering Jack. Logan [[TakingYouWithMe doesn't agree.]]
* HannibalHasAPoint: Tells Jack that all he's doing is filling out his own little quest for revenge. Jack, despite attempting to justify his actions, doesn't bother disagreeing with him about his goal by this point.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam
* {{Jerkass}}
* MoleInCharge: Has command of CTU transferred to him so he can personally lead the manhunt for Jack.
* PragmaticVillainy
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* VillainousBreakdown: When Jack holds him at gunpoint he turns into a blubbering wreck. Jack ultimately spares him after a NotSoDifferent moment.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

!!Gen. David Brucker
->'''Played By''': Michael Gaston

A General within the Taylor Administration.

* BaldOfEvil
* FourStarBadass
* TreacherousAdvisor
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Adrion Bishop
->'''Played By''': Michael Irby

A soldier following General Brucker.

* TheDragon: To General Brucker.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

[[folder: Hassan Family]]

!!Dalia Hassan
->'''Played By''': Necar Zadegan

The wife of Omar Hassan and eventually the acting President of the IRK.

* {{Expy}}: Of Benazir Bhutto.
* YouAreInCommandNow

!!Kayla Hassan
->'''Played By''': Nazneen Contractor

The daughter of Omar and Dalia Hassan.

** BodyguardBetrayal
* ThePresidentsDaughter

!!Omar Hassan
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"If the price of peace is my life, so be it."'']]
->'''Played By''': Anil Kapoor

President of the [[{{Qurac}} Islamic Republic of Kamistan]] who was set to sign a peace treaty with America that day, but his own brother and members of his government conspired against him to kill him and ultimately succeeded.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: A former IRK Army officer, he helps Jack kill some American commandos trying to capture him.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
* CainAndAbel: He's the Abel to Farhad's Cain.
* DefiantToTheEnd
* FaceDeathWithDignity
* FallenHero: Unusually, the ''terrorists'' see him as this.
* HeroicSacrifice: Willing turns himself over to the men who want to kill him, so that they won't detonate a dirty bomb.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent
* PapaWolf
* ProperlyParanoid: Gets steadily more paranoid after his own brother betrays him. This results in him arresting people on the barest of suspicions, up to and including his own head of security. The head of security turns out to, in fact, be in league with the terrorists.

** Although more LawfulNeutral during the period of time where he goes overboard in trying to weed out traitors after the first assassination attempt.
* SlashedThroat
* StuffedInTheFridge
* YourCheatingHeart: Has an affair with Meredith Reed.

!!Farhad Hassan
->'''Played By''': Akbar Kurtha

The brother to President Omar Hassan who opposes the peace treaty because he thinks it would make the IRK look weak.

* CainAndAbel: He's the Cain to Omar's Abel.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He turns on the rest of the Kamistani terrorists after Samir Mehran reveals his intentions to use the nuclear rods to blow up Manhattan, although probably just since he knew the USA would retaliate.
* HeelFaceTurn: After his Dragon changes the plan for the rods.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam
* {{Jerkass}}
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Gets killed by one of Samir's men after trying to turn himself in to CTU.
* TooDumbToLive: He trusts the terrorists far more than he should.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bazhaev Family]]

!!Sergei Bazhaev
->'''Played By''': Jurgen Prochnow

Head of a Russian crime syndicate who helps Farhad Hassan gain nuclear rods to transport into Manhattan.

* CoolOldGuy
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He runs the syndicate with his 2 sons, and he later asks for witness protection for him and his family for helping expose the Russian conspiracy. On the other hand...

* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: When Josef tries to get medical treatment for Oleg, putting the operation at risk, Sergei kills Oleg.
* KickTheDog: He kills his son who was exposed to the rods, largely to punish the other son for his attempt to treat him.
* TheMafiya
* MercyKill
* PetTheDog: He shows sympathy for his son after the killing his brother, making sure he ends up with the angels and says he doesn't care where he himself ends up.
* PutOnABus

!!Josef Bazhaev
->'''Played By''': David Anders

The son of Sergei Bazhaev and brother to Oleg.

* ButtMonkey
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* HeelFaceTurn
* HeelFaceDoorSlam
* MinionWithAnFInEvil
* WellDoneSonGuy

!!Oleg Bazhaev
->'''Played By''': Gene Farber

The son of Sergei Bazhaev and brother to Josef.

* ButtMonkey
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He's dying of radiation poisoning, but gets the comparably merciful fate of being shot dead by his father.
* MercyKill

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Presidents]]




[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Government Officials]]

!!Mike Novick
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm your Chief of staff, David. I shouldn't be kept out of anything."'']]
->'''Played By''': Jude Ciccolella

The Chief of Staff for David Palmer in seasons 1-2 and later for Charles Logan.

* DeadpanSnarker
* EtTuBrute: His betrayal of David Palmer.
* HonorBeforeReason
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His attitude by the end of the second season. He ultimately winds up coming through by the end, but it's not enough for Palmer to forgive him.
* PutOnABus: Being fired by Palmer in the season 2 finale.
** TheBusCameBack: Returned as Logan's adviser midway through season 4.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Informing David Palmer about Walt Cummings' plan to have Jack assassinated when he would be turned in to the Chinese... and of course working with Jack to expose Logan.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With David Palmer (though they are at least later able to patch things up, especially when cooperating to help Jack escape)
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In season 2.

!!Aaron Pierce
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Pierce_Aaron_1270.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sir, I apologize for appearing to overstep my bounds, but it's my job to protect you."'']]
->'''Played By''': GlennMorshower

A loyal and dedicated Secret Service agent who is notable as being the only character besides Jack to have appeared in all 8 seasons.

* AscendedExtra
* '''{{Badass}}'''
* BaldOfAwesome
* BodyguardCrush
* FirstNameUltimatum: He ends his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Charles Logan by calling him "Charles," rather than "Mr. President" or "Sir".
* HonorBeforeReason
* ImplacableMan
* OnlySaneMan
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to Charles Logan when he tries to get him to go along with his plans
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* ServileSnarker
* UndyingLoyalty: To Palmer.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Calling President Logan "Charles" at the end of his "Reason You Suck" Speech. Now knowing how much of a lowlife he is, he ''refuses'' to acknowledge the man as President anymore. It's enough to get even Logan to flinch.

!!Ethan Kanin
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kanin_Ethan_6711.jpg]]
->'''Played By''': Bob Gunton

* AscendedExtra
* CoolOldGuy
* HonestAdvisor
* HonorBeforeReason
* MoralityPet
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It was his idea in the first place to call Charles Logan in during Day 8. Of course, he also admitted then and there it wasn't the best idea.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* WhatTheHellHero

!!Karen Hayes
->'''Played By''': Jayne Atkinson

Member of Homeland Security who eventually takes over command of CTU alongside Miles Papazian after the nerve gas attacks in Day 5. Eventually serves as the National Security Adviser to President Wayne Palmer during Day 6.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Has worked with Miles long enough that she believes he can ultimately be brought into the loop to take down Charles Logan. Big mistake.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Sacrifices her career to save Jack's nephew.
* TheyDo: With Bill Buchanan.

!!Martha Logan
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Logan_Martha_5207.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I've forgiven you many things, Charles. But not this. You've broken my heart."'']]
->'''Played By''': Jean Smart

The former First Lady and wife of Charles Logan.

* ActionSurvivor
* AmbiguousDisorder
* {{Badass}}
** TookALevelInBadass
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten
* BodyguardCrush: With Aaron Pierce.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Charles was that he ''did'' want to redeem himself for his actions in season 5, and when Martha nearly killed him it caused him to see that BeingGoodSucks and stick to being a villain exclusively in the eighth season. If that was truly the case, than this would certainly apply.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Interestingly, since she's clinically unstable, but she's still the most moral and determined person near Logan with the possible exception of Aaron Pierce.
* SanitySlippage
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Never seen again after stabbing Charles in Season 6, although Aaron says they divorced.

!!Tom Lennox
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->'''Played By''': Peter [=MacNicol=]

White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Wayne Palmer and Noah Daniels.

* {{Blackmail}}
* FakeDefector

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MoralityPet: Amazingly enough manages to be this for Daniels.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Tim Woods
->'''Played By''': Frank John Hughes

The Secretary of Homeland Security for the Taylor Administration.

* BaldOfAwesome
* NiceGuy
* UndyingLoyalty

!!Rob Weiss
->'''Played By''': Chris Diamantopoulos

The second White House Chief of Staff for the Taylor Administration after Ethan Kanin became the Secretary of State.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Although he was willing to go along with Bruckner's plan, even he had to admit letting Ethan potentially die from a heart attack just to keep him from alerting President Taylor was a bit extreme.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo